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The Holy Bible


World English Bible: Messianic Edition
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The Holy Bible


World English Bible: Messianic Edition

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Rainbow Missions, Inc., Colorado, USA, http://RainbowMissions.org
19 August 2008
18 Av 5768
Editors: Wayne Mitchell & Michael Paul Johnson
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The Holy Bible


World English Bible: Messianic Edition

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Notes
Contents

Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi
Genesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Exodus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Leviticus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Deuteronomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Joshua . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Judges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
The First Book of Samuel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
The Second Book of Samuel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
The First Book of Kings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
The Second Book of Kings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313
Isaiah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340
Jeremiah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391
Ezekiel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440
Hosea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484
Joel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493
Amos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497
Obadiah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504
Jonah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505
Micah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507
Nahum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513
Habakkuk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515
Zephaniah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517
Haggai . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519
Zechariah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521
Malachi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529
The Psalms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532
Proverbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 610
Job . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 635
Song of Solomon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 664
Lamentations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669
Ecclesiastes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 675
Esther . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 682
Ruth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 689
Daniel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 693
Ezra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 707

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Nehemiah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 716
The First Book of Chronicles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 729
The Second Book of Chronicles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 754
The Good News According to Matthew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 785
The Good News According to Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 818
The Good News According to Luke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 838
The Good News According to Yochanan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 871
The Acts of the Emissaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 896
Paul’s Letter to the Romans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 928
Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 942
Paul’s Second Letter to the Corinthians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 954
Paul’s Letter to the Galatians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 962
Paul’s Letter to the Ephesians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 967
Paul’s Letter to the Philippians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 971
Paul’s Letter to the Colossians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 974
Paul’s First Letter to the Thessalonians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 977
Paul’s Second Letter to the Thessalonians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 980
Paul’s First Letter to Timothy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 982
Paul’s Second Letter to Timothy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 986
Paul’s Letter to Titus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 989
Paul’s Letter to Philemon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 991
The Letter to the Hebrews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 992
The Letter from Jacob . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1002
Peter’s First Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1005
Peter’s Second Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1009
Yochanan’s First Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1012
Yochanan’s Second Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1016
Yochanan’s Third Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1017
The Letter from Judah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1018
The Revelation to Yochanan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1019

Helps 1034
Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1034
Fulfilled Messianic Prophecies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1041
50 Parallels Between Moses and Yeshua . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1049
Maps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1053
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Preface
This book contains a revelation of the Messiah–the Anointed One who came from the Almighty
on a mission to save people from destruction. The Messiah demonstrated the Father’s awesome
love through his perfect obedience of the Torah and the fulfillment of the prophetic writings.
The same Holy Spirit who inspired the Holy Bible is living among us today, and He is happy
to help you understand what He intended as you study His Word. Just ask Him, and He is more
than happy to help you apply His message to your life.

Why create yet another English Bible translation?


There are already many good translations of the Holy Bible into contemporary English.
Unfortunately, almost all of them are restricted by copyright and copyright holder policy. This
restricts publication of God’s Word in many ways, such as in downloadable files on the Internet.
The World English Bible was commissioned by God in response to prayer about this subject. The
World English Bible: Messianic Edition is published for the benefit of English-speaking Messianic
Jews. In this edition, some of the traditional Greek/English names have been replaced with their
traditional Hebrew equivalents. In deference to Jewish tradition, the Holy Name is rendered as
“LORD” (or when used in combination with “Lord” translated from “Adonai,” as “GOD”) in this
edition.
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You may notice the following differences in comparing this translation to other translations:
• The order of Matthew 23:13 and 14 is reversed in some translations.

• Luke 17:36 and Acts 15:34, which are not found in the majority of the best manuscripts (and
are relegated to footnotes in this translation) may be included in some other translations.

• Romans 14:24-26 may appear as Romans 16:25-27 in other translations.

• 1 John 5:7-8 contains an addition (“in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit;
and these three are one. And there are three that testify on earth”) 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.

With all of the above and some other places where lack of clarity in the original manuscripts
has led to multiple possible readings, significant variants are listed in footnotes. The reading that
in our prayerful judgement is best is in the main text. Overall, the World English Bible: Messianic
Edition isn’t significantly different than several other good contemporary English translations of
the Holy Bible. The message of Salvation through the Messiah is still the same.
Preface viii

Capitalization
Some translations capitalize pronouns pertaining to God. Some do not. Hebrew has no such
thing as upper and lower case, and the Greek manuscripts were written all in one case, anyway.
This is purely a matter of English style. The KJV capitalized these pronouns because English
usage at the time demanded capitalization of pronouns referring to a king, and God is certainly the
greatest King. In modern English, we don’t capitalize pronouns pertaining to kings and presidents.
One particularly difficult place to decide on capitalization is in the coronation psalms, which were
written originally for an earthly king, but later sung in praise to the King of Kings. Although there
are good arguments both ways, we left the capitalization of pronouns as the ASV, NIV, and others
have done, without capitalizing pronouns referring to God.

Footnotes
In this edition, the only footnotes are the translators’ footnotes, which offer clarification of
shades of meanings of words and give equivalent weights, measures, and monetary values.
Sometimes alternate readings are given where there is more than one way to legitimately translate
a passage or where significant groups of manuscripts differ. In particular, the abbreviation “NU”
is used to denote alternate readings from the critical text due primarily to the work of Nestle and
Aland and published by the United Bible Societies. “TR” is used to denote alternate readings from
the Textus Receptus, which is the basis of the King James Version New Testament. This translation
is based on the Greek Majority Text as the most authoritative reading of the New Testament we
could find. Significant alternate readings from the other two widely respected critical texts are
given in the footnotes.

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1 Genesis 2:3

Genesis swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly


above the earth in the open expanse of sky.”
1:1 1:21
In the beginning Goda created the heavens God created the large sea creatures, and
and the earth. 1:2 Now the earth was formless every living creature that moves, with which
and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every
the deep. God’s Spirit was hovering over the winged bird after its kind. God saw that it
surface of the waters. was good. 1:22 God blessed them, saying, “Be
1:3
God said, “Let there be light,” and there fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in
was light. 1:4 God saw the light, and saw that the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.”
1:23
it was good. God divided the light from the There was evening and there was morning,
darkness. 1:5 God called the light “day,” and the a fifth day.
1:24
darkness he called “night.” There was evening God said, “Let the earth produce living
and there was morning, one day. creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping
1:6 things, and animals of the earth after their
God said, “Let there be an expanse in
the middle of the waters, and let it divide the kind”; and it was so. 1:25 God made the animals
waters from the waters.” 1:7 God made the of the earth after their kind, and the livestock
expanse, and divided the waters which were after their kind, and everything that creeps on
under the expanse from the waters which were the ground after its kind. God saw that it was
above the expanse; and it was so. 1:8 God called good.
1:26
the expanse “sky.” There was evening and God said, “Let us make man in our
there was morning, a second day. image, after our likeness: and let them have
1:9 dominion over the fish of the sea, and over
God said, “Let the waters under the sky
be gathered together to one place, and let the the birds of the sky, and over the livestock,
dry land appear”; and it was so. 1:10 God and over all the earth, and over every creeping
called the dry land “earth,” and the gathering thing that creeps on the earth.” 1:27 God created
together of the waters he called “seas.” God man in his own image. In God’s image he
saw that it was good. 1:11 God said, “Let the created him; male and female he created them.
1:28
earth yield grass, herbs yielding seed, and fruit God blessed them. God said to them, “Be
trees bearing fruit after their kind, with its seed fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it.
in it, on the earth”; and it was so. 1:12 The earth Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the
yielded grass, herbs yielding seed after their birds of the sky, and over every living thing that
kind, and trees bearing fruit, with its seed in it, moves on the earth.” 1:29 God said, “Behold, I
after their kind; and God saw that it was good. have given you every herb yielding seed, which
1:13 is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree,
There was evening and there was morning,
a third day. which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your
1:14
God said, “Let there be lights in the food. 1:30 To every animal of the earth, and to
expanse of sky to divide the day from the night; every bird of the sky, and to everything that
and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have
for days and years; 1:15 and let them be for lights given every green herb for food”; and it was so.
1:31
in the expanse of sky to give light on the earth”; God saw everything that he had made,
and it was so. 1:16 God made the two great and, behold, it was very good. There was
lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the evening and there was morning, a sixth day.
2:1
lesser light to rule the night. He also made the The heavens and the earth were finished,
stars. 1:17 God set them in the expanse of sky to and all their vast array. 2:2 On the seventh day
give light to the earth, 1:18 and to rule over the God finished his work which he had made; and
day and over the night, and to divide the light he rested on the seventh day from all his work
from the darkness. God saw that it was good. which he had made. 2:3 God blessed the seventh
1:19
There was evening and there was morning, day, and made it holy, because he rested in it
a fourth day. from all his work which he had created and
1:20
God said, “Let the waters swarm with made.
a 1:1
The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “Elohim.” After “God,” the Hebrew has the two letters “Aleph
Tav” (the first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet) as a grammatical marker.
Genesis 2:4 2 Genesis 3:13

2:4
This is the history of the generations of one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its
the heavens and of the earth when they were place. 2:22 He made the rib, which the LORD
created, in the day that the LORDb God made God had taken from the man, into a woman,
the earth and the heavens. 2:5 No plant of the and brought her to the man. 2:23 The man said,
field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of
field had yet sprung up; for the LORD God had my flesh. She will be called ‘woman,’ because
not caused it to rain on the earth. There was not she was taken out of Man.” 2:24 Therefore a
a man to till the ground, 2:6 but a mist went up man will leave his father and his mother, and
from the earth, and watered the whole surface will join with his wife, and they will be one
of the ground. 2:7 The LORD God formed man flesh. 2:25 They were both naked, the man and
from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his wife, and were not ashamed.
3:1
his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a Now the serpent was more subtle than
living soul. 2:8 The LORD God planted a garden any animal of the field which the LORD God
eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man had made. He said to the woman, “Has God
whom he had formed. 2:9 Out of the ground really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the
the LORD God made every tree to grow that is garden?’”
3:2
pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree The woman said to the serpent, “Of the
of life also in the middle of the garden, and the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat,
tree of the knowledge of good and evil. 2:10 A 3:3
but of the fruit of the tree which is in the
river went out of Eden to water the garden; middle of the garden, God has said, ‘You shall
and from there it was parted, and became four not eat of it, neither shall you touch it, lest you
heads. 2:11 The name of the first is Pishon: this die.’”
3:4
is the one which flows through the whole land The serpent said to the woman, “You
of Havilah, where there is gold; 2:12 and the won’t surely die, 3:5 for God knows that in the
gold of that land is good. There is aromatic day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and
resin and the onyx stone. 2:13 The name of the you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
second river is Gihon: the same river that flows 3:6
When the woman saw that the tree was
through the whole land of Cush. 2:14 The name good for food, and that it was a delight to
of the third river is Hiddekel: this is the one the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired
which flows in front of Assyria. The fourth to make one wise, she took of its fruit, and
river is the Euphrates. 2:15 The LORD God took ate; and she gave some to her husband with
the man, and put him into the garden of Eden her, and he ate. 3:7 The eyes of both of them
to dress it and to keep it. 2:16 The LORD God were opened, and they knew that they were
commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of naked. They sewed fig leaves together, and
the garden you may freely eat; 2:17 but of the made themselves aprons. 3:8 They heard the
tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you voice of the LORD God walking in the garden
shall not eat of it; for in the day that you eat in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife
of it you will surely die.” hid themselves from the presence of the LORD
2:18 God among the trees of the garden.
The LORD God said, “It is not good that
3:9
the man should be alone; I will make him a The LORD God called to the man, and
helper suitable for him.” 2:19 Out of the ground said to him, “Where are you?”
3:10
the LORD God formed every animal of the The man said, “I heard your voice in the
field, and every bird of the sky, and brought garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked;
them to the man to see what he would call and I hid myself.”
3:11
them. Whatever the man called every living God said, “Who told you that you were
creature, that was its name. 2:20 The man gave naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I
names to all livestock, and to the birds of the commanded you not to eat from?”
3:12
sky, and to every animal of the field; but for The man said, “The woman whom you
man there was not found a helper suitable for gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree,
him. 2:21 The LORD God caused a deep sleep and I ate.”
3:13
to fall on the man, and he slept; and he took The LORD God said to the woman,
b 2:4 “LORD” or “GOD” (all capital letters) indicate the 4-letter Holy Name of God
Genesis 3:14 3 Genesis 4:18

4:1
“What is this you have done?” The man knew Havah his wife. She
The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, conceived, and gave birth to Cain, and said,
and I ate.” “I have gotten a man with the LORD’s help.”
3:14 4:2
The LORD God said to the serpent, Again she gave birth, to Cain’s brother Abel.
“Because you have done this, Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was
you are cursed above all livestock, a tiller of the ground. 4:3 As time passed, it
and above every animal of the field. happened that Cain brought an offering to the
On your belly you shall go, LORD from the fruit of the ground. 4:4 Abel
and you shall eat dust all the days of your also brought some of the firstborn of his flock
life. and of its fat. The LORD respected Abel and
3:15 his offering, 4:5 but he didn’t respect Cain and
I will put enmity between you and the
his offering. Cain was very angry, and the
woman,
expression on his face fell. 4:6 The LORD said
and between your offspring and her off-
to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why has the
spring.
expression of your face fallen? 4:7 If you do
He will bruise your head,
well, will it not be lifted up? If you don’t do
and you will bruise his heel.” well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for
3:16
To the woman he said, you, but you are to rule over it.” 4:8 Cain said
“I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. to Abel, his brother, “Let’s go into the field.”
In pain you will bear children. It happened when they were in the field, that
Your desire will be for your husband, Cain rose up against Abel, his brother, and
and he will rule over you.” killed him.
3:17 4:9
To Adam he said, The LORD said to Cain, “Where is Abel,
“Because you have listened to your wife’s your brother?”
voice, He said, “I don’t know. Am I my brother’s
and have eaten of the tree, keeper?”
of which I commanded you, saying, ‘You 4:10
The LORD said, “What have you done?
shall not eat of it,’ The voice of your brother’s blood cries to me
cursed is the ground for your sake. from the ground. 4:11 Now you are cursed
In toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. because of the ground, which has opened its
3:18
It will yield thorns and thistles to you; mouth to receive your brother’s blood from
and you will eat the herb of the field. your hand. 4:12 From now on, when you till the
3:19
By the sweat of your face will you eat bread ground, it won’t yield its strength to you. You
until you return to the ground, shall be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth.”
4:13
for out of it you were taken. Cain said to the LORD, “My punishment
For you are dust, is greater than I can bear. 4:14 Behold, you have
and to dust you shall return.” driven me out this day from the surface of the
3:20 ground. I will be hidden from your face, and I
The man called his wife Havah, because
she was the mother of all living. 3:21 The LORD will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth.
God made coats of skins for Adam and for his It will happen that whoever finds me will kill
wife, and clothed them. me.”
3:22 4:15
The LORD God said, “Behold, the man The LORD said to him, “Therefore who-
has become like one of us, knowing good and ever slays Cain, vengeance will be taken on
evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand, and him sevenfold.” the LORD appointed a sign for
also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live Cain, lest any finding him should strike him.
forever...” 3:23 Therefore the LORD God sent 4:16
Cain went out from the LORD’s pres-
him out from the garden of Eden, to till the ence, and lived in the land of Nod, east of
ground from which he was taken. 3:24 So he Eden. 4:17 Cain knew his wife. She conceived,
drove out the man; and he placed Cherubs at and gave birth to Enoch. He built a city, and
the east of the garden of Eden, and the flame of called the name of the city, after the name of
a sword which turned every way, to guard the his son, Enoch. 4:18 To Enoch was born Irad.
way to the tree of life. Irad became the father of Mehujael. Mehujael
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5:12
became the father of Methushael. Methushael Kenan lived seventy years, and became
became the father of Lamech. 4:19 Lamech took the father of Mahalalel. 5:13 Kenan lived after he
two wives: the name of the one was Adah, became the father of Mahalalel eight hundred
and the name of the other Zillah. 4:20 Adah forty years, and became the father of sons and
gave birth to Jabal, who was the father of those daughters 5:14 and all the days of Kenan were
who dwell in tents and have livestock. 4:21 His nine hundred ten years, then he died.
5:15
brother’s name was Jubal, who was the father Mahalalel lived sixty-five years, and be-
of all who handle the harp and pipe. 4:22 Zillah came the father of Jared. 5:16 Mahalalel lived af-
also gave birth to Tubal Cain, the forger of ter he became the father of Jared eight hundred
every cutting instrument of brass and iron. thirty years, and became the father of sons and
Tubal Cain’s sister was Naamah. 4:23 Lamech daughters. 5:17 All the days of Mahalalel were
said to his wives, eight hundred ninety-five years, then he died.
5:18
“Adah and Zillah, hear my voice. Jared lived one hundred sixty-two years,
You wives of Lamech, listen to my and became the father of Enoch. 5:19 Jared
speech, lived after he became the father of Enoch eight
for I have slain a man for wounding me, hundred years, and became the father of sons
a young man for bruising me. and daughters. 5:20 All the days of Jared were
4:24
If Cain will be avenged seven times, nine hundred sixty-two years, then he died.
5:21
truly Lamech seventy-seven times.” Enoch lived sixty-five years, and be-
4:25
Adam knew his wife again. She gave came the father of Methuselah. 5:22 Enoch
birth to a son, and named him Seth, “for walked with God after he became the father of
God has appointed me another child instead of Methuselah three hundred years, and became
Abel, for Cain killed him.” 4:26 There was also the father of sons and daughters. 5:23 All the
born a son to Seth, and he named him Enosh. days of Enoch were three hundred sixty-five
Then men began to call on the LORD’s name. years. 5:24 Enoch walked with God, and he was
5:1 not, for God took him.
This is the book of the generations of
5:25
Adam. In the day that God created man, he Methuselah lived one hundred eighty-
made him in God’s likeness. 5:2 He created seven years, and became the father of Lamech.
5:26
them male and female, and blessed them, and Methuselah lived after he became the father
called their name “Adam,”c in the day when of Lamech seven hundred eighty-two years,
they were created. 5:3 Adam lived one hundred and became the father of sons and daughters.
5:27
thirty years, and became the father of a son in All the days of Methuselah were nine hun-
his own likeness, after his image, and named dred sixty-nine years, then he died.
5:28
him Seth. 5:4 The days of Adam after he Lamech lived one hundred eighty-two
became the father of Seth were eight hundred years, and became the father of a son, 5:29 and
years, and he became the father of sons and he named him Noah, saying, “This same will
daughters. 5:5 All the days that Adam lived comfort us in our work and in the toil of
were nine hundred thirty years, then he died. our hands, because of the ground which the
5:6
Seth lived one hundred five years, and LORD has cursed.” 5:30 Lamech lived after he
became the father of Enosh. 5:7 Seth lived after became the father of Noah five hundred ninety-
he became the father of Enosh eight hundred five years, and became the father of sons and
seven years, and became the father of sons and daughters. 5:31 All the days of Lamech were
daughters. 5:8 All the days of Seth were nine seven hundred seventy-seven years, then he
hundred twelve years, then he died. died.
5:9 5:32
Enosh lived ninety years, and became Noah was five hundred years old, and
the father of Kenan. 5:10 Enosh lived after he Noah became the father of Shem, Ham, and
became the father of Kenan, eight hundred Japheth.
6:1
fifteen years, and became the father of sons and It happened, when men began to multiply
daughters. 5:11 All the days of Enosh were nine on the surface of the ground, and daughters
hundred five years, then he died. were born to them, 6:2 that God’s sons saw that
c 5:2“Adam” and “Man” are spelled with the exact same consonants in Hebrew, so this can be correctly
translated either way.
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men’s daughters were beautiful, and they took be male and female. 6:20 Of the birds after their
for themselves wives of all that they chose. kind, of the livestock after their kind, of every
6:3
The LORD said, “My Spirit will not strive creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two
with man forever, because he also is flesh; yet of every sort shall come to you, to keep them
will his days be one hundred twenty years.” alive. 6:21 Take with you of all food that is eaten,
6:4
The Nephilim were in the earth in those and gather it to yourself; and it will be for food
days, and also after that, when God’s sons came for you, and for them.” 6:22 Thus Noah did.
in to men’s daughters. They bore children to According to all that God commanded him, so
them. Those were the mighty men who were of he did.
old, men of renown. 7:1
The LORD said to Noah, “Come with
6:5
The LORD saw that the wickedness of all of your household into the ship, for I
man was great in the earth, and that every have seen your righteousness before me in this
imagination of the thoughts of his heart was generation. 7:2 You shall take seven pairs of
only evil continually. 6:6 The LORD was sorry every clean animal with you, the male and his
that he had made man on the earth, and it female. Of the animals that are not clean, take
grieved him in his heart. 6:7 The LORD said, two, the male and his female. 7:3 Also of the
“I will destroy man whom I have created from birds of the sky, seven and seven, male and
the surface of the ground; man, along with female, to keep seed alive on the surface of
animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky; all the earth. 7:4 In seven days, I will cause it
for I am sorry that I have made them.” 6:8 But to rain on the earth for forty days and forty
Noah found favor in the LORD’s eyes. nights. Every living thing that I have made, I
6:9
This is the history of the generations of will destroy from the surface of the ground.”
7:5
Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless Noah did everything that the LORD com-
among the people of his time. Noah walked manded him.
with God. 6:10 Noah became the father of three 7:6
Noah was six hundred years old when the
sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. 6:11 The earth flood of waters came on the earth. 7:7 Noah
was corrupt before God, and the earth was went into the ship with his sons, his wife, and
filled with violence. 6:12 God saw the earth, his sons’ wives, because of the waters of the
and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had flood. 7:8 Clean animals, animals that are not
corrupted their way on the earth. clean, birds, and everything that creeps on the
6:13
God said to Noah, “The end of all flesh ground 7:9 went by pairs to Noah into the ship,
has come before me, for the earth is filled with male and female, as God commanded Noah.
7:10
violence through them. Behold, I will destroy It happened after the seven days, that the
them with the earth. 6:14 Make a ship of gopher waters of the flood came on the earth. 7:11 In the
wood. You shall make rooms in the ship, six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second
and shall seal it inside and outside with pitch. month, on the seventeenth day of the month,
6:15 on the same day all the fountains of the great
This is how you shall make it. The length
of the ship will be three hundred cubits, its deep were burst open, and the sky’s windows
breadth fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits. were opened. 7:12 The rain was on the earth
6:16 forty days and forty nights.
You shall make a roof in the ship, and you
7:13
shall finish it to a cubit upward. You shall set In the same day Noah, and Shem, Ham,
the door of the ship in its side. You shall make and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s
it with lower, second, and third levels. 6:17 I, wife, and the three wives of his sons with
even I, do bring the flood of waters on this them, entered into the ship; 7:14 they, and every
earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of animal after its kind, all the livestock after their
life from under the sky. Everything that is in kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the
the earth will die. 6:18 But I will establish my earth after its kind, and every bird after its
covenant with you. You shall come into the kind, every bird of every sort. 7:15 They went
ship, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ to Noah into the ship, by pairs of all flesh with
wives with you. 6:19 Of every living thing of all the breath of life in them. 7:16 Those who went
flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the in, went in male and female of all flesh, as
ship, to keep them alive with you. They shall God commanded him; and the LORD shut him
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in. 7:17 The flood was forty days on the earth. the earth. 8:12 He stayed yet another seven days,
The waters increased, and lifted up the ship, and sent out the dove; and she didn’t return to
and it was lifted up above the earth. 7:18 The him any more.
waters prevailed, and increased greatly on the 8:13
It happened in the six hundred first year,
earth; and the ship floated on the surface of the in the first month, the first day of the month,
waters. 7:19 The waters prevailed exceedingly the waters were dried up from the earth. Noah
on the earth. All the high mountains that were removed the covering of the ship, and looked.
under the whole sky were covered. 7:20 The He saw that the surface of the ground was
waters prevailed fifteen cubits upward, and the dried. 8:14 In the second month, on the twenty-
mountains were covered. 7:21 All flesh died that seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.
8:15
moved on the earth, including birds, livestock, God spoke to Noah, saying, 8:16 “Go out
animals, every creeping thing that creeps on of the ship, you, and your wife, and your sons,
the earth, and every man. 7:22 All in whose and your sons’ wives with you. 8:17 Bring out
nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, of with you every living thing that is with you of
all that was on the dry land, died. 7:23 Every all flesh, including birds, livestock, and every
living thing was destroyed that was on the creeping thing that creeps on the earth, that
surface of the ground, including man, livestock, they may breed abundantly in the earth, and
creeping things, and birds of the sky. They be fruitful, and multiply on the earth.”
were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah 8:18
Noah went out, with his sons, his wife,
was left, and those who were with him in the and his sons’ wives with him. 8:19 Every animal,
ship. 7:24 The waters prevailed on the earth one every creeping thing, and every bird, whatever
hundred fifty days. moves on the earth, after their families, went
8:1
God remembered Noah, all the animals, out of the ship.
and all the livestock that were with him in the 8:20
Noah built an altar to the LORD, and
ship; and God made a wind to pass over the took of every clean animal, and of every clean
earth. The waters subsided. 8:2 The deep’s bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
fountains and the sky’s windows were also 8:21
The LORD smelled the pleasant aroma. The
stopped, and the rain from the sky was re- LORD said in his heart, “I will not again
strained. 8:3 The waters receded from the earth curse the ground any more for man’s sake,
continually. After the end of one hundred fifty because the imagination of man’s heart is evil
days the waters decreased. 8:4 The ship rested from his youth; neither will I ever again strike
in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of everything living, as I have done. 8:22 While the
the month, on Ararat’s mountains. 8:5 The wa- earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold
ters receded continually until the tenth month. and heat, and summer and winter, and day and
In the tenth month, on the first day of the night shall not cease.”
month, the tops of the mountains were seen. 9:1
God blessed Noah and his sons, and
8:6
It happened at the end of forty days, that said to them, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and
Noah opened the window of the ship which he replenish the earth. 9:2 The fear of you and the
had made, 8:7 and he sent out a raven. It went dread of you will be on every animal of the
back and forth, until the waters were dried up earth, and on every bird of the sky. Everything
from the earth. 8:8 He sent out a dove from that the ground teems with, and all the fish of
him, to see if the waters were abated from the the sea are delivered into your hand. 9:3 Every
surface of the ground, 8:9 but the dove found moving thing that lives will be food for you.
no place to rest her foot, and she returned to As the green herb, I have given everything to
him into the ship; for the waters were on the you. 9:4 But flesh with its life, its blood, you
surface of the whole earth. He put out his hand, shall not eat. 9:5 I will surely require your blood
and took her, and brought her to him into the of your lives. At the hand of every animal I
ship. 8:10 He stayed yet another seven days; and will require it. At the hand of man, even at the
again he sent the dove out of the ship. 8:11 The hand of every man’s brother, I will require the
dove came back to him at evening, and, behold, life of man. 9:6 Whoever sheds man’s blood, his
in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off. So blood will be shed by man, for God made man
Noah knew that the waters were abated from in his own image. 9:7 Be fruitful and multiply.
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Increase abundantly in the earth, and multiply “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem.
in it.” Let Canaan be his servant.
9:8 9:27
God spoke to Noah and to his sons with May God enlarge Japheth.
him, saying, 9:9 “As for me, behold, I establish Let him dwell in the tents of Shem.
my covenant with you, and with your offspring Let Canaan be his servant.”
after you, 9:10 and with every living creature 9:28
Noah lived three hundred fifty years
that is with you: the birds, the livestock, and after the flood. 9:29 All the days of Noah were
every animal of the earth with you, of all that nine hundred fifty years, then he died.
go out of the ship, even every animal of the 10:1
Now this is the history of the generations
earth. 9:11 I will establish my covenant with of the sons of Noah and of Shem, Ham, and
you: all flesh will not be cut off any more by the Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood.
waters of the flood, neither will there ever again 10:2
The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog,
be a flood to destroy the earth.” 9:12 God said, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
“This is the token of the covenant which I make 10:3
The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath,
between me and you and every living creature and Togarmah. 10:4 The sons of Javan: Elishah,
that is with you, for perpetual generations: 9:13 I Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim. 10:5 Of these
set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be for were the islands of the nations divided in their
a sign of a covenant between me and the earth. lands, everyone after his language, after their
9:14
It will happen, when I bring a cloud over families, in their nations.
the earth, that the rainbow will be seen in the 10:6
The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put,
cloud, 9:15 and I will remember my covenant,
and Canaan. 10:7 The sons of Cush: Seba, Havi-
which is between me and you and every living
lah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of
creature of all flesh, and the waters will no more Raamah: Sheba and Dedan. 10:8 Cush became
become a flood to destroy all flesh. 9:16 The
the father of Nimrod. He began to be a mighty
rainbow will be in the cloud. I will look at it,
one in the earth. 10:9 He was a mighty hunter
that I may remember the everlasting covenant before the LORD. Therefore it is said, “Like
between God and every living creature of all
Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the LORD.”
flesh that is on the earth.” 9:17 God said to Noah, 10:10
The beginning of his kingdom was Babel,
“This is the token of the covenant which I have Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
established between me and all flesh that is on 10:11
Out of that land he went into Assyria, and
the earth.”
9:18
built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah, 10:12 and
The sons of Noah who went out from the Resen between Nineveh and Calah (the same
ship were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham is the is the great city). 10:13 Mizraim became the
father of Canaan. 9:19 These three were the sons father of Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naph-
of Noah, and from these, the whole earth was tuhim, 10:14 Pathrusim, Casluhim (which the
populated. Philistines descended from), and Caphtorim.
9:20 10:15
Noah began to be a farmer, and planted Canaan became the father of Sidon (his
a vineyard. 9:21 He drank of the wine and firstborn), Heth, 10:16 the Jebusite, the Amorite,
got drunk. He was uncovered within his the Girgashite, 10:17 the Hivite, the Arkite, the
tent. 9:22 Ham, the father of Canaan, saw Sinite, 10:18 the Arvadite, the Zemarite, and
the nakedness of his father, and told his two the Hamathite. Afterward the families of
brothers outside. 9:23 Shem and Japheth took the Canaanites were spread abroad. 10:19 The
a garment, and laid it on both their shoulders, border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as
went in backwards, and covered the nakedness you go toward Gerar, to Gaza; as you go toward
of their father. Their faces were backwards, Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, to
and they didn’t see their father’s nakedness.
9:24
Lasha. 10:20 These are the sons of Ham, after
Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what their families, after their languages, in their
his youngest son had done to him. 9:25 He said, lands, in their nations.
“Canaan is cursed. 10:21
To Shem, the father of all the children
He will be servant of servants to his of Eber, the elder brother of Japheth, to him
brothers.” also were children born. 10:22 The sons of
9:26
He said, Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and
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Aram. 10:23 The sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, 11:12


Arpachshad lived thirty-five years and
Gether, and Mash. 10:24 Arpachshad became became the father of Shelah. 11:13 Arpachshad
the father of Shelah. Shelah became the father lived four hundred three years after he became
of Eber. 10:25 To Eber were born two sons. the father of Shelah, and became the father of
The name of the one was Peleg, for in his sons and daughters.
11:14
days the earth was divided. His brother’s Shelah lived thirty years, and became
name was Joktan. 10:26 Joktan became the father the father of Eber: 11:15 and Shelah lived four
of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, hundred three years after he became the father
10:27
Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, 10:28 Obal, Abi- of Eber, and became the father of sons and
mael, Sheba, 10:29 Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. daughters.
All these were the sons of Joktan. 10:30 Their 11:16
Eber lived thirty-four years, and became
dwelling was from Mesha, as you go toward the father of Peleg. 11:17 Eber lived four hun-
Sephar, the mountain of the east. 10:31 These are dred thirty years after he became the father
the sons of Shem, after their families, after their of Peleg, and became the father of sons and
languages, in their lands, after their nations. daughters.
10:32 11:18
These are the families of the sons of Peleg lived thirty years, and became the
Noah, after their generations, in their nations. father of Reu. 11:19 Peleg lived two hundred
Of these were the nations divided in the earth nine years after he became the father of Reu,
after the flood. and became the father of sons and daughters.
11:1 11:20
The whole earth was of one language Reu lived thirty-two years, and became
and of one speech. 11:2 It happened, as they the father of Serug. 11:21 Reu lived two hundred
traveled east, that they found a plain in the seven years after he became the father of Serug,
land of Shinar, and they lived there. 11:3 They and became the father of sons and daughters.
11:22
said one to another, “Come, let’s make bricks, Serug lived thirty years, and became the
and burn them thoroughly.” They had brick for father of Nahor. 11:23 Serug lived two hundred
stone, and they used tar for mortar. 11:4 They years after he became the father of Nahor, and
said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city, and a became the father of sons and daughters.
tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let’s 11:24
Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and be-
make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered came the father of Terah. 11:25 Nahor lived one
abroad on the surface of the whole earth.” hundred nineteen years after he became the
11:5
The LORD came down to see the city father of Terah, and became the father of sons
and the tower, which the children of men and daughters.
built. 11:6 The LORD said, “Behold, they are 11:26
Terah lived seventy years, and became
one people, and they have all one language, the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
and this is what they begin to do. Now 11:27
Now this is the history of the gener-
nothing will be withheld from them, which ations of Terah. Terah became the father of
they intend to do. 11:7 Come, let’s go down, Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran became the
and there confuse their language, that they may father of Lot. 11:28 Haran died before his father
not understand one another’s speech.” 11:8 So Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur-Kasdim.
the LORD scattered them abroad from there 11:29
Abram and Nahor took wives. The name
on the surface of all the earth. They stopped of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of
building the city. 11:9 Therefore its name was Nahor’s wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran
called Babel, because there the LORD confused who was also the father of Iscah. 11:30 Sarai
the language of all the earth. From there, the was barren. She had no child. 11:31 Terah
LORD scattered them abroad on the surface of took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his
all the earth. son’s son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his
11:10
This is the history of the generations of son Abram’s wife. They went from Ur-Kasdim,
Shem. Shem was one hundred years old and to go into the land of Canaan. They came to
became the father of Arpachshad two years Haran and lived there. 11:32 The days of Terah
after the flood. 11:11 Shem lived five hundred were two hundred five years. Terah died in
years after he became the father of Arpachshad, Haran.
12:1
and became the father of sons and daughters. Now the LORD said to Abram, “Get out
Genesis 12:2 9 Genesis 13:15

of your country, and from your relatives, and said, “What is this that you have done to me?
from your father’s house, to the land that I will Why didn’t you tell me that she was your wife?
show you. 12:2 I will make of you a great nation. 12:19
Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that
I will bless you and make your name great. You I took her to be my wife? Now therefore, see
will be a blessing. 12:3 I will bless those who your wife, take her, and go your way.”
12:20
bless you, and I will curse him who curses you. Pharaoh commanded men concerning
All of the families of the earth will be blessed in him, and they brought him on the way with his
you.” wife and all that he had.
12:4 13:1
So Abram went, as the LORD had spo- Abram went up out of Egypt: he, his
ken to him. Lot went with him. Abram was wife, all that he had, and Lot with him, into the
seventy-five years old when he departed out South. 13:2 Abram was very rich in livestock,
of Haran. 12:5 Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot in silver, and in gold. 13:3 He went on his
his brother’s son, all their substance that they journeys from the South even to Bethel, to the
had gathered, and the souls whom they had place where his tent had been at the beginning,
gotten in Haran, and they went to go into the between Bethel and Ai, 13:4 to the place of the
land of Canaan. Into the land of Canaan they altar, which he had made there at the first.
came. 12:6 Abram passed through the land to There Abram called on the name of the LORD.
13:5
the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. The Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks,
Canaanite was then in the land. and herds, and tents. 13:6 The land was not able
12:7
The LORD appeared to Abram and said, to bear them, that they might live together: for
“I will give this land to your seedd .” their substance was great, so that they could
He built an altar there to the LORD, who not live together. 13:7 There was a strife between
appeared to him. 12:8 He left from there to the the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the
mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his herdsmen of Lot’s livestock: and the Canaanite
tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the and the Perizzite lived in the land at that time.
13:8
east. There he built an altar to the LORD and Abram said to Lot, “Please, let there be
called on the name of the LORD. 12:9 Abram no strife between me and you, and between
traveled, going on still toward the South. my herdsmen and your herdsmen; for we are
12:10
There was a famine in the land. Abram relatives. 13:9 Isn’t the whole land before you?
went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner Please separate yourself from me. If you go to
there, for the famine was severe in the land. the left hand, then I will go to the right. Or if
12:11
It happened, when he had come near to you go to the right hand, then I will go to the
enter Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, “See left.”
13:10
now, I know that you are a beautiful woman to Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the
look at. 12:12 It will happen, when the Egyptians plain of the Jordan, that it was well-watered ev-
will see you, that they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ erywhere, before the LORD destroyed Sodom
They will kill me, but they will save you alive. and Gomorrah, like the garden of the LORD,
12:13
Please say that you are my sister, that it like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar.
13:11
may be well with me for your sake, and that So Lot chose the Plain of the Jordan for
my soul may live because of you.” himself. Lot traveled east, and they separated
12:14
It happened that when Abram had themselves the one from the other. 13:12 Abram
come into Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the lived in the land of Canaan, and Lot lived in
woman was very beautiful. 12:15 The princes of the cities of the plain, and moved his tent as
Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh; far as Sodom. 13:13 Now the men of Sodom
and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s were exceedingly wicked and sinners against
house. 12:16 He dealt well with Abram for her the LORD.
13:14
sake. He had sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male The LORD said to Abram, after Lot
servants, female servants, female donkeys, and was separated from him, “Now, lift up your
camels. 12:17 The LORD plagued Pharaoh and eyes, and look from the place where you are,
his house with great plagues because of Sarai, northward and southward and eastward and
Abram’s wife. 12:18 Pharaoh called Abram and westward, 13:15 for all the land which you see, I
d 12:7 or, offspring
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will give to you, and to your offspring forever. Abram. 14:14 When Abram heard that his rela-
13:16
I will make your offspring as the dust of tive was taken captive, he led out his trained
the earth, so that if a man can number the men, born in his house, three hundred and
dust of the earth, then your seed may also be eighteen, and pursued as far as Dan. 14:15 He
numbered. 13:17 Arise, walk through the land in divided himself against them by night, he and
its length and in its breadth; for I will give it to his servants, and struck them, and pursued
you.” them to Hobah, which is on the left hand of
13:18
Abram moved his tent, and came and Damascus. 14:16 He brought back all the goods,
lived by the oaks of Mamre, which are in and also brought back his relative, Lot, and his
Hebron, and built an altar there to the LORD. goods, and the women also, and the people.
14:1 14:17
It happened in the days of Amraphel, The king of Sodom went out to meet
king of Shinar, Arioch, king of Ellasar, Che- him, after his return from the slaughter of
dorlaomer, king of Elam, and Tidal, king of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with
Goiim, 14:2 that they made war with Bera, king him, at the valley of Shaveh (that is, the
of Sodom, and with Birsha, king of Gomorrah, King’s Valley). 14:18 Melchizedek king of Salem
Shinab, king of Admah, and Shemeber, king brought out bread and wine: and he was priest
of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same of God Most High. 14:19 He blessed him, and
is Zoar). 14:3 All these joined together in the said, “Blessed be Abram of God Most High,
valley of Siddim (the same is the Salt Sea). possessor of heaven and earth: 14:20 and blessed
14:4 be God Most High, who has delivered your
Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer,
and in the thirteenth year, they rebelled. 14:5 In enemies into your hand.”
the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer came, and Abram gave him a tenth of all.
14:21
the kings who were with him, and struck the The king of Sodom said to Abram,
Rephaim in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzim “Give me the people, and take the goods to
in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh Kiriathaim, yourself.”
14:6 14:22
and the Horites in their Mount Seir, to Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I
Elparan, which is by the wilderness. 14:7 They have lifted up my hand to the LORD, God Most
returned, and came to En Mishpat (the same High, possessor of heaven and earth, 14:23 that
is Kadesh), and struck all the country of the I will not take a thread nor a sandal strap nor
Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that lived anything that is yours, lest you should say,
in Hazazon Tamar. 14:8 The king of Sodom, ‘I have made Abram rich.’ 14:24 I will accept
and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of nothing from you except that which the young
Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king men have eaten, and the portion of the men
of Bela (the same is Zoar) went out; and they who went with me: Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre.
set the battle in array against them in the valley Let them take their portion.”
of Siddim; 14:9 against Chedorlaomer king of 15:1
After these things the word of the LORD
Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim, and Amraphel came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Don’t
king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar; four be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your
kings against the five. 14:10 Now the valley exceedingly great reward.”
15:2
of Siddim was full of tar pits; and the kings Abram said, “Lorde the LORD, what will
of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and they fell you give me, since I go childless, and he who
there, and those who remained fled to the hills. will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?”
14:11 15:3
They took all the goods of Sodom and Abram said, “Behold, to me you have given
Gomorrah, and all their food, and went their no seed: and, behold, one born in my house is
way. 14:12 They took Lot, Abram’s brother’s my heir.”
15:4
son, who lived in Sodom, and his goods, and Behold, the word of the LORD came to
departed. him, saying, “This man will not be your heir,
14:13
One who had escaped came and told but he who will come out of your own body
Abram, the Hebrew. Now he lived by the will be your heir.” 15:5 The LORD brought him
oaks of Mamre, the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, outside, and said, “Look now toward the sky,
and brother of Aner; and these were allies of and count the stars, if you are able to count
e 15:2 The word translated “Lord” (mixed case) is “Adonai.”
Genesis 15:6 11 Genesis 17:5

them.” He said to Abram, “So shall your seed she had conceived, her mistress was despised
be.” 15:6 He believed in the LORD; and he in her eyes. 16:5 Sarai said to Abram, “This
reckoned it to him for righteousness. 15:7 He wrong is your fault. I gave my handmaid into
said to him, “I am the LORD who brought your bosom, and when she saw that she had
you out of Ur-Kasdim, to give you this land to conceived, I was despised in her eyes. The
inherit it.” LORD judge between me and you.”
15:8 16:6
He said, “Lord GOD, how will I know But Abram said to Sarai, “Behold, your
that I will inherit it?” maid is in your hand. Do to her whatever is
15:9
He said to him, “Bring me a heifer three good in your eyes.” Sarai dealt harshly with
years old, a female goat three years old, a her, and she fled from her face.
16:7
ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young The angel of the LORD found her by
pigeon.” 15:10 He brought him all of these, and a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the
divided them in the middle, and laid each half fountain in the way to Shur. 16:8 He said,
opposite the other; but he didn’t divide the “Hagar, Sarai’s handmaid, where did you come
birds. 15:11 The birds of prey came down on the from? Where are you going?”
carcasses, and Abram drove them away. She said, “I am fleeing from the face of my
15:12
When the sun was going down, a deep mistress Sarai.”
16:9
sleep fell on Abram. Now terror and great The angel of the LORD said to her,
darkness fell on him. 15:13 He said to Abram, “Return to your mistress, and submit yourself
“Know for sure that your seed will live as under her hands.” 16:10 The angel of the LORD
foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will said to her, “I will greatly multiply your seed,
serve them. They will afflict them four hundred that they will not be numbered for multitude.”
16:11
years. 15:14 I will also judge that nation, whom The angel of the LORD said to her, “Be-
they will serve. Afterward they will come out hold, you are with child, and will bear a son.
with great wealth, 15:15 but you will go to your You shall call his name Ishmael, because the
fathers in peace. You will be buried in a good LORD has heard your affliction. 16:12 He will be
old age. 15:16 In the fourth generation they will like a wild donkey among men. His hand will
come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorite be against every man, and every man’s hand
is not yet full.” 15:17 It came to pass that, when against him. He will live opposite all of his
the sun went down, and it was dark, behold, a brothers.”
16:13
smoking furnace, and a flaming torch passed She called the name of the LORD who
between these pieces. 15:18 In that day the spoke to her, “You are a God who sees,” for
LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, she said, “Have I even stayed alive after seeing
“To your seed I have given this land, from him?” 16:14 Therefore the well was called Beer
the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Lahai Roi.f Behold, it is between Kadesh and
Euphrates: 15:19 the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Bered.
Kadmonites, 15:20 the Hittites, the Perizzites, the 16:15
Hagar bore a son for Abram. Abram
Rephaim, 15:21 the Amorites, the Canaanites, called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore,
the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.” Ishmael. 16:16 Abram was eighty-six years old
16:1
Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, bore him no when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.
17:1
children. She had a handmaid, an Egyptian, When Abram was ninety-nine years old,
whose name was Hagar. 16:2 Sarai said to the LORD appeared to Abram, and said to him,
Abram, “See now, the LORD has restrained me “I am God Almighty. Walk before me, and
from bearing. Please go in to my handmaid. be blameless. 17:2 I will make my covenant
It may be that I will obtain children by her.” between me and you, and will multiply you
Abram listened to the voice of Sarai. 16:3 Sarai, exceedingly.”
17:3
Abram’s wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her Abram fell on his face. God talked
handmaid, after Abram had lived ten years in with him, saying, 17:4 “As for me, behold, my
the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram covenant is with you. You will be the father of
her husband to be his wife. 16:4 He went in to a multitude of nations. 17:5 Neither will your
Hagar, and she conceived. When she saw that name any more be called Abram, but your
f 16:14 Beer Lahai Roi means “well of the one who lives and sees me.”
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name will be Abraham; for I have made you will become the father of twelve princes, and
the father of a multitude of nations. 17:6 I will I will make him a great nation. 17:21 But my
make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make covenant I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah
nations of you. Kings will come out of you. will bear to you at this set time next year.”
17:7 17:22
I will establish my covenant between me When he finished talking with him,
and you and your seed after you throughout God went up from Abraham. 17:23 Abraham
their generations for an everlasting covenant, took Ishmael his son, all who were born in
to be a God to you and to your seed after you. his house, and all who were bought with
17:8
I will give to you, and to your seed after his money; every male among the men of
you, the land where you are traveling, all the Abraham’s house, and circumcised the flesh
land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. I of their foreskin in the same day, as God had
will be their God.” said to him. 17:24 Abraham was ninety-nine
17:9
God said to Abraham, “As for you, you years old, when he was circumcised in the
will keep my covenant, you and your seed after flesh of his foreskin. 17:25 Ishmael, his son, was
you throughout their generations. 17:10 This is thirteen years old when he was circumcised
my covenant, which you shall keep, between in the flesh of his foreskin. 17:26 In the same
me and you and your seed after you. Every day both Abraham and Ishmael, his son, were
male among you shall be circumcised. 17:11 You circumcised. 17:27 All the men of his house,
shall be circumcised in the flesh of your fore- those born in the house, and those bought with
skin. It will be a token of the covenant between money of a foreigner, were circumcised with
me and you. 17:12 He who is eight days old him.
18:1
will be circumcised among you, every male The LORD appeared to him by the oaks
throughout your generations, he who is born of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the
in the house, or bought with money from any heat of the day. 18:2 He lifted up his eyes and
foreigner who is not of your seed. 17:13 He who looked, and saw that three men stood opposite
is born in your house, and he who is bought him. When he saw them, he ran to meet them
with your money, must be circumcised. My from the tent door, and bowed himself to the
covenant will be in your flesh for an everlasting earth, 18:3 and said, “My lord, if now I have
covenant. 17:14 The uncircumcised male who is found favor in your sight, please don’t go away
not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that from your servant. 18:4 Now let a little water
soul shall be cut off from his people. He has be fetched, wash your feet, and rest yourselves
broken my covenant.” under the tree. 18:5 I will get a morsel of bread
17:15
God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai so you can refresh your heart. After that you
your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but may go your way, now that you have come to
her name will be Sarah. 17:16 I will bless her, and your servant.”
moreover I will give you a son by her. Yes, I will They said, “Very well, do as you have said.”
18:6
bless her, and she will be a mother of nations. Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah,
Kings of peoples will come from her.” and said, “Quickly prepare three measures
17:17
Then Abraham fell on his face, and of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes.”
18:7
laughed, and said in his heart, “Will a child Abraham ran to the herd, and fetched a
be born to him who is one hundred years old? tender and good calf, and gave it to the servant.
Will Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?” He hurried to dress it. 18:8 He took butter, milk,
17:18
Abraham said to God, “Oh that Ishmael and the calf which he had dressed, and set it
might live before you!” before them. He stood by them under the tree,
17:19 and they ate.
God said, “No, but Sarah, your wife,
18:9
will bear you a son. You shall call his name They asked him, “Where is Sarah, your
Isaac.g I will establish my covenant with him wife?”
for an everlasting covenant for his seed after He said, “See, in the tent.”
him. 17:20 As for Ishmael, I have heard you. 18:10
He said, “I will certainly return to you
Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him when the season comes round. Behold, Sarah
fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. He your wife will have a son.”
g 17:19 Isaac means “he laughs.”
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Sarah heard in the tent door, which was lack of five?”


behind him. 18:11 Now Abraham and Sarah He said, “I will not destroy it, if I find forty-
were old, well advanced in age. Sarah had five there.”
passed the age of childbearing. 18:12 Sarah 18:29
He spoke to him yet again, and said,
laughed within herself, saying, “After I have “What if there are forty found there?”
grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being He said, “I will not do it for the forty’s sake.”
old also?” 18:30
He said, “Oh don’t let the Lord be angry,
18:13
The LORD said to Abraham, “Why did and I will speak. What if there are thirty found
Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Will I really bear a child, there?”
yet I am old?’ 18:14 Is anything too hard for He said, “I will not do it, if I find thirty
the LORD? At the set time I will return to you, there.”
when the season comes round, and Sarah will 18:31
He said, “See now, I have taken it on
have a son.” myself to speak to the Lord. What if there are
18:15
Then Sarah denied, saying, “I didn’t twenty found there?”
laugh,” for she was afraid. He said, “I will not destroy it for the
He said, “No, but you did laugh.” twenty’s sake.”
18:16 18:32
The men rose up from there, and looked He said, “Oh don’t let the Lord be angry,
toward Sodom. Abraham went with them to and I will speak just once more. What if ten are
see them on their way. 18:17 The LORD said, found there?”
“Will I hide from Abraham what I do, 18:18 since He said, “I will not destroy it for the ten’s
Abraham has surely become a great and mighty sake.”
18:33
nation, and all the nations of the earth will be The LORD went his way, as soon as he
blessed in him? 18:19 For I have known him, to had finished communing with Abraham, and
the end that he may command his children and Abraham returned to his place.
19:1
his household after him, that they may keep The two angels came to Sodom at
the way of the LORD, to do righteousness and evening. Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. Lot saw
justice; to the end that the LORD may bring on them, and rose up to meet them. He bowed
Abraham that which he has spoken of him.” himself with his face to the earth, 19:2 and he
18:20
The LORD said, “Because the cry of Sodom said, “See now, my lords, please turn aside into
and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is your servant’s house, stay all night, wash your
very grievous, 18:21 I will go down now, and see feet, and you can rise up early, and go on your
whether their deeds are as bad as the reports way.”
which have come to me. If not, I will know.” They said, “No, but we will stay in the street
18:22
The men turned from there, and went all night.”
19:3
toward Sodom, but Abraham stood yet before He urged them greatly, and they came in
the LORD. 18:23 Abraham drew near, and said, with him, and entered into his house. He made
“Will you consume the righteous with the them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and
wicked? 18:24 What if there are fifty righteous they ate. 19:4 But before they lay down, the men
within the city? Will you consume and not of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the
spare the place for the fifty righteous who are in house, both young and old, all the people from
it? 18:25 Be it far from you to do things like that, every quarter. 19:5 They called to Lot, and said
to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the to him, “Where are the men who came in to you
righteous should be like the wicked. May that this night? Bring them out to us, that we may
be far from you. Shouldn’t the Judge of all the have sex with them.”
earth do right?” 19:6
Lot went out to them to the door, and
18:26
The LORD said, “If I find in Sodom shut the door after him. 19:7 He said, “Please,
fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare my brothers, don’t act so wickedly. 19:8 See
all the place for their sake.” 18:27 Abraham now, I have two virgin daughters. Please let
answered, “See now, I have taken it on myself me bring them out to you, and you may do to
to speak to the Lord, who am but dust and them what seems good to you. Only don’t do
ashes. 18:28 What if there will lack five of the anything to these men, because they have come
fifty righteous? Will you destroy all the city for under the shadow of my roof.”
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19:9 19:23
They said, “Stand back!” Then they said, The sun had risen on the earth when Lot
“This one fellow came in to live as a foreigner, came to Zoar. 19:24 Then the LORD rained on
and he appoints himself a judge. Now will we Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire from
deal worse with you, than with them!” They the LORD out of the sky. 19:25 He overthrew
pressed hard on the man Lot, and drew near to those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of
break the door. 19:10 But the men reached out the cities, and that which grew on the ground.
19:26
their hand, and brought Lot into the house to But his wife looked back from behind him,
them, and shut the door. 19:11 They struck the and she became a pillar of salt.
19:27
men who were at the door of the house with Abraham got up early in the morning to
blindness, both small and great, so that they the place where he had stood before the LORD.
19:28
wearied themselves to find the door. He looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah,
19:12
The men said to Lot, “Do you have and toward all the land of the plain, and
anybody else here? Sons-in-law, your sons, looked, and saw that the smoke of the land
your daughters, and whoever you have in the went up as the smoke of a furnace.
city, bring them out of the place: 19:13 for we will 19:29
It happened, when God destroyed the
destroy this place, because the outcry against cities of the plain, that God remembered Abra-
them has grown great before the LORD that the ham, and sent Lot out of the middle of the
LORD has sent us to destroy it.” overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in
19:14
Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in- which Lot lived.
19:30
law, who were pledged to marry his daughters, Lot went up out of Zoar, and lived in the
and said, “Get up! Get out of this place, for the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for
LORD will destroy the city.” he was afraid to live in Zoar. He lived in a cave
But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be with his two daughters. 19:31 The firstborn said
joking. 19:15 When the morning came, then to the younger, “Our father is old, and there
the angels hurried Lot, saying, “Get up! Take is not a man in the earth to come in to us in
your wife, and your two daughters who are the way of all the earth. 19:32 Come, let’s make
here, lest you be consumed in the iniquity of our father drink wine, and we will lie with
the city.” 19:16 But he lingered; and the men him, that we may preserve our father’s seed.”
19:33
grabbed his hand, his wife’s hand, and his two They made their father drink wine that
daughters’ hands, the LORD being merciful night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with
to him; and they took him out, and set him her father. He didn’t know when she lay down,
outside of the city. 19:17 It came to pass, when nor when she arose. 19:34 It came to pass on the
they had taken them out, that he said, “Escape next day, that the firstborn said to the younger,
for your life! Don’t look behind you, and “Behold, I lay last night with my father. Let
don’t stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the us make him drink wine again, tonight. You
mountains, lest you be consumed!” go in, and lie with him, that we may preserve
19:18
Lot said to them, “Oh, not so, my lord. our father’s seed.” 19:35 They made their father
19:19
See now, your servant has found favor drink wine that night also. The younger went
in your sight, and you have magnified your and lay with him. He didn’t know when she lay
loving kindness, which you have shown to down, nor when she got up. 19:36 Thus both of
me in saving my life. I can’t escape to the Lot’s daughters were with child by their father.
19:37
mountain, lest evil overtake me, and I die. The firstborn bore a son, and named him
19:20
See now, this city is near to flee to, and it Moab. He is the father of the Moabites to this
is a little one. Oh let me escape there (isn’t it a day. 19:38 The younger also bore a son, and
little one?), and my soul will live.” called his name Ben Ammi. He is the father of
19:21
He said to him, “Behold, I have granted the children of Ammon to this day.
20:1
your request concerning this thing also, that I Abraham traveled from there toward the
will not overthrow the city of which you have land of the South, and lived between Kadesh
spoken. 19:22 Hurry, escape there, for I can’t do and Shur. He lived as a foreigner in Gerar.
20:2
anything until you get there.” Therefore the Abraham said about Sarah his wife, “She is
name of the city was called Zoar.h my sister.” Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and
h 19:22 Zoar means “little.”
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took Sarah. 20:3 But God came to Abimelech in LORD had closed up tight all the wombs of
a dream of the night, and said to him, “Behold, the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah,
you are a dead man, because of the woman Abraham’s wife.
21:1
whom you have taken. For she is a man’s wife.” The LORD visited Sarah as he had said,
20:4
Now Abimelech had not come near her. and the LORD did to Sarah as he had spoken.
21:2
He said, “Lord, will you kill even a righteous Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son
nation? 20:5 Didn’t he tell me, ‘She is my sister?’ in his old age, at the set time of which God
She, even she herself, said, ‘He is my brother.’ had spoken to him. 21:3 Abraham called his
In the integrity of my heart and the innocence son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore
of my hands have I done this.” to him, Isaac.i 21:4 Abraham circumcised his
20:6
God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I son, Isaac, when he was eight days old, as God
know that in the integrity of your heart you had commanded him. 21:5 Abraham was one
have done this, and I also withheld you from hundred years old when his son, Isaac, was
sinning against me. Therefore I didn’t allow born to him. 21:6 Sarah said, “God has made
you to touch her. 20:7 Now therefore, restore the me laugh. Everyone who hears will laugh with
man’s wife. For he is a prophet, and he will me.” 21:7 She said, “Who would have said to
pray for you, and you will live. If you don’t Abraham, that Sarah would nurse children?
restore her, know for sure that you will die, For I have borne him a son in his old age.”
21:8
you, and all who are yours.” The child grew, and was weaned. Abra-
20:8
Abimelech rose early in the morning, ham made a great feast on the day that Isaac
and called all his servants, and told all these was weaned. 21:9 Sarah saw the son of Ha-
things in their ear. The men were very scared. gar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to
20:9
Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said Abraham, mocking. 21:10 Therefore she said to
to him, “What have you done to us? How have Abraham, “Cast out this handmaid and her
I sinned against you, that you have brought on son! For the son of this handmaid will not be
me and on my kingdom a great sin? You have heir with my son, Isaac.”
21:11
done deeds to me that ought not to be done!” The thing was very grievous in Abra-
20:10
Abimelech said to Abraham, “What did ham’s sight on account of his son. 21:12 God
you see, that you have done this thing?” said to Abraham, “Don’t let it be grievous in
20:11
Abraham said, “Because I thought, your sight because of the boy, and because of
‘Surely the fear of God is not in this place. They your handmaid. In all that Sarah says to you,
will kill me for my wife’s sake.’ 20:12 Besides, listen to her voice. For from Isaac will your seed
she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my be called. 21:13 I will also make a nation of the
father, but not the daughter of my mother; and son of the handmaid, because he is your seed.”
she became my wife. 20:13 It happened, when 21:14
Abraham rose up early in the morning, and
God caused me to wander from my father’s took bread and a bottle of water, and gave it
house, that I said to her, ‘This is your kindness to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder; and gave
which you shall show to me. Everywhere that her the child, and sent her away. She departed,
we go, say of me, “He is my brother.”’” and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.
20:14 21:15
Abimelech took sheep and cattle, male The water in the bottle was spent, and she
servants and female servants, and gave them to cast the child under one of the shrubs. 21:16 She
Abraham, and restored Sarah, his wife, to him. went and sat down opposite him, a good way
20:15
Abimelech said, “Behold, my land is before off, about a bow shot away. For she said, “Don’t
you. Dwell where it pleases you.” 20:16 To Sarah let me see the death of the child.” She sat over
he said, “Behold, I have given your brother a against him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.
21:17
thousand pieces of silver. Behold, it is for you a God heard the voice of the boy.
covering of the eyes to all that are with you. In The angel of God called to Hagar out of the
front of all you are vindicated.” sky, and said to her, “What ails you, Hagar?
20:17
Abraham prayed to God. God healed Don’t be afraid. For God has heard the voice
Abimelech, and his wife, and his female ser- of the boy where he is. 21:18 Get up, lift up the
vants, and they bore children. 20:18 For the boy, and hold him in your hand. For I will make
i 21:3 Isaac means “He laughs.”
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him a great nation.” tell you of.”


21:19 22:3
God opened her eyes, and she saw a Abraham rose early in the morning, and
well of water. She went, filled the bottle with saddled his donkey, and took two of his young
water, and gave the boy drink. 21:20 God was men with him, and Isaac his son. He split
with the boy, and he grew. He lived in the the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up,
wilderness, and became, as he grew up, an and went to the place of which God had told
archer. 21:21 He lived in the wilderness of Paran. him. 22:4 On the third day Abraham lifted up
His mother took a wife for him out of the land his eyes, and saw the place far off. 22:5 Abraham
of Egypt. said to his young men, “Stay here with the
21:22
It happened at that time, that Abimelech donkey. The boy and I will go yonder. We will
and Phicol the captain of his army spoke to worship, and come back to you.” 22:6 Abraham
Abraham, saying, “God is with you in all that took the wood of the burnt offering and laid
you do. 21:23 Now, therefore, swear to me here it on Isaac his son. He took in his hand the
by God that you will not deal falsely with me, fire and the knife. They both went together.
22:7
nor with my son, nor with my son’s son. But Isaac spoke to Abraham his father, and said,
according to the kindness that I have done to “My father?”
you, you shall do to me, and to the land in He said, “Here I am, my son.”
which you have lived as a foreigner.” He said, “Here is the fire and the wood, but
21:24
Abraham said, “I will swear.” where is the lamb for a burnt offering?”
21:25 22:8
Abraham complained to Abimelech Abraham said, “God will provide him-
because of a water well, which Abimelech’s ser- self the lamb for a burnt offering, my son.” So
vants had violently taken away. 21:26 Abimelech they both went together. 22:9 They came to the
said, “I don’t know who has done this thing. place which God had told him of. Abraham
You didn’t tell me, neither did I hear of it, until built the altar there, and laid the wood in order,
today.” bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar,
21:27
Abraham took sheep and cattle, and on the wood. 22:10 Abraham stretched out his
gave them to Abimelech. Those two made a hand, and took the knife to kill his son.
covenant. 21:28 Abraham set seven ewe lambs 22:11
The angel of the LORD called to him out
of the flock by themselves. 21:29 Abimelech said of the sky, and said, “Abraham, Abraham!”
to Abraham, “What do these seven ewe lambs He said, “Here I am.”
22:12
which you have set by themselves mean?” He said, “Don’t lay your hand on the
21:30
He said, “You shall take these seven ewe boy, neither do anything to him. For now I
lambs from my hand, that it may be a witness to know that you fear God, since you have not
me, that I have dug this well.” 21:31 Therefore he withheld your son, your only son, from me.”
called that place Beersheba,j because they both 22:13
Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked,
swore there. 21:32 So they made a covenant at and saw that behind him was a ram caught
Beersheba. Abimelech rose up with Phicol, the in the thicket by his horns. Abraham went
captain of his army, and they returned into the and took the ram, and offered him up for a
land of the Philistines. 21:33 Abraham planted burnt offering instead of his son. 22:14 Abraham
a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and called there called the name of that place the LORD Will
on the name of the LORD, the Everlasting God. Providek . As it is said to this day, “On the
21:34
Abraham lived as a foreigner in the land of LORD’s mountain, it will be provided.”
the Philistines many days. 22:15
The angel of the LORD called to Abra-
22:1
It happened after these things, that God ham a second time out of the sky, 22:16 and
tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!” said, “I have sworn by myself, says the LORD,
He said, “Here I am.” because you have done this thing, and have not
22:2
He said, “Now take your son, your only withheld your son, your only son, 22:17 that I
son, whom you love, even Isaac, and go into will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your
the land of Moriah. Offer him there for a burnt seed greatly like the stars of the heavens, and
offering on one of the mountains which I will like the sand which is on the seashore. Your
j 21:31 Beersheba can mean “well of the oath” or “well of seven.”
k 22:14 or, Yahweh-Jireh, or, Yahweh-Seeing
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seed will possess the gate of his enemies. 22:18 In in the audience of the people of the land,
your seed will all the nations of the earth be saying, “But if you will, please hear me. I will
blessed, because you have obeyed my voice.” give the price of the field. Take it from me, and
22:19
So Abraham returned to his young men, I will bury my dead there.”
23:14
and they rose up and went together to Beer- Ephron answered Abraham, saying to
sheba. Abraham lived at Beersheba. him, 23:15 “My lord, listen to me. What is a
22:20
It happened after these things, that it piece of land worth four hundred shekels of
was told Abraham, saying, “Behold, Milcah, silver between me and you? Therefore bury
she also has borne children to your brother your dead.”
Nahor: 22:21 Uz his firstborn, Buz his brother, 23:16
Abraham listened to Ephron. Abraham
Kemuel the father of Aram, 22:22 Chesed, Hazo, weighed to Ephron the silver which he had
Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel.” 22:23 Bethuel be- named in the audience of the children of Heth,
came the father of Rebekah. These eight Milcah four hundred shekels of silver, according to the
bore to Nahor, Abraham’s brother. 22:24 His current merchants’ standard.
23:17
concubine, whose name was Reumah, also bore So the field of Ephron, which was in
Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah. Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field,
23:1
Sarah lived one hundred twenty-seven the cave which was in it, and all the trees that
years. This was the length of Sarah’s life. were in the field, that were in all of its borders,
23:2
Sarah died in Kiriath Arba (the same is were deeded 23:18 to Abraham for a possession
Hebron), in the land of Canaan. Abraham in the presence of the children of Heth, before
came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her. all who went in at the gate of his city. 23:19 After
23:3
Abraham rose up from before his dead, and this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave
spoke to the children of Heth, saying, 23:4 “I am of the field of Machpelah before Mamre (that
a stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give is, Hebron), in the land of Canaan. 23:20 The
me a possession of a burying-place with you, field, and the cave that is in it, were deeded to
that I may bury my dead out of my sight.” Abraham for a possession of a burying place by
23:5
The children of Heth answered Abra- the children of Heth.
ham, saying to him, 23:6 “Hear us, my lord. 24:1
Abraham was old, and well stricken in
You are a prince of God among us. Bury your age. The LORD had blessed Abraham in all
dead in the best of our tombs. None of us will things. 24:2 Abraham said to his servant, the
withhold from you his tomb. Bury your dead.” elder of his house, who ruled over all that he
23:7
Abraham rose up, and bowed himself to had, “Please put your hand under my thigh.
24:3
the people of the land, even to the children of I will make you swear by the LORD, the
Heth. 23:8 He talked with them, saying, “If it be God of heaven and the God of the earth, that
your mind that I should bury my dead out of you shall not take a wife for my son of the
my sight, hear me, and entreat for me to Ephron daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I
the son of Zohar, 23:9 that he may give me the live. 24:4 But you shall go to my country, and to
cave of Machpelah, which he has, which is in my relatives, and take a wife for my son Isaac.”
24:5
the end of his field. For the full price let him The servant said to him, “What if the
give it to me among you for a possession of a woman isn’t willing to follow me to this land?
burying-place.” Must I bring your son again to the land you
23:10
Now Ephron was sitting in the middle came from?”
24:6
of the children of Heth. Ephron the Hittite an- Abraham said to him, “Beware that you
swered Abraham in the hearing of the children don’t bring my son there again. 24:7 The LORD,
of Heth, even of all who went in at the gate of the God of heaven, who took me from my
his city, saying, 23:11 “No, my lord, hear me. I father’s house, and from the land of my birth,
give you the field, and I give you the cave that who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying,
is in it. In the presence of the children of my ‘I will give this land to your seedl .’ He will send
people I give it to you. Bury your dead.” his angel before you, and you shall take a wife
23:12
Abraham bowed himself down before for my son from there. 24:8 If the woman isn’t
the people of the land. 23:13 He spoke to Ephron willing to follow you, then you shall be clear
l 24:7 or, offspring
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from this my oath. Only you shall not bring my Bethuel the son of Milcah, whom she bore to
son there again.” Nahor.” 24:25 She said moreover to him, “We
24:9 have both straw and provender enough, and
The servant put his hand under the thigh
of Abraham his master, and swore to him con- room to lodge in.”
cerning this matter. 24:10 The servant took ten 24:26
The man bowed his head, and wor-
camels, of his master’s camels, and departed, shiped the LORD. 24:27 He said, “Blessed be the
having a variety of good things of his master’s LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who
with him. He arose, and went to Mesopotamia, has not forsaken his loving kindness and his
to the city of Nahor. 24:11 He made the camels truth toward my master. As for me, the LORD
kneel down outside the city by the well of water has led me in the way to the house of my
at the time of evening, the time that women go master’s relatives.”
out to draw water. 24:12 He said, “The LORD, 24:28
The young lady ran, and told
the God of my master Abraham, please give her mother’s house about these words.
me success this day, and show kindness to my 24:29
Rebekah had a brother, and his name was
master Abraham. 24:13 Behold, I am standing Laban. Laban ran out to the man, to the spring.
by the spring of water. The daughters of the 24:30
It happened, when he saw the ring, and
men of the city are coming out to draw water. the bracelets on his sister’s hands, and when he
24:14
Let it happen, that the young lady to whom heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying,
I will say, ‘Please let down your pitcher, that “This is what the man said to me,” that he came
I may drink,’ and she will say, ‘Drink, and I to the man. Behold, he was standing by the
will also give your camels a drink,’—let her be camels at the spring. 24:31 He said, “Come in,
the one you have appointed for your servant you blessed of the LORD. Why do you stand
Isaac. By this I will know that you have shown outside? For I have prepared the house, and
kindness to my master.” room for the camels.”
24:15 24:32
It happened, before he had finished The man came into the house, and he
speaking, that behold, Rebekah came out, who unloaded the camels. He gave straw and
was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the provender for the camels, and water to wash
wife of Nahor, Abraham’s brother, with her his feet and the feet of the men who were with
pitcher on her shoulder. 24:16 The young lady him. 24:33 Food was set before him to eat, but
was very beautiful to look at, a virgin, neither he said, “I will not eat until I have told my
had any man known her. She went down to the message.”
spring, filled her pitcher, and came up. 24:17 The He said, “Speak on.”
servant ran to meet her, and said, “Please give 24:34
He said, “I am Abraham’s servant.
me a drink, a little water from your pitcher.” 24:35
The LORD has blessed my master greatly.
24:18
She said, “Drink, my lord.” She hurried, He has become great. He has given him
and let down her pitcher on her hand, and gave flocks and herds, silver and gold, male servants
him drink. 24:19 When she had done giving and female servants, and camels and donkeys.
him drink, she said, “I will also draw for 24:36
Sarah, my master’s wife, bore a son to my
your camels, until they have done drinking.” master when she was old. He has given all that
24:20
She hurried, and emptied her pitcher into he has to him. 24:37 My master made me swear,
the trough, and ran again to the well to draw, saying, ‘You shall not take a wife for my son
and drew for all his camels. of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose
24:21
The man looked steadfastly at her, re- land I live, 24:38 but you shall go to my father’s
maining silent, to know whether the LORD had house, and to my relatives, and take a wife for
made his journey prosperous or not. 24:22 It my son.’ 24:39 I asked my master, ‘What if the
happened, as the camels had done drinking, woman will not follow me?’ 24:40 He said to me,
that the man took a golden ring of half a shekel ‘The LORD, before whom I walk, will send his
weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten angel with you, and prosper your way. You
shekels weight of gold, 24:23 and said, “Whose shall take a wife for my son of my relatives,
daughter are you? Please tell me. Is there room and of my father’s house. 24:41 Then will you
in your father’s house for us to lodge in?” be clear from my oath, when you come to my
24:24
She said to him, “I am the daughter of relatives. If they don’t give her to you, you
Genesis 24:42 19 Genesis 25:11

shall be clear from my oath.’ 24:42 I came this 24:57


They said, “We will call the young lady,
day to the spring, and said, ‘The LORD, the and ask her.” 24:58 They called Rebekah, and
God of my master Abraham, if now you do said to her, “Will you go with this man?”
prosper my way which I go—24:43 behold, I am She said, “I will go.”
standing by this spring of water. Let it happen, 24:59
They sent away Rebekah, their sister,
that the maiden who comes out to draw, to with her nurse, Abraham’s servant, and his
whom I will say, “Please give me a little water men. 24:60 They blessed Rebekah, and said to
from your pitcher to drink,” 24:44 and she will her, “Our sister, may you be the mother of
tell me, “Drink, and I will also draw for your thousands of ten thousands, and let your seed
camels,”—let her be the woman whom the possess the gate of those who hate them.”
LORD has appointed for my master’s son.’ 24:61
Rebekah arose with her ladies. They
24:45
Before I had finished speaking in my heart, rode on the camels, and followed the man.
behold, Rebekah came out with her pitcher on The servant took Rebekah, and went his way.
her shoulder. She went down to the spring, 24:62
Isaac came from the way of Beer Lahai Roi,
and drew. I said to her, ‘Please let me drink.’ for he lived in the land of the South. 24:63 Isaac
24:46
She hurried and let down her pitcher from went out to meditate in the field at the evening.
her shoulder, and said, ‘Drink, and I will also He lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold,
give your camels a drink.’ So I drank, and there were camels coming. 24:64 Rebekah lifted
she also gave the camels a drink. 24:47 I asked up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she
her, and said, ‘Whose daughter are you?’ She dismounted from the camel. 24:65 She said to the
said, ‘The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor’s son, servant, “Who is the man who is walking in the
whom Milcah bore to him.’ I put the ring on field to meet us?”
her nose, and the bracelets on her hands. 24:48 I
The servant said, “It is my master.”
bowed my head, and worshiped the LORD,
She took her veil, and covered herself.
and blessed the LORD, the God of my master 24:66
The servant told Isaac all the things that
Abraham, who had led me in the right way
he had done. 24:67 Isaac brought her into his
to take my master’s brother’s daughter for his
mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and
son. 24:49 Now if you will deal kindly and truly
she became his wife. He loved her. Isaac was
with my master, tell me. If not, tell me, that I
comforted after his mother’s death.
may turn to the right hand, or to the left.” 25:1
24:50 Abraham took another wife, and her
Then Laban and Bethuel answered,
name was Keturah. 25:2 She bore him Zimran,
“The thing proceeds from the LORD. We can’t
Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.
speak to you bad or good. 24:51 Behold, Re- 25:3
Jokshan became the father of Sheba, and
bekah is before you. Take her, and go, and let
Dedan. The sons of Dedan were Asshurim,
her be your master’s son’s wife, as the LORD
Letushim, and Leummim. 25:4 The sons of
has spoken.”
24:52
Midian: Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and
It happened that when Abraham’s ser- Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah.
vant heard their words, he bowed himself 25:5
Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac,
down to the earth to the LORD. 24:53 The ser- 25:6
but to the sons of Abraham’s concubines,
vant brought out jewels of silver, and jewels of Abraham gave gifts. He sent them away from
gold, and clothing, and gave them to Rebekah. Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, to
He also gave precious things to her brother and the east country. 25:7 These are the days of the
her mother. 24:54 They ate and drank, he and years of Abraham’s life which he lived: one
the men who were with him, and stayed all hundred seventy-five years. 25:8 Abraham gave
night. They rose up in the morning, and he up the spirit, and died in a good old age, an old
said, “Send me away to my master.” man, and full of years, and was gathered to his
24:55
Her brother and her mother said, “Let people. 25:9 Isaac and Ishmael, his sons, buried
the young lady stay with us a few days, at least him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of
ten. After that she will go.” Ephron, the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is
24:56
He said to them, “Don’t hinder me, before Mamre, 25:10 the field which Abraham
since the LORD has prospered my way. Send purchased of the children of Heth. Abraham
me away that I may go to my master.” was buried there with Sarah, his wife. 25:11 It
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happened after the death of Abraham that God said to Jacob, “Please feed me with that same
blessed Isaac, his son. Isaac lived by Beer Lahai red stew, for I am famished.” Therefore his
Roi. name was called Edom.
25:12 25:31
Now this is the history of the Jacob said, “First, sell me your
generations of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, whom birthright.”
25:32
Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s handmaid, bore Esau said, “Behold, I am about to die.
25:13
to Abraham. These are the names What good is the birthright to me?”
of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, 25:33
Jacob said, “Swear to me first.”
according to the order of their birth: the He swore to him. He sold his birthright to
firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth, then Kedar, Jacob. 25:34 Jacob gave Esau bread and stew of
Adbeel, Mibsam, 25:14 Mishma, Dumah, lentils. He ate and drank, rose up, and went his
Massa, 25:15 Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and way. So Esau despised his birthright.
Kedemah. 25:16 These are the sons of Ishmael, 26:1
There was a famine in the land, besides
and these are their names, by their villages, the first famine that was in the days of Abra-
and by their encampments: twelve princes, ham. Isaac went to Abimelech king of the
according to their nations. 25:17 These are the Philistines, to Gerar. 26:2 The LORD appeared
years of the life of Ishmael: one hundred thirty- to him, and said, “Don’t go down into Egypt.
seven years. He gave up the spirit and died, Live in the land I will tell you about. 26:3 Live in
and was gathered to his people. 25:18 They lived this land, and I will be with you, and will bless
from Havilah to Shur that is before Egypt, as you. For to you, and to your seed, I will give all
you go toward Assyria. He lived opposite all these lands, and I will establish the oath which
his relatives. I swore to Abraham your father. 26:4 I will
25:19
This is the history of the generations of multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and
Isaac, Abraham’s son. Abraham became the will give to your seed all these lands. In your
father of Isaac. 25:20 Isaac was forty years old seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed,
when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel 26:5
because Abraham obeyed my voice, and
the Syrian of Paddan Aram, the sister of Laban kept my requirements, my commandments, my
the Syrian, to be his wife. 25:21 Isaac entreated statutes, and my laws.”
26:6
the LORD for his wife, because she was barren. Isaac lived in Gerar. 26:7 The men of the
The LORD was entreated by him, and Rebekah place asked him about his wife. He said, “She is
his wife conceived. 25:22 The children struggled my sister,” for he was afraid to say, “My wife,”
together within her. She said, “If it be so, why lest, he thought, “the men of the place might
do I live?” She went to inquire of the LORD. kill me for Rebekah, because she is beautiful
25:23
The LORD said to her, to look at.” 26:8 It happened, when he had
“Two nations are in your womb. been there a long time, that Abimelech king
Two peoples will be separated from your body. of the Philistines looked out at a window, and
The one people will be stronger than the other saw, and, behold, Isaac was caressing Rebekah,
people. his wife. 26:9 Abimelech called Isaac, and said,
The elder will serve the younger.” “Behold, surely she is your wife. Why did you
25:24 say, ‘She is my sister?’”
When her days to be delivered were
fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb. Isaac said to him, “Because I said, ‘Lest I die
25:25 because of her.’”
The first came out red all over, like a hairy
26:10
garment. They named him Esau. 25:26 After Abimelech said, “What is this you have
that, his brother came out, and his hand had done to us? One of the people might easily
hold on Esau’s heel. He was named Jacob. Isaac have lain with your wife, and you would have
was sixty years old when she bore them. brought guilt on us!”
25:27 26:11
The boys grew. Esau was a skillful Abimelech commanded all the people,
hunter, a man of the field. Jacob was a quiet saying, “He who touches this man or his wife
man, living in tents. 25:28 Now Isaac loved Esau, will surely be put to death.”
26:12
because he ate his venison. Rebekah loved Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped
Jacob. 25:29 Jacob boiled stew. Esau came in in the same year one hundred times what he
from the field, and he was famished. 25:30 Esau planted. The LORD blessed him. 26:13 The man
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26:30
grew great, and grew more and more until he He made them a feast, and they ate
became very great. 26:14 He had possessions of and drank. 26:31 They rose up some time in
flocks, possessions of herds, and a great house- the morning, and swore one to another. Isaac
hold. The Philistines envied him. 26:15 Now sent them away, and they departed from him
all the wells which his father’s servants had in peace. 26:32 It happened the same day, that
dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Isaac’s servants came, and told him concerning
Philistines had stopped, and filled with earth. the well which they had dug, and said to
26:16
Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go from us, for him, “We have found water.” 26:33 He called
you are much mightier than we.” it Shibah.m Therefore the name of the city is
26:17
Isaac departed from there, encamped in Beersheban to this day.
26:34
the valley of Gerar, and lived there. When Esau was forty years old, he took
26:18
Isaac dug again the wells of water, as wife Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite,
which they had dug in the days of Abraham and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite.
26:35
his father. For the Philistines had stopped them They grieved Isaac’s and Rebekah’s spirits.
27:1
after the death of Abraham. He called their It happened, that when Isaac was old,
names after the names by which his father had and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see,
called them. 26:19 Isaac’s servants dug in the he called Esau his elder son, and said to him,
valley, and found there a well of springing “My son?”
water. 26:20 The herdsmen of Gerar argued He said to him, “Here I am.”
with Isaac’s herdsmen, saying, “The water is 27:2
He said, “See now, I am old. I don’t know
ours.” He called the name of the well Esek, the day of my death. 27:3 Now therefore, please
because they contended with him. 26:21 They take your weapons, your quiver and your bow,
dug another well, and they argued over that, and go out to the field, and take me venison.
also. He called its name Sitnah. 26:22 He left that 27:4
Make me savory food, such as I love, and
place, and dug another well. They didn’t argue bring it to me, that I may eat, and that my soul
over that one. He called it Rehoboth. He said, may bless you before I die.”
“For now the LORD has made room for us, and 27:5
Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to Esau
we will be fruitful in the land.” his son. Esau went to the field to hunt for
26:23
He went up from there to Beersheba. venison, and to bring it. 27:6 Rebekah spoke
26:24
The LORD appeared to him the same to Jacob her son, saying, “Behold, I heard
night, and said, “I am the God of Abraham your father speak to Esau your brother, saying,
your father. Don’t be afraid, for I am with you, 27:7
‘Bring me venison, and make me savory
and will bless you, and multiply your seed for food, that I may eat, and bless you before the
my servant Abraham’s sake.” LORD before my death.’ 27:8 Now therefore, my
26:25
He built an altar there, and called on the son, obey my voice according to that which I
name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there. command you. 27:9 Go now to the flock, and
There Isaac’s servants dug a well. get me from there two good young goats. I will
26:26
Then Abimelech went to him from make them savory food for your father, such as
Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the he loves. 27:10 You shall bring it to your father,
captain of his army. 26:27 Isaac said to them, that he may eat, so that he may bless you before
“Why have you come to me, since you hate me, his death.”
27:11
and have sent me away from you?” Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “Be-
26:28
They said, “We saw plainly that the hold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am
LORD was with you. We said, ‘Let there now a smooth man. 27:12 What if my father touches
be an oath between us, even between us and me? I will seem to him as a deceiver, and
you, and let us make a covenant with you, I would bring a curse on myself, and not a
26:29
that you will do us no harm, as we have blessing.”
27:13
not touched you, and as we have done to you His mother said to him, “Let your curse
nothing but good, and have sent you away in be on me, my son. Only obey my voice, and go
peace.’ You are now the blessed of the LORD.” get them for me.”
m 26:33 Shibah means “oath” or “seven.”
n 26:33 Beersheba means “well of the oath” or “well of the seven”
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27:14
He went, and got them, and brought Blessed be everyone who blesses you.”
them to his mother. His mother made savory 27:30
It happened, as soon as Isaac had made
food, such as his father loved. 27:15 Rebekah an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob had just
took the good clothes of Esau, her elder son, gone out from the presence of Isaac his father,
which were with her in the house, and put that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.
them on Jacob, her younger son. 27:16 She put 27:31
He also made savory food, and brought it
the skins of the young goats on his hands, to his father. He said to his father, “Let my
and on the smooth of his neck. 27:17 She gave father arise, and eat of his son’s venison, that
the savory food and the bread, which she had your soul may bless me.”
prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob. 27:32
Isaac his father said to him, “Who are
27:18
He came to his father, and said, “My you?”
father?” He said, “I am your son, your firstborn,
He said, “Here I am. Who are you, my son?” Esau.”
27:19
Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your 27:33
Isaac trembled violently, and said,
firstborn. I have done what you asked me to “Who, then, is he who has taken venison, and
do. Please arise, sit and eat of my venison, that brought it me, and I have eaten of all before you
your soul may bless me.” came, and have blessed him? Yes, he will be
27:20
Isaac said to his son, “How is it that you blessed.”
have found it so quickly, my son?” 27:34
When Esau heard the words of his
He said, “Because the LORD your God gave father, he cried with an exceeding great and
me success.” bitter cry, and said to his father, “Bless me, even
27:21
Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come near, me also, my father.”
that I may feel you, my son, whether you are 27:35
He said, “Your brother came with de-
really my son Esau or not.”
27:22 ceit, and has taken away your blessing.”
Jacob went near to Isaac his father. He 27:36
He said, “Isn’t he rightly named Jacob?
felt him, and said, “The voice is Jacob’s voice,
For he has supplanted me these two times. He
but the hands are the hands of Esau.” 27:23 He
took away my birthright. See, now he has taken
didn’t recognize him, because his hands were
away my blessing.” He said, “Haven’t you
hairy, like his brother, Esau’s hands. So he
reserved a blessing for me?”
blessed him. 27:24 He said, “Are you really my 27:37
son Esau?” Isaac answered Esau, “Behold, I have
made him your lord, and all his brothers have I
He said, “I am.”
27:25 given to him for servants. With grain and new
He said, “Bring it near to me, and I will
wine have I sustained him. What then will I do
eat of my son’s venison, that my soul may bless
for you, my son?”
you.” 27:38
He brought it near to him, and he ate. He Esau said to his father, “Have you but
brought him wine, and he drank. 27:26 His one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me
father Isaac said to him, “Come near now, also, my father.” Esau lifted up his voice, and
and kiss me, my son.” 27:27 He came near, wept.
27:39
and kissed him. He smelled the smell of his Isaac his father answered him,
clothing, and blessed him, and said, “Behold, of the fatness of the earth will be your
“Behold, the smell of my son dwelling,
is as the smell of a field which the LORD and of the dew of the sky from above.
27:40
has blessed. By your sword will you live, and you will
27:28 serve your brother.
God give you of the dew of the sky,
of the fatness of the earth, It will happen, when you will break loose,
and plenty of grain and new wine. that you shall shake his yoke from off your
27:29
Let peoples serve you, neck.”
and nations bow down to you. 27:41
Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing
Be lord over your brothers. with which his father blessed him. Esau said in
Let your mother’s sons bow down to you. his heart, “The days of mourning for my father
Cursed be everyone who curses you. are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob.”
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27:42
The words of Esau, her elder son, were a stairway set upon the earth, and its top
told to Rebekah. She sent and called Jacob, reached to heaven. Behold, the angels of God
her younger son, and said to him, “Behold, ascending and descending on it. 28:13 Behold,
your brother Esau comforts himself about you the LORD stood above it, and said, “I am the
by planning to kill you. 27:43 Now therefore, LORD, the God of Abraham your father, and
my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee to Laban, the God of Isaac. The land whereon you lie, to
my brother, in Haran. 27:44 Stay with him a you will I give it, and to your seed. 28:14 Your
few days, until your brother’s fury turns away; seed will be as the dust of the earth, and you
27:45
until your brother’s anger turn away from will spread abroad to the west, and to the east,
you, and he forgets what you have done to him. and to the north, and to the south. In you and
Then I will send, and get you from there. Why in your seed will all the families of the earth be
should I be bereaved of you both in one day?” blessed. 28:15 Behold, I am with you, and will
27:46 keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you
Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of
my life because of the daughters of Heth. If again into this land. For I will not leave you,
Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, until I have done that which I have spoken of
such as these, of the daughters of the land, what to you.”
28:16
good will my life do me?” Jacob awakened out of his sleep, and he
28:1 said, “Surely the LORD is in this place, and
Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and
commanded him, “You shall not take a wife I didn’t know it.” 28:17 He was afraid, and
of the daughters of Canaan. 28:2 Arise, go to said, “How dreadful is this place! This is none
Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your other than God’s house, and this is the gate of
mother’s father. Take a wife from there from heaven.”
28:18
the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother. Jacob rose up early in the morning, and
28:3
May God Almighty bless you, and make took the stone that he had put under his head,
you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil on
be a company of peoples, 28:4 and give you the its top. 28:19 He called the name of that place
blessing of Abraham, to you, and to your seed Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the
with you, that you may inherit the land where first. 28:20 Jacob vowed a vow, saying, “If God
you travel, which God gave to Abraham.” will be with me, and will keep me in this way
28:5 that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and
Isaac sent Jacob away. He went to
Paddan Aram to Laban, son of Bethuel the clothing to put on, 28:21 so that I come again to
Syrian, Rebekah’s brother, Jacob’s and Esau’s my father’s house in peace, and the LORD will
mother. be my God, 28:22 then this stone, which I have
28:6
Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed set up for a pillar, will be God’s house. Of all
Jacob and sent him away to Paddan Aram, to that you will give me I will surely give the tenth
take him a wife from there, and that as he to you.”
29:1
blessed him he gave him a command, saying, Then Jacob went on his journey, and
“You shall not take a wife of the daughters of came to the land of the children of the east.
29:2
Canaan,” 28:7 and that Jacob obeyed his father He looked, and behold, a well in the field,
and his mother, and was gone to Paddan Aram. and, behold, three flocks of sheep lying there
28:8 by it. For out of that well they watered the
Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan
didn’t please Isaac, his father. 28:9 Esau went flocks. The stone on the well’s mouth was large.
29:3
to Ishmael, and took, besides the wives that There all the flocks were gathered. They
he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and
Abraham’s son, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his watered the sheep, and put the stone again on
wife. the well’s mouth in its place. 29:4 Jacob said to
28:10
Jacob went out from Beersheba, and them, “My relatives, where are you from?”
went toward Haran. 28:11 He came to a certain They said, “We are from Haran.”
29:5
place, and stayed there all night, because the He said to them, “Do you know Laban,
sun had set. He took one of the stones of the the son of Nahor?”
place, and put it under his head, and lay down They said, “We know him.”
in that place to sleep. 28:12 He dreamed. Behold, 29:6
He said to them, “Is it well with him?”
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They said, “It is well. See, Rachel, his her. 29:24 Laban gave Zilpah his handmaid to
daughter, is coming with the sheep.” his daughter Leah for a handmaid. 29:25 It
29:7
He said, “Behold, it is still the middle happened in the morning that, behold, it was
of the day, not time to gather the livestock Leah. He said to Laban, “What is this you have
together. Water the sheep, and go and feed done to me? Didn’t I serve with you for Rachel?
them.” Why then have you deceived me?”
29:8 29:26
They said, “We can’t, until all the flocks Laban said, “It is not done so in our
are gathered together, and they roll the stone place, to give the younger before the firstborn.
29:27
from the well’s mouth. Then we water the Fulfill the week of this one, and we will
sheep.” give you the other also for the service which
29:9 you will serve with me yet seven other years.”
While he was yet speaking with them,
29:28
Rachel came with her father’s sheep, for she Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week.
kept them. 29:10 It happened, when Jacob saw He gave him Rachel his daughter as wife.
29:29
Rachel the daughter of Laban, his mother’s Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah,
brother, and the sheep of Laban, his mother’s his handmaid, to be her handmaid. 29:30 He
brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel
stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the more than Leah, and served with him yet seven
flock of Laban his mother’s brother. 29:11 Jacob other years.
kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and 29:31
The LORD saw that Leah was hated,
wept. 29:12 Jacob told Rachel that he was her and he opened her womb, but Rachel was
father’s brother, and that he was Rebekah’s son. barren. 29:32 Leah conceived, and bore a son,
She ran and told her father. and she named him Reuben. For she said,
29:13
It happened, when Laban heard the “Because the LORD has looked at my affliction.
news of Jacob, his sister’s son, that he ran For now my husband will love me.” 29:33 She
to meet Jacob, and embraced him, and kissed conceived again, and bore a son, and said,
him, and brought him to his house. Jacob told “Because the LORD has heard that I am hated,
Laban all these things. 29:14 Laban said to him, he has therefore given me this son also.” She
“Surely you are my bone and my flesh.” He named him Simeon. 29:34 She conceived again,
lived with him for a month. 29:15 Laban said to and bore a son. Said, “Now this time will my
Jacob, “Because you are my brother, should you husband be joined to me, because I have borne
therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what him three sons.” Therefore his name was called
will your wages be?” Levi. 29:35 She conceived again, and bore a son.
29:16
Laban had two daughters. The name She said, “This time will I praise the LORD.”
of the elder was Leah, and the name of the Therefore she named him Judah. Then she
younger was Rachel. 29:17 Leah’s eyes were stopped bearing.
30:1
weak, but Rachel was beautiful in form and When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no
attractive. 29:18 Jacob loved Rachel. He said, children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to
“I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your Jacob, “Give me children, or else I will die.”
younger daughter.” 30:2
Jacob’s anger was kindled against
29:19
Laban said, “It is better that I give her to Rachel, and he said, “Am I in God’s place, who
you, than that I should give her to another man. has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”
Stay with me.” 30:3
She said, “Behold, my maid Bilhah. Go
29:20
Jacob served seven years for Rachel. in to her, that she may bear on my knees, and
They seemed to him but a few days, for the love I also may obtain children by her.” 30:4 She
he had for her. gave him Bilhah her handmaid as wife, and
29:21
Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife, Jacob went in to her. 30:5 Bilhah conceived,
for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to and bore Jacob a son. 30:6 Rachel said, “God
her.” has judged me, and has also heard my voice,
29:22
Laban gathered together all the men of and has given me a son.” Therefore called she
the place, and made a feast. 29:23 It happened his name Dan. 30:7 Bilhah, Rachel’s handmaid,
in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, conceived again, and bore Jacob a second son.
30:8
and brought her to him. He went in to Rachel said, “With mighty wrestlings have
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I wrestled with my sister, and have prevailed.” that the LORD has blessed me for your sake.”
30:28
She named him Naphtali. He said, “Appoint me your wages, and I
30:9
When Leah saw that she had finished will give it.”
30:29
bearing, she took Zilpah, her handmaid, and He said to him, “You know how I
gave her to Jacob as a wife. 30:10 Zilpah, have served you, and how your livestock have
Leah’s handmaid, bore Jacob a son. 30:11 Leah fared with me. 30:30 For it was little which
said, “How fortunate!” She named him Gad. you had before I came, and it has increased
30:12
Zilpah, Leah’s handmaid, bore Jacob a to a multitude. The LORD has blessed you
second son. 30:13 Leah said, “Happy am I, for wherever I turned. Now when will I provide
the daughters will call me happy.” She named for my own house also?”
30:31
him Asher. He said, “What shall I give you?”
30:14
Reuben went in the days of wheat har- Jacob said, “You shall not give me anything.
vest, and found mandrakes in the field, and If you will do this thing for me, I will again feed
brought them to his mother, Leah. Then Rachel your flock and keep it. 30:32 I will pass through
said to Leah, “Please give me some of your all your flock today, removing from there every
son’s mandrakes.” speckled and spotted one, and every black one
30:15
She said to her, “Is it a small matter that among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled
you have taken away my husband? Would you among the goats. This will be my hire. 30:33 So
take away my son’s mandrakes, also?” my righteousness will answer for me hereafter,
Rachel said, “Therefore he will lie with you when you come concerning my hire that is
tonight for your son’s mandrakes.” before you. Every one that is not speckled and
30:16
Jacob came from the field in the evening, spotted among the goats, and black among the
and Leah went out to meet him, and said, “You sheep, that might be with me, will be counted
must come in to me; for I have surely hired you stolen.”
30:34
with my son’s mandrakes.” Laban said, “Behold, let it be according
He lay with her that night. 30:17 God listened to your word.”
30:35
to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob a That day, he removed the male goats
fifth son. 30:18 Leah said, “God has given me that were streaked and spotted, and all the
my hire, because I gave my handmaid to my female goats that were speckled and spotted,
husband.” She named him Issachar. 30:19 Leah every one that had white in it, and all the black
conceived again, and bore a sixth son to Jacob. ones among the sheep, and gave them into the
30:20
Leah said, “God has endowed me with a hand of his sons. 30:36 He set three days’ journey
good dowry. Now my husband will live with between himself and Jacob, and Jacob fed the
me, because I have borne him six sons.” She rest of Laban’s flocks.
named him Zebulun. 30:21 Afterwards, she bore 30:37
Jacob took to himself rods of fresh
a daughter, and named her Dinah. poplar, almond, plane tree, peeled white
30:22
God remembered Rachel, and God lis- streaks in them, and made the white appear
tened to her, and opened her womb. 30:23 She which was in the rods. 30:38 He set the rods
conceived, bore a son, and said, “God has which he had peeled opposite the flocks in
taken away my reproach.” 30:24 She named him the gutters in the watering-troughs where the
Joseph,o saying, “May the LORD add another flocks came to drink. They conceived when
30:39
son to me.” they came to drink. The flocks con-
30:25
It happened, when Rachel had borne ceived before the rods, and the flocks produced
Joseph, that Jacob said to Laban, “Send me streaked, speckled, and spotted. 30:40 Jacob
away, that I may go to my own place, and to separated the lambs, and set the faces of the
my country. 30:26 Give me my wives and my flocks toward the streaked and all the black in
children for whom I have served you, and let the flock of Laban: and he put his own droves
me go; for you know my service with which I apart, and didn’t put them into Laban’s flock.
30:41
have served you.” It happened, whenever the stronger of the
30:27
Laban said to him, “If now I have found flock conceived, that Jacob laid the rods before
favor in your eyes, stay here, for I have divined the eyes of the flock in the gutters, that they
o 30:24 Joseph means “may he add.”
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might conceive among the rods; 30:42 but when his wives on the camels, 31:18 and he took away
the flock were feeble, he didn’t put them in. all his livestock, and all his possessions which
So the feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger he had gathered, including the livestock which
Jacob’s. 30:43 The man increased exceedingly, he had gained in Paddan Aram, to go to Isaac
and had large flocks, female servants and male his father, to the land of Canaan. 31:19 Now
servants, and camels and donkeys. Laban had gone to shear his sheep: and Rachel
31:1 stole the teraphimp that were her father’s.
He heard the words of Laban’s sons,
31:20
saying, “Jacob has taken away all that was our Jacob deceived Laban the Syrian, in that
father’s. From that which was our father’s, has he didn’t tell him that he was running away.
31:21
he gotten all this wealth.” 31:2 Jacob saw the So he fled with all that he had. He rose up,
expression on Laban’s face, and, behold, it was passed over the River, and set his face toward
not toward him as before. 31:3 The LORD said to the mountain of Gilead.
31:22
Jacob, “Return to the land of your fathers, and Laban was told on the third day that
to your relatives, and I will be with you.” Jacob had fled. 31:23 He took his relatives
31:4
Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah with him, and pursued after him seven days’
to the field to his flock, 31:5 and said to them, journey. He overtook him in the mountain of
“I see the expression on your father’s face, Gilead. 31:24 God came to Laban, the Syrian, in
that it is not toward me as before; but the a dream of the night, and said to him, “Take
God of my father has been with me. 31:6 You heed to yourself that you don’t speak to Jacob
know that I have served your father with all either good or bad.”
of my strength. 31:7 Your father has deceived 31:25
Laban caught up with Jacob. Now
me, and changed my wages ten times, but God Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain,
didn’t allow him to hurt me. 31:8 If he said and Laban with his relatives encamped in
this, ‘The speckled will be your wages,’ then the mountain of Gilead. 31:26 Laban said to
all the flock bore speckled. If he said this, Jacob, “What have you done, that you have
‘The streaked will be your wages,’ then all the deceived me, and carried away my daughters
flock bore streaked. 31:9 Thus God has taken like captives of the sword? 31:27 Why did you
away your father’s livestock, and given them flee secretly, and deceive me, and didn’t tell
to me. 31:10 It happened during mating season me, that I might have sent you away with
that I lifted up my eyes, and saw in a dream, mirth and with songs, with tambourine and
and behold, the male goats which leaped on with harp; 31:28 and didn’t allow me to kiss my
the flock were streaked, speckled, and grizzled. sons and my daughters? Now have you done
31:11
The angel of God said to me in the dream, foolishly. 31:29 It is in the power of my hand to
‘Jacob,’ and I said, ‘Here I am.’ 31:12 He said, hurt you, but the God of your father spoke to
‘Now lift up your eyes, and behold, all the me last night, saying, ‘Take heed to yourself
male goats which leap on the flock are streaked, that you don’t speak to Jacob either good or
speckled, and grizzled, for I have seen all that bad.’ 31:30 Now, you want to be gone, because
Laban does to you. 31:13 I am the God of Bethel, you greatly longed for your father’s house, but
where you anointed a pillar, where you vowed why have you stolen my gods?”
a vow to me. Now arise, get out from this land, 31:31
Jacob answered Laban, “Because I was
and return to the land of your birth.’” afraid, for I said, ‘Lest you should take your
31:14
Rachel and Leah answered him, “Is daughters from me by force.’ 31:32 Anyone you
there yet any portion or inheritance for us in find your gods with shall not live. Before our
our father’s house? 31:15 Aren’t we accounted relatives, discern what is yours with me, and
by him as foreigners? For he has sold us, and take it.” For Jacob didn’t know that Rachel had
has also quite devoured our money. 31:16 For stolen them.
all the riches which God has taken away from 31:33
Laban went into Jacob’s tent, into Leah’s
our father, that is ours and our children’s. Now tent, and into the tent of the two female
then, whatever God has said to you, do.” servants; but he didn’t find them. He went out
31:17
Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and of Leah’s tent, and entered into Rachel’s tent.
p 31:19teraphim were household idols that may have been associated with inheritance rights to the
household property.
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31:34
Now Rachel had taken the teraphim, put are absent one from another. 31:50 If you afflict
them in the camel’s saddle, and sat on them. my daughters, or if you take wives besides my
Laban felt about all the tent, but didn’t find daughters, no man is with us; behold, God
them. 31:35 She said to her father, “Don’t let my is witness between me and you.” 31:51 Laban
lord be angry that I can’t rise up before you; for said to Jacob, “See this heap, and see the pillar,
I’m having my period.” He searched, but didn’t which I have set between me and you. 31:52 May
find the teraphim. this heap be a witness, and the pillar be a
31:36 witness, that I will not pass over this heap to
Jacob was angry, and argued with La-
ban. Jacob answered Laban, “What is my you, and that you will not pass over this heap
trespass? What is my sin, that you have hotly and this pillar to me, for harm. 31:53 The God
pursued after me? 31:37 Now that you have felt of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God
around in all my stuff, what have you found of their father, judge between us.” Then Jacob
of all your household stuff? Set it here before swore by the fear of his father, Isaac. 31:54 Jacob
my relatives and your relatives, that they may offered a sacrifice in the mountain, and called
judge between us two. his relatives to eat bread. They ate bread, and
31:38
“These twenty years I have been with stayed all night in the mountain. 31:55 Early
you. Your ewes and your female goats have not in the morning, Laban rose up, and kissed
cast their young, and I haven’t eaten the rams his sons and his daughters, and blessed them.
of your flocks. 31:39 That which was torn of Laban departed and returned to his place.
32:1
animals, I didn’t bring to you. I bore its loss. Of Jacob went on his way, and the angels of
my hand you required it, whether stolen by day God met him. 32:2 When he saw them, Jacob
or stolen by night. 31:40 This was my situation: said, “This is God’s army.” He called the name
in the day the drought consumed me, and the of that place Mahanaim.
frost by night; and my sleep fled from my eyes. 32:3
Jacob sent messengers in front of him to
31:41
These twenty years I have been in your Esau, his brother, to the land of Seir, the field
house. I served you fourteen years for your two of Edom. 32:4 He commanded them, saying,
daughters, and six years for your flock, and you “This is what you shall tell my lord, Esau:
have changed my wages ten times. 31:42 Unless ‘This is what your servant, Jacob, says. I have
the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and lived as a foreigner with Laban, and stayed
the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now until now. 32:5 I have cattle, donkeys, flocks,
you would have sent me away empty. God has male servants, and female servants. I have
seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in
and rebuked you last night.” your sight.’” 32:6 The messengers returned to
31:43
Laban answered Jacob, “The daughters Jacob, saying, “We came to your brother Esau.
are my daughters, the children are my children, Not only that, but he comes to meet you, and
the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is four hundred men with him.” 32:7 Then Jacob
mine: and what can I do this day to these my was greatly afraid and was distressed. He
daughters, or to their children whom they have divided the people who were with him, and
borne? 31:44 Now come, let us make a covenant, the flocks, and the herds, and the camels, into
you and I; and let it be for a witness between two companies; 32:8 and he said, “If Esau comes
me and you.” to the one company, and strikes it, then the
31:45
Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a company which is left will escape.” 32:9 Jacob
pillar. 31:46 Jacob said to his relatives, “Gather said, “God of my father Abraham, and God of
stones.” They took stones, and made a heap. my father Isaac, the LORD, who said to me,
They ate there by the heap. 31:47 Laban called ‘Return to your country, and to your relatives,
it Jegar Sahadutha,q but Jacob called it Galeed.r and I will do you good,’ 32:10 I am not worthy
31:48
Laban said, “This heap is witness between of the least of all the loving kindnesses, and of
me and you this day.” Therefore it was named all the truth, which you have shown to your
Galeed 31:49 and Mizpah, for he said, “The servant; for with just my staff I passed over this
LORD watch between me and you, when we Jordan; and now I have become two companies.
q 31:47 “Jegar Sahadutha” means “Witness Heap” in Aramaic.
r 31:47 “Galeed” means “Witness Heap” in Hebrew.
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32:11
Please deliver me from the hand of my you have fought with God and with men, and
brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, have prevailed.”
lest he come and strike me, and the mothers 32:29
Jacob asked him, “Please tell me your
with the children. 32:12 You said, ‘I will surely name.”
do you good, and make your seed as the sand He said, “Why is it that you ask what my
of the sea, which can’t be numbered because name is?” He blessed him there.
there are so many.’” 32:30
Jacob called the name of the place Pe-
32:13
He lodged there that night, and took niels : for, he said, “I have seen God face to face,
from that which he had with him, a present and my life is preserved.” 32:31 The sun rose on
for Esau, his brother: 32:14 two hundred female him as he passed over Peniel, and he limped
goats and twenty male goats, two hundred because of his thigh. 32:32 Therefore the children
ewes and twenty rams, 32:15 thirty milk camels of Israel don’t eat the sinew of the hip, which is
and their colts, forty cows, ten bulls, twenty on the hollow of the thigh, to this day, because
female donkeys and ten foals. 32:16 He deliv- he touched the hollow of Jacob’s thigh in the
ered them into the hands of his servants, every sinew of the hip.
herd by itself, and said to his servants, “Pass 33:1
Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked,
over before me, and put a space between herd
and, behold, Esau was coming, and with him
and herd.” 32:17 He commanded the foremost,
four hundred men. He divided the children
saying, “When Esau, my brother, meets you,
between Leah, Rachel, and the two handmaids.
and asks you, saying, ‘Whose are you? Where 33:2
He put the handmaids and their children in
are you going? Whose are these before you?’
32:18 front, Leah and her children after, and Rachel
Then you shall say, ‘They are your servant,
and Joseph at the rear. 33:3 He himself passed
Jacob’s. It is a present sent to my lord,
over in front of them, and bowed himself to the
Esau. Behold, he also is behind us.’” 32:19 He
ground seven times, until he came near to his
commanded also the second, and the third, and
brother.
all that followed the herds, saying, “This is how 33:4
Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, fell
you shall speak to Esau, when you find him.
32:20 on his neck, kissed him, and they wept. 33:5 He
You shall say, ‘Not only that, but behold,
lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the
your servant, Jacob, is behind us.’” For, he said,
children; and said, “Who are these with you?”
“I will appease him with the present that goes
before me, and afterward I will see his face. He said, “The children whom God has
Perhaps he will accept me.” graciously given your servant.” 33:6 Then the
32:21
So the present passed over before him, handmaids came near with their children, and
and he himself lodged that night in the camp. they bowed themselves. 33:7 Leah also and her
32:22
He rose up that night, and took his children came near, and bowed themselves.
two wives, and his two handmaids, and his After them, Joseph came near with Rachel, and
eleven sons, and passed over the ford of the they bowed themselves.
33:8
Jabbok. 32:23 He took them, and sent them Esau said, “What do you mean by all this
over the stream, and sent over that which he company which I met?”
had. 32:24 Jacob was left alone, and wrestled Jacob said, “To find favor in the sight of my
with a man there until the breaking of the day. lord.”
32:25 33:9
When he saw that he didn’t prevail against Esau said, “I have enough, my brother;
him, he touched the hollow of his thigh, and let that which you have be yours.”
the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was strained, as he 33:10
Jacob said, “Please, no, if I have now
wrestled. 32:26 The man said, “Let me go, for the found favor in your sight, then receive my
day breaks.” present at my hand, because I have seen your
Jacob said, “I won’t let you go, unless you face, as one sees the face of God, and you
bless me.” were pleased with me. 33:11 Please take the
32:27
He said to him, “What is your name?” gift that I brought to you, because God has
He said, “Jacob.” 32:28 He said, “Your name dealt graciously with me, and because I have
will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for enough.” He urged him, and he took it.
s 32:30 Peniel means “face of God.”
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33:12
Esau said, “Let us take our journey, and them, saying, “The soul of my son, Shechem,
let us go, and I will go before you.” longs for your daughter. Please give her to him
33:13
Jacob said to him, “My lord knows that as a wife. 34:9 Make marriages with us. Give
the children are tender, and that the flocks and your daughters to us, and take our daughters
herds with me have their young, and if they for yourselves. 34:10 You shall dwell with us,
overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die. and the land will be before you. Live and trade
33:14
Please let my lord pass over before his in it, and get possessions in it.”
34:11
servant, and I will lead on gently, according Shechem said to her father and to her
to the pace of the livestock that are before me brothers, “Let me find favor in your eyes, and
and according to the pace of the children, until whatever you will tell me I will give. 34:12 Ask
I come to my lord to Seir.” me a great amount for a dowry, and I will give
33:15
Esau said, “Let me now leave with you whatever you ask of me, but give me the young
some of the folk who are with me.” lady as a wife.”
34:13
He said, “Why? Let me find favor in the The sons of Jacob answered Shechem
sight of my lord.” and Hamor his father with deceit, and spoke,
33:16
So Esau returned that day on his way because he had defiled Dinah their sister,
34:14
to Seir. 33:17 Jacob traveled to Succoth, built and said to them, “We can’t do this thing,
himself a house, and made shelters for his to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised;
livestock. Therefore the name of the place is for that is a reproach to us. 34:15 Only on this
called Succoth.t condition will we consent to you. If you will
33:18 be as we are, that every male of you be circum-
Jacob came in peace to the city of
Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when cised; 34:16 then will we give our daughters to
he came from Paddan Aram; and encamped you, and we will take your daughters to us, and
before the city. 33:19 He bought the parcel of we will dwell with you, and we will become
ground where he had spread his tent, at the one people. 34:17 But if you will not listen to us,
hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem’s fa- to be circumcised, then we will take our sister,v
ther, for one hundred pieces of money. 33:20 He and we will be gone.”
34:18
erected an altar there, and called it El Elohe Their words pleased Hamor and
Israel.u Shechem, Hamor’s son. 34:19 The young man
34:1
Dinah, the daughter of Leah, whom she didn’t wait to do this thing, because he
bore to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of had delight in Jacob’s daughter, and he was
the land. 34:2 Shechem the son of Hamor the honored above all the house of his father.
34:20
Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her. He took Hamor and Shechem, his son, came to
her, lay with her, and humbled her. 34:3 His soul the gate of their city, and talked with the
joined to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he men of their city, saying, 34:21 “These men are
loved the young lady, and spoke kindly to the peaceful with us. Therefore let them live in
young lady. 34:4 Shechem spoke to his father, the land and trade in it. For behold, the land
Hamor, saying, “Get me this young lady as a is large enough for them. Let us take their
wife.” daughters to us for wives, and let us give them
34:5
Now Jacob heard that he had defiled our daughters. 34:22 Only on this condition
Dinah, his daughter; and his sons were with his will the men consent to us to live with us,
livestock in the field. Jacob held his peace until to become one people, if every male among
they came. 34:6 Hamor the father of Shechem us is circumcised, as they are circumcised.
34:23
went out to Jacob to talk with him. 34:7 The Won’t their livestock and their possessions
sons of Jacob came in from the field when they and all their animals be ours? Only let us give
heard it. The men were grieved, and they were our consent to them, and they will dwell with
very angry, because he had done folly in Israel us.”
34:24
in lying with Jacob’s daughter; a which thing All who went out of the gate of his city
ought not to be done. 34:8 Hamor talked with listened to Hamor, and to Shechem his son; and
t 33:17succoth means shelters or booths.
u 33:20 El Elohe Israel means “God, the God of Israel” or “The God of Israel is mighty.”
v 34:17 Hebrew has, literally, “daughter”
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every male was circumcised, all who went out name was called Allon Bacuth.
of the gate of his city. 34:25 It happened on the 35:9
God appeared to Jacob again, when he
third day, when they were sore, that two of came from Paddan Aram, and blessed him.
35:10
Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s broth- God said to him, “Your name is Jacob. Your
ers, each took his sword, came upon the unsus- name shall not be Jacob any more, but your
pecting city, and killed all the males. 34:26 They name will be Israel.” He named him Israel.
35:11
killed Hamor and Shechem, his son, with the God said to him, “I am God Almighty. Be
edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company
Shechem’s house, and went away. 34:27 Jacob’s of nations will be from you, and kings will
sons came on the dead, and plundered the city, come out of your body. 35:12 The land which I
because they had defiled their sister. 34:28 They gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give it to you,
took their flocks, their herds, their donkeys, and to your seed after you will I give the land.”
that which was in the city, that which was in 35:13
God went up from him in the place
the field, 34:29 and all their wealth. They took where he spoke with him. 35:14 Jacob set up a
captive all their little ones and their wives, and pillar in the place where he spoke with him, a
took as plunder everything that was in the pillar of stone. He poured out a drink offering
house. 34:30 Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You on it, and poured oil on it. 35:15 Jacob called the
have troubled me, to make me odious to the name of the place where God spoke with him
inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites “Bethel.”
and the Perizzites. I am few in number. They 35:16
They traveled from Bethel. There
will gather themselves together against me and was still some distance to come to Ephrath,
strike me, and I will be destroyed, I and my and Rachel travailed. She had hard labor.
house.” 35:17
When she was in hard labor, the midwife
34:31
They said, “Should he deal with our said to her, “Don’t be afraid, for now you will
sister as with a prostitute?” have another son.”
35:1 35:18
God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to It happened, as her soul was departing
Bethel, and live there. Make there an altar to (for she died), that she named him Benoni,w but
God, who appeared to you when you fled from his father named him Benjamin.x 35:19 Rachel
the face of Esau your brother.” died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath (the
35:2
Then Jacob said to his household, and to same is Bethlehem). 35:20 Jacob set up a pillar
all who were with him, “Put away the foreign on her grave. The same is the Pillar of Rachel’s
gods that are among you, purify yourselves, grave to this day. 35:21 Israel traveled, and
change your garments. 35:3 Let us arise, and go spread his tent beyond the tower of Eder. 35:22 It
up to Bethel. I will make there an altar to God, happened, while Israel lived in that land, that
who answered me in the day of my distress, Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father’s
and was with me in the way which I went.” concubine, and Israel heard of it.
35:4
They gave to Jacob all the foreign gods Now the sons of Jacob were twelve. 35:23 The
which were in their hands, and the rings which sons of Leah: Reuben (Jacob’s firstborn),
were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.
35:24
the oak which was by Shechem. 35:5 They The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.
35:25
traveled, and a terror of God was on the cities The sons of Bilhah (Rachel’s handmaid):
that were around them, and they didn’t pursue Dan and Naphtali. 35:26 The sons of Zilpah
the sons of Jacob. 35:6 So Jacob came to Luz (that (Leah’s handmaid): Gad and Asher. These
is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him
and all the people who were with him. 35:7 He in Paddan Aram. 35:27 Jacob came to Isaac his
built an altar there, and called the place El father, to Mamre, to Kiriath Arba (which is
Beth El; because there God was revealed to Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac lived as
him, when he fled from the face of his brother. foreigners.
35:8 35:28
Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she The days of Isaac were one hundred
was buried below Bethel under the oak; and its eighty years. 35:29 Isaac gave up the spirit, and
w 35:18 “Benoni” means “son of my trouble.”
x 35:18 “Benjamin” means “son of my right hand.”
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died, and was gathered to his people, old and came of Oholibamah the daughter of Anah,
full of days. Esau and Jacob, his sons, buried Esau’s wife. 36:19 These are the sons of Esau
him. (that is, Edom), and these are their chiefs.
36:1 36:20
Now this is the history of the generations These are the sons of Seir the Horite, the
of Esau (that is, Edom). 36:2 Esau took his inhabitants of the land: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon,
wives from the daughters of Canaan: Adah the Anah, 36:21 Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan. These are
daughter of Elon, the Hittite; and Oholibamah the chiefs who came of the Horites, the children
the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon, of Seir in the land of Edom. 36:22 The children
the Hivite; 36:3 and Basemath, Ishmael’s daugh- of Lotan were Hori and Heman. Lotan’s sister
ter, sister of Nebaioth. 36:4 Adah bore to Esau was Timna. 36:23 These are the children of
Eliphaz. Basemath bore Reuel. 36:5 Oholibamah Shobal: Alvan, Manahath, Ebal, Shepho, and
bore Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. These are the Onam. 36:24 These are the children of Zibeon:
sons of Esau, who were born to him in the Aiah and Anah. This is Anah who found the
land of Canaan. 36:6 Esau took his wives, his hot springs in the wilderness, as he fed the
sons, his daughters, and all the members of his donkeys of Zibeon his father. 36:25 These are
household, with his livestock, all his animals, the children of Anah: Dishon and Oholibamah,
and all his possessions, which he had gathered the daughter of Anah. 36:26 These are the
in the land of Canaan, and went into a land children of Dishon: Hemdan, Eshban, Ithran,
away from his brother Jacob. 36:7 For their and Cheran. 36:27 These are the children of Ezer:
substance was too great for them to dwell Bilhan, Zaavan, and Akan. 36:28 These are the
together, and the land of their travels couldn’t children of Dishan: Uz and Aran. 36:29 These
bear them because of their livestock. 36:8 Esau are the chiefs who came of the Horites: chief
lived in the hill country of Seir. Esau is Edom. Lotan, chief Shobal, chief Zibeon, chief Anah,
36:9 36:30
This is the history of the generations of chief Dishon, chief Ezer, and chief Dishan:
Esau the father of the Edomites in the hill these are the chiefs who came of the Horites,
country of Seir: 36:10 these are the names of according to their chiefs in the land of Seir.
36:31
Esau’s sons: Eliphaz, the son of Adah, the wife These are the kings who reigned in the
of Esau; and Reuel, the son of Basemath, the land of Edom, before any king reigned over
wife of Esau. 36:11 The sons of Eliphaz were the children of Israel. 36:32 Bela, the son of
Teman, Omar, Zepho, and Gatam, and Kenaz. Beor, reigned in Edom. The name of his city
36:12
Timna was concubine to Eliphaz, Esau’s was Dinhabah. 36:33 Bela died, and Jobab, the
son; and she bore to Eliphaz Amalek. These are son of Zerah of Bozrah, reigned in his place.
the sons of Adah, Esau’s wife. 36:13 These are 36:34
Jobab died, and Husham of the land of the
the sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, Temanites reigned in his place. 36:35 Husham
and Mizzah. These were the sons of Base- died, and Hadad, the son of Bedad, who
math, Esau’s wife. 36:14 These were the sons struck Midian in the field of Moab, reigned
of Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah, the in his place. The name of his city was Avith.
36:36
daughter of Zibeon, Esau’s wife: she bore to Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah
Esau Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. reigned in his place. 36:37 Samlah died, and
36:15 Shaul of Rehoboth by the river, reigned in his
These are the chiefs of the sons of Esau:
the sons of Eliphaz the firstborn of Esau: chief place. 36:38 Shaul died, and Baal Hanan, the son
Teman, chief Omar, chief Zepho, chief Kenaz, of Achbor reigned in his place. 36:39 Baal Hanan
36:16 the son of Achbor died, and Hadar reigned in
chief Korah, chief Gatam, chief Amalek:
these are the chiefs who came of Eliphaz in his place. The name of his city was Pau. His
the land of Edom; these are the sons of Adah. wife’s name was Mehetabel, the daughter of
36:17 Matred, the daughter of Mezahab.
These are the sons of Reuel, Esau’s son:
36:40
chief Nahath, chief Zerah, chief Shammah, These are the names of the chiefs who
chief Mizzah: these are the chiefs who came of came from Esau, according to their families,
Reuel in the land of Edom; these are the sons of after their places, and by their names: chief
Basemath, Esau’s wife. 36:18 These are the sons Timna, chief Alvah, chief Jetheth, 36:41 chief
of Oholibamah, Esau’s wife: chief Jeush, chief Oholibamah, chief Elah, chief Pinon, 36:42 chief
Jalam, chief Korah: these are the chiefs who Kenaz, chief Teman, chief Mibzar, 36:43 chief
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37:16
Magdiel, and chief Iram. These are the chiefs He said, “I am looking for my brothers.
of Edom, according to their habitations in the Tell me, please, where they are feeding the
land of their possession. This is Esau, the father flock.”
of the Edomites. 37:17
The man said, “They have left here, for
37:1
Jacob lived in the land of his father’s I heard them say, ‘Let us go to Dothan.’”
travels, in the land of Canaan. 37:2 This is the Joseph went after his brothers, and found
history of the generations of Jacob. Joseph, them in Dothan. 37:18 They saw him afar off,
being seventeen years old, was feeding the and before he came near to them, they con-
flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the spired against him to kill him. 37:19 They said
sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives. one to another, “Behold, this dreamer comes.
Joseph brought an evil report of them to their 37:20
Come now therefore, and let’s kill him, and
father. 37:3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than cast him into one of the pits, and we will say,
all his children, because he was the son of his ‘An evil animal has devoured him.’ We will see
old age, and he made him a coat of many colors. what will become of his dreams.”
37:4 37:21
His brothers saw that their father loved him Reuben heard it, and delivered him out
more than all his brothers, and they hated him, of their hand, and said, “Let’s not take his
and couldn’t speak peaceably to him. life.” 37:22 Reuben said to them, “Shed no
37:5
Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the
to his brothers, and they hated him all the more. wilderness, but lay no hand on him”—that he
37:6
He said to them, “Please hear this dream might deliver him out of their hand, to restore
which I have dreamed: 37:7 for behold, we were him to his father. 37:23 It happened, when
binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my Joseph came to his brothers, that they stripped
sheaf arose and also stood upright; and behold, Joseph of his coat, the coat of many colors that
your sheaves came around, and bowed down was on him; 37:24 and they took him, and threw
to my sheaf.” him into the pit. The pit was empty. There was
37:8
His brothers said to him, “Will you no water in it.
37:25
indeed reign over us? Or will you indeed have They sat down to eat bread, and they
dominion over us?” They hated him all the lifted up their eyes and looked, and saw a car-
more for his dreams and for his words. 37:9 He avan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead,
dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his with their camels bearing spices and balm
brothers, and said, “Behold, I have dreamed and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.
37:26
yet another dream: and behold, the sun and Judah said to his brothers, “What profit is
the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me.” it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?
37:10 37:27
He told it to his father and to his brothers. Come, and let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites,
His father rebuked him, and said to him, “What and not let our hand be on him; for he is
is this dream that you have dreamed? Will our brother, our flesh.” His brothers listened
I and your mother and your brothers indeed to him. 37:28 Midianites who were merchants
come to bow ourselves down to you to the passed by, and they drew and lifted up Joseph
earth?” 37:11 His brothers envied him, but his out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites
father kept this saying in mind. for twenty pieces of silver. They brought Joseph
37:12 into Egypt.
His brothers went to feed their father’s
flock in Shechem. 37:13 Israel said to Joseph, 37:29
Reuben returned to the pit; and saw
“Aren’t your brothers feeding the flock in that Joseph wasn’t in the pit; and he tore his
Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them.” clothes. 37:30 He returned to his brothers, and
He said to him, “Here I am.” said, “The child is no more; and I, where will
37:14
He said to him, “Go now, see whether I go?” 37:31 They took Joseph’s coat, and killed
it is well with your brothers, and well with the a male goat, and dipped the coat in the blood.
37:32
flock; and bring me word again.” So he sent They took the coat of many colors, and
him out of the valley of Hebron, and he came they brought it to their father, and said, “We
to Shechem. 37:15 A certain man found him, and have found this. Examine it, now, whether it
behold, he was wandering in the field. The man is your son’s coat or not.”
37:33
asked him, “What are you looking for?” He recognized it, and said, “It is my
Genesis 37:34 33 Genesis 38:29

son’s coat. An evil animal has devoured she had covered her face. 38:16 He turned to her
him. Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces.” by the way, and said, “Please come, let me come
37:34
Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth in to you,” for he didn’t know that she was his
on his waist, and mourned for his son many daughter-in-law.
days. 37:35 All his sons and all his daughters She said, “What will you give me, that you
rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be may come in to me?”
38:17
comforted. He said, “For I will go down to He said, “I will send you a young goat
Sheoly to my son mourning.” His father wept from the flock.”
for him. 37:36 The Midianites sold him into She said, “Will you give me a pledge, until
Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh’s, the you send it?”
38:18
captain of the guard. He said, “What pledge will I give you?”
38:1
It happened at that time, that Judah went She said, “Your signet and your cord, and
down from his brothers, and visited a certain your staff that is in your hand.”
Adullamite, whose name was Hirah. 38:2 Judah He gave them to her, and came in to her,
saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite and she conceived by him. 38:19 She arose,
whose name was Shua. He took her, and went and went away, and put off her veil from her,
in to her. 38:3 She conceived, and bore a son; and and put on the garments of her widowhood.
he named him Er. 38:4 She conceived again, and 38:20
Judah sent the young goat by the hand of
bore a son; and she named him Onan. 38:5 She his friend, the Adullamite, to receive the pledge
yet again bore a son, and named him Shelah: from the woman’s hand, but he didn’t find her.
38:21
and he was at Chezib, when she bore him. Then he asked the men of her place, saying,
38:6
Judah took a wife for Er, his firstborn, and “Where is the prostitute, that was at Enaim by
her name was Tamar. 38:7 Er, Judah’s firstborn, the road?”
was wicked in the sight of the LORD. The They said, “There has been no prostitute
LORD killed him. 38:8 Judah said to Onan, “Go here.”
38:22
in to your brother’s wife, and perform the duty He returned to Judah, and said, “I
of a husband’s brother to her, and raise up seed haven’t found her; and also the men of the
to your brother.” 38:9 Onan knew that the seed place said, ‘There has been no prostitute here.’”
38:23
wouldn’t be his; and it happened, when he Judah said, “Let her keep it, lest we be
went in to his brother’s wife, that he spilled it shamed. Behold, I sent this young goat, and
on the ground, lest he should give seed to his you haven’t found her.”
brother. 38:10 The thing which he did was evil in 38:24
It happened about three months later,
the sight of the LORD, and he killed him also. that it was told Judah, saying, “Tamar, your
38:11
Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in- daughter-in-law, has played the prostitute; and
law, “Remain a widow in your father’s house, moreover, behold, she is with child by prostitu-
until Shelah, my son, is grown up”; for he said, tion.”
“Lest he also die, like his brothers.” Tamar Judah said, “Bring her out, and let her be
went and lived in her father’s house. burnt.” 38:25 When she was brought out, she
38:12
After many days, Shua’s daughter, the sent to her father-in-law, saying, “By the man,
wife of Judah, died. Judah was comforted, and whose these are, I am with child.” She also said,
went up to his sheepshearers to Timnah, he and “Please discern whose are these—the signet,
his friend Hirah, the Adullamite. 38:13 It was and the cords, and the staff.”
38:26
told Tamar, saying, “Behold, your father-in- Judah acknowledged them, and said,
law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep.” “She is more righteous than I, because I didn’t
38:14
She took off of her the garments of her give her to Shelah, my son.”
widowhood, and covered herself with her veil, He knew her again no more. 38:27 It hap-
and wrapped herself, and sat in the gate of pened in the time of her travail, that behold,
38:28
Enaim, which is by the way to Timnah; for she twins were in her womb. When she
saw that Shelah was grown up, and she wasn’t travailed, one put out a hand, and the midwife
given to him as a wife. 38:15 When Judah saw took and tied a scarlet thread on his hand,
her, he thought that she was a prostitute, for saying, “This came out first.” 38:29 It happened,
y 37:35 Sheol is the place of the dead.
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as he drew back his hand, that behold, his in a Hebrew to us to mock us. He came in
brother came out, and she said, “Why have to me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud
you made a breach for yourself?” Therefore voice. 39:15 It happened, when he heard that I
his name was called Perez.z 38:30 Afterward his lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his
brother came out, that had the scarlet thread on garment by me, and ran outside.” 39:16 She laid
his hand, and his name was called Zerah.a up his garment by her, until his master came
39:1
Joseph was brought down to Egypt. home. 39:17 She spoke to him according to these
Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh’s, the captain of words, saying, “The Hebrew servant, whom
the guard, an Egyptian, bought him from the you have brought to us, came in to me to mock
hand of the Ishmaelites that had brought him me, 39:18 and it happened, as I lifted up my
down there. 39:2 The LORD was with Joseph, voice and cried, that he left his garment by me,
and he was a prosperous man. He was in and ran outside.”
the house of his master the Egyptian. 39:3 His 39:19
It happened, when his master heard the
master saw that the LORD was with him, and words of his wife, which she spoke to him,
that the LORD made all that he did prosper saying, “This is what your servant did to me,”
in his hand. 39:4 Joseph found favor in his that his wrath was kindled. 39:20 Joseph’s mas-
sight. He ministered to him, and he made him ter took him, and put him into the prison, the
overseer over his house, and all that he had he place where the king’s prisoners were bound,
put into his hand. 39:5 It happened from the and he was there in custody. 39:21 But the LORD
time that he made him overseer in his house, was with Joseph, and showed kindness to him,
and over all that he had, that the LORD blessed and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper
the Egyptian’s house for Joseph’s sake; and of the prison. 39:22 The keeper of the prison
the blessing of the LORD was on all that he committed to Joseph’s hand all the prisoners
had, in the house and in the field. 39:6 He left who were in the prison. Whatever they did
all that he had in Joseph’s hand. He didn’t there, he was responsible for it. 39:23 The keeper
concern himself with anything, except for the of the prison didn’t look after anything that was
food which he ate. under his hand, because the LORD was with
Joseph was well-built and handsome. 39:7 It him; and that which he did, the LORD made it
happened after these things, that his master’s prosper.
wife cast her eyes on Joseph; and she said, “Lie 40:1
It happened after these things, that
with me.” the butler of the king of Egypt and his
39:8
But he refused, and said to his master’s baker offended their lord, the king of Egypt.
40:2
wife, “Behold, my master doesn’t know what Pharaoh was angry with his two officers,
is with me in the house, and he has put all the chief cupbearer and the chief baker. 40:3 He
that he has into my hand. 39:9 He isn’t greater put them in custody in the house of the captain
in this house than I, neither has he kept back of the guard, into the prison, the place where
anything from me but you, because you are his Joseph was bound. 40:4 The captain of the guard
wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, assigned them to Joseph, and he took care
and sin against God?” of them. They stayed in prison many days.
39:10 40:5
As she spoke to Joseph day by day, he They both dreamed a dream, each man his
didn’t listen to her, to lie by her, or to be with dream, in one night, each man according to the
her. 39:11 About this time, he went into the interpretation of his dream, the cupbearer and
house to do his work, and there were none of the baker of the king of Egypt, who were bound
the men of the house inside. 39:12 She caught in the prison. 40:6 Joseph came in to them in
him by his garment, saying, “Lie with me!” the morning, and saw them, and saw that they
He left his garment in her hand, and ran were sad. 40:7 He asked Pharaoh’s officers who
outside. 39:13 When she saw that he had left were with him in custody in his master’s house,
his garment in her hand, and had run outside, saying, “Why do you look so sad today?”
39:14 40:8
she called to the men of her house, and They said to him, “We have dreamed a
spoke to them, saying, “Behold, he has brought dream, and there is no one who can interpret
z 38:29 Perez means “breaking out.”
a 38:30 Zerah means “scarlet” or “brightness.”
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it.” fed in the marsh grass. 41:3 Behold, seven other


Joseph said to them, “Don’t interpretations cattle came up after them out of the river, ugly
belong to God? Please tell it to me.” and thin, and stood by the other cattle on the
40:9
The chief cupbearer told his dream to brink of the river. 41:4 The ugly and thin cattle
Joseph, and said to him, “In my dream, behold, ate up the seven sleek and fat cattle. So Pharaoh
a vine was in front of me, 40:10 and in the vine awoke. 41:5 He slept and dreamed a second
were three branches. It was as though it bud- time: and behold, seven heads of grain came
ded, it blossomed, and its clusters produced up on one stalk, healthy and good. 41:6 Behold,
ripe grapes. 40:11 Pharaoh’s cup was in my seven heads of grain, thin and blasted with
hand; and I took the grapes, and pressed them the east wind, sprung up after them. 41:7 The
into Pharaoh’s cup, and I gave the cup into thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven
Pharaoh’s hand.” healthy and full ears. Pharaoh awoke, and
40:12
Joseph said to him, “This is its inter- behold, it was a dream. 41:8 It happened in the
pretation: the three branches are three days. morning that his spirit was troubled, and he
40:13
Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift sent and called for all of Egypt’s magicians and
up your head, and restore you to your office. wise men. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but
You will give Pharaoh’s cup into his hand, the there was no one who could interpret them to
way you did when you were his cupbearer. Pharaoh.
40:14 41:9
But remember me when it will be well Then the chief cupbearer spoke to
with you, and please show kindness to me, and Pharaoh, saying, “I remember my faults today.
41:10
make mention of me to Pharaoh, and bring me Pharaoh was angry with his servants, and
out of this house. 40:15 For indeed, I was stolen put me in custody in the house of the captain
away out of the land of the Hebrews, and here of the guard, me and the chief baker. 41:11 We
also have I done nothing that they should put dreamed a dream in one night, I and he. We
me into the dungeon.” dreamed each man according to the interpre-
40:16
When the chief baker saw that the inter- tation of his dream. 41:12 There was with us
pretation was good, he said to Joseph, “I also there a young man, a Hebrew, servant to the
was in my dream, and behold, three baskets captain of the guard, and we told him, and
of white bread were on my head. 40:17 In the he interpreted to us our dreams. To each man
uppermost basket there was all kinds of baked according to his dream he interpreted. 41:13 It
food for Pharaoh, and the birds ate them out of happened, as he interpreted to us, so it was: he
the basket on my head.” restored me to my office, and he hanged him.”
40:18 41:14
Joseph answered, “This is its interpre- Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph,
tation. The three baskets are three days. and they brought him hastily out of the dun-
40:19 geon. He shaved himself, changed his clothing,
Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift
up your head from off you, and will hang you and came in to Pharaoh. 41:15 Pharaoh said to
on a tree; and the birds will eat your flesh Joseph, “I have dreamed a dream, and there is
from off you.” 40:20 It happened the third day, no one who can interpret it. I have heard it said
which was Pharaoh’s birthday, that he made a of you, that when you hear a dream you can
feast for all his servants, and he lifted up the interpret it.”
41:16
head of the chief cupbearer and the head of Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, “It
the chief baker among his servants. 40:21 He isn’t in me. God will give Pharaoh an answer
restored the chief cupbearer to his position of peace.”
again, and he gave the cup into Pharaoh’s 41:17
Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, “In my dream,
hand; 40:22 but he hanged the chief baker, as behold, I stood on the brink of the river:
Joseph had interpreted to them. 40:23 Yet the 41:18
and behold, there came up out of the river
chief cupbearer didn’t remember Joseph, but seven cattle, fat and sleek. They fed in the
forgot him. marsh grass, 41:19 and behold, seven other cattle
41:1
It happened at the end of two full years, came up after them, poor and very ugly and
that Pharaoh dreamed: and behold, he stood thin, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt
by the river. 41:2 Behold, there came up out of for ugliness. 41:20 The thin and ugly cattle ate
the river seven cattle, sleek and fat, and they up the first seven fat cattle, 41:21 and when they
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had eaten them up, it couldn’t be known that of God?” 41:39 Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Because
they had eaten them, but they were still ugly, God has shown you all of this, there is none
as at the beginning. So I awoke. 41:22 I saw in so discreet and wise as you. 41:40 You shall be
my dream, and behold, seven heads of grain over my house, and according to your word
came up on one stalk, full and good: 41:23 and will all my people be ruled. Only in the throne
behold, seven heads of grain, withered, thin, I will be greater than you.” 41:41 Pharaoh said
and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after to Joseph, “Behold, I have set you over all the
them. 41:24 The thin heads of grain swallowed land of Egypt.” 41:42 Pharaoh took off his signet
up the seven good heads of grain. I told it to ring from his hand, and put it on Joseph’s hand,
the magicians, but there was no one who could and arrayed him in robes of fine linen, and put
explain it to me.” a gold chain about his neck, 41:43 and he made
41:25 him to ride in the second chariot which he had.
Joseph said to Pharaoh, “The dream of
Pharaoh is one. What God is about to do he has They cried before him, “Bow the knee!” He set
declared to Pharaoh. 41:26 The seven good cattle him over all the land of Egypt. 41:44 Pharaoh
are seven years; and the seven good heads said to Joseph, “I am Pharaoh, and without
of grain are seven years. The dream is one. you shall no man lift up his hand or his foot
41:27
The seven thin and ugly cattle that came in all the land of Egypt.” 41:45 Pharaoh called
up after them are seven years, and also the Joseph’s name Zaphenath-Paneah; and he gave
seven empty heads of grain blasted with the him Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest
east wind; they will be seven years of famine. of On as a wife. Joseph went out over the land
41:28 of Egypt.
That is the thing which I spoke to Pharaoh.
41:46
What God is about to do he has shown to Joseph was thirty years old when he
Pharaoh. 41:29 Behold, there come seven years stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. Joseph
of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt. went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and
41:30
There will arise after them seven years of went throughout all the land of Egypt. 41:47 In
famine, and all the plenty will be forgotten in the seven plenteous years the earth produced
the land of Egypt. The famine will consume abundantly. 41:48 He gathered up all the food
the land, 41:31 and the plenty will not be known of the seven years which were in the land
in the land by reason of that famine which of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities:
follows; for it will be very grievous. 41:32 The the food of the field, which was around every
dream was doubled to Pharaoh, because the city, he laid up in the same. 41:49 Joseph laid
thing is established by God, and God will up grain as the sand of the sea, very much,
shortly bring it to pass. until he stopped counting, for it was without
41:33
“Now therefore let Pharaoh look for a number. 41:50 To Joseph were born two sons
discreet and wise man, and set him over the before the year of famine came, whom Asenath,
land of Egypt. 41:34 Let Pharaoh do this, and the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore
let him appoint overseers over the land, and to him. 41:51 Joseph called the name of the
take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt’s firstborn Manasseh,b “For,” he said, “God has
produce in the seven plenteous years. 41:35 Let made me forget all my toil, and all my father’s
them gather all the food of these good years house.” 41:52 The name of the second, he called
that come, and lay up grain under the hand of Ephraimc : “For God has made me fruitful in the
Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep land of my affliction.”
it. 41:36 The food will be for a store to the land 41:53
The seven years of plenty, that were in
against the seven years of famine, which will the land of Egypt, came to an end. 41:54 The
be in the land of Egypt; that the land not perish seven years of famine began to come, just
through the famine.” as Joseph had said. There was famine in
41:37
The thing was good in the eyes of all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there
Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants. was bread. 41:55 When all the land of Egypt
41:38
Pharaoh said to his servants, “Can we find was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for
such a one as this, a man in whom is the Spirit bread, and Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians,
b 41:51 “Manasseh” sounds like the Hebrew for “forget.”
c 41:52 “Ephraim” sounds like the Hebrew for “twice fruitful.”
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“Go to Joseph. What he says to you, do.” surely you are spies.” 42:17 He put them all
41:56
The famine was over all the surface of the together into custody for three days.
earth. Joseph opened all the store houses, and 42:18
Joseph said to them the third day, “Do
sold to the Egyptians. The famine was severe this, and live, for I fear God. 42:19 If you are
in the land of Egypt. 41:57 All countries came honest men, then let one of your brothers be
into Egypt, to Joseph, to buy grain, because the bound in your prison; but you go, carry grain
famine was severe in all the earth. for the famine of your houses. 42:20 Bring your
42:1
Now Jacob saw that there was grain in youngest brother to me; so will your words be
Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, “Why do you verified, and you won’t die.”
look at one another?” 42:2 He said, “Behold, I They did so. 42:21 They said one to another,
have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go “We are certainly guilty concerning our brother,
down there, and buy for us from there, so that in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he
we may live, and not die.” 42:3 Joseph’s ten begged us, and we wouldn’t listen. Therefore
brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt. this distress has come upon us.” 42:22 Reuben
42:4
But Jacob didn’t send Benjamin, Joseph’s answered them, saying, “Didn’t I tell you,
brother, with his brothers; for he said, “Lest saying, ‘Don’t sin against the child,’ and you
perhaps harm happen to him.” 42:5 The sons wouldn’t listen? Therefore also, behold, his
of Israel came to buy among those who came, blood is required.” 42:23 They didn’t know
for the famine was in the land of Canaan. that Joseph understood them; for there was
42:6
Joseph was the governor over the land. It an interpreter between them. 42:24 He turned
was he who sold to all the people of the land. himself away from them, and wept. Then
Joseph’s brothers came, and bowed themselves he returned to them, and spoke to them, and
down to him with their faces to the earth. took Simeon from among them, and bound
42:7
Joseph saw his brothers, and he recognized him before their eyes. 42:25 Then Joseph gave
them, but acted like a stranger to them, and a command to fill their bags with grain, and to
spoke roughly with them. He said to them, restore each man’s money into his sack, and to
“Where did you come from?” give them food for the way. So it was done to
They said, “From the land of Canaan to buy them.
food.” 42:26
42:8
They loaded their donkeys with their
Joseph recognized his brothers, but they grain, and departed from there. 42:27 As one of
didn’t recognize him. 42:9 Joseph remembered them opened his sack to give his donkey food
the dreams which he dreamed about them, and in the lodging place, he saw his money. Behold,
said to them, “You are spies! You have come to it was in the mouth of his sack. 42:28 He said to
see the nakedness of the land.” his brothers, “My money is restored! Behold,
42:10
They said to him, “No, my lord, but it is in my sack!” Their hearts failed them,
your servants have come to buy food. 42:11 We and they turned trembling one to another,
are all one man’s sons; we are honest men. Your saying, “What is this that God has done to us?”
servants are not spies.” 42:29
They came to Jacob their father, to the land
42:12
He said to them, “No, but you have of Canaan, and told him all that had happened
come to see the nakedness of the land!” to them, saying, 42:30 “The man, the lord of the
42:13
They said, “We, your servants, are land, spoke roughly with us, and took us for
twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land spies of the country. 42:31 We said to him, ‘We
of Canaan; and behold, the youngest is this day are honest men. We are no spies. 42:32 We are
with our father, and one is no more.” twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no
42:14
Joseph said to them, “It is like I told you, more, and the youngest is this day with our
saying, ‘You are spies!’ 42:15 By this you shall father in the land of Canaan.’ 42:33 The man, the
be tested. By the life of Pharaoh, you shall not lord of the land, said to us, ‘By this I will know
go out from here, unless your youngest brother that you are honest men: leave one of your
comes here. 42:16 Send one of you, and let him brothers with me, and take grain for the famine
get your brother, and you shall be bound, that of your houses, and go your way. 42:34 Bring
your words may be tested, whether there is your youngest brother to me. Then I will know
truth in you, or else by the life of Pharaoh that you are not spies, but that you are honest
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43:11
men. So I will deliver your brother to you, and Their father, Israel, said to them, “If
you shall trade in the land.’” it must be so, then do this. Take from the
42:35
It happened as they emptied their sacks, choice fruits of the land in your bags, and
that behold, each man’s bundle of money carry down a present for the man, a little
was in his sack. When they and their father balm, a little honey, spices and myrrh, nuts,
saw their bundles of money, they were afraid. and almonds; 43:12 and take double money in
42:36
Jacob, their father, said to them, “You have your hand, and take back the money that was
bereaved me of my children! Joseph is no returned in the mouth of your sacks. Perhaps it
more, Simeon is no more, and you want to take was an oversight. 43:13 Take your brother also,
Benjamin away. All these things are against get up, and return to the man. 43:14 May God
me.” Almighty give you mercy before the man, that
42:37
Reuben spoke to his father, saying, “Kill he may release to you your other brother and
my two sons, if I don’t bring him to you. Benjamin. If I am bereaved of my children, I
Entrust him to my care, and I will bring him am bereaved.”
43:15
to you again.” The men took that present, and they
42:38
He said, “My son shall not go down took double money in their hand, and Ben-
with you; for his brother is dead, and he only jamin; and got up, went down to Egypt, and
is left. If harm happens to him along the way stood before Joseph. 43:16 When Joseph saw
in which you go, then you will bring down my Benjamin with them, he said to the steward of
gray hairs with sorrow to Sheold .” his house, “Bring the men into the house, and
43:1
The famine was severe in the land. 43:2 It butcher an animal, and prepare; for the men
happened, when they had eaten up the grain will dine with me at noon.”
43:17
which they had brought out of Egypt, their The man did as Joseph commanded,
father said to them, “Go again, buy us a little and the man brought the men to Joseph’s
more food.” house. 43:18 The men were afraid, because they
43:3
Judah spoke to him, saying, “The man were brought to Joseph’s house; and they said,
solemnly warned us, saying, ‘You shall not see “Because of the money that was returned in
my face, unless your brother is with you.’ 43:4 If our sacks at the first time, we’re brought in;
you’ll send our brother with us, we’ll go down that he may seek occasion against us, attack
and buy you food, 43:5 but if you’ll not send us, and seize us as slaves, along with our
him, we’ll not go down, for the man said to us, donkeys.” 43:19 They came near to the steward
‘You shall not see my face, unless your brother of Joseph’s house, and they spoke to him at
is with you.’” the door of the house, 43:20 and said, “Oh, my
43:6
Israel said, “Why did you treat me so lord, we indeed came down the first time to buy
badly, telling the man that you had another food. 43:21 When we came to the lodging place,
brother?” we opened our sacks, and behold, each man’s
43:7
They said, “The man asked directly con- money was in the mouth of his sack, our money
cerning ourselves, and concerning our rela- in full weight. We have brought it back in our
tives, saying, ‘Is your father still alive? Have hand. 43:22 We have brought down other money
you another brother?’ We just answered his in our hand to buy food. We don’t know who
questions. Is there any way we could know that put our money in our sacks.”
43:23
he would say, ‘Bring your brother down?’” He said, “Peace be to you. Don’t be
43:8
Judah said to Israel, his father, “Send the afraid. Your God, and the God of your father,
boy with me, and we’ll get up and go, so that has given you treasure in your sacks. I received
we may live, and not die, both we, and you, your money.” He brought Simeon out to them.
and also our little ones. 43:9 I’ll be collateral for 43:24
The man brought the men into Joseph’s
him. From my hand will you require him. If I house, and gave them water, and they washed
don’t bring him to you, and set him before you, their feet. He gave their donkeys fodder.
then let me bear the blame forever, 43:10 for if we 43:25
They prepared the present for Joseph’s
hadn’t delayed, surely we would have returned coming at noon, for they heard that they should
a second time by now.” eat bread there.
d 42:38 Sheol is the place of the dead.
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43:26
When Joseph came home, they brought of the land of Canaan. How then should we
him the present which was in their hand into steal silver or gold out of your lord’s house?
44:9
the house, and bowed themselves down to With whomever of your servants it is found,
him to the earth. 43:27 He asked them of their let him die, and we also will be my lord’s
welfare, and said, “Is your father well, the old bondservants.”
man of whom you spoke? Is he yet alive?” 44:10
He said, “Now also let it be according to
43:28
They said, “Your servant, our father, is your words: he with whom it is found will be
well. He is still alive.” They bowed down my bondservant; and you will be blameless.”
humbly. 43:29 He lifted up his eyes, and saw 44:11
Then they hurried, and each man took
Benjamin, his brother, his mother’s son, and his sack down to the ground, and each
said, “Is this your youngest brother, of whom man opened his sack. 44:12 He searched, be-
you spoke to me?” He said, “God be gracious ginning with the eldest, and ending at the
to you, my son.” 43:30 Joseph hurried, for his youngest. The cup was found in Benjamin’s
heart yearned over his brother; and he sought sack. 44:13 Then they tore their clothes, and each
a place to weep. He entered into his room, and man loaded his donkey, and returned to the
wept there. 43:31 He washed his face, and came city.
out. He controlled himself, and said, “Serve the 44:14
Judah and his brothers came to Joseph’s
meal.” house, and he was still there. They fell on the
43:32
They served him by himself, and them ground before him. 44:15 Joseph said to them,
by themselves, and the Egyptians, that ate with “What deed is this that you have done? Don’t
him, by themselves, because the Egyptians you know that such a man as I can indeed
don’t eat bread with the Hebrews, for that is divine?”
an abomination to the Egyptians. 43:33 They 44:16
Judah said, “What will we tell my lord?
sat before him, the firstborn according to his What will we speak? Or how will we clear
birthright, and the youngest according to his ourselves? God has found out the iniquity
youth, and the men marveled one with another. of your servants. Behold, we are my lord’s
43:34
He sent portions to them from before him, bondservants, both we, and he also in whose
but Benjamin’s portion was five times as much hand the cup is found.”
as any of theirs. They drank, and were merry 44:17
He said, “Far be it from me that I should
with him. do so. The man in whose hand the cup is found,
44:1
He commanded the steward of his house, he will be my bondservant; but as for you, go
saying, “Fill the men’s sacks with food, as much up in peace to your father.”
as they can carry, and put each man’s money 44:18
Then Judah came near to him, and
in his sack’s mouth. 44:2 Put my cup, the silver said, “Oh, my lord, please let your servant
cup, in the sack’s mouth of the youngest, with speak a word in my lord’s ears, and don’t
his grain money.” He did according to the let your anger burn against your servant; for
word that Joseph had spoken. 44:3 As soon you are even as Pharaoh. 44:19 My lord asked
as the morning was light, the men were sent his servants, saying, ‘Have you a father, or a
away, they and their donkeys. 44:4 When they brother?’ 44:20 We said to my lord, ‘We have
had gone out of the city, and were not yet far a father, an old man, and a child of his old
off, Joseph said to his steward, “Up, follow age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and
after the men. When you overtake them, ask he alone is left of his mother; and his father
them, ‘Why have you rewarded evil for good? loves him.’ 44:21 You said to your servants,
44:5
Isn’t this that from which my lord drinks, ‘Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes
and by which he indeed divines? You have on him.’ 44:22 We said to my lord, ‘The boy
done evil in so doing.’” 44:6 He overtook them, can’t leave his father: for if he should leave his
and he spoke these words to them. father, his father would die.’ 44:23 You said to
44:7
They said to him, “Why does my lord your servants, ‘Unless your youngest brother
speak such words as these? Far be it from comes down with you, you will see my face no
your servants that they should do such a thing! more.’ 44:24 It happened when we came up to
44:8
Behold, the money, which we found in our your servant my father, we told him the words
sacks’ mouths, we brought again to you out of my lord. 44:25 Our father said, ‘Go again,
Genesis 44:26 40 Genesis 45:25

buy us a little food.’ 44:26 We said, ‘We can’t lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land
go down. If our youngest brother is with us, of Egypt. 45:9 Hurry, and go up to my father,
then we will go down: for we may not see and tell him, ‘This is what your son Joseph
the man’s face, unless our youngest brother is says, “God has made me lord of all Egypt.
with us.’ 44:27 Your servant, my father, said Come down to me. Don’t wait. 45:10 You shall
to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two dwell in the land of Goshen, and you will be
sons: 44:28 and the one went out from me, and near to me, you, your children, your children’s
I said, “Surely he is torn in pieces”; and I children, your flocks, your herds, and all that
haven’t seen him since. 44:29 If you take this you have. 45:11 There I will nourish you; for
one also from me, and harm happens to him, there are yet five years of famine; lest you come
you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to poverty, you, and your household, and all
to Sheole .’ 44:30 Now therefore when I come that you have.”’ 45:12 Behold, your eyes see, and
to your servant my father, and the boy is not the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my
with us; since his life is bound up in the boy’s mouth that speaks to you. 45:13 You shall tell my
life; 44:31 it will happen, when he sees that the father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that
boy is no more, that he will die. Your servants you have seen. You shall hurry and bring my
will bring down the gray hairs of your servant, father down here.” 45:14 He fell on his brother
our father, with sorrow to Sheolf . 44:32 For your Benjamin’s neck, and wept, and Benjamin wept
servant became collateral for the boy to my on his neck. 45:15 He kissed all his brothers, and
father, saying, ‘If I don’t bring him to you, wept on them. After that his brothers talked
then I will bear the blame to my father forever.’ with him.
44:33 45:16
Now therefore, please let your servant stay The report of it was heard in Pharaoh’s
instead of the boy, a bondservant to my lord; house, saying, “Joseph’s brothers have come.”
and let the boy go up with his brothers. 44:34 For It pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants.
how will I go up to my father, if the boy isn’t 45:17
Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Tell your broth-
with me?—lest I see the evil that will come on ers, ‘Do this. Load your animals, and go, travel
my father.” to the land of Canaan. 45:18 Take your father
45:1
Then Joseph couldn’t control himself be- and your households, and come to me, and I
fore all those who stood before him, and he will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and
cried, “Cause everyone to go out from me!” No you will eat the fat of the land.’ 45:19 Now you
one else stood with him, while Joseph made are commanded: do this. Take wagons out of
himself known to his brothers. 45:2 He wept the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for
aloud. The Egyptians heard, and the house of your wives, and bring your father, and come.
Pharaoh heard. 45:3 Joseph said to his brothers, 45:20
Also, don’t concern yourselves about your
“I am Joseph! Does my father still live?” belongings, for the good of all of the land of
His brothers couldn’t answer him; for they Egypt is yours.”
were terrified at his presence. 45:4 Joseph said 45:21
The sons of Israel did so. Joseph gave
to his brothers, “Come near to me, please.” them wagons, according to the commandment
They came near. “He said, I am Joseph, your of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for the
brother, whom you sold into Egypt. 45:5 Now way. 45:22 He gave each one of them changes
don’t be grieved, nor angry with yourselves, of clothing, but to Benjamin he gave three
that you sold me here, for God sent me before hundred pieces of silver and five changes of
you to preserve life. 45:6 For these two years clothing. 45:23 He sent the following to his
the famine has been in the land, and there are father: ten donkeys loaded with the good
yet five years, in which there will be neither things of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded
plowing nor harvest. 45:7 God sent me before with grain and bread and provision for his
you to preserve for you a remnant in the earth, father by the way. 45:24 So he sent his brothers
and to save you alive by a great deliverance. away, and they departed. He said to them, “See
45:8 that you don’t quarrel on the way.”
So now it wasn’t you who sent me here, but
45:25
God, and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, They went up out of Egypt, and came
e 44:29 Sheol is the place of the dead.
f 44:31 Sheol is the place of the dead.
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into the land of Canaan, to Jacob their father. sister. The sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel.
45:26 46:18
They told him, saying, “Joseph is still alive, These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban
and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt.” gave to Leah, his daughter, and these she bore
His heart fainted, for he didn’t believe them. to Jacob, even sixteen souls. 46:19 The sons
45:27
They told him all the words of Joseph, of Rachel, Jacob’s wife: Joseph and Benjamin.
46:20
which he had said to them. When he saw the To Joseph in the land of Egypt were born
wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the
spirit of Jacob, their father, revived. 45:28 Israel daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, bore to
said, “It is enough. Joseph my son is still alive. him. 46:21 The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher,
I will go and see him before I die.” Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim,
46:1
Israel traveled with all that he had, and Huppim, and Ard. 46:22 These are the sons of
came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the Rachel, who were born to Jacob: all the souls
God of his father, Isaac. 46:2 God spoke to Israel were fourteen. 46:23 The son of Dan: Hushim.
46:24
in the visions of the night, and said, “Jacob, The sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer,
Jacob!” and Shillem. 46:25 These are the sons of Bilhah,
He said, “Here I am.” whom Laban gave to Rachel, his daughter, and
46:3
He said, “I am God, the God of your these she bore to Jacob: all the souls were
father. Don’t be afraid to go down into Egypt, seven. 46:26 All the souls who came with Jacob
for there I will make of you a great nation. 46:4 I into Egypt, who were his direct descendants,
will go down with you into Egypt. I will also besides Jacob’s sons’ wives, all the souls were
surely bring you up again. Joseph will close sixty-six. 46:27 The sons of Joseph, who were
your eyes.” born to him in Egypt, were two souls. All
46:5 the souls of the house of Jacob, who came into
Jacob rose up from Beersheba, and the
Egypt, were seventy.
sons of Israel carried Jacob, their father, their 46:28
little ones, and their wives, in the wagons He sent Judah before him to Joseph,
which Pharaoh had sent to carry him. 46:6 They to show the way before him to Goshen, and
took their livestock, and their goods, which they came into the land of Goshen. 46:29 Joseph
they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and prepared his chariot, and went up to meet
came into Egypt—Jacob, and all his seed with Israel, his father, in Goshen. He presented
him, 46:7 his sons, and his sons’ sons with him, himself to him, and fell on his neck, and wept
his daughters, and his sons’ daughters, and he on his neck a good while. 46:30 Israel said to
brought all his seed with him into Egypt. Joseph, “Now let me die, since I have seen your
46:8 face, that you are still alive.”
These are the names of the children of
46:31
Israel, who came into Egypt, Jacob and his Joseph said to his brothers, and to his
sons: Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn. 46:9 The sons father’s house, “I will go up, and speak with
of Reuben: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi. Pharaoh, and will tell him, ‘My brothers, and
46:10 my father’s house, who were in the land of
The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad,
Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanite Canaan, have come to me. 46:32 These men
46:11 are shepherds, for they have been keepers of
woman. The sons of Levi: Gershon,
Kohath, and Merari. 46:12 The sons of Judah: livestock, and they have brought their flocks,
Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah; but Er and and their herds, and all that they have.’ 46:33 It
Onan died in the land of Canaan. The sons of will happen, when Pharaoh summons you, and
Perez were Hezron and Hamul. 46:13 The sons will say, ‘What is your occupation?’ 46:34 that
of Issachar: Tola, Puvah, Iob, and Shimron. you shall say, ‘Your servants have been keepers
46:14 of livestock from our youth even until now,
The sons of Zebulun: Sered, Elon, and
Jahleel. 46:15 These are the sons of Leah, whom both we, and our fathers:’ that you may dwell
she bore to Jacob in Paddan Aram, with his in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an
daughter Dinah. All the souls of his sons abomination to the Egyptians.”
and his daughters were thirty-three. 46:16 The 47:1
Then Joseph went in and told Pharaoh,
sons of Gad: Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, and said, “My father and my brothers, with
Eri, Arodi, and Areli. 46:17 The sons of Asher: their flocks, their herds, and all that they own,
Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and Serah their have come out of the land of Canaan; and be-
Genesis 47:2 42 Genesis 47:29

hold, they are in the land of Goshen.” 47:2 From 47:17


They brought their livestock to Joseph,
among his brothers he took five men, and and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for
presented them to Pharaoh. 47:3 Pharaoh said the horses, and for the flocks, and for the herds,
to his brothers, “What is your occupation?” and for the donkeys: and he fed them with
They said to Pharaoh, “Your servants are bread in exchange for all their livestock for that
shepherds, both we, and our fathers.” 47:4 They year. 47:18 When that year was ended, they
said to Pharaoh, “We have come to live as came to him the second year, and said to him,
foreigners in the land, for there is no pasture for “We will not hide from my lord how our money
your servants’ flocks. For the famine is severe is all spent, and the herds of livestock are my
in the land of Canaan. Now therefore, please lord’s. There is nothing left in the sight of my
let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen.” lord, but our bodies, and our lands. 47:19 Why
47:5 should we die before your eyes, both we and
Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, “Your
father and your brothers have come to you. our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and
47:6 we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh.
The land of Egypt is before you. Make your
father and your brothers dwell in the best of the Give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and
land. Let them dwell in the land of Goshen. If that the land won’t be desolate.”
47:20
you know any able men among them, then put So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt
them in charge of my livestock.” for Pharaoh, for every man of the Egyptians
47:7 sold his field, because the famine was severe on
Joseph brought in Jacob, his father, and
set him before Pharaoh, and Jacob blessed them, and the land became Pharaoh’s. 47:21 As
Pharaoh. 47:8 Pharaoh said to Jacob, “How for the people, he moved them to the cities
many are the days of the years of your life?” from one end of the border of Egypt even to
47:9
Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the other end of it. 47:22 Only he didn’t buy
the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred the land of the priests, for the priests had a
thirty years. Few and evil have been the days portion from Pharaoh, and ate their portion
of the years of my life, and they have not which Pharaoh gave them. That is why they
attained to the days of the years of the life of didn’t sell their land. 47:23 Then Joseph said to
my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.” the people, “Behold, I have bought you and
47:10 your land today for Pharaoh. Behold, here is
Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from
the presence of Pharaoh. seed for you, and you shall sow the land. 47:24 It
47:11
Joseph placed his father and his broth- will happen at the harvests, that you shall give
ers, and gave them a possession in the land a fifth to Pharaoh, and four parts will be your
of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the own, for seed of the field, for your food, for
land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded. them of your households, and for food for your
47:12
Joseph nourished his father, his brothers, little ones.”
47:25
and all of his father’s household, with bread, They said, “You have saved our lives!
according to their families. Let us find favor in the sight of my lord, and
47:13 we will be Pharaoh’s servants.”
There was no bread in all the land; for
47:26
the famine was very severe, so that the land of Joseph made it a statute concerning the
Egypt and the land of Canaan fainted by reason land of Egypt to this day, that Pharaoh should
of the famine. 47:14 Joseph gathered up all the have the fifth. Only the land of the priests alone
money that was found in the land of Egypt, and didn’t become Pharaoh’s.
in the land of Canaan, for the grain which they 47:27
Israel lived in the land of Egypt, in
bought: and Joseph brought the money into the land of Goshen; and they got themselves
Pharaoh’s house. 47:15 When the money was all possessions therein, and were fruitful, and
spent in the land of Egypt, and in the land of multiplied exceedingly. 47:28 Jacob lived in the
Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph, and land of Egypt seventeen years. So the days of
said, “Give us bread, for why should we die in Jacob, the years of his life, were one hundred
your presence? For our money fails.” forty-seven years. 47:29 The time drew near that
47:16
Joseph said, “Give me your livestock; Israel must die, and he called his son Joseph,
and I will give you food for your livestock, if and said to him, “If now I have found favor
your money is gone.” in your sight, please put your hand under
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my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me. his hands knowingly, for Manasseh was the
Please don’t bury me in Egypt, 47:30 but when I firstborn. 48:15 He blessed Joseph, and said,
sleep with my fathers, you shall carry me out of “The God before whom my fathers Abraham
Egypt, and bury me in their burying place.” and Isaac walked, the God who has fed me
He said, “I will do as you have said.” all my life long to this day, 48:16 the angel who
47:31 has redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads,
He said, “Swear to me,” and he swore to
him. Israel bowed himself on the bed’s head. and let my name be named on them, and the
48:1
It happened after these things, that some- name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac. Let
one said to Joseph, “Behold, your father is them grow into a multitude in the midst of the
sick.” He took with him his two sons, Man- earth.”
48:17
asseh and Ephraim. 48:2 Someone told Jacob, When Joseph saw that his father laid
and said, “Behold, your son Joseph comes to his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it dis-
you,” and Israel strengthened himself, and sat pleased him. He held up his father’s hand, to
on the bed. 48:3 Jacob said to Joseph, “God remove it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s
Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land head. 48:18 Joseph said to his father, “Not so, my
of Canaan, and blessed me, 48:4 and said to me, father; for this is the firstborn; put your right
‘Behold, I will make you fruitful, and multi- hand on his head.”
48:19
ply you, and I will make of you a company His father refused, and said, “I know,
of peoples, and will give this land to your my son, I know. He also will become a
seed after you for an everlasting possession.’ people, and he also will be great. However, his
48:5 younger brother will be greater than he, and
Now your two sons, who were born to you
in the land of Egypt before I came to you into his seed will become a multitude of nations.”
48:20
Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh, even He blessed them that day, saying, “In you
as Reuben and Simeon, will be mine. 48:6 Your will Israel bless, saying, ‘God make you as
issue, whom you become the father of after Ephraim and as Manasseh’” He set Ephraim
them, will be yours. They will be called after before Manasseh. 48:21 Israel said to Joseph,
the name of their brothers in their inheritance. “Behold, I am dying, but God will be with you,
48:7 and bring you again to the land of your fathers.
As for me, when I came from Paddan,
48:22
Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan in Moreover I have given to you one portion
the way, when there was still some distance to above your brothers, which I took out of the
come to Ephrath, and I buried her there in the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with
way to Ephrath (the same is Bethlehem).” my bow.”
49:1
48:8
Israel saw Joseph’s sons, and said, “Who Jacob called to his sons, and said:
are these?” “Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you
48:9
Joseph said to his father, “They are my that which will happen to you in the days to
come.
sons, whom God has given me here.” 49:2
Assemble yourselves, and hear, you sons of
He said, “Please bring them to me, and I
Jacob.
will bless them.” 48:10 Now the eyes of Israel
Listen to Israel, your father.
were dim for age, so that he couldn’t see. He 49:3
brought them near to him; and he kissed them, “Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might,
and embraced them. 48:11 Israel said to Joseph, and the beginning of my strength;
“I didn’t think I would see your face, and excelling in dignity, and excelling in
behold, God has let me see your seed also.” power.
49:4
48:12
Joseph brought them out from between his Boiling over as water, you shall not excel;
knees, and he bowed himself with his face to because you went up to your father’s bed,
the earth. 48:13 Joseph took them both, Ephraim then defiled it. He went up to my couch.
49:5
in his right hand toward Israel’s left hand, “Simeon and Levi are brothers.
and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel’s Their swords are weapons of violence.
49:6
right hand, and brought them near to him. My soul, don’t come into their council.
48:14
Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid My glory, don’t be united to their assem-
it on Ephraim’s head, who was the younger, bly;
and his left hand on Manasseh’s head, guiding for in their anger they killed men.
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49:23
In their self-will they hamstrung cattle. The archers have severely grieved him,
49:7
Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; shot at him, and persecute him:
49:24
and their wrath, for it was cruel. But his bow remained strong.
I will divide them in Jacob, The arms of his hands were made strong,
and scatter them in Israel. by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob,
49:8
“Judah, your brothers will praise you. (from there is the shepherd, the stone of
Your hand will be on the neck of your Israel),
enemies. 49:25
even by the God of your father, who will
Your father’s sons will bow down before help you;
you. by the Almighty, who will bless you,
49:9
Judah is a lion’s cub. with blessings of heaven above,
From the prey, my son, you have gone up. blessings of the deep that lies below,
He stooped down, he crouched as a lion, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb.
as a lioness. 49:26
The blessings of your father have prevailed
Who will rouse him up? above the blessings of your ancestors,
49:10
The scepter will not depart from Judah, above the boundaries of the ancient hills.
nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, They will be on the head of Joseph,
until he comes to whom it belongs. on the crown of the head of him who is
To him will the obedience of the peoples separated from his brothers.
be. 49:27
“Benjamin is a ravenous wolf.
49:11
Binding his foal to the vine, In the morning he will devour the prey.
his donkey’s colt to the choice vine; At evening he will divide the spoil.”
he has washed his garments in wine, 49:28
All these are the twelve tribes of Israel,
his robes in the blood of grapes. and this is what their father spoke to them and
49:12
His eyes will be red with wine, blessed them. He blessed everyone according
his teeth white with milk. to his blessing. 49:29 He instructed them, and
49:13
“Zebulun will dwell at the haven of the sea. said to them, “I am to be gathered to my people.
He will be for a haven of ships. Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is
His border will be on Sidon. in the field of Ephron the Hittite, 49:30 in the
49:14
“Issachar is a strong donkey, cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which
lying down between the saddlebags. is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which
49:15
He saw a resting place, that it was good, Abraham bought with the field from Ephron
the land, that it was pleasant. the Hittite as a burial place. 49:31 There they
He bows his shoulder to the burden, buried Abraham and Sarah, his wife. There
and becomes a servant doing forced la- they buried Isaac and Rebekah, his wife, and
bor. there I buried Leah: 49:32 the field and the cave
49:16
“Dan will judge his people, that is therein, which was purchased from the
as one of the tribes of Israel. children of Heth.” 49:33 When Jacob made an
49:17
Dan will be a serpent in the way, end of charging his sons, he gathered up his
an adder in the path, feet into the bed, and yielded up the spirit, and
That bites the horse’s heels, was gathered to his people.
so that his rider falls backward. 50:1
Joseph fell on his father’s face, wept on
49:18
I have waited for your salvation, LORD. him, and kissed him. 50:2 Joseph commanded
49:19
“A troop will press on Gad, his servants, the physicians, to embalm his
but he will press on their heel. father; and the physicians embalmed Israel.
49:20 50:3
“Asher’s food will be rich. Forty days were fulfilled for him, for that
He will yield royal dainties. is how many the days it takes to embalm. The
49:21
“Naphtali is a doe set free, Egyptians wept for him for seventy days.
50:4
who bears beautiful fawns. When the days of weeping for him were
49:22
“Joseph is a fruitful vine, past, Joseph spoke to the house of Pharaoh,
a fruitful vine by a spring. saying, “If now I have found favor in your eyes,
His branches run over the wall. please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,
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50:5
‘My father made me swear, saying, “Behold, alive. 50:21 Now therefore don’t be afraid. I
I am dying. Bury me in my grave which I have will nourish you and your little ones.” He
dug for myself in the land of Canaan.” Now comforted them, and spoke kindly to them.
50:22
therefore, please let me go up and bury my Joseph lived in Egypt, he, and his fa-
father, and I will come again.’” ther’s house. Joseph lived one hundred ten
50:6
Pharaoh said, “Go up, and bury your years. 50:23 Joseph saw Ephraim’s children to
father, just like he made you swear.” the third generation. The children also of
50:7 Machir, the son of Manasseh, were born on
Joseph went up to bury his father; and
Joseph’s knees. 50:24 Joseph said to his brothers,
with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh,
“I am dying, but God will surely visit you,
the elders of his house, all the elders of the
and bring you up out of this land to the land
land of Egypt, 50:8 all the house of Joseph, his
which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to
brothers, and his father’s house. Only their
Jacob.” 50:25 Joseph took an oath of the children
little ones, their flocks, and their herds, they
of Israel, saying, “God will surely visit you, and
left in the land of Goshen. 50:9 There went up
you shall carry up my bones from here.” 50:26 So
with him both chariots and horsemen. It was
Joseph died, being one hundred ten years old,
a very great company. 50:10 They came to the
and they embalmed him, and he was put in a
threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the
coffin in Egypt.
Jordan, and there they lamented with a very
great and severe lamentation. He mourned
50:11
for his father seven days. 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. 50:12 His sons did
to him just as he commanded them, 50:13 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, for a possession of a burial site, from
Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre. 50:14 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.
50:15
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 of the evil which we did to him.”
50:16
They sent a message to Joseph, saying,
“Your father commanded before he died, say-
ing, 50:17 ‘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. 50:18 His brothers also went
and fell down before his face; and they said,
“Behold, we are your servants.” 50:19 Joseph
said to them, “Don’t be afraid, for am I in the
place of God? 50:20 As for you, you meant evil
against me, but God meant it for good, to bring
to pass, as it is this day, to save many people
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Exodus women; for they are vigorous, and give birth


before the midwife comes to them.”
1:1 1:20
Now these are the names of the sons of God dealt well with the midwives, and
Israel, who came into Egypt (every man and the people multiplied, and grew very mighty.
1:21
his household came with Jacob): 1:2 Reuben, It happened, because the midwives feared
Simeon, Levi, and Judah, 1:3 Issachar, Zebulun, God, that he gave them families. 1:22 Pharaoh
and Benjamin, 1:4 Dan and Naphtali, Gad and commanded all his people, saying, “You shall
Asher. 1:5 All the souls who came out of cast every son who is born into the river, and
Jacob’s body were seventy souls, and Joseph every daughter you shall save alive.”
2:1
was in Egypt already. 1:6 Joseph died, as did A man of the house of Levi went and took
all his brothers, and all that generation. 1:7 The a daughter of Levi as his wife. 2:2 The woman
children of Israel were fruitful, and increased conceived, and bore a son. When she saw that
abundantly, and multiplied, and grew exceed- he was a fine child, she hid him three months.
2:3
ingly mighty; and the land was filled with When she could no longer hide him, she took
them. a papyrus basket for him, and coated it with
1:8 tar and with pitch. She put the child in it, and
Now there arose a new king over Egypt,
who didn’t know Joseph. 1:9 He said to his laid it in the reeds by the river’s bank. 2:4 His
people, “Behold, the people of the children sister stood far off, to see what would be done
of Israel are more and mightier than we. to him. 2:5 Pharaoh’s daughter came down to
1:10 bathe at the river. Her maidens walked along
Come, let us deal wisely with them, lest
they multiply, and it happen that when any by the riverside. She saw the basket among the
war breaks out, they also join themselves to our reeds, and sent her handmaid to get it. 2:6 She
enemies, and fight against us, and escape out opened it, and saw the child, and behold, the
of the land.” 1:11 Therefore they set taskmasters baby cried. She had compassion on him, and
over them to afflict them with their burdens. said, “This is one of the Hebrews’ children.”
2:7
They built storage cities for Pharaoh: Pithom Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter,
and Raamses. 1:12 But the more they afflicted “Should I go and call a nurse for you from the
them, the more they multiplied and the more Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child
they spread out. They were grieved because for you?”
2:8
of the children of Israel. 1:13 The Egyptians Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Go.”
ruthlessly made the children of Israel serve, The maiden went and called the child’s
1:14
and they made their lives bitter with hard mother. 2:9 Pharaoh’s daughter said to her,
service, in mortar and in brick, and in all kinds “Take this child away, and nurse him for me,
of service in the field, all their service, in which and I will give you your wages.”
they ruthlessly made them serve. The woman took the child, and nursed it.
1:15 2:10
The king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew The child grew, and she brought him to
midwives, of whom the name of the one was Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son.
Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah, She named him Moses,b and said, “Because I
1:16
and he said, “When you perform the duty of drew him out of the water.”
2:11
a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them It happened in those days, when Moses
on the birth stool; if it is a son, then you shall had grown up, that he went out to his brothers,
kill him; but if it is a daughter, then she shall and looked at their burdens. He saw an
live.” 1:17 But the midwives feared God,a and Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his brothers.
2:12
didn’t do what the king of Egypt commanded He looked this way and that way, and when
them, but saved the baby boys alive. 1:18 The he saw that there was no one, he killed the
king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.
2:13
to them, “Why have you done this thing, and He went out the second day, and behold,
have saved the boys alive?” two men of the Hebrews were fighting with
1:19
The midwives said to Pharaoh, “Because each other. He said to him who did the wrong,
the Hebrew women aren’t like the Egyptian “Why do you strike your fellow?”
a 1:17 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “Elohim.”
b 2:10 “Moses” sounds like the Hebrew for “draw out”.
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2:14 3:5
He said, “Who made you a prince and a He said, “Don’t come close. Take your
judge over us? Do you plan to kill me, as you sandals off of your feet, for the place you are
killed the Egyptian?” standing on is holy ground.” 3:6 Moreover he
Moses was afraid, and said, “Surely this said, “I am the God of your father, the God
thing is known.” 2:15 Now when Pharaoh heard of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of
this thing, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses Jacob.”
fled from the face of Pharaoh, and lived in the Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look
land of Midian, and he sat down by a well. at God.
2:16 3:7
Now the priest of Midian had seven The LORD said, “I have surely seen the
daughters. They came and drew water, and affliction of my people who are in Egypt,
filled the troughs to water their father’s flock. and have heard their cry because of their
2:17
The shepherds came and drove them away; taskmasters, for I know their sorrows. 3:8 I
but Moses stood up and helped them, and have come down to deliver them out of the
watered their flock. 2:18 When they came to hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up
Reuel, their father, he said, “How is it that you out of that land to a good and large land, to
have returned so early today?” a land flowing with milk and honey; to the
2:19
They said, “An Egyptian delivered us place of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite,
out of the hand of the shepherds, and moreover the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
3:9
he drew water for us, and watered the flock.” Now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel
2:20
He said to his daughters, “Where is he? has come to me. Moreover I have seen the
Why is it that you have left the man? Call him, oppression with which the Egyptians oppress
that he may eat bread.” them. 3:10 Come now therefore, and I will send
2:21
Moses was content to dwell with the you to Pharaoh, that you may bring my people,
man. He gave Moses Zipporah, his daughter. the children of Israel, out of Egypt.”
2:22 3:11
She bore a son, and he named him Ger- Moses said to God, “Who am I, that I
shom,c for he said, “I have lived as a foreigner should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring
in a foreign land.” the children of Israel out of Egypt?”
2:23 3:12
It happened in the course of those many He said, “Certainly I will be with you.
days, that the king of Egypt died, and the chil- This will be the token to you, that I have sent
dren of Israel sighed because of the bondage, you: when you have brought the people out of
and they cried, and their cry came up to God Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain.”
because of the bondage. 2:24 God heard their 3:13
Moses said to God, “Behold, when I
groaning, and God remembered his covenant come to the children of Israel, and tell them,
with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you;’
2:25
God saw the children of Israel, and God was and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ What
concerned about them. should I tell them?”
3:1 3:14
Now Moses was keeping the flock of God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM,”
Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he said, “You shall tell the children of Israel
and he led the flock to the back of the wilder- this: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’” 3:15 God
ness, and came to God’s mountain, to Horeb. said moreover to Moses, “You shall tell the
3:2
The angel of the LORDd appeared to him in children of Israel this, ‘The LORD, the God of
a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush. He your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God
looked, and behold, the bush burned with fire, of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me
and the bush was not consumed. 3:3 Moses said, to you.’ This is my name forever, and this is
“I will turn aside now, and see this great sight, my memorial to all generations. 3:16 Go, and
why the bush is not burnt.” gather the elders of Israel together, and tell
3:4
When the LORD saw that he turned aside them, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers, the
to see, God called to him out of the midst of the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has
bush, and said, “Moses! Moses!” appeared to me, saying, “I have surely visited
He said, “Here I am.” you, and seen that which is done to you in
c 2:22 “Gershom” sounds like the Hebrew for “an alien there.”
d 3:2 “LORD” or “GOD” (all capital letters) indicate the 4-letter Holy Name of God
Exodus 3:17 48 Exodus 4:23

Egypt; 3:17 and I have said, I will bring you 4:8


“It will happen, if they will neither believe
up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land you nor listen to the voice of the first sign, that
of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the they will believe the voice of the latter sign. 4:9 It
Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, to a land will happen, if they will not believe even these
flowing with milk and honey.”’ 3:18 They will two signs, neither listen to your voice, that you
listen to your voice, and you shall come, you shall take of the water of the river, and pour it
and the elders of Israel, to the king of Egypt, on the dry land. The water which you take out
and you shall tell him, ‘The LORD, the God of of the river will become blood on the dry land.”
4:10
the Hebrews, has met with us. Now please let Moses said to the LORD, “O Lord,e I am
us go three days’ journey into the wilderness, not eloquent, neither before now, nor since you
that we may sacrifice to the LORD, our God.’ have spoken to your servant; for I am slow of
3:19
I know that the king of Egypt won’t give speech, and of a slow tongue.”
4:11
you permission to go, no, not by a mighty hand. The LORD said to him, “Who made
3:20
I will reach out my hand and strike Egypt man’s mouth? Or who makes one mute, or
with all my wonders which I will do in its deaf, or seeing, or blind? Isn’t it I, the LORD?
midst, and after that he will let you go. 3:21 I 4:12
Now therefore go, and I will be with your
will give this people favor in the sight of the mouth, and teach you what you shall speak.”
Egyptians, and it will happen that when you 4:13
He said, “Oh, Lord, please send someone
go, you shall not go empty-handed. 3:22 But else.”
every woman shall ask of her neighbor, and of 4:14
The anger of the LORD was kindled
her who visits her house, jewels of silver, jewels against Moses, and he said, “What about
of gold, and clothing; and you shall put them Aaron, your brother, the Levite? I know that he
on your sons, and on your daughters. You shall can speak well. Also, behold, he comes out to
plunder the Egyptians.” meet you. When he sees you, he will be glad in
4:1
Moses answered, “But, behold, they will his heart. 4:15 You shall speak to him, and put
not believe me, nor listen to my voice; for they the words in his mouth. I will be with your
will say, ‘The LORD has not appeared to you.’” mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach
4:2
The LORD said to him, “What is that in you what you shall do. 4:16 He will be your
your hand?” spokesman to the people; and it will happen,
He said, “A rod.” that he will be to you a mouth, and you will
4:3
He said, “Throw it on the ground.” be to him as God. 4:17 You shall take this rod in
He threw it on the ground, and it became a your hand, with which you shall do the signs.”
4:18
snake; and Moses ran away from it. Moses went and returned to Jethro his
4:4
The LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out father-in-law, and said to him, “Please let me
your hand, and take it by the tail.” go and return to my brothers who are in Egypt,
He stretched out his hand, and took hold of and see whether they are still alive.”
it, and it became a rod in his hand. Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.”
4:5 4:19
“That they may believe that the LORD, The LORD said to Moses in Midian, “Go,
the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, return into Egypt; for all the men who sought
the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has your life are dead.”
appeared to you.” 4:6 The LORD said further- 4:20
Moses took his wife and his sons, and set
more to him, “Now put your hand inside your them on a donkey, and he returned to the land
cloak.” of Egypt. Moses took God’s rod in his hand.
4:21
He put his hand inside his cloak, and when The LORD said to Moses, “When you go
he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous, as back into Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh
white as snow. all the wonders which I have put in your hand,
4:7
He said, “Put your hand inside your cloak but I will harden his heart and he will not let
again.” the people go. 4:22 You shall tell Pharaoh, ‘Thus
He put his hand inside his cloak again, and says the LORD, Israel is my son, my firstborn,
4:23
when he took it out of his cloak, behold, it had and I have said to you, “Let my son go, that
turned again as his other flesh. he may serve me”; and you have refused to
e 4:10 The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”
Exodus 4:24 49 Exodus 6:2

let him go. Behold, I will kill your son, your fore they cry, saying, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to
firstborn.’” our God.’ 5:9 Let heavier work be laid on the
4:24 men, that they may labor therein; and don’t let
It happened on the way at a lodging
place, that the LORD met Moses and wanted to them pay any attention to lying words.”
kill him. 4:25 Then Zipporah took a flint, and cut 5:10
The taskmasters of the people went out,
off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet; and their officers, and they spoke to the people,
and she said, “Surely you are a bridegroom of saying, “This is what Pharaoh says: ‘I will not
blood to me.” give you straw. 5:11 Go yourselves, get straw
4:26
So he let him alone. Then she said, “You where you can find it, for nothing of your
are a bridegroom of blood,” because of the work shall be diminished.’” 5:12 So the people
circumcision. were scattered abroad throughout all the land
4:27
The LORD said to Aaron, “Go into the of Egypt to gather stubble for straw. 5:13 The
wilderness to meet Moses.” taskmasters were urgent saying, “Fulfill your
He went, and met him on God’s mountain, work quota daily, as when there was straw!”
5:14
and kissed him. 4:28 Moses told Aaron all the The officers of the children of Israel, whom
words of the LORD with which he had sent Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were
him, and all the signs with which he had beaten, and demanded, “Why haven’t you
instructed him. 4:29 Moses and Aaron went and fulfilled your quota both yesterday and today,
gathered together all the elders of the children in making brick as before?”
5:15
of Israel. 4:30 Aaron spoke all the words which Then the officers of the children of Israel
the LORD had spoken to Moses, and did the came and cried to Pharaoh, saying, “Why do
signs in the sight of the people. 4:31 The people you deal this way with your servants? 5:16 No
believed, and when they heard that the LORD straw is given to your servants, and they tell
had visited the children of Israel, and that he us, ‘Make brick!’ and behold, your servants are
had seen their affliction, then they bowed their beaten; but the fault is in your own people.”
5:17
heads and worshiped. But he said, “You are idle! You are idle!
5:1 Therefore you say, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to
Afterward Moses and Aaron came, and
said to Pharaoh, “This is what the LORD, the the LORD.’ 5:18 Go therefore now, and work, for
God of Israel, says, ‘Let my people go, that they no straw shall be given to you, yet you shall
may hold a feast to me in the wilderness.’” deliver the same number of bricks!”
5:2 5:19
Pharaoh said, “Who is the LORD, that I The officers of the children of Israel saw
should listen to his voice to let Israel go? I don’t that they were in trouble, when it was said,
know the LORD, and moreover I will not let “You shall not diminish anything from your
Israel go.” daily quota of bricks!”
5:3 5:20
They said, “The God of the Hebrews has They met Moses and Aaron, who stood
met with us. Please let us go three days’ in the way, as they came out from Pharaoh:
5:21
journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to and they said to them, “May the LORD look
the LORD, our God, lest he fall on us with at you, and judge, because you have made us a
pestilence, or with the sword.” stench to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh,
5:4 and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword
The king of Egypt said to them, “Why
do you, Moses and Aaron, take the people in their hand to kill us.”
5:22
from their work? Get back to your burdens!” Moses returned to the LORD, and said,
5:5 “Lord, why have you brought trouble on this
Pharaoh said, “Behold, the people of the
land are now many, and you make them rest people? Why is it that you have sent me?
5:23
from their burdens.” 5:6 The same day Pharaoh For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in your
commanded the taskmasters of the people, and name, he has brought trouble on this people;
their officers, saying, 5:7 “You shall no longer neither have you delivered your people at all.”
6:1
give the people straw to make brick, as before. The LORD said to Moses, “Now you shall
Let them go and gather straw for themselves. see what I will do to Pharaoh, for by a strong
5:8
The number of the bricks, which they made hand he shall let them go, and by a strong hand
before, you require from them. You shall not he shall drive them out of his land.”
6:2
diminish anything of it, for they are idle; there- God spoke to Moses, and said to him, “I
Exodus 6:3 50 Exodus 7:7

am the LORD; 6:3 and I appeared to Abraham, sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These
to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty; but by are the families of the Levites according to
my name the LORD I was not known to them. their generations. 6:20 Amram took Jochebed
6:4
I have also established my covenant with his father’s sister to himself as wife; and she
them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land bore him Aaron and Moses: and the years of
of their travels, in which they lived as aliens. the life of Amram were a hundred and thirty-
6:5
Moreover I have heard the groaning of the seven years. 6:21 The sons of Izhar: Korah, and
children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in Nepheg, and Zichri. 6:22 The sons of Uzziel:
bondage, and I have remembered my covenant. Mishael, and Elzaphan, and Sithri. 6:23 Aaron
6:6
Therefore tell the children of Israel, ‘I am the took Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab, the
LORD, and I will bring you out from under the sister of Nahshon, as his wife; and she bore
burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
6:24
of their bondage, and I will redeem you with The sons of Korah: Assir, and Elkanah,
an outstretched arm, and with great judgments: and Abiasaph; these are the families of the
6:7
and I will take you to me for a people, and I Korahites. 6:25 Eleazar Aaron’s son took one
will be to you a God; and you shall know that of the daughters of Putiel as his wife; and she
I am the LORD your God, who brings you out bore him Phinehas. These are the heads of
from under the burdens of the Egyptians. 6:8 I the fathers’ houses of the Levites according to
will bring you into the land which I swore to their families. 6:26 These are that Aaron and
give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and Moses, to whom the LORD said, “Bring out
I will give it to you for a heritage: I am the the children of Israel from the land of Egypt
LORD.’” according to their armies.” 6:27 These are those
6:9 who spoke to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring
Moses spoke so to the children of Israel,
but they didn’t listen to Moses for anguish of out the children of Israel from Egypt. These are
spirit, and for cruel bondage. that Moses and Aaron.
6:10 6:28
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, It happened on the day when the LORD
6:11
“Go in, speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt, that spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt, 6:29 that
he let the children of Israel go out of his land.” the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, “I am the
6:12
Moses spoke before the LORD, saying, LORD. Speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt all that
“Behold, the children of Israel haven’t listened I speak to you.”
6:30
to me. How then shall Pharaoh listen to me, Moses said before the LORD, “Behold,
who am of uncircumcised lips?” 6:13 The LORD I am of uncircumcised lips, and how shall
spoke to Moses and to Aaron, and gave them Pharaoh listen to me?”
7:1
a command to the children of Israel, and to The LORD said to Moses, “Behold, I have
Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the children of made you as God to Pharaoh; and Aaron your
Israel out of the land of Egypt. brother shall be your prophet. 7:2 You shall
6:14 speak all that I command you; and Aaron your
These are the heads of their fathers’
houses. The sons of Reuben the firstborn of brother shall speak to Pharaoh, that he let the
Israel: Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi; children of Israel go out of his land. 7:3 I will
these are the families of Reuben. 6:15 The sons harden Pharaoh’s heart, and multiply my signs
of Simeon: Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and my wonders in the land of Egypt. 7:4 But
and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of Pharaoh will not listen to you, and I will lay
a Canaanite woman; these are the families of my hand on Egypt, and bring out my armies,
Simeon. 6:16 These are the names of the sons of my people the children of Israel, out of the land
Levi according to their generations: Gershon, of Egypt by great judgments. 7:5 The Egyptians
and Kohath, and Merari; and the years of shall know that I am the LORD, when I stretch
the life of Levi were one hundred thirty-seven out my hand on Egypt, and bring out the
years. 6:17 The sons of Gershon: Libni and children of Israel from among them.”
Shimei, according to their families. 6:18 The sons 7:6
Moses and Aaron did so. As the LORD
of Kohath: Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, commanded them, so they did. 7:7 Moses was
and Uzziel; and the years of the life of Kohath eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years
were one hundred thirty-three years. 6:19 The old, when they spoke to Pharaoh.
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7:8
The LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, did the same thing with their enchantments;
saying, 7:9 “When Pharaoh speaks to you, say- and Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he
ing, ‘Perform a miracle!’ then you shall tell didn’t listen to them; as the LORD had spoken.
7:23
Aaron, ‘Take your rod, and cast it down before Pharaoh turned and went into his house,
Pharaoh, that it become a serpent.’” and he didn’t even take this to heart. 7:24 All
7:10 the Egyptians dug around the river for water
Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh,
and they did so, as the LORD had commanded: to drink; for they couldn’t drink of the water of
and Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh the river. 7:25 Seven days were fulfilled, after the
and before his servants, and it became a ser- LORD had struck the river.
8:1
pent. 7:11 Then Pharaoh also called for the wise The LORD spoke to Moses, Go in to
men and the sorcerers. They also, the magicians Pharaoh, and tell him, “This is what the LORD
of Egypt, did the same thing with their enchant- says, ‘Let my people go, that they may serve
ments. 7:12 For they each cast down their rods, me. 8:2 If you refuse to let them go, behold, I
and they became serpents: but Aaron’s rod will plague all your borders with frogs: 8:3 and
swallowed up their rods. 7:13 Pharaoh’s heart the river shall swarm with frogs, which shall
was hardened, and he didn’t listen to them; as go up and come into your house, and into
the LORD had spoken. your bedroom, and on your bed, and into the
7:14
The LORD said to Moses, “Pharaoh’s house of your servants, and on your people,
heart is stubborn. He refuses to let the people and into your ovens, and into your kneading
go. 7:15 Go to Pharaoh in the morning. Behold, troughs: 8:4 and the frogs shall come up both
he goes out to the water; and you shall stand on you, and on your people, and on all your
by the river’s bank to meet him; and the rod servants.’” 8:5 The LORD said to Moses, “Tell
which was turned to a serpent you shall take in Aaron, ‘Stretch out your hand with your rod
your hand. 7:16 You shall tell him, ‘The LORD, over the rivers, over the streams, and over the
the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to you, pools, and cause frogs to come up on the land of
saying, “Let my people go, that they may serve Egypt.’” 8:6 Aaron stretched out his hand over
me in the wilderness:” and behold, until now the waters of Egypt; and the frogs came up, and
you haven’t listened. 7:17 Thus says the LORD, covered the land of Egypt. 8:7 The magicians
“In this you shall know that I am the LORD. did the same thing with their enchantments,
Behold, I will strike with the rod that is in my and brought up frogs on the land of Egypt.
8:8
hand on the waters which are in the river, and Then Pharaoh called for Moses and
they shall be turned to blood. 7:18 The fish that Aaron, and said, “Entreat the LORD, that he
are in the river shall die, and the river shall take away the frogs from me, and from my
become foul; and the Egyptians shall loathe to people; and I will let the people go, that they
drink water from the river.”’” 7:19 The LORD may sacrifice to the LORD.”
8:9
said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Take your rod, and Moses said to Pharaoh, “I give you the
stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, honor of setting the time that I should pray
over their rivers, over their streams, and over for you, and for your servants, and for your
their pools, and over all their ponds of water, people, that the frogs be destroyed from you
that they may become blood; and there shall be and your houses, and remain in the river only.”
8:10
blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in He said, “Tomorrow.”
vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.’” He said, “Be it according to your word, that
7:20 you may know that there is none like the LORD
Moses and Aaron did so, as the LORD
commanded; and he lifted up the rod, and our God. 8:11 The frogs shall depart from you,
struck the waters that were in the river, in the and from your houses, and from your servants,
sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his ser- and from your people. They shall remain in the
vants; and all the waters that were in the river river only.”
were turned to blood. 7:21 The fish that were 8:12
Moses and Aaron went out from
in the river died; and the river became foul, Pharaoh, and Moses cried to the LORD
and the Egyptians couldn’t drink water from concerning the frogs which he had brought on
the river; and the blood was throughout all Pharaoh. 8:13 The LORD did according to the
the land of Egypt. 7:22 The magicians of Egypt word of Moses, and the frogs died out of the
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8:28
houses, out of the courts, and out of the fields. Pharaoh said, “I will let you go, that you
8:14
They gathered them together in heaps, and may sacrifice to the LORD your God in the
the land stank. 8:15 But when Pharaoh saw that wilderness, only you shall not go very far away.
there was a respite, he hardened his heart, and Pray for me.”
didn’t listen to them, as the LORD had spoken. 8:29
Moses said, “Behold, I go out from you,
8:16
The LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, and I will pray to the LORD that the swarms
‘Stretch out your rod, and strike the dust of of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his
the earth, that it may become lice throughout servants, and from his people, tomorrow; only
all the land of Egypt.’” 8:17 They did so; and don’t let Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more
Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, in not letting the people go to sacrifice to the
and struck the dust of the earth, and there LORD.” 8:30 Moses went out from Pharaoh, and
were lice on man, and on animal; all the prayed to the LORD. 8:31 The LORD did ac-
dust of the earth became lice throughout all cording to the word of Moses, and he removed
the land of Egypt. 8:18 The magicians tried the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his
with their enchantments to produce lice, but servants, and from his people. There remained
they couldn’t. There were lice on man, and not one. 8:32 Pharaoh hardened his heart this
on animal. 8:19 Then the magicians said to time also, and he didn’t let the people go.
Pharaoh, “This is the finger of God:” and 9:1
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go in to
Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he didn’t Pharaoh, and tell him, ‘This is what the LORD,
listen to them; as the LORD had spoken. the God of the Hebrews, says: “Let my people
8:20
The LORD said to Moses, “Rise up early go, that they may serve me. 9:2 For if you refuse
in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh; to let them go, and hold them still, 9:3 behold,
behold, he comes out to the water; and tell him, the hand of the LORD is on your livestock
‘This is what the LORD says, “Let my people which are in the field, on the horses, on the don-
go, that they may serve me. 8:21 Else, if you keys, on the camels, on the herds, and on the
will not let my people go, behold, I will send flocks with a very grievous pestilence. 9:4 The
swarms of flies on you, and on your servants, LORD will make a distinction between the
and on your people, and into your houses: and livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt;
the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of and nothing shall die of all that belongs to the
swarms of flies, and also the ground whereon children of Israel.”’” 9:5 The LORD appointed a
they are. 8:22 I will set apart in that day the land set time, saying, “Tomorrow the LORD shall do
of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no this thing in the land.” 9:6 The LORD did that
swarms of flies shall be there; to the end you thing on the next day; and all the livestock of
may know that I am the LORD in the midst Egypt died, but of the livestock of the children
of the earth. 8:23 I will put a division between of Israel, not one died. 9:7 Pharaoh sent, and,
my people and your people: by tomorrow shall behold, there was not so much as one of the
this sign be.”’” 8:24 The LORD did so; and there livestock of the Israelites dead. But the heart
came grievous swarms of flies into the house of of Pharaoh was stubborn, and he didn’t let the
Pharaoh, and into his servants’ houses: and in people go.
all the land of Egypt the land was corrupted by 9:8
The LORD said to Moses and to Aaron,
reason of the swarms of flies. “Take to you handfuls of ashes of the furnace,
8:25
Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and let Moses sprinkle it toward the sky in the
and said, “Go, sacrifice to your God in the sight of Pharaoh. 9:9 It shall become small dust
land!” over all the land of Egypt, and shall be a boil
8:26 breaking out with boils on man and on animal,
Moses said, “It isn’t appropriate to do
so; for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the throughout all the land of Egypt.”
9:10
Egyptians to the LORD our God. Behold, shall They took ashes of the furnace, and
we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled
before their eyes, and won’t they stone us? it up toward the sky; and it became a boil
8:27
We will go three days’ journey into the breaking out with boils on man and on animal.
9:11
wilderness, and sacrifice to the LORD our God, The magicians couldn’t stand before Moses
as he shall command us.” because of the boils; for the boils were on the
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magicians, and on all the Egyptians. 9:12 The was no hail.


LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he 9:27
Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and
didn’t listen to them, as the LORD had spoken Aaron, and said to them, “I have sinned this
to Moses. time. The LORD is righteous, and I and my
9:13
The LORD said to Moses, “Rise up early people are wicked. 9:28 Pray to the LORD; for
in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and there has been enough of mighty thunderings
tell him, ‘This is what the LORD, the God of and hail. I will let you go, and you shall stay no
the Hebrews, says: “Let my people go, that longer.”
they may serve me. 9:14 For this time I will 9:29
Moses said to him, “As soon as I have
send all my plagues against your heart, against gone out of the city, I will spread abroad my
your officials, and against your people; that hands to the LORD. The thunders shall cease,
you may know that there is none like me in all neither shall there be any more hail; that you
the earth. 9:15 For now I would have stretched may know that the earth is the LORD’s. 9:30 But
out my hand, and struck you and your people as for you and your servants, I know that you
with pestilence, and you would have been cut don’t yet fear the LORD God.”
off from the earth; 9:16 but indeed for this cause 9:31
The flax and the barley were struck, for
I have made you stand: to show you my power, the barley was in the ear, and the flax was
and that my name may be declared throughout in bloom. 9:32 But the wheat and the spelt
all the earth; 9:17 as you still exalt yourself were not struck, for they had not grown up.
against my people, that you won’t let them 9:33
Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh,
go. 9:18 Behold, tomorrow about this time I will and spread abroad his hands to the LORD; and
cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as has the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was
not been in Egypt since the day it was founded not poured on the earth. 9:34 When Pharaoh
even until now. 9:19 Now therefore command saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders
that all of your livestock and all that you have were ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened
in the field be brought into shelter. Every man his heart, he and his servants. 9:35 The heart
and animal that is found in the field, and isn’t of Pharaoh was hardened, and he didn’t let
brought home, the hail shall come down on the children of Israel go, just as the LORD had
them, and they shall die.”’” spoken through Moses.
9:20 10:1
Those who feared the word of the LORD The LORD said to Moses, “Go in to
among the servants of Pharaoh made their Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart, and the
servants and their livestock flee into the houses. heart of his servants, that I may show these my
9:21
Whoever didn’t respect the word of the signs in their midst, 10:2 and that you may tell in
LORD left his servants and his livestock in the the hearing of your son, and of your son’s son,
field. what things I have done to Egypt, and my signs
9:22
The LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out which I have done among them; that you may
your hand toward the sky, that there may be know that I am the LORD.”
hail in all the land of Egypt, on man, and 10:3
Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh,
on animal, and on every herb of the field, and said to him, “This is what the LORD, the
throughout the land of Egypt.” God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you
9:23
Moses stretched out his rod toward the refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my
heavens, and the LORD sent thunder, hail, and people go, that they may serve me. 10:4 Or
lightning flashed down to the earth. The LORD else, if you refuse to let my people go, behold,
rained hail on the land of Egypt. 9:24 So there tomorrow I will bring locusts into your country,
10:5
was very severe hail, and lightning mixed with and they shall cover the surface of the earth,
the hail, such as had not been in all the land so that one won’t be able to see the earth. They
of Egypt since it became a nation. 9:25 The hail shall eat the residue of that which has escaped,
struck throughout all the land of Egypt all that which remains to you from the hail, and shall
was in the field, both man and animal; and the eat every tree which grows for you out of the
hail struck every herb of the field, and broke field. 10:6 Your houses shall be filled, and the
every tree of the field. 9:26 Only in the land of houses of all your servants, and the houses of
Goshen, where the children of Israel were, there all the Egyptians; as neither your fathers nor
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your fathers’ fathers have seen, since the day borders of Egypt. 10:20 But the LORD hardened
that they were on the earth to this day.’” He Pharaoh’s heart, and he didn’t let the children
turned, and went out from Pharaoh. of Israel go.
10:7 10:21
Pharaoh’s servants said to him, “How The LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out
long will this man be a snare to us? Let the men your hand toward the sky, that there may be
go, that they may serve the LORD, their God. darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness
Don’t you yet know that Egypt is destroyed?” which may be felt.” 10:22 Moses stretched out
10:8 his hand toward the sky, and there was a
Moses and Aaron were brought again to
Pharaoh, and he said to them, “Go, serve the thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three
LORD your God; but who are those who will days. 10:23 They didn’t see one another, neither
go?” did anyone rise from his place for three days;
10:9 but all the children of Israel had light in their
Moses said, “We will go with our young
and with our old; with our sons and with our dwellings.
10:24
daughters, with our flocks and with our herds Pharaoh called to Moses, and said, “Go,
will we go; for we must hold a feast to the serve the LORD. Only let your flocks and your
LORD.” herds stay behind. Let your little ones also go
10:10 with you.”
He said to them, “The LORD be with
10:25
you if I will let you go with your little ones! See, Moses said, “You must also give into
evil is clearly before your faces. 10:11 Not so! Go our hand sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we
now you who are men, and serve the LORD; for may sacrifice to the LORD our God. 10:26 Our
that is what you desire!” They were driven out livestock also shall go with us. Not a hoof shall
from Pharaoh’s presence. be left behind, for of it we must take to serve
10:12
The LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out the LORD our God; and we don’t know with
your hand over the land of Egypt for the what we must serve the LORD, until we come
locusts, that they may come up on the land of there.”
10:27
Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s
that the hail has left.” 10:13 Moses stretched out heart, and he wouldn’t let them go.
10:28
his rod over the land of Egypt, and the LORD Pharaoh said to him, “Get away from me!
brought an east wind on the land all that day, Be careful to see my face no more; for in the
and all the night; and when it was morning, day you see my face you shall die!”
10:29
the east wind brought the locusts. 10:14 The Moses said, “You have spoken well. I
locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, will see your face again no more.”
11:1
and rested in all the borders of Egypt. They The LORD said to Moses, “Yet one
were very grievous. Before them there were plague more will I bring on Pharaoh, and on
no such locusts as they, neither after them shall Egypt; afterwards he will let you go. When
be such. 10:15 For they covered the surface of he lets you go, he will surely thrust you out
the whole earth, so that the land was darkened, altogether. 11:2 Speak now in the ears of the
and they ate every herb of the land, and all people, and let them ask every man of his
the fruit of the trees which the hail had left. neighbor, and every woman of her neighbor,
There remained nothing green, either tree or jewels of silver, and jewels of gold.” 11:3 The
herb of the field, through all the land of Egypt. LORD gave the people favor in the sight of
10:16
Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron the Egyptians. Moreover the man Moses was
in haste, and he said, “I have sinned against the very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight
LORD your God, and against you. 10:17 Now of Pharaoh’s servants, and in the sight of the
therefore please forgive my sin again, and pray people.
to the LORD your God, that he may also take 11:4
Moses said, “This is what the LORD says:
away from me this death.” ‘About midnight I will go out into the midst of
10:18
He went out from Pharaoh, and prayed Egypt, 11:5 and all the firstborn in the land of
to the LORD. 10:19 The LORD turned an ex- Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh
ceeding strong west wind, which took up who sits on his throne, even to the firstborn of
the locusts, and drove them into the Sea of the female servant who is behind the mill; and
Suf. There remained not one locust in all the all the firstborn of livestock. 11:6 There shall be a
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great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such I will go through the land of Egypt in that
as there has not been, nor shall be any more. night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land
11:7
But against any of the children of Israel of Egypt, both man and animal. Against all
a dog won’t even bark or move its tongue, the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I
against man or animal; that you may know am the LORD. 12:13 The blood shall be to you
that the LORD makes a distinction between for a token on the houses where you are: and
the Egyptians and Israel. 11:8 All these your when I see the blood, I will pass over you,
servants shall come down to me, and bow and there shall no plague be on you to destroy
down themselves to me, saying, “Get out, with you, when I strike the land of Egypt. 12:14 This
all the people who follow you”; and after that I day shall be to you for a memorial, and you
will go out.’” He went out from Pharaoh in hot shall keep it a feast to the LORD: throughout
anger. your generations you shall keep it a feast by an
11:9
The LORD said to Moses, “Pharaoh ordinance forever.
12:15
won’t listen to you, that my wonders may be “‘Seven days you shall eat unleavened
multiplied in the land of Egypt.” 11:10 Moses bread; even the first day you shall put away
and Aaron did all these wonders before yeast out of your houses, for whoever eats
Pharaoh, and the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s leavened bread from the first day until the
heart, and he didn’t let the children of Israel go seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from
out of his land. Israel. 12:16 In the first day there shall be to you a
12:1
The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron in holy convocation, and in the seventh day a holy
the land of Egypt, saying, 12:2 “This month shall convocation; no kind of work shall be done in
be to you the beginning of months. It shall be them, except that which every man must eat,
the first month of the year to you. 12:3 Speak that only may be done by you. 12:17 You shall
to all the congregation of Israel, saying, ‘On observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in
the tenth day of this month, they shall take this same day have I brought your armies out of
to them every man a lamb, according to their the land of Egypt: therefore you shall observe
fathers’ houses, a lamb for a household; 12:4 and this day throughout your generations by an
if the household is too little for a lamb, then ordinance forever. 12:18 In the first month, on
he and his neighbor next to his house shall the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you
take one according to the number of the souls; shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty
according to what everyone can eat you shall first day of the month at evening. 12:19 There
make your count for the lamb. 12:5 Your lamb shall be no yeast found in your houses for seven
shall be without blemish, a male a year old. days, for whoever eats that which is leavened,
You shall take it from the sheep, or from that soul shall be cut off from the congregation
the goats: 12:6 and you shall keep it until the of Israel, whether he be a foreigner, or one who
fourteenth day of the same month; and the is born in the land. 12:20 You shall eat nothing
whole assembly of the congregation of Israel leavened. In all your habitations you shall eat
shall kill it at evening. 12:7 They shall take some unleavened bread.’”
12:21
of the blood, and put it on the two doorposts Then Moses called for all the elders of
and on the lintel, on the houses in which they Israel, and said to them, “Draw out, and take
shall eat it. 12:8 They shall eat the flesh in that lambs according to your families, and kill the
night, roasted with fire, and unleavened bread. Passover. 12:22 You shall take a bunch of hyssop,
They shall eat it with bitter herbs. 12:9 Don’t eat and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and
it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted strike the lintel and the two doorposts with the
with fire; with its head, its legs and its inner blood that is in the basin; and none of you
parts. 12:10 You shall let nothing of it remain shall go out of the door of his house until the
until the morning; but that which remains of morning. 12:23 For the LORD will pass through
it until the morning you shall burn with fire. to strike the Egyptians; and when he sees the
12:11
This is how you shall eat it: with your belt blood on the lintel, and on the two doorposts,
on your waist, your shoes on your feet, and the LORD will pass over the door, and will not
your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it allow the destroyer to come in to your houses to
in haste: it is the LORD’s Passover. 12:12 For strike you. 12:24 You shall observe this thing for
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an ordinance to you and to your sons forever. lived in Egypt was four hundred thirty years.
12:25 12:41
It shall happen when you have come to the It happened at the end of four hundred
land which the LORD will give you, according thirty years, even the same day it happened,
as he has promised, that you shall keep this that all the armies of the LORD went out from
service. 12:26 It will happen, when your children the land of Egypt. 12:42 It is a night to be much
ask you, ‘What do you mean by this service?’ observed to the LORD for bringing them out
12:27
that you shall say, ‘It is the sacrifice of the from the land of Egypt. This is that night of the
LORD’s Passover, who passed over the houses LORD, to be much observed of all the children
of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he of Israel throughout their generations.
struck the Egyptians, and spared our houses.’” 12:43
The LORD said to Moses and Aaron,
The people bowed their heads and wor- “This is the ordinance of the Passover. No
shiped. 12:28 The children of Israel went and did foreigner shall eat of it, 12:44 but every man’s
so; as the LORD had commanded Moses and servant who is bought for money, when you
Aaron, so they did. have circumcised him, then shall he eat of it.
12:29 12:45
It happened at midnight, that the LORD A foreigner and a hired servant shall not
struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, eat of it. 12:46 In one house shall it be eaten; you
from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his shall not carry out anything of the flesh abroad
throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in out of the house; neither shall you break a bone
the dungeon; and all the firstborn of livestock. of it. 12:47 All the congregation of Israel shall
12:30
Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all keep it. 12:48 When a stranger shall live as a
his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there foreigner with you, and will keep the Passover
was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised,
house where there was not one dead. 12:31 He and then let him come near and keep it; and he
called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, shall be as one who is born in the land: but no
“Rise up, get out from among my people, both uncircumcised person shall eat of it. 12:49 One
you and the children of Israel; and go, serve the law shall be to him who is born at home, and
LORD, as you have said! 12:32 Take both your to the stranger who lives as a foreigner among
flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be you.” 12:50 All the children of Israel did so. As
gone; and bless me also!” the LORD commanded Moses and Aaron, so
12:33
The Egyptians were urgent with the they did. 12:51 It happened the same day, that
people, to send them out of the land in haste, the LORD brought the children of Israel out of
for they said, “We are all dead men.” 12:34 The the land of Egypt by their armies.
13:1
people took their dough before it was leavened, The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
13:2
their kneading troughs being bound up in their “Sanctify to me all of the firstborn, whatever
clothes on their shoulders. 12:35 The children opens the womb among the children of Israel,
of Israel did according to the word of Moses; both of man and of animal. It is mine.”
and they asked of the Egyptians jewels of silver, 13:3
Moses said to the people, “Remember
and jewels of gold, and clothing. 12:36 The this day, in which you came out from Egypt,
LORD gave the people favor in the sight of the out of the house of bondage; for by strength
Egyptians, so that they let them have what they of hand the LORD brought you out from this
asked. They despoiled the Egyptians. place. No leavened bread shall be eaten.
12:37 13:4
The children of Israel traveled from This day you go out in the month Abib.
13:5
Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thou- It shall be, when the LORD shall bring
sand on foot who were men, besides children. you into the land of the Canaanite, and the
12:38
A mixed multitude went up also with Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Hivite, and
them, with flocks, herds, and even very much the Jebusite, which he swore to your fathers to
livestock. 12:39 They baked unleavened cakes of give you, a land flowing with milk and honey,
the dough which they brought out of Egypt; that you shall keep this service in this month.
13:6
for it wasn’t leavened, because they were Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread,
thrust out of Egypt, and couldn’t wait, neither and in the seventh day shall be a feast to the
had they prepared for themselves any food. LORD. 13:7 Unleavened bread shall be eaten
12:40
Now the time that the children of Israel throughout the seven days; and no leavened
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bread shall be seen with you, neither shall them by day in a pillar of cloud, to lead them
yeast be seen with you, in all your borders. on their way, and by night in a pillar of fire, to
13:8
You shall tell your son in that day, saying, give them light, that they might go by day and
‘It is because of that which the LORD did for by night: 13:22 the pillar of cloud by day, and the
me when I came out of Egypt.’ 13:9 It shall pillar of fire by night, didn’t depart from before
be for a sign to you on your hand, and for a the people.
memorial between your eyes, that the law of 14:1
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
the LORD may be in your mouth; for with a 14:2
“Speak to the children of Israel, that they
strong hand the LORD has brought you out turn back and encamp before Pihahiroth, be-
of Egypt. 13:10 You shall therefore keep this tween Migdol and the sea, before Baal Zephon.
ordinance in its season from year to year. You shall encamp opposite it by the sea.
13:11 14:3
“It shall be, when the LORD shall bring Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel,
you into the land of the Canaanite, as he swore ‘They are entangled in the land. The wilderness
to you and to your fathers, and shall give it has shut them in.’ 14:4 I will harden Pharaoh’s
you, 13:12 that you shall set apart to the LORD heart, and he will follow after them; and I will
all that opens the womb, and every firstborn get honor over Pharaoh, and over all his armies;
which you have that comes from an animal. and the Egyptians shall know that I am the
The males shall be the LORD’s. 13:13 Every LORD.” They did so.
14:5
firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a It was told the king of Egypt that the
lamb; and if you will not redeem it, then you people had fled; and the heart of Pharaoh
shall break its neck; and you shall redeem all and of his servants was changed towards the
the firstborn of man among your sons. 13:14 It people, and they said, “What is this we have
shall be, when your son asks you in time to done, that we have let Israel go from serving
come, saying, ‘What is this?’ that you shall tell us?” 14:6 He prepared his chariot, and took his
him, ‘By strength of hand the LORD brought army with him; 14:7 and he took six hundred
us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage; chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt,
13:15
and it happened, when Pharaoh would and captains over all of them. 14:8 The LORD
hardly let us go, that the LORD killed all the hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt,
firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn and he pursued after the children of Israel; for
of man, and the firstborn of animal. Therefore I the children of Israel went out with a high
sacrifice to the LORD all that opens the womb, hand. 14:9 The Egyptians pursued after them:
being males; but all the firstborn of my sons all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, his
I redeem.’ 13:16 It shall be for a sign on your horsemen, and his army; and overtook them
hand, and for symbols between your eyes: for encamping by the sea, beside Pihahiroth, before
by strength of hand the LORD brought us out Baal Zephon.
of Egypt.” 14:10
When Pharaoh drew near, the children
13:17 of Israel lifted up their eyes, and behold, the
It happened, when Pharaoh had let the
people go, that God didn’t lead them by the Egyptians were marching after them; and they
way of the land of the Philistines, although were very afraid. The children of Israel cried
that was near; for God said, “Lest perhaps out to the LORD. 14:11 They said to Moses,
the people change their minds when they see “Because there were no graves in Egypt, have
war, and they return to Egypt”; 13:18 but God you taken us away to die in the wilderness?
led the people around by the way of the Why have you treated us this way, to bring us
wilderness by the Sea of Suf; and the children out of Egypt? 14:12 Isn’t this the word that we
of Israel went up armed out of the land of spoke to you in Egypt, saying, ‘Leave us alone,
Egypt. 13:19 Moses took the bones of Joseph that we may serve the Egyptians?’ For it were
with him, for he had made the children of Israel better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that
swear, saying, “God will surely visit you, and we should die in the wilderness.”
14:13
you shall carry up my bones away from here Moses said to the people, “Don’t be
with you.” 13:20 They took their journey from afraid. Stand still, and see the salvation of the
Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the edge LORD, which he will work for you today: for
of the wilderness. 13:21 The LORD went before the Egyptians whom you have seen today, you
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shall never see them again. 14:14 The LORD will remained not so much as one of them. 14:29 But
fight for you, and you shall be still.” the children of Israel walked on dry land in the
14:15 midst of the sea, and the waters were a wall
The LORD said to Moses, “Why do
you cry to me? Speak to the children of to them on their right hand, and on their left.
14:30
Israel, that they go forward. 14:16 Lift up your Thus the LORD saved Israel that day out
rod, and stretch out your hand over the sea, of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw
and divide it: and the children of Israel shall the Egyptians dead on the seashore. 14:31 Israel
go into the midst of the sea on dry ground. saw the great work which the LORD did to the
14:17 Egyptians, and the people feared the LORD;
I, behold, I will harden the hearts of the
Egyptians, and they shall go in after them: and and they believed in the LORD, and in his
I will get myself honor over Pharaoh, and over servant Moses.
15:1
all his armies, over his chariots, and over his Then Moses and the children of Israel
horsemen. 14:18 The Egyptians shall know that sang this song to the LORD, and said,
I am the LORD, when I have gotten myself “I will sing to the LORD, for he has triumphed
honor over Pharaoh, over his chariots, and gloriously.
over his horsemen.” 14:19 The angel of God, The horse and his rider he has thrown
who went before the camp of Israel, moved into the sea.
15:2
and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud The LORD is my strength and song.
moved from before them, and stood behind He has become my salvation [yeshu‘ah].
them. 14:20 It came between the camp of Egypt This is my God, and I will praise him;
and the camp of Israel; and there was the cloud my father’s God, and I will exalt him.
15:3
and the darkness, yet gave it light by night: and The LORD is a man of war.
the one didn’t come near the other all the night. The LORD is his name.
14:21 15:4
Moses stretched out his hand over the He has cast Pharaoh’s chariots and his army
sea, and the LORD caused the sea to go back into the sea.
by a strong east wind all the night, and made His chosen captains are sunk in the Sea of
the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. Suf.
14:22 15:5
The children of Israel went into the midst The deeps cover them.
of the sea on the dry ground, and the waters They went down into the depths like a
were a wall to them on their right hand, and stone.
15:6
on their left. 14:23 The Egyptians pursued, and Your right hand, LORD, is glorious in
went in after them into the midst of the sea: power.
all of Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots, and his Your right hand, LORD, dashes the en-
horsemen. 14:24 It happened in the morning emy in pieces.
15:7
watch, that the LORD looked out on the Egyp- In the greatness of your excellency, you
tian army through the pillar of fire and of cloud, overthrow those who rise up against
and confused the Egyptian army. 14:25 He took you.
off their chariot wheels, and they drove them You send forth your wrath. It consumes
heavily; so that the Egyptians said, “Let’s flee them as stubble.
15:8
from the face of Israel, for the LORD fights for With the blast of your nostrils, the waters
them against the Egyptians!” were piled up.
14:26 The floods stood upright as a heap.
The LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out
your hand over the sea, that the waters may The deeps were congealed in the heart of
come again on the Egyptians, on their chariots, the sea.
15:9
and on their horsemen.” 14:27 Moses stretched The enemy said, ‘I will pursue. I will
out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned overtake. I will divide the spoil.
to its strength when the morning appeared; My desire shall be satisfied on them.
and the Egyptians fled against it. The LORD I will draw my sword, my hand shall
overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the destroy them.’
15:10
sea. 14:28 The waters returned, and covered the You blew with your wind.
chariots and the horsemen, even all Pharaoh’s The sea covered them.
army that went in after them into the sea. There They sank like lead in the mighty waters.
Exodus 15:11 59 Exodus 16:8

15:11
Who is like you, LORD, among the gods? name was called Marah.f 15:24 The people mur-
Who is like you, glorious in holiness, mured against Moses, saying, “What shall we
fearful in praises, doing wonders? drink?” 15:25 Then he cried to the LORD. The
15:12
You stretched out your right hand. LORD showed him a tree, and he threw it into
The earth swallowed them. the waters, and the waters were made sweet.
15:13
“You, in your loving kindness, have led the There he made a statute and an ordinance for
people that you have redeemed. them, and there he tested them; 15:26 and he
You have guided them in your strength to said, “If you will diligently listen to the voice
your holy habitation. of the LORD your God, and will do that which
15:14
The peoples have heard. is right in his eyes, and will pay attention to his
They tremble. commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will
Pangs have taken hold on the inhabitants put none of the diseases on you, which I have
of Philistia. put on the Egyptians; for I am the LORD who
15:15
Then the chiefs of Edom were dismayed. heals you.”
15:27
Trembling takes hold of the mighty men They came to Elim, where there were
of Moab. twelve springs of water, and seventy palm
All the inhabitants of Canaan are melted trees: and they encamped there by the waters.
16:1
away. They took their journey from Elim, and
15:16
Terror and dread falls on them. all the congregation of the children of Israel
By the greatness of your arm they are as came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between
still as a stone— Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the
until your people pass over, LORD, second month after their departing out of the
until the people pass over who you have land of Egypt. 16:2 The whole congregation of
purchased. the children of Israel murmured against Moses
15:17
You shall bring them in, and plant and against Aaron in the wilderness; 16:3 and
them in the mountain of your inheri- the children of Israel said to them, “We wish
tance, that we had died by the hand of the LORD in
the place, LORD, which you have made the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat
for yourself to dwell in; pots, when we ate our fill of bread, for you have
the sanctuary, Lord, which your hands brought us out into this wilderness, to kill this
have established. whole assembly with hunger.”
15:18 16:4
The LORD shall reign forever and ever.” Then the LORD said to Moses, “Behold,
15:19
For the horses of Pharaoh went in with I will rain bread from the sky for you, and the
his chariots and with his horsemen into the people shall go out and gather a day’s portion
sea, and the LORD brought back the waters every day, that I may test them, whether they
of the sea on them; but the children of Israel will walk in my law, or not. 16:5 It shall come
walked on dry land in the midst of the sea. to pass on the sixth day, that they shall prepare
15:20
Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, that which they bring in, and it shall be twice
took a tambourine in her hand; and all the as much as they gather daily.”
16:6
women went out after her with tambourines Moses and Aaron said to all the children
and with dances. 15:21 Miriam answered them, of Israel, “At evening, then you shall know that
“Sing to the LORD, for he has triumphed the LORD has brought you out from the land of
gloriously. Egypt; 16:7 and in the morning, then you shall
The horse and his rider he has thrown into the see the glory of the LORD; because he hears
sea.” your murmurings against the LORD. Who are
15:22
Moses led Israel onward from the Sea of we, that you murmur against us?” 16:8 Moses
Suf, and they went out into the wilderness of said, “Now the LORD shall give you meat to
Shur; and they went three days in the wilder- eat in the evening, and in the morning bread
ness, and found no water. 15:23 When they came to satisfy you; because the LORD hears your
to Marah, they couldn’t drink from the waters murmurings which you murmur against him.
of Marah, for they were bitter. Therefore its And who are we? Your murmurings are not
f 15:23 Marah means bitter.
Exodus 16:9 60 Exodus 17:3

against us, but against the LORD.” 16:9 Moses that which you want to boil; and all that
said to Aaron, “Tell all the congregation of remains over lay up for yourselves to be kept
the children of Israel, ‘Come near before the until the morning.’” 16:24 They laid it up until
LORD, for he has heard your murmurings.’” the morning, as Moses asked, and it didn’t
16:10
It happened, as Aaron spoke to the whole become foul, neither was there any worm in
congregation of the children of Israel, that they it. 16:25 Moses said, “Eat that today, for today
looked toward the wilderness, and behold, the is a Sabbath to the LORD. Today you shall not
glory of the LORD appeared in the cloud. find it in the field. 16:26 Six days you shall gather
16:11
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 16:12 “I it, but on the seventh day is the Sabbath. In it
have heard the murmurings of the children of there shall be none.” 16:27 It happened on the
Israel. Speak to them, saying, ‘At evening you seventh day, that some of the people went out
shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be to gather, and they found none. 16:28 The LORD
filled with bread: and you shall know that I am said to Moses, “How long do you refuse to keep
the LORD your God.’” my commandments and my laws? 16:29 Behold,
16:13 because the LORD has given you the Sabbath,
It happened at evening that quail came
therefore he gives you on the sixth day the
up and covered the camp; and in the morning
bread of two days. Everyone stay in his place.
the dew lay around the camp. 16:14 When the
Let no one go out of his place on the seventh
dew that lay had gone, behold, on the surface of
day.” 16:30 So the people rested on the seventh
the wilderness was a small round thing, small
day.
as the frost on the ground. 16:15 When the chil- 16:31
dren of Israel saw it, they said one to another, The house of Israel called its name
“What is it?” For they didn’t know what it Manna,h and it was like coriander seed, white;
was. Moses said to them, “It is the bread which and its taste was like wafers with honey.
16:32
the LORD has given you to eat.” 16:16 This is Moses said, “This is the thing which the
the thing which the LORD has commanded: LORD has commanded, ‘Let an omer-full of
“Gather of it everyone according to his eating; it be kept throughout your generations, that
an omerg a head, according to the number of they may see the bread with which I fed you
your persons, you shall take it, every man for in the wilderness, when I brought you forth
those who are in his tent.” 16:17 The children of from the land of Egypt.’” 16:33 Moses said to
Israel did so, and gathered some more, some Aaron, “Take a pot, and put an omer-full of
less. 16:18 When they measured it with an omer, manna in it, and lay it up before the LORD, to
he who gathered much had nothing over, and be kept throughout your generations.” 16:34 As
he who gathered little had no lack. They the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it
gathered every man according to his eating. up before the Testimony, to be kept. 16:35 The
16:19
Moses said to them, “Let no one leave of it children of Israel ate the manna forty years,
until the morning.” 16:20 Notwithstanding they until they came to an inhabited land. They ate
didn’t listen to Moses, but some of them left of the manna until they came to the borders of the
it until the morning, and it bred worms, and land of Canaan. 16:36 Now an omer is the tenth
became foul: and Moses was angry with them. part of an efah.i
16:21 17:1
They gathered it morning by morning, All the congregation of the children of
everyone according to his eating. When the Israel traveled from the wilderness of Sin,
sun grew hot, it melted. 16:22 It happened by their journeys, according to the LORD’s
that on the sixth day they gathered twice as commandment, and encamped in Rephidim;
much bread, two omers for each one, and all but there was no water for the people to drink.
17:2
the rulers of the congregation came and told Therefore the people quarreled with Moses,
Moses. 16:23 He said to them, “This is that and said, “Give us water to drink.”
which the LORD has spoken, ‘Tomorrow is Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel
a solemn rest, a holy Sabbath to the LORD. with me? Why do you test the LORD?”
17:3
Bake that which you want to bake, and boil The people were thirsty for water there;
g 16:16 An omer is about 2.2 litres or about 2.3 quarts
h 16:31 “Manna” means “What is it?”
i 16:36 1 efah is about 22 litres or about 2/3 of a bushel
Exodus 17:4 61 Exodus 18:15

and the people murmured against Moses, and the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt.
18:2
said, “Why have you brought us up out of Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, received Zip-
Egypt, to kill us, our children, and our livestock porah, Moses’ wife, after he had sent her away,
18:3
with thirst?” and her two sons. The name of one son
17:4
Moses cried to the LORD, saying, “What was Gershom,m for Moses said, “I have lived
shall I do with these people? They are almost as a foreigner in a foreign land”. 18:4 The
ready to stone me.” name of the other was Eliezer,n for he said,
17:5
The LORD said to Moses, “Walk on “My father’s God was my help and delivered
before the people, and take the elders of Israel me from Pharaoh’s sword.” 18:5 Jethro, Moses’
with you, and take the rod in your hand with father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife
which you struck the Nile, and go. 17:6 Behold, to Moses into the wilderness where he was
I will stand before you there on the rock in encamped, at the Mountain of God. 18:6 He said
Horeb. You shall strike the rock, and water to Moses, “I, your father-in-law Jethro, have
will come out of it, that the people may drink.” come to you with your wife, and her two sons
Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel. with her.”
17:7 18:7
He called the name of the place Massah,j Moses went out to meet his father-in-law,
and Meribah,k because the children of Israel and bowed and kissed him. They asked each
quarreled, and because they tested the LORD, other of their welfare, and they came into the
saying, “Is the LORD among us, or not?” tent. 18:8 Moses told his father-in-law all that
17:8
Then Amalek came and fought with the LORD had done to Pharaoh and to the
Israel in Rephidim. 17:9 Moses said to Joshua, Egyptians for Israel’s sake, all the hardships
“Choose men for us, and go out, fight with that had come on them on the way, and how
Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the LORD delivered them. 18:9 Jethro rejoiced
the hill with God’s rod in my hand.” 17:10 So for all the goodness which the LORD had done
Joshua did as Moses had told him, and fought to Israel, in that he had delivered them out
with Amalek; and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went of the hand of the Egyptians. 18:10 Jethro said,
up to the top of the hill. 17:11 It happened, “Blessed be the LORD, who has delivered you
when Moses held up his hand, that Israel out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of
prevailed; and when he let down his hand, the hand of Pharaoh; who has delivered the
Amalek prevailed. 17:12 But Moses’ hands were people from under the hand of the Egyptians.
18:11
heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under Now I know that the LORD is greater than
him, and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur held all gods because of the thing in which they
up his hands, the one on the one side, and the dealt arrogantly against them.” 18:12 Jethro,
other on the other side. His hands were steady Moses’ father-in-law, took a burnt offering and
until sunset. 17:13 Joshua defeated Amalek and sacrifices for God. Aaron came with all of the
his people with the edge of the sword. 17:14 The elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses’ father-
LORD said to Moses, “Write this for a memorial in-law before God.
18:13
in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: It happened on the next day, that Moses
that I will utterly blot out the memory of sat to judge the people, and the people stood
Amalek from under the sky.” 17:15 Moses built around Moses from the morning to the evening.
18:14
an altar, and called its name the LORD our When Moses’ father-in-law saw all that he
Banner.l 17:16 He said, “The LORD has sworn: did to the people, he said, “What is this thing
‘The LORD will have war with Amalek from that you do for the people? Why do you sit
generation to generation.’” alone, and all the people stand around you
18:1 from morning to evening?”
Now Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses’
18:15
father-in-law, heard of all that God had done Moses said to his father-in-law, “Be-
for Moses, and for Israel his people, how that cause the people come to me to inquire of God.
j 17:7 Massah means testing.
k 17:7 Meribah means quarreling.
l 17:15 Hebrew, the LORD Nissi
m 18:3 “Gershom” sounds like the Hebrew for “an alien there.”
n 18:4 Eliezer means “God is my helper.”
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18:16
When they have a matter, they come to me, on eagles’ wings, and brought you to myself.
19:5
and I judge between a man and his neighbor, Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my
and I make them know the statutes of God, voice, and keep my covenant, then you shall
and his laws.” 18:17 Moses’ father-in-law said be my own possession from among all peoples;
to him, “The thing that you do is not good. for all the earth is mine; 19:6 and you shall be
18:18
You will surely wear away, both you, and to me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation.’
this people that is with you; for the thing is too These are the words which you shall speak to
heavy for you. You are not able to perform it the children of Israel.”
yourself alone. 18:19 Listen now to my voice. I 19:7
Moses came and called for the elders of
will give you counsel, and God be with you. the people, and set before them all these words
You represent the people before God, and bring which the LORD commanded him. 19:8 All the
the causes to God. 18:20 You shall teach them the people answered together, and said, “All that
statutes and the laws, and shall show them the the LORD has spoken we will do.”
way in which they must walk, and the work Moses reported the words of the people
that they must do. 18:21 Moreover you shall to the LORD. 19:9 The LORD said to Moses,
provide out of all the people able men, such as “Behold, I come to you in a thick cloud, that
fear God: men of truth, hating unjust gain; and the people may hear when I speak with you,
place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and may also believe you forever.” Moses
rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers told the words of the people to the LORD.
of tens. 18:22 Let them judge the people at all 19:10
The LORD said to Moses, “Go to the
times. It shall be that every great matter they people, and sanctify them today and tomorrow,
shall bring to you, but every small matter they and let them wash their garments, 19:11 and be
shall judge themselves. So shall it be easier ready against the third day; for on the third
for you, and they shall share the load with day the LORD will come down in the sight
you. 18:23 If you will do this thing, and God of all the people on Mount Sinai. 19:12 You
commands you so, then you will be able to shall set bounds to the people all around,
endure, and all of these people also will go to saying, ‘Be careful that you don’t go up onto
their place in peace.” the mountain, or touch its border. Whoever
18:24
So Moses listened to the voice of his touches the mountain shall be surely put to
father-in-law, and did all that he had said. death. 19:13 No hand shall touch him, but he
18:25
Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and shall surely be stoned or shot through; whether
made them heads over the people, rulers of it is animal or man, he shall not live.’ When the
thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, shofaro sounds long, they shall come up to the
and rulers of tens. 18:26 They judged the people mountain.”
at all times. They brought the hard causes 19:14
Moses went down from the mountain
to Moses, but every small matter they judged to the people, and sanctified the people; and
themselves. 18:27 Moses let his father-in-law they washed their clothes. 19:15 He said to the
depart, and he went his way into his own land. people, “Be ready by the third day. Don’t have
19:1 sexual relations with a woman.”
In the third month after the children of
19:16
Israel had gone out of the land of Egypt, on It happened on the third day, when it
that same day they came into the wilderness was morning, that there were thunders and
of Sinai. 19:2 When they had departed from lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain,
Rephidim, and had come to the wilderness of and the sound of an exceedingly loud shofarp ;
Sinai, they encamped in the wilderness; and and all the people who were in the camp
there Israel encamped before the mountain. trembled. 19:17 Moses led the people out of
19:3
Moses went up to God, and the LORD the camp to meet God; and they stood at the
called to him out of the mountain, saying, “This lower part of the mountain. 19:18 Mount Sinai,
is what you shall tell the house of Jacob, and all it, smoked, because the LORD descended
tell the children of Israel: 19:4 ‘You have seen on it in fire; and its smoke ascended like the
what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain
o 19:13 or, trumpet
p 19:16 or, trumpet
Exodus 19:19 63 Exodus 21:1

quaked greatly. 19:19 When the sound of the servant, nor your livestock, nor your stranger
shofarq grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, who is within your gates; 20:11 for in six days
and God answered him by a voice. 19:20 The the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and
LORD came down on Mount Sinai, to the top all that is in them, and rested the seventh day;
of the mountain. The LORD called Moses to therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day,
the top of the mountain, and Moses went up. and made it holy.
19:21 20:12
The LORD said to Moses, “Go down, “Honor your father and your mother,
warn the people, lest they break through to that your days may be long in the land which
the LORD to gaze, and many of them perish. the LORD your God gives you.
19:22 20:13
Let the priests also, who come near to “You shall not murder.
the LORD, sanctify themselves, lest the LORD 20:14
“You shall not commit adultery.
break forth on them.” 20:15
“You shall not steal.
19:23 20:16
Moses said to the LORD, “The people “You shall not give false testimony
can’t come up to Mount Sinai, for you warned against your neighbor.
us, saying, ‘Set bounds around the mountain, 20:17
“You shall not covet your neighbor’s
and sanctify it.’” house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s
19:24
The LORD said to him, “Go down and wife, nor his male servant, nor his female ser-
you shall bring Aaron up with you, but don’t vant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything
let the priests and the people break through to that is your neighbor’s.”
come up to the LORD, lest he break forth on 20:18
All the people perceived the thunder-
them.” ings, the lightnings, the sound of the shofars ,
19:25
So Moses went down to the people, and and the mountain smoking. When the people
told them. saw it, they trembled, and stayed at a distance.
20:1
Godr spoke all these words, saying, 20:2 “I 20:19
They said to Moses, “Speak with us your-
am the LORD your God, who brought you self, and we will listen; but don’t let God speak
out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of with us, lest we die.”
bondage. 20:20
Moses said to the people, “Don’t be
20:3
“You shall have no other gods before me. afraid, for God has come to test you, and that
20:4
“You shall not make for yourselves an his fear may be before you, that you won’t sin.”
20:21
idol, nor any image of anything that is in The people stayed at a distance, and Moses
the heavens above, or that is in the earth drew near to the thick darkness where God
beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: was.
20:5 20:22
you shall not bow yourself down to them, The LORD said to Moses, “This is what
nor serve them, for I, the LORD your God, you shall tell the children of Israel: ‘You your-
am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the selves have seen that I have talked with you
fathers on the children, on the third and on the from heaven. 20:23 You shall most certainly not
fourth generation of those who hate me, 20:6 and make alongside of me gods of silver, or gods
showing loving kindness to thousands of those of gold for yourselves. 20:24 You shall make an
who love me and keep my commandments. altar of earth for me, and shall sacrifice on it
20:7
“You shall not take the name of the your burnt offerings and your peace offerings,
LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not your sheep and your cattle. In every place
hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain. where I record my name I will come to you and
20:8
“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it I will bless you. 20:25 If you make me an altar
holy. 20:9 You shall labor six days, and do of stone, you shall not build it of cut stones; for
all your work, 20:10 but the seventh day is a if you lift up your tool on it, you have polluted
Sabbath to the LORD your God. You shall not it. 20:26 Neither shall you go up by steps to my
do any work in it, you, nor your son, nor your altar, that your nakedness may not be exposed
daughter, your male servant, nor your female to it.’
q 19:19 or, trumpet
r 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.
s 20:18 or, trumpet
Exodus 21:2 64 Exodus 22:2

21:1 21:20
“Now these are the ordinances which “If a man strikes his servant or his maid
you shall set before them. with a rod, and he dies under his hand, he shall
21:2
“If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall surely be punished. 21:21 Notwithstanding, if
serve six years and in the seventh he shall go he gets up after a day or two, he shall not be
out free without paying anything. 21:3 If he punished, for he is his property.
21:22
comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself. “If men fight and hurt a pregnant
If he is married, then his wife shall go out with woman so that she gives birth prematurely, and
him. 21:4 If his master gives him a wife and yet no harm follows, he shall be surely fined as
she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and much as the woman’s husband demands and
her children shall be her master’s, and he shall the judges allow. 21:23 But if any harm follows,
go out by himself. 21:5 But if the servant shall then you must take life for life, 21:24 eye for eye,
plainly say, ‘I love my master, my wife, and tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
my children. I will not go out free;’ 21:6 then 21:25
burning for burning, wound for wound,
his master shall bring him to God, and shall and bruise for bruise.
bring him to the door or to the doorpost, and 21:26
“If a man strikes his servant’s eye, or
his master shall bore his ear through with an his maid’s eye, and destroys it, he shall let him
awl, and he shall serve him for ever. go free for his eye’s sake. 21:27 If he strikes out
21:7
“If a man sells his daughter to be a his male servant’s tooth, or his female servant’s
female servant, she shall not go out as the tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth’s
male servants do. 21:8 If she doesn’t please her sake.
master, who has married her to himself, then 21:28
“If a bull gores a man or a woman to
he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no death, the bull shall surely be stoned, and its
right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the
dealt deceitfully with her. 21:9 If he marries her bull shall not be held responsible. 21:29 But if
to his son, he shall deal with her as a daughter. the bull had a habit of goring in the past, and it
21:10
If he takes another wife to himself, he shall has been testified to its owner, and he has not
not diminish her food, her clothing, and her kept it in, but it has killed a man or a woman,
marital rights. 21:11 If he doesn’t do these three the bull shall be stoned, and its owner shall
things for her, she may go free without paying also be put to death. 21:30 If a ransom is laid on
any money. him, then he shall give for the redemption of
21:12
“One who strikes a man so that he dies his life whatever is laid on him. 21:31 Whether
shall surely be put to death, 21:13 but not if it it has gored a son or has gored a daughter,
is unintentional, but God allows it to happen: according to this judgment it shall be done to
then I will appoint you a place where he him. 21:32 If the bull gores a male servant or
shall flee. 21:14 If a man schemes and comes a female servant, thirty shekels of silver shall
presumptuously on his neighbor to kill him, be given to their master, and the ox shall be
you shall take him from my altar, that he may stoned.
die. 21:33
“If a man opens a pit, or if a man digs a
21:15
“Anyone who attacks his father or his pit and doesn’t cover it, and a bull or a donkey
mother shall be surely put to death. falls into it, 21:34 the owner of the pit shall make
21:16
“Anyone who kidnaps someone and it good. He shall give money to its owner, and
sells him, or if he is found in his hand, he shall the dead animal shall be his.
21:35
surely be put to death. “If one man’s bull injures another’s, so
21:17
“Anyone who curses his father or his that it dies, then they shall sell the live bull, and
mother shall surely be put to death. divide its price; and they shall also divide the
21:18
“If men quarrel and one strikes the other dead animal. 21:36 Or if it is known that the bull
with a stone, or with his fist, and he doesn’t was in the habit of goring in the past, and its
die, but is confined to bed; 21:19 if he rises again owner has not kept it in, he shall surely pay bull
and walks around with his staff, then he who for bull, and the dead animal shall be his own.
22:1
struck him shall be cleared: only he shall pay “If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and
for the loss of his time, and shall provide for kills it, or sells it; he shall pay five oxen for
his healing until he is thoroughly healed. an ox, and four sheep for a sheep. 22:2 If the
Exodus 22:3 65 Exodus 23:7

22:18
thief is found breaking in, and is struck so that “You shall not allow a sorceress to live.
22:19
he dies, there shall be no guilt of bloodshed “Whoever has sex with an animal shall
for him. 22:3 If the sun has risen on him, guilt surely be put to death.
of bloodshed shall be for him; he shall make 22:20
“He who sacrifices to any god, except to
restitution. If he has nothing, then he shall the LORD only, shall be utterly destroyed.
be sold for his theft. 22:4 If the stolen property 22:21
“You shall not wrong an alien, neither
is found in his hand alive, whether it is ox, shall you oppress him, for you were aliens in
donkey, or sheep, he shall pay double. the land of Egypt.
22:5 22:22
“If a man causes a field or vineyard to be “You shall not take advantage of any
eaten, and lets his animal loose, and it grazes widow or fatherless child. 22:23 If you take
in another man’s field, he shall make restitution advantage of them at all, and they cry at all
from the best of his own field, and from the best to me, I will surely hear their cry; 22:24 and my
of his own vineyard. wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the
22:6
“If fire breaks out, and catches in thorns sword; and your wives shall be widows, and
so that the shocks of grain, or the standing your children fatherless.
22:25
grain, or the field are consumed; he who “If you lend money to any of my people
kindled the fire shall surely make restitution. with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as
22:7 a creditor; neither shall you charge him interest.
“If a man delivers to his neighbor money
22:26
or stuff to keep, and it is stolen out of the man’s If you take your neighbor’s garment as
house; if the thief is found, he shall pay double. collateral, you shall restore it to him before
22:8
If the thief isn’t found, then the master of the sun goes down, 22:27 for that is his only
the house shall come near to God, to find out if covering, it is his garment for his skin. What
he hasn’t put his hand to his neighbor’s goods. would he sleep in? It will happen, when he
22:9 cries to me, that I will hear, for I am gracious.
For every matter of trespass, whether it be
22:28
for ox, for donkey, for sheep, for clothing, or for “You shall not blaspheme God, nor
any kind of lost thing, about which one says, curse a ruler of your people.
22:29
‘This is mine,’ the cause of both parties shall “You shall not delay to offer from your
come before God. He whom God condemns harvest and from the outflow of your presses.
shall pay double to his neighbor. “You shall give the firstborn of your sons to
22:10
“If a man delivers to his neighbor a me. 22:30 You shall do likewise with your cattle
donkey, an ox, a sheep, or any animal to and with your sheep. Seven days it shall be
keep, and it dies or is injured, or driven away, with its mother, then on the eighth day you
no man seeing it; 22:11 the oath of the LORD shall give it to me.
22:31
shall be between them both, whether he hasn’t “You shall be holy men to me, therefore
put his hand to his neighbor’s goods; and its you shall not eat any flesh that is torn by
owner shall accept it, and he shall not make animals in the field. You shall cast it to the dogs.
restitution. 22:12 But if it is stolen from him, he 23:1
“You shall not spread a false report.
shall make restitution to its owner. 22:13 If it is Don’t join your hand with the wicked to be a
torn in pieces, let him bring it for evidence. He malicious witness.
23:2
shall not make good that which was torn. “You shall not follow a crowd to do evil;
22:14
“If a man borrows anything of his neither shall you testify in court to side with
neighbor’s, and it is injured, or dies, its owner a multitude to pervert justice; 23:3 neither shall
not being with it, he shall surely make restitu- you favor a poor man in his cause.
tion. 22:15 If its owner is with it, he shall not 23:4
“If you meet your enemy’s ox or his
make it good. If it is a leased thing, it came for donkey going astray, you shall surely bring it
its lease. back to him again. 23:5 If you see the donkey
22:16 of him who hates you fallen down under his
“If a man entices a virgin who isn’t
pledged to be married, and lies with her, he burden, don’t leave him, you shall surely help
shall surely pay a dowry for her to be his wife. him with it.
22:17 23:6
If her father utterly refuses to give her “You shall not deny justice to your poor
to him, he shall pay money according to the people in their lawsuits.
23:7
dowry of virgins. “Keep far from a false charge, and don’t
Exodus 23:8 66 Exodus 24:6

kill the innocent and righteous: for I will not adversary to your adversaries. 23:23 For my
justify the wicked. angel shall go before you, and bring you in
23:8
“You shall take no bribe, for a bribe to the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the
blinds those who have sight and perverts the Canaanite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; and
words of the righteous. I will cut them off. 23:24 You shall not bow
23:9 down to their gods, nor serve them, nor follow
“You shall not oppress an alien, for you
know the heart of an alien, since you were their practices, but you shall utterly overthrow
aliens in the land of Egypt. them and demolish their pillars. 23:25 You shall
23:10 serve the LORD your God, and he will bless
“For six years you shall sow your land,
and shall gather in its increase, 23:11 but the your bread and your water, and I will take
seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, sickness away from your midst. 23:26 No one
that the poor of your people may eat; and will miscarry or be barren in your land. I will
what they leave the animal of the field shall fulfill the number of your days. 23:27 I will
eat. In the same way, you shall deal with your send my terror before you, and will confuse
vineyard and with your olive grove. all the people to whom you come, and I will
23:12
“Six days you shall do your work, and make all your enemies turn their backs to you.
23:28
on the seventh day you shall rest, that your I will send the hornet before you, which
ox and your donkey may have rest, and the will drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and
son of your handmaid, and the alien may be the Hittite, from before you. 23:29 I will not
refreshed. drive them out from before you in one year,
23:13
“Be careful to do all things that I have lest the land become desolate, and the animals
said to you; and don’t invoke the name of other of the field multiply against you. 23:30 Little
gods, neither let them be heard out of your by little I will drive them out from before you,
mouth. until you have increased and inherit the land.
23:31
23:14 I will set your border from the Sea of Suf
“You shall observe a feast to me three
even to the sea of the Philistines, and from the
times a year. 23:15 You shall observe the feast
wilderness to the River; for I will deliver the
of unleavened bread. Seven days you shall eat
inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you
unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the
shall drive them out before you. 23:32 You shall
time appointed in the month Abib (for in it you
make no covenant with them, nor with their
came out from Egypt), and no one shall appear
gods. 23:33 They shall not dwell in your land,
before me empty. 23:16 And the feast of harvest,
lest they make you sin against me, for if you
the first fruits of your labors, which you sow in
serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to
the field: and the feast of harvest, at the end of
you.”
the year, when you gather in your labors out of
24:1
the field. 23:17 Three times in the year all your He said to Moses, “Come up to the
males shall appear before the Lord GOD. LORD, you, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu,
23:18
“You shall not offer the blood of my and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship
sacrifice with leavened bread, neither shall from a distance. 24:2 Moses alone shall come
the fat of my feast remain all night until the near to the LORD, but they shall not come near,
morning. 23:19 The first of the first fruits of your neither shall the people go up with him.”
24:3
ground you shall bring into the house of the Moses came and told the people all the
LORD your God. words of the LORD, and all the ordinances;
“You shall not boil a young goat in its and all the people answered with one voice,
mother’s milk. and said, “All the words which the LORD has
23:20 spoken will we do.”
“Behold, I send an angel before you, to
24:4
keep you by the way, and to bring you into the Moses wrote all the words of the LORD,
place which I have prepared. 23:21 Pay attention and rose up early in the morning, and built an
to him, and listen to his voice. Don’t provoke altar under the mountain, and twelve pillars for
him, for he will not pardon your disobedience, the twelve tribes of Israel. 24:5 He sent young
for my name is in him. 23:22 But if you indeed men of the children of Israel, who offered burnt
listen to his voice, and do all that I speak, then offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of cattle
I will be an enemy to your enemies, and an to the LORD. 24:6 Moses took half of the blood
Exodus 24:7 67 Exodus 25:28

and put it in basins, and half of the blood he to all that I show you, the pattern of the
sprinkled on the altar. 24:7 He took the book of tabernacle, and the pattern of all of its furniture,
the covenant and read it in the hearing of the even so you shall make it.
people, and they said, “All that the LORD has 25:10
“They shall make an ark of acacia wood.
spoken will we do, and be obedient.” Its length shall be two and a half cubits, its
24:8
Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on breadth a cubit and a half, and a cubit and a half
the people, and said, “Look, this is the blood of its height. 25:11 You shall overlay it with pure
the covenant, which the LORD has made with gold. You shall overlay it inside and outside,
you concerning all these words.” and you shall make a gold molding around
24:9
Then Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, it. 25:12 You shall cast four rings of gold for
and seventy of the elders of Israel went up. it, and put them in its four feet. Two rings
24:10
They saw the God of Israel. Under his feet shall be on the one side of it, and two rings on
was like a paved work of sapphiret stone, like the other side of it. 25:13 You shall make poles
the skies for clearness. 24:11 He didn’t lay his of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.
25:14
hand on the nobles of the children of Israel. You shall put the poles into the rings on
They saw God, and ate and drank. the sides of the ark to carry the ark. 25:15 The
24:12
The LORD said to Moses, “Come up to poles shall be in the rings of the ark. They
me on the mountain, and stay here, and I will shall not be taken from it. 25:16 You shall put
give you the tables of stone with the law and the testimony which I shall give you into the
the commands that I have written, that you ark. 25:17 You shall make a mercy seat of pure
may teach them.” gold. Two and a half cubits shall be its length,
24:13
Moses rose up with Joshua, his servant, and a cubit and a half its breadth. 25:18 You
and Moses went up onto God’s Mountain. shall make two cherubim of hammered gold.
24:14
He said to the elders, “Wait here for us, You shall make them at the two ends of the
until we come again to you. Behold, Aaron and mercy seat. 25:19 Make one cherub at the one
Hur are with you. Whoever is involved in a end, and one cherub at the other end. You shall
dispute can go to them.” make the cherubim on its two ends of one piece
24:15
Moses went up on the mountain, and with the mercy seat. 25:20 The cherubim shall
the cloud covered the mountain. 24:16 The glory spread out their wings upward, covering the
of the LORD settled on Mount Sinai, and the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces
cloud covered it six days. The seventh day toward one another. The faces of the cherubim
he called to Moses out of the midst of the shall be toward the mercy seat. 25:21 You shall
cloud. 24:17 The appearance of the glory of the put the mercy seat on top of the ark, and in
LORD was like devouring fire on the top of the the ark you shall put the testimony that I will
mountain in the eyes of the children of Israel. give you. 25:22 There I will meet with you, and
24:18 I will tell you from above the mercy seat, from
Moses entered into the midst of the cloud,
and went up on the mountain; and Moses was between the two cherubim which are on the ark
on the mountain forty days and forty nights. of the testimony, all that I command you for the
25:1 children of Israel.
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
25:2 25:23
“Speak to the children of Israel, that they “You shall make a table of acacia wood.
take an offering for me. From everyone whose Two cubits shall be its length, and a cubit its
heart makes him willing you shall take my breadth, and one and a half cubits its height.
offering. 25:3 This is the offering which you shall 25:24
You shall overlay it with pure gold, and
take from them: gold, silver, brass, 25:4 blue, make a gold molding around it. 25:25 You shall
purple, scarlet, fine linen, goats’ hair, 25:5 rams’ make a rim of a handbreadth around it. You
skins dyed red, sea cow hides, acacia wood, shall make a golden molding on its rim around
25:6
oil for the light, spices for the anointing it. 25:26 You shall make four rings of gold for it,
oil and for the sweet incense, 25:7 onyx stones, and put the rings in the four corners that are on
and stones to be set for the ephod and for the its four feet. 25:27 the rings shall be close to the
breastplate. 25:8 Let them make me a sanctuary, rim, for places for the poles to carry the table.
that I may dwell among them. 25:9 According 25:28
You shall make the poles of acacia wood,
t 24:10 or, lapis lazuli
Exodus 25:29 68 Exodus 26:24

and overlay them with gold, that the table may shall make fifty clasps of gold, and couple the
be carried with them. 25:29 You shall make its curtains one to another with the clasps: and the
dishes, its spoons, its ladles, and its bowls to tabernacle shall be a unit.
pour out offerings with. You shall make them 26:7
“You shall make curtains of goats’ hair
of pure gold. 25:30 You shall set bread of the for a covering over the tabernacle. You shall
presence on the table before me always. make them eleven curtains. 26:8 The length
25:31
“You shall make a menorah of pure of each curtain shall be thirty cubits, and
gold. Of hammered work shall the menorah the breadth of each curtain four cubits: the
be made, even its base, its shaft, its cups, its eleven curtains shall have one measure. 26:9 You
buds, and its flowers, shall be of one piece shall couple five curtains by themselves, and
with it. 25:32 There shall be six branches going six curtains by themselves, and shall double
out of its sides: three branches of the menorah over the sixth curtain in the forefront of the
out of its one side, and three branches of the tent. 26:10 You shall make fifty loops on the
menorah out of its other side; 25:33 three cups edge of the one curtain that is outmost in the
made like almond blossoms in one branch, a coupling, and fifty loops on the edge of the
bud and a flower; and three cups made like curtain which is outmost in the second cou-
almond blossoms in the other branch, a bud pling. 26:11 You shall make fifty clasps of brass,
and a flower, so for the six branches going out and put the clasps into the loops, and couple
of the menorah; 25:34 and in the menorah four the tent together, that it may be one. 26:12 The
cups made like almond blossoms, its buds and overhanging part that remains of the curtains
its flowers; 25:35 and a bud under two branches of the tent, the half curtain that remains, shall
of one piece with it, and a bud under two hang over the back of the tabernacle. 26:13 The
branches of one piece with it, and a bud under cubit on the one side, and the cubit on the other
two branches of one piece with it, for the six side, of that which remains in the length of the
branches going out of the menorah. 25:36 Their curtains of the tent, shall hang over the sides of
buds and their branches shall be of one piece the tabernacle on this side and on that side, to
with it, all of it one beaten work of pure gold. cover it. 26:14 You shall make a covering for the
25:37
You shall make its lamps seven, and they tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering of
shall light its lamps to give light to the space in sea cow hides above.
front of it. 25:38 Its snuffers and its snuff dishes 26:15
“You shall make the boards for the
shall be of pure gold. 25:39 It shall be made of tabernacle of acacia wood, standing up.
a talent of pure gold, with all these accessories. 26:16
Ten cubits shall be the length of a board,
25:40
See that you make them after their pattern, and one and a half cubits the breadth of
which has been shown to you on the mountain. each board. 26:17 There shall be two tenons in
26:1
“Moreover you shall make the tabernacle each board, joined to one another: thus you
with ten curtains; of fine twined linen, and shall make for all the boards of the taberna-
blue, and purple, and scarlet, with cherubim. cle. 26:18 You shall make the boards for the
The work of the skillful workman you shall tabernacle, twenty boards for the south side
make them. 26:2 The length of each curtain southward. 26:19 You shall make forty sockets
shall be twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth of of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets
each curtain four cubits: all the curtains shall under one board for its two tenons, and two
have one measure. 26:3 Five curtains shall be sockets under another board for its two tenons.
26:20
coupled together one to another; and the other For the second side of the tabernacle, on
five curtains shall be coupled one to another. the north side, twenty boards, 26:21 and their
26:4
You shall make loops of blue on the edge of forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one
the one curtain from the edge in the coupling; board, and two sockets under another board.
26:22
and likewise you shall make in the edge of the For the far part of the tabernacle westward
curtain that is outmost in the second coupling. you shall make six boards. 26:23 You shall make
26:5
You shall make fifty loops in the one curtain, two boards for the corners of the tabernacle in
and you shall make fifty loops in the edge of the far part. 26:24 They shall be double beneath,
the curtain that is in the second coupling. The and in the same way they shall be whole to its
loops shall be opposite one to another. 26:6 You top to one ring: thus shall it be for them both;
Exodus 26:25 69 Exodus 28:1

they shall be for the two corners. 26:25 There put it under the ledge around the altar beneath,
shall be eight boards, and their sockets of silver, that the net may reach halfway up the altar.
27:6
sixteen sockets; two sockets under one board, You shall make poles for the altar, poles
and two sockets under another board. of acacia wood, and overlay them with brass.
26:26 27:7
“You shall make bars of acacia wood: Its poles shall be put into the rings, and the
five for the boards of the one side of the poles shall be on the two sides of the altar, when
tabernacle, 26:27 and five bars for the boards of carrying it. 27:8 You shall make it with hollow
the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars planks. They shall make it as it has been shown
for the boards of the side of the tabernacle, for you on the mountain.
the far part westward. 26:28 The middle bar 27:9
“You shall make the court of the taber-
in the midst of the boards shall pass through nacle: for the south side southward there shall
from end to end. 26:29 You shall overlay the be hangings for the court of fine twined linen
boards with gold, and make their rings of gold one hundred cubits long for one side: 27:10 and
for places for the bars: and you shall overlay its pillars shall be twenty, and their sockets
the bars with gold. 26:30 You shall set up the twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars and
tabernacle according to the way that it was their fillets shall be of silver. 27:11 Likewise for
shown to you on the mountain. the north side in length there shall be hangings
26:31 one hundred cubits long, and its pillars twenty,
“You shall make a veil of blue, and
purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, with and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of
cherubim. The work of the skillful workman the pillars, and their fillets, of silver. 27:12 For
shall it be made. 26:32 You shall hang it on the breadth of the court on the west side shall
four pillars of acacia overlaid with gold; their be hangings of fifty cubits; their pillars ten,
hooks shall be of gold, on four sockets of silver. and their sockets ten. 27:13 The breadth of the
26:33 court on the east side eastward shall be fifty
You shall hang up the veil under the clasps,
and shall bring the ark of the testimony in cubits. 27:14 The hangings for the one side of
there within the veil: and the veil shall separate the gate shall be fifteen cubits; their pillars
the holy place from the most holy for you. three, and their sockets three. 27:15 For the other
26:34 side shall be hangings of fifteen cubits; their
You shall put the mercy seat on the ark of
the testimony in the most holy place. 26:35 You pillars three, and their sockets three. 27:16 For
shall set the table outside the veil, and the the gate of the court shall be a screen of twenty
menorah over against the table on the side of cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine
the tabernacle toward the south: and you shall twined linen, the work of the embroiderer; their
put the table on the north side. pillars four, and their sockets four. 27:17 All the
26:36
“You shall make a screen for the door of pillars of the court around shall be filleted with
the Tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and silver; their hooks of silver, and their sockets
fine twined linen, the work of the embroiderer. of brass. 27:18 The length of the court shall be
26:37
You shall make for the screen five pillars of one hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty every
acacia, and overlay them with gold: their hooks where, and the height five cubits, of fine twined
shall be of gold: and you shall cast five sockets linen, and their sockets of brass. 27:19 All the
of brass for them. instruments of the tabernacle in all its service,
27:1 and all its pins, and all the pins of the court,
“You shall make the altar of acacia wood,
shall be of brass.
five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar
27:20
shall be foursquare: and its height shall be three “You shall command the children of
cubits. 27:2 You shall make its horns on its four Israel, that they bring to you pure olive oil
corners; its horns shall be of one piece with it; beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn
and you shall overlay it with brass. 27:3 You continually. 27:21 In the Tent of Meeting, outside
shall make its pots to take away its ashes, its the veil which is before the testimony, Aaron
shovels, its basins, its flesh hooks, and its fire and his sons shall keep it in order from evening
pans: all its vessels you shall make of brass. to morning before the LORD: it shall be a
27:4 statute forever throughout their generations on
You shall make a grating for it of network
of brass: and on the net you shall make four the behalf of the children of Israel.
bronze rings in its four corners. 27:5 You shall 28:1
“Bring Aaron your brother, and his sons
Exodus 28:2 70 Exodus 28:32

with him, near to you from among the children linen, you shall make it. 28:16 It shall be square
of Israel, that he may minister to me in the and folded double; a spanu shall be its length
priest’s office, even Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, of it, and a span its breadth. 28:17 You shall set
Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron’s sons. 28:2 You in it settings of stones, four rows of stones: a
shall make holy garments for Aaron your row of ruby, topaz, and beryl shall be the first
brother, for glory and for beauty. 28:3 You shall row; 28:18 and the second row a turquoise, a sap-
speak to all who are wise-hearted, whom I have phirev , and an emerald; 28:19 and the third row
filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they make a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst; 28:20 and
Aaron’s garments to sanctify him, that he may the fourth row a chrysolite, an onyx, and a
minister to me in the priest’s office. 28:4 These jasper: they shall be enclosed in gold in their
are the garments which they shall make: a settings. 28:21 The stones shall be according
breastplate, and an ephod, and a robe, and a to the names of the children of Israel, twelve,
coat of checker work, a turban, and a sash: and according to their names; like the engravings
they shall make holy garments for Aaron your of a signet, everyone according to his name,
brother, and his sons, that he may minister to they shall be for the twelve tribes. 28:22 You
me in the priest’s office. 28:5 They shall take shall make on the breastplate chains like cords,
the gold, and the blue, and the purple, and the of braided work of pure gold. 28:23 You shall
scarlet, and the fine linen. make on the breastplate two rings of gold, and
28:6 shall put the two rings on the two ends of the
“They shall make the ephod of gold, of
blue, and purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, breastplate. 28:24 You shall put the two braided
the work of the skillful workman. 28:7 It shall chains of gold in the two rings at the ends of
have two shoulder straps joined to the two ends the breastplate. 28:25 The other two ends of the
of it, that it may be joined together. 28:8 The two braided chains you shall put on the two
skillfully woven band, which is on it, that is settings, and put them on the shoulder straps
on him, shall be like its work and of the same of the ephod in its forepart. 28:26 You shall make
piece; of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, two rings of gold, and you shall put them on
and fine twined linen. 28:9 You shall take two the two ends of the breastplate, on its edge,
onyx stones, and engrave on them the names which is toward the side of the ephod inward.
28:27
of the children of Israel: 28:10 six of their names You shall make two rings of gold, and shall
on the one stone, and the names of the six that put them on the two shoulder straps of the
remain on the other stone, in the order of their ephod underneath, in its forepart, close by its
birth. 28:11 With the work of an engraver in coupling, above the skillfully woven band of
stone, like the engravings of a signet, you shall the ephod. 28:28 They shall bind the breastplate
engrave the two stones, according to the names by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace
of the children of Israel: you shall make them of blue, that it may be on the skillfully woven
to be enclosed in settings of gold. 28:12 You shall band of the ephod, and that the breastplate may
put the two stones on the shoulder straps of not swing out from the ephod. 28:29 Aaron shall
the ephod, to be stones of memorial for the bear the names of the children of Israel in the
children of Israel: and Aaron shall bear their breastplate of judgment on his heart, when he
names before the LORD on his two shoulders goes in to the holy place, for a memorial before
for a memorial. 28:13 You shall make settings the LORD continually. 28:30 You shall put in
of gold, 28:14 and two chains of pure gold; you the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the
shall make them like cords of braided work: Thummim; and they shall be on Aaron’s heart,
and you shall put the braided chains on the when he goes in before the LORD: and Aaron
settings. shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel
28:15 on his heart before the LORD continually.
“You shall make a breastplate of judg-
28:31
ment, the work of the skillful workman; like the “You shall make the robe of the ephod
work of the ephod you shall make it; of gold, of all of blue. 28:32 It shall have a hole for the
blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined head in its midst: it shall have a binding of
u 28:16 A span is the length from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the little finger when the hand is stretched

out (about 9 inches or 22.8 cm.)


v 28:18 or, lapis lazuli
Exodus 28:33 71 Exodus 29:22

woven work around its hole, as it were the hole water. 29:5 You shall take the garments, and
of a coat of mail, that it not be torn. 28:33 On put on Aaron the coat, the robe of the ephod,
its hem you shall make pomegranates of blue, the ephod, and the breastplate, and clothe him
and of purple, and of scarlet, around its hem; with the skillfully woven band of the ephod;
29:6
and bells of gold between and around them: and you shall set the turban on his head,
28:34
a golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden and put the holy crown on the turban. 29:7 Then
bell and a pomegranate, around the hem of the you shall take the anointing oil, and pour it on
robe. 28:35 It shall be on Aaron to minister: and his head, and anoint him. 29:8 You shall bring
its sound shall be heard when he goes in to his sons, and put coats on them. 29:9 You shall
the holy place before the LORD, and when he clothe them with belts, Aaron and his sons, and
comes out, that he not die. bind headbands on them: and they shall have
28:36 the priesthood by a perpetual statute: and you
“You shall make a plate of pure gold,
and engrave on it, like the engravings of a shall consecrate Aaron and his sons.
signet, ‘HOLY TO THE LORD.’ 28:37 You shall 29:10
“You shall bring the bull before the Tent
put it on a lace of blue, and it shall be on of Meeting: and Aaron and his sons shall lay
the sash; on the front of the sash it shall be. their hands on the head of the bull. 29:11 You
28:38
It shall be on Aaron’s forehead, and Aaron shall kill the bull before the LORD, at the door
shall bear the iniquity of the holy things, which of the Tent of Meeting. 29:12 You shall take of the
the children of Israel shall make holy in all blood of the bull, and put it on the horns of the
their holy gifts; and it shall be always on his altar with your finger; and you shall pour out
forehead, that they may be accepted before the all the blood at the base of the altar. 29:13 You
LORD. 28:39 You shall weave the coat in checker shall take all the fat that covers the innards, the
work of fine linen, and you shall make a turban cover of the liver, the two kidneys, and the fat
of fine linen, and you shall make a sash, the that is on them, and burn them on the altar.
29:14
work of the embroiderer. But the flesh of the bull, and its skin, and
28:40 its dung, you shall burn with fire outside of the
“You shall make coats for Aaron’s sons,
and you shall make sashes for them and you camp: it is a sin offering.
29:15
shall make headbands for them, for glory and “You shall also take the one ram; and
for beauty. 28:41 You shall put them on Aaron Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the
your brother, and on his sons with him, and head of the ram. 29:16 You shall kill the ram, and
shall anoint them, and consecrate them, and you shall take its blood, and sprinkle it around
sanctify them, that they may minister to me on the altar. 29:17 You shall cut the ram into its
in the priest’s office. 28:42 You shall make pieces, and wash its innards, and its legs, and
them linen breeches to cover the flesh of their put them with its pieces, and with its head.
29:18
nakedness; from the waist even to the thighs You shall burn the whole ram on the altar:
they shall reach: 28:43 They shall be on Aaron, it is a burnt offering to the LORD; it is a pleasant
and on his sons, when they go in to the Tent of aroma, an offering made by fire to the LORD.
Meeting, or when they come near to the altar to 29:19
“You shall take the other ram; and
minister in the holy place; that they don’t bear Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the
iniquity, and die: it shall be a statute forever to head of the ram. 29:20 Then you shall kill the
him and to his descendants after him. ram, and take some of its blood, and put it on
29:1
“This is the thing that you shall do to the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and on the tip
them to make them holy, to minister to me of the right ear of his sons, and on the thumb
in the priest’s office: take one young bull of their right hand, and on the big toe of their
and two rams without blemish, 29:2 unleavened right foot, and sprinkle the blood around on the
bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and altar. 29:21 You shall take of the blood that is on
unleavened wafers anointed with oil: you shall the altar, and of the anointing oil, and sprinkle
make them of fine wheat flour. 29:3 You shall it on Aaron, and on his garments, and on his
put them into one basket, and bring them in the sons, and on the garments of his sons with him:
basket, with the bull and the two rams. 29:4 You and he shall be made holy, and his garments,
shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of and his sons, and his sons’ garments with him.
29:22
the Tent of Meeting, and shall wash them with Also you shall take some of the ram’s fat,
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the fat tail, the fat that covers the innards, the you shall anoint it, to sanctify it. 29:37 Seven
cover of the liver, the two kidneys, the fat that days you shall make atonement for the altar,
is on them, and the right thigh (for it is a ram and sanctify it: and the altar shall be most holy;
of consecration), 29:23 and one loaf of bread, one whatever touches the altar shall be holy.
cake of oiled bread, and one wafer out of the 29:38
“Now this is that which you shall offer
basket of unleavened bread that is before the on the altar: two lambs a year old day by day
LORD. 29:24 You shall put all of this in Aaron’s continually. 29:39 The one lamb you shall offer
hands, and in his sons’ hands, and shall wave in the morning; and the other lamb you shall
them for a wave offering before the LORD. offer at evening: 29:40 and with the one lamb
29:25
You shall take them from their hands, and a tenth part of an efahw of fine flour mixed
burn them on the altar on the burnt offering, with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil, and
for a pleasant aroma before the LORD: it is an the fourth part of a hin of wine for a drink
offering made by fire to the LORD. offering. 29:41 The other lamb you shall offer
29:26
“You shall take the breast of Aaron’s at evening, and shall do to it according to the
ram of consecration, and wave it for a wave meal offering of the morning, and according
offering before the LORD: and it shall be your to its drink offering, for a pleasant aroma, an
portion. 29:27 You shall sanctify the breast of offering made by fire to the LORD. 29:42 It shall
the wave offering, and the thigh of the wave be a continual burnt offering throughout your
offering, which is waved, and which is heaved generations at the door of the Tent of Meeting
up, of the ram of consecration, even of that before the LORD, where I will meet with you,
which is for Aaron, and of that which is for to speak there to you. 29:43 There I will meet
his sons: 29:28 and it shall be for Aaron and his with the children of Israel; and the place shall
sons as their portion forever from the children be sanctified by my glory. 29:44 I will sanctify
of Israel; for it is a wave offering: and it shall the Tent of Meeting and the altar: Aaron also
be a wave offering from the children of Israel of and his sons I will sanctify, to minister to me
the sacrifices of their peace offerings, even their in the priest’s office. 29:45 I will dwell among
wave offering to the LORD. the children of Israel, and will be their God.
29:29 29:46
“The holy garments of Aaron shall be They shall know that I am the LORD their
for his sons after him, to be anointed in them, God, who brought them forth out of the land of
and to be consecrated in them. 29:30 Seven days Egypt, that I might dwell among them: I am the
shall the son who is priest in his place put them LORD their God.
on, when he comes into the Tent of Meeting to 30:1
“You shall make an altar to burn incense
minister in the holy place. on. You shall make it of acacia wood. 30:2 Its
29:31
“You shall take the ram of consecration, length shall be a cubit, and its breadth a cubit.
and boil its flesh in a holy place. 29:32 Aaron It shall be square, and its height shall be two
and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram, and cubits. Its horns shall be of one piece with it.
30:3
the bread that is in the basket, at the door of You shall overlay it with pure gold, its top,
the Tent of Meeting. 29:33 They shall eat those its sides around it, and its horns; and you shall
things with which atonement was made, to make a gold molding around it. 30:4 You shall
consecrate and sanctify them: but a stranger make two golden rings for it under its molding;
shall not eat of it, because they are holy. 29:34 If on its two ribs, on its two sides you shall make
anything of the flesh of the consecration, or of them; and they shall be for places for poles with
the bread, remains to the morning, then you which to bear it. 30:5 You shall make the poles
shall burn the remainder with fire: it shall not of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.
30:6
be eaten, because it is holy. You shall put it before the veil that is by
29:35
“You shall do so to Aaron, and to his the ark of the testimony, before the mercy seat
sons, according to all that I have commanded that is over the testimony, where I will meet
you. You shall consecrate them seven days. with you. 30:7 Aaron shall burn incense of sweet
29:36
Every day you shall offer the bull of sin spices on it every morning. When he tends
offering for atonement: and you shall cleanse the lamps, he shall burn it. 30:8 When Aaron
the altar, when you make atonement for it; and lights the lamps at evening, he shall burn it, a
w 29:40 1 efah is about 22 litres or about 2/3 of a bushel
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perpetual incense before the LORD throughout shekel of the sanctuary; and a hin of olive
your generations. 30:9 You shall offer no strange oil. 30:25 You shall make it a holy anointing
incense on it, nor burnt offering, nor meal oil, a perfume compounded after the art of
offering; and you shall pour no drink offering the perfumer: it shall be a holy anointing
on it. 30:10 Aaron shall make atonement on its oil. 30:26 You shall use it to anoint the Tent
horns once in the year; with the blood of the of Meeting, the ark of the testimony, 30:27 the
sin offering of atonement once in the year he table and all its articles, the menorah and its
shall make atonement for it throughout your accessories, the altar of incense, 30:28 the altar
generations. It is most holy to the LORD.” of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the
30:11
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, basin with its base. 30:29 You shall sanctify
30:12 them, that they may be most holy. Whatever
“When you take a census of the children
of Israel, according to those who are numbered touches them shall be holy. 30:30 You shall
among them, then each man shall give a anoint Aaron and his sons, and sanctify them,
ransom for his soul to the LORD, when you that they may minister to me in the priest’s
number them; that there be no plague among office. 30:31 You shall speak to the children of
them when you number them. 30:13 They shall Israel, saying, ‘This shall be a holy anointing oil
give this, everyone who passes over to those to me throughout your generations. 30:32 It shall
who are numbered, half a shekel after the not be poured on man’s flesh, neither shall you
shekel of the sanctuary; (the shekel is twenty make any like it, according to its composition:
gerahs;) half a shekel for an offering to the it is holy. It shall be holy to you. 30:33 Whoever
LORD. 30:14 Everyone who passes over to those compounds any like it, or whoever puts any
who are numbered, from twenty years old and of it on a stranger, he shall be cut off from his
upward, shall give the offering to the LORD. people.’”
30:15 30:34
The rich shall not give more, and the poor The LORD said to Moses, “Take to
shall not give less, than the half shekel, when yourself sweet spices, gum resin, and onycha,
they give the offering of the LORD, to make and galbanum; sweet spices with pure frank-
atonement for your souls. 30:16 You shall take incense: there shall be an equal weight of each;
the atonement money from the children of 30:35
and you shall make incense of it, a perfume
Israel, and shall appoint it for the service of the after the art of the perfumer, seasoned with
Tent of Meeting; that it may be a memorial for salt, pure and holy: 30:36 and you shall beat
the children of Israel before the LORD, to make some of it very small, and put some of it before
atonement for your souls.” the testimony in the Tent of Meeting, where I
30:17 will meet with you. It shall be to you most
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
30:18
“You shall also make a basin of brass, and holy. 30:37 The incense which you shall make,
its base of brass, in which to wash. You shall according to its composition you shall not make
put it between the Tent of Meeting and the for yourselves: it shall be to you holy for the
altar, and you shall put water in it. 30:19 Aaron LORD. 30:38 Whoever shall make any like that,
and his sons shall wash their hands and their to smell of it, he shall be cut off from his
feet in it. 30:20 When they go into the Tent of people.”
Meeting, they shall wash with water, that they 31:1
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
not die; or when they come near to the altar to 31:2
“Behold, I have called by name Bezalel the
minister, to burn an offering made by fire to the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah:
LORD. 30:21 So they shall wash their hands and 31:3
and I have filled him with the Spirit of
their feet, that they not die: and it shall be a God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in
statute forever to them, even to him and to his knowledge, and in all kinds of workmanship,
descendants throughout their generations.” 31:4
to devise skillful works, to work in gold,
30:22
Moreover the LORD spoke to Moses, and in silver, and in brass, 31:5 and in cutting
saying, 30:23 “Also take fine spices: of liquid of stones for setting, and in carving of wood,
myrrh, five hundred shekels; and of fragrant to work in all kinds of workmanship. 31:6 I,
cinnamon half as much, even two hundred and behold, I have appointed with him Oholiab, the
fifty; and of fragrant cane, two hundred and son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and in
fifty; 30:24 and of cassia five hundred, after the the heart of all who are wise-hearted I have
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put wisdom, that they may make all that I and fashioned it with an engraving tool, and
have commanded you: 31:7 the Tent of Meeting, made it a molten calf; and they said, “These are
the ark of the testimony, the mercy seat that your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of
is on it, all the furniture of the Tent, 31:8 the the land of Egypt.”
table and its vessels, the pure menorah with 32:5
When Aaron saw this, he built an altar
all its vessels, the altar of incense, 31:9 the altar before it; and Aaron made a proclamation, and
of burnt offering with all its vessels, the basin said, “Tomorrow shall be a feast to the LORD.”
and its base, 31:10 the finely worked garments— 32:6
They rose up early on the next day,
the holy garments for Aaron the priest—the and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace
garments of his sons to minister in the priest’s offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to
office, 31:11 the anointing oil, and the incense of drink, and rose up to play.
sweet spices for the holy place: according to all 32:7
The LORD spoke to Moses, “Go, get
that I have commanded you they shall do.” down; for your people, who you brought
31:12
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted
31:13
“Speak also to the children of Israel, say- themselves! 32:8 They have turned aside quickly
ing, ‘Most certainly you shall keep my Sab- out of the way which I commanded them. They
baths: for it is a sign between me and you have made themselves a molten calf, and have
throughout your generations; that you may worshiped it, and have sacrificed to it, and said,
know that I am the LORD who sanctifies you. ‘These are your gods, Israel, which brought you
31:14
You shall keep the Sabbath therefore; for it up out of the land of Egypt.’”
is holy to you. Everyone who profanes it shall 32:9
The LORD said to Moses, “I have seen
surely be put to death; for whoever does any these people, and behold, they are a stiff-
work therein, that soul shall be cut off from necked people. 32:10 Now therefore leave me
among his people. 31:15 Six days shall work alone, that my wrath may burn hot against
be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath them, and that I may consume them; and I will
of solemn rest, holy to the LORD. Whoever make of you a great nation.”
does any work on the Sabbath day shall surely 32:11
Moses begged the LORD his God, and
be put to death. 31:16 Therefore the children said, “The LORD, why does your wrath burn
of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe hot against your people, that you have brought
the Sabbath throughout their generations, for a out of the land of Egypt with great power
perpetual covenant. 31:17 It is a sign between me and with a mighty hand? 32:12 Why should
and the children of Israel forever; for in six days the Egyptians speak, saying, ‘He brought them
the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the forth for evil, to kill them in the mountains,
seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.’” and to consume them from the surface of the
31:18
He gave to Moses, when he finished earth?’ Turn from your fierce wrath, and repent
speaking with him on Mount Sinai, the two of this evil against your people. 32:13 Remember
tablets of the testimony, stone tablets, written Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to
with God’s finger. whom you swore by your own self, and said
32:1
When the people saw that Moses de- to them, ‘I will multiply your seed as the stars
layed to come down from the mountain, the of the sky, and all this land that I have spoken
people gathered themselves together to Aaron, of I will give to your seed, and they shall inherit
and said to him, “Come, make us gods, which it forever.’”
shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man 32:14
The LORD repented of the evil which he
who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we said he would do to his people.
don’t know what has become of him.” 32:15
Moses turned, and went down from the
32:2
Aaron said to them, “Take off the golden mountain, with the two tablets of the testimony
rings, which are in the ears of your wives, of in his hand; tablets that were written on both
your sons, and of your daughters, and bring their sides; on the one side and on the other
them to me.” they were written. 32:16 The tablets were the
32:3
All the people took off the golden rings work of God, and the writing was the writing
which were in their ears, and brought them to of God, engraved on the tables.
Aaron. 32:4 He received what they handed him, 32:17
When Joshua heard the noise of the
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people as they shouted, he said to Moses, have made themselves gods of gold. 32:32 Yet
“There is the noise of war in the camp.” now, if you will, forgive their sin—and if not,
32:18 please blot me out of your book which you
He said, “It isn’t the voice of those who
shout for victory, neither is it the voice of those have written.”
32:33
who cry for being overcome; but the noise of The LORD said to Moses, “Whoever has
those who sing that I hear.” 32:19 It happened, sinned against me, him will I blot out of my
as soon as he came near to the camp, that he book. 32:34 Now go, lead the people to the place
saw the calf and the dancing: and Moses’ anger of which I have spoken to you. Behold, my
grew hot, and he threw the tablets out of his angel shall go before you. Nevertheless in the
hands, and broke them beneath the mountain. day when I punish, I will punish them for their
32:20
He took the calf which they had made, and sin.” 32:35 The LORD struck the people, because
burnt it with fire, ground it to powder, and they made the calf, which Aaron made.
scattered it on the water, and made the children 33:1
The LORD spoke to Moses, “Depart, go
of Israel drink of it. up from here, you and the people that you have
32:21
Moses said to Aaron, “What did these brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land
people do to you, that you have brought a great of which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to
sin on them?” Jacob, saying, ‘I will give it to your seed.’ 33:2 I
32:22
Aaron said, “Don’t let the anger of my will send an angel before you; and I will drive
lord grow hot. You know the people, that they out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite,
are set on evil. 32:23 For they said to me, ‘Make and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:
33:3
us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this to a land flowing with milk and honey: for
Moses, the man who brought us up out of the I will not go up in the midst of you, for you are
land of Egypt, we don’t know what has become a stiff-necked people, lest I consume you in the
of him.’ 32:24 I said to them, ‘Whoever has any way.”
33:4
gold, let them take it off:’ so they gave it to me; When the people heard this evil news,
and I threw it into the fire, and out came this they mourned: and no one put on his jewelry.
calf.” 33:5
The LORD said to Moses, “Tell the chil-
32:25
When Moses saw that the people had dren of Israel, ‘You are a stiff-necked people. If I
broken loose, (for Aaron had let them loose were to go up into your midst for one moment,
for a derision among their enemies), 32:26 then I would consume you. Therefore now take off
Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, your jewelry from you, that I may know what
“Whoever is on the LORD’s side, come to me!” to do to you.’”
All the sons of Levi gathered themselves 33:6
The children of Israel stripped them-
together to him. 32:27 He said to them, “Thus selves of their jewelry from Mount Horeb on-
says the LORD, the God of Israel, ‘Every man ward.
put his sword on his thigh, and go back and 33:7
Now Moses used to take the tent and to
forth from gate to gate throughout the camp, pitch it outside the camp, far away from the
and every man kill his brother, and every man camp, and he called it “The Tent of Meeting.” It
his companion, and every man his neighbor.’” happened that everyone who sought the LORD
32:28
The sons of Levi did according to the word went out to the Tent of Meeting, which was
of Moses: and there fell of the people that day outside the camp. 33:8 It happened that when
about three thousand men. 32:29 Moses said, Moses went out to the Tent, that all the people
“Consecrate yourselves today to the LORD, rose up, and stood, everyone at their tent door,
yes, every man against his son, and against his and watched Moses, until he had gone into the
brother; that he may bestow on you a blessing Tent. 33:9 It happened, when Moses entered into
this day.” the Tent, that the pillar of cloud descended,
32:30
It happened on the next day, that Moses stood at the door of the Tent, and spoke with
said to the people, “You have sinned a great sin. Moses. 33:10 All the people saw the pillar of
Now I will go up to the LORD. Perhaps I shall cloud stand at the door of the Tent, and all
make atonement for your sin.” the people rose up and worshiped, everyone at
32:31
Moses returned to the LORD, and said, their tent door. 33:11 The LORD spoke to Moses
“Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. He
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turned again into the camp, but his servant first; and Moses rose up early in the morning,
Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, didn’t and went up to Mount Sinai, as the LORD
depart out of the Tent. had commanded him, and took in his hand
33:12
Moses said to the LORD, “Behold, you two stone tablets. 34:5 The LORD descended in
tell me, ‘Bring up this people:’ and you haven’t the cloud, and stood with him there, and pro-
let me know whom you will send with me. Yet claimed the name of the LORD. 34:6 The LORD
you have said, ‘I know you by name, and you passed by before him, and proclaimed, “The
have also found favor in my sight.’ 33:13 Now LORD! the LORD, a merciful and gracious God,
therefore, if I have found favor in your sight, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kind-
please show me now your ways, that I may ness and truth, 34:7 keeping loving kindness for
know you, so that I may find favor in your thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience
sight: and consider that this nation is your and sin; and that will by no means clear the
people.” guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the
33:14 children, and on the children’s children, on the
He said, “My presence will go with you,
and I will give you rest.” third and on the fourth generation.”
33:15 34:8
He said to him, “If your presence Moses hurried and bowed his head to-
doesn’t go with me, don’t carry us up from ward the earth, and worshiped. 34:9 He said,
here. 33:16 For how would people know that “If now I have found favor in your sight, Lord,
I have found favor in your sight, I and your please let the Lord go in the midst of us;
people? Isn’t it in that you go with us, so that although this is a stiff-necked people; pardon
we are separated, I and your people, from all our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your
the people who are on the surface of the earth?” inheritance.”
33:17 34:10
The LORD said to Moses, “I will do this He said, “Behold, I make a covenant:
thing also that you have spoken; for you have before all your people I will do marvels, such
found favor in my sight, and I know you by as have not been worked in all the earth, nor
name.” in any nation; and all the people among which
33:18 you are shall see the work of the LORD; for
He said, “Please show me your glory.”
33:19 it is an awesome thing that I do with you.
He said, “I will make all my goodness
34:11
pass before you, and will proclaim the name Observe that which I command you this
of the LORD before you. I will be gracious day. Behold, I drive out before you the Amorite,
to whom I will be gracious, and will show the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the
mercy on whom I will show mercy.” 33:20 He Hivite, and the Jebusite. 34:12 Be careful, lest
said, “You cannot see my face, for man may you make a covenant with the inhabitants of
not see me and live.” 33:21 The LORD also said, the land where you are going, lest it be for a
“Behold, there is a place by me, and you shall snare in the midst of you: 34:13 but you shall
stand on the rock. 33:22 It will happen, while my break down their altars, and dash in pieces
glory passes by, that I will put you in a cleft of their pillars, and you shall cut down their
the rock, and will cover you with my hand until Asherim; 34:14 for you shall worship no other
I have passed by; 33:23 then I will take away my god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is
hand, and you will see my back; but my face a jealous God.
34:15
shall not be seen.” “Don’t make a covenant with the inhab-
34:1 itants of the land, lest they play the prostitute
The LORD said to Moses, “Chisel two
stone tablets like the first: and I will write after their gods, and sacrifice to their gods,
on the tablets the words that were on the first and one call you and you eat of his sacrifice;
34:16
tablets, which you broke. 34:2 Be ready by and you take of their daughters to your
the morning, and come up in the morning to sons, and their daughters play the prostitute
Mount Sinai, and present yourself there to me after their gods, and make your sons play the
on the top of the mountain. 34:3 No one shall prostitute after their gods.
34:17
come up with you; neither let anyone be seen “You shall make no cast idols for your-
throughout all the mountain; neither let the selves.
flocks nor herds feed before that mountain.” 34:18
“You shall keep the feast of unleavened
34:4
He chiseled two tablets of stone like the bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened
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bread, as I commanded you, at the time ap- ments that the LORD had spoken with him
pointed in the month Abib; for in the month on Mount Sinai. 34:33 When Moses was done
Abib you came out from Egypt. speaking with them, he put a veil on his face.
34:19 34:34
“All that opens the womb is mine; and But when Moses went in before the LORD
all your livestock that is male, the firstborn of to speak with him, he took the veil off, until
cow and sheep. 34:20 The firstborn of a donkey he came out; and he came out, and spoke
you shall redeem with a lamb: and if you will to the children of Israel that which he was
not redeem it, then you shall break its neck. All commanded. 34:35 The children of Israel saw
the firstborn of your sons you shall redeem. No Moses’ face, that the skin of Moses’ face shone:
one shall appear before me empty. and Moses put the veil on his face again, until
34:21 he went in to speak with him.
“Six days you shall work, but on the
35:1
seventh day you shall rest: in plowing time and Moses assembled all the congregation
in harvest you shall rest. of the children of Israel, and said to them,
34:22
“You shall observe the feast of weeks “These are the words which the LORD has
with the first fruits of wheat harvest, and the commanded, that you should do them. 35:2 ‘Six
feast of harvest at the year’s end. 34:23 Three days shall work be done, but on the seventh
times in the year all your males shall appear day there shall be a holy day for you, a Sabbath
before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel. 34:24 For of solemn rest to the LORD: whoever does any
I will drive out nations before you and enlarge work in it shall be put to death. 35:3 You shall
your borders; neither shall any man desire your kindle no fire throughout your habitations on
land when you go up to appear before the the Sabbath day.’”
LORD, your God, three times in the year. 35:4
Moses spoke to all the congregation of
34:25
“You shall not offer the blood of my the children of Israel, saying, “This is the
sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the thing which the LORD commanded, saying,
sacrifice of the feast of the Passover be left to 35:5
‘Take from among you an offering to the
the morning. LORD. Whoever is of a willing heart, let him
34:26
“You shall bring the first of the first bring it, the LORD’s offering: gold, silver,
fruits of your ground to the house of the LORD brass, 35:6 blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goats’
your God. hair, 35:7 rams’ skins dyed red, sea cow hides,
“You shall not boil a young goat in its acacia wood, 35:8 oil for the light, spices for
mother’s milk.” the anointing oil and for the sweet incense,
34:27 35:9
The LORD said to Moses, “Write you onyx stones, and stones to be set for the
these words: for in accordance with these ephod and for the breastplate.
words I have made a covenant with you and 35:10
“‘Let every wise-hearted man among
with Israel.” you come, and make all that the LORD has
34:28
He was there with the LORD forty days commanded: 35:11 the tabernacle, its outer cov-
and forty nights; he neither ate bread, nor ering, its roof, its clasps, its boards, its bars,
drank water. He wrote on the tablets the words its pillars, and its sockets; 35:12 the ark, and its
of the covenant, the ten commandments. poles, the mercy seat, the veil of the screen;
34:29 35:13
It happened, when Moses came down the table with its poles and all its vessels,
from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the and the show bread; 35:14 the menorah also for
testimony in Moses’ hand, when he came down the light, with its vessels, its lamps, and the
from the mountain, that Moses didn’t know oil for the light; 35:15 and the altar of incense
that the skin of his face shone by reason of his with its poles, the anointing oil, the sweet
speaking with him. 34:30 When Aaron and all incense, the screen for the door, at the door of
the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the the tabernacle; 35:16 the altar of burnt offering,
skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to with its grating of brass, it poles, and all its
come near him. 34:31 Moses called to them, and vessels, the basin and its base; 35:17 the hangings
Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation of the court, its pillars, their sockets, and the
returned to him; and Moses spoke to them. screen for the gate of the court; 35:18 the pins of
34:32
Afterward all the children of Israel came the tabernacle, the pins of the court, and their
near, and he gave them all of the command- cords; 35:19 the finely worked garments, for
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ministering in the holy place, the holy garments in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of those
for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his who do any workmanship, and of those who
sons, to minister in the priest’s office.’” make skillful works.
35:20 36:1
All the congregation of the children of “Bezalel and Oholiab shall work with
Israel departed from the presence of Moses. every wise-hearted man, in whom the LORD
35:21 has put wisdom and understanding to know
They came, everyone whose heart stirred
him up, and everyone whom his spirit made how to work all the work for the service of the
willing, and brought the LORD’s offering, for sanctuary, according to all that the LORD has
the work of the Tent of Meeting, and for commanded.”
36:2
all of its service, and for the holy garments. Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab, and
35:22
They came, both men and women, as many every wise-hearted man, in whose heart the
as were willing-hearted, and brought brooches, LORD had put wisdom, even everyone whose
earrings, signet rings, and armlets, all jewels heart stirred him up to come to the work to
of gold; even every man who offered an offer- do it: 36:3 and they received from Moses all
ing of gold to the LORD. 35:23 Everyone, with the offering which the children of Israel had
whom was found blue, purple, scarlet, fine brought for the work of the service of the
linen, goats’ hair, rams’ skins dyed red, and sea sanctuary, with which to make it. They brought
cow hides, brought them. 35:24 Everyone who yet to him freewill offerings every morning.
36:4
offered an offering of silver and brass brought All the wise men, who performed all the
the LORD’s offering; and everyone, with whom work of the sanctuary, each came from his
was found acacia wood for any work of the work which they did. 36:5 They spoke to Moses,
service, brought it. 35:25 All the women who saying, “The people bring much more than
were wise-hearted spun with their hands, and enough for the service of the work which the
brought that which they had spun, the blue, the LORD commanded to make.”
purple, the scarlet, and the fine linen. 35:26 All 36:6
Moses gave commandment, and they
the women whose heart stirred them up in caused it to be proclaimed throughout the
wisdom spun the goats’ hair. 35:27 The rulers camp, saying, “Let neither man nor woman
brought the onyx stones, and the stones to make anything else for the offering for the
be set, for the ephod and for the breastplate; sanctuary.” So the people were restrained
35:28
and the spice, and the oil for the light, for from bringing. 36:7 For the stuff they had was
the anointing oil, and for the sweet incense. sufficient for all the work to make it, and too
35:29
The children of Israel brought a freewill much.
offering to the LORD; every man and woman, 36:8
All the wise-hearted men among those
whose heart made them willing to bring for all who did the work made the tabernacle with
the work, which the LORD had commanded to ten curtains; of fine twined linen, blue, purple,
be made by Moses. and scarlet, with cherubim, the work of the
35:30
Moses said to the children of Israel, skillful workman, they made them. 36:9 The
“Behold, the LORD has called by name Bezalel length of each curtain was twenty-eight cubits,
the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe and the breadth of each curtain four cubits. All
of Judah. 35:31 He has filled him with the the curtains had one measure. 36:10 He coupled
Spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, in five curtains to one another, and the other five
knowledge, and in all kinds of workmanship; curtains he coupled one to another. 36:11 He
35:32
and to make skillful works, to work in made loops of blue on the edge of the one
gold, in silver, in brass, 35:33 in cutting of stones curtain from the edge in the coupling. Likewise
for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in he made in the edge of the curtain that was
all kinds of skillful workmanship. 35:34 He has outmost in the second coupling. 36:12 He made
put in his heart that he may teach, both he, and fifty loops in the one curtain, and he made fifty
Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of loops in the edge of the curtain that was in the
Dan. 35:35 He has filled them with wisdom of second coupling. The loops were opposite one
heart, to work all kinds of workmanship, of the to another. 36:13 He made fifty clasps of gold,
engraver, of the skillful workman, and of the and coupled the curtains one to another with
embroiderer, in blue, in purple, in scarlet, and the clasps: so the tabernacle was a unit.
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36:14 36:35
He made curtains of goats’ hair for a He made the veil of blue, purple, scarlet,
covering over the tabernacle. He made them and fine twined linen: with cherubim. He made
eleven curtains. 36:15 The length of each curtain it the work of a skillful workman. 36:36 He made
was thirty cubits, and four cubits the breadth four pillars of acacia for it, and overlaid them
of each curtain. The eleven curtains had one with gold. Their hooks were of gold. He cast
measure. 36:16 He coupled five curtains by four sockets of silver for them. 36:37 He made a
themselves, and six curtains by themselves. screen for the door of the tent, of blue, purple,
36:17
He made fifty loops on the edge of the scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of an
curtain that was outmost in the coupling, and embroiderer; 36:38 and the five pillars of it with
he made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain their hooks. He overlaid their capitals and their
which was outmost in the second coupling. fillets with gold, and their five sockets were of
36:18
He made fifty clasps of brass to couple the brass.
tent together, that it might be a unit. 36:19 He 37:1
Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood.
made a covering for the tent of rams’ skins Its length was two and a half cubits, and its
dyed red, and a covering of sea cow hides breadth a cubit and a half, and a cubit and a
above. half its height. 37:2 He overlaid it with pure gold
36:20 inside and outside, and made a molding of gold
He made the boards for the tabernacle
of acacia wood, standing up. 36:21 Ten cubits for it around it. 37:3 He cast four rings of gold
was the length of a board, and a cubit and a for it, in its four feet; even two rings on its one
half the breadth of each board. 36:22 Each board side, and two rings on its other side. 37:4 He
had two tenons, joined one to another. He made poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them
made all the boards of the tabernacle this way. with gold. 37:5 He put the poles into the rings
36:23
He made the boards for the tabernacle: on the sides of the ark, to bear the ark. 37:6 He
twenty boards for the south side southward. made a mercy seat of pure gold. Its length was
36:24 two and a half cubits, and a cubit and a half
He made forty sockets of silver under the
twenty boards; two sockets under one board its breadth. 37:7 He made two cherubim of gold.
for its two tenons, and two sockets under He made them of beaten work, at the two ends
another board for its two tenons. 36:25 For the of the mercy seat; 37:8 one cherub at the one
second side of the tabernacle, on the north end, and one cherub at the other end. He made
side, he made twenty boards, 36:26 and their the cherubim of one piece with the mercy seat
forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one at its two ends. 37:9 The cherubim spread out
board, and two sockets under another board. their wings on high, covering the mercy seat
36:27 with their wings, with their faces toward one
For the far part of the tabernacle westward
he made six boards. 36:28 He made two boards another. The faces of the cherubim were toward
for the corners of the tabernacle in the far part. the mercy seat.
36:29 37:10
They were double beneath, and in the same He made the table of acacia wood. Its
way they were all the way to its top to one length was two cubits, and its breadth was a
ring. He did this to both of them in the two cubit, and its height was a cubit and a half.
corners. 36:30 There were eight boards, and their 37:11
He overlaid it with pure gold, and made a
sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; under every gold molding around it. 37:12 He made a border
board two sockets. of a handbreadth around it, and made a golden
36:31
He made bars of acacia wood; five for molding on its border around it. 37:13 He cast
the boards of the one side of the tabernacle, four rings of gold for it, and put the rings in the
36:32
and five bars for the boards of the other four corners that were on its four feet. 37:14 The
side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the rings were close by the border, the places for the
boards of the tabernacle for the hinder part poles to carry the table. 37:15 He made the poles
westward. 36:33 He made the middle bar to pass of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold,
through in the midst of the boards from the one to carry the table. 37:16 He made the vessels
end to the other. 36:34 He overlaid the boards which were on the table, its dishes, its spoons,
with gold, and made their rings of gold for its bowls, and its pitchers with which to pour
places for the bars, and overlaid the bars with out, of pure gold.
37:17
gold. He made the menorah of pure gold. He
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made the menorah of beaten work. Its base, rings on the sides of the altar, with which to
its shaft, its cups, its buds, and its flowers carry it. He made it hollow with planks.
were of one piece with it. 37:18 There were six 38:8
He made the basin of brass, and its base
branches going out of its sides: three branches of brass, out of the mirrors of the ministering
of the menorah out of its one side, and three women who ministered at the door of the Tent
branches of the menorah out of its other side: of Meeting.
37:19
three cups made like almond blossoms in 38:9
He made the court: for the south side
one branch, a bud and a flower, and three
southward the hangings of the court were of
cups made like almond blossoms in the other
fine twined linen, one hundred cubits; 38:10 their
branch, a bud and a flower: so for the six
pillars were twenty, and their sockets twenty,
branches going out of the menorah. 37:20 In
of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their
the menorah were four cups made like almond
fillets were of silver. 38:11 For the north side one
blossoms, its buds and its flowers; 37:21 and a
hundred cubits, their pillars twenty, and their
bud under two branches of one piece with it,
sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars,
and a bud under two branches of one piece
and their fillets, of silver. 38:12 For the west side
with it, and a bud under two branches of one
were hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten,
piece with it, for the six branches going out of it.
37:22 and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars,
Their buds and their branches were of one
and their fillets, of silver. 38:13 For the east side
piece with it. The whole thing was one beaten
eastward fifty cubits. 38:14 The hangings for
work of pure gold. 37:23 He made its seven
the one side were fifteen cubits; their pillars
lamps, and its snuffers, and its snuff dishes, of
three, and their sockets three; 38:15 and so for
pure gold. 37:24 He made it of a talent of pure
the other side: on this hand and that hand by
gold, with all its vessels.
the gate of the court were hangings of fifteen
37:25
He made the altar of incense of acacia cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets
wood. It was square: its length was a cubit, three. 38:16 All the hangings around the court
and its breadth a cubit. Its height was two were of fine twined linen. 38:17 The sockets for
cubits. Its horns were of one piece with it. the pillars were of brass. The hooks of the
37:26
He overlaid it with pure gold, its top, its pillars and their fillets were of silver; and the
sides around it, and its horns. He made a gold overlaying of their capitals, of silver; and all
molding around it. 37:27 He made two golden the pillars of the court were filleted with silver.
rings for it under its molding crown, on its 38:18
The screen for the gate of the court was
two ribs, on its two sides, for places for poles the work of the embroiderer, of blue, purple,
with which to carry it. 37:28 He made the poles scarlet, and fine twined linen. Twenty cubits
of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold. was the length, and the height in the breadth
37:29
He made the holy anointing oil and the was five cubits, like to the hangings of the
pure incense of sweet spices, after the art of the court. 38:19 Their pillars were four, and their
perfumer. sockets four, of brass; their hooks of silver, and
38:1 the overlaying of their capitals, and their fillets,
He made the altar of burnt offering of
acacia wood. It was square. Its length was five of silver. 38:20 All the pins of the tabernacle, and
cubits, its breadth was five cubits, and its height around the court, were of brass.
was three cubits. 38:2 He made its horns on its 38:21
This is the amount of material used
four corners. Its horns were of one piece with for the tabernacle, even the Tabernacle of the
it, and he overlaid it with brass. 38:3 He made Testimony, as they were counted, according to
all the vessels of the altar, the pots, the shovels, the commandment of Moses, for the service of
the basins, the forks, and the fire pans. He the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, the son of
made all its vessels of brass. 38:4 He made for Aaron the priest. 38:22 Bezalel the son of Uri, the
the altar a grating of a network of brass, under son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made all that
the ledge around it beneath, reaching halfway the LORD commanded Moses. 38:23 With him
up. 38:5 He cast four rings for the four ends of was Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe
brass grating, to be places for the poles. 38:6 He of Dan, an engraver, and a skillful workman,
made the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid and an embroiderer in blue, in purple, in
them with brass. 38:7 He put the poles into the scarlet, and in fine linen.
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38:24
All the gold that was used for the work LORD commanded Moses.
in all the work of the sanctuary, even the 39:8
He made the breastplate, the work of a
gold of the offering, was twenty-nine talents, skillful workman, like the work of the ephod;
and seven hundred thirty shekels, after the of gold, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined
shekel of the sanctuary. 38:25 The silver of those linen. 39:9 It was square. They made the
who were numbered of the congregation was breastplate double. Its length was a span, and
one hundred talents, and one thousand seven its breadth a span, being double. 39:10 They
hundred seventy-five shekels, after the shekel set in it four rows of stones. A row of ruby,
of the sanctuary: 38:26 a beka a head, that is, topaz, and beryl was the first row; 39:11 and
half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, the second row, a turquoise, a sapphirex , and
for everyone who passed over to those who an emerald; 39:12 and the third row, a jacinth,
were numbered, from twenty years old and an agate, and an amethyst; 39:13 and the fourth
upward, for six hundred three thousand five row, a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper. They
hundred fifty men. 38:27 The one hundred were enclosed in gold settings. 39:14 The stones
talents of silver were for casting the sockets of were according to the names of the children of
the sanctuary, and the sockets of the veil; one Israel, twelve, according to their names; like
hundred sockets for the one hundred talents, a the engravings of a signet, everyone according
talent for a socket. 38:28 Of the one thousand to his name, for the twelve tribes. 39:15 They
seven hundred seventy-five shekels he made made on the breastplate chains like cords, of
hooks for the pillars, overlaid their capitals, braided work of pure gold. 39:16 They made two
and made fillets for them. 38:29 The brass of the settings of gold, and two gold rings, and put
offering was seventy talents, and two thousand the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.
four hundred shekels. 38:30 With this he made 39:17
They put the two braided chains of gold
the sockets to the door of the Tent of Meeting, in the two rings at the ends of the breastplate.
the bronze altar, the bronze grating for it, all the 39:18
The other two ends of the two braided
vessels of the altar, 38:31 the sockets around the chains they put on the two settings, and put
court, the sockets of the gate of the court, all the them on the shoulder straps of the ephod, in its
pins of the tabernacle, and all the pins around front. 39:19 They made two rings of gold, and
the court. put them on the two ends of the breastplate,
39:1
Of the blue, purple, and scarlet, they on its edge, which was toward the side of the
made finely worked garments, for ministering ephod inward. 39:20 They made two rings of
in the holy place, and made the holy garments gold, and put them on the two shoulder straps
for Aaron; as the LORD commanded Moses. of the ephod underneath, in its front, close by
39:2
He made the ephod of gold, blue, purple, its coupling, above the skillfully woven band
scarlet, and fine twined linen. 39:3 They beat the of the ephod. 39:21 They bound the breastplate
gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace
work it in the blue, in the purple, in the scarlet, of blue, that it might be on the skillfully woven
and in the fine linen, the work of the skillful band of the ephod, and that the breastplate
workman. 39:4 They made shoulder straps for it, might not come loose from the ephod, as the
joined together. At the two ends it was joined LORD commanded Moses.
together. 39:5 The skillfully woven band that 39:22
He made the robe of the ephod of
was on it, with which to fasten it on, was of woven work, all of blue. 39:23 The opening of
the same piece, like its work; of gold, of blue, the robe in its midst was like the opening of a
purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen; as the coat of mail, with a binding around its opening,
LORD commanded Moses. that it should not be torn. 39:24 They made on
39:6
They worked the onyx stones, enclosed the skirts of the robe pomegranates of blue,
in settings of gold, engraved with the engrav- purple, scarlet, and twined linen. 39:25 They
ings of a signet, according to the names of made bells of pure gold, and put the bells
the children of Israel. 39:7 He put them on between the pomegranates around the skirts of
the shoulder straps of the ephod, to be stones the robe, between the pomegranates; 39:26 a bell
of memorial for the children of Israel, as the and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate,
x 39:11 or, lapis lazuli
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around the skirts of the robe, to minister in, as the things that are on it. You shall bring in the
the LORD commanded Moses. menorah, and light its lamps. 40:5 You shall set
39:27 the golden altar for incense before the ark of the
They made the coats of fine linen of
woven work for Aaron, and for his sons, testimony, and put the screen of the door to the
39:28 tabernacle.
and the turban of fine linen, and the linen
40:6
headbands of fine linen, and the linen breeches “You shall set the altar of burnt offering
of fine twined linen, 39:29 and the sash of fine before the door of the tabernacle of the Tent of
twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, Meeting. 40:7 You shall set the basin between
the work of the embroiderer, as the LORD the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and shall put
commanded Moses. water therein. 40:8 You shall set up the court
39:30 around it, and hang up the screen of the gate
They made the plate of the holy crown
of pure gold, and wrote on it a writing, like of the court.
40:9
the engravings of a signet: “HOLY TO THE “You shall take the anointing oil, and
LORD.” 39:31 They tied to it a lace of blue, to anoint the tabernacle, and all that is in it, and
fasten it on the turban above, as the LORD shall make it holy, and all its furniture: and it
commanded Moses. will be holy. 40:10 You shall anoint the altar of
39:32 burnt offering, with all its vessels, and sanctify
Thus all the work of the tabernacle of
the Tent of Meeting was finished. The children the altar: and the altar will be most holy.
40:11
of Israel did according to all that the LORD You shall anoint the basin and its base, and
commanded Moses; so they did. 39:33 They sanctify it.
40:12
brought the tabernacle to Moses, the tent, with “You shall bring Aaron and his sons
all its furniture, its clasps, its boards, its bars, to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and shall
its pillars, its sockets, 39:34 the covering of rams’ wash them with water. 40:13 You shall put
skins dyed red, the covering of sea cow hides, on Aaron the holy garments; and you shall
the veil of the screen, 39:35 the ark of the testi- anoint him, and sanctify him, that he may
mony with its poles, the mercy seat, 39:36 the minister to me in the priest’s office. 40:14 You
table, all its vessels, the show bread, 39:37 the shall bring his sons, and put coats on them.
40:15
pure menorah, its lamps, even the lamps to You shall anoint them, as you anointed
be set in order, all its vessels, the oil for the their father, that they may minister to me in the
light, 39:38 the golden altar, the anointing oil, the priest’s office. Their anointing shall be to them
sweet incense, the screen for the door of the for an everlasting priesthood throughout their
Tent, 39:39 the bronze altar, its grating of brass, generations.” 40:16 Moses did so. According to
its poles, all of its vessels, the basin and its base, all that the LORD commanded him, so he did.
39:40 40:17
the hangings of the court, its pillars, its It happened in the first month in the
sockets, the screen for the gate of the court, its second year, on the first day of the month, that
cords, its pins, all the instruments of the service the tabernacle was raised up. 40:18 Moses raised
of the tabernacle, for the Tent of Meeting, up the tabernacle, and laid its sockets, and set
39:41
the finely worked garments for ministering up its boards, and put in its bars, and raised
in the holy place, the holy garments for Aaron up its pillars. 40:19 He spread the covering over
the priest, and the garments of his sons, to the tent, and put the roof of the tabernacle
minister in the priest’s office. 39:42 According to above on it, as the LORD commanded Moses.
all that the LORD commanded Moses, so the 40:20
He took and put the testimony into the
children of Israel did all the work. 39:43 Moses ark, and set the poles on the ark, and put the
saw all the work, and behold, they had done mercy seat above on the ark. 40:21 He brought
it as the LORD had commanded, even so had the ark into the tabernacle, and set up the
they done it: and Moses blessed them. veil of the screen, and screened the ark of the
40:1
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, testimony, as the LORD commanded Moses.
40:2 40:22
“On the first day of the first month you shall He put the table in the Tent of Meeting, on
raise up the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting. the side of the tabernacle northward, outside
40:3
You shall put the ark of the testimony in of the veil. 40:23 He set the bread in order on
it, and you shall screen the ark with the veil. it before the LORD, as the LORD commanded
40:4
You shall bring in the table, and set in order Moses. 40:24 He put the menorah in the Tent
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of Meeting, opposite the table, on the side of


the tabernacle southward. 40:25 He lit the lamps
before the LORD, as the LORD commanded
Moses. 40:26 He put the golden altar in the
Tent of Meeting before the veil; 40:27 and he
burnt incense of sweet spices on it, as the
LORD commanded Moses. 40:28 He put up the
screen of the door to the tabernacle. 40:29 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
the LORD commanded Moses. 40:30 He set the
basin between the Tent of Meeting and the altar,
and put water therein, with which to wash.
40:31
Moses, Aaron, and his sons washed their
hands and their feet there. 40:32 When they went
into the Tent of Meeting, and when they came
near to the altar, they washed, as the LORD
commanded Moses. 40:33 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.
40:34
Then the cloud covered the Tent of
Meeting, and the glory of the LORD filled the
tabernacle. 40:35 Moses wasn’t able to enter
into the Tent of Meeting, because the cloud
stayed on it, and the LORD’s glory filled the
tabernacle. 40:36 When the cloud was taken up
from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel
went onward, throughout all their journeys;
40:37
but if the cloud wasn’t taken up, then they
didn’t travel until the day that it was taken
up. 40:38 For the cloud of the LORD 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.
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Leviticus the place of the ashes. 1:17 He shall tear it by its


wings, but shall not divide it apart. The priest
1:1 shall burn it on the altar, on the wood that is on
the LORDa called to Moses, and spoke
to him out of the Tent of Meeting, saying, the fire. It is a burnt offering, an offering made
1:2 by fire, of a pleasant aroma to the LORD.
“Speak to the children of Israel, and tell
2:1
them, ‘When anyone of you offers an offering “‘When anyone offers an offering of a
to the LORD, you shall offer your offering of meal offering to the LORD, his offering shall be
the livestock, from the herd and from the flock. of fine flour; and he shall pour oil on it, and
1:3
“‘If his offering is a burnt offering from put frankincense on it. 2:2 He shall bring it to
the herd, he shall offer a male without blemish. Aaron’s sons, the priests; and he shall take his
He shall offer it at the door of the Tent of handful of its fine flour, and of its oil, with all
Meeting, that he may be accepted before the its frankincense; and the priest shall burn its
LORD. 1:4 He shall lay his hand on the head of memorial on the altar, an offering made by fire,
the burnt offering, and it shall be accepted for of a pleasant aroma to the LORD. 2:3 That which
him to make atonement for him. 1:5 He shall is left of the meal offering shall be Aaron’s and
kill the bull before the LORD. Aaron’s sons, the his sons’. It is a most holy thing of the offerings
priests, shall present the blood and sprinkle the of the LORD made by fire.
2:4
blood around on the altar that is at the door of “‘When you offer an offering of a meal
the Tent of Meeting. 1:6 He shall flay the burnt offering baked in the oven, it shall be unleav-
offering, and cut it into pieces. 1:7 The sons of ened cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, or
Aaron the priest shall put fire on the altar, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil. 2:5 If your
lay wood in order on the fire; 1:8 and Aaron’s offering is a meal offering of the griddle, it shall
sons, the priests, shall lay the pieces, the head, be of unleavened fine flour, mixed with oil.
2:6
and the fat in order on the wood that is on the You shall cut it in pieces, and pour oil on it.
fire which is on the altar; 1:9 but its innards and It is a meal offering. 2:7 If your offering is a meal
its legs he shall wash with water. The priest offering of the pan, it shall be made of fine flour
shall burn the whole on the altar, for a burnt with oil. 2:8 You shall bring the meal offering
offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant that is made of these things to the LORD: and
aroma to the LORD. it shall be presented to the priest, and he shall
1:10
“‘If his offering is from the flock, from the bring it to the altar. 2:9 The priest shall take from
sheep, or from the goats, for a burnt offering, he the meal offering its memorial, and shall burn
shall offer a male without blemish. 1:11 He shall it on the altar, an offering made by fire, of a
kill it on the north side of the altar before the pleasant aroma to the LORD. 2:10 That which is
LORD. Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall sprinkle left of the meal offering shall be Aaron’s and his
its blood around on the altar. 1:12 He shall cut sons’. It is a thing most holy of the offerings of
it into its pieces, with its head and its fat. The the LORD made by fire.
2:11
priest shall lay them in order on the wood that “‘No meal offering, which you shall offer
is on the fire which is on the altar, 1:13 but the to the LORD, shall be made with yeast; for
innards and the legs he shall wash with water. you shall burn no yeast, nor any honey, as an
The priest shall offer the whole, and burn it on offering made by fire to the LORD. 2:12 As an
the altar. It is a burnt offering, an offering made offering of firstfruits you shall offer them to the
by fire, of a pleasant aroma to the LORD. LORD: but they shall not ascend for a pleasant
1:14
“‘If his offering to the LORD is a burnt aroma on the altar. 2:13 Every offering of your
offering of birds, then he shall offer his offering meal offering you shall season with salt; neither
of turtledoves, or of young pigeons. 1:15 The shall you allow the salt of the covenant of your
priest shall bring it to the altar, and wring off Godb to be lacking from your meal offering.
its head, and burn it on the altar; and its blood With all your offerings you shall offer salt.
2:14
shall be drained out on the side of the altar; “‘If you offer a meal offering of first
1:16
and he shall take away its crop with its filth, fruits to the LORD, you shall offer for the meal
and cast it beside the altar on the east part, in offering of your first fruits grain in the ear
a 1:1 “LORD” or “GOD” (all capital letters) indicate the 4-letter Holy Name of God
b 2:13 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “Elohim.”
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parched with fire, bruised grain of the fresh ear. the kidneys, he shall take away. 3:16 The priest
2:15
You shall put oil on it, and lay frankincense shall burn them on the altar: it is the food of the
on it: it is a meal offering. 2:16 The priest offering made by fire, for a pleasant aroma; all
shall burn as its memorial, part of its bruised the fat is the LORD’s.
grain, and part of its oil, along with all its 3:17
“‘It shall be a perpetual statute through-
frankincense: it is an offering made by fire to out your generations in all your dwellings, that
the LORD. you shall eat neither fat nor blood.’”
3:1 4:1
“‘If his offering is a sacrifice of peace The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
offerings; if he offers it from the herd, whether 4:2
“Speak to the children of Israel, saying,
male or female, he shall offer it without blemish ‘If anyone sins unintentionally, in any of the
before the LORD. 3:2 He shall lay his hand on things which the LORD has commanded not to
the head of his offering, and kill it at the door be done, and does any one of them: 4:3 if the
of the Tent of Meeting: and Aaron’s sons, the anointed priest sins so as to bring guilt on the
priests shall sprinkle the blood around on the people, then let him offer for his sin, which he
altar. 3:3 He shall offer of the sacrifice of peace has sinned, a young bull without blemish to the
offerings an offering made by fire to the LORD; LORD for a sin offering. 4:4 He shall bring the
the fat that covers the innards, and all the fat bull to the door of the Tent of Meeting before
that is on the innards, 3:4 and the two kidneys, the LORD; and he shall lay his hand on the
and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, head of the bull, and kill the bull before the
and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys, he LORD. 4:5 The anointed priest shall take some
shall take away. 3:5 Aaron’s sons shall burn it on of the blood of the bull, and bring it to the Tent
the altar on the burnt offering, which is on the of Meeting. 4:6 The priest shall dip his finger
wood that is on the fire: it is an offering made in the blood, and sprinkle some of the blood
by fire, of a pleasant aroma to the LORD. seven times before the LORD, before the veil
3:6
“‘If his offering for a sacrifice of peace of the sanctuary. 4:7 The priest shall put some
offerings to the LORD is from the flock; male of the blood on the horns of the altar of sweet
or female, he shall offer it without blemish. incense before the LORD, which is in the Tent of
3:7
If he offers a lamb for his offering, then he Meeting; and he shall pour out all of rest of the
shall offer it before the LORD; 3:8 and he shall blood of the bull at the base of the altar of burnt
lay his hand on the head of his offering, and offering, which is at the door of the Tent of
kill it before the Tent of Meeting: and Aaron’s Meeting. 4:8 He shall take all the fat of the bull
sons shall sprinkle its blood around on the altar. of the sin offering off of it; the fat that covers the
3:9
He shall offer from the sacrifice of peace innards, and all the fat that is on the innards,
4:9
offerings an offering made by fire to the LORD; and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on
its fat, the entire tail fat, he shall take away close them, which is by the loins, and the cover on
to the backbone; and the fat that covers the the liver, with the kidneys, he shall take away,
4:10
inwards, and all the fat that is on the inwards, as it is taken off of the bull of the sacrifice of
3:10
and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on peace offerings. The priest shall burn them on
them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the altar of burnt offering. 4:11 The bull’s skin,
the liver, with the kidneys, he shall take away. all its flesh, with its head, and with its legs,
3:11
The priest shall burn it on the altar: it is the its innards, and its dung, 4:12 even the whole
food of the offering made by fire to the LORD. bull shall he carry forth outside the camp to
3:12 a clean place, where the ashes are poured out,
“‘If his offering is a goat, then he shall
offer it before the LORD: 3:13 and he shall lay his and burn it on wood with fire. Where the ashes
hand on its head, and kill it before the Tent of are poured out it shall be burned.
4:13
Meeting; and the sons of Aaron shall sprinkle “‘If the whole congregation of Israel sins,
its blood around on the altar. 3:14 He shall offer and the thing is hidden from the eyes of the
from it as his offering, an offering made by fire assembly, and they have done any of the things
to the LORD; the fat that covers the innards, which the LORD has commanded not to be
and all the fat that is on the innards, 3:15 and the done, and are guilty; 4:14 when the sin in which
two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which they have sinned is known, then the assembly
is by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with shall offer a young bull for a sin offering, and
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bring it before the Tent of Meeting. 4:15 The fat he shall take away, like the fat is taken away
elders of the congregation shall lay their hands from off of the sacrifice of peace offerings; and
on the head of the bull before the LORD; and the priest shall burn it on the altar for a pleasant
the bull shall be killed before the LORD. 4:16 The aroma to the LORD; and the priest shall make
anointed priest shall bring of the blood of the atonement for him, and he will be forgiven.
bull to the Tent of Meeting: 4:17 and the priest 4:32
“‘If he brings a lamb as his offering for
shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle a sin offering, he shall bring a female without
it seven times before the LORD, before the veil. blemish. 4:33 He shall lay his hand on the head
4:18
He shall put some of the blood on the horns of the sin offering, and kill it for a sin offering
of the altar which is before the LORD, that is in in the place where they kill the burnt offering.
the Tent of Meeting; and the rest of the blood 4:34
The priest shall take some of the blood of
he shall pour out at the base of the altar of the sin offering with his finger, and put it on the
burnt offering, which is at the door of the Tent horns of the altar of burnt offering; and all the
of Meeting. 4:19 All its fat he shall take from it, rest of its blood he shall pour out at the base
and burn it on the altar. 4:20 Thus shall he do of the altar. 4:35 All its fat he shall take away,
with the bull; as he did with the bull of the sin like the fat of the lamb is taken away from the
offering, so shall he do with this; and the priest sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall
shall make atonement for them, and they shall burn them on the altar, on the offerings of the
be forgiven. 4:21 He shall carry forth the bull LORD made by fire; and the priest shall make
outside the camp, and burn it as he burned the atonement for him concerning his sin that he
first bull. It is the sin offering for the assembly. has sinned, and he will be forgiven.
4:22 5:1
“‘When a ruler sins, and unwittingly “‘If anyone sins, in that he hears the voice
does any one of all the things which the LORD of adjuration, he being a witness, whether he
his God has commanded not to be done, and has seen or known, if he doesn’t report it, then
is guilty; 4:23 if his sin, in which he has sinned, he shall bear his iniquity.
5:2
is made known to him, he shall bring as his “‘Or if anyone touches any unclean thing,
offering a goat, a male without blemish. 4:24 He whether it is the carcass of an unclean animal,
shall lay his hand on the head of the goat, and or the carcass of unclean livestock, or the
kill it in the place where they kill the burnt carcass of unclean creeping things, and it is
offering before the LORD. It is a sin offering. hidden from him, and he is unclean, then he
4:25
The priest shall take some of the blood of shall be guilty.
the sin offering with his finger, and put it on 5:3
“‘Or if he touches the uncleanness of man,
the horns of the altar of burnt offering. He shall whatever his uncleanness is with which he is
pour out the rest of its blood at the base of the unclean, and it is hidden from him; when he
altar of burnt offering. 4:26 All its fat he shall knows of it, then he shall be guilty.
burn on the altar, like the fat of the sacrifice 5:4
“‘Or if anyone swears rashly with his lips
of peace offerings; and the priest shall make to do evil, or to do good, whatever it is that a
atonement for him concerning his sin, and he man might utter rashly with an oath, and it is
will be forgiven. hidden from him; when he knows of it, then
4:27
“‘If anyone of the common people sins he shall be guilty of one of these. 5:5 It shall
unwittingly, in doing any of the things which be, when he is guilty of one of these, he shall
the LORD has commanded not to be done, and confess that in which he has sinned: 5:6 and he
is guilty; 4:28 if his sin, which he has sinned, is shall bring his trespass offering to the LORD
made known to him, then he shall bring for his for his sin which he has sinned, a female from
offering a goat, a female without blemish, for the flock, a lamb or a goat, for a sin offering;
his sin which he has sinned. 4:29 He shall lay his and the priest shall make atonement for him
hand on the head of the sin offering, and kill concerning his sin.
5:7
the sin offering in the place of burnt offering. “‘If he can’t afford a lamb, then he shall
4:30
The priest shall take some of its blood with bring his trespass offering for that in which
his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar he has sinned, two turtledoves, or two young
of burnt offering; and the rest of its blood he pigeons, to the LORD; one for a sin offering,
shall pour out at the base of the altar. 4:31 All its and the other for a burnt offering. 5:8 He shall
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6:1
bring them to the priest, who shall first offer The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 6:2 “If
the one which is for the sin offering, and wring anyone sins, and commits a trespass against the
off its head from its neck, but shall not sever LORD, and deals falsely with his neighbor in a
it completely. 5:9 He shall sprinkle some of matter of deposit, or of bargain, or of robbery,
the blood of the sin offering on the side of or has oppressed his neighbor, 6:3 or has found
the altar; and the rest of the blood shall be that which was lost, and dealt falsely therein,
drained out at the base of the altar. It is a and swearing to a lie; in any of all these things
sin offering. 5:10 He shall offer the second for that a man does, sinning therein; 6:4 then it shall
a burnt offering, according to the ordinance; be, if he has sinned, and is guilty, he shall
and the priest shall make atonement for him restore that which he took by robbery, or the
concerning his sin which he has sinned, and he thing which he has gotten by oppression, or the
shall be forgiven. deposit which was committed to him, or the
5:11
“‘But if he can’t afford two turtledoves, lost thing which he found, 6:5 or any thing about
or two young pigeons, then he shall bring his which he has sworn falsely; he shall restore it
offering for that in which he has sinned, the even in full, and shall add a fifth part more
tenth part of an efahc of fine flour for a sin to it. To him to whom it belongs he shall
offering. He shall put no oil on it, neither give it, in the day of his being found guilty.
6:6
shall he put any frankincense on it, for it is a He shall bring his trespass offering to the
sin offering. 5:12 He shall bring it to the priest, LORD, a ram without blemish from the flock,
and the priest shall take his handful of it as according to your estimation, for a trespass
the memorial portion, and burn it on the altar, offering, to the priest. 6:7 The priest shall make
on the offerings of the LORD made by fire. atonement for him before the LORD, and he
It is a sin offering. 5:13 The priest shall make will be forgiven concerning whatever he does
atonement for him concerning his sin that he to become guilty.”
6:8
has sinned in any of these things, and he will The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
6:9
be forgiven; and the rest shall be the priest’s, as “Command Aaron and his sons, saying,
the meal offering.’” ‘This is the law of the burnt offering: the burnt
5:14
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, offering shall be on the hearth on the altar all
5:15
“If anyone commits a trespass, and sins night until the morning; and the fire of the
unwittingly, in the holy things of the LORD; altar shall be kept burning on it. 6:10 The priest
then he shall bring his trespass offering to shall put on his linen garment, and he shall
the LORD, a ram without blemish from the put on his linen breeches upon his body; and
flock, according to your estimation in silver by he shall remove the ashes from where the fire
shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for a has consumed the burnt offering on the altar,
trespass offering. 5:16 He shall make restitution and he shall put them beside the altar. 6:11 He
for that which he has done wrong in the holy shall take off his garments, and put on other
thing, and shall add a fifth part to it, and garments, and carry the ashes outside the camp
give it to the priest; and the priest shall make to a clean place. 6:12 The fire on the altar shall
atonement for him with the ram of the trespass be kept burning on it, it shall not go out; and
offering, and he will be forgiven. the priest shall burn wood on it every morning:
5:17 and he shall lay the burnt offering in order
“If anyone sins, and does any of the
things which the LORD has commanded not upon it, and shall burn on it the fat of the peace
to be done; though he didn’t know it, yet he is offerings. 6:13 Fire shall be kept burning on the
guilty, and shall bear his iniquity. 5:18 He shall altar continually; it shall not go out.
6:14
bring a ram without blemish from of the flock, “‘This is the law of the meal offering: the
according to your estimation, for a trespass sons of Aaron shall offer it before the LORD,
offering, to the priest; and the priest shall before the altar. 6:15 He shall take from there his
make atonement for him concerning the thing handful of the fine flour of the meal offering,
in which he sinned and didn’t know it, and he and of its oil, and all the frankincense which is
will be forgiven. 5:19 It is a trespass offering. He on the meal offering, and shall burn it on the
is certainly guilty before the LORD.” altar for a pleasant aroma, as its memorial, to
c 5:11 1 efah is about 22 litres or about 2/3 of a bushel
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the LORD. 6:16 That which is left of it Aaron and on the altar. 7:3 He shall offer all of its fat:
his sons shall eat. It shall be eaten without yeast the fat tail, and the fat that covers the innards,
7:4
in a holy place. They shall eat it in the court of and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on
the Tent of Meeting. 6:17 It shall not be baked them, which is by the loins, and the cover on
with yeast. I have given it as their portion of my the liver, with the kidneys, shall he take away;
7:5
offerings made by fire. It is most holy, as the sin and the priest shall burn them on the altar
offering, and as the trespass offering. 6:18 Every for an offering made by fire to the LORD: it is
male among the children of Aaron shall eat a trespass offering. 7:6 Every male among the
of it, as their portion forever throughout your priests may eat of it. It shall be eaten in a holy
generations, from the offerings of the LORD place. It is most holy.
7:7
made by fire. Whoever touches them shall be “‘As is the sin offering, so is the trespass
holy.’” offering; there is one law for them. The priest
6:19
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, who makes atonement with them shall have
6:20
“This is the offering of Aaron and of his it. 7:8 The priest who offers any man’s burnt
sons, which they shall offer to the LORD in offering, even the priest shall have for himself
the day when he is anointed: the tenth part the skin of the burnt offering which he has
of an efahd of fine flour for a meal offering offered. 7:9 Every meal offering that is baked in
perpetually, half of it in the morning, and half the oven, and all that is dressed in the pan, and
of it in the evening. 6:21 It shall be made with on the griddle, shall be the priest’s who offers it.
7:10
oil in a griddle. When it is soaked, you shall Every meal offering, mixed with oil or dry,
bring it in. You shall offer the meal offering belongs to all the sons of Aaron, one as well as
in baked pieces for a pleasant aroma to the another.
LORD. 6:22 The anointed priest that will be in 7:11
“‘This is the law of the sacrifice of peace
his place from among his sons shall offer it. By offerings, which one shall offer to the LORD.
7:12
a statute forever, it shall be wholly burnt to the If he offers it for a thanksgiving, then he
LORD. 6:23 Every meal offering of a priest shall shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving
be wholly burned. It shall not be eaten.” unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleav-
6:24
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, ened wafers anointed with oil, and cakes mixed
6:25
“Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, with oil. 7:13 With cakes of leavened bread
‘This is the law of the sin offering: in the he shall offer his offering with the sacrifice of
place where the burnt offering is killed, the sin his peace offerings for thanksgiving. 7:14 Of
offering shall be killed before the LORD. It is it he shall offer one out of each offering for
most holy. 6:26 The priest who offers it for sin a heave offering to the LORD. It shall be the
shall eat it. It shall be eaten in a holy place, in priest’s who sprinkles the blood of the peace
the court of the Tent of Meeting. 6:27 Whatever offerings. 7:15 The flesh of the sacrifice of his
shall touch its flesh shall be holy. When there peace offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten
is any of its blood sprinkled on a garment, you on the day of his offering. He shall not leave
shall wash that on which it was sprinkled in a any of it until the morning.
holy place. 6:28 But the earthen vessel in which 7:16
“‘But if the sacrifice of his offering is a
it is boiled shall be broken; and if it is boiled in a vow, or a freewill offering, it shall be eaten
bronze vessel, it shall be scoured, and rinsed in on the day that he offers his sacrifice; and on
water. 6:29 Every male among the priests shall the next day what remains of it shall be eaten:
eat of it: it is most holy. 6:30 No sin offering, 7:17
but what remains of the flesh of the sacrifice
of which any of the blood is brought into the on the third day shall be burned with fire. 7:18 If
Tent of Meeting to make atonement in the Holy any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace
Place, shall be eaten: it shall be burned with offerings is eaten on the third day, it will not
fire. be accepted, neither shall it be imputed to him
7:1
“‘This is the law of the trespass offering. who offers it. It will be an abomination, and the
It is most holy. 7:2 In the place where they soul who eats any of it will bear his iniquity.
7:19
kill the burnt offering, he shall kill the trespass “‘The flesh that touches any unclean
offering; and its blood he shall sprinkle around thing shall not be eaten. It shall be burned with
d 6:20 1 efah is about 22 litres or about 2/3 of a bushel
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fire. As for the flesh, everyone who is clean the LORD commanded to be given them of the
may eat it; 7:20 but the soul who eats of the flesh children of Israel, in the day that he anointed
of the sacrifice of peace offerings, that belongs them. It is their portion forever throughout
to the LORD, having his uncleanness on him, their generations. 7:37 This is the law of the
that soul shall be cut off from his people. burnt offering, of the meal offering, and of the
7:21
When anyone touches any unclean thing, sin offering, and of the trespass offering, and of
the uncleanness of man, or an unclean animal, the consecration, and of the sacrifice of peace
or any unclean abomination, and eats some offerings; 7:38 which the LORD commanded
of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, Moses in Mount Sinai, in the day that he
which belong to the LORD, that soul shall be commanded the children of Israel to offer their
cut off from his people.’” offerings to the LORD, in the wilderness of
7:22 Sinai.
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
7:23 8:1
“Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘You The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
8:2
shall eat no fat, of bull, or sheep, or goat. “Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the
7:24
The fat of that which dies of itself, and the garments, and the anointing oil, and the bull
fat of that which is torn of animals, may be used of the sin offering, and the two rams, and the
for any other service, but you shall in no way basket of unleavened bread; 8:3 and assemble
eat of it. 7:25 For whoever eats the fat of the all the congregation at the door of the Tent of
animal, of which men offer an offering made by Meeting.”
fire to the LORD, even the soul who eats it shall 8:4
Moses did as the LORD commanded him;
be cut off from his people. 7:26 You shall not eat and the congregation was assembled at the
any blood, whether it is of bird or of animal, in door of the Tent of Meeting. 8:5 Moses said to
any of your dwellings. 7:27 Whoever it is who the congregation, “This is the thing which the
eats any blood, that soul shall be cut off from LORD has commanded to be done.” 8:6 Moses
his people.’” brought Aaron and his sons, and washed them
7:28
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, with water. 8:7 He put the coat on him, tied the
7:29
“Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘He sash on him, clothed him with the robe, put
who offers the sacrifice of his peace offerings the ephod on him, and he tied the skillfully
to the LORD shall bring his offering to the woven band of the ephod on him, and fastened
LORD out of the sacrifice of his peace offerings. it to him with it. 8:8 He placed the breastplate
7:30
With his own hands he shall bring the on him; and in the breastplate he put the
offerings of the LORD made by fire. He shall Urim and the Thummim. 8:9 He set the turban
bring the fat with the breast, that the breast on his head; and on the turban, in front, he
may be waved for a wave offering before the set the golden plate, the holy crown; as the
LORD. 7:31 The priest shall burn the fat on the LORD commanded Moses. 8:10 Moses took
altar, but the breast shall be Aaron’s and his the anointing oil, and anointed the tabernacle
sons’. 7:32 The right thigh you shall give to the and all that was in it, and sanctified them.
8:11
priest for a heave offering out of the sacrifices He sprinkled it on the altar seven times,
of your peace offerings. 7:33 He among the sons and anointed the altar and all its vessels,
of Aaron who offers the blood of the peace and the basin and its base, to sanctify them.
8:12
offerings, and the fat, shall have the right thigh He poured some of the anointing oil on
for a portion. 7:34 For the waved breast and the Aaron’s head, and anointed him, to sanctify
heaved thigh I have taken from the children him. 8:13 Moses brought Aaron’s sons, and
of Israel out of the sacrifices of their peace clothed them with coats, and tied sashes on
offerings, and have given them to Aaron the them, and put headbands on them; as the
priest and to his sons as their portion forever LORD commanded Moses.
from the children of Israel.’” 8:14
He brought the bull of the sin offering,
7:35
This is the anointing portion of Aaron, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on
and the anointing portion of his sons, out of the head of the bull of the sin offering. 8:15 He
the offerings of the LORD made by fire, in killed it; and Moses took the blood, and put
the day when he presented them to minister it around on the horns of the altar with his
to the LORD in the priest’s office; 7:36 which finger, and purified the altar, and poured out
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the blood at the base of the altar, and sanctified his sons, and his sons’ garments with him.
it, to make atonement for it. 8:16 He took all the 8:31
Moses said to Aaron and to his sons,
fat that was on the innards, and the cover of “Boil the flesh at the door of the Tent of
the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat; Meeting, and there eat it and the bread that
and Moses burned it on the altar. 8:17 But the is in the basket of consecration, as I com-
bull, and its skin, and its flesh, and its dung, manded, saying, ‘Aaron and his sons shall eat
he burned with fire outside the camp; as the it.’ 8:32 What remains of the flesh and of the
LORD commanded Moses. 8:18 He presented bread you shall burn with fire. 8:33 You shall
the ram of the burnt offering: and Aaron and not go out from the door of the Tent of Meeting
his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram. seven days, until the days of your consecration
8:19
He killed it; and Moses sprinkled the blood are fulfilled: for he shall consecrate you seven
around on the altar. 8:20 He cut the ram into days. 8:34 What has been done this day, so
its pieces; and Moses burned the head, and the the LORD has commanded to do, to make
pieces, and the fat. 8:21 He washed the innards atonement for you. 8:35 You shall stay at the
and the legs with water; and Moses burned the door of the Tent of Meeting day and night seven
whole ram on the altar. It was a burnt offering days, and keep the LORD’s command, that you
for a pleasant aroma. It was an offering made don’t die: for so I am commanded.” 8:36 Aaron
by fire to the LORD; as the LORD commanded and his sons did all the things which the LORD
Moses. 8:22 He presented the other ram, the ram commanded by Moses.
of consecration: and Aaron and his sons laid 9:1
It happened on the eighth day, that Moses
their hands on the head of the ram. 8:23 He called Aaron and his sons, and the elders of
killed it; and Moses took some of its blood, and Israel; 9:2 and he said to Aaron, “Take a calf
put it on the tip of Aaron’s right ear, and on from the herd for a sin offering, and a ram
the thumb of his right hand, and on the great for a burnt offering, without blemish, and offer
toe of his right foot. 8:24 He brought Aaron’s them before the LORD. 9:3 You shall speak to
sons; and Moses put some of the blood on the the children of Israel, saying, ‘Take a male goat
tip of their right ear, and on the thumb of their for a sin offering; and a calf and a lamb, both a
right hand, and on the great toe of their right year old, without blemish, for a burnt offering;
foot; and Moses sprinkled the blood around on 9:4
and a bull and a ram for peace offerings, to
the altar. 8:25 He took the fat, and the fat tail, sacrifice before the LORD; and a meal offering
and all the fat that was on the innards, and the mixed with oil: for today the LORD appears to
cover of the liver, and the two kidneys, and you.’”
their fat, and the right thigh; 8:26 and out of the 9:5
They brought what Moses commanded
basket of unleavened bread, that was before the
before the Tent of Meeting: and all the congre-
LORD, he took one unleavened cake, and one
gation drew near and stood before the LORD.
cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, and placed 9:6
Moses said, “This is the thing which the
them on the fat, and on the right thigh. 8:27 He
LORD commanded that you should do: and
put all these in Aaron’s hands and in his sons’
the glory of the LORD shall appear to you.”
hands, and waved them for a wave offering 9:7
Moses said to Aaron, “Draw near to the altar,
before the LORD. 8:28 Moses took them from
and offer your sin offering, and your burnt
their hands, and burned them on the altar on
offering, and make atonement for yourself, and
the burnt offering. They were a consecration
for the people; and offer the offering of the
for a pleasant aroma. It was an offering made
people, and make atonement for them; as the
by fire to the LORD. 8:29 Moses took the breast,
LORD commanded.”
and waved it for a wave offering before the 9:8
LORD. It was Moses’ portion of the ram of So Aaron drew near to the altar, and
consecration, as the LORD commanded Moses. killed the calf of the sin offering, which was
8:30
Moses took some of the anointing oil, and for himself. 9:9 The sons of Aaron presented the
some of the blood which was on the altar, and blood to him; and he dipped his finger in the
sprinkled it on Aaron, on his garments, and blood, and put it on the horns of the altar, and
on his sons, and on his sons’ garments with poured out the blood at the base of the altar:
9:10
him, and sanctified Aaron, his garments, and but the fat, and the kidneys, and the cover
from the liver of the sin offering, he burned
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upon the altar; as the LORD commanded and before all the people I will be glori-
Moses. 9:11 The flesh and the skin he burned fied.’”
with fire outside the camp. 9:12 He killed the Aaron held his peace. 10:4 Moses called
burnt offering; and Aaron’s sons delivered the Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel the
blood to him, and he sprinkled it around on uncle of Aaron, and said to them, “Draw near,
the altar. 9:13 They delivered the burnt offering carry your brothers from before the sanctuary
to him, piece by piece, and the head: and he out of the camp.” 10:5 So they drew near, and
burned them upon the altar. 9:14 He washed the carried them in their coats out of the camp, as
innards and the legs, and burned them on the Moses had said.
burnt offering on the altar. 9:15 He presented the 10:6
Moses said to Aaron, and to Eleazar and
people’s offering, and took the goat of the sin to Ithamar, his sons, “Don’t let the hair of your
offering which was for the people, and killed heads go loose, neither tear your clothes; that
it, and offered it for sin, like the first. 9:16 He you don’t die, and that he not be angry with
presented the burnt offering, and offered it all the congregation: but let your brothers,
according to the ordinance. 9:17 He presented the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning
the meal offering, and filled his hand from which the LORD has kindled. 10:7 You shall not
there, and burned it upon the altar, besides go out from the door of the Tent of Meeting, lest
the burnt offering of the morning. 9:18 He also you die; for the anointing oil of the LORD is on
killed the bull and the ram, the sacrifice of you.” They did according to the word of Moses.
peace offerings, which was for the people: and 10:8
The LORD spoke to Aaron, saying,
Aaron’s sons delivered to him the blood, which 10:9
“Drink no wine nor strong drink, you, nor
he sprinkled around on the altar, 9:19 and the your sons with you, when you go into the Tent
fat of the bull and of the ram, the fat tail, and of Meeting, that you don’t die: it shall be a
that which covers the innards, and the kidneys, statute forever throughout your generations:
and the cover of the liver: 9:20 and they put the 10:10
and that you are to make a distinction
fat upon the breasts, and he burned the fat on between the holy and the common, and be-
the altar: 9:21 and the breasts and the right thigh tween the unclean and the clean; 10:11 and that
Aaron waved for a wave offering before the you are to teach the children of Israel all the
LORD, as Moses commanded. 9:22 Aaron lifted statutes which the LORD has spoken to them
up his hands toward the people, and blessed by Moses.”
them; and he came down from offering the sin 10:12
Moses spoke to Aaron, and to Eleazar
offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace
and to Ithamar, his sons who were left, “Take
offerings.
9:23
the meal offering that remains of the offerings
Moses and Aaron went into the Tent of of the LORD made by fire, and eat it without
Meeting, and came out, and blessed the people: yeast beside the altar; for it is most holy;
and the glory of the LORD appeared to all the 10:13
and you shall eat it in a holy place, because
people. 9:24 There came forth fire from before it is your portion, and your sons’ portion, of
the LORD, and consumed the burnt offering the offerings of the LORD made by fire: for
and the fat upon the altar: and when all the so I am commanded. 10:14 The waved breast
people saw it, they shouted, and fell on their and the heaved thigh you shall eat in a clean
faces. place, you, and your sons, and your daughters
10:1
Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, with you: for they are given as your portion,
each took his censer, and put fire in it, and laid and your sons’ portion, out of the sacrifices
incense on it, and offered strange fire before the of the peace offerings of the children of Israel.
LORD, which he had not commanded them. 10:15
The heaved thigh and the waved breast
10:2
And fire came forth from before the LORD, they shall bring with the offerings made by fire
and devoured them, and they died before the of the fat, to wave it for a wave offering before
LORD. the LORD: and it shall be yours, and your sons’
10:3
Then Moses said to Aaron, “This is what with you, as a portion forever; as the LORD has
the LORD spoke of, saying, commanded.”
10:16
‘I will show myself holy to those who come Moses diligently inquired about the
near me, goat of the sin offering, and, behold, it was
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burned: and he was angry with Eleazar and the black vulture, 11:14 and the red kite, any
with Ithamar, the sons of Aaron who were left, kind of black kite, 11:15 any kind of raven,
saying, 10:17 “Why haven’t you eaten the sin 11:16
the horned owl, the screech owl, and the
offering in the place of the sanctuary, since it gull, any kind of hawk, 11:17 the little owl, the
is most holy, and he has given it you to bear cormorant, the great owl, 11:18 the white owl,
the iniquity of the congregation, to make atone- the desert owl, the osprey, 11:19 the stork, any
ment for them before the LORD? 10:18 Behold, kind of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat.
its blood was not brought into the inner part of 11:20
“‘All flying insects that walk on all fours
the sanctuary: you certainly should have eaten are an abomination to you. 11:21 Yet you may
it in the sanctuary, as I commanded.” eat these: of all winged creeping things that go
10:19
Aaron spoke to Moses, “Behold, this on all fours, which have legs above their feet,
day they have offered their sin offering and with which to hop on the earth. 11:22 Even of
their burnt offering before the LORD; and such these you may eat: any kind of locust, any kind
things as these have happened to me: and if I of katydid, any kind of cricket, and any kind
had eaten the sin offering today, would it have of grasshopper. 11:23 But all winged creeping
been pleasing in the sight of the LORD?” things which have four feet, are an abomination
10:20
When Moses heard that, it was pleasing to you.
in his sight. 11:24
“‘By these you will become unclean:
11:1
The LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean
saying to them, 11:2 “Speak to the children until the evening. 11:25 Whoever carries any
of Israel, saying, ‘These are the living things part of their carcass shall wash his clothes, and
which you may eat among all the animals that be unclean until the evening.
are on the earth. 11:3 Whatever parts the hoof, 11:26
“‘Every animal which parts the hoof,
and is cloven-footed, and chews the cud among and is not cloven-footed, nor chews the cud, is
the animals, that you may eat. unclean to you. Everyone who touches them
11:4
“‘Nevertheless these you shall not eat of shall be unclean. 11:27 Whatever goes on its
those that chew the cud, or of those who part paws, among all animals that go on all fours,
the hoof: the camel, because he chews the cud they are unclean to you. Whoever touches
but doesn’t have a parted hoof, he is unclean to their carcass shall be unclean until the evening.
you. 11:5 The coney, because he chews the cud 11:28
He who carries their carcass shall wash his
but doesn’t have a parted hoof, he is unclean clothes, and be unclean until the evening. They
to you. 11:6 The hare, because she chews the are unclean to you.
cud but doesn’t part the hoof, she is unclean to 11:29
“‘These are they which are unclean to
you. 11:7 The pig, because he has a split hoof, you among the creeping things that creep on
and is cloven-footed, but doesn’t chew the cud, the earth: the weasel, the rat, any kind of great
he is unclean to you. 11:8 Of their flesh you shall lizard, 11:30 the gecko, and the monitor lizard,
not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch; the wall lizard, the skink, and the chameleon.
they are unclean to you. 11:31
These are they which are unclean to you
11:9
“‘These you may eat of all that are in among all that creep. Whoever touches them
the waters: whatever has fins and scales in the when they are dead, shall be unclean until
waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, that you the evening. 11:32 On whatever any of them
may eat. 11:10 All that don’t have fins and scales falls when they are dead, it shall be unclean;
in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move whether it is any vessel of wood, or clothing, or
in the waters, and of all the living creatures skin, or sack, whatever vessel it is, with which
that are in the waters, they are an abomination any work is done, it must be put into water,
to you, 11:11 and you detest them. You shall and it shall be unclean until the evening; then
not eat of their flesh, and you shall detest their it will be clean. 11:33 Every earthen vessel, into
carcasses. 11:12 Whatever has no fins nor scales which any of them falls, all that is in it shall
in the waters, that is an abomination to you. be unclean, and you shall break it. 11:34 All
11:13
“‘These you shall detest among the food which may be eaten, that on which water
birds; they shall not be eaten, they are an comes, shall be unclean; and all drink that
abomination: the eagle, and the vulture, and may be drunk in every such vessel shall be
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unclean. 11:35 Everything whereupon part of are completed. 12:5 But if she bears a female
their carcass falls shall be unclean; whether child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as
oven, or range for pots, it shall be broken in in her period; and she shall continue in the
pieces: they are unclean, and shall be unclean blood of purification sixty-six days.
to you. 11:36 Nevertheless a spring or a cistern 12:6
“‘When the days of her purification are
in which water is a gathered shall be clean: completed, for a son, or for a daughter, she shall
but that which touches their carcass shall be bring to the priest at the door of the Tent of
unclean. 11:37 If part of their carcass falls on any Meeting, a year old lamb for a burnt offering,
sowing seed which is to be sown, it is clean. and a young pigeon, or a turtledove, for a
11:38
But if water is put on the seed, and part of sin offering: 12:7 and he shall offer it before
their carcass falls on it, it is unclean to you. the LORD, and make atonement for her; and
11:39
“‘If any animal, of which you may eat, she shall be cleansed from the fountain of her
dies; he who touches its carcass shall be un- blood.
clean until the evening. 11:40 He who eats of its “‘This is the law for her who bears, whether
carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean a male or a female. 12:8 If she cannot afford
until the evening. He also who carries its a lamb, then she shall take two turtledoves,
carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean or two young pigeons; the one for a burnt
until the evening. offering, and the other for a sin offering: and
11:41
“‘Every creeping thing that creeps on the priest shall make atonement for her, and she
the earth is an abomination. It shall not be shall be clean.’”
eaten. 11:42 Whatever goes on its belly, and 13:1
The LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron,
whatever goes on all fours, or whatever has saying, 13:2 “When a man shall have a rising in
many feet, even all creeping things that creep his body’s skin, or a scab, or a bright spot, and
on the earth, them you shall not eat; for they it becomes in the skin of his body the plague of
are an abomination. 11:43 You shall not make leprosy, then he shall be brought to Aaron the
yourselves abominable with any creeping thing priest, or to one of his sons, the priests: 13:3 and
that creeps, neither shall you make yourselves the priest shall examine the plague in the skin
unclean with them, that you should be defiled of the body: and if the hair in the plague has
thereby. 11:44 For I am the LORD your God. turned white, and the appearance of the plague
Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for is deeper than the body’s skin, it is the plague of
I am holy: neither shall you defile yourselves leprosy; and the priest shall examine him, and
with any kind of creeping thing that moves on pronounce him unclean. 13:4 If the bright spot is
the earth. 11:45 For I am the LORD who brought white in the skin of his body, and its appearance
you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. isn’t deeper than the skin, and its hair hasn’t
You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy. turned white, then the priest shall isolate the
11:46
“‘This is the law of the animal, and infected person for seven days. 13:5 The priest
of the bird, and of every living creature that shall examine him on the seventh day, and,
moves in the waters, and of every creature that behold, if in his eyes the plague is arrested, and
creeps on the earth, 11:47 to make a distinction the plague hasn’t spread in the skin, then the
between the unclean and the clean, and be- priest shall isolate him for seven more days.
tween the living thing that may be eaten and 13:6
The priest shall examine him again on the
the living thing that may not be eaten.’” seventh day; and behold, if the plague has
12:1
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, faded, and the plague hasn’t spread in the skin,
12:2
“Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘If a then the priest shall pronounce him clean. It
woman conceives, and bears a male child, then is a scab. He shall wash his clothes, and be
she shall be unclean seven days; as in the days clean. 13:7 But if the scab spreads on the skin,
of her monthly period she shall be unclean. after he has shown himself to the priest for his
12:3
In the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin cleansing, he shall show himself to the priest
shall be circumcised. 12:4 She shall continue in again. 13:8 The priest shall examine him; and
the blood of purification thirty-three days. She behold, if the scab has spread on the skin, then
shall not touch any holy thing, nor come into the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is
the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying leprosy.
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13:9
“When the plague of leprosy is in a man, if the priest examines it, and behold, there is
then he shall be brought to the priest; 13:10 and no white hair in the bright spot, and it isn’t
the priest shall examine him. Behold, if there lower than the skin, but is faded; then the priest
is a white rising in the skin, and it has turned shall isolate him seven days. 13:27 The priest
the hair white, and there is raw flesh in the shall examine him on the seventh day. If it
rising, 13:11 it is a chronic leprosy in the skin of has spread in the skin, then the priest shall
his body, and the priest shall pronounce him pronounce him unclean. It is the plague of
unclean. He shall not isolate him, for he is leprosy. 13:28 If the bright spot stays in its place,
unclean. and hasn’t spread in the skin, but is faded, it is
13:12 the swelling from the burn, and the priest shall
“If the leprosy breaks out all over the
skin, and the leprosy covers all the skin of pronounce him clean; for it is the scar from the
the infected person from his head even to his burn.
feet, as far as it appears to the priest; 13:13 then 13:29
“When a man or woman has a plague
the priest shall examine him; and, behold, if on the head or on the beard, 13:30 then the priest
the leprosy has covered all his flesh, he shall shall examine the plague; and behold, if its
pronounce him clean of the plague. It has all appearance is deeper than the skin, and the
turned white: he is clean. 13:14 But whenever hair in it is yellow and thin, then the priest
raw flesh appears in him, he shall be unclean. shall pronounce him unclean: it is an itch, it
13:15
The priest shall examine the raw flesh, is leprosy of the head or of the beard. 13:31 If
and pronounce him unclean: the raw flesh is the priest examines the plague of itching, and
unclean. It is leprosy. 13:16 Or if the raw flesh behold, its appearance isn’t deeper than the
turns again, and is changed to white, then he skin, and there is no black hair in it, then
shall come to the priest; 13:17 and the priest shall the priest shall isolate him the person infected
examine him; and, behold, if the plague has with itching seven days. 13:32 On the seventh
turned white, then the priest shall pronounce day the priest shall examine the plague; and
him clean of the plague. He is clean. behold, if the itch hasn’t spread, and there is
13:18 no yellow hair in it, and the appearance of
“When the body has a boil on its skin,
and it has healed, 13:19 and in the place of the the itch isn’t deeper than the skin, 13:33 then he
boil there is a white rising, or a bright spot, shall be shaved, but he shall not shave the itch;
reddish-white, then it shall be shown to the and the priest shall shut him up who has the
priest; 13:20 and the priest shall examine it; and itch seven more days. 13:34 On the seventh day,
behold, if its appearance is lower than the skin, the priest shall examine the itch; and behold,
and its hair has turned white, then the priest if the itch hasn’t spread in the skin, and its
shall pronounce him unclean. It is the plague of appearance isn’t deeper than the skin, then the
leprosy. It has broken out in the boil. 13:21 But priest shall pronounce him clean. He shall
if the priest examines it, and behold, there are wash his clothes, and be clean. 13:35 But if
no white hairs in it, and it isn’t deeper than the the itch spreads in the skin after his cleansing,
13:36
skin, but is dim, then the priest shall isolate him then the priest shall examine him; and
seven days. 13:22 If it spreads in the skin, then behold, if the itch has spread in the skin, the
the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is a priest shall not look for the yellow hair; he
plague. 13:23 But if the bright spot stays in its is unclean. 13:37 But if in his eyes the itch is
place, and hasn’t spread, it is the scar from the arrested, and black hair has grown in it; the
boil; and the priest shall pronounce him clean. itch is healed, he is clean. The priest shall
13:24 pronounce him clean.
“Or when the body has a burn from
13:38
fire on its skin, and the raw flesh of the “When a man or a woman has bright
burn becomes a bright spot, reddish-white, or spots in the skin of the body, even white bright
white, 13:25 then the priest shall examine it; and spots; 13:39 then the priest shall examine them;
behold, if the hair in the bright spot has turned and behold, if the bright spots on the skin of
white, and its appearance is deeper than the their body are a dull white, it is a harmless rash,
skin; it is leprosy. It has broken out in the it has broken out in the skin; he is clean.
13:40
burning, and the priest shall pronounce him “If a man’s hair has fallen from his head,
unclean. It is the plague of leprosy. 13:26 But he is bald. He is clean. 13:41 If his hair has
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fallen off from the front part of his head, he behold, the plague has faded after it is washed,
is forehead bald. He is clean. 13:42 But if there then he shall tear it out of the garment, or
is in the bald head, or the bald forehead, a out of the skin, or out of the warp, or out of
reddish-white plague; it is leprosy breaking out the woof: 13:57 and if it appears again in the
in his bald head, or his bald forehead. 13:43 Then garment, either in the warp, or in the woof,
the priest shall examine him; and, behold, if or in anything of skin, it is spreading. You
the rising of the plague is reddish-white in his shall burn with fire that in which the plague is.
13:58
bald head, or in his bald forehead, like the The garment, either the warp, or the woof,
appearance of leprosy in the skin of the flesh, or whatever thing of skin it is, which you shall
13:44
he is a leprous man. He is unclean. The wash, if the plague has departed from them,
priest shall surely pronounce him unclean. His then it shall be washed the second time, and it
plague is on his head. will be clean.”
13:45 13:59
“The leper in whom the plague is shall This is the law of the plague of mildew
wear torn clothes, and the hair of his head in a garment of wool or linen, either in the
shall hang loose. He shall cover his upper lip, warp, or the woof, or in anything of skin, to
and shall cry, ‘Unclean! Unclean!’ 13:46 All the pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean.
14:1
days in which the plague is in him he shall be The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
14:2
unclean. He is unclean. He shall dwell alone. “This shall be the law of the leper in the
Outside of the camp shall be his dwelling. day of his cleansing. He shall be brought to the
13:47
“The garment also that the plague of priest, 14:3 and the priest shall go forth out of
leprosy is in, whether it is a woolen garment, the camp. The priest shall examine him, and
or a linen garment; 13:48 whether it is in warp, behold, if the plague of leprosy is healed in the
or woof; of linen, or of wool; whether in a leper, 14:4 then the priest shall command them
skin, or in anything made of skin; 13:49 if the to take for him who is to be cleansed two living
plague is greenish or reddish in the garment, clean birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and
or in the skin, or in the warp, or in the woof, hyssop. 14:5 The priest shall command them
or in anything made of skin; it is the plague to kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel
of leprosy, and shall be shown to the priest. over running water. 14:6 As for the living bird,
13:50
The priest shall examine the plague, and he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the
isolate the plague seven days. 13:51 He shall scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and
examine the plague on the seventh day. If the living bird in the blood of the bird that
the plague has spread in the garment, either was killed over the running water. 14:7 He shall
in the warp, or in the woof, or in the skin, sprinkle on him who is to be cleansed from the
whatever use the skin is used for, the plague is a leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him
destructive mildew. It is unclean. 13:52 He shall clean, and shall let the living bird go into the
burn the garment, whether the warp or the open field.
14:8
woof, in wool or in linen, or anything of skin, “He who is to be cleansed shall wash his
in which the plague is: for it is a destructive clothes, and shave off all his hair, and bathe
mildew. It shall be burned in the fire. himself in water; and he shall be clean. After
13:53
“If the priest examines it, and behold, that he shall come into the camp, but shall
the plague hasn’t spread in the garment, either dwell outside his tent seven days. 14:9 It shall
in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything of be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all
skin; 13:54 then the priest shall command that his hair off his head and his beard and his
they wash the thing in which the plague is, and eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off.
he shall isolate it seven more days. 13:55 Then He shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe
the priest shall examine it, after the plague his body in water, then he shall be clean.
14:10
is washed; and behold, if the plague hasn’t “On the eighth day he shall take two
changed its color, and the plague hasn’t spread, male lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb
it is unclean; you shall burn it in the fire. It a year old without blemish, and three tenths
is a mildewed spot, whether the bareness is of an efahe of fine flour for a meal offering,
inside or outside. 13:56 If the priest looks, and mingled with oil, and one log of oil. 14:11 The
e 14:10 1 efah is about 22 litres or about 2/3 of a bushel
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priest who cleanses him shall set the man who shall wave them for a wave offering before
is to be cleansed, and those things, before the the LORD. 14:25 He shall kill the lamb of the
LORD, at the door of the Tent of Meeting. trespass offering. The priest shall take some
14:12 of the blood of the trespass offering and put it
“The priest shall take one of the male
lambs, and offer him for a trespass offering, on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be
with the log of oil, and wave them for a wave cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand,
offering before the LORD. 14:13 He shall kill the and on the big toe of his right foot. 14:26 The
male lamb in the place where they kill the sin priest shall pour some of the oil into the palm
offering and the burnt offering, in the place of his own left hand; 14:27 and the priest shall
of the sanctuary; for as the sin offering is the sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil
priest’s, so is the trespass offering. It is most that is in his left hand seven times before the
holy. 14:14 The priest shall take some of the LORD. 14:28 Then the priest shall put some of
blood of the trespass offering, and the priest the oil that is in his hand on the tip of the right
shall put it on the tip of the right ear of him ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the
who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of
his right hand, and on the big toe of his right his right foot, on the place of the blood of the
foot. 14:15 The priest shall take some of the log trespass offering. 14:29 The rest of the oil that is
of oil, and pour it into the palm of his own in the priest’s hand he shall put on the head of
left hand. 14:16 The priest shall dip his right him who is to be cleansed, to make atonement
finger in the oil that is in his left hand, and shall for him before the LORD. 14:30 He shall offer
sprinkle some of the oil with his finger seven one of the turtledoves, or of the young pigeons,
times before the LORD. 14:17 The priest shall put such as he is able to afford, 14:31 even such as
some of the rest of the oil that is in his hand he is able to afford, the one for a sin offering,
on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be and the other for a burnt offering, with the meal
cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, offering. The priest shall make atonement for
and on the big toe of his right foot, upon the him who is to be cleansed before the LORD.”
blood of the trespass offering. 14:18 The rest of 14:32
This is the law for him in whom is the
the oil that is in the priest’s hand he shall put plague of leprosy, who is not able to afford the
on the head of him who is to be cleansed, and sacrifice for his cleansing.
the priest shall make atonement for him before 14:33
The LORD spoke to Moses and to
the LORD.
14:19
Aaron, saying, 14:34 “When you have come into
“The priest shall offer the sin offering, the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a
and make atonement for him who is to be possession, and I put a spreading mildew in a
cleansed because of his uncleanness: and after- house in the land of your possession, 14:35 then
ward he shall kill the burnt offering; 14:20 and he who owns the house shall come and tell the
the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the priest, saying, ‘There seems to me to be some
meal offering on the altar. The priest shall make sort of plague in the house.’ 14:36 The priest
atonement for him, and he shall be clean. shall command that they empty the house,
14:21
“If he is poor, and can’t afford so much, before the priest goes in to examine the plague,
then he shall take one male lamb for a trespass that all that is in the house not be made unclean:
offering to be waved, to make atonement for and afterward the priest shall go in to inspect
him, and one tenth of an efah of fine flour the house. 14:37 He shall examine the plague;
mingled with oil for a meal offering, and a log and behold, if the plague is in the walls of the
of oil; 14:22 and two turtledoves, or two young house with hollow streaks, greenish or reddish,
pigeons, such as he is able to afford; and the and it appears to be deeper than the wall;
one shall be a sin offering, and the other a burnt 14:38
then the priest shall go out of the house to
offering. the door of the house, and shut up the house
14:23
“On the eighth day he shall bring them seven days. 14:39 The priest shall come again
for his cleansing to the priest, to the door of on the seventh day, and look. If the plague
the Tent of Meeting, before the LORD. 14:24 The has spread in the walls of the house, 14:40 then
priest shall take the lamb of the trespass the priest shall command that they take out
offering, and the log of oil, and the priest the stones in which is the plague, and cast
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them into an unclean place outside of the city: and tell them, ‘When any man has a discharge
14:41
and he shall cause the inside of the house from his body, because of his discharge he is
to be scraped all over, and they shall pour out unclean. 15:3 This shall be his uncleanness in
the mortar, that they scraped off, outside of the his discharge: whether his body runs with his
city into an unclean place. 14:42 They shall take discharge, or his body has stopped from his
other stones, and put them in the place of those discharge, it is his uncleanness.
15:4
stones; and he shall take other mortar, and shall “‘Every bed whereon he who has the
plaster the house. discharge lies shall be unclean; and everything
14:43 15:5
“If the plague comes again, and breaks he sits on shall be unclean. Whoever
out in the house, after he has taken out the touches his bed shall wash his clothes, and
stones, and after he has scraped the house, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the
after it was plastered; 14:44 then the priest shall evening. 15:6 He who sits on anything whereon
come in and look; and behold, if the plague has the man who has the discharge sat shall wash
spread in the house, it is a destructive mildew his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be
in the house. It is unclean. 14:45 He shall break unclean until the evening.
15:7
down the house, its stones, and its timber, and “‘He who touches the body of him who
all the house’s mortar. He shall carry them out has the discharge shall wash his clothes, and
of the city into an unclean place. bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the
14:46
“Moreover he who goes into the house evening.
15:8
while it is shut up shall be unclean until the “‘If he who has the discharge spits on
evening. 14:47 He who lies down in the house him who is clean, then he shall wash his
shall wash his clothes; and he who eats in the clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be
house shall wash his clothes. unclean until the evening.
14:48 15:9
“If the priest shall come in, and examine “‘Whatever saddle he who has the dis-
it, and behold, the plague hasn’t spread in the charge rides on shall be unclean. 15:10 Whoever
house, after the house was plastered, then the touches anything that was under him shall be
priest shall pronounce the house clean, because unclean until the evening. He who carries those
the plague is healed. 14:49 To cleanse the house things shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself
he shall take two birds, and cedar wood, and in water, and be unclean until the evening.
scarlet, and hyssop. 14:50 He shall kill one of 15:11
“‘Whoever he who has the discharge
the birds in an earthen vessel over running touches, without having rinsed his hands in
water. 14:51 He shall take the cedar wood, and water, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe
the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the living bird, himself in water, and be unclean until the
and dip them in the blood of the slain bird, evening.
and in the running water, and sprinkle the 15:12
“‘The earthen vessel, which he who has
house seven times. 14:52 He shall cleanse the the discharge touches, shall be broken; and
house with the blood of the bird, and with the every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water.
running water, with the living bird, with the 15:13
“‘When he who has a discharge is
cedar wood, with the hyssop, and with the cleansed of his discharge, then he shall count
scarlet; 14:53 but he shall let the living bird go to himself seven days for his cleansing, and
out of the city into the open field. So shall he wash his clothes; and he shall bathe his flesh
make atonement for the house; and it shall be in running water, and shall be clean.
clean.” 15:14
“‘On the eighth day he shall take two
14:54
This is the law for any plague of leprosy, turtledoves, or two young pigeons, and come
and for an itch, 14:55 and for the destructive before the LORD to the door of the Tent of
mildew of a garment, and for a house, 14:56 and Meeting, and give them to the priest: 15:15 and
for a rising, and for a scab, and for a bright spot; the priest shall offer them, the one for a sin
14:57
to teach when it is unclean, and when it is offering, and the other for a burnt offering. The
clean. priest shall make atonement for him before the
This is the law of leprosy. LORD for his discharge.
15:1 15:16
The LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, “‘If any man has an emission of semen,
saying, 15:2 “Speak to the children of Israel, then he shall bathe all his flesh in water, and be
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unclean until the evening. 15:17 Every garment, tabernacle that is in their midst.’”
and every skin, whereon the semen is, shall be 15:32
This is the law of him who has a dis-
washed with water, and be unclean until the charge, and of him who has an emission of
evening. 15:18 If a man lies with a woman and semen, so that he is unclean thereby; 15:33 and
there is an emission of semen, they shall both of her who has her period, and of a man or
bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until woman who has a discharge, and of him who
the evening. lies with her who is unclean.
15:19 16:1
“‘If a woman has a discharge, and her The LORD spoke to Moses, after the
discharge in her flesh is blood, she shall be in death of the two sons of Aaron, when they
her impurity seven days: and whoever touches drew near before the LORD, and died; 16:2 and
her shall be unclean until the evening. the LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron your
15:20
“‘Everything that she lies on in her brother, not to come at all times into the Most
impurity shall be unclean. Everything also Holy Place within the veil, before the mercy
that she sits on shall be unclean. 15:21 Whoever seat which is on the ark; lest he die: for I will
touches her bed shall wash his clothes, and appear in the cloud on the mercy seat.
bathe himself in water, and be unclean until 16:3
“Herewith shall Aaron come into the
the evening. 15:22 Whoever touches anything sanctuary: with a young bull for a sin offering,
that she sits on shall wash his clothes, and and a ram for a burnt offering. 16:4 He shall
bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the put on the holy linen coat, and he shall have
evening. 15:23 If it is on the bed, or on anything the linen breeches on his body, and shall put
whereon she sits, when he touches it, he shall on the linen sash, and he shall be clothed with
be unclean until the evening. the linen turban. They are the holy garments.
15:24
“‘If any man lies with her, and her He shall bathe his body in water, and put them
monthly flow is on him, he shall be unclean on. 16:5 He shall take from the congregation of
seven days; and every bed whereon he lies shall the children of Israel two male goats for a sin
be unclean. offering, and one ram for a burnt offering.
15:25 16:6
“‘If a woman has a discharge of her “Aaron shall offer the bull of the sin
blood many days not in the time of her period, offering, which is for himself, and make atone-
or if she has a discharge beyond the time of ment for himself and for his house. 16:7 He
her period; all the days of the discharge of shall take the two goats, and set them before
her uncleanness shall be as in the days of the LORD at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
her period: she is unclean. 15:26 Every bed 16:8
Aaron shall cast lots for the two goats; one
whereon she lies all the days of her discharge lot for the LORD, and the other lot for the
shall be to her as the bed of her period: and scapegoat. 16:9 Aaron shall present the goat on
everything whereon she sits shall be unclean, which the lot fell for the LORD, and offer him
as the uncleanness of her period. 15:27 Whoever for a sin offering. 16:10 But the goat, on which
touches these things shall be unclean, and shall the lot fell for the scapegoat, shall be presented
wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, alive before the LORD, to make atonement for
and be unclean until the evening. him, to send him away for the scapegoat into
15:28
“‘But if she is cleansed of her discharge, the wilderness.
then she shall count to herself seven days, and 16:11
“Aaron shall present the bull of the sin
after that she shall be clean. 15:29 On the eighth offering, which is for himself, and shall make
day she shall take two turtledoves, or two atonement for himself and for his house, and
young pigeons, and bring them to the priest, to shall kill the bull of the sin offering which is for
the door of the Tent of Meeting. 15:30 The priest himself. 16:12 He shall take a censer full of coals
shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the of fire from off the altar before the LORD, and
other for a burnt offering; and the priest shall two handfuls of sweet incense beaten small,
make atonement for her before the LORD for and bring it within the veil: 16:13 and he shall
the uncleanness of her discharge. put the incense on the fire before the LORD,
15:31
“‘Thus you shall separate the children of that the cloud of the incense may cover the
Israel from their uncleanness, so they will not mercy seat that is on the testimony, so that he
die in their uncleanness, when they defile my will not die. 16:14 He shall take some of the
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blood of the bull, and sprinkle it with his finger in water, and afterward he shall come into
on the mercy seat on the east; and before the the camp. 16:27 The bull for the sin offering,
mercy seat he shall sprinkle some of the blood and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood
with his finger seven times. was brought in to make atonement in the Holy
16:15 Place, shall be carried forth outside the camp;
“Then he shall kill the goat of the sin
offering, that is for the people, and bring his and they shall burn their skins, their flesh, and
blood within the veil, and do with his blood their dung with fire. 16:28 He who burns them
as he did with the blood of the bull, and shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in
sprinkle it on the mercy seat, and before the water, and afterward he shall come into the
mercy seat: 16:16 and he shall make atonement camp.
16:29
for the Holy Place, because of the uncleanness “It shall be a statute to you forever: in
of the children of Israel, and because of their the seventh month, on the tenth day of the
transgressions, even all their sins; and so he month, you shall afflict your souls, and shall
shall do for the Tent of Meeting, that dwells do no kind of work, the native-born, or the
with them in the midst of their uncleanness. stranger who lives as a foreigner among you:
16:17 16:30
No one shall be in the Tent of Meeting for on this day shall atonement be made for
when he enters to make atonement in the you, to cleanse you; from all your sins you shall
Holy Place, until he comes out, and has made be clean before the LORD. 16:31 It is a Sabbath
atonement for himself and for his household, of solemn rest to you, and you shall afflict your
and for all the assembly of Israel. souls; it is a statute forever. 16:32 The priest, who
16:18 is anointed and who is consecrated to be priest
“He shall go out to the altar that is
before the LORD and make atonement for it, in his father’s place, shall make the atonement,
and shall take some of the bull’s blood, and and shall put on the linen garments, even
some of the goat’s blood, and put it around on the holy garments. 16:33 Then he shall make
the horns of the altar. 16:19 He shall sprinkle atonement for the Holy Sanctuary; and he shall
some of the blood on it with his finger seven make atonement for the Tent of Meeting and for
times, and cleanse it, and make it holy from the the altar; and he shall make atonement for the
uncleanness of the children of Israel. priests and for all the people of the assembly.
16:20 16:34
“When he has made an end of atoning “This shall be an everlasting statute for
for the Holy Place, the Tent of Meeting, and the you, to make atonement for the children of
altar, he shall present the live goat. 16:21 Aaron Israel once in the year because of all their sins.”
shall lay both his hands on the head of the live It was done as the LORD commanded
goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of Moses.
the children of Israel, and all their transgres- 17:1
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
sions, even all their sins; and he shall put them 17:2
“Speak to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all
on the head of the goat, and shall send him the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘This
away into the wilderness by the hand of a man is the thing which the LORD has commanded,
who is in readiness. 16:22 The goat shall carry 17:3
Whatever man there is of the house of Israel,
all their iniquities on himself to a solitary land, who kills a bull, or lamb, or goat, in the camp,
and he shall let the goat go in the wilderness. or who kills it outside the camp, 17:4 and hasn’t
16:23
“Aaron shall come into the Tent of brought it to the door of the Tent of Meeting,
Meeting, and shall take off the linen garments, to offer it as an offering to the LORD before the
which he put on when he went into the Holy tabernacle of the LORD: blood shall be imputed
Place, and shall leave them there. 16:24 Then he to that man. He has shed blood; and that man
shall bathe himself in water in a holy place, and shall be cut off from among his people. 17:5 This
put on his garments, and come out and offer is to the end that the children of Israel may
his burnt offering and the burnt offering of the bring their sacrifices, which they sacrifice in
people, and make atonement for himself and the open field, that they may bring them to
for the people. 16:25 The fat of the sin offering the LORD, to the door of the Tent of Meeting,
he shall burn on the altar. to the priest, and sacrifice them for sacrifices
16:26
“He who lets the goat go for the scape- of peace offerings to the LORD. 17:6 The priest
goat shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh shall sprinkle the blood on the altar of the
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18:5
LORD at the door of the Tent of Meeting, and You shall therefore keep my statutes and my
burn the fat for a pleasant aroma to the LORD. ordinances; which if a man does, he shall live in
17:7
They shall no more sacrifice their sacrifices them: I am the LORD.
18:6
to the goat idols, after which they play the “‘None of you shall approach anyone
prostitute. This shall be a statute forever to who are his close relatives, to uncover their
them throughout their generations.’ nakedness: I am the LORD.
17:8 18:7
“You shall say to them, ‘Any man there “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of
is of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who your father, nor the nakedness of your mother:
live as foreigners among them, who offers a she is your mother. You shall not uncover her
burnt offering or sacrifice, 17:9 and doesn’t bring nakedness.
18:8
it to the door of the Tent of Meeting, to sacrifice “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of
it to the LORD; that man shall be cut off from your father’s wife: it is your father’s naked-
his people. ness.
17:10 18:9
“‘Any man of the house of Israel, or “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness
of the strangers who live as foreigners among of your sister, the daughter of your father, or
them, who eats any kind of blood, I will set my the daughter of your mother, whether born at
face against that soul who eats blood, and will home, or born abroad.
18:10
cut him off from among his people. 17:11 For “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness
the life of the flesh is in the blood; and I have of your son’s daughter, or of your daughter’s
given it to you on the altar to make atonement daughter, even their nakedness: for theirs is
for your souls: for it is the blood that makes your own nakedness.
atonement by reason of the life. 17:12 Therefore 18:11
“‘You shall not uncover the nakedness
I have said to the children of Israel, “No person of your father’s wife’s daughter, conceived by
among you shall eat blood, neither shall any your father, since she is your sister.
18:12
stranger who lives as a foreigner among you eat “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness
blood.” of your father’s sister: she is your father’s near
17:13 kinswoman.
“‘Whatever man there is of the children
18:13
of Israel, or of the strangers who live as for- “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness
eigners among them, who takes in hunting any of your mother’s sister: for she is your mother’s
animal or bird that may be eaten; he shall pour near kinswoman.
out its blood, and cover it with dust. 17:14 For as 18:14
“‘You shall not uncover the nakedness
to the life of all flesh, its blood is with its life: of your father’s brother, you shall not approach
therefore I said to the children of Israel, “You his wife: she is your aunt.
18:15
shall not eat the blood of any kind of flesh; for “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness
the life of all flesh is its blood. Whoever eats it of your daughter-in-law: she is your son’s wife.
shall be cut off.” You shall not uncover her nakedness.
17:15 18:16
“‘Every person that eats what dies of “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness
itself, or that which is torn by animals, whether of your brother’s wife: it is your brother’s
he is native-born or a foreigner, he shall wash nakedness.
18:17
his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness
be unclean until the evening: then he shall be of a woman and her daughter. You shall
clean. 17:16 But if he doesn’t wash them, or not take her son’s daughter, or her daughter’s
bathe his flesh, then he shall bear his iniquity.’” daughter, to uncover her nakedness; they are
18:1
The LORD said to Moses, 18:2 “Speak to near kinswomen: it is wickedness.
18:18
the children of Israel, and say to them, ‘I am “‘You shall not take a wife to her sister,
the LORD your God. 18:3 You shall not do as to be a rival, to uncover her nakedness, while
they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived: her sister is yet alive.
18:19
and you shall not do as they do in the land “‘You shall not approach a woman to
of Canaan, where I am bringing you; neither uncover her nakedness, as long as she is impure
shall you walk in their statutes. 18:4 You shall do by her uncleanness.
18:20
my ordinances, and you shall keep my statutes, “‘You shall not lie carnally with your
and walk in them: I am the LORD your God. neighbor’s wife, and defile yourself with her.
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18:21 19:9
“‘You shall not give any of your children “‘When you reap the harvest of your
to sacrifice to Molech; neither shall you profane land, you shall not wholly reap the corners
the name of your God: I am the LORD. of your field, neither shall you gather the
18:22
“‘You shall not lie with a man, as with a gleanings of your harvest. 19:10 You shall not
woman. That is detestable. glean your vineyard, neither shall you gather
18:23
“‘You shall not lie with any animal to the fallen grapes of your vineyard; you shall
defile yourself with it; neither shall any woman leave them for the poor and for the foreigner.
give herself to an animal, to lie down with it: it I am the LORD your God.
19:11
is a perversion. “‘You shall not steal.
18:24
“‘Don’t defile yourselves in any of these “‘You shall not lie.
things: for in all these the nations which I am “‘You shall not deceive one another.
19:12
casting out before you were defiled. 18:25 The “‘You shall not swear by my name
land was defiled: therefore I punished its iniq- falsely, and profane the name of your God. I
uity, and the land vomited out her inhabitants. am the LORD.
18:26 19:13
You therefore shall keep my statutes and “‘You shall not oppress your neighbor,
my ordinances, and shall not do any of these nor rob him.
abominations; neither the native-born, nor the “‘The wages of a hired servant shall not
stranger who lives as a foreigner among you; remain with you all night until the morning.
18:27 19:14
(for all these abominations have the men “‘You shall not curse the deaf, nor put a
of the land done, that were before you, and stumbling block before the blind; but you shall
the land became defiled); 18:28 that the land not fear your God. I am the LORD.
19:15
vomit you out also, when you defile it, as it “‘You shall do no injustice in judgment:
vomited out the nation that was before you. you shall not be partial to the poor, nor show
18:29
“‘For whoever shall do any of these favoritism to the great; but you shall judge your
abominations, even the souls that do them neighbor in righteousness.
19:16
shall be cut off from among their people. “‘You shall not go up and down as a
18:30
Therefore you shall keep my requirements, slanderer among your people.
that you do not practice any of these abom- “‘You shall not endanger the lifef of your
inable customs, which were practiced before neighbor. I am the LORD.
19:17
you, and that you do not defile yourselves with “‘You shall not hate your brother in
them: I am the LORD your God.’” your heart. You shall surely rebuke your
19:1
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.
19:2 19:18
“Speak to all the congregation of the chil- “‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear
dren of Israel, and tell them, ‘You shall be holy; any grudge against the children of your people;
for I the LORD your God am holy. but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I
19:3
“‘Each one of you shall respect his am the LORD.
19:19
mother and his father. You shall keep my “‘You shall keep my statutes.
Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God. “‘You shall not crossbreed different kinds of
19:4
“‘Don’t turn to idols, nor make molten animals.
gods for yourselves. I am the LORD your God. “‘you shall not sow your field with two
19:5
“‘When you offer a sacrifice of peace kinds of seed;
offerings to the LORD, you shall offer it so that “‘neither shall there come upon on you a
you may be accepted. 19:6 It shall be eaten the garment made of two kinds of material.
19:20
same day you offer it, and on the next day: and “‘If a man lies carnally with a woman
if anything remains until the third day, it shall who is a slave girl, pledged to be married to
be burned with fire. 19:7 If it is eaten at all on another man, and not ransomed, or given her
the third day, it is an abomination. It will not freedom; they shall be punished. They shall
be accepted; 19:8 but everyone who eats it shall not be put to death, because she was not free.
19:21
bear his iniquity, because he has profaned the He shall bring his trespass offering to the
holy thing of the LORD, and that soul shall be LORD, to the door of the Tent of Meeting, even
cut off from his people. a ram for a trespass offering. 19:22 The priest
f 19:16 literally, “blood”
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20:2
shall make atonement for him with the ram of “Moreover, you shall tell the children of
the trespass offering before the LORD for his Israel, ‘Anyone of the children of Israel, or of
sin which he has committed: and the sin which the strangers who live as foreigners in Israel,
he has committed shall be forgiven him. who gives any of his seed to Molech; he shall
19:23
“‘When you come into the land, and surely be put to death. The people of the land
have planted all kinds of trees for food, then shall stone him with stones. 20:3 I also will set
you shall count their fruit as forbidden.g Three my face against that person, and will cut him
years shall they be forbidden to you. It shall not off from among his people because he has given
be eaten. 19:24 But in the fourth year all its fruit of his seed to Molech, to defile my sanctuary,
shall be holy, for giving praise to the LORD. and to profane my holy name. 20:4 If the people
19:25
In the fifth year you shall eat its fruit, that of the land all hide their eyes from that person,
it may yield its increase to you. I am the LORD when he gives of his seed to Molech, and don’t
your God. put him to death; 20:5 then I will set my face
19:26
“‘You shall not eat any meat with the against that man, and against his family, and
blood still in it; neither shall you use enchant- will cut him off, and all who play the prostitute
ments, nor practice sorcery. after him, to play the prostitute with Molech,
19:27
“‘You shall not cut the hair on the sides from among their people.
20:6
of your heads, neither shall you clip off the “‘The person that turns to those who
edge of your beard. are mediums, and to the wizards, to play the
19:28
“‘You shall not make any cuttings in prostitute after them, I will even set my face
your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks against that person, and will cut him off from
on you. I am the LORD. among his people.
19:29 20:7
“‘Don’t profane your daughter, to make “‘Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be
her a prostitute; lest the land fall to prostitution, holy; for I am the LORD your God. 20:8 You
and the land become full of wickedness. shall keep my statutes, and do them. I am the
19:30
“‘You shall keep my Sabbaths, and rev- LORD who sanctifies you.
20:9
erence my sanctuary; I am the LORD. “‘For everyone who curses his father or
19:31
“‘Don’t turn to those who are mediums, his mother shall surely be put to death: he has
nor to the wizards. Don’t seek them out, to be cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall
defiled by them. I am the LORD your God. be upon him.
19:32 20:10
“‘You shall rise up before the gray head, “‘The man who commits adultery with
and honor the face of an old man, and you shall another man’s wife, even he who commits
fear your God. I am the LORD. adultery with his neighbor’s wife, the adulterer
19:33
“‘If a stranger lives as a foreigner with and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
20:11
you in your land, you shall not do him wrong. “‘The man who lies with his father’s
19:34
The stranger who lives as a foreigner with wife has uncovered his father’s nakedness:
you shall be to you as the native-born among both of them shall surely be put to death; their
you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you blood shall be upon them.
20:12
lived as foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am the “‘If a man lies with his daughter-in-law,
LORD your God. both of them shall surely be put to death: they
19:35
“‘You shall do no unrighteousness in have committed a perversion; their blood shall
judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or be upon them.
of quantity. 19:36 You shall have just balances, 20:13
“‘If a man lies with a male, as with
just weights, a just efah,h and a just hin. I am a woman, both of them have committed an
the LORD your God, who brought you out of abomination: they shall surely be put to death;
the land of Egypt. their blood shall be upon them.
19:37 20:14
“‘You shall observe all my statutes, and “‘If a man takes a wife and her mother,
all my ordinances, and do them. I am the it is wickedness: they shall be burned with
LORD.’” fire, both he and they; that there may be no
20:1
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, wickedness among you.
g 19:23 literally, “uncircumcised”
h 19:36 1 efah is about 22 litres or about 2/3 of a bushel
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20:15
“‘If a man lies with an animal, he shall or is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they
surely be put to death; and you shall kill the shall stone them with stones; their blood shall
animal. be upon them.’”
20:16 21:1
“‘If a woman approaches any animal, The LORD said to Moses, “Speak to the
and lies down with it, you shall kill the woman, priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them,
and the animal: they shall surely be put to ‘A priest shall not defile himself for the dead
death; their blood shall be upon them. among his people; 21:2 except for his relatives
20:17
“‘If a man takes his sister, his father’s that are near to him: for his mother, for his
daughter, or his mother’s daughter, and sees father, for his son, for his daughter, for his
her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness; it brother, 21:3 and for his virgin sister who is
is a shameful thing; and they shall be cut off in near to him, who has had no husband; for her
the sight of the children of their people: he has he may defile himself. 21:4 He shall not defile
uncovered his sister’s nakedness; he shall bear himself, being a chief man among his people,
his iniquity. to profane himself.
20:18 21:5
“‘If a man lies with a woman having her “‘They shall not shave their heads, nei-
monthly period, and uncovers her nakedness; ther shall they shave off the corners of their
he has made naked her fountain, and she has beards, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.
21:6
uncovered the fountain of her blood: and both They shall be holy to their God, and not
of them shall be cut off from among their profane the name of their God; for they offer
people. the offerings of the LORD made by fire, the
20:19 bread of their God; therefore they shall be holy.
“‘You shall not uncover the nakedness
21:7
of your mother’s sister, nor of your father’s “‘They shall not marry a woman who is a
sister; for he has made naked his close relative: prostitute, or profane; neither shall they marry
they shall bear their iniquity. 20:20 If a man a woman divorced from her husband: for he
lies with his uncle’s wife, he has uncovered is holy to his God. 21:8 You shall sanctify him
his uncle’s nakedness: they shall bear their sin; therefore; for he offers the bread of your God:
they shall die childless. he shall be holy to you: for I the LORD, who
20:21 sanctify you, am holy.
“‘If a man takes his brother’s wife, it is
21:9
an impurity: he has uncovered his brother’s “‘The daughter of any priest, if she
nakedness; they shall be childless. profanes herself by playing the prostitute, she
20:22 profanes her father: she shall be burned with
“‘You shall therefore keep all my
statutes, and all my ordinances, and do them; fire.
21:10
that the land, where I am bringing you to dwell, “‘He who is the high priest among his
may not vomit you out. 20:23 You shall not walk brothers, upon whose head the anointing oil is
in the customs of the nation, which I am casting poured, and that is consecrated to put on the
out before you: for they did all these things, garments, shall not let the hair of his head hang
and therefore I abhorred them. 20:24 But I have loose, nor tear his clothes; 21:11 neither shall
said to you, “You shall inherit their land, and I he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself
will give it to you to possess it, a land flowing for his father, or for his mother; 21:12 neither
with milk and honey.” I am the LORD your shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane
God, who has separated you from the peoples. the sanctuary of his God; for the crown of the
20:25 anointing oil of his God is upon him. I am the
“‘You shall therefore make a distinction
between the clean animal and the unclean, and LORD.
21:13
between the unclean fowl and the clean: and “‘He shall take a wife in her virginity.
21:14
you shall not make yourselves abominable by A widow, or one divorced, or a woman
animal, or by bird, or by anything with which who has been defiled, or a prostitute, these he
the ground teems, which I have separated from shall not marry: but a virgin of his own people
you as unclean for you. 20:26 You shall be holy shall he take as a wife. 21:15 He shall not profane
to me: for I, the LORD, am holy, and have set his seed among his people: for I am the LORD
you apart from the peoples, that you should be who sanctifies him.’”
mine. 21:16
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
20:27 21:17
“‘A man or a woman that is a medium, “Say to Aaron, ‘None of your seed
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throughout their generations who has a blem- if they profane it. I am the LORD who sanctifies
ish, may approach to offer the bread of his God. them.
21:18 22:10
For whatever man he is that has a blemish, “‘No stranger shall eat of the holy thing:
he shall not draw near: a blind man, or a lame, a foreigner living with the priests, or a hired
or he who has a flat nose, or any deformity, servant, shall not eat of the holy thing. 22:11 But
21:19
or a man who has an injured foot, or an if a priest buys a slave, purchased by his money,
injured hand, 21:20 or hunchbacked, or a dwarf, he shall eat of it; and such as are born in
or one who has a defect in his eye, or an itching his house, they shall eat of his bread. 22:12 If
disease, or scabs, or who has damaged testicles; a priest’s daughter is married to an outsider,
21:21
no man of the seed of Aaron the priest she shall not eat of the heave offering of the
who has a blemish, shall come near to offer holy things. 22:13 But if a priest’s daughter is
the offerings of the LORD made by fire. Since a widow, or divorced, and has no child, and
he has a blemish, he shall not come near to has returned to her father’s house, as in her
offer the bread of his God. 21:22 He shall eat youth, she may eat of her father’s bread: but
the bread of his God, both of the most holy, no stranger shall eat any of it.
and of the holy. 21:23 He shall not come near 22:14
“‘If a man eats something holy unwit-
to the veil, nor come near to the altar, because
tingly, then he shall add the fifth part of its
he has a blemish; that he may not profane my
value to it, and shall give the holy thing to the
sanctuaries, for I am the LORD who sanctifies
priest. 22:15 The priests shall not profane the
them.’”
21:24
holy things of the children of Israel, which they
So Moses spoke to Aaron, and to his offer to the LORD, 22:16 and so cause them to
sons, and to all the children of Israel. bear the iniquity that brings guilt, when they
22:1
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, eat their holy things: for I am the LORD who
22:2
“Tell Aaron and his sons to separate them- sanctifies them.’”
selves from the holy things of the children of 22:17
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
Israel, which they make holy to me, and that 22:18
“Speak to Aaron, and to his sons, and
they not profane my holy name. I am the to all the children of Israel, and say to them,
LORD. ‘Whoever is of the house of Israel, or of the
22:3
“Tell them, ‘If anyone of all your seed foreigners in Israel, who offers his offering,
throughout your generations approaches the whether it be any of their vows, or any of
holy things, which the children of Israel make their freewill offerings, which they offer to the
holy to the LORD, having his uncleanness on LORD for a burnt offering; 22:19 that you may
him, that soul shall be cut off from before me. I be accepted, you shall offer a male without
am the LORD. blemish, of the bulls, of the sheep, or of the
22:4
“‘Whoever of the seed of Aaron is a goats. 22:20 But whatever has a blemish, that
leper or has an issue; he shall not eat of you shall not offer: for it shall not be acceptable
the holy things, until he is clean. Whoever for you. 22:21 Whoever offers a sacrifice of peace
touches anything that is unclean by the dead, offerings to the LORD to accomplish a vow, or
or a man whose seed goes from him; 22:5 or for a freewill offering, of the herd or of the flock,
whoever touches any creeping thing, whereby it shall be perfect to be accepted; no blemish
he may be made unclean, or a man of whom he shall be therein. 22:22 Blind, injured, maimed,
may take uncleanness, whatever uncleanness having a wart, festering, or having a running
he has; 22:6 the person that touches any such sore, you shall not offer these to the LORD, nor
shall be unclean until the evening, and shall not make an offering by fire of them on the altar
eat of the holy things, unless he bathe his body to the LORD. 22:23 Either a bull or a lamb that
in water. 22:7 When the sun is down, he shall has any deformity or lacking in his parts, that
be clean; and afterward he shall eat of the holy you may offer for a freewill offering; but for a
things, because it is his bread. 22:8 That which vow it shall not be accepted. 22:24 That which
dies of itself, or is torn by animals, he shall not has its testicles bruised, crushed, broken, or cut,
eat, defiling himself by it. I am the LORD. you shall not offer to the LORD; neither shall
22:9
“‘They shall therefore follow my require- you do thus in your land. 22:25 Neither shall
ments, lest they bear sin for it, and die therein, you offer the bread of your God from the hand
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of a foreigner of any of these; because their he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to
corruption is in them. There is a blemish in be accepted for you. On the next day after
them. They shall not be accepted for you.’” the Sabbath the priest shall wave it. 23:12 On
22:26
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, the day when you wave the sheaf, you shall
22:27
“When a bull, or a sheep, or a goat, is born, offer a male lamb without blemish a year old
then it shall remain seven days with its mother; for a burnt offering to the LORD. 23:13 The meal
and from the eighth day and thenceforth it shall offering with it shall be two tenth parts of an
be accepted for the offering of an offering made efahi of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering
by fire to the LORD. 22:28 Whether it is a cow or made by fire to the LORD for a pleasant
ewe, you shall not kill it and its young both in aroma; and the drink offering with it shall be
one day. of wine, the fourth part of a hin. 23:14 You
22:29
“When you sacrifice a sacrifice of shall eat neither bread, nor roasted grain, nor
thanksgiving to the LORD, you shall sacrifice fresh grain, until this same day, until you have
it so that you may be accepted. 22:30 It shall be brought the offering of your God. This is a
eaten on the same day; you shall leave none of statute forever throughout your generations in
it until the morning. I am the LORD. all your dwellings.
22:31 23:15
“Therefore you shall keep my com- “‘You shall count from the next day after
mandments, and do them. I am the LORD. the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the
22:32
You shall not profane my holy name, but I sheaf of the wave offering; seven Sabbaths shall
will be made holy among the children of Israel. be completed: 23:16 even to the next day after
I am the LORD who makes you holy, 22:33 who the seventh Sabbath you shall number fifty
brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your days; and you shall offer a new meal offering
God. I am the LORD.” to the LORD. 23:17 You shall bring out of your
23:1
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, habitations two loaves of bread for a wave
23:2
“Speak to the children of Israel, and tell offering made of two tenth parts of an efah of
them, ‘The set feasts of the LORD, which you fine flour. They shall be baked with yeast, for
shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even first fruits to the LORD. 23:18 You shall present
these are my set feasts. with the bread seven lambs without blemish a
23:3
“‘Six days shall work be done: but on the year old, one young bull, and two rams. They
seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy shall be a burnt offering to the LORD, with their
convocation; you shall do no kind of work. It is meal offering, and their drink offerings, even
a Sabbath to the LORD in all your dwellings. an offering made by fire, of a sweet aroma to
23:4
“‘These are the set feasts of the LORD, the LORD. 23:19 You shall offer one male goat for
even holy convocations, which you shall pro- a sin offering, and two male lambs a year old
claim in their appointed season. 23:5 In the first for a sacrifice of peace offerings. 23:20 The priest
month, on the fourteenth day of the month in shall wave them with the bread of the first fruits
the evening, is the LORD’s Passover. 23:6 On for a wave offering before the LORD, with the
the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast two lambs. They shall be holy to the LORD for
of unleavened bread to the LORD. Seven days the priest. 23:21 You shall make proclamation on
you shall eat unleavened bread. 23:7 In the first the same day: there shall be a holy convocation
day you shall have a holy convocation. You to you; you shall do no regular work. This is a
shall do no regular work. 23:8 But you shall offer statute forever in all your dwellings throughout
an offering made by fire to the LORD seven your generations.
23:22
days. In the seventh day is a holy convocation: “‘When you reap the harvest of your
you shall do no regular work.’” land, you shall not wholly reap into the corners
23:9
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, of your field, neither shall you gather the
23:10
“Speak to the children of Israel, and tell gleanings of your harvest: you shall leave them
them, ‘When you have come into the land for the poor, and for the foreigner. I am the
which I give to you, and shall reap its the LORD your God.’”
23:23
harvest, then you shall bring the sheaf of the The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
first fruits of your harvest to the priest: 23:11 and 23:24
“Speak to the children of Israel, saying,
i 23:13 1 efah is about 22 litres or about 2/3 of a bushel
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‘In the seventh month, on the first day of the land, you shall keep the feast of the LORD
the month, shall be a solemn rest to you, a seven days: on the first day shall be a solemn
memorial of blowing of shofarsj , a holy convo- rest, and on the eighth day shall be a solemn
cation. 23:25 You shall do no regular work; and rest. 23:40 You shall take on the first day the fruit
you shall offer an offering made by fire to the of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and
LORD.’” boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook;
23:26 and you shall rejoice before the LORD your
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
23:27
“However on the tenth day of this seventh God seven days. 23:41 You shall keep it a feast to
month is Yom Kippur: it shall be a holy convo- the LORD seven days in the year: it is a statute
cation to you, and you shall afflict yourselves; forever throughout your generations; you shall
and you shall offer an offering made by fire to keep it in the seventh month. 23:42 You shall
the LORD. 23:28 You shall do no kind of work dwell in booths seven days. All who are native-
in that same day; for it is Yom Kippurk , to born in Israel shall dwell in booths, 23:43 that
make atonement for you before the LORD your your generations may know that I made the
God. 23:29 For whoever it is who shall not children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I
deny himself in that same day; shall be cut brought them out of the land of Egypt. I am
off from his people. 23:30 Whoever it is who the LORD your God.’”
23:44
does any kind of work in that same day, that Moses declared to the children of Israel
person I will destroy from among his people. the appointed feasts of the LORD.
23:31 24:1
You shall do no kind of work: it is a The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
statute forever throughout your generations in 24:2
“Command the children of Israel, that they
all your dwellings. 23:32 It shall be a Sabbath bring to you pure olive oil beaten for the light,
of solemn rest for you, and you shall deny to cause a lamp to burn continually. 24:3 Outside
yourselves. In the ninth day of the month at of the veil of the Testimony, in the Tent of
evening, from evening to evening, you shall Meeting, shall Aaron keep it in order from
keep your Sabbath.” evening to morning before the LORD contin-
23:33
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, ually: it shall be a statute forever throughout
23:34
“Speak to the children of Israel, and say, your generations. 24:4 He shall keep in order
‘On the fifteenth day of this seventh month the lamps on the pure gold menorah before the
is the feast of booths for seven days to the LORD continually.
LORD. 23:35 On the first day shall be a holy 24:5
“You shall take fine flour, and bake
convocation: you shall do no regular work. twelve cakes of it: two tenth parts of an efahl
23:36
Seven days you shall offer an offering shall be in one cake. 24:6 You shall set them
made by fire to the LORD. On the eighth day in two rows, six on a row, on the pure gold
shall be a holy convocation to you; and you table before the LORD. 24:7 You shall put pure
shall offer an offering made by fire to the frankincense on each row, that it may be to
LORD. It is a solemn assembly; you shall do no the bread for a memorial, even an offering
regular work. made by fire to the LORD. 24:8 Every Sabbath
23:37
“‘These are the appointed feasts of the day he shall set it in order before the LORD
LORD, which you shall proclaim to be holy continually. It is on the behalf of the children
convocations, to offer an offering made by fire of Israel an everlasting covenant. 24:9 It shall
to the LORD, a burnt offering, and a meal be for Aaron and his sons; and they shall eat
offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, each it in a holy place: for it is most holy to him
on its own day; 23:38 besides the Sabbaths of of the offerings of the LORD made by fire by
the LORD, and besides your gifts, and besides a perpetual statute.”
all your vows, and besides all your freewill 24:10
The son of an Israelite woman, whose
offerings, which you give to the LORD. father was an Egyptian, went out among the
23:39
“‘So on the fifteenth day of the seventh children of Israel; and the son of the Israelite
month, when you have gathered in the fruits of woman and a man of Israel strove together in
j 23:24 or, trumpets
k 23:28 a day of atonement
l 24:5 1 efah is about 22 litres or about 2/3 of a bushel
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the camp. 24:11 The son of the Israelite woman maid, for your hired servant, and for your
blasphemed the Name, and cursed; and they stranger, who lives as a foreigner with you.
25:7
brought him to Moses. His mother’s name was For your livestock also, and for the animals
Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe that are in your land, shall all its increase be for
of Dan. 24:12 They put him in custody, until the food.
25:8
will of the LORD should be declared to them. “‘You shall count off seven Sabbaths of
24:13
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, years, seven times seven years; and there shall
24:14
“Bring out of the camp him who cursed; be to you the days of seven Sabbaths of years,
and let all who heard him lay their hands on even forty-nine years. 25:9 Then you shall sound
his head, and let all the congregation stone the loud shofarm on the tenth day of the seventh
him. 24:15 You shall speak to the children of month. On the Day of Atonement you shall
Israel, saying, ‘Whoever curses his God shall sound the shofarn throughout all your land.
25:10
bear his sin. 24:16 He who blasphemes the name You shall make the fiftieth year holy, and
of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death; all proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its
the congregation shall certainly stone him: the inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee to you; and
foreigner as well as the native-born, when he each of you shall return to his own property,
blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death. and each of you shall return to his family.
24:17 25:11
“‘He who strikes any man mortally shall That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee to you.
surely be put to death. 24:18 He who strikes an In it you shall not sow, neither reap that which
animal mortally shall make it good, life for life. grows of itself, nor gather from the undressed
24:19
If anyone injures his neighbor; as he has vines. 25:12 For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to
done, so shall it be done to him: 24:20 fracture you. You shall eat of its increase out of the field.
25:13
for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he “‘In this Year of Jubilee each of you shall
has injured someone, so shall it be done to him. return to his property.
24:21 25:14
He who kills an animal shall make it good; “‘If you sell anything to your neighbor,
and he who kills a man shall be put to death. or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong
24:22
You shall have one kind of law, for the one another. 25:15 According to the number of
foreigner as well as the native-born: for I am years after the Jubilee you shall buy from your
the LORD your God.’” neighbor. According to the number of years of
24:23
Moses spoke to the children of Israel; the crops he shall sell to you. 25:16 According
and they brought out him who had cursed out to the length of the years you shall increase
of the camp, and stoned him with stones. The its price, and according to the shortness of the
children of Israel did as the LORD commanded years you shall diminish its price; for he is
Moses. selling the number of the crops to you. 25:17 You
25:1 shall not wrong one another; but you shall fear
The LORD said to Moses in Mount Sinai,
25:2 your God: for I am the LORD your God.
“Speak to the children of Israel, and tell
25:18
them, ‘When you come into the land which I “‘Therefore you shall do my statutes,
give you, then the land shall keep a Sabbath and keep my ordinances and do them; and you
to the LORD. 25:3 Six years you shall sow your shall dwell in the land in safety. 25:19 The land
field, and six years you shall prune your shall yield its fruit, and you shall eat your fill,
vineyard, and gather in its fruits; 25:4 but in and dwell therein in safety. 25:20 If you said,
the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of “What shall we eat the seventh year? Behold,
solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to the we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase”;
25:21
LORD. You shall not sow your field or prune then I will command my blessing on you in
your vineyard. 25:5 What grows of itself in your the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for
harvest you shall not reap, and the grapes of the three years. 25:22 You shall sow the eighth
your undressed vine you shall not gather. It year, and eat of the fruits, the old store; until
shall be a year of solemn rest for the land. the ninth year, until its fruits come in, you shall
25:6
The Sabbath of the land shall be for food eat the old store.
25:23
for you; for yourself, for your servant, for your “‘The land shall not be sold in perpetu-
m 25:9 or, trumpet
n 25:9 or, trumpet
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25:39
ity, for the land is mine; for you are strangers “‘If your brother has grown poor among
and live as foreigners with me. 25:24 In all you, and sells himself to you; you shall not
the land of your possession you shall grant a make him to serve as a slave. 25:40 As a hired
redemption for the land. servant, and as a temporary resident, he shall
25:25 be with you; he shall serve with you until the
“‘If your brother becomes poor, and
sells some of his possessions, then his kinsman Year of Jubilee: 25:41 then he shall go out from
who is next to him shall come, and redeem that you, he and his children with him, and shall
which his brother has sold. 25:26 If a man has return to his own family, and to the possession
no one to redeem it, and he becomes prosper- of his fathers. 25:42 For they are my servants,
ous and finds sufficient means to redeem it; whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. They
25:27
then let him reckon the years since its sale, shall not be sold as slaves. 25:43 You shall not
and restore the surplus to the man to whom rule over him with harshness, but shall fear
he sold it; and he shall return to his property. your God.
25:28 25:44
But if he isn’t able to get it back for himself, “‘As for your male and your female
then what he has sold shall remain in the hand slaves, whom you may have; of the nations that
of him who has bought it until the Year of are around you, from them you may buy male
Jubilee: and in the Jubilee it shall be released, and female slaves. 25:45 Moreover of the chil-
and he shall return to his property. dren of the aliens who live among you, of them
25:29
“‘If a man sells a dwelling house in a you may buy, and of their families who are with
walled city, then he may redeem it within a you, which they have conceived in your land;
whole year after it has been sold. For a full and they will be your property. 25:46 You may
year he shall have the right of redemption. make them an inheritance for your children
25:30
If it isn’t redeemed within the space of a after you, to hold for a possession; of them
full year, then the house that is in the walled may you take your slaves forever: but over
city shall be made sure in perpetuity to him your brothers the children of Israel you shall
who bought it, throughout his generations. It not rule, one over another, with harshness.
shall not be released in the Jubilee. 25:31 But 25:47
“‘If an alien or temporary resident with
the houses of the villages which have no wall you becomes rich, and your brother beside
around them shall be reckoned with the fields him has grown poor, and sells himself to the
of the country: they may be redeemed, and stranger or foreigner living among you, or to
they shall be released in the Jubilee. a member of the stranger’s family; 25:48 after
25:32
“‘Nevertheless the cities of the Levites, he is sold he may be redeemed. One of his
the houses in the cities of their possession, brothers may redeem him; 25:49 or his uncle, or
the Levites may redeem at any time. 25:33 The his uncle’s son, may redeem him, or any who is
Levites may redeem the house that was sold, a close relative to him of his family may redeem
and the city of his possession, and it shall be him; or if he has grown rich, he may redeem
released in the Jubilee; for the houses of the himself. 25:50 He shall reckon with him who
cities of the Levites are their possession among bought him from the year that he sold himself
the children of Israel. 25:34 But the field of the to him to the Year of Jubilee: and the price of his
suburbs of their cities may not be sold; for it is sale shall be according to the number of years;
their perpetual possession. according to the time of a hired servant shall he
25:35
“‘If your brother has become poor, and be with him. 25:51 If there are yet many years,
his hand can’t support him among you; then according to them he shall give back the price
you shall uphold him. He shall live with of his redemption out of the money that he was
you like an alien and a temporary resident. bought for. 25:52 If there remain but a few years
25:36
Take no interest from him or profit, but fear to the year of jubilee, then he shall reckon with
your God; that your brother may live among him; according to his years of service he shall
you. 25:37 You shall not lend him your money give back the price of his redemption. 25:53 As
at interest, nor give him your food for profit. a servant hired year by year shall he be with
25:38
I am the LORD your God, who brought him: he shall not rule with harshness over him
you forth out of the land of Egypt, to give you in your sight. 25:54 If he isn’t redeemed by these
the land of Canaan, and to be your God. means, then he shall be released in the Year of
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Jubilee, he, and his children with him. 25:55 For rule over you; and you will flee when no one
to me the children of Israel are servants; they pursues you.
are my servants whom I brought out of the land 26:18
“‘If you in spite of these things will not
of Egypt. I am the LORD your God. listen to me, then I will chastise you seven times
26:1
“‘You shall make for yourselves no idols, more for your sins. 26:19 I will break the pride of
neither shall you raise up an engraved image your power, and I will make your sky like iron,
or a pillar, neither shall you place any figured and your soil like brass; 26:20 and your strength
stone in your land, to bow down to it: for I am will be spent in vain; for your land won’t yield
the LORD your God. its increase, neither will the trees of the land
26:2
“‘You shall keep my Sabbaths, and have yield their fruit.
reverence for my sanctuary. I am the LORD. 26:21
“‘If you walk contrary to me, and won’t
26:3
“‘If you walk in my statutes, and keep listen to me, then I will bring seven times more
my commandments, and do them; 26:4 then I plagues on you according to your sins. 26:22 I
will give you your rains in their season, and the will send the wild animals among you, which
land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the will rob you of your children, destroy your
field shall yield their fruit. 26:5 Your threshing livestock, and make you few in number; and
shall reach to the vintage, and the vintage shall your roads will become desolate.
reach to the sowing time; and you shall eat your 26:23
“‘If by these things you won’t be re-
bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely. formed to me, but will walk contrary to me;
26:6 26:24
“‘I will give peace in the land, and you then I will also walk contrary to you; and
shall lie down, and no one will make you I will strike you, even I, seven times for your
afraid; and I will remove evil animals out of sins. 26:25 I will bring a sword upon you, that
the land, neither shall the sword go through will execute the vengeance of the covenant;
your land. 26:7 You shall chase your enemies, and you will be gathered together within your
and they shall fall before you by the sword. cities: and I will send the pestilence among
26:8
Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a you; and you will be delivered into the hand
hundred of you shall chase ten thousand; and of the enemy. 26:26 When I break your staff
your enemies shall fall before you by the sword. of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in
26:9
“‘I will have respect for you, and make one oven, and they shall deliver your bread
you fruitful, and multiply you, and will estab- again by weight: and you shall eat, and not be
lish my covenant with you. 26:10 You shall eat satisfied.
old store long kept, and you shall move out 26:27
“‘If you in spite of this won’t listen to
the old because of the new. 26:11 I will set my me, but walk contrary to me; 26:28 then I will
tent among you: and my soul won’t abhor you. walk contrary to you in wrath; and I also will
26:12
I will walk among you, and will be your chastise you seven times for your sins. 26:29 You
God, and you will be my people. 26:13 I am the will eat the flesh of your sons, and you will
LORD your God, who brought you forth out of eat the flesh of your daughters. 26:30 I will
the land of Egypt, that you should not be their destroy your high places, and cut down your
slaves; and I have broken the bars of your yoke, incense altars, and cast your dead bodies upon
and made you go upright. the bodies of your idols; and my soul will
26:14
“‘But if you will not listen to me, and abhor you. 26:31 I will lay your cities waste, and
will not do all these commandments; 26:15 and will bring your sanctuaries to desolation, and
if you shall reject my statutes, and if your soul I will not take delight in the sweet fragrance
abhors my ordinances, so that you will not do of your offerings. 26:32 I will bring the land
all my commandments, but break my covenant; into desolation; and your enemies that dwell
26:16
I also will do this to you: I will appoint therein will be astonished at it. 26:33 I will
terror over you, even consumption and fever, scatter you among the nations, and I will draw
that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul out the sword after you: and your land will be
to pine away; and you will sow your seed in a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.
vain, for your enemies will eat it. 26:17 I will 26:34
Then the land will enjoy its sabbaths as
set my face against you, and you will be struck long as it lies desolate and you are in your
before your enemies. Those who hate you will enemies’ land. Even then the land will rest
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and enjoy its sabbaths. 26:35 As long as it lies 27:3


Your valuation shall be of a male from
desolate it shall have rest, even the rest which twenty years old even to sixty years old, even
it didn’t have in your sabbaths, when you lived your valuation shall be fifty shekels of silver,
on it. after the shekel of the sanctuary. 27:4 If it is
26:36
“‘As for those of you who are left, I will a female, then your valuation shall be thirty
send a faintness into their hearts in the lands shekels. 27:5 If the person is from five years old
of their enemies: and the sound of a driven even to twenty years old, then your valuation
leaf will put them to flight; and they shall flee, shall be for a male twenty shekels, and for a
as one flees from the sword; and they will fall female ten shekels. 27:6 If the person is from
when no one pursues. 26:37 They will stumble a month old even to five years old, then your
over one another, as it were before the sword, valuation shall be for a male five shekels of
when no one pursues: and you will have no silver, and for a female your valuation shall be
power to stand before your enemies. 26:38 You three shekels of silver. 27:7 If the person is from
will perish among the nations, and the land of sixty years old and upward; if it is a male, then
your enemies will eat you up. 26:39 Those of you your valuation shall be fifteen shekels, and for a
who are left will pine away in their iniquity in female ten shekels. 27:8 But if he is poorer than
your enemies’ lands; and also in the iniquities your valuation, then he shall be set before the
of their fathers shall they pine away with them. priest, and the priest shall value him; according
26:40 to the ability of him who vowed shall the priest
“‘If they confess their iniquity, and the
iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which value him.
27:9
they trespassed against me, and also that, “‘If it is an animal, of which men offer an
because they walked contrary to me, 26:41 I offering to the LORD, all that any man gives
also walked contrary to them, and brought of such to the LORD becomes holy. 27:10 He
them into the land of their enemies: if then shall not alter it, nor change it, a good for a
their uncircumcised heart is humbled, and they bad, or a bad for a good: and if he shall at all
then accept the punishment of their iniquity; change animal for animal, then both it and that
26:42
then I will remember my covenant with for which it is changed shall be holy. 27:11 If it is
Jacob; and also my covenant with Isaac, and any unclean animal, of which they do not offer
also my covenant with Abraham; and I will as an offering to the LORD, then he shall set
remember the land. 26:43 The land also will be the animal before the priest; 27:12 and the priest
left by them, and will enjoy its sabbaths while it shall value it, whether it is good or bad. As you
lies desolate without them: and they will accept the priest values it, so shall it be. 27:13 But if he
the punishment of their iniquity; because, even will indeed redeem it, then he shall add the fifth
because they rejected my ordinances, and their part of it to its valuation.
soul abhorred my statutes. 26:44 Yet for all that, 27:14
“‘When a man dedicates his house to be
when they are in the land of their enemies, holy to the LORD, then the priest shall evaluate
I will not reject them, neither will I abhor it, whether it is good or bad: as the priest
them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my shall evaluate it, so shall it stand. 27:15 If he
covenant with them; for I am the LORD their who dedicates it will redeem his house, then
God; 26:45 but I will for their sake remember the he shall add the fifth part of the money of your
covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought valuation to it, and it shall be his.
out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the 27:16
“‘If a man dedicates to the LORD part of
nations, that I might be their God. I am the the field of his possession, then your valuation
LORD.’” shall be according to the seed for it: the sowing
26:46
These are the statutes, ordinances and of a homero of barley shall be valued at fifty
laws, which the LORD made between him and shekels of silver. 27:17 If he dedicates his field
the children of Israel in Mount Sinai by Moses. from the Year of Jubilee, according to your
27:1
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, valuation it shall stand. 27:18 But if he dedicates
27:2
“Speak to the children of Israel, and say to his field after the Jubilee, then the priest shall
them, ‘When a man makes a vow, the persons reckon to him the money according to the years
shall be for the LORD by your valuation. that remain to the Year of Jubilee; and an
o 27:16 1 homer is about 220 litres or 6 bushels
Leviticus 27:19 111 Leviticus 27:34

abatement shall be made from your valuation.


27:19
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. 27:20 If he will not redeem the field,
or if he has sold the field to another man, it shall
not be redeemed any more; 27:21 but the field,
when it goes out in the Jubilee, shall be holy to
the LORD, as a field devoted; it shall be owned
by the priests.
27:22
“‘If he dedicates to the LORD a field
which he has bought, which is not of the field of
his possession, 27:23 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 the LORD.
27:24
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.
27:25
All your valuations shall be according to
the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs to
the shekel.
27:26
“‘Only the firstborn among animals,
which is made a firstborn to the LORD, no man
may dedicate it; whether an ox or sheep, it is
the LORD’s. 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.
27:28
“‘Notwithstanding, no devoted thing,
that a man shall devote to the LORD of all that
he has, whether of man or animal, or of the field
of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed:
every devoted thing is most holy to the LORD.
27:29
“‘No one devoted, who shall be devoted
from among men, shall be ransomed; he shall
surely be put to death.
27:30
“‘All the tithe of the land, whether of the
seed of the land or of the fruit of the trees, is
the LORD’s. It is holy to the LORD. 27:31 If a
man redeems anything of his tithe, he shall add
a fifth part to it. 27:32 All the tithe of the herds or
the flocks, whatever passes under the rod, the
tenth shall be holy to the LORD. 27:33 He shall
not search whether it is good or bad, neither
shall he change it: and if he changes it at all,
then both it and that for which it is changed
shall be holy. It shall not be redeemed.’”
27:34
These are the commandments which the
LORD commanded Moses for the children of
Israel on Mount Sinai.
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Numbers tions, by their families, by their fathers’ houses,


those who were numbered of it, according to
1:1 the number of the names, one by one, every
the LORDa spoke to Moses in the wilder-
ness of Sinai, in the Tent of Meeting, on the first male from twenty years old and upward, all
day of the second month, in the second year who were able to go out to war; 1:23 those who
after they had come out of the land of Egypt, were numbered of them, of the tribe of Simeon,
saying, 1:2 “Take a census of all the congregation were fifty-nine thousand three hundred.
1:24
of the children of Israel, by their families, by Of the children of Gad, their generations,
their fathers’ houses, according to the number by their families, by their fathers’ houses,
of the names, every male, one by one; 1:3 from according to the number of the names, from
twenty years old and upward, all who are able twenty years old and upward, all who were
to go out to war in Israel. You and Aaron shall able to go out to war; 1:25 those who were
number them by their divisions. 1:4 With you numbered of them, of the tribe of Gad, were
there shall be a man of every tribe; everyone forty-five thousand six hundred fifty.
1:26
head of his fathers’ house. 1:5 These are the Of the children of Judah, their genera-
names of the men who shall stand with you: tions, by their families, by their fathers’ houses,
Of Reuben: Elizur the son of Shedeur. according to the number of the names, from
1:6 twenty years old and upward, all who were
Of Simeon: Shelumiel the son of Zurishad-
dai. able to go out to war; 1:27 those who were
1:7 numbered of them, of the tribe of Judah, were
Of Judah: Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
1:8 sixty-four thousand six hundred.
Of Issachar: Nethanel the son of Zuar.
1:9 1:28
Of Zebulun: Eliab the son of Helon. Of the children of Issachar, their genera-
1:10
Of the children of Joseph: tions, by their families, by their fathers’ houses,
Of Ephraim: Elishama the son of Ammihud. according to the number of the names, from
Of Manasseh: Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur. twenty years old and upward, all who were
1:11
Of Benjamin: Abidan the son of Gideoni. able to go out to war; 1:29 those who were
1:12
Of Dan: Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai. numbered of them, of the tribe of Issachar, were
1:13
Of Asher: Pagiel the son of Ochran. fifty-four thousand four hundred.
1:14 1:30
Of Gad: Eliasaph the son of Deuel. Of the children of Zebulun, their genera-
1:15
Of Naphtali: Ahira the son of Enan.” tions, by their families, by their fathers’ houses,
1:16
These are those who were called of the according to the number of the names, from
congregation, the princes of the tribes of their twenty years old and upward, all who were
fathers; they were the heads of the thousands able to go out to war; 1:31 those who were num-
of Israel. 1:17 Moses and Aaron took these men bered of them, of the tribe of Zebulun, were
who are mentioned by name. 1:18 They assem- fifty-seven thousand four hundred. 1:32 Of the
bled all the congregation together on the first children of Joseph, of the children of Ephraim,
day of the second month; and they declared their generations, by their families, by their
their ancestry by their families, by their fathers’ fathers’ houses, according to the number of the
houses, according to the number of the names, names, from twenty years old and upward,
from twenty years old and upward, one by all who were able to go out to war; 1:33 those
one. 1:19 As the LORD commanded Moses, so who were numbered of them, of the tribe of
he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai. Ephraim, were forty thousand five hundred.
1:20 1:34
The children of Reuben, Israel’s firstborn, Of the children of Manasseh, their gen-
their generations, by their families, by their erations, by their families, by their fathers’
fathers’ houses, according to the number of the houses, according to the number of the names,
names, one by one, every male from twenty from twenty years old and upward, all who
years old and upward, all who were able to were able to go out to war; 1:35 those who were
go out to war; 1:21 those who were numbered numbered of them, of the tribe of Manasseh,
of them, of the tribe of Reuben, were forty-six were thirty-two thousand two hundred.
1:36
thousand five hundred. Of the children of Benjamin, their gen-
1:22
Of the children of Simeon, their genera- erations, by their families, by their fathers’
a 1:1 “LORD” or “GOD” (all capital letters) indicate the 4-letter Holy Name of God
Numbers 1:37 113 Numbers 2:15

houses, according to the number of the names, his own standard, according to their divisions.
1:53
from twenty years old and upward, all who But the Levites shall encamp around the
were able to go out to war; 1:37 those who were Tabernacle of the Testimony, that there may be
numbered of them, of the tribe of Benjamin, no wrath on the congregation of the children of
were thirty-five thousand four hundred. Israel: and the Levites shall be responsible for
1:38 the Tabernacle of the Testimony.”
Of the children of Dan, their generations,
1:54
by their families, by their fathers’ houses, Thus the children of Israel did. Accord-
according to the number of the names, from ing to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so
twenty years old and upward, all who were they did.
2:1
able to go forth to war; 1:39 those who were The LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron,
numbered of them, of the tribe of Dan, were saying, 2:2 “The children of Israel shall encamp
sixty-two thousand seven hundred. every man by his own standard, with the
1:40 banners of their fathers’ houses: at a distance
Of the children of Asher, their genera-
tions, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, from the Tent of Meeting shall they encamp
according to the number of the names, from around it.”
2:3
twenty years old and upward, all who were Those who encamp on the east side to-
able to go forth to war; 1:41 those who were ward the sunrise shall be of the standard of
numbered of them, of the tribe of Asher, were the camp of Judah, according to their divisions:
forty-one thousand five hundred. and the prince of the children of Judah shall
1:42
Of the children of Naphtali, their genera- be Nahshon the son of Amminadab. 2:4 His
tions, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, division, and those who were numbered of
according to the number of the names, from them, were seventy-four thousand six hundred.
2:5
twenty years old and upward, all who were Those who encamp next to him shall be
able to go forth to war; 1:43 those who were the tribe of Issachar: and the prince of the
numbered of them, of the tribe of Naphtali, children of Issachar shall be Nethanel the son
were fifty-three thousand four hundred. of Zuar. 2:6 His division, and those who were
1:44
These are those who were numbered, numbered of it, were fifty-four thousand four
whom Moses and Aaron numbered, and the hundred.
2:7
princes of Israel, being twelve men: they were The tribe of Zebulun: and the prince of
each one for his fathers’ house. 1:45 So all those the children of Zebulun shall be Eliab the son
who were numbered of the children of Israel of Helon. 2:8 His division, and those who were
by their fathers’ houses, from twenty years numbered of it, were fifty-seven thousand four
old and upward, all who were able to go out hundred.
2:9
to war in Israel; 1:46 even all those who were All who were numbered of the camp of
numbered were six hundred three thousand Judah were one hundred eighty-six thousand
five hundred fifty. 1:47 But the Levites after the four hundred, according to their divisions.
tribe of their fathers were not numbered among They shall set out first.
2:10
them. 1:48 For the LORD spoke to Moses, “On the south side shall be the standard
saying, 1:49 “Only the tribe of Levi you shall of the camp of Reuben according to their
not number, neither shall you take a census divisions. The prince of the children of Reuben
of them among the children of Israel; 1:50 but shall be Elizur the son of Shedeur. 2:11 His
appoint the Levites over the Tabernacle of the division, and those who were numbered of it,
Testimony, and over all its furnishings, and were forty-six thousand five hundred.
2:12
over all that belongs to it. They shall carry “Those who encamp next to him shall
the tabernacle, and all its furnishings; and they be the tribe of Simeon. The prince of the
shall take care of it, and shall encamp around it. children of Simeon shall be Shelumiel the son
1:51
When the tabernacle is to move, the Levites of Zurishaddai. 2:13 His division, and those
shall take it down; and when the tabernacle is who were numbered of them, were fifty-nine
to be set up, the Levites shall set it up. The thousand three hundred.
2:14
stranger who comes near shall be put to death. “The tribe of Gad: and the prince of the
1:52
The children of Israel shall pitch their tents, children of Gad shall be Eliasaph the son of
every man by his own camp, and every man by Reuel. 2:15 His division, and those who were
Numbers 2:16 114 Numbers 3:13

2:32
numbered of them, were forty-five thousand These are those who were numbered of
six hundred fifty. the children of Israel by their fathers’ houses.
2:16
“All who were numbered of the camp of All who were numbered of the camps accord-
Reuben were one hundred fifty-one thousand ing to their armies were six hundred three
four hundred fifty, according to their armies. thousand five hundred fifty. 2:33 But the Levites
They shall set out second. were not numbered among the children of
2:17 Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses.
“Then the Tent of Meeting shall set out,
2:34
with the camp of the Levites in the midst of the Thus the children of Israel did. Accord-
camps. As they encamp, so shall they set out, ing to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so
every man in his place, by their standards. they encamped by their standards, and so they
2:18
“On the west side shall be the standard set out, everyone by their families, according to
of the camp of Ephraim according to their divi- their fathers’ houses.
3:1
sions: and the prince of the children of Ephraim Now this is the history of the generations
shall be Elishama the son of Ammihud. 2:19 His of Aaron and Moses in the day that the LORD
division, and those who were numbered of spoke with Moses in Mount Sinai. 3:2 These are
them, were forty thousand five hundred. the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab the
2:20
“Next to him shall be the tribe of Man- firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
asseh: and the prince of the children of Man- 3:3
These are the names of the sons of Aaron,
asseh shall be Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur. the priests who were anointed, whom he
2:21
His division, and those who were num- consecrated to minister in the priest’s office.
bered of them, were thirty-two thousand two 3:4
Nadab and Abihu died before the LORD,
hundred. when they offered strange fire before the
2:22
“The tribe of Benjamin: and the prince LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had
of the children of Benjamin shall be Abidan no children. Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in
the son of Gideoni. 2:23 His army, and those the priest’s office in the presence of Aaron their
who were numbered of them, were thirty-five father.
thousand four hundred. 3:5
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
2:24 3:6
“All who were numbered of the camp “Bring the tribe of Levi near, and set them
of Ephraim were one hundred eight thousand before Aaron the priest, that they may minister
one hundred, according to their divisions. They to him. 3:7 They shall keep his requirements,
shall set out third. and the requirements of the whole congrega-
2:25
“On the north side shall be the standard tion before the Tent of Meeting, to do the
of the camp of Dan according to their divisions: service of the tabernacle. 3:8 They shall keep
and the prince of the children of Dan shall all the furnishings of the Tent of Meeting, and
be Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai. 2:26 His the obligations of the children of Israel, to
division, and those who were numbered of do the service of the tabernacle. 3:9 You shall
them, were sixty-two thousand seven hundred. give the Levites to Aaron and to his sons.
2:27
“Those who encamp next to him shall They are wholly given to him on the behalf
be the tribe of Asher: and the prince of the of the children of Israel. 3:10 You shall appoint
children of Asher shall be Pagiel the son of Aaron and his sons, and they shall keep their
Ochran. 2:28 His division, and those who were priesthood. The stranger who comes near shall
numbered of them, were forty-one thousand be put to death.”
and five hundred. 3:11
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
2:29 3:12
“The tribe of Naphtali: and the prince of “Behold, I have taken the Levites from
the children of Naphtali shall be Ahira the son among the children of Israel instead of all
of Enan. 2:30 His division, and those who were the firstborn who open the womb among the
numbered of them, were fifty-three thousand children of Israel; and the Levites shall be mine:
3:13
four hundred. for all the firstborn are mine. On the day
2:31
“All who were numbered of the camp that I struck down all the firstborn in the land
of Dan were one hundred fifty-seven thousand of Egypt I made holy to me all the firstborn
six hundred. They shall set out last by their in Israel, both man and animal. They shall be
standards.” mine. I am the LORD.”
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3:14 3:32
The LORD spoke to Moses in the wilder- Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be
ness of Sinai, saying, 3:15 “Count the children of prince of the princes of the Levites, with the
Levi by their fathers’ houses, by their families. oversight of those who keep the requirements
You shall count every male from a month old of the sanctuary.
and upward.” 3:33
Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites,
3:16
Moses numbered them according to the and the family of the Mushites. These are
word of the LORD, as he was commanded. the families of Merari. 3:34 Those who were
3:17
These were the sons of Levi by their numbered of them, according to the number of
names: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari. all the males, from a month old and upward,
3:18
These are the names of the sons of Ger- were six thousand two hundred.
shon by their families: Libni and Shimei. 3:35
The prince of the fathers’ house of the
3:19
The sons of Kohath by their families: families of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail.
Amram, and Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. They shall encamp on the north side of the
3:20
The sons of Merari by their families: tabernacle. 3:36 The appointed duty of the sons
Mahli and Mushi. of Merari shall be the tabernacle’s boards, its
These are the families of the Levites accord- bars, its pillars, its sockets, all its instruments,
ing to their fathers’ houses. all its service, 3:37 the pillars of the court around
3:21 it, their sockets, their pins, and their cords.
Of Gershon was the family of the Lib-
3:38
nites, and the family of the Shimeites: these are Those who encamp before the tabernacle
the families of the Gershonites. eastward, in front of the Tent of Meeting to-
3:22 ward the sunrise, shall be Moses, and Aaron
Those who were numbered of them,
according to the number of all the males, from and his sons, keeping the requirements of the
a month old and upward, even those who were sanctuary for the duty of the children of Israel.
numbered of them were seven thousand five The stranger who comes near shall be put to
hundred. death. 3:39 All who were numbered of the
3:23 Levites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered
The families of the Gershonites shall
encamp behind the tabernacle westward. at the commandment of the LORD, by their
3:24
The prince of the fathers’ house of the families, all the males from a month old and
Gershonites shall be Eliasaph the son of Lael. upward, were twenty-two thousand.
3:25 3:40
The duty of the sons of Gershon in the Tent The LORD said to Moses, “Number all
of Meeting shall be the tabernacle, and the tent, the firstborn males of the children of Israel from
its covering, and the screen for the door of the a month old and upward, and take the number
Tent of Meeting, 3:26 and the hangings of the of their names. 3:41 You shall take the Levites for
court, and the screen for the door of the court, me (I am the LORD) instead of all the firstborn
which is by the tabernacle, and around the altar, among the children of Israel; and the livestock
and its cords for all of its service. of the Levites instead of all the firstborn among
3:27 the livestock of the children of Israel.”
Of Kohath was the family of the Am-
3:42
ramites, and the family of the Izharites, and Moses numbered, as the LORD com-
the family of the Hebronites, and the family manded him, all the firstborn among the chil-
of the Uzzielites: these are the families of the dren of Israel. 3:43 All the firstborn males
Kohathites. 3:28 According to the number of all according to the number of names, from a
the males, from a month old and upward, there month old and upward, of those who were
were eight thousand six hundred, keeping the numbered of them, were twenty-two thousand
requirements of the sanctuary. two hundred seventy-three.
3:29 3:44
The families of the sons of Kohath shall The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
3:45
encamp on the south side of the tabernacle. “Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn
3:30
The prince of the fathers’ house of the among the children of Israel, and the livestock
families of the Kohathites shall be Elizaphan of the Levites instead of their livestock; and the
the son of Uzziel. 3:31 Their duty shall be Levites shall be mine. I am the LORD. 3:46 For
the ark, the table, the lamp stand, the altars, the redemption of the two hundred seventy-
the vessels of the sanctuary with which they three of the firstborn of the children of Israel,
minister, and the screen, and all its service. who exceed the number of the Levites, 3:47 you
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shall take five shekels apiece for each one; after shall put on it all its vessels, with which they
the shekel of the sanctuary you shall take them minister about it, the fire pans, the flesh hooks,
(the shekel is twenty gerahs): 3:48 and you shall the shovels, and the basins; all the vessels of the
give the money, with which their remainder is altar; and they shall spread on it a covering of
redeemed, to Aaron and to his sons.” sealskin, and put in its poles.
3:49 4:15
Moses took the redemption money from “When Aaron and his sons have finished
those who exceeded the number of those who covering the sanctuary, and all the furniture of
were redeemed by the Levites; 3:50 from the the sanctuary, as the camp moves forward; after
firstborn of the children of Israel he took the that, the sons of Kohath shall come to carry it:
money, one thousand three hundred sixty- but they shall not touch the sanctuary, lest they
five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary: die. These things are the burden of the sons of
3:51
and Moses gave the redemption money to Kohath in the Tent of Meeting.
Aaron and to his sons, according to the word of 4:16
“The duty of Eleazar the son of Aaron
the LORD, as the LORD commanded Moses. the priest shall be the oil for the light, the
4:1
The LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, sweet incense, the continual meal offering, and
saying, 4:2 “Take a census of the sons of Kohath the anointing oil, the requirements of all the
from among the sons of Levi, by their families, tabernacle, and of all that is in it, the sanctuary,
by their fathers’ houses, 4:3 from thirty years old and its furnishings.”
and upward even until fifty years old, all who 4:17
The LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron,
enter into the service, to do the work in the Tent saying, 4:18 “Don’t cut off the tribe of the fami-
of Meeting. lies of the Kohathites from among the Levites;
4:4 4:19
“This is the service of the sons of Kohath but thus do to them, that they may live, and
in the Tent of Meeting, the most holy things. not die, when they approach to the most holy
4:5
When the camp moves forward, Aaron shall things: Aaron and his sons shall go in, and
go in, and his sons, and they shall take down appoint them everyone to his service and to his
the veil of the screen, and cover the ark of the burden; 4:20 but they shall not go in to see the
Testimony with it, 4:6 and shall put a covering sanctuary even for a moment, lest they die.”
of sealskin on it, and shall spread over it a cloth 4:21
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
all of blue, and shall put in its poles. 4:22
“Take a census of the sons of Gershon
4:7
“On the table of show bread they shall also, by their fathers’ houses, by their families;
spread a blue cloth, and put on it the dishes, 4:23
you shall count them from thirty years old
the spoons, the bowls, and the cups with which and upward until fifty years old; all who enter
to pour out; and the continual bread shall be on in to wait on the service, to do the work in the
it. 4:8 They shall spread on them a scarlet cloth, Tent of Meeting.
and cover the same with a covering of sealskin, 4:24
“This is the service of the families of
and shall put in its poles. the Gershonites, in serving and in bearing
4:9
“They shall take a blue cloth, and cover burdens: 4:25 they shall carry the curtains of
the menorah of the light, and its lamps, and the tabernacle, and the Tent of Meeting, its
its snuffers, and its snuff dishes, and all its oil covering, and the covering of sealskin that is
vessels, with which they minister to it. 4:10 They above on it, and the screen for the door of
shall put it and all its vessels within a covering the Tent of Meeting, 4:26 and the hangings of
of sealskin, and shall put it on the frame. the court, and the screen for the door of the
4:11
“On the golden altar they shall spread gate of the court, which is by the tabernacle
a blue cloth, and cover it with a covering of and around the altar, and their cords, and all
sealskin, and shall put in its poles. the instruments of their service, and whatever
4:12
“They shall take all the vessels of min- shall be done with them. Therein shall they
istry, with which they minister in the sanctuary, serve. 4:27 At the commandment of Aaron and
and put them in a blue cloth, and cover them his sons shall be all the service of the sons of
with a covering of sealskin, and shall put them the Gershonites, in all their burden, and in all
on the frame. their service; and you shall appoint their duty
4:13
“They shall take away the ashes from the to them in all their responsibilities. 4:28 This is
altar, and spread a purple cloth on it. 4:14 They the service of the families of the sons of the
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Gershonites in the Tent of Meeting: and their thousand two hundred. 4:45 These are those
duty shall be under the hand of Ithamar the son who were numbered of the families of the sons
of Aaron the priest. of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron numbered
4:29 according to the commandment of the LORD
“As for the sons of Merari, you shall
number them by their families, by their fathers’ by Moses. 4:46 All those who were numbered of
houses; 4:30 you shall count them from thirty the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron and the
years old and upward even to fifty years old, princes of Israel numbered, by their families,
everyone who enters on the service, to do the and by their fathers’ houses, 4:47 from thirty
work of the Tent of Meeting. 4:31 This is the duty years old and upward even to fifty years old,
of their burden, according to all their service in everyone who entered in to do the work of
the Tent of Meeting: the tabernacle’s boards, its service, and the work of bearing burdens in
bars, its pillars, its sockets, 4:32 and the pillars of the Tent of Meeting, 4:48 even those who were
the court around it, and their sockets, and their numbered of them, were eight thousand five
pins, and their cords, with all their instruments, hundred eighty. 4:49 According to the com-
and with all their service: and by name you mandment of the LORD they were numbered
shall appoint the instruments of the duty of by Moses, everyone according to his service,
their burden. 4:33 This is the service of the and according to his burden. Thus were they
families of the sons of Merari, according to all numbered by him, as the LORD commanded
their service, in the Tent of Meeting, under the Moses.
5:1
hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.” The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
5:2
4:34
Moses and Aaron and the princes of the “Command the children of Israel that they
congregation numbered the sons of the Ko- put out of the camp every leper, and everyone
hathites by their families, and by their fathers’ who has an issue, and whoever is unclean by
houses, 4:35 from thirty years old and upward the dead. 5:3 Both you shall put male and female
even to fifty years old, everyone who entered outside of the camp; that they not defile their
into the service, for work in the Tent of Meeting. camp, in the midst of which I dwell.”
4:36 5:4
Those who were numbered of them by their The children of Israel did so, and put them
families were two thousand seven hundred out outside of the camp; as the LORD spoke to
fifty. 4:37 These are those who were numbered Moses, so did the children of Israel.
5:5
of the families of the Kohathites, all who served The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
5:6
in the Tent of Meeting, whom Moses and Aaron “Speak to the children of Israel: ‘When a
numbered according to the commandment of man or woman commits any sin that men
the LORD by Moses. commit, so as to trespass against the LORD,
4:38
Those who were numbered of the sons and that soul is guilty; 5:7 then he shall confess
of Gershon, their families, and by their fathers’ his sin which he has done, and he shall make
houses, 4:39 from thirty years old and upward restitution for his guilt in full, and add to it the
even to fifty years old, everyone who entered fifth part of it, and give it to him in respect
into the service, for work in the Tent of Meeting, of whom he has been guilty. 5:8 But if the
4:40 man has no kinsman to whom restitution may
even those who were numbered of them,
by their families, by their fathers’ houses, were be made for the guilt, the restitution for guilt
two thousand six hundred thirty. 4:41 These are which is made to the LORD shall be the priest’s;
those who were numbered of the families of the besides the ram of the atonement, by which
sons of Gershon, all who served in the Tent of atonement shall be made for him. 5:9 Every
Meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered heave offering of all the holy things of the
according to the commandment of the LORD. children of Israel, which they present to the
4:42
Those who were numbered of the families priest, shall be his. 5:10 Every man’s holy things
of the sons of Merari, by their families, by shall be his: whatever any man gives the priest,
their fathers’ houses, 4:43 from thirty years old it shall be his.’”
5:11
and upward even to fifty years old, everyone The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
5:12
who entered into the service, for work in “Speak to the children of Israel, and tell
the Tent of Meeting, 4:44 even those who were them: ‘If any man’s wife goes astray, and is
numbered of them by their families, were three unfaithful to him, 5:13 and a man lies with her
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carnally, and it is hidden from the eyes of her offering before the LORD, and bring it to the
husband, and is kept close, and she is defiled, altar. 5:26 The priest shall take a handful of
and there is no witness against her, and she isn’t the meal offering, as its memorial, and burn
taken in the act; 5:14 and the spirit of jealousy it on the altar, and afterward shall make the
comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife, woman drink the water. 5:27 When he has made
and she is defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy her drink the water, then it shall happen, if
comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife, she is defiled, and has committed a trespass
and she isn’t defiled: 5:15 then the man shall against her husband, that the water that causes
bring his wife to the priest, and shall bring her the curse will enter into her and become bitter,
offering for her: the tenth part of an efahb of and her body will swell, and her thigh will fall
barley meal. He shall pour no oil on it, nor put away: and the woman will be a curse among
frankincense on it, for it is a meal offering of her people. 5:28 If the woman isn’t defiled, but is
jealousy, a meal offering of memorial, bringing clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive
iniquity to memory. 5:16 The priest shall bring seed.
her near, and set her before the LORD; 5:17 and 5:29
“‘This is the law of jealousy, when a wife,
the priest shall take holy water in an earthen being under her husband, goes astray, and is
vessel; and of the dust that is on the floor of defiled; 5:30 or when the spirit of jealousy comes
the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put on a man, and he is jealous of his wife; then
it into the water. 5:18 The priest shall set the he shall set the woman before the LORD, and
woman before the LORD, and let the hair of the priest shall execute on her all this law.
5:31
the woman’s head go loose, and put the meal The man shall be free from iniquity, and that
offering of memorial in her hands, which is woman shall bear her iniquity.’”
the meal offering of jealousy. The priest shall 6:1
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
have in his hand the water of bitterness that 6:2
“Speak to the children of Israel, and tell
brings a curse. 5:19 The priest shall cause her them: ‘When either man or woman shall make
to swear, and shall tell the woman, “If no man a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to separate
has lain with you, and if you haven’t gone aside himself to the LORD, 6:3 he shall separate him-
to uncleanness, being under your husband, be self from wine and strong drink. He shall drink
free from this water of bitterness that brings a no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of fermented
curse. 5:20 But if you have gone astray, being drink, neither shall he drink any juice of grapes,
under your husband, and if you are defiled, nor eat fresh grapes or dried. 6:4 All the days of
and some man has lain with you besides your his separation he shall eat nothing that is made
husband:” 5:21 then the priest shall cause the of the grapevine, from the seeds even to the
woman to swear with the oath of cursing, and skins.
the priest shall tell the woman, “The LORD 6:5
“‘All the days of his vow of separation no
make you a curse and an oath among your razor shall come on his head, until the days are
people, when the LORD allows your thigh to fulfilled, in which he separates himself to the
fall away, and your body to swell; 5:22 and this LORD. He shall be holy. He shall let the locks
water that brings a curse will go into your of the hair of his head grow long.
bowels, and make your body swell, and your 6:6
“‘All the days that he separates himself to
thigh fall away.” The woman shall say, “Amen, the LORD he shall not go near a dead body.
Amen.” 6:7
He shall not make himself unclean for his
5:23
“‘The priest shall write these curses in a father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for
book, and he shall blot them out into the water his sister, when they die; because his separation
of bitterness. 5:24 He shall make the woman to Godc is on his head. 6:8 All the days of his
drink the water of bitterness that causes the separation he is holy to the LORD.
6:9
curse; and the water that causes the curse shall “‘If any man dies very suddenly beside
enter into her and become bitter. 5:25 The priest him, and he defiles the head of his separation;
shall take the meal offering of jealousy out of then he shall shave his head in the day of his
the woman’s hand, and shall wave the meal cleansing. On the seventh day he shall shave
b 5:15 1 efah is about 22 litres or about 2/3 of a bushel
c 6:7 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “Elohim.”
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it. 6:10 On the eighth day he shall bring two Israel.’ You shall tell them,
6:24
turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest, ‘The LORD bless you, and keep you.
to the door of the Tent of Meeting. 6:11 The 6:25
The LORD make his face to shine on
priest shall offer one for a sin offering, and the you,
other for a burnt offering, and make atonement and be gracious to you.
for him, because he sinned by reason of the 6:26
The LORD lift up his face toward you,
dead, and shall make his head holy that same and give you peace.’
day. 6:12 He shall separate to the LORD the days 6:27
“So they shall put my name on the
of his separation, and shall bring a male lamb a children of Israel; and I will bless them.”
year old for a trespass offering; but the former 7:1
It happened on the day that Moses had
days shall be void, because his separation was
finished setting up the tabernacle, and had
defiled.
anointed it and sanctified it, with all its fur-
6:13
“‘This is the law of the Nazirite: when niture, and the altar with all its vessels, and
the days of his separation are fulfilled, he shall had anointed and sanctified them; 7:2 that the
be brought to the door of the Tent of Meeting, princes of Israel, the heads of their fathers’
6:14
and he shall offer his offering to the LORD, houses, offered. These were the princes of the
one male lamb a year old without blemish for tribes. These are they who were over those
a burnt offering, and one ewe lamb a year who were numbered: 7:3 and they brought their
old without blemish for a sin offering, and offering before the LORD, six covered wagons,
one ram without blemish for peace offerings, and twelve oxen; a wagon for every two of
6:15
and a basket of unleavened bread, cakes the princes, and for each one an ox: and they
of fine flour mixed with oil, and unleavened presented them before the tabernacle. 7:4 The
wafers anointed with oil, and their meal offer- LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 7:5 “Accept these
ing, and their drink offerings. 6:16 The priest from them, that they may be used in doing
shall present them before the LORD, and shall the service of the Tent of Meeting; and you
offer his sin offering, and his burnt offering. shall give them to the Levites, to every man
6:17
He shall offer the ram for a sacrifice of according to his service.”
peace offerings to the LORD, with the basket 7:6
Moses took the wagons and the oxen, and
of unleavened bread. The priest shall offer gave them to the Levites. 7:7 He gave two
also its meal offering, and its drink offering. wagons and four oxen to the sons of Gershon,
6:18
The Nazirite shall shave the head of his according to their service: 7:8 and he gave four
separation at the door of the Tent of Meeting, wagons and eight oxen to the sons of Merari,
and shall take the hair of the head of his according to their service, under the direction
separation, and put it on the fire which is under of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest. 7:9 But to
the sacrifice of peace offerings. 6:19 The priest the sons of Kohath he gave none, because the
shall take the boiled shoulder of the ram, and service of the sanctuary belonged to them; they
one unleavened cake out of the basket, and carried it on their shoulders.
one unleavened wafer, and shall put them on 7:10
The princes gave offerings for the dedica-
the hands of the Nazirite, after he has shaved tion of the altar in the day that it was anointed,
the head of his separation; 6:20 and the priest even the princes gave their offerings before the
shall wave them for a wave offering before the altar.
LORD. This is holy for the priest, together with 7:11
The LORD said to Moses, “They shall
the breast that is waved and the thigh that is offer their offering, each prince on his day, for
offered. After that the Nazirite may drink wine. the dedication of the altar.”
6:21 7:12
“‘This is the law of the Nazirite who He who offered his offering the first day
vows, and of his offering to the LORD for his was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the
separation, besides that which he is able to get. tribe of Judah, 7:13 and his offering was:
According to his vow which he vows, so he one silver platter, the weight of which was one
must do after the law of his separation.’” hundred thirty shekels,
6:22
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the
6:23
“Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine
‘This is how you shall bless the children of flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
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7:14
one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine
incense; flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
7:15 7:32
one young bull, one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of
one ram, incense;
7:33
one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering; one young bull,
7:16
one male goat for a sin offering; one ram,
7:17
and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
7:34
head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and one male goat for a sin offering;
7:35
five male lambs a year old. This was the and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two
offering of Nahshon the son of Amminadab. head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and
7:18 five male lambs a year old. This was the
On the second day Nethanel the son
of Zuar, prince of Issachar, gave his offering. offering of Elizur the son of Shedeur.
7:19 7:36
He offered for his offering: On the fifth day Shelumiel the son of
one silver platter, the weight of which was one Zurishaddai, prince of the children of Simeon
7:37
hundred thirty shekels, gave his offering:
one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the one silver platter, the weight of which was one
shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine hundred thirty shekels,
flour mixed with oil for a meal offering; one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the
7:20
one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine
incense; flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
7:21 7:38
one young bull, one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of
one ram, incense;
7:39
one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering; one young bull,
7:22
one male goat for a sin offering; one ram,
7:23
and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
7:40
head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, five one male goat for a sin offering;
7:41
male lambs a year old. This was the offering of and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two
Nethanel the son of Zuar. head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and
7:24 five male lambs a year old: this was the offering
On the third day Eliab the son of Helon,
prince of the children of Zebulun 7:25 gave his of Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
7:42
offering: On the sixth day, Eliasaph the son of
one silver platter, the weight of which was a Deuel, prince of the children of Gad 7:43 gave
hundred and thirty shekels, his offering:
one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the one silver platter, the weight of which was one
shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine hundred thirty shekels,
flour mixed with oil for a meal offering; one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the
7:26
one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine
incense; flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
7:27 7:44
one young bull, one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of
one ram, incense;
7:45
one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering; one young bull,
7:28
one male goat for a sin offering; one ram,
7:29
and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
7:46
head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and one male goat for a sin offering;
7:47
five male lambs a year old. This was the and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two
offering of Eliab the son of Helon. head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and
7:30 five male lambs a year old. This was the
On the fourth day Elizur the son of
Shedeur, prince of the children of Reuben offering of Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
7:31 7:48
gave his offering: On the seventh day Elishama the son of
one silver platter, the weight of which was one Ammihud, prince of the children of Ephraim
7:49
hundred thirty shekels, gave his offering:
one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the one silver platter, the weight of which was one
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7:67
hundred thirty shekels, gave his offering:
one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the one silver platter, the weight of which was one
shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine hundred thirty shekels,
flour mixed with oil for a meal offering; one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the
7:50
one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine
incense; flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
7:51 7:68
one young bull, one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of
one ram, incense;
7:69
one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering; one young bull,
7:52
one male goat for a sin offering; one ram,
7:53
and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
7:70
head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and one male goat for a sin offering;
7:71
five male lambs a year old. This was the and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two
offering of Elishama the son of Ammihud. head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and
7:54 five male lambs a year old. This was the
On the eighth day Gamaliel the son of
Pedahzur, prince of the children of Manasseh offering of Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
7:55 7:72
gave his offering: On the eleventh day Pagiel the son of
one silver platter, the weight of which was one Ochran, prince of the children of Asher 7:73 gave
hundred thirty shekels, his offering:
one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the one silver platter, the weight of which was one
shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine hundred thirty shekels,
flour mixed with oil for a meal offering; one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the
7:56
one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine
incense; flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
7:57 7:74
one young bull, one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of
one ram, incense;
one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering; 7:75
one young bull,
7:58
one male goat for a sin offering; one ram,
7:59
and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and 7:76
one male goat for a sin offering;
five male lambs a year old. This was the 7:77
and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two
offering of Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur. head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and
7:60 five male lambs a year old. This was the
On the ninth day Abidan the son of
Gideoni, prince of the children of Benjamin offering of Pagiel the son of Ochran.
7:61 7:78
gave his offering: On the twelfth day Ahira the son of
one silver platter, the weight of which was one Enan, prince of the children of Naphtali
hundred thirty shekels, 7:79
gave his offering:
one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the one silver platter, the weight of which was one
shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine hundred thirty shekels,
flour mixed with oil for a meal offering; one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the
7:62
one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine
incense; flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
7:63 7:80
one young bull, one golden spoon of ten shekels, full of
one ram, incense;
one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering; 7:81
one young bull,
7:64
one male goat for a sin offering; one ram,
7:65
and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and 7:82
one male goat for a sin offering;
five male lambs a year old. This was the 7:83
and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two
offering of Abidan the son of Gideoni. head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and
7:66
On the tenth day Ahiezer the son of five male lambs a year old. This was the
Ammishaddai, prince of the children of Dan offering of Ahira the son of Enan.
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7:84
This was the dedication of the altar, on before the LORD for a wave offering, on the
the day when it was anointed, by the princes behalf of the children of Israel, that it may be
of Israel: twelve silver platters, twelve silver theirs to do the service of the LORD.
bowls, twelve golden ladles; 7:85 each silver 8:12
“The Levites shall lay their hands on the
platter weighing one hundred thirty shekels, heads of the bulls, and you shall offer the one
and each bowl seventy; all the silver of the for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt
vessels two thousand four hundred shekels, offering to the LORD, to make atonement for
after the shekel of the sanctuary; 7:86 the twelve the Levites. 8:13 You shall set the Levites before
golden ladles, full of incense, weighing ten Aaron, and before his sons, and offer them as a
shekels apiece, after the shekel of the sanctuary; wave offering to the LORD. 8:14 Thus you shall
all the gold of the ladles weighed one hundred separate the Levites from among the children
twenty shekels; 7:87 all the cattle for the burnt of Israel, and the Levites shall be mine.
offering twelve bulls, the rams twelve, the 8:15
“After that, the Levites shall go in to do
male lambs a year old twelve, and their meal the service of the Tent of Meeting: and you
offering; and the male goats for a sin offering shall cleanse them, and offer them as a wave
twelve; 7:88 and all the cattle for the sacrifice offering. 8:16 For they are wholly given to me
of peace offerings twenty-four bulls, the rams from among the children of Israel; instead of
sixty, the male goats sixty, the male lambs a year all who open the womb, even the firstborn of
old sixty. This was the dedication of the altar, all the children of Israel, I have taken them to
after it was anointed. me. 8:17 For all the firstborn among the children
7:89
When Moses went into the Tent of Meet- of Israel are mine, both man and animal. On
ing to speak with the LORD, he heard his voice the day that I struck all the firstborn in the
speaking to him from above the mercy seat that land of Egypt, I sanctified them for myself.
was on the ark of the Testimony, from between 8:18
I have taken the Levites instead of all the
the two cherubim: and he spoke to him. firstborn among the children of Israel. 8:19 I
8:1
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and
8:2
“Speak to Aaron, and tell him, ‘When you to his sons from among the children of Israel,
light the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light to do the service of the children of Israel in the
in front of the menorah.’” Tent of Meeting, and to make atonement for
8:3 the children of Israel; that there be no plague
Aaron did so. He lit its lamps to light
the area in front of the menorah, as the LORD among the children of Israel, when the children
commanded Moses. 8:4 This was the work- of Israel come near to the sanctuary.”
8:20
manship of the menorah, beaten work of gold. Moses, and Aaron, and all the congre-
From its base to its flowers, it was beaten work: gation of the children of Israel did so to the
according to the pattern which the LORD had Levites. According to all that the LORD
shown Moses, so he made the menorah. commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so
8:5
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, the children of Israel did to them. 8:21 The
8:6 Levites purified themselves from sin, and they
“Take the Levites from among the children
of Israel, and cleanse them. 8:7 You shall do washed their clothes; and Aaron offered them
this to them, to cleanse them: sprinkle the for a wave offering before the LORD; and
water of cleansing on them, let them shave Aaron made atonement for them to cleanse
their whole bodies with a razor, and let them them. 8:22 After that, the Levites went in to
wash their clothes, and cleanse themselves. do their service in the Tent of Meeting before
8:8 Aaron, and before his sons: as the LORD had
Then let them take a young bull, and its meal
offering, fine flour mixed with oil; and another commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so
young bull you shall take for a sin offering. they did to them.
8:9 8:23
You shall present the Levites before the Tent The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
8:24
of Meeting. You shall assemble the whole “This is that which belongs to the Levites:
congregation of the children of Israel. 8:10 You from twenty-five years old and upward they
shall present the Levites before the LORD. The shall go in to wait on the service in the work
children of Israel shall lay their hands on the of the Tent of Meeting; 8:25 and from the age of
Levites, 8:11 and Aaron shall offer the Levites fifty years they shall cease waiting on the work,
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and shall serve no more, 8:26 but shall minister according to the statute of the Passover, and
with their brothers in the Tent of Meeting, to according to its ordinance, so shall he do. You
perform the duty, and shall do no service. You shall have one statute, both for the foreigner,
shall do thus to the Levites concerning their and for him who is born in the land.’”
duties.” 9:15
On the day that the tabernacle was raised
9:1
The LORD spoke to Moses in the wilder- up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, even the
ness of Sinai, in the first month of the second Tent of the Testimony: and at evening it was
year after they had come out of the land of over the tabernacle as it were the appearance of
Egypt, saying, 9:2 “Moreover let the children fire, until morning. 9:16 So it was continually.
of Israel keep the Passover in its appointed The cloud covered it, and the appearance of
season. 9:3 On the fourteenth day of this month, fire by night. 9:17 Whenever the cloud was
at evening, you shall keep it in its appointed taken up from over the Tent, then after that
season—according to all its statutes, and ac- the children of Israel traveled; and in the place
cording to all its ordinances, you shall keep it.” where the cloud remained, there the children
9:4
Moses spoke to the children of Israel, of Israel encamped. 9:18 At the commandment
that they should keep the Passover. 9:5 They of the LORD, the children of Israel traveled,
kept the Passover in the first month, on the and at the commandment of the LORD they en-
fourteenth day of the month, at evening, in camped. As long as the cloud remained on the
the wilderness of Sinai. According to all that tabernacle they remained encamped. 9:19 When
the LORD commanded Moses, so the children the cloud stayed on the tabernacle many days,
of Israel did. 9:6 There were certain men, who then the children of Israel kept the LORD’s
were unclean because of the dead body of a command, and didn’t travel. 9:20 Sometimes the
man, so that they could not keep the Passover cloud was a few days on the tabernacle; then
on that day, and they came before Moses and according to the commandment of the LORD
before Aaron on that day. 9:7 Those men said they remained encamped, and according to
to him, “We are unclean because of the dead the commandment of the LORD they traveled.
9:21
body of a man. Why are we kept back, that Sometimes the cloud was from evening
we may not offer the offering of the LORD until morning; and when the cloud was taken
in its appointed season among the children of up in the morning, they traveled: or by day
Israel?” and by night, when the cloud was taken up,
9:8
Moses answered them, “Wait, that I may they traveled. 9:22 Whether it was two days, or
hear what the LORD will command concerning a month, or a year that the cloud stayed on the
you.” tabernacle, remaining on it, the children of Is-
9:9
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, rael remained encamped, and didn’t travel; but
9:10
“Say to the children of Israel, ‘If any man of when it was taken up, they traveled. 9:23 At the
you or of your generations is unclean by reason commandment of the LORD they encamped,
of a dead body, or is on a journey far away, he and at the commandment of the LORD they
shall still keep the Passover to the LORD. 9:11 In traveled. They kept the LORD’s command, at
the second month, on the fourteenth day at the commandment of the LORD by Moses.
10:1
evening they shall keep it; they shall eat it with The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
unleavened bread and bitter herbs. 9:12 They 10:2
“Make two shofarsd of silver. You shall
shall leave none of it until the morning, nor make them of beaten work. You shall use
break a bone of it. According to all the statute them for the calling of the congregation, and
of the Passover they shall keep it. 9:13 But the for the journeying of the camps. 10:3 When they
man who is clean, and is not on a journey, and blow them, all the congregation shall gather
fails to keep the Passover, that soul shall be cut themselves to you at the door of the Tent of
off from his people. Because he didn’t offer the Meeting. 10:4 If they blow just one, then the
offering of the LORD in its appointed season, princes, the heads of the thousands of Israel,
that man shall bear his sin. shall gather themselves to you. 10:5 When you
9:14
“‘If a foreigner lives among you, and blow an alarm, the camps that lie on the east
desires to keep the Passover to the LORD; side shall go forward. 10:6 When you blow an
d 10:2 or, trumpets
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alarm the second time, the camps that lie on the before they arrived.
10:22
south side shall go forward. They shall blow The standard of the camp of the chil-
an alarm for their journeys. 10:7 But when the dren of Ephraim set forward according to
assembly is to be gathered together, you shall their armies. Elishama the son of Ammihud
blow, but you shall not sound an alarm. was over his army. 10:23 Gamaliel the son of
10:8
“The sons of Aaron, the priests, shall Pedahzur was over the army of the tribe of the
blow the shofarse . This shall be to you for children of Manasseh. 10:24 Abidan the son of
a statute forever throughout your generations. Gideoni was over the army of the tribe of the
10:9
When you go to war in your land against children of Benjamin.
10:25
the adversary who oppresses you, then you The standard of the camp of the children
shall sound an alarm with the shofarsf . Then of Dan, which was the rear guard of all the
you will be remembered before the LORD your camps, set forward according to their armies.
God, and you will be saved from your enemies. Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai was over
10:10
“Also in the day of your gladness, and his army. 10:26 Pagiel the son of Ochran was
in your set feasts, and in the beginnings of your over the army of the tribe of the children of
months, you shall blow the shofarsg over your Asher. 10:27 Ahira the son of Enan was over the
burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your army of the tribe of the children of Naphtali.
10:28
peace offerings; and they shall be to you for Thus were the travels of the children of
a memorial before your God. I am the LORD Israel according to their armies; and they went
your God.” forward.
10:11 10:29
It happened in the second year, in the Moses said to Hobab, the son of Reuel
second month, on the twentieth day of the the Midianite, Moses’ father-in-law, “We are
month, that the cloud was taken up from journeying to the place of which the LORD
over the tabernacle of the testimony. 10:12 The said, ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us,
children of Israel went forward according to and we will treat you well; for the LORD has
their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; spoken good concerning Israel.”
10:30
and the cloud stayed in the wilderness of Paran. He said to him, “I will not go; but I will
10:13
They first went forward according to the depart to my own land, and to my relatives.”
10:31
commandment of the LORD by Moses. He said, “Don’t leave us, please; be-
10:14
First, the standard of the camp of the cause you know how we are to encamp in the
children of Judah went forward according to wilderness, and you can be our eyes. 10:32 It
their armies. Nahshon the son of Amminadab shall be, if you go with us, yes, it shall be, that
was over his army. 10:15 Nethanel the son of whatever good the LORD does to us, we will
Zuar was over the army of the tribe of the do the same to you.”
children of Issachar. 10:16 Eliab the son of 10:33
They set forward from the Mount of
Helon was over the army of the tribe of the the LORD three days’ journey. The ark of the
children of Zebulun. 10:17 The tabernacle was covenant of the LORD went before them three
taken down; and the sons of Gershon and days’ journey, to seek out a resting place for
the sons of Merari, who bore the tabernacle, them. 10:34 The cloud of the LORD was over
went forward. 10:18 The standard of the camp them by day, when they set forward from the
of Reuben went forward according to their camp. 10:35 It happened, when the ark went
armies. Elizur the son of Shedeur was over his forward, that Moses said, “Rise up, LORD, and
army. 10:19 Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai let your enemies be scattered! Let those who
was over the army of the tribe of the children hate you flee before you!” 10:36 When it rested,
of Simeon. 10:20 Eliasaph the son of Deuel was he said, “Return, LORD, to the ten thousands
over the army of the tribe of the children of of the thousands of Israel.”
Gad. 11:1
The people were complaining in the ears
10:21
The Kohathites set forward, bearing the of the LORD. When the LORD heard it, his
sanctuary. The others set up the tabernacle anger was kindled; and the LORD’s fire burnt
e 10:8 or, trumpets
f 10:9or, trumpets
g 10:10 or, trumpets
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among them, and consumed some of the out- yourself alone.


skirts of the camp. 11:2 The people cried to 11:18
“Say to the people, ‘Sanctify yourselves
Moses; and Moses prayed to the LORD, and against tomorrow, and you will eat flesh; for
the fire abated. 11:3 The name of that place was you have wept in the ears of the LORD, saying,
called Taberahh , because the LORD’s fire burnt “Who will give us flesh to eat? For it was well
among them. with us in Egypt.” Therefore the LORD will
11:4
The mixed multitude that was among give you flesh, and you will eat. 11:19 You will
them lusted exceedingly: and the children of not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days,
Israel also wept again, and said, “Who will neither ten days, nor twenty days, 11:20 but a
give us flesh to eat? 11:5 We remember the whole month, until it come out at your nostrils,
fish, which we ate in Egypt for nothing; the and it is loathsome to you; because that you
cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and have rejected the LORD who is among you, and
the onions, and the garlic; 11:6 but now we have have wept before him, saying, “Why did we
lost our appetite. There is nothing at all except come out of Egypt?”’”
11:21
this manna to look at.” 11:7 The manna was Moses said, “The people, among whom
like coriander seed, and its appearance like the I am, are six hundred thousand men on foot;
appearance of bdellium. 11:8 The people went and you have said, ‘I will give them flesh,
around, gathered it, and ground it in mills, or that they may eat a whole month.’ 11:22 Shall
beat it in mortars, and boiled it in pots, and flocks and herds be slaughtered for them, to be
made cakes of it. Its taste was like the taste of sufficient for them? Shall all the fish of the sea
fresh oil. 11:9 When the dew fell on the camp in be gathered together for them, to be sufficient
the night, the manna fell on it. for them?”
11:10 11:23
Moses heard the people weeping The LORD said to Moses, “Has the
throughout their families, every man at the LORD’s hand grown short? Now you will see
door of his tent; and the anger of the LORD was whether my word will happen to you or not.”
11:24
kindled greatly; and Moses was displeased. Moses went out, and told the people the
11:11
Moses said to the LORD, “Why have you words of the LORD; and he gathered seventy
treated with your servant so badly? Why men of the elders of the people, and set them
haven’t I found favor in your sight, that you lay around the Tent. 11:25 The LORD came down
the burden of all this people on me? 11:12 Have I in the cloud, and spoke to him, and took of
conceived all this people? Have I brought them the Spirit that was on him, and put it on the
forth, that you should tell me, ‘Carry them seventy elders: and it happened that when the
in your bosom, as a nurse carries a nursing Spirit rested on them, they prophesied, but they
infant, to the land which you swore to their did so no more. 11:26 But two men remained in
fathers?’ 11:13 Where could I get meat to give to the camp. The name of one was Eldad, and
all this people? For they weep to me, saying, the name of the other Medad: and the Spirit
‘Give us meat, that we may eat.’ 11:14 I am not rested on them; and they were of those who
able to bear all this people alone, because it were written, but had not gone out to the Tent;
is too heavy for me. 11:15 If you treat me this and they prophesied in the camp. 11:27 A young
way, please kill me right now, if I have found man ran, and told Moses, and said, “Eldad and
favor in your sight; and don’t let me see my Medad are prophesying in the camp!”
11:28
wretchedness.” Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of
11:16
The LORD said to Moses, “Gather to Moses, one of his chosen men, answered, “My
me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom lord Moses, forbid them!”
11:29
you know to be the elders of the people, and Moses said to him, “Are you jealous for
officers over them; and bring them to the Tent my sake? I wish that all the LORD’s people
of Meeting, that they may stand there with you. were prophets, that the LORD would put his
11:17
I will come down and talk with you there. I Spirit on them!”
11:30
will take of the Spirit which is on you, and will Moses went into the camp, he and the
put it on them; and they shall bear the burden elders of Israel. 11:31 A wind from the LORD
of the people with you, that you not bear it went out and brought quails from the sea, and
h 11:3 Taberah means “burning”
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let them fall by the camp, about a day’s journey sinned. 12:12 Let her not, I pray, be as one dead,
on this side, and a day’s journey on the other of whom the flesh is half consumed when he
side, around the camp, and about two cubits comes out of his mother’s womb.”
above the surface of the earth. 11:32 The people 12:13
Moses cried to the LORD, saying, “Heal
rose up all that day, and all the night, and all her, God, I beg you!”
the next day, and gathered the quails. He who 12:14
The LORD said to Moses, “If her father
gathered least gathered ten homers;i and they had but spit in her face, shouldn’t she be
spread them all abroad for themselves around ashamed seven days? Let her be shut up
the camp. 11:33 While the flesh was yet between outside of the camp seven days, and after that
their teeth, before it was chewed, the anger of she shall be brought in again.”
the LORD was kindled against the people, and 12:15
Miriam was shut up outside of the camp
the LORD struck the people with a very great seven days, and the people didn’t travel until
plague. 11:34 The name of that place was called Miriam was brought in again. 12:16 Afterward
Kibroth Hattaavah,j because there they buried the people traveled from Hazeroth, and en-
the people who lusted. camped in the wilderness of Paran.
11:35 13:1
From Kibroth Hattaavah the people The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
traveled to Hazeroth; and they stayed at Haze- 13:2
“Send men, that they may spy out the land
roth. of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel.
12:1
Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses Of every tribe of their fathers, you shall send a
because of the Cushite woman whom he had man, every one a prince among them.”
married; for he had married a Cushite woman. 13:3
Moses sent them from the wilderness of
12:2
They said, “Has the LORD indeed spoken Paran according to the commandment of the
only with Moses? Hasn’t he spoken also with LORD: all of them men who were heads of the
us?” And the LORD heard it. children of Israel. 13:4 These were their names:
12:3
Now the man Moses was very humble, Of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of
above all the men who were on the surface of Zaccur. 13:5 Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat
the earth. 12:4 The LORD spoke suddenly to the son of Hori. 13:6 Of the tribe of Judah,
Moses, to Aaron, and to Miriam, “You three Caleb the son of Jephunneh. 13:7 Of the tribe
come out to the Tent of Meeting!” of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph. 13:8 Of
The three of them came out. 12:5 The LORD the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun.
13:9
came down in a pillar of cloud, and stood at Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of
the door of the Tent, and called Aaron and Raphu. 13:10 Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel
Miriam; and they both came forward. 12:6 He the son of Sodi. 13:11 Of the tribe of Joseph, of
said, “Hear now my words. If there is a prophet the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi.
13:12
among you, I the LORD will make myself Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of
known to him in a vision. I will speak with him Gemalli. 13:13 Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the
in a dream. 12:7 My servant Moses is not so. He son of Michael. 13:14 Of the tribe of Naphtali,
is faithful in all my house. 12:8 With him I will Nahbi the son of Vophsi. 13:15 Of the tribe of
speak mouth to mouth, even plainly, and not Gad, Geuel the son of Machi. 13:16 These are
in riddles; and he shall see the LORD’s form. the names of the men who Moses sent to spy
Why then were you not afraid to speak against out the land. Moses called Hoshea the son
my servant, against Moses?” 12:9 The anger of of Nun Joshua. 13:17 Moses sent them to spy
the LORD was kindled against them; and he out the land of Canaan, and said to them, “Go
departed. 12:10 The cloud departed from over up this way by the South, and go up into the
the Tent; and behold, Miriam was leprous, as hill country: 13:18 and see the land, what it is;
white as snow. Aaron looked at Miriam, and and the people who dwell therein, whether
behold, she was leprous. they are strong or weak, whether they are few
12:11
Aaron said to Moses, “Oh, my lord, or many; 13:19 and what the land is that they
please don’t count this sin against us, in which dwell in, whether it is good or bad; and what
we have done foolishly, and in which we have cities they are that they dwell in, whether in
i 11:32 1 homer is about 220 litres or 6 bushels
j 11:34 Kibroth Hattaavah means “graves of lust.”
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camps, or in strongholds; 13:20 and what the and cried; and the people wept that night.
14:2
land is, whether it is fat or lean, whether there All the children of Israel murmured against
is wood therein, or not. Be courageous, and Moses and against Aaron: and the whole
bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time congregation said to them, “Would that we had
was the time of the first-ripe grapes.” 13:21 So died in the land of Egypt! or would that we
they went up, and spied out the land from the had died in this wilderness! 14:3 Why does
wilderness of Zin to Rehob, to the entrance the LORD bring us to this land, to fall by the
of Hamath. 13:22 They went up by the South, sword? Our wives and our little ones will be a
and came to Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, prey: wouldn’t it be better for us to return into
and Talmai, the children of Anak, were there. Egypt?” 14:4 They said one to another, “Let us
(Now Hebron was built seven years before make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.”
Zoan in Egypt.) 13:23 They came to the valley 14:5
Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces
of Eshcol, and cut down from there a branch before all the assembly of the congregation of
with one cluster of grapes, and they bore it on the children of Israel. 14:6 Joshua the son of Nun
a staff between two. They also brought some and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were of
of the pomegranates and figs. 13:24 That place those who spied out the land, tore their clothes:
14:7
was called the valley of Eshcol, because of the and they spoke to all the congregation of the
cluster which the children of Israel cut down children of Israel, saying, “The land, which we
from there. 13:25 They returned from spying out passed through to spy it out, is an exceeding
the land at the end of forty days. 13:26 They good land. 14:8 If the LORD delights in us, then
went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and he will bring us into this land, and give it to
to all the congregation of the children of Israel, us; a land which flows with milk and honey.
14:9
to the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and Only don’t rebel against the LORD, neither
brought back word to them, and to all the fear the people of the land; for they are bread
congregation, and showed them the fruit of for us: their defense is removed from over
the land. 13:27 They told him, and said, “We them, and the LORD is with us. Don’t fear
came to the land where you sent us; and surely them.” 14:10 But all the congregation threatened
it flows with milk and honey; and this is its to stone them with stones. The glory of the
fruit. 13:28 However the people who dwell in LORD appeared in the Tent of Meeting to all
the land are strong, and the cities are fortified the children of Israel. 14:11 The LORD said to
and very large. Moreover, we saw the children Moses, “How long will this people despise me?
of Anak there. 13:29 Amalek dwells in the land and how long will they not believe in me, for all
of the South: and the Hittite, and the Jebusite, the signs which I have worked among them?
14:12
and the Amorite, dwell in the hill country; and I will strike them with the pestilence, and
the Canaanite dwells by the sea, and along by disinherit them, and will make of you a nation
the side of the Jordan.” 13:30 Caleb stilled the greater and mightier than they.” 14:13 Moses
people before Moses, and said, “Let us go up said to the LORD, “Then the Egyptians will
at once, and possess it; for we are well able hear it; for you brought up this people in your
to overcome it.” 13:31 But the men who went might from among them; 14:14 and they will tell
up with him said, “We aren’t able to go up it to the inhabitants of this land. They have
against the people; for they are stronger than heard that you LORD are in the midst of this
we.” 13:32 They brought up an evil report of the people; for you LORD are seen face to face,
land which they had spied out to the children and your cloud stands over them, and you
of Israel, saying, “The land, through which we go before them, in a pillar of cloud by day,
have gone to spy it out, is a land that eats up its and in a pillar of fire by night. 14:15 Now if
inhabitants; and all the people who we saw in you killed this people as one man, then the
it are men of great stature. 13:33 There we saw nations which have heard the fame of you will
the Nephilim, the sons of Anak, who come of speak, saying, 14:16 ‘Because the LORD was not
the Nephilim: and we were in our own sight as able to bring this people into the land which
grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.” he swore to them, therefore he has slain them
14:1
All the congregation lifted up their voice, in the wilderness.’ 14:17 Now please let the
k 14:17 The word translated “Lord” (mixed case) is “Adonai.”
Numbers 14:18 128 Numbers 15:5

power of the Lordk be great, according as you land, even forty days, for every day a year, you
have spoken, saying, 14:18 ‘The LORD is slow will bear your iniquities, even forty years, and
to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, you will know my alienation.’ 14:35 I, the LORD,
forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and that have spoken, surely this will I do to all this
will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the evil congregation, who are gathered together
iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the against me: in this wilderness they shall be
third and on the fourth generation.’ 14:19 Please consumed, and there they shall die.” 14:36 The
pardon the iniquity of this people according men, whom Moses sent to spy out the land,
to the greatness of your loving kindness, and who returned, and made all the congregation
according as you have forgiven this people, to murmur against him, by bringing up an evil
from Egypt even until now.” 14:20 The LORD report against the land, 14:37 even those men
said, “I have pardoned according to your who brought up an evil report of the land,
word: 14:21 but in very deed, as I live, and died by the plague before the LORD. 14:38 But
as all the earth shall be filled with the glory Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of
of the LORD; 14:22 because all those men who Jephunneh, remained alive of those men who
have seen my glory, and my signs, which I went to spy out the land. 14:39 Moses told
worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet these words to all the children of Israel: and
have tempted me these ten times, and have the people mourned greatly. 14:40 They rose
not listened to my voice; 14:23 surely they shall up early in the morning, and went up to the
not see the land which I swore to their fathers, top of the mountain, saying, “Behold, we are
neither shall any of those who despised me here, and will go up to the place which the
see it: 14:24 but my servant Caleb, because he LORD has promised: for we have sinned.”
14:41
had another spirit with him, and has followed Moses said, “Why now do you disobey the
me fully, him will I bring into the land into commandment of the LORD, since it shall not
which he went; and his seed shall possess prosper? 14:42 Don’t go up, for the LORD isn’t
it. 14:25 Now the Amalekite and the Canaanite among you; that you not be struck down before
dwell in the valley: tomorrow turn, and go into your enemies. 14:43 For there the Amalekite and
the wilderness by the way to the Sea of Suf.” the Canaanite are before you, and you shall
14:26
The LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, fall by the sword: because you are turned back
saying, 14:27 “How long shall I bear with this from following the LORD, therefore the LORD
evil congregation, that murmur against me? I will not be with you.”
have heard the murmurings of the children of 14:44
But they presumed to go up to the top
Israel, which they murmur against me. 14:28 Tell of the mountain: nevertheless the ark of the
them, ‘As I live, says the LORD, surely as covenant of the LORD, and Moses, didn’t de-
you have spoken in my ears, so will I do to part out of the camp. 14:45 Then the Amalekite
you: 14:29 your dead bodies shall fall in this came down, and the Canaanite who lived in
wilderness; and all who were numbered of you, that mountain, and struck them and beat them
according to your whole number, from twenty down, even to Hormah.
years old and upward, who have murmured 15:1
against me, 14:30 surely you shall not come into The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
15:2
the land, concerning which I swore that I would “Speak to the children of Israel, and tell
make you dwell therein, except Caleb the son of them, ‘When you have come into the land of
Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun. 14:31 But your habitations, which I give to you, 15:3 and
your little ones, that you said should be a prey, will make an offering by fire to the LORD, a
them will I bring in, and they shall know the burnt offering, or a sacrifice, to accomplish a
land which you have rejected. 14:32 But as for vow, or as a freewill offering, or in your set
you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilder- feasts, to make a pleasant aroma to the LORD,
ness. 14:33 Your children shall be wanderers of the herd, or of the flock; 15:4 then he who
in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear offers his offering shall offer to the LORD a
your prostitution, until your dead bodies be meal offering of a tenth part of an efah of fine
consumed in the wilderness. 14:34 After the flour mixed with the fourth part of a hin of oil:
15:5
number of the days in which you spied out the and wine for the drink offering, the fourth
part of a hin, you shall prepare with the burnt
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offering, or for the sacrifice, for each lamb. it shall be, if it be done unwittingly, without
15:6 the knowledge of the congregation, that all
“‘Or for a ram, you shall prepare for a
meal offering two tenth parts of an efah of fine the congregation shall offer one young bull
flour mixed with the third part of a hin of oil: for a burnt offering, for a pleasant aroma
15:7 to the LORD, with the meal offering of it,
and for the drink offering you shall offer
the third part of a hin of wine, of a pleasant and the drink offering of it, according to the
aroma to the LORD. 15:8 When you prepare a ordinance, and one male goat for a sin offering.
15:25
bull for a burnt offering, or for a sacrifice, to The priest shall make atonement for all
accomplish a vow, or for peace offerings to the the congregation of the children of Israel, and
LORD; 15:9 then shall he offer with the bull a they shall be forgiven; for it was an error, and
meal offering of three tenth parts of an efah of they have brought their offering, an offering
fine flour mixed with half a hin of oil: 15:10 and made by fire to the LORD, and their sin offering
you shall offer for the drink offering half a before the LORD, for their error: 15:26 and all
hin of wine, for an offering made by fire, of a the congregation of the children of Israel shall
pleasant aroma to the LORD. 15:11 Thus shall it be forgiven, and the stranger who lives as a
be done for each bull, or for each ram, or for foreigner among them; for in respect of all the
each of the male lambs, or of the young goats. people it was done unwittingly.
15:12 15:27
According to the number that you shall “‘If one person sins unwittingly, then he
prepare, so you shall do to everyone according shall offer a female goat a year old for a sin
to their number. offering. 15:28 The priest shall make atonement
15:13
“‘All who are native-born shall do these for the soul who errs, when he sins unwittingly,
things in this way, in offering an offering made before the LORD, to make atonement for him;
by fire, of a pleasant aroma to the LORD. 15:14 If and he shall be forgiven. 15:29 You shall have
a stranger lives as a foreigner with you, or one law for him who does anything unwit-
whoever may be among you throughout your tingly, for him who is native-born among the
generations, and will offer an offering made children of Israel, and for the stranger who lives
by fire, of a pleasant aroma to the LORD; as as a foreigner among them.
you do, so he shall do. 15:15 For the assembly, 15:30
“‘But the soul who does anything with
there shall be one statute for you, and for the a high hand, whether he is native-born or a
stranger who lives as a foreigner, a statute foreigner, the same blasphemes the LORD; and
forever throughout your generations: as you that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
are, so shall the foreigner be before the LORD. 15:31
Because he has despised the word of the
15:16
One law and one ordinance shall be for LORD, and has broken his commandment, that
you, and for the stranger who lives as a for- soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be
eigner with you.’” on him.’”
15:17
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 15:32
15:18 While the children of Israel were in the
“Speak to the children of Israel, and tell
wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks
them, ‘When you come into the land where I
on the Sabbath day. 15:33 Those who found
bring you, 15:19 then it shall be that when you
him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and
eat of the bread of the land, you shall offer up a
Aaron, and to all the congregation. 15:34 They
wave offering to the LORD. 15:20 Of the first of
put him in custody, because it had not been
your dough you shall offer up a cake for a wave
declared what should be done to him.
offering: as the wave offering of the threshing
15:35
floor, so you shall heave it. 15:21 Of the first of The LORD said to Moses, “The man
your dough you shall give to the LORD a wave shall surely be put to death: all the congrega-
offering throughout your generations. tion shall stone him with stones outside of the
15:22
“‘When you shall err, and not observe camp.” 15:36 All the congregation brought him
all these commandments, which the LORD outside of the camp, and stoned him to death
has spoken to Moses, 15:23 even all that the with stones; as the LORD commanded Moses.
15:37
LORD has commanded you by Moses, from the The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
15:38
day that the LORD gave commandment, and “Speak to the children of Israel, and
onward throughout your generations; 15:24 then tell them that they should make themselves
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fringesl in the borders of their garments are gathered together against the LORD: and
throughout their generations, and that they put Aaron, what is he that you murmur against
on the fringem of each border a cord of blue: him?”
15:39
and it shall be to you for a fringen , that 16:12
Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram,
you may look on it, and remember all the the sons of Eliab; and they said, “We won’t
commandments of the LORD, and do them; come up: 16:13 is it a small thing that you have
and that you not follow after your own heart brought us up out of a land flowing with milk
and your own eyes, after which you use to play and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, but
the prostitute; 15:40 that you may remember and you must also make yourself a prince over us?
do all my commandments, and be holy to your 16:14
Moreover you haven’t brought us into a
God. 15:41 I am the LORD your God, who land flowing with milk and honey, nor given
brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your us inheritance of fields and vineyards: will
God: I am the LORD your God.” you put out the eyes of these men? We won’t
16:1
Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son come up.” 16:15 Moses was very angry, and said
of Kohath, the son of Levi, with Dathan and to the LORD, “Don’t respect their offering: I
Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son have not taken one donkey from them, neither
of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took men: 16:2 and have I hurt one of them.” 16:16 Moses said
they rose up before Moses, with certain of the to Korah, “You and all your company go
children of Israel, two hundred fifty princes of before the LORD, you, and they, and Aaron,
the congregation, called to the assembly, men tomorrow: 16:17 and each man take his censer,
of renown; 16:3 and they assembled themselves and put incense on them, and each man bring
together against Moses and against Aaron, and before the LORD his censer, two hundred fifty
said to them, “You take too much on yourself, censers; you also, and Aaron, each his censer.”
16:18
since all the congregation are holy, everyone They each took his censer, and put fire in
of them, and the LORD is among them: why them, and laid incense thereon, and stood at
then lift yourselves up above the assembly of the door of the Tent of Meeting with Moses and
the LORD?” Aaron. 16:19 Korah assembled all the congre-
16:4 gation against them to the door of the Tent of
When Moses heard it, he fell on his
face: 16:5 and he spoke to Korah and to all his Meeting: and the glory of the LORD appeared
company, saying, “In the morning the LORD to all the congregation. 16:20 The LORD spoke
will show who are his, and who is holy, and will to Moses and to Aaron, saying, 16:21 “Separate
cause him to come near to him: even him whom yourselves from among this congregation, that
he shall choose he will cause to come near to I may consume them in a moment!” 16:22 They
him. 16:6 Do this: take censers, Korah, and all fell on their faces, and said, “God, the God of
his company; 16:7 and put fire in them, and put the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and
incense on them before the LORD tomorrow: will you be angry with all the congregation?”
16:23
and it shall be that the man whom the LORD The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
16:24
chooses, he shall be holy. You have gone too “Speak to the congregation, saying, ‘Get
far, you sons of Levi!” away from around the tent of Korah, Dathan,
16:8
Moses said to Korah, “Hear now, you and Abiram!’” 16:25 Moses rose up and went to
sons of Levi! 16:9 Is it a small thing to you, that Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of Israel fol-
the God of Israel has separated you from the lowed him. 16:26 He spoke to the congregation,
congregation of Israel, to bring you near to him- saying, “Depart, please, from the tents of these
self, to do the service of the tabernacle of the wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest
LORD, and to stand before the congregation to you be consumed in all their sins!”
minister to them; 16:10 and that he has brought 16:27
So they went away from the tent of
you near, and all your brothers the sons of Levi Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side: and
with you? and do you seek the priesthood Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood at
also? 16:11 Therefore you and all your company the door of their tents, and their wives, and
l 15:38or, tzitziot)
m 15:38 or, tzitzit
n 15:39 or, tzitzit
Numbers 16:28 131 Numbers 17:9

their sons, and their little ones. 16:28 Moses said, toward the Tent of Meeting: and behold, the
“Hereby you shall know that the LORD has cloud covered it, and the glory of the LORD
sent me to do all these works; for they are not appeared. 16:43 Moses and Aaron came to the
from my own mind. 16:29 If these men die the front of the Tent of Meeting. 16:44 The LORD
common death of all men, or if they be visited spoke to Moses, saying, 16:45 “Get away from
after the visitation of all men; then the LORD among this congregation, that I may consume
hasn’t sent me. 16:30 But if the LORD make them in a moment!” They fell on their faces.
16:46
a new thing, and the ground open its mouth, Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer,
and swallow them up, with all that appertain and put fire from off the altar in it, and
to them, and they go down alive into Sheolo ; lay incense on it, and carry it quickly to the
then you shall understand that these men have congregation, and make atonement for them;
despised the LORD.” for wrath has gone out from the LORD! The
16:31 plague has begun.”
It happened, as he made an end of
16:47
speaking all these words, that the ground split Aaron did as Moses said, and ran into
apart that was under them; 16:32 and the earth the midst of the assembly; and behold, the
opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, plague has begun among the people: and he
and their households, and all the men who put on the incense, and made atonement for
appertained to Korah, and all their goods. the people. 16:48 He stood between the dead
16:33
So they, and all that appertained to them, and the living; and the plague was stayed.
16:49
went down alive into Sheolp : and the earth Now those who died by the plague were
closed on them, and they perished from among fourteen thousand and seven hundred, besides
the assembly. 16:34 All Israel that were around those who died about the matter of Korah.
16:50
them fled at their cry; for they said, “Lest the Aaron returned to Moses to the door of the
earth swallow us up!” 16:35 Fire came forth from Tent of Meeting: and the plague was stayed.
17:1
the LORD, and devoured the two hundred fifty The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
17:2
men who offered the incense. “Speak to the children of Israel, and take of
16:36 them rods, one for each fathers’ house, of all
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
16:37 their princes according to their fathers’ houses,
“Speak to Eleazar the son of Aaron the
priest, that he take up the censers out of twelve rods: write every man’s name on his
the burning, and scatter the fire yonder; for rod. 17:3 You shall write Aaron’s name on the
they are holy, 16:38 even the censers of these rod of Levi; for there shall be one rod for each
sinners against their own lives; and let them head of their fathers’ houses. 17:4 You shall
be made beaten plates for a covering of the lay them up in the Tent of Meeting before the
altar: for they offered them before the LORD; testimony, where I meet with you. 17:5 It shall
therefore they are holy; and they shall be a happen, that the rod of the man whom I shall
sign to the children of Israel.” 16:39 Eleazar choose shall bud: and I will make to cease from
the priest took the bronze censers, which those me the murmurings of the children of Israel,
who were burnt had offered; and they beat which they murmur against you.”
17:6
them out for a covering of the altar, 16:40 to Moses spoke to the children of Israel; and
be a memorial to the children of Israel, to the all their princes gave him rods, for each prince
end that no stranger, who isn’t of the seed of one, according to their fathers’ houses, even
Aaron, comes near to burn incense before the twelve rods: and the rod of Aaron was among
LORD; that he not be as Korah, and as his their rods. 17:7 Moses laid up the rods before the
company: as the LORD spoke to him by Moses. LORD in the tent of the testimony.
16:41 17:8
But on the next day all the congregation It happened on the next day, that Moses
of the children of Israel murmured against went into the tent of the testimony; and behold,
Moses and against Aaron, saying, “You have the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was
killed the LORD’s people!” 16:42 It happened, budded, and put forth buds, and produced
when the congregation was assembled against blossoms, and bore ripe almonds. 17:9 Moses
Moses and against Aaron, that they looked brought out all the rods from before the LORD
o 16:30 Sheol is the place of the dead.
p 16:33 Sheol is the place of the dead.
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to all the children of Israel: and they looked, me, shall be most holy for you and for your
and took every man his rod. sons. 18:10 You shall eat of it like the most holy
17:10 things. Every male shall eat of it. It shall be
The LORD said to Moses, “Put back the
rod of Aaron before the testimony, to be kept holy to you.
18:11
for a token against the children of rebellion; “This is yours, too: the wave offering
that you may make an end of their murmurings of their gift, even all the wave offerings of the
against me, that they not die.” 17:11 Moses did children of Israel. I have given them to you, and
so. As the LORD commanded him, so he did. to your sons and to your daughters with you,
17:12 as a portion forever. Everyone who is clean in
The children of Israel spoke to Moses,
saying, “Behold, we perish! We are undone! We your house shall eat of it.
18:12
are all undone! 17:13 Everyone who comes near, “All the best of the oil, and all the best
who comes near to the tabernacle of the LORD, of the vintage, and of the grain, the first fruits
dies! Will we all perish?” of them which they give to the LORD, to you
18:1
The LORD said to Aaron, “You and your have I given them. 18:13 The first-ripe fruits of
sons and your fathers’ house with you shall all that is in their land, which they bring to the
bear the iniquity of the sanctuary; and you and LORD, shall be yours; everyone who is clean in
your sons with you shall bear the iniquity of your house shall eat of it.
18:14
your priesthood. 18:2 Your brothers also, the “Everything devoted in Israel shall be
tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, bring near yours. 18:15 Everything that opens the womb,
with you, that they may be joined to you, and of all flesh which they offer to the LORD, both
minister to you: but you and your sons with of man and animal shall be yours: nevertheless
you shall be before the tent of the testimony. you shall surely redeem the firstborn of man,
18:3
They shall keep your commands, and the and you shall redeem the firstborn of unclean
duty of all the Tent: only they shall not come animals. 18:16 You shall redeem those who are
near to the vessels of the sanctuary and to the to be redeemed of them from a month old,
altar, that they not die, neither they, nor you. according to your estimation, for five shekels
18:4
They shall be joined to you, and keep the of money, after the shekel of the sanctuary (the
responsibility of the Tent of Meeting, for all the same is twenty gerahs).
18:17
service of the Tent: and a stranger shall not “But you shall not redeem the firstborn
come near to you. of a cow, or the firstborn of a sheep, or the
18:5 firstborn of a goat. They are holy. You shall
“You shall perform the duty of the sanc-
tuary, and the duty of the altar; that there sprinkle their blood on the altar, and shall burn
be no more wrath on the children of Israel. their fat for an offering made by fire, for a
18:6
I, behold, I have taken your brothers the pleasant aroma to the LORD. 18:18 Their flesh
Levites from among the children of Israel: to shall be yours, as the wave offering breast and
you they are a gift, given to the LORD, to do as the right thigh, it shall be yours. 18:19 All
the service of the Tent of Meeting. 18:7 You and the wave offerings of the holy things, which
your sons with you shall keep your priesthood the children of Israel offer to the LORD, have
for everything of the altar, and for that within I given you, and your sons and your daughters
the veil; and you shall serve: I give you the with you, as a portion forever: it is a covenant
priesthood as a service of gift: and the stranger of salt forever before the LORD to you and to
who comes near shall be put to death.” your seed with you.”
18:8 18:20
The LORD spoke to Aaron, “I, behold, The LORD said to Aaron, “You shall
I have given you the command of my wave have no inheritance in their land, neither shall
offerings, even all the holy things of the chil- you have any portion among them. I am
dren of Israel; to you have I given them by your portion and your inheritance among the
reason of the anointing, and to your sons, as a children of Israel.
portion forever. 18:9 This shall be yours of the 18:21
“To the children of Levi, behold, I have
most holy things from the fire: every offering given all the tithe in Israel for an inheri-
of theirs, even every meal offering of theirs, and tance, in return for their service which they
every sin offering of theirs, and every trespass serve, even the service of the Tent of Meeting.
18:22
offering of theirs, which they shall render to Henceforth the children of Israel shall not
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come near the Tent of Meeting, lest they bear her blood, with her dung, shall he burn: 19:6 and
sin, and die. 18:23 But the Levites shall do the the priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop,
service of the Tent of Meeting, and they shall and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the
bear their iniquity: it shall be a statute forever burning of the heifer. 19:7 Then the priest shall
throughout your generations; and among the wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh
children of Israel they shall have no inheri- in water, and afterward he shall come into the
tance. 18:24 For the tithe of the children of camp, and the priest shall be unclean until the
Israel, which they offer as a wave offering evening. 19:8 He who burns her shall wash his
to the LORD, I have given to the Levites for clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water,
an inheritance: therefore I have said to them, and shall be unclean until the evening.
‘Among the children of Israel they shall have 19:9
“A man who is clean shall gather up the
no inheritance.’” ashes of the heifer, and lay them up outside of
18:25 the camp in a clean place; and it shall be kept
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
18:26 for the congregation of the children of Israel for
“Moreover you shall speak to the Levites,
and tell them, ‘When you take of the children a water for impurity: it is a sin offering. 19:10 He
of Israel the tithe which I have given you from who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash
them for your inheritance, then you shall offer his clothes, and be unclean until the evening:
up a wave offering of it for the LORD, a tithe and it shall be to the children of Israel, and to
of the tithe. 18:27 Your wave offering shall be the stranger who lives as a foreigner among
reckoned to you, as though it were the grain them, for a statute forever.
19:11
of the threshing floor, and as the fullness of “He who touches the dead body of any
the winepress. 18:28 Thus you also shall offer a man shall be unclean seven days: 19:12 the same
wave offering to the LORD of all your tithes, shall purify himself with water on the third day,
which you receive of the children of Israel; and and on the seventh day he shall be clean: but if
of it you shall give the LORD’s wave offering to he doesn’t purify himself the third day, then the
Aaron the priest. 18:29 Out of all your gifts you seventh day he shall not be clean. 19:13 Whoever
shall offer every wave offering of the LORD, of touches a dead person, the body of a man who
all its best, even the holy part of it out of it.’ has died, and doesn’t purify himself, defiles
18:30 the tabernacle of the LORD; and that soul shall
“Therefore you shall tell them, ‘When
you heave its best from it, then it shall be be cut off from Israel: because the water for
reckoned to the Levites as the increase of the impurity was not sprinkled on him, he shall be
threshing floor, and as the increase of the unclean; his uncleanness is yet on him.
19:14
winepress. 18:31 You shall eat it in every place, “This is the law when a man dies in a
you and your households: for it is your reward tent: everyone who comes into the tent, and
in return for your service in the Tent of Meeting. everyone who is in the tent, shall be unclean
18:32
You shall bear no sin by reason of it, when seven days. 19:15 Every open vessel, which has
you have heaved from it its best: and you shall no covering bound on it, is unclean.
not profane the holy things of the children of 19:16
“Whoever in the open field touches one
Israel, that you not die.’” who is slain with a sword, or a dead body, or
19:1 a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean
The LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron,
saying, 19:2 “This is the statute of the law which seven days.
19:17
the LORD has commanded: Speak to the “For the unclean they shall take of the
children of Israel, that they bring you a red ashes of the burning of the sin offering; and
heifer without spot, in which is no blemish, and running water shall be put thereto in a vessel:
which was never yoked. 19:3 You shall give her 19:18
and a clean person shall take hyssop, and
to Eleazar the priest, and he shall bring her dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent,
forth outside of the camp, and one shall kill and on all the vessels, and on the persons
her before his face: 19:4 and Eleazar the priest who were there, and on him who touched the
shall take of her blood with his finger, and bone, or the slain, or the dead, or the grave:
19:19
sprinkle her blood toward the front of the Tent and the clean person shall sprinkle on the
of Meeting seven times. 19:5 One shall burn the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh
heifer in his sight; her skin, and her flesh, and day: and on the seventh day he shall purify
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20:12
him; and he shall wash his clothes, and bathe The LORD said to Moses and Aaron,
himself in water, and shall be clean at evening. “Because you didn’t believe in me, to sanctify
19:20
But the man who shall be unclean, and me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore
shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut you shall not bring this assembly into the land
off from the midst of the assembly, because which I have given them.”
he has defiled the sanctuary of the LORD: the 20:13
These are the waters of Meribah; be-
water for impurity has not been sprinkled on cause the children of Israel strove with
him; he is unclean. 19:21 It shall be a perpetual the LORD, and he was sanctified in them.
statute to them: and he who sprinkles the water 20:14
Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the
for impurity shall wash his clothes, and he who king of Edom, saying:
touches the water for impurity shall be unclean “Thus says your brother Israel: You know all
until evening. the travail that has happened to us: 20:15 how
19:22
“Whatever the unclean person touches our fathers went down into Egypt, and we
shall be unclean; and the soul that touches it lived in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians
shall be unclean until evening.” dealt ill with us, and our fathers: 20:16 and when
20:1 we cried to the LORD, he heard our voice,
The children of Israel, even the whole
congregation, came into the wilderness of Zin and sent an angel, and brought us forth out of
in the first month: and the people stayed Egypt: and behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in
in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was the uttermost of your border.
20:17
buried there. 20:2 There was no water for the “Please let us pass through your land:
congregation: and they assembled themselves we will not pass through field or through
together against Moses and against Aaron. vineyard, neither will we drink of the water of
20:3 the wells: we will go along the king’s highway;
The people strove with Moses, and spoke,
saying, “We wish that we had died when our we will not turn aside to the right hand nor to
brothers died before the LORD! 20:4 Why have the left, until we have passed your border.”
20:18
you brought the assembly of the LORD into Edom said to him, “You shall not pass
this wilderness, that we should die there, we through me, lest I come out with the sword
and our animals? 20:5 Why have you made us against you.”
to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in to this 20:19
The children of Israel said to him, “We
evil place? It is no place of seed, or of figs, or of will go up by the highway; and if we drink of
vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any your water, I and my livestock, then will I give
water to drink.” its price: let me only, without doing anything
20:6 else, pass through on my feet.”
Moses and Aaron went from the pres-
20:20
ence of the assembly to the door of the Tent of He said, “You shall not pass through.”
Meeting, and fell on their faces: and the glory Edom came out against him with many people,
of the LORD appeared to them. 20:7 The LORD and with a strong hand. 20:21 Thus Edom re-
spoke to Moses, saying, 20:8 “Take the rod, and fused to give Israel passage through his border,
assemble the congregation, you, and Aaron so Israel turned away from him.
20:22
your brother, and speak to the rock before their They traveled from Kadesh: and the
eyes, that it give forth its water; and you shall children of Israel, even the whole congregation,
bring forth to them water out of the rock; so you came to Mount Hor. 20:23 The LORD spoke to
shall give the congregation and their livestock Moses and Aaron in Mount Hor, by the border
drink.” of the land of Edom, saying, 20:24 “Aaron shall
20:9
Moses took the rod from before the be gathered to his people; for he shall not enter
LORD, as he commanded him. 20:10 Moses and into the land which I have given to the children
Aaron gathered the assembly together before of Israel, because you rebelled against my word
the rock, and he said to them, “Hear now, you at the waters of Meribah. 20:25 Take Aaron and
rebels; shall we bring you water out of this rock Eleazar his son, and bring them up to Mount
for you?” 20:11 Moses lifted up his hand, and Hor; 20:26 and strip Aaron of his garments, and
struck the rock with his rod twice: and water put them on Eleazar his son: and Aaron shall
came forth abundantly, and the congregation be taken, and shall die there.”
20:27
drank, and their livestock. Moses did as the LORD commanded:
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and they went up into Mount Hor in the sight that comes out of the border of the Amorites:
of all the congregation. 20:28 Moses stripped for the Arnon is the border of Moab, between
Aaron of his garments, and put them on Moab and the Amorites. 21:14 Therefore it is said
Eleazar his son; and Aaron died there on the in the book of the Wars of the LORD, “Vaheb in
top of the mountain: and Moses and Eleazar Suphah, the valleys of the Arnon, 21:15 the slope
came down from the mountain. 20:29 When all of the valleys that incline toward the dwelling
the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, of Ar, leans on the border of Moab.”
21:16
they wept for Aaron thirty days, even all the From there they traveled to Beer: that
house of Israel. is the well of which the LORD said to Moses,
21:1 “Gather the people together, and I will give
The Canaanite, the king of Arad, who
lived in the South, heard tell that Israel came them water.”
21:17
by the way of Atharim; and he fought against Then sang Israel this song:
Israel, and took some of them captive. 21:2 Israel “Spring up, well; sing to it:
21:18
vowed a vow to the LORD, and said, “If the well, which the princes dug,
you will indeed deliver this people into my which the nobles of the people dug,
hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.” with the scepter, and with their poles.”
21:3
The LORD listened to the voice of Israel, From the wilderness they traveled to Mat-
and delivered up the Canaanites; and they tanah; 21:19 and from Mattanah to Nahaliel;
utterly destroyed them and their cities: and the and from Nahaliel to Bamoth; 21:20 and from
name of the place was called Hormah. Bamoth to the valley that is in the field of Moab,
21:4
They traveled from Mount Hor by the to the top of Pisgah, which looks down on the
way to the Sea of Suf, to compass the land of desert. 21:21 Israel sent messengers to Sihon
Edom: and the soul of the people was much king of the Amorites, saying, 21:22 “Let me pass
discouraged because of the way. 21:5 The people through your land: we will not turn aside into
spoke against God, and against Moses, “Why field, or into vineyard; we will not drink of the
have you brought us up out of Egypt to die water of the wells: we will go by the king’s
in the wilderness? For there is no bread, and highway, until we have passed your border.”
21:23
there is no water; and our soul loathes this light Sihon would not allow Israel to pass
bread.” through his border: but Sihon gathered all his
21:6 people together, and went out against Israel
The LORD sent fiery serpents among the
people, and they bit the people; and many into the wilderness, and came to Jahaz; and
people of Israel died. 21:7 The people came to he fought against Israel. 21:24 Israel struck him
Moses, and said, “We have sinned, because we with the edge of the sword, and possessed his
have spoken against the LORD, and against land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, even to
you. Pray to the LORD, that he take away the children of Ammon; for the border of the
the serpents from us.” Moses prayed for the children of Ammon was strong. 21:25 Israel took
people. all these cities: and Israel lived in all the cities of
21:8
The LORD said to Moses, “Make a fiery the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all its towns.
21:26
serpent, and set it on a standard: and it shall For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king
happen, that everyone who is bitten, when he of the Amorites, who had fought against the
sees it, shall live.” 21:9 Moses made a serpent former king of Moab, and taken all his land out
of brass, and set it on the standard: and it of his hand, even to the Arnon. 21:27 Therefore
happened, that if a serpent had bitten any those who speak in proverbs say,
man, when he looked to the serpent of brass, “Come to Heshbon.
he lived. 21:10 The children of Israel traveled, Let the city of Sihon be built and estab-
and encamped in Oboth. 21:11 They traveled lished;
21:28
from Oboth, and encamped at Iyeabarim, in for a fire has gone out of Heshbon,
the wilderness which is before Moab, toward a flame from the city of Sihon.
the sunrise. 21:12 From there they traveled, and It has devoured Ar of Moab,
encamped in the valley of Zered. 21:13 From The lords of the high places of the Arnon.
21:29
there they traveled, and encamped on the other Woe to you, Moab!
side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness, You are undone, people of Chemosh!
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He has given his sons as fugitives, Balaam. 22:9 God came to Balaam, and said,
and his daughters into captivity, “Who are these men with you?” 22:10 Balaam
to Sihon king of the Amorites. said to God, “Balak the son of Zippor, king of
21:30
We have shot at them. Moab, has said to me, 22:11 ‘Behold, the people
Heshbon has perished even to Dibon. that has come out of Egypt, it covers the surface
We have laid waste even to Nophah, of the earth: now, come curse me them; perhaps
Which reaches to Medeba.” I shall be able to fight against them, and shall
21:31
Thus Israel lived in the land of the drive them out.’”
22:12
Amorites. 21:32 Moses sent to spy out Jazer; and God said to Balaam, “You shall not go
they took its towns, and drove out the Amorites with them. You shall not curse the people; for
who were there. 21:33 They turned and went they are blessed.”
22:13
up by the way of Bashan: and Og the king of Balaam rose up in the morning, and said
Bashan went out against them, he and all his to the princes of Balak, “Go to your land; for the
people, to battle at Edrei. LORD refuses to permit me to go with you.”
21:34 22:14
The LORD said to Moses, “Don’t fear The princes of Moab rose up, and they
him: for I have delivered him into your hand, went to Balak, and said, “Balaam refuses to
and all his people, and his land; and you shall come with us.”
22:15
do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Balak sent yet again princes, more, and
Amorites, who lived at Heshbon.” more honorable than they. 22:16 They came to
21:35 Balaam, and said to him, “Thus says Balak the
So they struck him, and his sons and
all his people, until there was none left him son of Zippor, ‘Please let nothing hinder you
remaining: and they possessed his land. from coming to me: 22:17 for I will promote you
22:1 to very great honor, and whatever you say to
The children of Israel traveled, and en-
camped in the plains of Moab beyond the me I will do. Please come therefore, and curse
Jordan at Jericho. 22:2 Balak the son of Zippor this people for me.’”
22:18
saw all that Israel had done to the Amor- Balaam answered the servants of Balak,
ites. 22:3 Moab was very afraid of the people, “If Balak would give me his house full of silver
because they were many: and Moab was and gold, I can’t go beyond the word of the
distressed because of the children of Israel. LORD my God, to do less or more. 22:19 Now
22:4
Moab said to the elders of Midian, “Now therefore, please wait also here this night, that
this multitude will lick up all that is around us, I may know what the LORD will speak to me
as the ox licks up the grass of the field.” more.”
22:20
Balak the son of Zippor was king of Moab God came to Balaam at night, and said
at that time. 22:5 He sent messengers to Balaam to him, “If the men have come to call you, rise
the son of Beor, to Pethor, which is by the up, go with them; but only the word which I
River, to the land of the children of his people, speak to you, that you shall do.”
22:21
to call him, saying, “Behold, there is a people Balaam rose up in the morning, and
who came out from Egypt. Behold, they cover saddled his donkey, and went with the princes
the surface of the earth, and they are staying of Moab. 22:22 God’s anger was kindled because
opposite me. 22:6 Please come now therefore he went; and the angel of the LORD placed
curse me this people; for they are too mighty himself in the way for an adversary against
for me: perhaps I shall prevail, that we may him. Now he was riding on his donkey, and his
strike them, and that I may drive them out of two servants were with him. 22:23 The donkey
the land; for I know that he whom you bless is saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way,
blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed.” with his sword drawn in his hand; and the
22:7
The elders of Moab and the elders of donkey turned aside out of the way, and went
Midian departed with the rewards of divina- into the field: and Balaam struck the donkey,
tion in their hand; and they came to Balaam, to turn her into the way. 22:24 Then the angel
and spoke to him the words of Balak. 22:8 He of the LORD stood in a narrow path between
said to them, “Lodge here this night, and I the vineyards, a wall being on this side, and
will bring you word again, as the LORD shall a wall on that side. 22:25 The donkey saw the
speak to me.” The princes of Moab stayed with angel of the LORD, and she thrust herself to
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the wall, and crushed Balaam’s foot against the mouth, that shall I speak.”
22:39
wall: and he struck her again. Balaam went with Balak, and they came
22:26
The angel of the LORD went further, to Kiriath Huzoth. 22:40 Balak sacrificed cattle
and stood in a narrow place, where there was and sheep, and sent to Balaam, and to the
no way to turn either to the right hand or to princes who were with him. 22:41 It happened
the left. 22:27 The donkey saw the angel of the in the morning, that Balak took Balaam, and
LORD, and she lay down under Balaam: and brought him up into the high places of Baal;
Balaam’s anger was kindled, and he struck the and he saw from there the utmost part of the
donkey with his staff. people.
22:28 23:1
The LORD opened the mouth of the Balaam said to Balak, “Build me here
donkey, and she said to Balaam, “What have seven altars, and prepare me here seven bulls
I done to you, that you have struck me these and seven rams.”
23:2
three times?” Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and
22:29 Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bull
Balaam said to the donkey, “Because
you have mocked me, I wish there were a and a ram. 23:3 Balaam said to Balak, “Stand by
sword in my hand, for now I would have killed your burnt offering, and I will go: perhaps the
you.” LORD will come to meet me; and whatever he
22:30 shows me I will tell you.”
The donkey said to Balaam, “Am I not
your donkey, on which you have ridden all He went to a bare height. 23:4 God met
your life long to this day? Was I ever in the Balaam: and he said to him, “I have prepared
habit of doing so to you?” the seven altars, and I have offered up a bull
He said, “No.” and a ram on every altar.”
22:31 23:5
Then the LORD opened the eyes of The LORD put a word in Balaam’s
Balaam, and he saw the angel of the LORD mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and thus
standing in the way, with his sword drawn in you shall speak.”
23:6
his hand; and he bowed his head, and fell on He returned to him, and behold, he was
his face. 22:32 The angel of the LORD said to standing by his burnt offering, he, and all the
him, “Why have you struck your donkey these princes of Moab. 23:7 He took up his parable,
three times? Behold, I have come forth as an and said,
adversary, because your way is perverse before “From Aram has Balak brought me,
me: 22:33 and the donkey saw me, and turned the king of Moab from the mountains of
aside before me these three times. Unless she the East.
had turned aside from me, surely now I would Come, curse Jacob for me.
have killed you, and saved her alive.” Come, defy Israel.
22:34 23:8
Balaam said to the angel of the LORD, “I How shall I curse whom God has not
have sinned; for I didn’t know that you stood cursed?
in the way against me. Now therefore, if it How shall I defy whom the LORD has not
displeases you, I will go back again.” defied?
22:35 23:9
The angel of the LORD said to Balaam, For from the top of the rocks I see him.
“Go with the men; but only the word that I shall From the hills I see him.
speak to you, that you shall speak.” Behold, it is a people that dwells alone,
So Balaam went with the princes of Balak. and shall not be reckoned among the
22:36 nations.
When Balak heard that Balaam had come,
23:10
he went out to meet him to the City of Moab, Who can count the dust of Jacob,
which is on the border of the Arnon, which is or number the fourth part of Israel?
in the utmost part of the border. 22:37 Balak said Let me die the death of the righteous!
to Balaam, “Didn’t I earnestly send to you to Let my last end be like his!”
23:11
call you? Why didn’t you come to me? Am I Balak said to Balaam, “What have you
not able indeed to promote you to honor?” done to me? I took you to curse my enemies,
22:38
Balaam said to Balak, “Behold, I have and behold, you have blessed them altogether.”
23:12
come to you: have I now any power at all to He answered and said, “Must I not take
speak anything? The word that God puts in my heed to speak that which the LORD puts in my
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23:27
mouth?” Balak said to Balaam, “Come now, I will
23:13
Balak said to him, “Please come with take you to another place; perhaps it will please
me to another place, where you may see them; God that you may curse me them from there.”
23:28
you shall see but the utmost part of them, and Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor,
shall not see them all: and curse me them from that looks down on the desert. 23:29 Balaam
there.” said to Balak, “Build me here seven altars, and
23:14 prepare me here seven bulls and seven rams.”
He took him into the field of Zophim,
23:30
to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, Balak did as Balaam had said, and
and offered up a bull and a ram on every offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.
24:1
altar. 23:15 He said to Balak, “Stand here by your When Balaam saw that it pleased the
burnt offering, while I meet over there.” LORD to bless Israel, he didn’t go, as at the
23:16 other times, to meet with enchantments, but he
The LORD met Balaam, and put a word
in his mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and set his face toward the wilderness. 24:2 Balaam
say this.” lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel dwelling
23:17 according to their tribes; and the Spirit of God
He came to him, and behold, he was
standing by his burnt offering, and the princes came on him. 24:3 He took up his parable, and
of Moab with him. Balak said to him, “What said,
has the LORD spoken?” “Balaam the son of Beor says,
23:18 the man whose eye was closed says;
He took up his parable, and said,
24:4
“Rise up, Balak, and hear! he says, who hears the words of God,
Listen to me, you son of Zippor. who sees the vision of the Almighty,
23:19
God is not a man, that he should lie, falling down, and having his eyes open:
24:5
nor the son of man, that he should repent. How goodly are your tents, Jacob,
Has he said, and will he not do it? and your tents, Israel!
24:6
Or has he spoken, and will he not make it As valleys they are spread forth,
good? as gardens by the riverside,
23:20
Behold, I have received a command to as aloes which the LORD has planted,
bless. as cedar trees beside the waters.
24:7
He has blessed, and I can’t reverse it. Water shall flow from his buckets.
23:21 His seed shall be in many waters.
He has not seen iniquity in Jacob.
His king shall be higher than Agag.
Neither has he seen perverseness in Is-
His kingdom shall be exalted.
rael. 24:8
God brings him out of Egypt.
The LORD his God is with him.
He has as it were the strength of the wild
The shout of a king is among them.
23:22 ox.
God brings them out of Egypt.
He shall eat up the nations his adversaries,
He has as it were the strength of the wild shall break their bones in pieces,
ox.
23:23
and pierce them with his arrows.
Surely there is no enchantment with Jacob; 24:9
He couched, he lay down as a lion,
Neither is there any divination with Is- as a lioness; who shall rouse him up?
rael. Everyone who blesses you is blessed.
Now it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, Everyone who curses you is cursed.”
What has God done! 24:10
Balak’s anger was kindled against Bal-
23:24
Behold, the people rises up as a lioness, aam, and he struck his hands together; and
As a lion he lifts himself up. Balak said to Balaam, “I called you to curse
He shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, my enemies, and, behold, you have altogether
and drinks the blood of the slain.” blessed them these three times. 24:11 Therefore
23:25
Balak said to Balaam, “Neither curse now flee you to your place! I thought to
them at all, nor bless them at all.” promote you to great honor; but, behold, the
23:26
But Balaam answered Balak, “Didn’t I LORD has kept you back from honor.”
24:12
tell you, saying, ‘All that the LORD speaks, that Balaam said to Balak, “Didn’t I also tell
I must do?’” your messengers who you sent to me, saying,
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24:13
‘If Balak would give me his house full of the LORD was kindled against Israel. 25:4 The
silver and gold, I can’t go beyond the word LORD said to Moses, “Take all the chiefs of the
of the LORD, to do either good or bad of my people, and hang them up to the LORD before
own mind. I will say what the LORD says’? the sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD may
24:14
Now, behold, I go to my people: come, I turn away from Israel.”
will inform you what this people shall do to 25:5
Moses said to the judges of Israel, “Ev-
your people in the latter days.” eryone kill his men who have joined them-
24:15
He took up his parable, and said, selves to Baal Peor.”
“Balaam the son of Beor says, 25:6
Behold, one of the children of Israel came
the man whose eye was closed says; and brought to his brothers a Midianite woman
24:16
he says, who hears the words of God, in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all
knows the knowledge of the Most High, the congregation of the children of Israel, while
and who sees the vision of the Almighty, they were weeping at the door of the Tent
Falling down, and having his eyes open: of Meeting. 25:7 When Phinehas, the son of
24:17
I see him, but not now. Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it,
I see him, but not near. he rose up from the midst of the congregation,
A star will come out of Jacob. and took a spear in his hand; 25:8 and he went
A scepter will rise out of Israel, after the man of Israel into the pavilion, and
and shall strike through the corners of Moab, thrust both of them through, the man of Israel,
and break down all the sons of Sheth. and the woman through her body. So the
24:18
Edom shall be a possession. plague was stayed from the children of Israel.
25:9
Seir, his enemies, also shall be a posses- Those who died by the plague were twenty-
sion, four thousand. 25:10 The LORD spoke to Moses,
while Israel does valiantly. saying, 25:11 “Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the
24:19
Out of Jacob shall one have dominion, son of Aaron the priest, has turned my wrath
and shall destroy the remnant from the away from the children of Israel, in that he was
city.” jealous with my jealousy among them, so that
24:20 I didn’t consume the children of Israel in my
He looked at Amalek, and took up his
parable, and said, jealousy. 25:12 Therefore say, ‘Behold, I give to
“Amalek was the first of the nations, him my covenant of peace: 25:13 and it shall be
But his latter end shall come to destruc- to him, and to his seed after him, the covenant
tion.” of an everlasting priesthood; because he was
24:21 jealous for his God, and made atonement for
He looked at the Kenite, and took up his
parable, and said, the children of Israel.’”
25:14
“Your dwelling place is strong. Now the name of the man of Israel that
Your nest is set in the rock. was slain, who was slain with the Midianite
24:22 woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a
Nevertheless Kain shall be wasted,
until Asshur carries you away captive.” fathers’ house among the Simeonites. 25:15 The
24:23 name of the Midianite woman who was slain
He took up his parable, and said,
“Alas, who shall live when God does this? was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he was head of
24:24 the people of a fathers’ house in Midian.
But ships shall come from the coast
25:16
of Kittim. The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
25:17
They shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber. “Harass the Midianites, and strike them;
25:18
He also shall come to destruction.” for they harassed you with their wiles,
24:25 with which they have deceived you in the
Balaam rose up, and went and returned
to his place; and Balak also went his way. matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the
25:1 daughter of the prince of Midian, their sister,
Israel stayed in Shittim; and the people
began to play the prostitute with the daughters who was slain on the day of the plague in the
of Moab: 25:2 for they called the people to the matter of Peor.”
26:1
sacrifices of their gods; and the people ate, It happened after the plague, that the
and bowed down to their gods. 25:3 Israel LORD spoke to Moses and to Eleazar the son
joined himself to Baal Peor: and the anger of of Aaron the priest, saying, 26:2 “Take a census
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of all the congregation of the children of Israel, Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; of Hamul,
from twenty years old and upward, by their the family of the Hamulites. 26:22 These are the
fathers’ houses, all who are able to go forth families of Judah according to those who were
to war in Israel.” 26:3 Moses and Eleazar the numbered of them, seventy-six thousand five
priest spoke with them in the plains of Moab hundred. 26:23 The sons of Issachar after their
by the Jordan at Jericho, saying, 26:4 “Take a families: of Tola, the family of the Tolaites; of
census, from twenty years old and upward; as Puvah, the family of the Punites; 26:24 of Jashub,
the LORD commanded Moses and the children the family of the Jashubites; of Shimron, the
of Israel.” family of the Shimronites. 26:25 These are the
families of Issachar according to those who
These are those that came out of the land of were numbered of them, sixty-four thousand
Egypt. 26:5 Reuben, the firstborn of Israel; the three hundred. 26:26 The sons of Zebulun after
sons of Reuben: of Hanoch, the family of the their families: of Sered, the family of the
Hanochites; of Pallu, the family of the Palluites; Seredites; of Elon, the family of the Elonites; of
26:6
of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; of Jahleel, the family of the Jahleelites. 26:27 These
Carmi, the family of the Carmites. 26:7 These are the families of the Zebulunites according
are the families of the Reubenites; and those to those who were numbered of them, sixty
who were numbered of them were forty-three thousand five hundred. 26:28 The sons of Joseph
thousand seven hundred thirty. 26:8 The sons after their families: Manasseh and Ephraim.
of Pallu: Eliab. 26:9 The sons of Eliab: Ne- 26:29
The sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the
muel, and Dathan, and Abiram. These are family of the Machirites; and Machir became
that Dathan and Abiram, who were called of the father of Gilead; of Gilead, the family of the
the congregation, who strove against Moses Gileadites. 26:30 These are the sons of Gilead:
and against Aaron in the company of Korah, of Iezer, the family of the Iezerites; of Helek,
when they strove against the LORD, 26:10 and the family of the Helekites; 26:31 and Asriel,
the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed the family of the Asrielites; and Shechem, the
them up together with Korah, when that com- family of the Shechemites; 26:32 and Shemida,
pany died; what time the fire devoured two the family of the Shemidaites; and Hepher, the
hundred fifty men, and they became a sign. family of the Hepherites. 26:33 Zelophehad the
26:11
Notwithstanding, the sons of Korah didn’t son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters:
die. 26:12 The sons of Simeon after their families: and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad
of Nemuel, the family of the Nemuelites; of were Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and
Jamin, the family of the Jaminites; of Jachin, Tirzah. 26:34 These are the families of Manasseh;
the family of the Jachinites; 26:13 of Zerah, the and those who were numbered of them were
family of the Zerahites; of Shaul, the family fifty-two thousand seven hundred. 26:35 These
of the Shaulites. 26:14 These are the families of are the sons of Ephraim after their families: of
the Simeonites, twenty-two thousand two hun- Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthelahites; of
dred. 26:15 The sons of Gad after their families: Becher, the family of the Becherites; of Tahan,
of Zephon, the family of the Zephonites; of the family of the Tahanites. 26:36 These are
Haggi, the family of the Haggites; of Shuni, the sons of Shuthelah: of Eran, the family of
the family of the Shunites; 26:16 of Ozni, the the Eranites. 26:37 These are the families of
family of the Oznites; of Eri, the family of the the sons of Ephraim according to those who
Erites; 26:17 of Arod, the family of the Arodites; were numbered of them, thirty-two thousand
of Areli, the family of the Arelites. 26:18 These five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph
are the families of the sons of Gad according after their families. 26:38 The sons of Benjamin
to those who were numbered of them, forty after their families: of Bela, the family of the
thousand and five hundred. 26:19 The sons Belaites; of Ashbel, the family of the Ashbelites;
of Judah: Er and Onan; and Er and Onan of Ahiram, the family of the Ahiramites; 26:39 of
died in the land of Canaan. 26:20 The sons of Shephupham, the family of the Shuphamites;
Judah after their families were: of Shelah, the of Hupham, the family of the Huphamites.
family of the Shelanites; of Perez, the family 26:40
The sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman:
of the Perezites; of Zerah, the family of the the family of the Ardites; of Naaman, the family
Zerahites. 26:21 The sons of Perez were: of
Numbers 26:41 141 Numbers 27:9

of the Naamites. 26:41 These are the sons of Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, who was born
Benjamin after their families; and those who to Levi in Egypt: and she bore to Amram
were numbered of them were forty-five thou- Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister.
sand six hundred. 26:42 These are the sons of 26:60
To Aaron were born Nadab and Abihu,
Dan after their families: of Shuham, the family Eleazar and Ithamar. 26:61 Nadab and Abihu
of the Shuhamites. These are the families of died, when they offered strange fire before the
Dan after their families. 26:43 All the families of LORD. 26:62 Those who were numbered of them
the Shuhamites, according to those who were were twenty-three thousand, every male from a
numbered of them, were sixty-four thousand month old and upward: for they were not num-
four hundred. 26:44 The sons of Asher after their bered among the children of Israel, because
families: of Imnah, the family of the Imnites; there was no inheritance given them among
of Ishvi, the family of the Ishvites; of Beriah, the children of Israel. 26:63 These are those
the family of the Berites. 26:45 Of the sons of who were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the
Beriah: of Heber, the family of the Heberites; priest, who numbered the children of Israel in
of Malchiel, the family of the Malchielites. the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.
26:46 26:64
The name of the daughter of Asher was But among these there was not a man of
Serah. 26:47 These are the families of the sons them who were numbered by Moses and Aaron
of Asher according to those who were num- the priest, who numbered the children of Israel
bered of them, fifty-three thousand and four in the wilderness of Sinai. 26:65 For the LORD
hundred. 26:48 The sons of Naphtali after their had said of them, They shall surely die in the
families: of Jahzeel, the family of the Jahzeel- wilderness. There was not left a man of them,
ites; of Guni, the family of the Gunites; 26:49 of except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua
Jezer, the family of the Jezerites; of Shillem, the the son of Nun.
family of the Shillemites. 26:50 These are the 27:1
Then drew near the daughters of
families of Naphtali according to their families; Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of
and those who were numbered of them were Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh,
forty-five thousand four hundred. 26:51 These of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph;
are those who were numbered of the children and these are the names of his daughters:
of Israel, six hundred one thousand seven Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and
hundred thirty. 26:52 The LORD spoke to Moses, Tirzah. 27:2 They stood before Moses, and
saying, 26:53 “To these the land shall be divided before Eleazar the priest, and before the princes
for an inheritance according to the number of and all the congregation, at the door of the
names. 26:54 To the more you shall give the Tent of Meeting, saying, 27:3 “Our father died
more inheritance, and to the fewer you shall in the wilderness, and he was not among the
give the less inheritance: to everyone according company of those who gathered themselves
to those who were numbered of him shall his together against the LORD in the company of
inheritance be given. 26:55 Notwithstanding, the Korah: but he died in his own sin; and he had
land shall be divided by lot: according to the no sons. 27:4 Why should the name of our father
names of the tribes of their fathers they shall be taken away from among his family, because
inherit. 26:56 According to the lot shall their he had no son? Give to us a possession among
inheritance be divided between the more and the brothers of our father.”
the fewer.” 27:5
Moses brought their cause before the
26:57
These are those who were numbered LORD. 27:6 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
27:7
of the Levites after their families: of Gershon, “The daughters of Zelophehad speak right:
the family of the Gershonites; of Kohath, the you shall surely give them a possession of an
family of the Kohathites; of Merari, the family inheritance among their father’s brothers; and
of the Merarites. 26:58 These are the families you shall cause the inheritance of their father to
of Levi: the family of the Libnites, the family pass to them. 27:8 You shall speak to the children
of the Hebronites, the family of the Mahlites, of Israel, saying, ‘If a man dies, and has no son,
the family of the Mushites, the family of the then you shall cause his inheritance to pass to
Korahites. Kohath became the father of Am- his daughter. 27:9 If he has no daughter, then
ram. 26:59 The name of Amram’s wife was you shall give his inheritance to his brothers.
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27:10
If he has no brothers, then you shall give male lambs a year old without blemish, two
his inheritance to his father’s brothers. 27:11 If day by day, for a continual burnt offering.
28:4
his father has no brothers, then you shall give You shall offer the one lamb in the morning,
his inheritance to his kinsman who is next to and you shall offer the other lamb at evening;
28:5
him of his family, and he shall possess it: and with the tenth part of an efahq of fine flour
it shall be to the children of Israel a statute and for a meal offering, mixed with the fourth part
ordinance, as the LORD commanded Moses.’” of a hin of beaten oil. 28:6 It is a continual burnt
27:12
The LORD said to Moses, “Go up into offering, which was ordained in Mount Sinai
this mountain of Abarim, and see the land for a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire
which I have given to the children of Israel. to the LORD. 28:7 Its drink offering shall be the
27:13
When you have seen it, you also shall be fourth part of a hin for the one lamb. You shall
gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother pour out a drink offering of strong drink to the
was gathered; 27:14 because you rebelled against LORD in the holy place. 28:8 The other lamb
my word in the wilderness of Zin, in the strife you shall offer at evening: as the meal offering
of the congregation, to sanctify me at the waters of the morning, and as the drink offering of it,
before their eyes.” (These are the waters of you shall offer it, an offering made by fire, of a
Meribah of Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.) pleasant aroma to the LORD.
27:15 28:9
Moses spoke to the LORD, saying, “‘On the Sabbath day two male lambs a
27:16
“Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of year old without blemish, and two tenth parts
all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation, of an efah of fine flour for a meal offering,
27:17
who may go out before them, and who mixed with oil, and the drink offering of it:
28:10
may come in before them, and who may lead this is the burnt offering of every Sabbath,
them out, and who may bring them in; that besides the continual burnt offering, and the
the congregation of the LORD not be as sheep drink offering of it.
28:11
which have no shepherd.” “‘In the beginnings of your months you
27:18
The LORD said to Moses, “Take Joshua shall offer a burnt offering to the LORD: two
the son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, young bulls, and one ram, seven male lambs a
and lay your hand on him; 27:19 and set him year old without blemish; 28:12 and three tenth
before Eleazar the priest, and before all the parts of an efah of fine flour for a meal offering,
congregation; and commission him in their mixed with oil, for each bull; and two tenth
sight. 27:20 You shall put of your honor on him, parts of fine flour for a meal offering, mixed
that all the congregation of the children of Israel with oil, for the one ram; 28:13 and a tenth part
may obey. 27:21 He shall stand before Eleazar of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering
the priest, who shall inquire for him by the to every lamb; for a burnt offering of a pleasant
judgment of the Urim before the LORD: at his aroma, an offering made by fire to the LORD.
28:14
word shall they go out, and at his word they Their drink offerings shall be half a hin
shall come in, both he, and all the children of of wine for a bull, and the third part of a hin
Israel with him, even all the congregation.” for the ram, and the fourth part of a hin for a
27:22
Moses did as the LORD commanded lamb: this is the burnt offering of every month
him; and he took Joshua, and set him before throughout the months of the year. 28:15 One
Eleazar the priest, and before all the congre- male goat for a sin offering to the LORD; it shall
gation: 27:23 and he laid his hands on him, be offered besides the continual burnt offering,
and commissioned him, as the LORD spoke by and the drink offering of it.
28:16
Moses. “‘In the first month, on the fourteenth
28:1
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, day of the month, is the LORD’s Passover.
28:2 28:17
“Command the children of Israel, and tell On the fifteenth day of this month shall
them, ‘My offering, my food for my offerings be a feast: seven days shall unleavened bread
made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to me, you be eaten. 28:18 In the first day shall be a holy
shall observe to offer to me in their due season.’ convocation: you shall do no servile work;
28:3 28:19
You shall tell them, ‘This is the offering but you shall offer an offering made by
made by fire which you shall offer to the LORD: fire, a burnt offering to the LORD: two young
q 28:5 1 efah is about 22 litres or about 2/3 of a bushel
Numbers 28:20 143 Numbers 29:24

bulls, and one ram, and seven male lambs a you shall have a holy convocation; and you
year old; they shall be to you without blemish; shall afflict your souls: you shall do no kind
28:20
and their meal offering, fine flour mixed of work; 29:8 but you shall offer a burnt offering
with oil: you shall offer three tenth parts for a to the LORD for a pleasant aroma: one young
bull, and two tenth parts for the ram. 28:21 You bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old;
shall offer a tenth part for every lamb of the they shall be to you without blemish; 29:9 and
seven lambs; 28:22 and one male goat for a sin their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil,
offering, to make atonement for you. 28:23 You three tenth parts for the bull, two tenth parts
shall offer these besides the burnt offering of for the one ram, 29:10 a tenth part for every lamb
the morning, which is for a continual burnt of the seven lambs: 29:11 one male goat for a sin
offering. 28:24 In this way you shall offer daily, offering; besides the sin offering of atonement,
for seven days, the food of the offering made by and the continual burnt offering, and the meal
fire, of a pleasant aroma to the LORD: it shall offering of it, and their drink offerings.
29:12
be offered besides the continual burnt offering, “‘On the fifteenth day of the seventh
and the drink offering of it. 28:25 On the seventh month you shall have a holy convocation; you
day you shall have a holy convocation: you shall do no servile work, and you shall keep
shall do no servile work. a feast to the LORD seven days: 29:13 and you
28:26
“‘Also in the day of the first fruits, when shall offer a burnt offering, an offering made
you offer a new meal offering to the LORD by fire, of a pleasant aroma to the LORD;
in your feast of weeks, you shall have a holy thirteen young bulls, two rams, fourteen male
convocation; you shall do no servile work; lambs a year old; they shall be without blemish;
28:27 29:14
but you shall offer a burnt offering for a and their meal offering, fine flour mixed
pleasant aroma to the LORD: two young bulls, with oil, three tenth parts for every bull of the
one ram, seven male lambs a year old; 28:28 and thirteen bulls, two tenth parts for each ram of
their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil, the two rams, 29:15 and a tenth part for every
three tenth parts for each bull, two tenth parts lamb of the fourteen lambs; 29:16 and one male
for the one ram, 28:29 a tenth part for every lamb goat for a sin offering, besides the continual
of the seven lambs; 28:30 one male goat, to make burnt offering, the meal offering of it, and the
atonement for you. 28:31 Besides the continual drink offering of it.
29:17
burnt offering, and the meal offering of it, you “‘On the second day you shall offer
shall offer them (they shall be to you without twelve young bulls, two rams, fourteen male
blemish), and their drink offerings. lambs a year old without blemish; 29:18 and
29:1
“‘In the seventh month, on the first day their meal offering and their drink offerings
of the month, you shall have a holy convoca- for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs,
tion; you shall do no servile work: it is a day according to their number, after the ordinance;
29:19
of blowing of shofarsr to you. 29:2 You shall and one male goat for a sin offering; be-
offer a burnt offering for a pleasant aroma to sides the continual burnt offering, and the meal
the LORD: one young bull, one ram, seven offering of it, and their drink offerings.
male lambs a year old without blemish; 29:3 and 29:20
“‘On the third day eleven bulls, two
their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil, rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without
three tenth parts for the bull, two tenth parts blemish; 29:21 and their meal offering and their
for the ram, 29:4 and one tenth part for every drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and
lamb of the seven lambs; 29:5 and one male goat for the lambs, according to their number, after
for a sin offering, to make atonement for you; the ordinance; 29:22 and one male goat for a sin
29:6
besides the burnt offering of the new moon, offering; besides the continual burnt offering,
and the meal offering of it, and the continual and the meal offering of it, and the drink
burnt offering and the meal offering of it, offering of it.
29:23
and their drink offerings, according to their “‘On the fourth day ten bulls, two rams,
ordinance, for a pleasant aroma, an offering fourteen male lambs a year old without blem-
made by fire to the LORD. ish; 29:24 their meal offering and their drink
29:7
“‘On the tenth day of this seventh month offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for
r 29:1 or, trumpets
Numbers 29:25 144 Numbers 30:14

the lambs, according to their number, after the the children of Israel, saying, “This is the thing
ordinance; 29:25 and one male goat for a sin which the LORD has commanded. 30:2 When a
offering; besides the continual burnt offering, man vows a vow to the LORD, or swears an
the meal offering of it, and the drink offering of oath to bind his soul with a bond, he shall not
it. break his word; he shall do according to all that
29:26 proceeds out of his mouth.
“‘On the fifth day nine bulls, two rams,
30:3
fourteen male lambs a year old without blem- “Also when a woman vows a vow to the
ish; 29:27 and their meal offering and their drink LORD, and binds herself by a bond, being in
offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for her father’s house, in her youth, 30:4 and her
the lambs, according to their number, after the father hears her vow, and her bond with which
ordinance; 29:28 and one male goat for a sin she has bound her soul, and her father holds
offering, besides the continual burnt offering, his peace at her; then all her vows shall stand,
and the meal offering of it, and the drink and every bond with which she has bound her
offering of it. soul shall stand. 30:5 But if her father disallow
29:29
“‘On the sixth day eight bulls, two her in the day that he hears, none of her vows,
rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without or of her bonds with which she has bound her
blemish; 29:30 and their meal offering and their soul, shall stand: and the LORD will forgive
drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and her, because her father disallowed her.
for the lambs, according to their number, after 30:6
“If she has a husband, while her vows
the ordinance; 29:31 and one male goat for a sin are on her, or the rash utterance of her lips,
offering; besides the continual burnt offering, with which she has bound her soul, 30:7 and her
the meal offering of it, and the drink offerings husband hears it, and hold his peace at her in
of it. the day that he hears it; then her vows shall
29:32
“‘On the seventh day seven bulls, two stand, and her bonds with which she has bound
rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without her soul shall stand. 30:8 But if her husband
blemish; 29:33 and their meal offering and their forbids her in the day that he hears it, then he
drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and shall make void her vow which is on her, and
for the lambs, according to their number, after the rash utterance of her lips, with which she
the ordinance; 29:34 and one male goat for a sin has bound her soul: and the LORD will forgive
offering; besides the continual burnt offering, her.
the meal offering of it, and the drink offering of 30:9
“But the vow of a widow, or of her who
it. is divorced, everything with which she has
29:35
“‘On the eighth day you shall have a bound her soul, shall stand against her.
solemn assembly: you shall do no servile work; 30:10
“If she vowed in her husband’s house,
29:36
but you shall offer a burnt offering, an or bound her soul by a bond with an oath,
offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to 30:11
and her husband heard it, and held his
the LORD: one bull, one ram, seven male lambs peace at her, and didn’t disallow her; then all
a year old without blemish; 29:37 their meal of- her vows shall stand, and every bond with
fering and their drink offerings for the bull, for which she bound her soul shall stand. 30:12 But
the ram, and for the lambs, shall be according if her husband made them null and void in
to their number, after the ordinance: 29:38 and the day that he heard them, then whatever
one male goat for a sin offering, besides the proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows,
continual burnt offering, and the meal offering or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not
of it, and the drink offering of it. stand: her husband has made them void; and
29:39
“‘You shall offer these to the LORD in the LORD will forgive her. 30:13 Every vow,
your set feasts, besides your vows, and your and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her
freewill offerings, for your burnt offerings, and husband may establish it, or her husband may
for your meal offerings, and for your drink make it void. 30:14 But if her husband altogether
offerings, and for your peace offerings.’” hold his peace at her from day to day, then he
29:40
Moses told the children of Israel accord- establishes all her vows, or all her bonds, which
ing to all that the LORD commanded Moses. are on her: he has established them, because he
30:1
Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes of held his peace at her in the day that he heard
Numbers 30:15 145 Numbers 31:32

them. 30:15 But if he shall make them null and commit trespass against the LORD in the mat-
void after that he has heard them, then he shall ter of Peor, and so the plague was among the
bear her iniquity.” congregation of the LORD. 31:17 Now therefore
30:16
These are the statutes, which the LORD kill every male among the little ones, and kill
commanded Moses, between a man and his every woman who has known man by lying
wife, between a father and his daughter, being with him. 31:18 But all the girls, who have not
in her youth, in her father’s house. known man by lying with him, keep alive for
31:1 yourselves.
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
31:2 31:19
“Avenge the children of Israel for the Midi- “Encamp outside of the camp seven
anites. Afterward you shall be gathered to your days: whoever has killed any person, and who-
people.” ever has touched any slain, purify yourselves
31:3 on the third day and on the seventh day, you
Moses spoke to the people, saying, “Arm
men from among you for the war, that they and your captives. 31:20 As to every garment,
may go against Midian, to execute the LORD’s and all that is made of skin, and all work of
vengeance on Midian. 31:4 Of every tribe one goats’ hair, and all things made of wood, you
thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall purify yourselves.”
31:21
you shall send to the war.” 31:5 So there were Eleazar the priest said to the men of
delivered, out of the thousands of Israel, a thou- war who went to the battle, “This is the statute
sand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for of the law which the LORD has commanded
war. 31:6 Moses sent them, one thousand of ev- Moses: 31:22 however the gold, and the silver,
ery tribe, to the war, them and Phinehas the son the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,
31:23
of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the vessels everything that may withstand the fire,
of the sanctuary and the shofarss for the alarm you shall make to go through the fire, and it
in his hand. 31:7 They warred against Midian, shall be clean; nevertheless it shall be purified
as the LORD commanded Moses; and they with the water for impurity: and all that
killed every male. 31:8 They killed the kings of doesn’t withstand the fire you shall make to go
Midian with the rest of their slain: Evi, and through the water. 31:24 You shall wash your
Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, the five clothes on the seventh day, and you shall be
kings of Midian: Balaam also the son of Beor clean; and afterward you shall come into the
they killed with the sword. 31:9 The children of camp.”
31:25
Israel took captive the women of Midian and The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
31:26
their little ones; and all their livestock, and “Take the sum of the prey that was taken,
all their flocks, and all their goods, they took both of man and of animal, you, and Eleazar the
for a prey. 31:10 All their cities in the places in priest, and the heads of the fathers’ households
which they lived, and all their encampments, of the congregation; 31:27 and divide the prey
they burnt with fire. 31:11 They took all the spoil, into two parts: between the men skilled in war,
and all the prey, both of man and of animal. who went out to battle, and all the congrega-
31:12
They brought the captives, and the prey, tion. 31:28 Levy a tribute to the LORD of the
and the spoil, to Moses, and to Eleazar the men of war who went out to battle: one soul
priest, and to the congregation of the children of five hundred; of the persons, of the cattle, of
of Israel, to the camp at the plains of Moab, the donkeys, and of the flocks. 31:29 Take it of
which are by the Jordan at Jericho. 31:13 Moses, their half, and give it to Eleazar the priest, for
and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the LORD’s wave offering. 31:30 Of the children
the congregation, went forth to meet them of Israel’s half, you shall take one drawn out of
outside of the camp. 31:14 Moses was angry every fifty, of the persons, of the cattle, of the
with the officers of the army, the captains of donkeys, and of the flocks, of all the livestock,
thousands and the captains of hundreds, who and give them to the Levites, who perform the
came from the service of the war. 31:15 Moses duty of the tabernacle of the LORD.”
31:31
said to them, “Have you saved all the women Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the
alive? 31:16 Behold, these caused the children LORD commanded Moses.
31:32
of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to Now the prey, over and above the booty
s 31:6 or, trumpets
Numbers 31:33 146 Numbers 32:16

which the men of war took, was six hundred memorial for the children of Israel before the
seventy-five thousand sheep, 31:33 and seventy- LORD.
two thousand head of cattle, 31:34 and sixty-one 32:1
Now the children of Reuben and the
thousand donkeys, 31:35 and thirty-two thou- children of Gad had a very great multitude
sand persons in all, of the women who had not of livestock: and when they saw the land of
known man by lying with him. 31:36 The half, Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that behold,
which was the portion of those who went out to the place was a place for livestock; 32:2 the
war, was in number three hundred thirty-seven children of Gad and the children of Reuben
thousand five hundred sheep: 31:37 and the came and spoke to Moses, and to Eleazar the
LORD’s tribute of the sheep was six hundred priest, and to the princes of the congregation,
seventy-five. 31:38 The cattle were thirty-six saying, 32:3 “Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer,
thousand; of which the LORD’s tribute was and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and
seventy-two. 31:39 The donkeys were thirty Sebam, and Nebo, and Beon, 32:4 the land which
thousand five hundred; of which the LORD’s the LORD struck before the congregation of
tribute was sixty-one. 31:40 The persons were Israel, is a land for livestock; and your servants
sixteen thousand; of whom the LORD’s tribute have livestock.” 32:5 They said, “If we have
was thirty-two persons. 31:41 Moses gave the found favor in your sight, let this land be given
tribute, which was the LORD’s wave offering, to your servants for a possession; don’t bring
to Eleazar the priest, as the LORD commanded us over the Jordan.”
Moses. 31:42 Of the children of Israel’s half, 32:6
Moses said to the children of Gad, and
which Moses divided off from the men who to the children of Reuben, “Shall your brothers
warred 31:43 (now the congregation’s half was go to the war, and shall you sit here? 32:7 Why
three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hun- do you discourage the heart of the children of
dred sheep, 31:44 and thirty-six thousand head Israel from going over into the land which the
of cattle, 31:45 and thirty thousand five hundred LORD has given them? 32:8 Your fathers did
donkeys, 31:46 and sixteen thousand persons), so when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to
31:47
even of the children of Israel’s half, Moses see the land. 32:9 For when they went up to
took one drawn out of every fifty, both of man the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they
and of animal, and gave them to the Levites, discouraged the heart of the children of Israel,
who performed the duty of the tabernacle of the that they should not go into the land which
LORD; as the LORD commanded Moses. the LORD had given them. 32:10 The LORD’s
31:48
The officers who were over the thou- anger was kindled in that day, and he swore,
sands of the army, the captains of thousands, saying, 32:11 ‘Surely none of the men who came
and the captains of hundreds, came near to up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and
Moses; 31:49 and they said to Moses, “Your upward, shall see the land which I swore to
servants have taken the sum of the men of Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; because they
war who are under our command, and there have not wholly followed me: 32:12 except Caleb
lacks not one man of us. 31:50 We have brought the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, and Joshua
the LORD’s offering, what every man has the son of Nun; because they have followed
gotten, of jewels of gold, armlets, and bracelets, the LORD completely.’ 32:13 The LORD’s anger
signet rings, earrings, and necklaces, to make was kindled against Israel, and he made them
atonement for our souls before the LORD.” wander back and forth in the wilderness forty
31:51
Moses and Eleazar the priest took their years, until all the generation, who had done
gold, even all worked jewels. 31:52 All the gold evil in the sight of the LORD, was consumed.
32:14
of the wave offering that they offered up to “Behold, you have risen up in your
the LORD, of the captains of thousands, and of fathers’ place, an increase of sinful men, to
the captains of hundreds, was sixteen thousand augment yet the fierce anger of the LORD
seven hundred fifty shekels. 31:53 (The men of toward Israel. 32:15 For if you turn away from
war had taken booty, every man for himself.) after him, he will yet again leave them in
31:54 the wilderness; and you will destroy all this
Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold
of the captains of thousands and of hundreds, people.”
32:16
and brought it into the Tent of Meeting, for a They came near to him, and said, “We
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will build sheepfolds here for our livestock, and will pass over armed before the LORD into
cities for our little ones: 32:17 but we ourselves the land of Canaan, and the possession of our
will be ready armed to go before the children inheritance shall remain with us beyond the
of Israel, until we have brought them to their Jordan.”
place: and our little ones shall dwell in the 32:33
Moses gave to them, even to the chil-
fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the dren of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and
land. 32:18 We will not return to our houses, to the half-tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph,
until the children of Israel have inherited every the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites,
man his inheritance. 32:19 For we will not inherit and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the
with them on the other side of the Jordan, and land, according to its cities and borders, even
forward; because our inheritance is fallen to us the cities of the surrounding land. 32:34 The
on this side of the Jordan eastward.” children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and
32:20
Moses said to them, “If you will do this Aroer, 32:35 and Atrothshophan, and Jazer, and
thing, if you will arm yourselves to go before Jogbehah, 32:36 and Beth Nimrah, and Beth
the LORD to the war, 32:21 and every armed Haran: fortified cities, and folds for sheep.
man of you will pass over the Jordan before 32:37
The children of Reuben built Heshbon, and
the LORD, until he has driven out his enemies Elealeh, and Kiriathaim, 32:38 and Nebo, and
from before him, 32:22 and the land is subdued Baal Meon, (their names being changed), and
before the LORD; then afterward you shall Sibmah: and they gave other names to the cities
return, and be guiltless towards the LORD, and which they built. 32:39 The children of Machir
towards Israel; and this land shall be to you for the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took
a possession before the LORD. it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were
32:23
“But if you will not do so, behold, you therein. 32:40 Moses gave Gilead to Machir the
have sinned against the LORD; and be sure son of Manasseh; and he lived therein. 32:41 Jair
your sin will find you out. 32:24 Build cities the son of Manasseh went and took its towns,
for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and called them Havvoth Jair. 32:42 Nobah went
and do that which has proceeded out of your and took Kenath, and its villages, and called it
mouth.” Nobah, after his own name.
32:25 33:1
The children of Gad and the children These are the journeys of the children
of Reuben spoke to Moses, saying, “Your ser- of Israel, when they went forth out of the
vants will do as my lord commands. 32:26 Our land of Egypt by their armies under the hand
little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our of Moses and Aaron. 33:2 Moses wrote their
livestock, shall be there in the cities of Gilead; goings out according to their journeys by the
32:27
but your servants will pass over, every commandment of the LORD: and these are
man who is armed for war, before the LORD their journeys according to their goings out.
to battle, as my lord says.” 33:3
They traveled from Rameses in the first
32:28
So Moses commanded concerning them month, on the fifteenth day of the first month;
to Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua the son of on the next day after the Passover the children
Nun, and to the heads of the fathers’ house- of Israel went out with a high hand in the sight
holds of the tribes of the children of Israel. of all the Egyptians, 33:4 while the Egyptians
32:29
Moses said to them, “If the children of Gad were burying all their firstborn, whom the
and the children of Reuben will pass with you LORD had struck among them: on their gods
over the Jordan, every man who is armed to also the LORD executed judgments. 33:5 The
battle, before the LORD, and the land shall be children of Israel traveled from Rameses, and
subdued before you; then you shall give them encamped in Succoth. 33:6 They traveled from
the land of Gilead for a possession: 32:30 but if Succoth, and encamped in Etham, which is in
they will not pass over with you armed, they the edge of the wilderness. 33:7 They traveled
shall have possessions among you in the land from Etham, and turned back to Pihahiroth,
of Canaan.” which is before Baal Zephon: and they en-
32:31
The children of Gad and the children of camped before Migdol. 33:8 They traveled from
Reuben answered, saying, “As the LORD has before Hahiroth, and passed through the midst
said to your servants, so will we do. 32:32 We of the sea into the wilderness: and they went
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three days’ journey in the wilderness of Etham, after the children of Israel had come out of
and encamped in Marah. 33:9 They traveled the land of Egypt, in the fifth month, on the
from Marah, and came to Elim: and in Elim first day of the month. 33:39 Aaron was one
were twelve springs of water, and seventy palm hundred twenty-three years old when he died
trees; and they encamped there. 33:10 They in Mount Hor. 33:40 The Canaanite, the king of
traveled from Elim, and encamped by the Arad, who lived in the South in the land of
Sea of Suf. 33:11 They traveled from the Sea Canaan, heard of the coming of the children
of Suf, and encamped in the wilderness of of Israel. 33:41 They traveled from Mount Hor,
Sin. 33:12 They traveled from the wilderness and encamped in Zalmonah. 33:42 They trav-
of Sin, and encamped in Dophkah. 33:13 They eled from Zalmonah, and encamped in Punon.
33:43
traveled from Dophkah, and encamped in They traveled from Punon, and encamped
Alush. 33:14 They traveled from Alush, and in Oboth. 33:44 They traveled from Oboth,
encamped in Rephidim, where there was no and encamped in Iye Abarim, in the border
33:15
water for the people to drink. They of Moab. 33:45 They traveled from Iyim, and
traveled from Rephidim, and encamped in encamped in Dibon Gad. 33:46 They traveled
the wilderness of Sinai. 33:16 They traveled from Dibon Gad, and encamped in Almon
from the wilderness of Sinai, and encamped Diblathaim. 33:47 They traveled from Almon
in Kibroth Hattaavah. 33:17 They traveled from Diblathaim, and encamped in the mountains
Kibroth Hattaavah, and encamped in Haze- of Abarim, before Nebo. 33:48 They traveled
roth. 33:18 They traveled from Hazeroth, and from the mountains of Abarim, and encamped
encamped in Rithmah. 33:19 They traveled from in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.
33:49
Rithmah, and encamped in Rimmon Perez. They encamped by the Jordan, from Beth
33:20
They traveled from Rimmon Perez, and Jeshimoth even to Abel Shittim in the plains
encamped in Libnah. 33:21 They traveled from of Moab. 33:50 The LORD spoke to Moses in
Libnah, and encamped in Rissah. 33:22 They the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho,
traveled from Rissah, and encamped in Kehe- saying, 33:51 Speak to the children of Israel, and
lathah. 33:23 They traveled from Kehelathah, tell them, “When you pass over the Jordan into
and encamped in Mount Shepher. 33:24 They the land of Canaan, 33:52 then you shall drive
traveled from Mount Shepher, and encamped out all the inhabitants of the land from before
in Haradah. 33:25 They traveled from Haradah, you, destroy all their stone idols, destroy all
and encamped in Makheloth. 33:26 They trav- their molten images, and demolish all their
eled from Makheloth, and encamped in Tahath. high places. 33:53 You shall take possession of
33:27
They traveled from Tahath, and encamped the land, and dwell therein; for I have given
33:28
in Terah. They traveled from Terah, given the land to you to possess it. 33:54 You
and encamped in Mithkah. 33:29 They trav- shall inherit the land by lot according to your
eled from Mithkah, and encamped in Hash- families; to the more you shall give the more
monah. 33:30 They traveled from Hashmonah, inheritance, and to the fewer you shall give
and encamped in Moseroth. 33:31 They traveled the less inheritance: wherever the lot falls to
from Moseroth, and encamped in Bene Jaakan. any man, that shall be his. You shall inherit
33:32
They traveled from Bene Jaakan, and en- according to the tribes of your fathers.
camped in Hor Haggidgad. 33:33 They trav- 33:55
“But if you do not drive out the inhab-
eled from Hor Haggidgad, and encamped in itants of the land from before you, then those
Jotbathah. 33:34 They traveled from Jotbathah, you let remain of them will be as pricks in your
and encamped in Abronah. 33:35 They traveled eyes and as thorns in your sides, and they will
from Abronah, and encamped in Ezion Geber. harass you in the land in which you dwell.
33:36
They traveled from Ezion Geber, and en- 33:56
It shall happen that as I thought to do to
camped in the wilderness of Zin (the same them, so will I do to you.”
is Kadesh). 33:37 They traveled from Kadesh, 34:1
and encamped in Mount Hor, in the edge of The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
34:2
the land of Edom. 33:38 Aaron the priest went “Command the children of Israel, and tell
up into Mount Hor at the commandment of them, ‘When you come into the land of Canaan
the LORD, and died there, in the fortieth year (this is the land that shall fall to you for an
inheritance, even the land of Canaan according
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to its borders), 34:3 then your south quarter shall Caleb the son of Jephunneh. 34:20 Of the tribe
be from the wilderness of Zin along by the side of the children of Simeon, Shemuel the son
of Edom, and your south border shall be from of Ammihud. 34:21 Of the tribe of Benjamin,
the end of the Salt Sea eastward; 34:4 and your Elidad the son of Chislon. 34:22 Of the tribe of
border shall turn about southward of the ascent the children of Dan a prince, Bukki the son
of Akrabbim, and pass along to Zin; and the of Jogli. 34:23 Of the children of Joseph: of
goings out of it shall be southward of Kadesh the tribe of the children of Manasseh a prince,
Barnea; and it shall go forth to Hazar Addar, Hanniel the son of Ephod. 34:24 Of the tribe
and pass along to Azmon; 34:5 and the border of the children of Ephraim a prince, Kemuel
shall turn about from Azmon to the brook of the son of Shiphtan. 34:25 Of the tribe of the
Egypt, and the goings out of it shall be at the children of Zebulun a prince, Elizaphan the son
sea. of Parnach. 34:26 Of the tribe of the children
34:6 of Issachar a prince, Paltiel the son of Azzan.
“‘For the western border, you shall have
34:27
the great sea and its border: this shall be your Of the tribe of the children of Asher a
west border. prince, Ahihud the son of Shelomi. 34:28 Of
34:7 the tribe of the children of Naphtali a prince,
“‘This shall be your north border: from
the great sea you shall mark out for you Mount Pedahel the son of Ammihud.” 34:29 These are
Hor; 34:8 from Mount Hor you shall mark out to they whom the LORD commanded to divide
the entrance of Hamath; and the goings out of the inheritance to the children of Israel in the
the border shall be at Zedad; 34:9 and the border land of Canaan.
35:1
shall go forth to Ziphron, and the goings out The LORD spoke to Moses in the plains
of it shall be at Hazar Enan: this shall be your of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,
35:2
north border. “Command the children of Israel that they
34:10 give to the Levites of the inheritance of their
“‘You shall mark out your east border
from Hazar Enan to Shepham; 34:11 and the possession cities to dwell in; and you shall
border shall go down from Shepham to Riblah, give suburbs for the cities around them to
on the east side of Ain; and the border shall go the Levites. 35:3 The cities shall they have to
down, and shall reach to the side of the sea of dwell in; and their suburbs shall be for their
Chinnereth eastward; 34:12 and the border shall livestock, and for their substance, and for all
go down to the Jordan, and the goings out of it their animals.
35:4
shall be at the Salt Sea. This shall be your land “The suburbs of the cities, which you
according to its borders around it.’” shall give to the Levites, shall be from the wall
34:13 of the city and outward one thousand cubits
Moses commanded the children of Is-
rael, saying, “This is the land which you around it. 35:5 You shall measure outside of the
shall inherit by lot, which the LORD has city for the east side two thousand cubits, and
commanded to give to the nine tribes, and to for the south side two thousand cubits, and for
the half-tribe; 34:14 for the tribe of the children the west side two thousand cubits, and for the
of Reuben according to their fathers’ houses, north side two thousand cubits, the city being
and the tribe of the children of Gad according in the midst. This shall be to them the suburbs
to their fathers’ houses, have received, and of the cities.
the half-tribe of Manasseh have received, their 35:6
“The cities which you shall give to the
inheritance: 34:15 the two tribes and the half- Levites, they shall be the six cities of refuge,
tribe have received their inheritance beyond which you shall give for the manslayer to flee
the Jordan at Jericho eastward, toward the to: and besides them you shall give forty-
sunrise.” two cities. 35:7 All the cities which you shall
34:16
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, give to the Levites shall be forty-eight cities
34:17
“These are the names of the men who together with their suburbs. 35:8 Concerning the
shall divide the land to you for inheritance: cities which you shall give of the possession
Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun. of the children of Israel, from the many you
34:18
You shall take one prince of every tribe, to shall take many; and from the few you shall
divide the land for inheritance. 34:19 These are take few: everyone according to his inheritance
the names of the men: Of the tribe of Judah, which he inherits shall give of his cities to
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the Levites.” 35:9 The LORD spoke to Moses, go beyond the border of his city of refuge,
saying, 35:10 “Speak to the children of Israel, and where he flees, 35:27 and the avenger of blood
tell them, ‘When you pass over the Jordan into find him outside of the border of his city
the land of Canaan, 35:11 then you shall appoint of refuge, and the avenger of blood kill the
you cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslayer; he shall not be guilty of blood,
35:28
manslayer who kills any person unwittingly because he should have remained in his
may flee there. 35:12 The cities shall be to you for city of refuge until the death of the high
refuge from the avenger, that the manslayer not priest: but after the death of the high priest
die, until he stands before the congregation for the manslayer shall return into the land of his
judgment. 35:13 The cities which you shall give possession.
shall be for you six cities of refuge. 35:14 You 35:29
“‘These things shall be for a statute and
shall give three cities beyond the Jordan, and ordinance to you throughout your generations
you shall give three cities in the land of Canaan; in all your dwellings.
they shall be cities of refuge. 35:15 For the 35:30
“‘Whoever kills any person, the mur-
children of Israel, and for the stranger and for derer shall be slain at the mouth of witnesses:
the foreigner living among them, shall these six but one witness shall not testify against any
cities be for refuge; that everyone who kills any person that he die.
person unwittingly may flee there. 35:31
“‘Moreover you shall take no ransom
35:16
“‘But if he struck him with an instru- for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death;
ment of iron, so that he died, he is a murderer: but he shall surely be put to death.
the murderer shall surely be put to death. 35:32
“‘You shall take no ransom for him who
35:17
If he struck him with a stone in the hand, is fled to his city of refuge, that he may come
by which a man may die, and he died, he is a again to dwell in the land, until the death of the
murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to priest.
death. 35:18 Or if he struck him with a weapon 35:33
“‘So you shall not pollute the land in
of wood in the hand, by which a man may die, which you are: for blood, it pollutes the land;
and he died, he is a murderer: the murderer and no expiation can be made for the land for
shall surely be put to death. 35:19 The avenger of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood
blood shall himself put the murderer to death: of him who shed it. 35:34 You shall not defile the
when he meets him, he shall put him to death. land which you inhabit, in the midst of which
35:20
If he thrust him of hatred, or hurled at him, I dwell: for I, the LORD, dwell in the midst of
lying in wait, so that he died, 35:21 or in enmity the children of Israel.’”
struck him with his hand, so that he died; he 36:1
The heads of the fathers’ households of
who struck him shall surely be put to death; he
the family of the children of Gilead, the son of
is a murderer: the avenger of blood shall put
Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of
the murderer to death, when he meets him.
the sons of Joseph, came near, and spoke before
35:22
“‘But if he thrust him suddenly without Moses, and before the princes, the heads of the
enmity, or hurled on him anything without fathers’ households of the children of Israel:
lying in wait, 35:23 or with any stone, by which 36:2
and they said, “The LORD commanded
a man may die, not seeing him, and cast it my lord to give the land for inheritance by
on him, so that he died, and he was not his lot to the children of Israel: and my lord
enemy, neither sought his harm; 35:24 then the was commanded by the LORD to give the
congregation shall judge between the striker inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his
and the avenger of blood according to these daughters. 36:3 If they are married to any of
ordinances; 35:25 and the congregation shall the sons of the other tribes of the children of
deliver the manslayer out of the hand of the Israel, then will their inheritance be taken away
avenger of blood, and the congregation shall from the inheritance of our fathers, and will be
restore him to his city of refuge, where he was added to the inheritance of the tribe whereunto
fled: and he shall dwell therein until the death they shall belong: so will it be taken away from
of the high priest, who was anointed with the the lot of our inheritance. 36:4 When the jubilee
holy oil. of the children of Israel shall be, then will their
35:26
“‘But if the manslayer shall at any time inheritance be added to the inheritance of the
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tribe whereunto they shall belong: so will their


inheritance be taken away from the inheritance
of the tribe of our fathers.”
36:5
Moses commanded the children of Israel
according to the word of the LORD, saying,
“The tribe of the sons of Joseph speaks right.
36:6
This is the thing which the LORD does com-
mand concerning the daughters of Zelophehad,
saying, Let them be married to whom they
think best; only into the family of the tribe of
their father shall they be married. 36:7 So shall
no inheritance of the children of Israel remove
from tribe to tribe; for the children of Israel
shall all keep the inheritance of the tribe of
his fathers. 36:8 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 possess every man the inheritance of his
fathers. 36:9 So shall no inheritance remove
from one tribe to another tribe; for the tribes of
the children of Israel shall each keep his own
inheritance.”
36:10
The daughters of Zelophehad did as the
LORD commanded Moses: 36:11 for Mahlah,
Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah,
the daughters of Zelophehad, were married to
their father’s brothers’ sons. 36:12 They were
married into the families of the sons of Man-
asseh the son of Joseph; and their inheritance
remained in the tribe of the family of their
father. 36:13 These are the commandments and
the ordinances which the LORD commanded
by Moses to the children of Israel in the plains
of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.
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Deuteronomy commanded your judges at that time, saying,


“Hear cases between your brothers, and judge
1:1
These are the words which Moses spoke righteously between a man and his brother, and
to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilder- the foreigner who is living with him. 1:17 You
ness, in the Arabah over against Suf, between shall not show partiality in judgment; you
Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, shall hear the small and the great alike; you
and Dizahab. 1:2 It is eleven days’ journey from shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the
Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh judgment is God’s. The case that is too hard
Barnea. 1:3 It happened in the fortieth year, for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear
in the eleventh month, on the first day of the it.” 1:18 I commanded you at that time all the
month, that Moses spoke to the children of things which you should do. 1:19 We traveled
Israel, according to all that the LORDa had from Horeb, and went through all that great
given him in commandment to them; 1:4 after he and terrible wilderness which you saw, by the
had struck Sihon the king of the Amorites, who way to the hill country of the Amorites, as the
lived in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, LORD our God commanded us; and we came
who lived in Ashtaroth, at Edrei. 1:5 Beyond to Kadesh Barnea. 1:20 I said to you, “You have
the Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses come to the hill country of the Amorites, which
to declare this law, saying, 1:6 “The LORD our the LORD our God gives to us. 1:21 Behold, the
Godb spoke to us in Horeb, saying, You have LORD your God has set the land before you: go
lived long enough in this mountain: 1:7 turn, up, take possession, as the LORD, the God of
and take your journey, and go to the hill your fathers, has spoken to you; don’t be afraid,
country of the Amorites, and to all the places neither be dismayed.”
1:22
near there, in the Arabah, in the hill country, You came near to me everyone of you,
and in the lowland, and in the South, and by and said, “Let us send men before us, that they
the seashore, the land of the Canaanites, and may search the land for us, and bring us word
Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river again of the way by which we must go up, and
Euphrates. 1:8 Behold, I have set the land before the cities to which we shall come.”
1:23
you: go in and possess the land which the The thing pleased me well; and I took
LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to twelve men of you, one man for every tribe:
1:24
Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them and to their and they turned and went up into the hill
seed after them.” country, and came to the valley of Eshcol, and
1:9
I spoke to you at that time, saying, “I spied it out. 1:25 They took of the fruit of the
am not able to bear you myself alone: 1:10 The land in their hands, and brought it down to us,
LORD your God has multiplied you, and and brought us word again, and said, “It is a
behold, you are this day as the stars of the good land which the LORD our God gives to
sky for multitude. 1:11 The LORD, the God of us.”
1:26
your fathers, make you a thousand times as Yet you wouldn’t go up, but rebelled
many as you are, and bless you, as he has against the commandment of the LORD your
promised you! 1:12 How can I myself alone bear God: 1:27 and you murmured in your tents,
your encumbrance, and your burden, and your and said, “Because the LORD hated us, he has
strife? 1:13 Take wise men of understanding and brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to
well known according to your tribes, and I will deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to
make them heads over you.” destroy us. 1:28 Where are we going up? our
1:14 brothers have made our heart to melt, saying,
You answered me, and said, “The thing
which you have spoken is good to do.” 1:15 So ‘The people are greater and taller than we; the
I took the heads of your tribes, wise men, and cities are great and fortified up to the sky; and
known, and made them heads over you, cap- moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim
tains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, there.’”
1:29
and captains of fifties, and captains of tens, Then I said to you, “Don’t dread, neither
and officers, according to your tribes. 1:16 I be afraid of them. 1:30 The LORD your God who
a 1:3 “LORD” or “GOD” (all capital letters) indicate the 4-letter Holy Name of God
b 1:6 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “Elohim.”
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2:1
goes before you, he will fight for you, according Then we turned, and took our journey
to all that he did for you in Egypt before your into the wilderness by the way to the Sea of
eyes, 1:31 and in the wilderness, where you have Suf, as the LORD spoke to me; and we encircled
seen how that the LORD your God bore you, as Mount Seir many days.
2:2
a man does bear his son, in all the way that you The LORD spoke to me, saying, 2:3 “You
went, until you came to this place.” have encircled this mountain long enough.
1:32
Yet in this thing you didn’t believe the Turn northward. 2:4 Command the people,
LORD your God, 1:33 who went before you in saying, ‘You are to pass through the border
the way, to seek you out a place to pitch your of your brothers the children of Esau, who
tents in, in fire by night, to show you by what dwell in Seir; and they will be afraid of you:
way you should go, and in the cloud by day. take good heed to yourselves therefore; 2:5 don’t
1:34
The LORD heard the voice of your words, contend with them; for I will not give you
and was angry, and swore, saying, 1:35 “Surely of their land, no, not so much as for the sole
not one of these men of this evil generation of the foot to tread on; because I have given
shall see the good land, which I swore to give Mount Seir to Esau for a possession. 2:6 You
to your fathers, 1:36 except Caleb the son of shall purchase food of them for money, that you
Jephunneh: he shall see it; and to him will I may eat; and you shall also buy water of them
give the land that he has trodden on, and to his for money, that you may drink.’”
children, because he has wholly followed the 2:7
For the LORD your God has blessed you
LORD.” in all the work of your hand; he has known
1:37
Also the LORD was angry with me for your walking through this great wilderness:
your sakes, saying, “You also shall not go in these forty years the LORD your God has been
there: 1:38 Joshua the son of Nun, who stands with you; you have lacked nothing.
2:8
before you, he shall go in there: encourage So we passed by from our brothers the
you him; for he shall cause Israel to inherit it. children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, from the
1:39
Moreover your little ones, whom you said way of the Arabah from Elath and from Ezion
should be a prey, and your children, who this Geber. We turned and passed by the way of the
day have no knowledge of good or evil, they wilderness of Moab.
shall go in there, and to them will I give it, and 2:9
The LORD said to me, “Don’t bother
they shall possess it. 1:40 But as for you, turn, Moab, neither contend with them in battle; for
and take your journey into the wilderness by I will not give you of his land for a possession;
the way to the Sea of Suf.” because I have given Ar to the children of Lot
1:41
Then you answered and said to me, “We for a possession.”
have sinned against the LORD, we will go up 2:10
(The Emim lived therein before, a people
and fight, according to all that the LORD our great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim:
God commanded us.” Every man of you put 2:11
these also are accounted Rephaim, as the
on his weapons of war, and presumed to go up Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim.
into the hill country. 2:12
The Horites also lived in Seir before, but
1:42
The LORD said to me, “Tell them, ‘Don’t the children of Esau succeeded them; and they
go up, neither fight; for I am not among you; destroyed them from before them, and lived
lest you be struck before your enemies.’” in their place; as Israel did to the land of his
1:43 possession, which the LORD gave to them.)
So I spoke to you, and you didn’t listen;
2:13
but you rebelled against the commandment of “Now rise up, and cross over the brook
the LORD, and were presumptuous, and went Zered.” We went over the brook Zered. 2:14 The
up into the hill country. 1:44 The Amorites, who days in which we came from Kadesh Barnea,
lived in that hill country, came out against you, until we had come over the brook Zered,
and chased you, as bees do, and beat you down were thirty-eight years; until all the generation
in Seir, even to Hormah. 1:45 You returned and of the men of war were consumed from the
wept before the LORD; but the LORD didn’t midst of the camp, as the LORD swore to
listen to your voice, nor gave ear to you. 1:46 So them. 2:15 Moreover the hand of the LORD
you stayed in Kadesh many days, according to was against them, to destroy them from the
the days that you remained. midst of the camp, until they were consumed.
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2:16
So it happened, when all the men of war land.” 2:32 Then Sihon came out against us, he
were consumed and dead from among the and all his people, to battle at Jahaz. 2:33 The
people, 2:17 that the LORD spoke to me, saying, LORD our God delivered him up before us;
2:18
“You are this day to pass over Ar, the border and we struck him, and his sons, and all his
of Moab: 2:19 and when you come near over people. 2:34 We took all his cities at that time,
against the children of Ammon, don’t bother and utterly destroyed every inhabited city, with
them, nor contend with them; for I will not the women and the little ones; we left none
give you of the land of the children of Ammon remaining: 2:35 only the livestock we took for
for a possession; because I have given it to the a prey to ourselves, with the spoil of the cities
children of Lot for a possession.” which we had taken. 2:36 From Aroer, which
2:20 is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and
(That also is accounted a land of
Rephaim: Rephaim lived therein before; but the the city that is in the valley, even to Gilead,
Ammonites call them Zamzummim, 2:21 a peo- there was not a city too high for us; the LORD
ple great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim; our God delivered up all before us: 2:37 only to
but the LORD destroyed them before them; and the land of the children of Ammon you didn’t
they succeeded them, and lived in their place; come near; all the side of the river Jabbok, and
2:22 the cities of the hill country, and wherever the
as he did for the children of Esau, who
dwell in Seir, when he destroyed the Horites LORD our God forbade us.
from before them; and they succeeded them, 3:1
Then we turned, and went up the way
and lived in their place even to this day: 2:23 and to Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan came
the Avvim, who lived in villages as far as Gaza, out against us, he and all his people, to battle
the Caphtorim, who came forth out of Caphtor, at Edrei. 3:2 The LORD said to me, “Don’t
destroyed them, and lived in their place.) fear him; for I have delivered him, and all his
2:24
“Rise up, take your journey, and pass people, and his land, into your hand; and you
over the valley of the Arnon: behold, I have shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the
given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king Amorites, who lived at Heshbon.”
of Heshbon, and his land; begin to possess it, 3:3
So the LORD our God delivered into our
and contend with him in battle. 2:25 This day hand Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his
will I begin to put the dread of you and the fear people: and we struck him until none was left
of you on the peoples who are under the whole to him remaining. 3:4 We took all his cities at
sky, who shall hear the report of you, and shall that time; there was not a city which we didn’t
tremble, and be in anguish because of you.” take from them; sixty cities, all the region of Ar-
2:26
I sent messengers out of the wilder- gob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan. 3:5 All these
ness of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon were cities fortified with high walls, gates,
with words of peace, saying, 2:27 “Let me pass and bars; besides the unwalled towns a great
through your land: I will go along by the many. 3:6 We utterly destroyed them, as we did
highway, I will turn neither to the right hand to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying
nor to the left. 2:28 You shall sell me food for every inhabited city, with the women and the
money, that I may eat; and give me water for little ones. 3:7 But all the livestock, and the spoil
money, that I may drink: only let me pass of the cities, we took for a prey to ourselves.
through on my feet, 2:29 as the children of Esau 3:8
We took the land at that time out of the
who dwell in Seir, and the Moabites who dwell hand of the two kings of the Amorites who
in Ar, did to me; until I shall pass over the were beyond the Jordan, from the valley of the
Jordan into the land which the LORD our God Arnon to Mount Hermon. 3:9 (The Sidonians
gives us.” 2:30 But Sihon king of Heshbon call Hermon Sirion, and the Amorites call it
would not let us pass by him; for the LORD Senir.) 3:10 We took all the cities of the plain,
your God hardened his spirit, and made his and all Gilead, and all Bashan, to Salecah and
heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
your hand, as at this day. 3:11
(For only Og king of Bashan remained of the
2:31
The LORD said to me, “Behold, I have remnant of the Rephaim; behold, his bedstead
begun to deliver up Sihon and his land before was a bedstead of iron; isn’t it in Rabbah of
you: begin to possess, that you may inherit his the children of Ammon? nine cubits was its
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3:26
length, and four cubits its breadth, after the But the LORD was angry with me for
cubit of a man.) 3:12 This land we took in your sakes, and didn’t listen to me; and the
possession at that time: from Aroer, which is LORD said to me, “Let it suffice you; speak
by the valley of the Arnon, and half the hill no more to me of this matter. 3:27 Go up to the
country of Gilead, and its cities, gave I to the top of Pisgah, and lift up your eyes westward,
Reubenites and to the Gadites: 3:13 and the rest and northward, and southward, and eastward,
of Gilead, and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, and see with your eyes: for you shall not go
gave I to the half-tribe of Manasseh; all the over this Jordan. 3:28 But commission Joshua,
region of Argob, even all Bashan. (The same and encourage him, and strengthen him; for he
is called the land of Rephaim. 3:14 Jair the son of shall go over before this people, and he shall
Manasseh took all the region of Argob, to the cause them to inherit the land which you shall
border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, see.” 3:29 So we stayed in the valley over against
and called them, even Bashan, after his own Beth Peor.
name, Havvoth Jair, to this day.) 3:15 I gave 4:1
Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and
Gilead to Machir. 3:16 To the Reubenites and to the ordinances, which I teach you, to do
to the Gadites I gave from Gilead even to them; that you may live, and go in and possess
the valley of the Arnon, the middle of the the land which the LORD, the God of your
valley, and its border, even to the river Jabbok, fathers, gives you. 4:2 You shall not add to
which is the border of the children of Ammon; the word which I command you, neither shall
3:17
the Arabah also, and the Jordan and its you diminish from it, that you may keep the
border, from Chinnereth even to the sea of the commandments of the LORD your God which
Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah I command you. 4:3 Your eyes have seen what
eastward. the LORD did because of Baal Peor; for all the
3:18
I commanded you at that time, saying, men who followed Baal Peor, the LORD your
“The LORD your God has given you this land God has destroyed them from the midst of you.
4:4
to possess it: you shall pass over armed before But you who were faithful to the LORD your
your brothers the children of Israel, all the men God are all alive this day. 4:5 Behold, I have
of valor. 3:19 But your wives, and your little taught you statutes and ordinances, even as
ones, and your livestock, (I know that you have the LORD my God commanded me, that you
much livestock), shall live in your cities which should do so in the midst of the land where
I have given you, 3:20 until the LORD gives you go in to possess it. 4:6 Keep therefore and
rest to your brothers, as to you, and they also do them; for this is your wisdom and your
possess the land which the LORD your God understanding in the sight of the peoples, who
gives them beyond the Jordan: then you shall shall hear all these statutes, and say, “Surely
return every man to his possession, which I this great nation is a wise and understanding
have given you.” people.” 4:7 For what great nation is there, that
3:21
I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, has a god so near to them, as the LORD our
“Your eyes have seen all that the LORD your God is whenever we call on him? 4:8 What great
God has done to these two kings: so shall the nation is there, that has statutes and ordinances
LORD do to all the kingdoms where you go so righteous as all this law, which I set before
over. 3:22 You shall not fear them; for the LORD you this day?
4:9
your God, he it is who fights for you.” Only take heed to yourself, and keep your
3:23
I begged the LORD at that time, saying, soul diligently, lest you forget the things which
3:24
“Lordc the LORD, you have begun to show your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your
your servant your greatness, and your strong heart all the days of your life; but make them
hand: for what god is there in heaven or in known to your children and your children’s
earth, that can do according to your works, children; 4:10 the day that you stood before the
and according to your mighty acts? 3:25 Please LORD your God in Horeb, when the LORD
let me go over and see the good land that is said to me, “Assemble me the people, and I
beyond the Jordan, that goodly mountain, and will make them hear my words, that they may
Lebanon.” learn to fear me all the days that they live
c 3:24 The word translated “Lord” (mixed case) is “Adonai.”
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on the earth, and that they may teach their LORD your God, to provoke him to anger; 4:26 I
children.” 4:11 You came near and stood under call heaven and earth to witness against you
the mountain; and the mountain burned with this day, that you shall soon utterly perish from
fire to the heart of the sky, with darkness, cloud, off the land whereunto you go over the Jordan
and thick darkness. 4:12 The LORD spoke to to possess it; you shall not prolong your days
you out of the midst of the fire: you heard on it, but shall utterly be destroyed. 4:27 The
the voice of words, but you saw no form; you LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and
only heard a voice. 4:13 He declared to you you shall be left few in number among the
his covenant, which he commanded you to nations, where the LORD shall lead you away.
4:28
perform, even the ten commandments; and he There you shall serve gods, the work of
wrote them on two tables of stone. 4:14 The men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither
LORD commanded me at that time to teach see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell. 4:29 But from
you statutes and ordinances, that you might do there you shall seek the LORD your God, and
them in the land where you go over to possess you shall find him, when you search after him
it. 4:15 Take therefore good heed to yourselves; with all your heart and with all your soul.
4:30
for you saw no kind of form on the day that the When you are in oppression, and all these
LORD spoke to you in Horeb out of the midst things have come on you, in the latter days
of the fire. 4:16 Lest you corrupt yourselves, you shall return to the LORD your God, and
and make yourself an engraved image in the listen to his voice: 4:31 for the LORD your God
form of any figure, the likeness of male or is a merciful God; he will not fail you, neither
female, 4:17 the likeness of any animal that is on destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your
the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that fathers which he swore to them. 4:32 For ask
flies in the sky, 4:18 the likeness of anything that now of the days that are past, which were
creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish before you, since the day that God created
that is in the water under the earth; 4:19 and lest man on the earth, and from the one end of
you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you the sky to the other, whether there has been
see the sun and the moon and the stars, even anything as this great thing is, or has been
all the army of the sky, you are drawn away heard like it? 4:33 Did a people ever hear the
and worship them, and serve them, which the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the
LORD your God has allotted to all the peoples fire, as you have heard, and live? 4:34 Or has
under the whole sky. 4:20 But the LORD has God tried to go and take a nation for himself
taken you, and brought you forth out of the from the midst of another nation, by trials, by
iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him a people signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by
of inheritance, as at this day. 4:21 Furthermore a mighty hand, and by an outstretched arm,
the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, and by great terrors, according to all that the
and swore that I should not go over the Jordan, LORD your God did for you in Egypt before
and that I should not go in to that good land, your eyes? 4:35 It was shown to you so that
which the LORD your God gives you for an you might know that the LORD is God. There
inheritance: 4:22 but I must die in this land, I is no one else besides him. 4:36 Out of heaven
must not go over the Jordan; but you shall go he made you to hear his voice, that he might
over, and possess that good land. 4:23 Take heed instruct you: and on earth he made you to see
to yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of his great fire; and you heard his words out of
the LORD your God, which he made with you, the midst of the fire. 4:37 Because he loved your
and make you an engraved image in the form fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them,
of anything which the LORD your God has and brought you out with his presence, with
forbidden you. 4:24 For the LORD your God is his great power, out of Egypt; 4:38 to drive out
a devouring fire, a jealous God. 4:25 When you nations from before you greater and mightier
shall father children, and children’s children, than you, to bring you in, to give you their
and you shall have been long in the land, land for an inheritance, as at this day. 4:39 Know
and shall corrupt yourselves, and make an therefore this day, and lay it to your heart, that
engraved image in the form of anything, and the LORD he is God in heaven above and on
shall do that which is evil in the sight of the the earth beneath; there is none else. 4:40 You
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shall keep his statutes, and his commandments, bow down yourself to them, nor serve them; for
which I command you this day, that it may go I, the LORD, your God, am a jealous God, vis-
well with you, and with your children after iting the iniquity of the fathers on the children,
you, and that you may prolong your days in and on the third and on the fourth generation
the land, which the LORD your God gives of those who hate me; 5:10 and showing loving
you, forever. 4:41 Then Moses set apart three kindness to thousands of those who love me
cities beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise; and keep my commandments.
4:42 5:11
that the manslayer might flee there, who “You shall not take the name of the
kills his neighbor unawares, and didn’t hate LORD your God in vain: for the LORD will not
him in time past; and that fleeing to one of these hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.
cities he might live: 4:43 Bezer in the wilderness, 5:12
“Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it
in the plain country, for the Reubenites; and holy, as the LORD your God commanded you.
Ramoth in Gilead, for the Gadites; and Golan in 5:13
You shall labor six days, and do all your
Bashan, for the Manassites. 4:44 This is the law work; 5:14 but the seventh day is a Sabbath
which Moses set before the children of Israel: to the LORD your God, in which you shall
4:45
these are the testimonies, and the statutes, not do any work, you, nor your son, nor
and the ordinances, which Moses spoke to the your daughter, nor your male servant, nor
children of Israel, when they came forth out your female servant, nor your ox, nor your
of Egypt, 4:46 beyond the Jordan, in the valley donkey, nor any of your livestock, nor your
over against Beth Peor, in the land of Sihon stranger who is within your gates; that your
king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon, male servant and your female servant may rest
whom Moses and the children of Israel struck, as well as you. 5:15 You shall remember that
when they came forth out of Egypt. 4:47 They you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and
took his land in possession, and the land of Og the LORD your God brought you out of there
king of Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites, by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm:
who were beyond the Jordan toward the sun- therefore the LORD your God commanded you
rise; 4:48 from Aroer, which is on the edge of to keep the Sabbath day.
the valley of the Arnon, even to Mount Sion 5:16
“Honor your father and your mother, as
(the same is Hermon), 4:49 and all the Arabah the LORD your God commanded you; that
beyond the Jordan eastward, even to the sea of your days may be long, and that it may go well
the Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah. with you, in the land which the LORD your
5:1
Moses called to all Israel, and said to God gives you.
5:17
them, Hear, Israel, the statutes and the ordi- “You shall not murder.
nances which I speak in your ears this day, 5:18
“Neither shall you commit adultery.
that you may learn them, and observe to do 5:19
“Neither shall you steal.
them. 5:2 The LORD our God made a covenant 5:20
“Neither shall you give false testimony
with us in Horeb. 5:3 The LORD didn’t make against your neighbor.
this covenant with our fathers, but with us, 5:21
“Neither shall you covet your neighbor’s
even us, who are all of us here alive this day. wife; neither shall you desire your neighbor’s
5:4
The LORD spoke with you face to face on house, his field, or his male servant, or his fe-
the mountain out of the midst of the fire, 5:5 (I male servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything
stood between the LORD and you at that time, that is your neighbor’s.”
to show you the word of the LORD: for you 5:22
These words the LORD spoke to all your
were afraid because of the fire, and didn’t go up
assembly on the mountain out of the midst of
onto the mountain;) saying, 5:6 “I am the LORD
the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness,
your God, who brought you out of the land of
with a great voice: and he added no more.
Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
He wrote them on two tables of stone, and
5:7
“You shall have no other gods before me. gave them to me. 5:23 It happened, when you
5:8
“You shall not make an engraved image heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness,
for yourself, any likeness of what is in heaven while the mountain was burning with fire, that
above, or what is in the earth beneath, or that you came near to me, even all the heads of
is in the water under the earth: 5:9 you shall not your tribes, and your elders; 5:24 and you said,
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“Behold, the LORD our God has shown us his is one: 6:5 and you shall love the LORD your
glory and his greatness, and we have heard God with all your heart, and with all your soul,
his voice out of the midst of the fire: we have and with all your might. 6:6 These words, which
seen this day that God does speak with man, I command you this day, shall be on your heart;
and he lives. 5:25 Now therefore why should we 6:7
and you shall teach them diligently to your
die? For this great fire will consume us: if we children, and shall talk of them when you sit in
hear the voice of the LORD our God any more, your house, and when you walk by the way,
then we shall die. 5:26 For who is there of all and when you lie down, and when you rise
flesh, that has heard the voice of the living God up. 6:8 You shall bind them for a sign on your
speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we have, hand, and they shall be for symbols between
and lived? 5:27 Go near, and hear all that the your eyes. 6:9 You shall write them on the
LORD our God shall say: and tell us all that the door posts of your house, and on your gates.
6:10
LORD our God shall tell you; and we will hear It shall be, when the LORD your God shall
it, and do it.” bring you into the land which he swore to your
5:28 fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to
The LORD heard the voice of your
words, when you spoke to me; and the LORD give you, great and goodly cities, which you
said to me, “I have heard the voice of the didn’t build, 6:11 and houses full of all good
words of this people, which they have spoken things, which you didn’t fill, and cisterns dug
to you: they have well said all that they have out, which you didn’t dig, vineyards and olive
spoken. 5:29 Oh that there were such a heart in trees, which you didn’t plant, and you shall eat
them, that they would fear me, and keep all my and be full; 6:12 then beware lest you forget the
commandments always, that it might be well LORD, who brought you forth out of the land
with them, and with their children forever! of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. 6:13 You
5:30
“Go tell them, Return to your tents. shall fear the LORD your God; and you shall
5:31
But as for you, stand here by me, and I serve him, and shall swear by his name. 6:14 You
will tell you all the commandment, and the shall not go after other gods, of the gods of
statutes, and the ordinances, which you shall the peoples who are around you; 6:15 for the
teach them, that they may do them in the land LORD your God in the midst of you is a jealous
which I give them to possess it.” God; lest the anger of the LORD your God
5:32 be kindled against you, and he destroy you
You shall observe to do therefore as the
from off the face of the earth. 6:16 You shall not
LORD your God has commanded you: you
tempt the LORD your God, as you tempted him
shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the
in Massah. 6:17 You shall diligently keep the
left. 5:33 You shall walk in all the way which
commandments of the LORD your God, and
the LORD your God has commanded you, that
his testimonies, and his statutes, which he has
you may live, and that it may be well with you,
commanded you. 6:18 You shall do that which
and that you may prolong your days in the land
is right and good in the sight of the LORD;
which you shall possess.
6:1
that it may be well with you, and that you
Now this is the commandment, the may go in and possess the good land which the
statutes, and the ordinances, which the LORD LORD swore to your fathers, 6:19 to thrust out
your God commanded to teach you, that you all your enemies from before you, as the LORD
might do them in the land where you go has spoken.
over to possess it; 6:2 that you might fear the
6:20
LORD your God, to keep all his statutes and When your son asks you in time to
his commandments, which I command you, come, saying, “What do the testimonies, the
you, and your son, and your son’s son, all statutes, and the ordinances, which the LORD
the days of your life; and that your days may our God has commanded you mean?” 6:21 then
be prolonged. 6:3 Hear therefore, Israel, and you shall tell your son, “We were Pharaoh’s
observe to do it; that it may be well with you, bondservants in Egypt: and the LORD brought
and that you may increase mightily, as the us out of Egypt with a mighty hand; 6:22 and the
LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised LORD showed great and awesome signs and
to you, in a land flowing with milk and honey. wonders on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his
6:4
Hear, Israel: the LORD is our God; the LORD house, before our eyes; 6:23 and he brought us
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out from there, that he might bring us in, to day, to do them. 7:12 It shall happen, because
give us the land which he swore to our fathers. you listen to these ordinances, and keep and
6:24
The LORD commanded us to do all these do them, that the LORD your God will keep
statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our with you the covenant and the loving kindness
good always, that he might preserve us alive, as which he swore to your fathers: 7:13 and he will
at this day. 6:25 It shall be righteousness to us, if love you, and bless you, and multiply you;
we observe to do all this commandment before he will also bless the fruit of your body and
the LORD our God, as he has commanded us.” the fruit of your ground, your grain and your
7:1
new wine and your oil, the increase of your
When the LORD your God shall bring livestock and the young of your flock, in the
you into the land where you go to possess it, land which he swore to your fathers to give
and shall cast out many nations before you, the you. 7:14 You shall be blessed above all peoples:
Hittite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, there shall not be male or female barren among
and the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, and the you, or among your livestock. 7:15 The LORD
Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven nations greater will take away from you all sickness; and none
and mightier than you; 7:2 and when the LORD of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you know,
your God shall deliver them up before you, and he will put on you, but will lay them on all
you shall strike them; then you shall utterly those who hate you. 7:16 You shall consume all
destroy them: you shall make no covenant with the peoples whom the LORD your God shall
them, nor show mercy to them; 7:3 neither shall deliver to you; your eye shall not pity them:
you make marriages with them; your daughter neither shall you serve their gods; for that will
you shall not give to his son, nor shall you be a snare to you. 7:17 If you shall say in your
take his daughter for your son. 7:4 For he will heart, “These nations are more than I; how can I
turn away your son from following me, that dispossess them?” 7:18 you shall not be afraid of
they may serve other gods: so the anger of the them: you shall well remember what the LORD
LORD would be kindled against you, and he your God did to Pharaoh, and to all Egypt;
would destroy you quickly. 7:5 But you shall 7:19
the great trials which your eyes saw, and the
deal with them like this: you shall break down signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand,
their altars, and dash their pillars in pieces, and the outstretched arm, by which the LORD
and cut down their Asherim, and burn their your God brought you out: so shall the LORD
engraved images with fire. 7:6 For you are a your God do to all the peoples of whom you
holy people to the LORD your God: the LORD are afraid. 7:20 Moreover the LORD your God
your God has chosen you to be a people for his will send the hornet among them, until those
own possession, above all peoples who are on who are left, and hide themselves, perish from
the face of the earth. 7:7 The LORD didn’t set before you. 7:21 You shall not be scared of them;
his love on you, nor choose you, because you for the LORD your God is in the midst of you,
were more in number than any people; for you a great and awesome God. 7:22 The LORD your
were the fewest of all peoples: 7:8 but because God will cast out those nations before you by
the LORD loves you, and because he would little and little: you may not consume them at
keep the oath which he swore to your fathers, once, lest the animals of the field increase on
has the LORD brought you out with a mighty you. 7:23 But the LORD your God will deliver
hand, and redeemed you out of the house them up before you, and will confuse them
of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king with a great confusion, until they be destroyed.
of Egypt. 7:9 Know therefore that the LORD 7:24
He will deliver their kings into your hand,
your God, he is God, the faithful God, who and you shall make their name to perish from
keeps covenant and loving kindness with them under the sky: no man shall be able to stand
who love him and keep his commandments to before you, until you have destroyed them.
a thousand generations, 7:10 and repays those 7:25
You shall burn the engraved images of their
who hate him to their face, to destroy them: he gods with fire. You shall not covet the silver or
will not be slack to him who hates him, he will the gold that is on them, nor take it for yourself,
repay him to his face. 7:11 You shall therefore lest you be snared in it; for it is an abomination
keep the commandment, and the statutes, and to the LORD your God. 7:26 You shall not bring
the ordinances, which I command you this
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an abomination into your house, and become a where there was no water; who brought you
devoted thing like it. You shall utterly detest it, forth water out of the rock of flint; 8:16 who fed
and you shall utterly abhor it; for it is a devoted you in the wilderness with manna, which your
thing. fathers didn’t know; that he might humble you,
8:1
and that he might prove you, to do you good
You shall observe to do all the command- at your latter end: 8:17 and lest you say in your
ment which I command you this day, that heart, “My power and the might of my hand
you may live, and multiply, and go in and has gotten me this wealth.” 8:18 But you shall
possess the land which the LORD swore to remember the LORD your God, for it is he who
your fathers. 8:2 You shall remember all the way gives you power to get wealth; that he may
which the LORD your God has led you these establish his covenant which he swore to your
forty years in the wilderness, that he might fathers, as at this day.
humble you, to prove you, to know what was 8:19
It shall be, if you shall forget the LORD
in your heart, whether you would keep his
your God, and walk after other gods, and serve
commandments, or not. 8:3 He humbled you,
them, and worship them, I testify against you
and allowed you to be hungry, and fed you
this day that you shall surely perish. 8:20 As the
with manna, which you didn’t know, neither
nations that the LORD makes to perish before
did your fathers know; that he might make you
you, so you shall perish; because you wouldn’t
know that man does not live by bread only,
listen to the voice of the LORD your God.
but man lives by everything that proceeds out
9:1
of the mouth of the LORD. 8:4 Your clothing Hear, Israel: you are to pass over the
didn’t grow old on you, neither did your foot Jordan this day, to go in to dispossess nations
swell, these forty years. 8:5 You shall consider greater and mightier than yourself, cities great
in your heart that as a man chastens his son, and fortified up to the sky, 9:2 a people great
so the LORD your God chastens you. 8:6 You and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom you
shall keep the commandments of the LORD know, and of whom you have heard say, “Who
your God, to walk in his ways, and to fear can stand before the sons of Anak?” 9:3 Know
him. 8:7 For the LORD your God brings you therefore this day, that the LORD your God is
into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of he who goes over before you as a devouring
springs, and underground water flowing into fire; he will destroy them, and he will bring
valleys and hills; 8:8 a land of wheat and barley, them down before you: so you shall drive them
and vines and fig trees and pomegranates; a out, and make them to perish quickly, as the
land of olive trees and honey; 8:9 a land in LORD has spoken to you.
9:4
which you shall eat bread without scarceness, Don’t say in your heart, after the LORD
you shall not lack anything in it; a land whose your God has thrust them out from before you,
stones are iron, and out of whose hills you saying, “For my righteousness the LORD has
may dig copper. 8:10 You shall eat and be brought me in to possess this land”; because
full, and you shall bless the LORD your God the LORD drives them out before you because
for the good land which he has given you. of the wickedness of these nations. 9:5 Not
8:11
Beware lest you forget the LORD your God, for your righteousness, or for the uprightness
in not keeping his commandments, and his of your heart, do you go in to possess their
ordinances, and his statutes, which I command land; but for the wickedness of these nations
you this day: 8:12 lest, when you have eaten the LORD your God does drive them out from
and are full, and have built goodly houses, before you, and that he may establish the word
and lived therein; 8:13 and when your herds and which the LORD swore to your fathers, to
your flocks multiply, and your silver and your Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. 9:6 Know
gold is multiplied, and all that you have is therefore, that the LORD your God doesn’t give
multiplied; 8:14 then your heart be lifted up, and you this good land to possess it for your righ-
you forget the LORD your God, who brought teousness; for you are a stiff-necked people.
9:7
you forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the Remember, don’t forget, how you provoked
house of bondage; 8:15 who led you through the LORD your God to wrath in the wilderness:
the great and terrible wilderness, with fiery from the day that you went forth out of the
serpents and scorpions, and thirsty ground land of Egypt, until you came to this place,
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you have been rebellious against the LORD. its dust into the brook that descended out of
9:8
Also in Horeb you provoked the LORD to the mountain. 9:22 At Taberah, and at Massah,
wrath, and the LORD was angry with you to and at Kibroth Hattaavah, you provoked the
destroy you. 9:9 When I was gone up onto the LORD to wrath. 9:23 When the LORD sent
mountain to receive the tables of stone, even the you from Kadesh Barnea, saying, “Go up and
tables of the covenant which the LORD made possess the land which I have given you”; then
with you, then I stayed on the mountain forty you rebelled against the commandment of the
days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor LORD your God, and you didn’t believe him,
drank water. 9:10 The LORD delivered to me the nor listen to his voice. 9:24 You have been
two tables of stone written with the finger of rebellious against the LORD from the day that
God; and on them were all the words which the I knew you. 9:25 So I fell down before the LORD
LORD spoke with you on the mountain out of the forty days and forty nights that I fell down,
the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly. because the LORD had said he would destroy
9:11
It came to pass at the end of forty days you. 9:26 I prayed to the LORD, and said, “Lord
and forty nights, that the LORD gave me the GOD, don’t destroy your people and your
two tables of stone, even the tables of the inheritance, that you have redeemed through
covenant. 9:12 The LORD said to me, “Arise, get your greatness, that you have brought out of
down quickly from here; for your people whom Egypt with a mighty hand. 9:27 Remember your
you have brought out of Egypt have corrupted servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; don’t
themselves; they have quickly turned aside out look to the stubbornness of this people, nor to
of the way which I commanded them; they their wickedness, nor to their sin, 9:28 lest the
have made them a molten image.” land you brought us out from say, ‘Because
9:13 the LORD was not able to bring them into the
Furthermore the LORD spoke to me,
land which he promised to them, and because
saying, “I have seen this people, and behold, it
he hated them, he has brought them out to
is a stiff-necked people: 9:14 let me alone, that
kill them in the wilderness.’ 9:29 Yet they are
I may destroy them, and blot out their name
your people and your inheritance, which you
from under the sky; and I will make of you a
brought out by your great power and by your
nation mightier and greater than they.”
9:15
outstretched arm.”
So I turned and came down from the
10:1
mountain, and the mountain was burning with At that time the LORD said to me, “Cut
fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in two tables of stone like the first, and come up
my two hands. 9:16 I looked, and behold, you to me onto the mountain, and make an ark of
had sinned against the LORD your God; you wood. 10:2 I will write on the tables the words
had made yourselves a molten calf: you had that were on the first tables which you broke,
turned aside quickly out of the way which the and you shall put them in the ark.” 10:3 So
LORD had commanded you. 9:17 I took hold of I made an ark of acacia wood, and cut two
the two tables, and cast them out of my two tables of stone like the first, and went up onto
hands, and broke them before your eyes. 9:18 I the mountain, having the two tables in my
fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty hand. 10:4 He wrote on the tables, according
days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor to the first writing, the ten commandments,
drank water; because of all your sin which you which the LORD spoke to you on the mountain
sinned, in doing that which was evil in the sight out of the midst of the fire in the day of the
of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. 9:19 For assembly: and the LORD gave them to me. 10:5 I
I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, turned and came down from the mountain, and
with which the LORD was angry against you put the tables in the ark which I had made;
to destroy you. But the LORD listened to me and there they are as the LORD commanded
that time also. 9:20 The LORD was very angry me. 10:6 (The children of Israel traveled from
with Aaron to destroy him: and I prayed for Beeroth Bene Jaakan to Moserah. There Aaron
Aaron also at the same time. 9:21 I took your died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his
sin, the calf which you had made, and burnt son ministered in the priest’s office in his place.
10:7
it with fire, and stamped it, grinding it very From there they traveled to Gudgodah; and
small, until it was as fine as dust: and I cast from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of brooks
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of water. 10:8 At that time the LORD set apart LORD your God, his greatness, his mighty
the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant hand, and his outstretched arm, 11:3 and his
of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to signs, and his works, which he did in the midst
minister to him, and to bless in his name, to of Egypt to Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and to
this day. 10:9 Therefore Levi has no portion nor all his land; 11:4 and what he did to the army
inheritance with his brothers; the LORD is his of Egypt, to their horses, and to their chariots;
inheritance, according as the LORD your God how he made the water of the Sea of Suf to
spoke to him.) 10:10 I stayed on the mountain, overflow them as they pursued after you, and
as at the first time, forty days and forty nights: how the LORD has destroyed them to this day;
11:5
and the LORD listened to me that time also; the and what he did to you in the wilderness,
LORD would not destroy you. 10:11 The LORD until you came to this place; 11:6 and what he
said to me, “Arise, take your journey before the did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab,
people; and they shall go in and possess the the son of Reuben; how the earth opened its
land, which I swore to their fathers to give to mouth, and swallowed them up, and their
them.” households, and their tents, and every living
10:12
Now, Israel, what does the LORD your thing that followed them, in the midst of all
God require of you, but to fear the LORD your Israel: 11:7 but your eyes have seen all the great
God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, work of the LORD which he did. 11:8 Therefore
and to serve the LORD your God with all your you shall keep all the commandment which I
heart and with all your soul, 10:13 to keep the command you this day, that you may be strong,
commandments of the LORD, and his statutes, and go in and possess the land, where you go
which I command you this day for your good? over to possess it; 11:9 and that you may prolong
10:14
Behold, to the LORD your God belongs your days in the land, which the LORD swore
heaven and the heaven of heavens, the earth, to your fathers to give to them and to their seed,
with all that is therein. 10:15 Only the LORD a land flowing with milk and honey. 11:10 For
had a delight in your fathers to love them, and the land, where you go in to possess it, isn’t
he chose their seed after them, even you above as the land of Egypt, that you came out from,
all peoples, as at this day. 10:16 Circumcise where you sowed your seed, and watered it
therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be with your foot, as a garden of herbs; 11:11 but
no more stiff-necked. 10:17 For the LORD your the land, where you go over to possess it, is a
God, he is God of gods, and Lord of lords, land of hills and valleys which drinks water of
the great God, the mighty, and the awesome, the rain of the sky, 11:12 a land which the LORD
who doesn’t respect persons, nor takes reward. your God cares for: the eyes of the LORD your
10:18
He does execute justice for the fatherless God are always on it, from the beginning of
and widow, and loves the foreigner, in giving the year even to the end of the year. 11:13 It
him food and clothing. 10:19 Therefore love the shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to
foreigner; for you were foreigners in the land my commandments which I command you this
of Egypt. 10:20 You shall fear the LORD your day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve
God; you shall serve him; and you shall cling to him with all your heart and with all your soul,
11:14
him, and you shall swear by his name. 10:21 He that I will give the rain of your land in its
is your praise, and he is your God, who has season, the former rain and the latter rain, that
done for you these great and awesome things, you may gather in your grain, and your new
which your eyes have seen. 10:22 Your fathers wine, and your oil. 11:15 I will give grass in
went down into Egypt with seventy persons; your fields for your livestock, and you shall eat
and now the LORD your God has made you as and be full. 11:16 Take heed to yourselves, lest
the stars of the sky for multitude. your heart be deceived, and you turn aside, and
11:1
serve other gods, and worship them; 11:17 and
Therefore you shall love the LORD your the anger of the LORD be kindled against you,
God, and keep his instructions, and his statutes, and he shut up the sky, so that there shall be
and his ordinances, and his commandments, no rain, and the land shall not yield its fruit;
always. 11:2 Know this day: for I don’t speak and you perish quickly from off the good land
with your children who have not known, and which the LORD gives you. 11:18 Therefore you
who have not seen the chastisement of the
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shall lay up these my words in your heart and given you to possess it, all the days that you
in your soul; and you shall bind them for a sign live on the earth. 12:2 You shall surely destroy
on your hand, and they shall be for symbols all the places in which the nations that you
between your eyes. 11:19 You shall teach them shall dispossess served their gods, on the high
your children, talking of them, when you sit in mountains, and on the hills, and under every
your house, and when you walk by the way, green tree: 12:3 and you shall break down their
and when you lie down, and when you rise up. altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and
11:20
You shall write them on the door posts of burn their Asherim with fire; and you shall
your house, and on your gates; 11:21 that your cut down the engraved images of their gods;
days may be multiplied, and the days of your and you shall destroy their name out of that
children, in the land which the LORD swore to place. 12:4 You shall not do so to the LORD
your fathers to give them, as the days of the your God. 12:5 But to the place which the LORD
heavens above the earth. 11:22 For if you shall your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to
diligently keep all this commandment which put his name there, even to his habitation you
I command you, to do it, to love the LORD shall seek, and there you shall come; 12:6 and
your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cling there you shall bring your burnt offerings, and
to him; 11:23 then will the LORD drive out all your sacrifices, and your tithes, and the wave
these nations from before you, and you shall offering of your hand, and your vows, and
dispossess nations greater and mightier than your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of
yourselves. 11:24 Every place whereon the sole your herd and of your flock: 12:7 and there you
of your foot shall tread shall be yours: from the shall eat before the LORD your God, and you
wilderness, and Lebanon, from the river, the shall rejoice in all that you put your hand to,
river Euphrates, even to the hinder sea shall you and your households, in which the LORD
be your border. 11:25 No man shall be able to your God has blessed you. 12:8 You shall not
stand before you: the LORD your God shall do after all the things that we do here this
lay the fear of you and the dread of you on day, every man whatever is right in his own
all the land that you shall tread on, as he has eyes; 12:9 for you haven’t yet come to the rest
spoken to you. 11:26 Behold, I set before you this and to the inheritance, which the LORD your
day a blessing and a curse: 11:27 the blessing, if God gives you. 12:10 But when you go over
you shall listen to the commandments of the the Jordan, and dwell in the land which the
LORD your God, which I command you this LORD your God causes you to inherit, and he
day; 11:28 and the curse, if you shall not listen gives you rest from all your enemies around
to the commandments of the LORD your God, you, so that you dwell in safety; 12:11 then
but turn aside out of the way which I command it shall happen that to the place which the
you this day, to go after other gods, which you LORD your God shall choose, to cause his
have not known. 11:29 It shall happen, when name to dwell there, there you shall bring all
the LORD your God shall bring you into the that I command you: your burnt offerings,
land where you go to possess it, that you shall and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the wave
set the blessing on Mount Gerizim, and the offering of your hand, and all your choice vows
curse on Mount Ebal. 11:30 Aren’t they beyond which you vow to the LORD. 12:12 You shall
the Jordan, behind the way of the going down rejoice before the LORD your God, you, and
of the sun, in the land of the Canaanites who your sons, and your daughters, and your male
dwell in the Arabah, over against Gilgal, beside servants, and your female servants, and the
the oaks of Moreh? 11:31 For you are to pass Levite who is within your gates, because he has
over the Jordan to go in to possess the land no portion nor inheritance with you. 12:13 Take
which the LORD your God gives you, and you heed to yourself that you don’t offer your burnt
shall possess it, and dwell therein. 11:32 You offerings in every place that you see; 12:14 but
shall observe to do all the statutes and the in the place which the LORD shall choose in
ordinances which I set before you this day. one of your tribes, there you shall offer your
12:1
burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I
These are the statutes and the ordinances command you. 12:15 Notwithstanding, you may
which you shall observe to do in the land kill and eat flesh within all your gates, after
which the LORD, the God of your fathers, has
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all the desire of your soul, according to the forever, when you do that which is good and
blessing of the LORD your God which he has right in the eyes of the LORD your God.
given you: the unclean and the clean may eat of 12:29
When the LORD your God shall cut off
it, as of the gazelle, and as of the hart. 12:16 Only the nations from before you, where you go in to
you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it dispossess them, and you dispossess them, and
out on the earth as water. 12:17 You may not dwell in their land; 12:30 take heed to yourself
eat within your gates the tithe of your grain, that you not be ensnared to follow them, after
or of your new wine, or of your oil, or the that they are destroyed from before you; and
firstborn of your herd or of your flock, nor any that you not inquire after their gods, saying,
of your vows which you vow, nor your freewill “How do these nations serve their gods? I
offerings, nor the wave offering of your hand; will do likewise.” 12:31 You shall not do so to
12:18
but you shall eat them before the LORD the LORD your God: for every abomination
your God in the place which the LORD your to the LORD, which he hates, have they done
God shall choose, you, and your son, and your to their gods; for even their sons and their
daughter, and your male servant, and your daughters do they burn in the fire to their gods.
female servant, and the Levite who is within 12:32
Whatever thing I command you, that you
your gates: and you shall rejoice before the shall observe to do: you shall not add thereto,
LORD your God in all that you put your hand nor diminish from it.
to. 12:19 Take heed to yourself that you don’t 13:1
If there arise in the midst of you a
forsake the Levite as long as you live in your
prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and he give
land.
you a sign or a wonder, 13:2 and the sign or
12:20 the wonder come to pass, of which he spoke
When the LORD your God shall enlarge
your border, as he has promised you, and you to you, saying, “Let us go after other gods”
shall say, “I want to eat meat,” because your (which you have not known) “and let us serve
soul desires to eat meat; you may eat meat, them”; 13:3 you shall not listen to the words
after all the desire of your soul. 12:21 If the place of that prophet, or to that dreamer of dreams:
which the LORD your God shall choose, to put for the LORD your God proves you, to know
his name there, is too far from you, then you whether you love the LORD your God with
shall kill of your herd and of your flock, which all your heart and with all your soul. 13:4 You
the LORD has given you, as I have commanded shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear
you; and you may eat within your gates, after him, and keep his commandments, and obey
all the desire of your soul. 12:22 Even as the his voice, and you shall serve him, and cling
gazelle and as the hart is eaten, so you shall to him. 13:5 That prophet, or that dreamer of
eat of it: the unclean and the clean may eat of dreams, shall be put to death, because he has
it alike. 12:23 Only be sure that you don’t eat spoken rebellion against the LORD your God,
the blood: for the blood is the life; and you who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and
shall not eat the life with the flesh. 12:24 You redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to
shall not eat it; you shall pour it out on the draw you aside out of the way which the LORD
earth as water. 12:25 You shall not eat it; that it your God commanded you to walk in. So you
may go well with you, and with your children shall put away the evil from the midst of you.
13:6
after you, when you shall do that which is If your brother, the son of your mother,
right in the eyes of the LORD. 12:26 Only your or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of
holy things which you have, and your vows, your bosom, or your friend, who is as your own
you shall take, and go to the place which the soul, entice you secretly, saying, “Let us go and
LORD shall choose: 12:27 and you shall offer serve other gods,” which you have not known,
your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, you, nor your fathers; 13:7 of the gods of the
on the altar of the LORD your God; and the peoples who are around you, near to you, or
blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on far off from you, from the one end of the earth
the altar of the LORD your God; and you shall even to the other end of the earth; 13:8 you shall
eat the flesh. 12:28 Observe and hear all these not consent to him, nor listen to him; neither
words which I command you, that it may go shall your eye pity him, neither shall you spare,
well with you, and with your children after you neither shall you conceal him: 13:9 but you shall
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14:7
surely kill him; your hand shall be first on him Nevertheless these you shall not eat of them
to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of that chew the cud, or of those who have the
all the people. 13:10 You shall stone him to death hoof cloven: the camel, and the hare, and the
with stones, because he has sought to draw you rabbit; because they chew the cud but don’t
away from the LORD your God, who brought part the hoof, they are unclean to you. 14:8 The
you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house pig, because it has a split hoof but doesn’t chew
of bondage. 13:11 All Israel shall hear, and fear, the cud, is unclean to you: of their flesh you
and shall not do any more such wickedness as shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not
this is in the midst of you. touch. 14:9 These you may eat of all that are
13:12
If you shall hear tell concerning one in the waters: whatever has fins and scales
of your cities, which the LORD your God may you eat; 14:10 and whatever doesn’t have
gives you to dwell there, saying, 13:13 Certain fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean
base fellows are gone out from the midst of to you. 14:11 Of all clean birds you may eat.
14:12
you, and have drawn away the inhabitants of But these are they of which you shall not
their city, saying, “Let us go and serve other eat: the eagle, and the vulture, and the osprey,
14:13
gods,” which you have not known; 13:14 then and the red kite, and the falcon, and the
you shall inquire, and make search, and ask kite after its kind, 14:14 and every raven after its
diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the kind, 14:15 and the ostrich, and the owl, and the
thing certain, that such abomination is done in seagull, and the hawk after its kind, 14:16 the
the midst of you, 13:15 you shall surely strike little owl, and the great owl, and the horned
the inhabitants of that city with the edge of owl, 14:17 and the pelican, and the vulture, and
the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that the cormorant, 14:18 and the stork, and the heron
is therein and its livestock, with the edge of after its kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat.
14:19
the sword. 13:16 You shall gather all its spoil All winged creeping things are unclean to
into the midst of its street, and shall burn with you: they shall not be eaten. 14:20 Of all clean
fire the city, and all its spoil every whit, to birds you may eat. 14:21 You shall not eat of
the LORD your God: and it shall be a heap anything that dies of itself: you may give it to
forever; it shall not be built again. 13:17 Nothing the foreigner living among you who is within
of the devoted thing shall cling to your hand; your gates, that he may eat it; or you may sell
that the LORD may turn from the fierceness it to a foreigner: for you are a holy people
of his anger, and show you mercy, and have to the LORD your God. You shall not boil
compassion on you, and multiply you, as he a young goat in its mother’s milk. 14:22 You
has sworn to your fathers; 13:18 when you shall shall surely tithe all the increase of your seed,
listen to the voice of the LORD your God, to that which comes forth from the field year by
keep all his commandments which I command year. 14:23 You shall eat before the LORD your
you this day, to do that which is right in the God, in the place which he shall choose, to
eyes of the LORD your God. cause his name to dwell there, the tithe of
14:1
your grain, of your new wine, and of your
You are the children of the LORD your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and of your
God: you shall not cut yourselves, nor make flock; that you may learn to fear the LORD
any baldness between your eyes for the dead. your God always. 14:24 If the way is too long
14:2
For you are a holy people to the LORD for you, so that you are not able to carry it,
your God, and the LORD has chosen you to because the place is too far from you, which the
be a people for his own possession, above LORD your God shall choose, to set his name
all peoples who are on the face of the earth. there, when the LORD your God shall bless
14:3
You shall not eat any abominable thing. you; 14:25 then you shall turn it into money, and
14:4
These are the animals which you may eat: bind up the money in your hand, and shall go
the ox, the sheep, and the goat, 14:5 the hart, to the place which the LORD your God shall
and the gazelle, and the roebuck, and the wild choose: 14:26 and you shall bestow the money
goat, and the ibex, and the antelope, and the for whatever your soul desires, for cattle, or
chamois. 14:6 Every animal that parts the hoof, for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink,
and has the hoof cloven in two and chews the or for whatever your soul asks of you; and
cud, among the animals, that may you eat.
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you shall eat there before the LORD your God, saying, You shall surely open your hand to
and you shall rejoice, you and your household. your brother, to your needy, and to your poor,
14:27
The Levite who is within your gates, you in your land. 15:12 If your brother, a Hebrew
shall not forsake him; for he has no portion nor man, or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you, and
inheritance with you. 14:28 At the end of every serves you six years; then in the seventh year
three years you shall bring forth all the tithe of you shall let him go free from you. 15:13 When
your increase in the same year, and shall lay you let him go free from you, you shall not
it up within your gates: 14:29 and the Levite, let him go empty: 15:14 you shall furnish him
because he has no portion nor inheritance with liberally out of your flock, and out of your
you, and the foreigner living among you, and threshing floor, and out of your winepress; as
the fatherless, and the widow, who are within the LORD your God has blessed you, you shall
your gates, shall come, and shall eat and be give to him. 15:15 You shall remember that you
satisfied; that the LORD your God may bless were a bondservant in the land of Egypt, and
you in all the work of your hand which you do. the LORD your God redeemed you: therefore
15:1
I command you this thing today. 15:16 It shall
At the end of every seven years you shall be, if he tells you, “I will not go out from you”;
make a release. 15:2 This is the way of the because he loves you and your house, because
release: every creditor shall release that which he is well with you; 15:17 then you shall take
he has lent to his neighbor; he shall not exact an awl, and thrust it through his ear to the
it of his neighbor and his brother; because the door, and he shall be your servant forever. Also
LORD’s release has been proclaimed. 15:3 Of to your female servant you shall do likewise.
a foreigner you may exact it: but whatever 15:18
It shall not seem hard to you, when you let
of your is with your brother your hand shall him go free from you; for to the double of the
release. 15:4 However there shall be no poor hire of a hireling has he served you six years:
with you; (for the LORD will surely bless you in and the LORD your God will bless you in all
the land which the LORD your God gives you that you do. 15:19 All the firstborn males that
for an inheritance to possess it;) 15:5 if only you are born of your herd and of your flock you
diligently listen to the voice of the LORD your shall sanctify to the LORD your God: you shall
God, to observe to do all this commandment do no work with the firstborn of your herd, nor
which I command you this day. 15:6 For the shear the firstborn of your flock. 15:20 You shall
LORD your God will bless you, as he promised eat it before the LORD your God year by year
you: and you shall lend to many nations, but in the place which the LORD shall choose, you
you shall not borrow; and you shall rule over and your household. 15:21 If it has any blemish,
many nations, but they shall not rule over is lame or blind, or has any defect whatever,
you. 15:7 If a poor man, one of your brothers, you shall not sacrifice it to the LORD your
is with you within any of your gates in your God. 15:22 You shall eat it within your gates:
land which the LORD your God gives you, the unclean and the clean shall eat it alike, as
you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your the gazelle, and as the hart. 15:23 Only you shall
hand from your poor brother; 15:8 but you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it out on the
surely open your hand to him, and shall surely ground as water.
lend him sufficient for his need, which he lacks.
15:9 16:1
Beware that there not be a base thought Observe the month of Abib, and keep the
in your heart, saying, “The seventh year, the Passover to the LORD your God; for in the
year of release, is at hand”; and your eye be month of Abib the LORD your God brought
evil against your poor brother, and you give you forth out of Egypt by night. 16:2 You shall
him nothing; and he cry to the LORD against sacrifice the Passover to the LORD your God,
you, and it be sin to you. 15:10 You shall surely of the flock and the herd, in the place which the
give him, and your heart shall not be grieved LORD shall choose, to cause his name to dwell
when you give to him; because that for this there. 16:3 You shall eat no leavened bread with
thing the LORD your God will bless you in it. You shall eat unleavened bread with it seven
all your work, and in all that you put your days, even the bread of affliction; for you came
hand to. 15:11 For the poor will never cease forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that
out of the land: therefore I command you, you may remember the day when you came
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forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of
your life. 16:4 No yeast shall be seen with you in booths; and they shall not appear before the
all your borders seven days; neither shall any LORD empty: 16:17 every man shall give as he
of the flesh, which you sacrifice the first day is able, according to the blessing of the LORD
at evening, remain all night until the morning. your God which he has given you. 16:18 You
16:5
You may not sacrifice the Passover within shall make judges and officers in all your
any of your gates, which the LORD your God gates, which the LORD your God gives you,
gives you; 16:6 but at the place which the LORD according to your tribes; and they shall judge
your God shall choose, to cause his name to the people with righteous judgment. 16:19 You
dwell in, there you shall sacrifice the Passover shall not wrest justice: you shall not respect
at evening, at the going down of the sun, at persons; neither shall you take a bribe; for
the season that you came forth out of Egypt. a bribe does blind the eyes of the wise, and
16:7
You shall roast and eat it in the place which pervert the words of the righteous. 16:20 You
the LORD your God shall choose: and you shall follow that which is altogether just, that
shall turn in the morning, and go to your you may live, and inherit the land which the
tents. 16:8 Six days you shall eat unleavened LORD your God gives you. 16:21 You shall
bread. On the seventh day shall be a solemn not plant for yourselves an Asherah of any
assembly to the LORD your God; you shall do kind of tree beside the altar of the LORD your
no work. 16:9 You shall count for yourselves God, which you shall make for yourselves.
16:22
seven weeks: from the time you begin to put Neither shall you set yourself up a pillar;
the sickle to the standing grain you shall begin which the LORD your God hates.
to number seven weeks. 16:10 You shall keep 17:1
the feast of weeks to the LORD your God with You shall not sacrifice to the LORD your
a tribute of a freewill offering of your hand, God an ox, or a sheep, in which is a blemish,
which you shall give, according as the LORD or anything evil; for that is an abomination
your God blesses you: 16:11 and you shall rejoice to the LORD your God. 17:2 If there is found
before the LORD your God, you, and your in the midst of you, within any of your gates
son, and your daughter, and your male servant, which the LORD your God gives you, man or
and your female servant, and the Levite who woman, who does that which is evil in the sight
is within your gates, and the foreigner, and of the LORD your God, in transgressing his
the fatherless, and the widow, who are in the covenant, 17:3 and has gone and served other
midst of you, in the place which the LORD gods, and worshiped them, or the sun, or the
your God shall choose, to cause his name to moon, or any of the army of the sky, which I
dwell there. 16:12 You shall remember that you have not commanded; 17:4 and it be told you,
were a bondservant in Egypt: and you shall and you have heard of it, then you shall inquire
observe and do these statutes. 16:13 You shall diligently; and behold, if it be true, and the
keep the feast of booths seven days, after that thing certain, that such abomination is done in
you have gathered in from your threshing floor Israel, 17:5 then you shall bring forth that man
and from your winepress: 16:14 and you shall or that woman, who has done this evil thing,
rejoice in your feast, you, and your son, and to your gates, even the man or the woman;
your daughter, and your male servant, and and you shall stone them to death with stones.
17:6
your female servant, and the Levite, and the At the mouth of two witnesses, or three
foreigner, and the fatherless, and the widow, witnesses, shall he who is to die be put to death;
who are within your gates. 16:15 You shall keep at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put
a feast to the LORD your God seven days in the to death. 17:7 The hand of the witnesses shall be
place which the LORD shall choose; because first on him to put him to death, and afterward
the LORD your God will bless you in all your the hand of all the people. So you shall put
increase, and in all the work of your hands, and away the evil from the midst of you. 17:8 If there
you shall be altogether joyful. 16:16 Three times arises a matter too hard for you in judgment,
in a year shall all your males appear before between blood and blood, between plea and
the LORD your God in the place which he plea, and between stroke and stroke, being
shall choose: in the feast of unleavened bread, matters of controversy within your gates; then
you shall arise, and go up to the place which
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the LORD your God shall choose; 17:9 and you Levi, shall have no portion nor inheritance with
shall come to the priests the Levites, and to the Israel: they shall eat the offerings of the LORD
judge who shall be in those days: and you shall made by fire, and his inheritance. 18:2 They shall
inquire; and they shall show you the sentence have no inheritance among their brothers: the
of judgment. 17:10 You shall do according to the LORD is their inheritance, as he has spoken to
tenor of the sentence which they shall show you them. 18:3 This shall be the priests’ due from
from that place which the LORD shall choose; the people, from those who offer a sacrifice,
and you shall observe to do according to all whether it be ox or sheep, that they shall give
that they shall teach you: 17:11 according to the to the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks,
tenor of the law which they shall teach you, and the maw. 18:4 The first fruits of your grain,
and according to the judgment which they shall of your new wine, and of your oil, and the first
tell you, you shall do; you shall not turn aside of the fleece of your sheep, you shall give him.
18:5
from the sentence which they shall show you, For the LORD your God has chosen him out
to the right hand, nor to the left. 17:12 The man of all your tribes, to stand to minister in the
who does presumptuously, in not listening to name of the LORD, him and his sons for ever.
18:6
the priest who stands to minister there before If a Levite comes from any of your gates
the LORD your God, or to the judge, even that out of all Israel, where he lives as a foreigner,
man shall die: and you shall put away the evil and comes with all the desire of his soul to the
from Israel. 17:13 All the people shall hear, and place which the LORD shall choose; 18:7 then he
fear, and do no more presumptuously. shall minister in the name of the LORD his God,
17:14 as all his brothers the Levites do, who stand
When you have come to the land which
the LORD your God gives you, and shall there before the LORD. 18:8 They shall have like
possess it, and shall dwell therein, and shall portions to eat, besides that which comes of
say, “I will set a king over me, like all the the sale of his patrimony. 18:9 When you have
nations that are around me”; 17:15 you shall come into the land which the LORD your God
surely set him king over yourselves, whom gives you, you shall not learn to do after the
the LORD your God shall choose: one from abominations of those nations. 18:10 There shall
among your brothers you shall set king over not be found with you anyone who makes his
you; you may not put a foreigner over you, son or his daughter to pass through the fire, one
who is not your brother. 17:16 Only he shall who uses divination, one who practices sorcery,
not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the or an enchanter, or a sorcerer, 18:11 or a charmer,
people to return to Egypt, to the end that he or a consulter with a familiar spirit, or a wizard,
may multiply horses; because the LORD has or a necromancer. 18:12 For whoever does these
said to you, “You shall not go back that way things is an abomination to the LORD: and
again.” 17:17 Neither shall he multiply wives to because of these abominations the LORD your
himself, that his heart not turn away: neither God does drive them out from before you.
18:13
shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and You shall be perfect with the LORD your
gold. God. 18:14 For these nations, that you shall
17:18 dispossess, listen to those who practice sorcery,
It shall be, when he sits on the throne of
and to diviners; but as for you, the LORD your
his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of
God has not allowed you so to do. 18:15 The
this law in a book, out of that which is before
LORD your God will raise up to you a prophet
the priests the Levites: 17:19 and it shall be with
from the midst of you, of your brothers, like me.
him, and he shall read therein all the days of
You shall listen to him. 18:16 This is according to
his life; that he may learn to fear the LORD
all that you desired of the LORD your God in
his God, to keep all the words of this law and
Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, “Let
these statutes, to do them; 17:20 that his heart
me not hear again the voice of the LORD my
not be lifted up above his brothers, and that
God, neither let me see this great fire any more,
he not turn aside from the commandment, to
that I not die.”
the right hand, or to the left: to the end that he
may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and 18:17
The LORD said to me, “They have well
his children, in the midst of Israel. said that which they have spoken. 18:18 I will
18:1
The priests the Levites, all the tribe of raise them up a prophet from among their
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brothers, like you; and I will put my words in LORD your God gives you for an inheritance,
his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that and so blood be on you. 19:11 But if any man
I shall command him. 18:19 It shall happen, that hates his neighbor, and lies in wait for him, and
whoever will not listen to my words which he rises up against him, and strikes him mortally
shall speak in my name, I will require it of him. so that he dies, and he flees into one of these
18:20
But the prophet, who shall speak a word cities; 19:12 then the elders of his city shall send
presumptuously in my name, which I have not and bring him there, and deliver him into the
commanded him to speak, or who shall speak hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.
19:13
in the name of other gods, that same prophet Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall
shall die.” put away the innocent blood from Israel, that
18:21
If you say in your heart, “How shall it may go well with you. 19:14 You shall not
we know the word which the LORD has not remove your neighbor’s landmark, which they
spoken?” 18:22 when a prophet speaks in the of old time have set, in your inheritance which
name of the LORD, if the thing doesn’t follow, you shall inherit, in the land that the LORD
nor happen, that is the thing which the LORD your God gives you to possess it. 19:15 One
has not spoken: the prophet has spoken it witness shall not rise up against a man for
presumptuously, you shall not be afraid of him. any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that
19:1
he sins: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at
When the LORD your God shall cut off the mouth of three witnesses, shall a matter be
the nations, whose land the LORD your God established. 19:16 If an unrighteous witness rise
gives you, and you succeed them, and dwell in up against any man to testify against him of
their cities, and in their houses; 19:2 you shall set wrongdoing, 19:17 then both the men, between
apart three cities for you in the midst of your whom the controversy is, shall stand before
land, which the LORD your God gives you to the LORD, before the priests and the judges
possess it. 19:3 You shall prepare you the way, who shall be in those days; 19:18 and the judges
and divide the borders of your land, which shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if
the LORD your God causes you to inherit, the witness is a false witness, and has testified
into three parts, that every manslayer may flee falsely against his brother; 19:19 then you shall
there. 19:4 This is the case of the manslayer, do to him as he had thought to do to his
that shall flee there and live: whoever kills his brother: so you shall put away the evil from the
neighbor unawares, and didn’t hate him in time midst of you. 19:20 Those who remain shall hear,
past; 19:5 as when a man goes into the forest and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more
with his neighbor to chop wood, and his hand any such evil in the midst of you. 19:21 Your eyes
fetches a stroke with the axe to cut down the shall not pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for
tree, and the head slips from the handle, and tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
lights on his neighbor, so that he dies; he shall 20:1
flee to one of these cities and live: 19:6 lest the When you go forth to battle against your
avenger of blood pursue the manslayer, while enemies, and see horses, chariots, and a people
his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the more than you, you shall not be afraid of them;
way is long, and strike him mortally; whereas for the LORD your God is with you, who
he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he brought you up out of the land of Egypt. 20:2 It
didn’t hate him in time past. 19:7 Therefore I shall be, when you draw near to the battle,
command you, saying, You shall set apart three that the priest shall approach and speak to the
cities for yourselves. 19:8 If the LORD your God people, 20:3 and shall tell them, “Hear, Israel,
enlarges your border, as he has sworn to your you draw near this day to battle against your
fathers, and gives you all the land which he enemies: don’t let your heart faint; don’t be
promised to give to your fathers; 19:9 if you afraid, nor tremble, neither be scared of them;
20:4
keep all this commandment to do it, which for the LORD your God is he who goes with
I command you this day, to love the LORD you, to fight for you against your enemies, to
your God, and to walk ever in his ways; then save you.”
20:5
you shall add three cities more for yourselves, The officers shall speak to the people,
besides these three: 19:10 that innocent blood not saying, “What man is there who has built a
be shed in the midst of your land, which the new house, and has not dedicated it? Let him
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go and return to his house, lest he die in the food, you shall destroy and cut them down;
battle, and another man dedicate it. 20:6 What and you shall build bulwarks against the city
man is there who has planted a vineyard, and that makes war with you, until it fall.
has not used its fruit? Let him go and return to 21:1
If one be found slain in the land which
his house, lest he die in the battle, and another the LORD your God gives you to possess it,
man use its fruit. 20:7 What man is there who lying in the field, and it isn’t known who
has pledged to be married a wife, and has not has struck him; 21:2 then your elders and your
taken her? Let him go and return to his house, judges shall come forth, and they shall measure
lest he die in the battle, and another man take to the cities which are around him who is slain:
her.” 20:8 The officers shall speak further to the 21:3
and it shall be, that the city which is nearest
people, and they shall say, “What man is there to the slain man, even the elders of that city
who is fearful and fainthearted? Let him go and shall take a heifer of the herd, which hasn’t
return to his house, lest his brother’s heart melt been worked with, and which has not drawn
as his heart.” 20:9 It shall be, when the officers in the yoke; 21:4 and the elders of that city shall
have made an end of speaking to the people, bring down the heifer to a valley with running
that they shall appoint captains of armies at the water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and
head of the people. shall break the heifer’s neck there in the valley.
21:5
20:10
When you draw near to a city to fight The priests the sons of Levi shall come near;
against it, then proclaim peace to it. 20:11 It for them the LORD your God has chosen to
shall be, if it makes you answer of peace, and minister to him, and to bless in the name of the
opens to you, then it shall be, that all the people LORD; and according to their word shall every
who are found therein shall become tributary controversy and every stroke be. 21:6 All the
to you, and shall serve you. 20:12 If it will make elders of that city, who are nearest to the slain
no peace with you, but will make war against man, shall wash their hands over the heifer
you, then you shall besiege it: 20:13 and when whose neck was broken in the valley; 21:7 and
the LORD your God delivers it into your hand, they shall answer and say, “Our hands have
you shall strike every male of it with the edge not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen
of the sword: 20:14 but the women, and the little it. 21:8 Forgive, the LORD, your people Israel,
ones, and the livestock, and all that is in the whom you have redeemed, and don’t allow
city, even all its spoil, you shall take for a prey innocent blood in the midst of your people
to yourself; and you shall eat the spoil of your Israel.” The blood shall be forgiven them.
21:9
enemies, which the LORD your God has given So you shall put away the innocent blood
you. 20:15 Thus you shall do to all the cities from the midst of you, when you shall do that
which are very far off from you, which are which is right in the eyes of the LORD.
not of the cities of these nations. 20:16 But of 21:10
When you go forth to battle against your
the cities of these peoples, that the LORD your enemies, and the LORD your God delivers
God gives you for an inheritance, you shall them into your hands, and you carry them
save alive nothing that breathes; 20:17 but you away captive, 21:11 and see among the captives
shall utterly destroy them: the Hittite, and the a beautiful woman, and you have a desire
Amorite, the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, the to her, and would take her to you as wife;
21:12
Hivite, and the Jebusite; as the LORD your God then you shall bring her home to your
has commanded you; 20:18 that they not teach house; and she shall shave her head, and pare
you to do after all their abominations, which her nails; 21:13 and she shall put the clothing
they have done to their gods; so would you sin of her captivity from off her, and shall remain
against the LORD your God. 20:19 When you in your house, and bewail her father and her
shall besiege a city a long time, in making war mother a full month: and after that you shall
against it to take it, you shall not destroy its go in to her, and be her husband, and she shall
trees by wielding an axe against them; for you be your wife. 21:14 It shall be, if you have no
may eat of them, and you shall not cut them delight in her, then you shall let her go where
down; for is the tree of the field man, that it she will; but you shall not sell her at all for
should be besieged of you? 20:20 Only the trees money, you shall not deal with her as a slave,
of which you know that they are not trees for because you have humbled her. 21:15 If a man
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have two wives, the one beloved, and the other abomination to the LORD your God. 22:6 If a
hated, and they have borne him children, both bird’s nest chance to be before you in the way,
the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn in any tree or on the ground, with young ones
son be hers who was hated; 21:16 then it shall or eggs, and the hen sitting on the young, or
be, in the day that he causes his sons to inherit on the eggs, you shall not take the hen with
that which he has, that he may not make the the young: 22:7 you shall surely let the hen go,
son of the beloved the firstborn before the son but the young you may take to yourself; that
of the hated, who is the firstborn: 21:17 but he it may be well with you, and that you may
shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the prolong your days. 22:8 When you build a new
hated, by giving him a double portion of all that house, then you shall make a battlement for
he has; for he is the beginning of his strength; your roof, that you don’t bring blood on your
the right of the firstborn is his. 21:18 If a man house, if any man fall from there. 22:9 You
have a stubborn and rebellious son, who will shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds
not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of of seed, lest the whole fruit be forfeited, the
his mother, and, though they chasten him, will seed which you have sown, and the increase of
not listen to them; 21:19 then shall his father and the vineyard. 22:10 You shall not plow with an
his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out ox and a donkey together. 22:11 You shall not
to the elders of his city, and to the gate of his wear a mixed stuff, wool and linen together.
place; 21:20 and they shall tell the elders of his 22:12
You shall make yourselves fringesd on the
city, “This our son is stubborn and rebellious, four borders of your cloak, with which you
he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and cover yourself.
a drunkard.” 21:21 All the men of his city shall 22:13
If any man takes a wife, and goes in
stone him to death with stones: so you shall to her, and hates her, 22:14 and accuses her of
put away the evil from the midst of you; and shameful things, and brings up an evil name on
all Israel shall hear, and fear. her, and says, “I took this woman, and when I
21:22
If a man have committed a sin worthy came near to her, I didn’t find in her the tokens
of death, and he be put to death, and you hang of virginity”; 22:15 then shall the father of the
him on a tree; 21:23 his body shall not remain young lady, and her mother, take and bring
all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury forth the tokens of the young lady’s virginity
him the same day; for he who is hanged is to the elders of the city in the gate; 22:16 and the
accursed of God; that you don’t defile your young lady’s father shall tell the elders, “I gave
land which the LORD your God gives you for my daughter to this man to wife, and he hates
an inheritance. her; 22:17 and behold, he has accused her of
22:1 shameful things, saying, ‘I didn’t find in your
You shall not see your brother’s ox or
his sheep go astray, and hide yourself from daughter the tokens of virginity;’ and yet these
them: you shall surely bring them again to your are the tokens of my daughter’s virginity.”
brother. 22:2 If your brother isn’t near to you, or They shall spread the cloth before the elders of
if you don’t know him, then you shall bring it the city. 22:18 The elders of that city shall take
home to your house, and it shall be with you the man and chastise him; 22:19 and they shall
until your brother seek after it, and you shall fine him one hundred shekels of silver, and give
restore it to him. 22:3 So you shall do with his them to the father of the young lady, because
donkey; and so you shall do with his garment; he has brought up an evil name on a virgin of
and so you shall do with every lost thing of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put
your brother’s, which he has lost, and you have her away all his days.
found: you may not hide yourself. 22:4 You 22:20
But if this thing be true, that the tokens
shall not see your brother’s donkey or his ox of virginity were not found in the young lady;
22:21
fallen down by the way, and hide yourself from then they shall bring out the young lady
them: you shall surely help him to lift them to the door of her father’s house, and the men
up again. 22:5 A woman shall not wear men’s of her city shall stone her to death with stones,
clothing, neither shall a man put on women’s because she has done folly in Israel, to play the
clothing; for whoever does these things is an prostitute in her father’s house: so you shall
d 22:12 or, tassles
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put away the evil from the midst of you. 22:22 If 23:7
You shall not abhor an Edomite; for he is
a man be found lying with a woman married your brother: you shall not abhor an Egyptian,
to a husband, then they shall both of them die, because you lived as a foreigner in his land.
23:8
the man who lay with the woman, and the The children of the third generation who
woman: so you shall put away the evil from are born to them shall enter into the assembly
Israel. 22:23 If there is a young lady who is a of the LORD. 23:9 When you go forth in camp
virgin pledged to be married to a husband, and against your enemies, then you shall keep
a man find her in the city, and lie with her; yourselves from every evil thing. 23:10 If there is
22:24
then you shall bring them both out to the among you any man who is not clean by reason
gate of that city, and you shall stone them to of that which happens him by night, then shall
death with stones; the lady, because she didn’t he go outside of the camp. He shall not come
cry, being in the city; and the man, because within the camp: 23:11 but it shall be, when
he has humbled his neighbor’s wife: so you evening comes on, he shall bathe himself in
shall put away the evil from the midst of you. water; and when the sun is down, he shall come
22:25
But if the man find the lady who is pledged within the camp. 23:12 You shall have a place
to be married in the field, and the man force her, also outside of the camp, where you shall go
and lie with her; then the man only who lay forth abroad: 23:13 and you shall have a paddle
with her shall die: 22:26 but to the lady you shall among your weapons; and it shall be, when
do nothing; there is in the lady no sin worthy you sit down abroad, you shall dig therewith,
of death: for as when a man rises against his and shall turn back and cover that which comes
neighbor, and kills him, even so is this matter; from you: 23:14 for the LORD your God walks
22:27
for he found her in the field, the pledged in the midst of your camp, to deliver you, and
to be married lady cried, and there was none to give up your enemies before you; therefore
to save her. 22:28 If a man find a lady who is your camp shall be holy, that he may not see an
a virgin, who is not pledged to be married, unclean thing in you, and turn away from you.
23:15
and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they You shall not deliver to his master a servant
be found; 22:29 then the man who lay with her who is escaped from his master to you: 23:16 he
shall give to the lady’s father fifty shekels of shall dwell with you, in the midst of you, in the
silver, and she shall be his wife, because he place which he shall choose within one of your
has humbled her; he may not put her away all gates, where it pleases him best: you shall not
his days. 22:30 A man shall not take his father’s oppress him. 23:17 There shall be no prostitute
wife, and shall not uncover his father’s skirt. of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be
23:1
a sodomite of the sons of Israel. 23:18 You shall
He who is wounded in the stones, or not bring the hire of a prostitute, or the wages
has his privy member cut off, shall not enter of a dog, into the house of the LORD your
into the assembly of the LORD. 23:2 A bastard God for any vow: for even both these are an
shall not enter into the assembly of the LORD; abomination to the LORD your God. 23:19 You
even to the tenth generation shall none of his shall not lend on interest to your brother;
enter into the assembly of the LORD. 23:3 An interest of money, interest of food, interest
Ammonite or a Moabite shall not enter into of anything that is lent on interest: 23:20 to a
the assembly of the LORD; even to the tenth foreigner you may lend on interest; but to your
generation shall none belonging to them en- brother you shall not lend on interest, that the
ter into the assembly of the LORD forever: LORD your God may bless you in all that you
23:4
because they didn’t meet you with bread put your hand to, in the land where you go in
and with water in the way, when you came to possess it. 23:21 When you shall vow a vow
forth out of Egypt, and because they hired to the LORD your God, you shall not be slack
against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor to pay it: for the LORD your God will surely
of Mesopotamia, to curse you. 23:5 Nevertheless require it of you; and it would be sin in you.
the LORD your God wouldn’t listen to Balaam; 23:22
But if you shall forbear to vow, it shall be
but the LORD your God turned the curse into no sin in you. 23:23 That which is gone out of
a blessing to you, because the LORD your your lips you shall observe and do; according
God loved you. 23:6 You shall not seek their as you have vowed to the LORD your God,
peace nor their prosperity all your days forever.
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a freewill offering, which you have promised shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor
with your mouth. 23:24 When you come into and needy, whether he be of your brothers, or
your neighbor’s vineyard, then you may eat of of your foreigners who are in your land within
grapes your fill at your own pleasure; but you your gates: 24:15 in his day you shall give him
shall not put any in your vessel. 23:25 When you his hire, neither shall the sun go down on it;
come into your neighbor’s standing grain, then for he is poor, and sets his heart on it: lest he
you may pluck the ears with your hand; but cry against you to the LORD, and it be sin to
you shall not move a sickle to your neighbor’s you. 24:16 The fathers shall not be put to death
standing grain. for the children, neither shall the children be
24:1
put to death for the fathers: every man shall
When a man takes a wife, and marries be put to death for his own sin. 24:17 You shall
her, then it shall be, if she find no favor in not deprive the foreigner, or the fatherless of
his eyes, because he has found some unseemly justice, nor take a widow’s clothing in pledge;
thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of 24:18
but you shall remember that you were a
divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her bondservant in Egypt, and the LORD your God
out of his house. 24:2 When she is departed out redeemed you there: therefore I command you
of his house, she may go and be another man’s to do this thing. 24:19 When you reap your
wife. 24:3 If the latter husband hate her, and harvest in your field, and have forgot a sheaf
write her a bill of divorce, and give it in her in the field, you shall not go again to get it:
hand, and send her out of his house; or if the it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless,
latter husband die, who took her to be his wife; and for the widow; that the LORD your God
24:4
her former husband, who sent her away, may bless you in all the work of your hands.
may not take her again to be his wife, after that 24:20
When you beat your olive tree, you shall
she is defiled; for that is abomination before the not go over the boughs again: it shall be for
LORD: and you shall not cause the land to sin, the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the
which the LORD your God gives you for an widow. 24:21 When you harvest your vineyard,
inheritance. 24:5 When a man takes a new wife, you shall not glean it after yourselves: it shall
he shall not go out in the army, neither shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and
he be assigned any business: he shall be free at for the widow. 24:22 You shall remember that
home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom you were a bondservant in the land of Egypt:
he has taken. 24:6 No man shall take the mill therefore I command you to do this thing.
or the upper millstone to pledge; for he takes
a life in pledge. 24:7 If a man be found stealing 25:1
If there is a controversy between men,
any of his brothers of the children of Israel, and and they come to judgment, and the judges
he deal with him as a slave, or sell him; then judge them; then they shall justify the righ-
that thief shall die: so you shall put away the teous, and condemn the wicked; 25:2 and it shall
evil from the midst of you. 24:8 Take heed in the be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten,
plague of leprosy, that you observe diligently, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and
and do according to all that the priests the to be beaten before his face, according to his
Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, wickedness, by number. 25:3 Forty stripes he
so you shall observe to do. 24:9 Remember what may give him, he shall not exceed; lest, if he
the LORD your God did to Miriam, by the way should exceed, and beat him above these with
as you came forth out of Egypt. 24:10 When you many stripes, then your brother should seem
do lend your neighbor any kind of loan, you vile to you. 25:4 You shall not muzzle the ox
shall not go into his house to get his pledge. when he treads out the grain. 25:5 If brothers
24:11
You shall stand outside, and the man to dwell together, and one of them die, and have
whom you do lend shall bring forth the pledge no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married
outside to you. 24:12 If he be a poor man, you outside to a stranger: her husband’s brother
shall not sleep with his pledge; 24:13 you shall shall go in to her, and take her to him as wife,
surely restore to him the pledge when the sun and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to
goes down, that he may sleep in his garment, her. 25:6 It shall be, that the firstborn whom she
and bless you: and it shall be righteousness bears shall succeed in the name of his brother
to you before the LORD your God. 24:14 You who is dead, that his name not be blotted out
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of Israel. shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.


25:7 26:3
If the man doesn’t want to take his You shall come to the priest who shall be
brother’s wife, then his brother’s wife shall in those days, and tell him, “I profess this day
go up to the gate to the elders, and say, “My to the LORD your God, that I am come to the
husband’s brother refuses to raise up to his land which the LORD swore to our fathers to
brother a name in Israel; he will not perform the give us.” 26:4 The priest shall take the basket
duty of a husband’s brother to me.” 25:8 Then out of your hand, and set it down before the
the elders of his city shall call him, and speak altar of the LORD your God. 26:5 You shall
to him: and if he stand, and say, “I don’t want answer and say before the LORD your God, “A
to take her”; 25:9 then his brother’s wife shall Syrian ready to perish was my father; and he
come to him in the presence of the elders, and went down into Egypt, and lived there, few in
loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his number; and he became there a nation, great,
face; and she shall answer and say, “So shall it mighty, and populous. 26:6 The Egyptians dealt
be done to the man who does not build up his ill with us, and afflicted us, and laid on us hard
brother’s house.” 25:10 His name shall be called bondage: 26:7 and we cried to the LORD, the
in Israel, The house of him who has his shoe God of our fathers, and the LORD heard our
untied. voice, and saw our affliction, and our toil, and
25:11
When men strive together one with our oppression; 26:8 and the LORD brought us
another, and the wife of the one draws near to forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and
deliver her husband out of the hand of him who with an outstretched arm, and with great terror,
strikes him, and puts forth her hand, and takes and with signs, and with wonders; 26:9 and he
him by the secrets; 25:12 then you shall cut off has brought us into this place, and has given us
her hand, your eye shall have no pity. this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.
26:10
25:13 Now, behold, I have brought the first of
You shall not have in your bag diverse
the fruit of the ground, which you, the LORD,
weights, a great and a small. 25:14 You shall
have given me.” You shall set it down before
not have in your house diverse measures, a
the LORD your God, and worship before the
great and a small. 25:15 You shall have a perfect
LORD your God. 26:11 You shall rejoice in all
and just weight. You shall have a perfect and
the good which the LORD your God has given
just measure, that your days may be long in
to you, and to your house, you, and the Levite,
the land which the LORD your God gives you.
25:16 and the foreigner who is in the midst of you.
For all who do such things, all who do
unrighteously, are an abomination to the LORD 26:12
When you have made an end of tithing
your God. 25:17 Remember what Amalek did to all the tithe of your increase in the third year,
you by the way as you came forth out of Egypt; which is the year of tithing, then you shall
25:18
how he met you by the way, and struck the give it to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the
hindmost of you, all who were feeble behind fatherless, and to the widow, that they may
you, when you were faint and weary; and he eat within your gates, and be filled. 26:13 You
didn’t fear God. 25:19 Therefore it shall be, when shall say before the LORD your God, “I have
the LORD your God has given you rest from all put away the holy things out of my house, and
your enemies all around, in the land which the also have given them to the Levite, and to the
LORD your God gives you for an inheritance to foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow,
possess it, that you shall blot out the memory according to all your commandment which you
of Amalek from under the sky; you shall not have commanded me: I have not transgressed
forget. any of your commandments, neither have I
26:1
It shall be, when you have come in to forgotten them: 26:14 I have not eaten of it in
the land which the LORD your God gives you my mourning, neither have I put away of it,
for an inheritance, and possess it, and dwell being unclean, nor given of it for the dead:
therein, 26:2 that you shall take of the first of all I have listened to the voice of the LORD my
the fruit of the ground, which you shall bring God; I have done according to all that you have
in from your land that the LORD your God commanded me. 26:15 Look down from your
gives you; and you shall put it in a basket, and holy habitation, from heaven, and bless your
shall go to the place which the LORD your God people Israel, and the ground which you have
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given us, as you swore to our fathers, a land day, saying, 27:12 “These shall stand on Mount
flowing with milk and honey.” Gerizim to bless the people, when you have
26:16 passed over the Jordan: Simeon, and Levi,
This day the LORD your God com-
mands you to do these statutes and ordinances: and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and
you shall therefore keep and do them with all Benjamin. 27:13 These shall stand on Mount
your heart, and with all your soul. 26:17 You Ebal for the curse: Reuben, Gad, and Asher,
have declared the LORD this day to be your and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali. 27:14 The
God, and that you would walk in his ways, Levites shall answer, and tell all the men of
and keep his statutes, and his commandments, Israel with a loud voice, 27:15 ‘Cursed is the
and his ordinances, and listen to his voice: man who makes an engraved or molten image,
26:18 an abomination to the LORD, the work of
and the LORD has declared you this day
to be a people for his own possession, as he the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in
has promised you, and that you should keep all secret.’ All the people shall answer and say,
his commandments; 26:19 and to make you high ‘Amen.’ 27:16 ‘Cursed is he who sets light by
above all nations that he has made, in praise, his father or his mother.’ All the people shall
and in name, and in honor; and that you may say, ‘Amen.’ 27:17 ‘Cursed is he who removes
be a holy people to the LORD your God, as he his neighbor’s landmark.’ All the people shall
has spoken. say, ‘Amen.’ 27:18 ‘Cursed is he who makes the
27:1
Moses and the elders of Israel com- blind to wander out of the way.’ All the people
manded the people, saying, “Keep all the shall say, ‘Amen.’ 27:19 ‘Cursed is he who the
commandment which I command you this day. foreigner, fatherless, and widow of justice.’ All
27:2
It shall be on the day when you shall pass the people shall say, ‘Amen.’ 27:20 ‘Cursed is
over the Jordan to the land which the LORD he who lies with his father’s wife, because he
your God gives you, that you shall set yourself has uncovered his father’s skirt.’ All the people
up great stones, and plaster them with plaster: shall say, ‘Amen.’ 27:21 ‘Cursed is he who lies
27:3
and you shall write on them all the words of with any kind of animal.’ All the people shall
this law, when you have passed over; that you say, ‘Amen.’ 27:22 ‘Cursed is he who lies with
may go in to the land which the LORD your his sister, the daughter of his father, or the
God gives you, a land flowing with milk and daughter of his mother.’ All the people shall
honey, as the LORD, the God of your fathers, say, ‘Amen.’ 27:23 ‘Cursed is he who lies with
has promised you. 27:4 It shall be, when you his mother-in-law.’ All the people shall say,
have passed over the Jordan, that you shall set ‘Amen.’ 27:24 ‘Cursed is he who strikes his
up these stones, which I command you this day, neighbor in secret.’ All the people shall say,
in Mount Ebal, and you shall plaster them with ‘Amen.’ 27:25 ‘Cursed is he who takes a bribe
plaster. 27:5 There you shall build an altar to the to kill an innocent person.’ All the people shall
LORD your God, an altar of stones: you shall say, ‘Amen.’ 27:26 ‘Cursed is he who doesn’t
lift up no iron on them. 27:6 You shall build the confirm the words of this law to do them.’ All
altar of the LORD your God of uncut stones; the people shall say, ‘Amen.’”
and you shall offer burnt offerings thereon 28:1
It shall happen, if you shall listen dili-
to the LORD your God: 27:7 and you shall gently to the voice of the LORD your God, to
sacrifice peace offerings, and shall eat there; observe to do all his commandments which I
and you shall rejoice before the LORD your command you this day, that the LORD your
God. 27:8 You shall write on the stones all the God will set you on high above all the nations
words of this law very plainly.” of the earth: 28:2 and all these blessings shall
27:9
Moses and the priests the Levites spoke come on you, and overtake you, if you shall
to all Israel, saying, “Keep silence, and listen, listen to the voice of the LORD your God.
Israel: this day you have become the people of 28:3
You shall be blessed in the city, and you
the LORD your God. 27:10 You shall therefore shall be blessed in the field. 28:4 You shall be
obey the voice of the LORD your God, and do blessed in the fruit of your body, the fruit of
his commandments and his statutes, which I your ground, the fruit of your animals, the
command you this day.” increase of your livestock, and the young of
27:11
Moses commanded the people the same your flock. 28:5 Your basket and your kneading
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trough shall be blessed. 28:6 You shall be make the pestilence cling to you, until he has
blessed when you come in, and you shall be consumed you from off the land, where you
blessed when you go out. 28:7 The LORD will go in to possess it. 28:22 The LORD will strike
cause your enemies who rise up against you you with consumption, and with fever, and
to be struck before you. They will come out with inflammation, and with fiery heat, and
against you one way, and will flee before you with the sword, and with blight, and with
seven ways. 28:8 The LORD will command the mildew; and they shall pursue you until you
blessing on you in your barns, and in all that perish. 28:23 Your sky that is over your head
you put your hand to; and he will bless you shall be brass, and the earth that is under you
in the land which the LORD your God gives shall be iron. 28:24 The LORD will make the
you. 28:9 The LORD will establish you for a rain of your land powder and dust: from the
holy people to himself, as he has sworn to sky shall it come down on you, until you are
you; if you shall keep the commandments of destroyed. 28:25 The LORD will cause you to
the LORD your God, and walk in his ways. be struck before your enemies; you shall go
28:10
All the peoples of the earth shall see that out one way against them, and shall flee seven
you are called by the name of the LORD; and ways before them: and you shall be tossed
they shall be afraid of you. 28:11 The LORD will back and forth among all the kingdoms of the
make you plenteous for good, in the fruit of earth. 28:26 Your dead body shall be food to
your body, and in the fruit of your livestock, all birds of the sky, and to the animals of the
and in the fruit of your ground, in the land earth; and there shall be none to frighten them
which the LORD swore to your fathers to give away. 28:27 The LORD will strike you with
you. 28:12 The LORD will open to you his good the boil of Egypt, and with the tumors, and
treasure in the sky, to give the rain of your land with the scurvy, and with the itch, of which
in its season, and to bless all the work of your you can not be healed. 28:28 The LORD will
hand: and you shall lend to many nations, and strike you with madness, and with blindness,
you shall not borrow. 28:13 The LORD will make and with astonishment of heart; 28:29 and you
you the head, and not the tail; and you shall be shall grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in
above only, and you shall not be beneath; if you darkness, and you shall not prosper in your
shall listen to the commandments of the LORD ways: and you shall be only oppressed and
your God, which I command you this day, to robbed always, and there shall be none to save
observe and to do, 28:14 and shall not turn aside you. 28:30 You shall betroth a wife, and another
from any of the words which I command you man shall lie with her: you shall build a house,
this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to and you shall not dwell therein: you shall plant
go after other gods to serve them. 28:15 But a vineyard, and shall not use its fruit. 28:31 Your
it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to ox shall be slain before your eyes, and you shall
the voice of the LORD your God, to observe not eat of it: your donkey shall be violently
to do all his commandments and his statutes taken away from before your face, and shall not
which I command you this day, that all these be restored to you: your sheep shall be given
curses shall come on you, and overtake you. to your enemies, and you shall have none to
28:16
You shall be cursed in the city, and you save you. 28:32 Your sons and your daughters
shall be cursed in the field. 28:17 Your basket and shall be given to another people; and your eyes
your kneading trough shall be cursed. 28:18 The shall look, and fail with longing for them all the
fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, day: and there shall be nothing in the power of
the increase of your livestock, and the young your hand. 28:33 The fruit of your ground, and
of your flock shall be cursed. 28:19 You shall all your labors, shall a nation which you don’t
be cursed when you come in, and you shall be know eat up; and you shall be only oppressed
cursed when you go out. 28:20 The LORD will and crushed always; 28:34 so that you shall be
send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke, mad for the sight of your eyes which you shall
in all that you put your hand to do, until you see. 28:35 The LORD will strike you in the knees,
are destroyed, and until you perish quickly; and in the legs, with a sore boil, of which you
because of the evil of your doings, by which can not be healed, from the sole of your foot to
you have forsaken me. 28:21 The LORD will the crown of your head. 28:36 The LORD will
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bring you, and your king whom you shall set down, in which you trusted, throughout all
over you, to a nation that you have not known, your land; and they shall besiege you in all
you nor your fathers; and there you shall your gates throughout all your land, which the
serve other gods, wood and stone. 28:37 You LORD your God has given you. 28:53 You shall
shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your
a byword, among all the peoples where the sons and of your daughters, whom the LORD
LORD shall lead you away. 28:38 You shall carry your God has given you, in the siege and in the
much seed out into the field, and shall gather distress with which your enemies shall distress
little in; for the locust shall consume it. 28:39 You you. 28:54 The man who is tender among you,
shall plant vineyards and dress them, but you and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward
shall neither drink of the wine, nor harvest; for his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom,
the worm shall eat them. 28:40 You shall have and toward the remnant of his children whom
olive trees throughout all your borders, but you he has remaining; 28:55 so that he will not give to
shall not anoint yourself with the oil; for your any of them of the flesh of his children whom
olives shall drop off. 28:41 You shall father sons he shall eat, because he has nothing left him,
and daughters, but they shall not be yours; for in the siege and in the distress with which
they shall go into captivity. 28:42 All your trees your enemy shall distress you in all your gates.
28:56
and the fruit of your ground shall the locust The tender and delicate woman among
possess. 28:43 The foreigner who is in the midst you, who would not adventure to set the sole
of you shall mount up above you higher and of her foot on the ground for delicateness and
higher; and you shall come down lower and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the
lower. 28:44 He shall lend to you, and you shall husband of her bosom, and toward her son,
not lend to him: he shall be the head, and you and toward her daughter, 28:57 and toward her
shall be the tail. 28:45 All these curses shall come young one who comes out from between her
on you, and shall pursue you, and overtake feet, and toward her children whom she shall
you, until you are destroyed; because you bear; for she shall eat them for want of all things
didn’t listen to the voice of the LORD your God, secretly, in the siege and in the distress with
to keep his commandments and his statutes which your enemy shall distress you in your
which he commanded you: 28:46 and they shall gates. 28:58 If you will not observe to do all the
be on you for a sign and for a wonder, and words of this law that are written in this book,
on your seed forever. 28:47 Because you didn’t that you may fear this glorious and fearful
serve the LORD your God with joyfulness, name, THE LORD YOUR GOD; 28:59 then the
and with gladness of heart, by reason of the LORD will make your plagues wonderful, and
abundance of all things; 28:48 therefore you shall the plagues of your seed, even great plagues,
serve your enemies whom the LORD shall send and of long continuance, and severe sicknesses,
against you, in hunger, and in thirst, and in and of long continuance. 28:60 He will bring
nakedness, and in want of all things: and he on you again all the diseases of Egypt, which
shall put a yoke of iron on your neck, until you were afraid of; and they shall cling to you.
he has destroyed you. 28:49 The LORD will 28:61
Also every sickness, and every plague,
bring a nation against you from far, from the which is not written in the book of this law,
end of the earth, as the eagle flies; a nation the LORD will bring them on you, until you
whose language you shall not understand; are destroyed. 28:62 You shall be left few in
28:50
a nation of fierce facial expressions, that number, whereas you were as the stars of the
shall not respect the person of the old, nor sky for multitude; because you didn’t listen
show favor to the young, 28:51 and shall eat to the voice of the LORD your God. 28:63 It
the fruit of your livestock, and the fruit of shall happen that as the LORD rejoiced over
your ground, until you are destroyed; that also you to do you good, and to multiply you, so
shall not leave you grain, new wine, or oil, the LORD will rejoice over you to cause you
the increase of your livestock, or the young to perish, and to destroy you; and you shall
of your flock, until they have caused you to be plucked from off the land where you go in
perish. 28:52 They shall besiege you in all your to possess it. 28:64 The LORD will scatter you
gates, until your high and fortified walls come among all peoples, from the one end of the
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earth even to the other end of the earth; and your water; 29:12 that you may enter into the
there you shall serve other gods, which you covenant of the LORD your God, and into his
have not known, you nor your fathers, even oath, which the LORD your God makes with
wood and stone. 28:65 Among these nations you you this day; 29:13 that he may establish you
shall find no ease, and there shall be no rest for this day to himself for a people, and that he
the sole of your foot: but the LORD will give may be to you a God, as he spoke to you, and
you there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, as he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to
and pining of soul; 28:66 and your life shall hang Isaac, and to Jacob. 29:14 Neither with you only
in doubt before you; and you shall fear night do I make this covenant and this oath, 29:15 but
and day, and shall have no assurance of your with him who stands here with us this day
life. 28:67 In the morning you shall say, “I wish before the LORD our God, and also with him
it were evening!” and at evening you shall say, who is not here with us this day 29:16 (for you
“I wish it were morning!” for the fear of your know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and
heart which you shall fear, and for the sight of how we came through the midst of the nations
your eyes which you shall see. 28:68 The LORD through which you passed; 29:17 and you have
will bring you into Egypt again with ships, seen their abominations, and their idols, wood
by the way of which I said to you, You shall and stone, silver and gold, which were among
see it no more again: and there you shall sell them); 29:18 lest there should be among you
yourselves to your enemies for bondservants man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart
and for bondmaids, and no man shall buy you. turns away this day from the LORD our God, to
29:1
go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there
These are the words of the covenant should be among you a root that bears gall and
which the LORD commanded Moses to make wormwood; 29:19 and it happen, when he hears
with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, the words of this curse, that he bless himself in
besides the covenant which he made with them his heart, saying, “I shall have peace, though
in Horeb. 29:2 Moses called to all Israel, and I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to
said to them, You have seen all that the LORD destroy the moist with the dry.” 29:20 The LORD
did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to will not pardon him, but then the anger of the
Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his LORD and his jealousy will smoke against that
land; 29:3 the great trials which your eyes saw, man, and all the curse that is written in this
the signs, and those great wonders: 29:4 but the book shall lie on him, and the LORD will blot
LORD has not given you a heart to know, and out his name from under the sky. 29:21 The
eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day. 29:5 I LORD will set him apart to evil out of all the
have led you forty years in the wilderness: your tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of
clothes have not grown old on you, and your the covenant that is written in this scroll of the
shoes have not grown old on your feet. 29:6 You Torah.
have not eaten bread, neither have you drunk 29:22
wine or strong drink; that you may know that The generation to come, your children
I am the LORD your God. 29:7 When you came who shall rise up after you, and the foreigner
to this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and who shall come from a far land, shall say,
Og the king of Bashan, came out against us to when they see the plagues of that land, and the
battle, and we struck them: 29:8 and we took sicknesses with which the LORD has made it
their land, and gave it for an inheritance to the sick; 29:23 and that the whole land of it is sulfur,
Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half- salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor bears,
tribe of the Manassites. 29:9 Keep therefore the nor any grass grows therein, like the overthrow
words of this covenant, and do them, that you of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim,
may prosper in all that you do. 29:10 You stand which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and
this day all of you before the LORD your God; in his wrath: 29:24 even all the nations shall say,
your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your “Why has the LORD done thus to this land?
officers, even all the men of Israel, 29:11 your What does the heat of this great anger mean?”
29:25
little ones, your wives, and your foreigner who Then men shall say, “Because they for-
is in the midst of your camps, from the one sook the covenant of the LORD, the God of
who cuts your wood to the one who draws their fathers, which he made with them when
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he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, you turn to the LORD your God with all your
29:26
and went and served other gods, and wor- heart, and with all your soul.
shiped them, gods that they didn’t know, and 30:11
For this commandment which I com-
that he had not given to them: 29:27 therefore mand you this day, it is not too hard for you,
the anger of the LORD was kindled against this neither is it far off. 30:12 It is not in heaven,
land, to bring on it all the curse that is written that you should say, “Who shall go up for us to
in this book; 29:28 and the LORD rooted them heaven, and bring it to us, and make us to hear
out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in it, that we may do it?” 30:13 Neither is it beyond
great indignation, and cast them into another the sea, that you should say, “Who shall go over
land, as at this day.” the sea for us, and bring it to us, and make
29:29
The secret things belong to the LORD us to hear it, that we may do it?” 30:14 But the
our God; but the things that are revealed belong word is very near to you, in your mouth, and
to us and to our children forever, that we may in your heart, that you may do it. 30:15 Behold,
do all the words of this law. I have set before you this day life and good,
30:1
It shall happen, when all these things and death and evil; 30:16 in that I command you
have come on you, the blessing and the curse, this day to love the LORD your God, to walk
which I have set before you, and you shall call in his ways, and to keep his commandments
them to mind among all the nations, where and his statutes and his ordinances, that you
the LORD your God has driven you, 30:2 and may live and multiply, and that the LORD your
shall return to the LORD your God, and shall God may bless you in the land where you go
obey his voice according to all that I command in to possess it. 30:17 But if your heart turns
you this day, you and your children, with all away, and you will not hear, but shall be drawn
your heart, and with all your soul; 30:3 that then away, and worship other gods, and serve them;
30:18
the LORD your God will turn your captivity, I denounce to you this day, that you shall
and have compassion on you, and will return surely perish; you shall not prolong your days
and gather you from all the peoples, where in the land, where you pass over the Jordan to
the LORD your God has scattered you. 30:4 If go in to possess it. 30:19 I call heaven and earth
your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of to witness against you this day, that I have set
the heavens, from there will the LORD your before you life and death, the blessing and the
God gather you, and from there he will bring curse: therefore choose life, that you may live,
you back: 30:5 and the LORD your God will you and your seed; 30:20 to love the LORD your
bring you into the land which your fathers God, to obey his voice, and to cling to him; for
possessed, and you shall possess it; and he he is your life, and the length of your days; that
will do you good, and multiply you above you may dwell in the land which the LORD
your fathers. 30:6 The LORD your God will swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac,
circumcise your heart, and the heart of your and to Jacob, to give them.
31:1
seed, to love the LORD your God with all your Moses went and spoke these words to all
heart, and with all your soul, that you may Israel. 31:2 He said to them, “I am one hundred
live. 30:7 The LORD your God will put all these twenty years old this day; I can no more go
curses on your enemies, and on those who hate out and come in: and the LORD has said to
you, who persecuted you. 30:8 You shall return me, ‘You shall not go over this Jordan.’ 31:3 The
and obey the voice of the LORD, and do all LORD your God, he will go over before you; he
his commandments which I command you this will destroy these nations from before you, and
day. 30:9 The LORD your God will make you you shall dispossess them. Joshua shall go over
plenteous in all the work of your hand, in the before you, as the LORD has spoken. 31:4 The
fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your LORD will do to them as he did to Sihon and
livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, for to Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their
good: for the LORD will again rejoice over you land; whom he destroyed. 31:5 The LORD will
for good, as he rejoiced over your fathers; 30:10 if deliver them up before you, and you shall do to
you shall obey the voice of the LORD your God, them according to all the commandment which
to keep his commandments and his statutes I have commanded you. 31:6 Be strong and
which are written in this scroll of the Torah; if courageous, don’t be afraid, nor be scared of
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31:18
them: for the LORD your God, he it is who does I will surely hide my face in that day for all
go with you; he will not fail you, nor forsake the evil which they shall have worked, in that
you.” they are turned to other gods.
31:7 31:19
Moses called to Joshua, and said to him “Now therefore write this song for your-
in the sight of all Israel, “Be strong and coura- selves, and teach it to the children of Israel:
geous: for you shall go with this people into put it in their mouths, that this song may be
the land which the LORD has sworn to their a witness for me against the children of Israel.
31:20
fathers to give them; and you shall cause them For when I shall have brought them into
to inherit it. 31:8 The LORD, he it is who does the land which I swore to their fathers, flowing
go before you; he will be with you, he will not with milk and honey, and they shall have eaten
fail you, neither forsake you: don’t be afraid, and filled themselves, and grown fat; then will
neither be dismayed.” they turn to other gods, and serve them, and
31:9
Moses wrote this law, and delivered it to despise me, and break my covenant. 31:21 It
the priests the sons of Levi, who bore the ark of shall happen, when many evils and troubles
the covenant of the LORD, and to all the elders have come on them, that this song shall testify
of Israel. 31:10 Moses commanded them, saying, before them as a witness; for it shall not be
“At the end of every seven years, in the set time forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for
of the year of release, in the feast of booths, I know their imagination which they frame this
31:11 day, before I have brought them into the land
when all Israel has come to appear before
the LORD your God in the place which he shall which I swore.” 31:22 So Moses wrote this song
choose, you shall read this law before all Israel the same day, and taught it the children of
in their hearing. 31:12 Assemble the people, the Israel.
31:23
men and the women and the little ones, and He commissioned Joshua the son of
your foreigner who is within your gates, that Nun, and said, “Be strong and courageous; for
they may hear, and that they may learn, and you shall bring the children of Israel into the
fear the LORD your God, and observe to do land which I swore to them: and I will be with
all the words of this law; 31:13 and that their you.”
children, who have not known, may hear, and 31:24
It happened, when Moses had made
learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as you an end of writing the words of this law in a
live in the land where you go over the Jordan to book, until they were finished, 31:25 that Moses
possess it.” commanded the Levites, who bore the ark of
31:14
The LORD said to Moses, “Behold, your the covenant of the LORD, saying, 31:26 “Take
days approach that you must die: call Joshua, this scroll of the Torah, and put it by the
and present yourselves in the Tent of Meeting, side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD
that I may commission him.” Moses and Joshua your God, that it may be there for a witness
went, and presented themselves in the Tent of against you. 31:27 For I know your rebellion,
Meeting. and your stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive
31:15 with you this day, you have been rebellious
The LORD appeared in the Tent in a
pillar of cloud: and the pillar of cloud stood against the LORD; and how much more after
over the door of the Tent. 31:16 The LORD said my death? 31:28 Assemble to me all the elders of
to Moses, “Behold, you shall sleep with your your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak
fathers; and this people will rise up, and play these words in their ears, and call heaven and
the prostitute after the strange gods of the land, earth to witness against them. 31:29 For I know
where they go to be among them, and will that after my death you will utterly corrupt
forsake me, and break my covenant which I yourselves, and turn aside from the way which
have made with them. 31:17 Then my anger I have commanded you; and evil will happen
shall be kindled against them in that day, and I to you in the latter days; because you will do
will forsake them, and I will hide my face from that which is evil in the sight of the LORD, to
them, and they shall be devoured, and many provoke him to anger through the work of your
evils and troubles shall come on them; so that hands.”
31:30
they will say in that day, ‘Haven’t these evils Moses spoke in the ears of all the assem-
come on us because our God is not among us?’ bly of Israel the words of this song, until they
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were finished. oil out of the flinty rock;


32:1 32:14
Give ear, you heavens, and I will speak. Butter of the herd, and milk of the flock,
Let the earth hear the words of my with fat of lambs,
mouth. rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats,
32:2
My doctrine shall drop as the rain. with the finest of the wheat.
My speech shall condense as the dew, Of the blood of the grape you drank wine.
32:15
as the small rain on the tender grass, But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked.
as the showers on the herb. You have grown fat.
32:3
For I will proclaim the name of the LORD. You have grown thick.
Ascribe greatness to our God! You have become sleek.
32:4
The Rock, his work is perfect, Then he forsook God who made him,
for all his ways are justice: and lightly esteemed the Rock of his
a God of faithfulness and without iniq- salvation.
32:16
uity, They moved him to jealousy with strange
just and right is he. gods.
32:5
They have dealt corruptly with him. They They provoked him to anger with abomi-
are not his children, because of their nations.
32:17
defect. They sacrificed to demons, not God,
They are a perverse and crooked genera- to gods that they didn’t know,
tion. to new gods that came up recently,
32:6
Do you thus requite the LORD, which your fathers didn’t dread.
32:18
foolish people and unwise? Of the Rock who became your father, you
Isn’t he your father who has bought you? are unmindful,
He has made you, and established you. and have forgotten God who gave you
32:7
Remember the days of old. birth.
32:19
Consider the years of many generations. The LORD saw and abhorred,
Ask your father, and he will show you; because of the provocation of his sons
your elders, and they will tell you. and his daughters.
32:8 32:20
When the Most High gave to the nations He said, “I will hide my face from them.
their inheritance, I will see what their end shall be;
when he separated the children of men, for they are a very perverse generation,
he set the bounds of the peoples children in whom is no faithfulness.
32:21
according to the number of the children They have moved me to jealousy with that
of Israel. which is not God.
32:9
For the LORD’s portion is his people. They have provoked me to anger with
Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. their vanities.
32:10
He found him in a desert land, I will move them to jealousy with those who are
in the waste howling wilderness. not a people.
He surrounded him. I will provoke them to anger with a
He cared for him. foolish nation.
32:22
He kept him as the apple of his eye. For a fire is kindled in my anger,
32:11
As an eagle that stirs up her nest, Burns to the lowest Sheole ,
that flutters over her young, Devours the earth with its increase,
he spread abroad his wings, he took them, and sets the foundations of the mountains
he bore them on his feathers. on fire.
32:12 32:23
The LORD alone led him. “I will heap evils on them.
There was no foreign god with him. I will spend my arrows on them.
32:13 32:24
He made him ride on the high places of the They shall be wasted with hunger, and
earth. devoured with burning heat
He ate the increase of the field. and bitter destruction.
He caused him to suck honey out of the rock, I will send the teeth of animals on them,
e 32:22 Sheol is the place of the dead.
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With the poison of crawling things of the Let them be your protection.
32:39
dust. “See now that I, even I, am he,
32:25
Outside the sword shall bereave, There is no god with me.
and in the rooms, terror; I kill, and I make alive.
on both young man and virgin, I wound, and I heal.
The nursing infant with the gray-haired There is no one who can deliver out of my
man. hand.
32:26 32:40
I said, I would scatter them afar. For I lift up my hand to heaven,
I would make their memory to cease from And say, As I live forever,
among men; 32:41
if I whet my glittering sword,
32:27
were it not that I feared the provocation of My hand take hold on judgment;
the enemy, I will render vengeance to my adversaries,
lest their adversaries should judge and will recompense those who hate me.
wrongly, 32:42
I will make my arrows drunk with blood.
lest they should say, ‘Our hand is exalted, My sword shall devour flesh with the
The LORD has not done all this.’” blood of the slain and the captives,
32:28
For they are a nation void of counsel. from the head of the leaders of the en-
There is no understanding in them. emy.”
32:29
Oh that they were wise, that they under- 32:43
Rejoice, you nations, with his people,
stood this, for he will avenge the blood of his ser-
that they would consider their latter end! vants.
32:30
How could one chase a thousand, He will render vengeance to his adver-
and two put ten thousand to flight, saries,
unless their Rock had sold them, And will make expiation for his land, for
and the LORD had delivered them up? his people.
32:31
For their rock is not as our Rock, 32:44
Moses came and spoke all the words
even our enemies themselves being of this song in the ears of the people, he and
judges. Joshua the son of Nun. 32:45 Moses made an end
32:32
For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, of speaking all these words to all Israel; 32:46 He
of the fields of Gomorrah. said to them, “Set your heart to all the words
Their grapes are grapes of gall, which I testify to you this day, which you shall
Their clusters are bitter. command your children to observe to do, all
32:33
Their wine is the poison of serpents, the words of this law. 32:47 For it is no vain thing
The cruel venom of asps. for you; because it is your life, and through this
32:34
“Isn’t this laid up in store with me, thing you shall prolong your days in the land,
sealed up among my treasures? where you go over the Jordan to possess it.”
32:35 32:48
Vengeance is mine, and recompense, The LORD spoke to Moses that same
at the time when their foot slides; day, saying, 32:49 “Go up into this mountain of
for the day of their calamity is at hand. Abarim, to Mount Nebo, which is in the land
The things that are to come on them shall of Moab, that is over against Jericho; and see
make haste.” the land of Canaan, which I give to the children
32:36
For the LORD will judge his people, of Israel for a possession; 32:50 and die on the
and have compassion on his servants, mountain where you go up, and be gathered
when he sees that their power is gone, to your people, as Aaron your brother died on
There is none remaining, shut up or left at Mount Hor, and was gathered to his people:
large. 32:51
because you trespassed against me in the
32:37
He will say, “Where are their gods, midst of the children of Israel at the waters of
The rock in which they took refuge; Meribah of Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin;
32:38
Which ate the fat of their sacrifices, because you didn’t sanctify me in the midst of
And drank the wine of their drink offer- the children of Israel. 32:52 For you shall see the
ing? land before you; but you shall not go there into
Let them rise up and help you! the land which I give the children of Israel.”
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33:1
This is the blessing, with which Moses “The beloved of the LORD shall dwell in safety
the man of God blessed the children of Israel by him.
before his death. 33:2 He said, He covers him all the day long.
“The LORD came from Sinai, He dwells between his shoulders.”
33:13
And rose from Seir to them. Of Joseph he said,
He shone forth from Mount Paran. “His land is blessed by the LORD,
He came from the ten thousands of holy for the precious things of the heavens, for
ones. the dew,
At his right hand was a fiery law for for the deep that couches beneath,
33:14
them. for the precious things of the fruits of the
33:3
Yes, he loves the people. sun,
All his holy ones are in your hand. for the precious things of the growth of
They sat down at your feet; the moons,
33:15
each receives your words. for the chief things of the ancient moun-
33:4
Moses commanded us a law, tains,
An inheritance for the assembly of Jacob. for the precious things of the everlasting
33:5
He was king in Jeshurun, hills,
33:16
When the heads of the people were gath- for the precious things of the earth and its
ered, fullness,
All the tribes of Israel together. the good will of him who lived in the
33:6
“Let Reuben live, and not die; bushf .
Nor let his men be few.” Let this come on the head of Joseph,
33:7
This is for Judah. He said, on the crown of the head of him who was
“Hear, LORD, the voice of Judah. separate from his brothers.
33:17
Bring him in to his people. The firstborn of his herd, majesty is his.
With his hands he contended for himself. His horns are the horns of the wild ox.
You shall be a help against his adver- With them he shall push all of the peo-
saries.” ples, to the ends of the earth:
33:8
Of Levi he said, They are the ten thousands of Ephraim.
“Your Thummim and your Urim are with your They are the thousands of Manasseh.”
33:18
godly one, Of Zebulun he said,
whom you proved at Massah, “Rejoice, Zebulun, in your going out;
with whom you strove at the waters of and Issachar, in your tents.
33:19
Meribah; They shall call the peoples to the mountain.
33:9
who said of his father, and of his mother, ‘I There they will offer sacrifices of righ-
have not seen him;’ teousness,
Neither did he acknowledge his brothers, for they shall draw out the abundance of the
Nor did he know his own children: seas,
For they have observed your word, the hidden treasures of the sand.”
33:20
and keep your covenant. Of Gad he said,
33:10
They shall teach Jacob your ordinances, “He who enlarges Gad is blessed.
and Israel your law. He dwells as a lioness,
They shall put incense before you, and tears the arm, yes, the crown of the
and whole burnt offering on your altar. head.
33:11 33:21
LORD, bless his substance. He provided the first part for himself,
Accept the work of his hands. for there was the lawgiver’s portion re-
Strike through the hips of those who rise up served.
against him, He came with the heads of the people.
of those who hate him, that they not rise He executed the righteousness of the
again.” LORD,
33:12
Of Benjamin he said, His ordinances with Israel.”
f 33:16 i. e. the burning bush of Exodus 3:3-4.
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33:22
Of Dan he said, wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty
“Dan is a lion’s cub days: so the days of weeping in the mourning
that leaps out of Bashan.” for Moses were ended. 34:9 Joshua the son of
33:23
Of Naphtali he said, Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom; for Moses
“Naphtali, satisfied with favor, had laid his hands on him: and the children
full of the blessing of the LORD, of Israel listened to him, and did as the LORD
Possess the west and the south.” commanded Moses. 34:10 There has not arisen a
33:24 prophet since in Israel like Moses, whom the
Of Asher he said,
“Asher is blessed with children. LORD knew face to face, 34:11 in all the signs
Let him be acceptable to his brothers. and the wonders, which the LORD sent him
Let him dip his foot in oil. to do in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh, and to
33:25
Your bars shall be iron and brass. all his servants, and to all his land, 34:12 and in
As your days, so your strength will be. all the mighty hand, and in all the great terror,
33:26
“There is none like God, Jeshurun, which Moses worked in the sight of all Israel.
who rides on the heavens for your help,
In his excellency on the skies.
33:27
The eternal God is your dwelling place.
Underneath are the everlasting arms.
He thrust out the enemy from before you,
and said, ‘Destroy!’
33:28
Israel dwells in safety;
the fountain of Jacob alone,
In a land of grain and new wine.
Yes, his heavens drop down dew.
33:29
You are happy, Israel.
Who is like you, a people saved by the
LORD,
the shield of your help,
the sword of your excellency!
Your enemies shall submit themselves to you.
You shall tread on their high places.”
34:1
Moses went up from the plains of Moab
to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is
over against Jericho. The LORD showed him all
the land of Gilead, to Dan, 34:2 and all Naphtali,
and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, and
all the land of Judah, to the hinder sea, 34:3 and
the South, and the Plain of the valley of Jericho
the city of palm trees, to Zoar. 34:4 The LORD
said to him, “This is the land which I swore
to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, ‘I
will give it to your seed.’ I have caused you to
see it with your eyes, but you shall not go over
there.”
34:5
So Moses the servant of the LORD died
there in the land of Moab, according to the
word of the LORD. 34:6 He buried him in the
valley in the land of Moab over against Beth
Peor: but no man knows of his tomb to this
day. 34:7 Moses was one hundred twenty years
old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his
natural force abated. 34:8 The children of Israel
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Joshua Jordan; but you shall pass over before your


brothers armed, all the mighty men of valor,
1:1
Now it happened after the death of Moses and shall help them 1:15 until the LORD has
the servant of the LORD,a that the LORD spoke given your brothers rest, as he has given you,
to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses’ servant, and they have also possessed the land which
saying, 1:2 “Moses my servant is dead; now the LORD your God gives them. Then you
therefore arise, go over this Jordan, you, and shall return to the land of your possession,
all this people, to the land which I give to and possess it, which Moses the servant of the
them, even to the children of Israel. 1:3 I have LORD gave you beyond the Jordan toward the
given you every place that the sole of your foot sunrise.’”
1:16
will tread on, as I told Moses. 1:4 From the They answered Joshua, saying, “All that
wilderness, and this Lebanon, even to the great you have commanded us we will do, and
river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the wherever you send us we will go. 1:17 Just as we
Hittites, and to the great sea toward the going listened to Moses in all things, so will we listen
down of the sun, shall be your border. 1:5 No to you. Only may the LORD your God be with
man will be able to stand before you all the you, as he was with Moses. 1:18 Whoever rebels
days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will against your commandment, and doesn’t listen
be with you. I will not fail you nor forsake you. to your words in all that you command him,
1:6 he shall be put to death. Only be strong and
“Be strong and courageous; for you shall
cause this people to inherit the land which I courageous.”
2:1
swore to their fathers to give them. 1:7 Only Joshua the son of Nun secretly sent two
be strong and very courageous, to observe to men out of Shittim as spies, saying, “Go, view
do according to all the law, which Moses my the land, including Jericho.” They went and
servant commanded you. Don’t turn from it to came into the house of a prostitute whose name
the right hand or to the left, that you may have was Rahab, and slept there.
2:2
good success wherever you go. 1:8 This scroll of The king of Jericho was told, “Behold,
the Torah shall not depart out of your mouth, men of the children of Israel came in here
but you shall meditate on it day and night, that tonight to spy out the land.”
2:3
you may observe to do according to all that is The king of Jericho sent to Rahab, saying,
written therein: for then you shall make your “Bring out the men who have come to you, who
way prosperous, and then you shall have good have entered into your house; for they have
success. 1:9 Haven’t I commanded you? Be come to spy out all the land.”
2:4
strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid, neither The woman took the two men and hid
be dismayed: for the LORD your Godb is with them. Then she said, “Yes, the men came to
you wherever you go.” me, but I didn’t know where they came from.
1:10 2:5
Then Joshua commanded the officers of It happened about the time of the shutting
the people, saying, 1:11 “Pass through the midst of the gate, when it was dark, that the men
of the camp, and command the people, saying, went out. Where the men went, I don’t know.
‘Prepare food; for within three days you are to Pursue them quickly; for you will overtake
pass over this Jordan, to go in to possess the them.” 2:6 But she had brought them up to
land, which the LORD your God gives you to the roof, and hid them with the stalks of flax,
possess it.’” which she had laid in order on the roof. 2:7 The
1:12
Joshua spoke to the Reubenites, and to men pursued them the way to the Jordan to the
the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, fords: and as soon as those who pursued them
saying, 1:13 “Remember the word which Moses had gone out, they shut the gate. 2:8 Before
the servant of the LORD commanded you, they had laid down, she came up to them on
saying, ‘The LORD your God gives you rest, the roof; 2:9 and she said to the men, “I know
and will give you this land. 1:14 Your wives, that the LORD has given you the land, and that
your little ones, and your livestock, shall live the fear of you has fallen on us, and that all
in the land which Moses gave you beyond the the inhabitants of the land melt away before
a 1:1 “LORD” or “GOD” (all capital letters) indicate the 4-letter Holy Name of God
b 1:9 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “Elohim.”
Joshua 2:10 186 Joshua 3:13

you. 2:10 For we have heard how the LORD 2:23


Then the two men returned, descended
dried up the water of the Sea of Suf before you, from the mountain, passed over, and came to
when you came out of Egypt; and what you Joshua the son of Nun; and they told him all
did to the two kings of the Amorites, who were that had happened to them. 2:24 They said to
beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and to Og, whom Joshua, “Truly the LORD has delivered into
you utterly destroyed. 2:11 As soon as we had our hands all the land. Moreover, all the
heard it, our hearts melted, neither did there inhabitants of the land melt away before us.”
3:1
remain any more spirit in any man, because Joshua rose up early in the morning; and
of you: for the LORD your God, he is God in they moved from Shittim, and came to the
heaven above, and on earth beneath. 2:12 Now Jordan, he and all the children of Israel. They
therefore, please swear to me by the LORD, lodged there before they passed over. 3:2 It
since I have dealt kindly with you, that you happened after three days, that the officers
also will deal kindly with my father’s house, went through the midst of the camp; 3:3 and
and give me a true token; 2:13 and that you will they commanded the people, saying, “When
save alive my father, my mother, my brothers, you see the ark of the covenant of the LORD
and my sisters, and all that they have, and will your God, and the priests the Levites bearing
deliver our lives from death.” it, then you shall move from your place, and
2:14
The men said to her, “Our life for yours, follow it. 3:4 Yet there shall be a space between
if you don’t talk about this business of ours; you and it, about two thousand cubits by
and it shall be, when the LORD gives us the measure. Don’t come near to it, that you may
land, that we will deal kindly and truly with know the way by which you must go; for you
you.” have not passed this way before.”
2:15 3:5
Then she let them down by a cord Joshua said to the people, “Sanctify your-
through the window; for her house was on the selves; for tomorrow the LORD will do won-
side of the wall, and she lived on the wall. ders among you.”
2:16 3:6
She said to them, “Go to the mountain, lest Joshua spoke to the priests, saying, “Take
the pursuers find you; and hide yourselves up the ark of the covenant, and pass over before
there three days, until the pursuers have re- the people.” They took up the ark of the
turned. Afterward, you may go your way.” covenant, and went before the people.
2:17 3:7
The men said to her, “We will be guiltless The LORD said to Joshua, “Today I will
of this your oath which you have made us to begin to magnify you in the sight of all Israel,
swear. 2:18 Behold, when we come into the land, that they may know that as I was with Moses,
you shall bind this line of scarlet thread in the so I will be with you. 3:8 You shall command
window which you used to let us down. You the priests who bear the ark of the covenant,
shall gather to yourself into the house your saying, ‘When you come to the brink of the
father, your mother, your brothers, and all your waters of the Jordan, you shall stand still in the
father’s household. 2:19 It shall be that whoever Jordan.’”
goes out of the doors of your house into the 3:9
Joshua said to the children of Israel,
street, his blood will be on his head, and we will “Come here, and hear the words of the LORD
be guiltless. Whoever is with you in the house, your God.” 3:10 Joshua said, “Hereby you shall
his blood shall be on our head, if any hand is know that the living God is among you, and
on him. 2:20 But if you talk about this business that he will without fail drive the Canaanite,
of ours, then we shall be guiltless of your oath and the Hittite, and the Hivite, and the Per-
which you have made us to swear.” izzite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and
2:21
She said, “According to your words, so the Jebusite out from before you. 3:11 Behold,
be it.” She sent them away, and they departed. the ark of the covenant of the Lordc of all the
She tied the scarlet line in the window. earth passes over before you into the Jordan.
2:22 3:12
They went, and came to the mountain, Now therefore take twelve men out of the
and stayed there three days, until the pursuers tribes of Israel, for every tribe a man. 3:13 It shall
had returned. The pursuers sought them come to pass, when the soles of the feet of the
throughout all the way, but didn’t find them. priests who bear the ark of the LORD, the Lord
c 3:11 The word translated “Lord” (mixed case) is “Adonai.”
Joshua 3:14 187 Joshua 4:23

of all the earth, rest in the waters of the Jordan, middle of the Jordan, as the LORD spoke to
that the waters of the Jordan will be cut off, Joshua, according to the number of the tribes
even the waters that come down from above; of the children of Israel; and they carried them
and they shall stand in one heap.” over with them to the place where they lodged,
3:14
It happened, when the people moved and laid them down there. 4:9 Joshua set up
from their tents to pass over the Jordan, the twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan, in
priests who bore the ark of the covenant being the place where the feet of the priests who
before the people, 3:15 and when those who bore bore the ark of the covenant stood; and they
the ark had come to the Jordan, and the feet of are there to this day. 4:10 For the priests who
the priests who bore the ark had dipped in the bore the ark stood in the middle of the Jordan,
edge of the water (for the Jordan overflows all until everything was finished that the LORD
its banks all the time of harvest), 3:16 that the commanded Joshua to speak to the people, ac-
waters which came down from above stood, cording to all that Moses commanded Joshua;
and rose up in one heap, a great way off, at and the people hurried and passed over. 4:11 It
Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan; and happened, when all the people had completely
those that went down toward the sea of the passed over, that the ark of the LORD passed
Arabah, even the Salt Sea, were wholly cut over, with the priests, in the presence of the
off. Then the people passed over right against people.
Jericho. 3:17 The priests who bore the ark of 4:12
The children of Reuben, and the children
the covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry of Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, passed
ground in the middle of the Jordan; and all over armed before the children of Israel, as
Israel passed over on dry ground, until all the Moses spoke to them. 4:13 About forty thousand
nation had passed completely over the Jordan. men, ready and armed for war passed over
4:1 before the LORD to battle, to the plains of
It happened, when all the nation had
completely passed over the Jordan, that the Jericho. 4:14 On that day, the LORD magnified
LORD spoke to Joshua, saying, 4:2 “Take twelve Joshua in the sight of all Israel; and they feared
men out of the people, out of every tribe a him, as they feared Moses, all the days of his
man, 4:3 and command them, saying, ‘Take life.
4:15
from out of the middle of the Jordan, out of the The LORD spoke to Joshua, saying,
4:16
place where the priests’ feet stood firm, twelve “Command the priests who bear the ark of
stones, and carry them over with you, and lay the testimony, that they come up out of the
them down in the lodging place, where you Jordan.”
will lodge tonight.’” 4:17
Joshua therefore commanded the priests,
4:4
Then Joshua called the twelve men, saying, “Come up out of the Jordan!” 4:18 It
whom he had prepared of the children of Israel, happened, when the priests who bore the ark
out of every tribe a man. 4:5 Joshua said to of the covenant of the LORD had come up out
them, “Pass over before the ark of the LORD of the middle of the Jordan, and the soles of the
your God into the middle of the Jordan, and priests’ feet were lifted up to the dry ground,
each of you pick up a stone and put it on your that the waters of the Jordan returned to their
shoulder, according to the number of the tribes place, and went over all its banks, as before.
of the children of Israel; 4:6 that this may be 4:19
The people came up out of the Jordan on the
a sign among you, that when your children tenth day of the first month, and encamped in
ask in time to come, saying, ‘What do you Gilgal, on the east border of Jericho.
mean by these stones?’ 4:7 then you shall tell 4:20
Joshua set up those twelve stones, which
them, ‘Because the waters of the Jordan were they took out of the Jordan, in Gilgal. 4:21 He
cut off before the ark of the covenant of the spoke to the children of Israel, saying, “When
LORD. When it passed over the Jordan, the your children ask their fathers in time to come,
waters of the Jordan were cut off. These stones saying, ‘What do these stones mean?’ 4:22 Then
shall be for a memorial to the children of Israel you shall let your children know, saying, ‘Israel
forever.’” came over this Jordan on dry land. 4:23 For the
4:8
The children of Israel did as Joshua com- LORD your God dried up the waters of the
manded, and took up twelve stones out of the Jordan from before you, until you had passed
Joshua 4:24 188 Joshua 6:7

over, as the LORD your God did to the Sea of Passover on the fourteenth day of the month
Suf, which he dried up from before us, until we at evening in the plains of Jericho. 5:11 They
had passed over; 4:24 that all the peoples of the ate unleavened cakes and parched grain of the
earth may know the hand of the LORD, that it is produce of the land on the next day after the
mighty; that you may fear the LORD your God Passover, in the same day. 5:12 The manna
forever.’” ceased on the next day, after they had eaten of
5:1
It happened, when all the kings of the the produce of the land. The children of Israel
Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan west- didn’t have manna any more; but they ate of
ward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, who the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.
5:13
were by the sea, heard how that the LORD It happened, when Joshua was by Jeri-
had dried up the waters of the Jordan from cho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and
before the children of Israel, until we had behold, a man stood in front of him with his
passed over, that their heart melted, neither sword drawn in his hand. Joshua went to him,
was there spirit in them any more, because and said to him, “Are you for us, or for our
of the children of Israel. 5:2 At that time, adversaries?”
5:14
the LORD said to Joshua, “Make flint knives, He said, “No; but I have come now as
and circumcise again the children of Israel the commander of the LORD’s army.”
second time.” 5:3 Joshua made himself flint Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and
knives, and circumcised the children of Israel worshipped, and said to him, “What does my
at the hill of the foreskins. 5:4 This is the reason lord say to his servant?”
5:15
Joshua circumcised: all the people who came The prince of the LORD’s army said to
out of Egypt, who were males, even all the Joshua, “Take your shoes off of your feet; for
men of war, died in the wilderness by the way, the place on which you stand is holy.” Joshua
after they came out of Egypt. 5:5 For all the did so.
people who came out were circumcised; but all 6:1
Now Jericho was tightly shut up because
the people who were born in the wilderness of the children of Israel. No one went out, and
by the way as they came out of Egypt had not no one came in. 6:2 The LORD said to Joshua,
been circumcised. 5:6 For the children of Israel “Behold, I have given Jericho into your hand,
walked forty years in the wilderness, until all with its king and the mighty men of valor.
the nation, even the men of war who came out 6:3
All your men of war shall march around the
of Egypt, were consumed, because they didn’t city, going around the city once. You shall do
listen to the voice of the LORD. The LORD this six days. 6:4 Seven priests shall bear seven
swore to them that he wouldn’t let them see shofarse of rams’ horns before the ark. On
the land which the LORD swore to their fathers the seventh day, you shall march around the
that he would give us, a land flowing with city seven times, and the priests shall blow the
milk and honey. 5:7 Their children, whom he shofarsf . 6:5 It shall be that when they make a
raised up in their place, were circumcised by long blast with the ram’s horn, and when you
Joshua; for they were uncircumcised, because hear the sound of the shofarg , all the people
they had not circumcised them on the way. 5:8 It shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of
happened, when they were done circumcising the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall
all the nation, that they stayed in their places in go up every man straight before him.”
the camp until they were healed. 6:6
Joshua the son of Nun called the priests,
5:9 and said to them, “Take up the ark of the
The LORD said to Joshua, “Today I have
rolled away the reproach of Egypt from off covenant, and let seven priests bear seven
you.” Therefore the name of that place was shofarsh of rams’ horns before the ark of the
called Gilgal,d to this day. 5:10 The children LORD.”
6:7
of Israel encamped in Gilgal. They kept the They said to the people, “Advance! March
d 5:9 “Gilgal” sounds like the Hebrew for “roll.”
e 6:4or, trumpets
f 6:4 or, trumpets
g 6:5 or, trumpet
h 6:6 or, trumpets
Joshua 6:8 189 Joshua 7:1

around the city, and let the armed men pass on make the camp of Israel accursed, and trouble
before the LORD’s ark.” it. 6:19 But all the silver, and gold, and vessels
6:8 of brass and iron, are holy to the LORD. They
It was so, that when Joshua had spoken
to the people, the seven priests bearing the shall come into the LORD’s treasury.”
6:20
seven shofarsi of rams’ horns before the LORD So the people shouted, and the priests
advanced, and blew the shofarsj ; and the ark blew the shofarsq . It happened, when the
of the covenant of the LORD followed them. people heard the sound of the shofarr , that the
6:9
The armed men went before the priests who people shouted with a great shout, and the wall
blew the shofarsk , and the ark went after them. fell down flat, so that the people went up into
The shofarsl sounded as they went. the city, every man straight before him, and
6:10
Joshua commanded the people, saying, they took the city. 6:21 They utterly destroyed all
“You shall not shout, nor let your voice be that was in the city, both man and woman, both
heard, neither shall any word proceed out of young and old, and ox, and sheep, and donkey,
your mouth, until the day I tell you to shout. with the edge of the sword. 6:22 Joshua said to
Then you shall shout.” 6:11 So he caused the the two men who had spied out the land, “Go
ark of the LORD to go around the city, going into the prostitute’s house, and bring out from
about it once. Then they came into the camp, there the woman and all that she has, as you
and lodged in the camp. 6:12 Joshua rose early swore to her.” 6:23 The young men who were
in the morning, and the priests took up the ark spies went in, and brought out Rahab with her
of the LORD. 6:13 The seven priests bearing the father, her mother, her brothers, and all that she
seven shofarsm of rams’ horns before the ark of had. They also brought out all her relatives,
the LORD went on continually, and blew the and they set them outside of the camp of Israel.
6:24
shofarsn : and the armed men went before them. They burnt the city with fire, and all that
The rear guard came after the ark of the LORD. was in it. Only they put the silver, the gold,
The shofarso sounded as they went. 6:14 The and the vessels of brass and of iron into the
second day they marched around the city once, treasury of the LORD’s house. 6:25 But Rahab
and returned into the camp. They did this six the prostitute, her father’s household, and all
days. that she had, Joshua saved alive. She lived in
6:15 the midst of Israel to this day, because she hid
It happened on the seventh day, that
they rose early at the dawning of the day, the messengers, whom Joshua sent to spy out
and marched around the city in the same way Jericho.
6:26
seven times. Only on this day they marched Joshua commanded them with an oath at
around the city seven times. 6:16 It happened that time, saying, “Cursed is the man before
at the seventh time, when the priests blew the the LORD, who rises up and builds this city
shofarsp , Joshua said to the people, “Shout, for Jericho. With the loss of his firstborn shall
the LORD has given you the city! 6:17 The city he lay its foundation, and with the loss of his
shall be devoted, even it and all that is in it, youngest son shall he set up its gates.” 6:27 So
to the LORD. Only Rahab the prostitute shall the LORD was with Joshua; and his fame was
live, she and all who are with her in the house, in all the land.
7:1
because she hid the messengers that we sent. But the children of Israel committed a
6:18
But as for you, only keep yourselves from trespass in the devoted things; for Achan, the
the devoted thing, lest when you have devoted son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah,
it, you take of the devoted thing; so would you of the tribe of Judah, took some of the devoted
i 6:8 or, trumpets
j 6:8 or, trumpets
k 6:9 or, trumpets
l 6:9 or, trumpets
m 6:13 or, trumpets
n 6:13 or, trumpets
o 6:13 or, trumpets
p 6:16 or, trumpets
q 6:20 or, trumpets
r 6:20 or, trumpet
Joshua 7:2 190 Joshua 7:26

things. Therefore the LORD’s anger burned the tribe which the LORD selects shall come
against the children of Israel. 7:2 Joshua sent near by families. The family which the LORD
men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Beth selects shall come near by households. The
Aven, on the east side of Bethel, and spoke to household which the LORD selects shall come
them, saying, “Go up and spy out the land.” near man by man. 7:15 It shall be, that he who
The men went up and spied out Ai. 7:3 They is taken with the devoted thing shall be burnt
returned to Joshua, and said to him, “Don’t let with fire, he and all that he has, because he
all the people go up; but let about two or three has transgressed the covenant of the LORD,
thousand men go up and strike Ai. Don’t make and because he has done a disgraceful thing in
all the people to toil there, for there are only Israel.’”
a few of them.” 7:4 So about three thousand 7:16
So Joshua rose up early in the morning
men of the people went up there, and they fled and brought Israel near by their tribes. The
before the men of Ai. 7:5 The men of Ai struck tribe of Judah was selected. 7:17 He brought
about thirty-six men of them, and they chased near the family of Judah; and he selected the
them from before the gate even to Shebarim, family of the Zerahites. He brought near
and struck them at the descent. The hearts the family of the Zerahites man by man, and
of the people melted, and became like water. Zabdi was selected. 7:18 He brought near his
7:6
Joshua tore his clothes, and fell to the earth household man by man, and Achan, the son
on his face before the ark of the LORD until of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah,
the evening, he and the elders of Israel; and of the tribe of Judah, was selected. 7:19 Joshua
they put dust on their heads. 7:7 Joshua said, said to Achan, “My son, please give glory to the
“Alas, Lord GOD, why have you brought this LORD, the God of Israel, and make confession
people over the Jordan at all, to deliver us into to him. Tell me now what you have done! Don’t
the hand of the Amorites, to cause us to perish? hide it from me!”
I wish that we had been content and lived 7:20
Achan answered Joshua, and said, “I
beyond the Jordan! 7:8 Oh, Lord, what shall have truly sinned against the LORD, the God of
I say, after that Israel has turned their backs Israel, and this is what I have done. 7:21 When
before their enemies! 7:9 For the Canaanites and I saw among the spoil a beautiful Babylonian
all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, and robe, two hundred shekels of silver, and a
will surround us, and cut off our name from the wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, then I
earth. What will you do for your great name?” coveted them and took them. Behold, they are
7:10
The LORD said to Joshua, “Get up! hidden in the ground in the middle of my tent,
Why are you fallen on your face like that? with the silver under it.”
7:11
Israel has sinned. Yes, they have even 7:22
So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran
transgressed my covenant which I commanded to the tent. Behold, it was hidden in his tent,
them. Yes, they have even taken of the devoted with the silver under it. 7:23 They took them
things, and have also stolen, and also deceived. from the middle of the tent, and brought them
They have even put it among their own stuff. to Joshua and to all the children of Israel. They
7:12
Therefore the children of Israel can’t stand laid them down before the LORD. 7:24 Joshua,
before their enemies. They turn their backs be- and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of
fore their enemies, because they have become Zerah, the silver, the robe, the wedge of gold,
devoted for destruction. I will not be with his sons, his daughters, his cattle, his donkeys,
you any more, unless you destroy the devoted his sheep, his tent, and all that he had; and
things from among you. they brought them up to the valley of Achor.
7:13 7:25
“Get up! Sanctify the people, and Joshua said, “Why have you troubled us?
say, ‘Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow, for the the LORD will trouble you this day.” All Israel
LORD, the God of Israel, says, “There is a stoned him with stones, and they burned them
devoted thing in the midst of you, Israel. You with fire and stoned them with stones. 7:26 They
cannot stand before your enemies until you raised over him a great heap of stones that
take away the devoted thing from among you.” remains to this day. The LORD turned from the
7:14
“‘In the morning therefore you shall be fierceness of his anger. Therefore the name of
brought near by your tribes. It shall be that that place was called “The valley of Achor” to
Joshua 8:1 191 Joshua 8:29

this day. there was an ambush against him behind the


8:1
The LORD said to Joshua, “Don’t be city. 8:15 Joshua and all Israel made as if they
afraid, neither be dismayed. Take all the people were beaten before them, and fled by the way
of war with you, and arise, go up to Ai. Behold, of the wilderness. 8:16 All the people who were
I have given into your hand the king of Ai, with in the city were called together to pursue after
his people, his city, and his land. 8:2 You shall them. They pursued Joshua, and were drawn
do to Ai and her king as you did to Jericho and away from the city. 8:17 There was not a man left
her king, except its spoil and its livestock, you in Ai or Beth El who didn’t go out after Israel.
shall take for a plunder for yourselves. Set an They left the city open, and pursued Israel.
8:18
ambush for the city behind it.” The LORD said to Joshua, “Stretch out
8:3 the javelin that is in your hand toward Ai, for
So Joshua arose, and all the people of war,
to go up to Ai. Joshua chose thirty thousand I will give it into your hand.”
men, the mighty men of valor, and sent them Joshua stretched out the javelin that was in
out by night. 8:4 He commanded them, saying, his hand toward the city. 8:19 The ambush arose
“Behold, you shall lie in ambush against the quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon
city, behind the city. Don’t go very far from as he had stretched out his hand, and entered
the city, but all of you be ready. 8:5 I, and all into the city, and took it. They hurried and
the people who are with me, will approach to set the city on fire. 8:20 When the men of Ai
the city. It shall happen, when they come out looked behind them, they saw, and behold, the
against us, as at the first, that we will flee before smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and
them. 8:6 They will come out after us, until we they had no power to flee this way or that way.
have drawn them away from the city; for they The people who fled to the wilderness turned
will say, ‘They flee before us, like the first time.’ back on the pursuers. 8:21 When Joshua and
So we will flee before them, 8:7 and you shall all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the
rise up from the ambush, and take possession city, and that the smoke of the city ascended,
of the city; for the LORD your God will deliver then they turned again, and killed the men of
it into your hand. 8:8 It shall be, when you have Ai. 8:22 The others came out of the city against
seized on the city, that you shall set the city on them, so they were in the midst of Israel, some
fire. You shall do this according to the word of on this side, and some on that side. They struck
the LORD. Behold, I have commanded you.” them, so that they let none of them remain or
8:9
Joshua sent them out; and they went to set escape. 8:23 They captured the king of Ai alive,
up the ambush, and stayed between Bethel and and brought him to Joshua.
8:24
Ai, on the west side of Ai; but Joshua stayed It happened, when Israel had made an
among the people that night. 8:10 Joshua rose up end of killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the
early in the morning, mustered the people, and field, in the wilderness in which they pursued
went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the them, and they had all fallen by the edge of the
people to Ai. 8:11 All the people, even the men sword, until they were consumed, that all Israel
of war who were with him, went up, and drew returned to Ai, and struck it with the edge of
near, and came before the city, and encamped the sword. 8:25 All that fell that day, both of
on the north side of Ai. Now there was a men and women, were twelve thousand, even
valley between him and Ai. 8:12 He took about all the men of Ai. 8:26 For Joshua didn’t draw
five thousand men, and set them in ambush back his hand, with which he stretched out the
between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the javelin, until he had utterly destroyed all the
city. 8:13 So they set the people, even all the inhabitants of Ai. 8:27 Only the livestock and
army who was on the north of the city, and the spoil of that city Israel took for prey to
their ambush on the west of the city; and Joshua themselves, according to the word of the LORD
went that night into the midst of the valley. which he commanded Joshua. 8:28 So Joshua
8:14
It happened, when the king of Ai saw it, burnt Ai, and made it a heap forever, even a
that they hurried and rose up early, and the desolation, to this day. 8:29 He hanged the king
men of the city went out against Israel to battle, of Ai on a tree until the evening, and at the
he and all his people, at the time appointed, sundown Joshua commanded, and they took
before the Arabah; but he didn’t know that his body down from the tree, and threw it at
Joshua 8:30 192 Joshua 9:22

the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised make a covenant with you?”
a great heap of stones on it that remains to this 9:8
They said to Joshua, “We are your ser-
day. vants.”
8:30
Then Joshua built an altar to the LORD, Joshua said to them, “Who are you? Where
the God of Israel, in Mount Ebal, 8:31 as Moses do you come from?”
the servant of the LORD commanded the chil- 9:9
They said to him, “Your servants have
dren of Israel, as it is written in the scroll of come from a very far country because of the
the Torah of Moses, an altar of uncut stones, name of the LORD your God; for we have
on which no man had lifted up any iron. They heard of his fame, all that he did in Egypt,
offered burnt offerings on it to the LORD, and 9:10
and all that he did to the two kings of
sacrificed peace offerings. 8:32 He wrote there the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan,
on the stones a copy of the Torah of Moses, to Sihon king of Heshbon and to Og king of
which he wrote in the presence of the children Bashan, who was at Ashtaroth. 9:11 Our elders
of Israel. 8:33 All Israel, and their elders and and all the inhabitants of our country spoke to
officers, and their judges, stood on this side us, saying, ‘Take provision in your hand for the
of the ark and on that side before the priests journey, and go to meet them, and tell them,
the Levites, who carried the ark of the LORD’s “We are your servants. Now make a covenant
covenant, the foreigner as well as the native; with us.”’ 9:12 This our bread we took hot for
half of them in front of Mount Gerizim, and our provision out of our houses on the day we
half of them in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses went out to go to you; but now, behold, it is dry,
the servant of the LORD had commanded at and has become moldy. 9:13 These wineskins,
the first, that they should bless the people of which we filled, were new; and behold, they are
Israel. 8:34 Afterward he read all the words of torn. These our garments and our shoes have
the law, the blessing and the curse, according become old because of the very long journey.”
to all that is written in the scroll of the Torah. 9:14
The men sampled their provisions, and
8:35
There was not a word of all that Moses didn’t ask counsel from the mouth of the
commanded, which Joshua didn’t read before LORD. 9:15 Joshua made peace with them, and
all the assembly of Israel, with the women, the made a covenant with them, to let them live.
little ones, and the foreigners who were among The princes of the congregation swore to them.
them. 9:16
It happened at the end of three days after
9:1
It happened, when all the kings who they had made a covenant with them, that
were beyond the Jordan, in the hill country, they heard that they were their neighbors,
and in the lowland, and on all the shore of and that they lived among them. 9:17 The
the great sea in front of Lebanon, the Hittite, children of Israel traveled and came to their
the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the cities on the third day. Now their cities
Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard of it 9:2 that were Gibeon, Chephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath
they gathered themselves together to fight with Jearim. 9:18 The children of Israel didn’t strike
Joshua and with Israel, with one accord. 9:3 But them, because the princes of the congregation
when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what had sworn to them by the LORD, the God of
Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai, 9:4 they Israel. All the congregation murmured against
also resorted to a ruse, and went and made as if the princes. 9:19 But all the princes said to all the
they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks congregation, “We have sworn to them by the
on their donkeys, and wineskins, old and torn LORD, the God of Israel: now therefore we may
and bound up, 9:5 and old and patched shoes not touch them. 9:20 This we will do to them,
on their feet, and wore old garments. All the and let them live; lest wrath be on us, because
bread of their provision was dry and moldy. of the oath which we swore to them.” 9:21 The
9:6
They went to Joshua to the camp at Gilgal, princes said to them, “Let them live, so they
and said to him, and to the men of Israel, “We became wood cutters and drawers of water for
have come from a far country. Now therefore all the congregation, as the princes had spoken
make a covenant with us.” to them.”
9:7 9:22
The men of Israel said to the Hivites, Joshua called for them, and he spoke
“What if you live among us. How could we to them, saying, “Why have you deceived us,
Joshua 9:23 193 Joshua 10:23

saying, ‘We are very far from you,’ when you them into your hands. Not a man of them will
live among us? 9:23 Now therefore you are stand before you.”
cursed, and some of you will never fail to be 10:9
Joshua therefore came on them suddenly.
bondservants, both wood cutters and drawers He went up from Gilgal all night. 10:10 The
of water for the house of my God.” LORD confused them before Israel, and he
9:24
They answered Joshua, and said, “Be- killed them with a great slaughter at Gibeon,
cause your servants were certainly told how and chased them by the way of the ascent of
the LORD your God commanded his servant Beth Horon, and struck them to Azekah and to
Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy Makkedah. 10:11 It happened, as they fled from
all the inhabitants of the land from before you. before Israel, while they were at the descent of
Therefore we were very afraid for our lives Beth Horon, that the LORD cast down great
because of you, and have done this thing. stones from the sky on them to Azekah, and
9:25
Now, behold, we are in your hand. Do to they died. There were more who died from the
us as it seems good and right to you to do.” hailstones than who the children of Israel killed
9:26 with the sword.
He did so to them, and delivered them
10:12
out of the hand of the children of Israel, so that Then Joshua spoke to the LORD in the
they didn’t kill them. 9:27 That day Joshua made day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites
them wood cutters and drawers of water for the before the children of Israel; and he said in the
congregation and for the altar of the LORD, to sight of Israel, “Sun, stand still on Gibeon! You,
this day, in the place which he should choose. moon, stop in the valley of Aijalon!”
10:1 10:13
Now it happened when Adoni-Zedek The sun stood still, and the moon
king of Jerusalem heard how Joshua had taken stayed, until the nation had avenged them-
Ai, and had utterly destroyed it; as he had selves of their enemies. Isn’t this written in the
done to Jericho and her king, so he had done book of Jashar? The sun stayed in the midst
to Ai and her king; and how the inhabitants of the sky, and didn’t hurry to go down about
of Gibeon had made peace with Israel, and a whole day. 10:14 There was no day like that
were among them; 10:2 that they were very before it or after it, that the LORD listened to
afraid, because Gibeon was a great city, as the voice of a man; for the LORD fought for
one of the royal cities, and because it was Israel.
10:15
greater than Ai, and all its men were mighty. Joshua returned, and all Israel with him,
10:3
Therefore Adoni-Zedek king of Jerusalem to the camp to Gilgal. 10:16 These five kings fled,
sent to Hoham king of Hebron, to Piram king and hid themselves in the cave at Makkedah.
10:17
of Jarmuth, to Japhia king of Lachish, and to Joshua was told, saying, “The five kings
Debir king of Eglon, saying, 10:4 “Come up to are found, hidden in the cave at Makkedah.”
10:18
me, and help me, and let us strike Gibeon; Joshua said, “Roll large stones to the
for it has made peace with Joshua and with mouth of the cave, and set men by it to guard
the children of Israel.” 10:5 Therefore the five them; 10:19 but don’t stay. Pursue your enemies,
kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, and them from the rear. Don’t allow them to
the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the enter into their cities; for the LORD your God
king of Lachish, the king of Eglon, gathered has delivered them into your hand.”
10:20
themselves together, and went up, they and It happened, when Joshua and the chil-
all their armies, and encamped against Gibeon, dren of Israel had finished killing them with a
and made war against it. 10:6 The men of very great slaughter until they were consumed,
Gibeon sent to Joshua to the camp to Gilgal, and the remnant which remained of them had
saying, “Don’t abandon your servants! Come entered into the fortified cities, 10:21 that all
up to us quickly, and save us, and help us; for the people returned to the camp to Joshua at
all the kings of the Amorites that dwell in the Makkedah in peace. None moved his tongue
hill country have gathered together against us.” against any of the children of Israel. 10:22 Then
10:7 Joshua said, “Open the mouth of the cave, and
So Joshua went up from Gilgal, he, and
all the people of war with him, and all the bring those five kings out of the cave to me.”
mighty men of valor. 10:8 The LORD said to 10:23
They did so, and brought those five
Joshua, “Don’t fear them, for I have delivered kings out of the cave to him: the king of
Joshua 10:24 194 Joshua 11:6

Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of sword. He utterly destroyed all the souls who
Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of were in it that day, according to all that he had
Eglon. 10:24 It happened, when they brought done to Lachish.
those kings out to Joshua, that Joshua called for 10:36
Joshua went up from Eglon, and all
all the men of Israel, and said to the chiefs of the Israel with him, to Hebron; and they fought
men of war who went with him, “Come near, against it. 10:37 They took it, and struck it with
put your feet on the necks of these kings.” the edge of the sword, with its king and all its
They came near, and put their feet on their cities, and all the souls who were in it. He left
necks. none remaining, according to all that he had
10:25
Joshua said to them, “Don’t be afraid, done to Eglon; but he utterly destroyed it, and
nor be dismayed. Be strong and courageous, all the souls who were in it.
for the LORD will do this to all your enemies 10:38
Joshua returned, and all Israel with him,
against whom you fight.” to Debir, and fought against it. 10:39 He took
10:26
Afterward Joshua struck them, put it, with its king and all its cities. They struck
them to death, and hanged them on five them with the edge of the sword, and utterly
trees. They were hanging on the trees until destroyed all the souls who were in it. He left
the evening. 10:27 It happened at the time none remaining. As he had done to Hebron,
of the going down of the sun, that Joshua so he did to Debir, and to its king; as he had
commanded, and they took them down off the done also to Libnah, and to its king. 10:40 So
trees, and cast them into the cave in which they Joshua struck all the land, the hill country, and
had hidden themselves, and laid great stones the South, and the lowland, and the slopes,
on the mouth of the cave, which remain to this and all their kings. He left none remaining,
very day. but he utterly destroyed all that breathed, as
10:28
Joshua took Makkedah on that day, and the LORD, the God of Israel, commanded.
10:41
struck it with the edge of the sword, with its Joshua struck them from Kadesh Barnea
king. He utterly destroyed them and all the even to Gaza, and all the country of Goshen,
souls who were in it. He left none remaining. even to Gibeon. 10:42 Joshua took all these kings
He did to the king of Makkedah as he had done and their land at one time, because the LORD,
to the king of Jericho. the God of Israel, fought for Israel. 10:43 Joshua
10:29 returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp
Joshua passed from Makkedah, and all
Israel with him, to Libnah, and fought against to Gilgal.
Libnah. 10:30 The LORD delivered it also, with 11:1
It happened, when Jabin king of Hazor
its king, into the hand of Israel. He struck it heard of it, that he sent to Jobab king of Madon,
with the edge of the sword, and all the souls to the king of Shimron, to the king of Achshaph,
11:2
who were in it. He left none remaining in it. and to the kings who were on the north,
He did to its king as he had done to the king of in the hill country, in the Arabah south of
Jericho. Chinneroth, in the lowland, and in the heights
10:31
Joshua passed from Libnah, and all of Dor on the west, 11:3 to the Canaanite on the
Israel with him, to Lachish, and encamped east and on the west, and the Amorite, and the
against it, and fought against it. 10:32 The LORD Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite in the
delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel. He hill country, and the Hivite under Hermon in
took it on the second day, and struck it with the land of Mizpah. 11:4 They went out, they
the edge of the sword, with all the souls who and all their armies with them, many people,
were in it, according to all that he had done even as the sand that is on the seashore in
to Libnah. 10:33 Then Horam king of Gezer multitude, with very many horses and chariots.
11:5
came up to help Lachish; and Joshua struck All these kings met together; and they
him and his people, until he had left him none came and encamped together at the waters of
remaining. Merom, to fight with Israel.
10:34 11:6
Joshua passed from Lachish, and all The LORD said to Joshua, “Don’t be
Israel with him, to Eglon; and they encamped afraid because of them; for tomorrow at this
against it fought against it. 10:35 They took it time, I will deliver them up all slain before
on that day, and struck it with the edge of the Israel. You shall hamstring their horses and
Joshua 11:7 195 Joshua 12:12

burn their chariots with fire.” Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all
11:7
So Joshua came, and all the people of war the hill country of Judah, and from all the
with him, against them by the waters of Merom hill country of Israel: Joshua utterly destroyed
suddenly, and fell on them. 11:8 The LORD them with their cities. 11:22 There were none of
delivered them into the hand of Israel, and they the Anakim left in the land of the children of
struck them, and chased them to great Sidon, Israel. Only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod,
and to Misrephoth Maim, and to the valley of did some remain. 11:23 So Joshua took the whole
Mizpeh eastward. They struck them until they land, according to all that the LORD spoke to
left them none remaining. 11:9 Joshua did to Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance
them as the LORD told him. He hamstrung to Israel according to their divisions by their
their horses and burnt their chariots with fire. tribes. The land had rest from war.
11:10 12:1
Joshua turned back at that time, and took Now these are the kings of the land,
Hazor, and struck its king with the sword: whom the children of Israel struck, and pos-
for Hazor used to be the head of all those sessed their land beyond the Jordan toward
kingdoms. 11:11 They struck all the souls who the sunrise, from the valley of the Arnon to
were in it with the edge of the sword, utterly Mount Hermon, and all the Arabah eastward:
12:2
destroying them. There was no one left who Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in
breathed. He burnt Hazor with fire. 11:12 Joshua Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is on
captured all the cities of those kings, with their the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the
kings, and he struck them with the edge of the middle of the valley, and half Gilead, even to
sword, and utterly destroyed them; as Moses the river Jabbok, the border of the children
the servant of the LORD commanded. 11:13 But of Ammon; 12:3 and the Arabah to the sea of
as for the cities that stood on their mounds, Chinneroth, eastward, and to the sea of the
Israel burned none of them, except Hazor only. Arabah, even the Salt Sea, eastward, the way
Joshua burned that. 11:14 The children of Israel to Beth Jeshimoth; and on the south, under the
took all the spoil of these cities, with the slopes of Pisgah: 12:4 and the border of Og king
livestock, as spoils for themselves; but every of Bashan, of the remnant of the Rephaim, who
man they struck with the edge of the sword, lived at Ashtaroth and at Edrei, 12:5 and ruled
until they had destroyed them. They didn’t in Mount Hermon, and in Salecah, and in all
leave any who breathed. Bashan, to the border of the Geshurites and
11:15
As the LORD commanded Moses his the Maacathites, and half Gilead, the border of
servant, so Moses commanded Joshua. Joshua Sihon king of Heshbon.
12:6
did so. He left nothing undone of all that Moses the servant of the LORD and the
the LORD commanded Moses. 11:16 So Joshua children of Israel struck them. Moses the
captured all that land, the hill country, all the servant of the LORD gave it for a possession to
South, all the land of Goshen, the lowland, the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half-
the Arabah, the hill country of Israel, and the tribe of Manasseh. 12:7 These are the kings of
lowland of the same; 11:17 from Mount Halak, the land whom Joshua and the children of Israel
that goes up to Seir, even to Baal Gad in the struck beyond the Jordan westward, from Baal
valley of Lebanon under Mount Hermon. He Gad in the valley of Lebanon even to Mount
took all their kings, struck them, and put them Halak, that goes up to Seir. Joshua gave it to
to death. 11:18 Joshua made war a long time the tribes of Israel for a possession according
with all those kings. 11:19 There was not a city to their divisions; 12:8 in the hill country, and
that made peace with the children of Israel, in the lowland, and in the Arabah, and in the
except the Hivites, the inhabitants of Gibeon. slopes, and in the wilderness, and in the South;
They took all in battle. 11:20 For it was of the the Hittite, the Amorite, and the Canaanite, the
LORD to harden their hearts, to come against Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite: 12:9 the
Israel in battle, that he might utterly destroy king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is
them, that they might have no favor, but that he beside Bethel, one; 12:10 the king of Jerusalem,
might destroy them, as the LORD commanded one; the king of Hebron, one; 12:11 the king
Moses. 11:21 Joshua came at that time, and cut of Jarmuth, one; the king of Lachish, one;
12:12
off the Anakim from the hill country, from the king of Eglon, one; the king of Gezer,
Joshua 12:13 196 Joshua 13:29

one; 12:13 the king of Debir, one; the king of all Mount Hermon, and all Bashan to Salecah;
Geder, one; 12:14 the king of Hormah, one; the 13:12
all the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who
king of Arad, one; 12:15 the king of Libnah, reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei (the same
one; the king of Adullam, one; 12:16 the king of was left of the remnant of the Rephaim); for
Makkedah, one; the king of Bethel, one; 12:17 the Moses attacked these, and drove them out.
13:13
king of Tappuah, one; the king of Hepher, Nevertheless the children of Israel didn’t
one; 12:18 the king of Aphek, one; the king of drive out the Geshurites, nor the Maacathites:
Lassharon, one; 12:19 the king of Madon, one; but Geshur and Maacath dwell in the midst
the king of Hazor, one; 12:20 the king of Shimron of Israel to this day. 13:14 Only he gave no
Meron, one; the king of Achshaph, one; 12:21 the inheritance to the tribe of Levi. The offerings of
king of Taanach, one; the king of Megiddo, the LORD, the God of Israel, made by fire are
one; 12:22 the king of Kedesh, one; the king of his inheritance, as he spoke to him. 13:15 Moses
Jokneam in Carmel, one; 12:23 the king of Dor gave to the tribe of the children of Reuben
in the height of Dor, one; the king of Goiim in according to their families. 13:16 Their border
Gilgal, one; 12:24 the king of Tirzah, one: all the was from Aroer, that is on the edge of the
kings thirty-one. valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in
13:1
Now Joshua was old and well advanced the middle of the valley, and all the plain by
in years. The LORD said to him, “You are old Medeba; 13:17 Heshbon, and all its cities that
and advanced in years, and there remains yet are in the plain; Dibon, Bamoth Baal, Beth
very much land to be possessed. Baal Meon, 13:18 Jahaz, Kedemoth, Mephaath,
13:19
13:2
Kiriathaim, Sibmah, Zereth Shahar in the
“This is the land that still remains: all mount of the valley, 13:20 Beth Peor, the slopes
the regions of the Philistines, and all the of Pisgah, Beth Jeshimoth, 13:21 all the cities of
Geshurites; 13:3 from the Shihor, which is before the plain, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of
Egypt, even to the border of Ekron northward, the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, whom
which is counted as Canaanite; the five lords Moses struck with the chiefs of Midian, Evi,
of the Philistines; the Gazites, and the Ash- Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the princes of
dodites, the Ashkelonites, the Gittites, and the Sihon, who lived in the land. 13:22 The children
Ekronites; also the Avvim, 13:4 on the south; of Israel alse killed Balaam also the son of Beor,
all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah the soothsayer, with the sword, among the rest
that belongs to the Sidonians, to Aphek, to the of their slain.
border of the Amorites; 13:5 and the land of the 13:23
The border of the children of Reuben
Gebalites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrise,
was the bank of the Jordan. This was the
from Baal Gad under Mount Hermon to the
inheritance of the children of Reuben according
entrance of Hamath; 13:6 all the inhabitants of
to their families, the cities and its villages.
the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephoth
13:24
Maim, even all the Sidonians; them will I drive Moses gave to the tribe of Gad, to the
out from before the children of Israel: only children of Gad, according to their families.
13:25
allocate it to Israel for an inheritance, as I have Their border was Jazer, and all the cities
commanded you. 13:7 Now therefore divide of Gilead, and half the land of the children
this land for an inheritance to the nine tribes of Ammon, to Aroer that is before Rabbah;
13:26
and the half-tribe of Manasseh.” 13:8 With him and from Heshbon to Ramath Mizpeh, and
the Reubenites and the Gadites received their Betonim; and from Mahanaim to the border
inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond of Debir; 13:27 and in the valley, Beth Haram,
the Jordan eastward, even as Moses the servant Beth Nimrah, Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest
of the LORD gave them: 13:9 from Aroer, that of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, the
is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and Jordan’s bank, to the uttermost part of the
the city that is in the middle of the valley, sea of Chinnereth beyond the Jordan eastward.
13:28
and all the plain of Medeba to Dibon; 13:10 and This is the inheritance of the children of
all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, Gad according to their families, the cities and
who reigned in Heshbon, to the border of the its villages.
children of Ammon; 13:11 and Gilead, and the 13:29
Moses gave an inheritance to the half-
border of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and tribe of Manasseh. It was for the half-tribe
Joshua 13:30 197 Joshua 15:8

of the children of Manasseh according to their the time that the LORD spoke this word to
13:30
families. Their border was from Ma- Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness.
hanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king Now, behold, I am eighty-five years old, today.
14:11
of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which As yet I am as strong today as I was in the
are in Bashan, sixty cities. 13:31 Half Gilead, day that Moses sent me: as my strength was
Ashtaroth, and Edrei, the cities of the kingdom then, even so is my strength now for war, to
of Og in Bashan, were for the children of go out and to come in. 14:12 Now therefore give
Machir the son of Manasseh, even for the half me this hill country, of which the LORD spoke
of the children of Machir according to their in that day; for you heard in that day how
families. the Anakim were there, and great and fortified
13:32 cities. It may be that the LORD will be with me,
These are the inheritances which Moses
distributed in the plains of Moab, beyond the and I shall drive them out, as the LORD spoke.”
Jordan at Jericho, eastward. 13:33 But to the tribe 14:13
Joshua blessed him; and he gave He-
of Levi Moses gave no inheritance. The LORD, bron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for an
the God of Israel, is their inheritance, as he inheritance. 14:14 Therefore Hebron became the
spoke to them. inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the
14:1
These are the inheritances which the Kenizzite to this day; because he wholly fol-
children of Israel took in the land of Canaan, lowed the LORD, the God of Israel. 14:15 Now
which Eleazar the priest, Joshua the son of the name of Hebron before was Kiriath Arba,
Nun, and the heads of the fathers’ houses of after the greatest man among the Anakim. The
the tribes of the children of Israel, distributed land had rest from war.
to them, 14:2 by the lot of their inheritance, as 15:1
The lot for the tribe of the children of
the LORD commanded by Moses, for the nine Judah according to their families was to the
tribes, and for the half-tribe. 14:3 For Moses had border of Edom, even to the wilderness of Zin
given the inheritance of the two tribes and the southward, at the uttermost part of the south.
half-tribe beyond the Jordan; but to the Levites 15:2
Their south border was from the uttermost
he gave no inheritance among them. 14:4 For the part of the Salt Sea, from the bay that looks
children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh southward; 15:3 and it went out southward of
and Ephraim: and they gave no portion to the ascent of Akrabbim, and passed along to
the Levites in the land, except cities to dwell Zin, and went up by the south of Kadesh
in, with their suburbs for their livestock and Barnea, and passed along by Hezron, went up
for their property. 14:5 The children of Israel to Addar, and turned about to Karka; 15:4 and
did as the LORD commanded Moses, and they it passed along to Azmon, went out at the
divided the land. brook of Egypt; and the border ended at the
14:6
Then the children of Judah drew near to sea. This shall be your south border. 15:5 The
Joshua in Gilgal. Caleb the son of Jephunneh east border was the Salt Sea, even to the end
the Kenizzite said to him, “You know the thing of the Jordan. The border of the north quarter
that the LORD spoke to Moses the man of God was from the bay of the sea at the end of
concerning me and concerning you in Kadesh the Jordan. 15:6 The border went up to Beth
Barnea. 14:7 I was forty years old when Moses Hoglah, and passed along by the north of Beth
the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadesh Arabah; and the border went up to the stone
Barnea to spy out the land. I brought him word of Bohan the son of Reuben. 15:7 The border
again as it was in my heart. 14:8 Nevertheless, went up to Debir from the valley of Achor, and
my brothers who went up with me made so northward, looking toward Gilgal, that is
the heart of the people melt; but I wholly over against the ascent of Adummim, which
followed the LORD my God. 14:9 Moses swore is on the south side of the river. The border
on that day, saying, ‘Surely the land where you passed along to the waters of En Shemesh,
walked shall be an inheritance to you and to and ended at En Rogel. 15:8 The border went
your children forever, because you have wholly up by the valley of the son of Hinnom to the
followed the LORD my God.’ side of the Jebusite southward (the same is
14:10
“Now, behold, the LORD has kept me Jerusalem); and the border went up to the top
alive, as he spoke, these forty-five years, from of the mountain that lies before the valley of
Joshua 15:9 198 Joshua 16:3

Hinnom westward, which is at the farthest part Biziothiah, 15:29 Baalah, Iim, Ezem, 15:30 Eltolad,
of the valley of Rephaim northward. 15:9 The Chesil, Hormah, 15:31 Ziklag, Madmannah,
border extended from the top of the mountain Sansannah, 15:32 Lebaoth, Shilhim, Ain, and
to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah, and Rimmon. All the cities are twenty-nine, with
went out to the cities of Mount Ephron; and the their villages. 15:33 In the lowland, Eshtaol,
border extended to Baalah (the same is Kiriath Zorah, Ashnah, 15:34 Zanoah, En Gannim,
Jearim); 15:10 and the border turned about from Tappuah, Enam, 15:35 Jarmuth, Adullam,
Baalah westward to Mount Seir, and passed Socoh, Azekah, 15:36 Shaaraim, Adithaim and
along to the side of Mount Jearim on the north Gederah (or Gederothaim); fourteen cities
(the same is Chesalon), and went down to with their villages. 15:37 Zenan, Hadashah,
Beth Shemesh, and passed along by Timnah; Migdal Gad, 15:38 Dilean, Mizpeh, Joktheel,
15:11 15:39
and the border went out to the side of Lachish, Bozkath, Eglon, 15:40 Cabbon,
Ekron northward; and the border extended to Lahmam, Chitlish, 15:41 Gederoth, Beth Dagon,
Shikkeron, and passed along to Mount Baalah, Naamah, and Makkedah; sixteen cities with
15:42
and went out at Jabneel; and the goings out their villages. Libnah, Ether, Ashan,
of the border were at the sea. 15:12 The west 15:43
Iphtah, Ashnah, Nezib, 15:44 Keilah,
border was to the shore of the great sea. This Achzib, and Mareshah; nine cities with their
is the border of the children of Judah according villages. 15:45 Ekron, with its towns and its
to their families. villages; 15:46 from Ekron even to the sea, all
15:13 that were by the side of Ashdod, with their
To Caleb the son of Jephunneh he gave a
portion among the children of Judah, according villages. 15:47 Ashdod, its towns and its villages;
to the commandment of the LORD to Joshua, Gaza, its towns and its villages; to the brook
even Kiriath Arba, named after the father of of Egypt, and the great sea with its coastline.
15:48
Anak (the same is Hebron). 15:14 Caleb drove In the hill country, Shamir, Jattir, Socoh,
15:49
out the three sons of Anak: Sheshai, and Ahi- Dannah, Kiriath Sannah (which is Debir),
15:50
man, and Talmai, the children of Anak. 15:15 He Anab, Eshtemoh, Anim, 15:51 Goshen,
went up against the inhabitants of Debir: now Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities with their
the name of Debir before was Kiriath Sepher. villages. 15:52 Arab, Dumah, Eshan, 15:53 Janim,
15:16
Caleb said, “He who strikes Kiriath Sepher, Beth Tappuah, Aphekah, 15:54 Humtah, Kiriath
and takes it, to him will I give Achsah my Arba (the same is Hebron), and Zior; nine
daughter as wife.” 15:17 Othniel the son of cities with their villages. 15:55 Maon, Carmel,
Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, took it: and he Ziph, Jutah, 15:56 Jezreel, Jokdeam, Zanoah,
15:57
gave him Achsah his daughter as wife. 15:18 It Kain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities with
happened, when she came, that she had him their villages. 15:58 Halhul, Beth Zur, Gedor,
15:59
ask her father fore a field. She got off of her Maarath, Beth Anoth, and Eltekon; six
donkey, and Caleb said, “What do you want?” cities with their villages. 15:60 Kiriath Baal (the
15:19
She said, “Give me a blessing. Because same is Kiriath Jearim), and Rabbah; two cities
you have set me in the land of the South, give with their villages. 15:61 In the wilderness, Beth
me also springs of water.” Arabah, Middin, Secacah, 15:62 Nibshan, the
City of Salt, and En Gedi; six cities with their
He gave her the upper springs and the lower
villages.
springs.
15:63
15:20
This is the inheritance of the tribe As for the Jebusites, the inhabitants
of the children of Judah according to their of Jerusalem, the children of Judah couldn’t
families. 15:21
The farthest cities of the drive them out; but the Jebusites live with the
tribe of the children of Judah toward the children of Judah at Jerusalem to this day.
16:1
border of Edom in the South were Kabzeel, The lot came out for the children of
Eder, Jagur, 15:22 Kinah, Dimonah, Adadah, Joseph from the Jordan at Jericho, at the waters
15:23
Kedesh, Hazor, Ithnan, 15:24 Ziph, Telem, of Jericho on the east, even the wilderness,
Bealoth, 15:25 Hazor Hadattah, Kerioth Hezron going up from Jericho through the hill country
(the same is Hazor), 15:26 Amam, Shema, to Bethel. 16:2 It went out from Bethel to Luz,
Moladah, 15:27 Hazar Gaddah, Heshmon, and passed along to the border of the Archites
Beth Pelet, 15:28 Hazar Shual, Beersheba, to Ataroth; 16:3 and it went down westward
Joshua 16:4 199 Joshua 17:18

to the border of the Japhletites, to the border Jordan; 17:6 because the daughters of Manasseh
of Beth Horon the lower, even to Gezer; and had an inheritance among his sons. The land
ended at the sea. of Gilead belonged to the rest of the sons of
16:4
The children of Joseph, Manasseh and Manasseh. 17:7 The border of Manasseh was
Ephraim, took their inheritance. 16:5 This was from Asher to Michmethath, which is before
the border of the children of Ephraim according Shechem. The border went along to the right
to their families. The border of their inheritance hand, to the inhabitants of En Tappuah. 17:8 The
eastward was Ataroth Addar, to Beth Horon land of Tappuah belonged to Manasseh; but
the upper. 16:6 The border went out westward at Tappuah on the border of Manasseh belonged
Michmethath on the north. The border turned to the children of Ephraim. 17:9 The border
about eastward to Taanath Shiloh, and passed went down to the brook of Kanah, southward
along it on the east of Janoah. 16:7 It went down of the brook. These cities belonged to Ephraim
from Janoah to Ataroth, to Naarah, reached to among the cities of Manasseh. The border of
Jericho, and went out at the Jordan. 16:8 From Manasseh was on the north side of the brook,
Tappuah the border went along westward to and ended at the sea. 17:10 Southward it was
the brook of Kanah; and ended at the sea. Ephraim’s, and northward it was Manasseh’s,
This is the inheritance of the tribe of the and the sea was his border. They reached
children of Ephraim according to their families; to Asher on the north, and to Issachar on
16:9
together with the cities which were set apart the east. 17:11 Manasseh had three heights in
for the children of Ephraim in the midst of the Issachar, in Asher Beth Shean and its towns,
inheritance of the children of Manasseh, all the and Ibleam and its towns, and the inhabitants
cities with their villages. 16:10 They didn’t drive of Dor and its towns, and the inhabitants of
out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer; but the Endor and its towns, and the inhabitants of
Canaanites dwell in the midst of Ephraim to Taanach and its towns, and the inhabitants of
this day, and have become servants to do forced Megiddo and its towns. 17:12 Yet the children of
labor. Manasseh couldn’t drive out the inhabitants of
17:1
those cities; but the Canaanites would dwell in
This was the lot for the tribe of Man- that land.
asseh, for he was the firstborn of Joseph. As 17:13
It happened, when the children of Israel
for Machir the firstborn of Manasseh, the father
had grown strong, that they put the Canaanites
of Gilead, because he was a man of war,
to forced labor, and didn’t utterly drive them
therefore he had Gilead and Bashan. 17:2 So this
out. 17:14 The children of Joseph spoke to
was for the rest of the children of Manasseh
Joshua, saying, “Why have you given me just
according to their families: for the children
one lot and one part for an inheritance, since
of Abiezer, for the children of Helek, for the
I am a great people, because the LORD has
children of Asriel, for the children of Shechem,
blessed me so far?”
for the children of Hepher, and for the children 17:15
of Shemida: these were the male children Joshua said to them, “If you are a great
of Manasseh the son of Joseph according to people, go up to the forest, and clear land
their families. 17:3 But Zelophehad, the son for yourself there in the land of the Perizzites
of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of and of the Rephaim; since the hill country of
Machir, the son of Manasseh, had no sons, Ephraim is too narrow for you.”
17:16
but daughters: and these are the names of The children of Joseph said, “The hill
his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, country is not enough for us. All the Canaan-
and Tirzah. 17:4 They came near before Eleazar ites who dwell in the land of the valley have
the priest, and before Joshua the son of Nun, chariots of iron, both those who are in Beth
and before the princes, saying, “The LORD Shean and its towns, and those who are in the
commanded Moses to give us an inheritance valley of Jezreel.”
17:17
among our brothers.” Therefore according to Joshua spoke to the house of Joseph,
the commandment of the LORD he gave them even to Ephraim and to Manasseh, saying,
an inheritance among the brothers of their fa- “You are a great people, and have great power.
ther. 17:5 Ten parts fell to Manasseh, besides the You shall not have one lot only; 17:18 but the
land of Gilead and Bashan, which is beyond the hill country shall be yours. Although it is a
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forest, you shall cut it down, and it’s farthest of Luz (the same is Bethel), southward. The
extent shall be yours; for you shall drive out the border went down to Ataroth Addar, by the
Canaanites, though they have chariots of iron, mountain that lies on the south of Beth Horon
and though they are strong.” the lower. 18:14 The border extended, and
18:1 turned around on the west quarter southward,
The whole congregation of the children
of Israel assembled themselves together at from the mountain that lies before Beth Horon
Shiloh, and set up the Tent of Meeting there. southward; and ended at Kiriath Baal (the same
The land was subdued before them. 18:2 Seven is Kiriath Jearim), a city of the children of
tribes remained among the children of Israel, Judah. This was the west quarter. 18:15 The
which had not yet divided their inheritance. south quarter was from the farthest part of
18:3 Kiriath Jearim. The border went out westward,
Joshua said to the children of Israel, “How
long will you neglect to go in to possess the and went out to the spring of the waters of
land, which the LORD, the God of your fathers, Nephtoah. 18:16 The border went down to the
has given you? 18:4 Appoint for yourselves farthest part of the mountain that lies before
three men from each tribe. I will send them, the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is in the
and they shall arise, walk through the land, valley of Rephaim northward. It went down to
and describe it according to their inheritance; the valley of Hinnom, to the side of the Jebusite
and they shall come to me. 18:5 They shall southward, and went down to En Rogel. 18:17 It
divide it into seven portions. Judah shall live extended northward, went out at En Shemesh,
in his borders on the south, and the house and went out to Geliloth, which is over against
of Joseph shall live in their borders on the the ascent of Adummim. It went down to the
north. 18:6 You shall survey the land into seven stone of Bohan the son of Reuben. 18:18 It passed
parts, and bring the description here to me; along to the side over against the Arabah
and I will cast lots for you here before the northward, and went down to the Arabah.
18:19
LORD our God. 18:7 For the Levites have no The border passed along to the side of Beth
portion among you; for the priesthood of the Hoglah northward; and the border ended at the
LORD is their inheritance. Gad, Reuben, and north bay of the Salt Sea, at the south end of
the half-tribe of Manasseh have received their the Jordan. This was the south border. 18:20 The
inheritance beyond the Jordan eastward, which Jordan was its border on the east quarter.
Moses the servant of the LORD gave them.” This was the inheritance of the children of
18:8
The men arose and went. Joshua com- Benjamin, by the borders around it, according
manded those who went to survey the land, to their families. 18:21 Now the cities of the
saying, “Go walk through the land, survey it, tribe of the children of Benjamin according to
and come again to me. I will cast lots for you their families were Jericho, Beth Hoglah, Emek
here before the LORD in Shiloh.” Keziz, 18:22 Beth Arabah, Zemaraim, Bethel,
18:23
18:9 Avvim, Parah, Ophrah, 18:24 Chephar Am-
The men went and passed through the
moni, Ophni, and Geba; twelve cities with
land, and surveyed it by cities into seven
their villages. 18:25 Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth,
portions in a book. They came to Joshua to the 18:26
Mizpeh, Chephirah, Mozah, 18:27 Rekem,
camp at Shiloh. 18:10 Joshua cast lots for them in
Irpeel, Taralah, 18:28 Zelah, Eleph, the Jebusite
Shiloh before the LORD. There Joshua divided
(the same is Jerusalem), Gibeath, and Kiriath;
the land to the children of Israel according to
fourteen cities with their villages. This is
their divisions.
18:11
the inheritance of the children of Benjamin
The lot of the tribe of the children of according to their families.
Benjamin came up according to their families.
19:1
The border of their lot went out between the The second lot came out for Simeon,
children of Judah and the children of Joseph. even for the tribe of the children of Simeon
18:12
Their border on the north quarter was according to their families. Their inheritance
from the Jordan. The border went up to the was in the midst of the inheritance of the
side of Jericho on the north, and went up children of Judah. 19:2 They had for their
through the hill country westward. It ended at inheritance Beersheba (or Sheba), Moladah,
the wilderness of Beth Aven. 18:13 The border 19:3
Hazar Shual, Balah, Ezem, 19:4 Eltolad,
passed along from there to Luz, to the side Bethul, Hormah, 19:5 Ziklag, Beth Marcaboth,
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Hazar Susah, 19:6 Beth Lebaoth, and Sharuhen; hand, 19:28 and Ebron, Rehob, Hammon, and
thirteen cities with their villages; 19:7 Ain, Rim- Kanah, even to great Sidon. 19:29 The border
mon, Ether, and Ashan; four cities with their turned to Ramah, to the fortified city of Tyre;
villages; 19:8 and all the villages that were and the border turned to Hosah. It ended at the
around these cities to Baalath Beer, Ramah of sea by the region of Achzib; 19:30 Ummah also,
the South. This is the inheritance of the tribe and Aphek, and Rehob: twenty-two cities with
of the children of Simeon according to their their villages. 19:31 This is the inheritance of the
families. 19:9 Out of the part of the children of tribe of the children of Asher according to their
Judah was the inheritance of the children of families, these cities with their villages.
Simeon; for the portion of the children of Judah 19:32
The sixth lot came out for the children
was too much for them. Therefore the children of Naphtali, even for the children of Naphtali
of Simeon had inheritance in the midst of their according to their families. 19:33 Their border
inheritance. was from Heleph, from the oak in Zaanannim,
19:10
The third lot came up for the children of Adaminekeb, and Jabneel, to Lakkum. It ended
Zebulun according to their families. The border at the Jordan. 19:34 The border turned westward
of their inheritance was to Sarid. 19:11 Their bor- to Aznoth Tabor, and went out from there to
der went up westward, even to Maralah, and Hukkok. It reached to Zebulun on the south,
reached to Dabbesheth. It reached to the brook and reached to Asher on the west, and to Judah
that is before Jokneam. 19:12 It turned from at the Jordan toward the sunrise. 19:35 The
Sarid eastward toward the sunrise to the border fortified cities were Ziddim, Zer, Hammath,
of Chisloth Tabor. It went out to Daberath, and Rakkath, Chinnereth, 19:36 Adamah, Ramah,
went up to Japhia. 19:13 From there it passed Hazor, 19:37 Kedesh, Edrei, En Hazor, 19:38 Iron,
along eastward to Gath Hepher, to Ethkazin; Migdal El, Horem, Beth Anath, and Beth
and it went out at Rimmon which stretches to Shemesh; nineteen cities with their villages.
Neah. 19:14 The border turned around it on the 19:39
This is the inheritance of the tribe of the
north to Hannathon; and it ended at the valley children of Naphtali according to their families,
of Iphtah El; 19:15 Kattath, Nahalal, Shimron, the cities with their villages.
Idalah, and Bethlehem: twelve cities with their 19:40
The seventh lot came out for the tribe of
villages. 19:16 This is the inheritance of the the children of Dan according to their families.
children of Zebulun according to their families, 19:41
The border of their inheritance was Zorah,
these cities with their villages. Eshtaol, Irshemesh, 19:42 Shaalabbin, Aijalon,
19:17
The fourth lot came out for Issachar, Ithlah, 19:43 Elon, Timnah, Ekron, 19:44 Eltekeh,
even for the children of Issachar according Gibbethon, Baalath, 19:45 Jehud, Bene Berak,
to their families. 19:18 Their border was to Gath Rimmon, 19:46 Me Jarkon, and Rakkon,
Jezreel, Chesulloth, Shunem, 19:19 Hapharaim, with the border over against Joppa. 19:47 The
Shion, Anaharath, 19:20 Rabbith, Kishion, Ebez, border of the children of Dan went out beyond
19:21
Remeth, Engannim, En Haddah, and Beth them; for the children of Dan went up and
Pazzez. 19:22 The border reached to Tabor, fought against Leshem, and took it, and struck
Shahazumah, and Beth Shemesh. Their border it with the edge of the sword, and possessed
ended at the Jordan: sixteen cities with their it, and lived therein, and called Leshem, Dan,
villages. 19:23 This is the inheritance of the tribe after the name of Dan their father. 19:48 This
of the children of Issachar according to their is the inheritance of the tribe of the children
families, the cities with their villages. of Dan according to their families, these cities
19:24 with their villages.
The fifth lot came out for the tribe of the
19:49
children of Asher according to their families. So they made an end of distributing the
19:25
Their border was Helkath, Hali, Beten, land for inheritance by its borders. The children
Achshaph, 19:26 Allammelech, Amad, Mishal. It of Israel gave an inheritance to Joshua the son
reached to Carmel westward, and to Shihor- of Nun in their midst. 19:50 According to the
libnath. 19:27 It turned toward the sunrise to commandment of the LORD, they gave him the
Beth Dagon, and reached to Zebulun, and to city which he asked, even Timnathserah in the
the valley of Iphtah El northward to Beth Emek hill country of Ephraim; and he built the city,
and Neiel. It went out to Cabul on the left and lived there. 19:51 These are the inheritances,
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which Eleazar the priest, Joshua the son of Nun, out of their inheritance, according to the com-
and the heads of the fathers’ houses of the mandment of the LORD, these cities with their
tribes of the children of Israel, distributed for suburbs. 21:4 The lot came out for the families
inheritance by lot in Shiloh before the LORD, at of the Kohathites. The children of Aaron the
the door of the Tent of Meeting. So they made priest, who were of the Levites, had thirteen
an end of dividing the land. cities by lot out of the tribe of Judah, out of
20:1 the tribe of the Simeonites, and out of the tribe
The LORD spoke to Joshua, saying,
20:2
“Speak to the children of Israel, saying, of Benjamin. 21:5 The rest of the children of
‘Assign the cities of refuge, of which I spoke Kohath had ten cities by lot out of the families
to you by Moses, 20:3 that the manslayer who of the tribe of Ephraim, out of the tribe of Dan,
kills any person accidentally or unintentionally and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh. 21:6 The
may flee there. They shall be to you for a refuge children of Gershon had thirteen cities by lot
from the avenger of blood. 20:4 He shall flee out of the families of the tribe of Issachar, out of
to one of those cities, and shall stand at the the tribe of Asher, out of the tribe of Naphtali,
entrance of the gate of the city, and declare and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh in Bashan.
21:7
his cause in the ears of the elders of that city. The children of Merari according to their
They shall take him into the city with them, and families had twelve cities out of the tribe of
give him a place, that he may live among them. Reuben, out of the tribe of Gad, and out of
20:5
If the avenger of blood pursue after him, the tribe of Zebulun. 21:8 The children of Israel
then they shall not deliver up the manslayer gave these cities with their suburbs by lot to the
into his hand; because he struck his neighbor Levites, as the LORD commanded by Moses.
21:9
unintentionally, and didn’t hate him before. They gave out of the tribe of the children
20:6 of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children
He shall dwell in that city until he stands
before the congregation for judgment, until the of Simeon, these cities which are mentioned by
death of the high priest that shall be in those name: 21:10 and they were for the children of
days. Then the manslayer shall return, and Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites, who
come to his own city, and to his own house, to were of the children of Levi; for theirs was the
the city he fled from.’” first lot. 21:11 They gave them Kiriath Arba,
20:7
They set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the named after the father of Anak (the same is
hill country of Naphtali, Shechem in the hill Hebron), in the hill country of Judah, with its
country of Ephraim, and Kiriath Arba (the suburbs around it. 21:12 But they gave the fields
same is Hebron) in the hill country of Judah. of the city and its villages to Caleb the son
20:8
Beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, they of Jephunneh for his possession. 21:13 To the
assigned Bezer in the wilderness in the plain children of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron
out of the tribe of Reuben, Ramoth in Gilead with its suburbs, the city of refuge for the
out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan manslayer, Libnah with its suburbs, 21:14 Jattir
out of the tribe of Manasseh. 20:9 These were with its suburbs, Eshtemoa with its suburbs,
21:15
the appointed cities for all the children of Holon with its suburbs, Debir with its
Israel, and for the alien who lives among them, suburbs, 21:16 Ain with its suburbs, Juttah with
that whoever kills any person unintentionally its suburbs, and Beth Shemesh with its suburbs;
might flee there, and not die by the hand of nine cities out of those two tribes. 21:17 Out of
the avenger of blood, until he stands before the the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with its suburbs,
congregation. Geba with its suburbs, 21:18 Anathoth with its
21:1 suburbs, and Almon with its suburbs; four
Then the heads of fathers’ houses of the
cities. 21:19 All the cities of the children of
Levites came near to Eleazar the priest, and
Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with
to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the heads
their suburbs.
of fathers’ houses of the tribes of the children
of Israel. 21:2 They spoke to them at Shiloh 21:20
The families of the children of Kohath,
in the land of Canaan, saying, “The LORD the Levites, even the rest of the children of
commanded Moses to give us cities to dwell in, Kohath, had the cities of their lot out of the
with their suburbs for our livestock.” tribe of Ephraim. 21:21 They gave them Shechem
21:3
The children of Israel gave to the Levites with its suburbs in the hill country of Ephraim,
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the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Gezer possessed it, and lived in it. 21:44 The LORD
with its suburbs, 21:22 Kibzaim with its suburbs, gave them rest all around, according to all that
and Beth Horon with its suburbs; four cities. he swore to their fathers. Not a man of all
21:23
Out of the tribe of Dan, Elteke with its sub- their enemies stood before them. The LORD
urbs, Gibbethon with its suburbs, 21:24 Aijalon delivered all their enemies into their hand.
21:45
with its suburbs, Gath Rimmon with its sub- Nothing failed of any good thing which the
urbs; four cities. 21:25 Out of the half-tribe of LORD had spoken to the house of Israel. All
Manasseh, Taanach with its suburbs, and Gath came to pass.
Rimmon with its suburbs; two cities. 21:26 All 22:1
Then Joshua called the Reubenites, the
the cities of the families of the rest of the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, 22:2 and
children of Kohath were ten with their suburbs. said to them, “You have kept all that Moses
21:27
They gave to the children of Gershon, of the servant of the LORD commanded you,
the families of the Levites, out of the half-tribe and have listened to my voice in all that I
of Manasseh Golan in Bashan with its suburbs, commanded you. 22:3 You have not left your
the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Be brothers these many days to this day, but have
Eshterah with its suburbs; two cities. 21:28 Out performed the duty of the commandment of
of the tribe of Issachar, Kishion with its sub- the LORD your God. 22:4 Now the LORD your
urbs, Daberath with its suburbs, 21:29 Jarmuth God has given rest to your brothers, as he
with its suburbs, En Gannim with its suburbs; spoke to them. Therefore now return and go
four cities. 21:30 Out of the tribe of Asher, to your tents, to the land of your possession,
Mishal with its suburbs, Abdon with its sub- which Moses the servant of the LORD gave you
urbs, 21:31 Helkath with its suburbs, and Rehob beyond the Jordan. 22:5 Only take diligent heed
with its suburbs; four cities. 21:32 Out of the to do the commandment and the law which
tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its Moses the servant of the LORD commanded
suburbs, the city of refuge for the manslayer, you, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all
Hammothdor with its suburbs, and Kartan his ways, to keep his commandments, to hold
with its suburbs; three cities. 21:33 All the cities fast to him, and to serve him with all your heart
of the Gershonites according to their families and with all your soul.”
were thirteen cities with their suburbs. 22:6
So Joshua blessed them, and sent them
21:34
To the families of the children of Merari, away; and they went to their tents. 22:7 Now
the rest of the Levites, out of the tribe of Ze- to the one half-tribe of Manasseh Moses had
bulun, Jokneam with its suburbs, Kartah with given inheritance in Bashan; but to the other
its suburbs, 21:35 Dimnah with its suburbs, and half gave Joshua among their brothers beyond
Nahalal with its suburbs; four cities. 21:36 Out the Jordan westward. Moreover when Joshua
of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer with its suburbs, sent them away to their tents, he blessed them,
Jahaz with its suburbs, 21:37 Kedemoth with its 22:8
and spoke to them, saying, “Return with
suburbs, and Mephaath with its suburbs; four much wealth to your tents, with very much
cities. 21:38 Out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in livestock, with silver, with gold, with brass,
Gilead with its suburbs, the city of refuge for with iron, and with very much clothing. Divide
the manslayer, and Mahanaim with its suburbs, the spoil of your enemies with your brothers.”
21:39
Heshbon with its suburbs, Jazer with its 22:9
The children of Reuben and the children
suburbs; four cities in all. 21:40 All these were of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh returned,
the cities of the children of Merari according to and departed from the children of Israel out
their families, even the rest of the families of the of Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan, to
Levites. Their lot was twelve cities. go to the land of Gilead, to the land of their
21:41
All the cities of the Levites in the midst possession, which they owned, according to
of the possession of the children of Israel were the commandment of the LORD by Moses.
forty-eight cities with their suburbs. 21:42 Each 22:10
When they came to the region about the
of these cities included their suburbs around Jordan, that is in the land of Canaan, the
them. It was this way with all these cities. children of Reuben and the children of Gad
21:43
So the LORD gave to Israel all the land and the half-tribe of Manasseh built there an
which he swore to give to their fathers. They altar by the Jordan, a great altar to look at.
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22:11
The children of Israel heard this, “Behold, the LORD (don’t save us this day), 22:23 that
the children of Reuben and the children of Gad we have built us an altar to turn away from
and the half-tribe of Manasseh have built an following the LORD; or if to offer burnt offering
altar in the forefront of the land of Canaan, in or meal offering, or if to offer sacrifices of peace
the region about the Jordan, on the side that offerings, let the LORD himself require it.
pertains to the children of Israel.” 22:12 When 22:24
“If we have not out of concern done
the children of Israel heard of it, the whole this, and for a reason, saying, ‘In time to come
congregation of the children of Israel gathered your children might speak to our children,
themselves together at Shiloh, to go up against saying, “What have you to do with the LORD,
them to war. 22:13 The children of Israel sent the God of Israel? 22:25 For the LORD has
to the children of Reuben, and to the children made the Jordan a border between us and you,
of Gad, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, into you children of Reuben and children of Gad.
the land of Gilead, Phinehas the son of Eleazar You have no portion in the LORD.”’ So your
the priest, 22:14 and with him ten princes, one children might make our children cease from
prince of a fathers’ house for each of the tribes fearing the LORD.
of Israel; and they were everyone of them head 22:26
“Therefore we said, ‘Let’s now prepare
of their fathers’ houses among the thousands to build ourselves an altar, not for burnt of-
of Israel. 22:15 They came to the children of fering, nor for sacrifice; 22:27 but it will be a
Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the witness between us and you, and between our
half-tribe of Manasseh, to the land of Gilead, generations after us, that we may perform the
and they spoke with them, saying, 22:16 “Thus service of the LORD before him with our burnt
says the whole congregation of the LORD, offerings, with our sacrifices, and with our
‘What trespass is this that you have committed peace offerings;’ that your children may not
against the God of Israel, to turn away this tell our children in time to come, ‘You have no
day from following the LORD, in that you portion in the LORD.’
have built yourselves an altar, to rebel this 22:28
“Therefore we said, ‘It shall be, when
day against the LORD? 22:17 Is the iniquity of they tell us or our generations this in time to
Peor too little for us, from which we have come, that we shall say, “Behold the pattern of
not cleansed ourselves to this day, although the altar of the LORD, which our fathers made,
there came a plague on the congregation of the not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice; but it is
LORD, 22:18 that you must turn away this day a witness between us and you.”’
from following the LORD? It will be, since you 22:29
“Far be it from us that we should rebel
rebel today against the LORD, that tomorrow
against the LORD, and turn away this day
he will be angry with the whole congregation
from following the LORD, to build an altar
of Israel. 22:19 However, if the land of your pos-
for burnt offering, for meal offering, or for
session is unclean, then pass over to the land
sacrifice, besides the altar of the LORD our God
of the possession of the LORD, in which the
that is before his tabernacle!”
LORD’s tabernacle dwells, and take possession 22:30
among us; but don’t rebel against the LORD, When Phinehas the priest, and the
nor rebel against us, in building an altar other princes of the congregation, even the heads of
than the altar of the LORD our God. 22:20 Didn’t the thousands of Israel that were with him,
Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in heard the words that the children of Reuben
the devoted thing, and wrath fell on all the and the children of Gad and the children
congregation of Israel? That man didn’t perish of Manasseh spoke, it pleased them well.
22:31
alone in his iniquity.’” Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said
to the children of Reuben, to the children of
22:21
Then the children of Reuben and the Gad, and to the children of Manasseh, “Today
children of Gad and the half-tribe of Man- we know that the LORD is in the midst of us,
asseh answered, and spoke to the heads of because you have not committed this trespass
the thousands of Israel, 22:22 “The Mighty One, against the LORD. Now you have delivered the
God, the LORD, the Mighty One, God, the children of Israel out of the hand of the LORD.”
22:32
LORD, he knows; and Israel shall know: if Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest,
it was in rebellion, or if in trespass against and the princes, returned from the children of
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23:13
Reuben, and from the children of Gad, out of know for a certainty that the LORD your
the land of Gilead, to the land of Canaan, to God will no longer drive these nations from out
the children of Israel, and brought them word of your sight; but they shall be a snare and a
again. 22:33 The thing pleased the children of trap to you, a scourge in your sides, and thorns
Israel; and the children of Israel blessed God, in your eyes, until you perish from off this good
and spoke no more of going up against them to land which the LORD your God has given you.
war, to destroy the land in which the children of 23:14
“Behold, today I am going the way of
Reuben and the children of Gad lived. 22:34 The all the earth. You know in all your hearts and
children of Reuben and the children of Gad in all your souls that not one thing has failed of
named the altar “A Witness Between Us that all the good things which the LORD your God
the LORD is God.” spoke concerning you. All have happened to
23:1
It happened after many days, when the you. Not one thing has failed of it. 23:15 It shall
LORD had given rest to Israel from their ene- happen that as all the good things have come
mies all around, and Joshua was old and well on you of which the LORD your God spoke
advanced in years, 23:2 that Joshua called for all to you, so the LORD will bring on you all the
Israel, for their elders and for their heads, and evil things, until he has destroyed you from off
for their judges and for their officers, and said this good land which the LORD your God has
to them, “I am old and well advanced in years. given you, 23:16 when you disobey the covenant
23:3
You have seen all that the LORD your God of the LORD your God, which he commanded
has done to all these nations because of you; you, and go and serve other gods, and bow
for it is the LORD your God who has fought down yourselves to them. Then the anger of the
for you. 23:4 Behold, I have allotted to you LORD will be kindled against you, and you will
these nations that remain, to be an inheritance perish quickly from off the good land which he
for your tribes, from the Jordan, with all the has given to you.”
nations that I have cut off, even to the great 24:1
Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to
sea toward the going down of the sun. 23:5 The Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel,
LORD your God will thrust them out from for their heads, for their judges, and for their
before you, and drive them from out of your officers; and they presented themselves before
sight. You shall possess their land, as the LORD God. 24:2 Joshua said to all the people, “Thus
your God spoke to you. says the LORD, the God of Israel, ‘Your fathers
23:6
“Therefore be very courageous to keep lived of old time beyond the River, even Terah,
and to do all that is written in the scroll of the the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor:
Torah of Moses, that you not turn aside from it and they served other gods. 24:3 I took your
to the right hand or to the left; 23:7 that you not father Abraham from beyond the River, and
come among these nations, these that remain led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and
among you; neither make mention of the name multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac. 24:4 I
of their gods, nor cause to swear by them, gave to Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave to Esau
neither serve them, nor bow down yourselves Mount Seir, to possess it. Jacob and his children
to them; 23:8 but hold fast to the LORD your went down into Egypt.
God, as you have done to this day. 24:5
“‘I sent Moses and Aaron, and I plagued
23:9
“For the LORD has driven great and Egypt, according to that which I did in its
strong nations out from before you. But as for midst: and afterward I brought you out. 24:6 I
you, no man has stood before you to this day. brought your fathers out of Egypt: and you
23:10
One man of you shall chase a thousand; for came to the sea. The Egyptians pursued after
it is the LORD your God who fights for you, as your fathers with chariots and with horsemen
he spoke to you. 23:11 Take good heed therefore to the Sea of Suf. 24:7 When they cried out to the
to yourselves, that you love the LORD your LORD, he put darkness between you and the
God. Egyptians, and brought the sea on them, and
23:12 covered them; and your eyes saw what I did in
“But if you do at all go back, and hold
fast to the remnant of these nations, even these Egypt: and you lived in the wilderness many
who remain among you, and make marriages days.
24:8
with them, and go in to them, and they to you; “‘I brought you into the land of the
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24:21
Amorites, that lived beyond the Jordan: and The people said to Joshua, “No; but we
they fought with you; and I gave them into will serve the LORD.” 24:22 Joshua said to the
your hand. You possessed their land; and people, “You are witnesses against yourselves
I destroyed them from before you. 24:9 Then that you have chosen the LORD yourselves, to
Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose serve him.”
and fought against Israel. He sent and called They said, “We are witnesses.”
Balaam the son of Beor to curse you; 24:10 but 24:23
“Now therefore put away the foreign
I would not listen to Balaam; therefore he gods which are among you, and incline your
blessed you still. So I delivered you out of his heart to the LORD, the God of Israel.”
24:24
hand. The people said to Joshua, “We will
24:11 serve the LORD our God, and we will listen to
“‘You went over the Jordan, and came
to Jericho. The men of Jericho fought against his voice.”
24:25
you, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Canaanite, So Joshua made a covenant with the
the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Hivite, and the people that day, and made for them a statute
Jebusite; and I delivered them into your hand. and an ordinance in Shechem. 24:26 Joshua
24:12 wrote these words in the scroll of the Torah of
I sent the hornet before you, which drove
them out from before you, even the two kings God; and he took a great stone, and set it up
of the Amorites; not with your sword, nor with there under the oak that was by the sanctuary
your bow. 24:13 I gave you a land whereon of the LORD. 24:27 Joshua said to all the people,
you had not labored, and cities which you “Behold, this stone shall be a witness against
didn’t build, and you live in them. You eat of us; for it has heard all the words of the LORD
vineyards and olive groves which you didn’t which he spoke to us. It shall be therefore a
plant.’ witness against you, lest you deny your God.”
24:28
24:14
“Now therefore fear the LORD, and So Joshua sent the people away, every man
serve him in sincerity and in truth. Put away to his inheritance.
24:29
the gods which your fathers served beyond It happened after these things, that
the River, in Egypt; and serve the LORD. Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the
24:15
If it seems evil to you to serve the LORD, LORD, died, being one hundred and ten years
choose this day whom you will serve; whether old. 24:30 They buried him in the border of
the gods which your fathers served that were his inheritance in Timnathserah, which is in
beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, the hill country of Ephraim, on the north of
in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my the mountain of Gaash. 24:31 Israel served the
house, we will serve the LORD.” LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days
24:16 of the elders who outlived Joshua, and had
The people answered, “Far be it from
known all the work of the LORD, that he had
us that we should forsake the LORD, to serve
worked for Israel. 24:32 They buried the bones
other gods; 24:17 for it is the LORD our God who
of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought
brought us and our fathers up out of the land of
up out of Egypt, in Shechem, in the parcel
Egypt, from the house of bondage, and who did
of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of
those great signs in our sight, and preserved us
Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred
in all the way in which we went, and among
pieces of money. They became the inheritance
all the peoples through the midst of whom we
of the children of Joseph. 24:33 Eleazar the son
passed. 24:18 The LORD drove out from before
of Aaron died. They buried him in the hill of
us all the peoples, even the Amorites who lived
Phinehas his son, which was given him in the
in the land. Therefore we also will serve the
hill country of Ephraim.
LORD; for he is our God.”
24:19
Joshua said to the people, “You can’t
serve the LORD; for he is a holy God. He
is a jealous God. He will not forgive your
disobedience nor your sins. 24:20 If you forsake
the LORD, and serve foreign gods, then he will
turn and do you evil, and consume you, after
he has done you good.”
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Judges Caleb gave her the upper springs and the


lower springs. 1:16 The children of the Kenite,
1:1
It happened after the death of Joshua, the Moses’ brother-in-law, went up out of the city
children of Israel asked of the LORD,a saying, of palm trees with the children of Judah into
“Who should go up for us first against the the wilderness of Judah, which is in the south
Canaanites, to fight against them?” of Arad; and they went and lived with the peo-
1:2
The LORD said, “Judah shall go up. Be- ple. 1:17 Judah went with Simeon his brother,
hold, I have delivered the land into his hand.” and they struck the Canaanites who inhabited
1:3
Judah said to Simeon his brother, “Come Zephath, and utterly destroyed it. The name
up with me into my lot, that we may fight of the city was called Hormah. 1:18 Also Judah
against the Canaanites; and I likewise will go took Gaza with its border, and Ashkelon with
with you into your lot.” So Simeon went its border, and Ekron with its border. 1:19 The
with him. 1:4 Judah went up; and the LORD LORD was with Judah; and drove out the
delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into inhabitants of the hill country; for he could
their hand: and they struck of them in Bezek not drive out the inhabitants of the valley,
ten thousand men. 1:5 They found Adoni-Bezek because they had chariots of iron. 1:20 They
in Bezek; and they fought against him, and gave Hebron to Caleb, as Moses had spoken:
they struck the Canaanites and the Perizzites. and he drove out there the three sons of Anak.
1:21
1:6
But Adoni-Bezek fled; and they pursued The children of Benjamin did not drive out
after him, and caught him, and cut off his the Jebusites who inhabited Jerusalem; but the
thumbs and his great toes. 1:7 Adoni-Bezek Jebusites dwell with the children of Benjamin
said, “Seventy kings, having their thumbs and in Jerusalem to this day.
1:22
their great toes cut off, scavenged under my The house of Joseph, they also went up
table: as I have done, so Godb has requited against Bethel; and the LORD was with them.
1:23
me.” They brought him to Jerusalem, and he The house of Joseph sent to spy out Bethel.
died there. 1:8 The children of Judah fought (Now the name of the city before was Luz.)
1:24
against Jerusalem, and took it, and struck it The watchers saw a man come forth out of
with the edge of the sword, and set the city the city, and they said to him, “Please show
on fire. 1:9 Afterward the children of Judah us the entrance into the city, and we will deal
went down to fight against the Canaanites who kindly with you.” 1:25 He showed them the
lived in the hill country, and in the South, entrance into the city; and they struck the city
and in the lowland. 1:10 Judah went against with the edge of the sword; but they let the man
the Canaanites who lived in Hebron (now the go and all his family. 1:26 The man went into the
name of Hebron before was Kiriath Arba); and land of the Hittites, and built a city, and called
they struck Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai. its name Luz, which is its name to this day.
1:11 1:27
From there he went against the inhabi- Manasseh did not drive out the inhabi-
tants of Debir. (Now the name of Debir before tants of Beth Shean and its towns, nor Taanach
was Kiriath Sepher.) 1:12 Caleb said, “He who and its towns, nor the inhabitants of Dor and
strikes Kiriath Sepher, and takes it, to him will I its towns, nor the inhabitants of Ibleam and
give Achsah my daughter as wife.” 1:13 Othniel its towns, nor the inhabitants of Megiddo and
the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother, took its towns; but the Canaanites would dwell in
it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter as that land. 1:28 It happened, when Israel had
wife. grown strong, that they put the Canaanites to
1:14
It happened, when she came, that she forced labor, and did not utterly drive them out.
1:29
got him to ask her father for a field: and she Ephraim didn’t drive out the Canaanites
alighted from off her donkey; and Caleb said to who lived in Gezer; but the Canaanites lived in
her, “What would you like?” Gezer among them. 1:30 Zebulun didn’t drive
1:15
She said to him, “Give me a blessing; out the inhabitants of Kitron, nor the inhab-
for that you have set me in the land of the itants of Nahalol; but the Canaanites lived
South, give me also springs of water.” Then among them, and became subject to forced
a 1:1 “LORD” or “GOD” (all capital letters) indicate the 4-letter Holy Name of God
b 1:7 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “Elohim.”
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labor. 1:31 Asher didn’t drive out the inhabitants didn’t know the LORD, nor yet the work which
of Acco, nor the inhabitants of Sidon, nor of he had worked for Israel. 2:11 The children of
Ahlab, nor of Achzib, nor of Helbah, nor of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of
Aphik, nor of Rehob; 1:32 but the Asherites the LORD, and served the Baals; 2:12 and they
lived among the Canaanites, the inhabitants forsook the LORD, the God of their fathers,
of the land; for they did not drive them out. who brought them out of the land of Egypt,
1:33
Naphtali didn’t drive out the inhabitants and followed other gods, of the gods of the
of Beth Shemesh, nor the inhabitants of Beth peoples who were around them, and bowed
Anath; but he lived among the Canaanites, themselves down to them: and they provoked
the inhabitants of the land: nevertheless the the LORD to anger. 2:13 They forsook the
inhabitants of Beth Shemesh and of Beth Anath LORD, and served Baal and the Ashtaroth.
became subject to forced labor. 1:34 The Amor- 2:14
The anger of the LORD was kindled against
ites forced the children of Dan into the hill Israel, and he delivered them into the hands
country; for they would not allow them to of spoilers who despoiled them; and he sold
come down to the valley; 1:35 but the Amorites them into the hands of their enemies all around,
would dwell in Mount Heres, in Aijalon, and in so that they could not any longer stand before
Shaalbim: yet the hand of the house of Joseph their enemies. 2:15 Wherever they went out,
prevailed, so that they became subject to forced the hand of the LORD was against them for
labor. 1:36 The border of the Amorites was from evil, as the LORD had spoken, and as the
the ascent of Akrabbim, from the rock, and LORD had sworn to them: and they were very
upward. distressed. 2:16 The LORD raised up judges,
2:1
The angel of the LORD came up from who saved them out of the hand of those who
Gilgal to Bochim. He said, “I made you to go up despoiled them. 2:17 Yet they didn’t listen to
out of Egypt, and have brought you to the land their judges; for they played the prostitute after
which I swore to your fathers; and I said, ‘I will other gods, and bowed themselves down to
never break my covenant with you: 2:2 and you them: they turned aside quickly out of the
shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of way in which their fathers walked, obeying
this land; you shall break down their altars.’ the commandments of the LORD. They didn’t
But you have not listened to my voice: why do so. 2:18 When the LORD raised them up
have you done this? 2:3 Therefore I also said, judges, then the LORD was with the judge, and
I will not drive them out from before you; but saved them out of the hand of their enemies
they shall be in your sides, and their gods shall all the days of the judge: for it grieved the
be a snare to you.” LORD because of their groaning by reason
2:4
of those who oppressed them and troubled
It happened, when the angel of the LORD them. 2:19 But it happened, when the judge
spoke these words to all the children of Israel, was dead, that they turned back, and dealt
that the people lifted up their voice, and wept. more corruptly than their fathers, in following
2:5
They called the name of that place Bochim: other gods to serve them, and to bow down
and they sacrificed there to the LORD. 2:6 Now to them; they didn’t cease from their doings,
when Joshua had sent the people away, the nor from their stubborn way. 2:20 The anger
children of Israel went every man to his inheri- of the LORD was kindled against Israel; and
tance to possess the land. 2:7 The people served he said, “Because this nation have transgressed
the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the my covenant which I commanded their fathers,
days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who and have not listened to my voice; 2:21 I also will
had seen all the great work of the LORD that not henceforth drive out any from before them
he had worked for Israel. 2:8 Joshua the son of of the nations that Joshua left when he died;
Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being one 2:22
that by them I may prove Israel, whether
hundred ten years old. 2:9 They buried him in they will keep the way of the LORD to walk
the border of his inheritance in Timnath Heres, therein, as their fathers kept it, or not.” 2:23 So
in the hill country of Ephraim, on the north the LORD left those nations, without driving
of the mountain of Gaash. 2:10 Also all that them out hastily; neither delivered he them into
generation were gathered to their fathers: and the hand of Joshua.
there arose another generation after them, who
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3:1
Now these are the nations which the of Moab. 3:16 Ehud made him a sword which
LORD left, to prove Israel by them, even had two edges, a cubit in length; and he wore
as many as had not known all the wars of it under his clothing on his right thigh. 3:17 He
Canaan; 3:2 only that the generations of the offered the tribute to Eglon king of Moab: now
children of Israel might know, to teach them Eglon was a very fat man. 3:18 When he had
war, at the least such as before knew nothing made an end of offering the tribute, he sent
of it: 3:3 the five lords of the Philistines, and away the people who bore the tribute. 3:19 But
all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the he himself turned back from the quarries that
Hivites who lived on Mount Lebanon, from were by Gilgal, and said, “I have a secret errand
Mount Baal Hermon to the entrance of Hamath. to you, king.”
3:4
They were left to test Israel by them, to know The king said, “Keep silence!” All who stood
whether they would listen to the command- by him went out from him.
3:20
ments of the LORD, which he commanded Ehud came to him; and he was sitting by
their fathers by Moses. 3:5 The children of himself alone in the cool upper room. Ehud
Israel lived among the Canaanites, the Hittites, said, “I have a message from God to you.” He
and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the arose out of his seat. 3:21 Ehud put forth his left
Hivites, and the Jebusites: 3:6 and they took hand, and took the sword from his right thigh,
their daughters to be their wives, and gave and thrust it into his body: 3:22 and the handle
their own daughters to their sons and served also went in after the blade; and the fat closed
their gods. 3:7 The children of Israel did that on the blade, for he didn’t draw the sword out
which was evil in the sight of the LORD, and of his body; and it came out behind. 3:23 Then
forgot the LORD their God, and served the Ehud went forth into the porch, and shut the
Baals and the Asheroth. 3:8 Therefore the anger doors of the upper room on him, and locked
of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he them.
sold them into the hand of Cushan Rishathaim 3:24
Now when he was gone out, his servants
king of Mesopotamia: and the children of came; and they saw, and behold, the doors
Israel served Cushan Rishathaim eight years. of the upper room were locked; and they
3:9
When the children of Israel cried to the said, “Surely he is covering his feet in the
LORD, the LORD raised up a savior to the upper room.” 3:25 They waited until they were
children of Israel, who saved them, even Oth- ashamed; and behold, he didn’t open the doors
niel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother. of the upper room: therefore they took the key,
3:10
The Spirit of the LORD came on him, and and opened them, and behold, their lord was
he judged Israel; and he went out to war, and fallen down dead on the earth.
the LORD delivered Cushan Rishathaim king 3:26
Ehud escaped while they waited, and
of Mesopotamia into his hand: and his hand passed beyond the quarries, and escaped to
prevailed against Cushan Rishathaim. 3:11 The Seirah. 3:27 It happened, when he had come,
land had rest forty years. Othniel the son of that he blew a shofarc in the hill country of
Kenaz died. 3:12 The children of Israel again Ephraim; and the children of Israel went down
did that which was evil in the sight of the with him from the hill country, and he before
LORD: and the LORD strengthened Eglon the them.
king of Moab against Israel, because they had 3:28
He said to them, “Follow me; for
done that which was evil in the sight of the the LORD has delivered your enemies the
LORD. 3:13 He gathered to him the children of Moabites into your hand.” They followed him,
Ammon and Amalek; and he went and struck and took the fords of the Jordan against the
Israel, and they possessed the city of palm trees. Moabites, and didn’t allow any man to pass
3:14
The children of Israel served Eglon the king over. 3:29 They struck of Moab at that time about
of Moab eighteen years. 3:15 But when the ten thousand men, every lusty man, and every
children of Israel cried to the LORD, the LORD man of valor; and there escaped not a man.
raised them up a savior, Ehud the son of Gera, 3:30
So Moab was subdued that day under the
the Benjamite, a man left-handed. The children hand of Israel. The land had rest eighty years.
of Israel sent tribute by him to Eglon the king 3:31
After him was Shamgar the son of Anath,
c 3:27 or, trumpet
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who struck of the Philistines six hundred men Tabor, and ten thousand men after him. 4:15 The
with an oxgoad: and he also saved Israel. LORD confused Sisera, and all his chariots,
4:1 and all his army, with the edge of the sword
The children of Israel again did that which
was evil in the sight of the LORD, when Ehud before Barak; and Sisera alighted from his
was dead. 4:2 The LORD sold them into the chariot, and fled away on his feet. 4:16 But Barak
hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in pursued after the chariots, and after the army,
Hazor; the captain of whose army was Sisera, to Harosheth of the Gentiles: and all the army
who lived in Harosheth of the Gentiles. 4:3 The of Sisera fell by the edge of the sword; there was
children of Israel cried to the LORD: for he not a man left.
4:17
had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty However Sisera fled away on his feet to
years he mightily oppressed the children of the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite;
Israel. 4:4 Now Deborah, a prophetess, the for there was peace between Jabin the king
wife of Lappidoth, she judged Israel at that of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.
4:18
time. 4:5 She lived under the palm tree of Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said to
Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill him, “Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; don’t be
country of Ephraim: and the children of Israel afraid.” He came in to her into the tent, and she
came up to her for judgment. 4:6 She sent and covered him with a rug.
4:19
called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedesh He said to her, “Please give me a little
Naphtali, and said to him, “Hasn’t the LORD, water to drink; for I am thirsty.”
the God of Israel, commanded, ‘Go and draw to She opened a bottle of milk, and gave him
Mount Tabor, and take with you ten thousand drink, and covered him.
4:20
men of the children of Naphtali and of the He said to her, “Stand in the door of the
children of Zebulun? 4:7 I will draw to you, to tent, and it shall be, when any man comes and
the river Kishon, Sisera, the captain of Jabin’s inquires of you, and says, ‘Is there any man
army, with his chariots and his multitude; and here?’ that you shall say, ‘No.’”
I will deliver him into your hand.’” 4:21
Then Jael Heber’s wife took a tent peg,
4:8
Barak said to her, “If you will go with me, and took a hammer in her hand, and went
then I will go; but if you will not go with me, I softly to him, and struck the pin into his tem-
will not go.” ples, and it pierced through into the ground;
4:9 for he was in a deep sleep; so he swooned and
She said, “I will surely go with you:
nevertheless, the journey that you take shall not died. 4:22 Behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael
be for your honor; for the LORD will sell Sisera came out to meet him, and said to him, “Come,
into the hand of a woman.” Deborah arose, and and I will show you the man whom you seek.”
went with Barak to Kedesh. He came to her; and behold, Sisera lay dead,
4:10
Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali to- and the tent peg was in his temples. 4:23 So God
gether to Kedesh; and there went up ten subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan
thousand men at his feet: and Deborah went up before the children of Israel. 4:24 The hand of
with him. 4:11 Now Heber the Kenite had sep- the children of Israel prevailed more and more
arated himself from the Kenites, even from the against Jabin the king of Canaan, until they had
children of Hobab the brother-in-law of Moses, destroyed Jabin king of Canaan.
5:1
and had pitched his tent as far as the oak in Then Deborah and Barak the son of Abi-
Zaanannim, which is by Kedesh. 4:12 They told noam sang on that day, saying,
5:2
Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam was gone “Because the leaders took the lead in Israel,
up to Mount Tabor. 4:13 Sisera gathered together because the people offered themselves
all his chariots, even nine hundred chariots of willingly,
iron, and all the people who were with him, be blessed, the LORD!
5:3
from Harosheth of the Gentiles, to the river “Hear, you kings!
Kishon. Give ear, you princes!
4:14 I, even I, will sing to the LORD.
Deborah said to Barak, “Go; for this is the
day in which the LORD has delivered Sisera I will sing praise to the LORD, the God of
into your hand. Hasn’t the LORD gone out Israel.
5:4
before you?” So Barak went down from Mount “LORD, when you went forth out of Seir,
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when you marched out of the field of Why did you sit among the sheepfolds,
Edom, To hear the whistling for the flocks?
the earth trembled, the sky also dropped. At the watercourses of Reuben
Yes, the clouds dropped water. There were great searchings of heart.
5:5 5:17
The mountains quaked at the presence of the Gilead lived beyond the Jordan.
LORD, Why did Dan remain in ships?
even Sinai, at the presence of the LORD, Asher sat still at the haven of the sea,
the God of Israel. and lived by his creeks.
5:6 5:18
“In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, Zebulun was a people that jeopardized their
in the days of Jael, the highways were lives to the deaths;
unoccupied. Naphtali also, on the high places of the
The travelers walked through byways. field.
5:7 5:19
The rulers ceased in Israel. “The kings came and fought,
They ceased until I, Deborah, arose; then the kings of Canaan fought at
Until I arose a mother in Israel. Taanach by the waters of Megiddo.
5:8
They chose new gods. They took no plunder of silver.
5:20
Then war was in the gates. From the sky the stars fought.
Was there a shield or spear seen among From their courses, they fought against
forty thousand in Israel? Sisera.
5:9 5:21
My heart is toward the governors of Israel, The river Kishon swept them away,
who offered themselves willingly among that ancient river, the river Kishon.
the people. My soul, march on with strength.
5:22
Bless the LORD! Then the horse hoofs stamped because of
5:10
“Speak, you who ride on white donkeys, the prancings,
you who sit on rich carpets, the prancings of their strong ones.
5:23
and you who walk by the way. ‘Curse Meroz,’ said the angel of the LORD.
5:11
Far from the noise of archers, in the places ‘Curse bitterly its inhabitants,
of drawing water, because they didn’t come to help the
there they will rehearse the righteous acts LORD,
of the LORD, to help the LORD against the mighty.’
5:24
the righteous acts of his rule in Israel. “Jael shall be blessed above women,
“Then the people of the LORD went down to the wife of Heber the Kenite;
the gates. blessed shall she be above women in the
5:12
‘Awake, awake, Deborah! tent.
5:25
Awake, awake, utter a song! He asked for water.
Arise, Barak, and lead away your cap- She gave him milk.
tives, you son of Abinoam.’ She brought him butter in a lordly dish.
5:13 5:26
“Then a remnant of the nobles and the She put her hand to the tent peg,
people came down. and her right hand to the workmen’s
The LORD came down for me against the hammer.
mighty. With the hammer she struck Sisera.
5:14
Those whose root is in Amalek came out of She struck through his head.
Ephraim, Yes, she pierced and struck through his
after you, Benjamin, among your peoples. temples.
5:27
Governors come down out of Machir. At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay.
Those who handle the marshal’s staff At her feet he bowed, he fell.
came out of Zebulun. Where he bowed, there he fell down
5:15
The princes of Issachar were with Deborah. dead.
5:28
As was Issachar, so was Barak. “Through the window she looked out, and
They rushed into the valley at his feet. cried:
By the watercourses of Reuben, Sisera’s mother looked through the lat-
there were great resolves of heart. tice.
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‘Why is his chariot so long in coming? The angel of the LORD came, and sat
Why do the wheels of his chariots wait?’ under the oak which was in Ophrah, that
5:29 pertained to Joash the Abiezrite: and his son
Her wise ladies answered her,
Yes, she returned answer to herself, Gideon was beating out wheat in the wine-
5:30
‘Have they not found, have they not di- press, to hide it from the Midianites. 6:12 The
vided the spoil? angel of the LORD appeared to him, and said to
him, “The LORD is with you, you mighty man
A lady, two ladies to every man;
of valor!”
to Sisera a spoil of dyed garments, 6:13
Gideon said to him, “Oh, my lord, if
a spoil of dyed garments embroidered, the LORD is with us, why then has all this
of dyed garments embroidered on both happened to us? Where are all his wondrous
sides, on the necks of the spoil?’ works which our fathers told us of, saying,
5:31
“So let all your enemies perish, LORD, ‘Didn’t the LORD bring us up from Egypt?’ But
but let those who love him be as the sun now the LORD has cast us off, and delivered us
when it rises forth in its strength.” into the hand of Midian.”
6:14
Then the land had rest forty years. The LORD looked at him, and said, “Go
6:1 in this your might, and save Israel from the
The children of Israel did that which was
evil in the sight of the LORD: and the LORD hand of Midian. Haven’t I sent you?”
6:15
delivered them into the hand of Midian seven He said to him, “O Lordd , how shall I
years. 6:2 The hand of Midian prevailed against save Israel? Behold, my family is the poorest
Israel; and because of Midian the children of in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father’s
Israel made them the dens which are in the house.”
6:16
mountains, and the caves, and the strongholds. The LORD said to him, “Surely I will be
6:3 with you, and you shall strike the Midianites as
So it was, when Israel had sown, that the
Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and one man.”
6:17
the children of the east; they came up against He said to him, “If now I have found
them; 6:4 and they encamped against them, and favor in your sight, then show me a sign that
destroyed the increase of the earth, until you it is you who talk with me. 6:18 Please don’t go
come to Gaza, and left no sustenance in Israel, away, until I come to you, and bring out my
neither sheep, nor ox, nor donkey. 6:5 For they present, and lay it before you.”
came up with their livestock and their tents; He said, “I will wait until you come back.”
6:19
they came in as locusts for multitude; both they Gideon went in, and prepared a young
and their camels were without number: and goat, and unleavened cakes of an efahe of meal.
they came into the land to destroy it. 6:6 Israel He put the meat in a basket and he put the broth
was brought very low because of Midian; and in a pot, and brought it out to him under the
the children of Israel cried to the LORD. oak, and presented it.
6:7 6:20
It happened, when the children of Israel The angel of God said to him, “Take the
cried to the LORD because of Midian, 6:8 that meat and the unleavened cakes, and lay them
the LORD sent a prophet to the children of on this rock, and pour out the broth.”
Israel: and he said to them, “Thus says the He did so. 6:21 Then the angel of the LORD
LORD, the God of Israel, ‘I brought you up stretched out the end of the staff that was
from Egypt, and brought you forth out of the in his hand, and touched the meat and the
house of bondage; 6:9 and I delivered you out unleavened cakes; and fire went up out of
of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the the rock, and consumed the meat and the
hand of all who oppressed you, and drove unleavened cakes; and the angel of the LORD
them out from before you, and gave you their departed out of his sight.
land; 6:10 and I said to you, “I am the LORD 6:22
Gideon saw that he was the angel of the
your God; you shall not fear the gods of the LORD; and Gideon said, “Alas, Lord GOD!
Amorites, in whose land you dwell.” But you Because I have seen the angel of the LORD face
have not listened to my voice.’” to face!”
d 6:15 The word translated “Lord” (mixed case) is “Adonai.”
e 6:19 1 efah is about 22 litres or about 2/3 of a bushel
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The LORD said to him, “Peace be to you! also were gathered together after him: and he
Don’t be afraid. You shall not die.” sent messengers to Asher, and to Zebulun, and
6:24
Then Gideon built an altar there to the to Naphtali; and they came up to meet them.
6:36
LORD, and called it “the LORD is Peacef .” To Gideon said to God, “If you will save
this day it is still in Ophrah of the Abiezrites. Israel by my hand, as you have spoken,
6:25 6:37
It happened the same night, that the behold, I will put a fleece of wool on the
LORD said to him, “Take your father’s bull, threshing floor; if there is dew on the fleece
even the second bull seven years old, and only, and it is dry on all the ground, then shall
throw down the altar of Baal that your father I know that you will save Israel by my hand, as
has, and cut down the Asherah that is by it; you have spoken.”
6:26 6:38
and build an altar to the LORD your God It was so; for he rose up early on the next
on the top of this stronghold, in an orderly day, and pressed the fleece together, and wrung
way, and take the second bull, and offer a burnt the dew out of the fleece, a bowl full of water.
offering with the wood of the Asherah which 6:39
Gideon said to God, “Don’t let your
you shall cut down.” anger be kindled against me, and I will speak
6:27
Then Gideon took ten men of his ser- but this once. Please let me make a trial just
vants, and did as the LORD had spoken to him: this once with the fleece. Let it now be dry only
and it happened, because he feared his father’s on the fleece, and on all the ground let there be
household and the men of the city, so that he dew.”
could not do it by day, that he did it by night. 6:40
God did so that night: for it was dry on
6:28
When the men of the city arose early the fleece only, and there was dew on all the
in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was ground.
broken down, and the Asherah was cut down 7:1
Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all
that was by it, and the second bull was offered the people who were with him, rose up early,
on the altar that was built. 6:29 They said one to and encamped beside the spring of Harod: and
another, “Who has done this thing?” the camp of Midian was on the north side of
When they inquired and asked, they said, them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley. 7:2 The
“Gideon the son of Joash has done this thing.” LORD said to Gideon, “The people who are
6:30
Then the men of the city said to Joash, with you are too many for me to give the Mid-
“Bring out your son, that he may die, because ianites into their hand, lest Israel vaunt them-
he has broken down the altar of Baal, and selves against me, saying, ‘My own hand has
because he has cut down the Asherah that was saved me.’ 7:3 Now therefore proclaim in the
by it.” 6:31 Joash said to all who stood against ears of the people, saying, ‘Whoever is fearful
him, “Will you contend for Baal? Or will you and trembling, let him return and depart from
save him? He who will contend for him, let Mount Gilead.’” Twenty-two thousand of the
him be put to death by morning. If he is a god, people returned, and ten thousand remained.
7:4
let him contend for himself, because someone The LORD said to Gideon, “The people
has broken down his altar.” 6:32 Therefore on are still too many. Bring them down to the
that day he named him Jerub-Baal,g saying, water, and I will test them for you there. It
“Let Baal contend against him, because he has shall be, that of whom I tell you, ‘This shall go
broken down his altar.” with you,’ the same shall go with you; and of
6:33
Then all the Midianites and the whoever I tell you, ‘This shall not go with you,’
Amalekites and the children of the east the same shall not go.” 7:5 So he brought down
assembled themselves together; and they the people to the water; and the LORD said to
passed over, and encamped in the valley of Gideon, “Everyone who laps of the water with
Jezreel. 6:34 But the Spirit of the LORD came his tongue, like a dog laps, you shall set him
on Gideon; and he blew a shofarh ; and Abiezer by himself; likewise everyone who bows down
was gathered together after him. 6:35 He sent on his knees to drink.” 7:6 The number of those
messengers throughout all Manasseh; and they who lapped, putting their hand to their mouth,
f 6:24or, the LORD Shalom
g 6:32 “Jerub-Baal” means “Let Baal contend.”
h 6:34 or, trumpet
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was three hundred men; but all the rest of the He said to them, “Watch me, and do
people bowed down on their knees to drink likewise. Behold, when I come to the outermost
water. 7:7 The LORD said to Gideon, “By the part of the camp, it shall be that, as I do, so you
three hundred men who lapped will I save you, shall do. 7:18 When I blow the shofark , I and all
and deliver the Midianites into your hand. Let who are with me, then blow the shofarsl also on
all the other people go, each to his own place.” every side of all the camp, and shout, ‘For the
7:8
So the people took food in their hand, and LORD and for Gideon!’”
7:19
their shofarsi ; and he sent all the men of Israel So Gideon, and the hundred men who
every man to his tent, but retained the three were with him, came to the outermost part of
hundred men: and the camp of Midian was the camp in the beginning of the middle watch,
beneath him in the valley. 7:9 It happened the when they had but newly set the watch: and
same night, that the LORD said to him, “Arise, they blew the shofarsm , and broke in pieces
go down into the camp; for I have delivered the pitchers that were in their hands. 7:20 The
it into your hand. 7:10 But if you are afraid to three companies blew the shofarsn , and broke
go down, go with Purah your servant down to the pitchers, and held the torches in their left
the camp: 7:11 and you shall hear what they say; hands, and the shofarso in their right hands
and afterward your hands will be strengthened with which to blow; and they shouted, “The
to go down into the camp.” Then went he sword of the LORD and of Gideon!” 7:21 They
down with Purah his servant to the outermost each stood in his place around the camp;
part of the armed men who were in the camp. and all the army ran; and they shouted, and
7:12
The Midianites and the Amalekites and put them to flight. 7:22 They blew the three
all the children of the east lay along in the val- hundred shofarsp , and the LORD set every
ley like locusts for multitude; and their camels man’s sword against his fellow, and against
were without number, as the sand which is on all the army; and the army fled as far as Beth
the seashore for multitude. Shittah toward Zererah, as far as the border
7:13
When Gideon had come, behold, there of Abel Meholah, by Tabbath. 7:23 The men of
was a man telling a dream to his fellow; and he Israel were gathered together out of Naphtali,
said, “Behold, I dreamed a dream; and behold, and out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh,
a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of and pursued after Midian. 7:24 Gideon sent
Midian, and came to the tent, and struck it so messengers throughout all the hill country of
that it fell, and turned it upside down, so that Ephraim, saying, “Come down against Midian,
the tent lay flat.” and take before them the waters, as far as Beth
7:14
His fellow answered, “This is nothing Barah, even the Jordan!” So all the men of
other than the sword of Gideon the son of Ephraim were gathered together, and took the
Joash, a man of Israel. God has delivered waters as far as Beth Barah, even the Jordan.
7:25
Midian into his hand, with all the army.” They took the two princes of Midian, Oreb
7:15
It was so, when Gideon heard the telling and Zeeb; and they killed Oreb at the rock of
of the dream, and its interpretation, that he Oreb, and Zeeb they killed at the winepress of
worshiped; and he returned into the camp of Zeeb, and pursued Midian: and they brought
Israel, and said, “Arise; for the LORD has the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon beyond
delivered the army of Midian into your hand!” the Jordan.
7:16 8:1
He divided the three hundred men into The men of Ephraim said to him, “Why
three companies, and he put into the hands of have you treated us this way, that you didn’t
all of them shofarsj , and empty pitchers, with call us, when you went to fight with Midian?”
torches within the pitchers. They rebuked him sharply. 8:2 He said to
i 7:8 or, trumpets
j 7:16 or, trumpets
k 7:18 or, trumpet
l 7:18 or, trumpets
m 7:19 or, trumpets
n 7:20 or, trumpets
o 7:20 or, trumpets
p 7:22 or, trumpets
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them, “What have I now done in comparison of Succoth. 8:17 He broke down the tower of
with you? Isn’t the gleaning of the grapes of Penuel, and killed the men of the city.
Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer? 8:18
Then he said to Zebah and Zalmunna,
8:3
God has delivered into your hand the princes “What kind of men were they whom you killed
of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb! What was I able to at Tabor?”
do in comparison with you?” Then their anger They answered, “They were like you. Each
was abated toward him, when he had said that. one resembled the children of a king.”
8:4 8:19
Gideon came to the Jordan, and passed He said, “They were my brothers, the
over, he, and the three hundred men who were sons of my mother. As the LORD lives, if you
with him, faint, yet pursuing. 8:5 He said to the had saved them alive, I would not kill you.”
men of Succoth, “Please give loaves of bread to 8:20
He said to Jether his firstborn, “Get up,
the people who follow me; for they are faint, and kill them!” But the youth didn’t draw his
and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, sword; for he was afraid, because he was yet a
the kings of Midian.” youth.
8:6 8:21
The princes of Succoth said, “Are the Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, “Rise
hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in your and fall on us; for as the man is, so is his
hand, that we should give bread to your strength.” Gideon arose, and killed Zebah and
army?” Zalmunna, and took the crescents that were on
8:7
Gideon said, “Therefore when the LORD their camels’ necks.
has delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into my 8:22
Then the men of Israel said to Gideon,
hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns “Rule over us, both you, and your son, and
of the wilderness and with briers.” your son’s son also; for you have saved us out
8:8
He went up there to Penuel, and spoke of the hand of Midian.”
8:23
to them in the same way; and the men of Gideon said to them, “I will not rule over
Penuel answered him as the men of Succoth you, neither shall my son rule over you. The
had answered. 8:9 He spoke also to the men of LORD shall rule over you.” 8:24 Gideon said to
Penuel, saying, “When I come again in peace, I them, “I would make a request of you, that you
will break down this tower.” would give me every man the earrings of his
8:10
Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in spoil.” (For they had golden earrings, because
Karkor, and their armies with them, about they were Ishmaelites.)
8:25
fifteen thousand men, all who were left of all They answered, “We will willingly give
the army of the children of the east; for there fell them.” They spread a garment, and every man
one hundred twenty thousand men who drew threw the earrings of his spoil into it. 8:26 The
sword. 8:11 Gideon went up by the way of those weight of the golden earrings that he requested
who lived in tents on the east of Nobah and was one thousand and seven hundred shekels
Jogbehah, and struck the army; for the army of gold, besides the crescents, and the pen-
was secure. 8:12 Zebah and Zalmunna fled; and dants, and the purple clothing that was on the
he pursued after them; and he took the two kings of Midian, and besides the chains that
kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and were about their camels’ necks. 8:27 Gideon
confused all the army. 8:13 Gideon the son of made an ephod of it, and put it in his city,
Joash returned from the battle from the ascent even in Ophrah: and all Israel played the
of Heres. 8:14 He caught a young man of the prostitute after it there; and it became a snare
men of Succoth, and inquired of him: and he to Gideon, and to his house. 8:28 So Midian
described for him the princes of Succoth, and was subdued before the children of Israel, and
its elders, seventy-seven men. 8:15 He came to they lifted up their heads no more. The land
the men of Succoth, and said, “See Zebah and had rest forty years in the days of Gideon.
8:29
Zalmunna, concerning whom you taunted me, Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and lived
saying, ‘Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna in his own house. 8:30 Gideon had seventy sons
now in your hand, that we should give bread conceived from his body; for he had many
to your men who are weary?’” 8:16 He took the wives. 8:31 His concubine who was in Shechem,
elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness she also bore him a son, and he named him
and briers, and with them he taught the men Abimelech. 8:32 Gideon the son of Joash died
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in a good old age, and was buried in the tomb “The trees said to the vine, ‘Come and
of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites. reign over us.’
8:33 9:13
It happened, as soon as Gideon was dead, “The vine said to them, ‘Should I leave
that the children of Israel turned again, and my new wine, which cheers God and man, and
played the prostitute after the Baals, and made go to wave back and forth over the trees?’
Baal Berith their god. 8:34 The children of Israel 9:14
“Then all the trees said to the bramble,
didn’t remember the LORD their God, who ‘Come and reign over us.’
had delivered them out of the hand of all 9:15
“The bramble said to the trees, ‘If in truth
their enemies on every side; 8:35 neither did you anoint me king over you, then come and
they show kindness to the house of Jerubbaal, take refuge in my shade; and if not, let fire come
Gideon, according to all the goodness which he out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of
had shown to Israel. Lebanon.’
9:1
Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to 9:16
“Now therefore, if you have dealt truly
Shechem to his mother’s brothers, and spoke and righteously, in that you have made Abim-
with them, and with all the family of the house elech king, and if you have dealt well with
of his mother’s father, saying, 9:2 “Please speak Jerubbaal and his house, and have done to
in the ears of all the men of Shechem, ‘Is it better him according to the deserving of his hands
for you that all the sons of Jerubbaal, who are 9:17
(for my father fought for you, and risked
seventy persons, rule over you, or that one rule his life, and delivered you out of the hand of
over you?’ Remember also that I am your bone Midian: 9:18 and you have risen up against my
and your flesh.” father’s house this day, and have slain his sons,
9:3
His mother’s brothers spoke of him in the seventy persons, on one stone, and have made
ears of all the men of Shechem all these words: Abimelech, the son of his female servant, king
and their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech; over the men of Shechem, because he is your
for they said, “He is our brother.” 9:4 They brother); 9:19 if you then have dealt truly and
gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the righteously with Jerubbaal and with his house
house of Baal Berith, with which Abimelech this day, then rejoice in Abimelech, and let him
hired vain and light fellows, who followed him. also rejoice in you: 9:20 but if not, let fire come
9:5
He went to his father’s house at Ophrah, and out from Abimelech, and devour the men of
killed his brothers the sons of Jerubbaal, being Shechem, and the house of Millo; and let fire
seventy persons, on one stone: but Jotham the come out from the men of Shechem, and from
youngest son of Jerubbaal was left; for he hid the house of Millo, and devour Abimelech.”
himself. 9:6 All the men of Shechem assembled 9:21
Jotham ran away, and fled, and went to
themselves together, and all the house of Millo, Beer, and lived there, for fear of Abimelech his
and went and made Abimelech king, by the oak brother.
of the pillar that was in Shechem. 9:7 When they 9:22
Abimelech was prince over Israel three
told it to Jotham, he went and stood on the top years. 9:23 God sent an evil spirit between
of Mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice, and Abimelech and the men of Shechem; and
cried, and said to them, “Listen to me, you men the men of Shechem dealt treacherously with
of Shechem, that God may listen to you. 9:8 The Abimelech: 9:24 that the violence done to the
trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come, and that
them; and they said to the olive tree, ‘Reign their blood might be laid on Abimelech their
over us.’ brother, who killed them, and on the men of
9:9
“But the olive tree said to them, ‘Should I Shechem, who strengthened his hands to kill
leave my fatness, with which by me they honor his brothers. 9:25 The men of Shechem set an
God and man, and go to wave back and forth ambush for him on the tops of the mountains,
over the trees?’ and they robbed all who came along that way
9:10
“The trees said to the fig tree, ‘Come and by them: and it was told Abimelech. 9:26 Gaal
reign over us.’ the son of Ebed came with his brothers, and
9:11
“But the fig tree said to them, ‘Should I went over to Shechem; and the men of Shechem
leave my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go put their trust in him. 9:27 They went out into
to wave back and forth over the trees?’ the field, and harvested their vineyards, and
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trod the grapes, and held festival, and went his brothers, that they should not dwell in
into the house of their god, and ate and drank, Shechem. 9:42 It happened on the next day, that
and cursed Abimelech. 9:28 Gaal the son of Ebed the people went out into the field; and they
said, “Who is Abimelech, and who is Shechem, told Abimelech. 9:43 He took the people, and
that we should serve him? Isn’t he the son divided them into three companies, and laid
of Jerubbaal? and Zebul his officer? Serve wait in the field; and he looked, and behold, the
the men of Hamor the father of Shechem: but people came forth out of the city; He rose up
why should we serve him? 9:29 Would that this against them, and struck them. 9:44 Abimelech,
people were under my hand! Then I would and the companies that were with him, rushed
remove Abimelech.” He said to Abimelech, forward, and stood in the entrance of the gate
“Increase your army, and come out!” of the city: and the two companies rushed on
9:30 all who were in the field, and struck them.
When Zebul the ruler of the city heard
9:45
the words of Gaal the son of Ebed, his anger Abimelech fought against the city all that
was kindled. 9:31 He sent messengers to Abim- day; and he took the city, and killed the people
elech craftily, saying, “Behold, Gaal the son of who were therein: and he beat down the city,
Ebed and his brothers have come to Shechem; and sowed it with salt.
and behold, they incite the city against you. 9:46
When all the men of the tower of
9:32
Now therefore, go up by night, you and the Shechem heard of it, they entered into the
people who are with you, and lie in wait in the stronghold of the house of Elberith. 9:47 It
field: 9:33 and it shall be, that in the morning, was told Abimelech that all the men of the
as soon as the sun is up, you shall rise early, tower of Shechem were gathered together.
and rush on the city; and behold, when he and 9:48
Abimelech went up to Mount Zalmon, he
the people who are with him come out against and all the people who were with him; and
you, then may you do to them as you shall find Abimelech took an axe in his hand, and cut
occasion.” down a bough from the trees, and took it up,
9:34
Abimelech rose up, and all the peo- and laid it on his shoulder: and he said to the
ple who were with him, by night, and they people who were with him, “What you have
laid wait against Shechem in four companies. seen me do, make haste, and do as I have
9:35
Gaal the son of Ebed went out, and stood done!” 9:49 All the people likewise each cut
in the entrance of the gate of the city: and down his bough, and followed Abimelech, and
Abimelech rose up, and the people who were put them at the base of the stronghold, and set
with him, from the ambush. the stronghold on fire on them; so that all the
9:36
When Gaal saw the people, he said to people of the tower of Shechem died also, about
Zebul, “Behold, people are coming down from a thousand men and women. 9:50 Then went
the tops of the mountains.” Abimelech to Thebez, and encamped against
Zebul said to him, “You see the shadow of Thebez, and took it. 9:51 But there was a strong
the mountains as if they were men.” tower within the city, and there fled all the men
9:37 and women, and all they of the city, and shut
Gaal spoke again and said, “Behold,
people are coming down by the middle of the themselves in, and went up to the roof of the
land, and one company comes by the way of tower. 9:52 Abimelech came to the tower, and
the oak of Meonenim.” fought against it, and drew near to the door
9:38
Then Zebul said to him, “Now where is of the tower to burn it with fire. 9:53 A certain
your mouth, that you said, ‘Who is Abimelech, woman cast an upper millstone on Abimelech’s
that we should serve him?’ Isn’t this the people head, and broke his skull.
9:54
that you have despised? Please go out now and Then he called hastily to the young man
fight with them.” his armor bearer, and said to him, “Draw your
9:39 sword, and kill me, that men not say of me, ‘A
Gaal went out before the men of
Shechem, and fought with Abimelech. woman killed him.’ His young man thrust him
9:40 through, and he died.”
Abimelech chased him, and he fled before
9:55
him, and many fell wounded, even to the When the men of Israel saw that Abim-
9:41
entrance of the gate. Abimelech lived elech was dead, they departed every man to his
at Arumah: and Zebul drove out Gaal and place. 9:56 Thus God requited the wickedness of
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10:16
Abimelech, which he did to his father, in killing They put away the foreign gods from
his seventy brothers; 9:57 and all the wickedness among them, and served the LORD; and his
of the men of Shechem did God requite on their soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.
10:17
heads: and on them came the curse of Jotham Then the children of Ammon were
the son of Jerubbaal. gathered together, and encamped in Gilead.
10:1 The children of Israel assembled themselves
After Abimelech there arose to save Is-
rael Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, together, and encamped in Mizpah. 10:18 The
a man of Issachar; and he lived in Shamir in people, the princes of Gilead, said one to
the hill country of Ephraim. 10:2 He judged another, “What man is he who will begin to
Israel twenty-three years, and died, and was fight against the children of Ammon? He shall
buried in Shamir. 10:3 After him arose Jair, be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.”
11:1
the Gileadite; and he judged Israel twenty-two Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a
years. 10:4 He had thirty sons who rode on thirty mighty man of valor, and he was the son of
donkey colts, and they had thirty cities, which a prostitute: and Gilead became the father
are called Havvoth Jair to this day, which are in of Jephthah. 11:2 Gilead’s wife bore him sons;
the land of Gilead. 10:5 Jair died, and was buried and when his wife’s sons grew up, they drove
in Kamon. 10:6 The children of Israel again did out Jephthah, and said to him, “You shall not
that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, inherit in our father’s house; for you are the
and served the Baals, and the Ashtaroth, and son of another woman.” 11:3 Then Jephthah
the gods of Syria, and the gods of Sidon, and fled from his brothers, and lived in the land of
the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children Tob: and there were gathered vain fellows to
of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines; and Jephthah, and they went out with him. 11:4 It
they forsook the LORD, and didn’t serve him. happened after a while, that the children of
10:7
The anger of the LORD was kindled against Ammon made war against Israel. 11:5 It was so,
Israel, and he sold them into the hand of the that when the children of Ammon made war
Philistines, and into the hand of the children against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to get
of Ammon. 10:8 They troubled and oppressed Jephthah out of the land of Tob; 11:6 and they
the children of Israel that year. For eighteen said to Jephthah, “Come and be our chief, that
years, they oppressed all the children of Israel we may fight with the children of Ammon.”
11:7
that were beyond the Jordan in the land of the Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead,
Amorites, which is in Gilead. 10:9 The children “Didn’t you hate me, and drive me out of my
of Ammon passed over the Jordan to fight father’s house? Why have you come to me now
also against Judah, and against Benjamin, and when you are in distress?”
against the house of Ephraim; so that Israel was 11:8
The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah,
very distressed. 10:10 The children of Israel cried “Therefore we have turned again to you now,
to the LORD, saying, “We have sinned against that you may go with us, and fight with the
you, even because we have forsaken our God, children of Ammon; and you shall be our head
and have served the Baals.” over all the inhabitants of Gilead.”
10:11 11:9
The LORD said to the children of Is- Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “If
rael, “Didn’t I save you from the Egyptians, you bring me home again to fight with the
and from the Amorites, from the children of children of Ammon, and the LORD deliver
Ammon, and from the Philistines? 10:12 The them before me, shall I be your head?”
11:10
Sidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah,
Maonites, oppressed you; and you cried to me, “The LORD shall be witness between us; surely
and I saved you out of their hand. 10:13 Yet according to your word so will we do.”
you have forsaken me, and served other gods: 11:11
Then Jephthah went with the elders of
therefore I will save you no more. 10:14 Go and Gilead, and the people made him head and
cry to the gods which you have chosen. Let chief over them: and Jephthah spoke all his
them save you in the time of your distress!” words before the LORD in Mizpah.
10:15 11:12
The children of Israel said to the LORD, Jephthah sent messengers to the king of
“We have sinned: do you to us whatever seems the children of Ammon, saying, “What have
good to you; only deliver us, please, this day.” you to do with me, that you have come to me
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to fight against my land?” side of the Arnon, three hundred years; why
11:13
The king of the children of Ammon didn’t you recover them within that time? 11:27 I
answered to the messengers of Jephthah, “Be- therefore have not sinned against you, but you
cause Israel took away my land, when he came do me wrong to war against me. The LORD, the
up out of Egypt, from the Arnon even to Judge, be judge this day between the children
the Jabbok, and to the Jordan: now therefore of Israel and the children of Ammon.”
11:28
restore that territory again peaceably.” However the king of the children of
11:14 Ammon didn’t listen to the words of Jephthah
Jephthah sent messengers again to the
which he sent him. 11:29 Then the Spirit of the
king of the children of Ammon; 11:15 and he
LORD came on Jephthah, and he passed over
said to him, “Thus says Jephthah: Israel didn’t
Gilead and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpeh
take away the land of Moab, nor the land of
of Gilead, and from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed
the children of Ammon, 11:16 but when they
over to the children of Ammon.
came up from Egypt, and Israel went through 11:30
Jephthah vowed a vow to the LORD,
the wilderness to the Sea of Suf, and came
and said, “If you will indeed deliver the chil-
to Kadesh; 11:17 then Israel sent messengers to
dren of Ammon into my hand, 11:31 then it shall
the king of Edom, saying, ‘Please let me pass
be, that whatever comes forth from the doors
through your land;’ but the king of Edom
of my house to meet me, when I return in
didn’t listen. In the same way, he sent to the
peace from the children of Ammon, it shall be
king of Moab; but he would not: and Israel
the LORD’s, and I will offer it up for a burnt
stayed in Kadesh. 11:18 Then they went through
offering.”
the wilderness, and went around the land of 11:32
Edom, and the land of Moab, and came by So Jephthah passed over to the children
the east side of the land of Moab, and they of Ammon to fight against them; and the LORD
encamped on the other side of the Arnon; but delivered them into his hand. 11:33 He struck
they didn’t come within the border of Moab, for them from Aroer until you come to Minnith,
the Arnon was the border of Moab. 11:19 Israel even twenty cities, and to Abelcheramim, with
sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, a very great slaughter. So the children of
the king of Heshbon; and Israel said to him, Ammon were subdued before the children of
‘Please let us pass through your land to my Israel.
11:34
place.’ 11:20 But Sihon didn’t trust Israel to pass Jephthah came to Mizpah to his house;
through his border; but Sihon gathered all his and behold, his daughter came out to meet him
people together, and encamped in Jahaz, and with tambourines and with dances: and she
fought against Israel. 11:21 The LORD, the God was his only child; besides her he had neither
of Israel, delivered Sihon and all his people into son nor daughter. 11:35 It happened, when he
the hand of Israel, and they struck them: so saw her, that he tore his clothes, and said,
Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites, “Alas, my daughter! You have brought me very
the inhabitants of that country. 11:22 They low, and you are one of those who trouble me;
possessed all the border of the Amorites, from for I have opened my mouth to the LORD, and
the Arnon even to the Jabbok, and from the I can’t go back.”
11:36
wilderness even to the Jordan. 11:23 So now She said to him, “My father, you have
the LORD, the God of Israel, has dispossessed opened your mouth to the LORD; do to me
the Amorites from before his people Israel, according to that which has proceeded out
and should you possess them? 11:24 Won’t you of your mouth, because the LORD has taken
possess that which Chemosh your god gives vengeance for you on your enemies, even on
you to possess? So whoever the LORD our the children of Ammon.” 11:37 She said to her
God has dispossessed from before us, them will father, “Let this thing be done for me: let
we possess. 11:25 Now are you anything better me alone two months, that I may depart and
than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? go down on the mountains, and bewail my
Did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever virginity, I and my companions.”
fight against them? 11:26 While Israel lived in 11:38
He said, “Go.” He sent her away for
Heshbon and its towns, and in Aroer and its two months: and she departed, she and her
towns, and in all the cities that are along by the companions, and mourned her virginity on the
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mountains. 11:39 It happened at the end of two and he judged Israel eight years. 12:15 Abdon
months, that she returned to her father, who the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died, and was
did with her according to his vow which he had buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in
vowed: and she was a virgin. It was a custom the hill country of the Amalekites.
in Israel, 11:40 that the daughters of Israel went 13:1
The children of Israel again did that
yearly to celebrate the daughter of Jephthah the which was evil in the sight of the LORD; and
Gileadite four days in a year. the LORD delivered them into the hand of the
12:1
The men of Ephraim were gathered to- Philistines forty years. 13:2 There was a certain
gether, and passed northward; and they said man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites,
to Jephthah, “Why did you pass over to fight whose name was Manoah; and his wife was
against the children of Ammon, and didn’t call barren, and didn’t bear. 13:3 The angel of the
us to go with you? We will burn your house LORD appeared to the woman, and said to her,
around you with fire!” “See now, you are barren, and don’t bear; but
12:2
Jephthah said to them, “I and my people you shall conceive, and bear a son. 13:4 Now
were at great strife with the children of Am- therefore please beware and drink no wine nor
mon; and when I called you, you didn’t save strong drink, and don’t eat any unclean thing:
13:5
me out of their hand. 12:3 When I saw that you for, behold, you shall conceive, and bear a
didn’t save me, I put my life in my hand, and son; and no razor shall come on his head; for
passed over against the children of Ammon, the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the
and the LORD delivered them into my hand. womb: and he shall begin to save Israel out of
Why then have you come up to me this day, to the hand of the Philistines.”
13:6
fight against me?” Then the woman came and told her
12:4 husband, saying, “A man of God came to me,
Then Jephthah gathered together all the
and his face was like the face of the angel
men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim; and
of God, very awesome; and I didn’t ask him
the men of Gilead struck Ephraim, because
where he was from, neither did he tell me his
they said, “You are fugitives of Ephraim, you
name: 13:7 but he said to me, ‘Behold, you shall
Gileadites, in the midst of Ephraim, and in the
conceive, and bear a son; and now drink no
midst of Manasseh.” 12:5 The Gileadites took
wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean
the fords of the Jordan against the Ephraimites.
thing; for the child shall be a Nazirite to God
It was so, that when the fugitives of Ephraim
from the womb to the day of his death.’”
said, “Let me go over,” the men of Gilead said 13:8
to him, “Are you an Ephraimite?” If he said, Then Manoah entreated the LORD, and
“No”; 12:6 then they said to him, “Now say said, “Oh, Lord, please let the man of God
‘Shibboleth;’” and he said “Sibboleth”; for he whom you did send come again to us, and
couldn’t manage to pronounce it right: then teach us what we shall do to the child who shall
they siezed him, and killed him at the fords of be born.”
13:9
the Jordan. At that time, forty-two thousand God listened to the voice of Manoah; and
of Ephraim fell. 12:7 Jephthah judged Israel six the angel of God came again to the woman as
years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died, and she sat in the field: but Manoah, her husband,
was buried in the cities of Gilead. 12:8 After wasn’t with her. 13:10 The woman made haste,
him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel. 12:9 He and ran, and told her husband, and said to him,
had thirty sons; and thirty daughters he sent “Behold, the man has appeared to me, who
abroad, and thirty daughters he brought in came to me that day.”
13:11
from abroad for his sons. He judged Israel Manoah arose, and went after his wife,
seven years. 12:10 Ibzan died, and was buried at and came to the man, and said to him, “Are you
Bethlehem. 12:11 After him Elon the Zebulunite the man who spoke to the woman?”
judged Israel; and he judged Israel ten years. He said, “I am.”
12:12 13:12
Elon the Zebulunite died, and was buried Manoah said, “Now let your words
in Aijalon in the land of Zebulun. 12:13 After happen. What shall the child’s way of life and
him Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite mission be?”
judged Israel. 12:14 He had forty sons and thirty 13:13
The angel of the LORD said to Manoah,
sons’ sons, who rode on seventy donkey colts: “Of all that I said to the woman let her beware.
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13:14
She may not eat of anything that comes of uncircumcised Philistines?”
the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong Samson said to his father, “Get her for me;
drink, nor eat any unclean thing; all that I for she pleases me well.”
commanded her let her observe.” 14:4
But his father and his mother didn’t
13:15
Manoah said to the angel of the LORD, know that it was of the LORD; for he sought
“Please, let us detain you, that we may make a an occasion against the Philistines. Now at
young goat ready for you.” that time the Philistines had rule over Israel.
13:16 14:5
The angel of the LORD said to Manoah, Then went Samson down, and his father
“Though you detain me, I won’t eat of your and his mother, to Timnah, and came to the
bread; and if you will prepare a burnt offering, vineyards of Timnah: and behold, a young
you must offer it to the LORD.” For Manoah lion roared against him. 14:6 The Spirit of the
didn’t know that he was the angel of the LORD. LORD came mightily on him, and he tore him
13:17 as he would have torn a young goat; and he
Manoah said to the angel of the LORD,
“What is your name, that when your words had nothing in his hand: but he didn’t tell his
happen, we may honor you?” father or his mother what he had done. 14:7 He
13:18 went down, and talked with the woman, and
The angel of the LORD said to him,
“Why do you ask about my name, since it is she pleased Samson well. 14:8 After a while he
wonderful?” returned to take her; and he turned aside to
13:19 see the carcass of the lion: and behold, there
So Manoah took the young goat with
the meal offering, and offered it on the rock was a swarm of bees in the body of the lion,
to the LORD. Then the angel did a wonderful and honey. 14:9 He took it into his hands, and
thing as Manoah and his wife looked on. went on, eating as he went; and he came to his
13:20 father and mother, and gave to them, and they
For it happened, when the flame went up
toward the sky from off the altar, that the angel ate: but he didn’t tell them that he had taken
of the LORD ascended in the flame of the altar: the honey out of the body of the lion. 14:10 His
and Manoah and his wife looked on; and they father went down to the woman: and Samson
fell on their faces to the ground. 13:21 But the made there a feast; for so used the young men
angel of the LORD didn’t appear to Manoah or to do. 14:11 It happened, when they saw him,
to his wife any more. Then Manoah knew that that they brought thirty companions to be with
he was the angel of the LORD. 13:22 Manoah him.
14:12
said to his wife, “We shall surely die, because Samson said to them, “Let me tell you a
we have seen God.” riddle now. If you can declare it to me within
13:23 the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then
But his wife said to him, “If the LORD
were pleased to kill us, he wouldn’t have I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty
received a burnt offering and a meal offering at changes of clothing; 14:13 but if you can’t declare
our hand, neither would he have shown us all it to me, then you shall give me thirty linen
these things, nor would at this time have told garments and thirty changes of clothing.”
such things as these.” 13:24 The woman bore They said to him, “Put forth your riddle, that
a son, and named him Samson: and the child we may hear it.” 14:14 He said to them,
grew, and the LORD blessed him. 13:25 The “Out of the eater came forth food.
Spirit of the LORD began to move him in Out of the strong came forth sweetness.”
Mahaneh Dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol. They couldn’t in three days declare the
14:1
Samson went down to Timnah, and saw riddle. 14:15 It happened on the seventh day,
a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the that they said to Samson’s wife, “Entice your
Philistines. 14:2 He came up, and told his father husband, that he may declare to us the riddle,
and his mother, and said, “I have seen a woman lest we burn you and your father’s house with
in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines: fire. Have you called us to impoverish us? Is it
now therefore get her for me as wife.” not so?”
14:3 14:16
Then his father and his mother said to Samson’s wife wept before him, and
him, “Is there never a woman among the said, “You just hate me, and don’t love me. You
daughters of your brothers, or among all my have put forth a riddle to the children of my
people, that you go to take a wife of the people, and haven’t told it me.”
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He said to her, “Behold, I haven’t told it my of Etam. 15:9 Then the Philistines went up, and
father nor my mother, and shall I tell you?” encamped in Judah, and spread themselves in
14:17
She wept before him the seven days, Lehi.
15:10
while their feast lasted: and it happened on The men of Judah said, “Why have you
the seventh day, that he told her, because she come up against us?”
pressed him severely; and she told the riddle to They said, “We have come up to bind Sam-
the children of her people. 14:18 The men of the son, to do to him as he has done to us.”
city said to him on the seventh day before the 15:11
Then three thousand men of Judah went
sun went down, “What is sweeter than honey? down to the cleft of the rock of Etam, and
What is stronger than a lion?” said to Samson, “Don’t you know that the
He said to them, Philistines are rulers over us? What then is this
“If you hadn’t plowed with my heifer, that you have done to us?”
you wouldn’t have found out my riddle.” He said to them, “As they did to me, so have
14:19
The Spirit of the LORD came mightily I done to them.”
15:12
on him, and he went down to Ashkelon, and They said to him, “We have come down
struck thirty men of them, and took their spoil, to bind you, that we may deliver you into the
and gave the changes of clothing to those who hand of the Philistines.”
declared the riddle. His anger was kindled, Samson said to them, “Swear to me that you
and he went up to his father’s house. 14:20 But will not fall on me yourselves.”
Samson’s wife was given to his companion, 15:13
They spoke to him, saying, “No; but we
whom he had used as his friend. will bind you fast, and deliver you into their
15:1
But it happened after a while, in the time hand; but surely we will not kill you.” They
of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife bound him with two new ropes, and brought
with a young goat; and he said, “I will go in to him up from the rock.
my wife into the room.” 15:14
When he came to Lehi, the Philistines
But her father wouldn’t allow him to go in. shouted as they met him: and the Spirit of the
15:2
Her father said, “I most certainly thought LORD came mightily on him, and the ropes
that you had utterly hated her; therefore I gave that were on his arms became as flax that was
her to your companion. Isn’t her younger burnt with fire, and his bands dropped from off
sister more beautiful than she? Please take her, his hands. 15:15 He found a fresh jawbone of a
instead.” donkey, and put forth his hand, and took it, and
15:3
Samson said to them, “This time I will struck a thousand men therewith. 15:16 Samson
be blameless in regard of the Philistines, when said, “With the jawbone of a donkey, heaps on
I harm them.” 15:4 Samson went and caught heaps; with the jawbone of a donkey I have
three hundred foxes, and took torches, and struck a thousand men.” 15:17 It happened,
turned tail to tail, and put a torch in the midst when he had made an end of speaking, that
between every two tails. 15:5 When he had set he cast away the jawbone out of his hand; and
the brands on fire, he let them go into the that place was called Ramath Lehi. 15:18 He
standing grain of the Philistines, and burnt up was very thirsty, and called on the LORD, and
both the shocks and the standing grain, and said, “You have given this great deliverance
also the olive groves. by the hand of your servant; and now shall
15:6
Then the Philistines said, “Who has done I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the
this?” uncircumcised?”
15:19
They said, “Samson, the son-in-law of the But God split the hollow place that is in
Timnite, because he has taken his wife, and Lehi, and water came out of it. When he had
given her to his companion.” The Philistines drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived:
came up, and burnt her and her father with fire. therefore its name was called En Hakkore,
15:7
Samson said to them, “If you behave which is in Lehi, to this day. 15:20 He judged
like this, surely I will be avenged of you, and Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty
after that I will cease.” 15:8 He struck them years.
16:1
hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he Samson went to Gaza, and saw there a
went down and lived in the cleft of the rock prostitute, and went in to her. 16:2 The Gazites
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were told, “Samson is here!” They surrounded the pin of the beam, and the web.
him, and laid wait for him all night in the 16:15
She said to him, “How can you say, ‘I
gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, love you,’ when your heart is not with me? You
saying, “Wait until morning light, then we will have mocked me these three times, and have
kill him.” 16:3 Samson lay until midnight, and not told me where your great strength lies.”
arose at midnight, and laid hold of the doors 16:16
It happened, when she pressed him
of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and daily with her words, and urged him, that his
plucked them up, bar and all, and put them on soul was troubled to death. 16:17 He told her all
his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of his heart, and said to her, “No razor has ever
the mountain that is before Hebron. come on my head; for I have been a Nazirite to
16:4
It came to pass afterward, that he loved God from my mother’s womb. If I am shaved,
a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name then my strength will go from me, and I will
was Delilah. 16:5 The lords of the Philistines become weak, and be like any other man.”
came up to her, and said to her, “Entice him, 16:18
When Delilah saw that he had told her
and see in which his great strength lies, and by all his heart, she sent and called for the lords
what means we may prevail against him, that of the Philistines, saying, “Come up this once,
we may bind him to afflict him; and we will for he has told me all his heart.” Then the lords
each give you eleven hundred pieces of silver.” of the Philistines came up to her, and brought
16:6
Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me the money in their hand. 16:19 She made him
where your great strength lies, and what you sleep on her knees; and she called for a man,
might be bound to afflict you.” and shaved off the seven locks of his head; and
16:7
Samson said to her, “If they bind me with she began to afflict him, and his strength went
seven green cords that were never dried, then from him. 16:20 She said, “The Philistines are
shall I become weak, and be as another man.” upon you, Samson!”
16:8
Then the lords of the Philistines brought He awoke out of his sleep, and said, “I will
up to her seven green cords which had not been go out as at other times, and shake myself
dried, and she bound him with them. 16:9 Now free.” But he didn’t know that the LORD had
she had an ambush waiting in the inner room. departed from him. 16:21 The Philistines laid
She said to him, “The Philistines are on you, hold on him, and put out his eyes; and they
Samson!” He broke the cords, as a string of brought him down to Gaza, and bound him
tow is broken when it touches the fire. So his with fetters of brass; and he ground at the mill
strength was not known. in the prison. 16:22 However the hair of his head
16:10
Delilah said to Samson, “Behold, you began to grow again after he was shaved.
have mocked me, and told me lies: now please 16:23
The lords of the Philistines gathered
tell me with which you might be bound.” them together to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon
16:11
He said to her, “If they only bind me their god, and to rejoice; for they said, “Our
with new ropes with which no work has been god has delivered Samson our enemy into our
done, then shall I become weak, and be as hand.” 16:24 When the people saw him, they
another man.” praised their god; for they said, “Our god has
16:12
So Delilah took new ropes, and delivered our enemy and the destroyer of our
bound him therewith, and said to him, “The country, who has slain many of us, into our
Philistines are on you, Samson!” The ambush hand.”
was waiting in the inner room. He broke them 16:25
It happened, when their hearts were
off his arms like a thread. merry, that they said, “Call for Samson, that he
16:13
Delilah said to Samson, “Until now, you may entertain us.” They called for Samson out
have mocked me and told me lies. Tell me with of the prison; and he performed before them.
what you might be bound.” They set him between the pillars; 16:26 and
He said to her, “If you weave the seven locks Samson said to the boy who held him by the
of my head with the web.” hand, “Allow me to feel the pillars whereupon
16:14 the house rests, that I may lean on them.”
She fastened it with the pin, and said to
16:27
him, “The Philistines are on you, Samson!” He Now the house was full of men and
awakened out of his sleep, and plucked away women; and all the lords of the Philistines were
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there; and there were on the roof about three to him, “Where did you come from?”
thousand men and women, who saw while He said to him, “I am a Levite of Bethlehem
Samson performed. 16:28 Samson called to the Judah, and I am looking for a place to live.”
17:10
LORD, and said, “Lord GOD, remember me, Micah said to him, “Dwell with me, and
please, and strengthen me, please, only this be to me a father and a priest, and I will give
once, God, that I may be at once avenged of you ten pieces of silver per year, a suit of
the Philistines for my two eyes.” 16:29 Samson clothing, and your food.” So the Levite went
took hold of the two middle pillars on which in. 17:11 The Levite was content to dwell with
the house rested, and leaned on them, the one the man; and the young man was to him as one
with his right hand, and the other with his of his sons. 17:12 Micah consecrated the Levite,
left. 16:30 Samson said, “Let me die with the and the young man became his priest, and was
Philistines!” He bowed himself with all his in the house of Micah. 17:13 Then Micah said,
might; and the house fell on the lords, and on “Now know I that the LORD will do good to
all the people who were therein. So the dead me, since I have a Levite to my priest.”
that he killed at his death were more than those 18:1
In those days there was no king in Israel:
who he killed in his life. 16:31 Then his brothers and in those days the tribe of the Danites
and all the house of his father came down, and sought an inheritance to dwell in; for to that
took him, and brought him up, and buried him day, their inheritance had not fallen to them
between Zorah and Eshtaol in the burial site among the tribes of Israel. 18:2 The children of
of Manoah his father. He judged Israel twenty Dan sent of their family five men from their
years. whole number, men of valor, from Zorah, and
17:1
There was a man of the hill country of from Eshtaol, to spy out the land, and to search
Ephraim, whose name was Micah. 17:2 He said it; and they said to them, “Go, explore the
to his mother, “The eleven hundred pieces of land!”
silver that were taken from you, about which They came to the hill country of Ephraim,
you uttered a curse, and also spoke it in my to the house of Micah, and lodged there.
ears, behold, the silver is with me; I took it.” 18:3
When they were by the house of Micah, they
His mother said, “Blessed be my son of the knew the voice of the young man the Levite;
LORD.” and they turned aside there, and said to him,
17:3 “Who brought you here? What do you do in
He restored the eleven hundred pieces of
silver to his mother; and his mother said, “I this place? What do you have here?”
18:4
most certainly dedicate the silver to the LORD He said to them, “Thus and thus has
from my hand for my son, to make an engraved Micah dealt with me, and he has hired me, and
image and a molten image. Now therefore I I am become his priest.”
18:5
will restore it to you.” They said to him, “Please ask counsel
17:4 of God, that we may know whether our way
When he restored the money to his
mother, his mother took two hundred pieces of which we go shall be prosperous.”
18:6
silver, and gave them to the founder, who made The priest said to them, “Go in peace.
of it an engraved image and a molten image: Your way in which you go is before the LORD.”
18:7
and it was in the house of Micah. Then the five men departed, and came to
17:5
The man Micah had a house of gods, Laish, and saw the people who were therein,
and he made an ephod, and teraphim, and how they lived in security, in the way of the
consecrated one of his sons, who became his Sidonians, quiet and secure; for there was none
priest. 17:6 In those days there was no king in in the land, possessing authority, that might put
Israel: every man did that which was right in them to shame in anything, and they were far
his own eyes. 17:7 There was a young man out from the Sidonians, and had no dealings with
of Bethlehem Judah, of the family of Judah, any man. 18:8 They came to their brothers to
who was a Levite; and he lived there. 17:8 The Zorah and Eshtaol: and their brothers said to
man departed out of the city, out of Bethlehem them, “What do you say?”
18:9
Judah, to live where he could find a place, and They said, “Arise, and let us go up
he came to the hill country of Ephraim to the against them; for we have seen the land, and
house of Micah, as he traveled. 17:9 Micah said behold, it is very good. Do you stand still?
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Don’t be slothful to go and to enter in to possess “What ails you, that you come with such a
the land. 18:10 When you go, you shall come to company?”
a secure people, and the land is large; for God 18:24
He said, “You have taken away my gods
has given it into your hand, a place where there which I made, and the priest, and have gone
is no want of anything that is in the earth.” away, and what more do I have? How then do
18:11
There set forth from there of the family you say to me, ‘What ails you?’”
of the Danites, out of Zorah and out of Eshtaol, 18:25
The children of Dan said to him, “Don’t
six hundred men girt with weapons of war. let your voice be heard among us, lest angry
18:12
They went up, and encamped in Kiriath fellows fall on you, and you lose your life, with
Jearim, in Judah: therefore they called that the lives of your household.”
place Mahaneh Dan, to this day; behold, it is 18:26
The children of Dan went their way:
behind Kiriath Jearim. 18:13 They passed there and when Micah saw that they were too strong
to the hill country of Ephraim, and came to the for him, he turned and went back to his house.
house of Micah. 18:27
They took that which Micah had made,
18:14
Then the five men who went to spy and the priest whom he had, and came to Laish,
out the country of Laish answered, and said to a people quiet and secure, and struck them
to their brothers, “Do you know that there with the edge of the sword; and they burnt
is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, the city with fire. 18:28 There was no deliverer,
and an engraved image, and a molten image? because it was far from Sidon, and they had
Now therefore consider what you have to do.” no dealings with any man; and it was in the
18:15
They turned aside there, and came to the valley that lies by Beth Rehob. They built the
house of the young man the Levite, even to city, and lived therein. 18:29 They called the
the house of Micah, and asked him of his name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan
welfare. 18:16 The six hundred men girt with their father, who was born to Israel: however
their weapons of war, who were of the children the name of the city was Laish at the first.
of Dan, stood by the entrance of the gate. 18:30
The children of Dan set up for themselves
18:17
The five men who went to spy out the the engraved image: and Jonathan, the son of
land went up, and came in there, and took Gershom, the son of Moses, he and his sons
the engraved image, and the ephod, and the were priests to the tribe of the Danites until the
teraphim, and the molten image: and the priest day of the captivity of the land. 18:31 So they
stood by the entrance of the gate with the six set them up Micah’s engraved image which he
hundred men girt with weapons of war. made, all the time that God’s house was in
18:18
When these went into Micah’s house, Shiloh.
and fetched the engraved image, the ephod, 19:1
It happened in those days, when there
and the teraphim, and the molten image, the was no king in Israel, that there was a cer-
priest said to them, “What are you doing?” tain Levite living on the farther side of the
18:19
They said to him, “Hold your peace, put hill country of Ephraim, who took to him a
your hand on your mouth, and go with us, and concubine out of Bethlehem Judah. 19:2 His
be to us a father and a priest. Is it better for you concubine played the prostitute against him,
to be priest to the house of one man, or to be and went away from him to her father’s house
priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?” to Bethlehem Judah, and was there the space
18:20
The priest’s heart was glad, and he took of four months. 19:3 Her husband arose, and
the ephod, and the teraphim, and the engraved went after her, to speak kindly to her, to bring
image, and went in the midst of the people. her again, having his servant with him, and a
18:21 couple of donkeys: and she brought him into
So they turned and departed, and put the
little ones and the livestock and the goods her father’s house; and when the father of the
before them. 18:22 When they were a good young lady saw him, he rejoiced to meet him.
19:4
way from the house of Micah, the men who His father-in-law, the young lady’s father,
were in the houses near to Micah’s house were retained him; and he stayed with him three
gathered together, and overtook the children of days: so they ate and drink, and lodged there.
Dan. 18:23 They cried to the children of Dan. 19:5
It happened on the fourth day, that they
They turned their faces, and said to Micah, arose early in the morning, and he rose up
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to depart: and the young lady’s father said Bethlehem Judah to the farther side of the hill
to his son-in-law, “Strengthen your heart with country of Ephraim. I am from there, and
a morsel of bread, and afterward you shall I went to Bethlehem Judah. I am going to
go your way.” 19:6 So they sat down, ate, the house of the LORD; and there is no man
and drank, both of them together: and the who takes me into his house. 19:19 Yet there
young lady’s father said to the man, “Please be is both straw and provender for our donkeys;
pleased to stay all night, and let your heart be and there is bread and wine also for me, and
merry.” 19:7 The man rose up to depart; but his for your handmaid, and for the young man
father-in-law urged him, and he lodged there who is with your servants: there is no want of
again. 19:8 He arose early in the morning on anything.”
the fifth day to depart; and the young lady’s 19:20
The old man said, “Peace be to you;
father said, “Please strengthen your heart and howsoever let all your wants lie on me; only
stay until the day declines”; and they both ate. don’t lodge in the street.” 19:21 So he brought
19:9
When the man rose up to depart, he, him into his house, and gave the donkeys
and his concubine, and his servant, his father- fodder; and they washed their feet, and ate and
in-law, the young lady’s father, said to him, drink. 19:22 As they were making their hearts
“Behold, now the day draws toward evening, merry, behold, the men of the city, certain base
please stay all night: behold, the day grows fellows, surrounded the house, beating at the
to an end, lodge here, that your heart may be door; and they spoke to the master of the house,
merry; and tomorrow go on your way early, the old man, saying, “Bring out the man who
that you may go home.” 19:10 But the man came into your house, that we may have sex
wouldn’t stay that night, but he rose up and with him!”
departed, and came over against Jebus (the 19:23
The man, the master of the house, went
same is Jerusalem): and there were with him a out to them, and said to them, “No, my
couple of donkeys saddled; his concubine also brothers, please don’t act so wickedly; since
was with him. this man has come into my house, don’t do this
19:11
When they were by Jebus, the day was folly. 19:24 Behold, here is my virgin daughter
far spent; and the servant said to his master, and his concubine. I will bring them out now.
“Please come and let us turn aside into this city Humble them, and do with them what seems
of the Jebusites, and lodge in it.” good to you; but to this man don’t do any such
19:12 folly.”
His master said to him, “We won’t turn
19:25
aside into the city of a foreigner, that is not of But the men wouldn’t listen to him:
the children of Israel; but we will pass over to so the man laid hold of his concubine, and
Gibeah.” 19:13 He said to his servant, “Come brought her out to them; and they had sex with
and let us draw near to one of these places; and her, and abused her all night until the morning:
we will lodge in Gibeah, or in Ramah.” 19:14 So and when the day began to dawn, they let her
they passed on and went their way; and the go. 19:26 Then came the woman in the dawning
sun went down on them near to Gibeah, which of the day, and fell down at the door of the
belongs to Benjamin. 19:15 They turned aside man’s house where her lord was, until it was
there, to go in to lodge in Gibeah: and he went light. 19:27 Her lord rose up in the morning,
in, and sat him down in the street of the city; and opened the doors of the house, and went
for there was no man who took them into his out to go his way; and behold, the woman his
house to lodge. concubine was fallen down at the door of the
19:16 house, with her hands on the threshold.
Behold, there came an old man from
19:28
his work out of the field at evening: now the He said to her, “Get up, and let us be
man was of the hill country of Ephraim, and going!” but no one answered. Then he took her
he lived in Gibeah; but the men of the place up on the donkey; and the man rose up, and
were Benjamites. 19:17 He lifted up his eyes, and went to his place.
saw the wayfaring man in the street of the city; 19:29
When he had come into his house, he
and the old man said, “Where are you going? took a knife, and laid hold on his concubine,
Where did you come from?” and divided her, limb by limb, into twelve
19:18
He said to him, “We are passing from pieces, and sent her throughout all the borders
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of Israel. 19:30 It was so, that all who saw it said, battle against the children of Israel. 20:15 The
“There was no such deed done nor seen from children of Benjamin were numbered on that
the day that the children of Israel came up out day out of the cities twenty-six thousand men
of the land of Egypt to this day! Consider it, who drew the sword, besides the inhabitants
take counsel, and speak.” of Gibeah, who were numbered seven hundred
20:1
Then all the children of Israel went out, chosen men. 20:16 Among all this people there
and the congregation was assembled as one were seven hundred chosen men left-handed;
man, from Dan even to Beersheba, with the everyone could sling stones at a hair-breadth,
land of Gilead, to the LORD at Mizpah. 20:2 The and not miss. 20:17 The men of Israel, besides
chiefs of all the people, even of all the tribes of Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thou-
Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of sand men who drew sword: all these were men
the people of God, four hundred thousand foot- of war.
20:18
men who drew sword. 20:3 (Now the children of The children of Israel arose, and went
Benjamin heard that the children of Israel had up to Bethel, and asked counsel of God; and
gone up to Mizpah.) The children of Israel said, they said, “Who shall go up for us first to battle
“Tell us, how did this wickedness happen?” against the children of Benjamin?”
20:4
The Levite, the husband of the woman The LORD said, “Judah first.”
20:19
who was murdered, answered, “I came into The children of Israel rose up in
Gibeah that belongs to Benjamin, I and my the morning, and encamped against Gibeah.
concubine, to lodge. 20:5 The men of Gibeah 20:20
The men of Israel went out to battle against
rose against me, and surrounded the house by Benjamin; and the men of Israel set the battle
night. They thought to have slain me, and in array against them at Gibeah. 20:21 The
they forced my concubine, and she is dead. children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah,
20:6
I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and destroyed down to the ground of the Is-
and sent her throughout all the country of the raelites on that day twenty-two thousand men.
20:22
inheritance of Israel; for they have committed The people, the men of Israel, encouraged
lewdness and folly in Israel. 20:7 Behold, you themselves, and set the battle again in array in
children of Israel, all of you, give here your the place where they set themselves in array
advice and counsel.” the first day. 20:23 The children of Israel went
20:8
All the people arose as one man, saying, up and wept before the LORD until evening;
“None of us will go to his tent, neither will any and they asked of the LORD, saying, “Shall I
of us turn to his house. 20:9 But now this is the again draw near to battle against the children
thing which we will do to Gibeah: we will go of Benjamin my brother?”
up against it by lot; 20:10 and we will take ten The LORD said, “Go up against him.”
men of one hundred throughout all the tribes of 20:24
The children of Israel came near against
Israel, and one hundred of one thousand, and a the children of Benjamin the second day.
thousand out of ten thousand, to get food for 20:25
Benjamin went forth against them out of
the people, that they may do, when they come Gibeah the second day, and destroyed down
to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly to the ground of the children of Israel again
that they have worked in Israel.” 20:11 So all eighteen thousand men; all these drew the
the men of Israel were gathered against the city, sword.
knit together as one man. 20:26
Then all the children of Israel, and all
20:12
The tribes of Israel sent men through the people, went up, and came to Bethel, and
all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, “What wept, and sat there before the LORD, and
wickedness is this that is happen among you? fasted that day until evening; and they offered
20:13
Now therefore deliver up the men, the base burnt offerings and peace offerings before the
fellows, who are in Gibeah, that we may put LORD. 20:27 The children of Israel asked of the
them to death, and put away evil from Israel.” LORD (for the ark of the covenant of God was
But Benjamin would not listen to the voice there in those days, 20:28 and Phinehas, the son
of their brothers the children of Israel. 20:14 The of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood before it in
children of Benjamin gathered themselves to- those days), saying, “Shall I yet again go out
gether out of the cities to Gibeah, to go out to to battle against the children of Benjamin my
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brother, or shall I cease?” the wilderness; but the battle followed hard
The LORD said, “Go up; for tomorrow I will after them; and those who came out of the
deliver him into your hand.” cities destroyed them in its midst. 20:43 They
20:29
Israel set ambushes all around Gibeah. surrounded the Benjamites, chased them, and
20:30
The children of Israel went up against the trod them down at their resting place, as far
children of Benjamin on the third day, and set as over against Gibeah toward the sunrise.
20:44
themselves in array against Gibeah, as at other There fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand
times. 20:31 The children of Benjamin went out men; all these were men of valor. 20:45 They
against the people, and were drawn away from turned and fled toward the wilderness to the
the city; and they began to strike and kill of the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in
people, as at other times, in the highways, of the highways five thousand men, and followed
which one goes up to Bethel, and the other to hard after them to Gidom, and struck of them
Gibeah, in the field, about thirty men of Israel. two thousand men. 20:46 So that all who fell that
20:32 day of Benjamin were twenty-five thousand
The children of Benjamin said, “They
men who drew the sword; all these were men of
are struck down before us, as at the first.”
valor. 20:47 But six hundred men turned and fled
But the children of Israel said, “Let us flee,
toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon,
and draw them away from the city to the
and stayed in the rock of Rimmon four months.
highways.” 20:48
20:33
The men of Israel turned again on the
All the men of Israel rose up out of children of Benjamin, and struck them with the
their place, and set themselves in array at edge of the sword, both the entire city, and the
Baal Tamar: and the ambushers of Israel broke livestock, and all that they found: moreover all
forth out of their place, even out of Maareh the cities which they found they set on fire.
Geba. 20:34 There came over against Gibeah ten 21:1
thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and the Now the men of Israel had sworn in
battle was severe; but they didn’t know that Mizpah, saying, “There shall not any of us give
evil was close on them. 20:35 The LORD struck his daughter to Benjamin as wife.” 21:2 The
Benjamin before Israel; and the children of people came to Bethel, and sat there until
Israel destroyed of Benjamin that day twenty- evening before God, and lifted up their voices,
five thousand one hundred men: all these drew and wept severely. 21:3 They said, “The LORD,
the sword. 20:36 So the children of Benjamin saw the God of Israel, why has this happened in
that they were struck; for the men of Israel gave Israel, that there should be today one tribe
place to Benjamin, because they trusted the lacking in Israel?”
21:4
ambushers whom they had set against Gibeah. It happened on the next day that the
20:37
The ambushers hurried, and rushed on people rose early, and built there an altar, and
Gibeah; and the ambushers drew themselves offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.
21:5
along, and struck all the city with the edge The children of Israel said, “Who is there
of the sword. 20:38 Now the appointed sign among all the tribes of Israel who didn’t come
between the men of Israel and the ambushers up in the assembly to the LORD?” For they had
was that they should make a great cloud of made a great oath concerning him who didn’t
smoke rise up out of the city. 20:39 The men of come up to the LORD to Mizpah, saying, “He
Israel turned in the battle, and Benjamin began shall surely be put to death.” 21:6 The children
to strike and kill of the men of Israel about of Israel grieved for Benjamin their brother, and
thirty persons; for they said, “Surely they are said, “There is one tribe cut off from Israel
struck down before us, as in the first battle.” this day. 21:7 How shall we provide wives for
20:40
But when the cloud began to arise up out those who remain, since we have sworn by
of the city in a pillar of smoke, the Benjamites the LORD that we will not give them of our
looked behind them; and behold, the whole of daughters to wives?” 21:8 They said, “What one
the city went up in smoke to the sky. 20:41 The is there of the tribes of Israel who didn’t come
men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin up to the LORD to Mizpah?” Behold, there
were dismayed; for they saw that evil had came none to the camp from Jabesh Gilead to
come on them. 20:42 Therefore they turned their the assembly. 21:9 For when the people were
backs before the men of Israel to the way of numbered, behold, there were none of the
Judges 21:10 229 Judges 21:25

inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead there. 21:10 The They went and returned to their inheritance,
congregation sent there twelve thousand men built the cities, and lived in them. 21:24 The
of the most valiant, and commanded them, children of Israel departed there at that time,
saying, “Go and strike the inhabitants of Jabesh every man to his tribe and to his family, and
Gilead with the edge of the sword, with the they went out from there every man to his
women and the little ones. 21:11 This is the inheritance. 21:25 In those days there was no
thing that you shall do: you shall utterly king in Israel: every man did that which was
destroy every male, and every woman who right in his own eyes.
has lain with a man.” 21:12 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.
21:13
The whole congregation sent and spoke to
the children of Benjamin who were in the rock
of Rimmon, and proclaimed peace to them.
21:14
Benjamin returned at that time; and they
gave them the women whom they had saved
alive of the women of Jabesh Gilead: and yet
so they weren’t enough for them. 21:15 The
people grieved for Benjamin, because that the
LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
21:16
Then the elders of the congregation said,
“How shall we provide wives for those who
remain, since the women are destroyed out of
Benjamin?” 21:17 They said, “There must be
an inheritance for those who are escaped of
Benjamin, that a tribe not be blotted out from
Israel. 21:18 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.’” 21:19 They said,
“Behold, there is a feast of the LORD 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.” 21:20 They commanded the
children of Benjamin, saying, “Go and lie in
wait in the vineyards, 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. 21:22 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.’”
21:23
The children of Benjamin did so, and
took them wives, according to their number,
of those who danced, whom they carried off.
1 Samuel 1:1 230 1 Samuel 2:1

The First Book of a woman of a sorrowful spirit. I have drunk


Samuel neither wine nor strong drink, but I poured out
my soul before the LORD. 1:16 Don’t count your
1:1 handmaid for a wicked woman; for I have been
Now there was a certain man of Ramath-
speaking out of the abundance of my complaint
aim Zophim, of the hill country of Ephraim,
and my provocation.”
and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, 1:17
Then Eli answered, “Go in peace; and
the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of
may the Godb of Israel grant your petition that
Zuph, an Ephraimite: 1:2 and he had two wives;
you have asked of him.”
the name of the one was Hannah, and the 1:18
name of other Peninnah: and Peninnah had She said, “Let your handmaid find favor
children, but Hannah had no children. 1:3 This in your sight.” So the woman went her way,
man went up out of his city from year to year and ate; and her facial expression wasn’t sad
to worship and to sacrifice to the LORDa of any more. 1:19 They rose up in the morning
Hosts in Shiloh. The two sons of Eli, Hophni early, and worshiped before the LORD, and
and Phinehas, priests to the LORD, were there. returned, and came to their house to Ramah:
1:4
When the day came that Elkanah sacrificed, and Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and the
he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her LORD remembered her.
1:20
sons and her daughters, portions: 1:5 but to It happened, when the time had come,
Hannah he gave a double portion; for he loved that Hannah conceived, and bore a son; and she
Hannah, but the LORD had shut up her womb. named him Samuel,c saying, “Because I have
1:6
Her rival provoked her severely, to make her asked him of the LORD.”
1:21
fret, because the LORD had shut up her womb. The man Elkanah, and all his house,
1:7 went up to offer to the LORD the yearly
As he did so year by year, when she went up
to the house of the LORD, so she provoked her; sacrifice, and his vow. 1:22 But Hannah didn’t
therefore she wept, and didn’t eat. 1:8 Elkanah go up; for she said to her husband, “Not until
her husband said to her, “Hannah, why do you the child is weaned; then I will bring him, that
weep? Why don’t you eat? Why is your heart he may appear before the LORD, and stay there
grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?” forever.”
1:9 1:23
So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Elkanah her husband said to her, “Do
Shiloh, and after they had drunk. Now Eli the what seems good to you. Wait until you have
priest was sitting on his seat by the doorpost of weaned him; only may the LORD establish his
the LORD’s temple. 1:10 She was in bitterness word.”
of soul, and prayed to the LORD, and wept So the woman waited and nursed her son,
bitterly. 1:11 She vowed a vow, and said, “The until she weaned him. 1:24 When she had
LORD of Hosts, if you will indeed look on the weaned him, she took him up with her, with
affliction of your handmaid, and remember me, three bulls, and one efahd of meal, and a bottle
and not forget your handmaid, but will give to of wine, and brought him to the LORD’s house
your handmaid a boy, then I will give him to in Shiloh. The child was young. 1:25 They killed
the LORD all the days of his life, and no razor the bull, and brought the child to Eli. 1:26 She
shall come on his head.” said, “Oh, my lord, as your soul lives, my lord, I
1:12 am the woman who stood by you here, praying
It happened, as she continued praying
before the LORD, that Eli saw her mouth. to the LORD. 1:27 For this child I prayed; and the
1:13 LORD has given me my petition which I asked
Now Hannah spoke in her heart. Only
her lips moved, but her voice was not heard. of him. 1:28 Therefore also I have granted him to
Therefore Eli thought she had been drunken. the LORD. As long as he lives he is granted to
1:14 the LORD.” He worshiped the LORD there.
Eli said to her, “How long will you be
2:1
drunken? Put away your wine from you.” Hannah prayed, and said:
1:15
Hannah answered, “No, my lord, I am “My heart exults in the LORD!
a 1:3 “LORD” or “GOD” (all capital letters) indicate the 4-letter Holy Name of God
b 1:17 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “Elohim.”
c 1:20 Samuel sounds like the Hebrew for “heard by God.”
d 1:24 1 efah is about 22 litres or about 2/3 of a bushel
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My horn is exalted in the LORD. priest’s servant came, and said to the man who
My mouth is enlarged over my enemies, sacrificed, “Give meat to roast for the priest; for
because I rejoice in your salvation. he will not accept boiled meat from you, but
2:2
There is no one as holy as the LORD, raw.”
For there is no one besides you, 2:16
If the man said to him, “Let the fat be
nor is there any rock like our God. burned first, and then take as much as your
2:3
“Talk no more so exceeding proudly. soul desires”; then he would say, “No, but
Don’t let arrogance come out of your you shall give it to me now; and if not, I will
mouth, take it by force.” 2:17 The sin of the young
For the LORD is a God of knowledge. men was very great before the LORD; for the
By him actions are weighed. men despised the offering of the LORD. 2:18 But
2:4
“The bows of the mighty men are broken. Samuel ministered before the LORD, being a
Those who stumbled are armed with child, clothed with a linen ephod. 2:19 Moreover
strength. his mother made him a little robe, and brought
2:5
Those who were full have hired themselves it to him from year to year, when she came up
out for bread. with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.
Those who were hungry are satisfied. 2:20
Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said,
Yes, the barren has borne seven. “The LORD give you seed of this woman for
She who has many children languishes. the petition which was asked of the LORD.”
2:6
“The LORD kills, and makes alive. They went to their own home. 2:21 The LORD
He brings down to Sheole , and brings up. visited Hannah, and she conceived, and bore
2:7
The LORD makes poor, and makes rich. three sons and two daughters. The child
He brings low, he also lifts up. Samuel grew before the LORD. 2:22 Now Eli
2:8
He raises up the poor out of the dust. was very old; and he heard all that his sons
He lifts up the needy from the dunghill, did to all Israel, and how that they lay with the
To make them sit with princes, women who served at the door of the Tent of
and inherit the throne of glory. Meeting. 2:23 He said to them, “Why do you do
For the pillars of the earth are the LORD’s. such things? for I hear of your evil dealings
He has set the world on them. from all this people. 2:24 No, my sons; for it
2:9
He will keep the feet of his holy ones, is no good report that I hear: you make the
but the wicked shall be put to silence in LORD’s people disobey. 2:25 If one man sin
darkness; against another, God shall judge him; but if a
for no man shall prevail by strength. man sin against the LORD, who shall entreat
2:10
Those who strive with the LORD shall be for him?” Notwithstanding, they didn’t listen
broken to pieces. to the voice of their father, because the LORD
He will thunder against them in the sky. intended to kill them. 2:26 The child Samuel
“The LORD will judge the ends of the earth. grew on, and increased in favor both with the
He will give strength to his king, LORD, and also with men. 2:27 A man of God
and exalt the horn of his anointed.” came to Eli, and said to him, “Thus says the
2:11
Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. LORD, ‘Did I reveal myself to the house of your
The child served the LORD before Eli the priest. father, when they were in Egypt in bondage
2:12
Now the sons of Eli were base men; they to Pharaoh’s house? 2:28 Did I choose him out
didn’t know the LORD. 2:13 The custom of the of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to
priests with the people was that when any go up to my altar, to burn incense, to wear an
man offered sacrifice, the priest’s servant came, ephod before me? Did I give to the house of
while the flesh was boiling, with a fork of three your father all the offerings of the children of
teeth in his hand; 2:14 and he struck it into the Israel made by fire? 2:29 Why do you kick at
pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; all that the my sacrifice and at my offering, which I have
fork brought up the priest took therewith. So commanded in my habitation, and honor your
they did in Shiloh to all the Israelites who came sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the
there. 2:15 Yes, before they burnt the fat, the best of all the offerings of Israel my people?’
e 2:6 Sheol is the place of the dead.
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2:30
“Therefore the LORD, the God of Israel, child. 3:9 Therefore Eli said to Samuel, “Go, lie
says, ‘I said indeed that your house, and the down: and it shall be, if he calls you, that you
house of your father, should walk before me shall say, ‘Speak, the LORD; for your servant
forever.’ But now the LORD says, ‘Be it far from hears.’” So Samuel went and lay down in his
me; for those who honor me I will honor, and place. 3:10 The LORD came, and stood, and
those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed. called as at other times, “Samuel! Samuel!”
2:31
Behold, the days come, that I will cut off Then Samuel said, “Speak; for your servant
your arm, and the arm of your father’s house, hears.”
that there shall not be an old man in your 3:11
The LORD said to Samuel, “Behold, I
house. 2:32 You shall see the affliction of my will do a thing in Israel, at which both the ears
habitation, in all the wealth which I shall give of everyone who hears it shall tingle. 3:12 In
Israel; and there shall not be an old man in your that day I will perform against Eli all that I
house forever. 2:33 The man of yours, whom I have spoken concerning his house, from the
shall not cut off from my altar, shall consume beginning even to the end. 3:13 For I have told
your eyes, and grieve your heart; and all the him that I will judge his house forever, for
increase of your house shall die in the flower of the iniquity which he knew, because his sons
their age. brought a curse on themselves, and he didn’t
2:34
“‘This shall be the sign to you, that restrain them. 3:14 Therefore I have sworn to
shall come on your two sons, on Hophni and the house of Eli, that the iniquity of Eli’s house
Phinehas: in one day they shall both die. 2:35 I shall not be removed with sacrifice nor offering
will raise me up a faithful priest, that shall do forever.”
according to that which is in my heart and in 3:15
Samuel lay until the morning, and
my mind. I will build him a sure house; and opened the doors of the house of the LORD.
he shall walk before my anointed forever. 2:36 It Samuel feared to show Eli the vision. 3:16 Then
shall happen, that everyone who is left in your Eli called Samuel, and said, “Samuel, my son!”
house shall come and bow down to him for a He said, “Here I am.”
piece of silver and a loaf of bread, and shall say, 3:17
He said, “What is the thing that he has
“Please put me into one of the priests’ offices, spoken to you? Please don’t hide it from me.
that I may eat a morsel of bread.”’” God do so to you, and more also, if you hide
3:1
The child Samuel ministered to the LORD anything from me of all the things that he spoke
before Eli. The word of the LORD was precious to you.”
in those days; there was no frequent vision. 3:18
3:2
Samuel told him every bit, and hid noth-
It happened at that time, when Eli was laid ing from him.
down in his place (now his eyes had begun to He said, “It is the LORD. Let him do what
grow dim, so that he could not see), 3:3 and the seems good to him.”
lamp of God hadn’t yet gone out, and Samuel 3:19
Samuel grew, and the LORD was with
had laid down in the LORD’s temple, where him, and let none of his words fall to the
the ark of God was; 3:4 that the LORD called ground. 3:20 All Israel from Dan even to Beer-
Samuel; and he said, “Here I am.” 3:5 He ran sheba knew that Samuel was established to be a
to Eli, and said, “Here I am; for you called me.” prophet of the LORD. 3:21 The LORD appeared
He said, “I didn’t call; lie down again.” again in Shiloh; for the LORD revealed himself
He went and lay down. 3:6 The LORD called to Samuel in Shiloh by the word of the LORD.
yet again, “Samuel!” 4:1
The word of Samuel came to all Israel.
Samuel arose and went to Eli, and said, Now Israel went out against the Philistines to
“Here I am; for you called me.” battle, and encamped beside Ebenezer: and
He answered, “I didn’t call, my son; lie the Philistines encamped in Aphek. 4:2 The
down again.” 3:7 Now Samuel didn’t yet know Philistines put themselves in array against Is-
the LORD, neither was the word of the LORD rael: and when they joined battle, Israel was
yet revealed to him. 3:8 The LORD called struck before the Philistines; and they killed of
Samuel again the third time. He arose and went the army in the field about four thousand men.
to Eli, and said, “Here I am; for you called me.” 4:3
When the people had come into the camp,
Eli perceived that the LORD had called the the elders of Israel said, “Why has the LORD
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struck us today before the Philistines? Let us people. Your two sons also, Hophni and
get the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God has been
Shiloh to us, that it may come among us, and captured.”
4:18
save us out of the hand of our enemies.” It happened, when he made mention of
4:4
So the people sent to Shiloh; and they the ark of God, that Eli fell from off his seat
brought from there the ark of the covenant backward by the side of the gate; and his neck
of the LORD of Hosts, who sits above the broke, and he died; for he was an old man, and
cherubim: and the two sons of Eli, Hophni heavy. He had judged Israel forty years.
4:19
and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the His daughter-in-law, Phinehas’ wife, was
covenant of God. 4:5 When the ark of the with child, near to be delivered. When she
covenant of the LORD came into the camp, all heard the news that the ark of God was taken,
Israel shouted with a great shout, so that the and that her father-in-law and her husband
earth rang again. 4:6 When the Philistines heard were dead, she bowed herself and gave birth;
the noise of the shout, they said, “What does for her pains came on her. 4:20 About the time of
the noise of this great shout in the camp of the her death the women who stood by her said to
Hebrews mean?” They understood that the ark her, “Don’t be afraid; for you have given birth
of the LORD had come into the camp. 4:7 The to a son.” But she didn’t answer, neither did
Philistines were afraid, for they said, “God has she regard it. 4:21 She named the child Ichabod,f
come into the camp.” They said, “Woe to us! saying, “The glory has departed from Israel”;
For there has not been such a thing before. because the ark of God was taken, and because
4:8
Woe to us! Who shall deliver us out of the of her father-in-law and her husband. 4:22 She
hand of these mighty gods? These are the said, “The glory has departed from Israel; for
gods that struck the Egyptians with all kinds the ark of God is taken.”
of plagues in the wilderness. 4:9 Be strong, and 5:1
Now the Philistines had taken the ark
behave like men, O you Philistines, that you not of God, and they brought it from Ebenezer
be servants to the Hebrews, as they have been to Ashdod. 5:2 The Philistines took the ark of
to you. Strengthen yourselves like men, and God, and brought it into the house of Dagon,
fight!” 4:10 The Philistines fought, and Israel and set it by Dagon. 5:3 When they of Ashdod
was struck, and they fled every man to his tent: arose early on the next day, behold, Dagon
and there was a very great slaughter; for there was fallen on his face to the ground before the
fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen. 4:11 The ark of the LORD. They took Dagon, and set
ark of God was taken; and the two sons of Eli, him in his place again. 5:4 When they arose
Hophni and Phinehas, were slain. 4:12 There ran early on the next day morning, behold, Dagon
a man of Benjamin out of the army, and came was fallen on his face to the ground before the
to Shiloh the same day, with his clothes torn, ark of the LORD; and the head of Dagon and
and with earth on his head. 4:13 When he came, both the palms of his hands were cut off on
behold, Eli was sitting on his seat by the road the threshold. Only Dagon’s torso was intact.
watching; for his heart trembled for the ark of 5:5
Therefore neither the priests of Dagon, nor
God. When the man came into the city, and any who come into Dagon’s house, tread on
told it, all the city cried out. 4:14 When Eli heard the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod, to this day.
the noise of the crying, he said, “What does the 5:6
But the hand of the LORD was heavy on
noise of this tumult mean?” them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and
The man hurried, and came and told Eli. struck them with tumors, even Ashdod and its
4:15
Now Eli was ninety-eight years old; and his borders.
eyes were set, so that he could not see. 4:16 The 5:7
When the men of Ashdod saw that it was
man said to Eli, “I am he who came out of the so, they said, “The ark of the God of Israel shall
army, and I fled today out of the army.” not stay with us; for his hand is severe on us,
He said, “How did the matter go, my son?” and on Dagon our god.” 5:8 They sent therefore
4:17
He who brought the news answered, and gathered all the lords of the Philistines to
“Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there them, and said, “What shall we do with the ark
has been also a great slaughter among the of the God of Israel?”
f 4:21 “Ichabod” means “no glory.”
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They answered, “Let the ark of the God of the cart; and put the jewels of gold, which you
Israel be carried over to Gath.” They carried return him for a trespass offering, in a coffer
the ark of the God of Israel there. 5:9 It was so, by its side; and send it away, that it may go.
6:9
that after they had carried it about, the hand of Behold; if it goes up by the way of its own
the LORD was against the city with a very great border to Beth Shemesh, then he has done us
confusion: and he struck the men of the city, this great evil: but if not, then we shall know
both small and great; and tumors broke out on that it is not his hand that struck us; it was a
them. 5:10 So they sent the ark of God to Ekron. chance that happened to us.”
It happened, as the ark of God came to 6:10
The men did so, and took two milk cows,
Ekron, that the Ekronites cried out, saying,
and tied them to the cart, and shut up their
“They have brought about the ark of the God of
calves at home; 6:11 and they put the ark of
Israel to us, to kill us and our people.” 5:11 They
the LORD on the cart, and the coffer with the
sent therefore and gathered together all the
mice of gold and the images of their tumors.
lords of the Philistines, and they said, “Send 6:12
The cows took the straight way by the way
away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go
to Beth Shemesh; they went along the highway,
again to its own place, that it not kill us and
lowing as they went, and didn’t turn aside to
our people.” For there was a deadly confusion
the right hand or to the left; and the lords of
throughout all the city; the hand of God was
the Philistines went after them to the border
very heavy there. 5:12 The men who didn’t die
of Beth Shemesh. 6:13 They of Beth Shemesh
were struck with the tumors; and the cry of the
were reaping their wheat harvest in the valley;
city went up to heaven.
6:1 and they lifted up their eyes, and saw the ark,
The ark of the LORD was in the country of
and rejoiced to see it. 6:14 The cart came into
the Philistines seven months. 6:2 The Philistines
the field of Joshua of Beth Shemesh, and stood
called for the priests and the diviners, saying,
there, where there was a great stone: and they
“What shall we do with the ark of the LORD?
split the wood of the cart, and offered up the
Show us with which we shall send it to its
cows for a burnt offering to the LORD. 6:15 The
place.”
6:3
Levites took down the ark of the LORD, and
They said, “If you send away the ark of the coffer that was with it, in which the jewels
the God of Israel, don’t send it empty; but by of gold were, and put them on the great stone:
all means return him a trespass offering: then and the men of Beth Shemesh offered burnt
you shall be healed, and it shall be known to offerings and sacrificed sacrifices the same day
you why his hand is not removed from you.” to the LORD. 6:16 When the five lords of the
6:4
Then they said, “What shall be the tres- Philistines had seen it, they returned to Ekron
pass offering which we shall return to him?” the same day. 6:17 These are the golden tumors
They said, “Five golden tumors, and five which the Philistines returned for a trespass
golden mice, for the number of the lords of offering to the LORD: for Ashdod one, for
the Philistines; for one plague was on you all, Gaza one, for Ashkelon one, for Gath one, for
and on your lords. 6:5 Therefore you shall make Ekron one; 6:18 and the golden mice, according
images of your tumors, and images of your to the number of all the cities of the Philistines
mice that mar the land; and you shall give belonging to the five lords, both of fortified
glory to the God of Israel: perhaps he will cities and of country villages, even to the great
lighten his hand from off you, and from off stone, whereon they set down the ark of the
your gods, and from off your land. 6:6 Why then LORD. That stone remains to this day in the
do you harden your hearts, as the Egyptians field of Joshua of Beth Shemesh. 6:19 He struck
and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? When he of the men of Beth Shemesh, because they had
had worked wonderfully among them, didn’t looked into the ark of the LORD, he struck of
they let the people go, and they departed? the people fifty thousand seventy men; and the
6:7
“Now therefore take and prepare your- people mourned, because the LORD had struck
selves a new cart, and two milk cows, on which the people with a great slaughter. 6:20 The men
there has come no yoke; and tie the cows to the of Beth Shemesh said, “Who is able to stand
cart, and bring their calves home from them; before the LORD, this holy God? To whom
6:8
and take the ark of the LORD, and lay it on shall he go up from us?”
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6:21
They sent messengers to the inhabitants Israel. The hand of the LORD was against the
of Kiriath Jearim, saying, “The Philistines have Philistines all the days of Samuel.
7:14
brought back the ark of the LORD; come down, The cities which the Philistines had taken
and bring it up to yourselves.” from Israel were restored to Israel, from Ekron
7:1
The men of Kiriath Jearim came, and even to Gath; and Israel recovered its border
fetched up the ark of the LORD, and brought out of the hand of the Philistines. There
it into the house of Abinadab in the hill, and was peace between Israel and the Amorites.
7:15
sanctified Eleazar his son to keep the ark of the Samuel judged Israel all the days of his
LORD. 7:2 It happened, from the day that the life. 7:16 He went from year to year in circuit to
ark stayed in Kiriath Jearim, that the time was Bethel and Gilgal, and Mizpah; and he judged
long; for it was twenty years: and all the house Israel in all those places. 7:17 His return was to
of Israel lamented after the LORD. 7:3 Samuel Ramah, for there was his house; and there he
spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, “If you judged Israel: and he built there an altar to the
do return to the LORD with all your heart, then LORD.
8:1
put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth It happened, when Samuel was old, that
from among you, and direct your hearts to he made his sons judges over Israel. 8:2 Now
the LORD, and serve him only; and he will the name of his firstborn was Joel; and the
deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.” name of his second, Abijah: they were judges in
7:4
Then the children of Israel removed the Baals Beersheba. 8:3 His sons didn’t walk in his ways,
and the Ashtaroth, and served the LORD only. but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes,
7:5
Samuel said, “Gather all Israel to Mizpah, and perverted justice. 8:4 Then all the elders of
and I will pray for you to the LORD.” 7:6 They Israel gathered themselves together, and came
gathered together to Mizpah, and drew water, to Samuel to Ramah; 8:5 and they said to him,
and poured it out before the LORD, and fasted “Behold, you are old, and your sons don’t walk
on that day, and said there, “We have sinned in your ways: now make us a king to judge us
against the LORD.” Samuel judged the children like all the nations.” 8:6 But the thing displeased
of Israel in Mizpah. 7:7 When the Philistines Samuel, when they said, “Give us a king to
heard that the children of Israel were gathered judge us.”
together at Mizpah, the lords of the Philistines Samuel prayed to the LORD. 8:7 The LORD
went up against Israel. When the children said to Samuel, “Listen to the voice of the
of Israel heard it, they were afraid of the people in all that they tell you; for they have
Philistines. 7:8 The children of Israel said to not rejected you, but they have rejected me, that
Samuel, “Don’t cease to cry to the LORD our I should not be king over them. 8:8 According
God for us, that he will save us out of the hand to all the works which they have done since
of the Philistines.” 7:9 Samuel took a suckling the day that I brought them up out of Egypt
lamb, and offered it for a whole burnt offering even to this day, in that they have forsaken me,
to the LORD: and Samuel cried to the LORD and served other gods, so do they also to you.
for Israel; and the LORD answered him. 7:10 As 8:9
Now therefore listen to their voice: however
Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the you shall protest solemnly to them, and shall
Philistines drew near to battle against Israel; show them the way of the king who shall reign
but the LORD thundered with a great thunder over them.”
on that day on the Philistines, and confused 8:10
Samuel told all the words of the LORD
them; and they were struck down before Israel. to the people who asked of him a king. 8:11 He
7:11
The men of Israel went out of Mizpah, and said, “This will be the way of the king who
pursued the Philistines, and struck them, until shall reign over you: he will take your sons,
they came under Beth Kar. and appoint them to him, for his chariots, and
7:12
Then Samuel took a stone, and set it to be his horsemen; and they shall run before
between Mizpah and Shen, and called its name his chariots; 8:12 and he will appoint them to
Ebenezer,g saying, “The LORD helped us until him for captains of thousands, and captains
now.” 7:13 So the Philistines were subdued, of fifties; and he will assign some to plow his
and they came no more within the border of ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make
g 7:12 “Ebenezer” means “stone of help.”
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9:6
his instruments of war, and the instruments of He said to him, “See now, there is in this
his chariots. 8:13 He will take your daughters city a man of God, and he is a man who is held
to be perfumers, and to be cooks, and to be in honor. All that he says comes surely to pass.
bakers. 8:14 He will take your fields, and your Now let us go there. Perhaps he can tell us
vineyards, and your olive groves, even their concerning our journey whereon we go.”
best, and give them to his servants. 8:15 He 9:7
Then Saul said to his servant, “But, be-
will take the tenth of your seed, and of your hold, if we go, what shall we bring the man?
vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his For the bread is spent in our vessels, and there
servants. 8:16 He will take your male servants, is not a present to bring to the man of God.
and your female servants, and your best young What do we have?”
men, and your donkeys, and put them to his 9:8
The servant answered Saul again, and
work. 8:17 He will take the tenth of your flocks: said, “Behold, I have in my hand the fourth part
and you shall be his servants. 8:18 You shall cry of a shekel of silver. I will give that to the man
out in that day because of your king whom you of God, to tell us our way.” 9:9 (In earlier times
shall have chosen you; and the LORD will not in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God,
answer you in that day.” thus he said, “Come, and let us go to the seer”;
8:19
But the people refused to listen to the for he who is now called a prophet was before
voice of Samuel; and they said, “No; but we called a Seer.)
will have a king over us, 8:20 that we also may 9:10
Then Saul said to his servant, “Well said.
be like all the nations, and that our king may Come, let us go.” So they went to the city where
judge us, and go out before us, and fight our the man of God was. 9:11 As they went up the
battles.” ascent to the city, they found young maidens
8:21
Samuel heard all the words of the people, going out to draw water, and said to them, “Is
and he rehearsed them in the ears of the LORD. the seer here?”
8:22 9:12
The LORD said to Samuel, “Listen to their They answered them, and said, “He is.
voice, and make them a king.” Behold, he is before you. Hurry now, for he
Samuel said to the men of Israel, “Every man has come today into the city; for the people
go to his city.” have a sacrifice today in the high place. 9:13 As
9:1 soon as you have come into the city, you shall
Now there was a man of Benjamin, whose
name was Kish, the son of Abiel, the son of immediately find him, before he goes up to the
Zeror, the son of Becorath, the son of Aphiah, high place to eat; for the people will not eat
the son of a Benjamite, a mighty man of valor. until he come, because he blesses the sacrifice.
9:2 Afterwards those who are invited eat. Now
He had a son, whose name was Saul, an
impressive young man; and there was not therefore go up; for at this time you shall find
among the children of Israel a better person him.”
9:14
than he. From his shoulders and upward he They went up to the city. As they
was higher than any of the people. came within the city, behold, Samuel came out
9:3 toward them, to go up to the high place.
The donkeys of Kish, Saul’s father, were
9:15
lost. Kish said to Saul his son, “Take now one Now the LORD had revealed to Samuel
of the servants with you, and arise, go seek a day before Saul came, saying, 9:16 “Tomorrow
the donkeys.” 9:4 He passed through the hill about this time I will send you a man out of
country of Ephraim, and passed through the the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him
land of Shalishah, but they didn’t find them: to be prince over my people Israel; and he
then they passed through the land of Shaalim, shall save my people out of the hand of the
and there they weren’t there: and he passed Philistines: for I have looked on my people,
through the land of the Benjamites, but they because their cry has come to me.”
9:17
didn’t find them. When Samuel saw Saul, the LORD said
9:5 to him, “Behold, the man of whom I spoke to
When they had come to the land of Zuph,
Saul said to his servant who was with him, you! this same shall have authority over my
“Come, and let us return, lest my father stop people.”
9:18
caring about the donkeys, and be anxious for Then Saul drew near to Samuel in the
us.” gate, and said, “Please tell me where the seer’s
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house is.” there, and you shall come to the oak of Tabor;
9:19 and three men shall meet you there going up to
Samuel answered Saul, and said, “I am
the seer. Go up before me to the high place, for God to Bethel, one carrying three young goats,
you shall eat with me today. In the morning and another carrying three loaves of bread, and
I will let you go, and will tell you all that is another carrying a bottle of wine: 10:4 and they
in your heart. 9:20 As for your donkeys who will greet you, and give you two loaves of
were lost three days ago, don’t set your mind bread, which you shall receive of their hand.
10:5
on them; for they are found. For whom is all “After that you shall come to the hill of
that is desirable in Israel? Is it not for you, and God, where is the garrison of the Philistines:
for all your father’s house?” and it shall happen, when you have come
9:21 there to the city, that you shall meet a band
Saul answered, “Am I not a Benjamite,
of the smallest of the tribes of Israel? And my of prophets coming down from the high place
family the least of all the families of the tribe of with a psaltery, and a tambourine, and a pipe,
Benjamin? Why then do you speak to me like and a harp, before them; and they will be
this?” prophesying: 10:6 and the Spirit of the LORD
9:22 will come mightily on you, and you shall
Samuel took Saul and his servant, and
brought them into the guest room, and made prophesy with them, and shall be turned into
them sit in the best place among those who another man. 10:7 Let it be, when these signs
were invited, who were about thirty persons. have come to you, that you do as occasion shall
9:23 serve you; for God is with you.
Samuel said to the cook, “Bring the portion
10:8
which I gave you, of which I said to you, ‘Set “You shall go down before me to Gilgal;
it aside.’” 9:24 The cook took up the thigh, and and behold, I will come down to you, to offer
that which was on it, and set it before Saul. burnt offerings, and to sacrifice sacrifices of
Samuel said, “Behold, that which has been peace offerings: you shall wait seven days,
reserved! Set it before yourself and eat; because until I come to you, and show you what
for the appointed time has it been kept for you, you shall do.” 10:9 It was so, that when he
for I said, ‘I have invited the people.’” So Saul had turned his back to go from Samuel, God
ate with Samuel that day. gave him another heart: and all those signs
9:25
When they had come down from the happened that day. 10:10 When they came there
high place into the city, he talked with Saul to the hill, behold, a band of prophets met
on the housetop. 9:26 They arose early: and him; and the Spirit of God came mightily on
it happened about the spring of the day, that him, and he prophesied among them. 10:11 It
Samuel called to Saul on the housetop, saying, happened, when all who knew him before saw
“Get up, that I may send you away.” Saul arose, that, behold, he prophesied with the prophets,
and they went out both of them, he and Samuel, then the people said one to another, “What is
abroad. 9:27 As they were going down at the this that has come to the son of Kish? Is Saul
end of the city, Samuel said to Saul, “Tell the also among the prophets?”
10:12
servant pass on before us” (and he passed on), One of the same place answered, “Who
“but stand still first, that I may cause you to is their father?” Therefore it became a proverb,
hear the word of God.” “Is Saul also among the prophets?” 10:13 When
10:1 he had made an end of prophesying, he came
Then Samuel took the vial of oil, and
poured it on his head, and kissed him, and said, to the high place.
10:14
“Isn’t it that the LORD has anointed you to be Saul’s uncle said to him and to his
prince over his inheritance? 10:2 When you have servant, “Where did you go?”
departed from me today, then you shall find He said, “To seek the donkeys. When we
two men by Rachel’s tomb, in the border of saw that they were not found, we came to
Benjamin at Zelzah; and they will tell you, ‘The Samuel.”
10:15
donkeys which you went to seek have been Saul’s uncle said, “Please tell me what
found; and behold, your father has stopped Samuel said to you.”
caring about the donkeys, and is anxious for 10:16
Saul said to his uncle, “He told us
you, saying, “What shall I do for my son?”’ plainly that the donkeys were found.” But
10:3
“Then you shall go on forward from concerning the matter of the kingdom, of which
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Samuel spoke, he didn’t tell him. seven day, that we may send messengers to all
10:17 the borders of Israel; and then, if there is no one
Samuel called the people together to
the LORD to Mizpah; 10:18 and he said to the to save us, we will come out to you.” 11:4 Then
children of Israel, “Thus says the LORD, the the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul, and
God of Israel, ‘I brought up Israel out of Egypt, spoke these words in the ears of the people: and
and I delivered you out of the hand of the all the people lifted up their voice, and wept.
Egyptians, and out of the hand of all the 11:5
Behold, Saul came following the oxen
kingdoms that oppressed you:’ 10:19 but you out of the field; and Saul said, “What ails the
have this day rejected your God, who himself people that they weep?” They told him the
saves you out of all your calamities and your words of the men of Jabesh. 11:6 The Spirit
distresses; and you have said to him, ‘No! of God came mightily on Saul when he heard
Set a king over us.’ Now therefore present those words, and his anger was kindled greatly.
yourselves before the LORD by your tribes, and 11:7
He took a yoke of oxen, and cut them
by your thousands.” in pieces, and sent them throughout all the
10:20
So Samuel brought all the tribes of Israel borders of Israel by the hand of messengers,
near, and the tribe of Benjamin was taken. saying, “Whoever doesn’t come forth after Saul
10:21
He brought the tribe of Benjamin near by and after Samuel, so shall it be done to his
their families; and the family of the Matrites oxen.” The dread of the LORD fell on the
was taken; and Saul the son of Kish was taken: people, and they came out as one man. 11:8 He
but when they sought him, he could not be numbered them in Bezek; and the children of
found. 10:22 Therefore they asked of the LORD Israel were three hundred thousand, and the
further, “Is there yet a man to come here?” men of Judah thirty thousand. 11:9 They said
The LORD answered, “Behold, he has hid- to the messengers who came, “Thus you shall
den himself among the baggage.” tell the men of Jabesh Gilead, ‘Tomorrow, by
10:23 the time the sun is hot, you shall have deliver-
They ran and fetched him there; and
when he stood among the people, he was ance.’” The messengers came and told the men
higher than any of the people from his shoul- of Jabesh; and they were glad. 11:10 Therefore
ders and upward. 10:24 Samuel said to all the the men of Jabesh said, “Tomorrow we will
people, “You see him whom the LORD has come out to you, and you shall do with us
chosen, that there is none like him among all all that seems good to you.” 11:11 It was so
the people?” on the next day, that Saul put the people in
All the people shouted, and said, “Let the three companies; and they came into the midst
king live!” of the camp in the morning watch, and struck
10:25
Then Samuel told the people the reg- the Ammonites until the heat of the day: and
ulations of the kingdom, and wrote it in a it happened, that those who remained were
book, and laid it up before the LORD. Samuel scattered, so that no two of them were left
sent all the people away, every man to his together. 11:12 The people said to Samuel, “Who
house. 10:26 Saul also went to his house to is he who said, ‘Shall Saul reign over us?’ Bring
Gibeah; and there went with him the army, those men, that we may put them to death!”
11:13
whose hearts God had touched. 10:27 But certain Saul said, “There shall not a man be
worthless fellows said, “How shall this man put to death this day; for today the LORD
save us?” They despised him, and brought him has worked deliverance in Israel.” 11:14 Then
no present. But he held his peace. Samuel said to the people, “Come, and let us
11:1 go to Gilgal, and renew the kingdom there.”
Then Nahash the Ammonite came up,
11:15
and encamped against Jabesh Gilead: and all All the people went to Gilgal; and there
the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, “Make a they made Saul king before the LORD in
covenant with us, and we will serve you.” Gilgal; and there they offered sacrifices of peace
11:2 offerings before the LORD; and there Saul and
Nahash the Ammonite said to them, “On
this condition I will make it with you, that all all the men of Israel rejoiced greatly.
12:1
your right eyes be put out; and I will lay it for a Samuel said to all Israel, “Behold, I have
reproach on all Israel.” listened to your voice in all that you said to
11:3
The elders of Jabesh said to him, “Give us me, and have made a king over you. 12:2 Now,
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behold, the king walks before you; and I am over you. 12:14 If you will fear the LORD, and
old and gray-headed; and behold, my sons are serve him, and listen to his voice, and not rebel
with you: and I have walked before you from against the commandment of the LORD, then
my youth to this day. 12:3 Here I am. Witness both you and also the king who reigns over you
against me before the LORD, and before his are followers of the LORD your God. 12:15 But if
anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Whose you will not listen to the voice of the LORD, but
donkey have I taken? Whom have I defrauded? rebel against the commandment of the LORD,
Whom have I oppressed? Of whose hand have then will the hand of the LORD be against you,
I taken a ransom to blind my eyes therewith? I as it was against your fathers.
12:16
will restore it to you.” “Now therefore stand still and see this
12:4
They said, “You have not defrauded great thing, which the LORD will do before
us, nor oppressed us, neither have you taken your eyes. 12:17 Isn’t it wheat harvest today? I
anything of any man’s hand.” will call to the LORD, that he may send thunder
12:5
He said to them, “The LORD is witness and rain; and you shall know and see that your
against you, and his anointed is witness this wickedness is great, which you have done in
day, that you have not found anything in my the sight of the LORD, in asking for a king.”
12:18
hand.” So Samuel called to the LORD; and the
They said, “He is witness.” 12:6 Samuel said LORD sent thunder and rain that day: and
to the people, “It is the LORD who appointed all the people greatly feared the LORD and
Moses and Aaron, and that brought your fa- Samuel.
thers up out of the land of Egypt. 12:7 Now 12:19
All the people said to Samuel, “Pray for
therefore stand still, that I may plead with you your servants to the LORD your God, that we
before the LORD concerning all the righteous not die; for we have added to all our sins this
acts of the LORD, which he did to you and to evil, to ask us a king.”
12:20
your fathers. Samuel said to the people, “Don’t be
12:8
“When Jacob had come into Egypt, and afraid. You have indeed done all this evil; yet
your fathers cried to the LORD, then the LORD don’t turn aside from following the LORD, but
sent Moses and Aaron, who brought your serve the LORD with all your heart. 12:21 Don’t
fathers out of Egypt, and made them to dwell turn aside to go after vain things which can’t
in this place. profit nor deliver, for they are vain. 12:22 For the
12:9
“But they forgot the LORD their God; LORD will not forsake his people for his great
and he sold them into the hand of Sisera, name’s sake, because it has pleased the LORD
captain of the army of Hazor, and into the to make you a people to himself. 12:23 Moreover
hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of as for me, far be it from me that I should sin
the king of Moab; and they fought against against the LORD in ceasing to pray for you:
them. 12:10 They cried to the LORD, and said, but I will instruct you in the good and the right
‘We have sinned, because we have forsaken way. 12:24 Only fear the LORD, and serve him in
the LORD, and have served the Baals and truth with all your heart; for consider how great
the Ashtaroth: but now deliver us out of the things he has done for you. 12:25 But if you shall
hand of our enemies, and we will serve you.’ still do wickedly, you shall be consumed, both
12:11
The LORD sent Jerubbaal, and Bedan, and you and your king.”
13:1
Jephthah, and Samuel, and delivered you out Saul reigned a year; and when he had
of the hand of your enemies on every side; and reigned two years over Israel, 13:2 Saul chose
you lived in safety. for himself three thousand men of Israel, of
12:12
“When you saw that Nahash the king which two thousand were with Saul in Mich-
of the children of Ammon came against you, mash and in the Mount of Bethel, and one
you said to me, ‘No, but a king shall reign thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of
over us;’ when the LORD your God was your Benjamin: and the rest of the people he sent
king. 12:13 Now therefore see the king whom every man to his tent. 13:3 Jonathan struck the
you have chosen, and whom you have asked garrison of the Philistines that was in Geba:
for: and behold, the LORD has set a king and the Philistines heard of it. Saul blew the
h 13:3 or, trumpet
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shofarh throughout all the land, saying, “Let hundred men. 13:16 Saul, and Jonathan his son,
the Hebrews hear!” 13:4 All Israel heard that and the people who were present with them,
Saul had struck the garrison of the Philistines, stayed in Geba of Benjamin: but the Philistines
and also that Israel was had in abomination encamped in Michmash. 13:17 The spoilers came
with the Philistines. The people were gathered out of the camp of the Philistines in three
together after Saul to Gilgal. 13:5 The Philistines companies: one company turned to the way
assembled themselves together to fight with Is- that leads to Ophrah, to the land of Shual;
13:18
rael, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand and another company turned the way to
horsemen, and people as the sand which is on Beth Horon; and another company turned the
the seashore in multitude: and they came up, way of the border that looks down on the valley
and encamped in Michmash, eastward of Beth of Zeboim toward the wilderness. 13:19 Now
Aven. 13:6 When the men of Israel saw that they there was no smith found throughout all Eretz-
were in a strait (for the people were distressed), Israel; for the Philistines said, “Lest the He-
then the people hid themselves in caves, and brews make them swords or spears”; 13:20 but
in thickets, and in rocks, and in coverts, and all the Israelites went down to the Philistines,
in pits. 13:7 Now some of the Hebrews had to sharpen every man his plowshare, mattock,
gone over the Jordan to the land of Gad and axe, and sickle; 13:21 yet they had a file for the
Gilead; but as for Saul, he was yet in Gilgal, and mattocks, and for the plowshares, and for the
all the people followed him trembling. 13:8 He forks, and for the axes, and to set the goads.
13:22
stayed seven days, according to the time set by So it came to pass in the day of battle, that
Samuel: but Samuel didn’t come to Gilgal; and there was neither sword nor spear found in
the people were scattered from him. 13:9 Saul the hand of any of the people who were with
said, “Bring here the burnt offering to me, and Saul and Jonathan: but with Saul and with
the peace offerings.” He offered the burnt Jonathan his son was there found. 13:23 The
offering. garrison of the Philistines went out to the pass
13:10 of Michmash.
It came to pass that as soon as he had
made an end of offering the burnt offering, 14:1
Now it fell on a day, that Jonathan the
behold, Samuel came; and Saul went out to
son of Saul said to the young man who bore
meet him, that he might greet him. 13:11 Samuel
his armor, “Come, and let us go over to the
said, “What have you done?”
Philistines’ garrison, that is on the other side.”
Saul said, “Because I saw that the people But he didn’t tell his father. 14:2 Saul stayed
were scattered from me, and that you didn’t in the uttermost part of Gibeah under the
come within the days appointed, and that pomegranate tree which is in Migron: and
the Philistines assembled themselves together the people who were with him were about
at Michmash; 13:12 therefore I said, ‘Now the six hundred men; 14:3 and Ahijah, the son of
Philistines will come down on me to Gilgal, and Ahitub, Ichabod’s brother, the son of Phinehas,
I haven’t entreated the favor of the LORD.’ I the son of Eli, the priest of the LORD in
forced myself therefore, and offered the burnt Shiloh, wearing an ephod. The people didn’t
offering.” know that Jonathan was gone. 14:4 Between the
13:13
Samuel said to Saul, “You have done passes, by which Jonathan sought to go over
foolishly. You have not kept the commandment to the Philistines’ garrison, there was a rocky
of the LORD your God, which he commanded crag on the one side, and a rocky crag on the
you; for now the LORD would have established other side: and the name of the one was Bozez,
your kingdom on Israel forever. 13:14 But now and the name of the other Seneh. 14:5 The one
your kingdom shall not continue. The LORD crag rose up on the north in front of Michmash,
has sought for himself a man after his own and the other on the south in front of Geba.
heart, and the LORD has appointed him to be 14:6
Jonathan said to the young man who bore
prince over his people, because you have not his armor, “Come, and let us go over to the
kept that which the LORD commanded you.” garrison of these uncircumcised. It may be that
13:15
Samuel arose, and went from Gilgal the LORD will work for us; for there is no
to Gibeah of Benjamin. Saul numbered the restraint on the LORD to save by many or by
people who were present with him, about six few.” 14:7 His armor bearer said to him, “Do all
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that is in your heart. Turn and, behold, I am them into the camp, from all around, even they
with you according to your heart.” 14:8 Then also turned to be with the Israelites who were
Jonathan said, “Behold, we will pass over to with Saul and Jonathan. 14:22 Likewise all the
the men, and we will reveal ourselves to them. men of Israel who had hidden themselves in
14:9
If they say thus to us, ‘Wait until we come to the hill country of Ephraim, when they heard
you!’ then we will stand still in our place, and that the Philistines fled, even they also followed
will not go up to them. 14:10 But if they say this, hard after them in the battle. 14:23 So the LORD
‘Come up to us!’ then we will go up; for the saved Israel that day: and the battle passed
LORD has delivered them into our hand. This over by Beth Aven.
shall be the sign to us.” 14:24
The men of Israel were distressed that
14:11
Both of them revealed themselves to the day; for Saul had adjured the people, saying,
garrison of the Philistines: and the Philistines “Cursed is the man who eats any food until it
said, “Behold, the Hebrews are coming out is evening, and I am avenged of my enemies.”
of the holes where they had hidden them- So none of the people tasted food.
selves!” 14:12 The men of the garrison an- 14:25
All the people came into the forest; and
swered Jonathan and his armor bearer, and there was honey on the ground. 14:26 When
said, “Come up to us, and we will show you the people had come to the forest, behold, the
something!” honey dropped: but no man put his hand
Jonathan said to his armor bearer, “Come up to his mouth; for the people feared the oath.
after me; for the LORD has delivered them into 14:27
But Jonathan didn’t hear when his father
the hand of Israel.” 14:13 Jonathan climbed up commanded the people with the oath: therefore
on his hands and on his feet, and his armor he put forth the end of the rod who was in
bearer after him: and they fell before Jonathan; his hand, and dipped it in the honeycomb,
and his armor bearer killed them after him. and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes
14:14
That first slaughter, which Jonathan and were enlightened. 14:28 Then one of the peo-
his armor bearer made, was about twenty men, ple answered, and said, “Your father directly
within as it were half a furrow’s length in commanded the people with an oath, saying,
an acre of land. 14:15 There was a trembling ‘Cursed is the man who eats food this day.’”
in the camp, in the field, and among all the The people were faint. 14:29 Then Jonathan said,
people; the garrison, and the spoilers, they also “My father has troubled the land. Please look
trembled; and the earth quaked: so there was how my eyes have been enlightened, because
an exceeding great trembling. 14:16 The watch- I tasted a little of this honey. 14:30 How much
men of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked; more, if perhaps the people had eaten freely
and behold, the multitude melted away, and today of the spoil of their enemies which they
scattered. 14:17 Then Saul said to the people found? For now has there been no great
who were with him, “Count now, and see who slaughter among the Philistines.” 14:31 They
is missing from us.” When they had counted, struck of the Philistines that day from Mich-
behold, Jonathan and his armor bearer were not mash to Aijalon. The people were very faint;
there. 14:32
and the people flew on the spoil, and took
14:18
Saul said to Ahijah, “Bring the ark of sheep, and cattle, and calves, and killed them
God here.” For the ark of God was with the on the ground; and the people ate them with
children of Israel at that time. 14:19 It happened, the blood. 14:33 Then they told Saul, saying,
while Saul talked to the priest, that the tumult “Behold, the people are sinning against the
that was in the camp of the Philistines went LORD, in that they eat meat with the blood.”
on and increased: and Saul said to the priest, He said, “You have dealt treacherously. Roll
“Withdraw your hand!” a large stone to me this day!” 14:34 Saul said,
14:20
Saul and all the people who were with “Disperse yourselves among the people, and
him were gathered together, and came to the tell them, ‘Bring me here every man his ox,
battle: and behold, every man’s sword was and every man his sheep, and kill them here,
against his fellow: a very great confusion. and eat; and don’t sin against the LORD in
14:21
Now the Hebrews who were with the eating meat with the blood.’” All the people
Philistines as before, and who went up with brought every man his ox with him that night,
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and killed them there. and against the Philistines: and wherever he
14:35
Saul built an altar to the LORD. This turned himself, he defeated them. 14:48 He
was the first altar that he built to the LORD. did valiantly, and struck the Amalekites, and
14:36
Saul said, “Let us go down after the delivered Israel out of the hands of those who
Philistines by night, and take spoil among them despoiled them. 14:49 Now the sons of Saul were
until the morning light, and let us not leave a Jonathan, and Ishvi, and Malchishua; and the
man of them.” names of his two daughters were these: the
They said, “Do whatever seems good to name of the firstborn Merab, and the name of
you.” the younger Michal: 14:50 and the name of Saul’s
Then the priest said, “Let us draw near here wife was Ahinoam the daughter of Ahimaaz.
to God.” The name of the captain of his army was Abner
14:37
Saul asked counsel of God, “Shall I go the son of Ner, Saul’s uncle. 14:51 Kish was the
down after the Philistines? Will you deliver father of Saul; and Ner the father of Abner was
them into the hand of Israel?” But he didn’t the son of Abiel. 14:52 There was severe war
answer him that day. 14:38 Saul said, “Draw against the Philistines all the days of Saul: and
near here, all you chiefs of the people; and when Saul saw any mighty man, or any valiant
know and see in which this sin has been this man, he took him to him.
day. 14:39 For, as the LORD lives, who saves 15:1
Samuel said to Saul, “The LORD sent me
Israel, though it is in Jonathan my son, he shall to anoint you to be king over his people, over
surely die.” But there was not a man among Israel. Now therefore listen to the voice of the
all the people who answered him. 14:40 Then he words of the LORD. 15:2 Thus says the LORD of
said to all Israel, “You be on one side, and I and Hosts, ‘I have marked that which Amalek did
Jonathan my son will be on the other side.” to Israel, how he set himself against him in the
The people said to Saul, “Do what seems way, when he came up out of Egypt. 15:3 Now
good to you.” go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all
14:41
Therefore Saul said to the LORD, the that they have, and don’t spare them; but kill
God of Israel, “Show the right.” both man and woman, infant and nursing baby,
Jonathan and Saul were chosen; but the ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’”
people escaped. 15:4
Saul summoned the people, and num-
14:42
Saul said, “Cast lots between me and bered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand
Jonathan my son.” footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.
15:5
Jonathan was selected. Saul came to the city of Amalek, and laid
14:43
Then Saul said to Jonathan, “Tell me wait in the valley. 15:6 Saul said to the Ken-
what you have done!” ites, “Go, depart, go down from among the
Jonathan told him, and said, “I certainly did Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them; for
taste a little honey with the end of the rod that you showed kindness to all the children of
was in my hand; and behold, I must die.” Israel, when they came up out of Egypt.” So the
14:44 Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.
Saul said, “God do so and more also; for
you shall surely die, Jonathan.” 15:7
Saul struck the Amalekites, from Havilah
14:45
The people said to Saul, “Shall Jonathan as you go to Shur, that is before Egypt. 15:8 He
die, who has worked this great salvation in took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive,
Israel? Far from it! As the LORD lives, there and utterly destroyed all the people with the
shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; edge of the sword. 15:9 But Saul and the people
for he has worked with God this day!” So the spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of
people rescued Jonathan, that he didn’t die. the cattle, and of the fatlings, and the lambs,
14:46
Then Saul went up from following the and all that was good, and wouldn’t utterly
Philistines; and the Philistines went to their destroy them: but everything that was vile and
own place. 14:47 Now when Saul had taken refuse, that they destroyed utterly. 15:10 Then
the kingdom over Israel, he fought against the word of the LORD came to Samuel, saying,
15:11
all his enemies on every side, against Moab, “It grieves me that I have set up Saul to be
and against the children of Ammon, and king; for he is turned back from following me,
against Edom, and against the kings of Zobah, and has not performed my commandments.”
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Samuel was angry; and he cried to the LORD the people, and obeyed their voice. 15:25 Now
all night. therefore, please pardon my sin, and turn again
15:12
Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the with me, that I may worship the LORD.”
15:26
morning; and it was told Samuel, saying, “Saul Samuel said to Saul, “I will not return
came to Carmel, and behold, he set up a with you; for you have rejected the word of the
monument for himself, and turned, and passed LORD, and the LORD has rejected you from
on, and went down to Gilgal.” being king over Israel.” 15:27 As Samuel turned
15:13
Samuel came to Saul; and Saul said to about to go away, Saul grabbed the skirt of his
him, “You are blessed by the LORD! I have robe, and it tore. 15:28 Samuel said to him, “The
performed the commandment of the LORD.” LORD has torn the kingdom of Israel from you
15:14 this day, and has given it to a neighbor of yours
Samuel said, “Then what does this
bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing who is better than you. 15:29 Also the Strength
of the cattle which I hear mean?” of Israel will not lie nor repent; for he is not a
15:15 man, that he should repent.”
Saul said, “They have brought them
15:30
from the Amalekites; for the people spared the Then he said, “I have sinned: yet please
best of the sheep and of the cattle, to sacrifice honor me now before the elders of my people,
to the LORD your God. We have utterly and before Israel, and come back with me, that
destroyed the rest.” I may worship the LORD your God.”
15:16 15:31
Then Samuel said to Saul, “Stay, and I So Samuel went back with Saul; and
will tell you what the LORD has said to me last Saul worshiped the LORD. 15:32 Then Samuel
night.” said, “Bring here to me Agag the king of the
He said to him, “Say on.” Amalekites!”
15:17 Agag came to him cheerfully. Agag said,
Samuel said, “Though you were little in
your own sight, weren’t you made the head of “Surely the bitterness of death is past.”
15:33
the tribes of Israel? the LORD anointed you Samuel said, “As your sword has made
king over Israel; 15:18 and the LORD sent you on women childless, so your mother will be child-
a journey, and said, ‘Go, and utterly destroy the less among women!” Samuel cut Agag in
sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them pieces before the LORD in Gilgal.
15:34
until they are consumed.’ 15:19 Why then didn’t Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul
you obey the voice of the LORD, but took the went up to his house to Gibeah of Saul.
15:35
spoils, and did that which was evil in the sight Samuel came no more to see Saul until the
of the LORD?” day of his death; for Samuel mourned for Saul:
15:20 and the LORD grieved that he had made Saul
Saul said to Samuel, “But I have obeyed
the voice of the LORD, and have gone the way king over Israel.
16:1
which the LORD sent me, and have brought The LORD said to Samuel, “How long
Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly will you mourn for Saul, since I have rejected
destroyed the Amalekites. 15:21 But the people him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn
took of the spoil, sheep and cattle, the chief with oil, and go. I will send you to Jesse the
of the devoted things, to sacrifice to the LORD Bethlehemite; for I have provided a king for
your God in Gilgal.” myself among his sons.”
15:22 16:2
Samuel said, “Has the LORD as great Samuel said, “How can I go? If Saul
delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in hears it, he will kill me.”
obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey The LORD said, “Take a heifer with you,
is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the and say, I have come to sacrifice to the LORD.
16:3
fat of rams. 15:23 For rebellion is as the sin of Call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show
witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and you what you shall do. You shall anoint to me
teraphim. Because you have rejected the word him whom I name to you.”
16:4
of the LORD, he has also rejected you from Samuel did that which the LORD spoke,
being king.” and came to Bethlehem. The elders of the city
15:24
Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned; came to meet him trembling, and said, “Do you
for I have transgressed the commandment of come peaceably?”
16:5
the LORD, and your words, because I feared He said, “Peaceably; I have come to
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sacrifice to the LORD. Sanctify yourselves, and and said, “Send me David your son, who is
come with me to the sacrifice.” He sanctified with the sheep.”
Jesse and his sons, and called them to the 16:20
Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread,
sacrifice. 16:6 It happened, when they had come, and a bottle of wine, and a young goat, and
that he looked at Eliab, and said, “Surely the sent them by David his son to Saul. 16:21 David
LORD’s anointed is before him.” came to Saul, and stood before him. He loved
16:7
But the LORD said to Samuel, “Don’t him greatly; and he became his armor bearer.
look on his face, or on the height of his stature; 16:22
Saul sent to Jesse, saying, “Please let David
because I have rejected him: for I see not stand before me; for he has found favor in my
as man sees; for man looks at the outward sight.” 16:23 It happened, when the spirit from
appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.” God was on Saul, that David took the harp, and
16:8
Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him played with his hand: so Saul was refreshed,
pass before Samuel. He said, “Neither has the and was well, and the evil spirit departed from
LORD chosen this one.” 16:9 Then Jesse made him.
Shammah to pass by. He said, “Neither has 17:1
Now the Philistines gathered together
the LORD chosen this one.” 16:10 Jesse made their armies to battle; and they were gathered
seven of his sons to pass before Samuel. Samuel together at Socoh, which belongs to Judah,
said to Jesse, “The LORD has not chosen these.” and encamped between Socoh and Azekah, in
16:11
Samuel said to Jesse, “Are all your children Ephesdammim. 17:2 Saul and the men of Israel
here?” were gathered together, and encamped in the
He said, “There remains yet the youngest, valley of Elah, and set the battle in array against
and behold, he is keeping the sheep.” the Philistines. 17:3 The Philistines stood on the
Samuel said to Jesse, “Send and get him; for mountain on the one side, and Israel stood on
we will not sit down until he comes here.” the mountain on the other side: and there was
16:12
He sent, and brought him in. Now he a valley between them. 17:4 There went out a
was ruddy, and withal of a beautiful face, and champion out of the camp of the Philistines,
goodly to look on. The LORD said, “Arise, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six
anoint him; for this is he.” cubits and a span. 17:5 He had a helmet of
16:13
Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and brass on his head, and he was clad with a coat
anointed him in the midst of his brothers: and of mail; and the weight of the coat was five
the Spirit of the LORD came mightily on David thousand shekels of brass. 17:6 He had brass
from that day forward. So Samuel rose up, shin armor on his legs, and a javelin of brass
and went to Ramah. 16:14 Now the Spirit of between his shoulders. 17:7 The staff of his spear
the LORD departed from Saul, and an evil was like a weaver’s beam; and his spear’s head
spirit from the LORD troubled him. 16:15 Saul’s weighed six hundred shekels of iron: and his
servants said to him, “See now, an evil spirit shield bearer went before him. 17:8 He stood
from God troubles you. 16:16 Let our lord now and cried to the armies of Israel, and said to
command your servants who are before you, to them, “Why have you come out to set your
seek out a man who is a skillful player on the battle in array? Am I not a Philistine, and you
harp. It shall happen, when the evil spirit from servants to Saul? Choose a man for yourselves,
God is on you, that he shall play with his hand, and let him come down to me. 17:9 If he be able
and you shall be well.” to fight with me, and kill me, then will we be
16:17
Saul said to his servants, “Provide me your servants; but if I prevail against him, and
now a man who can play well, and bring him kill him, then you will be our servants, and
to me.” serve us.” 17:10 The Philistine said, “I defy the
16:18 armies of Israel this day! Give me a man, that
Then one of the young men answered,
and said, “Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse we may fight together!”
the Bethlehemite, who is skillful in playing, a 17:11
When Saul and all Israel heard those
mighty man of valor, a man of war, prudent in words of the Philistine, they were dismayed,
speech, and a comely person; and the LORD is and greatly afraid. 17:12 Now David was the son
with him.” of that Ephrathite of Bethlehem Judah, whose
16:19
Therefore Saul sent messengers to Jesse, name was Jesse; and he had eight sons: and
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17:28
the man was an old man in the days of Saul, Eliab his eldest brother heard when
stricken among men. 17:13 The three eldest sons he spoke to the men; and Eliab’s anger was
of Jesse had gone after Saul to the battle: and kindled against David, and he said, “Why have
the names of his three sons who went to the you come down? With whom have you left
battle were Eliab the firstborn, and next to him those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your
Abinadab, and the third Shammah. 17:14 David pride, and the naughtiness of your heart; for
was the youngest; and the three eldest followed you have come down that you might see the
Saul. 17:15 Now David went back and forth battle.”
17:29
from Saul to feed his father’s sheep at Beth- David said, “What have I now done? Is
lehem. 17:16 The Philistine drew near morning there not a cause?” 17:30 He turned away from
and evening, and presented himself forty days. him toward another, and spoke like that again;
17:17
Jesse said to David his son, “Now take for and the people answered him again the same
your brothers an efahi of this parched grain, way. 17:31 When the words were heard which
and these ten loaves, and carry them quickly to David spoke, they rehearsed them before Saul;
the camp to your brothers; 17:18 and bring these and he sent for him. 17:32 David said to Saul,
ten cheeses to the captain of their thousand, “Let no man’s heart fail because of him. Your
and see how your brothers are doing, and bring servant will go and fight with this Philistine.”
back news.” 17:19 Now Saul, and they, and all 17:33
Saul said to David, “You are not able to
the men of Israel, were in the valley of Elah, go against this Philistine to fight with him; for
fighting with the Philistines. 17:20 David rose you are but a youth, and he a man of war from
up early in the morning, and left the sheep his youth.”
with a keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had 17:34
David said to Saul, “Your servant was
commanded him; and he came to the place of keeping his father’s sheep; and when a lion
the wagons, as the army which was going forth or a bear came, and took a lamb out of the
to the fight shouted for the battle. 17:21 Israel flock, 17:35 I went out after him, and struck him,
and the Philistines put the battle in array, army and rescued it out of his mouth. When he
against army. 17:22 David left his baggage in the arose against me, I caught him by his beard,
hand of the keeper of the baggage, and ran to and struck him, and killed him. 17:36 Your
the army, and came and greeted his brothers. servant struck both the lion and the bear. This
17:23
As he talked with them, behold, there came uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of
up the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath them, since he has defied the armies of the
by name, out of the ranks of the Philistines, and living God.” 17:37 David said, “The LORD who
spoke according to the same words: and David delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out
heard them. 17:24 All the men of Israel, when of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of
they saw the man, fled from him, and were the hand of this Philistine.”
terrified. 17:25 The men of Israel said, “Have Saul said to David, “Go; and the LORD shall
you seen this man who has come up? He has be with you.” 17:38 Saul dressed David with his
surely come up to defy Israel. It shall be, that clothing. He put a helmet of brass on his head,
the man who kills him, the king will enrich and he clad him with a coat of mail. 17:39 David
him with great riches, and will give him his strapped his sword on his clothing, and he tried
daughter, and make his father’s house free in to move; for he had not tested it. David said to
Israel.” Saul, “I can’t go with these; for I have not tested
17:26
David spoke to the men who stood them.” David took them off.
by him, saying, “What shall be done to the 17:40
He took his staff in his hand, and chose
man who kills this Philistine, and takes away for himself five smooth stones out of the brook,
the reproach from Israel? For who is this and put them in the shepherd’s bag which
uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy he had, even in his wallet. His sling was in
the armies of the living God?” his hand; and he drew near to the Philistine.
17:27 17:41
The people answered him in this way, The Philistine came on and drew near to
saying, “So shall it be done to the man who kills David; and the man who bore the shield went
him.” before him. 17:42 When the Philistine looked
i 17:17 1 efah is about 22 litres or about 2/3 of a bushel
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about, and saw David, he disdained him; for can’t tell.”


he was but a youth, and ruddy, and withal of a 17:56
The king said, “Inquire whose son the
fair face. 17:43 The Philistine said to David, “Am young man is!”
I a dog, that you come to me with sticks?” The 17:57
As David returned from the slaughter
Philistine cursed David by his gods. 17:44 The of the Philistine, Abner took him, and brought
Philistine said to David, “Come to me, and I him before Saul with the head of the Philistine
will give your flesh to the birds of the sky, and in his hand. 17:58 Saul said to him, “Whose son
to the animals of the field.” are you, you young man?”
17:45
Then David said to the Philistine, “You David answered, “I am the son of your
come to me with a sword, and with a spear, and servant Jesse the Bethlehemite.”
with a javelin: but I come to you in the name of 18:1
It happened, when he had made an end
the LORD of Hosts, the God of the armies of of speaking to Saul, that the soul of Jonathan
Israel, whom you have defied. 17:46 Today, the was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan
LORD will deliver you into my hand. I will loved him as his own soul. 18:2 Saul took him
strike you, and take your head from off you. that day, and would let him go no more home
I will give the dead bodies of the army of the to his father’s house. 18:3 Then Jonathan and
Philistines this day to the birds of the sky, and David made a covenant, because he loved him
to the wild animals of the earth; that all the as his own soul. 18:4 Jonathan stripped himself
earth may know that there is a God in Israel, of the robe that was on him, and gave it to
17:47
and that all this assembly may know that David, and his clothing, even to his sword, and
the LORD doesn’t save with sword and spear: to his bow, and to his sash. 18:5 David went out
for the battle is the LORD’s, and he will give wherever Saul sent him, and behaved himself
you into our hand.” wisely: and Saul set him over the men of war,
17:48
It happened, when the Philistine arose, and it was good in the sight of all the people,
and came and drew near to meet David, that and also in the sight of Saul’s servants. 18:6 It
David hurried, and ran toward the army to happened as they came, when David returned
meet the Philistine. 17:49 David put his hand in from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the
his bag, took a stone, and slung it, and struck women came out of all the cities of Israel,
the Philistine in his forehead; and the stone singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with
sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face tambourines, with joy, and with instruments of
to the earth. 17:50 So David prevailed over the music. 18:7 The women sang one to another as
Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and they played, and said,
struck the Philistine, and killed him; but there “Saul has slain his thousands,
was no sword in the hand of David. 17:51 Then David his ten thousands.”
David ran, and stood over the Philistine, and 18:8
Saul was very angry, and this saying dis-
took his sword, and drew it out of its sheath, pleased him; and he said, “They have ascribed
and killed him, and cut off his head therewith. to David ten thousands, and to me they have
When the Philistines saw that their champion ascribed but thousands. What can he have
was dead, they fled. 17:52 The men of Israel and more but the kingdom?” 18:9 Saul eyed David
of Judah arose, and shouted, and pursued the from that day and forward. 18:10 It happened
Philistines, until you come to Gai, and to the on the next day, that an evil spirit from God
gates of Ekron. The wounded of the Philistines came mightily on Saul, and he prophesied in
fell down by the way to Shaaraim, even to the midst of the house. David played with
Gath, and to Ekron. 17:53 The children of Israel his hand, as he did day by day. Saul had
returned from chasing after the Philistines, and his spear in his hand; 18:11 and Saul threw the
they plundered their camp. 17:54 David took spear; for he said, “I will pin David even to
the head of the Philistine, and brought it to the wall!” David escaped from his presence
Jerusalem; but he put his armor in his tent. twice. 18:12 Saul was afraid of David, because
17:55
When Saul saw David go forth against the the LORD was with him, and was departed
Philistine, he said to Abner, the captain of the from Saul. 18:13 Therefore Saul removed him
army, “Abner, whose son is this youth?” from him, and made him his captain over a
Abner said, “As your soul lives, O king, I thousand; and he went out and came in before
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the people. enemy continually. 18:30 Then the princes of


18:14 the Philistines went forth: and it happened, as
David behaved himself wisely in all his
ways; and the LORD was with him. 18:15 When often as they went forth, that David behaved
Saul saw that he behaved himself very wisely, himself more wisely than all the servants of
he stood in awe of him. 18:16 But all Israel and Saul; so that his name was highly esteemed.
19:1
Judah loved David; for he went out and came in Saul spoke to Jonathan his son, and to
before them. 18:17 Saul said to David, “Behold, all his servants, that they should kill David.
my elder daughter Merab, I will give her to But Jonathan, Saul’s son, delighted much in
you as wife. Only be valiant for me, and fight David. 19:2 Jonathan told David, saying, “Saul
the LORD’s battles.” For Saul said, “Don’t let my father seeks to kill you. Now therefore,
my hand be on him, but let the hand of the please take care of yourself in the morning, and
Philistines be on him.” 18:18 David said to Saul, live in a secret place, and hide yourself. 19:3 I
“Who am I, and what is my life, or my father’s will go out and stand beside my father in the
family in Israel, that I should be son-in-law to field where you are, and I will talk with my
the king?” father about you; and if I see anything, I will
18:19 tell you.”
But it happened at the time when
19:4
Merab, Saul’s daughter, should have been Jonathan spoke good of David to Saul
given to David, that she was given to Adriel his father, and said to him, “Don’t let the king
the Meholathite as wife. 18:20 Michal, Saul’s sin against his servant, against David; because
daughter, loved David; and they told Saul, and he has not sinned against you, and because
the thing pleased him. 18:21 Saul said, I will his works have been very good toward you;
19:5
give her to him, that she may be a snare to for he put his life in his hand, and struck
him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be the Philistine, and the LORD worked a great
against him. Therefore Saul said to David, “You victory for all Israel. You saw it, and rejoiced.
shall this day be my son-in-law a second time.” Why then will you sin against innocent blood,
18:22
Saul commanded his servants, “Talk with to kill David without a cause?”
David secretly, and say, ‘Behold, the king has 19:6
Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan:
delight in you, and all his servants love you: and Saul swore, “As the LORD lives, he shall
now therefore be the king’s son-in-law.’” not be put to death.”
18:23 19:7
Saul’s servants spoke those words in the Jonathan called David, and Jonathan
ears of David. David said, “Does it seems to showed him all those things. Jonathan brought
you a light thing to be the king’s son-in-law, David to Saul, and he was in his presence,
since I am a poor man, and lightly esteemed?” as before. 19:8 There was war again. David
18:24
The servants of Saul told him, saying, went out, and fought with the Philistines, and
“David spoke like this.” killed them with a great slaughter; and they
18:25 fled before him.
Saul said, “You shall tell David, ‘The
19:9
king desires no dowry except one hundred An evil spirit from the LORD was on
foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of Saul, as he sat in his house with his spear in his
the king’s enemies.’” Now Saul thought to hand; and David was playing with his hand.
19:10
make David fall by the hand of the Philistines. Saul sought to pin David even to the wall
18:26
When his servants told David these words, with the spear; but he slipped away out of
it pleased David well to be the king’s son-in- Saul’s presence, and he stuck the spear into
law. The days were not expired; 18:27 and David the wall. David fled, and escaped that night.
19:11
arose and went, he and his men, and killed of Saul sent messengers to David’s house, to
the Philistines two hundred men; and David watch him, and to kill him in the morning.
brought their foreskins, and they gave them Michal, David’s wife, told him, saying, “If
in full number to the king, that he might be you don’t save your life tonight, tomorrow
the king’s son-in-law. Saul gave him Michal you will be killed.” 19:12 So Michal let David
his daughter as wife. 18:28 Saul saw and knew down through the window. He went, fled, and
that the LORD was with David; and Michal, escaped. 19:13 Michal took the teraphim, and
Saul’s daughter, loved him. 18:29 Saul was yet laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats’
the more afraid of David; and Saul was David’s hair at its head, and covered it with the clothes.
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19:14
When Saul sent messengers to take David, a step between me and death.”
she said, “He is sick.” 20:4
Then Jonathan said to David, “Whatever
19:15
Saul sent the messengers to see David, your soul desires, I will even do it for you.”
saying, “Bring him up to me in the bed, that I 20:5
David said to Jonathan, “Behold, tomor-
may kill him.” 19:16 When the messengers came row is the new moon, and I should not fail
in, behold, the teraphim was in the bed, with to dine with the king; but let me go, that I
the pillow of goats’ hair at its head. may hide myself in the field to the third day at
19:17
Saul said to Michal, “Why have you evening. 20:6 If your father miss me at all, then
deceived me thus, and let my enemy go, so that say, ‘David earnestly asked leave of me that he
he is escaped?” might run to Bethlehem his city; for it is the
Michal answered Saul, “He said to me, ‘Let yearly sacrifice there for all the family.’ 20:7 If
me go! Why should I kill you?’” he says, ‘It is well;’ your servant shall have
19:18
Now David fled, and escaped, and came peace: but if he be angry, then know that evil is
to Samuel to Ramah, and told him all that Saul determined by him. 20:8 Therefore deal kindly
had done to him. He and Samuel went and with your servant; for you have brought your
lived in Naioth. 19:19 It was told Saul, saying, servant into a covenant of the LORD with you:
“Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah.” but if there is iniquity in me, kill me yourself;
19:20
Saul sent messengers to take David: and for why should you bring me to your father?”
20:9
when they saw the company of the prophets Jonathan said, “Far be it from you; for if
prophesying, and Samuel standing as head I should at all know that evil were determined
over them, the Spirit of God came on the by my father to come on you, then wouldn’t I
messengers of Saul, and they also prophesied. tell you that?”
19:21 20:10
When it was told Saul, he sent other mes- Then David said to Jonathan, “Who
sengers, and they also prophesied. Saul sent shall tell me if perchance your father answers
messengers again the third time, and they also you roughly?”
prophesied. 19:22 Then went he also to Ramah, 20:11
Jonathan said to David, “Come, and let
and came to the great well that is in Secu: and us go out into the field.” They both went
he asked, “Where are Samuel and David?” out into the field. 20:12 Jonathan said to David,
One said, “Behold, they are at Naioth in “By the LORD, the God of Israel, when I have
Ramah.” sounded my father about this time tomorrow,
19:23
He went there to Naioth in Ramah. or the third day, behold, if there is good toward
Then the Spirit of God came on him also, and David, shall I not then send to you, and disclose
he went on, and prophesied, until he came to it to you? 20:13 The LORD do so to Jonathan,
Naioth in Ramah. 19:24 He also stripped off his and more also, should it please my father to do
clothes, and he also prophesied before Samuel, you evil, if I don’t disclose it to you, and send
and lay down naked all that day and all that you away, that you may go in peace: and the
night. Therefore they say, “Is Saul also among LORD be with you, as he has been with my
the prophets?” father. 20:14 You shall not only while yet I live
20:1
David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and show me the loving kindness of the LORD, that
came and said before Jonathan, “What have I I not die; 20:15 but also you shall not cut off your
done? What is my iniquity? What is my sin kindness from my house forever; no, not when
before your father, that he seeks my life?” the LORD has cut off the enemies of David
20:2
He said to him, “Far from it; you shall everyone from the surface of the earth.” 20:16 So
not die. Behold, my father does nothing either Jonathan made a covenant with the house of
great or small, but that he discloses it to me; and David, saying, “The LORD will require it at
why should my father hide this thing from me? the hand of David’s enemies.” 20:17 Jonathan
It is not so.” caused David to swear again, for the love that
20:3
David swore moreover, and said, “Your he had to him; for he loved him as he loved
father knows well that I have found favor in his own soul. 20:18 Then Jonathan said to him,
your eyes; and he says, ‘Don’t let Jonathan “Tomorrow is the new moon: and you will
know this, lest he be grieved:’ but truly as the be missed, because your seat will be empty.
20:19
LORD lives, and as your soul lives, there is but When you have stayed three days, you
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shall go down quickly, and come to the place and ate no food the second day of the month;
where you hid yourself when this started, and for he was grieved for David, because his father
shall remain by the stone Ezel. 20:20 I will shoot had done him shame. 20:35 It happened in
three arrows on its side, as though I shot at a the morning, that Jonathan went out into the
mark. 20:21 Behold, I will send the boy, saying, field at the time appointed with David, and a
‘Go, find the arrows!’ If I tell the boy, ‘Behold, little boy with him. 20:36 He said to his boy,
the arrows are on this side of you. Take them;’ “Run, find now the arrows which I shoot.” As
then come; for there is peace to you and no the boy ran, he shot an arrow beyond him.
hurt, as the LORD lives. 20:22 But if I say this to 20:37
When the boy had come to the place of
the boy, ‘Behold, the arrows are beyond you;’ the arrow which Jonathan had shot, Jonathan
then go your way; for the LORD has sent you cried after the boy, and said, “Isn’t the arrow
away. 20:23 Concerning the matter which you beyond you?” 20:38 Jonathan cried after the boy,
and I have spoken of, behold, the LORD is “Go fast! Hurry! Don’t delay!” Jonathan’s
between you and me forever.” boy gathered up the arrows, and came to his
20:24
So David hid himself in the field: and master. 20:39 But the boy didn’t know anything.
when the new moon had come, the king sat Only Jonathan and David knew the matter.
20:40
him down to eat food. 20:25 The king sat on Jonathan gave his weapons to his boy, and
his seat, as at other times, even on the seat by said to him, “Go, carry them to the city.”
20:41
the wall; and Jonathan stood up, and Abner sat As soon as the boy was gone, David
by Saul’s side: but David’s place was empty. arose out of the south, and fell on his face to the
20:26
Nevertheless Saul didn’t say anything that ground, and bowed himself three times. They
day: for he thought, “Something has happened kissed one another, and wept one with another,
to him. He is not clean. Surely he is not clean.” and David wept the most. 20:42 Jonathan said
20:27
It happened on the next day after the to David, “Go in peace, because we have both
new moon, the second day, that David’s place sworn in the name of the LORD, saying, ‘The
was empty. Saul said to Jonathan his son, “Why LORD shall be between me and you, and
doesn’t the son of Jesse come to eat, neither between my seed and your seed, forever.’” He
yesterday, nor today?” arose and departed; and Jonathan went into the
20:28 city.
Jonathan answered Saul, “David
21:1
earnestly asked leave of me to go to Bethlehem. Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech
20:29
He said, ‘Please let me go, for our family the priest. Ahimelech came to meet David
has a sacrifice in the city. My brother has trembling, and said to him, “Why are you
commanded me to be there. Now, if I have alone, and no man with you?” 21:2 David
found favor in your eyes, please let me go said to Ahimelech the priest, “The king has
away and see my brothers.’ Therefore he has commanded me a business, and has said to
not come to the king’s table.” me, ‘Let no man know anything of the business
20:30 about which I send you, and what I have
Then Saul’s anger was kindled against
Jonathan, and he said to him, “You son of a commanded you; and I have appointed the
perverse rebellious woman, don’t I know that young men to such and such a place.’ 21:3 Now
you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own therefore what is under your hand? Give me
shame, and to the shame of your mother’s five loaves of bread in my hand, or whatever
nakedness? 20:31 For as long as the son of Jesse there is present.”
21:4
lives on the earth, you shall not be established, The priest answered David, and said,
nor your kingdom. Therefore now send and “There is no common bread under my hand,
bring him to me, for he shall surely die!” but there is holy bread; if only the young men
20:32
Jonathan answered Saul his father, and have kept themselves from women.”
said to him, “Why should he be put to death? 21:5
David answered the priest, and said to
What has he done?” him, “Truly, women have been kept from us
20:33
Saul cast his spear at him to strike him. about these three days. When I came out, the
By this Jonathan knew that his father was vessels of the young men were holy, though it
determined to put David to death. 20:34 So was but a common journey. How much more
Jonathan arose from the table in fierce anger, then today shall their vessels be holy?” 21:6 So
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the priest gave him holy bread; for there was no while that David was in the stronghold. 22:5 The
bread there but the show bread, that was taken prophet Gad said to David, “Don’t stay in the
from before the LORD, to put hot bread in the stronghold. Depart, and go into the land of
day when it was taken away. Judah.”
21:7
Now a certain man of the servants of Then David departed, and came into the
Saul was there that day, detained before the forest of Hereth. 22:6 Saul heard that David
LORD; and his name was Doeg the Edomite, was discovered, and the men who were with
the best of the herdsmen who belonged to Saul. him. Now Saul was sitting in Gibeah, under
21:8
David said to Ahimelech, “Isn’t there here the tamarisk tree in Ramah, with his spear in
under your hand spear or sword? For I have his hand, and all his servants were standing
neither brought my sword nor my weapons about him. 22:7 Saul said to his servants who
with me, because the king’s business required stood about him, “Hear now, you Benjamites!
haste.” Will the son of Jesse give everyone of you fields
21:9 and vineyards, will he make you all captains
The priest said, “The sword of Goliath
the Philistine, whom you killed in the valley of thousands and captains of hundreds, 22:8 that
of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth all of you have conspired against me, and there
behind the ephod. If you will take that, take it; is none who discloses to me when my son
for there is no other except that here.” makes a treaty with the son of Jesse, and there
David said, “There is none like that. Give it is none of you who is sorry for me, or discloses
to me.” to me that my son has stirred up my servant
21:10 against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?”
David arose, and fled that day for fear 22:9
of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath. Then Doeg the Edomite, who stood by
21:11
The servants of Achish said to him, “Isn’t the servants of Saul, answered and said, “I saw
this David the king of the land? Didn’t they the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech
sing one to another about him in dances, the son of Ahitub. 22:10 He inquired of the
saying, ‘Saul has slain his thousands, David LORD for him, gave him food, and gave him
his ten thousands?’” 21:12 David laid up these the sword of Goliath the Philistine.”
22:11
words in his heart, and was very afraid of Then the king sent to call Ahimelech the
Achish the king of Gath. 21:13 He changed his priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father’s
behavior before them, and pretended to be mad house, the priests who were in Nob: and they
in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of came all of them to the king. 22:12 Saul said,
the gate, and let his spittle fall down on his “Hear now, you son of Ahitub.”
beard. 21:14 Then Achish said to his servants, He answered, “Here I am, my lord.”
22:13
“Look, you see the man is mad. Why then Saul said to him, “Why have you con-
have you brought him to me? 21:15 Do I lack spired against me, you and the son of Jesse, in
madmen, that you have brought this fellow to that you have given him bread, and a sword,
play the madman in my presence? Shall this and have inquired of God for him, that he
fellow come into my house?” should rise against me, to lie in wait, as at this
22:1 day?”
David therefore departed there, and es-
22:14
caped to the cave of Adullam. When his Then Ahimelech answered the king,
brothers and all his father’s house heard it, and said, “Who among all your servants is
they went down there to him. 22:2 Everyone so faithful as David, who is the king’s son-
who was in distress, and everyone who was in-law, and is taken into your council, and is
in debt, and everyone who was discontented, honorable in your house? 22:15 Have I today
gathered themselves to him; and he became begun to inquire of God for him? Be it far from
captain over them: and there were with him me! Don’t let the king impute anything to his
about four hundred men. 22:3 David went there servant, nor to all the house of my father; for
to Mizpeh of Moab, and he said to the king your servant knows nothing of all this, less or
of Moab, “Please let my father and my mother more.”
22:16
come out with you, until I know what God will The king said, “You shall surely die,
do for me.” 22:4 He brought them before the Ahimelech, you, and all your father’s house.”
22:17
king of Moab; and they lived with him all the The king said to the guard who stood
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about him, “Turn, and kill the priests of the men. 23:9 David knew that Saul was devising
LORD; because their hand also is with David, mischief against him; and he said to Abiathar
and because they knew that he fled, and didn’t the priest, “Bring the ephod here.” 23:10 Then
disclose it to me.” But the servants of the king David said, “O LORD, the God of Israel, your
wouldn’t put forth their hand to fall on the servant has surely heard that Saul seeks to
priests of the LORD. 22:18 The king said to Doeg, come to Keilah, to destroy the city for my
“Turn and attack the priests!” sake. 23:11 Will the men of Keilah deliver me up
Doeg the Edomite turned, and he attacked into his hand? Will Saul come down, as your
the priests, and he killed on that day eighty- servant has heard? LORD, the God of Israel, I
five people who wore a linen ephod. 22:19 He beg you, tell your servant.”
struck Nob, the city of the priests, with the edge The LORD said, “He will come down.”
of the sword, both men and women, children 23:12
Then David said, “Will the men of
and nursing babies, and cattle and donkeys and Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand
sheep, with the edge of the sword. 22:20 One of Saul?”
of the sons of Ahimelech, the son of Ahitub, The LORD said, “They will deliver you up.”
named Abiathar, escaped, and fled after David. 23:13
Then David and his men, who were
22:21
Abiathar told David that Saul had slain the about six hundred, arose and departed out of
LORD’s priests. 22:22 David said to Abiathar, Keilah, and went wherever they could go. It
“I knew on that day, when Doeg the Edomite was told Saul that David was escaped from
was there, that he would surely tell Saul. I am Keilah; and he gave up going there. 23:14 David
responsible for the death of all the persons of stayed in the wilderness in the strongholds,
your father’s house. 22:23 Stay with me, don’t and remained in the hill country in the wilder-
be afraid; for he who seeks my life seeks your ness of Ziph. Saul sought him every day,
life. For with me you shall be in safeguard.” but God didn’t deliver him into his hand.
23:1
David was told, “Behold, the Philistines 23:15
David saw that Saul had come out to seek
are fighting against Keilah, and are robbing the his life. David was in the wilderness of Ziph in
threshing floors.” the wood.
23:2
Therefore David inquired of the LORD, 23:16
Jonathan, Saul’s son, arose, and went
saying, “Shall I go and strike these Philistines?” to David into the woods, and strengthened his
The LORD said to David, “Go strike the hand in God. 23:17 He said to him, “Don’t be
Philistines, and save Keilah.” afraid; for the hand of Saul my father shall
23:3
David’s men said to him, “Behold, we not find you; and you shall be king over
are afraid here in Judah: how much more then Israel, and I shall be next to you; and that
if we go to Keilah against the armies of the also Saul my father knows.” 23:18 They both
Philistines?” made a covenant before the LORD: and David
23:4
Then David inquired of the LORD yet stayed in the woods, and Jonathan went to
again. The LORD answered him, and said, his house. 23:19 Then the Ziphites came up to
“Arise, go down to Keilah; for I will deliver the Saul to Gibeah, saying, “Doesn’t David hide
Philistines into your hand.” himself with us in the strongholds in the wood,
23:5
David and his men went to Keilah, and in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of
fought with the Philistines, and brought away the desert? 23:20 Now therefore, O king, come
their livestock, and killed them with a great down, according to all the desire of your soul
slaughter. So David saved the inhabitants of to come down; and our part shall be to deliver
Keilah. 23:6 It happened, when Abiathar the son him up into the king’s hand.”
of Ahimelech fled to David to Keilah, that he 23:21
Saul said, “You are blessed by the
came down with an ephod in his hand. LORD; for you have had compassion on me.
23:7 23:22
It was told Saul that David had come Please go make yet more sure, and know
to Keilah. Saul said, “God has delivered and see his place where his haunt is, and who
him into my hand; for he is shut in, by has seen him there; for it is told me that he
entering into a town that has gates and bars.” deals very subtly. 23:23 See therefore, and take
23:8
Saul summoned all the people to war, to knowledge of all the lurking places where he
go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his hides himself, and come again to me with
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certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall you listen to men’s words, saying, ‘Behold,
happen, if he is in the land, that I will search David seeks your hurt?’ 24:10 Behold, this
him out among all the thousands of Judah.” day your eyes have seen how that the LORD
23:24 had delivered you today into my hand in the
They arose, and went to Ziph before
Saul: but David and his men were in the wilder- cave. Some urged me to kill you; but I spared
ness of Maon, in the Arabah on the south of you; and I said, I will not put forth my hand
the desert. 23:25 Saul and his men went to seek against my lord; for he is the LORD’s anointed.
24:11
him. When David was told, he went down to Moreover, my father, behold, yes, see the
the rock, and stayed in the wilderness of Maon. skirt of your robe in my hand; for in that I
When Saul heard that, he pursued David in cut off the skirt of your robe, and didn’t kill
the wilderness of Maon. 23:26 Saul went on this you, know and see that there is neither evil
side of the mountain, and David and his men nor disobedience in my hand, and I have not
on that side of the mountain: and David made sinned against you, though you hunt for my life
haste to get away for fear of Saul; for Saul and to take it. 24:12 May the LORD judge between
his men surrounded David and his men to take me and you, and may the LORD avenge me of
them. 23:27 But a messenger came to Saul, say- you; but my hand shall not be on you. 24:13 As
ing, “Hurry and come; for the Philistines have the proverb of the ancients says, ‘Out of the
made a raid on the land!” 23:28 So Saul returned wicked comes forth wickedness;’ but my hand
from pursuing after David, and went against shall not be on you. 24:14 Against whom has
the Philistines: therefore they called that place the king of Israel come out? Whom do you
Sela Hammahlekoth. 23:29 David went up from pursue? A dead dog? A flea? 24:15 May the
there, and lived in the strongholds of En Gedi. LORD therefore be judge, and give sentence
24:1 between me and you, and see, and plead my
It happened, when Saul was returned
cause, and deliver me out of your hand.”
from following the Philistines, that it was told
24:16
him, saying, “Behold, David is in the wilder- It came to pass, when David had made
ness of En Gedi.” 24:2 Then Saul took three an end of speaking these words to Saul, that
thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and went Saul said, “Is this your voice, my son David?”
to seek David and his men on the rocks of the Saul lifted up his voice, and wept. 24:17 He said
wild goats. 24:3 He came to the sheep pens by to David, “You are more righteous than I; for
the way, where there was a cave; and Saul went you have done good to me, whereas I have
in to relieve himself. Now David and his men done evil to you. 24:18 You have declared this
were abiding in the innermost parts of the cave. day how you have dealt well with me, because
24:4 when the LORD had delivered me up into your
The men of David said to him, “Behold, the
day of which the LORD said to you, ‘Behold, I hand, you didn’t kill me. 24:19 For if a man finds
will deliver your enemy into your hand, and his enemy, will he let him go away unharmed?
you shall do to him as it shall seem good to Therefore may the LORD reward you good
you.’” Then David arose, and cut off the skirt of for that which you have done to me this day.
24:20
Saul’s robe secretly. 24:5 It happened afterward, Now, behold, I know that you shall surely
that David’s heart struck him, because he had be king, and that the kingdom of Israel shall
cut off Saul’s skirt. 24:6 He said to his men, be established in your hand. 24:21 Swear now
“The LORD forbid that I should do this thing therefore to me by the LORD, that you will not
to my lord, the LORD’s anointed, to put forth cut off my seed after me, and that you will not
my hand against him, since he is the LORD’s destroy my name out of my father’s house.”
anointed.” 24:7 So David checked his men with 24:22
David swore to Saul. Saul went home;
these words, and didn’t allow them to rise but David and his men went up to the
against Saul. Saul rose up out of the cave, stronghold.
and went on his way. 24:8 David also arose 25:1
Samuel died; and all Israel gathered
afterward, and went out of the cave, and cried themselves together, and lamented him, and
after Saul, saying, “My lord the king!” buried him in his house at Ramah. David
When Saul looked behind him, David arose, and went down to the wilderness of
bowed with his face to the earth, and showed Paran. 25:2 There was a man in Maon, whose
respect. 24:9 David said to Saul, “Why do possessions were in Carmel; and the man was
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very great, and he had three thousand sheep, is determined against our master, and against
and a thousand goats: and he was shearing his all his house; for he is such a worthless fellow
sheep in Carmel. 25:3 Now the name of the man that one can’t speak to him.”
25:18
was Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail; Then Abigail hurried and took two hun-
and the woman was of good understanding, dred loaves of bread, two bottles of wine, five
and of a beautiful face: but the man was sheep ready dressed, five measures of parched
churlish and evil in his doings; and he was grain, one hundred clusters of raisins, and
of the house of Caleb. 25:4 David heard in the two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on
wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep. donkeys. 25:19 She said to her young men, “Go
25:5
David sent ten young men, and David said on before me. Behold, I come after you.” But
to the young men, “Go up to Carmel, and go to she didn’t tell her husband, Nabal. 25:20 It was
Nabal, and greet him in my name. 25:6 You shall so, as she rode on her donkey, and came down
tell him, ‘Long life to you! Peace be to you, and by the covert of the mountain, that behold,
peace be to your house, and peace be to all that David and his men came down toward her; and
you have. 25:7 Now I have heard that you have she met them.
shearers. Your shepherds have now been with 25:21
Now David had said, “Surely in vain
us, and we didn’t hurt them, neither was there have I kept all that this fellow has in the
anything missing from them, all the while they wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all
were in Carmel. 25:8 Ask your young men, and that pertained to him. He has returned me
they will tell you. Therefore let the young men evil for good. 25:22 God do so to the enemies
find favor in your eyes; for we come in a good of David, and more also, if I leave of all that
day. Please give whatever comes to your hand, belongs to him by the morning light so much
to your servants, and to your son David.’” as one who urinates on a wall.j ”
25:9 25:23
When David’s young men came, they When Abigail saw David, she hurried,
spoke to Nabal according to all those words in and alighted from her donkey, and fell before
the name of David, and ceased. David on her face, and bowed herself to the
25:10
Nabal answered David’s servants, and ground. 25:24 She fell at his feet, and said, “On
said, “Who is David? Who is the son of Jesse? me, my lord, on me be the iniquity; and please
There are many servants who break away from let your handmaid speak in your ears. Hear
their masters these days. 25:11 Shall I then take the words of your handmaid. 25:25 Please don’t
my bread, and my water, and my meat that I let my lord regard this worthless fellow, even
have killed for my shearers, and give it to men Nabal; for as his name is, so is he. Nabal is
who I don’t know where they come from?” his name, and folly is with him; but I, your
25:12
So David’s young men turned on their handmaid, didn’t see the young men of my
way, and went back, and came and told him lord, whom you sent. 25:26 Now therefore, my
according to all these words. 25:13 David said lord, as the LORD lives, and as your soul
to his men, “Every man put on his sword!” lives, since the LORD has withheld you from
Every man put on his sword. David also blood guiltiness, and from avenging yourself
put on his sword. About four hundred men with your own hand, now therefore let your
followed David; and two hundred stayed by enemies, and those who seek evil to my lord,
the baggage. 25:14 But one of the young men be as Nabal. 25:27 Now this present which your
told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, saying, “Behold, servant has brought to my lord, let it be given to
David sent messengers out of the wilderness the young men who follow my lord. 25:28 Please
to Greet our master; and he railed at them. forgive the trespass of your handmaid. For
25:15
But the men were very good to us, and we the LORD will certainly make my lord a sure
were not hurt, neither missed we anything, as house, because my lord fights the battles of the
long as we went with them, when we were in LORD; and evil shall not be found in you all
the fields. 25:16 They were a wall to us both by your days. 25:29 Though men may rise up to
night and by day, all the while we were with pursue you, and to seek your soul, yet the soul
them keeping the sheep. 25:17 Now therefore of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life
know and consider what you will do; for evil with the LORD your God. He will sling out
j 25:22 or, male.
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the souls of your enemies, as from the hollow handmaid is a servant to wash the feet of the
of a sling. 25:30 It shall come to pass, when servants of my lord.” 25:42 Abigail hurried, and
the LORD has done to my lord according to arose, and rode on a donkey, with five ladies
all the good that he has spoken concerning of hers who followed her; and she went after
you, and shall have appointed you prince over the messengers of David, and became his wife.
Israel, 25:31 that this shall be no grief to you, 25:43
David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and
nor offense of heart to my lord, either that you they both became his wives. 25:44 Now Saul
have shed blood without cause, or that my lord had given Michal his daughter, David’s wife,
has avenged himself. When the LORD has to Palti the son of Laish, who was of Gallim.
26:1
dealt well with my lord, then remember your The Ziphites came to Saul to Gibeah,
handmaid.” saying, “Doesn’t David hide himself in the
25:32
David said to Abigail, “Blessed is the hill of Hachilah, which is before the desert?”
26:2
LORD, the God of Israel, who sent you this Then Saul arose, and went down to the
day to meet me! 25:33 Blessed is your discretion, wilderness of Ziph, having three thousand
and blessed are you, that have kept me this chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in
day from blood guiltiness, and from avenging the wilderness of Ziph. 26:3 Saul encamped in
myself with my own hand. 25:34 For indeed, the hill of Hachilah, which is before the desert,
as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, who by the way. But David stayed in the wilderness,
has withheld me from hurting you, unless and he saw that Saul came after him into the
you had hurried and come to meet me, surely wilderness. 26:4 David therefore sent out spies,
there wouldn’t have been left to Nabal by the and understood that Saul had certainly come.
26:5
morning light so much as one who urinates on David arose, and came to the place where
a wall.k ” Saul had encamped; and David saw the place
25:35
So David received of her hand that where Saul lay, and Abner the son of Ner,
which she had brought him: and he said to her, the captain of his army: and Saul lay within
“Go up in peace to your house. Behold, I have the place of the wagons, and the people were
listened to your voice, and have granted your encamped around him. 26:6 Then answered
request.” David and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and
25:36
Abigail came to Nabal; and behold, he to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother to Joab,
held a feast in his house, like the feast of a saying, “Who will go down with me to Saul to
king. Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for the camp?”
he was very drunken. Therefore she told him Abishai said, “I will go down with you.”
26:7
nothing, less or more, until the morning light. So David and Abishai came to the people
25:37
It happened in the morning, when the wine by night: and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within
was gone out of Nabal, that his wife told him the place of the wagons, with his spear stuck
these things, and his heart died within him, and in the ground at his head; and Abner and the
he became as a stone. 25:38 It happened about people lay around him. 26:8 Then Abishai said
ten days after, that the LORD struck Nabal, to David, “God has delivered up your enemy
so that he died. 25:39 When David heard that into your hand this day. Now therefore please
Nabal was dead, he said, “Blessed is the LORD, let me strike him with the spear to the earth at
who has pleaded the cause of my reproach one stroke, and I will not strike him the second
from the hand of Nabal, and has kept back his time.”
26:9
servant from evil. The LORD has returned the David said to Abishai, “Don’t destroy
evildoing of Nabal on his own head.” David him; for who can put forth his hand against
sent and spoke concerning Abigail, to take her the LORD’s anointed, and be guiltless?”
to him as wife. 25:40 When the servants of David 26:10
David said, “As the LORD lives, the LORD
had come to Abigail to Carmel, they spoke to will strike him; or his day shall come to die;
her, saying, “David has sent us to you, to take or he shall go down into battle and perish.
26:11
you to him as wife.” The LORD forbid that I should put forth
25:41
She arose, and bowed herself with her my hand against the LORD’s anointed; but
face to the earth, and said, “Behold, your now please take the spear that is at his head,
k 25:34 or, male.
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and the jar of water, and let us go.” against the LORD’s anointed. 26:24 Behold, as
26:12 your life was respected this day in my eyes, so
So David took the spear and the jar of
water from Saul’s head; and they went away: let my life be respected in the eyes of the LORD,
and no man saw it, nor knew it, neither did and let him deliver me out of all oppression.”
26:25
any awake; for they were all asleep, because Then Saul said to David, “You are
a deep sleep from the LORD was fallen on blessed, my son David. You shall both do
them. 26:13 Then David went over to the other mightily, and shall surely prevail.” So David
side, and stood on the top of the mountain afar went his way, and Saul returned to his place.
off; a great space being between them; 26:14 and 27:1
David said in his heart, “I shall now
David cried to the people, and to Abner the son perish one day by the hand of Saul. There
of Ner, saying, “Don’t you answer, Abner?” is nothing better for me than that I should
Then Abner answered, “Who are you who escape into the land of the Philistines; and
cries to the king?” Saul will despair of me, to seek me any more
26:15
David said to Abner, “Aren’t you a in all the borders of Israel. So shall I escape
man? Who is like you in Israel? Why then have out of his hand.” 27:2 David arose, and passed
you not kept watch over your lord, the king? over, he and the six hundred men who were
For one of the people came in to destroy the with him, to Achish the son of Maoch, king of
king your lord. 26:16 This thing isn’t good that Gath. 27:3 David lived with Achish at Gath, he
you have done. As the LORD lives, you are and his men, every man with his household,
worthy to die, because you have not kept watch even David with his two wives, Ahinoam
over your lord, the LORD’s anointed. Now see the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the Carmelitess,
where the king’s spear is, and the jar of water Nabal’s wife. 27:4 It was told Saul that David
that was at his head.” was fled to Gath: and he sought no more
26:17
Saul knew David’s voice, and said, “Is again for him. 27:5 David said to Achish, “If
this your voice, my son David?” now I have found favor in your eyes, let them
David said, “It is my voice, my lord, O give me a place in one of the cities in the
king.” 26:18 He said, “Why does my lord pursue country, that I may dwell there. For why should
after his servant? For what have I done? Or your servant dwell in the royal city with you?”
27:6
what evil is in my hand? 26:19 Now therefore, Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day: why
please let my lord the king hear the words Ziklag pertains to the kings of Judah to this
of his servant. If it is so that the LORD has day. 27:7 The number of the days that David
stirred you up against me, let him accept an lived in the country of the Philistines was a full
offering. But if it is the children of men, they are year and four months. 27:8 David and his men
cursed before the LORD; for they have driven went up, and made a raid on the Geshurites,
me out this day that I shouldn’t cling to the and the Girzites, and the Amalekites; for those
LORD’s inheritance, saying, ‘Go, serve other were the inhabitants of the land, who were of
gods!’ 26:20 Now therefore, don’t let my blood old, as you go to Shur, even to the land of
fall to the earth away from the presence of the Egypt. 27:9 David struck the land, and saved
LORD; for the king of Israel has come out to neither man nor woman alive, and took away
seek a flea, as when one hunts a partridge in the sheep, and the cattle, and the donkeys, and
the mountains.” the camels, and the clothing; and he returned,
26:21
Then Saul said, “I have sinned. Return, and came to Achish. 27:10 Achish said, “Against
my son David; for I will no more do you harm, whom have you made a raid today?”
because my life was precious in your eyes this David said, “Against the South of Judah,
day. Behold, I have played the fool, and have against the South of the Jerahmeelites, and
erred exceedingly.” against the South of the Kenites.” 27:11 David
26:22 saved neither man nor woman alive, to bring
David answered, “Behold the spear, O
king! Then let one of the young men come them to Gath, saying, “Lest they should tell of
over and get it. 26:23 The LORD will render to us, saying, ‘David this, and this has been his
every man his righteousness and his faithful- way all the time he has lived in the country of
ness; because the LORD delivered you into my the Philistines.’”
27:12
hand today, and I wouldn’t put forth my hand Achish believed David, saying, “He has
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made his people Israel utterly to abhor him. up out of the earth.”
Therefore he shall be my servant forever.” 28:14
He said to her, “What does he look
28:1
It happened in those days, that the like?”
Philistines gathered their armies together for She said, “An old man comes up. He is
warfare, to fight with Israel. Achish said to covered with a robe.” Saul perceived that it
David, “Know assuredly that you shall go out was Samuel, and he bowed with his face to the
with me in the army, you and your men.” ground, and showed respect.
28:2 28:15
David said to Achish, “Therefore you Samuel said to Saul, “Why have you
shall know what your servant will do.” disturbed me, to bring me up?”
Achish said to David, “Therefore will I make Saul answered, “I am very distressed; for the
you my bodyguard for ever.” Philistines make war against me, and God has
28:3
Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had departed from me, and answers me no more,
lamented him, and buried him in Ramah, even neither by prophets, nor by dreams. Therefore
in his own city. Saul had put away those who I have called you, that you may make known to
had familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the me what I shall do.”
land. 28:4 The Philistines gathered themselves 28:16
Samuel said, “Why then do you ask of
together, and came and encamped in Shunem: me, since the LORD has departed from you and
and Saul gathered all Israel together, and they has become your adversary? 28:17 The LORD
encamped in Gilboa. 28:5 When Saul saw the has done to you as he spoke by me. The
army of the Philistines, he was afraid, and LORD has torn the kingdom out of your hand,
his heart trembled greatly. 28:6 When Saul and given it to your neighbor, even to David.
inquired of the LORD, the LORD didn’t answer 28:18
Because you didn’t obey the voice of the
him, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by LORD, and didn’t execute his fierce wrath on
prophets. 28:7 Then Saul said to his servants, Amalek, therefore the LORD has done this
“Seek me a woman who has a familiar spirit, thing to you this day. 28:19 Moreover the LORD
that I may go to her, and inquire of her.” will deliver Israel also with you into the hand
His servants said to him, “Behold, there is a of the Philistines; and tomorrow you and your
woman who has a familiar spirit at Endor.” sons will be with me. The LORD will deliver
28:8
Saul disguised himself, and put on other the army of Israel also into the hand of the
clothing, and went, he and two men with him, Philistines.”
and they came to the woman by night: and he 28:20
Then Saul fell immediately his full
said, “Please divine to me by the familiar spirit, length on the earth, and was terrified, because
and bring me up whomever I shall name to of the words of Samuel. There was no strength
you.” in him; for he had eaten no bread all the day,
28:9
The woman said to him, “Behold, you nor all the night. 28:21 The woman came to Saul,
know what Saul has done, how he has cut and saw that he was very troubled, and said
off those who have familiar spirits, and the to him, “Behold, your handmaid has listened
wizards, out of the land. Why then do you lay to your voice, and I have put my life in my
a snare for my life, to cause me to die?” hand, and have listened to your words which
28:10
Saul swore to her by the LORD, saying, you spoke to me. 28:22 Now therefore, please
“As the LORD lives, no punishment shall listen also to the voice of your handmaid, and
happen to you for this thing.” let me set a morsel of bread before you; and eat,
28:11
Then the woman said, “Whom shall I that you may have strength, when you go on
bring up to you?” your way.”
He said, “Bring Samuel up for me.” 28:23
But he refused, and said, I will not eat.
28:12
When the woman saw Samuel, she cried But his servants, together with the woman,
with a loud voice; and the woman spoke to constrained him; and he listened to their voice.
Saul, saying, “Why have you deceived me? For So he arose from the earth, and sat on the
you are Saul!” bed. 28:24 The woman had a fattened calf in the
28:13
The king said to her, “Don’t be afraid. house. She hurried and killed it; and she took
For what do you see?” flour, and kneaded it, and baked unleavened
The woman said to Saul, “I see a god coming bread of it. 28:25 She brought it before Saul, and
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before his servants; and they ate. Then they Jezreel.


rose up, and went away that night. 30:1
It happened, when David and his men
29:1
Now the Philistines gathered together had come to Ziklag on the third day, that the
all their armies to Aphek: and the Israelites Amalekites had made a raid on the South, and
encamped by the spring which is in Jezreel. on Ziklag, and had struck Ziklag, and burned it
29:2
The lords of the Philistines passed on by with fire, 30:2 and had taken captive the women
hundreds, and by thousands; and David and and all who were therein, both small and great.
his men passed on in the rear with Achish. They didn’t kill any, but carried them off,
29:3
Then the princes of the Philistines said, and went their way. 30:3 When David and his
“What about these Hebrews?” men came to the city, behold, it was burned
Achish said to the princes of the Philistines, with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and
“Isn’t this David, the servant of Saul the king their daughters, were taken captive. 30:4 Then
of Israel, who has been with me these days, or David and the people who were with him lifted
rather these years, and I have found no fault in up their voice and wept, until they had no
him since he fell away to this day?” more power to weep. 30:5 David’s two wives
29:4 were taken captive, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess,
But the princes of the Philistines were an-
gry with him; and the princes of the Philistines and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.
30:6
said to him, “Make the man return, that he may David was greatly distressed; for the people
go back to his place where you have appointed spoke of stoning him, because the soul of all
him, and let him not go down with us to battle, the people was grieved, every man for his sons
lest in the battle he become an adversary to and for his daughters: but David strengthened
us. For with what should this fellow reconcile himself in the LORD his God. 30:7 David said
himself to his lord? Should it not be with to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech,
the heads of these men? 29:5 Is not this David, “Please bring me here the ephod.”
of whom they sang one to another in dances, Abiathar brought the ephod to David.
30:8
saying, ‘Saul has slain his thousands, David his David inquired of the LORD, saying, “If I
ten thousands?’” pursue after this troop, shall I overtake them?”
29:6
Then Achish called David, and said to He answered him, “Pursue; for you shall
him, “As the LORD lives, you have been surely overtake them, and shall without fail
upright, and your going out and your coming recover all.”
in with me in the army is good in my sight; for 30:9
So David went, he and the six hundred
I have not found evil in you since the day of men who were with him, and came to the
your coming to me to this day. Nevertheless, brook Besor, where those who were left behind
the lords don’t favor you. 29:7 Therefore now stayed. 30:10 But David pursued, he and four
return, and go in peace, that you not displease hundred men; for two hundred stayed behind,
the lords of the Philistines.” who were so faint that they couldn’t go over
29:8
David said to Achish, “But what have I the brook Besor. 30:11 They found an Egyptian
done? What have you found in your servant so in the field, and brought him to David, and
long as I have been before you to this day, that I gave him bread, and he ate; and they gave him
may not go and fight against the enemies of my water to drink. 30:12 They gave him a piece of a
lord the king?” cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins. when
29:9
Achish answered David, “I know that he had eaten, his spirit came again to him; for
you are good in my sight, as an angel of God. he had eaten no bread, nor drunk any water,
Notwithstanding the princes of the Philistines three days and three nights. 30:13 David asked
have said, ‘He shall not go up with us to the him, “To whom do you belong? Where are you
battle.’ 29:10 Therefore now rise up early in the from?”
morning with the servants of your lord who He said, “I am a young man of Egypt,
have come with you; and as soon as you are up servant to an Amalekite; and my master left
early in the morning, and have light, depart.” me, because three days ago I fell sick. 30:14 We
29:11
So David rose up early, he and his men, made a raid on the South of the Cherethites,
to depart in the morning, to return into the land and on that which belongs to Judah, and on
of the Philistines. The Philistines went up to the South of Caleb; and we burned Ziklag with
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fire.” sent it to those who were in Bethel, and to those


30:15 who were in Ramoth of the South, and to those
David said to him, “Will you bring me
down to this troop?” who were in Jattir, 30:28 and to those who were
He said, “Swear to me by God that you in Aroer, and to those who were in Siphmoth,
will neither kill me, nor deliver me up into the and to those who were in Eshtemoa, 30:29 and
hands of my master, and I will bring you down to those who were in Racal, and to those who
to this troop.” were in the cities of the Jerahmeelites, and to
30:16
When he had brought him down, be- those who were in the cities of the Kenites,
30:30
hold, they were spread around over all the and to those who were in Hormah, and to
ground, eating, drinking, and dancing, because those who were in Borashan, and to those who
of all the great spoil that they had taken out were in Athach, 30:31 and to those who were
of the land of the Philistines, and out of the in Hebron, and to all the places where David
land of Judah. 30:17 David struck them from himself and his men used to stay.
the twilight even to the evening of the next 31:1
Now the Philistines fought against Is-
day. Not a man of them escaped from there, rael: and the men of Israel fled from before
except four hundred young men, who rode on the Philistines, and fell down slain on Mount
camels and fled. 30:18 David recovered all that Gilboa. 31:2 The Philistines followed hard on
the Amalekites had taken; and David rescued Saul and on his sons; and the Philistines killed
his two wives. 30:19 There was nothing lacking Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchishua, the
to them, neither small nor great, neither sons sons of Saul. 31:3 The battle went hard against
nor daughters, neither spoil, nor anything that Saul, and the archers overtook him; and he
they had taken to them. David brought back was greatly distressed by reason of the archers.
all. 30:20 David took all the flocks and the herds, 31:4
Then Saul said to his armor bearer, “Draw
which they drove before those other livestock, your sword, and thrust me through with it,
and said, “This is David’s spoil.” lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me
30:21
David came to the two hundred men, through, and abuse me!” But his armor bearer
who were so faint that they could not follow would not; for he was terrified. Therefore
David, whom also they had made to stay at Saul took his sword, and fell on it. 31:5 When
the brook Besor; and they went forth to meet his armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, he
David, and to meet the people who were with likewise fell on his sword, and died with him.
him. When David came near to the people, he 31:6
So Saul died, and his three sons, and his
greeted them. 30:22 Then all the wicked men and armor bearer, and all his men, that same day
base fellows, of those who went with David, together. 31:7 When the men of Israel who were
answered and said, “Because they didn’t go on the other side of the valley, and those who
with us, we will not give them anything of the were beyond the Jordan, saw that the men of
spoil that we have recovered, except to every Israel fled, and that Saul and his sons were
man his wife and his children, that he may lead dead, they forsook the cities, and fled; and
them away, and depart.” the Philistines came and lived in them. 31:8 It
30:23
Then David said, “You shall not do happened on the next day, when the Philistines
so, my brothers, with that which the LORD came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and
has given to us, who has preserved us, and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa. 31:9 They
delivered the troop that came against us into cut off his head, and stripped off his armor, and
our hand. 30:24 Who will listen to you in this sent into the land of the Philistines all around,
matter? For as his share is who goes down to carry the news to the house of their idols, and
to the battle, so shall his share be who tarries to the people. 31:10 They put his armor in the
by the baggage: they shall share alike.” 30:25 It house of the Ashtaroth; and they fastened his
was so from that day forward, that he made body to the wall of Beth Shan. 31:11 When the
it a statute and an ordinance for Israel to this inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead heard concerning
day. 30:26 When David came to Ziklag, he sent him that which the Philistines had done to
of the spoil to the elders of Judah, even to his Saul, 31:12 all the valiant men arose, and went
friends, saying, “Behold, a present for you of all night, and took the body of Saul and the
the spoil of the enemies of the LORD.” 30:27 He bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth Shan;
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and they came to Jabesh, and burnt them there.


31:13
They took their bones, and buried them
under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and fasted
seven days.
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The Second Book of young men, and said, “Go near, and fall on
him.” He struck him, so that he died. 1:16 David
Samuel said to him, “Your blood be on your head; for
1:1 your mouth has testified against you, saying, ‘I
It happened after the death of Saul, when
David was returned from the slaughter of the have slain the LORD’s anointed.’”
1:17
Amalekites, and David had stayed two days David lamented with this lamentation
in Ziklag; 1:2 it happened on the third day, that over Saul and over Jonathan his son 1:18 (and
behold, a man came out of the camp from Saul, he commanded them to teach the children of
with his clothes torn, and earth on his head: Judah the song of the bow: behold, it is written
and so it was, when he came to David, that he in the book of Jashar):
1:19
fell to the earth, and showed respect. 1:3 David “Your glory, Israel, is slain on your high
said to him, “Where do you come from?” places!
He said to him, “I have escaped out of the How the mighty have fallen!
camp of Israel.” 1:4 David said to him, “How 1:20
Don’t tell it in Gath.
did it go? Please tell me.” Don’t publish it in the streets of
He answered, “The people have fled from Ashkelon,
the battle, and many of the people also have lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice,
fallen and are dead; and Saul and Jonathan his lest the daughters of the uncircumcised
son are dead also.” triumph.
1:5
David said to the young man who told 1:21
You mountains of Gilboa,
him, “How do you know that Saul and
let there be no dew nor rain on you,
Jonathan his son are dead?”
1:6 neither fields of offerings;
The young man who told him said, “As I
For there the shield of the mighty was
happened by chance on Mount Gilboa, behold,
vilely cast away,
Saul was leaning on his spear; and behold,
The shield of Saul was not anointed with
the chariots and the horsemen followed hard
oil.
after him. 1:7 When he looked behind him, he 1:22
saw me, and called to me. I answered, ‘Here From the blood of the slain,
I am.’ 1:8 He said to me, ‘Who are you?’ I from the fat of the mighty,
answered him, ‘I am an Amalekite.’ 1:9 He said Jonathan’s bow didn’t turn back.
to me, ‘Please stand beside me, and kill me; for Saul’s sword didn’t return empty.
1:23
anguish has taken hold of me, because my life is Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant
yet whole in me.’ 1:10 So I stood beside him, and in their lives.
killed him, because I was sure that he could not In their death, they were not divided.
live after that he had fallen. I took the crown They were swifter than eagles.
that was on his head, and the bracelet that was They were stronger than lions.
on his arm, and have brought them here to my 1:24
You daughters of Israel, weep over Saul,
lord.” who clothed you in scarlet delicately,
1:11
Then David took hold on his clothes, and who put ornaments of gold on your
tore them; and likewise all the men who were clothing.
with him. 1:12 They mourned, and wept, and 1:25
How are the mighty fallen in the midst of
fasted until evening, for Saul, and for Jonathan
the battle!
his son, and for the people of the LORD,a and
Jonathan is slain on your high places.
for the house of Israel; because they were fallen 1:26
by the sword. 1:13 David said to the young man I am distressed for you, my brother
who told him, “Where are you from?” Jonathan.
He answered, “I am the son of a foreigner, You have been very pleasant to me.
an Amalekite.” Your love to me was wonderful,
1:14 passing the love of women.
David said to him, “How were you not
1:27
afraid to put forth your hand to destroy the How are the mighty fallen,
LORD’s anointed?” 1:15 David called one of the and the weapons of war perished!”
a 1:12 “LORD” or “GOD” (all capital letters) indicate the 4-letter Holy Name of God
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2:1
It happened after this, that David in- and twelve of the servants of David. 2:16 They
quired of the LORD, saying, “Shall I go up into each caught his opponent by the head, and
any of the cities of Judah?” thrust his sword in his fellow’s side; so they
The LORD said to him, “Go up.” fell down together: therefore that place was
David said, “Where shall I go up?” called Helkath Hazzurim, which is in Gibeon.
2:17
He said, “To Hebron.” The battle was very severe that day: and
2:2 Abner was beaten, and the men of Israel, before
So David went up there, and his two
wives also, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abi- the servants of David. 2:18 The three sons of
gail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite. 2:3 David Zeruiah were there, Joab, and Abishai, and
brought up his men who were with him, every Asahel: and Asahel was as light of foot as a
man with his household. They lived in the wild gazelle. 2:19 Asahel pursued after Abner;
cities of Hebron. 2:4 The men of Judah came, and in going he didn’t turn to the right hand
and there they anointed David king over the nor to the left from following Abner. 2:20 Then
house of Judah. They told David, saying, “The Abner looked behind him, and said, “Is it you,
men of Jabesh Gilead were those who buried Asahel?”
Saul.” 2:5 David sent messengers to the men He answered, “It is I.”
2:21
of Jabesh Gilead, and said to them, “Blessed Abner said to him, “Turn aside to your
are you by the LORD, that you have shown right hand or to your left, and grab one of
this kindness to your lord, even to Saul, and the young men, and take his armor.” But
have buried him. 2:6 Now may the LORD show Asahel would not turn aside from following
loving kindness and truth to you. I also will him. 2:22 Abner said again to Asahel, “Turn
reward you for this kindness, because you have aside from following me. Why should I strike
done this thing. 2:7 Now therefore let your you to the ground? How then should I hold
hands be strong, and be valiant; for Saul your up my face to Joab your brother?” 2:23 However
lord is dead, and also the house of Judah have he refused to turn aside. Therefore Abner with
anointed me king over them.” the back end of the spear struck him in the
2:8
Now Abner the son of Ner, captain of body, so that the spear came out behind him;
Saul’s army, had taken Ishbosheth the son of and he fell down there, and died in the same
Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim; place. It happened, that as many as came to
2:9
and he made him king over Gilead, and the place where Asahel fell down and died
over the Ashurites, and over Jezreel, and over stood still. 2:24 But Joab and Abishai pursued
Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over all after Abner: and the sun went down when
Israel. 2:10 Ishbosheth, Saul’s son, was forty they had come to the hill of Ammah, that lies
years old when he began to reign over Israel, before Giah by the way of the wilderness of
and he reigned two years. But the house of Gibeon. 2:25 The children of Benjamin gathered
Judah followed David. 2:11 The time that David themselves together after Abner, and became
was king in Hebron over the house of Judah one band, and stood on the top of a hill.
2:26
was seven years and six months. 2:12 Abner Then Abner called to Joab, and said, “Shall
the son of Ner, and the servants of Ishbosheth the sword devour forever? Don’t you know
the son of Saul, went out from Mahanaim to that it will be bitterness in the latter end? How
Gibeon. 2:13 Joab the son of Zeruiah, and the long shall it be then, before you ask the people
servants of David, went out, and met them by to return from following their brothers?”
2:27
the pool of Gibeon; and they sat down, the one Joab said, “As Godb lives, if you had
on the one side of the pool, and the other on the not spoken, surely then in the morning the
other side of the pool. 2:14 Abner said to Joab, people would have gone away, and not each
“Please let the young men arise and play before followed his brother.” 2:28 So Joab blew the
us!” shofarc ; and all the people stood still, and
Joab said, “Let them arise!” 2:15 Then they pursued after Israel no more, neither fought
arose and went over by number: twelve for they any more. 2:29 Abner and his men went all
Benjamin, and for Ishbosheth the son of Saul, that night through the Arabah; and they passed
b 2:27 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “Elohim.”
c 2:28 or, trumpet
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over the Jordan, and went through all Bithron, Michal, Saul’s daughter, when you come to see
and came to Mahanaim. 2:30 Joab returned from my face.”
following Abner: and when he had gathered 3:14
David sent messengers to Ishbosheth,
all the people together, there lacked of David’s Saul’s son, saying, “Deliver me my wife Michal,
servants nineteen men and Asahel. 2:31 But the whom I pledged to be married to me for one
servants of David had struck of Benjamin, and hundred foreskins of the Philistines.”
of Abner’s men, so that three hundred sixty 3:15
Ishbosheth sent, and took her from her
men died. 2:32 They took up Asahel, and buried husband, even from Paltiel the son of Laish.
him in the tomb of his father, which was in 3:16
Her husband went with her, weeping as
Bethlehem. Joab and his men went all night, he went, and followed her to Bahurim. Then
and the day broke on them at Hebron. Abner said to him, “Go! Return!” and he
3:1
Now there was long war between the returned. 3:17 Abner had communication with
house of Saul and the house of David: and the elders of Israel, saying, “In times past, you
David grew stronger and stronger, but the sought for David to be king over you. 3:18 Now
house of Saul grew weaker and weaker. 3:2 To then do it; for the LORD has spoken of David,
David were sons born in Hebron: and his first- saying, ‘By the hand of my servant David, I
born was Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess; will save my people Israel out of the hand of
3:3
and his second, Chileab, of Abigail the wife the Philistines, and out of the hand of all their
of Nabal the Carmelite; and the third, Absalom enemies.’”
the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king 3:19
Abner also spoke in the ears of Benjamin:
of Geshur; 3:4 and the fourth, Adonijah the son and Abner went also to speak in the ears of
of Haggith; and the fifth, Shephatiah the son David in Hebron all that seemed good to Israel,
of Abital; 3:5 and the sixth, Ithream, of Eglah, and to the whole house of Benjamin. 3:20 So
David’s wife. These were born to David in Abner came to David to Hebron, and twenty
Hebron. 3:6 It happened, while there was war men with him. David made Abner and the men
between the house of Saul and the house of who were with him a feast. 3:21 Abner said to
David, that Abner made himself strong in the David, “I will arise and go, and will gather all
house of Saul. 3:7 Now Saul had a concubine, Israel to my lord the king, that they may make
whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah: a covenant with you, and that you may reign
and Ishbosheth said to Abner, “Why have you over all that your soul desires.” David sent
gone in to my father’s concubine?” 3:8 Then was Abner away; and he went in peace.
Abner very angry for the words of Ishbosheth, 3:22
Behold, the servants of David and Joab
and said, “Am I a dog’s head that belongs to came from a foray, and brought in a great spoil
Judah? Today I show kindness to the house with them: but Abner was not with David in
of Saul your father, to his brothers, and to his Hebron; for he had sent him away, and he was
friends, and have not delivered you into the gone in peace. 3:23 When Joab and all the army
hand of David; and yet you charge me this day who was with him had come, they told Joab,
with a fault concerning this woman! 3:9 God do saying, Abner the son of Ner came to the king,
so to Abner, and more also, if, as the LORD has and he has sent him away, and he is gone in
sworn to David, I don’t do even so to him; 3:10 to peace. 3:24 Then Joab came to the king, and said,
transfer the kingdom from the house of Saul, “What have you done? Behold, Abner came to
and to set up the throne of David over Israel you. Why is it that you have sent him away,
and over Judah, from Dan even to Beersheba.” and he is quite gone? 3:25 You know Abner the
3:11
He could not answer Abner another son of Ner, that he came to deceive you, and to
word, because he feared him. 3:12 Abner sent know your going out and your coming in, and
messengers to David on his behalf, saying, to know all that you do.”
“Whose is the land?” and saying, “Make your 3:26
When Joab had come out from David, he
alliance with me, and behold, my hand shall be sent messengers after Abner, and they brought
with you, to bring all Israel around to you.” him back from the well of Sirah; but David
3:13
He said, “Good; I will make a treaty with didn’t know it. 3:27 When Abner was returned
you; but one thing I require of you. That is, to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the midst of
you shall not see my face, unless you first bring the gate to speak with him quietly, and struck
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him there in the body, so that he died, for the news came of Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel;
blood of Asahel his brother. 3:28 Afterward, and his nurse took him up, and fled: and it
when David heard it, he said, “I and my happened, as she made haste to flee, that he
kingdom are guiltless before the LORD forever fell, and became lame. His name was Mephi-
of the blood of Abner the son of Ner. 3:29 Let it bosheth. 4:5 The sons of Rimmon the Beerothite,
fall on the head of Joab, and on all his father’s Rechab and Baanah, went, and came about the
house. Let there not fail from the house of Joab heat of the day to the house of Ishbosheth, as
one who has an issue, or who is a leper, or he took his rest at noon. 4:6 They came there
who leans on a staff, or who falls by the sword, into the midst of the house, as though they
or who lacks bread.” 3:30 So Joab and Abishai would have fetched wheat; and they struck
his brother killed Abner, because he had killed him in the body: and Rechab and Baanah his
their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle. brother escaped. 4:7 Now when they came into
3:31
David said to Joab, and to all the people the house, as he lay on his bed in his bedroom,
who were with him, Tear your clothes, and they struck him, and killed him, and beheaded
clothe yourselves with sackcloth, and mourn him, and took his head, and went by the way of
before Abner. King David followed the bier. the Arabah all night. 4:8 They brought the head
3:32
They buried Abner in Hebron: and the king of Ishbosheth to David to Hebron, and said to
lifted up his voice, and wept at the grave of the king, “Behold, the head of Ishbosheth, the
Abner; and all the people wept. 3:33 The king son of Saul, your enemy, who sought your life!
lamented for Abner, and said, “Should Abner the LORD has avenged my lord the king this
die as a fool dies? 3:34 Your hands were not day of Saul, and of his seed.”
bound, nor your feet put into fetters. As a man 4:9
David answered Rechab and Baanah his
falls before the children of iniquity, so you fell.” brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite,
All the people wept again over him. 3:35 All and said to them, “As the LORD lives, who
the people came to cause David to eat bread has redeemed my soul out of all adversity,
4:10
while it was yet day; but David swore, saying, when someone told me, ‘Behold, Saul is
“God do so to me, and more also, if I taste dead,’ thinking to have brought good news,
bread, or anything else, until the sun goes I took hold of him, and killed him in Ziklag,
down.” 3:36 All the people took notice of it, which was the reward I gave him for his news.
4:11
and it pleased them; as whatever the king did How much more, when wicked men have
pleased all the people. 3:37 So all the people slain a righteous person in his own house on
and all Israel understood that day that it was his bed, shall I not now require his blood
not of the king to kill Abner the son of Ner. of your hand, and take you away from the
3:38
The king said to his servants, “Don’t you earth?” 4:12 David commanded his young men,
know that there a prince and a great man has and they killed them, and cut off their hands
fallen this day in Israel? 3:39 I am this day and their feet, and hanged them up beside the
weak, though anointed king; and these men pool in Hebron. But they took the head of
the sons of Zeruiah are too hard for me. May Ishbosheth, and buried it in the grave of Abner
the LORD reward the evildoer according to his in Hebron.
wickedness.” 5:1
Then came all the tribes of Israel to David
4:1
When Saul’s son heard that Abner was to Hebron, and spoke, saying, “Behold, we are
dead in Hebron, his hands became feeble, and your bone and your flesh. 5:2 In times past,
all the Israelites were troubled. 4:2 Saul’s son when Saul was king over us, it was you who
had two men who were captains of bands: the led out and brought in Israel. The LORD said
name of the one was Baanah, and the name to you, ‘You shall be shepherd of my people
of the other Rechab, the sons of Rimmon the Israel, and you shall be prince over Israel.’”
5:3
Beerothite, of the children of Benjamin (for So all the elders of Israel came to the king to
Beeroth also is reckoned to Benjamin: 4:3 and Hebron; and king David made a covenant with
the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and have lived them in Hebron before the LORD; and they
as foreigners there until this day). 4:4 Now anointed David king over Israel. 5:4 David was
Jonathan, Saul’s son, had a son who was lame thirty years old when he began to reign, and
of his feet. He was five years old when the he reigned forty years. 5:5 In Hebron he reigned
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over Judah seven years and six months; and in yet again, and spread themselves in the valley
Jerusalem he reigned thirty-three years over all of Rephaim. 5:23 When David inquired of the
Israel and Judah. 5:6 The king and his men went LORD, he said, “You shall not go up. Circle
to Jerusalem against the Jebusites, the inhabi- around behind them, and attack them over
tants of the land, who spoke to David, saying, against the mulberry trees. 5:24 It shall be, when
“Unless you take away the blind and the lame, you hear the sound of marching in the tops
you shall not come in here”; thinking, “David of the mulberry trees, that then you shall stir
can’t come in here.” 5:7 Nevertheless David yourself up; for then the LORD has gone out
took the stronghold of Zion; the same is the city before you to strike the army of the Philistines.”
of David. 5:8 David said on that day, “Whoever 5:25
David did so, as the LORD commanded
strikes the Jebusites, let him get up to the him, and struck the Philistines from Geba until
watercourse, and strike the lame and the blind, you come to Gezer.
who are hated by David’s soul.” Therefore they 6:1
David again gathered together all the
say, “The blind and the lame can’t come into
chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand. 6:2 David
the house.” 5:9 David lived in the stronghold,
arose, and went with all the people who were
and called it the city of David. David built
with him, from Baale Judah, to bring up from
around from Millo and inward. 5:10 David grew
there the ark of God, which is called by the
greater and greater; for the LORD, the God
Name, even the name of the LORD of Hosts
of Hosts, was with him. 5:11 Hiram king of
who sits above the cherubim. 6:3 They set the
Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees,
ark of God on a new cart, and brought it out
and carpenters, and masons; and they built
of the house of Abinadab that was in the hill:
David a house. 5:12 David perceived that the
and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab,
LORD had established him king over Israel,
drove the new cart. 6:4 They brought it out of
and that he had exalted his kingdom for his
the house of Abinadab, which was in the hill,
people Israel’s sake. 5:13 David took him more
with the ark of God: and Ahio went before the
concubines and wives out of Jerusalem, after
ark. 6:5 David and all the house of Israel played
he had come from Hebron; and there were yet
before the LORD with all kinds of instruments
sons and daughters born to David. 5:14 These
made of fir wood, and with harps, and with
are the names of those who were born to
stringed instruments, and with tambourines,
him in Jerusalem: Shammua, and Shobab,
and with castanets, and with cymbals. 6:6 When
and Nathan, and Solomon, 5:15 and Ibhar, and
they came to the threshing floor of Nacon,
Elishua, and Nepheg, and Japhia, 5:16 and El-
Uzzah reached for the ark of God, and took
ishama, and Eliada, and Eliphelet. 5:17 When
hold of it; for the cattle stumbled. 6:7 The
the Philistines heard that they had anointed
anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah;
David king over Israel, all the Philistines went
and God struck him there for his error; and
up to seek David; and David heard of it, and
there he died by the ark of God. 6:8 David
went down to the stronghold. 5:18 Now the
was displeased, because the LORD had broken
Philistines had come and spread themselves in
forth on Uzzah; and he called that place Perez
the valley of Rephaim. 5:19 David inquired of
Uzzah, to this day. 6:9 David was afraid of the
the LORD, saying, “Shall I go up against the
LORD that day; and he said, “How shall the ark
Philistines? Will you deliver them into my
of the LORD come to me?” 6:10 So David would
hand?”
not move the ark of the LORD to be with him in
The LORD said to David, “Go up; for I the city of David; but David carried it aside into
will certainly deliver the Philistines into your the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite. 6:11 The
hand.” ark of the LORD remained in the house of
5:20 Obed-Edom the Gittite three months: and the
David came to Baal Perazim, and David
struck them there; and he said, “The LORD LORD blessed Obed-Edom, and all his house.
6:12
has broken my enemies before me, like the It was told king David, saying, “The LORD
breach of waters.” Therefore he called the has blessed the house of Obed-Edom, and all
name of that place Baal Perazim. 5:21 They left that pertains to him, because of the ark of God.”
their images there; and David and his men David went and brought up the ark of God
took them away. 5:22 The Philistines came up from the house of Obed-Edom into the city of
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David with joy. 6:13 It was so, that, when those of the LORD came to Nathan, saying, 7:5 “Go
who bore the ark of the LORD had gone six and tell my servant David, ‘Thus says the
paces, he sacrificed an ox and a fattened calf. LORD, “Shall you build me a house for me to
6:14
David danced before the LORD with all his dwell in? 7:6 For I have not lived in a house
might; and David was clothed in a linen ephod. since the day that I brought up the children of
6:15
So David and all the house of Israel brought Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but have
up the ark of the LORD with shouting, and moved around in a tent and in a tabernacle.
with the sound of the shofard . 6:16 It was so, as 7:7
In all places in which I have walked with all
the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, the children of Israel, did I say a word to any
that Michal the daughter of Saul looked out at of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to
the window, and saw king David leaping and be shepherd of my people Israel, saying, ‘Why
dancing before the LORD; and she despised have you not built me a house of cedar?’”’
him in her heart. 6:17 They brought in the ark 7:8
Now therefore you shall tell my servant
of the LORD, and set it in its place, in the David this, ‘Thus says the LORD of Hosts, “I
midst of the tent that David had pitched for took you from the sheep pen, from following
it; and David offered burnt offerings and peace the sheep, that you should be prince over my
offerings before the LORD. 6:18 When David people, over Israel. 7:9 I have been with you
had made an end of offering the burnt offering wherever you went, and have cut off all your
and the peace offerings, he blessed the people enemies from before you. I will make you a
in the name of the LORD of Hosts. 6:19 He great name, like the name of the great ones
gave to all the people, even among the whole who are in the earth. 7:10 I will appoint a place
multitude of Israel, both to men and women, for my people Israel, and will plant them, that
to everyone a portion of bread, dates, and they may dwell in their own place, and be
raisins. So all the people departed everyone to moved no more; neither shall the children of
his house. 6:20 Then David returned to bless his wickedness afflict them any more, as at the
household. Michal the daughter of Saul came first, 7:11 and as from the day that I commanded
out to meet David, and said, “How glorious judges to be over my people Israel. I will cause
the king of Israel was today, who uncovered you to rest from all your enemies. Moreover
himself today in the eyes of the handmaids the LORD tells you that the LORD will make
of his servants, as one of the vain fellows you a house. 7:12 When your days are fulfilled,
shamelessly uncovers himself!” and you shall sleep with your fathers, I will
6:21
David said to Michal, “It was before the set up your seed after you, who shall proceed
LORD, who chose me above your father, and out of your bowels, and I will establish his
above all his house, to appoint me prince over kingdom. 7:13 He shall build a house for my
the people of the LORD, over Israel. Therefore name, and I will establish the throne of his
will I celebrate before the LORD. 6:22 I will be kingdom forever. 7:14 I will be his father, and
yet more vile than this, and will be base in my he shall be my son. If he commits iniquity, I
own sight. But of the handmaids of whom you will chasten him with the rod of men, and with
have spoken, they shall honor me.” 6:23 Michal the stripes of the children of men; 7:15 but my
the daughter of Saul had no child to the day of loving kindness shall not depart from him, as
her death. I took it from Saul, whom I put away before
7:1
It happened, when the king lived in his you. 7:16 Your house and your kingdom shall
house, and the LORD had given him rest from be made sure forever before you. Your throne
all his enemies all around, 7:2 that the king said shall be established forever.”’” 7:17 According to
to Nathan the prophet, “See now, I dwell in all these words, and according to all this vision,
a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells so Nathan spoke to David.
within curtains.” 7:18
Then David the king went in, and sat
7:3
Nathan said to the king, “Go, do all that is before the LORD; and he said, “Who am I,
in your heart; for the LORD is with you.” Lorde the LORD, and what is my house, that
7:4
It happened the same night, that the word you have brought me thus far? 7:19 This was
d 6:15 or, trumpet
e 7:18 The word translated “Lord” (mixed case) is “Adonai.”
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yet a small thing in your eyes, Lord GOD; hundred horsemen, and twenty thousand foot-
but you have spoken also of your servant’s men: and David hamstrung all the chariot
house for a great while to come; and this after horses, but reserved of them for one hundred
the way of men, Lord GOD! 7:20 What more chariots. 8:5 When the Syrians of Damascus
can David say to you? For you know your came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah, David
servant, Lord GOD. 7:21 For your word’s sake, struck of the Syrians two and twenty thousand
and according to your own heart, you have men. 8:6 Then David put garrisons in Syria of
worked all this greatness, to make your servant Damascus; and the Syrians became servants to
know it. 7:22 Therefore you are great, LORD David, and brought tribute. The LORD gave
God. For there is none like you, neither is victory to David wherever he went. 8:7 David
there any God besides you, according to all that took the shields of gold that were on the
we have heard with our ears. 7:23 What one servants of Hadadezer, and brought them to
nation in the earth is like your people, even like Jerusalem. 8:8 From Betah and from Berothai,
Israel, whom God went to redeem to himself cities of Hadadezer, king David took exceeding
for a people, and to make himself a name, much brass. 8:9 When Toi king of Hamath
and to do great things for you, and awesome heard that David had struck all the army of
things for your land, before your people, whom Hadadezer, 8:10 then Toi sent Joram his son to
you redeem to yourself out of Egypt, from the king David, to Greet him, and to bless him,
nations and their gods? 7:24 You established because he had fought against Hadadezer and
for yourself your people Israel to be a people struck him: for Hadadezer had wars with Toi.
to you forever; and you, LORD, became their Joram brought with him vessels of silver, and
God. 7:25 Now, LORD God, the word that vessels of gold, and vessels of brass: 8:11 King
you have spoken concerning your servant, and David also dedicated these to the LORD, with
concerning his house, confirm it forever, and the silver and gold that he dedicated of all
do as you have spoken. 7:26 Let your name the nations which he subdued; 8:12 of Syria,
be magnified forever, saying, ‘The LORD of and of Moab, and of the children of Ammon,
Hosts is God over Israel; and the house of your and of the Philistines, and of Amalek, and of
servant David shall be established before you.’ the spoil of Hadadezer, son of Rehob, king of
7:27
For you, LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, Zobah. 8:13 David earned a reputation when he
have revealed to your servant, saying, ‘I will returned from smiting the Syrians in the Valley
build you a house.’ Therefore your servant has of Salt, even eighteen thousand men. 8:14 He
found in his heart to pray this prayer to you. put garrisons in Edom; throughout all Edom
7:28
“Now, O Lord GOD, you are God, and put he garrisons, and all the Edomites became
your words are truth, and you have promised servants to David. The LORD gave victory to
this good thing to your servant. 7:29 Now David wherever he went. 8:15 David reigned
therefore let it please you to bless the house over all Israel; and David executed justice and
of your servant, that it may continue forever righteousness to all his people. 8:16 Joab the son
before you; for you, Lord GOD, have spoken it. of Zeruiah was over the army; and Jehoshaphat
Let the house of your servant be blessed forever the son of Ahilud was recorder; 8:17 and Zadok
with your blessing.” the son of Ahitub, and Ahimelech the son of
8:1
Abiathar, were priests; and Seraiah was scribe;
After this it happened that David struck 8:18
and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over
the Philistines, and subdued them: and David the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and David’s
took the bridle of the mother city out of the sons were chief ministers.
hand of the Philistines. 8:2 He struck Moab, and 9:1
David said, “Is there yet any who is left
measured them with the line, making them to
of the house of Saul, that I may show him
lie down on the ground; and he measured two
kindness for Jonathan’s sake?” 9:2 There was of
lines to put to death, and one full line to keep
the house of Saul a servant whose name was
alive. The Moabites became servants to David,
Ziba, and they called him to David; and the
and brought tribute. 8:3 David struck also
king said to him, “Are you Ziba?”
Hadadezer the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, as
he went to recover his dominion at the River. He said, “Your servant is he.”
8:4 9:3
David took from him one thousand seven The king said, “Is there not yet any of the
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house of Saul, that I may show the kindness of comforters to you? Hasn’t David sent his
God to him?” servants to you to search the city, and to spy
Ziba said to the king, “Jonathan has yet a it out, and to overthrow it?” 10:4 So Hanun took
son, who is lame of his feet.” David’s servants, and shaved off the one half
9:4 of their beards, and cut off their garments in
The king said to him, “Where is he?”
Ziba said to the king, “Behold, he is in the the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent
house of Machir the son of Ammiel, in Lo them away. 10:5 When they told it to David, he
Debar.” sent to meet them; for the men were greatly
9:5
Then king David sent, and fetched him ashamed. The king said, “Wait at Jericho until
out of the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, your beards have grown, and then return.”
from Lo Debar. 9:6 Mephibosheth, the son of 10:6
When the children of Ammon saw that
Jonathan, the son of Saul, came to David, and they were become odious to David, the children
fell on his face, and showed respect. David of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Beth
said, “Mephibosheth.” Rehob, and the Syrians of Zobah, twenty thou-
He answered, “Behold, your servant!” sand footmen, and the king of Maacah with
9:7
David said to him, “Don’t be afraid of one thousand men, and the men of Tob twelve
him; for I will surely show you kindness for thousand men. 10:7 When David heard of it, he
Jonathan your father’s sake, and will restore sent Joab, and all the army of the mighty men.
to you all the land of Saul your father. You 10:8
The children of Ammon came out, and put
shall eat bread at my table continually.” 9:8 He the battle in array at the entrance of the gate:
bowed down, and said, “What is your servant, and the Syrians of Zobah and of Rehob, and the
that you should look on such a dead dog as I men of Tob and Maacah, were by themselves
am?” 9:9 Then the king called to Ziba, Saul’s in the field. 10:9 Now when Joab saw that the
servant, and said to him, “All that pertained to battle was set against him before and behind,
Saul and to all his house have I given to your he chose of all the choice men of Israel, and put
master’s son. 9:10 You shall till the land for him, them in array against the Syrians: 10:10 The rest
you, and your sons, and your servants; and you of the people he committed into the hand of
shall bring in the harvest, that your master’s Abishai his brother; and he put them in array
son may have bread to eat: but Mephibosheth against the children of Ammon. 10:11 He said,
your master’s son shall eat bread always at “If the Syrians are too strong for me, then you
my table.” Now Ziba had fifteen sons and shall help me; but if the children of Ammon
twenty servants. 9:11 Then Ziba said to the are too strong for you, then I will come and
king, “According to all that my lord the king help you. 10:12 Be courageous, and let us be
commands his servant, so your shall servant strong for our people, and for the cities of
do.” So Mephibosheth ate at the king’s table, our God; and the LORD do that which seems
like one of the king’s sons. 9:12 Mephibosheth good to him.” 10:13 So Joab and the people
had a young son, whose name was Mica. All who were with him drew near to the battle
that lived in the house of Ziba were servants to against the Syrians: and they fled before him.
Mephibosheth. 9:13 So Mephibosheth lived in 10:14
When the children of Ammon saw that
Jerusalem; for he ate continually at the king’s the Syrians had fled, they likewise fled before
table. He was lame in both his feet. Abishai, and entered into the city. Then Joab
10:1
It happened after this, that the king of returned from the children of Ammon, and
the children of Ammon died, and Hanun his came to Jerusalem. 10:15 When the Syrians saw
son reigned in his place. 10:2 David said, “I will that they were defeated by Israel, they gathered
show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, as themselves together. 10:16 Hadadezer sent, and
his father showed kindness to me.” So David brought out the Syrians who were beyond
sent by his servants to comfort him concerning the River: and they came to Helam, with
his father. David’s servants came into the land Shobach the captain of the army of Hadadezer
of the children of Ammon. at their head. 10:17 It was told David; and he
10:3
But the princes of the children of Ammon gathered all Israel together, and passed over the
said to Hanun their lord, “Do you think that Jordan, and came to Helam. The Syrians set
David honors your father, in that he has sent themselves in array against David, and fought
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with him. 10:18 The Syrians fled before Israel; Uriah stayed in Jerusalem that day, and the next
and David killed of the Syrians seven hundred day. 11:13 When David had called him, he ate
charioteers, and forty thousand horsemen, and and drink before him; and he made him drunk.
struck Shobach the captain of their army, so At evening, he went out to lie on his bed with
that he died there. 10:19 When all the kings who the servants of his lord, but didn’t go down
were servants to Hadadezer saw that they were to his house. 11:14 It happened in the morning,
defeated before Israel, they made peace with that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it
Israel, and served them. So the Syrians feared by the hand of Uriah. 11:15 He wrote in the
to help the children of Ammon any more. letter, saying, “Send Uriah to the forefront of
11:1 the hottest battle, and retreat from him, that he
It happened, at the return of the year, at
the time when kings go out, that David sent may be struck, and die.”
11:16
Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; It happened, when Joab kept watch on
and they destroyed the children of Ammon, the city, that he assigned Uriah to the place
and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at where he knew that valiant men were. 11:17 The
Jerusalem. 11:2 It happened at evening, that men of the city went out, and fought with
David arose from off his bed, and walked on Joab. Some of the people fell, even of the
the roof of the king’s house: and from the roof servants of David; and Uriah the Hittite died
he saw a woman bathing; and the woman was also. 11:18 Then Joab sent and told David all
very beautiful to look on. 11:3 David sent and the things concerning the war; 11:19 and he com-
inquired after the woman. One said, “Isn’t this manded the messenger, saying, “When you
Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of have finished telling all the things concerning
Uriah the Hittite?” the war to the king, 11:20 it shall be that, if the
11:4 king’s wrath arise, and he asks you, ‘Why did
David sent messengers, and took her;
and she came in to him, and he lay with her you go so near to the city to fight? Didn’t
(for she was purified from her uncleanness); you know that they would shoot from the
and she returned to her house. 11:5 The woman wall? 11:21 who struck Abimelech the son of
conceived; and she sent and told David, and Jerubbesheth? Didn’t a woman cast an upper
said, “I am with child.” millstone on him from the wall, so that he
11:6 died at Thebez? Why did you go so near the
David sent to Joab, “Send me Uriah the
Hittite.” Joab sent Uriah to David. 11:7 When wall?’ then you shall say, ‘Your servant Uriah
Uriah had come to him, David asked of him the Hittite is dead also.’”
11:22
how Joab did, and how the people fared, and So the messenger went, and came and
how the war prospered. 11:8 David said to showed David all that Joab had sent him for.
11:23
Uriah, “Go down to your house, and wash your The messenger said to David, “The men
feet.” Uriah departed out of the king’s house, prevailed against us, and came out to us into
and a gift from the king was sent after him. the field, and we were on them even to the
11:9
But Uriah slept at the door of the king’s entrance of the gate. 11:24 The shooters shot at
house with all the servants of his lord, and your servants from off the wall; and some of
didn’t go down to his house. 11:10 When they the king’s servants are dead, and your servant
had told David, saying, “Uriah didn’t go down Uriah the Hittite is dead also.”
to his house,” David said to Uriah, “Haven’t 11:25
Then David said to the messenger,
you come from a journey? Why didn’t you go “Thus you shall tell Joab, ‘Don’t let this thing
down to your house?” displease you, for the sword devours one as
11:11
Uriah said to David, “The ark, Israel, well as another. Make your battle stronger
and Judah, are staying in tents; and my lord against the city, and overthrow it.’ Encourage
Joab, and the servants of my lord, are en- him.”
camped in the open field. Shall I then go into 11:26
When the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah
my house to eat and to drink, and to lie with her husband was dead, she made lamentation
my wife? As you live, and as your soul lives, I for her husband. 11:27 When the mourning was
will not do this thing!” past, David sent and took her home to his
11:12
David said to Uriah, “Stay here today house, and she became his wife, and bore him
also, and tomorrow I will let you depart.” So a son. But the thing that David had done
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displeased the LORD. blaspheme, the child also who is born to you
12:1
The LORD sent Nathan to David. He shall surely die.” 12:15 Nathan departed to his
came to him, and said to him, “There were house.
two men in one city; the one rich, and the The LORD struck the child that Uriah’s wife
other poor. 12:2 The rich man had very many bore to David, and it was very sick. 12:16 David
flocks and herds, 12:3 but the poor man had therefore begged God for the child; and David
nothing, except one little ewe lamb, which he fasted, and went in, and lay all night on the
had bought and raised. It grew up together earth. 12:17 The elders of his house arose beside
with him, and with his children. It ate of his him, to raise him up from the earth: but he
own food, drank of his own cup, and lay in his would not, neither did he eat bread with them.
bosom, and was to him like a daughter. 12:4 A 12:18
It happened on the seventh day, that the
traveler came to the rich man, and he spared to child died. The servants of David feared to
take of his own flock and of his own herd, to tell him that the child was dead; for they said,
dress for the wayfaring man who had come to “Behold, while the child was yet alive, we
him, but took the poor man’s lamb, and dressed spoke to him, and he didn’t listen to our voice.
it for the man who had come to him.” How will he then harm himself, if we tell him
12:5 that the child is dead?”
David’s anger was greatly kindled
12:19
against the man, and he said to Nathan, “As But when David saw that his servants
the LORD lives, the man who has done this were whispering together, David perceived
is worthy to die! 12:6 He shall restore the lamb that the child was dead; and David said to his
fourfold, because he did this thing, and because servants, “Is the child dead?”
he had no pity!” They said, “He is dead.”
12:7 12:20
Nathan said to David, “You are the man. Then David arose from the earth, and
This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: washed, and anointed himself, and changed his
‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered clothing; and he came into the house of the
you out of the hand of Saul. 12:8 I gave you your LORD, and worshiped: then he came to his
master’s house, and your master’s wives into own house; and when he required, they set
your bosom, and gave you the house of Israel bread before him, and he ate. 12:21 Then his
and of Judah; and if that would have been too servants said to him, “What is this that you
little, I would have added to you many more have done? You fasted and wept for the child
such things. 12:9 Why have you despised the while he was alive; but when the child was
word of the LORD, to do that which is evil in dead, you rose up and ate bread.”
his sight? You have struck Uriah the Hittite 12:22
He said, “While the child was yet alive,
with the sword, and have taken his wife to be I fasted and wept; for I said, ‘Who knows
your wife, and have slain him with the sword whether the LORD will not be gracious to me,
of the children of Ammon. 12:10 Now therefore that the child may live?’ 12:23 But now he is
the sword will never depart from your house, dead, why should I fast? Can I bring him back
because you have despised me, and have taken again? I shall go to him, but he will not return
the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.’ to me.”
12:11 12:24
“This is what the LORD says: ‘Behold, I David comforted Bathsheba his wife,
will raise up evil against you out of your own and went in to her, and lay with her. She
house; and I will take your wives before your bore a son, and he called his name Solomon.
eyes, and give them to your neighbor, and he The LORD loved him; 12:25 and he sent by the
will lie with your wives in the sight of this sun. hand of Nathan the prophet; and he named
12:12
For you did it secretly, but I will do this him Jedidiah, for the LORD’s sake. 12:26 Now
thing before all Israel, and before the sun.’” Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of
12:13
David said to Nathan, “I have sinned Ammon, and took the royal city. 12:27 Joab sent
against the LORD.” messengers to David, and said, “I have fought
Nathan said to David, “The LORD also against Rabbah. Yes, I have taken the city of
has put away your sin. You will not die. waters. 12:28 Now therefore gather the rest of
12:14
However, because by this deed you have the people together, and encamp against the
given great occasion to the LORD’s enemies to city, and take it; lest I take the city, and it be
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called after my name.” brother. 13:11 When she had brought them near
12:29 to him to eat, he took hold of her, and said to
David gathered all the people together,
and went to Rabbah, and fought against it, and her, “Come, lie with me, my sister!”
13:12
took it. 12:30 He took the crown of their king She answered him, “No, my brother, do
from off his head; and its weight was a talent of not force me! For no such thing ought to be
gold, and in it were precious stones; and it was done in Israel. Don’t you do this folly. 13:13 I,
set on David’s head. He brought out the spoil where would I carry my shame? And as for
of the city, exceeding much. 12:31 He brought you, you will be as one of the fools in Israel.
out the people who were therein, and put them Now therefore, please speak to the king; for he
under saws, and under iron picks, and under will not withhold me from you.”
axes of iron, and made them pass through the 13:14
However he would not listen to her
brick kiln: and he did so to all the cities of the voice; but being stronger than she, he forced
children of Ammon. David and all the people her, and lay with her. 13:15 Then Amnon hated
returned to Jerusalem. her with exceeding great hatred; for the hatred
13:1
It happened after this, that Absalom the with which he hated her was greater than the
son of David had a beautiful sister, whose name love with which he had loved her. Amnon said
was Tamar; and Amnon the son of David loved to her, “Arise, be gone!”
her. 13:2 Amnon was so troubled that he fell 13:16
She said to him, “Not so, because this
sick because of his sister Tamar; for she was great wrong in sending me away is worse than
a virgin; and it seemed hard to Amnon to do the other that you did to me!”
anything to her. 13:3 But Amnon had a friend, But he would not listen to her. 13:17 Then he
whose name was Jonadab, the son of Shimeah, called his servant who ministered to him, and
David’s brother; and Jonadab was a very subtle said, “Put now this woman out from me, and
man. 13:4 He said to him, “Why, son of the king, bolt the door after her.” 13:18 She had a garment
are you so sad from day to day? Won’t you tell of various colors on her; for with such robes
me?” were the king’s daughters who were virgins
Amnon said to him, “I love Tamar, my dressed. Then his servant brought her out, and
brother Absalom’s sister.” bolted the door after her. 13:19 Tamar put ashes
13:5 on her head, and tore her garment of various
Jonadab said to him, “Lay down on your
bed, and pretend to be sick. When your father colors that was on her; and she laid her hand
comes to see you, tell him, ‘Please let my sister on her head, and went her way, crying aloud
Tamar come and give me bread to eat, and as she went. 13:20 Absalom her brother said to
dress the food in my sight, that I may see it, and her, “Has Amnon your brother been with you?
eat it from her hand.’” But now hold your peace, my sister. He is your
13:6 brother. Don’t take this thing to heart.”
So Amnon lay down and faked being
sick. When the king came to see him, Amnon So Tamar remained desolate in her brother
said to the king, “Please let my sister Tamar Absalom’s house. 13:21 But when king David
come, and make me a couple of cakes in my heard of all these things, he was very angry.
13:22
sight, that I may eat from her hand.” 13:7 Then Absalom spoke to Amnon neither good
David sent home to Tamar, saying, “Go now nor bad; for Absalom hated Amnon, because
to your brother Amnon’s house, and prepare he had forced his sister Tamar. 13:23 It hap-
food for him.” 13:8 So Tamar went to her brother pened after two full years, that Absalom had
Amnon’s house; and he was laid down. She sheepshearers in Baal Hazor, which is beside
took dough, and kneaded it, and made cakes Ephraim: and Absalom invited all the king’s
in his sight, and baked the cakes. 13:9 She took sons. 13:24 Absalom came to the king, and
the pan, and poured them out before him; but said, “See now, your servant has sheepshearers.
he refused to eat. Amnon said, “Have all men Please let the king and his servants go with
leave me.” Every man went out from him. your servant.”
13:10 13:25
Amnon said to Tamar, “Bring the food into The king said to Absalom, “No, my son,
the room, that I may eat from your hand.” let us not all go, lest we be burdensome to you.”
Tamar took the cakes which she had made, He pressed him; however he would not go, but
and brought them into the room to Amnon her blessed him. 13:26 Then Absalom said, “If not,
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please let my brother Amnon go with us.” be as a woman who has mourned a long time
The king said to him, “Why should he go for the dead. 14:3 Go in to the king, and speak
with you?” like this to him.” So Joab put the words in her
13:27
But Absalom pressed him, and he let mouth. 14:4 When the woman of Tekoa spoke
Amnon and all the king’s sons go with him. to the king, she fell on her face to the ground,
13:28 showed respect, and said, “Help, O king!”
Absalom commanded his servants, saying,
14:5
“Mark now, when Amnon’s heart is merry with The king said to her, “What ails you?”
wine; and when I tell you, ‘Strike Amnon,’ She answered, “Truly I am a widow, and
then kill him. Don’t be afraid. Haven’t I my husband is dead. 14:6 Your handmaid had
commanded you? Be courageous, and be two sons, and they both fought together in
valiant!” the field, and there was no one to part them,
13:29 but the one struck the other, and killed him.
The servants of Absalom did to Amnon 14:7
as Absalom had commanded. Then all the Behold, the whole family has risen against
king’s sons arose, and every man got up on his your handmaid, and they say, ‘Deliver him
mule, and fled. 13:30 It happened, while they who struck his brother, that we may kill him for
were in the way, that the news came to David, the life of his brother whom he killed, and so
saying, “Absalom has slain all the king’s sons, destroy the heir also.’ Thus they would quench
and there is not one of them left!” my coal which is left, and would leave to my
13:31
Then the king arose, and tore his gar- husband neither name nor remainder on the
ments, and lay on the earth; and all his servants surface of the earth.”
14:8
stood by with their clothes torn. 13:32 Jonadab, The king said to the woman, “Go to your
the son of Shimeah, David’s brother, answered, house, and I will give a command concerning
“Don’t let my lord suppose that they have you.”
14:9
killed all the young men the king’s sons; for The woman of Tekoa said to the king,
Amnon only is dead; for by the appointment “My lord, O king, the iniquity be on me, and on
of Absalom this has been determined from the my father’s house; and the king and his throne
day that he forced his sister Tamar. 13:33 Now be guiltless.”
14:10
therefore don’t let my lord the king take the The king said, “Whoever says anything
thing to his heart, to think that all the king’s to you, bring him to me, and he shall not touch
sons are dead; for Amnon only is dead.” you any more.”
13:34 14:11
But Absalom fled. The young man who Then she said, “Please let the king re-
kept the watch lifted up his eyes, and looked, member the LORD your God, that the avenger
and behold, many people were coming by way of blood destroy not any more, lest they destroy
of the hillside behind him. 13:35 Jonadab said to my son.”
the king, “Behold, the king’s sons are coming! He said, “As the LORD lives, not one hair of
It is as your servant said.” 13:36 It happened, as your son shall fall to the earth.”
14:12
soon as he had finished speaking, that behold, Then the woman said, “Please let your
the king’s sons came, and lifted up their voice, handmaid speak a word to my lord the king.”
and wept. The king also and all his servants He said, “Say on.”
wept bitterly. 13:37 But Absalom fled, and went 14:13
The woman said, “Why then have you
to Talmai the son of Ammihur, king of Geshur. devised such a thing against the people of God?
David mourned for his son every day. 13:38 So For in speaking this word the king is as one
Absalom fled, and went to Geshur, and was who is guilty, in that the king does not bring
there three years. 13:39 King David longed to home again his banished one. 14:14 For we
go forth to Absalom: for he was comforted must die, and are as water split on the ground,
concerning Amnon, since he was dead. which can’t be gathered up again; neither does
14:1
Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived God take away life, but devises means, that
that the king’s heart was toward Absalom. he who is banished not be an outcast from
14:2
Joab sent to Tekoa, and fetched there a him. 14:15 Now therefore seeing that I have
wise woman, and said to her, “Please act like come to speak this word to my lord the king,
a mourner, and put on mourning clothing, it is because the people have made me afraid:
please, and don’t anoint yourself with oil, but and your handmaid said, ‘I will now speak to
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the king; it may be that the king will perform lived two full years in Jerusalem; and he didn’t
the request of his servant.’ 14:16 For the king see the king’s face. 14:29 Then Absalom sent for
will hear, to deliver his servant out of the hand Joab, to send him to the king; but he would
of the man who would destroy me and my not come to him: and he sent again a second
son together out of the inheritance of God. time, but he would not come. 14:30 Therefore he
14:17
Then your handmaid said, ‘Please let the said to his servants, “Behold, Joab’s field is near
word of my lord the king bring rest; for as an mine, and he has barley there. Go and set it on
angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern fire.” Absalom’s servants set the field on fire.
good and bad. May the LORD, your God, be 14:31
Then Joab arose, and came to Absalom
with you.’” to his house, and said to him, “Why have your
14:18
Then the king answered the woman, servants set my field on fire?”
14:32
“Please don’t hide anything from me that I ask Absalom answered Joab, “Behold, I sent
you.” to you, saying, ‘Come here, that I may send
The woman said, “Let my lord the king now you to the king, to say, “Why have I come from
speak.” Geshur? It would be better for me to be there
14:19 still. Now therefore let me see the king’s face;
The king said, “Is the hand of Joab with
you in all this?” and if there is iniquity in me, let him kill me.”’”
14:33
The woman answered, “As your soul lives, So Joab came to the king, and told him;
my lord the king, no one can turn to the right and when he had called for Absalom, he came
hand or to the left from anything that my lord to the king, and bowed himself on his face to
the king has spoken; for your servant Joab, he the ground before the king: and the king kissed
urged me, and he put all these words in the Absalom.
15:1
mouth of your handmaid; 14:20 to change the It happened after this, that Absalom
face of the matter has your servant Joab done prepared him a chariot and horses, and fifty
this thing. My lord is wise, according to the men to run before him. 15:2 Absalom rose up
wisdom of an angel of God, to know all things early, and stood beside the way of the gate. It
that are in the earth.” was so, that when any man had a suit which
14:21 should come to the king for judgment, then
The king said to Joab, “Behold now, I
have done this thing. Go therefore, bring the Absalom called to him, and said, “What city are
young man Absalom back.” you from?”
14:22 He said, “Your servant is of one of the tribes
Joab fell to the ground on his face,
showed respect, and blessed the king. Joab of Israel.”
15:3
said, “Today your servant knows that I have Absalom said to him, “Behold, your
found favor in your sight, my lord, king, in matters are good and right; but there is no
that the king has performed the request of man deputized by the king to hear you.”
15:4
his servant.” 14:23 So Joab arose and went to Absalom said moreover, “Oh that I were
Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem. made judge in the land, that every man who
14:24 has any suit or cause might come to me, and I
The king said, “Let him return to his own
house, but let him not see my face.” So would do him justice!” 15:5 It was so, that when
Absalom returned to his own house, and didn’t any man came near to do him obeisance, he
see the king’s face. 14:25 Now in all Israel there put forth his hand, and took hold of him, and
was none to be so much praised as Absalom kissed him. 15:6 Absalom did this sort of thing
for his beauty: from the sole of his foot even to all Israel who came to the king for judgment.
to the crown of his head there was no blemish So Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.
15:7
in him. 14:26 When he cut the hair of his head It happened at the end of forty years, that
(now it was at every year’s end that he cut Absalom said to the king, “Please let me go
it; because it was heavy on him, therefore he and pay my vow, which I have vowed to the
cut it); he weighed the hair of his head at LORD, in Hebron. 15:8 For your servant vowed
two hundred shekels, after the king’s weight. a vow while I stayed at Geshur in Syria, saying,
14:27 ‘If the LORD shall indeed bring me again to
To Absalom there were born three sons,
and one daughter, whose name was Tamar: she Jerusalem, then I will serve the LORD.’”
was a woman of a beautiful face. 14:28 Absalom 15:9
The king said to him, “Go in peace.”
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So he arose, and went to Hebron. 15:10 But himself passed over the brook Kidron, and all
Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of the people passed over, toward the way of the
Israel, saying, “As soon as you hear the sound wilderness. 15:24 Behold, Zadok also came, and
of the shofarf , then you shall say, ‘Absalom all the Levites with him, bearing the ark of the
is king in Hebron!’” 15:11 Two hundred men covenant of God; and they set down the ark
went with Absalom out of Jerusalem, who of God; and Abiathar went up, until all the
were invited, and went in their simplicity; and people finished passing out of the city. 15:25 The
they didn’t know anything. 15:12 Absalom sent king said to Zadok, “Carry back the ark of God
for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s counselor, into the city. If I find favor in the eyes of
from his city, even from Giloh, while he was the LORD, he will bring me again, and show
offering the sacrifices. The conspiracy was me both it, and his habitation; 15:26 but if he
strong; for the people increased continually say thus, ‘I have no delight in you;’ behold,
with Absalom. 15:13 A messenger came to here am I. Let him do to me as seems good
David, saying, “The hearts of the men of Israel to him.” 15:27 The king said also to Zadok the
are after Absalom.” priest, “Aren’t you a seer? Return into the
15:14
David said to all his servants who were city in peace, and your two sons with you,
with him at Jerusalem, “Arise, and let us flee; Ahimaaz your son, and Jonathan the son of
for else none of us shall escape from Absalom. Abiathar. 15:28 Behold, I will stay at the fords of
Make speed to depart, lest he overtake us the wilderness, until word comes from you to
quickly, and bring down evil on us, and strike inform me.” 15:29 Zadok therefore and Abiathar
the city with the edge of the sword.” carried the ark of God again to Jerusalem; and
15:15
The king’s servants said to the king, they stayed there. 15:30 David went up by the
“Behold, your servants are ready to do what- ascent of the Mount of Olives, and wept as
ever my lord the king chooses.” he went up; and he had his head covered,
15:16 and went barefoot: and all the people who
The king went forth, and all his house-
hold after him. The king left ten women, who were with him covered every man his head,
were concubines, to keep the house. 15:17 The and they went up, weeping as they went up.
15:31
king went forth, and all the people after him; Someone told David, saying, “Ahithophel
and they stayed in Beth Merhak. 15:18 All his is among the conspirators with Absalom.”
servants passed on beside him; and all the David said, “LORD, please turn the counsel
Cherethites, and all the Pelethites, and all the of Ahithophel into foolishness.”
15:32
Gittites, six hundred men who came after him It happened that when David had come
from Gath, passed on before the king. 15:19 Then to the top, where God was worshiped, behold,
the king said to Ittai the Gittite, “Why do you Hushai the Archite came to meet him with his
also go with us? Return, and stay with the king; coat torn, and earth on his head. 15:33 David
for you are a foreigner, and also an exile. Return said to him, “If you pass on with me, then
to your own place. 15:20 Whereas you came but you will be a burden to me; 15:34 but if you
yesterday, should I this day make you go up return to the city, and tell Absalom, ‘I will be
and down with us, since I go where I may? your servant, O king. As I have been your
Return, and take back your brothers. Mercy father’s servant in time past, so will I now
and truth be with you.” be your servant; then will you defeat for me
15:21
Ittai answered the king, and said, “As the counsel of Ahithophel.’ 15:35 Don’t you
the LORD lives, and as my lord the king lives, have Zadok and Abiathar the priests there with
surely in what place my lord the king shall is, you? Therefore it shall be, that whatever thing
whether for death or for life, even there also you shall hear out of the king’s house, you
will your servant be.” shall tell it to Zadok and Abiathar the priests.
15:22 15:36
David said to Ittai, “Go and pass over.” Behold, they have there with them their
Ittai the Gittite passed over, and all his men, two sons, Ahimaaz, Zadok’s son, and Jonathan,
and all the little ones who were with him. Abiathar’s son; and by them you shall send to
15:23
All the country wept with a loud voice, me everything that you shall hear.”
15:37
and all the people passed over: the king also So Hushai, David’s friend, came into the
f 15:10 or, trumpet
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city; and Absalom came into Jerusalem. repay me good for the cursing of me today.”
16:1 16:13
When David was a little past the top, So David and his men went by the way;
behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met and Shimei went along on the hillside opposite
him, with a couple of donkeys saddled, and him, and cursed as he went, threw stones at
on them two hundred loaves of bread, and one him, and threw dust. 16:14 The king, and all
hundred clusters of raisins, and one hundred the people who were with him, came weary;
summer fruits, and a bottle of wine. 16:2 The and he refreshed himself there. 16:15 Absalom,
king said to Ziba, What do you mean by and all the people, the men of Israel, came to
these? Ziba said, The donkeys are for the Jerusalem, and Ahithophel with him. 16:16 It
king’s household to ride on; and the bread and happened, when Hushai the Archite, David’s
summer fruit for the young men to eat; and the friend, had come to Absalom, that Hushai said
wine, that such as are faint in the wilderness to Absalom, “Long live the king! Long live the
may drink. 16:3 The king said, “Where is your king!”
16:17
master’s son?” Absalom said to Hushai, “Is this your
Ziba said to the king, “Behold, he is staying kindness to your friend? Why didn’t you go
in Jerusalem; for he said, ‘Today the house with your friend?”
16:18
of Israel will restore me the kingdom of my Hushai said to Absalom, “No; but
father.’” whomever the LORD, and this people, and all
16:4 the men of Israel have chosen, his will I be, and
Then the king said to Ziba, “Behold, all
that pertains to Mephibosheth is yours.” with him I will stay. 16:19 Again, whom should
Ziba said, “I do obeisance. Let me find favor I serve? Shouldn’t I serve in the presence of his
in your sight, my lord, O king.” son? As I have served in your father’s presence,
16:5
When king David came to Bahurim, be- so will I be in your presence.”
16:20
hold, a man of the family of the house of Saul Then Absalom said to Ahithophel,
came out, whose name was Shimei, the son “Give your counsel what we shall do.”
16:21
of Gera. He came out, and cursed still as he Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Go in to
came. 16:6 He cast stones at David, and at all your father’s concubines, that he has left to
the servants of king David, and all the people keep the house. Then all Israel will hear that
and all the mighty men were on his right hand you are abhorred by your father. Then the
and on his left. 16:7 Shimei said when he cursed, hands of all who are with you will be strong.”
16:22
“Be gone, be gone, you man of blood, and base So they spread Absalom a tent on the
fellow! 16:8 The LORD has returned on you all top of the house; and Absalom went in to his
the blood of the house of Saul, in whose place father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.
16:23
you have reigned! the LORD has delivered the The counsel of Ahithophel, which he gave
kingdom into the hand of Absalom your son! in those days, was as if a man inquired at
Behold, you are caught by your own mischief, the oracle of God: so was all the counsel of
because you are a man of blood!” Ahithophel both with David and with Absa-
16:9 lom.
Then Abishai the son of Zeruiah said to
17:1
the king, “Why should this dead dog curse my Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom,
lord the king? Please let me go over and take off “Let me now choose twelve thousand men, and
his head.” 16:10 The king said, “What have I to I will arise and pursue after David tonight.
17:2
do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? Because he I will come on him while he is weary and
curses, and because the LORD has said to him, exhausted, and will make him afraid. All the
‘Curse David;’ who then shall say, ‘Why have people who are with him shall flee. I will strike
you done so?’” the king only; 17:3 and I will bring back all the
16:11 people to you. The man whom you seek is as if
David said to Abishai, and to all his
servants, “Behold, my son, who came forth all returned. All the people shall be in peace.”
17:4
from my bowels, seeks my life. How much The saying pleased Absalom well, and
more this Benjamite, now? Leave him alone, all the elders of Israel. 17:5 Then Absalom said,
and let him curse; for the LORD has invited “Now call Hushai the Archite also, and let us
him. 16:12 It may be that the LORD will look on hear likewise what he says.”
17:6
the wrong done to me, and that the LORD will When Hushai had come to Absalom,
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Absalom spoke to him, saying, “Ahithophel quickly, and came to the house of a man in
has spoken like this. Shall we do what he says? Bahurim, who had a well in his court; and they
If not, speak up.” went down there. 17:19 The woman took and
17:7 spread the covering over the well’s mouth, and
Hushai said to Absalom, “The counsel
that Ahithophel has given this time is not spread out bruised grain on it; and nothing was
good.” 17:8 Hushai said moreover, “You know known. 17:20 Absalom’s servants came to the
your father and his men, that they are mighty woman to the house; and they said, “Where are
men, and they are fierce in their minds, like Ahimaaz and Jonathan?”
a bear robbed of her cubs in the field. Your The woman said to them, “They have gone
father is a man of war, and will not lodge over the brook of water.”
with the people. 17:9 Behold, he is now hidden When they had sought and could not find
in some pit, or in some other place. It will them, they returned to Jerusalem. 17:21 It hap-
happen, when some of them have fallen at pened, after they had departed, that they came
the first, that whoever hears it will say, ‘There up out of the well, and went and told king
is a slaughter among the people who follow David; and they said to David, “Arise and pass
Absalom!’ 17:10 Even he who is valiant, whose quickly over the water; for thus has Ahithophel
heart is as the heart of a lion, will utterly counseled against you.”
melt; for all Israel knows that your father is a 17:22
Then David arose, and all the people
mighty man, and those who are with him are who were with him, and they passed over the
valiant men. 17:11 But I counsel that all Israel Jordan. By the morning light there lacked not
be gathered together to you, from Dan even to one of them who had not gone over the Jordan.
Beersheba, as the sand that is by the sea for 17:23
When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was
multitude; and that you go to battle in your not followed, he saddled his donkey, and arose,
own person. 17:12 So shall we come on him and went home, to his city, and set his house
in some place where he shall be found, and in order, and hanged himself; and he died, and
we will light on him as the dew falls on the was buried in the tomb of his father. 17:24 Then
ground; and of him and of all the men who David came to Mahanaim. Absalom passed
are with him we will not leave so much as one. over the Jordan, he and all the men of Israel
17:13
Moreover, if he be gone into a city, then with him. 17:25 Absalom set Amasa over the
shall all Israel bring ropes to that city, and we army instead of Joab. Now Amasa was the son
will draw it into the river, until there isn’t one of a man, whose name was Ithra the Israelite,
small stone found there.” who went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash,
17:14
Absalom and all the men of Israel said, sister to Zeruiah, Joab’s mother. 17:26 Israel
“The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better and Absalom encamped in the land of Gilead.
17:27
than the counsel of Ahithophel.” For the It happened, when David had come to
LORD had ordained to defeat the good counsel Mahanaim, that Shobi the son of Nahash of
of Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and Machir
might bring evil on Absalom. 17:15 Then Hushai the son of Ammiel of Lodebar, and Barzillai the
said to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, Gileadite of Rogelim, 17:28 brought beds, basins,
“Ahithophel counseled Absalom and the elders earthen vessels, wheat, barley, meal, parched
of Israel that way; and I have counseled this grain, beans, lentils, roasted grain, 17:29 honey,
way. 17:16 Now therefore send quickly, and tell butter, sheep, and cheese of the herd, for David,
David, saying, ‘Don’t lodge this night at the and for the people who were with him, to eat:
fords of the wilderness, but by all means pass for they said, “The people are hungry, and
over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness.”
people who are with him.’” 18:1
David numbered the people who were
17:17
Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were stay- with him, and set captains of thousands and
ing by En Rogel; and a female servant used captains of hundreds over them. 18:2 David sent
to go and tell them; and they went and told forth the people, a third part under the hand of
king David. For they might not be seen to Joab, and a third part under the hand of Abishai
come into the city. 17:18 But a boy saw them, the son of Zeruiah, Joab’s brother, and a third
and told Absalom. Then they both went away part under the hand of Ittai the Gittite. The king
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said to the people, “I will surely go forth with his hand, and thrust them through the heart of
you myself also.” Absalom, while he was yet alive in the midst of
18:3
But the people said, “You shall not go the oak. 18:15 Ten young men who bore Joab’s
forth; for if we flee away, they will not care armor surrounded and struck Absalom, and
for us; neither if half of us die, will they care killed him. 18:16 Joab blew the shofarg , and
for us. But you are worth ten thousand of us. the people returned from pursuing after Israel;
Therefore now it is better that you are ready to for Joab held back the people. 18:17 They took
help us out of the city.” Absalom, and cast him into the great pit in the
18:4
The king said to them, “I will do what forest, and raised over him a very great heap of
seems best to you.” stones. Then all Israel fled everyone to his tent.
18:18
The king stood beside the gate, and all Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken
the people went out by hundreds and by and reared up for himself the pillar, which is
thousands. 18:5 The king commanded Joab in the king’s dale; for he said, “I have no son to
and Abishai and Ittai, saying, “Deal gently keep my name in memory.” He called the pillar
for my sake with the young man, even with after his own name; and it is called Absalom’s
Absalom.” All the people heard when the monument, to this day. 18:19 Then Ahimaaz the
king commanded all the captains concerning son of Zadok said, “Let me now run, and bear
Absalom. the king news, how that the LORD has avenged
18:6 him of his enemies.”
So the people went out into the field
18:20
against Israel: and the battle was in the forest of Joab said to him, “You shall not be the
Ephraim. 18:7 The people of Israel were struck bearer of news this day, but you shall bear news
there before the servants of David, and there another day. But today you shall bear no news,
was a great slaughter there that day of twenty because the king’s son is dead.”
thousand men. 18:8 For the battle was there 18:21
Then Joab said to the Cushite, “Go, tell
spread over the surface of all the country; and the king what you have seen!” The Cushite
the forest devoured more people that day than bowed himself to Joab, and ran.
the sword devoured. 18:9 Absalom happened 18:22
Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said yet
to meet the servants of David. Absalom was again to Joab, “But come what may, please let
riding on his mule, and the mule went under me also run after the Cushite.”
the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head Joab said, “Why do you want to run, my
caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up son, since that you will have no reward for the
between the sky and earth; and the mule that news?”
was under him went on. 18:10 A certain man 18:23
“But come what may,” he said, “I will
saw it, and told Joab, and said, “Behold, I saw
run.”
Absalom hanging in an oak.”
18:11 He said to him, “Run!” Then Ahimaaz ran
Joab said to the man who told him,
by the way of the Plain, and outran the Cushite.
“Behold, you saw it, and why didn’t you strike 18:24
him there to the ground? I would have given Now David was sitting between the two
you ten pieces of silver, and a sash.” gates: and the watchman went up to the roof
18:12
The man said to Joab, “Though I should of the gate to the wall, and lifted up his eyes,
receive a thousand pieces of silver in my hand, and looked, and, behold, a man running alone.
18:25
I still wouldn’t put forth my hand against The watchman cried, and told the king.
the king’s son; for in our hearing the king The king said, “If he is alone, there is news in
commanded you and Abishai and Ittai, say- his mouth.” He came closer and closer.
18:26
ing, ‘Beware that none touch the young man The watchman saw another man run-
Absalom.’ 18:13 Otherwise if I had dealt falsely ning; and the watchman called to the porter,
against his life (and there is no matter hidden and said, “Behold, a man running alone!”
from the king), then you yourself would have The king said, “He also brings news.”
18:27
set yourself against me.” The watchman said, “I think the run-
18:14
Then Joab said, “I’m not going to wait ning of the first one is like the running of
like this with you.” He took three darts in Ahimaaz the son of Zadok.”
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The king said, “He is a good man, and comes for I swear by the LORD, if you don’t go out,
with good news.” not a man will stay with you this night. That
18:28
Ahimaaz called, and said to the king, would be worse to you than all the evil that has
“All is well.” He bowed himself before the king happened to you from your youth until now.”
with his face to the earth, and said, “Blessed is 19:8
Then the king arose, and sat in the gate.
the LORD your God, who has delivered up the They told to all the people, saying, “Behold,
men who lifted up their hand against my lord the king is sitting in the gate.” All the people
the king!” came before the king. Now Israel had fled
18:29
The king said, “Is it well with the young every man to his tent. 19:9 All the people were
man Absalom?” at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel,
Ahimaaz answered, “When Joab sent the saying, “The king delivered us out of the hand
king’s servant, even me your servant, I saw a of our enemies, and he saved us out of the
great tumult, but I don’t know what it was.” hand of the Philistines; and now he has fled
18:30
The king said, “Turn aside, and stand out of the land from Absalom. 19:10 Absalom,
here.” He turned aside, and stood still. whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle.
18:31 Now therefore why don’t you speak a word of
Behold, the Cushite came. The Cushite
said, “News for my lord the king; for the LORD bringing the king back?”
has avenged you this day of all those who rose 19:11
King David sent to Zadok and to Abi-
up against you.” athar the priests, saying, “Speak to the elders
18:32
The king said to the Cushite, “Is it well of Judah, saying, ‘Why are you the last to bring
with the young man Absalom?” the king back to his house? Since the speech
The Cushite answered, “May the enemies of of all Israel has come to the king, to return him
my lord the king, and all who rise up against to his house. 19:12 You are my brothers, you are
you to do you harm, be as that young man is.” my bone and my flesh. Why then are you the
18:33
The king was much moved, and went last to bring back the king?’ 19:13 Say to Amasa,
up to the room over the gate, and wept. As ‘Aren’t you my bone and my flesh? God do so
he went, he said, “My son Absalom! My son, to me, and more also, if you aren’t captain of
my son Absalom! I wish I had died for you, the army before me continually in the room of
Absalom, my son, my son!” Joab.’” 19:14 He bowed the heart of all the men
19:1 of Judah, even as one man; so that they sent
It was told Joab, “Behold, the king weeps
and mourns for Absalom.” 19:2 The victory that to the king, saying, “Return, you and all your
day was turned into mourning to all the people; servants.”
for the people heard it said that day, “The king 19:15
So the king returned, and came to the
grieves for his son.” Jordan. Judah came to Gilgal, to go to meet
19:3
The people sneaked into the city that day, the king, to bring the king over the Jordan.
19:16
as people who are ashamed steal away when Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite,
they flee in battle. 19:4 The king covered his face, who was of Bahurim, hurried and came down
and the king cried with a loud voice, “My son with the men of Judah to meet king David.
19:17
Absalom, Absalom, my son, my son!” There were a thousand men of Benjamin
19:5
Joab came into the house to the king, with him, and Ziba the servant of the house
and said, “You have shamed this day the faces of Saul, and his fifteen sons and his twenty
of all your servants, who this day have saved servants with him; and they went through the
your life, and the lives of your sons and of Jordan in the presence of the king. 19:18 A ferry
your daughters, and the lives of your wives, boat went to bring over the king’s household,
and the lives of your concubines; 19:6 in that and to do what he thought good. Shimei the
you love those who hate you, and hate those son of Gera fell down before the king, when
who love you. For you have declared this day, he had come over the Jordan. 19:19 He said to
that princes and servants are nothing to you. the king, “Don’t let my lord impute iniquity to
For today I perceive that if Absalom had lived, me, nor remember that which your servant did
and all we had died this day, then it would perversely the day that my lord the king went
have pleased you well. 19:7 Now therefore arise, out of Jerusalem, that the king should take it
go out, and speak to comfort your servants; to his heart. 19:20 For your servant knows that
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I have sinned. Therefore behold, I have come of my life, that I should go up with the king
this day the first of all the house of Joseph to go to Jerusalem? 19:35 I am this day eighty years
down to meet my lord the king.” old. Can I discern between good and bad? Can
19:21
But Abishai the son of Zeruiah an- your servant taste what I eat or what I drink?
swered, “Shall Shimei not be put to death for Can I hear any more the voice of singing men
this, because he cursed the LORD’s anointed?” and singing women? Why then should your
19:22
David said, “What have I to do with servant be yet a burden to my lord the king?
19:36
you, you sons of Zeruiah, that you should this Your servant would but just go over the
day be adversaries to me? Shall there any man Jordan with the king. Why should the king
be put to death this day in Israel? For don’t repay me with such a reward? 19:37 Please let
I know that I am this day king over Israel?” your servant turn back again, that I may die in
19:23
The king said to Shimei, “You shall not my own city, by the grave of my father and my
die.” The king swore to him. mother. But behold, your servant Chimham; let
19:24 him go over with my lord the king; and do to
Mephibosheth the son of Saul came
down to meet the king; and he had neither him what shall seem good to you.”
19:38
groomed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor The king answered, “Chimham shall go
washed his clothes, from the day the king over with me, and I will do to him that which
departed until the day he came home in shall seem good to you. Whatever you require
peace. 19:25 It happened, when he had come of me, that I will do for you.”
19:39
to Jerusalem to meet the king, that the king All the people went over the Jordan,
said to him, “Why didn’t you go with me, and the king went over. Then the king kissed
Mephibosheth?” Barzillai, and blessed him; and he returned to
19:26
He answered, “My lord, O king, my his own place. 19:40 So the king went over to
servant deceived me. For your servant said, Gilgal, and Chimham went over with him. All
I will saddle me a donkey, that I may ride the people of Judah brought the king over, and
thereon, and go with the king; because your also half the people of Israel. 19:41 Behold, all
servant is lame. 19:27 He has slandered your the men of Israel came to the king, and said to
servant to my lord the king; but my lord the the king, “Why have our brothers the men of
king is as an angel of God. Do therefore what Judah stolen you away, and brought the king,
is good in your eyes. 19:28 For all my father’s and his household, over the Jordan, and all
house were but dead men before my lord the David’s men with him?”
19:42
king; yet you set your servant among those All the men of Judah answered the men
who ate at your own table. What right therefore of Israel, “Because the king is a close relative to
have I yet that I should cry any more to the us. Why then are you angry about this matter?
king?” Have we eaten at all at the king’s cost? Or has
19:29
The king said to him, “Why do you he given us any gift?”
19:43
speak any more of your matters? I say, you and The men of Israel answered the men of
Ziba divide the land.” Judah, and said, “We have ten parts in the king,
19:30
Mephibosheth said to the king, “Yes, let and we have also more claim to David than
him take all, because my lord the king has come you. Why then did you despise us, that our
in peace to his own house.” 19:31 Barzillai the advice should not be first had in bringing back
Gileadite came down from Rogelim; and he our king?” The words of the men of Judah were
went over the Jordan with the king, to conduct fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.
20:1
him over the Jordan. 19:32 Now Barzillai was a There happened to be there a base fellow,
very aged man, even eighty years old: and he whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a
had provided the king with sustenance while Benjamite: and he blew the shofarh , and said,
he lay at Mahanaim; for he was a very great “We have no portion in David, neither have we
man. 19:33 The king said to Barzillai, “Come inheritance in the son of Jesse. Every man to his
over with me, and I will sustain you with tents, Israel!”
me in Jerusalem.” 19:34 Barzillai said to the 20:2
So all the men of Israel went up from
king, “How many are the days of the years following David, and followed Sheba the son
h 20:1 or, trumpet
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of Bichri; but the men of Judah joined with and went also after him. 20:15 They came and
their king, from the Jordan even to Jerusalem. besieged him in Abel of Beth Maacah, and they
20:3
David came to his house at Jerusalem; and cast up a mound against the city, and it stood
the king took the ten women his concubines, against the rampart; and all the people who
whom he had left to keep the house, and were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it
put them in custody, and provided them with down. 20:16 Then a wise woman cried out of
sustenance, but didn’t go in to them. So they the city, “Hear, hear! Please say to Joab, ‘Come
were shut up to the day of their death, living in near here, that I may speak with you.’” 20:17 He
widowhood. came near to her; and the woman said, “Are
20:4
Then the king said to Amasa, “Call me you Joab?”
the men of Judah together within three days, He answered, “I am.”
and be here present.” Then she said to him, “Hear the words of
20:5
So Amasa went to call the men of Judah your handmaid.”
together; but he stayed longer than the set time He answered, “I do hear.”
20:18
which he had appointed him. 20:6 David said Then she spoke, saying, “They were
to Abishai, “Now Sheba the son of Bichri will used to say in old times, ‘They shall surely ask
do us more harm than Absalom did. Take your counsel at Abel;’ and so they settled it. 20:19 I
lord’s servants, and pursue after him, lest he am among those who are peaceable and faithful
get himself fortified cities, and escape out of in Israel. You seek to destroy a city and a
our sight.” mother in Israel. Why will you swallow up the
20:7
There went out after him Joab’s men, and inheritance of the LORD?”
20:20
the Cherethites and the Pelethites, and all the Joab answered, “Far be it, far be it
mighty men; and they went out of Jerusalem, to from me, that I should swallow up or destroy.
20:21
pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri. 20:8 When The matter is not so. But a man of the hill
they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, country of Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by
Amasa came to meet them. Joab was clothed in name, has lifted up his hand against the king,
his apparel of war that he had put on, and on it even against David. Deliver him only, and I
was a sash with a sword fastened on his waist will depart from the city.”
in its sheath; and as he went forth it fell out. The woman said to Joab, “Behold, his head
20:9
Joab said to Amasa, “Is it well with you, my shall be thrown to you over the wall.”
20:22
brother?” Joab took Amasa by the beard with Then the woman went to all the people
his right hand to kiss him. 20:10 But Amasa took in her wisdom. They cut off the head of Sheba
no heed to the sword that was in Joab’s hand. the son of Bichri, and threw it out to Joab. He
So he struck him with it in the body, and shed blew the shofari , and they were dispersed from
out his bowels to the ground, and didn’t strike the city, every man to his tent. Joab returned to
him again; and he died. Joab and Abishai his Jerusalem to the king. 20:23 Now Joab was over
brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri. all the army of Israel; and Benaiah the son of
20:11
There stood by him one of Joab’s young Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and over the
men, and said, “He who favors Joab, and he Pelethites; 20:24 and Adoram was over the men
who is for David, let him follow Joab!” subject to forced labor; and Jehoshaphat the son
20:12
Amasa lay wallowing in his blood in of Ahilud was the recorder; 20:25 and Sheva was
the midst of the highway. When the man saw scribe; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests;
20:26
that all the people stood still, he carried Amasa and also Ira the Jairite was chief minister
out of the highway into the field, and cast a to David.
21:1
garment over him, when he saw that everyone There was a famine in the days of David
who came by him stood still. 20:13 When he three years, year after year; and David sought
was removed out of the highway, all the people the face of the LORD. The LORD said, “It is for
went on after Joab, to pursue after Sheba the Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put
son of Bichri. 20:14 He went through all the to death the Gibeonites.”
21:2
tribes of Israel to Abel, and to Beth Maacah, and The king called the Gibeonites, and said
all the Berites: and they were gathered together, to them (now the Gibeonites were not of the
i 20:22 or, trumpet
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children of Israel, but of the remnant of the hanged. 21:14 They buried the bones of Saul and
Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn Jonathan his son in the country of Benjamin
to them: and Saul sought to kill them in his zeal in Zela, in the tomb of Kish his father: and
for the children of Israel and Judah); 21:3 and they performed all that the king commanded.
David said to the Gibeonites, “What shall I After that God was entreated for the land.
21:15
do for you? And with what shall I make The Philistines had war again with Israel;
atonement, that you may bless the inheritance and David went down, and his servants with
of the LORD?” him, and fought against the Philistines. David
21:4
The Gibeonites said to him, “It is no grew faint; 21:16 and Ishbibenob, who was of the
matter of silver or gold between us and Saul, sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear
or his house; neither is it for us to put any man was three hundred shekels of brass in weight,
to death in Israel.” he being armed with a new sword, thought to
He said, “Whatever you say, that will I do have slain David. 21:17 But Abishai the son of
for you.” Zeruiah helped him, and struck the Philistine,
21:5
They said to the king, “The man who and killed him. Then the men of David swore
consumed us, and who devised against us, that to him, saying, “You shall go no more out with
we should be destroyed from remaining in any us to battle, that you don’t quench the lamp of
of the borders of Israel, 21:6 let seven men of his Israel.”
21:18
sons be delivered to us, and we will hang them It came to pass after this, that there was
up to the LORD in Gibeah of Saul, the chosen again war with the Philistines at Gob: then
of the LORD.” Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Saph, who was
of the sons of the giant. 21:19 There was again
The king said, “I will give them.”
21:7 war with the Philistines at Gob; and Elhanan
But the king spared Mephibosheth, the the son of Jaareoregim the Bethlehemite killed
son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of the Goliath the Gittite’s brother, the staff of whose
LORD’s oath that was between them, between spear was like a weaver’s beam. 21:20 There
David and Jonathan the son of Saul. 21:8 But the was again war at Gath, where there was a man
king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of great stature, who had on every hand six
of Aiah, whom she bore to Saul, Armoni and fingers, and on every foot six toes, four and
Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Michal the twenty in number; and he also was born to
daughter of Saul, whom she bore to Adriel the the giant. 21:21 When he defied Israel, Jonathan
son of Barzillai the Meholathite. 21:9 He deliv- the son of Shimei, David’s brother, killed him.
ered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and 21:22
These four were born to the giant in Gath;
they hanged them in the mountain before the and they fell by the hand of David, and by the
LORD, and all seven of them fell together. They hand of his servants.
were put to death in the days of harvest, in the 22:1
David spoke to the LORD the words of
first days, at the beginning of barley harvest.
21:10 this song in the day that the LORD delivered
Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sack-
him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out
cloth, and spread it for her on the rock, from the
of the hand of Saul: 22:2 and he said,
beginning of harvest until water was poured
“The LORD is my rock,
on them from the sky. She allowed neither the
my fortress,
birds of the sky to rest on them by day, nor the
animals of the field by night. 21:11 It was told and my deliverer, even mine;
22:3
David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the God, my rock, in him I will take refuge;
concubine of Saul, had done. 21:12 David went my shield, and the horn of my salvation,
and took the bones of Saul and the bones of my high tower, and my refuge.
Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh Gilead, My savior, you save me from violence.
22:4
who had stolen them from the street of Beth I will call on the LORD, who is worthy to be
Shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, praised:
in the day that the Philistines killed Saul in So shall I be saved from my enemies.
22:5
Gilboa; 21:13 and he brought up from there the For the waves of death surrounded me.
bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son: The floods of ungodliness made me
and they gathered the bones of those who were afraid.
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22:6 22:23
The cords of Sheolj were around me. For all his ordinances were before me.
The snares of death caught me. As for his statutes, I did not depart from
22:7
In my distress I called on the LORD. them.
22:24
Yes, I called to my God. I was also perfect toward him.
He heard my voice out of his temple. I kept myself from my iniquity.
22:25
My cry came into his ears. Therefore the LORD has rewarded me
22:8
Then the earth shook and trembled. according to my righteousness,
The foundations of heaven quaked and According to my cleanness in his eye-
were shaken, sight.
22:26
because he was angry. With the merciful you will show yourself
22:9
Smoke went up out of his nostrils. merciful.
Fire out of his mouth devoured. With the perfect man you will show
Coals were kindled by it. yourself perfect.
22:10 22:27
He bowed the heavens also, and came With the pure you will show yourself
down. pure.
Thick darkness was under his feet. With the crooked you will show yourself
22:11
He rode on a cherub, and flew. shrewd.
22:28
Yes, he was seen on the wings of the You will save the afflicted people,
wind. But your eyes are on the haughty, that
22:12
He made darkness pavilions around him- you may bring them down.
22:29
self: For you are my lamp, LORD.
gathering of waters, and thick clouds of The LORD will light up my darkness.
22:30
the skies. For by you, I run against a troop.
22:13
At the brightness before him, By my God, I leap over a wall.
22:31
coals of fire were kindled. As for God, his way is perfect.
22:14
The LORD thundered from heaven. The word of the LORD is tested.
The Most High uttered his voice. He is a shield to all those who take refuge
22:15
He sent out arrows, and scattered them; in him.
22:32
lightning, and confused them. For who is God, besides the LORD?
22:16
Then the channels of the sea appeared. Who is a rock, besides our God?
22:33
The foundations of the world were laid God is my strong fortress.
bare by the rebuke of the LORD, He makes my way perfect.
22:34
At the blast of the breath of his nostrils. He makes his feet like hinds’ feet,
22:17
He sent from on high and he took me. and sets me on my high places.
22:35
He drew me out of many waters. He teaches my hands to war,
22:18
He delivered me from my strong enemy, so that my arms bend a bow of brass.
22:36
from those who hated me, for they were You have also given me the shield of your
too mighty for me. salvation.
22:19
They came on me in the day of my Your gentleness has made me great.
22:37
calamity, You have enlarged my steps under me.
but the LORD was my support. My feet have not slipped.
22:20 22:38
He also brought me out into a large place. I have pursued my enemies and destroyed
He delivered me, because he delighted in them.
me. I didn’t turn again until they were con-
22:21
The LORD rewarded me according to my sumed.
22:39
righteousness. I have consumed them,
He rewarded me according to the clean- and struck them through,
ness of my hands. so that they can’t arise.
22:22
For I have kept the ways of the LORD, Yes, they have fallen under my feet.
22:40
and have not wickedly departed from my For you have armed me with strength for
God. the battle.
j 22:6 Sheol is the place of the dead.
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You have subdued under me those who ‘One who rules over men righteously,
rose up against me. who rules in the fear of God,
22:41 23:4
You have also made my enemies turn their shall be as the light of the morning, when
backs to me, the sun rises,
that I might cut off those who hate me. a morning without clouds,
22:42
They looked, but there was none to save; when the tender grass springs out of the
even to the LORD, but he didn’t answer earth,
them. through clear shining after rain.’
22:43 23:5
Then I beat them as small as the dust of the Most certainly my house is not so with God,
earth. yet he has made with me an everlasting
I crushed them as the mire of the streets, covenant,
and spread them abroad. ordered in all things, and sure,
22:44
You also have delivered me from the striv- for it is all my salvation, and all my
ings of my people. desire,
You have kept me to be the head of the although he doesn’t make it grow.
nations. 23:6
But all of the ungodly shall be as thorns to
A people whom I have not known will be thrust away,
serve me. because they can’t be taken with the
22:45
The foreigners will submit themselves to hand,
me. 23:7
But the man who touches them must be
As soon as they hear of me, they will obey armed with iron and the staff of a
me. spear.
22:46
The foreigners will fade away, They shall be utterly burned with fire in their
and will come trembling out of their close place.”
places. 23:8
These are the names of the mighty
22:47
The LORD lives! men whom David had: Josheb Basshebeth a
Blessed be my rock! Tahchemonite, chief of the captains; the same
Exalted be God, the rock of my salvation, was Adino the Eznite, against eight hundred
22:48
even the God who executes slain at one time. 23:9 After him was Eleazar
vengeance for me, the son of Dodai the son of an Ahohite, one
who brings down peoples under me, of the three mighty men with David, when
22:49
who brings me away from my ene- they defied the Philistines who were there
mies. gathered together to battle, and the men of
Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up Israel were gone away. 23:10 He arose, and
against me. struck the Philistines until his hand was weary,
You deliver me from the violent man. and his hand froze to the sword; and the LORD
22:50
Therefore I will give thanks to you, LORD, worked a great victory that day; and the people
among the nations. returned after him only to take spoil. 23:11 After
Will sing praises to your name. him was Shammah the son of Agee a Hararite.
22:51
He gives great deliverance to his king, The Philistines were gathered together into a
and shows loving kindness to his troop, where there was a plot of ground full of
anointed, lentils; and the people fled from the Philistines.
to David and to his seed, forevermore.” 23:12
But he stood in the midst of the plot, and
23:1
Now these are the last words of David. defended it, and killed the Philistines; and the
David the son of Jesse says, LORD worked a great victory. 23:13 Three of the
the man who was raised on high says, thirty chief men went down, and came to David
the anointed of the God of Jacob, in the harvest time to the cave of Adullam; and
the sweet psalmist of Israel: the troop of the Philistines was encamped in the
23:2
“The Spirit of the LORD spoke by me. valley of Rephaim. 23:14 David was then in the
His word was on my tongue. stronghold; and the garrison of the Philistines
23:3
The God of Israel said, was then in Bethlehem. 23:15 David longed, and
the Rock of Israel spoke to me, said, “Oh that one would give me water to
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drink of the well of Bethlehem, which is by the bearers to Joab the son of Zeruiah, 23:38 Ira the
gate!” Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite, 23:39 Uriah the Hittite:
23:16
thirty-seven in all.
The three mighty men broke through 24:1
Again the anger of the LORD was kin-
the army of the Philistines, and drew water
dled against Israel, and he moved David
out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the
against them, saying, “Go, number Israel and
gate, and took it, and brought it to David: but
Judah.” 24:2 The king said to Joab the captain
he would not drink of it, but poured it out to
of the army, who was with him, “Now go back
the LORD. 23:17 He said, “Be it far from me,
and forth through all the tribes of Israel, from
LORD, that I should do this! Isn’t it the blood of
Dan even to Beersheba, and number the people,
the men who went in jeopardy of their lives?”
that I may know the sum of the people.”
Therefore he would not drink it. The three 24:3
mighty men did these things. 23:18 Abishai, Joab said to the king, “Now may the
the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was LORD your God add to the people, however
chief of the three. He lifted up his spear many they may be, one hundred times; and
against three hundred and killed them, and may the eyes of my lord the king see it. But why
had a name among the three. 23:19 Wasn’t he does my lord the king delight in this thing?”
24:4
most honorable of the three? therefore he was Notwithstanding, the king’s word pre-
made their captain: however he didn’t attain vailed against Joab, and against the captains of
to the three. 23:20 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the army. Joab and the captains of the army
the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had went out from the presence of the king, to
done mighty deeds, he killed the two sons of number the people of Israel. 24:5 They passed
Ariel of Moab: he went down also and killed over the Jordan, and encamped in Aroer, on the
a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow. right side of the city that is in the middle of the
23:21
He killed an Egyptian, a goodly man: and valley of Gad, and to Jazer: 24:6 then they came
the Egyptian had a spear in his hand; but he to Gilead, and to the land of Tahtim Hodshi;
went down to him with a staff, and plucked and they came to Dan Jaan, and around to
the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand, and killed Sidon, 24:7 and came to the stronghold of Tyre,
him with his own spear. 23:22 Benaiah the son and to all the cities of the Hivites, and of the
of Jehoiada did these things, and had a name Canaanites; and they went out to the south
among the three mighty men. 23:23 He was of Judah, at Beersheba. 24:8 So when they had
more honorable than the thirty, but he didn’t gone back and forth through all the land, they
attain to the three. David set him over his came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months
guard. 23:24 Asahel the brother of Joab was one and twenty days. 24:9 Joab gave up the sum of
of the thirty; Elhanan the son of Dodo of Beth- the numbering of the people to the king: and
lehem, 23:25 Shammah the Harodite, Elika the there were in Israel eight hundred thousand
Harodite, 23:26 Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of valiant men who drew the sword; and the men
Ikkesh the Tekoite, 23:27 Abiezer the Anathoth- of Judah were five hundred thousand men.
24:10
ite, Mebunnai the Hushathite, 23:28 Zalmon the David’s heart struck him after that he had
Ahohite, Maharai the Netophathite, 23:29 Heleb numbered the people. David said to the LORD,
the son of Baanah the Netophathite, Ittai the “I have sinned greatly in that which I have
son of Ribai of Gibeah of the children of done. But now, the LORD, put away, I beg you,
Benjamin, 23:30 Benaiah a Pirathonite, Hiddai the iniquity of your servant; for I have done
of the brooks of Gaash. 23:31 Abialbon the Ar- very foolishly.”
24:11
bathite, Azmaveth the Barhumite, 23:32 Eliahba When David rose up in the morning,
the Shaalbonite, the sons of Jashen, Jonathan, the word of the LORD came to the prophet
23:33
Shammah the Hararite, Ahiam the son of Gad, David’s seer, saying, 24:12 “Go and speak
Sharar the Ararite, 23:34 Eliphelet the son of to David, ‘Thus says the LORD, “I offer you
Ahasbai, the son of the Maacathite, Eliam the three things. Choose one of them, that I may
son of Ahithophel the Gilonite, 23:35 Hezro the do it to you.”’”
Carmelite, Paarai the Arbite, 23:36 Igal the son 24:13
So Gad came to David, and told him,
of Nathan of Zobah, Bani the Gadite, 23:37 Zelek and said to him, “Shall seven years of famine
the Ammonite, Naharai the Beerothite, armor come to you in your land? Or will you flee three
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months before your foes while they pursue offerings. So the LORD was entreated for the
you? Or shall there be three days’ pestilence land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.
in your land? Now answer, and consider what
answer I shall return to him who sent me.”
24:14
David said to Gad, “I am in distress. Let
us fall now into the hand of the LORD; for his
mercies are great. Let me not fall into the hand
of man.”
24:15
So the LORD sent a pestilence on Is-
rael from the morning even to the appointed
time; and there died of the people from Dan
even to Beersheba seventy thousand men.
24:16
When the angel stretched out his hand
toward Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD
relented of the disaster, and said to the angel
who destroyed the people, “It is enough. Now
stay your hand.” The angel of the LORD was
by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
24:17
David spoke to the LORD 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.”
24:18
Gad came that day to David, and said to
him, “Go up, build an altar to the LORD on the
threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”
24:19
David went up according to the say-
ing of Gad, as the LORD commanded.
24:20
Araunah looked out, and saw the king and
his servants coming on toward him. Then
Araunah went out, and bowed himself be-
fore the king with his face to the ground.
24:21
Araunah said, “Why has my lord the king
come to his servant?”
David said, “To buy your threshing floor, to
build an altar to the LORD, that the plague may
be stopped from afflicting the people.”
24:22
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: 24:23 all this, king, does
Araunah give to the king.” Araunah said to the
king, “May the LORD your God accept you.”
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 the LORD my
God which cost me nothing.” So David bought
the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels
of silver. 24:25 David built an altar to the LORD
there, and offered burnt offerings and peace
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The First Book of 1:15


Bathsheba went in to the king into the
Kings room. The king was very old; and Abishag
the Shunammite was ministering to the king.
1:16
1:1
Now king David was old and stricken Bathsheba bowed, and showed respect to
in years; and they covered him with clothes, the king. The king said, “What would you
but he couldn’t keep warm. 1:2 Therefore his like?” 1:17 She said to him, “My lord, you swore
servants said to him, “Let there be sought for by the LORDa your Godb to your handmaid,
my lord the king a young virgin. Let her stand ‘Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after
before the king, and cherish him; and let her lie me, and he shall sit on my throne.’ 1:18 Now,
in your bosom, that my lord the king may keep behold, Adonijah reigns; and you, my lord the
warm.” 1:3 So they sought for a beautiful young king, don’t know it. 1:19 He has slain cattle and
lady throughout all the borders of Israel, and fatlings and sheep in abundance, and has called
found Abishag the Shunammite, and brought all the sons of the king, and Abiathar the priest,
her to the king. 1:4 The young lady was very and Joab the captain of the army; but he hasn’t
beautiful; and she cherished the king, and called Solomon your servant. 1:20 You, my lord
ministered to him; but the king didn’t know the king, the eyes of all Israel are on you, that
her intimately. 1:5 Then Adonijah the son of you should tell them who shall sit on the throne
Haggith exalted himself, saying, “I will be of my lord the king after him. 1:21 Otherwise it
king.” Then he prepared him chariots and will happen, when my lord the king shall sleep
horsemen, and fifty men to run before him. with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon
1:6
His father had not displeased him at any shall be counted offenders.”
1:22
time in saying, “Why have you done so?” and Behold, while she yet talked with the
he was also a very handsome man; and he king, Nathan the prophet came in. 1:23 They
was born after Absalom. 1:7 He conferred with told the king, saying, “Behold, Nathan the
Joab the son of Zeruiah, and with Abiathar prophet!”
the priest: and they following Adonijah helped When he had come in before the king, he
him. 1:8 But Zadok the priest, and Benaiah bowed himself before the king with his face to
the son of Jehoiada, and Nathan the prophet, the ground. 1:24 Nathan said, “My lord, king,
and Shimei, and Rei, and the mighty men who have you said, ‘Adonijah shall reign after me,
belonged to David, were not with Adonijah. and he shall sit on my throne?’ 1:25 For he is
1:9 gone down this day, and has slain cattle and
Adonijah killed sheep and cattle and fatlings
by the stone of Zoheleth, which is beside En fatlings and sheep in abundance, and has called
Rogel; and he called all his brothers, the king’s all the king’s sons, and the captains of the army,
sons, and all the men of Judah, the king’s and Abiathar the priest. Behold, they are eating
servants: 1:10 but Nathan the prophet, and and drinking before him, and say, ‘Long live
Benaiah, and the mighty men, and Solomon his king Adonijah!’ 1:26 But he hasn’t called me,
brother, he didn’t call. 1:11 Then Nathan spoke even me your servant, and Zadok the priest,
to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, saying, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and your
“Haven’t you heard that Adonijah the son of servant Solomon. 1:27 Is this thing done by my
Haggith reigns, and David our lord doesn’t lord the king, and you haven’t shown to your
know it? 1:12 Now therefore come, please let me servants who should sit on the throne of my
give you counsel, that you may save your own lord the king after him?”
life, and the life of your son Solomon. 1:13 Go in 1:28
Then king David answered, “Call to me
to king David, and tell him, ‘Didn’t you, my Bathsheba.” She came into the king’s pres-
lord, king, swear to your handmaid, saying, ence, and stood before the king. 1:29 The king
Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after swore, and said, “As the LORD lives, who has
me, and he shall sit on my throne? Why then redeemed my soul out of all adversity, 1:30 most
does Adonijah reign?’ 1:14 Behold, while you certainly as I swore to you by the LORD, the
yet talk there with the king, I also will come in God of Israel, saying, ‘Assuredly Solomon your
after you, and confirm your words.” son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my
a 1:17 “LORD” or “GOD” (all capital letters) indicate the 4-letter Holy Name of God
b 1:17 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “Elohim.”
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throne in my place;’ most certainly so will I do son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the
this day.” Pelethites; and they have caused him to ride
1:31
Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to on the king’s mule. 1:45 Zadok the priest and
the earth, and showed respect to the king, and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king
said, “Let my lord king David live forever!” in Gihon. They have come up from there
1:32 rejoicing, so that the city rang again. This is the
King David said, “Call to me Zadok the
priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the noise that you have heard. 1:46 Also, Solomon
son of Jehoiada.” They came before the king. sits on the throne of the kingdom. 1:47 Moreover
1:33 the king’s servants came to bless our lord king
The king said to them, “Take with you the
servants of your lord, and cause Solomon my David, saying, ‘May your God make the name
son to ride on my own mule, and bring him of Solomon better than your name, and make
down to Gihon. 1:34 Let Zadok the priest and his throne greater than your throne;’ and the
Nathan the prophet anoint him there king over king bowed himself on the bed. 1:48 Also thus
Israel. Blow the shofarc , and say, ‘Long live said the king, ‘Blessed be the LORD, the God of
king Solomon!’ 1:35 Then you shall come up Israel, who has given one to sit on my throne
after him, and he shall come and sit on my this day, my eyes even seeing it.’”
1:49
throne; for he shall be king in my place. I have All the guests of Adonijah were afraid,
appointed him to be prince over Israel and over and rose up, and each man went his way.
1:50
Judah.” Adonijah feared because of Solomon; and
1:36 he arose, and went, and caught hold on the
Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered
the king, and said, “Amen. May the LORD, horns of the altar. 1:51 It was told Solomon,
the God of my lord the king, say so. 1:37 As the saying, “Behold, Adonijah fears king Solomon;
LORD has been with my lord the king, even so for, behold, he has laid hold on the horns of the
may he be with Solomon, and make his throne altar, saying, ‘Let king Solomon swear to me
greater than the throne of my lord king David.” first that he will not kill his servant with the
1:38 sword.’”
So Zadok the priest, and Nathan the
1:52
prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and Solomon said, “If he shows himself a
the Cherethites and the Pelethites, went down, worthy man, not a hair of him shall fall to the
and caused Solomon to ride on king David’s earth; but if wickedness be found in him, he
mule, and brought him to Gihon. 1:39 Zadok the shall die.”
priest took the horn of oil out of the Tent, and 1:53
So king Solomon sent, and they brought
anointed Solomon. They blew the shofard ; and him down from the altar. He came and bowed
all the people said, “Long live king Solomon!” down to king Solomon; and Solomon said to
1:40
All the people came up after him, and him, “Go to your house.”
the people piped with pipes, and rejoiced with 2:1
Now the days of David drew near that
great joy, so that the earth shook with their he should die; and he commanded Solomon
sound. 1:41 Adonijah and all the guests who his son, saying, 2:2 “I am going the way of all
were with him heard it as they had made an the earth. You be strong therefore, and show
end of eating. When Joab heard the sound of yourself a man; 2:3 and keep the instruction
the shofare , he said, “Why is this noise of the of the LORD your God, to walk in his ways,
city being in an uproar?” to keep his statutes, his commandments, his
1:42
While he yet spoke, behold, Jonathan the ordinances, and his testimonies, according to
son of Abiathar the priest came: and Adonijah that which is written in the Torah of Moses,
said, “Come in; for you are a worthy man, and that you may prosper in all that you do,
bring good news.” and wherever you turn yourself. 2:4 That the
1:43
Jonathan answered Adonijah, “Most cer- LORD may establish his word which he spoke
tainly our lord king David has made Solomon concerning me, saying, ‘If your children take
king. 1:44 The king has sent with him Zadok heed to their way, to walk before me in truth
the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah the with all their heart and with all their soul, there
c 1:34 or, trumpet
d 1:39 or, trumpet
e 1:41 or, trumpet
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shall not fail you,’ he said, ‘a man on the throne Shunammite as wife.”
2:18
of Israel.’ Bathsheba said, “Alright. I will speak for
2:5
“Moreover you know also what Joab the you to the king.”
2:19
son of Zeruiah did to me, even what he did Bathsheba therefore went to king
to the two captains of the armies of Israel, to Solomon, to speak to him for Adonijah. The
Abner the son of Ner, and to Amasa the son of king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself to
Jether, whom he killed, and shed the blood of her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a
war in peace, and put the blood of war on his throne to be set for the king’s mother; and she
sash that was about his waist, and in his shoes sat on his right hand. 2:20 Then she said, “I ask
that were on his feet. 2:6 Do therefore according one small petition of you; don’t deny me.”
to your wisdom, and don’t let his gray head go The king said to her, “Ask on, my mother;
down to Sheolf in peace. 2:7 But show kindness for I will not deny you.”
to the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let 2:21
She said, “Let Abishag the Shunammite
them be of those who eat at your table; for so be given to Adonijah your brother as wife.”
they came to me when I fled from Absalom 2:22
King Solomon answered his mother,
your brother. “Why do you ask Abishag the Shunammite for
2:8
“Behold, there is with you Shimei the Adonijah? Ask for him the kingdom also; for
son of Gera, the Benjamite, of Bahurim, who he is my elder brother; even for him, and for
cursed me with a grievous curse in the day Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of
when I went to Mahanaim; but he came down Zeruiah.” 2:23 Then king Solomon swore by the
to meet me at the Jordan, and I swore to LORD, saying, “God do so to me, and more
him by the LORD, saying, ‘I will not put you also, if Adonijah has not spoken this word
to death with the sword.’ 2:9 Now therefore against his own life. 2:24 Now therefore as the
don’t hold him guiltless, for you are a wise LORD lives, who has established me, and set
man; and you will know what you ought to me on the throne of David my father, and who
do to him, and you shall bring his gray head has made me a house, as he promised, surely
down to Sheolg with blood.” 2:10 David slept Adonijah shall be put to death this day.”
with his fathers, and was buried in the city of 2:25
King Solomon sent by Benaiah the son of
David. 2:11 The days that David reigned over Jehoiada; and he fell on him, so that he died.
Israel were forty years; he reigned seven years 2:26
To Abiathar the priest the king said, “Go
in Hebron, and he reigned thirty-three years to Anathoth, to your own fields; for you are
in Jerusalem. 2:12 Solomon sat on the throne worthy of death. But I will not at this time put
of David his father; and his kingdom was you to death, because you bore the ark of the
firmly established. 2:13 Then Adonijah the son Lordh the LORD before David my father, and
of Haggith came to Bathsheba the mother of because you were afflicted in all in which my
Solomon. She said, “Do you come peaceably?” father was afflicted.” 2:27 So Solomon thrust out
He said, “Peaceably. 2:14 He said moreover, I Abiathar from being priest to the LORD, that
have something to tell you.” he might fulfill the word of the LORD, which
She said, “Say on.” he spoke concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.
2:15 2:28
He said, “You know that the kingdom The news came to Joab; for Joab had
was mine, and that all Israel set their faces turned after Adonijah, though he didn’t turn
on me, that I should reign. However the after Absalom. Joab fled to the Tent of the
kingdom is turned around, and has become LORD, and caught hold on the horns of the
my brother’s; for it was his from the LORD. altar. 2:29 It was told king Solomon, “Joab has
2:16
Now I ask one petition of you. Don’t deny fled to the Tent of the LORD, and behold, he is
me.” by the altar.” Then Solomon sent Benaiah the
She said to him, “Say on.” 2:17 He said, son of Jehoiada, saying, “Go, fall on him.”
2:30
“Please speak to Solomon the king (for he will Benaiah came to the Tent of the LORD,
not tell you ‘no’), that he give me Abishag the and said to him, “Thus says the king, ‘Come
f 2:6Sheol is the place of the dead.
g 2:9 Sheol is the place of the dead.
h 2:26 The word translated “Lord” (mixed case) is “Adonai.”
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forth!’” where, you shall surely die?’ You said to me,


He said, “No; but I will die here.” ‘The saying that I have heard is good.’ 2:43 Why
Benaiah brought the king word again, say- then have you not kept the oath of the LORD,
ing, “Thus said Joab, and thus he answered and the commandment that I have instructed
me.” you with?” 2:44 The king said moreover to
2:31 Shimei, “You know all the wickedness which
The king said to him, “Do as he has
said, and fall on him, and bury him; that you your heart is privy to, that you did to David
may take away the blood, which Joab shed my father. Therefore the LORD shall return
without cause, from me and from my father’s your wickedness on your own head. 2:45 But
house. 2:32 The LORD will return his blood on king Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne
his own head, because he fell on two men more of David shall be established before the LORD
righteous and better than he, and killed them forever.” 2:46 So the king commanded Benaiah
with the sword, and my father David didn’t the son of Jehoiada; and he went out, and fell
know it: Abner the son of Ner, captain of the on him, so that he died. The kingdom was
army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, established in the hand of Solomon.
3:1
captain of the army of Judah. 2:33 So shall their Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king
blood return on the head of Joab, and on the of Egypt, and took Pharaoh’s daughter, and
head of his seed forever. But to David, and to brought her into the city of David, until he
his seed, and to his house, and to his throne, had made an end of building his own house,
there shall be peace forever from the LORD.” and the house of the LORD, and the wall
2:34
Then Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went of Jerusalem all around. 3:2 Only the people
up, and fell on him, and killed him; and he sacrificed in the high places, because there
was buried in his own house in the wilder- was no house built for the name of the LORD
ness. 2:35 The king put Benaiah the son of until those days. 3:3 Solomon loved the LORD,
Jehoiada in his place over the army; and the walking in the statutes of David his father:
king put Zadok the priest in the place of Abi- only he sacrificed and burnt incense in the
athar. 2:36 The king sent and called for Shimei, high places. 3:4 The king went to Gibeon to
and said to him, “Build yourself a house in sacrifice there; for that was the great high place.
Jerusalem, and dwell there, and don’t go out Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on
from there anywhere. 2:37 For on the day you that altar. 3:5 In Gibeon the LORD appeared to
go out, and pass over the brook Kidron, know Solomon in a dream by night; and God said,
for certain that you shall surely die: your blood “Ask what I shall give you.”
shall be on your own head.” 3:6
Solomon said, “You have shown to your
2:38
Shimei said to the king, “The saying is servant David my father great loving kindness,
good. As my lord the king has said, so will your according as he walked before you in truth, and
servant do.” Shimei lived in Jerusalem many in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart
days. with you. You have kept for him this great
2:39
It happened at the end of three years, loving kindness, that you have given him a son
that two of the servants of Shimei ran away to to sit on his throne, as it is this day. 3:7 Now,
Achish, son of Maacah, king of Gath. They told LORD my God, you have made your servant
Shimei, saying, “Behold, your servants are in king instead of David my father. I am but a
Gath.” little child. I don’t know how to go out or
2:40
Shimei arose, and saddled his donkey, come in. 3:8 Your servant is in the midst of
and went to Gath to Achish, to seek his your people which you have chosen, a great
servants; and Shimei went, and brought his people, that can’t be numbered nor counted for
servants from Gath. 2:41 It was told Solomon multitude. 3:9 Give your servant therefore an
that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, understanding heart to judge your people, that
and had come again. I may discern between good and evil; for who
2:42 is able to judge this your great people?”
The king sent and called for Shimei, and
3:10
said to him, “Didn’t I adjure you by the LORD, The speech pleased the Lord, that
and warn you, saying, ‘Know for certain, that Solomon had asked this thing. 3:11 God said
on the day you go out, and walk abroad any to him, “Because you have asked this thing,
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and have not asked for yourself long life, over her son, and she said, “Oh, my lord, give
neither have asked riches for yourself, nor her the living child, and in no way kill it!”
have asked the life of your enemies, but have But the other said, “It shall be neither mine
asked for yourself understanding to discern nor yours. Divide it.”
justice; 3:12 behold, I have done according to 3:27
Then the king answered, “Give her the
your word. Behold, I have given you a wise living child, and in no way kill it. She is its
and an understanding heart; so that there has mother.”
been none like you before you, neither after you 3:28
All Israel heard of the judgment which
shall any arise like you. 3:13 I have also given
the king had judged; and they feared the king:
you that which you have not asked, both riches
for they saw that the wisdom of God was in
and honor, so that there shall not be any among
him, to do justice.
the kings like you, all your days. 3:14 If you will 4:1
walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my King Solomon was king over all Is-
commandments, as your father David walked, rael. 4:2 These were the princes whom he
then I will lengthen your days.” had: Azariah the son of Zadok, the priest;
4:3
3:15 Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha,
Solomon awoke; and behold, it was a
scribes; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, the
dream. Then he came to Jerusalem, and stood
recorder; 4:4 and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada
before the ark of the covenant of the LORD,
was over the army; and Zadok and Abiathar
and offered up burnt offerings, offered peace
were priests; 4:5 and Azariah the son of Nathan
offerings, and made a feast to all his servants.
3:16 was over the officers; and Zabud the son of
Then two women who were prostitutes
Nathan was chief minister, the king’s friend;
came to the king, and stood before him. 3:17 The 4:6
and Ahishar was over the household; and
one woman said, “Oh, my lord, I and this
Adoniram the son of Abda was over the men
woman dwell in one house. I delivered a child
subject to forced labor. 4:7 Solomon had twelve
with her in the house. 3:18 It happened the
officers over all Israel, who provided food for
third day after I delivered, that this woman
the king and his household: each man had
delivered also. We were together. There was
to make provision for a month in the year.
no stranger with us in the house, just us two 4:8
These are their names: Ben Hur, in the hill
in the house. 3:19 This woman’s child died in
country of Ephraim; 4:9 Ben Deker, in Makaz,
the night, because she lay on it. 3:20 She arose
and in Shaalbim, and Beth Shemesh, and Elon
at midnight, and took my son from beside me,
Beth Hanan; 4:10 Ben Hesed, in Arubboth (to
while your handmaid slept, and laid it in her
him belonged Socoh, and all the land of Hep-
bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.
3:21 her); 4:11 Ben Abinadab, in all the height of Dor
When I rose in the morning to nurse my
(he had Taphath the daughter of Solomon as
child, behold, it was dead; but when I had
wife); 4:12 Baana the son of Ahilud, in Taanach
looked at it in the morning, behold, it was not
and Megiddo, and all Beth Shean which is
my son, whom I bore.”
3:22
beside Zarethan, beneath Jezreel, from Beth
The other woman said, “No; but the Shean to Abel Meholah, as far as beyond Jok-
living is my son, and the dead is your son.” meam; 4:13 Ben Geber, in Ramoth Gilead (to him
This said, “No; but the dead is your son, and belonged the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh,
the living is my son.” Thus they spoke before which are in Gilead; to him belonged the region
the king. of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities
3:23
Then the king said, “The one says, ‘This with walls and bronze bars); 4:14 Ahinadab the
is my son who lives, and your son is the dead;’ son of Iddo, in Mahanaim; 4:15 Ahimaaz, in
and the other says, ‘No; but your son is the Naphtali (he also took Basemath the daughter
dead one, and my son is the living one.’” of Solomon as wife); 4:16 Baana the son of
3:24
The king said, “Get me a sword.” They Hushai, in Asher and Bealoth; 4:17 Jehoshaphat
brought a sword before the king. 3:25 The king the son of Paruah, in Issachar; 4:18 Shimei the
said, “Divide the living child in two, and give son of Ela, in Benjamin; 4:19 Geber the son of
half to the one, and half to the other.” Uri, in the land of Gilead, the country of Sihon
3:26
Then the woman whose the living child king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan;
was spoke to the king, for her heart yearned and he was the only officer who was in the
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land. 4:20 Judah and Israel were many as the were about him on every side, until the LORD
sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating put them under the soles of his feet. 5:4 But
and drinking and making merry. 4:21 Solomon now the LORD my God has given me rest on
ruled over all the kingdoms from the River to every side. There is neither adversary, nor evil
the land of the Philistines, and to the border occurrence. 5:5 Behold, I purpose to build a
of Egypt: they brought tribute, and served house for the name of the LORD my God, as
Solomon all the days of his life. 4:22 Solomon’s the LORD spoke to David my father, saying,
provision for one day was thirty measures of ‘Your son, whom I will set on your throne in
fine flour, and sixty measures of meal, 4:23 ten your place, he shall build the house for my
head of fat cattle, and twenty head of cattle name.’ 5:6 Now therefore command that they
out of the pastures, and one hundred sheep, cut me cedar trees out of Lebanon. My servants
besides harts, and gazelles, and roebucks, and shall be with your servants; and I will give you
fattened fowl. 4:24 For he had dominion over wages for your servants according to all that
all on this side the River, from Tiphsah even you shall say. For you know that there is not
to Gaza, over all the kings on this side the among us any who knows how to cut timber
River: and he had peace on all sides around like the Sidonians.”
him. 4:25 Judah and Israel lived safely, every 5:7
It happened, when Hiram heard the
man under his vine and under his fig tree, from words of Solomon, that he rejoiced greatly,
Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon. and said, “Blessed is the LORD this day, who
4:26
Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses has given to David a wise son over this great
for his chariots, and twelve thousand horse- people.” 5:8 Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, “I
men. 4:27 Those officers provided food for have heard the message which you have sent to
king Solomon, and for all who came to king me. I will do all your desire concerning timber
Solomon’s table, every man in his month; they of cedar, and concerning timber of fir. 5:9 My
let nothing be lacking. 4:28 Barley also and straw servants shall bring them down from Lebanon
for the horses and swift steeds brought they to to the sea. I will make them into rafts to go
the place where the officers were, every man by sea to the place that you shall appoint me,
according to his duty. 4:29 God gave Solomon and will cause them to be broken up there, and
wisdom and understanding exceeding much, you shall receive them. You shall accomplish
and very great understanding, even as the sand my desire, in giving food for my household.”
that is on the seashore. 4:30 Solomon’s wisdom 5:10
excelled the wisdom of all the children of the So Hiram gave Solomon timber of cedar
east, and all the wisdom of Egypt. 4:31 For and timber of fir according to all his de-
he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the sire. 5:11 Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand
Ezrahite, and Heman, and Calcol, and Darda, measures of wheat for food to his household,
the sons of Mahol: and his fame was in all and twenty measures of pure oil. Solomon gave
the nations all around. 4:32 He spoke three this to Hiram year by year. 5:12 The LORD gave
thousand proverbs; and his songs were one Solomon wisdom, as he promised him; and
thousand five. 4:33 He spoke of trees, from the there was peace between Hiram and Solomon;
cedar that is in Lebanon even to the hyssop and they two made a treaty together. 5:13 King
that springs out of the wall; he spoke also of Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and
animals, and of birds, and of creeping things, the levy was thirty thousand men. 5:14 He sent
and of fish. 4:34 There came of all peoples to them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by
hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all kings of courses; a month they were in Lebanon, and
the earth, who had heard of his wisdom. two months at home; and Adoniram was over
the men subject to forced labor. 5:15 Solomon
5:1
Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to had seventy thousand who bore burdens, and
Solomon; for he had heard that they had eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the
anointed him king in the place of his father: for mountains; 5:16 besides Solomon’s chief officers
Hiram was ever a lover of David. 5:2 Solomon who were over the work, three thousand and
sent to Hiram, saying, 5:3 “You know how that three hundred, who bore rule over the peo-
David my father could not build a house for the ple who labored in the work. 5:17 The king
name of the LORD his God for the wars which commanded, and they cut out great stones,
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costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house house to the walls of the ceiling, he covered
with worked stone. 5:18 Solomon’s builders and them on the inside with wood; and he covered
Hiram’s builders and the Gebalites cut them, the floor of the house with boards of fir. 6:16 He
and prepared the timber and the stones to build built twenty cubits on the hinder part of the
the house. house with boards of cedar from the floor to the
6:1 ceiling: he built them for it within, for an oracle,
It happened in the four hundred and
eightieth year after the children of Israel had even for the most holy place. 6:17 In front of the
come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year temple sanctuary was forty cubits. 6:18 There
of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month was cedar on the house within, carved with
Ziv, which is the second month, that he began buds and open flowers: all was cedar; there
to build the house of the LORD. 6:2 The house was no stone seen. 6:19 He prepared an oracle
which king Solomon built for the LORD, its in the midst of the house within, to set there
length was sixty cubits, and its breadth twenty, the ark of the covenant of the LORD. 6:20 Within
and its height thirty cubits. 6:3 The porch before the oracle was twenty cubits in length, and
the temple of the house, twenty cubits was its twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in
length, according to the breadth of the house. its height; and he overlaid it with pure gold:
Ten cubits was its breadth before the house. and he covered the altar with cedar. 6:21 So
6:4 Solomon overlaid the house within with pure
For the house he made windows of fixed
lattice work. 6:5 Against the wall of the house gold: and he drew chains of gold across before
he built stories all around, against the walls of the oracle; and he overlaid it with gold. 6:22 The
the house all around, both of the temple and of whole house he overlaid with gold, until all the
the oracle; and he made side rooms all around. house was finished: also the whole altar that
6:6 belonged to the oracle he overlaid with gold.
The nethermost story was five cubits broad,
6:23
and the middle was six cubits broad, and the In the oracle he made two cherubim of olive
third was seven cubits broad; for on the outside wood, each ten cubits high. 6:24 Five cubits was
he made offsets in the wall of the house all the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the
around, that the beams should not have hold other wing of the cherub: from the uttermost
in the walls of the house. 6:7 The house, when part of the one wing to the uttermost part of
it was in building, was built of stone prepared the other were ten cubits. 6:25 The other cherub
at the quarry; and there was neither hammer was ten cubits: both the cherubim were of one
nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, measure and one form. 6:26 The height of the
while it was in building. 6:8 The door for the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the
middle side rooms was in the right side of the other cherub. 6:27 He set the cherubim within
house: and they went up by winding stairs into the inner house; and the wings of the cherubim
the middle story, and out of the middle into the were stretched forth, so that the wing of the one
third. 6:9 So he built the house, and finished touched the one wall, and the wing of the other
it; and he covered the house with beams and cherub touched the other wall; and their wings
planks of cedar. 6:10 He built the stories against touched one another in the midst of the house.
6:28
all the house, each five cubits high: and they He overlaid the cherubim with gold. 6:29 He
rested on the house with timber of cedar. carved all the walls of the house around with
6:11 carved figures of cherubim and palm trees and
The word of the LORD came to Solomon,
open flowers, inside and outside. 6:30 The floor
saying, 6:12 “Concerning this house which you
of the house he overlaid with gold, inside and
are building, if you will walk in my statutes,
outside. 6:31 For the entrance of the oracle he
and execute my ordinances, and keep all my
made doors of olive wood: the lintel and door
commandments to walk in them; then will I
posts were a fifth part of the wall. 6:32 So he
establish my word with you, which I spoke
made two doors of olive wood; and he carved
to David your father. 6:13 I will dwell among
on them carvings of cherubim and palm trees
the children of Israel, and will not forsake my
and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold;
people Israel.”
6:14
and he spread the gold on the cherubim, and
So Solomon built the house, and finished on the palm trees. 6:33 So also made he for
it. 6:15 He built the walls of the house within the entrance of the temple door posts of olive
with boards of cedar: from the floor of the
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wood, out of a fourth part of the wall; 6:34 and son of a widow of the tribe of Naphtali, and his
two doors of fir wood: the two leaves of the father was a man of Tyre, a worker in brass; and
one door were folding, and the two leaves of he was filled with wisdom and understanding
the other door were folding. 6:35 He carved and skill, to work all works in brass. He came
cherubim and palm trees and open flowers; to king Solomon, and performed all his work.
7:15
and he overlaid them with gold fitted on the For he fashioned the two pillars of brass,
engraved work. 6:36 He built the inner court eighteen cubits high apiece: and a line of twelve
with three courses of cut stone, and a course cubits encircled either of them about. 7:16 He
of cedar beams. 6:37 In the fourth year was the made two capitals of molten brass, to set on
foundation of the house of the LORD laid, in the tops of the pillars: the height of the one
the month Ziv. 6:38 In the eleventh year, in the capital was five cubits, and the height of the
month Bul, which is the eighth month, was other capital was five cubits. 7:17 There were
the house finished throughout all its parts, and nets of checker work, and wreaths of chain
according to all its fashion. So was he seven work, for the capitals which were on the top of
years in building it. the pillars; seven for the one capital, and seven
7:1
for the other capital. 7:18 So he made the pillars;
Solomon was building his own house thir- and there were two rows around on the one
teen years, and he finished all his house. 7:2 For network, to cover the capitals that were on the
he built the house of the forest of Lebanon; its top of the pillars: and he did so for the other
length was one hundred cubits, and its breadth capital. 7:19 The capitals that were on the top
fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits, on four of the pillars in the porch were of lily work,
rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams on the four cubits. 7:20 There were capitals above also
pillars. 7:3 It was covered with cedar above over on the two pillars, close by the belly which
the forty-five beams, that were on the pillars; was beside the network: and the pomegranates
fifteen in a row. 7:4 There were beams in three were two hundred, in rows around on the other
rows, and window was over against window capital. 7:21 He set up the pillars at the porch of
in three ranks. 7:5 All the doors and posts were the temple: and he set up the right pillar, and
made square with beams: and window was called its name Jachin; and he set up the left
over against window in three ranks. 7:6 He pillar, and called its name Boaz. 7:22 On the top
made the porch of pillars; its length was fifty of the pillars was lily work: so was the work
cubits, and its breadth thirty cubits; and a of the pillars finished. 7:23 He made the molten
porch before them; and pillars and a threshold sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in
before them. 7:7 He made the porch of the compass, and its height was five cubits; and a
throne where he was to judge, even the porch line of thirty cubits encircled it. 7:24 Under its
of judgment: and it was covered with cedar brim around there were buds which encircled
from floor to floor. 7:8 His house where he was it, for ten cubits, encircling the sea: the buds
to dwell, the other court within the porch, was were in two rows, cast when it was cast. 7:25 It
of the like work. He made also a house for stood on twelve oxen, three looking toward
Pharaoh’s daughter (whom Solomon had taken the north, and three looking toward the west,
as wife), like this porch. 7:9 All these were of and three looking toward the south, and three
costly stones, even of cut stone, according to looking toward the east; and the sea was set
measure, sawed with saws, inside and outside, on them above, and all their hinder parts were
even from the foundation to the coping, and inward. 7:26 It was a handbreadth thick: and
so on the outside to the great court. 7:10 The its brim was worked like the brim of a cup,
foundation was of costly stones, even great like the flower of a lily: it held two thousand
stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight baths. 7:27 He made the ten bases of brass; four
cubits. 7:11 Above were costly stones, even cut cubits was the length of one base, and four
stone, according to measure, and cedar wood. cubits its breadth, and three cubits its height.
7:12
The great court around had three courses of 7:28
The work of the bases was like this: they
cut stone, and a course of cedar beams; like as had panels; and there were panels between the
the inner court of the house of the LORD, and ledges; 7:29 and on the panels that were between
the porch of the house. 7:13 King Solomon sent the ledges were lions, oxen, and cherubim; and
and fetched Hiram out of Tyre. 7:14 He was the
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on the ledges there was a pedestal above; and the plain of the Jordan, in the clay ground
beneath the lions and oxen were wreaths of between Succoth and Zarethan. 7:47 Solomon
hanging work. 7:30 Every base had four bronze left all the vessels unweighed, because they
wheels, and axles of brass; and the four feet of it were exceeding many: the weight of the brass
had supports: beneath the basin were the sup- could not be found out. 7:48 Solomon made all
ports molten, with wreaths at the side of each. the vessels that were in the house of the LORD:
7:31
The mouth of it within the capital and above the golden altar, and the table whereupon the
was a cubit: and its mouth was round after show bread was, of gold; 7:49 and the menorahs,
the work of a pedestal, a cubit and a half; and five on the right side, and five on the left, before
also on its mouth were engravings, and their the oracle, of pure gold; and the flowers, and
panels were foursquare, not round. 7:32 The the lamps, and the tongs, of gold; 7:50 and the
four wheels were underneath the panels; and cups, and the snuffers, and the basins, and
the axles of the wheels were in the base: and the spoons, and the fire pans, of pure gold;
the height of a wheel was a cubit and half a and the hinges, both for the doors of the inner
cubit. 7:33 The work of the wheels was like the house, the most holy place, and for the doors
work of a chariot wheel: their axles, and their of the house, of the temple, of gold. 7:51 Thus
rims, and their spokes, and their naves, were all the work that king Solomon worked in the
all molten. 7:34 There were four supports at the house of the LORD was finished. Solomon
four corners of each base: its supports were of brought in the things which David his father
the base itself. 7:35 In the top of the base was had dedicated, the silver, and the gold, and the
there a round compass half a cubit high; and on vessels, and put them in the treasuries of the
the top of the base its stays and its panels were house of the LORD.
of the same. 7:36 On the plates of its stays, and 8:1
on its panels, he engraved cherubim, lions, and Then Solomon assembled the elders of
palm trees, according to the space of each, with Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the princes
wreaths all around. 7:37 In this way, he made of the fathers’ households of the children of
the ten bases: all of them had one casting, one Israel, to king Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring
measure, and one form. 7:38 He made ten basins up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out
of brass: one basin contained forty baths; and of the city of David, which is Zion. 8:2 All the
every basin was four cubits; and on every one men of Israel assembled themselves to king
of the ten bases one basin. 7:39 He set the bases, Solomon at the feast, in the month Ethanim,
five on the right side of the house, and five on which is the seventh month. 8:3 All the elders
the left side of the house: and he set the sea of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark.
8:4
on the right side of the house eastward, toward They brought up the ark of the LORD, and
the south. 7:40 Hiram made the basins, and the the Tent of Meeting, and all the holy vessels
shovels, and the basins. So Hiram made an that were in the Tent; even these the priests
end of doing all the work that he worked for and the Levites brought up. 8:5 King Solomon
king Solomon in the house of the LORD: 7:41 the and all the congregation of Israel, who were
two pillars, and the two bowls of the capitals assembled to him, were with him before the
that were on the top of the pillars; and the two ark, sacrificing sheep and cattle, that could not
networks to cover the two bowls of the capitals be counted nor numbered for multitude. 8:6 The
that were on the top of the pillars; 7:42 and priests brought in the ark of the covenant of
the four hundred pomegranates for the two the LORD to its place, into the oracle of the
networks; two rows of pomegranates for each house, to the most holy place, even under the
network, to cover the two bowls of the capitals wings of the cherubim. 8:7 For the cherubim
that were on the pillars; 7:43 and the ten bases, spread forth their wings over the place of the
and the ten basins on the bases; 7:44 and the one ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and its
sea, and the twelve oxen under the sea; 7:45 and poles above. 8:8 The poles were so long that
the pots, and the shovels, and the basins: even the ends of the poles were seen from the holy
all these vessels, which Hiram made for king place before the oracle; but they were not seen
Solomon, in the house of the LORD, were of outside: and there they are to this day. 8:9 There
burnished brass. 7:46 The king cast them in was nothing in the ark except the two tables of
stone which Moses put there at Horeb, when
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the LORD made a covenant with the children of servant David my father that which you have
Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt. promised him, saying, ‘There shall not fail you
8:10
It came to pass, when the priests had come a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel,
out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the if only your children take heed to their way, to
house of the LORD, 8:11 so that the priests could walk before me as you have walked before me.’
not stand to minister by reason of the cloud; for 8:26
“Now therefore, God of Israel, please
the glory of the LORD filled the house of the let your word be verified, which you spoke
LORD. 8:12 Then Solomon said, “The LORD has to your servant David my father. 8:27 But will
said that he would dwell in the thick darkness. God in very deed dwell on the earth? Behold,
8:13
I have surely built you a house of habitation, heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain
a place for you to dwell in forever.” you; how much less this house that I have
8:14
The king turned his face about, and built! 8:28 Yet have respect for the prayer of your
blessed all the assembly of Israel: and all the servant, and for his supplication, LORD my
assembly of Israel stood. 8:15 He said, “Blessed God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which
is the LORD, the God of Israel, who spoke with your servant prays before you this day; 8:29 that
his mouth to David your father, and has with your eyes may be open toward this house night
his hand fulfilled it, saying, 8:16 ‘Since the day and day, even toward the place of which you
that I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, have said, ‘My name shall be there;’ to listen
I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to to the prayer which your servant shall pray
build a house, that my name might be there; but toward this place. 8:30 Listen to the supplication
I chose David to be over my people Israel.’ of your servant, and of your people Israel,
8:17
“Now it was in the heart of David my when they shall pray toward this place. Yes,
father to build a house for the name of the hear in heaven, your dwelling place; and when
LORD, the God of Israel. 8:18 But the LORD said you hear, forgive.
8:31
to David my father, ‘Whereas it was in your “If a man sins against his neighbor, and
heart to build a house for my name, you did an oath is laid on him to cause him to swear,
well that it was in your heart. 8:19 Nevertheless, and he comes and swear before your altar
you shall not build the house; but your son in this house; 8:32 then hear in heaven, and
who shall come forth out of your body, he shall do, and judge your servants, condemning the
build the house for my name.’ 8:20 The LORD wicked, to bring his way on his own head, and
has established his word that he spoke; for I justifying the righteous, to give him according
have risen up in the place of David my father, to his righteousness.
8:33
and I sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD “When your people Israel are struck
promised, and have built the house for the down before the enemy, because they have
name of the LORD, the God of Israel. 8:21 There sinned against you; if they turn again to you,
I have set a place for the ark, in which is the and confess your name, and pray and make
covenant of the LORD, which he made with our supplication to you in this house: 8:34 then hear
fathers, when he brought them out of the land in heaven, and forgive the sin of your people
of Egypt.” Israel, and bring them again to the land which
8:22 you gave to their fathers.
Solomon stood before the altar of the
8:35
LORD in the presence of all the assembly “When the sky is shut up, and there is no
of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward rain, because they have sinned against you; if
heaven; 8:23 and he said, “LORD, the God of they pray toward this place, and confess your
Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven name, and turn from their sin, when you afflict
above, or on earth beneath; who keep covenant them: 8:36 then hear in heaven, and forgive the
and loving kindness with your servants, who sin of your servants, and of your people Israel,
walk before you with all their heart; 8:24 who when you teach them the good way in which
have kept with your servant David my father they should walk; and send rain on your land,
that which you promised him. Yes, you spoke which you have given to your people for an
with your mouth, and have fulfilled it with inheritance.
your hand, as it is this day. 8:25 Now therefore, 8:37
“If there is famine in the land, if there
may LORD, the God of Israel, keep with your is pestilence, if there is blight, mildew, locust
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or caterpillar; if their enemy besieges them against you, and all their transgressions in
in the land of their cities; whatever plague, which they have transgressed against you; and
whatever sickness there is; 8:38 whatever prayer give them compassion before those who carried
and supplication is made by any man, or by them captive, that they may have compassion
all your people Israel, who shall each know on them 8:51 (for they are your people, and your
the plague of his own heart, and spread forth inheritance, which you brought out of Egypt,
his hands toward this house: 8:39 then hear in from the midst of the furnace of iron); 8:52 that
heaven, your dwelling place, and forgive, and your eyes may be open to the supplication
do, and render to every man according to all of your servant, and to the supplication of
his ways, whose heart you know; (for you, even your people Israel, to listen to them whenever
you only, know the hearts of all the children of they cry to you. 8:53 For you separated them
men;) 8:40 that they may fear you all the days from among all the peoples of the earth, to be
that they live in the land which you gave to our your inheritance, as you spoke by Moses your
fathers. servant, when you brought our fathers out of
8:41
“Moreover concerning the foreigner, Egypt, Lord GOD.”
8:54
who is not of your people Israel, when he shall It was so, that when Solomon had made
come out of a far country for your name’s sake an end of praying all this prayer and supplica-
8:42 tion to the LORD, he arose from before the altar
(for they shall hear of your great name, and
of your mighty hand, and of your outstretched of the LORD, from kneeling on his knees with
arm); when he shall come and pray toward this his hands spread forth toward heaven. 8:55 He
house; 8:43 hear in heaven, your dwelling place, stood, and blessed all the assembly of Israel
and do according to all that the foreigner calls with a loud voice, saying, 8:56 “Blessed be the
to you for; that all the peoples of the earth may LORD, who has given rest to his people Israel,
know your name, to fear you, as do your people according to all that he promised. There has not
Israel, and that they may know that this house failed one word of all his good promise, which
which I have built is called by your name. he promised by Moses his servant. 8:57 May
8:44 the LORD our God be with us, as he was
“If your people go out to battle against
with our fathers. Let him not leave us, nor
their enemy, by whatever way you shall send
forsake us; 8:58 that he may incline our hearts
them, and they pray to the LORD toward
to him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep
the city which you have chosen, and toward
his commandments, and his statutes, and his
the house which I have built for your name;
8:45 ordinances, which he commanded our fathers.
then hear in heaven their prayer and their 8:59
Let these my words, with which I have
supplication, and maintain their cause. 8:46 If
made supplication before the LORD, be near to
they sin against you (for there is no man who
the LORD our God day and night, that he may
doesn’t sin), and you are angry with them, and
maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause
deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry
of his people Israel, as every day shall require;
them away captive to the land of the enemy, 8:60
that all the peoples of the earth may know
far off or near; 8:47 yet if they shall repent in
that the LORD, he is God. There is none else.
the land where they are carried captive, and
8:61
turn again, and make supplication to you in the “Let your heart therefore be perfect with
land of those who carried them captive, saying, the LORD our God, to walk in his statutes, and
‘We have sinned, and have done perversely; to keep his commandments, as at this day.”
we have dealt wickedly;’ 8:48 if they return 8:62
The king, and all Israel with him, offered
to you with all their heart and with all their sacrifice before the LORD. 8:63 Solomon offered
soul in the land of their enemies, who carried for the sacrifice of peace offerings, which he
them captive, and pray to you toward their offered to the LORD, two and twenty thousand
land, which you gave to their fathers, the head of cattle, and one hundred twenty thou-
city which you have chosen, and the house sand sheep. So the king and all the children
which I have built for your name: 8:49 then hear of Israel dedicated the house of the LORD.
8:64
their prayer and their supplication in heaven, The same day the king made the middle of
your dwelling place, and maintain their cause; the court holy that was before the house of the
8:50
and forgive your people who have sinned LORD; for there he offered the burnt offering,
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9:10
and the meal offering, and the fat of the peace It happened at the end of twenty years,
offerings, because the bronze altar that was in which Solomon had built the two houses,
before the LORD was too little to receive the the house of the LORD and the king’s house
9:11
burnt offering, and the meal offering, and the (now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished
fat of the peace offerings. 8:65 So Solomon held Solomon with cedar trees and fir trees, and with
the feast at that time, and all Israel with him, gold, according to all his desire), that then king
a great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land
to the brook of Egypt, before the LORD our of Galilee. 9:12 Hiram came out from Tyre to
God, seven days and seven days, even fourteen see the cities which Solomon had given him;
days. 8:66 On the eighth day he sent the people and they didn’t please him. 9:13 He said, “What
away; and they blessed the king, and went to cities are these which you have given me, my
their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the brother?” He called them the land of Cabul
goodness that the LORD had shown to David to this day. 9:14 Hiram sent to the king one
his servant, and to Israel his people. hundred twenty talents of gold.
9:1 9:15
It happened, when Solomon had finished This is the reason of the levy which
the building of the house of the LORD, and king Solomon raised, to build the house of the
the king’s house, and all Solomon’s desire LORD, and his own house, and Millo, and the
which he was pleased to do, 9:2 that the LORD wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo,
appeared to Solomon the second time, as he and Gezer. 9:16 Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone
had appeared to him at Gibeon. 9:3 The LORD up, and taken Gezer, and burnt it with fire, and
said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your slain the Canaanites who lived in the city, and
supplication, that you have made before me. given it for a portion to his daughter, Solomon’s
I have made this house holy, which you have wife. 9:17 Solomon built Gezer, and Beth Horon
built, to put my name there forever; and my the lower, 9:18 and Baalath, and Tamar in the
eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually. wilderness, in the land, 9:19 and all the storage
9:4
As for you, if you will walk before me, cities that Solomon had, and the cities for his
as David your father walked, in integrity of chariots, and the cities for his horsemen, and
heart, and in uprightness, to do according that which Solomon desired to build for his
to all that I have commanded you, and will pleasure in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and
keep my statutes and my ordinances; 9:5 then in all the land of his dominion. 9:20 As for
I will establish the throne of your kingdom all the people who were left of the Amorites,
over Israel forever, according as I promised to the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the
David your father, saying, ‘There shall not fail Jebusites, who were not of the children of Israel;
you a man on the throne of Israel.’ 9:6 But if 9:21
their children who were left after them in
you turn away from following me, you or your the land, whom the children of Israel were not
children, and not keep my commandments and able utterly to destroy, of them Solomon raised
my statutes which I have set before you, but a levy of bondservants to this day. 9:22 But of
shall go and serve other gods, and worship the children of Israel Solomon made no bond-
them; 9:7 then will I cut off Israel out of the servants; but they were the men of war, and
land which I have given them; and this house, his servants, and his princes, and his captains,
which I have made holy for my name, will I cast and rulers of his chariots and of his horsemen.
9:23
out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb These were the chief officers who were over
and a byword among all peoples. 9:8 Though Solomon’s work, five hundred fifty, who bore
this house is so high, yet shall everyone who rule over the people who labored in the work.
9:24
passes by it be astonished, and shall hiss; and But Pharaoh’s daughter came up out of the
they shall say, ‘Why has the LORD done thus city of David to her house which Solomon had
to this land, and to this house?’ 9:9 and they built for her: then he built Millo. 9:25 Solomon
shall answer, ‘Because they forsook the LORD offered burnt offerings and peace offerings on
their God, who brought their fathers out of the the altar which he built to the LORD three
land of Egypt, and laid hold of other gods, and times a year, burning incense with them, on the
worshiped them, and served them. Therefore altar that was before the LORD. So he finished
the LORD has brought all this evil on them.’” the house. 9:26 King Solomon made a navy of
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ships in Ezion Geber, which is beside Eloth, desire, whatever she asked, besides that which
on the shore of the Sea of Suf, in the land of Solomon gave her of his royal bounty. So she
Edom. 9:27 Hiram sent in the navy his servants, turned, and went to her own land, she and
sailors who had knowledge of the sea, with the her servants. 10:14 Now the weight of gold that
servants of Solomon. 9:28 They came to Ophir, came to Solomon in one year was six hundred
and fetched from there gold, four hundred and sixty-six talents of gold, 10:15 besides that which
twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon. the traders brought, and the traffic of the mer-
10:1
When the queen of Sheba heard of the chants, and of all the kings of the mixed people,
fame of Solomon concerning the name of the and of the governors of the country. 10:16 King
LORD, she came to prove him with hard Solomon made two hundred bucklers of beaten
questions. 10:2 She came to Jerusalem with a gold; six hundred shekels of gold went to one
very great train, with camels that bore spices, buckler. 10:17 he made three hundred shields of
and very much gold, and precious stones; beaten gold; three minas of gold went to one
and when she had come to Solomon, she shield: and the king put them in the house of
talked with him of all that was in her heart. the forest of Lebanon. 10:18 Moreover the king
10:3
Solomon told her all her questions: there made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it
was not anything hidden from the king which with the finest gold. 10:19 There were six steps
he didn’t tell her. 10:4 When the queen of Sheba to the throne, and the top of the throne was
had seen all the wisdom of Solomon, and the round behind; and there were stays on either
house that he had built, 10:5 and the food of his side by the place of the seat, and two lions
table, and the sitting of his servants, and the standing beside the stays. 10:20 Twelve lions
attendance of his ministers, and their clothing, stood there on the one side and on the other on
and his cup bearers, and his ascent by which the six steps: there was nothing like it made in
he went up to the house of the LORD; there any kingdom. 10:21 All king Solomon’s drinking
was no more spirit in her. 10:6 She said to the vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of
king, “It was a true report that I heard in my the house of the forest of Lebanon were of
own land of your acts, and of your wisdom. pure gold: none were of silver; it was nothing
10:7
However I didn’t believe the words, until I accounted of in the days of Solomon. 10:22 For
came, and my eyes had seen it. Behold, the half the king had at sea a navy of Tarshish with the
was not told me! Your wisdom and prosperity navy of Hiram: once every three years came
exceed the fame which I heard. 10:8 Happy the navy of Tarshish, bringing gold, and silver,
are your men, happy are these your servants, ivory, and apes, and peacocks. 10:23 So king
who stand continually before you, who hear Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth in
your wisdom. 10:9 Blessed is the LORD your riches and in wisdom. 10:24 All the earth sought
God, who delighted in you, to set you on the the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom,
throne of Israel. Because the LORD loved Israel which God had put in his heart. 10:25 They
forever, therefore made he you king, to do brought every man his tribute, vessels of silver,
justice and righteousness.” 10:10 She gave the and vessels of gold, and clothing, and armor,
king one hundred twenty talents of gold, and and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by
of spices very great store, and precious stones. year. 10:26 Solomon gathered together chariots
There came no more such abundance of spices and horsemen: and he had a thousand and
as these which the queen of Sheba gave to king four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand
Solomon. horsemen, that he bestowed in the chariot
10:11
cities, and with the king at Jerusalem. 10:27 The
The navy also of Hiram, that brought king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones,
gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir great and cedars made he to be as the sycamore trees
plenty of almug trees and precious stones. that are in the lowland, for abundance. 10:28 The
10:12
The king made of the almug trees pillars horses which Solomon had were brought out of
for the house of the LORD, and for the king’s Egypt; and the king’s merchants received them
house, harps also and stringed instruments in droves, each drove at a price. 10:29 A chariot
for the singers: there came no such almug came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred
trees, nor were seen, to this day. 10:13 King shekels of silver, and a horse for one hundred
Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her
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fifty; and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and of the army was gone up to bury the slain, and
for the kings of Syria, they brought them out by had struck every male in Edom 11:16 (for Joab
their means. and all Israel remained there six months, until
11:1
Now king Solomon loved many foreign he had cut off every male in Edom); 11:17 that
women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, Hadad fled, he and certain Edomites of his
women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, father’s servants with him, to go into Egypt,
Sidonians, and Hittites; 11:2 of the nations con- Hadad being yet a little child. 11:18 They arose
cerning which the LORD said to the children of out of Midian, and came to Paran; and they
Israel, “You shall not go among them, neither took men with them out of Paran, and they
shall they come among you; for surely they came to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, who
will turn away your heart after their gods.” gave him a house, and appointed him food, and
Solomon joined to these in love. 11:3 He had gave him land. 11:19 Hadad found great favor
seven hundred wives, princesses, and three in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he gave him
hundred concubines; and his wives turned as wife the sister of his own wife, the sister of
away his heart. 11:4 For it happened, when Tahpenes the queen. 11:20 The sister of Tahpenes
Solomon was old, that his wives turned away bore him Genubath his son, whom Tahpenes
his heart after other gods; and his heart was weaned in Pharaoh’s house; and Genubath was
not perfect with the LORD his God, as was in Pharaoh’s house among the sons of Pharaoh.
11:21
the heart of David his father. 11:5 For Solomon When Hadad heard in Egypt that David
went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sido- slept with his fathers, and that Joab the captain
nians, and after Milcom the abomination of of the army was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh,
the Ammonites. 11:6 Solomon did that which “Let me depart, that I may go to my own
was evil in the sight of the LORD, and didn’t country.”
11:22
go fully after the LORD, as did David his Then Pharaoh said to him, “But what
father. 11:7 Then Solomon built a high place have you lacked with me, that behold, you seek
for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, on to go to your own country?”
the mountain that is before Jerusalem, and He answered, “Nothing, however only let
for Molech the abomination of the children me depart.”
of Ammon. 11:8 So he did for all his foreign 11:23
God raised up an adversary to him,
wives, who burnt incense and sacrificed to their Rezon the son of Eliada, who had fled from
gods. 11:9 The LORD was angry with Solomon, his lord Hadadezer king of Zobah. 11:24 He
because his heart was turned away from the gathered men to him, and became captain over
LORD, the God of Israel, who had appeared to a troop, when David killed them of Zobah: and
him twice, 11:10 and had commanded him con- they went to Damascus, and lived therein, and
cerning this thing, that he should not go after reigned in Damascus. 11:25 He was an adver-
other gods: but he didn’t keep that which the sary to Israel all the days of Solomon, besides
LORD commanded. 11:11 Therefore the LORD the mischief of Hadad: and he abhorred Israel,
said to Solomon, “Because this is done by you, and reigned over Syria. 11:26 Jeroboam the son
and you have not kept my covenant and my of Nebat, an Ephraimite of Zeredah, a servant
statutes, which I have commanded you, I will of Solomon, whose mother’s name was Zeruah,
surely tear the kingdom from you, and will a widow, he also lifted up his hand against
give it to your servant. 11:12 Notwithstanding the king. 11:27 This was the reason why he
I will not do it in your days, for David your lifted up his hand against the king: Solomon
father’s sake; but I will tear it out of the hand built Millo, and repaired the breach of the city
of your son. 11:13 However I will not tear away of David his father. 11:28 The man Jeroboam
all the kingdom; but I will give one tribe to was a mighty man of valor; and Solomon saw
your son, for David my servant’s sake, and for the young man that he was industrious, and
Jerusalem’s sake which I have chosen.” he put him in charge of all the labor of the
11:14
The LORD raised up an adversary to house of Joseph. 11:29 It happened at that time,
Solomon, Hadad the Edomite: he was of the when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, that
king’s seed in Edom. 11:15 For it happened, the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him in
when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain the way; now Ahijah had clad himself with
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12:2
a new garment; and they two were alone in It happened, when Jeroboam the son of
the field. 11:30 Ahijah laid hold of the new Nebat heard of it (for he was yet in Egypt,
garment that was on him, and tore it in twelve where he had fled from the presence of king
pieces. 11:31 He said to Jeroboam, “Take ten Solomon, and Jeroboam lived in Egypt, 12:3 and
pieces; for thus says the LORD, the God of they sent and called him), that Jeroboam and
Israel, ‘Behold, I will tear the kingdom out of all the assembly of Israel came, and spoke to
the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes Rehoboam, saying, 12:4 “Your father made our
to you 11:32 (but he shall have one tribe, for yoke grievous: now therefore make you the
my servant David’s sake and for Jerusalem’s grievous service of your father, and his heavy
sake, the city which I have chosen out of all yoke which he put on us, lighter, and we will
the tribes of Israel); 11:33 because that they have serve you.”
forsaken me, and have worshiped Ashtoreth 12:5
He said to them, “Depart for three days,
the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god then come back to me.”
of Moab, and Milcom the god of the children of The people departed. 12:6 King Rehoboam
Ammon. They have not walked in my ways, to took counsel with the old men, who had stood
do that which is right in my eyes, and to keep before Solomon his father while he yet lived,
my statutes and my ordinances, as David his saying, “What counsel do you give me to return
father did. answer to this people?”
11:34 12:7
“‘However I will not take the whole They spoke to him, saying, “If you will
kingdom out of his hand; but I will make him be a servant to this people this day, and will
prince all the days of his life, for David my serve them, and answer them, and speak good
servant’s sake whom I chose, who kept my words to them, then they will be your servants
commandments and my statutes; 11:35 but I will forever.”
take the kingdom out of his son’s hand, and 12:8
But he forsook the counsel of the old men
will give it to you, even ten tribes. 11:36 To which they had given him, and took counsel
his son will I give one tribe, that David my with the young men who had grown up with
servant may have a lamp always before me in him, who stood before him. 12:9 He said to
Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me to them, “What counsel do you give, that we may
put my name there. 11:37 I will take you, and return answer to this people, who have spoken
you shall reign according to all that your soul to me, saying, ‘Make the yoke that your father
desires, and shall be king over Israel. 11:38 It put on us lighter?’”
shall be, if you will listen to all that I command 12:10
The young men who had grown up with
you, and will walk in my ways, and do that him spoke to him, saying, “Thus you shall tell
which is right in my eyes, to keep my statutes this people who spoke to you, saying, ‘Your
and my commandments, as David my servant father made our yoke heavy, but make it lighter
did; that I will be with you, and will build to us;’ you shall say to them, ‘My little finger
you a sure house, as I built for David, and will is thicker than my father’s waist. 12:11 Now
give Israel to you. 11:39 I will for this afflict the whereas my father burdened you with a heavy
seed of David, but not forever.’” 11:40 Solomon yoke, I will add to your yoke: my father
sought therefore to kill Jeroboam; but Jeroboam chastised you with whips, but I will chastise
arose, and fled into Egypt, to Shishak king you with scorpions.’”
of Egypt, and was in Egypt until the death 12:12
So Jeroboam and all the people came
of Solomon. 11:41 Now the rest of the acts of to Rehoboam the third day, as the king asked,
Solomon, and all that he did, and his wisdom, saying, “Come to me again the third day.”
aren’t they written in the book of the acts of 12:13
The king answered the people roughly,
Solomon? 11:42 The time that Solomon reigned and forsook the counsel of the old men which
in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years. they had given him, 12:14 and spoke to them
11:43
Solomon slept with his fathers, and was according to the counsel of the young men,
buried in the city of David his father: and saying, “My father made your yoke heavy, but
Rehoboam his son reigned in his place. I will add to your yoke. My father chastised
12:1
Rehoboam went to Shechem: for all you with whips, but I will chastise you with
Israel had come to Shechem to make him king. scorpions.”
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12:15
So the king didn’t listen to the peo- made two calves of gold; and he said to them,
ple; for it was a thing brought about of the “It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem.
LORD, that he might establish his word, which Look and see your gods, Israel, which brought
the LORD spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to you up out of the land of Egypt!” 12:29 He set
Jeroboam the son of Nebat. 12:16 When all the one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan.
12:30
Israel saw that the king didn’t listen to them, This thing became a sin; for the people
the people answered the king, saying, “What went to worship before the one, even to Dan.
12:31
portion have we in David? Neither do we have He made houses of high places, and made
an inheritance in the son of Jesse. To your tents, priests from among all the people, who were
Israel! Now see to your own house, David.” So not of the sons of Levi. 12:32 Jeroboam ordained
Israel departed to their tents. a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day
12:17
But as for the children of Israel who of the month, like the feast that is in Judah, and
lived in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned he went up to the altar; he did so in Bethel,
over them. 12:18 Then king Rehoboam sent sacrificing to the calves that he had made: and
Adoram, who was over the men subject to he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places
forced labor; and all Israel stoned him to death that he had made. 12:33 He went up to the altar
with stones. King Rehoboam made speed to which he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth
get him up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem. day in the eighth month, even in the month
12:19
So Israel rebelled against the house of which he had devised of his own heart: and he
David to this day. 12:20 It happened, when all ordained a feast for the children of Israel, and
Israel heard that Jeroboam was returned, that went up to the altar, to burn incense.
13:1
they sent and called him to the congregation, Behold, there came a man of God out of
and made him king over all Israel: there was Judah by the word of the LORD to Beth El:
none who followed the house of David, but the and Jeroboam was standing by the altar to burn
tribe of Judah only. 12:21 When Rehoboam had incense. 13:2 He cried against the altar by the
come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house word of the LORD, and said, “Altar, altar, thus
of Judah, and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred says the LORD: ‘Behold, a son shall be born to
and eighty thousand chosen men, who were the house of David, Josiah by name. On you he
warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, shall sacrifice the priests of the high places who
to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam the burn incense on you, and they will burn men’s
son of Solomon. 12:22 But the word of God bones on you.’” 13:3 He gave a sign the same
came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying, day, saying, “This is the sign which the LORD
12:23 has spoken: Behold, the altar will be split apart,
“Speak to Rehoboam the son of Solomon,
king of Judah, and to all the house of Judah and and the ashes that are on it will be poured out.”
13:4
Benjamin, and to the rest of the people, saying, It happened, when the king heard the
12:24
‘Thus says the LORD, “You shall not go up, saying of the man of God, which he cried
nor fight against your brothers, the children of against the altar in Bethel, that Jeroboam put
Israel. Everyone return to his house; for this out his hand from the altar, saying, “Seize him!”
thing is of me.”’” So they listened to the word His hand, which he put out against him, dried
of the LORD, and returned and went their way, up, so that he could not draw it back again to
according to the word of the LORD. himself. 13:5 The altar also was split apart, and
12:25
Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the the ashes poured out from the altar, according
hill country of Ephraim, and lived in it; and to the sign which the man of God had given by
he went out from there, and built Penuel. the word of the LORD. 13:6 The king answered
12:26
Jeroboam said in his heart, “Now the king- the man of God, “Now entreat the favor of the
dom will return to the house of David. 12:27 If LORD your God, and pray for me, that my
this people goes up to offer sacrifices in the hand may be restored me again.”
house of the LORD at Jerusalem, then the heart The man of God entreated the LORD, and
of this people will turn again to their lord, even the king’s hand was restored him again, and
to Rehoboam king of Judah; and they will kill became as it was before.
13:7
me, and return to Rehoboam king of Judah.” The king said to the man of God, “Come
12:28
Whereupon the king took counsel, and home with me, and refresh yourself, and I will
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give you a reward.” and after he had drunk, that he saddled the
13:8 donkey for the prophet whom he had brought
The man of God said to the king, “Even
if you gave me half of your house, I would back. 13:24 When he had gone, a lion met him
not go in with you, neither would I eat bread by the way, and killed him. His body was
nor drink water in this place; 13:9 for so was cast in the way, and the donkey stood by it.
it commanded me by the word of the LORD, The lion also stood by the body. 13:25 Behold,
saying, ‘You shall eat no bread, nor drink water, men passed by, and saw the body cast in the
neither return by the way that you came.’” way, and the lion standing by the body; and
13:10 they came and told it in the city where the
So he went another way, and didn’t return
by the way that he came to Bethel. old prophet lived. 13:26 When the prophet who
13:11 brought him back from the way heard of it, he
Now there lived an old prophet in
Bethel; and one of his sons came and told him said, “It is the man of God who was disobedient
all the works that the man of God had done that to the mouth of the LORD. Therefore the
day in Bethel. They also told their father the LORD has delivered him to the lion, which has
words which he had spoken to the king. mauled him and slain him, according to the
13:12 word of the LORD, which he spoke to him.”
Their father said to them, “Which way 13:27
did he go?” Now his sons had seen which way He spoke to his sons, saying, “Saddle the
the man of God went, who came from Judah. donkey for me.” They saddled it. 13:28 He went
13:13 and found his body cast in the way, and the
He said to his sons, “Saddle the donkey
for me.” So they saddled the donkey for him; donkey and the lion standing by the body. The
and he rode on it. 13:14 He went after the man lion had not eaten the body, nor mauled the
of God, and found him sitting under an oak. donkey. 13:29 The prophet took up the body
He said to him, “Are you the man of God who of the man of God, and laid it on the donkey,
came from Judah?” and brought it back. He came to the city of
He said, “I am.” 13:15 Then he said to him, the old prophet to mourn, and to bury him.
13:30
“Come home with me, and eat bread.” He laid his body in his own grave; and they
13:16
He said, “I may not return with you, mourned over him, saying, “Alas, my brother!”
13:31
nor go in with you; neither will I eat bread nor It happened, after he had buried him,
drink water with you in this place. 13:17 For it that he spoke to his sons, saying, “When I am
was said to me by the word of the LORD, ‘You dead, then bury me in the tomb in which the
shall eat no bread nor drink water there, nor man of God is buried. Lay my bones beside
turn again to go by the way that you came.’” his bones. 13:32 For the saying which he cried
13:18
He said to him, “I also am a prophet as by the word of the LORD against the altar in
you are; and an angel spoke to me by the word Bethel, and against all the houses of the high
of the LORD, saying, ‘Bring him back with you places which are in the cities of Samaria, will
into your house, that he may eat bread and surely happen.”
13:33
drink water.’” He lied to him. After this thing Jeroboam didn’t return
13:19 from his evil way, but again made priests of the
So he went back with him, and ate
bread in his house, and drank water. 13:20 It high places from among all the people. Who-
happened, as they sat at the table, that the word ever wanted to, he consecrated him, that there
of the LORD came to the prophet who brought might be priests of the high places. 13:34 This
him back; 13:21 and he cried to the man of God thing became sin to the house of Jeroboam,
who came from Judah, saying, “Thus says the even to cut it off, and to destroy it from off the
LORD, ‘Because you have been disobedient to surface of the earth.
the mouth of the LORD, and have not kept 14:1
At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam
the commandment which the LORD your God fell sick. 14:2 Jeroboam said to his wife, “Please
commanded you, 13:22 but came back, and have get up and disguise yourself, that you won’t
eaten bread and drunk water in the place of be recognized as the wife of Jeroboam. Go to
which he said to you, “Eat no bread, and drink Shiloh. Behold, there is Ahijah the prophet,
no water”; your body shall not come to the who spoke concerning me that I should be king
tomb of your fathers.’” over this people. 14:3 Take with you ten loaves,
13:23
It happened, after he had eaten bread, and cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him.
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He will tell you what will become of the child.” provoking the LORD to anger. 14:16 He will give
14:4 Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, which
Jeroboam’s wife did so, and arose, and
went to Shiloh, and came to the house of he has sinned, and with which he has made
Ahijah. Now Ahijah could not see; for his eyes Israel to sin.”
were set by reason of his age. 14:5 The LORD 14:17
Jeroboam’s wife arose, and departed,
said to Ahijah, “Behold, the wife of Jeroboam and came to Tirzah. As she came to the thresh-
comes to inquire of you concerning her son; for old of the house, the child died. 14:18 All Israel
he is sick. Thus and thus you shall tell her; buried him, and mourned for him, according
for it will be, when she comes in, that she will to the word of the LORD, which he spoke by
pretend to be another woman.” his servant Ahijah the prophet. 14:19 The rest
14:6
It was so, when Ahijah heard the sound of the acts of Jeroboam, how he warred, and
of her feet, as she came in at the door, that he how he reigned, behold, they are written in the
said, “Come in, you wife of Jeroboam! Why do book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
14:20
you pretend to be another? For I am sent to you The days which Jeroboam reigned were
with heavy news. 14:7 Go, tell Jeroboam, ‘Thus two and twenty years: and he slept with his
says the LORD, the God of Israel: “Because fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his place.
14:21
I exalted you from among the people, and Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in
made you prince over my people Israel, 14:8 and Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old
tore the kingdom away from the house of when he began to reign, and he reigned sev-
David, and gave it you; and yet you have enteen years in Jerusalem, the city which the
not been as my servant David, who kept my LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel,
commandments, and who followed me with to put his name there: and his mother’s name
all his heart, to do that only which was right was Naamah the Ammonitess. 14:22 Judah did
in my eyes, 14:9 but have done evil above all that which was evil in the sight of the LORD,
who were before you, and have gone and made and they provoked him to jealousy with their
you other gods, and molten images, to provoke sins which they committed, above all that their
me to anger, and have cast me behind your fathers had done. 14:23 For they also built them
back: 14:10 therefore, behold, I will bring evil on high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every
the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from high hill, and under every green tree; 14:24 and
Jeroboam everyone who urinates on a wall,i he there were also sodomites in the land: they
who is shut up and he who is left at large in did according to all the abominations of the
Israel, and will utterly sweep away the house nations which the LORD drove out before the
of Jeroboam, as a man sweeps away dung, until children of Israel. 14:25 It happened in the fifth
it is all gone. 14:11 He who dies of Jeroboam year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of
in the city shall the dogs eat; and he who dies Egypt came up against Jerusalem; 14:26 and he
in the field shall the birds of the sky eat: for took away the treasures of the house of the
the LORD has spoken it.”’ 14:12 Arise therefore, LORD, and the treasures of the king’s house;
and go to your house. When your feet enter he even took away all: and he took away
into the city, the child shall die. 14:13 All Israel all the shields of gold which Solomon had
shall mourn for him, and bury him; for he only made. 14:27 King Rehoboam made in their place
of Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because shields of brass, and committed them to the
in him there is found some good thing toward hands of the captains of the guard, who kept
the LORD, the God of Israel, in the house of the door of the king’s house. 14:28 It was so, that
Jeroboam. 14:14 Moreover the LORD will raise as often as the king went into the house of the
him up a king over Israel, who shall cut off the LORD, the guard bore them, and brought them
house of Jeroboam. This is day! What? Even back into the guard room. 14:29 Now the rest
now. 14:15 For the LORD will strike Israel, as a of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did,
reed is shaken in the water; and he will root up aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles
Israel out of this good land which he gave to of the kings of Judah? 14:30 There was war
their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.
14:31
River, because they have made their Asherim, Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was
i 14:10 or, male
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buried with his fathers in the city of David: of the house of the LORD, and the treasures
and his mother’s name was Naamah the Am- of the king’s house, and delivered them into
monitess. Abijam his son reigned in his place. the hand of his servants; and king Asa sent
15:1
them to Ben Hadad, the son of Tabrimmon,
Now in the eighteenth year of king the son of Hezion, king of Syria, who lived
Jeroboam the son of Nebat began Abijam to at Damascus, saying, 15:19 “There is a treaty
reign over Judah. 15:2 He reigned three years in between me and you, between my father and
Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Maacah your father. Behold, I have sent to you a present
the daughter of Abishalom. 15:3 He walked in of silver and gold. Go, break your treaty with
all the sins of his father, which he had done Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from
before him; and his heart was not perfect with me.”
the LORD his God, as the heart of David his
father. 15:4 Nevertheless for David’s sake, the 15:20
Ben Hadad listened to king Asa, and
LORD his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, sent the captains of his armies against the
to set up his son after him, and to establish cities of Israel, and struck Ijon, and Dan, and
Jerusalem; 15:5 because David did that which Abel Beth Maacah, and all Chinneroth, with all
was right in the eyes of the LORD, and didn’t the land of Naphtali. 15:21 It happened, when
turn aside from anything that he commanded Baasha heard of it, that he left off building
him all the days of his life, except only in Ramah, and lived in Tirzah. 15:22 Then king
the matter of Uriah the Hittite. 15:6 Now there Asa made a proclamation to all Judah; none
was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam was exempted: and they carried away the
all the days of his life. 15:7 The rest of the stones of Ramah, and its timber, with which
acts of Abijam, and all that he did, aren’t Baasha had built; and king Asa built therewith
they written in the book of the chronicles of Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah. 15:23 Now the
the kings of Judah? There was war between rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might,
Abijam and Jeroboam. 15:8 Abijam slept with and all that he did, and the cities which he
his fathers; and they buried him in the city of built, aren’t they written in the book of the
David: and Asa his son reigned in his place. chronicles of the kings of Judah? But in the
15:9
In the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of time of his old age he was diseased in his feet.
Israel began Asa to reign over Judah. 15:10 He 15:24
Asa slept with his fathers, and was buried
reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem: and his with his fathers in the city of David his father;
mother’s name was Maacah the daughter of and Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his place.
Abishalom. 15:11 Asa did that which was right 15:25
Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign
in the eyes of the LORD, as did David his over Israel in the second year of Asa king of
father. 15:12 He put away the sodomites out of Judah; and he reigned over Israel two years.
15:26
the land, and removed all the idols that his He did that which was evil in the sight of
fathers had made. 15:13 Also Maacah his mother the LORD, and walked in the way of his father,
he removed from being queen, because she had and in his sin with which he made Israel to
made an abominable image for an Asherah; sin. 15:27 Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house
and Asa cut down her image, and burnt it of Issachar, conspired against him; and Baasha
at the brook Kidron. 15:14 But the high places struck him at Gibbethon, which belonged to
were not taken away: nevertheless the heart of the Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel were
Asa was perfect with the LORD all his days. laying siege to Gibbethon. 15:28 Even in the
15:15
He brought into the house of the LORD third year of Asa king of Judah, Baasha killed
the things that his father had dedicated, and him, and reigned in his place. 15:29 It happened
the things that himself had dedicated, silver, that, as soon as he was king, he struck all the
and gold, and vessels. 15:16 There was war house of Jeroboam: he didn’t leave to Jeroboam
between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their any who breathed, until he had destroyed him;
days. 15:17 Baasha king of Israel went up against according to the saying of the LORD, which
Judah, and built Ramah, that he might not he spoke by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite;
15:30
allow anyone to go out or come in to Asa king for the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned,
of Judah. 15:18 Then Asa took all the silver and with which he made Israel to sin, because
and the gold that were left in the treasures of his provocation with which he provoked the
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LORD, the God of Israel, to anger. 15:31 Now destroyed all the house of Baasha, according to
the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he the word of the LORD, which he spoke against
did, aren’t they written in the book of the Baasha by Jehu the prophet, 16:13 for all the sins
chronicles of the kings of Israel? 15:32 There was of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, which
war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all they sinned, and with which they made Israel
their days. 15:33 In the third year of Asa king of to sin, to provoke the LORD, the God of Israel,
Judah, Baasha the son of Ahijah began to reign to anger with their vanities. 16:14 Now the rest
over all Israel in Tirzah for twenty-four years. of the acts of Elah, and all that he did, aren’t
15:34
He did that which was evil in the sight of they written in the book of the chronicles of
the LORD, and walked in the way of Jeroboam, the kings of Israel? 16:15 In the twenty-seventh
and in his sin with which he made Israel to sin. year of Asa king of Judah, Zimri reigned
16:1
The word of the LORD came to Jehu seven days in Tirzah. Now the people were
the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying, encamped against Gibbethon, which belonged
16:2
“Because I exalted you out of the dust, to the Philistines. 16:16 The people who were
and made you prince over my people Israel, encamped heard say, Zimri has conspired, and
and you have walked in the way of Jeroboam, has also struck the king: therefore all Israel
and have made my people Israel to sin, to made Omri, the captain of the army, king over
provoke me to anger with their sins; 16:3 behold, Israel that day in the camp. 16:17 Omri went up
I will utterly sweep away Baasha and his house; from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and
and I will make your house like the house of they besieged Tirzah. 16:18 It happened, when
Jeroboam the son of Nebat. 16:4 The dogs will Zimri saw that the city was taken, that he went
eat Baasha’s descendants who die in the city; into the castle of the king’s house, and burnt
and he who dies of his in the field the birds of the king’s house over him with fire, and died,
16:19
the sky will eat.” for his sins which he sinned in doing that
16:5 which was evil in the sight of the LORD, in
Now the rest of the acts of Baasha, and
what he did, and his might, aren’t they written walking in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin
in the book of the chronicles of the kings of which he did, to make Israel to sin. 16:20 Now
Israel? 16:6 Baasha slept with his fathers, and the rest of the acts of Zimri, and his treason
was buried in Tirzah; and Elah his son reigned that he committed, aren’t they written in the
in his place. 16:7 Moreover by the prophet Jehu book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
16:21
the son of Hanani came the word of the LORD Then were the people of Israel divided into
against Baasha, and against his house, both two parts: half of the people followed Tibni
because of all the evil that he did in the sight the son of Ginath, to make him king; and
of the LORD, to provoke him to anger with the half followed Omri. 16:22 But the people who
work of his hands, in being like the house of followed Omri prevailed against the people
Jeroboam, and because he struck him. who followed Tibni the son of Ginath: so Tibni
16:8
In the twenty-sixth year of Asa king of died, and Omri reigned. 16:23 In the thirty-first
Judah, Elah the son of Baasha began to reign year of Asa king of Judah, Omri began to reign
over Israel in Tirzah for two years. 16:9 His over Israel for twelve years. He reigned six
servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, years in Tirzah. 16:24 He bought the hill Samaria
conspired against him. Now he was in Tirzah, of Shemer for two talents of silver; and he built
drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, on the hill, and called the name of the city
who was over the household in Tirzah: 16:10 and which he built, after the name of Shemer, the
Zimri went in and struck him, and killed owner of the hill, Samaria. 16:25 Omri did that
him, in the twenty-seventh year of Asa king which was evil in the sight of the LORD, and
of Judah, and reigned in his place. 16:11 It dealt wickedly above all who were before him.
16:26
happened, when he began to reign, as soon For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam
as he sat on his throne, that he struck all the the son of Nebat, and in his sins with which
house of Baasha: he didn’t leave him a single he made Israel to sin, to provoke the LORD,
one who urinates on a wall,j neither of his the God of Israel, to anger with their vanities.
16:27
relatives, nor of his friends. 16:12 Thus Zimri Now the rest of the acts of Omri which
j 16:11 or, male
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he did, and his might that he showed, aren’t called to her, and said, “Please get me a little
they written in the book of the chronicles of water in a vessel, that I may drink.”
the kings of Israel? 16:28 So Omri slept with 17:11
As she was going to get it, he called
his fathers, and was buried in Samaria; and to her, and said, “Please bring me a morsel of
Ahab his son reigned in his place. 16:29 In the bread in your hand.”
thirty-eighth year of Asa king of Judah began 17:12
She said, “As the LORD your God lives,
Ahab the son of Omri to reign over Israel: and I don’t have a cake, but a handful of meal in
Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in the jar, and a little oil in the jar. Behold, I am
Samaria twenty-two years. 16:30 Ahab the son of gathering two sticks, that I may go in and bake
Omri did that which was evil in the sight of the it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and
LORD above all that were before him. 16:31 It die.”
happened, as if it had been a light thing for 17:13
Elijah said to her, “Don’t be afraid. Go
him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of and do as you have said; but make me of it
Nebat, that he took as wife Jezebel the daughter a little cake first, and bring it out to me, and
of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went afterward make some for you and for your son.
and served Baal, and worshiped him. 16:32 He 17:14
For thus says the LORD, the God of Israel,
reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, ‘The jar of meal shall not empty, neither shall
which he had built in Samaria. 16:33 Ahab made the jar of oil fail, until the day that the LORD
the Asherah; and Ahab did yet more to provoke sends rain on the earth.’”
the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger than all 17:15
She went and did according to the say-
the kings of Israel who were before him. 16:34 In ing of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house,
his days Hiel the Bethelite built Jericho: he ate many days. 17:16 The jar of meal didn’t
laid its foundation with the loss of Abiram his empty, neither did the jar of oil fail, according
firstborn, and set up its gates with the loss of to the word of the LORD, which he spoke by
his youngest son Segub, according to the word Elijah. 17:17 It happened after these things, that
of the LORD, which he spoke by Joshua the son the son of the woman, the mistress of the house,
of Nun. fell sick; and his sickness was so severe, that
17:1
Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the for- there was no breath left in him. 17:18 She said to
eigners of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the LORD, Elijah, “What have I to do with you, you man
the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, of God? You have come to me to bring my sin
there shall not be dew nor rain these years, to memory, and to kill my son!”
but according to my word.” 17:2 The word of 17:19
He said to her, “Give me your son.” He
the LORD came to him, saying, 17:3 “Go away took him out of her bosom, and carried him up
from here, turn eastward, and hide yourself into the room where he stayed, and laid him on
by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan. his own bed. 17:20 He cried to the LORD, and
17:4
It shall be, that you shall drink of the brook. said, “LORD my God, have you also brought
I have commanded the ravens to feed you evil on the widow with whom I stay, by killing
there.” 17:5 So he went and did according to the her son?”
word of the LORD; for he went and lived by the 17:21
He stretched himself on the child three
brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan. 17:6 The times, and cried to the LORD, and said, “LORD
ravens brought him bread and flesh in the my God, please let this child’s soul come into
morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; him again.”
and he drank of the brook. 17:7 It happened 17:22
The LORD listened to the voice of Elijah;
after a while, that the brook dried up, because and the soul of the child came into him again,
there was no rain in the land. 17:8 The word and he revived. 17:23 Elijah took the child, and
of the LORD came to him, saying, 17:9 “Arise, brought him down out of the room into the
go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and house, and delivered him to his mother; and
stay there. Behold, I have commanded a widow Elijah said, “Behold, your son lives.”
there to sustain you.” 17:24
The woman said to Elijah, “Now I know
17:10
So he arose and went to Zarephath; and that you are a man of God, and that the word
when he came to the gate of the city, behold, of the LORD in your mouth is truth.”
18:1
a widow was there gathering sticks: and he It happened after many days, that the
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word of the LORD came to Elijah, in the third rael; but you, and your father’s house, in
year, saying, “Go, show yourself to Ahab; and I that you have forsaken the commandments of
will send rain on the earth.” the LORD, and you have followed the Baals.
18:2 18:19
Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. Now therefore send, and gather to me all
The famine was severe in Samaria. 18:3 Ahab Israel to Mount Carmel, and four hundred fifty
called Obadiah, who was over the household. of the prophets of Baal, and four hundred of the
(Now Obadiah feared the LORD greatly: 18:4 for prophets of the Asherah, who eat at Jezebel’s
it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets table.”
18:20
of the LORD, that Obadiah took one hundred So Ahab sent to all the children of Israel,
prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and and gathered the prophets together to Mount
fed them with bread and water.) 18:5 Ahab said Carmel. 18:21 Elijah came near to all the people,
to Obadiah, “Go through the land, to all the and said, “How long will you waver between
springs of water, and to all the brooks. Perhaps the two sides? If the LORD is God, follow him;
we may find grass and save the horses and but if Baal, then follow him.”
mules alive, that we not lose all the animals.” The people answered him not a word.
18:6 18:22
So they divided the land between them Then Elijah said to the people, “I, even I
to pass throughout it: Ahab went one way only, am left a prophet of the LORD; but Baal’s
by himself, and Obadiah went another way prophets are four hundred fifty men. 18:23 Let
by himself. 18:7 As Obadiah was in the way, them therefore give us two bulls; and let them
behold, Elijah met him: and he recognized him, choose one bull for themselves, and cut it in
and fell on his face, and said, “Is it you, my lord pieces, and lay it on the wood, and put no fire
Elijah?” under; and I will dress the other bull, and lay it
18:8
He answered him, “It is I. Go, tell your on the wood, and put no fire under it. 18:24 You
lord, ‘Behold, Elijah is here!’” call on the name of your god, and I will call on
18:9 the name of the LORD. The God who answers
He said, “Wherein have I sinned, that
you would deliver your servant into the hand by fire, let him be God.”
of Ahab, to kill me? 18:10 As the LORD your All the people answered, “It is well said.”
18:25
God lives, there is no nation or kingdom, where Elijah said to the prophets of Baal,
my lord has not sent to seek you. When they “Choose one bull for yourselves, and dress it
said, ‘He is not here,’ he took an oath of the first; for you are many; and call on the name of
kingdom and nation, that they didn’t find you. your god, but put no fire under it.”
18:11 18:26
Now you say, ‘Go, tell your lord, “Behold, They took the bull which was given
Elijah is here.”’ 18:12 It will happen, as soon them, and they dressed it, and called on the
as I am gone from you, that the Spirit of the name of Baal from morning even until noon,
LORD will carry you I don’t know where; and saying, Baal, hear us. But there was no voice,
so when I come and tell Ahab, and he can’t find nor any who answered. They leaped about
you, he will kill me. But I, your servant, have the altar which was made. 18:27 It happened at
feared the LORD from my youth. 18:13 Wasn’t it noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, “Cry
told my lord what I did when Jezebel killed the aloud; for he is a god. Either he is musing, or he
prophets of the LORD, how I hid one hundred has gone aside, or he is on a journey, or perhaps
men of the LORD’s prophets with fifty to a he sleeps and must be awakened.”
cave, and fed them with bread and water? 18:28
They cried aloud, and cut themselves
18:14
Now you say, ‘Go, tell your lord, “Behold, in their way with knives and lances, until the
Elijah is here”;’ and he will kill me.” blood gushed out on them. 18:29 It was so, when
18:15
Elijah said, “As the LORD of Hosts midday was past, that they prophesied until
lives, before whom I stand, I will surely show the time of the offering of the offering; but there
myself to him today.” 18:16 So Obadiah went to was neither voice, nor any to answer, nor any
meet Ahab, and told him; and Ahab went to who regarded.
meet Elijah. 18:17 It happened, when Ahab saw 18:30
Elijah said to all the people, “Come near
Elijah, that Ahab said to him, “Is that you, you to me”; and all the people came near to him. He
troubler of Israel?” repaired the altar of the LORD that was thrown
18:18
He answered, “I have not troubled Is- down. 18:31 Elijah took twelve stones, according
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to the number of the tribes of the sons of was a great rain. Ahab rode, and went to
Jacob, to whom the word of the LORD came, Jezreel. 18:46 The hand of the LORD was on
saying, “Israel shall be your name.” 18:32 With Elijah; and he tucked his cloak into his belt and
the stones he built an altar in the name of ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.
the LORD. He made a trench around the altar, 19:1
Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had
large enough to contain two measures of seed. done, and how he had killed all the prophets
18:33
He put the wood in order, and cut the bull with the sword. 19:2 Then Jezebel sent a mes-
in pieces, and laid it on the wood. He said, “Fill senger to Elijah, saying, “So let the gods do to
four jars with water, and pour it on the burnt me, and more also, if I don’t make your life as
offering, and on the wood.” 18:34 He said, “Do it the life of one of them by tomorrow about this
a second time”; and they did it the second time. time!”
He said, “Do it a third time”; and they did it the 19:3
When he saw that, he arose, and went
third time. 18:35 The water ran around the altar; for his life, and came to Beersheba, which
and he also filled the trench with water. belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.
18:36 19:4
It happened at the time of the offering But he himself went a day’s journey into the
of the offering, that Elijah the prophet came wilderness, and came and sat down under a
near, and said, “LORD, the God of Abraham, juniper tree: and he requested for himself that
of Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day he might die, and said, “It is enough. Now, O
that you are God in Israel, and that I am your LORD, take away my life; for I am not better
servant, and that I have done all these things than my fathers.”
at your word. 18:37 Hear me, LORD, hear me, 19:5
He lay down and slept under a juniper
that this people may know that you, LORD, are tree; and behold, an angel touched him, and
God, and that you have turned their heart back said to him, “Arise and eat!”
again.” 19:6
He looked, and behold, there was at his
18:38
Then the fire of the LORD fell, and head a cake baked on the coals, and a jar
consumed the burnt offering, and the wood, of water. He ate and drank, and lay down
and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the again. 19:7 The angel of the LORD came again
water that was in the trench. 18:39 When all the the second time, and touched him, and said,
people saw it, they fell on their faces. They said, “Arise and eat, because the journey is too great
“The LORD, he is God! the LORD, he is God!” for you.”
18:40 19:8
Elijah said to them, “Seize the prophets He arose, and ate and drank, and went
of Baal! Don’t let one of them escape!” in the strength of that food forty days and forty
They seized them. Elijah brought them nights to Horeb the Mount of God. 19:9 He came
down to the brook Kishon, and killed them there to a cave, and lodged there; and behold,
there. 18:41 Elijah said to Ahab, “Get up, eat and the word of the LORD came to him, and he said
drink; for there is the sound of abundance of to him, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”
rain.” 19:10
He said, “I have been very jealous for
18:42
So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. the LORD, the God of Hosts; for the children
Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown
bowed himself down on the earth, and put his down your altars, and slain your prophets with
face between his knees. 18:43 He said to his the sword. I, even I only, am left; and they seek
servant, “Go up now, look toward the sea.” my life, to take it away.”
He went up, and looked, and said, “There is 19:11
He said, “Go out, and stand on the
nothing.” mountain before the LORD.”
He said, “Go again” seven times. Behold, the LORD passed by, and a great
18:44
It happened at the seventh time, that he and strong wind tore the mountains, and broke
said, “Behold, a small cloud, like a man’s hand, in pieces the rocks before the LORD; but the
is rising out of the sea.” LORD was not in the wind. After the wind
He said, “Go up, tell Ahab, ‘Get ready and an earthquake; but the LORD was not in the
go down, so that the rain doesn’t stop you.’” earthquake. 19:12 After the earthquake a fire
18:45
It happened in a little while, that the sky passed; but the LORD was not in the fire: and
grew black with clouds and wind, and there after the fire a still small voice. 19:13 It was so,
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20:5
when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face The messengers came again, and said,
in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the “Ben Hadad says, ‘I sent indeed to you, say-
entrance of the cave. Behold, a voice came ing, “You shall deliver me your silver, and
to him, and said, “What are you doing here, your gold, and your wives, and your children;
20:6
Elijah?” but I will send my servants to you tomor-
19:14 row about this time, and they shall search your
He said, “I have been very jealous for
the LORD, the God of Hosts; for the children house, and the houses of your servants; and
of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown it shall be, that whatever is pleasant in your
down your altars, and slain your prophets with eyes, they shall put it in their hand, and take
the sword. I, even I only, am left; and they seek it away.”’”
20:7
my life, to take it away.” Then the king of Israel called all the
19:15 elders of the land, and said, “Please notice how
The LORD said to him, “Go, return
on your way to the wilderness of Damascus. this man seeks mischief; for he sent to me for
When you arrive, you shall anoint Hazael to be my wives, and for my children, and for my
king over Syria. 19:16 You shall anoint Jehu the silver, and for my gold; and I didn’t deny him.”
20:8
son of Nimshi to be king over Israel; and you All the elders and all the people said to
shall anoint Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel him, “Don’t listen, neither consent.”
20:9
Meholah to be prophet in your place. 19:17 It Therefore he said to the messengers of
shall happen, that he who escapes from the Ben Hadad, “Tell my lord the king, ‘All that you
sword of Hazael, Jehu will kill; and he who sent for to your servant at the first I will do; but
escapes from the sword of Jehu, Elisha will kill. this thing I cannot do.’”
19:18
Yet will I leave seven thousand in Israel, all The messengers departed, and brought him
the knees which have not bowed to Baal, and back the message. 20:10 Ben Hadad sent to him,
every mouth which has not kissed him.” and said, “The gods do so to me, and more also,
19:19
So he departed there, and found Elisha if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls
the son of Shaphat, who was plowing, with for all the people who follow me.”
20:11
twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with The king of Israel answered, “Tell him,
the twelfth: and Elijah passed over to him, and ‘Don’t let him who puts on his armor brag like
cast his mantle on him. 19:20 He left the oxen, he who takes it off.’”
20:12
and ran after Elijah, and said, “Let me please It happened, when Ben Hadad heard
kiss my father and my mother, and then I will this message, as he was drinking, he and the
follow you.” kings, in the pavilions, that he said to his
He said to him, “Go back again; for what servants, “Prepare to attack!” They prepared
have I done to you?” to attack the city.
19:21 20:13
He returned from following him, and Behold, a prophet came near to Ahab
took the yoke of oxen, and killed them, and king of Israel, and said, “Thus says the LORD,
boiled their flesh with the instruments of the ‘Have you seen all this great multitude? Be-
oxen, and gave to the people, and they ate. hold, I will deliver it into your hand this day;
Then he arose, and went after Elijah, and and you shall know that I am the LORD.’”
20:14
served him. Ahab said, “By whom?”
20:1
Ben Hadad the king of Syria gathered all He said, “Thus says the LORD, ‘By the
his army together; and there were thirty-two young men of the princes of the provinces.’”
kings with him, and horses and chariots: and Then he said, “Who shall begin the battle?”
he went up and besieged Samaria, and fought He answered, “You.”
against it. 20:2 He sent messengers to Ahab king 20:15
Then he mustered the young men of
of Israel, into the city, and said to him, “Thus the princes of the provinces, and they were
says Ben Hadad, 20:3 ‘Your silver and your gold two hundred and thirty-two. After them, he
is mine. Your wives also and your children, mustered all the people, even all the children
even the best, are mine.’” of Israel, being seven thousand. 20:16 They went
20:4
The king of Israel answered, “It is accord- out at noon. But Ben Hadad was drinking him-
ing to your saying, my lord, O king. I am yours, self drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings,
and all that I have.” the thirty-two kings who helped him. 20:17 The
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young men of the princes of the provinces went on twenty-seven thousand men who were left.
out first; and Ben Hadad sent out, and they Ben Hadad fled, and came into the city, into
told him, saying, “Men are coming out from an inner room. 20:31 His servants said to him,
Samaria.” “See now, we have heard that the kings of the
20:18 house of Israel are merciful kings. Please let us
He said, “If they have come out for
peace, take them alive; or if they have come out put sackcloth on our bodies, and ropes on our
for war, take them alive.” heads, and go out to the king of Israel. Maybe
20:19 he will save your life.”
So these went out of the city, the young
20:32
men of the princes of the provinces, and the So they put sackcloth on their bodies
army which followed them. 20:20 They each and ropes on their heads, and came to the king
killed his man. The Syrians fled, and Israel of Israel, and said, “Your servant Ben Hadad
pursued them. Ben Hadad the king of Syria says, ‘Please let me live.’”
escaped on a horse with horsemen. 20:21 The He said, “Is he still alive? He is my brother.”
20:33
king of Israel went out, and struck the horses Now the men observed diligently, and
and chariots, and killed the Syrians with a great hurried to take this phrase; and they said,
slaughter. 20:22 The prophet came near to the “Your brother Ben Hadad.”
king of Israel, and said to him, “Go, strengthen Then he said, “Go, bring him.”
yourself, and mark, and see what you do; for Then Ben Hadad came out to him; and
at the return of the year the king of Syria will he caused him to come up into the chariot.
20:34
come up against you.” Ben Hadad said to him, “The cities which
20:23 my father took from your father I will restore.
The servants of the king of Syria said to
him, “Their god is a god of the hills; therefore You shall make streets for yourself in Damas-
they were stronger than we. But let us fight cus, as my father made in Samaria.”
against them in the plain, and surely we shall “I,” said Ahab, “will let you go with this
be stronger than they. 20:24 Do this thing: take covenant.” So he made a covenant with him,
the kings away, every man out of his place, and let him go.
and put captains in their place. 20:25 Muster an 20:35
A certain man of the sons of the
army, like the army that you have lost, horse prophets said to his fellow by the word of the
for horse, and chariot for chariot. We will fight LORD, “Please strike me!”
against them in the plain, and surely we will be The man refused to strike him. 20:36 Then he
stronger than them.” said to him, “Because you have not obeyed the
He listened to their voice, and did so. 20:26 It voice of the LORD, behold, as soon as you are
happened at the return of the year, that Ben departed from me, a lion shall kill you.” As
Hadad mustered the Syrians, and went up to soon as he was departed from him, a lion found
Aphek, to fight against Israel. 20:27 The children him, and killed him.
20:37
of Israel were mustered, and were provisioned, Then he found another man, and said,
and went against them. The children of Israel “Please strike me.”
encamped before them like two little flocks of The man struck him, smiting and wounding
young goats; but the Syrians filled the country. him. 20:38 So the prophet departed, and waited
20:28
A man of God came near and spoke to the for the king by the way, and disguised himself
king of Israel, and said, “Thus says the LORD, with his headband over his eyes. 20:39 As the
‘Because the Syrians have said, “The LORD is king passed by, he cried to the king; and he
a god of the hills, but he is not a god of the said, “Your servant went out into the midst of
valleys”; therefore I will deliver all this great the battle; and behold, a man turned aside, and
multitude into your hand, and you shall know brought a man to me, and said, ‘Guard this
that I am the LORD.’” man! If by any means he be missing, then your
20:29
They encamped one over against the life shall be for his life, or else you shall pay a
other seven days. So it was, that in the seventh talent of silver.’ 20:40 As your servant was busy
day the battle was joined; and the children of here and there, he was gone.”
Israel killed one hundred thousand footmen The king of Israel said to him, “So your
of the Syrians in one day. 20:30 But the rest judgment shall be; you yourself have decided
fled to Aphek, into the city; and the wall fell it.”
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20:41
He hurried, and took the headband and the nobles who lived in his city, did as
away from his eyes; and the king of Israel Jezebel had sent to them, according as it was
recognized that he was of the prophets. 20:42 He written in the letters which she had sent to
said to him, “Thus says the LORD, ‘Because them. 21:12 They proclaimed a fast, and set
you have let go out of your hand the man Naboth on high among the people. 21:13 The
whom I had devoted to destruction, therefore two men, the base fellows, came in and sat
your life shall go for his life, and your people before him. The base fellows testified against
for his people.’” him, even against Naboth, in the presence of
20:43
The king of Israel went to his house the people, saying, “Naboth cursed God and
sullen and angry, and came to Samaria. the king!” Then they carried him out of the city,
21:1
It happened after these things, that and stoned him to death with stones. 21:14 Then
Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard, which they sent to Jezebel, saying, “Naboth has been
was in Jezreel, hard by the palace of Ahab king stoned, and is dead.”
21:15
of Samaria. 21:2 Ahab spoke to Naboth, saying, It happened, when Jezebel heard that
“Give me your vineyard, that I may have it for a Naboth was stoned, and was dead, that Jezebel
garden of herbs, because it is near to my house; said to Ahab, “Arise, take possession of the
and I will give you for it a better vineyard than vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he
it. Or, if it seems good to you, I will give you its refused to give you for money; for Naboth is
worth in money.” not alive, but dead.”
21:3 21:16
Naboth said to Ahab, “May the LORD It happened, when Ahab heard that
forbid me, that I should give the inheritance of Naboth was dead, that Ahab rose up to go
my fathers to you!” down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite,
21:4
Ahab came into his house sullen and to take possession of it. 21:17 The word of
angry because of the word which Naboth the the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,
21:18
Jezreelite had spoken to him; for he had said, “I “Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of
will not give you the inheritance of my fathers.” Israel, who dwells in Samaria. Behold, he is
He laid himself down on his bed, and turned in the vineyard of Naboth, where he has gone
away his face, and would eat no bread. 21:5 But down to take possession of it. 21:19 You shall
Jezebel his wife came to him, and said to him, speak to him, saying, ‘Thus says the LORD,
“Why is your spirit so sad, that you eat no “Have you killed and also taken possession?”’
bread?” You shall speak to him, saying, ‘Thus says the
21:6
He said to her, “Because I spoke to LORD, “In the place where dogs licked the
Naboth the Jezreelite, and said to him, ‘Give me blood of Naboth, dogs will lick your blood,
your vineyard for money; or else, if it pleases even yours.”’”
21:20
you, I will give you another vineyard for it.’ He Ahab said to Elijah, “Have you found
answered, ‘I will not give you my vineyard.’” me, my enemy?”
21:7
Jezebel his wife said to him, “Do you He answered, “I have found you, because
now govern the kingdom of Israel? Arise, and you have sold yourself to do that which is
eat bread, and let your heart be merry. I will evil in the sight of the LORD. 21:21 Behold, I
give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.” will bring evil on you, and will utterly sweep
21:8
So she wrote letters in Ahab’s name, and you away and will cut off from Ahab everyone
sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters who urinates against a wall,k and him who is
to the elders and to the nobles who were in shut up and him who is left at large in Israel.
his city, who lived with Naboth. 21:9 She wrote 21:22
I will make your house like the house of
in the letters, saying, “Proclaim a fast, and set Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house
Naboth on high among the people. 21:10 Set two of Baasha the son of Ahijah for the provocation
men, base fellows, before him, and let them with which you have provoked me to anger,
testify against him, saying, ‘You cursed God and have made Israel to sin.” 21:23 The LORD
and the king!’ Then carry him out, and stone also spoke of Jezebel, saying, “The dogs shall
him to death.” eat Jezebel by the rampart of Jezreel. 21:24 The
21:11
The men of his city, even the elders dogs will eat he who dies of Ahab in the city;
k 21:21 or, male
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and the birds of the sky will eat he who dies in the king of Judah were sitting each on his
the field.” throne, arrayed in their robes, in an open place
21:25
But there was none like Ahab, who sold at the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all
himself to do that which was evil in the sight the prophets were prophesying before them.
22:11
of the LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him
up. 21:26 He did very abominably in following horns of iron, and said, “Thus says the LORD,
idols, according to all that the Amorites did, ‘With these you shall push the Syrians, until
whom the LORD cast out before the children they are consumed.’” 22:12 All the prophets
of Israel. 21:27 It happened, when Ahab heard prophesied so, saying, “Go up to Ramoth
those words, that he tore his clothes, and put Gilead, and prosper; for the LORD will deliver
sackcloth on his flesh, and fasted, and lay in it into the hand of the king.”
22:13
sackcloth, and went softly. The messenger who went to call Mi-
21:28
The word of the LORD came to Elijah caiah spoke to him, saying, “See now, the
the Tishbite, saying, 21:29 “See how Ahab hum- prophets declare good to the king with one
bles himself before me? Because he humbles mouth. Please let your word be like the word
himself before me, I will not bring the evil in of one of them, and speak good.”
22:14
his days; but in his son’s days will I bring the Micaiah said, “As the LORD lives, what
evil on his house.” the LORD says to me, that I will speak.”
22:1 22:15
They continued three years without war When he had come to the king, the king
between Syria and Israel. 22:2 It happened in the said to him, “Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth
third year, that Jehoshaphat the king of Judah Gilead to battle, or shall we forbear?”
came down to the king of Israel. 22:3 The king He answered him, “Go up and prosper; and
of Israel said to his servants, “You know that the LORD will deliver it into the hand of the
Ramoth Gilead is ours, and we are still, and king.” 22:16 The king said to him, “How many
don’t take it out of the hand of the king of times do I have to adjure you that you speak
Syria?” 22:4 He said to Jehoshaphat, “Will you to me nothing but the truth in the name of the
go with me to battle to Ramoth Gilead?” LORD?”
Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, “I 22:17
He said, “I saw all Israel scattered on
am as you are, my people as your people, my the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd.
horses as your horses.” 22:5 Jehoshaphat said to The LORD said, ‘These have no master. Let
the king of Israel, “Please inquire first for the them each return to his house in peace.’”
word of the LORD.” 22:18
The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat,
22:6
Then the king of Israel gathered the “Didn’t I tell you that he would not prophesy
prophets together, about four hundred men, good concerning me, but evil?”
and said to them, “Shall I go against Ramoth 22:19
Micaiah said, “Therefore hear the word
Gilead to battle, or shall I forbear?” of the LORD. I saw the LORD sitting on his
They said, “Go up; for the Lord will deliver throne, and all the army of heaven standing by
it into the hand of the king.” him on his right hand and on his left. 22:20 The
22:7
But Jehoshaphat said, “Isn’t there here a LORD said, ‘Who shall entice Ahab, that he
prophet of the LORD, that we may inquire of may go up and fall at Ramoth Gilead?’ One
him?” said one thing; and another said another. 22:21 A
22:8
The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, spirit came out and stood before the LORD, and
“There is yet one man by whom we may said, ‘I will entice him.’ 22:22 The LORD said to
inquire of the LORD, Micaiah the son of Imlah; him, ‘How?’ He said, ‘I will go out and will be a
but I hate him; for he does not prophesy good lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’ He
concerning me, but evil.” said, ‘You will entice him, and will also prevail.
Jehoshaphat said, “Don’t let the king say Go out and do so.’ 22:23 Now therefore, behold,
so.” the LORD has put a lying spirit in the mouth
22:9
Then the king of Israel called an officer, of all these your prophets; and the LORD has
and said, “Quickly get Micaiah the son of spoken evil concerning you.”
22:24
Imlah.” Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah
22:10
Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat came near, and struck Micaiah on the cheek,
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and said, “Which way did the Spirit of the all that he did, and the ivory house which he
LORD go from me to speak to you?” built, and all the cities that he built, aren’t
22:25 they written in the book of the chronicles of
Micaiah said, “Behold, you will see on
that day, when you go into an inner room to the kings of Israel? 22:40 So Ahab slept with
hide yourself.” his fathers; and Ahaziah his son reigned in
22:26
The king of Israel said, “Take Micaiah, his place. 22:41 Jehoshaphat the son of Asa
and carry him back to Amon the governor of began to reign over Judah in the fourth year
the city, and to Joash the king’s son. 22:27 Say, of Ahab king of Israel. 22:42 Jehoshaphat was
‘Thus says the king, “Put this fellow in the thirty-five years old when he began to reign;
prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem.
and with water of affliction, until I come in His mother’s name was Azubah the daughter
peace.”’” of Shilhi. 22:43 He walked in all the way of
22:28
Micaiah said, “If you return at all in Asa his father; He didn’t turn aside from it,
peace, the LORD has not spoken by me.” He doing that which was right in the eyes of the
said, “Listen, all you people!” LORD: however the high places were not taken
22:29
So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat away; the people still sacrificed and burnt
the king of Judah went up to Ramoth Gilead. incense in the high places. 22:44 Jehoshaphat
22:30
The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “I made peace with the king of Israel. 22:45 Now
will disguise myself, and go into the battle; but the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his
you put on your robes.” The king of Israel might that he showed, and how he warred,
disguised himself, and went into the battle. aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles
22:31 of the kings of Judah? 22:46 The remnant of
Now the king of Syria had commanded
the sodomites, that remained in the days of
the thirty-two captains of his chariots, saying,
his father Asa, he put away out of the land.
Fight neither with small nor great, except only 22:47
There was no king in Edom: a deputy
with the king of Israel. 22:32 It happened, when
was king. 22:48 Jehoshaphat made ships of
the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat,
Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold: but they
that they said, “Surely that is the king of Israel!”
didn’t go; for the ships were broken at Ezion
and they turned aside to fight against him.
Geber. 22:49 Then Ahaziah the son of Ahab said
Jehoshaphat cried out. 22:33 It happened, when
to Jehoshaphat, “Let my servants go with your
the captains of the chariots saw that it was not
servants in the ships.” But Jehoshaphat would
the king of Israel, that they turned back from
not. 22:50 Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and
pursuing him. 22:34 A certain man drew his
was buried with his fathers in the city of David
bow at random, and struck the king of Israel
his father; Jehoram his son reigned in his place.
between the joints of the armor. Therefore he 22:51
Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign
said to the driver of his chariot, “Turn your
over Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year
hand, and carry me out of the battle; for I am
of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and he reigned
severely wounded.” 22:35 The battle increased
two years over Israel. 22:52 He did that which
that day. The king was propped up in his
was evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked
chariot facing the Syrians, and died at evening.
in the way of his father, and in the way of his
The blood ran out of the wound into the bottom
mother, and in the way of Jeroboam the son of
of the chariot. 22:36 A cry went throughout the
Nebat, in which he made Israel to sin. 22:53 He
army about the going down of the sun, saying,
served Baal, and worshiped him, and provoked
“Every man to his city, and every man to his
to anger the LORD, the God of Israel, according
country!”
22:37 to all that his father had done.
So the king died, and was brought to
Samaria; and they buried the king in Samaria.
22:38
They washed the chariot by the pool of
Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood
where the prostitutes washed themselves; ac-
cording to the word of the LORD which he
spoke.
22:39
Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and
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The Second Book of 1:12


Elijah answered them, “If I am a man
Kings of God, let fire come down from the sky, and
consume you and your fifty!” The fire of God
1:1
Moab rebelled against Israel after the came down from the sky, and consumed him
death of Ahab. 1:2 Ahaziah fell down through and his fifty.
1:13
the lattice in his upper room that was in Again he sent the captain of a third fifty
Samaria, and was sick. So he sent messengers, with his fifty. The third captain of fifty went
and said to them, “Go, inquire of Baal Zebub, up, and came and fell on his knees before Elijah,
the god of Ekron, whether I will recover of this and begged him, and said to him, “Man of God,
sickness.” please let my life, and the life of these fifty your
1:3
But the angel of the LORDa said to Elijah servants, be precious in your sight. 1:14 Behold,
the Tishbite, “Arise, go up to meet the messen- fire came down from the sky, and consumed the
gers of the king of Samaria, and tell them, ‘Is two former captains of fifty with their fifties.
it because there is no Godb in Israel, that you But now let my life be precious in your sight.”
1:15
go to inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron? The angel of the LORD said to Elijah, “Go
1:4 down with him. Don’t be afraid of him.”
Now therefore thus says the LORD, “You
shall not come down from the bed where you He arose, and went down with him to the
have gone up, but shall surely die.”’” Elijah king. 1:16 He said to him, “Thus says the LORD,
departed. ‘Because you have sent messengers to inquire
1:5 of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron, is it because
The messengers returned to him, and
he said to them, “Why is it that you have there is no God in Israel to inquire of his word?
returned?” Therefore you shall not come down from the
1:6 bed where you have gone up, but shall surely
They said to him, “A man came up to
meet us, and said to us, ‘Go, return to the king die.’”
1:17
who sent you, and tell him, “Thus says the So he died according to the word of
LORD, ‘Is it because there is no God in Israel, the LORD which Elijah had spoken. Jehoram
that you send to inquire of Baal Zebub, the god began to reign in his place in the second year of
of Ekron? Therefore you shall not come down Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah;
from the bed where you have gone up, but shall because he had no son. 1:18 Now the rest of
surely die.’”’” the acts of Ahaziah which he did, aren’t they
1:7 written in the book of the chronicles of the
He said to them, “What kind of man was
he who came up to meet you, and told you kings of Israel?
2:1
these words?” It happened, when the LORD would take
1:8 up Elijah by a whirlwind into heaven, that
They answered him, “He was a hairy
man, and wearing a leather belt around his Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal. 2:2 Elijah
waist.” said to Elisha, “Please wait here, for the LORD
He said, “It is Elijah the Tishbite.” has sent me as far as Bethel.”
1:9 Elisha said, “As the LORD lives, and as your
Then the king sent a captain of fifty with
his fifty to him. He went up to him; and behold, soul lives, I will not leave you.” So they went
he was sitting on the top of the hill. He said down to Bethel.
2:3
to him, “Man of God, the king has said, ‘Come The sons of the prophets who were at
down!’” Bethel came out to Elisha, and said to him, “Do
1:10 you know that the LORD will take away your
Elijah answered to the captain of fifty, “If
I am a man of God, let fire come down from master from your head today?”
the sky, and consume you and your fifty!” Fire He said, “Yes, I know it; hold your peace.”
2:4
came down from the sky, and consumed him Elijah said to him, “Elisha, please wait
and his fifty. here, for the LORD has sent me to Jericho.”
1:11
Again he sent to him another captain of He said, “As the LORD lives, and as your
fifty and his fifty. He answered him, “Man of soul lives, I will not leave you.” So they came
God, the king has said, ‘Come down quickly!’” to Jericho.
a 1:3 “LORD” or “GOD” (all capital letters) indicate the 4-letter Holy Name of God
b 1:3 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “Elohim.”
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2:5
The sons of the prophets who were at They sent therefore fifty men; and they
Jericho came near to Elisha, and said to him, searched for three days, but didn’t find him.
2:18
“Do you know that the LORD will take away They came back to him, while he stayed at
your master from your head today?” Jericho; and he said to them, “Didn’t I tell you,
He answered, “Yes, I know it. Hold your ‘Don’t go?’”
2:19
peace.” The men of the city said to Elisha,
2:6
Elijah said to him, “Please wait here, for “Behold, please, the situation of this city is
the LORD has sent me to the Jordan.” pleasant, as my lord sees; but the water is bad,
He said, “As the LORD lives, and as your and the land miscarries.”
2:20
soul lives, I will not leave you.” They both went He said, “Bring me a new jar, and put
on. 2:7 Fifty men of the sons of the prophets salt in it.” They brought it to him. 2:21 He went
went, and stood opposite them at a distance; out to the spring of the waters, and threw salt
and they both stood by the Jordan. 2:8 Elijah into it, and said, “Thus says the LORD, ‘I have
took his mantle, and wrapped it together, and healed these waters. There shall not be from
struck the waters, and they were divided here there any more death or miscarrying.’” 2:22 So
and there, so that they two went over on dry the waters were healed to this day, according to
ground. 2:9 It happened, when they had gone the word of Elisha which he spoke.
over, that Elijah said to Elisha, “Ask what I shall 2:23
He went up from there to Bethel. As
do for you, before I am taken from you.” he was going up by the way, some youths
Elisha said, “Please let a double portion of came out of the city and mocked him, and
your spirit be on me.” said to him, “Go up, you baldy! Go up, you
2:10
He said, “You have asked a hard thing. If baldhead!” 2:24 He looked behind him and
you see me when I am taken from you, it shall saw them, and cursed them in the name of
be so for you; but if not, it shall not be so.” the LORD. Two female bears came out of the
2:11
It happened, as they still went on, and woods, and mauled forty-two of those youths.
2:25
talked, that behold, a chariot of fire and horses He went from there to Mount Carmel, and
of fire separated them; and Elijah went up by a from there he returned to Samaria.
whirlwind into heaven. 2:12 Elisha saw it, and 3:1
Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to
he cried, “My father, my father, the chariots of reign over Israel in Samaria in the eighteenth
Israel and its horsemen!” year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned
He saw him no more: and he took hold of twelve years. 3:2 He did that which was evil
his own clothes, and tore them in two pieces. in the sight of the LORD, but not like his
2:13
He took up also the mantle of Elijah that father, and like his mother; for he put away
fell from him, and went back, and stood by the the pillar of Baal that his father had made.
bank of the Jordan. 2:14 He took the mantle of 3:3
Nevertheless he held to the sins of Jeroboam
Elijah that fell from him, and struck the waters, the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to
and said, “Where is the LORD, the God of sin; he didn’t depart from it. 3:4 Now Mesha
Elijah?” When he also had struck the waters, king of Moab was a sheep breeder; and he
they were divided here and there; and Elisha rendered to the king of Israel the wool of one
went over. 2:15 When the sons of the prophets hundred thousand lambs, and of one hundred
who were at Jericho over against him saw him, thousand rams. 3:5 But it happened, when
they said, “The spirit of Elijah rests on Elisha.” Ahab was dead, that the king of Moab rebelled
They came to meet him, and bowed themselves against the king of Israel. 3:6 King Jehoram went
to the ground before him. 2:16 They said to him, out of Samaria at that time, and mustered all
“See now, there are with your servants fifty Israel. 3:7 He went and sent to Jehoshaphat
strong men. Please let them go and seek your the king of Judah, saying, “The king of Moab
master. Perhaps the Spirit of the LORD has has rebelled against me. Will you go with me
taken him up, and put him on some mountain, against Moab to battle?”
or into some valley. He said, “I will go up. I am as you are,
He said, “You shall not send them.” my people as your people, my horses as your
2:17
When they urged him until he was horses.” 3:8 He said, “Which way shall we go
ashamed, he said, “Send them.” up?”
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He answered, “The way of the wilderness of stood on the border. 3:22 They rose up early in
Edom.” 3:9 So the king of Israel went, and the the morning, and the sun shone on the water,
king of Judah, and the king of Edom; and they and the Moabites saw the water over against
made a circuit of seven days’ journey. There them as red as blood. 3:23 They said, “This is
was no water for the army, nor for the animals blood. The kings are surely destroyed, and they
that followed them. 3:10 The king of Israel said, have struck each other. Now therefore, Moab,
“Alas! For the LORD has called these three to the spoil!”
kings together to deliver them into the hand of 3:24
When they came to the camp of Israel,
Moab.” the Israelites rose up and struck the Moabites,
3:11
But Jehoshaphat said, “Isn’t there here a so that they fled before them; and they went
prophet of the LORD, that we may inquire of forward into the land smiting the Moabites.
3:25
the LORD by him?” They beat down the cities; and on every
One of the king of Israel’s servants an- good piece of land they cast every man his
swered, “Elisha the son of Shaphat is here, who stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the
poured water on the hands of Elijah.” springs of water, and felled all the good trees,
3:12 until in Kir Hareseth only they left its stones;
Jehoshaphat said, “The word of the
LORD is with him.” So the king of Israel and however the men armed with slings went about
Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down it, and struck it. 3:26 When the king of Moab saw
to him. that the battle was too severe for him, he took
3:13
Elisha said to the king of Israel, “What with him seven hundred men who drew sword,
have I to do with you? Go to the prophets to break through to the king of Edom; but they
of your father, and to the prophets of your could not. 3:27 Then he took his eldest son who
mother.” would have reigned in his place, and offered
The king of Israel said to him, “No; for the him for a burnt offering on the wall. There was
LORD has called these three kings together to great wrath against Israel: and they departed
deliver them into the hand of Moab.” 3:14 Elisha from him, and returned to their own land.
4:1
said, “As the LORD of Hosts lives, before Now there cried a certain woman of the
whom I stand, surely, were it not that I respect wives of the sons of the prophets to Elisha,
the presence of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, saying, “Your servant my husband is dead. You
I would not look toward you, nor see you. know that your servant feared the LORD. Now
3:15
But now bring me a minstrel.” It happened, the creditor has come to take for himself my
when the minstrel played, that the hand of the two children to be slaves.”
4:2
LORD came on him. 3:16 He said, “Thus says Elisha said to her, “What shall I do for
the LORD, ‘Make this valley full of trenches.’ you? Tell me: what do you have in the house?”
3:17 She said, “Your handmaid has nothing in the
For thus says the LORD, ‘You will not see
wind, neither will you see rain; yet that valley house, except a pot of oil.”
4:3
shall be filled with water, and you will drink, Then he said, “Go, borrow containers
both you and your livestock and your animals. from of all your neighbors, even empty contain-
3:18
This is but a light thing in the sight of the ers. Don’t borrow just a few. 4:4 You shall go in,
LORD. He will also deliver the Moabites into and shut the door on you and on your sons, and
your hand. 3:19 You shall strike every fortified pour out into all those containers; and you shall
city, and every choice city, and shall fell every set aside that which is full.”
4:5
good tree, and stop all springs of water, and So she went from him, and shut the
mar every good piece of land with stones.’” door on her and on her sons; they brought
3:20
It happened in the morning, about the the containers to her, and she poured out.
4:6
time of offering the offering, that behold, water It happened, when the containers were full,
came by the way of Edom, and the country was that she said to her son, “Bring me another
filled with water. container.”
3:21 He said to her, “There isn’t another con-
Now when all the Moabites heard that
the kings had come up to fight against them, tainer.” The oil stopped flowing.
4:7
they gathered themselves together, all who Then she came and told the man of God.
were able to put on armor, and upward, and He said, “Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt;
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and you and your sons live on the rest.” She said, “It’s alright.”
4:8 4:24
It fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Then she saddled a donkey, and said to
Shunem, where there was a prominent woman; her servant, “Drive, and go forward! Don’t
and she persuaded him to eat bread. So it was, slow down for me, unless I ask you to.”
4:25
that as often as he passed by, he turned in there So she went, and came to the man of God
to eat bread. 4:9 She said to her husband, “See to Mount Carmel. It happened, when the man
now, I perceive that this is a holy man of God, of God saw her afar off, that he said to Gehazi
that passes by us continually. 4:10 Please let us his servant, “Behold, there is the Shunammite.
4:26
make a little room on the wall. Let us set for Please run now to meet her, and ask her, ‘Is
him there a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp it well with you? Is it well with your husband?
stand. It shall be, when he comes to us, that Is it well with the child?’”
he shall turn in there.” She answered, “It is well.”
4:11 4:27
One day he came there, and he turned When she came to the man of God to the
into the room and lay there. 4:12 He said to hill, she caught hold of his feet. Gehazi came
Gehazi his servant, “Call this Shunammite.” near to thrust her away; but the man of God
When he had called her, she stood before him. said, “Leave her alone; for her soul is troubled
4:13
He said to him, “Say now to her, ‘Behold, within her; and the LORD has hidden it from
you have cared for us with all this care. What me, and has not told me.”
is to be done for you? Would you like to be 4:28
Then she said, “Did I desire a son of my
spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the lord? Didn’t I say, Do not deceive me?”
army?’” 4:29
Then he said to Gehazi, “Tuck your cloak
She answered, “I dwell among my own into your belt, take my staff in your hand, and
people.” go your way. If you meet any man, don’t greet
4:14
He said, “What then is to be done for him; and if anyone greets you, don’t answer
her?” him again. Then lay my staff on the face of the
Gehazi answered, “Most certainly she has child.”
no son, and her husband is old.” 4:30
The mother of the child said, “As the
4:15
He said, “Call her.” When he had called LORD lives, and as your soul lives, I will not
her, she stood in the door. 4:16 He said, “At this leave you.”
season, when the time comes around, you will He arose, and followed her.
embrace a son.” 4:31
Gehazi passed on before them, and laid
She said, “No, my lord, you man of God, do the staff on the face of the child; but there
not lie to your handmaid.” was neither voice, nor hearing. Therefore he
4:17
The woman conceived, and bore a son returned to meet him, and told him, saying,
at that season, when the time came around, as “The child has not awakened.”
Elisha had said to her. 4:18 When the child was 4:32
When Elisha had come into the house,
grown, it happened one day that he went out behold, the child was dead, and laid on his
to his father to the reapers. 4:19 He said to his bed. 4:33 He went in therefore, and shut the
father, “My head! My head!” door on them both, and prayed to the LORD.
4:34
He said to his servant, “Carry him to his He went up, and lay on the child, and put
mother.” his mouth on his mouth, and his eyes on his
4:20
When he had taken him, and brought eyes, and his hands on his hands. He stretched
him to his mother, he sat on her knees until himself on him; and the flesh of the child grew
noon, and then died. 4:21 She went up and laid warm. 4:35 Then he returned, and walked in
him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the the house once back and forth; and went up,
door on him, and went out. 4:22 She called to and stretched himself on him. Then the child
her husband, and said, “Please send me one of sneezed seven times, and the child opened his
the servants, and one of the donkeys, that I may eyes. 4:36 He called Gehazi, and said, “Call this
run to the man of God, and come again.” Shunammite!” So he called her.
4:23
He said, “Why would you want go to When she had come in to him, he said, “Take
him today? It is neither new moon nor Sab- up your son.”
4:37
bath.” Then she went in, and fell at his feet, and
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bowed herself to the ground; and she took up letter to the king of Israel, saying, “Now when
her son, and went out. this letter has come to you, behold, I have sent
4:38
Elisha came again to Gilgal. There was a Naaman my servant to you, that you may heal
famine in the land; and the sons of the prophets him of his leprosy.”
5:7
were sitting before him; and he said to his It happened, when the king of Israel had
servant, “Set on the great pot, and boil stew for read the letter, that he tore his clothes, and said,
the sons of the prophets.” “Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this
4:39
One went out into the field to gather man sends to me to heal a man of his leprosy?
herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered But please consider and see how he seeks a
of it wild gourds his lap full, and came and quarrel against me.”
5:8
shred them into the pot of stew; for they didn’t It was so, when Elisha the man of God
recognize them. 4:40 So they poured out for the heard that the king of Israel had torn his
men to eat. It happened, as they were eating of clothes, that he sent to the king, saying, “Why
the stew, that they cried out, and said, “Man of have you torn your clothes? Let him come now
God, there is death in the pot!” They could not to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet
eat of it. in Israel.”
4:41 5:9
But he said, “Then bring meal.” He cast So Naaman came with his horses and
it into the pot; and he said, “Pour out for the with his chariots, and stood at the door of the
people, that they may eat.” There was no harm house of Elisha. 5:10 Elisha sent a messenger to
in the pot. him, saying, “Go and wash in the Jordan seven
4:42
A man from Baal Shalishah came, and times, and your flesh shall come again to you,
brought the man of God bread of the first fruits, and you shall be clean.”
twenty loaves of barley, and fresh ears of grain 5:11
But Naaman was angry, and went away,
in his sack. He said, “Give to the people, that and said, “Behold, I thought, ‘He will surely
they may eat.” come out to me, and stand, and call on the
4:43
His servant said, “What, should I set this name of the LORD his God, and wave his hand
before a hundred men?” over the place, and heal the leper.’ 5:12 Aren’t
But he said, “Give the people, that they may Abanah and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus,
eat; for thus says the LORD, ‘They will eat, and better than all the waters of Israel? Couldn’t I
will have some left over.’” wash in them, and be clean?” So he turned and
4:44 went away in a rage.
So he set it before them, and they ate,
5:13
and left some of it, according to the word of the His servants came near, and spoke to
LORD. him, and said, “My father, if the prophet had
5:1
Now Naaman, captain of the army of the asked you do some great thing, wouldn’t you
king of Syria, was a great man with his master, have done it? How much rather then, when he
and honorable, because by him the LORD had says to you, ‘Wash, and be clean?’”
5:14
given victory to Syria: he was also a mighty Then went he down, and dipped himself
man of valor, but he was a leper. 5:2 The Syrians seven times in the Jordan, according to the
had gone out in bands, and had brought away saying of the man of God; and his flesh was
captive out of Eretz-Israel a little maiden; and restored like the flesh of a little child, and he
she waited on Naaman’s wife. 5:3 She said to was clean. 5:15 He returned to the man of God,
her mistress, “I wish that my lord were with the he and all his company, and came, and stood
prophet who is in Samaria! Then he would heal before him; and he said, “See now, I know that
him of his leprosy.” there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel.
5:4
Someone went in, and told his lord, say- Now therefore, please take a gift from your
ing, “The maiden who is from Eretz-Israel said servant.”
5:16
this.” But he said, “As the LORD lives, before
5:5
The king of Syria said, “Go now, and I will whom I stand, I will receive none.”
send a letter to the king of Israel.” He urged him to take it; but he refused.
5:17
He departed, and took with him ten talents Naaman said, “If not, then, please let two
of silver, and six thousand pieces of gold, and mules’ burden of earth be given to your ser-
ten changes of clothing. 5:6 He brought the vant; for your servant will from now on offer
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neither burnt offering nor sacrifice to other dwell.”


gods, but to the LORD. 5:18 In this thing may the He answered, “Go!”
LORD pardon your servant: when my master 6:3
One said, “Please be pleased to go with
goes into the house of Rimmon to worship your servants.”
there, and he leans on my hand, and I bow He answered, “I will go.” 6:4 So he went
myself in the house of Rimmon. When I bow with them. When they came to the Jordan, they
myself in the house of Rimmon, may the LORD cut down wood. 6:5 But as one was felling a
pardon your servant in this thing.” beam, the axe head fell into the water. Then
5:19
He said to him, “Go in peace.” he cried, and said, “Alas, my master! For it was
So he departed from him a little way. 5:20 But borrowed.”
Gehazi the servant of Elisha the man of God, 6:6
The man of God asked, “Where did it
said, “Behold, my master has spared this Naa- fall?” He showed him the place. He cut down a
man the Syrian, in not receiving at his hands stick, threw it in there, and made the iron float.
that which he brought. As the LORD lives, I 6:7
He said, “Take it.” So he put out his hand
will run after him, and take something from and took it.
him.” 6:8
Now the king of Syria was warring
5:21
So Gehazi followed after Naaman. When against Israel; and he took counsel with his
Naaman saw one running after him, he came servants, saying, “My camp will be in such and
down from the chariot to meet him, and said, such a place.”
“Is all well?” 6:9
The man of God sent to the king of Israel,
5:22
He said, “All is well. My master has saying, “Beware that you not pass such a
sent me, saying, ‘Behold, even now two young place; for the Syrians are coming down there.”
6:10
men of the sons of the prophets have come to The king of Israel sent to the place which
me from the hill country of Ephraim. Please the man of God told him and warned him of;
give them a talent of silver and two changes of and he saved himself there, not once nor twice.
6:11
clothing.’” The heart of the king of Syria was very
5:23
Naaman said, “Be pleased to take two troubled about this. He called his servants, and
talents.” He urged him, and bound two talents said to them, “Won’t you show me which of us
of silver in two bags, with two changes of is for the king of Israel?”
6:12
clothing, and laid them on two of his servants; One of his servants said, “No, my lord,
and they carried them before him. 5:24 When he O king; but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel,
came to the hill, he took them from their hand, tells the king of Israel the words that you speak
and stored them in the house. Then he let the in your bedroom.”
men go, and they departed. 5:25 But he went in, 6:13
He said, “Go and see where he is, that I
and stood before his master. Elisha said to him, may send and get him.”
“Where did you come from, Gehazi?” It was told him, saying, “Behold, he is in
He said, “Your servant went nowhere.” Dothan.”
5:26 6:14
He said to him, “Didn’t my heart go with Therefore he sent horses, chariots, and
you, when the man turned from his chariot a great army there. They came by night, and
to meet you? Is it a time to receive money, surrounded the city. 6:15 When the servant of
and to receive garments, and olive groves and the man of God had risen early, and gone out,
vineyards, and sheep and cattle, and male behold, an army with horses and chariots was
servants and female servants? 5:27 Therefore the around the city. His servant said to him, “Alas,
leprosy of Naaman will cling to you and to your my master! What shall we do?”
seed forever.” 6:16
He answered, “Don’t be afraid; for those
He went out from his presence a leper, as who are with us are more than those who
white as snow. are with them.” 6:17 Elisha prayed, and said,
6:1
The sons of the prophets said to Elisha, “LORD, please open his eyes, that he may
“See now, the place where we dwell before you see.” the LORD opened the eyes of the young
is too small for us. 6:2 Please let us go to the man; and he saw: and behold, the mountain
Jordan, and every man take a beam from there, was full of horses and chariots of fire around
and let us make us a place there, where we may Elisha. 6:18 When they came down to him,
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Elisha prayed to the LORD, and said, “Please the elders were sitting with him. Then the king
strike this people with blindness.” sent a man from before him; but before the
He struck them with blindness according to messenger came to him, he said to the elders,
the word of Elisha. 6:19 Elisha said to them, “Do you see how this son of a murderer has
“This is not the way, neither is this the city. sent to take away my head? Behold, when the
Follow me, and I will bring you to the man messenger comes, shut the door, and hold the
whom you seek.” He led them to Samaria. door shut against him. Isn’t the sound of his
6:20
It happened, when they had come into master’s feet behind him?”
6:33
Samaria, that Elisha said, “LORD, open the While he was still talking with them,
eyes of these men, that they may see.” behold, the messenger came down to him.
The LORD opened their eyes, and they saw; Then he said, “Behold, this evil is from the
and behold, they were in the midst of Samaria. LORD. Why should I wait for the LORD any
6:21
The king of Israel said to Elisha, when he longer?”
7:1
saw them, “My father, shall I strike them? Shall Elisha said, “Hear the word of the LORD.
I strike them?” Thus says the LORD, ‘Tomorrow about this
6:22
He answered, “You shall not strike them. time a measure of fine flour will be sold for a
Would you strike those whom you have taken shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel,
captive with your sword and with your bow? in the gate of Samaria.’”
7:2
Set bread and water before them, that they may Then the captain on whose hand the
eat and drink, and go to their master.” king leaned answered the man of God, and
6:23
He prepared great feast for them. When said, “Behold, if the LORD made windows in
they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, heaven, could this thing be?”
and they went to their master. The bands of He said, “Behold, you shall see it with your
Syria stopped raiding Eretz-Israel. eyes, but shall not eat of it.”
6:24 7:3
It happened after this, that Benhadad Now there were four leprous men at the
king of Syria gathered all his army, and went entrance of the gate. They said one to another,
up and besieged Samaria. 6:25 There was a great “Why do we sit here until we die? 7:4 If we say,
famine in Samaria. Behold, they besieged it, ‘We will enter into the city,’ then the famine is
until a donkey’s head was sold for eighty pieces in the city, and we shall die there. If we sit still
of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove’s here, we also die. Now therefore come, and let
dung for five pieces of silver. 6:26 As the king us surrender to the army of the Syrians. If they
of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman save us alive, we will live; and if they kill us,
cried to him, saying, “Help, my lord, O king!” we will only die.”
6:27 7:5
He said, “If the LORD doesn’t help They rose up in the twilight, to go to the
you, from where could I help you? From of camp of the Syrians. When they had come to
the threshing floor, or from the winepress?” the outermost part of the camp of the Syrians,
6:28
The king said to her, “What ails you?” behold, there was no man there. 7:6 For the
She answered, “This woman said to me, Lordc had made the army of the Syrians to
‘Give your son, that we may eat him today, and hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses,
we will eat my son tomorrow.’ 6:29 So we boiled even the noise of a great army: and they said
my son, and ate him: and I said to her on the one to another, Behold, the king of Israel has
next day, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him;’ hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and
and she has hidden her son.” the kings of the Egyptians, to come on us.
6:30 7:7
It happened, when the king heard the Therefore they arose and fled in the twilight,
words of the woman, that he tore his clothes and left their tents, and their horses, and their
(now he was passing by on the wall); and the donkeys, even the camp as it was, and fled
people looked, and behold, he had sackcloth for their life. 7:8 When these lepers came to
underneath on his flesh. 6:31 Then he said, “God the outermost part of the camp, they went into
do so to me, and more also, if the head of Elisha one tent, and ate and drink, and carried there
the son of Shaphat shall stay on him this day.” silver, and gold, and clothing, and went and
6:32
But Elisha was sitting in his house, and hid it. Then they came back, and entered into
c 7:6 The word translated “Lord” (mixed case) is “Adonai.”
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another tent, and carried there also, and went “Behold, you shall see it with your eyes, but
and hid it. 7:9 Then they said one to another, shall not eat of it.” 7:20 It happened like that to
“We aren’t doing right. This day is a day of him; for the people trod on him in the gate, and
good news, and we keep silent. If we wait until he died.
the morning light, punishment will overtake 8:1
Now Elisha had spoken to the woman,
us. Now therefore come, let us go and tell the whose son he had restored to life, saying,
king’s household.” “Arise, and go, you and your household, and
7:10
So they came and called to the porter of stay for a while wherever you can; for the
the city; and they told them, saying, “We came LORD has called for a famine. It shall also come
to the camp of the Syrians, and, behold, there on the land seven years.”
8:2
was no man there, neither voice of man, but the The woman arose, and did according to
horses tied, and the donkeys tied, and the tents the word of the man of God. She went with
as they were.” her household, and lived in the land of the
7:11
He called the porters; and they told it Philistines seven years. 8:3 It happened at the
to the king’s household within. 7:12 The king seven years’ end, that the woman returned out
arose in the night, and said to his servants, of the land of the Philistines. Then she went
“I will now show you what the Syrians have forth to cry to the king for her house and for
done to us. They know that we are hungry. her land. 8:4 Now the king was talking with
Therefore are they gone out of the camp to Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying,
hide themselves in the field, saying, ‘When they “Please tell me all the great things that Elisha
come out of the city, we shall take them alive, has done.” 8:5 It happened, as he was telling
and get into the city.’” the king how he had restored to life him who
7:13 was dead, that behold, the woman, whose son
One of his servants answered, “Please let
some take five of the horses that remain, which he had restored to life, cried to the king for her
are left in the city. Behold, they are like all the house and for her land. Gehazi said, “My lord,
multitude of Israel who are left in it. Behold, O king, this is the woman, and this is her son,
they are like all the multitude of Israel who are whom Elisha restored to life.”
8:6
consumed. Let us send and see.” When the king asked the woman, she told
7:14
They took therefore two chariots with him. So the king appointed to her a certain
horses; and the king sent after the army of the officer, saying, “Restore all that was hers, and
Syrians, saying, “Go and see.” all the fruits of the field since the day that she
7:15
They went after them to the Jordan; and left the land, even until now.”
8:7
behold, all the way was full of garments and Elisha came to Damascus; and Benhadad
vessels, which the Syrians had cast away in the king of Syria was sick. It was told him,
their haste. The messengers returned, and told saying, “The man of God has come here.”
8:8
the king. 7:16 The people went out, and plun- The king said to Hazael, “Take a present
dered the camp of the Syrians. So a measure in your hand, and go, meet the man of God,
of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two and inquire of the LORD by him, saying, ‘Will I
measures of barley for a shekel, according to recover from this sickness?’”
8:9
the word of the LORD. 7:17 The king appointed So Hazael went to meet him, and took
the captain on whose hand he leaned to be in a present with him, even of every good thing
charge of the gate: and the people trod on him of Damascus, forty camels’ burden, and came
in the gate, and he died as the man of God had and stood before him, and said, “Your son
said, who spoke when the king came down to Benhadad king of Syria has sent me to you,
him. 7:18 It happened, as the man of God had saying, ‘Will I recover from this sickness?’”
8:10
spoken to the king, saying, “Two measures of Elisha said to him, “Go, tell him, ‘You
barley for a shekel, and a measure of fine flour shall surely recover;’ however the LORD has
for a shekel, shall be tomorrow about this time shown me that he shall surely die.” 8:11 He
in the gate of Samaria”; 7:19 and that captain settled his gaze steadfastly on him, until he was
answered the man of God, and said, “Now, ashamed. Then the man of God wept.
8:12
behold, if the LORD should make windows in Hazael said, “Why do you weep, my
heaven, might such a thing be?” and he said, lord?”
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He answered, “Because I know the evil that when he began to reign; and he reigned one
you will do to the children of Israel. You will set year in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was
their strongholds on fire, and you will kill their Athaliah the daughter of Omri king of Israel.
8:27
young men with the sword, and will dash in He walked in the way of the house of Ahab,
pieces their little ones, and rip up their women and did that which was evil in the sight of the
with child.” LORD, as did the house of Ahab; for he was
8:13
Hazael said, “But what is your servant, the son-in-law of the house of Ahab. 8:28 He
who is but a dog, that he should do this great went with Joram the son of Ahab to war against
thing?” Hazael king of Syria at Ramoth Gilead: and
Elisha answered, “The LORD has shown me the Syrians wounded Joram. 8:29 King Joram
that you will be king over Syria.” returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds
8:14
Then he departed from Elisha, and came which the Syrians had given him at Ramah,
to his master, who said to him, “What did when he fought against Hazael king of Syria.
Elisha say to you?” Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went
He answered, “He told me that you would down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel,
surely recover.” because he was sick.
8:15 9:1
It happened on the next day, that he took Elisha the prophet called one of the sons
a thick cloth, dipped it in water, and spread of the prophets, and said to him, “Put your belt
it on his face, so that he died. Then Hazael on your waist, take this vial of oil in your hand,
reigned in his place. and go to Ramoth Gilead. 9:2 When you come
8:16 there, find Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son
In the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab
king of Israel, Jehoshaphat being king of Judah of Nimshi, and go in, and make him arise up
then, Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of from among his brothers, and carry him to an
Judah began to reign. 8:17 He was thirty-two inner room. 9:3 Then take the vial of oil, and
years old when he began to reign. He reigned pour it on his head, and say, ‘Thus says the
eight years in Jerusalem. 8:18 He walked in the LORD, “I have anointed you king over Israel.”’
way of the kings of Israel, as did the house Then open the door, flee, and don’t wait.”
9:4
of Ahab; for he had the daughter of Ahab as So the young man, even the young man
wife. He did that which was evil in the sight of the prophet, went to Ramoth Gilead. 9:5 When
the LORD. 8:19 However the LORD would not he came, behold, the captains of the army were
destroy Judah, for David his servant’s sake, as sitting. Then he said, “I have a message for you,
he promised him to give to him a lamp for his captain.”
children always. Jehu said, “To which of us all?”
8:20
In his days Edom revolted from under He said, “To you, O captain.” 9:6 He arose,
the hand of Judah, and made a king over and went into the house. Then he poured the
themselves. 8:21 Then Joram passed over to oil on his head, and said to him, “Thus says the
Zair, and all his chariots with him: and he LORD, the God of Israel, ‘I have anointed you
rose up by night, and struck the Edomites king over the people of the LORD, even over
who surrounded him, and the captains of the Israel. 9:7 You shall strike the house of Ahab
chariots; and the people fled to their tents. your master, that I may avenge the blood of my
8:22
So Edom revolted from under the hand of servants the prophets, and the blood of all the
Judah to this day. Then Libnah revolted at the servants of the LORD, at the hand of Jezebel.
same time. 8:23 The rest of the acts of Joram, and 9:8
For the whole house of Ahab shall perish. I
all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of will cut off from Ahab everyone who urinates
the chronicles of the kings of Judah? 8:24 Joram against a wall,d both him who is shut up and
slept with his fathers, and was buried with his him who is left at large in Israel. 9:9 I will make
fathers in the city of David; and Ahaziah his the house of Ahab like the house of Jeroboam
son reigned in his place. 8:25 In the twelfth year the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha
of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel, Ahaziah the son of Ahijah. 9:10 The dogs will eat Jezebel
the son of Jehoram king of Judah began to on the plot of ground of Jezreel, and there shall
reign. 8:26 Twenty-two years old was Ahaziah be none to bury her.’” He opened the door, and
d 9:8 or, male
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fled. the Jezreelite. 9:22 It happened, when Joram saw


9:11
Then Jehu came forth to the servants of Jehu, that he said, “Is it peace, Jehu?”
his lord: and one said to him, “Is all well? Why He answered, “What peace, so long as the
did this mad fellow come to you?” prostitution of your mother Jezebel and her
He said to them, “You know the man and witchcraft abound?”
what his talk was.” 9:12 They said, “That is a lie. 9:23
Joram turned his hands, and fled, and
Tell us now.” said to Ahaziah, “There is treason, Ahaziah!”
9:24
He said, “He said to me, ‘Thus says the Jehu drew his bow with his full strength,
LORD, I have anointed you king over Israel.’” and struck Joram between his arms; and the
9:13
Then they hurried, and took every man arrow went out at his heart, and he sunk
his garment, and put it under him on the top of down in his chariot. 9:25 Then Jehu said to
the stairs, and blew the shofare , saying, “Jehu is Bidkar his captain, “Pick him up, and throw
king.” him in the plot of the field of Naboth the
9:14
So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Jezreelite; for remember how, when you and I
Nimshi conspired against Joram. (Now Joram rode together after Ahab his father, the LORD
was keeping Ramoth Gilead, he and all Israel, laid this burden on him: 9:26 ‘Surely I have seen
because of Hazael king of Syria; 9:15 but king yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood
Joram was returned to be healed in Jezreel of of his sons,’ says the LORD; ‘and I will repay
the wounds which the Syrians had given him, you in this plot of ground,’ says the LORD.
when he fought with Hazael king of Syria.) Now therefore take and cast him onto the plot
Jehu said, “If this is your thinking, then let no of ground, according to the word of the LORD.”
9:27
one escape and go out of the city, to go to tell But when Ahaziah the king of Judah
it in Jezreel.” 9:16 So Jehu rode in a chariot, and saw this, he fled by the way of the garden
went to Jezreel; for Joram lay there. Ahaziah house. Jehu followed after him, and said,
king of Judah had come down to see Joram. “Strike him also in the chariot!” They struck
9:17
Now the watchman was standing on the him at the ascent of Gur, which is by Ibleam.
tower in Jezreel, and he spied the company of He fled to Megiddo, and died there. 9:28 His
Jehu as he came, and said, “I see a company.” servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem,
Joram said, “Take a horseman, and send to and buried him in his tomb with his fathers
meet them, and let him say, ‘Is it peace?’” in the city of David. 9:29 In the eleventh year
9:18
So there went one on horseback to meet of Joram the son of Ahab began Ahaziah to
him, and said, “Thus says the king, ‘Is it reign over Judah. 9:30 When Jehu had come to
peace?’” Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her
Jehu said, “What do you have to do with eyes, and attired her head, and looked out at
peace? Fall in behind me!” the window. 9:31 As Jehu entered in at the gate,
The watchman said, “The messenger came she said, “Do you come in peace, Zimri, you
to them, but he isn’t coming back.” murderer of your master?”
9:19 9:32
Then he sent out a second on horseback, He lifted up his face to the window, and
who came to them, and said, “Thus says the said, “Who is on my side? Who?”
king, ‘Is it peace?’” Two or three eunuchs looked out at him.
9:33
Jehu answered, “What do you have to do He said, “Throw her down!”
with peace? Fall in behind me!” So they threw her down; and some of her
9:20
The watchman said, “He came to them, blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the
and isn’t coming back. The driving is like the horses. Then he trampled her under foot.
9:34
driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi; for he drives When he had come in, he ate and drink; and
furiously.” he said, “See now to this cursed woman, and
9:21
Joram said, “Get ready!” bury her; for she is a king’s daughter.”
9:35
They got his chariot ready. Joram king of They went to bury her; but they found no
Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out, more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the
each in his chariot, and they went out to meet palms of her hands. 9:36 Therefore they came
Jehu, and found him in the portion of Naboth back, and told him.
e 9:13 or, trumpet
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10:11
He said, “This is the word of the LORD, So Jehu struck all that remained of the
which he spoke by his servant Elijah the Tish- house of Ahab in Jezreel, with all his great men,
bite, saying, ‘The dogs will eat the flesh of his familiar friends, and his priests, until he left
Jezebel on the plot of Jezreel, 9:37 and the body him none remaining.
10:12
of Jezebel shall be as dung on the face of the He arose and departed, and went to
field in the portion of Jezreel, so that they shall Samaria. As he was at the shearing house of
not say, “This is Jezebel.”’” the shepherds on the way, 10:13 Jehu met with
10:1
Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. the brothers of Ahaziah king of Judah, and said,
Jehu wrote letters, and sent to Samaria, to “Who are you?”
the rulers of Jezreel, even the elders, and They answered, “We are the brothers of
to those who brought up the sons of Ahab, Ahaziah. We are going down to greet the
saying, 10:2 “Now as soon as this letter comes children of the king and the children of the
to you, since your master’s sons are with you, queen.”
and there are with you chariots and horses, a 10:14
He said, “Take them alive!”
fortified city also, and armor. 10:3 Select the best They took them alive, and killed them at the
and fittest of your master’s sons, set him on pit of the shearing house, even forty-two men.
his father’s throne, and fight for your master’s He didn’t leave any of them. 10:15 When he had
house.” departed from there, he met Jehonadab the son
10:4
But they were exceedingly afraid, and of Rechab coming to meet him. He greeted him,
said, “Behold, the two kings didn’t stand before and said to him, “Is your heart right, as my
him! How then shall we stand?” 10:5 He who heart is with your heart?”
was over the household, and he who was over Jehonadab answered, “It is.”
the city, the elders also, and those who raised “If it is, give me your hand.” He gave him
the children, sent to Jehu, saying, “We are your his hand; and he took him up to him into the
servants, and will do all that you ask us. We chariot. 10:16 He said, “Come with me, and see
will not make any man king. You do that which my zeal for the LORD.” So they made him ride
is good in your eyes.” in his chariot. 10:17 When he came to Samaria,
10:6
Then he wrote a letter the second time he struck all who remained to Ahab in Samaria,
to them, saying, “If you are on my side, and until he had destroyed him, according to the
if you will listen to my voice, take the heads of word of the LORD, which he spoke to Elijah.
10:18
the men your master’s sons, and come to me to Jehu gathered all the people together, and
Jezreel by tomorrow this time.” said to them, “Ahab served Baal a little; but
Now the king’s sons, being seventy persons, Jehu will serve him much. 10:19 Now therefore
were with the great men of the city, who call to me all the prophets of Baal, all of his
brought them up. 10:7 It happened, when the worshippers, and all of his priests. Let none
letter came to them, that they took the king’s be absent; for I have a great sacrifice to Baal.
sons, and killed them, even seventy persons, Whoever is absent, he shall not live.” But
and put their heads in baskets, and sent them Jehu did it in subtlety, intending that he might
to him to Jezreel. 10:8 A messenger came, and destroy the worshippers of Baal.
10:20
told him, “They have brought the heads of the Jehu said, “Sanctify a solemn assembly
king’s sons.” for Baal!”
He said, “Lay them in two heaps at the They proclaimed it. 10:21 Jehu sent through
entrance of the gate until the morning.” 10:9 It all Israel; and all the worshippers of Baal came,
happened in the morning, that he went out, so that there was not a man left that didn’t
and stood, and said to all the people, “You come. They came into the house of Baal; and
are righteous. Behold, I conspired against my the house of Baal was filled from one end to
master, and killed him; but who struck all another. 10:22 He said to him who was over the
these? 10:10 Know now that nothing shall fall vestry, “Bring out robes for all the worshippers
to the earth of the word of the LORD, which of Baal!”
the LORD spoke concerning the house of Ahab. He brought robes out to them. 10:23 Jehu
For the LORD has done that which he spoke by went with Jehonadab the son of Rechab into the
his servant Elijah.” house of Baal. Then he said to the worshippers
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of Baal, “Search, and look that there are here and destroyed all the seed royal. 11:2 But
with you none of the servants of the LORD, but Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister
the worshippers of Baal only.” of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and
10:24
They went in to offer sacrifices and stole him away from among the king’s sons
burnt offerings. Now Jehu had appointed him who were slain, even him and his nurse, and
eighty men outside, and said, “If any of the put them in the bedroom; and they hid him
men whom I bring into your hands escape, he from Athaliah, so that he was not slain; 11:3 He
who lets him go, his life shall be for the life of was with her hidden in the house of the LORD
him.” six years. Athaliah reigned over the land. 11:4 In
10:25
It happened, as soon as he had made the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the
an end of offering the burnt offering, that Jehu captains over hundreds of the Carites and of
said to the guard and to the captains, “Go in, the guard, and brought them to him into the
and kill them! Let none escape.” They struck house of the LORD; and he made a covenant
them with the edge of the sword; and the guard with them, and took an oath of them in the
and the captains cast them out, and went to the house of the LORD, and showed them the
city of the house of Baal. 10:26 They brought out king’s son. 11:5 He commanded them, saying,
the pillars that were in the house of Baal, and “This is the thing that you shall do: a third part
burned them. 10:27 They broke down the pillar of you, who come in on the Sabbath, shall be
of Baal, and broke down the house of Baal, and keepers of the watch of the king’s house; 11:6 A
made it a latrine, to this day. 10:28 Thus Jehu third part shall be at the gate Sur; and a third
destroyed Baal out of Israel. part at the gate behind the guard. So you shall
10:29 keep the watch of the house, and be a barrier.
However from the sins of Jeroboam the
11:7
son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin, The two companies of you, even all who go
Jehu didn’t depart from after them, the golden out on the Sabbath, shall keep the watch of the
calves that were in Bethel, and that were in house of the LORD around the king. 11:8 You
Dan. 10:30 The LORD said to Jehu, “Because you shall surround the king, every man with his
have done well in executing that which is right weapons in his hand; and he who comes within
in my eyes, and have done to the house of Ahab the ranks, let him be slain. Be with the king
according to all that was in my heart, your sons when he goes out, and when he comes in.”
11:9
of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne The captains over hundreds did accord-
of Israel.” ing to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded;
10:31
But Jehu took no heed to walk in the and they took every man his men, those who
law of the LORD, the God of Israel, with all were to come in on the Sabbath, with those who
his heart. He didn’t depart from the sins were to go out on the Sabbath, and came to
of Jeroboam, with which he made Israel to Jehoiada the priest. 11:10 The priest delivered
sin. 10:32 In those days the LORD began to to the captains over hundreds the spears and
cut off from Israel; and Hazael struck them in shields that had been king David’s, which were
all the borders of Israel; 10:33 from the Jordan in the house of the LORD. 11:11 The guard stood,
eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, every man with his weapons in his hand, from
and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from the right side of the house to the left side of the
Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, house, along by the altar and the house, around
even Gilead and Bashan. 10:34 Now the rest of the king. 11:12 Then he brought out the king’s
the acts of Jehu, and all that he did, and all son, and put the crown on him, and gave him
his might, aren’t they written in the book of the testimony; and they made him king, and
the chronicles of the kings of Israel? 10:35 Jehu anointed him; and they clapped their hands,
slept with his fathers; and they buried him in and said, “Long live the king!”
11:13
Samaria. Jehoahaz his son reigned in his place. When Athaliah heard the noise of the
10:36
The time that Jehu reigned over Israel in guard and of the people, she came to the
Samaria was twenty-eight years. people into the house of the LORD: 11:14 and
11:1
Now when Athaliah the mother of she looked, and behold, the king stood by the
Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose pillar, as the tradition was, and the captains
f 11:14 or, trumpets
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12:6
and the shofarsf by the king; and all the people But it was so, that in the three and
of the land rejoiced, and blew shofarsg . Then twentieth year of king Jehoash the priests had
Athaliah tore her clothes, and cried, “Treason! not repaired the breaches of the house. 12:7 Then
Treason!” king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and
11:15 for the other priests, and said to them, “Why
Jehoiada the priest commanded the cap-
tains of hundreds who were set over the army, don’t you repair the breaches of the house?
and said to them, “Bring her out between the Now therefore take no more money from your
ranks. Kill him who follows her with the treasurers, but deliver it for the breaches of the
sword.” For the priest said, “Don’t let her house.”
be slain in the house of the LORD.” 11:16 So 12:8
The priests consented that they should
they made way for her; and she went by the take no more money from the people, neither
way of the horses’ entry to the king’s house. repair the breaches of the house. 12:9 But
She was slain there. 11:17 Jehoiada made a Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a
covenant between the LORD and the king and hole in its lid, and set it beside the altar, on the
the people, that they should be the LORD’s right side as one comes into the house of the
people; between the king also and the people. LORD: and the priests who kept the threshold
11:18
All the people of the land went to the house put therein all the money that was brought
of Baal, and broke it down; his altars and his into the house of the LORD. 12:10 It was so,
images broke they in pieces thoroughly, and when they saw that there was much money in
killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. the chest, that the king’s scribe and the high
The priest appointed officers over the house priest came up, and they put up in bags and
of the LORD. 11:19 He took the captains over counted the money that was found in the house
hundreds, and the Carites, and the guard, and of the LORD. 12:11 They gave the money that
all the people of the land; and they brought was weighed out into the hands of those who
down the king from the house of the LORD, did the work, who had the oversight of the
and came by the way of the gate of the guard house of the LORD: and they paid it out to
to the king’s house. He sat on the throne of the carpenters and the builders, who worked
the kings. 11:20 So all the people of the land on the house of the LORD, 12:12 and to the
rejoiced, and the city was quiet. Athaliah masons and the stone cutters, and for buying
they had slain with the sword at the king’s timber and cut stone to repair the breaches of
house. 11:21 Jehoash was seven years old when the house of the LORD, and for all that was
he began to reign. laid out for the house to repair it. 12:13 But
12:1
In the seventh year of Jehu began Je- there were not made for the house of the
hoash to reign; and he reigned forty years in LORD cups of silver, snuffers, basins, shofarsh ,
Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Zibiah any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of
of Beersheba. 12:2 Jehoash did that which was the money that was brought into the house
right in the eyes of the LORD all his days of the LORD; 12:14 for they gave that to those
in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him. who did the work, and repaired therewith
12:3
However the high places were not taken the house of the LORD. 12:15 Moreover they
away; the people still sacrificed and burnt didn’t demand an accounting from the men
incense in the high places. 12:4 Jehoash said to into whose hand they delivered the money
the priests, “All the money of the holy things to give to those who did the work; for they
that is brought into the house of the LORD, in dealt faithfully. 12:16 The money for the trespass
current money, the money of the persons for offerings, and the money for the sin offerings,
whom each man is rated, and all the money was not brought into the house of the LORD:
that it comes into any man’s heart to bring into it was the priests’. 12:17 Then Hazael king of
the house of the LORD, 12:5 let the priests take Syria went up, and fought against Gath, and
it to them, every man from his acquaintance; took it; and Hazael set his face to go up to
and they shall repair the breaches of the house, Jerusalem. 12:18 Jehoash king of Judah took all
wherever any breach shall be found.” the holy things that Jehoshaphat and Jehoram
g 11:14 or, trumpets
h 12:13 or, trumpets
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and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had he didn’t depart from all the sins of Jeroboam
dedicated, and his own holy things, and all the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to
the gold that was found in the treasures of the sin; but he walked therein. 13:12 Now the rest
house of the LORD, and of the king’s house, of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, and his
and sent it to Hazael king of Syria: and he might with which he fought against Amaziah
went away from Jerusalem. 12:19 Now the rest king of Judah, aren’t they written in the book of
of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, aren’t the chronicles of the kings of Israel? 13:13 Joash
they written in the book of the chronicles of slept with his fathers; and Jeroboam sat on his
the kings of Judah? 12:20 His servants arose, throne: and Joash was buried in Samaria with
and made a conspiracy, and struck Joash at the the kings of Israel. 13:14 Now Elisha was fallen
house of Millo, on the way that goes down sick of his sickness of which he died: and Joash
to Silla. 12:21 For Jozacar the son of Shimeath, the king of Israel came down to him, and wept
and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, over him, and said, “My father, my father, the
struck him, and he died; and they buried him chariots of Israel and its horsemen!”
with his fathers in the city of David: and 13:15
Elisha said to him, “Take bow and
Amaziah his son reigned in his place. arrows”; and he took to him bow and arrows.
13:16
13:1 He said to the king of Israel, “Put your
In the three and twentieth year of Joash
hand on the bow”; and he put his hand on
the son of Ahaziah, king of Judah, Jehoahaz
it. Elisha laid his hands on the king’s hands.
the son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in 13:17
He said, “Open the window eastward”;
Samaria for seventeen years. 13:2 He did that
and he opened it. Then Elisha said, “Shoot!”
which was evil in the sight of the LORD, and
and he shot. He said, “The LORD’s arrow of
followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat,
victory, even the arrow of victory over Syria; for
with which he made Israel to sin; he didn’t
you shall strike the Syrians in Aphek, until you
depart from it. 13:3 The anger of the LORD
have consumed them.”
was kindled against Israel, and he delivered
13:18
them into the hand of Hazael king of Syria, He said, “Take the arrows”; and he took
and into the hand of Benhadad the son of them. He said to the king of Israel, “Strike
Hazael, continually. 13:4 Jehoahaz begged the the ground”; and he struck three times, and
LORD, and the LORD listened to him; for stopped. 13:19 The man of God was angry with
he saw the oppression of Israel, how that the him, and said, “You should have struck five or
king of Syria oppressed them. 13:5 (the LORD six times. Then you would have struck Syria
gave Israel a savior, so that they went out until you had consumed it, whereas now you
from under the hand of the Syrians; and the shall strike Syria just three times.”
13:20
children of Israel lived in their tents as before. Elisha died, and they buried him. Now
13:6
Nevertheless they didn’t depart from the the bands of the Moabites invaded the land at
sins of the house of Jeroboam, with which he the coming in of the year. 13:21 It happened,
made Israel to sin, but walked therein: and as they were burying a man, that behold, they
there remained the Asherah also in Samaria.) spied a band; and they cast the man into
13:7
For he didn’t leave to Jehoahaz of the people the tomb of Elisha: and as soon as the man
any more than fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and
and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria stood up on his feet. 13:22 Hazael king of
destroyed them, and made them like the dust Syria oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz.
in threshing. 13:8 Now the rest of the acts of 13:23
But the LORD was gracious to them, and
Jehoahaz, and all that he did, and his might, had compassion on them, and had respect to
aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles them, because of his covenant with Abraham,
of the kings of Israel? 13:9 Jehoahaz slept with Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them,
his fathers; and they buried him in Samaria: neither cast he them from his presence as yet.
and Joash his son reigned in his place. 13:10 In 13:24
Hazael king of Syria died; and Benhadad
the thirty-seventh year of Joash king of Judah, his son reigned in his place. 13:25 Jehoash the
Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz began to reign over son of Jehoahaz took again out of the hand of
Israel in Samaria for sixteen years. 13:11 He did Benhadad the son of Hazael the cities which
that which was evil in the sight of the LORD; he had taken out of the hand of Jehoahaz his
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father by war. Joash struck him three times, and house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the
recovered the cities of Israel. king’s house, the hostages also, and returned
14:1
In the second year of Joash son of Joahaz to Samaria. 14:15 Now the rest of the acts of
king of Israel began Amaziah the son of Joash Jehoash which he did, and his might, and how
king of Judah to reign. 14:2 He was twenty- he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, aren’t
five years old when he began to reign; and he they written in the book of the chronicles of
reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem: and the kings of Israel? 14:16 Jehoash slept with his
his mother’s name was Jehoaddin of Jerusalem. fathers, and was buried in Samaria with the
14:3
He did that which was right in the eyes of kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son reigned
the LORD, yet not like David his father: he did in his place. 14:17 Amaziah the son of Joash king
according to all that Joash his father had done. of Judah lived after the death of Jehoash son of
14:4
However the high places were not taken Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years. 14:18 Now
away: the people still sacrificed and burnt the rest of the acts of Amaziah, aren’t they writ-
incense in the high places. 14:5 It happened, ten in the book of the chronicles of the kings
as soon as the kingdom was established in his of Judah? 14:19 They made a conspiracy against
hand, that he killed his servants who had slain him in Jerusalem; and he fled to Lachish: but
the king his father: 14:6 but the children of the they sent after him to Lachish, and killed him
murderers he didn’t put to death; according to there. 14:20 They brought him on horses; and
that which is written in the scroll of the Torah he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers
of Moses, as the LORD commanded, saying, in the city of David. 14:21 All the people of
“The fathers shall not be put to death for the Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old,
children, nor the children be put to death for and made him king in the place of his father
the fathers; but every man shall die for his own Amaziah. 14:22 He built Elath, and restored
sin.” 14:7 He killed of Edom in the Valley of it to Judah, after that the king slept with his
Salt ten thousand, and took Sela by war, and fathers. 14:23 In the fifteenth year of Amaziah
called its name Joktheel, to this day. 14:8 Then the son of Joash king of Judah, Jeroboam the
Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash, the son son of Joash king of Israel began to reign in
of Jehoahaz son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Samaria for forty-one years. 14:24 He did that
“Come, let us look one another in the face.” which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he
14:9
didn’t depart from all the sins of Jeroboam
Jehoash the king of Israel sent to the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel
Amaziah king of Judah, saying, “The thistle to sin. 14:25 He restored the border of Israel
that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was from the entrance of Hamath to the sea of the
in Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my Arabah, according to the word of the LORD,
son as wife. Then a wild animal that was in the God of Israel, which he spoke by his servant
Lebanon passed by, and trampled down the Jonah the son of Amittai, the prophet, who
thistle. 14:10 You have indeed struck Edom, and was of Gath Hepher. 14:26 For the LORD saw
your heart has lifted you up. Enjoy the glory the affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter;
of it, and stay at home; for why should you for there was none shut up nor left at large,
meddle to your harm, that you should fall, even neither was there any helper for Israel. 14:27 The
you, and Judah with you?’” 14:11 But Amaziah LORD didn’t say that he would blot out the
would not listen. So Jehoash king of Israel went name of Israel from under the sky; but he saved
up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash.
one another in the face at Beth Shemesh, which 14:28
Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and
belongs to Judah. 14:12 Judah was defeated by all that he did, and his might, how he warred,
Israel; and they fled every man to his tent. and how he recovered Damascus, and Hamath,
14:13
Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king which had belonged to Judah, for Israel, aren’t
of Judah, the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, they written in the book of the chronicles of
at Beth Shemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and the kings of Israel? 14:29 Jeroboam slept with
broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate his fathers, even with the kings of Israel; and
of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred Zechariah his son reigned in his place.
cubits. 14:14 He took all the gold and silver,
15:1
and all the vessels that were found in the In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam
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king of Israel began Azariah son of Amaziah Menahem the son of Gadi began to reign over
king of Judah to reign. 15:2 Sixteen years old Israel for ten years in Samaria. 15:18 He did
was he when he began to reign; and he reigned that which was evil in the sight of the LORD:
fifty-two years in Jerusalem: and his mother’s he didn’t depart all his days from the sins
name was Jecoliah of Jerusalem. 15:3 He did of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he
that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, made Israel to sin. 15:19 There came against the
according to all that his father Amaziah had land Pul the king of Assyria; and Menahem
done. 15:4 However the high places were not gave Pul one thousand talents of silver, that
taken away: the people still sacrificed and his hand might be with him to confirm the
burnt incense in the high places. 15:5 The LORD kingdom in his hand. 15:20 Menahem exacted
struck the king, so that he was a leper to the the money of Israel, even of all the mighty
day of his death, and lived in a separate house. men of wealth, of each man fifty shekels of
Jotham the king’s son was over the household, silver, to give to the king of Assyria. So the
judging the people of the land. 15:6 Now the king of Assyria turned back, and didn’t stay
rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he there in the land. 15:21 Now the rest of the
did, aren’t they written in the book of the acts of Menahem, and all that he did, aren’t
chronicles of the kings of Judah? 15:7 Azariah they written in the book of the chronicles of
slept with his fathers; and they buried him the kings of Israel? 15:22 Menahem slept with
with his fathers in the city of David: and his fathers; and Pekahiah his son reigned in
Jotham his son reigned in his place. 15:8 In the his place. 15:23 In the fiftieth year of Azariah
thirty-eighth year of Azariah king of Judah, king of Judah Pekahiah the son of Menahem
Zechariah the son of Jeroboam reigned over began to reign over Israel in Samaria for two
Israel in Samaria six months. 15:9 He did that years. 15:24 He did that which was evil in the
which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as sight of the LORD: he didn’t depart from the
his fathers had done: he didn’t depart from sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which
the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with he made Israel to sin. 15:25 Pekah the son of
which he made Israel to sin. 15:10 Shallum the Remaliah, his captain, conspired against him,
son of Jabesh conspired against him, and struck and struck him in Samaria, in the castle of the
him before the people, and killed him, and king’s house, with Argob and Arieh; and with
reigned in his place. 15:11 Now the rest of the him were fifty men of the Gileadites: and he
acts of Zechariah, behold, they are written in killed him, and reigned in his place. 15:26 Now
the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel. the rest of the acts of Pekahiah, and all that
15:12
This was the word of the LORD which he he did, behold, they are written in the book of
spoke to Jehu, saying, “Your sons to the fourth the chronicles of the kings of Israel. 15:27 In the
generation shall sit on the throne of Israel.” So two and fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah
it came to pass. Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over
15:13
Israel in Samaria for twenty years. 15:28 He did
Shallum the son of Jabesh began to that which was evil in the sight of the LORD:
reign in the thirty-ninth year of Uzziah king of he didn’t depart from the sins of Jeroboam the
Judah; and he reigned for a month in Samaria. son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to
15:14
Menahem the son of Gadi went up from sin. 15:29 In the days of Pekah king of Israel
Tirzah, and came to Samaria, and struck Shal- came Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria, and took
lum the son of Jabesh in Samaria, and killed Ijon, and Abel Beth Maacah, and Janoah, and
him, and reigned in his place. 15:15 Now the Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee,
rest of the acts of Shallum, and his conspiracy all the land of Naphtali; and he carried them
which he made, behold, they are written in the captive to Assyria. 15:30 Hoshea the son of Elah
book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel. made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of
15:16
Then Menahem struck Tiphsah, and all Remaliah, and struck him, and killed him, and
who were therein, and its borders, from Tirzah: reigned in his place, in the twentieth year of
because they didn’t open to him, therefore Jotham the son of Uzziah. 15:31 Now the rest of
he struck it; and all the women therein who the acts of Pekah, and all that he did, behold,
were with child he ripped up. 15:17 In the nine they are written in the book of the chronicles
and thirtieth year of Azariah king of Judah,
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of the kings of Israel. 15:32 In the second year Assyria went up against Damascus, and took
of Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel it, and carried its people captive to Kir, and
began Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah killed Rezin. 16:10 King Ahaz went to Damascus
to reign. 15:33 He was twenty-five years old to meet Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria, and
when he began to reign; and he reigned sixteen saw the altar that was at Damascus; and king
years in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the fashion of
Jerusha the daughter of Zadok. 15:34 He did the altar, and its pattern, according to all its
that which was right in the eyes of the LORD; workmanship. 16:11 Urijah the priest built an
he did according to all that his father Uzziah altar: according to all that king Ahaz had sent
had done. 15:35 However the high places were from Damascus, so Urijah the priest made it
not taken away: the people still sacrificed and for the coming of king Ahaz from Damascus.
16:12
burned incense in the high places. He built the When the king had come from Damascus,
upper gate of the house of the LORD. 15:36 Now the king saw the altar: and the king drew
the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all that near to the altar, and offered on it. 16:13 He
he did, aren’t they written in the book of the burnt his burnt offering and his meal offering,
chronicles of the kings of Judah? 15:37 In those and poured his drink offering, and sprinkled
days the LORD began to send against Judah the blood of his peace offerings, on the altar.
16:14
Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of The bronze altar, which was before the
Remaliah. 15:38 Jotham slept with his fathers, LORD, he brought from the forefront of the
and was buried with his fathers in the city of house, from between his altar and the house
David his father: and Ahaz his son reigned in of the LORD, and put it on the north side of
his place. his altar. 16:15 King Ahaz commanded Urijah
16:1
the priest, saying, “On the great altar burn
In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son the morning burnt offering, and the evening
of Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham king of meal offering, and the king’s burnt offering,
Judah began to reign. 16:2 Twenty years old and his meal offering, with the burnt offering
was Ahaz when he began to reign; and he of all the people of the land, and their meal
reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: and he offering, and their drink offerings; and sprinkle
didn’t do that which was right in the eyes of the on it all the blood of the burnt offering, and
LORD his God, like David his father. 16:3 But all the blood of the sacrifice; but the bronze
he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, altar shall be for me to inquire by.” 16:16 Urijah
yes, and made his son to pass through the fire, the priest did so, according to all that king
according to the abominations of the nations, Ahaz commanded. 16:17 King Ahaz cut off the
whom the LORD cast out from before the panels of the bases, and removed the basin
children of Israel. 16:4 He sacrificed and burnt from off them, and took down the sea from off
incense in the high places, and on the hills, and the bronze oxen that were under it, and put
under every green tree. 16:5 Then Rezin king it on a pavement of stone. 16:18 The covered
of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of way for the Sabbath that they had built in the
Israel came up to Jerusalem to war: and they house, and the king’s entry outside, turned he
besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome him. to the house of the LORD, because of the king
16:6
At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered of Assyria. 16:19 Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz
Elath to Syria, and drove the Jews from Elath; which he did, aren’t they written in the book of
and the Syrians came to Elath, and lived there, the chronicles of the kings of Judah? 16:20 Ahaz
to this day. 16:7 So Ahaz sent messengers to slept with his fathers, and was buried with his
Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria, saying, “I am fathers in the city of David: and Hezekiah his
your servant and your son. Come up, and save son reigned in his place.
me out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out
17:1
of the hand of the king of Israel, who rise up In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah,
against me.” 16:8 Ahaz took the silver and gold Hoshea the son of Elah began to reign in
that was found in the house of the LORD, and Samaria over Israel for nine years. 17:2 He did
in the treasures of the king’s house, and sent that which was evil in the sight of the LORD,
it for a present to the king of Assyria. 16:9 The yet not as the kings of Israel who were before
king of Assyria listened to him; and the king of him. 17:3 Against him came up Shalmaneser
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king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his ser- made them molten images, even two calves,
vant, and brought him tribute. 17:4 The king and made an Asherah, and worshiped all the
of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea; for army of the sky, and served Baal. 17:17 They
he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, caused their sons and their daughters to pass
and offered no tribute to the king of Assyria, through the fire, and used divination and
as he had done year by year: therefore the enchantments, and sold themselves to do that
king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him which was evil in the sight of the LORD, to
in prison. 17:5 Then the king of Assyria came provoke him to anger. 17:18 Therefore the LORD
up throughout all the land, and went up to was very angry with Israel, and removed them
Samaria, and besieged it three years. 17:6 In the out of his sight: there was none left but the
ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took tribe of Judah only. 17:19 Also Judah didn’t keep
Samaria, and carried Israel away to Assyria, the commandments of the LORD their God,
and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they
the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the made. 17:20 The LORD rejected all the seed of
Medes. 17:7 It was so, because the children of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them
Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them
who brought them up out of the land of Egypt out of his sight. 17:21 For he tore Israel from the
from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, house of David; and they made Jeroboam the
and had feared other gods, 17:8 and walked in son of Nebat king: and Jeroboam drove Israel
the statutes of the nations, whom the LORD from following the LORD, and made them sin
cast out from before the children of Israel, and a great sin. 17:22 The children of Israel walked
of the kings of Israel, which they made. 17:9 The in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they
children of Israel did secretly things that were didn’t depart from them; 17:23 until the LORD
not right against the LORD their God: and removed Israel out of his sight, as he spoke
they built them high places in all their cities, by all his servants the prophets. So Israel was
from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified carried away out of their own land to Assyria
city; 17:10 and they set them up pillars and to this day. 17:24 The king of Assyria brought
Asherim on every high hill, and under every men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from
green tree; 17:11 and there they burnt incense in Avva, and from Hamath and Sepharvaim, and
all the high places, as did the nations whom placed them in the cities of Samaria instead
the LORD carried away before them; and they of the children of Israel; and they possessed
worked wicked things to provoke the LORD Samaria, and lived in the cities of it. 17:25 So it
to anger; 17:12 and they served idols, of which was, at the beginning of their dwelling there,
the LORD had said to them, “You shall not that they didn’t fear the LORD: therefore the
do this thing.” 17:13 Yet the LORD testified to LORD sent lions among them, which killed
Israel, and to Judah, by every prophet, and some of them. 17:26 Therefore they spoke to the
every seer, saying, “Turn from your evil ways, king of Assyria, saying, “The nations which
and keep my commandments and my statutes, you have carried away, and placed in the cities
according to all the law which I commanded of Samaria, don’t know the law of the god of the
your fathers, and which I sent to you by my land. Therefore he has sent lions among them,
servants the prophets.” 17:14 Notwithstanding, and behold, they kill them, because they don’t
they would not listen, but hardened their neck, know the law of the god of the land.”
like the neck of their fathers, who didn’t believe 17:27
Then the king of Assyria commanded,
in the LORD their God. 17:15 They rejected saying, “Carry there one of the priests whom
his statutes, and his covenant that he made you brought from there; and let them go and
with their fathers, and his testimonies which dwell there, and let him teach them the law of
he testified to them; and they followed vanity, the god of the land.”
and became vain, and followed the nations 17:28
that were around them, concerning whom the So one of the priests whom they had
LORD had commanded them that they should carried away from Samaria came and lived in
not do like them. 17:16 They forsook all the Bethel, and taught them how they should fear
commandments of the LORD their God, and the LORD. 17:29 However every nation made
gods of their own, and put them in the houses
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of the high places which the Samaritans had pillars, and cut down the Asherah: and he
made, every nation in their cities in which they broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses
lived. 17:30 The men of Babylon made Succoth had made; for in those days the children of
Benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, Israel burned incense to it; and he called it Ne-
and the men of Hamath made Ashima, 17:31 and hushtan. 18:5 He trusted in the LORD, the God
the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak; and the of Israel; so that after him was none like him
Sepharvites burnt their children in the fire to among all the kings of Judah, nor among them
Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of that were before him. 18:6 For he joined with the
Sepharvaim. 17:32 So they feared the LORD, and LORD; he didn’t depart from following him,
made to them from among themselves priests but kept his commandments, which the LORD
of the high places, who sacrificed for them in commanded Moses. 18:7 The LORD was with
the houses of the high places. 17:33 They feared him; wherever he went forth he prospered: and
the LORD, and served their own gods, after the he rebelled against the king of Assyria, and
ways of the nations from among whom they didn’t serve him. 18:8 He struck the Philistines
had been carried away. 17:34 To this day they to Gaza and its borders, from the tower of the
do what they did before: they don’t fear the watchmen to the fortified city. 18:9 It happened
LORD, neither do they follow their statutes, or in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was
their ordinances, or the law or the command- the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of
ment which the LORD commanded the chil- Israel, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came
dren of Jacob, whom he named Israel; 17:35 with up against Samaria, and besieged it. 18:10 At
whom the LORD had made a covenant, and the end of three years they took it: in the sixth
commanded them, saying, “You shall not fear year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year
other gods, nor bow yourselves to them, nor of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.
serve them, nor sacrifice to them; 17:36 but you 18:11
The king of Assyria carried Israel away to
shall fear the LORD, who brought you up out Assyria, and put them in Halah, and on the
of the land of Egypt with great power and Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of
with an outstretched arm, and you shall bow the Medes, 18:12 because they didn’t obey the
yourselves to him, and you shall sacrifice to voice of the LORD their God, but transgressed
him. 17:37 The statutes and the ordinances, and his covenant, even all that Moses the servant
the law and the commandment, which he wrote of the LORD commanded, and would not hear
for you, you shall observe to do forevermore. it, nor do it. 18:13 Now in the fourteenth year
You shall not fear other gods. 17:38 You shall of king Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria
not forget the covenant that I have made with came up against all the fortified cities of Judah,
you; neither shall you fear other gods. 17:39 But and took them. 18:14 Hezekiah king of Judah
you shall fear the LORD your God; and he sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying,
will deliver you out of the hand of all your “I have offended; return from me. That which
enemies.” 17:40 However they did not listen, you put on me, I will bear.” The king of
but they did what they did before. 17:41 So Assyria appointed to Hezekiah king of Judah
these nations feared the LORD, and served three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents
their engraved images. Their children likewise, of gold. 18:15 Hezekiah gave him all the silver
and their children’s children, as their fathers that was found in the house of the LORD, and
did, so they do to this day. in the treasures of the king’s house. 18:16 At that
18:1
time, Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors
Now it happened in the third year of the LORD’s temple, and from the pillars
of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid,
Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began and gave it to the king of Assyria. 18:17 The
to reign. 18:2 He was twenty-five years old king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and
when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty- Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with
nine years in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name a great army to Jerusalem. They went up and
was Abi the daughter of Zechariah. 18:3 He did came to Jerusalem. When they had come up,
that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, they came and stood by the conduit of the
according to all that David his father had done. upper pool, which is in the highway of the
18:4
He removed the high places, and broke the
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fuller’s field. 18:18 When they had called to the with me, and come out to me; and everyone
king, there came out to them Eliakim the son of you eat of his vine, and everyone of his fig
of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and tree, and everyone drink the waters of his own
Shebnah the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph cistern; 18:32 until I come and take you away to
the recorder. 18:19 Rabshakeh said to them, “Say a land like your own land, a land of grain and
now to Hezekiah, ‘Thus says the great king, new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land
the king of Assyria, “What confidence is this of olive trees and of honey, that you may live,
in which you trust? 18:20 You say (but they are and not die. Don’t listen to Hezekiah, when he
but vain words), ‘There is counsel and strength persuades you, saying, “The LORD will deliver
for war.’ Now on whom do you trust, that you us.” 18:33 Has any of the gods of the nations
have rebelled against me? 18:21 Now, behold, ever delivered his land out of the hand of the
you trust in the staff of this bruised reed, even king of Assyria? 18:34 Where are the gods of
in Egypt. If a man leans on it, it will go into his Hamath, and of Arpad? Where are the gods of
hand, and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah? Have they
to all who trust on him. 18:22 But if you tell me, delivered Samaria out of my hand? 18:35 Who
‘We trust in the LORD our God;’ isn’t that he are they among all the gods of the countries,
whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah that have delivered their country out of my
has taken away, and has said to Judah and to hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem
Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship before this altar out of my hand?’”
in Jerusalem?’ 18:23 Now therefore, please give 18:36
But the people held their peace, and
pledges to my master the king of Assyria, and answered him not a word; for the king’s
I will give you two thousand horses, if you commandment was, “Don’t answer him.”
are able on your part to set riders on them. 18:37
Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was
18:24
How then can you turn away the face of over the household, came with Shebna the
one captain of the least of my master’s servants, scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder,
and put your trust on Egypt for chariots and for to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told
horsemen? 18:25 Have I now come up without him the words of Rabshakeh.
the LORD against this place to destroy it? the 19:1
It happened, when king Hezekiah heard
LORD said to me, ‘Go up against this land, and
it, that he tore his clothes, and covered himself
destroy it.’”’”
with sackcloth, and went into the house of
18:26
Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and the LORD. 19:2 He sent Eliakim, who was over
Shebnah, and Joah, said to Rabshakeh, “Please the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the
speak to your servants in the Syrian language; elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to
for we understand it. Don’t speak with us in Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz. 19:3 They
the Jews’ language, in the hearing of the people said to him, “Thus says Hezekiah, ‘This day is
who are on the wall.” a day of trouble, of rebuke, and of rejection; for
18:27 the children have come to the point of birth,
But Rabshakeh said to them, “Has my
master sent me to your master, and to you, and there is no strength to deliver them. 19:4 It
to speak these words? Hasn’t he sent me to may be the LORD your God will hear all the
the men who sit on the wall, to eat their own words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria
dung, and to drink their own water with you?” his master has sent to defy the living God, and
18:28 will rebuke the words which the LORD your
Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a
loud voice in the Jews’ language, and spoke, God has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer
saying, “Hear the word of the great king, the for the remnant that is left.’”
king of Assyria. 18:29 Thus says the king, ‘Don’t 19:5
So the servants of king Hezekiah came to
let Hezekiah deceive you; for he will not be able Isaiah. 19:6 Isaiah said to them, “Thus you shall
to deliver you out of his hand. 18:30 Neither let tell your master, ‘Thus says the LORD, “Don’t
Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, be afraid of the words that you have heard,
“The LORD will surely deliver us, and this city with which the servants of the king of Assyria
shall not be given into the hand of the king of have blasphemed me. 19:7 Behold, I will put a
Assyria.” 18:31 Don’t listen to Hezekiah.’ For spirit in him, and he will hear news, and will
thus says the king of Assyria, ‘Make your peace return to his own land. I will cause him to fall
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by the sword in his own land.”’” you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes
19:8 on high? Against the Holy One of Israel.
So Rabshakeh returned, and found the
19:23
king of Assyria warring against Libnah; for he By your messengers you have defied the
had heard that he had departed from Lachish. Lord, and have said, ‘With the multitude of my
19:9 chariots, I have come up to the height of the
When he heard it said of Tirhakah king
of Ethiopia, “Behold, he has come out to mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon;
fight against you, he sent messengers again to and I will cut down its tall cedars, and its
Hezekiah, saying, 19:10 ‘Thus you shall speak to choice fir trees; and I will enter into his farthest
Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, “Don’t let your lodging place, the forest of his fruitful field.
19:24
God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, I have dug and drunk strange waters, and
Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of with the sole of my feet will I dry up all the
the king of Assyria. 19:11 Behold, you have rivers of Egypt.’ 19:25 Haven’t you heard how I
heard what the kings of Assyria have done have done it long ago, and formed it of ancient
to all lands, by destroying them utterly. Will times? Now have I brought it to pass, that it
you be delivered? 19:12 Have the gods of the should be yours to lay waste fortified cities into
nations delivered them, which my fathers have ruinous heaps. 19:26 Therefore their inhabitants
destroyed, Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and were of small power. They were dismayed and
the children of Eden that were in Telassar? confounded. They were like the grass of the
19:13 field, and like the green herb, like the grass on
Where is the king of Hamath, and the
king of Arpad, and the king of the city of the housetops, and like grain blasted before it
Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah?”’” has grown up. 19:27 But I know your sitting
19:14 down, and your going out, and your coming
Hezekiah received the letter from the
in, and your raging against me. 19:28 Because
hand of the messengers, and read it. Then
of your raging against me, and because your
Hezekiah went up to the house of the LORD,
arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore
and spread it before the LORD. 19:15 Hezekiah
will I put my hook in your nose, and my bridle
prayed before the LORD, and said, “LORD,
in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way
the God of Israel, who sit above the cherubim,
by which you came.”
you are the God, even you alone, of all the
19:29
kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven “‘This shall be the sign to you: You
and earth. 19:16 Incline your ear, LORD, and shall eat this year that which grows of itself,
hear. Open your eyes, LORD, and see. Hear and in the second year that which springs of
the words of Sennacherib, with which he has the same; and in the third year sow, and reap,
sent to defy the living God. 19:17 Truly, LORD, and plant vineyards, and eat its fruit. 19:30 The
the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations remnant that has escaped of the house of Judah
and their lands, 19:18 and have cast their gods shall again take root downward, and bear fruit
into the fire; for they were no gods, but upward. 19:31 For out of Jerusalem a remnant
the work of men’s hands, wood and stone. will go out, and out of Mount Zion those
Therefore they have destroyed them. 19:19 Now who shall escape. The zeal of the LORD will
therefore, LORD our God, save us, I beg you, perform this.’
19:32
out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the “Therefore thus says the LORD concern-
earth may know that you, LORD, are God ing the king of Assyria, ‘He shall not come to
alone.” this city, nor shoot an arrow there, neither shall
19:20 he come before it with shield, nor cast up a
Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to
Hezekiah, saying, “Thus says the LORD, the mound against it. 19:33 By the way that he came,
God of Israel, ‘Whereas you have prayed to by the same shall he return, and he shall not
me against Sennacherib king of Assyria, I come to this city,’ says the LORD. 19:34 ‘For I will
have heard you. 19:21 This is the word that defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and
the LORD has spoken concerning him: “The for my servant David’s sake.’”
19:35
virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and It happened that night, that the an-
ridiculed you. The daughter of Jerusalem has gel of the LORD went out, and struck one
shaken her head at you. 19:22 Whom have you hundred eighty-five thousand in the camp of
defied and blasphemed? Against whom have the Assyrians. When men arose early in the
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morning, behold, these were all dead bodies. to them, and showed them all the house of
19:36
So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, his precious things, the silver, and the gold,
and went and returned, and lived at Nineveh. and the spices, and the precious oil, and the
19:37
It happened, as he was worshipping in the house of his armor, and all that was found in
house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech his treasures: there was nothing in his house,
and Sharezer struck him with the sword; and nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah didn’t
they escaped into the land of Ararat. Esar show them. 20:14 Then Isaiah the prophet came
Haddon his son reigned in his place. to king Hezekiah, and said to him, “What did
20:1
In those days was Hezekiah sick to these men say? From where did they come to
death. Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came you?”
to him, and said to him, “Thus says the LORD, Hezekiah said, “They have come from a far
‘Set your house in order; for you shall die, and country, even from Babylon.”
not live.’” 20:15
He said, “What have they seen in your
20:2
Then he turned his face to the wall, and house?”
prayed to the LORD, saying, 20:3 “Remember Hezekiah answered, “They have seen all
now, LORD, I beg you, how I have walked that is in my house. There is nothing among
before you in truth and with a perfect heart, my treasures that I have not shown them.”
and have done that which is good in your 20:16
Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word
sight.” Hezekiah wept bitterly. of the LORD. 20:17 ‘Behold, the days come, that
20:4
It happened, before Isaiah had gone out all that is in your house, and that which your
into the middle part of the city, that the word of fathers have laid up in store to this day, shall
the LORD came to him, saying, 20:5 “Turn back, be carried to Babylon. Nothing shall be left,’
and tell Hezekiah the prince of my people, says the LORD. 20:18 ‘Of your sons who shall
‘Thus says the LORD, the God of David your issue from you, whom you shall father, shall
father, “I have heard your prayer. I have seen they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in
your tears. Behold, I will heal you. On the third the palace of the king of Babylon.’”
day, you shall go up to the house of the LORD. 20:19
20:6
Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “The
I will add to your days fifteen years. I will word of the LORD which you have spoken is
deliver you and this city out of the hand of the good.” He said moreover, “Isn’t it so, if peace
king of Assyria. I will defend this city for my and truth shall be in my days?”
own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.”’” 20:20
Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah,
20:7
Isaiah said, “Take a cake of figs.” and all his might, and how he made the pool,
They took and laid it on the boil, and he and the conduit, and brought water into the
recovered. 20:8 Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “What city, aren’t they written in the book of the
shall be the sign that the LORD will heal me, chronicles of the kings of Judah? 20:21 Hezekiah
and that I shall go up to the house of the LORD slept with his fathers; and Manasseh his son
the third day?” reigned in his place.
20:9 21:1
Isaiah said, “This shall be the sign to you Manasseh was twelve years old when
from the LORD, that the LORD will do the he began to reign; and he reigned fifty-five
thing that he has spoken: shall the shadow go years in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was
forward ten steps, or go back ten steps?” Hephzibah. 21:2 He did that which was evil in
20:10
Hezekiah answered, “It is a light thing the sight of the LORD, after the abominations
for the shadow to go forward ten steps. Nay, of the nations whom the LORD cast out before
but let the shadow return backward ten steps.” the children of Israel. 21:3 For he built again
20:11
Isaiah the prophet cried to the LORD; the high places which Hezekiah his father had
and he brought the shadow ten steps back- destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and
ward, by which it had gone down on the dial made an Asherah, as did Ahab king of Israel,
of Ahaz. and worshiped all the army of the sky, and
20:12
At that time Berodach Baladan the son served them. 21:4 He built altars in the house
of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and of the LORD, of which the LORD said, “I will
a present to Hezekiah; for he had heard that put my name in Jerusalem.” 21:5 He built altars
Hezekiah had been sick. 20:13 Hezekiah listened for all the army of the sky in the two courts of
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the house of the LORD. 21:6 He made his son was twenty-two years old when he began to
to pass through the fire, and practiced sorcery, reign; and he reigned two years in Jerusalem:
and used enchantments, and dealt with those and his mother’s name was Meshullemeth the
who had familiar spirits, and with wizards: he daughter of Haruz of Jotbah. 21:20 He did that
worked much evil in the sight of the LORD, to which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as
provoke him to anger. 21:7 He set the engraved Manasseh his father did. 21:21 He walked in all
image of Asherah, that he had made, in the the way that his father walked in, and served
house of which the LORD said to David and the idols that his father served, and worshiped
to Solomon his son, “In this house, and in them: 21:22 and he forsook the LORD, the God
Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the of his fathers, and didn’t walk in the way of the
tribes of Israel, will I put my name forever; LORD. 21:23 The servants of Amon conspired
21:8
neither will I cause the feet of Israel to against him, and put the king to death in his
wander any more out of the land which I gave own house. 21:24 But the people of the land
their fathers, if only they will observe to do killed all those who had conspired against
according to all that I have commanded them, king Amon; and the people of the land made
and according to all the law that my servant Josiah his son king in his place. 21:25 Now the
Moses commanded them.” 21:9 But they didn’t rest of the acts of Amon which he did, aren’t
listen: and Manasseh seduced them to do that they written in the book of the chronicles of
which is evil more than the nations did whom the kings of Judah? 21:26 He was buried in his
the LORD destroyed before the children of tomb in the garden of Uzza: and Josiah his son
Israel. 21:10 The LORD spoke by his servants the reigned in his place.
prophets, saying, 21:11 “Because Manasseh king 22:1
Josiah was eight years old when he be-
of Judah has done these abominations, and has gan to reign; and he reigned thirty-one years in
done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Jedidah
who were before him, and has made Judah also the daughter of Adaiah of Bozkath. 22:2 He did
to sin with his idols; 21:12 therefore thus says that which was right in the eyes of the LORD,
the LORD, the God of Israel, ‘Behold, I bring and walked in all the way of David his father,
such evil on Jerusalem and Judah, that whoever and didn’t turn aside to the right hand or to the
hears of it, both his ears shall tingle. 21:13 I will left. 22:3 It happened in the eighteenth year of
stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and king Josiah, that the king sent Shaphan, the son
the plummet of the house of Ahab; and I will of Azaliah the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to
wipe Jerusalem as a man wipes a dish, wiping the house of the LORD, saying, 22:4 “Go up to
it and turning it upside down. 21:14 I will cast Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum the
off the remnant of my inheritance, and deliver money which is brought into the house of the
them into the hand of their enemies. They will LORD, which the keepers of the threshold have
become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies; gathered of the people. 22:5 Let them deliver it
21:15
because they have done that which is evil into the hand of the workmen who have the
in my sight, and have provoked me to anger, oversight of the house of the LORD; and let
since the day their fathers came forth out of them give it to the workmen who are in the
Egypt, even to this day.’” house of the LORD, to repair the breaches of the
21:16
Moreover Manasseh shed innocent house, 22:6 to the carpenters, and to the builders,
blood very much, until he had filled Jerusalem and to the masons, and for buying timber and
from one end to another; besides his sin with cut stone to repair the house. 22:7 However
which he made Judah to sin, in doing that there was no accounting made with them of the
which was evil in the sight of the LORD. money that was delivered into their hand; for
21:17
Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and they dealt faithfully.”
22:8
all that he did, and his sin that he sinned, aren’t Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan
they written in the book of the chronicles of the scribe, “I have found the scroll of the
the kings of Judah? 21:18 Manasseh slept with Torah in the house of the LORD.” Hilkiah
his fathers, and was buried in the garden of delivered the book to Shaphan, and he read it.
22:9
his own house, in the garden of Uzza: and Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and
Amon his son reigned in his place. 21:19 Amon brought the king word again, and said, “Your
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23:1
servants have emptied out the money that was The king sent, and they gathered to him
found in the house, and have delivered it into all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem. 23:2 The
the hand of the workmen who have the over- king went up to the house of the LORD, and
sight of the house of the LORD.” 22:10 Shaphan all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants
the scribe told the king, saying, “Hilkiah the of Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and
priest has delivered a book to me.” Shaphan the prophets, and all the people, both small
read it before the king. 22:11 It happened, when and great: and he read in their ears all the
the king had heard the words of the scroll of words of the book of the covenant which was
the Torah, that he tore his clothes. 22:12 The king found in the house of the LORD. 23:3 The king
commanded Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam stood by the pillar, and made a covenant before
the son of Shaphan, and Achbor the son of the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to
Micaiah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah keep his commandments, and his testimonies,
the king’s servant, saying, 22:13 “Go inquire of and his statutes, with all his heart, and all his
the LORD for me, and for the people, and for all soul, to confirm the words of this covenant
Judah, concerning the words of this book that that were written in this book: and all the
is found; for great is the wrath of the LORD people stood to the covenant. 23:4 The king
that is kindled against us, because our fathers commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the
have not listened to the words of this book, priests of the second order, and the keepers of
to do according to all that which is written the threshold, to bring forth out of the LORD’s
concerning us.” temple all the vessels that were made for Baal,
22:14
and for the Asherah, and for all the army of the
So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and sky, and he burned them outside of Jerusalem
Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asaiah, went to in the fields of the Kidron, and carried their
Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the ashes to Bethel. 23:5 He put down the idolatrous
son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained
the wardrobe (now she lived in Jerusalem in to burn incense in the high places in the cities
the second quarter); and they talked with her. of Judah, and in the places around Jerusalem;
22:15
She said to them, “Thus says the LORD, those also who burned incense to Baal, to the
the God of Israel: ‘Tell the man who sent you to sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and
me, 22:16 “Thus says the LORD, ‘Behold, I will to all the army of the sky. 23:6 He brought
bring evil on this place, and on its inhabitants, out the Asherah from the house of the LORD,
even all the words of the book which the king outside of Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and
of Judah has read. 22:17 Because they have burned it at the brook Kidron, and beat it to
forsaken me, and have burned incense to other dust, and cast its dust on the graves of the
gods, that they might provoke me to anger common people. 23:7 He broke down the houses
with all the work of their hands, therefore my of the sodomites, that were in the house of
wrath shall be kindled against this place, and the LORD, where the women wove hangings
it shall not be quenched.’” 22:18 But to the king for the Asherah. 23:8 He brought all the priests
of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the LORD, out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high
thus you shall tell him, “Thus says the LORD, places where the priests had burned incense,
the God of Israel: ‘Concerning the words which from Geba to Beersheba; and he broke down
you have heard, 22:19 because your heart was the high places of the gates that were at the
tender, and you humbled yourself before the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor
LORD, when you heard what I spoke against of the city, which were on a man’s left hand
this place, and against its inhabitants, that at the gate of the city. 23:9 Nevertheless the
they should become a desolation and a curse, priests of the high places didn’t come up to
and have torn your clothes, and wept before the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, but they
me; I also have heard you,’ says the LORD. ate unleavened bread among their brothers.
22:20
‘Therefore behold, I will gather you to your 23:10
He defiled Topheth, which is in the valley
fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave of the children of Hinnom, that no man might
in peace, neither shall your eyes see all the make his son or his daughter to pass through
evil which I will bring on this place.’”’” They the fire to Molech. 23:11 He took away the horses
brought back this message to the king.
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that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at was not kept such a Passover from the days
the entrance of the house of the LORD, by the of the judges who judged Israel, nor in all the
room of Nathan Melech the officer, who was days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of
in the court; and he burned the chariots of the Judah; 23:23 but in the eighteenth year of king
sun with fire. 23:12 The king broke down the Josiah was this Passover kept to the LORD
altars that were on the roof of the upper room in Jerusalem. 23:24 Moreover Josiah removed
of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, those who had familiar spirits, and the wizards,
and the altars which Manasseh had made in the and the teraphim, and the idols, and all the
two courts of the house of the LORD, and beat abominations that were seen in the land of
them down from there, and cast their dust into Judah and in Jerusalem, that he might confirm
the brook Kidron. 23:13 The the king defiled the the words of the law which were written in
high places that were before Jerusalem, which the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the
were on the right hand of the mountain of house of the LORD. 23:25 Like him was there
corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel no king before him, who turned to the LORD
had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the with all his heart, and with all his soul, and
Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination with all his might, according to all the Torah
of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of of Moses; neither after him arose there any like
the children of Ammon. 23:14 He broke in him. 23:26 Notwithstanding, the LORD didn’t
pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, turn from the fierceness of his great wrath, with
and filled their places with the bones of men. which his anger was kindled against Judah,
23:15
Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and because of all the provocation with which
the high place which Jeroboam the son of Manasseh had provoked him. 23:27 The LORD
Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, even said, “I will remove Judah also out of my sight,
that altar and the high place he broke down; as I have removed Israel, and I will cast off this
and he burned the high place and beat it to city which I have chosen, even Jerusalem, and
dust, and burned the Asherah. 23:16 As Josiah the house of which I said, ‘My name shall be
turned himself, he spied the tombs that were there.’”
there in the mountain; and he sent, and took the 23:28
bones out of the tombs, and burned them on the Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and
altar, and defiled it, according to the word of all that he did, aren’t they written in the book
the LORD which the man of God proclaimed, of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? 23:29 In
who proclaimed these things. 23:17 Then he his days Pharaoh Necoh king of Egypt went
said, “What monument is that which I see?” up against the king of Assyria to the river
Euphrates: and king Josiah went against him;
The men of the city told him, “It is the tomb and Pharaoh Necoh killed him at Megiddo,
of the man of God, who came from Judah, and when he had seen him. 23:30 His servants
proclaimed these things that you have done carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo,
against the altar of Bethel.” and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him
23:18
He said, “Let him be! Let no man in his own tomb. The people of the land
move his bones.” So they let his bones alone, took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed
with the bones of the prophet who came out him, and made him king in his father’s place.
of Samaria. 23:19 All the houses also of the 23:31
Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when
high places that were in the cities of Samaria, he began to reign; and he reigned three months
which the kings of Israel had made to provoke in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was
the LORD to anger, Josiah took away, and Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
23:32
did to them according to all the acts that he He did that which was evil in the sight of
had done in Bethel. 23:20 He killed all the the LORD, according to all that his fathers had
priests of the high places that were there, on done. 23:33 Pharaoh Necoh put him in bonds at
the altars, and burned men’s bones on them; Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might
and he returned to Jerusalem. 23:21 The king not reign in Jerusalem; and put the land to a
commanded all the people, saying, “Keep the tribute of one hundred talents of silver, and
Passover to the LORD your God, as it is written a talent of gold. 23:34 Pharaoh Necoh made
in this book of the covenant.” 23:22 Surely there Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the place
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of Josiah his father, and changed his name to he, and his mother, and his servants, and
Jehoiakim: but he took Jehoahaz away; and he his princes, and his officers: and the king of
came to Egypt, and died there. 23:35 Jehoiakim Babylon took him in the eighth year of his
gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but reign. 24:13 He carried out there all the treasures
he taxed the land to give the money according of the house of the LORD, and the treasures
to the commandment of Pharaoh: he exacted of the king’s house, and cut in pieces all the
the silver and the gold of the people of the vessels of gold, which Solomon king of Israel
land, of everyone according to his taxation, to had made in the LORD’s temple, as the LORD
give it to Pharaoh Necoh. 23:36 Jehoiakim was had said. 24:14 He carried away all Jerusalem,
twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and all the princes, and all the mighty men
and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and of valor, even ten thousand captives, and all
his mother’s name was Zebidah the daughter the craftsmen and the smiths; none remained,
of Pedaiah of Rumah. 23:37 He did that which except the poorest sort of the people of the land.
24:15
was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to He carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon;
all that his fathers had done. and the king’s mother, and the king’s wives,
24:1
and his officers, and the chief men of the land,
In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to
Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his Babylon. 24:16 All the men of might, even seven
servant three years: then he turned and re- thousand, and the craftsmen and the smiths
belled against him. 24:2 The LORD sent against one thousand, all of them strong and apt for
him bands of the Kasdim, and bands of the Syr- war, even them the king of Babylon brought
ians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of captive to Babylon. 24:17 The king of Babylon
the children of Ammon, and sent them against made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin’s father’s brother,
Judah to destroy it, according to the word of king is his place, and changed his name to
the LORD, which he spoke by his servants Zedekiah. 24:18 Zedekiah was twenty-one years
the prophets. 24:3 Surely at the commandment old when he began to reign; and he reigned
of the LORD came this on Judah, to remove eleven years in Jerusalem: and his mother’s
them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah
according to all that he did, 24:4 and also for of Libnah. 24:19 He did that which was evil in
the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled the sight of the LORD, according to all that
Jerusalem with innocent blood: and the LORD Jehoiakim had done. 24:20 For through the anger
would not pardon. 24:5 Now the rest of the of the LORD, it happened in Jerusalem and
acts of Jehoiakim, and all that he did, aren’t Judah, until he had cast them out from his
they written in the book of the chronicles of presence. Zedekiah rebelled against the king of
the kings of Judah? 24:6 So Jehoiakim slept with Babylon.
his fathers; and Jehoiachin his son reigned in
his place. 24:7 The king of Egypt didn’t come 25:1
It happened in the ninth year of his reign,
again out of his land any more; for the king in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the
of Babylon had taken, from the brook of Egypt month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon
to the river Euphrates, all that pertained to came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem,
the king of Egypt. 24:8 Jehoiachin was eighteen and encamped against it; and they built forts
years old when he began to reign; and he against it around it. 25:2 So the city was besieged
reigned in Jerusalem three months: and his to the eleventh year of king Zedekiah. 25:3 On
mother’s name was Nehushta the daughter of the ninth day of the fourth month the famine
Elnathan of Jerusalem. 24:9 He did that which was severe in the city, so that there was no
was evil in the sight of the LORD, according bread for the people of the land. 25:4 Then a
to all that his father had done. 24:10 At that breach was made in the city, and all the men
time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of of war fled by night by the way of the gate
Babylon came up to Jerusalem, and the city between the two walls, which was by the king’s
was besieged. 24:11 Nebuchadnezzar king of garden (now the Kasdim were against the city
Babylon came to the city, while his servants around it); and the king went by the way of
were besieging it; 24:12 and Jehoiachin the king the Arabah. 25:5 But the army of the Kasdim
of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, pursued after the king, and overtook him in the
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plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered in the city. 25:20 Nebuzaradan the captain of
from him. 25:6 Then they took the king, and the guard took them, and brought them to the
carried him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; king of Babylon to Riblah. 25:21 The king of
and they gave judgment on him. 25:7 They Babylon struck them, and put them to death at
killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was
and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound carried away captive out of his land. 25:22 As
him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon. for the people who were left in the land of
25:8
Now in the fifth month, on the seventh Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon
day of the month, which was the nineteenth had left, even over them he made Gedaliah the
year of king Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, governor.
25:23
came Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, a Now when all the captains of the forces,
servant of the king of Babylon, to Jerusalem. they and their men, heard that the king of
25:9
He burnt the house of the LORD, and the Babylon had made Gedaliah governor, they
king’s house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael
even every great house, burnt he with fire. the son of Nethaniah, and Yochanan the son
25:10
All the army of the Kasdim, who were of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth
with the captain of the guard, broke down the the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of the
walls around Jerusalem. 25:11 Nebuzaradan the Maacathite, they and their men. 25:24 Gedaliah
captain of the guard carried away captive the swore to them and to their men, and said to
residue of the people who were left in the city, them, “Don’t be afraid because of the servants
and those who fell away, who fell to the king of the Kasdim. Dwell in the land, and serve the
of Babylon, and the residue of the multitude. king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you.”
25:12 25:25
But the captain of the guard left some of But it happened in the seventh month,
the poorest of the land to work the vineyards that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son
and fields. 25:13 The Kasdim broke up the pillars of Elishama, of the royal seed came, and ten
of brass that were in the house of the LORD men with him, and struck Gedaliah, so that
and the bases and the bronze sea that were he died, and the Jews and the Kasdim that
in the house of the LORD, and carried the were with him at Mizpah. 25:26 All the people,
brass pieces to Babylon. 25:14 They took away both small and great, and the captains of the
the pots, the shovels, the snuffers, the spoons, forces, arose, and came to Egypt; for they were
and all the vessels of brass with which they afraid of the Kasdim. 25:27 It happened in the
ministered. 25:15 The captain of the guard took seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of
away the fire pans, the basins, that which was Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month,
of gold, in gold, and that which was of silver, on the seven and twentieth day of the month,
in silver. 25:16 The two pillars, the one sea, and that Evilmerodach king of Babylon, in the year
the bases, which Solomon had made for the that he began to reign, lifted up the head of
house of the LORD, the brass of all these vessels Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison; 25:28 and
was without weight. 25:17 The height of the one he spoke kindly to him, and set his throne
pillar was eighteen cubits, and a capital of brass above the throne of the kings who were with
was on it; and the height of the capital was him in Babylon, 25:29 and changed his prison
three cubits, with network and pomegranates garments. Jehoiachin ate bread before him
on the capital around it, all of brass: and like continually all the days of his life: 25:30 and for
to these had the second pillar with network. his allowance, there was a continual allowance
25:18
The captain of the guard took Seraiah the given him of the king, every day a portion, all
chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, the days of his life.
and the three keepers of the threshold: 25:19 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
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Isaiah 1:11
“What are the multitude of your sacrifices
to me?,” says the LORD.
1:1 “I have had enough of the burnt offerings
The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz,
which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, of rams,
in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and and the fat of fed animals.
Hezekiah, kings of Judah. I don’t delight in the blood of bulls,
1:2 or of lambs,
Hear, heavens,
and listen, earth; for the LORDa has or of male goats.
1:12
spoken: When you come to appear before me,
“I have nourished and brought up children, who has required this at your hand, to
and they have rebelled against me. trample my courts?
1:3 1:13
The ox knows his owner, Bring no more vain offerings.
and the donkey his master’s crib; Incense is an abomination to me;
but Israel doesn’t know, new moons, Sabbaths, and convocations:
my people don’t consider.” I can’t bear with evil assemblies.
1:4 1:14
Ah sinful nation, My soul hates your New Moons and your
a people loaded with iniquity, appointed feasts.
a seed of evildoers, They are a burden to me.
children who deal corruptly! I am weary of bearing them.
1:15
They have forsaken the LORD. When you spread forth your hands, I will
They have despised the Holy One of hide my eyes from you.
Israel. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will
They are estranged and backward. not hear.
1:5 Your hands are full of blood.
Why should you be beaten more,
1:16
that you revolt more and more? Wash yourselves, make yourself clean.
The whole head is sick, Put away the evil of your doings from
and the whole heart faint. before my eyes.
1:6
From the sole of the foot even to the head Cease to do evil.
1:17
there is no soundness in it: Learn to do well.
wounds, welts, and open sores. Seek justice.
They haven’t been closed, neither ban- Relieve the oppressed.
daged, neither soothed with oil. Judge the fatherless.
1:7
Your country is desolate. Plead for the widow.”
1:18
Your cities are burned with fire. “Come now, and let us reason together,”
Strangers devour your land in your pres- says the LORD:
ence, “Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall
and it is desolate, be as white as snow.
as overthrown by strangers. Though they be red like crimson, they
1:8
The daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a shall be as wool.
1:19
vineyard, If you are willing and obedient,
like a hut in a field of melons, you shall eat the good of the land;
1:20
like a besieged city. but if you refuse and rebel, you shall
1:9
Unless the LORD of Hosts had left to us a be devoured with the sword;
very small remnant, for the mouth of the LORD has spoken
we would have been as Sodom; it.”
1:21
we would have been like Gomorrah. How the faithful city has become a prosti-
1:10
Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of tute!
Sodom! She was full of justice; righteousness
Listen to the law of our Godb , you people lodged in her,
of Gomorrah! but now murderers.
a 1:2 “LORD” or “GOD” (all capital letters) indicate the 4-letter Holy Name of God
b 1:10 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “Elohim.”
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1:22
Your silver has become dross, For out of Zion the law shall go forth,
your wine mixed with water. and the word of the LORD from
1:23
Your princes are rebellious, and compan- Jerusalem.
2:4
ions of thieves. He will judge between the nations,
Everyone loves bribes, and follows after and will decide concerning many peo-
rewards. ples;
They don’t judge the fatherless, and they shall beat their swords into
neither does the cause of the widow come plowshares,
to them. and their spears into pruning hooks.
1:24
Therefore the Lord,c the LORD of Hosts, Nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
the Mighty One of Israel, says: neither shall they learn war any more.
2:5
“Ah, I will get relief from my adversaries, House of Jacob, come, and let us walk in the
and avenge myself of my enemies; light of the LORD.
1:25 2:6
and I will turn my hand on you, For you have forsaken your people, the
thoroughly purge away your dross, house of Jacob,
and will take away all your tin. because they are filled from the east,
1:26
I will restore your judges as at the first, with those who practice divination like
and your counselors as at the beginning. the Philistines,
Afterward you shall be called ‘The city of and they clasp hands with the children of
righteousness, foreigners.
2:7
a faithful town.’ Their land is full of silver and gold,
1:27
Zion shall be redeemed with justice, neither is there any end of their treasures.
and her converts with righteousness. Their land also is full of horses,
1:28
But the destruction of transgressors and neither is there any end of their chariots.
2:8
sinners shall be together, Their land also is full of idols.
and those who forsake the LORD shall be They worship the work of their own
consumed. hands,
1:29
For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which that which their own fingers have made.
2:9
you have desired, Man is brought low,
and you shall be confounded for the and mankind is humbled;
gardens that you have chosen. therefore don’t forgive them.
1:30 2:10
For you shall be as an oak whose leaf fades, Enter into the rock,
and as a garden that has no water. and hide in the dust,
1:31
The strong will be like tinder, from before the terror of the LORD,
and his work like a spark. and from the glory of his majesty.
2:11
They will both burn together, The lofty looks of man will be brought low,
and no one will quench them.” the haughtiness of men will be bowed
2:1
This is what Isaiah the son of Amoz saw down,
concerning Judah and Jerusalem. and the LORD alone will be exalted in
2:2
It shall happen in the latter days, that the that day.
2:12
mountain of the LORD’s house shall For there will be a day of the LORD of Hosts
be established on the top of the moun- for all that is proud and haughty,
tains, and for all that is lifted up;
and shall be raised above the hills; and it shall be brought low:
2:13
and all nations shall flow to it. For all the cedars of Lebanon, that are
2:3
Many peoples shall go and say, high and lifted up,
“Come, let’s go up to the mountain of the for all the oaks of Bashan,
2:14
LORD, For all the high mountains,
to the house of the God of Jacob; for all the hills that are lifted up,
2:15
and he will teach us of his ways, For every lofty tower,
and we will walk in his paths.” for every fortified wall,
c 1:24 The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”
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2:16
For all the ships of Tarshish, and the base against the honorable.
3:6
and for all pleasant imagery. Indeed a man shall take hold of his brother
2:17
The loftiness of man shall be bowed down, in the house of his father, saying,
and the haughtiness of men shall be “You have clothing, you be our ruler,
brought low; and let this ruin be under your hand.”
and the LORD alone shall be exalted in 3:7
In that day he will cry out, saying, “I will not
that day. be a healer;
2:18
The idols shall utterly pass away. for in my house is neither bread nor
2:19
Men shall go into the caves of the rocks, clothing.
and into the holes of the earth, You shall not make me ruler of the peo-
from before the terror of the LORD, ple.”
and from the glory of his majesty, 3:8
For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen;
when he arises to shake the earth might- because their tongue and their doings are
ily. against the LORD,
2:20
In that day, men shall cast away their idols to provoke the eyes of his glory.
of silver, 3:9
The look of their faces testify against them.
and their idols of gold, They parade their sin like Sodom.
which have been made for themselves to They don’t hide it.
worship, Woe to their soul!
to the moles and to the bats;
2:21 For they have brought disaster upon
To go into the caverns of the rocks,
themselves.
and into the clefts of the ragged rocks, 3:10
Tell the righteous “Good!”
from before the terror of the LORD,
For they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.
and from the glory of his majesty, 3:11
Woe to the wicked!
when he arises to shake the earth might-
Disaster is upon them;
ily.
2:22 for the deeds of his hands will be paid
Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his
back to him.
nostrils; 3:12
for of what account is he? As for my people, children are their oppres-
3:1
For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of Hosts, sors,
takes away from Jerusalem and from and women rule over them.
Judah supply and support, My people, those who lead you cause you
the whole supply of bread, to err,
and the whole supply of water; and destroy the way of your paths.
3:2 3:13
the mighty man, The LORD stands up to contend,
the man of war, and stands to judge the peoples.
3:14
the judge, The LORD will enter into judgment with the
the prophet, elders of his people,
the diviner, and their leaders:
the elder, “It is you who have eaten up the vine-
3:3 yard.
the captain of fifty,
the honorable man, The spoil of the poor is in your houses.
3:15
the counselor, What do you mean that you crush my
the skilled craftsman, people,
and the clever enchanter. and grind the face of the poor?” says the
3:4 Lord, the LORD of Hosts.
I will give boys to be their princes,
3:16
and children shall rule over them. Moreover the LORD said, “Because the
3:5 daughters of Zion are haughty,
The people will be oppressed,
everyone by another, and walk with outstretched necks and
and everyone by his neighbor. flirting eyes,
The child will behave himself proudly against walking to trip as they go,
the old man, jingling ornaments on their feet;
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3:17 5:1
therefore the Lord brings sores on the crown Let me sing for my well beloved a song of
of the head of the women of Zion, my beloved about his vineyard.
and the LORD will make their scalps My beloved had a vineyard on a very
bald.” fruitful hill.
3:18 5:2
In that day the Lord will take away the He dug it up,
beauty of their anklets, the headbands, the cres- gathered out its stones,
cent necklaces, 3:19 the earrings, the bracelets, planted it with the choicest vine,
the veils, 3:20 the headdresses, the ankle chains, built a tower in its midst,
the sashes, the perfume bottles, the charms, and also cut out a winepress therein.
3:21
the signet rings, the nose rings, 3:22 the fine He looked for it to yield grapes,
robes, the capes, the cloaks, the purses, 3:23 the but it yielded wild grapes.
5:3
hand mirrors, the fine linen garments, the “Now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of
tiaras, and the shawls. Judah,
3:24 please judge between me and my vine-
It shall happen that instead of sweet spices,
there shall be rottenness; yard.
5:4
instead of a belt, a rope; What could have been done more to my
instead of well set hair, baldness; vineyard, that I have not done in it?
Why, when I looked for it to yield grapes,
instead of a robe, a wearing of sackcloth;
did it yield wild grapes?
and branding instead of beauty. 5:5
Now I will tell you what I will do to my
3:25
Your men shall fall by the sword, vineyard.
and your mighty in the war. I will take away its hedge, and it will be
3:26
Her gates shall lament and mourn; eaten up.
and she shall be desolate and sit on the I will break down its wall of it, and it will
ground. be trampled down.
4:1 5:6
Seven women shall take hold of one man I will lay it a wasteland.
in that day, saying, “We will eat our own bread, It won’t be pruned nor hoed,
and wear our own clothing: only let us be but it will grow briers and thorns.
called by your name. Take away our reproach.” I will also command the clouds that they
4:2 rain no rain on it.”
In that day, the LORD’s branch will be
5:7
beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land For the vineyard of the LORD of Hosts is the
will be the beauty and glory of the survivors of house of Israel,
Israel. 4:3 It will happen, that he who is left in and the men of Judah his pleasant plant:
Zion, and he who remains in Jerusalem, shall and he looked for justice, but, behold,
be called holy, even everyone who is written oppression;
among the living in Jerusalem; 4:4 when the for righteousness, but, behold, a cry of
Lord shall have washed away the filth of the distress.
5:8
daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the Woe to those who join house to house,
blood of Jerusalem from its midst, by the spirit who lay field to field, until there is no
of justice, and by the spirit of burning. 4:5 The room,
LORD will create over the whole habitation of and you are made to dwell alone in the
Mount Zion, and over her assemblies, a cloud midst of the land!
5:9
and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming In my ears, the LORD of Hosts says: “Surely
fire by night; for over all the glory will be a many houses will be desolate,
canopy. 4:6 There will be a pavilion for a shade even great and beautiful, unoccupied.
5:10
in the daytime from the heat, and for a refuge For ten acresd of vineyard shall yield one
and for a shelter from storm and from rain. bath,e
d 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.
e 5:10 1 bath is about 22 litres or 5.8 U. S. gallons
f 5:10 1 homer is about 220 litres or 6 bushels
g 5:10 1 efah is about 22 litres or 0.6 bushels or about 2 pecks)—only one tenth of what was sown.
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5:23
and a homerf of seed shall yield an efah.g ” who acquit the guilty for a bribe,
5:11
Woe to those who rise up early in the but deny justice for the innocent!
5:24
morning, that they may follow strong Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the
drink; stubble,
who stay late into the night, until wine and as the dry grass sinks down in the
inflames them! flame,
5:12
The harp, lyre, tambourine, and flute, with so their root shall be as rottenness,
wine, are at their feasts; and their blossom shall go up as dust;
but they don’t respect the work of the because they have rejected the law of the LORD
LORD, of Hosts,
neither have they considered the opera- and despised the word of the Holy One of
tion of his hands. Israel.
5:13 5:25
Therefore my people go into captivity for Therefore the LORD’s anger burns against
lack of knowledge. his people,
Their honorable men are famished, and he has stretched out his hand against
and their multitudes are parched with them, and has struck them.
thirst. The mountains tremble,
5:14
Therefore Sheolh has enlarged its desire, and their dead bodies are as refuse in the
and opened its mouth without measure; midst of the streets.
and their glory, their multitude, their For all this, his anger is not turned away,
pomp, and he who rejoices among but his hand is still stretched out.
5:26
them, descend into it. He will lift up a banner to the nations from
5:15
So man is brought low, far,
mankind is humbled, and he will whistle for them from the end
and the eyes of the arrogant ones are of the earth.
humbled; Behold, they will come speedily and
5:16
but the LORD of Hosts is exalted in justice, swiftly.
5:27
and God the Holy One is sanctified in None shall be weary nor stumble among
righteousness. them;
5:17
Then the lambs will graze as in their pas- none shall slumber nor sleep;
ture, neither shall the belt of their waist be
and strangers will eat the ruins of the rich. untied,
5:18
Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:
5:28
of falsehood, whose arrows are sharp,
and wickedness as with cart rope; and all their bows bent.
5:19
Who say, “Let him make speed, let him Their horses’ hoofs will be like flint,
hasten his work, that we may see it; and their wheels like a whirlwind.
5:29
and let the counsel of the Holy One of Their roaring will be like a lioness.
Israel draw near and come, They will roar like young lions.
that we may know it!” Yes, they shall roar,
5:20
Woe to those who call evil good, and good and seize their prey and carry it off,
evil; and there will be no one to deliver.
5:30
who put darkness for light, They will roar against them in that day like
and light for darkness; the roaring of the sea.
who put bitter for sweet, If one looks to the land behold, darkness
and sweet for bitter! and distress.
5:21
Woe to those who are wise in their own The light is darkened in its clouds.
6:1
eyes, In the year that king Uzziah died, I saw
and prudent in their own sight! the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up;
5:22
Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine, and his train filled the temple. 6:2 Above him
and champions at mixing strong drink; stood the seraphim. Each one had six wings.
h 5:14 Sheol is the place of the dead.
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With two he covered his face. With two he Jerusalem to war against it, but could not
covered his feet. With two he flew. 6:3 One prevail against it. 7:2 It was told the house of
called to another, and said, David, saying, “Syria is allied with Ephraim.”
“Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of Hosts! His heart trembled, and the heart of his people,
The whole earth is full of his glory!” as the trees of the forest tremble with the wind.
6:4 7:3
The foundations of the thresholds shook Then the LORD said to Isaiah, “Go out now
at the voice of him who called, and the house to meet Ahaz, you, and Shearjashub your son,
was filled with smoke. 6:5 Then I said, “Woe at the end of the conduit of the upper pool,
is me! For I am undone, because I am a man on the highway of the fuller’s field. 7:4 Tell
of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a him, ‘Be careful, and keep calm. Don’t be
people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen afraid, neither let your heart be faint because of
the King, the LORD of Hosts!” these two tails of smoking torches, for the fierce
6:6
Then one of the seraphim flew to me, anger of Rezin and Syria, and of the son of
having a live coal in his hand, which he had Remaliah. 7:5 Because Syria, Ephraim, and the
taken with the tongs from off the altar. 6:7 He son of Remaliah, have plotted evil against you,
touched my mouth with it, and said, “Behold, saying, 7:6 “Let’s go up against Judah, and tear
this has touched your lips; and your iniquity is it apart, and let’s divide it among ourselves,
taken away, and your sin forgiven.” and set up a king in its midst, even the son of
6:8
I heard the Lord’s voice, saying, “Whom Tabeel.” 7:7 This is what the Lord GOD says:
shall I send, and who will go for us?” “It shall not stand, neither shall it happen.”
7:8
Then I said, “Here I am. Send me!” For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the
6:9
He said, “Go, and tell this people, head of Damascus is Rezin; and within sixty-
‘You hear indeed, five years Ephraim shall be broken in pieces, so
but don’t understand; that it shall not be a people; 7:9 and the head of
and you see indeed, Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is
but don’t perceive.’ Remaliah’s son. If you will not believe, surely
6:10 you shall not be established.’”
Make the heart of this people fat.
7:10
Make their ears heavy, and shut their The LORD spoke again to Ahaz, saying,
7:11
eyes; “Ask a sign of the LORD your God; ask it
lest they see with their eyes, either in the depth, or in the height above.”
7:12
and hear with their ears, But Ahaz said, “I will not ask, neither
and understand with their heart, will I tempt the LORD.”
and turn again, and be healed.” 7:13
He said, “Listen now, house of David. Is
6:11
Then I said, “Lord, how long?” it not enough for you to try the patience of men,
He answered, that you will try the patience of my God also?
7:14
“Until cities are waste without inhabitant, Therefore the Lord himself will give you
and houses without man, a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and
and the land becomes utterly waste, bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.i
6:12 7:15
And the LORD has removed men far He shall eat butter and honey when he
away, knows to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
7:16
and the forsaken places are many in the For before the child knows to refuse the evil,
midst of the land. and choose the good, the land whose two kings
6:13
If there is a tenth left in it, you abhor shall be forsaken. 7:17 The LORD
that also will in turn be consumed: will bring on you, on your people, and on your
as a terebinth, and as an oak, whose stock father’s house, days that have not come, from
remains when they are felled; the day that Ephraim departed from Judah;
so the holy seed is its stock.” even the king of Assyria. 7:18 It will happen
7:1
It happened in the days of Ahaz the son in that day that the LORD will whistle for the
of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers
that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of
son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Assyria. 7:19 They shall come, and shall all rest
i 7:14 “Immanuel” means “God with us.”
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in the desolate valleys, in the clefts of the rocks, spoke thus to me with a strong hand, and
on all thorn hedges, and on all pastures. 7:20 In instructed me not to walk in the way of this
that day the Lord will shave with a razor that is people, saying, 8:12 “Don’t say, ‘A conspiracy!’
hired in the parts beyond the River, even with concerning all about which this people say, ‘A
the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the conspiracy!’ neither fear their threats, nor be
feet; and it shall also consume the beard. 7:21 It terrorized. 8:13 The LORD of Hosts is who you
shall happen in that day that a man shall keep must respect as holy. He is the one you must
alive a young cow, and two sheep; 7:22 and it fear. He is the one you must dread. 8:14 He will
shall happen, that because of the abundance of be a sanctuary, but for both houses of Israel, he
milk which they shall give he shall eat butter: will be a trap and a snare for the inhabitants
for everyone will eat butter and honey that is of Jerusalem. 8:15 Many will stumble over it,
left in the midst of the land. 7:23 It will happen fall, be broken, be snared, and be captured.”
8:16
in that day that every place where there were Wrap up the testimony. Seal the law among
a thousand vines at a thousand silver shekels, my disciples. 8:17 I will wait for the LORD, who
shall be for briers and thorns. 7:24 People will go hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I
there with arrows and with bow, because all the will look for him. 8:18 Behold, I and the children
land will be briers and thorns. 7:25 All the hills whom the LORD has given me are for signs and
that were cultivated with the hoe, you shall not for wonders in Israel from the LORD of Hosts,
come there for fear of briers and thorns; but it who dwells in Mount Zion.
8:19
shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for When they tell you, “Consult with those
the treading of sheep.” who have familiar spirits and with the wiz-
8:1
The LORD said to me, “Take a large tablet, ards, who chirp and who mutter:” shouldn’t
and write on it with a man’s pen, ‘For Maher a people consult with their God? Should
Shalal Hash Baz;j ’ 8:2 and I will take for myself they consult the dead on behalf of the living?
8:20
faithful witnesses to testify: Uriah the priest, Turn to the law and to the testimony! If
and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.” they don’t speak according to this word, surely
8:3
I went to the prophetess, and she con- there is no morning for them. 8:21 They will pass
ceived, and bore a son. Then the LORD said through it, very distressed and hungry; and it
to me, “Call his name ‘Maher Shalal Hash will happen that when they are hungry, they
Baz.’ 8:4 For before the child knows how to will worry, and curse by their king and by their
say, ‘My father,’ and, ‘My mother,’ the riches God. They will turn their faces upward, 8:22 and
of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria will be look to the earth, and see distress, darkness,
carried away by the king of Assyria.” and the gloom of anguish. They will be driven
8:5 into thick darkness.
The LORD spoke to me yet again, saying,
8:6 9:1
“Because this people have refused the waters But there shall be no more gloom for her
of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin who was in anguish. In the former time, he
and Remaliah’s son; 8:7 now therefore, behold, brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and
the Lord brings upon them the mighty flood the land of Naphtali; but in the latter time he
waters of the River: the king of Assyria and all has made it glorious, by the way of the sea,
his glory. It will come up over all its channels, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.
9:2
and go over all its banks. 8:8 It will sweep The people who walked in darkness have
onward into Judah. It will overflow and pass seen a great light.
through; it will reach even to the neck; and the Those who lived in the land of the
stretching out of its wings will fill the breadth shadow of death, on them the light has
of your land, Immanuel. 8:9 Make an uproar, shined.
9:3
you peoples, and be broken in pieces! Listen, You have multiplied the nation.
all you from far countries: dress for battle, and You have increased their joy.
be shattered! Dress for battle, and be shattered! They rejoice before you according to the joy
8:10
Take counsel together, and it will be brought in harvest, as men rejoice when they divide the
to nothing; speak the word, and it will not spoil. 9:4 For the yoke of his burden, and the
stand: for God is with us.” 8:11 For the LORD staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor,
j 8:1 “Maher Shalal Hash Baz” means “quick to the plunder, swift to the spoil.”
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you have broken as in the day of Midian. 9:5 For for everyone is profane and an evildoer,
all the armor of the armed man in the noisy and every mouth speaks folly.
battle, and the garments rolled in blood, will For all this his anger is not turned away,
be for burning, fuel for the fire. 9:6 For to us but his hand is stretched out still.
a child is born. To us a son is given; and the 9:18
For wickedness burns like a fire.
government will be on his shoulders. His name It devours the briers and thorns;
will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty yes, it kindles in the thickets of the forest,
God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. 9:7 Of and they roll upward in a column of
the increase of his government and of peace smoke.
there shall be no end, on the throne of David, 9:19
Through the wrath of the LORD of Hosts,
and on his kingdom, to establish it, and to the land is burnt up;
uphold it with justice and with righteousness and the people are the fuel for the fire.
from that time on, even forever. The zeal of the No one spares his brother.
LORD of Hosts will perform this. 9:20
One will devour on the right hand, and be
9:8
The Lord sent a word into Jacob, hungry;
and it falls on Israel. and he will eat on the left hand, and they
9:9
All the people will know, will not be satisfied.
including Ephraim and the inhabitants Everyone will eat the flesh of his own arm:
of Samaria, who say in pride and in 9:21
Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim,
arrogance of heart, Manasseh; and they together shall be
9:10
“The bricks have fallen, against Judah.
but we will build with cut stone. For all this his anger is not turned away,
The sycamore fig trees have been cut down, but his hand is stretched out still.
but we will put cedars in their place.” 10:1
Woe to those who decree unrighteous de-
9:11
Therefore the LORD will set up on high crees, and to the writers who write oppressive
against him the adversaries of Rezin, decrees; 10:2 to deprive the needy from justice,
and will stir up his enemies, and to rob the poor among my people of their
9:12
The Syrians in front, rights, that widows may be their spoil, and
and the Philistines behind; that they may make the fatherless their prey!
and they will devour Israel with open 10:3
What will you do in the day of visitation,
mouth. and in the desolation which will come from
For all this, his anger is not turned away, afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where
but his hand is stretched out still. will you leave your wealth?
9:13 10:4
Yet the people have not turned to him who They will only bow down under the
struck them, prisoners,
neither have they sought the LORD of and will fall under the slain.
Hosts. For all this his anger is not turned away,
9:14
Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel but his hand is stretched out still.
head and tail, 10:5
Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the
palm branch and reed, in one day. staff in whose hand is my indignation! 10:6 I
9:15
The elder and the honorable man is the will send him against a profane nation, and
head, against the people who anger me will I give
and the prophet who teaches lies is the him a command to take the spoil and to take
tail. the prey, and to tread them down like the mire
9:16
For those who lead this people lead them of the streets. 10:7 However he doesn’t mean so,
astray; neither does his heart think so; but it is in his
and those who are led by them are de- heart to destroy, and to cut off not a few nations.
10:8
stroyed. For he says, “Aren’t all of my princes kings?
9:17 10:9
Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their Isn’t Calno like Carchemish? Isn’t Hamath
young men, like Arpad? Isn’t Samaria like Damascus?”
10:10
neither will he have compassion on their As my hand has found the kingdoms of the
fatherless and widows; idols, whose engraved images exceeded those
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of Jerusalem and of Samaria; 10:11 shall I not, as you will be accomplished, and my anger will be
I have done to Samaria and her idols, so do to directed to his destruction.” 10:26 The LORD of
Jerusalem and her idols? 10:12 Therefore it will Hosts will stir up a scourge against him, as in
happen that, when the Lord has performed his the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb. His
whole work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, rod will be over the sea, and he will lift it up
I will punish the fruit of the willful proud heart like he did against Egypt. 10:27 It will happen
of the king of Assyria, and the insolence of his in that day, that his burden will depart from off
haughty looks. 10:13 For he has said, “By the your shoulder, and his yoke from off your neck,
strength of my hand I have done it, and by my and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the
wisdom; for I have understanding: and I have anointing oil.
10:28
removed the boundaries of the peoples, and He has come to Aiath. He has passed
have robbed their treasures. Like a valiant man through Migron. At Michmash he stores his
I have brought down their rulers. 10:14 My hand baggage. 10:29 They have gone over the pass.
has found the riches of the peoples like a nest, They have taken up their lodging at Geba.
and like one gathers eggs that are abandoned, Ramah trembles. Gibeah of Saul has fled.
10:30
have I gathered all the earth. There was no one Cry aloud with your voice, daughter of
who moved their wing, or that opened their Gallim! Listen, Laishah! You poor Anathoth!
10:31
mouth, or chirped.” Madmenah is a fugitive. The inhabitants
10:15
Should an axe brag against him who of Gebim flee for safety. 10:32 This very day he
chops with it? Should a saw exalt itself above will halt at Nob. He shakes his hand at the
him who saws with it? As if a rod should lift mountain of the daughter of Zion, the hill of
those who lift it up, or as if a staff should lift Jerusalem. 10:33 Behold, the Lord, the LORD of
up someone who is not wood. 10:16 Therefore Hosts, will lop the boughs with terror. The tall
the Lord, the LORD of Hosts, will send among will be cut down, and the lofty will be brought
his fat ones leanness; and under his glory a low. 10:34 He will cut down the thickets of the
burning will be kindled like the burning of fire. forest with iron, and Lebanon will fall by the
10:17
The light of Israel will be for a fire, and Mighty One.
11:1
his Holy One for a flame; and it will burn and A shoot will come out of the stock of
devour his thorns and his briers in one day. Jesse,
10:18 and a branch out of his roots will bear
He will consume the glory of his forest, and
of his fruitful field, both soul and body. It will fruit.
11:2
be as when a standard bearer faints. 10:19 The The Spirit of the LORD will rest on him:
remnant of the trees of his forest shall be few, the spirit of wisdom and understanding,
so that a child could write their number. the spirit of counsel and might,
10:20
It will come to pass in that day that the the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of
remnant of Israel, and those who have escaped the LORD.
11:3
from the house of Jacob will no more again His delight will be in the fear of the LORD.
lean on him who struck them, but shall lean He will not judge by the sight of his eyes,
on the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth. neither decide by the hearing of his ears;
10:21 11:4
A remnant will return, even the remnant of but with righteousness he will judge the
Jacob, to the mighty God. 10:22 For though your poor,
people, Israel, are like the sand of the sea, only and decide with equity for the humble of
a remnant of them will return. A destruction the earth.
is determined, overflowing with righteousness. He will strike the earth with the rod of his
10:23 mouth;
For the Lord, the LORD of Hosts, will
make a full end, and that determined, in the and with the breath of his lips he will kill
midst of all the earth. 10:24 Therefore the Lord, the wicked.
11:5
the LORD of Hosts, says “My people who Righteousness will be the belt of his waist,
dwell in Zion, don’t be afraid of the Assyrian, and faithfulness the belt of his waist.
11:6
though he strike you with the rod, and lift up The wolf will live with the lamb,
his staff against you, as Egypt did. 10:25 For yet and the leopard will lie down with the
a very little while, and the indignation against young goat;
Isaiah 11:7 349 Isaiah 13:15

The calf, the young lion, and the fattened of the wells of salvation [yeshu‘ah]. 12:4 In that
calf together; day you will say, “Give thanks to the LORD!
and a little child will lead them. Call on his name. Declare his doings among
11:7 the peoples. Proclaim that his name is exalted!
The cow and the bear will graze.
12:5
Their young ones will lie down together. Sing to the LORD, for he has done excellent
The lion will eat straw like the ox. things! Let this be known in all the earth!
12:6
11:8
The nursing child will play near a cobra’s Cry aloud and shout, you inhabitant of
hole, Zion; for the Holy One of Israel is great in the
and the weaned child will put his hand midst of you!”
on the viper’s den. 13:1
The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the
11:9
They will not hurt nor destroy in all my holy son of Amoz saw: 13:2 Set up a banner on the
mountain; bare mountain! Lift up your voice to them!
for the earth will be full of the knowledge Wave your hand, that they may go into the
of the LORD, gates of the nobles. 13:3 I have commanded my
as the waters cover the sea. consecrated ones; yes, I have called my mighty
11:10
It will happen in that day that the na- men for my anger, even my proudly exulting
tions will seek the root of Jesse, who stands as a ones. 13:4 The noise of a multitude is in the
banner of the peoples; and his resting place will mountains, as of a great people; the noise of an
be glorious. 11:11 It will happen in that day that uproar of the kingdoms of the nations gathered
the Lord will set his hand again the second time together! the LORD of Hosts is mustering the
to recover the remnant that is left of his people army for the battle. 13:5 They come from a far
from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from country, from the uttermost part of heaven,
Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, even the LORD, and the weapons of his indig-
and from the islands of the sea. 11:12 He will set nation, to destroy the whole land. 13:6 Wail; for
up a banner for the nations, and will assemble the day of the LORD is at hand! It will come
the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the as destruction from the Almighty. 13:7 Therefore
dispersed of Judah from the four corners of all hands will be feeble, and everyone’s heart
the earth. 11:13 The envy also of Ephraim will will melt. 13:8 They will be dismayed. Pangs
depart, and those who persecute Judah will and sorrows will seize them. They will be in
be cut off. Ephraim won’t envy Judah, and pain like a woman in labor. They will look in
Judah won’t persecute Ephraim. 11:14 They will amazement one at another. Their faces will be
fly down on the shoulders of the Philistines faces of flame. 13:9 Behold, the day of the LORD
on the west. Together they will plunder the comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to
children of the east. They will extend their make the land a desolation, and to destroy its
power over Edom and Moab, and the children sinners out of it. 13:10 For the stars of the sky and
of Ammon will obey them. 11:15 The LORD its constellations will not give their light. The
will utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sun will be darkened in its going forth, and the
sea; and with his scorching wind he will wave moon will not cause its light to shine. 13:11 I will
his hand over the River, and will split it into punish the world for their evil, and the wicked
seven streams, and cause men to march over in for their iniquity. I will cause the arrogance
sandals. 11:16 There will be a highway for the of the proud to cease, and will humble the
remnant that is left of his people from Assyria, haughtiness of the terrible. 13:12 I will make
like there was for Israel in the day that he came people more rare than fine gold, even a person
up out of the land of Egypt. than the pure gold of Ophir. 13:13 Therefore I
12:1
In that day you will say, “I will give will make the heavens tremble, and the earth
thanks to you, the LORD; for though you were will be shaken out of its place in the wrath of
angry with me, your anger has turned away the LORD of Hosts, and in the day of his fierce
and you comfort me. 12:2 Behold, God is my anger. 13:14 It will happen that like a hunted
salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid; for gazelle, and like sheep that no one gathers, they
the LORD, the LORD, is my strength and song; will each turn to their own people, and will
and he has become my salvation [yeshu‘ah].” each flee to their own land. 13:15 Everyone who
12:3
Therefore with joy you will draw water out is found will be thrust through. Everyone who
Isaiah 13:16 350 Isaiah 14:24

is captured will fall by the sword. 13:16 Their has moved for you to meet you at your coming.
infants also will be dashed in pieces before It stirs up the dead for you, even all the rulers
their eyes. Their houses will be ransacked, and of the earth. It has raised up from their thrones
their wives raped. 13:17 Behold, I will stir up all the kings of the nations. 14:10 They all will
the Medes against them, who will not value answer and ask you, “Have you also become
silver, and as for gold, they will not delight in as weak as we are? Have you become like
it. 13:18 Their bows will dash the young men us?” 14:11 Your pomp is brought down to Sheoll ,
in pieces; and they shall have no pity on the with the sound of your stringed instruments.
fruit of the womb. Their eyes will not spare Maggots are spread out under you, and worms
children. 13:19 Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, cover you.
the beauty of the Kasdim’ pride, will be like 14:12
How you have fallen from heaven,
when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. morning star, son of the dawn! How you are
13:20
It will never be inhabited, neither will it cut down to the ground, who laid the nations
be lived in from generation to generation. The low! 14:13 You said in your heart, “I will ascend
Arabian will not pitch a tent there, neither will into heaven! I will exalt my throne above the
shepherds make their flocks lie down there. stars of God! I will sit on the mountain of
13:21
But wild animals of the desert will lie assembly, in the far north! 14:14 I will ascend
there, and their houses will be full of jackals. above the heights of the clouds! I will make
Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will myself like the Most High!” 14:15 Yet you shall
frolic there. 13:22 Wolves will cry in their castles, be brought down to Sheolm , to the depths of
and jackals in the pleasant palaces. Her time the pit. 14:16 Those who see you will stare at
is near to come, and her days will not be you. They will ponder you, saying, “Is this
prolonged. the man who made the earth to tremble, who
14:1
For the LORD will have compassion on shook kingdoms; 14:17 who made the world like
Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them a wilderness, and overthrew its cities; who
in their own land. The foreigner will join didn’t release his prisoners to their home?”
14:18
himself with them, and they will unite with the All the kings of the nations, sleep in
house of Jacob. 14:2 The peoples will take them, glory, everyone in his own house. 14:19 But
and bring them to their place. The house of you are cast away from your tomb like an
Israel will possess them in the LORD’s land for abominable branch, clothed with the slain, who
servants and for handmaids. They will take as are thrust through with the sword, who go
captives those whose captives they were; and down to the stones of the pit; like a dead
they shall rule over their oppressors. 14:3 It will body trodden under foot. 14:20 You will not join
happen in the day that the LORD will give you them in burial, because you have destroyed
rest from your sorrow, from your trouble, and your land. You have killed your people. The
from the hard service in which you were made seed of evildoers will not be named forever.
to serve, 14:4 that you will take up this parable 14:21
Prepare for slaughter of his children be-
against the king of Babylon, and say, “How cause of the iniquity of their fathers, that they
the oppressor has ceased! The golden city has not rise up and possess the earth, and fill the
ceased!” 14:5 The LORD has broken the staff of surface of the world with cities. 14:22 “I will
the wicked, the scepter of the rulers, 14:6 who rise up against them,” says the LORD of Hosts,
struck the peoples in wrath with a continual “and cut off from Babylon name and remnant,
stroke, who ruled the nations in anger, with and son and son’s son,” says the LORD. 14:23 “I
a persecution that none restrained. 14:7 The will also make it a possession for the porcupine,
whole earth is at rest, and is quiet. They and pools of water. I will sweep it with the
break out song. 14:8 Yes, the fir trees rejoice broom of destruction,” says the LORD of Hosts.
14:24
with you, with the cedars of Lebanon, saying, The LORD of Hosts has sworn, saying,
“Since you are humbled, no lumberjack has “Surely, as I have thought, so shall it happen;
come up against us.” 14:9 Sheolk from beneath and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:
k 14:9Sheol is the place of the dead.
l 14:11Sheol is the place of the dead.
m 14:15 Sheol is the place of the dead.
Isaiah 14:25 351 Isaiah 16:14

14:25
that I will break the Assyrian in my land, for I will bring yet more on Dimon, a lion on
and tread him under foot on my mountains. those of Moab who escape, and on the remnant
Then his yoke will leave them, and his burden of the land.
leave their shoulders. 14:26 This is the plan that 16:1
Send the lambs for the ruler of the land
is determined for the whole earth. This is the from Selah to the wilderness, to the mountain
hand that is stretched out over all the nations. of the daughter of Zion. 16:2 For it will be
14:27
For the LORD of Hosts has planned, and that as wandering birds, as a scattered nest, so
who can stop it? His hand is stretched out, and will the daughters of Moab be at the fords of
who can turn it back?” the Arnon. 16:3 Give counsel! Execute justice!
14:28
This burden was in the year that king Make your shade like the night in the midst
Ahaz died. 14:29 Don’t rejoice, O Philistia, all of the noonday! Hide the outcasts! Don’t
of you, because the rod that struck you is betray the fugitive! 16:4 Let my outcasts dwell
broken; for out of the serpent’s root an adder with you! As for Moab, be a hiding place for
will emerge, and his fruit will be a fiery flying him from the face of the destroyer. For the
serpent. 14:30 The firstborn of the poor will eat, extortioner is brought to nothing. Destruction
and the needy will lie down in safety; and I will ceases. The oppressors are consumed out of the
kill your root with famine, and your remnant land. 16:5 A throne will be established in loving
will be killed. kindness. One will sit on it in truth, in the tent
14:31 of David, judging, seeking justice, and swift to
Howl, gate! Cry, city! You are melted
away, Philistia, all of you; for smoke comes do righteousness.
out of the north, and there is no straggler 16:6
We have heard of the pride of Moab,
in his ranks. 14:32 What will they answer the that he is very proud; even of his arrogance,
messengers of the nation? That the LORD has his pride, and his wrath. His boastings are
founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his nothing. 16:7 Therefore Moab will wail for
people will take refuge. Moab. Everyone will wail. You will mourn
15:1
The burden of Moab: for in a night, Ar for the raisin cakes of Kir Hareseth, utterly
of Moab is laid waste, and brought to nothing; stricken. 16:8 For the fields of Heshbon languish
for in a night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and with the vine of Sibmah. The lords of the
brought to nothing. 15:2 They have gone up nations have broken down its choice branches,
to Bayith, and to Dibon, to the high places, which reached even to Jazer, which wandered
to weep. Moab wails over Nebo and over into the wilderness. Its shoots were spread
Medeba. Baldness is on all of their heads. abroad. They passed over the sea. 16:9 Therefore
Every beard is cut off. 15:3 In their streets, I will weep with the weeping of Jazer for the
they clothe themselves in sackcloth. In their vine of Sibmah. I will water you with my tears,
streets and on their housetops, everyone wails, Heshbon, and Elealeh: for on your summer
weeping abundantly. 15:4 Heshbon cries out fruits and on your harvest the battle shout has
with Elealeh. Their voice is heard even to Jahaz. fallen. 16:10 Gladness is taken away, and joy
Therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud. out of the fruitful field; and in the vineyards
Their souls tremble within them. 15:5 My heart there will be no singing, neither joyful noise.
cries out for Moab! Her Nazirites flee to Zoar, Nobody will tread out wine in the presses. I
to Eglath Shelishiyah; for they go up by the have made the shouting stop. 16:11 Therefore
ascent of Luhith with weeping; for in the way my heart sounds like a harp for Moab, and my
of Horonaim, they raise up a cry of destruction. inward parts for Kir Heres. 16:12 It will happen
15:6
For the waters of Nimrim will be desolate; that when Moab presents himself, when he
for the grass has withered away, the tender wearies himself on the high place, and comes
grass fails, there is no green thing. 15:7 Therefore to his sanctuary to pray, that he will not prevail.
16:13
they will carry away the abundance they have This is the word that the LORD spoke
gotten, and that which they have stored up, concerning Moab in time past. 16:14 But now the
over the brook of the willows. 15:8 For the LORD has spoken, saying, “Within three years,
cry has gone around the borders of Moab; its as a worker bound by contract would count
wailing to Eglaim, and its wailing to Beer Elim. them, the glory of Moab shall be brought into
15:9
For the waters of Dimon are full of blood; contempt, with all his great multitude; and the
Isaiah 17:1 352 Isaiah 19:7

remnant will be very small and feeble.” which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia; 18:2 that
17:1 sends ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels
The burden of Damascus: “Behold, Dam-
ascus is taken away from being a city, and of papyrus on the waters, saying, “Go, you
it will be a ruinous heap. 17:2 The cities of swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth,
Aroer are forsaken. They will be for flocks, to a people awesome from their beginning
which shall lie down, and none shall make onward, a nation that measures out and treads
them afraid. 17:3 The fortress shall cease from down, whose land the rivers divide!” 18:3 All
Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, you inhabitants of the world, and you dwellers
and the remnant of Syria. They will be as the on the earth, when a banner is lifted up on the
glory of the children of Israel,” says the LORD mountains, look! When the shofarn is blown,
of Hosts. 17:4 “It will happen in that day that listen! 18:4 For the LORD said to me, “I will
the glory of Jacob will be made thin, and the be still, and I will see in my dwelling place,
fatness of his flesh will become lean. 17:5 It will like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of
be like when the harvester gathers the wheat, dew in the heat of harvest.” 18:5 For before
and his arm reaps the grain. Yes, it will be the harvest, when the blossom is over, and
like when one gleans grain in the valley of the flower becomes a ripening grape, he will
Rephaim. 17:6 Yet gleanings will be left there, cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and he
like the shaking of an olive tree, two or three will cut down and take away the spreading
olives in the top of the uppermost bough, four branches. 18:6 They will be left together for the
or five in the outermost branches of a fruitful ravenous birds of the mountains, and for the
tree,” says the LORD, the God of Israel. 17:7 In animals of the earth. The ravenous birds will
that day, people will look to their Maker, and summer on them, and all the animals of the
their eyes will have respect for the Holy One of earth will winter on them. 18:7 In that time, a
Israel. 17:8 They will not look to the altars, the present will be brought to the LORD of Hosts
work of their hands; neither shall they respect from a people tall and smooth, even from a
that which their fingers have made, either the people awesome from their beginning onward,
Asherim, or the incense altars. 17:9 In that a nation that measures out and treads down,
day, their strong cities will be like the forsaken whose land the rivers divide, to the place of the
places in the woods and on the mountain top, name of the LORD of Hosts, Mount Zion.
which were forsaken from before the children 19:1
The burden of Egypt: “Behold, the
of Israel; and it will be a desolation. 17:10 For LORD rides on a swift cloud, and comes to
you have forgotten the God of your salvation, Egypt. The idols of Egypt will tremble at
and have not remembered the rock of your his presence; and the heart of Egypt will melt
strength. Therefore you plant pleasant plants, in its midst. 19:2 I will stir up the Egyptians
and set out foreign seedlings. 17:11 In the day of against the Egyptians, and they will fight
your planting, you hedge it in. In the morning, everyone against his brother, and everyone
you make your seed blossom, but the harvest against his neighbor; city against city, and king-
flees away in the day of grief and of desperate dom against kingdom. 19:3 The spirit of Egypt
sorrow. 17:12 Ah, the uproar of many peoples, will fail in its midst. I will destroy its counsel.
who roar like the roaring of the seas; and the They will seek the idols, the charmers, those
rushing of nations, that rush like the rushing who have familiar spirits, and the wizards. 19:4 I
of mighty waters! 17:13 The nations will rush will give over the Egyptians into the hand of a
like the rushing of many waters: but he will cruel lord. A fierce king will rule over them,”
rebuke them, and they will flee far off, and will says the Lord, the LORD of Hosts. 19:5 The
be chased like the chaff of the mountains before waters will fail from the sea, and the river will
the wind, and like the whirling dust before the be wasted and become dry. 19:6 The rivers will
storm. 17:14 At evening, behold, terror! Before become foul. The streams of Egypt will be
the morning, they are no more. This is the diminished and dried up. The reeds and flags
portion of those who plunder us, and the lot of will wither away. 19:7 The meadows by the Nile,
those who rob us. by the brink of the Nile, and all the sown fields
18:1
Ah, the land of the rustling of wings, of the Nile, will become dry, be driven away,
n 18:3 or, trumpet
Isaiah 19:8 353 Isaiah 21:8

and be no more. 19:8 The fishermen will lament, the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the
and all those who fish in the Nile will mourn, Egyptian into Assyria; and the Egyptians will
and those who spread nets on the waters will worship with the Assyrians. 19:24 In that day,
languish. 19:9 Moreover those who work in Israel will be the third with Egypt and with
combed flax, and those who weave white cloth, Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth;
will be confounded. 19:10 The pillars will be 19:25
because the LORD of Hosts has blessed
broken in pieces. All those who work for hire them, saying, “Blessed be Egypt my people,
will be grieved in soul. 19:11 The princes of Zoan Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my
are utterly foolish. The counsel of the wisest inheritance.”
counselors of Pharaoh has become stupid. How 20:1
In the year that Tartan came to Ashdod,
do you say to Pharaoh, “I am the son of the when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him, and
wise, the son of ancient kings?” 19:12 Where he fought against Ashdod and took it; 20:2 at
then are your wise men? Let them tell you that time the LORD spoke by Isaiah the son of
now; and let them know what the LORD of Amoz, saying, “Go, and loosen the sackcloth
Hosts has purposed concerning Egypt. 19:13 The from off your waist, and take your shoes from
princes of Zoan have become fools. The princes off your feet.” He did so, walking naked
of Memphis are deceived. They have caused and barefoot. 20:3 The LORD said, “As my
Egypt to go astray, who are the cornerstone servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot
of her tribes. 19:14 The LORD has mixed a three years for a sign and a wonder concern-
spirit of perverseness in the midst of her; and ing Egypt and concerning Ethiopia, 20:4 so the
they have caused Egypt to go astray in all of king of Assyria will lead away the captives of
its works, like a drunken man staggers in his Egypt and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and
vomit. 19:15 Neither shall there be any work old, naked and barefoot, and with buttocks
for Egypt, which head or tail, palm branch or uncovered, to the shame of Egypt. 20:5 They
rush, may do. 19:16 In that day the Egyptians will be dismayed and confounded, because of
will be like women. They will tremble and Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their
fear because of the shaking of the hand of the glory. 20:6 The inhabitants of this coast land will
LORD of Hosts, which he shakes over them. say in that day, ‘Behold, this is our expectation,
19:17
The land of Judah will become a terror to where we fled for help to be delivered from
Egypt. Everyone to whom mention is made the king of Assyria. And we, how will we
of it will be afraid, because of the plans of the escape?’”
LORD of Hosts, which he determines against 21:1
it. 19:18 In that day, there will be five cities in The burden of the wilderness of the sea.
the land of Egypt that speak the language of As whirlwinds in the South sweep through, it
Canaan, and swear to the LORD of Hosts. One comes from the wilderness, from an awesome
will be called “The city of destruction.” 19:19 In land. 21:2 A grievous vision is declared to
that day, there will be an altar to the LORD in me. The treacherous man deals treacherously,
the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar to and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam;
the LORD at its border. 19:20 It will be for a sign attack! I have stopped all of Media’s sighing.
21:3
and for a witness to the LORD of Hosts in the Therefore my thighs are filled with anguish.
land of Egypt; for they will cry to the LORD Pains have taken hold on me, like the pains of
because of oppressors, and he will send them a woman in labor. I am in so much pain that I
a savior and a defender, and he will deliver can’t hear. I so am dismayed that I can’t see.
21:4
them. 19:21 The LORD will be known to Egypt, My heart flutters. Horror has frightened
and the Egyptians will know the LORD in that me. The twilight that I desired has been turned
day. Yes, they will worship with sacrifice and into trembling for me. 21:5 They prepare the
offering, and will vow a vow to the LORD, table. They set the watch. They eat. They drink.
and will perform it. 19:22 The LORD will strike Rise up, you princes, oil the shield! 21:6 For the
Egypt, striking and healing. They will return Lord said to me, “Go, set a watchman. Let
to the LORD, and he will be entreated by them, him declare what he sees. 21:7 When he sees a
and will heal them. 19:23 In that day there will troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of donkeys, a
be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and troop of camels, he shall listen diligently with
great attentiveness.” 21:8 He cried like a lion:
Isaiah 21:9 354 Isaiah 22:25

“Lord, I stand continually on the watchtower of the city of David, that they were many;
in the daytime, and every night I stay at my and you gathered together the waters of the
post. 21:9 Behold, here comes a troop of men, lower pool. 22:10 You numbered the houses of
horsemen in pairs.” He answered, “Fallen, Jerusalem, and you broke down the houses to
fallen is Babylon; and all the engraved images fortify the wall. 22:11 You also made a reservoir
of her gods are broken to the ground. 21:10 You between the two walls for the water of the old
are my threshing, and the grain of my floor!” pool. But you didn’t look to him who had done
That which I have heard from the LORD of this, neither did you have respect for him who
Hosts, the God of Israel, I have declared to you. purposed it long ago. 22:12 In that day, the Lord,
21:11 the LORD of Hosts, called to weeping, and to
The burden of Dumah. One calls to
me out of Seir, “Watchman, what of the night? mourning, and to baldness, and to dressing in
Watchman, what of the night?” 21:12 The watch- sackcloth: 22:13 and behold, joy and gladness,
man said, “The morning comes, and also the killing cattle and killing sheep, eating flesh
night. If you will inquire, inquire. Come back and drinking wine: “Let us eat and drink, for
again.” tomorrow we will die.” 22:14 The LORD of
21:13 Hosts revealed himself in my ears, “Surely this
The burden on Arabia. In the forest
iniquity will not be forgiven you until you die,”
in Arabia you will lodge, you caravans of
says the Lord, the LORD of Hosts.
Dedanites. 21:14 They brought water to him
22:15
who was thirsty. The inhabitants of the land Thus says the Lord, the LORD of Hosts,
of Tema met the fugitives with their bread. “Go, get yourself to this treasurer, even to
21:15 Shebna, who is over the house, and say,
For they fled away from the swords, from
22:16
the drawn sword, from the bent bow, and from ‘What are you doing here? Who has
the heat of battle. 21:16 For the Lord said to you here, that you have dug out a tomb
me, “Within a year, as a worker bound by here?’ Cutting himself out a tomb on high,
contract would count it, all the glory of Kedar chiseling a habitation for himself in the rock!”
22:17
will fail, 21:17 and the residue of the number of Behold, the LORD will overcome you and
the archers, the mighty men of the children of hurl you away violently. Yes, he will grasp you
Kedar, will be few; for the LORD, the God of firmly. 22:18 He will surely wind you around
Israel, has spoken it.” and around, and throw you like a ball into a
22:1
The burden of the valley of vision. What large country. There you will die, and there
ails you now, that you have all gone up to the the chariots of your glory will be, you shame
housetops? 22:2 You that are full of shouting, a of your lord’s house. 22:19 I will thrust you from
tumultuous city, a joyous town; your slain are your office. You will be pulled down from your
not slain with the sword, neither are they dead station.
in battle. 22:3 All your rulers fled away together. 22:20
It will happen in that day that I will
They were bound by the archers. All who were call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah,
22:21
found by you were bound together. They fled and I will clothe him with your robe, and
far away. 22:4 Therefore I said, “Look away strengthen him with your belt. I will commit
from me. I will weep bitterly. Don’t labor to your government into his hand; and he will be
comfort me for the destruction of the daughter a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to
of my people. 22:5 For it is a day of confusion, the house of Judah. 22:22 I will lay the key of the
and of treading down, and of perplexity, from house of David on his shoulder. He will open,
the Lord, the LORD of Hosts, in the valley and no one will shut. He will shut, and no one
of vision; a breaking down of the walls, and will open. 22:23 I will fasten him like a nail in a
a crying to the mountains.” 22:6 Elam carried sure place. He will be for a throne of glory to
his quiver, with chariots of men and horsemen; his father’s house. 22:24 They will hang on him
and Kir uncovered the shield. 22:7 It happened all the glory of his father’s house, the offspring
that your choicest valleys were full of chariots, and the issue, every small vessel, from the cups
and the horsemen set themselves in array at the even to all the pitchers. 22:25 “In that day,” says
gate. 22:8 He took away the covering of Judah; the LORD of Hosts, “the nail that was fastened
and you looked in that day to the armor in the in a sure place will give way. It will be cut
house of the forest. 22:9 You saw the breaches down, and fall. The burden that was on it will
Isaiah 23:1 355 Isaiah 24:17

be cut off, for the LORD has spoken it.” merchandise and her wages will be holiness
23:1
The burden of Tyre. Howl, you ships to the LORD. It will not be treasured nor laid
of Tarshish! For it is laid waste, so that there up; for her merchandise will be for those who
is no house, no entering in. From the land dwell before the LORD, to eat sufficiently, and
of Kittim it is revealed to them. 23:2 Be still, for durable clothing.
you inhabitants of the coast, you whom the 24:1
Behold, the LORD makes the earth
merchants of Sidon, that pass over the sea, empty, makes it waste, turns it upside down,
have replenished. 23:3 On great waters, the and scatters its inhabitants. 24:2 It will be as
seed of the Shihor, the harvest of the Nile, with the people, so with the priest; as with
was her revenue. She was the market of the servant, so with his master; as with the
nations. 23:4 Be ashamed, Sidon; for the sea has maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer,
spoken, the stronghold of the sea, saying, “I so with the seller; as with the creditor, so with
have not travailed, nor brought forth, neither the debtor; as with the taker of interest, so
have I nourished young men, nor brought up with the giver of interest. 24:3 The earth will
virgins.” 23:5 When the report comes to Egypt, be utterly emptied and utterly laid waste; for
they will be in anguish at the report of Tyre. the LORD has spoken this word. 24:4 The earth
23:6
Pass over to Tarshish! Wail, you inhabitants mourns and fades away. The world languishes
of the coast! 23:7 Is this your joyous city, whose and fades away. The lofty people of the earth
antiquity is of ancient days, whose feet carried languish. 24:5 The earth also is polluted under
her far away to travel? 23:8 Who has planned its inhabitants, because they have transgressed
this against Tyre, the giver of crowns, whose the laws, violated the statutes, and broken
merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the the everlasting covenant. 24:6 Therefore the
honorable of the earth? 23:9 The LORD of Hosts curse has devoured the earth, and those who
has planned it, to stain the pride of all glory, dwell therein are found guilty. Therefore the
to bring into contempt all the honorable of the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few
earth. 23:10 Pass through your land like the Nile, men left. 24:7 The new wine mourns. The vine
daughter of Tarshish. There is no restraint any languishes. All the merry-hearted sigh. 24:8 The
more. 23:11 He has stretched out his hand over mirth of tambourines ceases. The sound of
the sea. He has shaken the kingdoms. The those who rejoice ends. The joy of the harp
LORD has ordered the destruction of Canaan’s ceases. 24:9 They will not drink wine with a
strongholds. 23:12 He said, “You shall rejoice no song. Strong drink will be bitter to those
more, you oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon. who drink it. 24:10 The confused city is broken
Arise, pass over to Kittim. Even there you will down. Every house is shut up, that no man
have no rest.” may come in. 24:11 There is a crying in the
23:13
Behold, the land of the Kasdim. This streets because of the wine. All joy is darkened.
people was not. The Assyrians founded it for The mirth of the land is gone. 24:12 The city is
those who dwell in the wilderness. They set left in desolation, and the gate is struck with
up their towers. They overthrew its palaces. destruction. 24:13 For it will be so in the midst of
They made it a ruin. 23:14 Howl, you ships the earth among the peoples, as the shaking of
of Tarshish, for your stronghold is laid waste! an olive tree, as the gleanings when the vintage
23:15
It will come to pass in that day that Tyre is done. 24:14 These shall lift up their voice.
will be forgotten seventy years, according to They will shout for the majesty of the LORD.
the days of one king. After the end of seventy They cry aloud from the sea. 24:15 Therefore
years it will be to Tyre like in the song of the glorify the LORD in the east, even the name
prostitute. 23:16 Take a harp; go about the city, of the LORD, the God of Israel, in the islands
you prostitute that has been forgotten. Make of the sea! 24:16 From the uttermost part of
sweet melody. Sing many songs, that you may the earth have we heard songs. Glory to the
be remembered. 23:17 It will happen after the righteous! But I said, “I pine away! I pine
end of seventy years that the LORD will visit away! woe is me!” The treacherous have dealt
Tyre, and she shall return to her wages, and treacherously. Yes, the treacherous have dealt
will play the prostitute with all the kingdoms of very treacherously. 24:17 Fear, the pit, and the
the world on the surface of the earth. 23:18 Her snare, are on you who inhabitant the earth.
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24:18 25:10
It will happen that he who flees from the For in this mountain the hand of the LORD
noise of the fear will fall into the pit; and will rest.
he who comes up out of the midst of the pit Moab will be trodden down in his place,
will be taken in the snare; for the windows even like straw is trodden down in the water of
on high are opened, and the foundations of the dunghill. 25:11 He will spread out his hands
the earth tremble. 24:19 The earth is utterly in its midst, like one who swims spreads out
broken. The earth is torn apart. The earth is hands to swim, but his pride will be humbled
shaken violently. 24:20 The earth will stagger together with the craft of his hands. 25:12 He has
like a drunken man, and will sway back and brought the high fortress of your walls down,
forth like a hammock. Its disobedience will laid low, and brought to the ground, even to
be heavy on it, and it will fall and not rise the dust.
again. 24:21 It shall happen in that day that 26:1
In that day, this song will be sung in the
the LORD will punish the army of the high land of Judah:
ones on high, and the kings of the earth on “We have a strong city.
the earth. 24:22 They shall be gathered together, God appoints salvation for walls and
as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall bulwarks.
be shut up in the prison; and after many days 26:2
Open the gates, that the righteous nation
shall they be visited. 24:23 Then the moon shall may enter:
be confounded, and the sun ashamed; for the the one which keeps faith.
LORD of Hosts will reign on Mount Zion, and 26:3
You will keep whoever’s mind is steadfast
in Jerusalem; and before his elders will be glory. in perfect peace,
25:1
The LORD, you are my God. I will exalt because he trusts in you.
26:4
you! I will praise your name, for you have done Trust in the LORD forever;
wonderful things, things planned long ago, in for in the LORD, the LORD, is an everlast-
complete faithfulness and truth. 25:2 For you ing Rock.
26:5
have made a city into a heap, a fortified city For he has brought down those who dwell
into a ruin, a palace of strangers to be no city. on high, the lofty city.
It will never be built. 25:3 Therefore a strong He lays it low.
people will glorify you. A city of awesome He lays it low even to the ground.
nations will fear you. 25:4 For you have been He brings it even to the dust.
26:6
a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the The foot shall tread it down;
needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, Even the feet of the poor,
a shade from the heat, when the blast of the and the steps of the needy.”
26:7
dreaded ones is like a storm against the wall. The way of the just is uprightness.
25:5
As the heat in a dry place will you bring You who are upright make the path of the
down the noise of strangers; as the heat by the righteous level.
26:8
shade of a cloud, the song of the dreaded ones Yes, in the way of your judgments, the
will be brought low. 25:6 In this mountain, the LORD, have we waited for you. Your
LORD of Hosts will make all peoples a feast of name and your renown are the desire
fat things, a feast of choice wines, of fat things of our soul. 26:9 With my soul have I
full of marrow, of well refined choice wines. desired you in the night. Yes, with
25:7
He will destroy in this mountain the surface my spirit within me will I seek you
of the covering that covers all peoples, and the earnestly; for when your judgments
veil that is spread over all nations. 25:8 He has are in the earth, the inhabitants of the
swallowed up death forever! The Lord GOD world learn righteousness. 26:10 Let fa-
will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will vor be shown to the wicked, yet he will
take the reproach of his people away from off not learn righteousness. In the land
all the earth, for the LORD has spoken it. 25:9 It of uprightness he will deal wrongfully,
shall be said in that day, “Behold, this is our and will not see the LORD’s majesty.
26:11
God! We have waited for him, and he will save The LORD, your hand is lifted
us! This is the LORD! We have waited for him. up, yet they don’t see; but they will
We will be glad and rejoice in his salvation!” see your zeal for the people, and be
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disappointed. Yes, fire will consume would burn them together. 27:5 Or else let him
your adversaries. 26:12 The LORD, you take hold of my strength, that he may make
will ordain peace for us, for you have peace with me. Let him make peace with me.”
also worked all our works for us. 27:6
In days to come, Jacob will take root.
26:13
The LORD our God, other lords Israel will blossom and bud. They will fill
besides you have had dominion over the surface of the world with fruit. 27:7 Has
us, but by you only will we make he struck them as he struck those who struck
mention of your name. 26:14 The dead them? Or are they killed like those who killed
shall not live. The deceased shall them were killed? 27:8 In measure, when you
not rise. Therefore have you visited send them away, you contend with them. He
and destroyed them, and caused all has removed them with his rough blast in the
memory of them to perish. 26:15 You day of the east wind. 27:9 Therefore by this the
have increased the nation, O LORD. iniquity of Jacob will be forgiven, and this is all
You have increased the nation! You the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes
are glorified! You have enlarged all all the stones of the altar as chalk stones that are
the borders of the land. 26:16 LORD, in beaten in pieces, so that the Asherim and the
trouble they have visited you. They incense altars shall rise no more. 27:10 For the
poured out a prayer when your chas- fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted
tening was on them. 26:17 Like as a and forsaken, like the wilderness. The calf will
woman with child, who draws near feed there, and there he will lie down, and
the time of her delivery, is in pain and consume its branches. 27:11 When its boughs are
cries out in her pangs; so we have been withered, they will be broken off. The women
before you, LORD. 26:18 We have been will come and set them on fire, for they are
with child. We have been in pain. We a people of no understanding. Therefore he
gave birth, it seems, only to wind. We who made them will not have compassion on
have not worked any deliverance in them, and he who formed them will show them
the earth; neither have the inhabitants no favor. 27:12 It will happen in that day, that
of the world fallen. 26:19 Your dead the LORD will thresh from the flowing stream
shall live. My dead bodies shall arise. of the Euphrates to the brook of Egypt; and
Awake and sing, you who dwell in the you will be gathered one by one, children of
dust; for your dew is like the dew of Israel. 27:13 It will happen in that day that a
herbs, and the earth will cast forth the great shofaro will be blown; and those who
dead. were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and
26:20
Come, my people, enter into your those who were outcasts in the land of Egypt,
rooms, and shut your doors behind you. Hide shall come; and they will worship the LORD in
yourself for a little moment, until the indigna- the holy mountain at Jerusalem.
tion is past. 26:21 For, behold, the LORD comes 28:1
Woe to the crown of pride of the drunk-
forth out of his place to punish the inhabitants ards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of
of the earth for their iniquity. The earth also will his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the
disclose her blood, and will no longer cover her fertile valley of those who are overcome with
slain. wine! 28:2 Behold, the Lord has a mighty and
27:1
In that day, the LORD with his hard and strong one. Like a storm of hail, a destroying
great and strong sword will punish leviathan, storm, and like a storm of mighty waters over-
the fleeing serpent, and leviathan the twisted flowing, he will cast them down to the earth
serpent; and he will kill the dragon that is in with his hand. 28:3 The crown of pride of the
the sea. 27:2 In that day, sing to her, “A pleasant drunkards of Ephraim will be trodden under
vineyard! 27:3 I, the LORD, am its keeper. I will foot. 28:4 The fading flower of his glorious
water it every moment. Lest anyone damage beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley,
it, I will keep it night and day. 27:4 Wrath is not shall be like the first-ripe fig before the summer;
in me, but if I should find briers and thorns, I which someone picks and eats as soon as he
would do battle! I would march on them and I sees it. 28:5 In that day, the LORD of Hosts
o 27:13 or, trumpet
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will become a crown of glory, and a diadem message.” 28:20 For the bed is too short to
of beauty, to the residue of his people; 28:6 and stretch out on, and the blanket is too narrow to
a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, wrap oneself in. 28:21 For the LORD will rise up
and strength to those who turn back the battle as on Mount Perazim. He will be angry as in
at the gate. 28:7 They also reel with wine, and the valley of Gibeon; that he may do his work,
stagger with strong drink. The priest and his unusual work, and bring to pass his act, his
the prophet reel with strong drink. They are extraordinary act. 28:22 Now therefore don’t be
swallowed up by wine. They stagger with scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong; for
strong drink. They err in vision. They stumble I have heard a decree of destruction from the
in judgment. 28:8 For all tables are completely Lord, the LORD of Hosts, on the whole earth.
full of filthy vomit and filthiness. 28:9 Whom 28:23
Give ear, and hear my voice! Listen, and
will he teach knowledge? To whom will he hear my speech! 28:24 Does he who plows to
explain the message? Those who are weaned sow plow continually? Does he keep turning
from the milk, and drawn from the breasts?
28:10
the soil and breaking the clods? 28:25 When
For it is precept on precept, precept on he has leveled its surface, doesn’t he plant the
precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, dill, and scatter the cumin seed, and put in
there a little. 28:11 But he will speak to this the wheat in rows, the barley in the appointed
nation with stammering lips and in another place, and the spelt in its place? 28:26 For
language; 28:12 to whom he said, “This is the his God instructs him in right judgment, and
resting place. Give rest to weary”; and “This teaches him. 28:27 For the dill are not threshed
is the refreshing”; yet they would not hear. with a sharp instrument, neither is a cart wheel
28:13
Therefore the word of the LORD will be to turned over the cumin; but the dill is beaten
them precept on precept, precept on precept; out with a stick, and the cumin with a rod.
line on line, line on line; here a little, there 28:28
Bread flour must be ground; so he will not
a little; that they may go, fall backward, be always be threshing it. Although he drives
broken, be snared, and be taken. 28:14 Therefore the wheel of his threshing cart over it, his
hear the word of the LORD, you scoffers, that horses don’t grind it. 28:29 This also comes forth
rule this people in Jerusalem: 28:15 “Because from the LORD of Hosts, who is wonderful in
you have said, ‘We have made a covenant with counsel, and excellent in wisdom.
death, and with Sheolp are we in agreement. 29:1
Woe to Ariel! Ariel, the city where David
When the overflowing scourge passes through,
encamped! Add year to year; let the feasts
it won’t come to us; for we have made lies our
come around; 29:2 then I will distress Ariel, and
refuge, and we have hidden ourselves under
there will be mourning and lamentation. She
falsehood.’” 28:16 Therefore thus says the Lord
shall be to me as an altar hearthr . 29:3 I will
GOD, “Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation
encamp against you all around you, and will
a stone, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone
lay siege against you with posted troops. I
of a sure foundation. He who believes shall
will raise siege works against you. 29:4 You will
not act hastily. 28:17 I will make justice the
be brought down, and will speak out of the
measuring line, and righteousness the plumb
ground. Your speech will mumble out of the
line. The hail will sweep away the refuge of
dust. Your voice will be as of one who has
lies, and the waters will overflow the hiding
a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and your
place. 28:18 Your covenant with death shall
speech will whisper out of the dust. 29:5 But
be annulled, and your agreement with Sheolq
the multitude of your foes will be like fine
shall not stand. When the overflowing scourge
dust, and the multitude of the ruthless ones
passes through, then you will be trampled
like chaff that blows away. Yes, it will be in
down by it. 28:19 As often as it passes through,
an instant, suddenly. 29:6 She will be visited
it will seize you; for morning by morning it
by the LORD of Hosts with thunder, with
will pass through, by day and by night; and
earthquake, with great noise, with whirlwind
it will be nothing but terror to understand the
and storm, and with the flame of a devouring
p 28:15 Sheol is the place of the dead.
q 28:18 Sheol is the place of the dead.
r 29:2 or, Ariel
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fire. 29:7 The multitude of all the nations that brought to nothing, and the scoffer ceases, and
fight against Ariel, even all who fight against all those who are alert to do evil are cut off—
29:21
her and her stronghold, and who distress her, who cause a person to be indicted by a
will be like a dream, a vision of the night. word, and lay a snare for the arbiter in the gate,
29:8
It will be like when a hungry man dreams, and who deprive the innocent of justice with
and behold, he eats; but he awakes, and his false testimony. 29:22 Therefore thus says the
hunger isn’t satisfied; or like when a thirsty LORD, who redeemed Abraham, concerning
man dreams, and behold, he drinks; but he the house of Jacob: “Jacob shall no longer
awakes, and behold, he is faint, and he is be ashamed, neither shall his face grow pale.
29:23
still thirsty. The multitude of all the nations But when he sees his children, the work
that fight against Mount Zion will be like that. of my hands, in the midst of him, they will
29:9
Pause and wonder! Blind yourselves and sanctify my name. Yes, they will sanctify the
be blind! They are drunken, but not with Holy One of Jacob, and will stand in awe of
wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink. the God of Israel. 29:24 They also who err in
29:10
For the LORD has poured out on you a spirit will come to understanding, and those
spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes, who grumble will receive instruction.”
the prophets; and he has covered your heads, 30:1
“Woe to the rebellious children,” says the
the seers. 29:11 All vision has become to you LORD, “who take counsel, but not from me;
like the words of a book that is sealed, which and who make an alliance, but not with my
men deliver to one who is educated, saying, Spirit, that they may add sin to sin, 30:2 who
“Read this, please”; and he says, “I can’t, for set out to go down into Egypt, and have not
it is sealed:” 29:12 and the book is delivered to asked my advice; to strengthen themselves in
one who is not educated, saying, “Read this, the strength of Pharaoh, and to take refuge in
please”; and he says, “I can’t read.” 29:13 The the shadow of Egypt! 30:3 Therefore the strength
Lord said, “Because this people draws near of Pharaoh will be your shame, and the refuge
with their mouth and with their lips to honor in the shadow of Egypt your confusion. 30:4 For
me, but they have removed their heart far from their princes are at Zoan, and their ambas-
me, and their fear of me is a commandment sadors have come to Hanes. 30:5 They shall all
of men which has been taught; 29:14 therefore, be ashamed because of a people that can’t profit
behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous work them, that are not a help nor profit, but a shame,
among this people, even a marvelous work and also a reproach.”
and a wonder; and the wisdom of their wise 30:6
men will perish, and the understanding of their The burden of the animals of the South.
prudent men will be hidden.” Through the land of trouble and anguish, of the
29:15
lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying
Woe to those who deeply hide their serpent, they carry their riches on the shoulders
counsel from the LORD, and whose works are of young donkeys, and their treasures on the
in the dark, and who say, “Who sees us?” and humps of camels, to an unprofitable people.
“Who knows us?” 29:16 You turn things upside 30:7
For Egypt helps in vain, and to no purpose;
down! Should the potter be thought to be like therefore have I called her Rahab who sits still.
clay; that the thing made should say about him 30:8
Now go, write it before them on a tablet,
who made it, “He didn’t make me”; or the thing and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the
formed say of him who formed it, “He has no time to come forever and ever. 30:9 For it is a
understanding?” rebellious people, lying children, children who
29:17
Isn’t it yet a very little while, and will not hear the law of the LORD; 30:10 who
Lebanon will be turned into a fruitful field, and tell the seers, “Don’t see!” and to the prophets,
the fruitful field will be regarded as a forest? “Don’t prophesy to us right things. Tell us
29:18
In that day, the deaf will hear the words pleasant things. Prophesy deceits. 30:11 Get out
of the book, and the eyes of the blind will see of the way. Turn aside from the path. Cause
out of obscurity and out of darkness. 29:19 The the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.”
30:12
humble also will increase their joy in the LORD, Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel,
and the poor among men will rejoice in the “Because you despise this word, and trust in
Holy One of Israel. 29:20 For the ruthless is oppression and perverseness, and rely on it;
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30:13
therefore this iniquity shall be to you like seven days, in the day that the LORD binds up
a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high the fracture of his people, and heals the wound
wall, whose breaking comes suddenly in an they were struck with.
instant. 30:14 He will break it as a potter’s vessel 30:27
Behold, the name of the LORD comes
is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing, from far away, burning with his anger, and
so that there won’t be found among the broken in thick rising smoke. His lips are full of
piece a piece good enough to take fire from the indignation, and his tongue is as a devouring
hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern.” fire. 30:28 His breath is as an overflowing stream
30:15
For thus said the Lord GOD, the Holy One that reaches even to the neck, to sift the nations
of Israel, “You will be saved in returning and with the sieve of destruction; and a bridle that
rest. Your strength will be in quietness and leads to ruin will be in the jaws of the peoples.
in confidence.” You refused, 30:16 but you said, 30:29
You will have a song, as in the night when
“No, for we will flee on horses”; therefore you a holy feast is kept; and gladness of heart, as
will flee; and, “We will ride on the swift”; when one goes with a flute to come to the
therefore those who pursue you will be swift. LORD’s mountain, to Israel’s Rock. 30:30 The
30:17
One thousand will flee at the threat of one. LORD will cause his glorious voice to be heard,
At the threat of five, you will flee until you and will show the descent of his arm, with
are left like a beacon on the top of a mountain, the indignation of his anger, and the flame
and like a banner on a hill. 30:18 Therefore the of a devouring fire, with a blast, storm, and
LORD will wait, that he may be gracious to hailstones. 30:31 For through the voice of the
you; and therefore he will be exalted, that he LORD the Assyrian will be dismayed. He will
may have mercy on you, for the LORD is a God strike him with his rod. 30:32 Every stroke of the
of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for rod of punishment, which the LORD will lay
him. 30:19 For the people will dwell in Zion at on him, will be with the sound of tambourines
Jerusalem. You will weep no more. He will and harps. He will fight with them in battles,
surely be gracious to you at the voice of your brandishing weapons. 30:33 For his burning
cry. When he hears you, he will answer you. place has long been ready. Yes, for the king it is
30:20
Though the Lord may give you the bread prepared. He has made its pyre deep and large
of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your with fire and much wood. The LORD’s breath,
teachers won’t be hidden anymore, but your like a stream of sulfur, kindles it.
eyes will see your teachers; 30:21 and when you 31:1
Woe to those who go down to Egypt for
turn to the right hand, and when you turn to help,
the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, and rely on horses,
saying, “This is the way. Walk in it.” 30:22 You and trust in chariots because they are
shall defile the overlaying of your engraved many,
images of silver, and the plating of your molten and in horsemen because they are very
images of gold. You shall cast them away as strong,
an unclean thing. You shall tell it, “Go away!” but they don’t look to the Holy One of
30:23
He will give the rain for your seed, with Israel,
which you will sow the ground; and bread and they don’t seek the LORD!
of the increase of the ground will be rich and 31:2
Yet he also is wise, and will bring disaster,
plentiful. In that day, your livestock will feed and will not call back his words, but
in large pastures. 30:24 The oxen likewise and will arise against the house of the
the young donkeys that till the ground will eat evildoers,
savory provender, which has been winnowed
and against the help of those who work
with the shovel and with the fork. 30:25 There
iniquity.
shall be brooks and streams of water on every 31:3
Now the Egyptians are men, and not God;
lofty mountain and on every high hill in the
and their horses flesh, and not spirit.
day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.
30:26 When the LORD stretches out his hand, both he
Moreover the light of the moon will be like
who helps shall stumble,
the light of the sun, and the light of the sun
will be seven times brighter, like the light of and he who is helped shall fall,
and they all shall be consumed together.
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31:4
For thus says the LORD to me, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to
“As the lion and the young lion growling over fail.
32:7
his prey, The ways of the scoundrel are evil.
if a multitude of shepherds is called He devises wicked devices to destroy the
together against him, humble with lying words,
will not be dismayed at their voice, even when the needy speaks right.
nor abase himself for their noise, 32:8
But the noble devises noble things;
so the LORD of Hosts will come down to and he will continue in noble things.
fight on Mount Zion and on its heights. 32:9
Rise up, you women who are at ease! Hear
31:5
As birds hovering, so the LORD of Hosts my voice!
will protect Jerusalem. You careless daughters, give ear to my
He will protect and deliver it. speech!
He will pass over and preserve it.” 32:10
For days beyond a year you will be trou-
31:6
Return to him from whom you have deeply bled, you careless women;
revolted, children of Israel. 31:7 For in for the vintage shall fail.
that day everyone shall cast away his The harvest won’t come.
idols of silver and his idols of gold— 32:11
Tremble, you women who are at ease!
sin which your own hands have made Be troubled, you careless ones!
for you.
31:8 Strip yourselves, make yourselves naked,
“The Assyrian will fall by the sword, not
and put sackcloth on your waist.
of man; 32:12
Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields,
and the sword, not of mankind, shall
for the fruitful vine.
devour him. 32:13
Thorns and briars will come up on my
He will flee from the sword,
people’s land;
and his young men will become subject to
yes, on all the houses of joy in the joyous
forced labor.
31:9 city.
His rock will pass away by reason of terror, 32:14
For the palace will be forsaken.
and his princes will be afraid of the
banner,” The populous city will be deserted.
says the LORD, whose fire is in Zion, The hill and the watchtower will be for
and his furnace in Jerusalem. dens forever,
32:1
Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, a delight for wild donkeys,
and princes shall rule in justice. a pasture of flocks;
32:15
32:2
A man shall be as a hiding place from the Until the Spirit is poured on us from on
wind, high,
and a covert from the storm, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful
as streams of water in a dry place, field,
as the shade of a large rock in a weary and the fruitful field is considered a for-
land. est.
32:3 32:16
The eyes of those who see will not be dim, Then justice will dwell in the wilderness;
and the ears of those who hear will listen. and righteousness will remain in the
32:4 fruitful field.
The heart of the rash will understand
32:17
knowledge, The work of righteousness will be peace;
and the tongue of the stammerers will be and the effect of righteousness, quietness
ready to speak plainly. and confidence forever.
32:5 32:18
The fool will no longer be called noble, My people will live in a peaceful habita-
nor the scoundrel be highly respected. tion,
32:6 in safe dwellings,
For the fool will speak folly,
and his heart will work iniquity, and in quiet resting places.
32:19
to practice profanity, Though hail flattens the forest,
and to utter error against the LORD, and the city is leveled completely.
32:20
To make empty the soul of the hungry, Blessed are you who sow beside all waters,
Isaiah 33:1 362 Isaiah 33:23

who send out the feet of the ox and the and, you who are near, acknowledge my
donkey. might.”
33:1 33:14
Woe to you who destroy, but you weren’t The sinners in Zion are afraid.
destroyed; Trembling has seized the godless ones.
and who betray, but nobody betrayed Who among us can live with the devouring
you! fire?
When you have finished destroying, you will Who among us can live with everlasting
be destroyed; burning?
33:15
and when you have made an end of He who walks righteously,
betrayal, you will be betrayed. and speaks blamelessly;
33:2
LORD, be gracious to us. We have waited He who despises the gain of oppressions,
for you. who gestures with his hands, refusing to
Be our strength every morning, take a bribe,
our salvation also in the time of trouble. who stops his ears from hearing of blood,
33:3
At the noise of the thunder, the peoples and shuts his eyes from looking at evil—
33:16
have fled. he will dwell on high.
When you lift yourself up, the nations are His place of defense will be the fortress of
scattered. rocks.
33:4
Your spoil will be gathered as the caterpillar His bread will be supplied.
gathers. His waters will be sure.
33:17
Men will leap on it as locusts leap. Your eyes will see the king in his beauty.
33:5
The LORD is exalted, for he dwells on high. They will see a distant land.
33:18
He has filled Zion with justice and righ- Your heart will meditate on the terror.
teousness. Where is he who counted?
33:6
There will be stability in your times, Where is he who weighed?
abundance of salvation, wisdom, and Where is he who counted the towers?
33:19
knowledge. You will no longer see the fierce people,
The fear of the LORD is your treasure. a people of a deep speech that you can’t
33:7
Behold, their valiant ones cry outside; comprehend,
the ambassadors of peace weep bitterly. with a strange language that you can’t
33:8
The highways are desolate. understand.
33:20
The traveling man ceases. Look at Zion, the city of our appointed
The covenant is broken. festivals.
He has despised the cities. Your eyes will see Jerusalem, a quiet
He doesn’t respect man. habitation,
33:9
The land mourns and languishes. a tent that won’t be removed.
Lebanon is confounded and withers Its stakes will never be plucked up,
away. nor will any of its cords be broken.
33:21
Sharon is like a desert, and Bashan and But there the LORD will be with us in
Carmel are stripped bare. majesty,
33:10
“Now I will arise,” says the LORD; a place of broad rivers and streams,
“Now I will lift myself up. in which no galley with oars will go,
Now I will be exalted. neither will any gallant ship pass by
33:11
You will conceive chaff. there.
33:22
You will bring forth stubble. For the LORD is our judge.
Your breath is a fire that will devour you. The LORD is our lawgiver.
33:12
The peoples will be like the burning of The LORD is our king.
lime, He will save us.
33:23
like thorns that are cut down and burned Your rigging is untied.
in the fire. They couldn’t strengthen the foot of their
33:13
Hear, you who are far off, what I have mast.
done; They couldn’t spread the sail.
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Then the prey of a great spoil was divided. No one will pass through it forever and
The lame took the prey. ever.
33:24 34:11
The inhabitant won’t say, “I am sick.” But the pelican and the porcupine will
The people who dwell therein will be possess it.
forgiven their iniquity. The owl and the raven will dwell in it.
34:1
Come near, you nations, to hear! He will stretch the line of confusion over it,
Listen, you peoples. and the plumb line of emptiness.
34:12
Let the earth and all it contains hear; They shall call its nobles to the kingdom,
the world, and everything that comes but none shall be there;
from it. and all its princes shall be nothing.
34:2 34:13
For the LORD is enraged against all the Thorns will come up in its palaces,
nations, nettles and thistles in its fortresses;
and angry with all their armies. and it will be a habitation of jackals,
He has utterly destroyed them. a court for ostriches.
34:14
He has given them over for slaughter. The wild animals of the desert will meet
34:3
Their slain will also be cast out, with the wolves,
and the stench of their dead bodies will and the wild goat will cry to his fellow.
come up; Yes, the night creatures shall settle there,
and the mountains will melt in their and shall find herself a place of rest.
34:15
blood. The arrow snake will make her nest there,
34:4
All of the army of the sky will be dissolved. and lay, hatch, and gather under her
The sky will be rolled up like a scroll, shade.
and all its armies will fade away, Yes, the kites will be gathered there, every
as a leaf fades from off a vine or a fig tree. one with her mate.
34:5 34:16
For my sword has drunk its fill in the sky. Search in the book of the LORD, and read:
Behold, it will come down on Edom, not one of these will be missing.
and on the people of my curse, for judg- none will lack her mate.
ment. For my mouth has commanded,
34:6
The LORD’s sword is filled with blood. and his Spirit has gathered them.
34:17
It is covered with fat, with the blood of He has cast the lot for them,
lambs and goats, and his hand has divided it to them with
with the fat of the kidneys of rams; a measuring line.
for the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah, They shall possess it forever.
And a great slaughter in the land of From generation to generation they will
Edom. dwell in it.
34:7 35:1
The wild oxen will come down with them, The wilderness and the dry land will be
and the young bulls with the mighty glad.
bulls; The desert will rejoice and blossom like a
and their land will be drunken with rose.
35:2
blood, It will blossom abundantly,
and their dust made greasy with fat. and rejoice even with joy and singing.
34:8
For the LORD has a day of vengeance, Lebanon’s glory Lebanon will be given to
a year of recompense for the cause of it,
Zion. the excellence of Carmel and Sharon.
34:9
Its streams will be turned into pitch, They will see the LORD’s glory,
its dust into sulfur, the excellence of our God.
35:3
And its land will become burning pitch. Strengthen the weak hands,
34:10
It won’t be quenched night nor day. and make firm the feeble knees.
35:4
Its smoke will go up forever. Tell those who have a fearful heart, “Be
From generation to generation, it will lie strong.
waste. Don’t be afraid.
s 34:14 literally, lilith, which could also be a night demon or night monster
Isaiah 35:5 364 Isaiah 36:20

Behold, your God will come with tell me, ‘We trust in the LORD our God,’ isn’t
vengeance, God’s retribution. that he whose high places and whose altars
He will come and save you. Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah
35:5
Then the eyes of the blind will be opened, and to Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship before
and the ears of the deaf will be un- this altar?’” 36:8 Now therefore, please make a
stopped. pledge to my master the king of Assyria, and
35:6 I will give you two thousand horses, if you
Then the lame man will leap like a deer,
and the tongue of the mute will sing; are able on your part to set riders on them.
36:9
for waters will break out in the wilder- How then can you turn away the face of
ness, one captain of the least of my master’s servants,
and streams in the desert. and put your trust on Egypt for chariots and for
35:7
The burning sand will become a pool, horsemen? 36:10 Have I come up now without
and the thirsty ground springs of water. the LORD against this land to destroy it? the
Grass with reeds and rushes will be in the LORD said to me, “Go up against this land, and
habitation of jackals, where they lay. destroy it.”’”
35:8 36:11
A highway will be there, a road, Then Eliakim, Shebna and Joah said to
and it will be called The Holy Way. Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in
The unclean shall not pass over it, Aramaic, for we understand it; and don’t speak
but it will be for those who walk in the to us in the Jews’ language in the hearing of the
Way. people who are on the wall.”
Wicked fools will not go there. 36:12
But Rabshakeh said, “Has my master
35:9
No lion will be there, sent me only to your master and to you, to
nor will any ravenous animal go up on it. speak these words, and not to the men who sit
They will not be found there; on the wall, who will eat their own dung and
but the redeemed will walk there. drink their own urine with you?” 36:13 Then
35:10
The the LORD’s ransomed ones will re- Rabshakeh stood, and called out with a loud
turn, voice in the Jews’ language, and said, “Hear the
and come with singing to Zion; words of the great king, the king of Assyria!
36:14
and everlasting joy will be on their heads. Thus says the king, ‘Don’t let Hezekiah
They will obtain gladness and joy, deceive you; for he will not be able to deliver
and sorrow and sighing will flee away.” you. 36:15 Don’t let Hezekiah make you trust
36:1
Now it happened in the fourteenth year in the LORD, saying, “The LORD will surely
of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of As- deliver us. This city won’t be given into the
syria attacked all of the fortified cities of Judah, hand of the king of Assyria.”’ 36:16 Don’t listen
and captured them. 36:2 The king of Assyria to Hezekiah, for thus says the king of Assyria,
sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem to ‘Make your peace with me, and come out to me;
king Hezekiah with a large army. He stood and each of you eat from his vine, and each one
by the aqueduct from the upper pool in the from his fig tree, and each one of you drink the
fuller’s field highway. 36:3 Then Eliakim the son waters of his own cistern; 36:17 until I come and
of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and take you away to a land like your own land, a
Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and
the recorder came out to him. 36:4 Rabshakeh vineyards. 36:18 Beware lest Hezekiah persuade
said to them, “Now tell Hezekiah, ‘Thus says you, saying, “The LORD will deliver us.” Have
the great king, the king of Assyria, “What any of the gods of the nations delivered their
confidence is this in which you trust? 36:5 I say lands from the hand of the king of Assyria?
36:19
that your counsel and strength for the war are Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad?
only vain words. Now in whom do you trust, Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they
that you have rebelled against me? 36:6 Behold, delivered Samaria from my hand? 36:20 Who are
you trust in the staff of this bruised reed, even they among all the gods of these countries that
in Egypt, which if a man leans on it, it will go have delivered their country out of my hand,
into his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of
of Egypt to all who trust in him. 36:7 But if you my hand?’”
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36:21
But they remained silent, and said noth- king of Arpad, and the king of the city of
ing in reply, for the king’s commandment was, Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah?’”
“Don’t answer him.” 37:14
Hezekiah received the letter from the
36:22
Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who hand of the messengers and read it. Then
was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, Hezekiah went up to the LORD’s house,
and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, came and spread it before the LORD. 37:15 Hezekiah
to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told prayed to the LORD, saying, 37:16 “LORD of
him the words of Rabshakeh. Hosts, the God of Israel, who is enthroned
37:1
It happened, when king Hezekiah heard among the cherubim, you are the God, even
it, that he tore his clothes, covered himself you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth.
with sackcloth, and went into the LORD’s You have made heaven and earth. 37:17 Turn
house. 37:2 He sent Eliakim, who was over your ear, LORD, and hear. Open your eyes,
the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the LORD, and behold. Hear all of the words of
elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Sennacherib, who has sent to defy the living
Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz. 37:3 They God. 37:18 Truly, LORD, the kings of Assyria
said to him, “Thus says Hezekiah, ‘This day is a have destroyed all the countries and their land,
37:19
day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of rejection; and have cast their gods into the fire; for
for the children have come to the birth, and they were no gods, but the work of men’s
there is no strength to bring forth. 37:4 It may hands, wood and stone; therefore they have
be the LORD your God will hear the words destroyed them. 37:20 Now therefore, LORD
of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his our God, save us from his hand, that all the
master has sent to defy the living God, and will kingdoms of the earth may know that you are
rebuke the words which the LORD your God the LORD, even you only.”
has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for 37:21
Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to
the remnant that is left.’” 37:5 So the servants Hezekiah, saying, “Thus says the LORD, the
of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah. God of Israel, ‘Because you have prayed to me
37:6
Isaiah said to them, “Tell your master, against Sennacherib king of Assyria, 37:22 this
‘Thus says the LORD, “Don’t be afraid of the is the word which the LORD has spoken con-
words that you have heard, with which the ser- cerning him. The virgin daughter of Zion has
vants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed despised you and ridiculed you. The daughter
me. 37:7 Behold, I will put a spirit in him and he of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.
will hear news, and will return to his own land. 37:23
Whom have you defied and blasphemed?
I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own Against whom have you exalted your voice
land.”’” and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the
37:8
So Rabshakeh returned, and found the Holy One of Israel. 37:24 By your servants, have
king of Assyria warring against Libnah, for he you defied the Lord, and have said, “With the
had heard that he was departed from Lachish. multitude of my chariots I have come up to the
37:9
He heard news concerning Tirhakah king height of the mountains, to the innermost parts
of Ethiopia, “He has come out to fight against of Lebanon. I will cut down its tall cedars and
you.” When he heard it, he sent messengers to its choice fir trees. I will enter into its farthest
Hezekiah, saying, 37:10 “Thus you shall speak height, the forest of its fruitful field. 37:25 I have
to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, ‘Don’t let dug and drunk water, and with the sole of
your God in whom you trust deceive you, my feet I will dry up all the rivers of Egypt.”
37:26
saying, “Jerusalem won’t be given into the Have you not heard how I have done it
hand of the king of Assyria.” 37:11 Behold, you long ago, and formed it in ancient times? Now
have heard what the kings of Assyria have I have brought it to pass, that it should be yours
done to all lands, by destroying them utterly. to destroy fortified cities, turning them into
Shall you be delivered? 37:12 Have the gods of ruinous heaps. 37:27 Therefore their inhabitants
the nations delivered them, which my fathers had little power. They were dismayed and
have destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and confounded. They were like the grass of the
the children of Eden who were in Telassar? field, and like the green herb, like the grass
37:13
Where is the king of Hamath, and the on the housetops, and like a field before its
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crop has grown. 37:28 But I know your sitting iah, saying, 38:5 “Go, and tell Hezekiah, ‘Thus
down, your going out, your coming in, and says the LORD, the God of David your father,
your raging against me. 37:29 Because of your “I have heard your prayer. I have seen your
raging against me, and because your arrogance tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your
has come up into my ears, therefore will I put life. 38:6 I will deliver you and this city out of the
my hook in your nose and my bridle in your hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend
lips, and I will turn you back by the way by this city. 38:7 This shall be the sign to you from
which you came. 37:30 This shall be the sign to the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing
you. You will eat this year that which grows of that he has spoken. 38:8 Behold, I will cause
itself, and in the second year that which springs the shadow on the sundial, which has gone
from the same; and in the third year sow and down on the sundial of Ahaz with the sun, to
reap and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit. return backward ten steps. So the sun returned
37:31
The remnant that is escaped of the house ten steps on the sundial on which it had gone
of Judah will again take root downward, and down.”’”
bear fruit upward. 37:32 For out of Jerusalem 38:9
The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah,
a remnant will go forth, and survivors will when he had been sick, and had recovered of
escape from Mount Zion. The zeal of the LORD his sickness.
of Hosts will perform this.’ 37:33 Therefore thus 38:10
I said, “In the middle of my life I go into
says the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, the gates of Sheolt .
‘He will not come to this city, nor shoot an I am deprived of the residue of my years.”
38:11
arrow there, neither will he come before it with I said, “I won’t see the LORD,
shield, nor cast up a mound against it. 37:34 By The LORD in the land of the living.
the way that he came, by the same he shall I will see man no more with the inhabi-
return, and he shall not come to this city,’ says tants of the world.
the LORD. 37:35 ‘For I will defend this city to 38:12
My dwelling is removed,
save it, for my own sake, and for my servant and is carried away from me like a shep-
David’s sake.’” herd’s tent.
37:36
The angel of the LORD went out and I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life.
struck one hundred and eighty-five thousand He will cut me off from the loom.
men in the camp of the Assyrians. When From day even to night you will make an
men arose early in the morning, behold, these end of me.
were all dead bodies. 37:37 So Sennacherib king 38:13
I waited patiently until morning.
of Assyria departed, went away, returned to He breaks all my bones like a lion.
Nineveh, and stayed there. 37:38 It happened, as From day even to night you will make an
he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his end of me.
38:14
god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons I chattered like a swallow or a crane.
struck him with the sword; and they escaped I moaned like a dove.
into the land of Ararat. Esar Haddon his son My eyes weaken looking upward.
reigned in his place. Lord, I am oppressed.
38:1
In those days was Hezekiah sick and Be my security.”
38:15
near death. Isaiah the prophet, the son of What will I say?
Amoz, came to him, and said to him, “Thus He has both spoken to me, and himself
says the LORD, ‘Set your house in order, for has done it.
you will die, and not live.’” I will walk carefully all my years because
38:2
Then Hezekiah turned his face to the of the anguish of my soul.
wall and prayed to the LORD, 38:3 and said, 38:16
Lord, men live by these things;
“Remember now, the LORD, I beg you, how and my spirit finds life in all of them:
I have walked before you in truth and with a you restore me, and cause me to live.
38:17
perfect heart, and have done that which is good Behold, for peace I had great anguish,
in your sight.” Hezekiah wept bitterly. but you have in love for my soul deliv-
38:4
Then the word of the LORD came to Isa- ered it from the pit of corruption;
t 38:10 Sheol is the place of the dead.
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for you have cast all my sins behind your He said moreover, “For there will be peace and
back. truth in my days.”
38:18 40:1
For Sheolu can’t praise you. “Comfort, comfort my people,” says
40:2
Death can’t celebrate you. your God. “Speak comfortably to
Those who go down into the pit can’t hope for Jerusalem; and call out to her that her warfare
your truth. is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned,
38:19
The living, the living, he shall praise you, that she has received of the LORD’s hand
as I do this day. double for all her sins.”
40:3
The father shall make known your truth The voice of one who calls out,
to the children. “Prepare the way of the LORD in the
38:20 wilderness!
The LORD will save me.
Make a level highway in the desert for
Therefore we will sing my songs with
our God.
stringed instruments all the days of 40:4
Every valley shall be exalted,
our life in the house of the LORD.
38:21 and every mountain and hill shall be
Now Isaiah had said, “Let them take a
made low.
cake of figs, and lay it for a poultice on the boil,
The uneven shall be made level,
and he shall recover.” 38:22 Hezekiah also had
said, “What is the sign that I will go up to the and the rough places a plain.
40:5
house of the LORD?” The glory of the LORD shall be revealed,
39:1 and all flesh shall see it together;
At that time, Merodach Baladan the son
of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a for the mouth of the LORD has spoken
present to Hezekiah; for he heard that he had it.” 40:6 The voice of one saying, “Cry!”
been sick, and had recovered. 39:2 Hezekiah One said, “What shall I cry?”
was pleased with them, and showed them the “All flesh is like grass,
house of his precious things, the silver, and the and all its glory is like the flower of the
gold, the spices, and the precious oil, and all the field.
40:7
house of his armor, and all that was found in his The grass withers,
treasures. There was nothing in his house, nor the flower fades,
in all his dominion, that Hezekiah didn’t show because the LORD’s breath blows on it.
them. 39:3 Then Isaiah the prophet came to king Surely the people are like grass.
40:8
Hezekiah, and asked him, “What did these men The grass withers,
say? Where did they come from to you?” the flower fades;
Hezekiah said, “They have come from a but the word of our God stands forever.”
40:9
country far from me, even from Babylon.” You who tell good news to Zion, go up on a
39:4 high mountain.
Then he asked, “What have they seen in
your house?” You who tell good news to Jerusalem, lift
Hezekiah answered, “They have seen all up your voice with strength.
that is in my house. There is nothing among Lift it up. Don’t be afraid.
my treasures that I have not shown them.” Say to the cities of Judah, “Behold, your
39:5 God!”
Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear
40:10
the word of the LORD of Hosts: 39:6 ‘Behold, Behold, the Lord GOD will come as a
the days are coming when all that is in your mighty one,
house, and that which your fathers have stored and his arm will rule for him.
up until this day, will be carried to Babylon. Behold, his reward is with him,
Nothing will be left,’ says the LORD. 39:7 ‘They and his recompense before him.
40:11
will take away your sons who will issue from He will feed his flock like a shepherd.
you, whom you shall father, and they will be He will gather the lambs in his arm,
eunuchs in the king of Babylon’s palace.’” and carry them in his bosom.
39:8
Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “The He will gently lead those who have their
LORD’s word which you have spoken is good.” young.
u 38:18 Sheol is the place of the dead.
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40:12
Who has measured the waters in the hol- who makes the judges of the earth like
low of his hand, meaningless.
40:24
and marked off the sky with his span, They are planted scarcely.
and calculated the dust of the earth in a They are sown scarcely.
measure, Their stock has scarcely taken root in the
and weighed the mountains in scales, ground.
and the hills in a balance? He merely blows on them, and they
40:13
Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD, wither,
or has taught him as his counselor? and the whirlwind takes them away as
40:14
Who did he take counsel with, stubble.
40:25
and who instructed him, “To whom then will you liken me?
and taught him in the path of justice, Who is my equal?” says the Holy One.
40:26
and taught him knowledge, Lift up your eyes on high,
and showed him the way of understand- and see who has created these,
ing? who brings out their army by number.
40:15
Behold, the nations are like a drop in a He calls them all by name.
bucket, by the greatness of his might,
and are regarded as a speck of dust on a and because he is strong in power,
balance. Not one is lacking.
40:27
Behold, he lifts up the islands like a very Why do you say, Jacob,
little thing. and speak, Israel,
40:16
Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, “My way is hidden from the LORD,
nor its animals sufficient for a burnt and the justice due me is disregarded by
offering. my God?”
40:17 40:28
All the nations are like nothing before him. Haven’t you known?
They are regarded by him as less than Haven’t you heard?
nothing, and vanity. The everlasting God, the LORD,
40:18
To whom then will you liken God? The Creator of the ends of the earth,
Or what likeness will you compare to doesn’t faint.
him? He isn’t weary.
40:19
A workman has cast an image, His understanding is unsearchable.
40:29
and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, He gives power to the weak.
and casts silver chains for it. He increases the strength of him who has
40:20
He who is too impoverished for such an no might.
40:30
offering chooses a tree that will not rot. Even the youths faint and get weary,
He seeks a skillful workman to set up an and the young men utterly fall;
40:31
engraved image for him that will not But those who wait for the LORD
be moved. will renew their strength.
40:21
Haven’t you known? They will mount up with wings like
Haven’t you heard, yet? eagles.
Haven’t you been told from the begin- They will run, and not be weary.
ning? They will walk, and not faint.
41:1
Haven’t you understood from the foun- “Keep silent before me, islands,
dations of the earth? and let the peoples renew their strength.
40:22
It is he who sits above the circle of the Let them come near,
earth, then let them speak.
and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; Let’s meet together for judgment.
41:2
who stretches out the heavens like a Who has raised up one from the east?
curtain, Who called him to his foot in righteous-
and spreads them out like a tent to dwell ness?
in; He hands over nations to him,
40:23
who brings princes to nothing; and makes him rule over kings.
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He gives them like the dust to his sword, and you men of Israel.
like the driven stubble to his bow. I will help you,” says the LORD,
41:3
He pursues them, “and your Redeemer is the Holy One of
and passes by safely, Israel.
41:15
Even by a way that he had not gone with Behold, I have made you into a new sharp
his feet. threshing instrument with teeth.
41:4
Who has worked and done it, You will thresh the mountains,
calling the generations from the begin- and beat them small,
ning? and will make the hills like chaff.
41:16
I, the LORD, the first, and with the last, I You will winnow them,
am he.” and the wind will carry them away,
41:5
The islands have seen, and fear. and the whirlwind will scatter them.
The ends of the earth tremble. You will rejoice in the LORD.
They approach, and come. You will glory in the Holy One of Israel.
41:6 41:17
Everyone helps his neighbor. The poor and needy seek water, and there
They say to their brothers, “Be strong!” is none.
41:7
So the carpenter encourages the goldsmith. Their tongue fails for thirst.
He who smoothes with the hammer en- I, the LORD, will answer them.
courages him who strikes the anvil, I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
41:18
saying of the soldering, “It is good”; I will open rivers on the bare heights,
and he fastens it with nails, that it might and springs in the midst of the valleys.
not totter. I will make the wilderness a pool of
41:8
“But you, Israel, my servant, water,
Jacob whom I have chosen, and the dry land springs of water.
41:19
the seed of Abraham my friend, I will put cedar, acacia, myrtle, and oil trees
41:9
You whom I have taken hold of from in the wilderness.
the ends of the earth, I will set fir trees, pine, and box trees
and called from its corners, together in the desert;
41:20
and said to you, ‘You are my servant, that they may see, know, consider,
I have chosen you and not cast you and understand together,
away;’ that the hand of the LORD has done this,
41:10
Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. and the Holy One of Israel has created it.
41:21
Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. Produce your cause,” says the LORD.
I will strengthen you. “Bring forth your strong reasons,” says
Yes, I will help you. the King of Jacob.
41:22
Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand “Let them announce, and declare to us
of my righteousness. what shall happen.
41:11
Behold, all those who are incensed against Declare the former things, what they are,
you will be disappointed and con- that we may consider them, and know the
founded. latter end of them;
Those who strive with you will be like or show us things to come.
41:23
nothing, and shall perish. Declare the things that are to come here-
41:12
You will seek them, and won’t find them, after,
even those who contend with you. that we may know that you are gods.
Those who war against you will be as Yes, do good, or do evil,
nothing, that we may be dismayed,
as a non-existent thing. and see it together.
41:13 41:24
For I, the LORD your God, will hold your Behold, you are of nothing,
right hand, and your work is of nothing.
saying to you, ‘Don’t be afraid. He who chooses you is an abomination.
41:25
I will help you.’ “I have raised up one from the north, and
41:14
Don’t be afraid, you worm Jacob, he has come;
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from the rising of the sun, one who calls and those who sit in darkness out of the
on my name; prison.
42:8
and he shall come on rulers as on mortar, “I am the LORD.
and as the potter treads clay. That is my name.
41:26
Who has declared it from the beginning, I will not give my glory to another,
that we may know? nor my praise to engraved images.
42:9
And before, that we may say, ‘He is Behold, the former things have happened,
right?’ and I declare new things.
Surely, there is no one who declares. I tell you about them before they come
Surely, there is no one who shows. up.”
42:10
Surely, there is no one who hears your Sing to the LORD a new song,
words. and his praise from the end of the earth,
41:27
I am the first to say to Zion, ‘Behold, look you who go down to the sea,
at them;’ and all that is therein,
and I will give one who brings good news the islands and their inhabitants.
42:11
to Jerusalem. Let the wilderness and its cities raise their
41:28
When I look, there is no man; voices,
even among them there is no counselor with the villages that Kedar inhabits.
who, when I ask of them, can answer Let the inhabitants of Sela sing.
a word. Let them shout from the top of the moun-
41:29
Behold, all of them, their works are vanity tains!
42:12
and nothing. Let them give glory to the LORD,
Their molten images are wind and confu- and declare his praise in the islands.
42:13
sion. The LORD will go out like a mighty man.
42:1
“Behold, my servant, whom I uphold; He will stir up zeal like a man of war.
my chosen, in whom my soul delights— He will raise a war cry.
I have put my Spirit on him. Yes, he will shout aloud.
He will bring justice to the nations. He will triumph over his enemies.
42:2 42:14
He will not shout, “I have been silent a long time.
nor raise his voice, I have been quiet and restrained myself.
nor cause it to be heard in the street. Now I will cry out like a travailing
42:3
He won’t break a bruised reed. woman. I will both gasp and pant.
42:15
He won’t quench a dimly burning wick. I will destroy mountains and hills,
He will faithfully bring justice. and dry up all their herbs.
42:4
He will not fail nor be discouraged, I will make the rivers islands,
until he has set justice in the earth, and will dry up the pools.
42:16
and the islands will wait for his law.” I will bring the blind by a way that they
42:5
Thus says God the LORD, don’t know.
he who created the heavens and stretched I will lead them in paths that they don’t
them out, know.
he who spread out the earth and that I will make darkness light before them,
which comes out of it, and crooked places straight.
he who gives breath to its people and I will do these things,
spirit to those who walk in it. and I will not forsake them.
42:6 42:17
“I, the LORD, have called you in righteous- “Those who trust in engraved images,
ness, who tell molten images,
and will hold your hand, ‘You are our gods’
and will keep you, will be turned back.
and make you a covenant for the people, They will be utterly disappointed.
42:18
as a light for the nations; “Hear, you deaf,
42:7
to open the blind eyes, and look, you blind,
to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon, that you may see.
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42:19 43:4
Who is blind, but my servant? Since you have been precious and honored
Or who is as deaf as my messenger whom in my sight,
I send? and I have loved you;
Who is as blind as he who is at peace, therefore I will give people in your place,
and as blind as the LORD’s servant? and nations instead of your life.
42:20 43:5
You see many things, but don’t observe. Don’t be afraid; for I am with you.
His ears are open, but he doesn’t listen. I will bring your seed from the east,
42:21 and gather you from the west.
It pleased the LORD, for his righteousness’
43:6
sake, to magnify the law, I will tell the north, ‘Give them up!’
and make it honorable. and tell the south, ‘Don’t hold them back!
42:22 Bring my sons from far,
But this is a robbed and plundered people.
All of them are snared in holes, and my daughters from the ends of the
and they are hidden in prisons. earth—
43:7
They have become a prey, and no one delivers; everyone who is called by my name,
and a spoil, and no one says, ‘Restore and whom I have created for my glory,
them!’ whom I have formed,
42:23
Who is there among you who will give ear yes, whom I have made.’”
43:8
to this? Bring out the blind people who have eyes,
Who will listen and hear for the time to and the deaf who have ears.
43:9
come? Let all the nations be gathered together,
42:24
Who gave Jacob as plunder, and let the peoples be assembled.
and Israel to the robbers? Who among them can declare this,
and show us former things?
Didn’t the LORD, he against whom we
have sinned? Let them bring their witnesses, that they may
be justified;
For they would not walk in his ways,
or let them hear, and say, “That is true.”
and they disobeyed his law. 43:10
42:25 “You are my witnesses,” says the LORD,
Therefore he poured the fierceness of his
“With my servant whom I have chosen;
anger on him,
that you may know and believe me,
and the strength of battle;
and understand that I am he.
and it set him on fire all around, but he
Before me there was no God formed,
didn’t know;
neither will there be after me.
and it burned him, but he didn’t take it to 43:11
I myself am the LORD;
heart.”
43:1 and besides me there is no savior.
But now thus says the LORD who cre- 43:12
I have declared, I have saved, and I have
ated you, Jacob,
shown;
and he who formed you, Israel:
and there was no strange god among you.
“Don’t be afraid, for I have redeemed you. Therefore you are my witnesses,”
I have called you by your name. says the LORD, “and I am God.
You are mine. 43:13
Yes, since the day was I am he;
43:2
When you pass through the waters, I will be and there is no one who can deliver out of
with you; my hand.
and through the rivers, they will not I will work, and who can hinder it?”
overflow you. 43:14
Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer,
When you walk through the fire, you will not the Holy One of Israel: “For your sake, I have
be burned, sent to Babylon, and I will bring all of them
and flame will not scorch you. down as fugitives, even the Kasdim, in the
43:3
For I am the LORD your God, ships of their rejoicing. 43:15 I am the LORD,
the Holy One of Israel, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your
your Savior. King.”
43:16
I have given Egypt as your ransom, Thus says the LORD, who makes a way
Ethiopia and Seba in your place. in the sea,
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and a path in the mighty waters; and Israel, whom I have chosen.
43:17 44:2
who brings forth the chariot and horse, This is what the LORD who made you,
the army and the mighty man and formed you from the womb,
(they lie down together, they shall not who will help you says:
rise; “Don’t be afraid, Jacob my servant;
they are extinct, they are quenched like a and you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.
44:3
wick): For I will pour water on him who is thirsty,
43:18
“Don’t remember the former things, and streams on the dry ground.
and don’t consider the things of old. I will pour my Spirit on your seed,
43:19
Behold, I will do a new thing. and my blessing on your offspring:
44:4
It springs forth now. and they will spring up among the grass,
Don’t you know it? as willows by the watercourses.
44:5
I will even make a way in the wilderness, One will say, ‘I am the LORD’s;’
and rivers in the desert. and another will be called by the name of
43:20
The animals of the field shall honor me, Jacob;
the jackals and the ostriches; and another will write with his hand ‘to
because I give water in the wilderness and the LORD,’
rivers in the desert, and honor the name of Israel.”
44:6
to give drink to my people, my chosen, This is what the LORD, the King of Israel,
43:21
the people which I formed for my- and his Redeemer, the LORD of Hosts,
self, says:
that they might set forth my praise. “I am the first, and I am the last;
43:22
Yet you have not called on me, Jacob; and besides me there is no God.
44:7
but you have been weary of me, Israel. Who is like me?
43:23
You have not brought me of your sheep for Who will call,
burnt offerings; and will declare it,
neither have you honored me with your and set it in order for me,
sacrifices. since I established the ancient people?
I have not burdened you with offerings, Let them declare the things that are coming,
nor wearied you with frankincense. and that will happen.
43:24 44:8
You have bought me no sweet cane with Don’t fear,
money, neither be afraid.
nor have you filled me with the fat of Haven’t I declared it to you long ago,
your sacrifices; and shown it?
but you have burdened me with your sins. You are my witnesses.
You have wearied me with your iniqui- Is there a God besides me?
ties. Indeed, there is not.
43:25
I, even I, am he who blots out your trans- I don’t know any other Rock.”
44:9
gressions for my own sake; Everyone who makes an engraved image is
and I will not remember your sins. vain.
43:26
Put me in remembrance. The things that they delight in will not
Let us plead together. profit.
Set forth your case, Their own witnesses don’t see, nor know,
that you may be justified. that they may be disappointed.
43:27 44:10
Your first father sinned, Who has fashioned a god,
and your teachers have transgressed or molds an image that is profitable for
against me. nothing?
43:28 44:11
Therefore I will profane the princes of the Behold, all his fellows will be disap-
sanctuary; pointed;
and I will make Jacob a curse, and the workmen are mere men.
and Israel an insult.” Let them all be gathered together.
44:1
Yet listen now, Jacob my servant, Let them stand up.
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They will fear. Shall I make the rest of it into an abomi-


They will be put to shame together. nation?
44:12
The blacksmith takes an axe, Shall I bow down to a tree trunk?”
44:20
works in the coals, He feeds on ashes.
fashions it with hammers, A deceived heart has turned him aside;
and works it with his strong arm. and he can’t deliver his soul,
He is hungry, nor say, “Isn’t there a lie in my right
and his strength fails; hand?”
he drinks no water, 44:21
Remember these things, Jacob and Israel;
and is faint. for you are my servant.
44:13
The carpenter stretches out a line. I have formed you.
He marks it out with a pencil. You are my servant.
He shapes it with planes. Israel, you will not be forgotten by me.
He marks it out with compasses, 44:22
I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your
and shapes it like the figure of a man, transgressions,
with the beauty of a man, and, as a cloud, your sins.
to reside in a house. Return to me, for I have redeemed you.
44:14
He cuts down cedars for himself, 44:23
Sing, you heavens, for the LORD has done
and takes the cypress and the oak, it!
and strengthens for himself one among Shout, you lower parts of the earth!
the trees of the forest.
Break out into singing, you mountains, O
He plants a fir tree, forest, all of your trees,
and the rain nourishes it.
44:15 for the LORD has redeemed Jacob,
Then it will be for a man to burn;
and will glorify himself in Israel.
and he takes some of it, and warms 44:24
Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer,
himself.
and he who formed you from the womb:
Yes, he burns it, and bakes bread.
“I am the LORD, who makes all things;
Yes, he makes a god, and worships it;
who alone stretches out the heavens;
he makes it an engraved image, and falls
down to it. who spreads out the earth by myself;
44:25
44:16
He burns part of it in the fire. who frustrates the signs of the liars,
With part of it, he eats meat. and makes diviners mad;
He roasts a roast, and is satisfied. who turns wise men backward,
Yes, he warms himself, and makes their knowledge foolish;
44:26
and says, “Aha! I am warm. I have seen who confirms the word of his servant,
the fire.” and performs the counsel of his messen-
44:17 gers;
The rest of it he makes into a god,
even his engraved image. who says of Jerusalem, ‘She will be inhabited;’
He bows down to it and worships, and of the cities of Judah, ‘They will be
and prays to it, and says, “Deliver me; for built,’
you are my god!” and ‘I will raise up its waste places;’
44:18 44:27
They don’t know, neither do they consider: who says to the deep, ‘Be dry,’
for he has shut their eyes, that they can’t and ‘I will dry up your rivers;’
44:28
see; Who says of Cyrus, ‘He is my shepherd,
and their hearts, that they can’t under- and shall perform all my pleasure,’
stand. even saying of Jerusalem, ‘She will be
44:19
No one thinks, built;’
neither is there knowledge nor under- and of the temple, ‘Your foundation will
standing to say, be laid.’”
45:1
“I have burned part of it in the fire. Thus says the LORD to his anointed, to
Yes, I have also baked bread on its coals. Cyrus, whose right hand I have held, to subdue
I have roasted meat and eaten it. nations before him, and strip kings of their
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armor; to open the doors before him, and the and his Maker:
gates shall not be shut: “You ask me about the things that are to come,
45:2
“I will go before you, concerning my sons,
and make the rough places smooth. and you command me concerning the
I will break the doors of brass in pieces, work of my hands!
and cut apart the bars of iron. 45:12
I have made the earth, and created man on
45:3
I will give you the treasures of darkness, it.
and hidden riches of secret places, I, even my hands, have stretched out the
that you may know that it is I, the LORD, who heavens;
call you by your name, and I have commanded all their army.
even the God of Israel. 45:13
I have raised him up in righteousness,
45:4
For Jacob my servant’s sake, and I will make straight all his ways.
and Israel my chosen, He shall build my city,
I have called you by your name. and he shall let my exiles go free,
I have surnamed you, not for price nor reward,” says the LORD
though you have not known me. of Hosts.
45:5
I am the LORD, and there is none else. 45:14
Thus says the LORD: “The labor of Egypt,
Besides me, there is no God. and the merchandise of Ethiopia,
I will strengthenv you, and the Sabeans, men of stature, shall
though you have not known me; come over to you,
45:6
that they may know from the rising of the and they shall be yours.
sun,
They will go after you.
and from the west,
They shall come over in chains;
that there is none besides me.
and they will bow down to you.
I am the LORD, and there is no one else.
45:7 They will make supplication to you:
I form the light,
‘Surely God is in you; and there is none
and create darkness.
else.
I make peace,
There is no other god.
and create calamity. 45:15
Most certainly you are a God who hidden
I am the LORD,
yourself,
who does all these things.
45:8
Distil, you heavens, from above, God of Israel, the Savior.’”
45:16
and let the skies pour down righteous- They will be disappointed,
ness. yes, confounded, all of them.
Let the earth open, that it may bring forth Those who are makers of idols will go
salvation, into confusion together.
45:17
and let it cause righteousness to spring up Israel will be saved by the LORD with an
with it. everlasting salvation.
I, the LORD, have created it. You will not be disappointed nor con-
45:9 founded to ages everlasting.
Woe to him who strives with his Maker—
45:18
a clay pot among the clay pots of the For thus says the LORD who created the
earth! heavens,
Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, ‘What the God who formed the earth and made
are you making?’ it,
or your work, ‘He has no hands?’ who established it and didn’t create it a
45:10 waste,
Woe to him who says to a father, ‘What
have you become the father of?’ who formed it to be inhabited:
or to a mother, ‘To what have you given “I am the LORD;
birth?’” and there is no other.
45:11 45:19
Thus says the LORD, the Holy One of I have not spoken in secret,
Israel, in a place of the land of darkness.
v 45:5 or, equip
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I didn’t say to the seed of Jacob, ‘Seek me in from the bag, and weigh silver in the
vain.’ balance. They hire a goldsmith, and he
I, the LORD, speak righteousness. makes it a god. They fall down—yes,
I declare things that are right. they worship. 46:7 They bear it on the
45:20 shoulder, they carry it, and set it in its
“Assemble yourselves and come.
Draw near together, you who have es- place, and it stands, from its place it
caped from the nations. shall not move: yes, one may cry to it,
Those have no knowledge who carry the wood yet it can not answer, nor save him out
of their engraved image, of his trouble.
46:8
and pray to a god that can’t save. “Remember this, and show yourselves men;
45:21 bring it again to mind, you transgres-
Declare and present it.
Yes, let them take counsel together. sors. 46:9 Remember the former things
Who has shown this from ancient time? of old: for I am God, and there is
Who has declared it of old? none else; I am God, and there is
Haven’t I, the LORD? none like me; 46:10 declaring the end
There is no other God besides me, a just God from the beginning, and from ancient
and a Savior; times things that are not yet done;
There is no one besides me. saying, My counsel shall stand, and I
45:22
“Look to me, and be saved, all the ends of will do all my pleasure; 46:11 calling a
the earth; ravenous bird from the east, the man
for I am God, and there is no other. of my counsel from a far country; yes,
45:23 I have spoken, I will also bring it to
I have sworn by myself, the word has gone
out of my mouth in righteousness, and pass; I have purposed, I will also do
it. 46:12 Listen to me, you stout-hearted,
will not return, that to me every knee
who are far from righteousness: 46:13 I
shall bow, every tongue shall take an
oath. 45:24 They will say of me, ‘There bring near my righteousness, it shall
not be far off, and my salvation shall
is righteousness and strength only in
not wait; and I will place salvation in
the LORD.’”
Zion for Israel my glory.
Even to him shall men come; and all those 47:1
who were incensed against him shall “Come down, and sit in the dust, virgin
be disappointed. 45:25 In the LORD daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground
shall all the seed of Israel be justified, without a throne, daughter of the Kas-
and shall glory. dim: for you shall no more be called
46:1
Bel bows down, Nebo stoops; their idols tender and delicate. 47:2 Take the mill-
are on the animals, and on the live- stones, and grind meal; remove your
stock: the things that you carried veil, strip off the train, uncover the
about are made a load, a burden to leg, pass through the rivers. 47:3 Your
the weary. 46:2 They stoop, they bow nakedness shall be uncovered, yes,
down together; they could not deliver your shame shall be seen: I will take
the burden, but themselves have gone vengeance, and will spare no man.”
47:4
into captivity. Our Redeemer, the LORD of Hosts is his
46:3
“Listen to me, house of Jacob, and all the name, the Holy One of Israel.
47:5
remnant of the house of Israel, that “Sit in silence, and go into darkness, daugh-
have been borne from their birth, that ter of the Kasdim;
have been carried from the womb; for you shall no more be called the mistress of
46:4
and even to old age I am he, and kingdoms.
47:6
even to gray hairs will I carry you. I I was angry with my people, I profaned my
have made, and I will bear; yes, I will inheritance, and gave them into your
carry, and will deliver. hand: you showed them no mercy; on
46:5
“To whom will you liken me, and make the aged you have very heavily laid
me equal, and compare me, that we your yoke. 47:7 You said, ‘I shall be a
may be like? 46:6 Some pour out gold mistress forever;’ so that you did not
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48:2
lay these things to your heart, nor did (for they call themselves of the holy
you remember the latter end of it. city, and stay themselves on the God
47:8 of Israel; the LORD of Hosts is his
“Now therefore hear this, you who are
given to pleasures, who sit securely, name): 48:3 I have declared the former
who say in your heart, ‘I am, and there things from of old; yes, they went
is none else besides me; I shall not forth out of my mouth, and I showed
sit as a widow, neither shall I know them: suddenly I did them, and they
the loss of children:’ 47:9 but these two happened. 48:4 Because I knew that
things shall come to you in a moment you are obstinate, and your neck is
in one day, the loss of children, and an iron sinew, and your brow brass;
48:5
widowhood; in their full measure shall therefore I have declared it to you
they come on you, in the multitude from of old; before it came to pass
of your sorceries, and the great abun- I showed it to you; lest you should
dance of your enchantments. 47:10 For say, ‘My idol has done them, and
you have trusted in your wickedness; my engraved image, and my molten
you have said, No one sees me; your image, has commanded them.’ 48:6 You
wisdom and your knowledge, it has have heard it; see all this; and you, will
perverted you, and you have said in you not declare it?
your heart, I am, and there is none “I have shown you new things from this time,
else besides me. 47:11 Therefore evil even hidden things, which you have
will come on you; you won’t know not known. 48:7 They are created now,
when it dawns: and mischief will fall and not from of old; and before this
on you; you will not be able to put it day you didn’t hear them; lest you
away: and desolation shall come on should say, ‘Behold, I knew them.’
you suddenly, which you don’t know. 48:8
Yes, you didn’t hear; yes, you didn’t know;
47:12 yes, from of old your ear was not
“Stand now with your enchantments, and
with the multitude of your sorceries, opened: for I knew that you dealt
in which you have labored from your very treacherously, and was called a
youth; if so be you shall be able transgressor from the womb. 48:9 For
to profit, if so be you may prevail. my name’s sake will I defer my anger,
47:13 and for my praise will I refrain for you,
You are wearied in the multitude
of your counsels: let now the as- that I not cut you off. 48:10 Behold,
trologers, the stargazers, the monthly I have refined you, but not as silver;
prognosticators, stand up, and save I have chosen you in the furnace of
you from the things that shall come affliction. 48:11 For my own sake, for
on you. 47:14 Behold, they shall be as my own sake, will I do it; for how
stubble; the fire shall burn them; they should my name be profaned? I will
shall not deliver themselves from the not give my glory to another.
48:12
power of the flame: it shall not be a “Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel my
coal to warm at, nor a fire to sit before. called: I am he; I am the first, I also
47:15
Thus shall the things be to you in am the last. 48:13 Yes, my hand has laid
which you have labored: those who the foundation of the earth, and my
have trafficked with you from your right hand has spread out the heavens:
youth shall wander everyone to his when I call to them, they stand up
quarter; there shall be none to save together.
you. 48:14
“Assemble yourselves, all you, and hear;
48:1
“Hear this, house of Jacob, you who are who among them has declared these
called by the name of Israel, and have things? He whom the LORD loves
come forth out of the waters of Judah; shall perform his pleasure on Babylon,
who swear by the name of the LORD, and his arm shall be on the Kasdim.
48:15
and make mention of the God of Israel, I, even I, have spoken; yes, I have
but not in truth, nor in righteousness called him; I have brought him, and he
Isaiah 48:16 377 Isaiah 49:17

shall make his way prosperous. “It is too light a thing that you should
48:16 be my servant to raise up the tribes of
“Come near to me and hear this:
“From the beginning I have not spoken in Jacob, and to restore the preserved of
secret; from the time that it was, there Israel: I will also give you for a light
am I.” Now the Lord GOD has sent to the nations, that you may be my
me, with his Spirit. salvation to the end of the earth.”
49:7
48:17
Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, the Thus says the LORD, the Redeemer of
Holy One of Israel: I am the LORD Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom
your God, who teaches you to profit, man despises, to him whom the nation
who leads you by the way that you abhors, to a servant of rulers: “Kings
48:18 shall see and arise; princes, and they
should go. Oh that you had
listened to my commandments! then shall worship; because of the LORD
your peace would have been like a who is faithful, even the Holy One of
river, and your righteousness like the Israel, who has chosen you.”
49:8
waves of the sea: 48:19 your seed also Thus says the LORD, “In an acceptable time
had been as the sand, and the offspring have I answered you, and in a day
of your body like its grains: his name of salvation have I helped you; and I
would not be cut off nor destroyed will preserve you, and give you for a
from before me. 48:20 Go forth from covenant of the people, to raise up the
Babylon, flee from the Kasdim; with a land, to make them inherit the desolate
voice of singing declare, tell this, utter heritage: 49:9 saying to those who are
it even to the end of the earth: say, the bound, ‘Come out!’; to those who are
LORD has redeemed his servant Jacob. in darkness, ‘Show yourselves!’
48:21
They didn’t thirst when he led “They shall feed in the ways, and on all
them through the deserts; he caused bare heights shall be their pasture.
49:10
the waters to flow out of the rock They shall not hunger nor thirst;
for them; he split the rock also, and neither shall the heat nor sun strike
the waters gushed out. 48:22 “There is them: for he who has mercy on them
no peace,” says the LORD, “for the will lead them, even by springs of
49:11
wicked.” water he will guide them. I
49:1 will make all my mountains a way,
Listen, islands, to me; and listen, you peo-
ples, from far: the LORD has called me and my highways shall be exalted.
49:12
from the womb; from the bowels of my Behold, these shall come from far;
mother has he made mention of my and behold, these from the north and
name: 49:2 and he has made my mouth from the west; and these from the land
like a sharp sword; in the shadow of of Sinim.”
49:13
his hand, he has hidden me: and he Sing, heavens; and be joyful, earth; and
has made me a polished shaft; in his break forth into singing, mountains:
quiver has he kept me close: 49:3 and for the LORD has comforted his peo-
he said to me, “You are my servant; ple, and will have compassion on his
Israel, in whom I will be glorified.” afflicted. 49:14 But Zion said, “The
49:4
But I said, “I have labored in vain, LORD has forsaken me, and the Lord
I have spent my strength for nothing has forgotten me.”
and vanity; yet surely the justice due to 49:15
“Can a woman forget her nursing child,
me is with the LORD, and my reward that she should not have compassion
with my God.” on the son of her womb? Yes, these
49:5
Now says the LORD who formed me from may forget, yet I will not forget you!
49:16
the womb to be his servant, to bring Behold, I have engraved you on
Jacob again to him, and that Israel be the palms of my hands; your walls
gathered to him (for I am honorable in are continually before me. 49:17 Your
the eyes of the LORD, and my God has children make haste; your destroyers
become my strength); 49:6 yes, he says, and those who made you waste shall
Isaiah 49:18 378 Isaiah 51:1

go forth from you. 49:18 Lift up your have put her away? or which of my
eyes all around, and see: all these creditors is it to whom I have sold
gather themselves together, and come you? Behold, for your iniquities were
to you. As I live,” says the LORD, “you you sold, and for your transgressions
shall surely clothe yourself with them was your mother put away. 50:2 Why,
all as with an ornament, and dress when I came, was there no man? when
yourself with them, like a bride. I called, was there none to answer?
49:19 Is my hand shortened at all, that it
“For, as for your waste and your desolate
places, and your land that has been can’t redeem? or have I no power to
destroyed, surely now you shall be too deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up
small for the inhabitants, and those the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness:
who swallowed you up shall be far their fish stink, because there is no wa-
away. 49:20 The children of your be- ter, and die for thirst. 50:3 I clothe the
reavement shall yet say in your ears, heavens with blackness, and I make
The place is too small for me; give sackcloth their covering.”
place to me that I may dwell. 49:21 Then 50:4
The Lord GOD has given me the tongue
you will say in your heart, ‘Who has of those who are taught, that I may
conceived these for me, since I have know how to sustain with words him
been bereaved of my children, and am who is weary: he wakens morning by
solitary, an exile, and wandering back morning, he wakens my ear to hear as
and forth? Who has brought up these? those who are taught. 50:5 The Lord
Behold, I was left alone; these, where GOD has opened my ear, and I was
were they?’” not rebellious, neither turned away
49:22
Thus says the Lord GOD, “Behold, I will backward. 50:6 I gave my back to the
lift up my hand to the nations, and set strikers, and my cheeks to those who
up my banner to the peoples; and they plucked off the hair; I didn’t hide my
shall bring your sons in their bosom, face from shame and spitting. 50:7 For
and your daughters shall be carried the Lord GOD will help me; therefore
on their shoulders. 49:23 Kings shall be I have not been confounded: therefore
your nursing fathers, and their queens have I set my face like a flint, and I
your nursing mothers: they shall bow know that I shall not be disappointed.
50:8
down to you with their faces to the He is near who justifies me; who
earth, and lick the dust of your feet; will bring charges against me? Let
and you shall know that I am the us stand up together: who is my
LORD; and those who wait for me adversary? Let him come near to me.
50:9
shall not be disappointed.” Behold, the Lord GOD will help
49:24
Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or me; who is he who shall condemn
the lawful captives be delivered? me? Behold, all they shall wax old
49:25 as a garment, the moth shall eat them
But thus says the LORD, “Even the cap-
tives of the mighty shall be taken up. 50:10 Who is among you who fears
away, and the prey of the terrible shall the LORD, who obeys the voice of his
be delivered; for I will contend with servant? He who walks in darkness,
him who contends with you, and I and has no light, let him trust in
will save your children. 49:26 I will the name of the LORD, and rely on
feed those who oppress you with their his God. 50:11 Behold, all you who
own flesh; and they shall be drunken kindle a fire, who adorn yourselves
with their own blood, as with sweet with torches around yourselves; walk
wine: and all flesh shall know that I, in the flame of your fire, and among
the LORD, am your Savior, and your the brands that you have kindled. You
Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.” shall have this of my hand; you shall
50:1
Thus says the LORD, “Where is the bill of lie down in sorrow.
51:1
your mother’s divorce, with which I “Listen to me, you who follow after righ-
Isaiah 51:2 379 Isaiah 51:23

teousness, you who seek the LORD: away.


look to the rock you were cut from, 51:12
“I, even I, am he who comforts you: who
and to the hold of the pit you were are you, that you are afraid of man
dug from. 51:2 Look to Abraham your who shall die, and of the son of man
father, and to Sarah who bore you; for who shall be made as grass; 51:13 and
when he was but one I called him, and have forgotten the LORD your Maker,
I blessed him, and made him many. who stretched forth the heavens, and
51:3
For the LORD has comforted Zion; laid the foundations of the earth; and
he has comforted all her waste places, fear continually all the day because
and has made her wilderness like of the fury of the oppressor, when he
Eden, and her desert like the garden makes ready to destroy? and where
of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be is the fury of the oppressor? 51:14 The
found therein, thanksgiving, and the captive exile shall speedily be freed;
voice of melody. and he shall not die and go down into
51:4
“Attend to me, my people; and give ear to the pit, neither shall his bread fail.
me, my nation: for a law shall go forth 51:15
For I am the LORD your God, who
from me, and I will establish my justice stirs up the sea, so that its waves roar:
for a light of the peoples. 51:5 My the LORD of Hosts is his name. 51:16 I
righteousness is near, my salvation is have put my words in your mouth,
gone forth, and my arms shall judge and have covered you in the shadow
the peoples; the islands shall wait for of my hand, that I may plant the
me, and on my arm shall they trust. heavens, and lay the foundations of
51:6
Lift up your eyes to the heavens, the earth, and tell Zion, ‘You are my
and look on the earth beneath; for people.’”
the heavens shall vanish away like 51:17
Awake, awake, stand up, Jerusalem, that
smoke, and the earth shall wax old
have drunk at the hand of the LORD
like a garment; and those who dwell
the cup of his wrath; you have
therein shall die in the same way: but
drunken the bowl of the cup of stag-
my salvation shall be forever, and my
gering, and drained it. 51:18 There is
righteousness shall not be abolished.
none to guide her among all the sons
51:7
“Listen to me, you who know righteous- whom she has brought forth; neither
ness, the people in whose heart is my is there any who takes her by the
law; don’t fear the reproach of men, hand among all the sons who she has
neither be dismayed at their insults. brought up. 51:19 These two things
51:8
For the moth shall eat them up like have happened to you. Who will
a garment, and the worm shall eat bemoan you? Desolation and destruc-
them like wool; but my righteousness tion, and the famine and the sword;
shall be forever, and my salvation to all how shall I comfort you? 51:20 Your
generations.” sons have fainted, they lie at the head
51:9
Awake, awake, put on strength, arm of the of all the streets, as an antelope in
LORD; awake, as in the days of old, a net; they are full of the wrath of
the generations of ancient times. Isn’t the LORD, the rebuke of your God.
51:21
it you who cut Rahab in pieces, who Therefore hear now this, you af-
pierced the monster? 51:10 Isn’t it you flicted, and drunken, but not with
who dried up the sea, the waters of the wine: 51:22 Thus says your Lord GOD,
great deep; who made the depths of and your God who pleads the cause
the sea a way for the redeemed to pass of his people, “Behold, I have taken
over? 51:11 The ransomed of the LORD out of your hand the cup of staggering,
shall return, and come with singing to even the bowl of the cup of my wrath;
Zion; and everlasting joy shall be on you shall no more drink it again:
51:23
their heads. They shall obtain gladness and I will put it into the hand of
and joy. Sorrow and sighing shall flee those who afflict you, who have said
Isaiah 52:1 380 Isaiah 53:8

to your soul, ‘Bow down, that we may before you; and the God of Israel will
walk over you;’ and you have laid be your rear guard.
52:13
your back as the ground, and as the Behold, my servant shall deal wisely, he
street, to those who walk over.” shall be exalted and lifted up, and shall
52:1 be very high.
Awake, awake, put on your strength,
52:14
Zion; put on your beautiful garments, Like as many were astonished at you (his
Jerusalem, the holy city: for hence- appearance was marred more than any
forth there shall no more come into man, and his form more than the sons
you the uncircumcised and the un- of men),
52:15
clean. 52:2 Shake yourself from the so shall he sprinkle many nations; kings
dust! Arise, sit up, Jerusalem! Release shall shut their mouths at him: for that
yourself from the bonds of your neck, which had not been told them shall
captive daughter of Zion! 52:3 For thus they see; and that which they had not
says the LORD, “You were sold for heard shall they understand.
53:1
nothing; and you shall be redeemed Who has believed our message?
without money.” To whom has the arm of the LORD been
52:4 revealed?
For thus says the Lord GOD, “My people
53:2
went down at the first into Egypt For he grew up before him as a tender plant,
to live there: and the Assyrian has and as a root out of dry ground.
oppressed them without cause. He has no good looks or majesty.
52:5 When we see him, there is no beauty that
“Now therefore, what do I do here,” says
the LORD, “seeing that my people are we should desire him.
53:3
taken away for nothing? Those who He was despised,
rule over them mock,” says the LORD, and rejected by men;
“and my name continually all the day a man of suffering,
is blasphemed. 52:6 Therefore my peo- and acquainted with disease.
ple shall know my name. Therefore He was despised as one from whom men hide
they shall know in that day that I am their face;
he who speaks; behold, it is I.” and we didn’t respect him.
52:7 53:4
How beautiful on the mountains are the Surely he has borne our sickness,
feet of him who brings good news, and carried our suffering;
who publishes peace, who brings good yet we considered him plagued,
news of good, who publishes salva- struck by God, and afflicted.
53:5
tion, who says to Zion, “Your God But he was pierced for our transgressions.
reigns!” 52:8 The voice of your watch- He was crushed for our iniquities.
men! they lift up the voice, together The punishment that brought our peace was on
do they sing; for they shall see eye to him;
eye, when the LORD returns to Zion. and by his wounds we are healed.
52:9 53:6
Break forth into joy, sing together, All we like sheep have gone astray.
you waste places of Jerusalem; for Everyone has turned to his own way;
the LORD has comforted his people, and the LORD has laid on him the iniq-
he has redeemed Jerusalem. 52:10 The uity of us all.
53:7
LORD has made bare his holy arm He was oppressed,
in the eyes of all the nations; and all yet when he was afflicted he didn’t open
the ends of the earth have seen the his mouth.
salvation of our God. As a lamb that is led to the slaughter,
52:11
Depart, depart, go out from there, touch no and as a sheep that before its shearers is
unclean thing! Go out of the midst of mute,
her! Cleanse yourselves, you who bear so he didn’t open his mouth.
53:8
the vessels of the LORD. 52:12 For you He was taken away by oppression and
shall not go out in haste, neither shall judgment;
you go by flight: for the LORD will go and as for his generation,
Isaiah 53:9 381 Isaiah 54:17

who considered that he was cut off out of your Maker is your husband; the
the land of the living LORD of Hosts is his name: and the
and stricken for the disobedience of my Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer;
people? the God of the whole earth shall he be
53:9
They made his grave with the wicked, called. 54:6 For the LORD has called
and with a rich man in his death; you as a wife forsaken and grieved in
although he had done no violence, spirit, even a wife of youth, when she
neither was any deceit in his mouth. is cast off,” says your God.
53:10 54:7
Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him. “For a small moment have I forsaken you;
He has caused him to suffer. but with great mercies will I gather
When you make his soul an offering for sin, you. 54:8 In overflowing wrath I hid my
he shall see his seed. face from you for a moment; but with
He shall prolong his days, everlasting loving kindness will I have
and the pleasure of the LORD shall pros- mercy on you,” says the LORD your
per in his hand. Redeemer.
53:11 54:9
After the suffering of his soul, “For this is like the waters of Noah to me;
he will see the lightw and be satisfied. for as I have sworn that the waters of
My righteous servant will justify many by the Noah shall no more go over the earth,
knowledge of himself; so have I sworn that I will not be angry
and he will bear their iniquities. with you, nor rebuke you. 54:10 For the
53:12 mountains may depart, and the hills
Therefore will I divide him a portion with
the great, be removed; but my loving kindness
and he shall divide the spoil with the shall not depart from you, neither shall
strong; my covenant of peace be removed,”
because he poured out his soul to death, says the LORD who has mercy on you.
54:11
and was numbered with the transgres- “You afflicted, tossed with storms, and
sors; not comforted, behold, I will set your
yet he bore the sin of many, stones in beautiful colors, and lay your
and made intercession for the transgres- foundations with sapphires. 54:12 I will
sors. make your pinnacles of rubies, and
54:1 your gates of sparkling jewels, and all
“Sing, barren, you who didn’t bear; break
forth into singing, and cry aloud, you your walls of precious stones. 54:13 All
who did not travail with child: for your children shall be taught of the
more are the children of the desolate LORD; and great shall be the peace
than the children of the married wife,” of your children. 54:14 In righteousness
says the LORD. you shall be established: you shall be
54:2 far from oppression, for you shall not
“Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them
stretch forth the curtains of your habi- be afraid; and from terror, for it shall
tations; don’t spare: lengthen your not come near you. 54:15 Behold, they
cords, and strengthen your stakes. may gather together, but not by me:
54:3 whoever shall gather together against
For you shall spread out on the
right hand and on the left; and your you shall fall because of you.
54:16
seed shall possess the nations, and “Behold, I have created the smith who
make the desolate cities to be inhab- blows the fire of coals, and brings forth
ited. a weapon for his work; and I have
54:4 created the waster to destroy.
“Don’t be afraid; for you shall not be
54:17
ashamed: neither be confounded; for No weapon that is formed against you will
you shall not be disappointed: for you prevail;
shall forget the shame of your youth; and you will condemn every tongue that
and the reproach of your widowhood rises against you in judgment.
you shall remember no more. 54:5 For This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD,
w 53:11 So read the Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagint. Masoretic Text omits “the light”.
Isaiah 55:1 382 Isaiah 56:10

55:12
and their righteousness which is of me,” For you shall go out with joy,
says the LORD. and be led forth with peace: the moun-
55:1
“Come, everyone who thirsts, to the wa- tains and the hills shall break forth be-
ters! Come, he who has no money, fore you into singing; and all the trees
buy, and eat! Yes, come, buy wine of the fields shall clap their hands.
55:13
and milk without money and without Instead of the thorn shall come up
price. 55:2 Why do you spend money the fir tree; and instead of the brier
for that which is not bread? and your shall come up the myrtle tree: and it
labor for that which doesn’t satisfy? shall be to the LORD for a name, for
listen diligently to me, and eat you an everlasting sign that shall not be cut
that which is good, and let your soul off.”
delight itself in fatness. 55:3 Turn your 56:1
Thus says the LORD, “Keep justice, and
ear, and come to me; hear, and your do righteousness; for my salvation
soul shall live: and I will make an [yeshuah-ti] is near to come, and
everlasting covenant with you, even my righteousness to be revealed.
the sure mercies of David. 55:4 Behold, 56:2
Blessed is the man who does this,
I have given him for a witness to the and the son of man who holds it fast;
peoples, a leader and commander to who keeps the Sabbath from profaning
the peoples. 55:5 Behold, you shall call it, and keeps his hand from doing any
a nation that you don’t know; and evil.”
a nation that didn’t know you shall 56:3
Neither let the foreigner, who has joined
run to you, because of the LORD your himself to the LORD, speak, saying,
God, and for the Holy One of Israel; “The LORD will surely separate me
for he has glorified you.” from his people”; neither let the eu-
55:6
Seek the LORD while he may be found; call nuch say, “Behold, I am a dry tree.”
you on him while he is near: 55:7 let 56:4
For thus says the LORD, “To the eunuchs
the wicked forsake his way, and the who keep my Sabbaths, and choose
unrighteous man his thoughts; and let the things that please me, and hold
him return to the LORD, and he will fast my covenant: 56:5 to them I will
have mercy on him; and to our God, give in my house and within my walls
for he will abundantly pardon. a memorial and a name better than
55:8
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, of sons and of daughters; I will give
neither are your ways my ways,” says them an everlasting name, that shall
the LORD. not be cut off. 56:6 Also the foreigners
55:9
“For as the heavens are higher than the who join themselves to the LORD, to
earth, minister to him, and to love the name
so are my ways higher than your ways, of the LORD, to be his servants, every-
and my thoughts than your thoughts. one who keeps the Sabbath from pro-
55:10
For as the rain comes down and the snow faning it, and holds fast my covenant;
from the sky, 56:7
even them will I bring to my holy
and doesn’t return there, but waters the mountain, and make them joyful in my
earth, house of prayer: their burnt offerings
and makes it bring forth and bud, and their sacrifices shall be accepted
and gives seed to the sower and bread to on my altar; for my house shall be
the eater; called a house of prayer for all peo-
55:11
so shall my word be that goes forth out of ples.”
56:8
my mouth: The Lord GOD, who gathers the outcasts of
it shall not return to me void, Israel, says, “Yet will I gather others
but it shall accomplish that which I to him, besides his own who are gath-
please, ered.”
56:9
and it shall prosper in the thing I sent it to All you animals of the field, come to devour,
do. all you animals in the forest. 56:10 His
Isaiah 56:11 383 Isaiah 58:1

watchmen are blind, they are all with- even to Sheolx . 57:10 You were wearied
out knowledge; they are all mute with the length of your way; yet you
dogs, they can’t bark; dreaming, lying didn’t say, ‘It is in vain.’ You found
down, loving to slumber. 56:11 Yes, the a reviving of your strength; therefore
dogs are greedy, they can never have you weren’t faint.
57:11
enough; and these are shepherds who “Of whom have you been afraid and in
can’t understand: they have all turned fear, that you lie, and have not remem-
to their own way, each one to his gain, bered me, nor laid it to your heart?
from every quarter. 56:12 “Come,” say Haven’t I held my peace even of long
they, “I will get wine, and we will time, and you don’t fear me? 57:12 I
fill ourselves with strong drink; and will declare your righteousness; and as
tomorrow shall be as this day, great for your works, they shall not profit
beyond measure.” you. 57:13 When you cry, let those who
57:1
The righteous perishes, and no man lays you have gathered deliver you; but the
it to heart; and merciful men are wind shall take them, a breath shall
taken away, none considering that the carry them all away: but he who takes
righteous is taken away from the evil. refuge in me shall possess the land,
57:2
He enters into peace; they rest in and shall inherit my holy mountain.”
57:14
their beds, each one who walks in his He will say, “Cast up, cast up, prepare the
uprightness. way,
57:3
“But draw near here, you sons of the take up the stumbling-block out of the
sorceress, the seed of the adulterer way of my people.”
and the prostitute. 57:4 Against whom 57:15
For thus says the high and lofty One who
do you sport yourselves? Against inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy:
whom do you make a wide mouth, “I dwell in the high and holy place, with
and stick out your tongue? Aren’t him also who is of a contrite and
you children of disobedience, a seed of humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the
falsehood, 57:5 you who inflame your- humble, and to revive the heart of the
selves among the oaks, under every contrite.
green tree; who kill the children in the 57:16
For I will not contend forever, neither will
valleys, under the clefts of the rocks? I be always angry; for the spirit would
57:6
Among the smooth stones of the faint before me, and the souls who I
valley is your portion; they, they are have made. 57:17 For the iniquity of his
your lot; you have even poured a drink covetousness was I angry, and struck
offering to them. You have offered him; I hid myself and was angry; and
an offering. Shall I be appeased for he went on backsliding in the way of
these things? 57:7 On a high and lofty his heart. 57:18 I have seen his ways,
mountain you have set your bed; there and will heal him: I will lead him also,
also you went up to offer sacrifice. and restore comforts to him and to his
57:8
Behind the doors and the posts you mourners. 57:19 I create the fruit of the
have set up your memorial: lips: Peace, peace, to him who is far
for you have uncovered to someone be- off and to him who is near,” says the
sides me, LORD; “and I will heal them.” 57:20 But
and have gone up; the wicked are like the troubled sea;
you have enlarged your bed, for it can’t rest, and its waters cast up
and made you a covenant with them: mire and dirt. 57:21 “There is no peace,”
you loved their bed where you saw it. says my God, “for the wicked.”
57:9 58:1
You went to the king with oil, and increased “Cry aloud, don’t spare, lift up your voice
your perfumes, and sent your ambas- like a shofary , and declare to my
sadors far off, and debased yourself people their disobedience, and to the
x 57:9 Sheol is the place of the dead.
y 58:1 or, trumpet
Isaiah 58:2 384 Isaiah 59:9

house of Jacob their sins. 58:2 Yet they be like a watered garden, and like a
seek me daily, and delight to know my spring of water, whose waters don’t
ways: as a nation that did righteous- fail. 58:12 Those who shall be of you
ness, and didn’t forsake the ordinance shall build the old waste places; you
of their God, they ask of me righteous shall raise up the foundations of many
judgments; they delight to draw near generations; and you shall be called
to God. 58:3 ‘Why have we fasted,’ say The repairer of the breach, The restorer
they, ‘and you don’t see? Why have of paths to dwell in.
we afflicted our soul, and you take no 58:13
“If you turn away your foot from the
knowledge?’ Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on
“Behold, in the day of your fast you find my holy day; and call the Sabbath
pleasure, and exact all your labors. a delight, and the holy of the LORD
58:4
Behold, you fast for strife and con- honorable; and shall honor it, not
tention, and to strike with the fist of doing your own ways, nor finding
wickedness: you don’t fast this day so your own pleasure, nor speaking your
as to make your voice to be heard on own words: 58:14 then you shall delight
high. 58:5 Is such the fast that I have yourself in the LORD; and I will make
chosen? the day for a man to afflict you to ride on the high places of the
his soul? Is it to bow down his head earth; and I will feed you with the
as a rush, and to spread sackcloth and heritage of Jacob your father:”
ashes under him? Will you call this for the mouth of the LORD has spoken it.
a fast, and an acceptable day to the 59:1
Behold, the LORD’s hand is not shortened,
LORD?
58:6
that it can’t save; neither his ear heavy,
“Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to that it can’t hear: 59:2 but your iniqui-
release the bonds of wickedness, to ties have separated between you and
undo the bands of the yoke, and to your God, and your sins have hidden
let the oppressed go free, and that you his face from you, so that he will not
break every yoke? 58:7 Isn’t it to dis- hear. 59:3 For your hands are defiled
tribute your bread to the hungry, and with blood, and your fingers with in-
that you bring the poor who are cast iquity; your lips have spoken lies, your
out to your house? When you see the tongue mutters wickedness. 59:4 None
naked, that you cover him; and that sues in righteousness, and none pleads
you not hide yourself from your own in truth: they trust in vanity, and
flesh? 58:8 Then your light shall break speak lies; they conceive mischief, and
forth as the morning, and your healing bring forth iniquity. 59:5 They hatch
shall spring forth speedily; and your adders’ eggs, and weave the spider’s
righteousness shall go before you; the web: he who eats of their eggs dies;
glory of the LORD shall be your rear and that which is crushed breaks out
guard. into a viper. 59:6 Their webs shall not
58:9
Then you shall call, and the LORD will become garments, neither shall they
answer; you shall cry, and he will say, cover themselves with their works:
‘Here I am.’ their works are works of iniquity, and
“If you take away from the midst of you the the act of violence is in their hands.
59:7
yoke, the putting forth of the finger, Their feet run to evil, and they
and speaking wickedly; 58:10 and if you make haste to shed innocent blood:
draw out your soul to the hungry, and their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity;
satisfy the afflicted soul: then your desolation and destruction are in their
light shall rise in darkness, and your paths. 59:8 The way of peace they don’t
obscurity be as the noonday; 58:11 and know; and there is no justice in their
the LORD will guide you continually, goings: they have made them crooked
and satisfy your soul in dry places, and paths; whoever goes therein does not
make strong your bones; and you shall know peace. 59:9 Therefore is justice
Isaiah 59:10 385 Isaiah 60:12

far from us, neither does righteousness mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, nor
overtake us: we look for light, but, out of the mouth of your seed, nor out of the
behold, darkness; for brightness, but mouth of your seed’s seed,” says the LORD,
we walk in obscurity. 59:10 We grope “from henceforth and forever.”
for the wall like the blind; yes, we 60:1
“Arise, shine; for your light has come, and
grope as those who have no eyes: we the glory of the LORD is risen on
stumble at noonday as in the twilight; you. 60:2 For, behold, darkness shall
among those who are lusty we are cover the earth, and gross darkness the
as dead men. 59:11 We roar all like peoples; but the LORD will arise on
bears, and moan bitterly like doves: you, and his glory shall be seen on
we look for justice, but there is none; you. 60:3 Nations shall come to your
for salvation, but it is far off from us. light, and kings to the brightness of
59:12
For our transgressions are multiplied be- your rising.
60:4
fore you, and our sins testify against “Lift up your eyes all around, and see: they
us; for our transgressions are with us, all gather themselves together, they
and as for our iniquities, we know come to you; your sons shall come
them: 59:13 transgressing and denying from far, and your daughters shall be
the LORD, and turning away from fol- carried in the arms. 60:5 Then you shall
lowing our God, speaking oppression see and be radiant, and your heart
and revolt, conceiving and uttering shall thrill and be enlarged; because
from the heart words of falsehood. the abundance of the sea shall be
59:14
Justice is turned away backward, turned to you, the wealth of the na-
and righteousness stands afar off; for tions shall come to you. 60:6 The mul-
truth is fallen in the street, and up- titude of camels shall cover you, the
rightness can’t enter. 59:15 Yes, truth is dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; all
lacking; and he who departs from evil they from Sheba shall come; they shall
makes himself a prey. The LORD saw bring gold and frankincense, and shall
it, and it displeased him that there was proclaim the praises of the LORD.
no justice. 59:16 He saw that there was 60:7
All the flocks of Kedar shall be
no man, and wondered that there was gathered together to you, the rams of
no intercessor: therefore his own arm Nebaioth shall minister to you; they
brought salvation to him; and his righ- shall come up with acceptance on my
teousness, it upheld him. 59:17 He put altar; and I will glorify the house of my
on righteousness as a breastplate, and glory.
a helmet of salvation on his head; and 60:8
“Who are these who fly as a cloud, and as
he put on garments of vengeance for the doves to their windows? 60:9 Surely
clothing, and was clad with zeal as a the islands shall wait for me, and the
mantle. 59:18 According to their deeds, ships of Tarshish first, to bring your
accordingly he will repay, wrath to sons from far, their silver and their
his adversaries, recompense to his en- gold with them, for the name of the
emies; to the islands he will repay LORD your God, and for the Holy One
recompense. 59:19 So shall they fear the of Israel, because he has glorified you.
name of the LORD from the west, and 60:10
“Foreigners shall build up your walls, and
his glory from the rising of the sun; their kings shall minister to you: for in
for he will come as a rushing stream, my wrath I struck you, but in my favor
which the breath of the LORD drives. have I had mercy on you.
59:20 60:11
“A Redeemer will come to Zion, Your gates also shall be open continually;
and to those who turn from disobedience they shall not be shut day nor night;
in Jacob,” says the LORD. that men may bring to you the wealth
59:21 of the nations, and their kings led
“As for me, this is my covenant with
them,” says the LORD. “My Spirit who is on captive.
60:12
you, and my words which I have put in your For that nation and kingdom that will
Isaiah 60:13 386 Isaiah 61:11

not serve you shall perish; yes, those He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,
nations shall be utterly wasted. to proclaim liberty to the captives,
60:13
“The glory of Lebanon shall come to you, and release to those who are bound;
the fir tree, the pine, and the box tree 61:2
to proclaim the year of the LORD’s favor,
together, to beautify the place of my and the day of vengeance of our God;
sanctuary; and I will make the place of to comfort all who mourn; 61:3 to ap-
my feet glorious. point to those who mourn in Zion, to
60:14
The sons of those who afflicted you shall give to them a garland for ashes, the
come bending to you; and all those oil of joy for mourning, the garment of
who despised you shall bow them- praise for the spirit of heaviness; that
selves down at the soles of your feet; they may be called trees of righteous-
and they shall call you The city of the ness, the planting of the LORD, that he
LORD, The Zion of the Holy One of may be glorified.
Israel. 61:4
They shall build the old wastes, they
60:15
“Whereas you have been forsaken and shall raise up the former desolations,
hated, so that no man passed through and they shall repair the waste cities,
you, I will make you an eternal ex- the desolations of many generations.
61:5
cellency, a joy of many generations. Strangers shall stand and feed
60:16
You shall also drink the milk of your flocks, and foreigners shall be
the nations, and shall nurse from your plowmen and your vinedressers.
61:6
royal breasts; and you shall know But you shall be named the priests
that I, the LORD, am your Savior, of the LORD; men will call you the
and your Redeemer, the Mighty One ministers of our God: you will eat the
of Jacob. 60:17 For brass I will bring wealth of the nations, and you will
gold, and for iron I will bring silver, boast in their glory.
61:7
and for wood brass, and for stones Instead of your shame you shall have dou-
iron. I will also make your officers ble; and instead of dishonor they shall
peace, and righteousness your ruler. rejoice in their portion: therefore in
60:18
Violence shall no more be heard in their land they shall possess double;
your land, desolation nor destruction everlasting joy shall be to them.
within your borders; but you shall 61:8
“For I, the LORD, love justice, I hate rob-
call your walls Salvation, and your bery with iniquity; and I will give
gates Praise. 60:19 The sun shall be no them their recompense in truth, and
more your light by day; neither for I will make an everlasting covenant
brightness shall the moon give light to with them. 61:9 Their seed shall be
you: but the LORD will be to you an known among the nations, and their
everlasting light, and your God your offspring among the peoples; all who
glory. 60:20 Your sun shall no more go see them shall acknowledge them, that
down, neither shall your moon with- they are the seed which the LORD has
draw itself; for the LORD will be your blessed.”
everlasting light, and the days of your 61:10
I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my
mourning shall be ended. 60:21 Your soul shall be joyful in my God; for he
people also shall be all righteous; has clothed me with the garments of
they shall inherit the land forever, the salvation, he has covered me with the
branch of my planting, the work of my robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom
hands, that I may be glorified. 60:22 The decks himself with a garland, and as
little one shall become a thousand, and a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
the small one a strong nation; I, the 61:11
For as the earth brings forth its
LORD, will hasten it in its time.” bud, and as the garden causes the
61:1
The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on me; things that are sown in it to spring
because the LORD has anointed me to forth; so the Lord GOD will cause righ-
proclaim good news to the humble. teousness and praise to spring forth
Isaiah 62:1 387 Isaiah 63:11

before all the nations. forsaken.


62:1 63:1
For Zion’s sake will I not hold my peace, Who is this who comes from Edom, with
and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not dyed garments from Bozrah? this who
rest, until her righteousness go forth is glorious in his clothing, marching in
as brightness, and her salvation as a the greatness of his strength?
lamp that burns. 62:2 The nations shall “It is I who speak in righteousness,
see your righteousness, and all kings mighty to save.”
your glory, and you shall be called by 63:2
Why are you red in your clothing, and your
a new name, which the mouth of the garments like him who treads in the
LORD shall name. 62:3 You shall also wine vat?
be a crown of beauty in the hand of the 63:3
“I have trodden the winepress alone; and
LORD, and a royal diadem in the hand of the peoples there was no man with
of your God. 62:4 You shall no more me: yes, I trod them in my anger,
be termed Forsaken; neither shall your and trampled them in my wrath; and
land any more be termed Desolate: their lifeblood is sprinkled on my
but you shall be called Hephzibah, garments, and I have stained all my
and your land Beulah; for the LORD clothing. 63:4 For the day of vengeance
delights in you, and your land shall was in my heart, and the year of my
be married. 62:5 For as a young man redeemed has come. 63:5 I looked, and
marries a virgin, so your sons shall there was none to help; and I won-
marry you; and as the bridegroom dered that there was none to uphold:
rejoices over the bride, so your God therefore my own arm brought salva-
will rejoice over you. 62:6 I have set tion to me; and my wrath, it upheld
watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem; me. 63:6 I trod down the peoples in my
they shall never hold their peace day anger, and made them drunk in my
nor night: you who call on the LORD, wrath, and I poured out their lifeblood
take no rest, 62:7 and give him no on the earth.”
rest, until he establishes, and until he 63:7
I will make mention of the loving kind-
makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth. nesses of the LORD and the praises
62:8
The LORD has sworn by his right hand, and of the LORD, according to all that
by the arm of his strength, the LORD has bestowed on us, and
“Surely I will no more give your grain to the great goodness toward the house
be food for your enemies; and foreign- of Israel, which he has bestowed on
ers shall not drink your new wine, for them according to his mercies, and ac-
which you have labored: 62:9 but those cording to the multitude of his loving
who have garnered it shall eat it, and kindnesses. 63:8 For he said, “Surely,
praise the LORD; and those who have they are my people, children who will
gathered it shall drink it in the courts not deal falsely:” so he was their
of my sanctuary.” Savior.
62:10
Go through, go through the gates! Pre- 63:9
In all their affliction he was afflicted, and
pare the way of the people! Cast the angel of his presence saved them:
up, cast up the highway! Gather out in his love and in his pity he redeemed
the stones! Lift up a banner for the them; and he bore them, and carried
peoples. 62:11 Behold, the LORD has them all the days of old. 63:10 But they
proclaimed to the end of the earth, rebelled, and grieved his holy Spirit:
“Say to the daughter of Zion, therefore he was turned to be their
‘Behold, your salvation comes. enemy, and he himself fought against
Behold, his reward is with him, them.
63:11
and his recompense before him.’” Then he remembered the days of old,
62:12
They shall call them The holy people, Moses and his people, saying, Where
The redeemed of the LORD: and you is he who brought them up out of the
shall be called Sought out, A city not sea with the shepherds of his flock?
Isaiah 63:12 388 Isaiah 65:7

where is he who put his holy Spirit have been in sin for a long time; and
in their midst? 63:12 who caused his shall we be saved? 64:6 For we have
glorious arm to go at the right hand of all become as one who is unclean, and
Moses? who divided the waters before all our righteousness is as a polluted
them, to make himself an everlasting garment: and we all fade as a leaf;
name? 63:13 who led them through the and our iniquities, like the wind, take
depths, as a horse in the wilderness, so us away. 64:7 There is none who calls
that they didn’t stumble? 63:14 As the on your name, who stirs up himself to
livestock that go down into the valley, take hold of you; for you have hidden
the Spirit of the LORD caused them to your face from us, and have consumed
rest; so you led your people, to make us by means of our iniquities.
yourself a glorious name. 64:8
But now, LORD, you are our Father; we are
63:15 the clay, and you our potter; and we all
Look down from heaven, and see from
the habitation of your holiness and are the work of your hand. 64:9 Don’t
of your glory: where are your zeal be furious, LORD, neither remember
and your mighty acts? the yearning iniquity forever: see, look, we beg you,
of your heart and your compassion we are all your people. 64:10 Your holy
63:16 cities are become a wilderness, Zion
is restrained toward me. For
you are our Father, though Abraham has become a wilderness, Jerusalem
doesn’t know us, and Israel does not a desolation. 64:11 Our holy and our
acknowledge us: you, LORD, are our beautiful house, where our fathers
Father; our Redeemer from everlasting praised you, is burned with fire; and
is your name. 63:17 O LORD, why do all our pleasant places are laid waste.
64:12
you make us to err from your ways, Will you refrain yourself for these
and harden our heart from your fear? things, LORD? Will you hold your
Return for your servants’ sake, the peace, and afflict us very severely?
tribes of your inheritance. 63:18 Your 65:1
“I am inquired of by those who didn’t ask;
holy people possessed it but a little I am found by those who didn’t seek
while: our adversaries have trodden me: I said, See me, see me, to a nation
down your sanctuary. 63:19 We have that was not called by my name. 65:2 I
become as they over whom you never have spread out my hands all the day
bear rule, as those who were not called to a rebellious people, who walk in a
by your name. way that is not good, after their own
64:1
Oh that you would tear the heavens, thoughts; 65:3 a people who provoke
that you would come down, that me to my face continually, sacrificing
the mountains might quake at your in gardens, and burning incense on
presence, 64:2 as when fire kindles the bricks; 65:4 who sit among the graves,
brushwood, and the fire causes the and lodge in the secret places; who eat
waters to boil; to make your name pig’s flesh, and broth of abominable
known to your adversaries, that the things is in their vessels; 65:5 who say,
nations may tremble at your presence! Stand by yourself, don’t come near to
64:3 me, for I am holier than you. These are
When you did awesome things
which we didn’t look for, you came a smoke in my nose, a fire that burns
down, the mountains quaked at your all the day.
presence. 64:4 For from of old men have 65:6
“Behold, it is written before me: I will not
not heard, nor perceived by the ear, keep silence, but will recompense, yes,
neither has the eye seen a God besides I will recompense into their bosom,
65:7
you, who works for him who waits for your own iniquities, and the iniqui-
him. 64:5 You meet him who rejoices ties of your fathers together,” says the
and works righteousness, those who LORD, “who have burned incense on
remember you in your ways. Behold, the mountains, and blasphemed me on
you were angry, and we sinned. We the hills; therefore will I first measure
Isaiah 65:8 389 Isaiah 66:4

their work into their bosom.” and there shall be heard in her no more
65:8 the voice of weeping and the voice of
Thus says the LORD,
“As the new wine is found in the cluster, crying.
65:20
and one says, ‘Don’t destroy it, for a “There shall be no more there an infant
blessing is in it:’ so will I do for my of days, nor an old man who has
servants’ sake, that I may not destroy not filled his days; for the child shall
them all. 65:9 I will bring forth a seed die one hundred years old, and the
out of Jacob, and out of Judah an sinner being one hundred years old
inheritor of my mountains; and my shall be accursed. 65:21 They shall build
chosen shall inherit it, and my servants houses, and inhabit them; and they
shall dwell there. 65:10 Sharon shall be shall plant vineyards, and eat their
a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor fruit. 65:22 They shall not build, and an-
a place for herds to lie down in, for my other inhabit; they shall not plant, and
people who have sought me. another eat: for as the days of a tree
65:11 shall be the days of my people, and
“But you who forsake the LORD, who
forget my holy mountain, who prepare my chosen shall long enjoy the work of
a table for Fortune, and who fill up their hands. 65:23 They shall not labor
mixed wine to Destiny; 65:12 I will in vain, nor bring forth for calamity;
destine you to the sword, and you for they are the seed of the blessed
shall all bow down to the slaughter; of the LORD, and their offspring with
because when I called, you didn’t an- them. 65:24 It shall happen that, before
swer; when I spoke, you didn’t listen; they call, I will answer; and while they
but you did that which was evil in my are yet speaking, I will hear. 65:25 The
eyes, and chose that in which I didn’t wolf and the lamb shall feed together,
delight.” and the lion shall eat straw like the ox;
65:13
Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, “Be- and dust shall be the serpent’s food.
hold, my servants shall eat, but you They shall not hurt nor destroy in all
shall be hungry; behold, my servants my holy mountain,” says the LORD.
66:1
shall drink, but you shall be thirsty; Thus says the LORD, “Heaven is my throne,
behold, my servants shall rejoice, but and the earth is my footstool: what
you shall be disappointed; 65:14 behold, kind of house will you build to me?
my servants shall sing for joy of heart, and what place shall be my rest?
66:2
but you shall cry for sorrow of heart, For all these things has my hand
and shall wail for anguish of spirit. made, and so all these things came to
65:15 be,” says the LORD:
You shall leave your name for a curse to
my chosen; and the Lord GOD will “but to this man will I look, even to him who is
kill you; and he will call his servants poor and of a contrite spirit, and who
by another name: 65:16 so that he who trembles at my word.
blesses himself in the earth shall bless 66:3
He who kills an ox is as he who kills a
himself in the God of truth; and he man; he who sacrifices a lamb, as he
who swears in the earth shall swear by who breaks a dog’s neck; he who offers
the God of truth; because the former an offering, as he who offers pig’s
troubles are forgotten, and because blood; he who burns frankincense, as
they are hidden from my eyes. he who blesses an idol. Yes, they have
65:17
“For, behold, I create new heavens and a chosen their own ways, and their soul
new earth; and the former things shall delights in their abominations: 66:4 I
not be remembered, nor come into also will choose their delusions, and
mind. 65:18 But be you glad and rejoice will bring their fears on them; because
forever in that which I create; for, when I called, no one answered; when
behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, I spoke, they didn’t listen; but they did
and her people a joy. 65:19 I will rejoice that which was evil in my eyes, and
in Jerusalem, and joy in my people; chose that in which I didn’t delight.”
Isaiah 66:5 390 Isaiah 66:24

66:5
Hear the word of the LORD, you who be many.
66:17
tremble at his word: “Your brothers “Those who sanctify themselves and
who hate you, who cast you out for my purify themselves to go to the gardens, behind
name’s sake, have said, one in the midst, eating pig’s flesh, and the
‘Let the LORD be glorified, that we may abomination, and the mouse, they shall come
see your joy;’ but it is those who to an end together,” says the LORD.
66:18
shall be disappointed. 66:6 A voice “For I know their works and their
of tumult from the city, a voice from thoughts: the time comes, that I will gather all
the temple, a voice of the LORD that nations and languages; and they shall come,
renders recompense to his enemies. and shall see my glory.
66:7 66:19
“Before she travailed, she brought forth; “I will set a sign among them, and I will
before her pain came, she delivered a send such as escape of them to the nations, to
son. Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw the bow, to
66:8
Who has heard such a thing? who has Tubal and Javan, to the islands afar off, who
seen such things? Shall a land be have not heard my fame, neither have seen my
born in one day? shall a nation be glory; and they shall declare my glory among
brought forth at once? for as soon the nations. 66:20 They shall bring all your
as Zion travailed, she brought forth brothers out of all the nations for an offering
her children. 66:9 Shall I bring to the to the LORD, on horses, and in chariots, and in
birth, and not cause to bring forth?” litters, and on mules, and on dromedaries, to
says the LORD: “shall I who cause to my holy mountain Jerusalem, says the LORD,
bring forth shut the womb?” says your as the children of Israel bring their offering in a
God. 66:10 “Rejoice with Jerusalem, and clean vessel into the house of the LORD. 66:21 Of
be glad for her, all you who love her: them also will I take for priests and for Levites,”
rejoice for joy with her, all you who says the LORD.
66:22
mourn over her; “For as the new heavens and the new
66:11
that you may nurse and be satisfied at earth, which I will make, shall remain before
the comforting breasts; that you may me,” says the LORD, “so your seed and your
drink deeply, and be delighted with name shall remain. 66:23 It shall happen, that
the abundance of her glory.” from one new moon to another, and from
66:12 one Sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to
For thus says the LORD, “Behold, I will
worship before me,” says the LORD. 66:24 “They
extend peace to her like a river, and the
shall go forth, and look on the dead bodies of
glory of the nations like an overflow-
the men who have transgressed against me: for
ing stream: and you will nurse. You
their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire
will be carried on her side, and will be
be quenched; and they will be loathsome to all
dandled on her knees.
66:13 mankind.”
As one whom his mother comforts, so
will I comfort you; and you will be
comforted in Jerusalem.”
66:14
You will see it, and your heart shall re-
joice, and your bones shall flourish
like the tender grass: and the hand of
the LORD shall be known toward his
servants; and he will have indignation
against his enemies. 66:15 For, behold,
the LORD will come with fire, and his
chariots shall be like the whirlwind;
to render his anger with fierceness,
and his rebuke with flames of fire.
66:16
For by fire will the LORD execute
judgment, and by his sword, on all
flesh; and the slain of the LORD shall
Jeremiah 1:1 391 Jeremiah 2:10

Jeremiah utter my judgments against them touching all


their wickedness, in that they have forsaken
1:1 me, and have burned incense to other gods, and
The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah,
of the priests who were in Anathoth in the worshiped the works of their own hands.
1:17
land of Benjamin: 1:2 to whom the word of the “You therefore put your belt on your
LORDa came in the days of Josiah the son of waist, arise, and speak to them all that I
Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year command you. Don’t be dismayed at them,
of his reign. 1:3 It came also in the days of lest I dismay you before them. 1:18 For, behold,
Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, to I have made you this day a fortified city, and
the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah, the an iron pillar, and bronze walls, against the
son of Josiah, king of Judah, to the carrying whole land, against the kings of Judah, against
away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month. its princes, against its priests, and against the
1:4
Now the word of the LORD came to me, people of the land. 1:19 They will fight against
saying, 1:5 “Before I formed you in the belly, I you; but they will not prevail against you; for I
knew you. Before you came forth out of the am with you,” says the LORD, “to deliver you.”
2:1
womb, I sanctified you. I have appointed you The word of the LORD came to me,
a prophet to the nations.” 1:6 Then I said, “Ah, saying, 2:2 “Go, and cry in the ears of Jerusalem,
Lordb the LORD! Behold, I don’t know how to saying, ‘Thus says the LORD, “I remember for
speak; for I am a child.” you the kindness of your youth, the love of
1:7
But the LORD said to me, “Don’t say, ‘I your weddings; how you went after me in
am a child;’ for to whoever I shall send you, the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.
2:3
you shall go, and whatever I shall command Israel was holiness to the LORD, the first
you, you shall speak. 1:8 Don’t be afraid because fruits of his increase. All who devour him shall
of them; for I am with you to deliver you,” be held guilty. Evil shall come on them,”’ says
says the LORD. 1:9 Then the LORD put forth the LORD.”
2:4
his hand, and touched my mouth; and the Hear the word of the LORD, O house of
LORD said to me, “Behold, I have put my Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel!
words in your mouth. 1:10 Behold, I have this 2:5
Thus says the LORD, “What unrighteous-
day set you over the nations and over the ness have your fathers found in me, that they
kingdoms, to pluck up and to break down and have gone far from me, and have walked after
to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to vanity, and are become vain? 2:6 Neither did
plant.” 1:11 Moreover the word of the LORD they say, ‘Where is the LORD who brought us
came to me, saying, “Jeremiah, what do you up out of the land of Egypt, who led us through
see?” the wilderness, through a land of deserts and
I said, “I see a branch of an almond tree.” of pits, through a land of drought and of the
1:12
Then the LORD said to me, “You have shadow of death, through a land that none
seen well; for I watch over my word to perform passed through, and where no man lived?’ 2:7 I
it.” brought you into a plentiful land, to eat its
1:13
The word of the LORD came to me the fruit and its goodness; but when you entered,
second time, saying, “What do you see?” you defiled my land, and made my heritage an
I said, “I see a boiling caldron; and it is abomination. 2:8 The priests didn’t say, ‘Where
tipping away from the north.” is the LORD?’ and those who handle the law
1:14
Then the LORD said to me, “Out of the didn’t know me. The rulers also transgressed
north evil will break out on all the inhabitants against me, and the prophets prophesied by
of the land. 1:15 For, behold, I will call all the Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.
2:9
families of the kingdoms of the north,” says the “Therefore I will yet contend with you,”
LORD; “and they shall come, and they shall says the LORD, “and I will contend with your
each set his throne at the entrance of the gates of children’s children. 2:10 For pass over to the
Jerusalem, and against all its walls all around, islands of Kittim, and see; and send to Kedar,
and against all the cities of Judah. 1:16 I will and consider diligently; and see if there has
a 1:2 “LORD” or “GOD” (all capital letters) indicate the 4-letter Holy Name of God
b 1:6 The word translated “Lord” (mixed case) is “Adonai.”
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been such a thing. 2:11 Has a nation changed its in vain. No, for I have loved strangers, and I
gods, which really are no gods? But my people will go after them.’ 2:26 As the thief is ashamed
have changed their glory for that which does when he is found, so is the house of Israel
not profit. ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and
2:12
“Be astonished, you heavens, at this, and their priests, and their prophets; 2:27 who tell
be horribly afraid. Be very desolate,” says wood, ‘You are my father;’ and a stone, ‘You
the LORD. 2:13 “For my people have committed have brought me out:’ for they have turned
two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of their back to me, and not their face; but in the
living waters, and cut them out cisterns, broken time of their trouble they will say, ‘Arise, and
cisterns, that can hold no water. 2:14 Is Israel a save us.’
2:28
servant? Is he a native-born slave? Why has “But where are your gods that you have
he become a prey? 2:15 The young lions have made for yourselves? Let them arise, if they
roared at him, and yelled. They have made his can save you in the time of your trouble: for
land waste. His cities are burned up, without according to the number of your cities are your
inhabitant. 2:16 The children also of Memphis gods, Judah.
2:29
and Tahpanhes have broken the crown of your “Why will you contend with me? You all
head. have transgressed against me,” says the LORD.
2:17 2:30
“Haven’t you procured this to yourself, “I have struck your children in vain.
in that you have forsaken the LORD your Godc , They received no correction. Your own sword
when he led you by the way? 2:18 Now what has devoured your prophets, like a destroying
have you to do in the way to Egypt, to drink lion. 2:31 Generation, consider the word of the
the waters of the Shihor? Or what have you to LORD. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? Or a
do in the way to Assyria, to drink the waters of land of thick darkness? Why do my people say,
the River? ‘We have broken loose. We will come to you no
2:19
“Your own wickedness shall correct you, more?’
2:32
and your backsliding shall reprove you. Know “Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a
therefore and see that it is an evil thing and a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten
bitter, that you have forsaken the LORD your me for days without number. 2:33 How well
God, and that my fear is not in you,” says you prepare your way to seek love! Therefore
the Lord, the LORD of Hosts. 2:20 “For of old you have taught even the wicked women your
time I have broken your yoke, and burst your ways. 2:34 Also the blood of the souls of the
bonds; and you said, ‘I will not serve;’ for on innocent poor is found in your skirts. You did
every high hill and under every green tree you not find them breaking in; but it is because of
bowed yourself, playing the prostitute. 2:21 Yet all these things.
2:35
I had planted you a noble vine, wholly a right “Yet you said, ‘I am innocent. Surely his
seed. How then have you turned into the anger has turned away from me.’
degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me? “Behold, I will judge you, because you say,
2:22
For though you wash yourself with lye, and ‘I have not sinned.’ 2:36 Why do you go about
use much soap, yet your iniquity is marked so much to change your way? You will be
before me,” says the Lord GOD. ashamed of Egypt also, as you were ashamed of
2:23
“How can you say, ‘I am not defiled. I Assyria. 2:37 From there also you shall go forth,
have not gone after the Baals’? See your way in with your hands on your head; for the LORD
the valley. Know what you have done. You are has rejected those in whom you trust, and you
a swift dromedary traversing her ways; 2:24 a shall not prosper with them.
3:1
wild donkey used to the wilderness, that snuffs “They say, ‘If a man puts away his wife,
up the wind in her desire. When she is in heat, and she goes from him, and become another
who can turn her away? All those who seek her man’s, will he return to her again?’ Wouldn’t
will not weary themselves. In her month, they that land be greatly polluted? But you have
will find her. played the prostitute with many lovers; yet
2:25
“Withhold your foot from being unshod, return again to me,” says the LORD.
3:2
and your throat from thirst. But you said, ‘It is “Lift up your eyes to the bare heights,
c 2:17 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “Elohim.”
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and see! Where have you not been lain with? come to pass, when you are multiplied and
You have sat for them by the ways, as an increased in the land, in those days,” says the
Arabian in the wilderness. You have polluted LORD, “they shall say no more, ‘The ark of the
the land with your prostitution and with your covenant of the LORD!’ neither shall it come to
wickedness. 3:3 Therefore the showers have mind; neither shall they remember it; neither
been withheld, and there has been no latter shall they miss it; neither shall it be made any
rain; yet you have a prostitute’s forehead, you more. 3:17 At that time they shall call Jerusalem
refused to be ashamed. 3:4 Will you not from ‘The throne of the LORD;’ and all the nations
this time cry to me, ‘My Father, you are the shall be gathered to it, to the name of the
guide of my youth?’ LORD, to Jerusalem. Neither shall they walk
3:5 any more after the stubbornness of their evil
“‘Will he retain his anger forever? Will he
keep it to the end?’ Behold, you have spoken heart. 3:18 In those days the house of Judah shall
and have done evil things, and have had your walk with the house of Israel, and they shall
way.” come together out of the land of the north to
3:6 the land that I gave for an inheritance to your
Moreover, the LORD said to me in the
fathers.
days of Josiah the king, “Have you seen that 3:19
which backsliding Israel has done? She has “But I said, ‘How I would put you
gone up on every high mountain and under among the children, and give you a pleasant
every green tree, and there has played the land, a goodly heritage of the armies of the
prostitute. 3:7 I said after she had done all nations!’ and I said, ‘You shall call me “My Fa-
these things, ‘She will return to me;’ but she ther,” and shall not turn away from following
didn’t return; and her treacherous sister Judah me.’
3:20
saw it. 3:8 I saw, when, for this very cause “Surely as a wife treacherously departs
that backsliding Israel had committed adultery, from her husband, so you have dealt treach-
I had put her away and given her a bill erously with me, house of Israel,” says the
of divorce, yet treacherous Judah, her sister, LORD. 3:21 A voice is heard on the bare heights,
didn’t fear; but she also went and played the the weeping and the petitions of the children
prostitute. 3:9 It happened through the lightness of Israel; because they have perverted their
of her prostitution, that the land was polluted, way, they have forgotten the LORD their God.
3:22
and she committed adultery with stones and Return, you backsliding children, I will heal
with stocks. 3:10 Yet for all this her treacherous your backsliding.
sister, Judah, has not returned to me with her “Behold, we have come to you; for you are
whole heart, but only in pretense,” says the the LORD our God. 3:23 Truly in vain is help
LORD. from the hills, the tumult on the mountains.
3:11 Truly the salvation of Israel is in the LORD our
The LORD said to me, “Backsliding Is-
rael has shown herself more righteous than God. 3:24 But the shameful thing has devoured
treacherous Judah. 3:12 Go, and proclaim these the labor of our fathers from our youth, their
words toward the north, and say, ‘Return, flocks and their herds, their sons and their
you backsliding Israel,’ says the LORD; ‘I will daughters. 3:25 Let us lie down in our shame,
not look in anger on you; for I am merci- and let our confusion cover us; for we have
ful,’ says the LORD. ‘I will not keep anger sinned against the LORD our God, we and our
forever. 3:13 Only acknowledge your iniquity, fathers, from our youth even to this day. We
that you have transgressed against the LORD have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our
your God, and have scattered your ways to God.”
4:1
the strangers under every green tree, and you “If you will return, Israel,” says the
have not obeyed my voice,’ says the LORD.” LORD, “if you will return to me, and if you will
3:14 put away your abominations out of my sight;
“Return, backsliding children,” says the
LORD; “for I am a husband to you. I will take then you shall not be removed; 4:2 and you shall
you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will swear, ‘As the LORD lives,’ in truth, in justice,
bring you to Zion. 3:15 I will give you shepherds and in righteousness. The nations shall bless
according to my heart, who shall feed you themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.”
with knowledge and understanding. 3:16 It shall 4:3
For thus says the LORD to the men
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of Judah and to Jerusalem, “Break up your doings have brought these things to you. This
fallow ground, and don’t sow among thorns. is your wickedness; for it is bitter, for it reaches
4:4
Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and to your heart.”
take away the foreskins of your heart, you 4:19
My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at
men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; my very heart; my heart is disquieted in me; I
lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn can’t hold my peace; because you have heard,
so that none can quench it, because of the O my soul, the sound of the shofare , the alarm
evil of your doings. 4:5 Declare in Judah, and of war. 4:20 Destruction on destruction is cried;
publish in Jerusalem; and say, ‘Blow the shofard for the whole land is laid waste: suddenly
in the land!’ Cry aloud and say, ‘Assemble are my tents destroyed, and my curtains in a
yourselves! Let us go into the fortified cities!’ moment. 4:21 How long shall I see the standard,
4:6
Set up a standard toward Zion. Flee for and hear the sound of the shofarf ?
safety! Don’t wait; for I will bring evil from the 4:22
“For my people are foolish, they don’t
north, and a great destruction.” know me. They are foolish children, and
4:7
A lion is gone up from his thicket, and they have no understanding. They are skillful
a destroyer of nations; he is on his way, he in doing evil, but to do good they have no
is gone forth from his place, to make your knowledge.” 4:23 I saw the earth, and, behold,
land desolate, that your cities be laid waste, it was waste and void; and the heavens, and
without inhabitant. 4:8 For this clothe yourself they had no light. 4:24 I saw the mountains, and
with sackcloth, lament and wail; for the fierce behold, they trembled, and all the hills moved
anger of the LORD hasn’t turned back from us. back and forth. 4:25 I saw, and behold, there was
4:9
“It shall happen at that day,” says the LORD, no man, and all the birds of the sky had fled.
“that the heart of the king shall perish, and the 4:26
I saw, and behold, the fruitful field was a
heart of the princes; and the priests shall be wilderness, and all its cities were broken down
astonished, and the prophets shall wonder.” at the presence of the LORD, before his fierce
4:10
Then I said, “Ah, Lord GOD! Surely anger. 4:27 For thus says the LORD, “The whole
you have greatly deceived this people and land shall be a desolation; yet will I not make
Jerusalem, saying, ‘You shall have peace;’ a full end. 4:28 For this the earth will mourn,
whereas the sword reaches to the heart.” and the heavens above be black; because I have
4:11 spoken it, I have purposed it, and I have not
At that time shall it be said to this people
and to Jerusalem, “A hot wind from the bare repented, neither will I turn back from it.”
4:29
heights in the wilderness toward the daughter Every city flees for the noise of the
of my people, not to winnow, nor to cleanse; horsemen and archers; they go into the thickets,
4:12
a full wind from these shall come for me. and climb up on the rocks: every city is for-
Now I will also utter judgments against them.” saken, and not a man dwells therein. 4:30 You,
4:13 when you are made desolate, what will you
Behold, he shall come up as clouds,
and his chariots shall be as the whirlwind: do? Though you clothe yourself with scarlet,
his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to though you deck you with ornaments of gold,
us! For we are ruined. 4:14 Jerusalem, wash though you enlarge your eyes with paint, in
your heart from wickedness, that you may be vain do you make yourself beautiful; your
saved. How long shall your evil thoughts lodge lovers despise you, they seek your life. 4:31 For
within you? 4:15 For a voice declares from Dan, I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail,
and publishes evil from the hills of Ephraim: the anguish as of her who brings forth her
4:16 first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion,
“Tell the nations; behold, publish against
Jerusalem, ‘Watchers come from a far country, who gasps for breath, who spreads her hands,
and raise their voice against the cities of Judah. saying, “Woe is me now! For my soul faints
4:17 before the murderers.”
As keepers of a field, they are against her all
5:1
around, because she has been rebellious against “Run back and forth through the streets of
me,’” says the LORD. 4:18 “Your way and your Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in
d 4:5 or, trumpet
e 4:19 or, trumpet
f 4:21 or, trumpet
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the broad places of it, if you can find a man, if they are all mighty men. 5:17 They shall eat up
there are any who does justly, who seeks truth; your harvest, and your bread, which your sons
and I will pardon her. 5:2 Though they say, ‘As and your daughters should eat. They shall eat
the LORD lives;’ surely they swear falsely.” up your flocks and your herds. They shall eat
5:3 up your vines and your fig trees. They shall
O LORD, don’t your eyes look on truth?
You have stricken them, but they were not beat down your fortified cities, in which you
grieved. You have consumed them, but they trust, with the sword.
5:18
have refused to receive correction. They have “But even in those days,” says the LORD,
made their faces harder than a rock. They have “I will not make a full end with you. 5:19 It will
refused to return. happen, when you say, ‘Why has the LORD our
5:4 God done all these things to us?’ Then you shall
Then I said, “Surely these are poor. They
are foolish; for they don’t know the way of the say to them, ‘Just like you have forsaken me,
LORD, nor the law of their God. 5:5 I will go to and served foreign gods in your land, so you
the great men, and will speak to them; for they shall serve strangers in a land that is not yours.’
5:20
know the way of the LORD, and the law of their “Declare this in the house of Jacob, and
God.” But these with one accord have broken publish it in Judah, saying, 5:21 ‘Hear now this,
the yoke, and burst the bonds. 5:6 Therefore a foolish people, and without understanding;
lion out of the forest shall kill them, a wolf of who have eyes, and don’t see; who have ears,
the evenings shall destroy them, a leopard shall and don’t hear: 5:22 Don’t you fear me?’ says
watch against their cities; everyone who goes the LORD ‘Won’t you tremble at my presence,
out there shall be torn in pieces; because their who have placed the sand for the bound of the
transgressions are many, and their backsliding sea, by a perpetual decree, that it can’t pass it?
is increased. and though its waves toss themselves, yet they
5:7 can’t prevail; though they roar, yet they can’t
“How can I pardon you? Your children
have forsaken me, and sworn by what are no pass over it.’
5:23
gods. When I had fed them to the full, they “But this people has a revolting and a
committed adultery, and assembled themselves rebellious heart; they have revolted and gone.
in troops at the prostitutes’ houses. 5:8 They 5:24
Neither do they say in their heart, ‘Let us
were as fed horses roaming at large: everyone now fear the LORD our God, who gives rain,
neighed after his neighbor’s wife. 5:9 Shouldn’t both the former and the latter, in its season;
I punish them for these things?” says the who preserves to us the appointed weeks of the
LORD; “and shouldn’t my soul be avenged on harvest.’
such a nation as this? 5:25
“Your iniquities have turned away these
5:10
“Go up on her walls, and destroy; but things, and your sins have withheld good from
don’t make a full end. Take away her branches; you. 5:26 For among my people are found
for they are not the LORD’s. 5:11 For the house wicked men. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait.
of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very They set a trap. They catch men. 5:27 As a cage
treacherously against me,” says the LORD. is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit.
5:12 Therefore they have become great, and grew
They have denied the LORD, and said,
“It is not he; neither shall evil come on us; rich. 5:28 They have grown fat. They shine; yes,
neither shall we see sword nor famine. 5:13 The they excell in deeds of wickedness. They don’t
prophets shall become wind, and the word is plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that
not in them. Thus shall it be done to them.” they may prosper; and they don’t judge the
5:14 right of the needy.
Therefore thus says the LORD, the God
5:29
of Hosts, “Because you speak this word, be- “Shall I not punish for these things?”
hold, I will make my words in your mouth fire, says the LORD. “Shall not my soul be avenged
and this people wood, and it shall devour them. on such a nation as this?
5:15 5:30
Behold, I will bring a nation on you from far, “An astonishing and horrible thing has
house of Israel,” says the LORD. “It is a mighty happened in the land. 5:31 The prophets proph-
nation. It is an ancient nation, a nation whose esy falsely, and the priests rule by their own
language you don’t know, neither understand authority; and my people love to have it so.
what they say. 5:16 Their quiver is an open tomb, What will you do in the end of it?
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6:1 6:14
“Flee for safety, you children of Benjamin, They have healed also the hurt of my people
out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the superficially,
shofarg in Tekoa, and raise up a signal on Beth saying, ‘Peace, peace!’ when there is no
Haccherem; for evil looks forth from the north, peace.
and a great destruction. 6:2 The comely and 6:15
Were they ashamed when they had commit-
delicate one, the daughter of Zion, will I cut ted abomination?
off. 6:3 Shepherds with their flocks shall come No, they were not at all ashamed, neither
to her; they shall pitch their tents against her all could they blush.
around; they shall feed everyone in his place.” Therefore they shall fall among those who fall;
6:4
“Prepare war against her; arise, and let at the time that I visit them, they shall be
us go up at noon. Woe to us! For the day cast down,” says the LORD.
declines, for the shadows of the evening are 6:16
Thus says the LORD, “Stand in the ways
stretched out. 6:5 Arise, and let us go up by and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the
night, and let us destroy her palaces.” 6:6 For good way?’ and walk in it, and you will find
the LORD of Hosts said, “Cut down trees, and rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not
cast up a mound against Jerusalem: this is walk in it.’ 6:17 I set watchmen over you, saying,
the city to be visited; she is wholly oppression ‘Listen to the sound of the shofarh !’ But they
in the midst of her. 6:7 As a well casts forth said, ‘We will not listen!’ 6:18 Therefore hear,
its waters, so she casts forth her wickedness: you nations, and know, congregation, what is
violence and destruction is heard in her; before among them. 6:19 Hear, earth! Behold, I will
me continually is sickness and wounds. 6:8 Be bring evil on this people, even the fruit of their
instructed, Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated thoughts, because they have not listened to my
from you; lest I make you a desolation, a land words; and as for my law, they have rejected
not inhabited.” it. 6:20 To what purpose comes there to me
6:9
Thus says the LORD of Hosts, “They shall frankincense from Sheba, and the sweet cane
thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel like a from a far country? your burnt offerings are not
vine. Turn again your hand as a grape gatherer acceptable, nor your sacrifices pleasing to me.”
6:21
into the baskets.” Therefore thus says the LORD, “Behold,
6:10 I will lay stumbling blocks before this people.
To whom shall I speak and testify, that
they may hear? Behold, their ear is uncircum- The fathers and the sons together shall stumble
cised, and they can’t listen. Behold, the word against them. The neighbor and his friend shall
of the LORD has become a reproach to them. perish.” 6:22 Thus says the LORD, “Behold, a
They have no delight in it. 6:11 Therefore I am people comes from the north country. A great
full of the wrath of the LORD. I am weary with nation shall be stirred up from the uttermost
holding in. parts of the earth. 6:23 They take hold of bow
“Pour it out on the children in the street, and spear. They are cruel, and have no mercy.
and on the assembly of young men to- Their voice roars like the sea, and they ride on
gether; horses, everyone set in array, as a man to the
battle, against you, daughter of Zion.”
for even the husband with the wife shall be 6:24
taken, We have heard its report; our hands
become feeble: anguish has taken hold of us,
the aged with him who is full of days.
6:12 and pains as of a woman in labor. 6:25 Don’t
Their houses shall be turned to others, go forth into the field, nor walk by the way;
their fields and their wives together; for the sword of the enemy and terror, are
for I will stretch out my hand on the inhabitants on every side. 6:26 Daughter of my people,
of the land, says the LORD.” clothe yourself with sackcloth, and wallow in
6:13
“For from their least even to their greatest, ashes! Mourn, as for an only son, most bitter
everyone is given to covetousness; lamentation; for the destroyer shall suddenly
and from the prophet even to the priest, come on us.
6:27
everyone deals falsely. “I have made you a tester of metals
g 6:1 or, trumpet
h 6:17 or, trumpet
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7:16
and a fortress among my people; that you Therefore don’t pray for this people, neither
may know and try their way. 6:28 They are lift up a cry nor prayer for them, neither make
all grievous rebels, going about with slanders; intercession to me; for I will not hear you.
7:17
they are brass and iron: they all of them deal Don’t you see what they do in the cities of
corruptly. 6:29 The bellows blow fiercely; the Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? 7:18 The
lead is consumed of the fire: in vain do they children gather wood, and the fathers kindle
go on refining; for the wicked are not plucked the fire, and the women knead the dough, to
away. 6:30 Men will call them rejected silver, make cakes to the queen of the sky, and to pour
because the LORD has rejected them.” out drink offerings to other gods, that they may
7:1
provoke me to anger. 7:19 Do they provoke me
The word that came to Jeremiah from the to anger? says the LORD. Don’t they provoke
LORD, saying, 7:2 “Stand in the gate of the themselves, to the confusion of their own faces?
LORD’s house, and proclaim there this word, 7:20
Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold,
and say, ‘Hear the word of the LORD, all you my anger and my wrath shall be poured out
of Judah, who enter in at these gates to worship on this place, on man, and on animal, and on
the LORD. 7:3 Thus says the LORD of Hosts, the trees of the field, and on the fruit of the
the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be
doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this quenched. 7:21 Thus says the LORD of Hosts,
place. 7:4 Don’t trust in lying words, saying, the God of Israel: Add your burnt offerings to
the LORD’s temple, the LORD’s temple, the your sacrifices, and eat meat. 7:22 For I didn’t
LORD’s temple, are these. 7:5 For if you thor- speak to your fathers, nor command them in
oughly amend your ways and your doings; if the day that I brought them out of the land of
you thoroughly execute justice between a man Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:
and his neighbor; 7:6 if you don’t oppress the 7:23
but this thing I commanded them, saying,
foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and Listen to my voice, and I will be your God, and
don’t shed innocent blood in this place, neither you shall be my people; and walk in all the way
walk after other gods to your own hurt: 7:7 then that I command you, that it may be well with
will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the you. 7:24 But they didn’t listen nor turn their
land that I gave to your fathers, from of old ear, but walked in their own counsels and in
even forevermore. 7:8 Behold, you trust in lying the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went
words, that can’t profit. 7:9 Will you steal, mur- backward, and not forward. 7:25 Since the day
der, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, that your fathers came forth out of the land of
and burn incense to Baal, and walk after other Egypt to this day, I have sent to you all my
gods that you have not known, 7:10 and come servants the prophets, daily rising up early and
and stand before me in this house, which is sending them: 7:26 yet they didn’t listen to me,
called by my name, and say, We are delivered; nor inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff:
that you may do all these abominations? 7:11 Is they did worse than their fathers. 7:27 You shall
this house, which is called by my name, become speak all these words to them; but they will
a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I, not listen to you: you shall also call to them;
even I, have seen it, says the LORD. 7:12 But go but they will not answer you. 7:28 You shall tell
now to my place which was in Shiloh, where them, This is the nation that has not listened to
I caused my name to dwell at the first, and the voice of the LORD their God, nor received
see what I did to it for the wickedness of my instruction: truth is perished, and is cut off
people Israel. 7:13 Now, because you have done from their mouth. 7:29 Cut off your hair, and
all these works, says the LORD, and I spoke throw it away, and take up a lamentation on
to you, rising up early and speaking, but you the bare heights; for the LORD has rejected and
didn’t hear; and I called you, but you didn’t forsaken the generation of his wrath. 7:30 For
answer: 7:14 therefore will I do to the house the children of Judah have done that which is
which is called by my name, in which you evil in my sight, says the LORD: they have set
trust, and to the place which I gave to you and their abominations in the house which is called
to your fathers, as I did to Shiloh. 7:15 I will by my name, to defile it. 7:31 They have built the
cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of
your brothers, even the whole seed of Ephraim.
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the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their of wisdom is in them? 8:10 Therefore will I
daughters in the fire; which I didn’t command, give their wives to others, and their fields to
nor did it come into my mind. 7:32 Therefore those who shall possess them: for everyone
behold, the days come, says the LORD, that from the least even to the greatest is given to
it shall no more be called Topheth, nor The covetousness; from the prophet even to the
valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of priest every one deals falsely. 8:11 They have
Slaughter: for they shall bury in Topheth, until healed the hurt of the daughter of my people
there is no place to bury. 7:33 The dead bodies slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is
of this people shall be food for the birds of the no peace. 8:12 Were they ashamed when they
sky, and for the animals of the earth; and none had committed abomination? nay, they were
shall frighten them away. 7:34 Then will I cause not at all ashamed, neither could they blush:
to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the therefore shall they fall among those who fall;
streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth and the in the time of their visitation they shall be
voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom cast down, says the LORD. 8:13 I will utterly
and the voice of the bride; for the land shall consume them, says the LORD: no grapes shall
become a waste. be on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the
8:1
leaf shall fade; and the things that I have given
At that time, says the LORD, they shall them shall pass away from them. 8:14 Why do
bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, we sit still? Assemble yourselves, and let us
and the bones of his princes, and the bones enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent
of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, there; for the LORD our God has put us to
and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, silence, and given us water of gall to drink,
out of their graves; 8:2 and they shall spread because we have sinned against the LORD.
them before the sun, and the moon, and all 8:15
We looked for peace, but no good came;
the army of the sky, which they have loved, and for a time of healing, and behold, dismay!
and which they have served, and after which 8:16
The snorting of his horses is heard from
they have walked, and which they have sought, Dan: at the sound of the neighing of his strong
and which they have worshiped: they shall not ones the whole land trembles; for they have
be gathered, nor be buried, they shall be for come, and have devoured the land and all that
dung on the surface of the earth. 8:3 Death shall is in it; the city and those who dwell therein.
be chosen rather than life by all the residue 8:17
For, behold, I will send serpents, adders,
that remain of this evil family, that remain in among you, which will not be charmed; and
all the places where I have driven them, says they shall bite you, says the LORD. 8:18 Oh that I
the LORD of Hosts. 8:4 Moreover you shall could comfort myself against sorrow! My heart
tell them, Thus says the LORD: Shall men fall, is faint within me. 8:19 Behold, the voice of the
and not rise up again? Shall one turn away, cry of the daughter of my people from a land
and not return? 8:5 Why then is this people of that is very far off: isn’t the LORD in Zion?
Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backslid- Isn’t her King in her? Why have they provoked
ing? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return. me to anger with their engraved images, and
8:6
I listened and heard, but they didn’t speak with foreign vanities? 8:20 The harvest is past,
aright: no man repents him of his wickedness, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.
saying, What have I done? everyone turns to 8:21
For the hurt of the daughter of my people
his course, as a horse that rushes headlong in am I hurt: I mourn; dismay has taken hold on
the battle. 8:7 Yes, the stork in the sky knows me. 8:22 Is there no balm in Gilead? is there no
her appointed times; and the turtledove and physician there? why then isn’t the health of
the swallow and the crane observe the time of the daughter of my people recovered?
their coming; but my people don’t know the
LORD’s law. 8:8 How do you say, We are wise, 9:1
Oh that my head were waters, and my
and the law of the LORD is with us? But, eyes a spring of tears, that I might weep day
behold, the false pen of the scribes has worked and night for the slain of the daughter of my
falsely. 8:9 The wise men are disappointed, they people! 9:2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a
are dismayed and taken: behold, they have lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might
rejected the word of the LORD; and what kind leave my people, and go from them! for they
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are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous skillful women, that they may come: 9:18 and let
men. 9:3 They bend their tongue, as their bow, them make haste, and take up a wailing for us,
for falsehood; and they are grown strong in that our eyes may run down with tears, and our
the land, but not for truth: for they proceed eyelids gush out with waters. 9:19 For a voice
from evil to evil, and they don’t know me, of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we
says the LORD. 9:4 Take heed everyone of his ruined! we are greatly confounded, because
neighbor, and don’t trust in any brother; for we have forsaken the land, because they have
every brother will utterly supplant, and every cast down our dwellings. 9:20 Yet hear the word
neighbor will go about with slanders. 9:5 They of the LORD, you women, and let your ear
will deceive everyone his neighbor, and will receive the word of his mouth; and teach your
not speak the truth: they have taught their daughters wailing, and everyone her neighbor
tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves to lamentation. 9:21 For death has come up into
commit iniquity. 9:6 Your habitation is in the our windows, it is entered into our palaces; to
midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to cut off the children from outside, and the young
know me, says the LORD. 9:7 Therefore thus men from the streets. 9:22 Speak, Thus says the
says the LORD of Hosts, Behold, I will melt LORD, The dead bodies of men shall fall as
them, and try them; for how should I deal with dung on the open field, and as the handful
the daughter of my people? 9:8 Their tongue is after the harvester; and none shall gather them.
9:23
a deadly arrow; it speaks deceit: one speaks Thus says the LORD, Don’t let the wise man
peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty
in his heart he lays wait for him. 9:9 Shall I not man glory in his might, don’t let the rich man
visit them for these things? says the LORD; glory in his riches; 9:24 but let him who glories
shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation glory in this, that he has understanding, and
as this? 9:10 For the mountains will I take up knows me, that I am the LORD who exercises
a weeping and wailing, and for the pastures loving kindness, justice, and righteousness, in
of the wilderness a lamentation, because they the earth: for in these things I delight, says
are burned up, so that none passes through; the LORD. 9:25 Behold, the days come, says the
neither can men hear the voice of the livestock; LORD, that I will punish all those who are
both the birds of the sky and the animals are circumcised in uncircumcision: 9:26 Egypt, and
fled, they are gone. 9:11 I will make Jerusalem Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon,
heaps, a dwelling place of jackals; and I will and Moab, and all that have the corners of their
make the cities of Judah a desolation, without hair cut off, who dwell in the wilderness; for
inhabitant. 9:12 Who is the wise man, that may all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the
understand this? Who is he to whom the mouth house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart.
of the LORD has spoken, that he may declare 10:1
it? Why is the land perished and burned up Hear the word which the LORD speaks
like a wilderness, so that none passes through? to you, house of Israel! 10:2 Thus says the
9:13
The LORD says, Because they have forsaken LORD, “Don’t learn the way of the nations,
my law which I set before them, and have and don’t be dismayed at the signs of the
not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein, sky; for the nations are dismayed at them.
10:3
9:14
but have walked after the stubbornness of For the customs of the peoples are vanity;
their own heart, and after the Baals, which their for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work
fathers taught them; 9:15 therefore thus says the of the hands of the workman with the axe.
10:4
LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will They deck it with silver and with gold; they
feed them, even this people, with wormwood, fasten it with nails and with hammers, that
and give them water of gall to drink. 9:16 I will it not move. 10:5 They are like a palm tree,
scatter them also among the nations, whom of turned work, and don’t speak: they must
neither they nor their fathers have known; and be carried, because they can’t go. Don’t be
I will send the sword after them, until I have afraid of them; for they can’t do evil, neither
consumed them. 9:17 Thus says the LORD of is it in them to do good.” 10:6 There is none
Hosts, Consider, and call for the mourning like you, LORD; you are great, and your name
women, that they may come; and send for the is great in might. 10:7 Who should not fear
you, King of the nations? For it appertains to
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you; because among all the wise men of the that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in
nations, and in all their royal estate, there is man who walks to direct his steps. 10:24 LORD,
none like you. 10:8 But they are together brutish correct me, but in measure: not in your anger,
and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but lest you bring me to nothing. 10:25 Pour out
a stock. 10:9 There is silver beaten into plates, your wrath on the nations that don’t know
which is brought from Tarshish, and gold from you, and on the families that don’t call on your
Uphaz, the work of the artificer and of the name: for they have devoured Jacob, yes, they
hands of the goldsmith; blue and purple for have devoured him and consumed him, and
their clothing; they are all the work of skillful have laid waste his habitation.
men. 10:10 But the LORD is the true God; he is 11:1
the living God, and an everlasting King: at his The word that came to Jeremiah from
wrath the earth trembles, and the nations are the LORD, saying, 11:2 Hear the words of this
not able to withstand his indignation. 10:11 You covenant, and speak to the men of Judah, and
shall say this to them: The gods that have to the inhabitants of Jerusalem; 11:3 and say to
not made the heavens and the earth, these them, Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel:
shall perish from the earth, and from under Cursed is the man who doesn’t hear the words
the heavens. 10:12 He has made the earth by of this covenant, 11:4 which I commanded your
his power, he has established the world by fathers in the day that I brought them forth out
his wisdom, and by his understanding has he of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace,
stretched out the heavens: 10:13 when he utters saying, Obey my voice, and do them, according
his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the to all which I command you: so you shall be
heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend my people, and I will be your God; 11:5 that I
from the ends of the earth; he makes lightnings may establish the oath which I swore to your
for the rain, and brings forth the wind out of his fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk
treasuries. 10:14 Every man has become brutish and honey, as at this day. Then answered I,
and without knowledge; every goldsmith is and said, Amen, LORD. 11:6 The LORD said to
disappointed by his engraved image; for his me, Proclaim all these words in the cities of
molten image is falsehood, and there is no Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying,
breath in them. 10:15 They are vanity, a work Hear the words of this covenant, and do them.
11:7
of delusion: in the time of their visitation they For I earnestly protested to your fathers
shall perish. 10:16 The portion of Jacob is not in the day that I brought them up out of the
like these; for he is the former of all things; land of Egypt, even to this day, rising early
and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance: the and protesting, saying, Obey my voice. 11:8 Yet
LORD of Hosts is his name. 10:17 Gather up they didn’t obey, nor turn their ear, but walked
your wares out of the land, you who live under everyone in the stubbornness of their evil heart:
siege. 10:18 For thus says the LORD, Behold, I therefore I brought on them all the words of
will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this this covenant, which I commanded them to
time, and will distress them, that they may feel do, but they didn’t do them. 11:9 The LORD
it. 10:19 Woe is me because of my hurt! my said to me, A conspiracy is found among the
wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of
my grief, and I must bear it. 10:20 My tent is Jerusalem. 11:10 They are turned back to the
destroyed, and all my cords are broken: my iniquities of their forefathers, who refused to
children are gone forth from me, and they are hear my words; and they are gone after other
no more: there is none to spread my tent any gods to serve them: the house of Israel and
more, and to set up my curtains. 10:21 For the the house of Judah have broken my covenant
shepherds are become brutish, and have not which I made with their fathers. 11:11 Therefore
inquired of the LORD: therefore they have not thus says the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil
prospered, and all their flocks are scattered. on them, which they shall not be able to escape;
10:22
The voice of news, behold, it comes, and and they shall cry to me, but I will not listen
a great commotion out of the north country, to them. 11:12 Then shall the cities of Judah
to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a and the inhabitants of Jerusalem go and cry to
dwelling place of jackals. 10:23 LORD, I know the gods to which they offer incense: but they
will not save them at all in the time of their
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trouble. 11:13 For according to the number of pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and
your cities are your gods, Judah; and according prepare them for the day of slaughter. 12:4 How
to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of
you set up altars to the shameful thing, even the whole country wither? for the wickedness
altars to burn incense to Baal. 11:14 Therefore of those who dwell therein, the animals are
don’t pray for this people, neither lift up cry consumed, and the birds; because they said, He
nor prayer for them; for I will not hear them shall not see our latter end. 12:5 If you have run
in the time that they cry to me because of their with the footmen, and they have wearied you,
trouble. 11:15 What has my beloved to do in then how can you contend with horses? and
my house, since she has worked lewdness with though in a land of peace you are secure, yet
many, and the holy flesh is passed from you? how will you do in the pride of the Jordan?
when you do evil, then you rejoice. 11:16 The 12:6
For even your brothers, and the house of
LORD called your name, A green olive tree, your father, even they have dealt treacherously
beautiful with goodly fruit: with the noise of with you; even they have cried aloud after
a great tumult he has kindled fire on it, and you: don’t believe them, though they speak
its branches are broken. 11:17 For the LORD of beautiful words to you. 12:7 I have forsaken my
Hosts, who planted you, has pronounced evil house, I have cast off my heritage; I have given
against you, because of the evil of the house of the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand
Israel and of the house of Judah, which they of her enemies. 12:8 My heritage has become
have worked for themselves in provoking me to me as a lion in the forest: she has uttered
to anger by offering incense to Baal. 11:18 The her voice against me; therefore I have hated
LORD gave me knowledge of it, and I knew her. 12:9 Is my heritage to me as a speckled
it: then you showed me their doings. 11:19 But bird of prey? are the birds of prey against
I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the her all around? Go, assemble all the animals
slaughter; and I didn’t know that they had of the field, bring them to devour. 12:10 Many
devised devices against me, saying, Let us shepherds have destroyed my vineyard, they
destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut have trodden my portion under foot, they have
him off from the land of the living, that his made my pleasant portion a desolate wilder-
name may be no more remembered. 11:20 But, ness. 12:11 They have made it a desolation; it
the LORD of Hosts, who judges righteously, mourns to me, being desolate; the whole land
who tests the heart and the mind, I shall see is made desolate, because no man lays it to
your vengeance on them; for to you have I heart. 12:12 Destroyers have come on all the
revealed my cause. 11:21 Therefore thus says the bare heights in the wilderness; for the sword
LORD concerning the men of Anathoth, who of the LORD devours from the one end of the
seek your life, saying, You shall not prophesy land even to the other end of the land: no flesh
in the name of the LORD, that you not die by has peace. 12:13 They have sown wheat, and
our hand; 11:22 therefore thus says the LORD of have reaped thorns; they have put themselves
Hosts, Behold, I will punish them: the young to pain, and profit nothing: and you shall be
men shall die by the sword; their sons and their ashamed of your fruits, because of the fierce
daughters shall die by famine; 11:23 and there anger of the LORD. 12:14 Thus says the LORD
shall be no remnant to them: for I will bring against all my evil neighbors, who touch the
evil on the men of Anathoth, even the year of inheritance which I have caused my people
their visitation. Israel to inherit: behold, I will pluck them
12:1
up from off their land, and will pluck up the
You are righteous, LORD, when I con- house of Judah from among them. 12:15 It shall
tend with you; yet I would reason the cause happen, after that I have plucked them up,
with you: why does the way of the wicked I will return and have compassion on them;
prosper? why are all they at ease who deal very and I will bring them again, every man to his
treacherously? 12:2 You have planted them, yes, heritage, and every man to his land. 12:16 It shall
they have taken root; they grow, yes, they bring happen, if they will diligently learn the ways of
forth fruit: you are near in their mouth, and my people, to swear by my name, As the LORD
far from their heart. 12:3 But you, LORD, know lives; even as they taught my people to swear
me; you see me, and try my heart toward you:
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by Baal; then shall they be built up in the midst darkness, and before your feet stumble on the
of my people. 12:17 But if they will not hear, then dark mountains, and, while you look for light,
will I pluck up that nation, plucking up and he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes
destroying it, says the LORD. it gross darkness. 13:17 But if you will not hear
13:1
it, my soul shall weep in secret for your pride;
Thus says the LORD to me, Go, and buy and my eye shall weep bitterly, and run down
yourself a linen belt, and put it on your waist, with tears, because the LORD’s flock is taken
and don’t put it in water. 13:2 So I bought a captive. 13:18 Say to the king and to the queen
belt according to the word of the LORD, and mother, Humble yourselves, sit down; for your
put it on my waist. 13:3 The word of the LORD headdresses have come down, even the crown
came to me the second time, saying, 13:4 Take of your glory. 13:19 The cities of the South are
the belt that you have bought, which is on shut up, and there is none to open them: Judah
your waist, and arise, go to the Euphrates, and is carried away captive, all of it; it is wholly
hide it there in a cleft of the rock. 13:5 So I carried away captive. 13:20 Lift up your eyes,
went, and hid it by the Euphrates, as the LORD and see those who come from the north: where
commanded me. 13:6 It happened after many is the flock that was given you, your beautiful
days, that the LORD said to me, Arise, go to the flock? 13:21 What will you say, when he shall
Euphrates, and take the belt from there, which set over you as head those whom you have
I commanded you to hide there. 13:7 Then I yourself taught to be friends to you? shall not
went to the Euphrates, and dug, and took the sorrows take hold of you, as of a woman in
belt from the place where I had hidden it; and travail? 13:22 If you say in your heart, Why are
behold, the belt was marred, it was profitable these things come on me? for the greatness
for nothing. 13:8 Then the word of the LORD of your iniquity are your skirts uncovered,
came to me, saying, 13:9 Thus says the LORD, and your heels suffer violence. 13:23 Can the
In this way I will mar the pride of Judah, and Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his
the great pride of Jerusalem. 13:10 This evil spots? then may you also do good, who are
people, who refuse to hear my words, who accustomed to do evil. 13:24 Therefore will I
walk in the stubbornness of their heart, and scatter them, as the stubble that passes away,
are gone after other gods to serve them, and to by the wind of the wilderness. 13:25 This is
worship them, shall even be as this belt, which your lot, the portion measured to you from me,
is profitable for nothing. 13:11 For as the belt says the LORD; because you have forgotten me,
clings to the waist of a man, so have I caused and trusted in falsehood. 13:26 Therefore will
to cling to me the whole house of Israel and I also uncover your skirts on your face, and
the whole house of Judah, says the LORD; that your shame shall appear. 13:27 I have seen your
they may be to me for a people, and for a abominations, even your adulteries, and your
name, and for a praise, and for a glory: but neighing, the lewdness of your prostitution, on
they would not hear. 13:12 Therefore you shall the hills in the field. Woe to you, Jerusalem!
speak to them this word: Thus says the LORD, You will not be made clean; how long shall it
the God of Israel, Every bottle shall be filled yet be?
with wine: and they shall tell you, Do we
14:1
not certainly know that every bottle shall be The word of the LORD that came to
filled with wine? 13:13 Then you shall tell them, Jeremiah concerning the drought. 14:2 Judah
Thus says the LORD, Behold, I will fill all the mourns, and its gates languish, they sit in black
inhabitants of this land, even the kings who on the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone
sit on David’s throne, and the priests, and the up. 14:3 Their nobles send their little ones to
prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the waters: they come to the cisterns, and find
with drunkenness. 13:14 I will dash them one no water; they return with their vessels empty;
against another, even the fathers and the sons they are disappointed and confounded, and
together, says the LORD: I will not pity, nor cover their heads. 14:4 Because of the ground
spare, nor have compassion, that I should not which is cracked, because no rain has been
destroy them. 13:15 Hear, and give ear; don’t in the land, the plowmen are disappointed,
be proud; for the LORD has spoken. 13:16 Give they cover their heads. 14:5 Yes, the hind also
glory to the LORD your God, before he causes in the field calves, and forsakes her young,
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because there is no grass. 14:6 The wild donkeys and the priest go about in the land, and have
stand on the bare heights, they pant for air no knowledge. 14:19 Have you utterly rejected
like jackals; their eyes fail, because there is Judah? has your soul loathed Zion? why have
no herbage. 14:7 Though our iniquities testify you struck us, and there is no healing for us?
against us, work for your name’s sake, LORD; We looked for peace, but no good came; and for
for our backslidings are many; we have sinned a time of healing, and behold, dismay! 14:20 We
against you. 14:8 You hope of Israel, its Savior in acknowledge, LORD, our wickedness, and the
the time of trouble, why should you be as a for- iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned
eigner in the land, and as a wayfaring man who against you. 14:21 Do not abhor us, for your
turns aside to stay for a night? 14:9 Why should name’s sake; do not disgrace the throne of your
you be like a scared man, as a mighty man who glory: remember, don’t break your covenant
can’t save? Yet you, LORD, are in the midst of with us. 14:22 Are there any among the vanities
us, and we are called by your name; don’t leave of the nations that can cause rain? or can the
us. 14:10 Thus says the LORD to this people, sky give showers? Aren’t you he, the LORD
Even so have they loved to wander; they have our God? therefore we will wait for you; for
not refrained their feet: therefore the LORD you have made all these things.
does not accept them; now he will remember 15:1
their iniquity, and visit their sins. 14:11 The Then the LORD said to me, Though
LORD said to me, Don’t pray for this people for Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my
their good. 14:12 When they fast, I will not hear mind would not be toward this people: cast
their cry; and when they offer burnt offering them out of my sight, and let them go forth.
15:2
and meal offering, I will not accept them; but It shall happen, when they tell you, Where
I will consume them by the sword, and by shall we go forth? Then you shall tell them,
the famine, and by the pestilence. 14:13 Then I Thus says the LORD: Such as are for death,
said, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, the prophets tell to death; and such as are for the sword, to
them, You shall not see the sword, neither shall the sword; and such as are for the famine, to
you have famine; but I will give you assured the famine; and such as are for captivity, to
peace in this place. 14:14 Then the LORD said captivity. 15:3 I will appoint over them four
to me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name; kinds, says the LORD: the sword to kill, and the
I didn’t send them, neither have I commanded dogs to tear, and the birds of the sky, and the
them, neither spoke I to them: they prophesy to animals of the earth, to devour and to destroy.
15:4
you a lying vision, and divination, and a thing I will cause them to be tossed back and forth
of nothing, and the deceit of their own heart. among all the kingdoms of the earth, because of
14:15
Therefore thus says the LORD concerning Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah,
the prophets who prophesy in my name, and for that which he did in Jerusalem. 15:5 For
I didn’t send them, yet they say, Sword and who will have pity on you, Jerusalem? or
famine shall not be in this land: By sword who will bemoan you? or who will turn aside
and famine shall those prophets be consumed. to ask of your welfare? 15:6 You have rejected
14:16
The people to whom they prophesy shall me, says the LORD, you have gone backward:
be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because therefore have I stretched out my hand against
of the famine and the sword; and they shall you, and destroyed you; I am weary with
have none to bury them—them, their wives, repenting. 15:7 I have winnowed them with a
nor their sons, nor their daughters: for I will fan in the gates of the land; I have bereaved
pour their wickedness on them. 14:17 You shall them of children, I have destroyed my people;
say this word to them, Let my eyes run down they didn’t return from their ways. 15:8 Their
with tears night and day, and let them not widows are increased to me above the sand
cease; for the virgin daughter of my people of the seas; I have brought on them against
is broken with a great breach, with a very the mother of the young men a destroyer at
grievous wound. 14:18 If I go forth into the noonday: I have caused anguish and terrors to
field, then, behold, the slain with the sword! fall on her suddenly. 15:9 She who has borne
and if I enter into the city, then, behold, those seven languishes; she has given up the spirit;
who are sick with famine! for both the prophet her sun is gone down while it was yet day; she
has been disappointed and confounded: and
Jeremiah 15:10 404 Jeremiah 16:16

their residue will I deliver to the sword before lamented, neither shall they be buried; they
their enemies, says the LORD. 15:10 Woe is me, shall be as dung on the surface of the ground;
my mother, that you have borne me a man of and they shall be consumed by the sword, and
strife and a man of contention to the whole by famine; and their dead bodies shall be food
earth! I have not lent, neither have men lent to for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of
me; yet everyone of them curses me. 15:11 The the earth. 16:5 For thus says the LORD, Don’t
LORD said, Most certainly I will strengthen enter into the house of mourning, neither go
you for good; most certainly I will cause the to lament, neither bemoan them; for I have
enemy to make supplication to you in the time taken away my peace from this people, says
of evil and in the time of affliction. 15:12 Can the LORD, even loving kindness and tender
one break iron, even iron from the north, and mercies. 16:6 Both great and small shall die
brass? 15:13 Your substance and your treasures in this land; they shall not be buried, neither
will I give for a spoil without price, and that shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves,
for all your sins, even in all your borders. 15:14 I nor make themselves bald for them; 16:7 neither
will make them to pass with your enemies into shall men break bread for them in mourning,
a land which you don’t know; for a fire is to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men
kindled in my anger, which shall burn on you. give them the cup of consolation to drink for
15:15
LORD, you know; remember me, and visit their father or for their mother. 16:8 You shall
me, and avenge me of my persecutors; don’t not go into the house of feasting to sit with
take me away in your longsuffering: know them, to eat and to drink. 16:9 For thus says the
that for your sake I have suffered reproach. LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will
15:16
Your words were found, and I ate them; cause to cease out of this place, before your eyes
and your words were to me a joy and the and in your days, the voice of mirth and the
rejoicing of my heart: for I am called by your voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom
name, the LORD, God of Hosts. 15:17 I didn’t sit and the voice of the bride. 16:10 It shall happen,
in the assembly of those who make merry, nor when you shall show this people all these
rejoiced; I sat alone because of your hand; for words, and they shall tell you, Why has the
you have filled me with indignation. 15:18 Why LORD pronounced all this great evil against
is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, us? or what is our iniquity? or what is our
which refuses to be healed? Will you indeed sin that we have committed against the LORD
be to me as a deceitful brook, as waters that our God? 16:11 Then you shall tell them, Because
fail? 15:19 Therefore thus says the LORD, If you your fathers have forsaken me, says the LORD,
return, then will I bring you again, that you and have walked after other gods, and have
may stand before me; and if you take forth served them, and have worshiped them, and
the precious from the vile, you shall be as my have forsaken me, and have not kept my law;
16:12
mouth: they shall return to you, but you shall and you have done evil more than your
not return to them. 15:20 I will make you to this fathers; for, behold, you walk every one after
people a fortified bronze wall; and they shall the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that you
fight against you, but they shall not prevail don’t listen to me: 16:13 therefore will I cast you
against you; for I am with you to save you forth out of this land into the land that you have
and to deliver you, says the LORD. 15:21 I will not known, neither you nor your fathers; and
deliver you out of the hand of the wicked, and there you shall serve other gods day and night;
I will redeem you out of the hand of the terrible. for I will show you no favor. 16:14 Therefore
16:1
behold, the days come, says the LORD, that
The word of the LORD came also to me, it shall no more be said, As the LORD lives,
saying, 16:2 You shall not take a wife, neither who brought up the children of Israel out of
shall you have sons or daughters, in this place. the land of Egypt; 16:15 but, As the LORD lives,
16:3
For thus says the LORD concerning the sons who brought up the children of Israel from the
and concerning the daughters who are born land of the north, and from all the countries
in this place, and concerning their mothers where he had driven them. I will bring them
who bore them, and concerning their fathers again into their land that I gave to their fathers.
who became their father in this land: 16:4 They 16:16
Behold, I will send for many fishermen,
shall die grievous deaths: they shall not be
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says the LORD, and they shall fish them up; search the mind, I try the heart, even to give
and afterward I will send for many hunters, every man according to his ways, according to
and they shall hunt them from every mountain, the fruit of his doings. 17:11 As the partridge
and from every hill, and out of the clefts of that sits on eggs which she has not laid, so is he
the rocks. 16:17 For my eyes are on all their who gets riches, and not by right; in the midst
ways; they are not hidden from my face, nei- of his days they shall leave him, and at his
ther is their iniquity concealed from my eyes. end he shall be a fool. 17:12 A glorious throne,
16:18
First I will recompense their iniquity and set on high from the beginning, is the place of
their sin double, because they have polluted our sanctuary. 17:13 LORD, the hope of Israel,
my land with the carcasses of their detestable all who forsake you shall be disappointed.
things, and have filled my inheritance with Those who depart from me shall be written
their abominations. 16:19 LORD, my strength, in the earth, because they have forsaken the
and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day LORD, the spring of living waters. 17:14 Heal
of affliction, to you shall the nations come from me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me,
the ends of the earth, and shall say, Our fathers and I shall be saved: for you are my praise.
17:15
have inherited nothing but lies, vanity and Behold, they tell me, Where is the word of
things in which there is no profit. 16:20 Shall a the LORD? let it come now. 17:16 As for me, I
man make to himself gods, which yet are no have not hurried from being a shepherd after
gods? 16:21 Therefore behold, I will cause them you; neither have I desired the woeful day;
to know, this once will I cause them to know you know: that which came out of my lips
my hand and my might; and they shall know was before your face. 17:17 Don’t be a terror
that my name is the LORD. to me: you are my refuge in the day of evil.
17:18
17:1
Let them be disappointed who persecute
The sin of Judah is written with a pen me, but let not me be disappointed; let them be
of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it dismayed, but don’t let me be dismayed; bring
is engraved on the tablet of their heart, and on on them the day of evil, and destroy them with
the horns of your altars; 17:2 while their children double destruction. 17:19 Thus said the LORD to
remember their altars and their Asherim by the me: Go, and stand in the gate of the children of
green trees on the high hills. 17:3 My mountain the people, through which the kings of Judah
in the field, I will give your substance and all come in, and by which they go out, and in all
your treasures for a spoil, and your high places, the gates of Jerusalem; 17:20 and tell them, Hear
because of sin, throughout all your borders. the word of the LORD, you kings of Judah, and
17:4
You, even of yourself, shall discontinue all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
from your heritage that I gave you; and I that enter in by these gates: 17:21 Thus says the
will cause you to serve your enemies in the LORD, Take heed to yourselves, and bear no
land which you don’t know: for you have burden on the Sabbath day, nor bring it in by
kindled a fire in my anger which shall burn the gates of Jerusalem; 17:22 neither carry forth
forever. 17:5 Thus says the LORD: Cursed is the a burden out of your houses on the Sabbath
man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his day holy, neither do any work: but make the
arm, and whose heart departs from the LORD. Sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers.
17:6
For he shall be like the heath in the desert, 17:23
But they didn’t listen, neither turn their ear,
and shall not see when good comes, but shall but made their neck stiff, that they might not
inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, hear, and might not receive instruction. 17:24 It
a salt land and not inhabited. 17:7 Blessed is shall happen, if you diligently listen to me,
the man who trusts in the LORD, and whose says the LORD, to bring in no burden through
trust the LORD is. 17:8 For he shall be as a the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, but
tree planted by the waters, who spreads out to make the Sabbath day holy, to do no work
its roots by the river, and shall not fear when therein; 17:25 then shall there enter in by the
heat comes, but its leaf shall be green; and shall gates of this city kings and princes sitting on
not be careful in the year of drought, neither the throne of David, riding in chariots and
shall cease from yielding fruit. 17:9 The heart is on horses, they, and their princes, the men
deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem;
corrupt: who can know it? 17:10 I, the LORD,
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and this city shall remain forever. 17:26 They waters that flow down from afar be dried up?
18:15
shall come from the cities of Judah, and from For my people have forgotten me, they
the places around Jerusalem, and from the have burned incense to false gods; and they
land of Benjamin, and from the lowland, and have been made to stumble in their ways, in the
from the hill country, and from the South, ancient paths, to walk in byways, in a way not
bringing burnt offerings, and sacrifices, and built up; 18:16 to make their land an astonish-
meal offerings, and frankincense, and bringing ment, and a perpetual hissing; everyone who
sacrifices of thanksgiving, to the house of the passes thereby shall be astonished, and shake
LORD. 17:27 But if you will not listen to me to his head. 18:17 I will scatter them as with an
make the Sabbath day holy, and not to bear a east wind before the enemy; I will show them
burden and enter in at the gates of Jerusalem the back, and not the face, in the day of their
on the Sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire calamity. 18:18 Then they said, Come, and let
in its gates, and it shall devour the palaces of us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law
Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched. shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel
18:1
from the wise, nor the word from the prophet.
The word which came to Jeremiah from Come, and let us strike him with the tongue,
the LORD, saying, 18:2 Arise, and go down to and let us not give heed to any of his words.
the potter’s house, and there I will cause you 18:19
Give heed to me, LORD, and listen to the
to hear my words. 18:3 Then I went down to voice of those who contend with me. 18:20 Shall
the potter’s house, and behold, he was making evil be recompensed for good? for they have
a work on the wheels. 18:4 When the vessel dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood
that he made of the clay was marred in the before you to speak good for them, to turn
hand of the potter, he made it again another away your wrath from them. 18:21 Therefore
vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make deliver up their children to the famine, and give
it. 18:5 Then the word of the LORD came to them over to the power of the sword; and let
me, saying, 18:6 House of Israel, can’t I do with their wives become childless, and widows; and
you as this potter? says the LORD. Behold, as let their men be slain of death, and their young
the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my men struck of the sword in battle. 18:22 Let
hand, house of Israel. 18:7 At what instant I shall a cry be heard from their houses, when you
speak concerning a nation, and concerning a shall bring a troop suddenly on them; for they
kingdom, to pluck up and to break down and to have dug a pit to take me, and hid snares for
destroy it; 18:8 if that nation, concerning which I my feet. 18:23 Yet, LORD, you know all their
have spoken, turn from their evil, I will repent counsel against me to kill me; don’t forgive
of the evil that I thought to do to them. 18:9 At their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from
what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, your sight; but let them be overthrown before
and concerning a kingdom, to build and to you; deal you with them in the time of your
plant it; 18:10 if they do that which is evil in anger.
my sight, that they not obey my voice, then
19:1
I will repent of the good, with which I said I Thus said the LORD, Go, and buy a
would benefit them. 18:11 Now therefore, speak potter’s earthen bottle, and take some of the
to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants elders of the people, and of the elders of the
of Jerusalem, saying, Thus says the LORD: priests; 19:2 and go forth to the valley of the
Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the
device against you: return you now everyone gate Harsith, and proclaim there the words that
from his evil way, and amend your ways and I shall tell you; 19:3 and say, Hear the word
your doings. 18:12 But they say, It is in vain; for of the LORD, kings of Judah, and inhabitants
we will walk after our own devices, and we of Jerusalem: thus says the LORD of Hosts,
will do everyone after the stubbornness of his the God of Israel, Behold, I will bring evil
evil heart. 18:13 Therefore thus says the LORD: on this place, which whoever hears, his ears
Ask now among the nations, who has heard shall tingle. 19:4 Because they have forsaken
such things; the virgin of Israel has done a very me, and have estranged this place, and have
horrible thing. 18:14 Shall the snow of Lebanon burned incense in it to other gods, that they
fail from the rock of the field? Shall the cold didn’t know, they and their fathers and the
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kings of Judah; and have filled this place with the upper gate of Benjamin, which was in the
the blood of innocents, 19:5 and have built the house of the LORD. 20:3 It happened on the next
high places of Baal, to burn their sons in the day, that Pashhur brought forth Jeremiah out
fire for burnt offerings to Baal; which I didn’t of the stocks. Then Jeremiah said to him, the
command, nor spoke it, neither came it into LORD has not called your name Pashhur, but
my mind: 19:6 therefore, behold, the days come, Magormissabib. 20:4 For thus says the LORD,
says the LORD, that this place shall no more Behold, I will make you a terror to yourself,
be called Topheth, nor The valley of the son of and to all your friends; and they shall fall by
Hinnom, but The valley of Slaughter. 19:7 I will the sword of their enemies, and your eyes shall
make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem see it; and I will give all Judah into the hand of
in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them
the sword before their enemies, and by the captive to Babylon, and shall kill them with
hand of those who seek their life: and their the sword. 20:5 Moreover I will give all the
dead bodies will I give to be food for the birds riches of this city, and all its gains, and all the
of the sky, and for the animals of the earth. precious things of it, yes, all the treasures of the
19:8
I will make this city an astonishment, and a kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their
hissing; everyone who passes thereby shall be enemies; and they shall make them a prey, and
astonished and hiss because of all its plagues. take them, and carry them to Babylon. 20:6 You,
19:9
I will cause them to eat the flesh of their Pashhur, and all who dwell in your house
sons and the flesh of their daughters; and they shall go into captivity; and you shall come to
shall eat everyone the flesh of his friend, in Babylon, and there you shall die, and there you
the siege and in the distress, with which their shall be buried, you, and all your friends, to
enemies, and those who seek their life, shall whom you have prophesied falsely. 20:7 LORD,
distress them. 19:10 Then you shall break the you have persuaded me, and I was persuaded;
bottle in the sight of the men who go with you are stronger than I, and have prevailed: I
you, 19:11 and shall tell them, Thus says the am become a laughing-stock all the day, every
LORD of Hosts: Even so will I break this people one mocks me. 20:8 For as often as I speak, I cry
and this city, as one breaks a potter’s vessel, out; I cry, Violence and destruction! because
that can’t be made whole again; and they shall the word of the LORD is made a reproach to
bury in Topheth, until there is no place to bury. me, and a derision, all the day. 20:9 If I say,
19:12
Thus will I do to this place, says the LORD, I will not make mention of him, nor speak
and to its inhabitants, even making this city any more in his name, then there is in my
as Topheth: 19:13 and the houses of Jerusalem, heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my
and the houses of the kings of Judah, which bones, and I am weary with forbearing, and
are defiled, shall be as the place of Topheth, I can’t. 20:10 For I have heard the defaming of
even all the houses on whose roofs they have many, terror on every side. Denounce, and we
burned incense to all the army of the sky, and will denounce him, say all my familiar friends,
have poured out drink offerings to other gods. those who watch for my fall; perhaps he will
19:14
Then came Jeremiah from Topheth, where be persuaded, and we shall prevail against
the LORD had sent him to prophesy; and he him, and we shall take our revenge on him.
20:11
stood in the court of the LORD’s house, and But the LORD is with me as an awesome
said to all the people: 19:15 Thus says the LORD mighty one: therefore my persecutors shall
of Hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will bring stumble, and they shall not prevail; they shall
on this city and on all its towns all the evil that I be utterly disappointed, because they have not
have pronounced against it; because they have dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonor
made their neck stiff, that they may not hear my which shall never be forgotten. 20:12 But, the
words. LORD of Hosts, who tests the righteous, who
20:1
sees the heart and the mind, let me see your
Now Pashhur, the son of Immer the vengeance on them; for to you have I revealed
priest, who was chief officer in the house of my cause. 20:13 Sing to the LORD, praise the
the LORD, heard Jeremiah prophesying these LORD; for he has delivered the soul of the
things. 20:2 Then Pashhur struck Jeremiah the needy from the hand of evildoers. 20:14 Cursed
prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in
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is the day in which I was born: don’t let the and not for good, says the LORD: it shall be
day in which my mother bore me be blessed. given into the hand of the king of Babylon,
20:15
Cursed is the man who brought news to and he shall burn it with fire. 21:11 Touching
my father, saying, A boy is born to you; making the house of the king of Judah, hear the word
him very glad. 20:16 Let that man be as the cities of the LORD: 21:12 House of David, thus says
which the LORD overthrew, and didn’t repent: the LORD, Execute justice in the morning, and
and let him hear a cry in the morning, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of
shouting at noontime; 20:17 because he didn’t the oppressor, lest my wrath go forth like fire,
kill me from the womb; and so my mother and burn so that none can quench it, because
would have been my grave, and her womb of the evil of your doings. 21:13 Behold, I am
always great. 20:18 Why came I forth out of the against you, O inhabitant of the valley, and
womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days of the rock of the plain, says the LORD; you
should be consumed with shame? that say, Who shall come down against us? or
21:1
who shall enter into our habitations? 21:14 I
The word which came to Jeremiah from will punish you according to the fruit of your
the LORD, when king Zedekiah sent to him doings, says the LORD; and I will kindle a
Pashhur the son of Malchijah, and Zepha- fire in her forest, and it shall devour all that is
niah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, saying, around her.
21:2
Please inquire of the LORD for us; for
22:1
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon makes war Thus said the LORD: Go down to the
against us: perhaps the LORD will deal with house of the king of Judah, and speak there this
us according to all his wondrous works, that word, 22:2 Say, Hear the word of the LORD, king
he may go up from us. 21:3 Then Jeremiah said of Judah, who sits on the throne of David, you,
to them, You shall tell Zedekiah: 21:4 Thus says and your servants, and your people who enter
the LORD, the God of Israel, Behold, I will in by these gates. 22:3 Thus says the LORD:
turn back the weapons of war that are in your Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver
hands, with which you fight against the king of him who is robbed out of the hand of the
Babylon, and against the Kasdim who besiege oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence,
you, without the walls; and I will gather them to the foreigner, the fatherless, nor the widow;
into the midst of this city. 21:5 I myself will neither shed innocent blood in this place.
22:4
fight against you with an outstretched hand For if you do this thing indeed, then shall
and with a strong arm, even in anger, and there enter in by the gates of this house kings
in wrath, and in great indignation. 21:6 I will sitting on the throne of David, riding in chariots
strike the inhabitants of this city, both man and and on horses, he, and his servants, and his
animal: they shall die of a great pestilence. people. 22:5 But if you will not hear these words,
21:7
Afterward, says the LORD, I will deliver I swear by myself, says the LORD, that this
Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and house shall become a desolation. 22:6 For thus
the people, even such as are left in this city says the LORD concerning the house of the
from the pestilence, from the sword, and from king of Judah: You are Gilead to me, the head
the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar of Lebanon. Yet surely I will make you a
king of Babylon, and into the hand of their wilderness, cities which are not inhabited. 22:7 I
enemies, and into the hand of those who seek will prepare destroyers against you, everyone
their life: and he shall strike them with the edge with his weapons; and they shall cut down
of the sword; he shall not spare them, neither your choice cedars, and cast them into the
have pity, nor have mercy. 21:8 To this people fire. 22:8 Many nations shall pass by this city,
you shall say, Thus says the LORD: Behold, I and they shall say every man to his neighbor,
set before you the way of life and the way of Why has the LORD done thus to this great
death. 21:9 He who remains in this city shall city? 22:9 Then they shall answer, Because they
die by the sword, and by the famine, and by forsook the covenant of the LORD their God,
the pestilence; but he who goes out, and passes and worshiped other gods, and served them.
22:10
over to the Kasdim who besiege you, he shall Don’t weep for the dead, neither bemoan
live, and his life shall be to him for a prey. him; but weep bitterly for him who goes away;
21:10
For I have set my face on this city for evil, for he shall return no more, nor see his native
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country. 22:11 For thus says the LORD touching country, where you were not born; and there
Shallum the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who you will die. 22:27 But to the land whereunto
reigned instead of Josiah his father, and who their soul longs to return, there shall they not
went forth out of this place: He shall not return return. 22:28 Is this man Coniah a despised
there any more. 22:12 But in the place where they broken vessel? is he a vessel in which none
have led him captive, there shall he die, and he delights? why are they cast out, he and his
shall see this land no more. 22:13 Woe to him seed, and are cast into the land which they
who builds his house by unrighteousness, and don’t know? 22:29 O earth, earth, earth, hear the
his rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor’s word of the LORD. 22:30 Thus says the LORD,
service without wages, and doesn’t give him Write you this man childless, a man who shall
his hire; 22:14 who says, I will build me a wide not prosper in his days; for no more shall a
house and spacious rooms, and cuts him out man of his seed prosper, sitting on the throne
windows; and it is ceiling with cedar, and of David, and ruling in Judah.
painted with vermilion. 22:15 Shall you reign, 23:1
because you strive to excel in cedar? Didn’t Woe to the shepherds who destroy and
your father eat and drink, and do justice and scatter the sheep of my pasture! says the
righteousness? then it was well with him. LORD. 23:2 Therefore thus says the LORD, the
22:16
He judged the cause of the poor and needy; God of Israel, against the shepherds who feed
then it was well. Wasn’t this to know me? my people: You have scattered my flock, and
says the LORD. 22:17 But your eyes and your driven them away, and have not visited them;
heart are not but for your covetousness, and for behold, I will visit on you the evil of your
shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, doings, says the LORD. 23:3 I will gather the
and for violence, to do it. 22:18 Therefore thus remnant of my flock out of all the countries
says the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son where I have driven them, and will bring them
of Josiah, king of Judah: they shall not lament again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful
for him, saying, Ah my brother! or, Ah and multiply. 23:4 I will set up shepherds over
sister! They shall not lament for him, saying them, who shall feed them; and they shall fear
Ah lord! or, Ah his glory! 22:19 He shall be no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall any be
buried with the burial of a donkey, drawn lacking, says the LORD. 23:5 Behold, the days
and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem. come, says the LORD, that I will raise to David
22:20
Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king
your voice in Bashan, and cry from Abarim; and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and
for all your lovers are destroyed. 22:21 I spoke righteousness in the land. 23:6 In his days Judah
to you in your prosperity; but you said, I will shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely; and
not hear. This has been your way from your this is his name by which he shall be called:
youth, that you didn’t obey my voice. 22:22 The the LORD our righteousness. 23:7 Therefore
wind shall feed all your shepherds, and your behold, the days come, says the LORD, that
lovers shall go into captivity: surely then you they shall no more say, As the LORD lives,
will be ashamed and confounded for all your who brought up the children of Israel out of the
wickedness. 22:23 Inhabitant of Lebanon, who land of Egypt; 23:8 but, As the LORD lives, who
makes your nest in the cedars, how greatly to brought up and who led the seed of the house
be pitied you will be when pangs come on you, of Israel out of the north country, and from all
the pain as of a woman in travail! 22:24 As I the countries where I had driven them. They
live, says the LORD, though Coniah the son shall dwell in their own land. 23:9 Concerning
of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet on the prophets. My heart within me is broken,
my right hand, yet would I pluck you there; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man,
22:25
and I will give you into the hand of those and like a man whom wine has overcome,
who seek your life, and into the hand of them because of the LORD, and because of his holy
of whom you are afraid, even into the hand of words. 23:10 For the land is full of adulterers;
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the for because of swearing the land mourns; the
hand of the Kasdim. 22:26 I will cast you out, pastures of the wilderness are dried up. Their
and your mother who bore you, into another course is evil, and their might is not right;
23:11
for both prophet and priest are profane;
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yes, in my house have I found their wickedness, even the prophets of the deceit of their own
says the LORD. 23:12 Therefore their way shall heart? 23:27 who think to cause my people to
be to them as slippery places in the darkness: forget my name by their dreams which they
they shall be driven on, and fall therein; for I tell every man to his neighbor, as their fathers
will bring evil on them, even the year of their forgot my name for Baal. 23:28 The prophet
visitation, says the LORD. 23:13 I have seen folly who has a dream, let him tell a dream; and
in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied he who has my word, let him speak my word
by Baal, and caused my people Israel to err. faithfully. What is the straw to the wheat?
23:14
In the prophets of Jerusalem also I have says the LORD. 23:29 Isn’t my word like fire?
seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery, says the LORD; and like a hammer that breaks
and walk in lies; and they strengthen the hands the rock in pieces? 23:30 Therefore behold, I
of evildoers, so that none does return from his am against the prophets, says the LORD, who
wickedness: they are all of them become to steal my words everyone from his neighbor.
23:31
me as Sodom, and its inhabitants as Gomorrah. Behold, I am against the prophets, says
23:15
Therefore thus says the LORD of Hosts the LORD, who use their tongues, and say,
concerning the prophets: Behold, I will feed He says. 23:32 Behold, I am against those who
them with wormwood, and make them drink prophesy lying dreams, says the LORD, and do
the water of gall; for from the prophets of tell them, and cause my people to err by their
Jerusalem is ungodliness gone forth into all lies, and by their vain boasting: yet I didn’t
the land. 23:16 Thus says the LORD of Hosts, send them, nor commanded them; neither do
Don’t listen to the words of the prophets who they profit this people at all, says the LORD.
23:33
prophesy to you: they teach you vanity; they When this people, or the prophet, or a
speak a vision of their own heart, and not priest, shall ask you, saying, What is the burden
out of the mouth of the LORD. 23:17 They say of the LORD? Then you shall tell them, What
continually to those who despise me, the LORD burden! I will cast you off, says the LORD.
23:34
has said, You shall have peace; and to everyone As for the prophet, and the priest, and the
who walks in the stubbornness of his own people, who shall say, The burden of the LORD,
heart they say, No evil shall come on you. I will even punish that man and his house.
23:18 23:35
For who has stood in the council of the You shall say everyone to his neighbor, and
LORD, that he should perceive and hear his everyone to his brother, What has the LORD
word? who has marked my word, and heard answered? and, What has the LORD spoken?
it? 23:19 Behold, the storm of the LORD, his 23:36
You shall mention the burden of the LORD
wrath, has gone forth. Yes, a whirling storm. It no more: for every man’s own word shall be
shall burst on the head of the wicked. 23:20 The his burden; for you have perverted the words
anger of the LORD shall not return, until he of the living God, of the LORD of Hosts our
has executed, and until he have performed the God. 23:37 You shall say to the prophet, What
intents of his heart: in the latter days you has the LORD answered you? and, What has
shall understand it perfectly. 23:21 I sent not the LORD spoken? 23:38 But if you say, The
these prophets, yet they ran: I didn’t speak burden of the LORD; therefore thus says the
to them, yet they prophesied. 23:22 But if they LORD: Because you say this word, The burden
had stood in my council, then had they caused of the LORD, and I have sent to you, saying,
my people to hear my words, and had turned You shall not say, The burden of the LORD;
23:39
them from their evil way, and from the evil of therefore, behold, I will utterly forget you,
their doings. 23:23 Am I a God at hand, says the and I will cast you off, and the city that I gave
LORD, and not a God afar off? 23:24 Can any to you and to your fathers, away from my
hide himself in secret places so that I shall not presence: 23:40 and I will bring an everlasting
see him? says the LORD. Don’t I fill heaven reproach on you, and a perpetual shame, which
and earth? says the LORD. 23:25 I have heard shall not be forgotten.
what the prophets have said, who prophesy 24:1
lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I The LORD showed me, and behold, two
have dreamed. 23:26 How long shall this be in baskets of figs set before the LORD’s temple,
the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies, after that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon
had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of
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Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the princes of doings, and dwell in the land that the LORD
Judah, with the craftsmen and smiths, from has given to you and to your fathers, from
Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon. of old and even forevermore; 25:6 and don’t
24:2
One basket had very good figs, like the figs go after other gods to serve them or worship
that are first-ripe; and the other basket had very them, and don’t provoke me to anger with
bad figs, which could not be eaten, they were so the work of your hands; and I will do you
bad. 24:3 Then the LORD said to me, What do no harm. 25:7 Yet you have not listened to
you see, Jeremiah? I said, Figs; the good figs, me, says the LORD; that you may provoke
very good; and the bad, very bad, that can’t me to anger with the work of your hands to
be eaten, they are so bad. 24:4 The word of the your own hurt. 25:8 Therefore thus says the
LORD came to me, saying, 24:5 Thus says the LORD of Hosts: Because you have not heard
LORD, the God of Israel: Like these good figs, my words, 25:9 behold, I will send and take
so will I regard the captives of Judah, whom all the families of the north, says the LORD,
I have sent out of this place into the land of and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar the king
the Kasdim, for good. 24:6 For I will set my of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them
eyes on them for good, and I will bring them against this land, and against its inhabitants,
again to this land: and I will build them, and and against all these nations around; and I
not pull them down; and I will plant them, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an
not pluck them up. 24:7 I will give them a heart astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual des-
to know me, that I am the LORD: and they olations. 25:10 Moreover I will take from them
shall be my people, and I will be their God; the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness,
for they shall return to me with their whole the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of
heart. 24:8 As the bad figs, which can’t be eaten, the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the
they are so bad, surely thus says the LORD, light of the lamp. 25:11 This whole land shall be
So will I give up Zedekiah the king of Judah, a desolation, and an astonishment; and these
and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy
who remain in this land, and those who dwell years. 25:12 It shall happen, when seventy years
in the land of Egypt, 24:9 I will even give them are accomplished, that I will punish the king
up to be tossed back and forth among all the of Babylon, and that nation, says the LORD,
kingdoms of the earth for evil; to be a reproach for their iniquity, and the land of the Kasdim;
and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places and I will make it desolate forever. 25:13 I will
where I shall drive them. 24:10 I will send the bring on that land all my words which I have
sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among pronounced against it, even all that is written
them, until they be consumed from off the land in this book, which Jeremiah has prophesied
that I gave to them and to their fathers. against all the nations. 25:14 For many nations
25:1
and great kings shall make bondservants of
The word that came to Jeremiah concern- them, even of them; and I will recompense
ing all the people of Judah, in the fourth year them according to their deeds, and according
of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah to the work of their hands. 25:15 For thus says
(the same was the first year of Nebuchad- the LORD, the God of Israel, to me: take this
nezzar king of Babylon), 25:2 which Jeremiah cup of the wine of wrath at my hand, and
the prophet spoke to all the people of Judah, cause all the nations, to whom I send you, to
and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying: drink it. 25:16 They shall drink, and reel back
25:3
From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son and forth, and be mad, because of the sword
of Amon, king of Judah, even to this day, these that I will send among them. 25:17 Then took
twenty-three years, the word of the LORD has I the cup at the LORD’s hand, and made all
come to me, and I have spoken to you, rising up the nations to drink, to whom the LORD had
early and speaking; but you have not listened. sent me: 25:18 Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah,
25:4
The LORD has sent to you all his servants and its kings, and its princes, to make them
the prophets, rising up early and sending them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and
(but you have not listened, nor inclined your a curse, as it is this day; 25:19 Pharaoh king of
ear to hear) 25:5 saying, Return now everyone Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and
from his evil way, and from the evil of your
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all his people; 25:20 and all the mixed people, vessel. 25:35 The shepherds shall have no way
and all the kings of the land of the Uz, and all to flee, nor the principal of the flock to escape.
25:36
the kings of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and
Gaza, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod; the wailing of the principal of the flock! for
25:21
Edom, and Moab, and the children of the LORD lays waste their pasture. 25:37 The
Ammon; 25:22 and all the kings of Tyre, and peaceable folds are brought to silence because
all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the of the fierce anger of the LORD. 25:38 He has left
isle which is beyond the sea; 25:23 Dedan, and his covert, as the lion; for their land has become
Tema, and Buz, and all who have the corners an astonishment because of the fierceness of the
of their beard cut off; 25:24 and all the kings of oppression, and because of his fierce anger.
Arabia, and all the kings of the mixed people 26:1
who dwell in the wilderness; 25:25 and all the In the beginning of the reign of Je-
kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and hoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, came
all the kings of the Medes; 25:26 and all the kings this word from the LORD, saying, 26:2 Thus says
of the north, far and near, one with another; the LORD: Stand in the court of the LORD’s
and all the kingdoms of the world, which are house, and speak to all the cities of Judah,
on the surface of the earth: and the king of which come to worship in the LORD’s house,
Sheshach shall drink after them. 25:27 You shall all the words that I command you to speak to
tell them, Thus says the LORD of Hosts, the them; don’t diminish a word. 26:3 It may be they
God of Israel: Drink, and be drunk, vomit, fall, will listen, and turn every man from his evil
and rise no more, because of the sword which way; that I may repent me of the evil which
I will send among you. 25:28 It shall be, if they I purpose to do to them because of the evil of
refuse to take the cup at your hand to drink, their doings. 26:4 You shall tell them, Thus says
then you shall tell them, Thus says the LORD the LORD: If you will not listen to me, to walk
of Hosts: You shall surely drink. 25:29 For, in my law, which I have set before you, 26:5 to
behold, I begin to work evil at the city which is listen to the words of my servants the prophets,
called by my name; and should you be utterly whom I send to you, even rising up early
unpunished? You shall not be unpunished; for I and sending them, but you have not listened;
26:6
will call for a sword on all the inhabitants of the then will I make this house like Shiloh, and
earth, says the LORD of Hosts. 25:30 Therefore will make this city a curse to all the nations
prophesy you against them all these words, and of the earth. 26:7 The priests and the prophets
tell them, the LORD will roar from on high, and and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking
utter his voice from his holy habitation; he will these words in the house of the LORD. 26:8 It
mightily roar against his fold; he will give a happened, when Jeremiah had made an end of
shout, as those who tread grapes, against all the speaking all that the LORD had commanded
inhabitants of the earth. 25:31 A noise shall come him to speak to all the people, that the priests
even to the end of the earth; for the LORD has a and the prophets and all the people laid hold
controversy with the nations; he will enter into on him, saying, You shall surely die. 26:9 Why
judgment with all flesh: as for the wicked, he have you prophesied in the name of the LORD,
will give them to the sword, says the LORD. saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this
25:32
Thus says the LORD of Hosts, Behold, evil city shall be desolate, without inhabitant? All
shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great the people were gathered to Jeremiah in the
storm shall be raised up from the uttermost house of the LORD. 26:10 When the princes of
parts of the earth. 25:33 The slain of the LORD Judah heard these things, they came up from
shall be at that day from one end of the earth the king’s house to the house of the LORD;
even to the other end of the earth: they shall and they sat in the entry of the new gate of
not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; the LORD’s house. 26:11 Then spoke the priests
they shall be dung on the surface of the ground. and the prophets to the princes and to all the
25:34
Wail, you shepherds, and cry; and wallow people, saying, This man is worthy of death;
in dust, you principal of the flock; for the days for he has prophesied against this city, as you
of your slaughter and of your dispersions are have heard with your ears. 26:12 Then spoke
fully come, and you shall fall like a goodly Jeremiah to all the princes and to all the people,
saying, the LORD sent me to prophesy against
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27:2
this house and against this city all the words Thus says the LORD to me: Make bonds
that you have heard. 26:13 Now therefore amend and bars, and put them on your neck; 27:3 and
your ways and your doings, and obey the voice send them to the king of Edom, and to the
of the LORD your God; and the LORD will king of Moab, and to the king of the children
repent him of the evil that he has pronounced of Ammon, and to the king of Tyre, and to the
against you. 26:14 But as for me, behold, I am king of Sidon, by the hand of the messengers
in your hand: do with me as is good and right who come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of
in your eyes. 26:15 Only know for certain that, Judah; 27:4 and give them a command to their
if you put me to death, you will bring innocent masters, saying, Thus says the LORD of Hosts,
blood on yourselves, and on this city, and on the God of Israel, You shall tell your masters:
27:5
its inhabitants; for of a truth the LORD has sent I have made the earth, the men and the
me to you to speak all these words in your ears. animals that are on the surface of the earth,
26:16
Then the princes and all the people said to by my great power and by my outstretched
the priests and to the prophets: This man is arm; and I give it to whom it seems right
not worthy of death; for he has spoken to us to me. 27:6 Now have I given all these lands
in the name of the LORD our God. 26:17 Then into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of
rose up certain of the elders of the land, and Babylon, my servant; and the animals of the
spoke to all the assembly of the people, saying, field also have I given him to serve him. 27:7 All
26:18
Micah the Morashtite prophesied in the the nations shall serve him, and his son, and
days of Hezekiah king of Judah; and he spoke his son’s son, until the time of his own land
to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus says come: and then many nations and great kings
the LORD of Hosts: Zion shall be plowed as shall make him their bondservant. 27:8 It shall
a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and happen, that the nation and the kingdom which
the mountain of the house as the high places will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar king
of a forest. 26:19 Did Hezekiah king of Judah of Babylon, and that will not put their neck
and all Judah put him to death? Didn’t he fear under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that
the LORD, and entreat the favor of the LORD, nation will I punish, says the LORD, with the
and the LORD relented of the disaster which sword, and with the famine, and with the
he had pronounced against them? Thus should pestilence, until I have consumed them by his
we commit great evil against our own souls. hand. 27:9 But as for you, don’t you listen to
26:20
There was also a man who prophesied your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your
in the name of the LORD, Uriah the son of dreams, nor to your soothsayers, nor to your
Shemaiah of Kiriath Jearim; and he prophesied sorcerers, who speak to you, saying, You shall
against this city and against this land according not serve the king of Babylon: 27:10 for they
to all the words of Jeremiah: 26:21 and when prophesy a lie to you, to remove you far from
Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty men, your land, and that I should drive you out, and
and all the princes, heard his words, the king you should perish. 27:11 But the nation that shall
sought to put him to death; but when Uriah bring their neck under the yoke of the king of
heard it, he was afraid, and fled, and went into Babylon, and serve him, that nation will I let
Egypt: 26:22 and Jehoiakim the king sent men remain in their own land, says the LORD; and
into Egypt, Elnathan the son of Achbor, and they shall till it, and dwell therein. 27:12 I spoke
certain men with him, into Egypt; 26:23 and they to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these
fetched forth Uriah out of Egypt, and brought words, saying, Bring your necks under the yoke
him to Jehoiakim the king, who killed him with of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his
the sword, and cast his dead body into the people, and live. 27:13 Why will you die, you
graves of the common people. 26:24 But the and your people, by the sword, by the famine,
hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with and by the pestilence, as the LORD has spoken
Jeremiah, that they should not give him into the concerning the nation that will not serve the
hand of the people to put him to death. king of Babylon? 27:14 Don’t listen to the words
27:1
of the prophets who speak to you, saying, You
In the beginning of the reign of Je- shall not serve the king of Babylon; for they
hoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, came prophesy a lie to you. 27:15 For I have not sent
this word to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
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them, says the LORD, but they prophesy falsely said to the prophet Hananiah in the presence
in my name; that I may drive you out, and of the priests, and in the presence of all the
that you may perish, you, and the prophets people who stood in the house of the LORD,
who prophesy to you. 27:16 Also I spoke to 28:6
even the prophet Jeremiah said, Amen: the
the priests and to all this people, saying, Thus LORD do so; the LORD perform your words
says the LORD: Don’t listen to the words of which you have prophesied, to bring again
your prophets who prophesy to you, saying, the vessels of the LORD’s house, and all them
Behold, the vessels of the LORD’s house shall of the captivity, from Babylon to this place.
28:7
now shortly be brought again from Babylon; for Nevertheless hear you now this word that
they prophesy a lie to you. 27:17 Don’t listen to I speak in your ears, and in the ears of all the
them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: why people: 28:8 The prophets who have been before
should this city become a desolation? 27:18 But if me and before you of old prophesied against
they be prophets, and if the word of the LORD many countries, and against great kingdoms,
be with them, let them now make intercession of war, and of evil, and of pestilence. 28:9 The
to the LORD of Hosts, that the vessels which prophet who prophesies of peace, when the
are left in the house of the LORD, and in the word of the prophet shall happen, then shall
house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, the prophet be known, that the LORD has
don’t go to Babylon. 27:19 For thus says the truly sent him. 28:10 Then Hananiah the prophet
LORD of Hosts concerning the pillars, and took the bar from off the prophet Jeremiah’s
concerning the sea, and concerning the bases, neck, and broke it. 28:11 Hananiah spoke in the
and concerning the residue of the vessels that presence of all the people, saying, Thus says
are left in this city, 27:20 which Nebuchadnezzar the LORD: Even so will I break the yoke of
king of Babylon didn’t take, when he carried Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon within two
away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, full years from off the neck of all the nations.
king of Judah, from Jerusalem to Babylon, and The prophet Jeremiah went his way. 28:12 Then
all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem; 27:21 yes, the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, after
thus says the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, that Hananiah the prophet had broken the bar
concerning the vessels that are left in the house from off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah,
of the LORD, and in the house of the king saying, 28:13 Go, and tell Hananiah, saying,
of Judah, and at Jerusalem: 27:22 They shall be Thus says the LORD: You have broken the bars
carried to Babylon, and there shall they be, until of wood; but you have made in their place bars
the day that I visit them, says the LORD; then of iron. 28:14 For thus says the LORD of Hosts,
will I bring them up, and restore them to this the God of Israel: I have put a yoke of iron
place. on the neck of all these nations, that they may
28:1
serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and
It happened the same year, in the begin- they shall serve him: and I have given him the
ning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, animals of the field also. 28:15 Then the prophet
in the fourth year, in the fifth month, that Jeremiah said to Hananiah the prophet, Hear
Hananiah the son of Azzur, the prophet, who now, Hananiah: the LORD has not sent you;
was of Gibeon, spoke to me in the house of but you make this people to trust in a lie.
the LORD, in the presence of the priests and 28:16
Therefore thus says the LORD, Behold, I
of all the people, saying, 28:2 Thus speaks the will send you away from off the surface of
LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, saying, I the earth: this year you shall die, because
have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon. you have spoken rebellion against the LORD.
28:3
Within two full years will I bring again into 28:17
So Hananiah the prophet died the same
this place all the vessels of the LORD’s house, year in the seventh month.
that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took
29:1
away from this place, and carried to Babylon: Now these are the words of the letter
28:4
and I will bring again to this place Jeconiah that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem
the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, with all to the residue of the elders of the captivity,
the captives of Judah, who went to Babylon, and to the priests, to the prophets, and to all
says the LORD; for I will break the yoke of the the people, whom Nebuchadnezzar had car-
king of Babylon. 28:5 Then the prophet Jeremiah ried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon,
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29:2
(after that Jeconiah the king, the queen and will make them like vile figs, that can’t
mother, the eunuchs, the princes of Judah and be eaten, they are so bad. 29:18 I will pursue
Jerusalem, the craftsmen, and the smiths, had after them with the sword, with the famine, and
departed from Jerusalem), 29:3 by the hand of with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be
Elasah the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah the tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms
son of Hilkiah, (whom Zedekiah king of Judah of the earth, to be an object of horror, and an
sent to Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar king of astonishment, and a hissing, and a reproach,
Babylon), saying, 29:4 Thus says the LORD of among all the nations where I have driven
Hosts, the God of Israel, to all the captivity, them; 29:19 because they have not listened to my
whom I have caused to be carried away captive words, says the LORD, with which I sent to
from Jerusalem to Babylon: 29:5 Build houses, them my servants the prophets, rising up early
and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and and sending them; but you would not hear,
eat their fruit. 29:6 Take wives, and father sons says the LORD. 29:20 Hear therefore the word
and daughters; and take wives for your sons, of the LORD, all you of the captivity, whom
and give your daughters to husbands, that they I have sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon.
29:21
may bear sons and daughters; and multiply Thus says the LORD of Hosts, the God of
there, and don’t be diminished. 29:7 Seek the Israel, concerning Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and
peace of the city where I have caused you to concerning Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, who
be carried away captive, and pray to the LORD prophesy a lie to you in my name: Behold, I will
for it; for in its peace you shall have peace. deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar
29:8
For thus says the LORD of Hosts, the God king of Babylon; and he shall kill them before
of Israel: Don’t let your prophets who are in your eyes; 29:22 and of them shall be taken up
the midst of you, and your diviners, deceive a curse by all the captives of Judah who are
you; neither listen to your dreams which you in Babylon, saying, the LORD make you like
cause to be dreamed. 29:9 For they prophesy Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of
falsely to you in my name: I have not sent Babylon roasted in the fire; 29:23 because they
them, says the LORD. 29:10 For thus says the have worked folly in Israel, and have com-
LORD, After seventy years are accomplished mitted adultery with their neighbors’ wives,
for Babylon, I will visit you, and perform and have spoken words in my name falsely,
my good word toward you, in causing you which I didn’t command them; and I am he
to return to this place. 29:11 For I know the who knows, and am witness, says the LORD.
29:24
thoughts that I think toward you, says the Concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite you
LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to shall speak, saying, 29:25 Thus speaks the LORD
give you hope and a future. 29:12 You shall of Hosts, the God of Israel, saying, Because you
call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, have sent letters in your own name to all the
and I will listen to you. 29:13 You shall seek people who are at Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah
me, and find me, when you shall search for the son of Maaseiah, the priest, and to all the
me with all your heart. 29:14 I will be found priests, saying, 29:26 The LORD has made you
by you, says the LORD, and I will turn again priest in the place of Jehoiada the priest, that
your captivity, and I will gather you from all the there may be officers in the house of the LORD,
nations, and from all the places where I have for every man who is mad, and makes himself a
driven you, says the LORD; and I will bring prophet, that you should put him in the stocks
you again to the place from where I caused and in shackles. 29:27 Now therefore, why have
you to be carried away captive. 29:15 Because you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth, who
you have said, the LORD has raised us up makes himself a prophet to you, 29:28 because
prophets in Babylon; 29:16 thus says the LORD he has sent to us in Babylon, saying, The
concerning the king who sits on the throne captivity is long: build houses, and dwell in
of David, and concerning all the people who them; and plant gardens, and eat their fruit?
29:29
dwell in this city, your brothers who haven’t Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the
gone forth with you into captivity; 29:17 thus ears of Jeremiah the prophet. 29:30 Then came
says the LORD of Hosts; Behold, I will send on the word of the LORD to Jeremiah, saying,
29:31
them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, Send to all them of the captivity, saying,
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Thus says the LORD concerning Shemaiah the I have wounded you with the wound of an
Nehelamite: Because Shemaiah has prophesied enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one,
to you, and I didn’t send him, and he has for the greatness of your iniquity, because your
caused you to trust in a lie; 29:32 therefore thus sins were increased. 30:15 Why do you cry for
says the LORD, Behold, I will punish Shemaiah your hurt? Your pain is incurable: for the
the Nehelamite, and his seed; he shall not have greatness of your iniquity, because your sins
a man to dwell among this people, neither shall were increased, I have done these things to
he see the good that I will do to my people, says you. 30:16 Therefore all those who devour you
the LORD, because he has spoken rebellion shall be devoured; and all your adversaries,
against the LORD. everyone of them, shall go into captivity; and
30:1
those who despoil you shall be a spoil, and all
The word that came to Jeremiah from who prey on you will I give for a prey. 30:17 For
the LORD, saying, 30:2 Thus speaks the LORD, I will restore health to you, and I will heal you
the God of Israel, saying, Write all the words of your wounds, says the LORD; because they
that I have spoken to you in a book. 30:3 For, have called you an outcast, saying, It is Zion,
behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I whom no man seeks after. 30:18 Thus says the
will turn again the captivity of my people Israel LORD: Behold, I will turn again the captivity
and Judah, says the LORD; and I will cause of Jacob’s tents, and have compassion on his
them to return to the land that I gave to their dwelling places; and the city shall be built on
fathers, and they shall possess it. 30:4 These its own hill, and the palace shall be inhabited
are the words that the LORD spoke concerning in its own way. 30:19 Out of them shall proceed
Israel and concerning Judah. 30:5 For thus says thanksgiving and the voice of those who make
the LORD: We have heard a voice of trembling, merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall
of fear, and not of peace. 30:6 Ask now, and see not be few; I will also glorify them, and they
whether a man does travail with child: why do shall not be small. 30:20 Their children also shall
I see every man with his hands on his waist, be as before, and their congregation shall be
as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned established before me; and I will punish all
into paleness? 30:7 Alas! for that day is great, who oppress them. 30:21 Their prince shall be
so that none is like it: it is even the time of of themselves, and their ruler shall proceed
Jacob’s trouble; but he shall be saved out of from their midst; and I will cause him to draw
it. 30:8 It shall come to pass in that day, says near, and he shall approach to me: for who
the LORD of Hosts, that I will break his yoke is he who has had boldness to approach to
from off your neck, and will burst your bonds; me? says the LORD. 30:22 You shall be my
and strangers shall no more make him their people, and I will be your God. 30:23 Behold, the
bondservant; 30:9 but they shall serve the LORD storm of the LORD, his wrath, has gone forth,
their God, and David their king, whom I will a sweeping storm: it shall burst on the head of
raise up to them. 30:10 Therefore don’t you be the wicked. 30:24 The fierce anger of the LORD
afraid, O Jacob my servant, says the LORD; will not return, until he has executed, and until
neither be dismayed, Israel: for, behold, I will he has performed the intentions of his heart. In
save you from afar, and your seed from the the latter days you will understand it.
land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return,
31:1
and shall be quiet and at ease, and none shall At that time, says the LORD, will I be the
make him afraid. 30:11 For I am with you, says God of all the families of Israel, and they shall
the LORD, to save you: for I will make a full be my people. 31:2 Thus says the LORD, The
end of all the nations where I have scattered people who were left of the sword found favor
you, but I will not make a full end of you; but in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went
I will correct you in measure, and will in no to cause him to rest. 31:3 The LORD appeared
way leave you unpunished. 30:12 For thus says of old to me, saying, Yes, I have loved you
the LORD, Your hurt is incurable, and your with an everlasting love: therefore with loving
wound grievous. 30:13 There is none to plead kindness have I drawn you. 31:4 Again will I
your cause, that you may be bound up: you build you, and you shall be built, O virgin of
have no healing medicines. 30:14 All your lovers Israel: again you shall be adorned with your
have forgotten you; they don’t seek you: for tambourines, and shall go forth in the dances
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of those who make merry. 31:5 Again you shall as an untrained calf: turn me, and I shall
plant vineyards on the mountains of Samaria; be turned; for you are the LORD my God.
31:19
the planters shall plant, and shall enjoy its fruit. Surely after that I was turned, I repented;
31:6
For there shall be a day, that the watchmen and after that I was instructed, I struck on my
on the hills of Ephraim shall cry, Arise, and let thigh: I was ashamed, yes, even confounded,
us go up to Zion to the LORD our God. 31:7 For because I bore the reproach of my youth. 31:20 Is
thus says the LORD, Sing with gladness for Ephraim my dear son? is he a darling child? for
Jacob, and shout for the chief of the nations: as often as I speak against him, I do earnestly
publish, praise, and say, the LORD, save your remember him still: therefore my heart yearns
people, the remnant of Israel. 31:8 Behold, I for him; I will surely have mercy on him,
will bring them from the north country, and says the LORD. 31:21 Set up road signs, make
gather them from the uttermost parts of the guideposts; set your heart toward the highway,
earth, along with the blind and the lame, the even the way by which you went: turn again,
woman with child and her who travails with virgin of Israel, turn again to these your cities.
31:22
child together: a great company shall they How long will you go here and there,
return here. 31:9 They shall come with weeping; you backsliding daughter? for the LORD has
and with petitions will I lead them: I will cause created a new thing in the earth: a woman shall
them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight encompass a man. 31:23 Thus says the LORD of
way in which they shall not stumble; for I am Hosts, the God of Israel, Yet again shall they use
a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn. this speech in the land of Judah and in its cities,
31:10
Hear the word of the LORD, you nations, when I shall bring again their captivity: the
and declare it in the islands afar off; and say, LORD bless you, habitation of righteousness,
He who scattered Israel will gather him, and mountain of holiness. 31:24 Judah and all its
keep him, as shepherd does his flock. 31:11 For cities shall dwell therein together, the farmers,
the LORD has ransomed Jacob, and redeemed and those who go about with flocks. 31:25 For
him from the hand of him who was stronger I have satiated the weary soul, and every
than he. 31:12 They shall come and sing in the sorrowful soul have I replenished. 31:26 On this
height of Zion, and shall flow to the goodness I awakened, and saw; and my sleep was sweet
of the LORD, to the grain, and to the new wine, to me. 31:27 Behold, the days come, says the
and to the oil, and to the young of the flock LORD, that I will sow the house of Israel and
and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a the house of Judah with the seed of man, and
watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any with the seed of animal. 31:28 It shall happen
more at all. 31:13 Then shall the virgin rejoice that, like as I have watched over them to pluck
in the dance, and the young men and the old up and to break down and to overthrow and to
together; for I will turn their mourning into joy, destroy and to afflict, so will I watch over them
and will comfort them, and make them rejoice to build and to plant, says the LORD. 31:29 In
from their sorrow. 31:14 I will satiate the soul of those days they shall say no more, The fathers
the priests with fatness, and my people shall have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth
be satisfied with my goodness, says the LORD. are set on edge. 31:30 But everyone shall die
31:15
Thus says the LORD: A voice is heard for his own iniquity: every man who eats the
in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping, sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.
31:31
Rachel weeping for her children; she refuses Behold, the days come, says the LORD,
to be comforted for her children, because they that I will make a new covenant with the house
are no more. 31:16 Thus says the LORD: Refrain of Israel, and with the house of Judah: 31:32 not
your voice from weeping, and your eyes from according to the covenant that I made with
tears; for your work shall be rewarded, says the their fathers in the day that I took them by the
LORD; and they shall come again from the land hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt;
of the enemy. 31:17 There is hope for your latter which my covenant they broke, although I was
end, says the LORD; and your children shall a husband to them, says the LORD. 31:33 But this
come again to their own border. 31:18 I have is the covenant that I will make with the house
surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus, of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will
You have chastised me, and I was chastised, put my law in their inward parts, and in their
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heart will I write it; and I will be their God, come to you, saying, Buy my field that is in
and they shall be my people: 31:34 and they Anathoth; for the right of redemption is yours
shall teach no more every man his neighbor, to buy it. 32:8 So Hanamel my uncle’s son came
and every man his brother, saying, Know the to me in the court of the guard according to the
LORD; for they shall all know me, from their word of the LORD, and said to me, Please buy
least to their greatest, says the LORD: for I my field that is in Anathoth, which is in the
will forgive their iniquity, and their sin will I land of Benjamin; for the right of inheritance
remember no more. 31:35 Thus says the LORD, is yours, and the redemption is yours; buy it
who gives the sun for a light by day, and the for yourself. Then I knew that this was the
ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a word of the LORD. 32:9 I bought the field that
light by night, who stirs up the sea, so that its was in Anathoth of Hanamel my uncle’s son,
waves roar; the LORD of Hosts is his name: and weighed him the money, even seventeen
31:36
If these ordinances depart from before me, shekels of silver. 32:10 I subscribed the deed, and
says the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall sealed it, and called witnesses, and weighed
cease from being a nation before me forever. him the money in the balances. 32:11 So I took
31:37
Thus says the LORD: If heaven above can the deed of the purchase, both that which was
be measured, and the foundations of the earth sealed, containing the terms and conditions,
searched out beneath, then will I also cast off and that which was open; 32:12 and I delivered
all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, the deed of the purchase to Baruch the son of
says the LORD. 31:38 Behold, the days come, Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, in the presence of
says the LORD, that the city shall be built to the Hanamel my uncle’s son, and in the presence
LORD from the tower of Hananel to the gate of of the witnesses who subscribed the deed of
the corner. 31:39 The measuring line shall go out the purchase, before all the Jews who sat in
further straight onward to the hill Gareb, and the court of the guard. 32:13 I commanded
shall turn about to Goah. 31:40 The whole valley Baruch before them, saying, 32:14 Thus says
of the dead bodies and of the ashes, and all the the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel: Take
fields to the brook Kidron, to the corner of the these deeds, this deed of the purchase which
horse gate toward the east, shall be holy to the is sealed, and this deed which is open, and
LORD; it shall not be plucked up, nor thrown put them in an earthen vessel; that they may
down any more forever. continue many days. 32:15 For thus says the
32:1
LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel: Houses and
The word that came to Jeremiah from the fields and vineyards shall yet again be bought
LORD in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of in this land. 32:16 Now after I had delivered
Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Neb- the deed of the purchase to Baruch the son of
uchadnezzar. 32:2 Now at that time the king of Neriah, I prayed to the LORD, saying, 32:17 Ah
Babylon’s army was besieging Jerusalem; and Lord GOD! Behold, you have made the heavens
Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court and the earth by your great power and by
of the guard, which was in the king of Judah’s your outstretched arm; there is nothing too
house. 32:3 For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut hard for you, 32:18 who show loving kindness
him up, saying, Why do you prophesy, and say, to thousands, and recompense the iniquity of
Thus says the LORD, Behold, I will give this the fathers into the bosom of their children after
city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and them; the great, the mighty God, the LORD of
he shall take it; 32:4 and Zedekiah king of Judah Hosts is his name; 32:19 great in counsel, and
shall not escape out of the hand of the Kasdim, mighty in work; whose eyes are open on all
but shall surely be delivered into the hand of the ways of the sons of men, to give everyone
the king of Babylon, and shall speak with him according to his ways, and according to the
mouth to mouth, and his eyes shall see his eyes; fruit of his doings: 32:20 who performed signs
32:5
and he shall bring Zedekiah to Babylon, and and wonders in the land of Egypt, even to this
he shall be there until I visit him, says the day, both in Israel and among other men; and
LORD: though you fight with the Kasdim, you made yourself a name, as in this day; 32:21 and
shall not prosper? 32:6 Jeremiah said, The word brought forth your people Israel out of the land
of the LORD came to me, saying, 32:7 Behold, of Egypt with signs, and with wonders, and
Hanamel the son of Shallum your uncle shall
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with a strong hand, and with an outstretched their daughters to pass through fire to Molech;
arm, and with great terror; 32:22 and gave them which I didn’t command them, neither did it
this land, which you swore to their fathers to come into my mind, that they should do this
give them, a land flowing with milk and honey; abomination, to cause Judah to sin. 32:36 Now
32:23
and they came in, and possessed it, but therefore thus says the LORD, the God of Israel,
they didn’t obey your voice, neither walked concerning this city, about which you say, It
in your law; they have done nothing of all is given into the hand of the king of Babylon
that you commanded them to do: therefore by the sword, and by the famine, and by the
you have caused all this evil to come on them. pestilence: 32:37 Behold, I will gather them out
32:24
Behold, the mounds, they have come to of all the countries, where I have driven them
the city to take it; and the city is given into in my anger, and in my wrath, and in great
the hand of the Kasdim who fight against it, indignation; and I will bring them again to this
because of the sword, and of the famine, and place, and I will cause them to dwell safely:
32:38
of the pestilence; and what you have spoken and they shall be my people, and I will
has happened; and behold, you see it. 32:25 You be their God: 32:39 and I will give them one
have said to me, Lord GOD, Buy the field for heart and one way, that they may fear me
money, and call witnesses; whereas the city is forever, for their good, and of their children
given into the hand of the Kasdim. 32:26 Then after them: 32:40 and I will make an everlasting
came the word of the LORD to Jeremiah, covenant with them, that I will not turn away
saying, 32:27 Behold, I am the LORD, the God from following them, to do them good; and I
of all flesh: is there anything too hard for me? will put my fear in their hearts, that they may
32:28
Therefore thus says the LORD: Behold, I not depart from me. 32:41 Yes, I will rejoice over
will give this city into the hand of the Kasdim, them to do them good, and I will plant them in
and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king this land assuredly with my whole heart and
of Babylon, and he shall take it: 32:29 and the with my whole soul. 32:42 For thus says the
Kasdim, who fight against this city, shall come LORD: Like as I have brought all this great evil
and set this city on fire, and burn it, with on this people, so will I bring on them all the
the houses, on whose roofs they have offered good that I have promised them. 32:43 Fields
incense to Baal, and poured out drink offerings shall be bought in this land, about which you
to other gods, to provoke me to anger. 32:30 For say, It is desolate, without man or animal; it is
the children of Israel and the children of Judah given into the hand of the Kasdim. 32:44 Men
have done only that which was evil in my sight shall buy fields for money, and subscribe the
from their youth; for the children of Israel have deeds, and seal them, and call witnesses, in
only provoked me to anger with the work of the land of Benjamin, and in the places about
their hands, says the LORD. 32:31 For this city Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the
has been to me a provocation of my anger cities of the hill country, and in the cities of the
and of my wrath from the day that they built lowland, and in the cities of the South: for I will
it even to this day; that I should remove it cause their captivity to return, says the LORD.
from before my face, 32:32 because of all the evil 33:1
of the children of Israel and of the children Moreover the word of the LORD came to
of Judah, which they have done to provoke Jeremiah the second time, while he was yet shut
me to anger, they, their kings, their princes, up in the court of the guard, saying, 33:2 Thus
their priests, and their prophets, and the men says the LORD who does it, the LORD who
of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. forms it to establish it; the LORD is his name:
33:3
32:33
They have turned to me the back, and not Call to me, and I will answer you, and will
the face: and though I taught them, rising up show you great things, and difficult, which you
early and teaching them, yet they have not don’t know. 33:4 For thus says the LORD, the
listened to receive instruction. 32:34 But they God of Israel, concerning the houses of this
set their abominations in the house which is city, and concerning the houses of the kings
called by my name, to defile it. 32:35 They built of Judah, which are broken down to make a
the high places of Baal, which are in the valley defense against the mounds and against the
of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and sword; 33:5 while men come to fight with the
Kasdim, and to fill them with the dead bodies
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of men, whom I have killed in my anger and shall be called: the LORD our righteousness.
33:17
in my wrath, and for all whose wickedness I For thus says the LORD: David shall never
have hidden my face from this city: 33:6 Behold, want a man to sit on the throne of the house of
I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure Israel; 33:18 neither shall the priests the Levites
them; and I will reveal to them abundance of want a man before me to offer burnt offerings,
peace and truth. 33:7 I will cause the captivity and to burn meal offerings, and to do sacrifice
of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, continually. 33:19 The word of the LORD came
and will build them, as at the first. 33:8 I to Jeremiah, saying, 33:20 Thus says the LORD:
will cleanse them from all their iniquity, by If you can break my covenant of the day, and
which they have sinned against me; and I my covenant of the night, so that there shall
will pardon all their iniquities, by which they not be day and night in their season; 33:21 then
have sinned against me, and by which they may also my covenant be broken with David
have transgressed against me. 33:9 This city my servant, that he shall not have a son to
shall be to me for a name of joy, for a praise reign on his throne; and with the Levites the
and for a glory, before all the nations of the priests, my ministers. 33:22 As the army of
earth, which shall hear all the good that I do the sky can’t be numbered, neither the sand
to them, and shall fear and tremble for all the of the sea measured; so will I multiply the
good and for all the peace that I procure to it. seed of David my servant, and the Levites who
33:10
Thus says the LORD: Yet again there shall minister to me. 33:23 The word of the LORD
be heard in this place, about which you say, came to Jeremiah, saying, 33:24 Don’t consider
It is waste, without man and without animal, what this people has spoken, saying, The two
even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets families which the LORD chose, he has cast
of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man them off? thus do they despise my people, that
and without inhabitant and without animal, they should be no more a nation before them.
33:11 33:25
the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, Thus says the LORD: If my covenant of
the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of day and night fails, if I have not appointed the
the bride, the voice of those who say, Give ordinances of heaven and earth; 33:26 then will I
thanks to the LORD of Hosts, for the LORD is also cast away the seed of Jacob, and of David
good, for his loving kindness endures forever; my servant, so that I will not take of his seed to
who bring thanksgiving into the house of the be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and
LORD. For I will cause the captivity of the Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return,
land to return as at the first, says the LORD. and will have mercy on them.
33:12
Thus says the LORD of Hosts: Yet again 34:1
shall there be in this place, which is waste, The word which came to Jeremiah from
without man and without animal, and in all its the LORD, when Nebuchadnezzar king of
cities, a habitation of shepherds causing their Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms
flocks to lie down. 33:13 In the cities of the of the earth that were under his dominion, and
hill country, in the cities of the lowland, and all the peoples, were fighting against Jerusalem,
in the cities of the South, and in the land of and against all the cities of it, saying: 34:2 Thus
Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, says the LORD, the God of Israel, Go, and
and in the cities of Judah, shall the flocks again speak to Zedekiah king of Judah, and tell him,
pass under the hands of him who numbers Thus says the LORD, Behold, I will give this
them, says the LORD. 33:14 Behold, the days city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and
come, says the LORD, that I will perform that he shall burn it with fire: 34:3 and you shall
good word which I have spoken concerning not escape out of his hand, but shall surely be
the house of Israel and concerning the house taken, and delivered into his hand; and your
of Judah. 33:15 In those days, and at that time, eyes shall see the eyes of the king of Babylon,
will I cause a Branch of righteousness to grow and he shall speak with you mouth to mouth,
up to David; and he shall execute justice and and you shall go to Babylon. 34:4 Yet hear
righteousness in the land. 33:16 In those days the word of the LORD, O Zedekiah king of
shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell Judah: thus says the LORD concerning you,
safely; and this is the name by which she You shall not die by the sword; 34:5 you shall die
in peace; and with the burnings of your fathers,
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the former kings who were before you, so shall I proclaim to you a liberty, says the LORD, to
they make a burning for you; and they shall the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine;
lament you, saying, Ah Lord! for I have spoken and I will make you to be tossed back and forth
the word, says the LORD. 34:6 Then Jeremiah among all the kingdoms of the earth. 34:18 I
the prophet spoke all these words to Zedekiah will give the men who have transgressed my
king of Judah in Jerusalem, 34:7 when the king of covenant, who have not performed the words
Babylon’s army was fighting against Jerusalem, of the covenant which they made before me,
and against all the cities of Judah that were when they cut the calf in two and passed
left, against Lachish and against Azekah; for between its parts; 34:19 the princes of Judah, and
these alone remained of the cities of Judah the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, and the
as fortified cities. 34:8 The word that came to priests, and all the people of the land, who
Jeremiah from the LORD, after that the king passed between the parts of the calf; 34:20 I will
Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the even give them into the hand of their enemies,
people who were at Jerusalem, to proclaim and into the hand of those who seek their life;
liberty to them; 34:9 that every man should let and their dead bodies shall be for food to the
his male servant, and every man his female birds of the sky, and to the animals of the earth.
34:21
servant, who is a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, go Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes
free; that none should make bondservants of will I give into the hand of their enemies, and
them, of a Jew his brother. 34:10 All the princes into the hand of those who seek their life, and
and all the people obeyed, who had entered into the hand of the king of Babylon’s army,
into the covenant, that everyone should let his who have gone away from you. 34:22 Behold, I
male servant, and everyone his female servant, will command, says the LORD, and cause them
go free, that none should make bondservants to return to this city; and they shall fight against
of them any more; they obeyed, and let them it, and take it, and burn it with fire: and I will
go: 34:11 but afterwards they turned, and caused make the cities of Judah a desolation, without
the servants and the handmaids, whom they inhabitant.
had let go free, to return, and brought them 35:1
into subjection for servants and for handmaids. The word which came to Jeremiah from
34:12
Therefore the word of the LORD came to the LORD in the days of Jehoiakim the son
Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, 34:13 Thus of Josiah, king of Judah, saying, 35:2 Go to the
says the LORD, the God of Israel: I made a house of the Rechabites, and speak to them,
covenant with your fathers in the day that I and bring them into the house of the LORD,
brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, into one of the rooms, and give them wine
out of the house of bondage, saying, 34:14 At to drink. 35:3 Then I took Jaazaniah the son
the end of seven years you shall let go every of Jeremiah, the son of Habazziniah, and his
man his brother who is a Hebrew, who has been brothers, and all his sons, and the whole house
sold to you, and has served you six years, you of the Rechabites; 35:4 and I brought them into
shall let him go free from you: but your fathers the house of the LORD, into the room of the
didn’t listen to me, neither inclined their ear. sons of Hanan the son of Igdaliah, the man of
34:15
You had now turned, and had done that God, which was by the room of the princes,
which is right in my eyes, in proclaiming liberty which was above the room of Maaseiah the son
every man to his neighbor; and you had made a of Shallum, the keeper of the threshold. 35:5 I set
covenant before me in the house which is called before the sons of the house of the Rechabites
by my name: 34:16 but you turned and profaned bowls full of wine, and cups; and I said to them,
my name, and caused every man his servant, Drink wine! 35:6 But they said, We will drink
and every man his handmaid, whom you had no wine; for Jonadab the son of Rechab, our
let go free at their pleasure, to return; and you father, commanded us, saying, You shall drink
brought them into subjection, to be to you for no wine, neither you, nor your sons, forever:
35:7
servants and for handmaids. 34:17 Therefore neither shall you build house, nor sow seed,
thus says the LORD: you have not listened nor plant vineyard, nor have any; but all your
to me, to proclaim liberty, every man to his days you shall dwell in tents; that you may live
brother, and every man to his neighbor: behold, many days in the land in which you live. 35:8 We
have obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of
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Rechab, our father, in all that he commanded hoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, that
us, to drink no wine all our days, we, our this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD,
wives, our sons, or our daughters; 35:9 nor to saying, 36:2 Take a scroll of a book, and write
build houses for us to dwell in; neither have therein all the words that I have spoken to you
we vineyard, nor field, nor seed: 35:10 but we against Israel, and against Judah, and against
have lived in tents, and have obeyed, and all the nations, from the day I spoke to you,
done according to all that Jonadab our father from the days of Josiah, even to this day. 36:3 It
commanded us. 35:11 But it happened, when may be that the house of Judah will hear all
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up into the evil which I purpose to do to them; that
the land, that we said, Come, and let us go to they may return every man from his evil way;
Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Kasdim, that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.
36:4
and for fear of the army of the Syrians; so we Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of
dwell at Jerusalem. 35:12 Then came the word of Neriah; and Baruch wrote from the mouth of
the LORD to Jeremiah, saying, 35:13 Thus says Jeremiah all the words of the LORD, which
the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel: Go, and he had spoken to him, on a scroll of a book.
36:5
tell the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I am
Jerusalem, Will you not receive instruction to shut up; I can’t go into the house of the LORD:
listen to my words? says the LORD. 35:14 The 36:6
therefore you go, and read in the scroll,
words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, that he which you have written from my mouth, the
commanded his sons, not to drink wine, are words of the LORD in the ears of the people
performed; and to this day they drink none, in the LORD’s house on the fast day; and also
for they obey their father’s commandment: but you shall read them in the ears of all Judah
I have spoken to you, rising up early and who come out of their cities. 36:7 It may be
speaking; and you have not listened to me. they will present their supplication before the
35:15
I have sent also to you all my servants the LORD, and will return everyone from his evil
prophets, rising up early and sending them, way; for great is the anger and the wrath that
saying, Return now every man from his evil the LORD has pronounced against this people.
36:8
way, and amend your doings, and don’t go Baruch the son of Neriah did according to
after other gods to serve them, and you shall all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him,
dwell in the land which I have given to you reading in the book the words of the LORD in
and to your fathers: but you have not inclined the LORD’s house. 36:9 Now it happened in the
your ear, nor listened to me. 35:16 Because fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of
the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have Judah, in the ninth month, that all the people in
performed the commandment of their father Jerusalem, and all the people who came from
which he commanded them, but this people the cities of Judah to Jerusalem, proclaimed a
has not listened to me; 35:17 therefore thus fast before the LORD. 36:10 Then read Baruch in
says the LORD, the God of Hosts, the God the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of
of Israel: Behold, I will bring on Judah and the LORD, in the room of Gemariah the son of
on all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil Shaphan, the scribe, in the upper court, at the
that I have pronounced against them; because I entry of the new gate of the LORD’s house, in
have spoken to them, but they have not heard; the ears of all the people. 36:11 When Micaiah
and I have called to them, but they have not the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan,
answered. 35:18 Jeremiah said to the house of had heard out of the book all the words of
the Rechabites, Thus says the LORD of Hosts, the LORD, 36:12 he went down into the king’s
the God of Israel: Because you have obeyed house, into the scribe’s room: and behold, all
the commandment of Jonadab your father, and the princes were sitting there, Elishama the
kept all his precepts, and done according to scribe, and Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, and
all that he commanded you; 35:19 therefore thus Elnathan the son of Achbor, and Gemariah
says the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel: the son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah the son
Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man of Hananiah, and all the princes. 36:13 Then
to stand before me forever. Micaiah declared to them all the words that
36:1
he had heard, when Baruch read the book in
It happened in the fourth year of Je-
Jeremiah 36:14 423 Jeremiah 37:10

the ears of the people. 36:14 Therefore all the king of Judah you shall say, Thus says the
princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the LORD: You have burned this scroll, saying,
son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, to Baruch, Why have you written therein, saying, The king
saying, Take in your hand the scroll in which of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy
you have read in the ears of the people, and this land, and shall cause to cease from there
come. So Baruch the son of Neriah took the man and animal? 36:30 Therefore thus says the
scroll in his hand, and came to them. 36:15 They LORD concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: He
said to him, Sit down now, and read it in our shall have none to sit on the throne of David;
ears. So Baruch read it in their ears. 36:16 Now it and his dead body shall be cast out in the day
happened, when they had heard all the words, to the heat, and in the night to the frost. 36:31 I
they turned in fear one toward another, and will punish him and his seed and his servants
said to Baruch, We will surely tell the king of all for their iniquity; and I will bring on them, and
these words. 36:17 They asked Baruch, saying, on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and on the men
Tell us now, How did you write all these words of Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced
at his mouth? 36:18 Then Baruch answered against them, but they didn’t listen. 36:32 Then
them, He pronounced all these words to me took Jeremiah another scroll, and gave it to
with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah, who wrote
the book. 36:19 Then the princes said to Baruch, therein from the mouth of Jeremiah all the
Go, hide, you and Jeremiah; and let no man words of the book which Jehoiakim king of
know where you are. 36:20 They went in to the Judah had burned in the fire; and there were
king into the court; but they had laid up the added besides to them many like words.
scroll in the room of Elishama the scribe; and 37:1
they told all the words in the ears of the king. Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned as
36:21
So the king sent Jehudi to get the scroll; king, instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim,
and he took it out of the room of Elishama the whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made
scribe. Jehudi read it in the ears of the king, king in the land of Judah. 37:2 But neither he,
and in the ears of all the princes who stood nor his servants, nor the people of the land,
beside the king. 36:22 Now the king was sitting listened to the words of the LORD, which he
in the winter house in the ninth month: and spoke by the prophet Jeremiah. 37:3 Zedekiah
there was a fire in the brazier burning before the king sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah, and
him. 36:23 It happened, when Jehudi had read Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, to
three or four leaves, that the king cut it with the prophet Jeremiah, saying, Pray now to the
the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was LORD our God for us. 37:4 Now Jeremiah came
in the brazier, until all the scroll was consumed in and went out among the people; for they had
in the fire that was in the brazier. 36:24 They not put him into prison. 37:5 Pharaoh’s army
were not afraid, nor tore their garments, neither had come forth out of Egypt; and when the
the king, nor any of his servants who heard Kasdim who were besieging Jerusalem heard
all these words. 36:25 Moreover Elnathan and news of them, they broke up from Jerusalem.
37:6
Delaiah and Gemariah had made intercession Then came the word of the LORD to the
to the king that he would not burn the scroll; prophet Jeremiah, saying, 37:7 Thus says the
but he would not hear them. 36:26 The king com- LORD, the God of Israel, You shall tell the king
manded Jerahmeel the king’s son, and Seraiah of Judah, who sent you to me to inquire of
the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of me: Behold, Pharaoh’s army, which has come
Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah forth to help you, shall return to Egypt into
the prophet; but the LORD hid them. 36:27 Then their own land. 37:8 The Kasdim shall come
the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, after again, and fight against this city; and they shall
that the king had burned the scroll, and the take it, and burn it with fire. 37:9 Thus says
words which Baruch wrote at the mouth of the LORD, Don’t deceive yourselves, saying,
Jeremiah, saying, 36:28 Take again another scroll, The Kasdim shall surely depart from us; for
and write in it all the former words that were they shall not depart. 37:10 For though you
in the first scroll, which Jehoiakim the king of had struck the whole army of the Kasdim
Judah has burned. 36:29 Concerning Jehoiakim who fight against you, and there remained but
wounded men among them, yes would they
Jeremiah 37:11 424 Jeremiah 38:16

rise up every man in his tent, and burn this shall live. 38:3 Thus says the LORD, This city
city with fire. 37:11 It happened that, when shall surely be given into the hand of the army
the army of the Kasdim was broken up from of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it.
Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh’s army, 37:12 then 38:4
Then the princes said to the king, “Please let
Jeremiah went forth out of Jerusalem to go into this man be put to death; because he weakens
the land of Benjamin, to receive his portion the hands of the men of war who remain in
there, in the midst of the people. 37:13 When this city, and the hands of all the people, in
he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of speaking such words to them: for this man
the guard was there, whose name was Irijah, doesn’t seek the welfare of this people, but the
the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and hurt.” 38:5 Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he
he laid hold on Jeremiah the prophet, saying, is in your hand; for the king is not he who
You are falling away to the Kasdim. 37:14 Then can do anything against you. 38:6 Then took
Jeremiah said, It is false; I am not falling away they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of
to the Kasdim. But he didn’t listen to him; so Malchijah the king’s son, that was in the court
Irijah laid hold on Jeremiah, and brought him of the guard: and they let down Jeremiah with
to the princes. 37:15 The princes were angry cords. In the dungeon there was no water, but
with Jeremiah, and struck him, and put him mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire. 38:7 Now
in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe; when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, a eunuch,
for they had made that the prison. 37:16 When who was in the king’s house, heard that they
Jeremiah had come into the dungeon house, had put Jeremiah in the dungeon (the king then
and into the cells, and Jeremiah had remained sitting in the gate of Benjamin), 38:8 Ebedmelech
there many days; 37:17 Then Zedekiah the king went forth out of the king’s house, and spoke
sent, and fetched him: and the king asked him to the king, saying, 38:9 My lord the king, these
secretly in his house, and said, Is there any men have done evil in all that they have done
word from the LORD? Jeremiah said, There is. to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast
He said also, You shall be delivered into the into the dungeon; and he is likely to die in the
hand of the king of Babylon. 37:18 Moreover place where he is, because of the famine; for
Jeremiah said to king Zedekiah, Wherein have there is no more bread in the city. 38:10 Then the
I sinned against you, or against your servants, king commanded Ebedmelech the Ethiopian,
or against this people, that you have put me saying, Take from here thirty men with you,
in prison? 37:19 Where now are your prophets and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the
who prophesied to you, saying, The king of dungeon, before he dies. 38:11 So Ebedmelech
Babylon shall not come against you, nor against took the men with him, and went into the
this land? 37:20 Now please hear, my lord the house of the king under the treasury, and
king: please let my supplication be presented took there rags and worn-out garments, and
before you, that you not cause me to return to let them down by cords into the dungeon to
the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there. Jeremiah. 38:12 Ebedmelech the Ethiopian said
37:21
Then Zedekiah the king commanded, and to Jeremiah, Put now these rags and worn-out
they committed Jeremiah into the court of the garments under your armpits under the cords.
guard; and they gave him daily a loaf of bread Jeremiah did so. 38:13 So they drew up Jeremiah
out of the bakers’ street, until all the bread in with the cords, and took him up out of the
the city was spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in dungeon: and Jeremiah remained in the court
the court of the guard. of the guard. 38:14 Then Zedekiah the king sent,
38:1
and took Jeremiah the prophet to him into the
Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and third entry that is in the house of the LORD:
Gedaliah the son of Pashhur, and Jucal the and the king said to Jeremiah, I will ask you
son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur the son of something. Hide nothing from me. 38:15 Then
Malchijah, heard the words that Jeremiah spoke Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, If I declare it to
to all the people, saying, 38:2 Thus says the you, will you not surely put me to death? and
LORD, He who remains in this city shall die by if I give you counsel, you will not listen to
the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence; me. 38:16 So Zedekiah the king swore secretly
but he who goes forth to the Kasdim shall live, to Jeremiah, saying, As the LORD lives, who
and his life shall be to him for a prey, and he
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made us this soul, I will not put you to death, of Babylon and all his army against Jerusalem,
neither will I give you into the hand of these and besieged it; 39:2 in the eleventh year of
men who seek your life. 38:17 Then Jeremiah Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day
said to Zedekiah, Thus says the LORD, the of the month, a breach was made in the city),
39:3
God of Hosts, the God of Israel: If you will that all the princes of the king of Babylon
go forth to the king of Babylon’s princes, then came in, and sat in the middle gate, Nergal
your soul shall live, and this city shall not be Sharezer, Samgarnebo, Sarsechim, Rabsaris,
burned with fire; and you shall live, and your Nergal Sharezer, Rabmag, with all the rest
house. 38:18 But if you will not go forth to the of the princes of the king of Babylon. 39:4 It
king of Babylon’s princes, then shall this city happened that, when Zedekiah the king of
be given into the hand of the Kasdim, and Judah and all the men of war saw them, then
they shall burn it with fire, and you shall not they fled, and went forth out of the city by
escape out of their hand. 38:19 Zedekiah the night, by the way of the king’s garden, through
king said to Jeremiah, I am afraid of the Jews the gate between the two walls; and he went
who are fallen away to the Kasdim, lest they out toward the Arabah. 39:5 But the army of
deliver me into their hand, and they mock me. the Kasdim pursued after them, and overtook
38:20
But Jeremiah said, They shall not deliver Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho: and when
you. Obey, I beg you, the voice of the LORD, they had taken him, they brought him up to
in that which I speak to you: so it shall be well Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in
with you, and your soul shall live. 38:21 But if the land of Hamath; and he gave judgment
you refuse to go forth, this is the word that on him. 39:6 Then the king of Babylon killed
the LORD has shown me: 38:22 behold, all the the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes:
women who are left in the king of Judah’s also the king of Babylon killed all the nobles
house shall be brought forth to the king of of Judah. 39:7 Moreover he put out Zedekiah’s
Babylon’s princes, and those women shall say, eyes, and bound him in fetters, to carry him
Your familiar friends have set you on, and have to Babylon. 39:8 The Kasdim burned the king’s
prevailed over you. Your feet are sunk in the house, and the houses of the people, with
mire, they have turned away back. 38:23 They fire, and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.
39:9
shall bring out all your wives and your children Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard
to the Kasdim; and you shall not escape out of carried away captive into Babylon the residue
their hand, but shall be taken by the hand of the of the people who remained in the city, the
king of Babylon: and you shall cause this city deserters also who fell away to him, and the
to be burned with fire. 38:24 Then Zedekiah said residue of the people who remained. 39:10 But
to Jeremiah, Let no man know of these words, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of
and you shall not die. 38:25 But if the princes the poor of the people, who had nothing,
hear that I have talked with you, and they come in the land of Judah, and gave them vine-
to you, and tell you, Declare to us now what yards and fields at the same time. 39:11 Now
you have said to the king; don’t hide it from us, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon commanded
and we will not put you to death; also what the Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard con-
king said to you: 38:26 then you shall tell them, I cerning Jeremiah, saying, 39:12 Take him, and
presented my supplication before the king, that look well to him, and do him no harm; but
he would not cause me to return to Jonathan’s do to him even as he shall tell you. 39:13 So
house, to die there. 38:27 Then came all the Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard sent, and
princes to Jeremiah, and asked him; and he told Nebushazban, Rabsaris, and Nergal Sharezer,
them according to all these words that the king Rabmag, and all the chief officers of the king
had commanded. So they left off speaking with of Babylon; 39:14 they sent, and took Jeremiah
him; for the matter was not perceived. 38:28 So out of the court of the guard, and committed
Jeremiah stayed in the court of the guard until him to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son
the day that Jerusalem was taken. of Shaphan, that he should carry him home:
39:1
so he lived among the people. 39:15 Now the
It happened when Jerusalem was taken, word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, while
(in the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, he was shut up in the court of the guard,
in the tenth month, came Nebuchadnezzar king
Jeremiah 39:16 426 Jeremiah 41:3

saying, 39:16 Go, and speak to Ebedmelech the the son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai
Ethiopian, saying, Thus says the LORD of the Netophathite, and Jezaniah the son of the
Hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring Maacathite, they and their men. 40:9 Gedaliah
my words on this city for evil, and not for good; the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan swore
and they shall be accomplished before you in to them and to their men, saying, Don’t be
that day. 39:17 But I will deliver you in that day, afraid to serve the Kasdim: dwell in the land,
says the LORD; and you shall not be given into and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be
the hand of the men of whom you are afraid. well with you. 40:10 As for me, behold, I will
39:18
For I will surely save you, and you shall dwell at Mizpah, to stand before the Kasdim
not fall by the sword, but your life shall be for who shall come to us: but you, gather wine
a prey to you; because you have put your trust and summer fruits and oil, and put them in
in me, says the LORD. your vessels, and dwell in your cities that you
40:1
have taken. 40:11 Likewise when all the Jews
The word which came to Jeremiah from who were in Moab, and among the children of
the LORD, after that Nebuzaradan the captain Ammon, and in Edom, and who were in all
of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when the countries, heard that the king of Babylon
he had taken him being bound in chains among had left a remnant of Judah, and that he had
all the captives of Jerusalem and Judah, who set over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the
were carried away captive to Babylon. 40:2 The son of Shaphan; 40:12 then all the Jews returned
captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said to out of all places where they were driven, and
him, the LORD your God pronounced this evil came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah, to
on this place; 40:3 and the LORD has brought it, Mizpah, and gathered wine and summer fruits
and done according as he spoke: because you very much. 40:13 Moreover Yochanan the son of
have sinned against the LORD, and have not Kareah, and all the captains of the forces who
obeyed his voice, therefore this thing has come were in the fields, came to Gedaliah to Mizpah,
on you. 40:4 Now, behold, I release you this 40:14
and said to him, Do you know that Baalis
day from the chains which are on your hand. the king of the children of Ammon has sent
If it seems good to you to come with me into Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to take your life?
Babylon, come, and I will take care of you; but But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam didn’t believe
if it seems bad to you to come with me into them. 40:15 Then Yochanan the son of Kareah
Babylon, don’t: behold, all the land is before spoke to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly, saying,
you; where it seems good and right to you to Please let me go, and I will kill Ishmael the son
go, there go. 40:5 Now while he had not yet of Nethaniah, and no man shall know it: why
gone back, Go back then, he said, to Gedaliah should he take your life, that all the Jews who
the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, whom are gathered to you should be scattered, and
the king of Babylon has made governor over the remnant of Judah perish? 40:16 But Gedaliah
the cities of Judah, and dwell with him among the son of Ahikam said to Yochanan the son
the people; or go wherever it seems right to you of Kareah, You shall not do this thing; for you
to go. So the captain of the guard gave him speak falsely of Ishmael.
food and a present, and let him go. 40:6 Then
41:1
went Jeremiah to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam Now it happened in the seventh month,
to Mizpah, and lived with him among the that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of
people who were left in the land. 40:7 Now Elishama, of the seed royal and one of the
when all the captains of the forces who were chief officers of the king, and ten men with
in the fields, even they and their men, heard him, came to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to
that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah Mizpah; and there they ate bread together in
the son of Ahikam governor in the land, and Mizpah. 41:2 Then arose Ishmael the son of
had committed to him men, and women, and Nethaniah, and the ten men who were with
children, and of the poorest of the land, of those him, and struck Gedaliah the son of Ahikam
who were not carried away captive to Babylon; the son of Shaphan with the sword, and killed
40:8
then they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, him, whom the king of Babylon had made
Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Yochanan governor over the land. 41:3 Ishmael also killed
and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, and Seraiah all the Jews who were with him, with Gedaliah,
Jeremiah 41:4 427 Jeremiah 42:11

at Mizpah, and the Kasdim who were found Ammon. 41:16 Then took Yochanan the son of
there, the men of war. 41:4 It happened the Kareah, and all the captains of the forces who
second day after he had killed Gedaliah, and were with him, all the remnant of the people
no man knew it, 41:5 that there came men from whom he had recovered from Ishmael the son
Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even of Nethaniah, from Mizpah, after that he had
eighty men, having their beards shaved and killed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the men
their clothes torn, and having cut themselves, of war, and the women, and the children, and
with meal offerings and frankincense in their the eunuchs, whom he had brought back from
hand, to bring them to the house of the LORD. Gibeon: 41:17 and they departed, and lived in
41:6
Ishmael the son of Nethaniah went forth Geruth Chimham, which is by Bethlehem, to go
from Mizpah to meet them, weeping all along to enter into Egypt, 41:18 because of the Kasdim;
as he went: and it happened, as he met them, for they were afraid of them, because Ishmael
he said to them, Come to Gedaliah the son of the son of Nethaniah had killed Gedaliah the
Ahikam. 41:7 It was so, when they came into son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon
the midst of the city, that Ishmael the son of made governor over the land.
Nethaniah killed them, and cast them into the 42:1
midst of the pit, he, and the men who were Then all the captains of the forces, and
with him. 41:8 But ten men were found among Yochanan the son of Kareah, and Jezaniah the
those who said to Ishmael, Don’t kill us; for son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the
we have stores hidden in the field, of wheat, least even to the greatest, came near, 42:2 and
and of barley, and of oil, and of honey. So said to Jeremiah the prophet, Please let our
he stopped, and didn’t kill them among their supplication be presented before you, and pray
brothers. 41:9 Now the pit in which Ishmael cast for us to the LORD your God, even for all this
all the dead bodies of the men whom he had remnant; for we are left but a few of many, as
killed, by the side of Gedaliah (the same was your eyes do see us: 42:3 that the LORD your
who which Asa the king had made for fear God may show us the way in which we should
of Baasha king of Israel), Ishmael the son of walk, and the thing that we should do. 42:4 Then
Nethaniah filled it with those who were killed. Jeremiah the prophet said to them, I have heard
41:10
Then Ishmael carried away captive all the you; behold, I will pray to the LORD your God
residue of the people who were in Mizpah, according to your words; and it shall happen
even the king’s daughters, and all the people that whatever thing the LORD shall answer
who remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan you, I will declare it to you; I will keep nothing
the captain of the guard had committed to back from you. 42:5 Then they said to Jeremiah,
Gedaliah the son of Ahikam; Ishmael the son the LORD be a true and faithful witness among
of Nethaniah carried them away captive, and us, if we don’t do according to all the word with
departed to go over to the children of Ammon. which the LORD your God shall send you to us.
42:6
41:11
But when Yochanan the son of Kareah, and Whether it be good, or whether it be evil,
all the captains of the forces who were with we will obey the voice of the LORD our God,
him, heard of all the evil that Ishmael the son of to whom we send you; that it may be well with
Nethaniah had done, 41:12 then they took all the us, when we obey the voice of the LORD our
men, and went to fight with Ishmael the son of God. 42:7 It happened after ten days, that the
Nethaniah, and found him by the great waters word of the LORD came to Jeremiah. 42:8 Then
that are in Gibeon. 41:13 Now it happened that, called he Yochanan the son of Kareah, and all
when all the people who were with Ishmael the captains of the forces who were with him,
saw Yochanan the son of Kareah, and all the and all the people from the least even to the
captains of the forces who were with him, then greatest, 42:9 and said to them, Thus says the
they were glad. 41:14 So all the people who LORD, the God of Israel, to whom you sent
Ishmael had carried away captive from Mizpah me to present your supplication before him:
42:10
turned about and came back, and went to If you will still live in this land, then will
Yochanan the son of Kareah. 41:15 But Ishmael I build you, and not pull you down, and I will
the son of Nethaniah escaped from Yochanan plant you, and not pluck you up; for I grieve
with eight men, and went to the children of over the distress that I have brought on you.
42:11
Don’t be afraid of the king of Babylon, of
Jeremiah 42:12 428 Jeremiah 44:1

whom you are afraid; don’t be afraid of him, even all these words, 43:2 then spoke Azariah
says the LORD: for I am with you to save you, the son of Hoshaiah, and Yochanan the son
and to deliver you from his hand. 42:12 I will of Kareah, and all the proud men, saying to
grant you mercy, that he may have mercy on Jeremiah, You speak falsely: the LORD our God
you, and cause you to return to your own land. has not sent you to say, You shall not go into
42:13
But if you say, We will not dwell in this Egypt to live there; 43:3 but Baruch the son of
land; so that you don’t obey the voice of the Neriah sets you on against us, to deliver us
LORD your God, 42:14 saying, No; but we will into the hand of the Kasdim, that they may
go into the land of Egypt, where we shall see put us to death, and carry us away captive to
no war, nor hear the sound of the shofari , nor Babylon. 43:4 So Yochanan the son of Kareah,
have hunger of bread; and there will we dwell: and all the captains of the forces, and all the
42:15
now therefore hear the word of the LORD, people, didn’t obey the voice of the LORD, to
O remnant of Judah: Thus says the LORD of dwell in the land of Judah. 43:5 But Yochanan
Hosts, the God of Israel, If you indeed set your the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the
faces to enter into Egypt, and go to live there; forces, took all the remnant of Judah, who
42:16
then it shall happen, that the sword, which were returned from all the nations where they
you fear, shall overtake you there in the land had been driven, to live in the land of Judah;
43:6
of Egypt; and the famine, about which you are the men, and the women, and the children,
afraid, shall follow close behind you there in and the king’s daughters, and every person
Egypt; and there you shall die. 42:17 So shall it who Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had
be with all the men who set their faces to go into left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son
Egypt to live there: they shall die by the sword, of Shaphan; and Jeremiah the prophet, and
by the famine, and by the pestilence; and none Baruch the son of Neriah; 43:7 and they came
of them shall remain or escape from the evil into the land of Egypt; for they didn’t obey the
that I will bring on them. 42:18 For thus says the voice of the LORD: and they came to Tahpan-
LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel: As my anger hes. 43:8 Then came the word of the LORD to
and my wrath has been poured forth on the Jeremiah in Tahpanhes, saying, 43:9 Take great
inhabitants of Jerusalem, so shall my wrath be stones in your hand, and hide them in mortar
poured forth on you, when you shall enter into in the brick work, which is at the entry of
Egypt; and you shall be an object of horror, and Pharaoh’s house in Tahpanhes, in the sight of
an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach; the men of Judah; 43:10 and tell them, Thus says
and you shall see this place no more. 42:19 The the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel: Behold,
LORD has spoken concerning you, remnant of I will send and take Nebuchadnezzar the king
Judah, Don’t you go into Egypt: know certainly of Babylon, my servant, and will set his throne
that I have testified to you this day. 42:20 For on these stones that I have hidden; and he shall
you have dealt deceitfully against your own spread his royal pavilion over them. 43:11 He
souls; for you sent me to the LORD your God, shall come, and shall strike the land of Egypt;
saying, Pray for us to the LORD our God; and such as are for death shall be put to death,
according to all that the LORD our God shall and such as are for captivity to captivity, and
say, so declare to us, and we will do it: 42:21 and such as are for the sword to the sword. 43:12 I
I have this day declared it to you; but you will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of
have not obeyed the voice of the LORD your Egypt; and he shall burn them, and carry them
God in anything for which he has sent me to away captive: and he shall array himself with
you. 42:22 Now therefore know certainly that the land of Egypt, as a shepherd puts on his
you shall die by the sword, by the famine, and garment; and he shall go forth from there in
by the pestilence, in the place where you desire peace. 43:13 He shall also break the pillars of
to go to live there. Beth Shemesh, that is in the land of Egypt; and
43:1 the houses of the gods of Egypt shall he burn
It happened that, when Jeremiah had
made an end of speaking to all the people all with fire.
44:1
the words of the LORD their God, with which The word that came to Jeremiah concern-
the LORD their God had sent him to them, ing all the Jews who lived in the land of Egypt,
i 42:14 or, trumpet
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who lived at Migdol, and at Tahpanhes, and an object of horror, an astonishment, and a
at Memphis, and in the country of Pathros, curse, and a reproach. 44:13 For I will punish
saying, 44:2 Thus says the LORD of Hosts, the those who dwell in the land of Egypt, as I
God of Israel: You have seen all the evil that have punished Jerusalem, by the sword, by the
I have brought on Jerusalem, and on all the famine, and by the pestilence; 44:14 so that none
cities of Judah; and behold, this day they of the remnant of Judah, who have gone into
are a desolation, and no man dwells therein, the land of Egypt to live there, shall escape or
44:3
because of their wickedness which they be left, to return into the land of Judah, to which
have committed to provoke me to anger, in they have a desire to return to dwell there: for
that they went to burn incense, to serve other none shall return save such as shall escape.
44:15
gods, that they didn’t know, neither they, nor Then all the men who knew that their
you, nor your fathers. 44:4 However I sent to wives burned incense to other gods, and all the
you all my servants the prophets, rising up women who stood by, a great assembly, even
early and sending them, saying, Oh, don’t do all the people who lived in the land of Egypt,
this abominable thing that I hate. 44:5 But they in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying, 44:16 As
didn’t listen, nor inclined their ear to turn from for the word that you have spoken to us in the
their wickedness, to burn no incense to other name of the LORD, we will not listen to you.
gods. 44:6 Therefore my wrath and my anger 44:17
But we will certainly perform every word
was poured forth, and was kindled in the cities that is gone forth out of our mouth, to burn
of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and incense to the queen of the sky, and to pour out
they are wasted and desolate, as it is this day. drink offerings to her, as we have done, we and
44:7
Therefore now thus says the LORD, the God our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the
of Hosts, the God of Israel: Why do you commit cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem;
great evil against your own souls, to cut off for then had we plenty of food, and were well,
from yourselves man and woman, infant and and saw no evil. 44:18 But since we left off
nursing child out of the midst of Judah, to leave burning incense to the queen of the sky, and
yourselves none remaining; 44:8 in that you pouring out drink offerings to her, we have
provoke me to anger with the works of your wanted all things, and have been consumed
hands, burning incense to other gods in the by the sword and by the famine. 44:19 When
land of Egypt, where you have gone to live; that we burned incense to the queen of the sky,
you may be cut off, and that you may be a curse and poured out drink offerings to her, did we
and a reproach among all the nations of the make her cakes to worship her, and pour out
earth? 44:9 Have you forgotten the wickedness drink offerings to her, without our husbands?
44:20
of your fathers, and the wickedness of the kings Then Jeremiah said to all the people, to the
of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives, men, and to the women, even to all the people
and your own wickedness, and the wickedness who had given him an answer, saying, 44:21 The
of your wives which they committed in the incense that you burned in the cities of Judah,
land of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem? and in the streets of Jerusalem, you and your
44:10
They are not humbled even to this day, fathers, your kings and your princes, and the
neither have they feared, nor walked in my people of the land, didn’t the LORD remember
law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you them, and didn’t it come into his mind? 44:22 so
and before your fathers. 44:11 Therefore thus that the LORD could no longer bear, because
says the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel: of the evil of your doings, and because of
Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, the abominations which you have committed;
even to cut off all Judah. 44:12 I will take the therefore your land has become a desolation,
remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to and an astonishment, and a curse, without
go into the land of Egypt to live there, and inhabitant, as it is this day. 44:23 Because you
they shall all be consumed; in the land of have burned incense, and because you have
Egypt shall they fall; they shall be consumed sinned against the LORD, and have not obeyed
by the sword and by the famine; they shall the voice of the LORD, nor walked in his
die, from the least even to the greatest, by the law, nor in his statutes, nor in his testimonies;
sword and by the famine; and they shall be therefore this evil has happened to you, as it is
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this day. 44:24 Moreover Jeremiah said to all the for a prey in all places where you go.
people, and to all the women, Hear the word 46:1
of the LORD, all Judah who are in the land of The word of the LORD which came to
Egypt: 44:25 Thus says the LORD of Hosts, the Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations.
46:2
God of Israel, saying, You and your wives have Of Egypt: concerning the army of Pharaoh
both spoken with your mouths, and with your Necoh king of Egypt, which was by the river
hands have fulfilled it, saying, We will surely Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchad-
perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn nezzar king of Babylon struck in the fourth year
incense to the queen of the sky, and to pour of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah.
46:3
out drink offerings to her: establish then your Prepare the buckler and shield, and draw
vows, and perform your vows. 44:26 Therefore near to battle! 46:4 Harness the horses, and get
hear the word of the LORD, all Judah who up, you horsemen, and stand forth with your
dwell in the land of Egypt: Behold, I have helmets; furbish the spears, put on the coats of
sworn by my great name, says the LORD, that mail. 46:5 Why have I seen it? they are dismayed
my name shall no more be named in the mouth and are turned backward; and their mighty
of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, ones are beaten down, and have fled apace,
saying, As the Lord GOD lives. 44:27 Behold, and don’t look back: terror is on every side,
I watch over them for evil, and not for good; says the LORD. 46:6 Don’t let the swift flee away,
and all the men of Judah who are in the land of nor the mighty man escape; in the north by the
Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by river Euphrates have they stumbled and fallen.
46:7
the famine, until they are all gone. 44:28 Those Who is this who rises up like the Nile,
who escape the sword shall return out of the whose waters toss themselves like the rivers?
46:8
land of Egypt into the land of Judah, few in Egypt rises up like the Nile, and his waters
number; and all the remnant of Judah, who toss themselves like the rivers: and he says, I
have gone into the land of Egypt to live there, will rise up, I will cover the earth; I will destroy
shall know whose word shall stand, mine, or cities and its inhabitants. 46:9 Go up, you horses;
theirs. 44:29 This shall be the sign to you, says and rage, you chariots; and let the mighty men
the LORD, that I will punish you in this place, go forth: Cush and Put, who handle the shield;
that you may know that my words shall surely and the Ludim, who handle and bend the bow.
46:10
stand against you for evil: 44:30 Thus says the For that day is of the Lord, the LORD
LORD, Behold, I will give Pharaoh Hophra of Hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may
king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword
into the hand of those who seek his life; as I shall devour and be satiate, and shall drink its
gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of fill of their blood; for the Lord, the LORD of
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, who was his Hosts, has a sacrifice in the north country by
enemy, and sought his life. the river Euphrates. 46:11 Go up into Gilead,
and take balm, virgin daughter of Egypt: in
45:1
The message that Jeremiah the prophet vain do you use many medicines; there is no
spoke to Baruch the son of Neriah, when he healing for you. 46:12 The nations have heard of
wrote these words in a book at the mouth of your shame, and the earth is full of your cry;
Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the for the mighty man has stumbled against the
son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying, 45:2 Thus mighty, they are fallen both of them together.
46:13
says the LORD, the God of Israel, to you, The word that the LORD spoke to Jeremiah
Baruch: 45:3 You said, Woe is me now! for the the prophet, how that Nebuchadnezzar king
LORD has added sorrow to my pain; I am of Babylon should come and strike the land
weary with my groaning, and I find no rest. of Egypt. 46:14 Declare in Egypt, and publish
45:4
You shall tell him, Thus says the LORD: in Migdol, and publish in Memphis and in
Behold, that which I have built will I break Tahpanhes: say, Stand forth, and prepare; for
down, and that which I have planted I will the sword has devoured around you. 46:15 Why
pluck up; and this in the whole land. 45:5 Do are your strong ones swept away? they didn’t
you seek great things for yourself? Don’t seek stand, because the LORD pushed them. 46:16 He
them; for, behold, I will bring evil on all flesh, made many to stumble, yes, they fell one on
says the LORD; but your life will I give to you another: and they said, Arise, and let us go
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again to our own people, and to the land of our overflowing stream, and shall overflow the
birth, from the oppressing sword. 46:17 They land and all that is therein, the city and those
cried there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a who dwell therein; and the men shall cry, and
noise; he has let the appointed time pass by. all the inhabitants of the land shall wail. 47:3 At
46:18
As I live, says the King, whose name is the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his
the LORD of Hosts, surely like Tabor among strong ones, at the rushing of his chariots, at the
the mountains, and like Carmel by the sea, so rumbling of his wheels, the fathers don’t look
shall he come. 46:19 You daughter who dwells in back to their children for feebleness of hands;
47:4
Egypt, furnish yourself to go into captivity; for because of the day that comes to destroy all
Memphis shall become a desolation, and shall the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and Sidon
be burnt up, without inhabitant. 46:20 Egypt is every helper who remains: for the LORD will
a very beautiful heifer; but destruction out of destroy the Philistines, the remnant of the isle
the north has come, it has come. 46:21 Also her of Caphtor. 47:5 Baldness has come on Gaza;
hired men in the midst of her are like calves Ashkelon is brought to nothing, the remnant of
of the stall; for they also are turned back, they their valley: how long will you cut yourself?
47:6
are fled away together, they didn’t stand: for You sword of the LORD, how long will it
the day of their calamity has come on them, be before you be quiet? Put up yourself into
the time of their visitation. 46:22 The sound your scabbard; rest, and be still. 47:7 How can
of it shall go like the serpent; for they shall you be quiet, since the LORD has given you a
march with an army, and come against her command? Against Ashkelon, and against the
with axes, as wood cutters. 46:23 They shall seashore, there has he appointed it.
cut down her forest, says the LORD, though 48:1
it can’t be searched; because they are more Of Moab. Thus says the LORD of Hosts,
than the locusts, and are innumerable. 46:24 The the God of Israel: Woe to Nebo! for it is laid
daughter of Egypt shall be disappointed; she waste; Kiriathaim is disappointed, it is taken;
shall be delivered into the hand of the people of Misgab is put to shame and broken down.
48:2
the north. 46:25 The LORD of Hosts, the God of The praise of Moab is no more; in Heshbon
Israel, says: Behold, I will punish Amon of No, they have devised evil against her: Come, and
and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with her gods, and let us cut her off from being a nation. You also,
her kings; even Pharaoh, and those who trust Madmen, shall be brought to silence: the sword
in him: 46:26 and I will deliver them into the shall pursue you. 48:3 The sound of a cry from
hand of those who seek their lives, and into the Horonaim, desolation and great destruction!
48:4
hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and Moab is destroyed; her little ones have
into the hand of his servants; and afterwards it caused a cry to be heard. 48:5 For by the ascent
shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, says of Luhith with continual weeping shall they
the LORD. 46:27 But don’t you be afraid, Jacob go up; for at the descent of Horonaim they
my servant, neither be dismayed, Israel: for, have heard the distress of the cry of destruction.
48:6
behold, I will save you from afar, and your Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath
seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob in the wilderness. 48:7 For, because you have
shall return, and shall be quiet and at ease, and trusted in your works and in your treasures,
none shall make him afraid. 46:28 Don’t you be you also shall be taken: and Chemosh shall go
afraid, O Jacob my servant, says the LORD; for forth into captivity, his priests and his princes
I am with you: for I will make a full end of all together. 48:8 The destroyer shall come on every
the nations where I have driven you; but I will city, and no city shall escape; the valley also
not make a full end of you, but I will correct shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed;
you in measure, and will in no way leave you as the LORD has spoken. 48:9 Give wings to
unpunished. Moab, that she may fly and get her away: and
her cities shall become a desolation, without
47:1
The word of the LORD that came any to dwell therein. 48:10 Cursed is he who
to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the does the work of the LORD negligently; and
Philistines, before that Pharaoh struck Gaza. cursed is he who keeps back his sword from
47:2
Thus says the LORD: Behold, waters rise blood. 48:11 Moab has been at ease from his
up out of the north, and shall become an youth, and he has settled on his lees, and
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has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, all Moab: for the men of Kir Heres shall they
neither has he gone into captivity: therefore mourn. 48:32 With more than the weeping of
his taste remains in him, and his scent is not Jazer will I weep for you, vine of Sibmah: your
changed. 48:12 Therefore behold, the days come, branches passed over the sea, they reached
says the LORD, that I will send to him those even to the sea of Jazer: on your summer fruits
who pour off, and they shall pour him off; and and on your vintage the destroyer is fallen.
48:33
they shall empty his vessels, and break their Gladness and joy is taken away from the
bottles in pieces. 48:13 Moab shall be ashamed of fruitful field and from the land of Moab; and
Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed I have caused wine to cease from the wine
of Bethel their confidence. 48:14 How do you presses: none shall tread with shouting; the
say, We are mighty men, and valiant men for shouting shall be no shouting. 48:34 From the
the war? 48:15 Moab is laid waste, and they are cry of Heshbon even to Elealeh, even to Jahaz
gone up into his cities, and his chosen young have they uttered their voice, from Zoar even
men are gone down to the slaughter, says to Horonaim, to Eglath Shelishiyah: for the
the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts. waters of Nimrim also shall become desolate.
48:16 48:35
The calamity of Moab is near to come, and Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab,
his affliction hurries fast. 48:17 All you who are says the LORD, him who offers in the high
around him, bemoan him, and all you who place, and him who burns incense to his gods.
48:36
know his name; say, How is the strong staff Therefore my heart sounds for Moab like
broken, the beautiful rod! 48:18 You daughter pipes, and my heart sounds like pipes for the
who dwells in Dibon, come down from your men of Kir Heres: therefore the abundance that
glory, and sit in thirst; for the destroyer of Moab he has gotten is perished. 48:37 For every head
has come up against you, he has destroyed is bald, and every beard clipped: on all the
your strongholds. 48:19 Inhabitant of Aroer, hands are cuttings, and on the waist sackcloth.
48:38
stand by the way, and watch: ask him who On all the housetops of Moab and in its
flees, and her who escapes; say, What has been streets there is lamentation every where; for I
done? 48:20 Moab is disappointed; for it is have broken Moab like a vessel in which none
broken down: wail and cry; tell it by the Arnon, delights, says the LORD. 48:39 How it is broken
that Moab is laid waste. 48:21 Judgment has down! How they wail! How Moab has turned
come on the plain country, on Holon, and on the back with shame! So shall Moab become
Jahzah, and on Mephaath, 48:22 and on Dibon, a derision and a terror to all who are around
and on Nebo, and on Beth Diblathaim, 48:23 and him. 48:40 For thus says the LORD: Behold, he
on Kiriathaim, and on Beth Gamul, and on Beth shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread out his
Meon, 48:24 and on Kerioth, and on Bozrah, and wings against Moab. 48:41 Kerioth is taken, and
on all the cities of the land of Moab, far or the strongholds are seized, and the heart of the
near. 48:25 The horn of Moab is cut off, and his mighty men of Moab at that day shall be as
arm is broken, says the LORD. 48:26 Make him the heart of a woman in her pangs. 48:42 Moab
drunken; for he magnified himself against the shall be destroyed from being a people, because
LORD: and Moab shall wallow in his vomit, he has magnified himself against the LORD.
and he also shall be in derision. 48:27 For wasn’t 48:43
Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are on you,
Israel a derision to you? was he found among inhabitant of Moab, says the LORD. 48:44 He
thieves? for as often as you speak of him, who flees from the fear shall fall into the pit;
you shake your head. 48:28 You inhabitants of and he who gets up out of the pit shall be
Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock; taken in the snare: for I will bring on him,
and be like the dove that makes her nest over even on Moab, the year of their visitation, says
the mouth of the abyss. 48:29 We have heard the LORD. 48:45 Those who fled stand without
of the pride of Moab. He is very proud; his strength under the shadow of Heshbon; for a
loftiness, and his pride, and his arrogance, and fire is gone forth out of Heshbon, and a flame
the haughtiness of his heart. 48:30 I know his from the midst of Sihon, and has devoured the
wrath, says the LORD, that it is nothing; his corner of Moab, and the crown of the head of
boastings have worked nothing. 48:31 Therefore the tumultuous ones. 48:46 Woe to you, O Moab!
will I wail for Moab; yes, I will cry out for the people of Chemosh is undone; for your sons
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are taken away captive, and your daughters waste, and a curse; and all its cities shall be
into captivity. 48:47 Yet will I bring back the perpetual wastes. 49:14 I have heard news from
captivity of Moab in the latter days, says the the LORD, and an ambassador is sent among
LORD. Thus far is the judgment of Moab. the nations, saying, Gather yourselves together,
49:1
and come against her, and rise up to the battle.
Of the children of Ammon. Thus says 49:15
For, behold, I have made you small among
the LORD: Has Israel no sons? has he no the nations, and despised among men. 49:16 As
heir? why then does Malcam possess Gad, for your terror, the pride of your heart has
and his people well in its cities? 49:2 Therefore deceived you, O you who dwell in the clefts
behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I of the rock, who hold the height of the hill:
will cause an alarm of war to be heard against though you should make your nest as high as
Rabbah of the children of Ammon; and it shall the eagle, I will bring you down from there,
become a desolate heap, and her daughters says the LORD. 49:17 Edom shall become an
shall be burned with fire: then shall Israel astonishment: everyone who passes by it shall
possess those who possessed him, says the be astonished, and shall hiss at all its plagues.
LORD. 49:3 Wail, Heshbon, for Ai is laid waste; 49:18
As in the overthrow of Sodom and Go-
cry, you daughters of Rabbah, clothe yourself morrah and the neighbor cities of it, says the
in sackcloth: lament, and run back and forth LORD, no man shall dwell there, neither shall
among the fences; for Malcam shall go into any son of man live therein. 49:19 Behold, he
captivity, his priests and his princes together. shall come up like a lion from the pride of
49:4
Why do you glory in the valleys, your the Jordan against the strong habitation: for
flowing valley, backsliding daughter? who I will suddenly make them run away from it;
trusted in her treasures, saying, Who shall and whoever is chosen, him will I appoint over
come to me? 49:5 Behold, I will bring a fear it: for who is like me? and who will appoint
on you, says the Lord, the LORD of Hosts, me a time? and who is the shepherd who
from all who are around you; and you shall will stand before me? 49:20 Therefore hear the
be driven out every man right forth, and there counsel of the LORD, that he has taken against
shall be none to gather together the fugitives. Edom; and his purposes, that he has purposed
49:6
But afterward I will bring back the captivity against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely they
of the children of Ammon, says the LORD. shall drag them away, the little ones of the flock;
49:7
Of Edom. Thus says the LORD of Hosts: surely he shall make their habitation desolate
Is wisdom no more in Teman? is counsel over them. 49:21 The earth trembles at the noise
perished from the prudent? is their wisdom of their fall; there is a cry, the noise which is
vanished? 49:8 Flee, turn back, dwell in the heard in the Sea of Suf. 49:22 Behold, he shall
depths, inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring come up and fly as the eagle, and spread out
the calamity of Esau on him, the time that I his wings against Bozrah: and the heart of the
shall visit him. 49:9 If grape gatherers came mighty men of Edom at that day shall be as
to you, would they not leave some gleaning the heart of a woman in her pangs. 49:23 Of
grapes? if thieves by night, wouldn’t they Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad;
destroy until they had enough? 49:10 But I have for they have heard evil news, they are melted
made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret away: there is sorrow on the sea; it can’t be
places, and he shall not be able to hide himself: quiet. 49:24 Damascus has grown feeble, she
his seed is destroyed, and his brothers, and turns herself to flee, and trembling has seized
his neighbors; and he is no more. 49:11 Leave on her: anguish and sorrows have taken hold
your fatherless children, I will preserve them of her, as of a woman in travail. 49:25 How is the
alive; and let your widows trust in me. 49:12 For city of praise not forsaken, the city of my joy?
thus says the LORD: Behold, they to whom it 49:26
Therefore her young men shall fall in her
didn’t pertain to drink of the cup shall certainly streets, and all the men of war shall be brought
drink; and are you he who shall altogether go to silence in that day, says the LORD of Hosts.
unpunished? You shall not go unpunished, 49:27
I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus,
but you shall surely drink. 49:13 For I have and it shall devour the palaces of Ben Hadad.
sworn by myself, says the LORD, that Bozrah 49:28
Of Kedar, and of the kingdoms of Hazor,
shall become an astonishment, a reproach, a
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which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon struck. man and animal. 50:4 In those days, and in that
Thus says the LORD: Arise, go up to Kedar, and time, says the LORD, the children of Israel shall
destroy the children of the east. 49:29 Their tents come, they and the children of Judah together;
and their flocks shall they take; they shall carry they shall go on their way weeping, and shall
away for themselves their curtains, and all their seek the LORD their God. 50:5 They shall
vessels, and their camels; and they shall cry to inquire concerning Zion with their faces turned
them, Terror on every side! 49:30 Flee, wander toward it, saying, Come, and join yourselves
far off, dwell in the depths, you inhabitants to the LORD in an everlasting covenant that
of Hazor, says the LORD; for Nebuchadnezzar shall not be forgotten. 50:6 My people have been
king of Babylon has taken counsel against lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them
you, and has conceived a purpose against you. to go astray; they have turned them away on
49:31
Arise, go up to a nation that is at ease, the mountains; they have gone from moun-
that dwells without care, says the LORD; that tain to hill; they have forgotten their resting
have neither gates nor bars, that dwell alone. place. 50:7 All who found them have devoured
49:32
Their camels shall be a booty, and the them; and their adversaries said, We are not
multitude of their livestock a spoil: and I will guilty, because they have sinned against the
scatter to all winds those who have the corners LORD, the habitation of righteousness, even
of their beards cut off; and I will bring their the LORD, the hope of their fathers. 50:8 Flee
calamity from every side of them, says the out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth
LORD. 49:33 Hazor shall be a dwelling place out of the land of the Kasdim, and be as the
of jackals, a desolation forever: no man shall male goats before the flocks. 50:9 For, behold,
dwell there, neither shall any son of man live I will stir up and cause to come up against
therein. 49:34 The word of the LORD that came Babylon a company of great nations from the
to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam, in north country; and they shall set themselves
the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king in array against her; from there she shall be
of Judah, saying, 49:35 Thus says the LORD of taken: their arrows shall be as of an expert
Hosts: Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the mighty man; none shall return in vain. 50:10 The
chief of their might. 49:36 On Elam will I bring land of the Kasdim shall be a prey: all who
the four winds from the four quarters of the sky, prey on her shall be satisfied, says the LORD.
50:11
and will scatter them toward all those winds; Because you are glad, because you rejoice,
and there shall be no nation where the outcasts O you who plunder my heritage, because you
of Elam shall not come. 49:37 I will cause Elam are wanton as a heifer that treads out the grain,
to be dismayed before their enemies, and before and neigh as strong horses; 50:12 your mother
those who seek their life; and I will bring evil on shall be utterly disappointed; she who bore
them, even my fierce anger, says the LORD; and you shall be confounded: behold, she shall be
I will send the sword after them, until I have the least of the nations, a wilderness, a dry
consumed them; 49:38 and I will set my throne land, and a desert. 50:13 Because of the wrath
in Elam, and will destroy from there king and of the LORD she shall not be inhabited, but
princes, says the LORD. 49:39 But it shall happen she shall be wholly desolate: everyone who
in the latter days, that I will bring back the goes by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss
captivity of Elam, says the LORD. at all her plagues. 50:14 Set yourselves in array
50:1
against Babylon all around, all you who bend
The word that the LORD spoke con- the bow; shoot at her, spare no arrows: for
cerning Babylon, concerning the land of the she has sinned against the LORD. 50:15 Shout
Kasdim, by Jeremiah the prophet. 50:2 Declare against her all around: she has submitted
among the nations and publish, and set up herself; her bulwarks are fallen, her walls are
a standard; publish, and don’t conceal: say, thrown down; for it is the vengeance of the
Babylon is taken, Bel is disappointed, Mero- LORD: take vengeance on her; as she has done,
dach is dismayed; her images are disappointed, do to her. 50:16 Cut off the sower from Babylon,
her idols are dismayed. 50:3 For out of the north and him who handles the sickle in the time of
there comes up a nation against her, which harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they
shall make her land desolate, and none shall shall turn everyone to his people, and they shall
dwell therein: they are fled, they are gone, both
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flee everyone to his own land. 50:17 Israel is a day has come, the time that I will visit you.
50:32
hunted sheep; the lions have driven him away: The proud one shall stumble and fall, and
first, the king of Assyria devoured him; and none shall raise him up; and I will kindle a
now at last Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon fire in his cities, and it shall devour all who
has broken his bones. 50:18 Therefore thus says are around him. 50:33 Thus says the LORD of
the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, Hosts: The children of Israel and the children
I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, of Judah are oppressed together; and all who
as I have punished the king of Assyria. 50:19 I took them captive hold them fast; they refuse to
will bring Israel again to his pasture, and he let them go. 50:34 Their Redeemer is strong; the
shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul LORD of Hosts is his name: he will thoroughly
shall be satisfied on the hills of Ephraim and plead their cause, that he may give rest to the
in Gilead. 50:20 In those days, and in that time, earth, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.
50:35
says the LORD, the iniquity of Israel shall be A sword is on the Kasdim, says the LORD,
sought for, and there shall be none; and the and on the inhabitants of Babylon, and on her
sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for princes, and on her wise men. 50:36 A sword is
I will pardon them whom I leave as a remnant. on the boasters, and they shall become fools;
50:21
Go up against the land of Merathaim, even a sword is on her mighty men, and they shall
against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: be dismayed. 50:37 A sword is on their horses,
kill and utterly destroy after them, says the and on their chariots, and on all the mixed
LORD, and do according to all that I have people who are in the midst of her; and they
commanded you. 50:22 A sound of battle is in shall become as women: a sword is on her
the land, and of great destruction. 50:23 How is treasures, and they shall be robbed. 50:38 A
the hammer of the whole earth cut apart and drought is on her waters, and they shall be
broken! how is Babylon become a desolation dried up; for it is a land of engraved images,
among the nations! 50:24 I have laid a snare for and they are mad over idols. 50:39 Therefore
you, and you are also taken, Babylon, and you the wild animals of the desert with the wolves
weren’t aware: you are found, and also caught, shall dwell there, and the ostriches shall dwell
because you have striven against the LORD. therein: and it shall be no more inhabited for-
50:25
The LORD has opened his armory, and has ever; neither shall it be lived in from generation
brought forth the weapons of his indignation; to generation. 50:40 As when God overthrew
for the Lord, the LORD of Hosts, has a work Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities
to do in the land of the Kasdim. 50:26 Come of it, says the LORD, so shall no man dwell
against her from the utmost border; open her there, neither shall any son of man live therein.
50:41
storehouses; cast her up as heaps, and destroy Behold, a people comes from the north;
her utterly; let nothing of her be left. 50:27 Kill and a great nation and many kings shall be
all her bulls; let them go down to the slaughter: stirred up from the uttermost parts of the earth.
50:42
woe to them! for their day has come, the time They lay hold on bow and spear; they are
of their visitation. 50:28 The voice of those who cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roars like
flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to the sea; and they ride on horses, everyone set
declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our in array, as a man to the battle, against you,
God, the vengeance of his temple. 50:29 Call daughter of Babylon. 50:43 The king of Babylon
together the archers against Babylon, all those has heard the news of them, and his hands wax
who bend the bow; encamp against her all feeble: anguish has taken hold of him, pains as
around; let none of it escape: recompense her of a woman in labor. 50:44 Behold, the enemy
according to her work; according to all that she shall come up like a lion from the pride of the
has done, do to her; for she has been proud Jordan against the strong habitation: for I will
against the LORD, against the Holy One of suddenly make them run away from it; and
Israel. 50:30 Therefore her young men will fall whoever is chosen, him will I appoint over it:
in her streets, and all her men of war will be for who is like me? and who will appoint me a
brought to silence in that day, says the LORD. time? and who is the shepherd who can stand
50:31
Behold, I am against you, you proud one, before me? 50:45 Therefore hear the counsel of
says the Lord, the LORD of Hosts; for your the LORD, that he has taken against Babylon;
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and his purposes, that he has purposed against the measure of your covetousness. 51:14 The
the land of the Kasdim: Surely they shall drag LORD of Hosts has sworn by himself, saying,
them away, even the little ones of the flock; Surely I will fill you with men, as with the
surely he shall make their habitation desolate canker worm; and they shall lift up a shout
over them. 50:46 At the noise of the taking of against you. 51:15 He has made the earth by
Babylon the earth trembles, and the cry is heard his power, he has established the world by
among the nations. his wisdom, and by his understanding has he
51:1
Thus says the LORD: Behold, I will stretched out the heavens: 51:16 when he utters
raise up against Babylon, and against those his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the
who dwell in Lebkamai, a destroying wind. heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend
51:2 from the ends of the earth; he makes lightning
I will send to Babylon strangers, who shall
winnow her; and they shall empty her land: for the rain, and brings forth the wind out
for in the day of trouble they shall be against of his treasuries. 51:17 Every man has become
her around. 51:3 Against him who bends let brutish without knowledge. Every goldsmith
the archer bend his bow, and against him who is disappointed by his image; for his molten
lifts himself up in his coat of mail: and don’t image is falsehood, and there is no breath in
spare her young men; utterly destroy all her them. 51:18 They are vanity, a work of delusion:
army. 51:4 They shall fall down slain in the in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
51:19
land of the Kasdim, and thrust through in The portion of Jacob is not like these; for
her streets. 51:5 For Israel is not forsaken, nor he is the former of all things; and is the tribe
Judah, of his God, of the LORD of Hosts; of his inheritance: the LORD of Hosts is his
though their land is full of guilt against the name. 51:20 You are my battle axe and weapons
Holy One of Israel. 51:6 Flee out of the midst of war: and with you will I break in pieces the
of Babylon, and save every man his life; don’t nations; and with you will I destroy kingdoms;
51:21
be cut off in her iniquity: for it is the time and with you will I break in pieces the
of the LORD’s vengeance; he will render to horse and his rider; 51:22 and with you will I
her a recompense. 51:7 Babylon has been a break in pieces the chariot and him who rides
golden cup in the LORD’s hand, who made therein; and with you will I break in pieces
all the earth drunken: the nations have drunk man and woman; and with you will I break in
of her wine; therefore the nations are mad. pieces the old man and the youth; and with you
51:8 will I break in pieces the young man and the
Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed:
wail for her; take balm for her pain, if so be virgin; 51:23 and with you will I break in pieces
she may be healed. 51:9 We would have healed the shepherd and his flock; and with you will
Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, I break in pieces the farmer and his yoke; and
and let us go everyone into his own country; with you will I break in pieces governors and
for her judgment reaches to heaven, and is deputies. 51:24 I will render to Babylon and to
lifted up even to the skies. 51:10 The LORD all the inhabitants of the Kasdim for all their
has brought forth our righteousness: come, and evil that they have done in Zion in your sight,
let us declare in Zion the work of the LORD says the LORD. 51:25 Behold, I am against you,
our God. 51:11 Make sharp the arrows; hold destroying mountain, says the LORD, which
firm the shields: the LORD has stirred up the destroys all the earth; and I will stretch out my
spirit of the kings of the Medes; because his hand on you, and roll you down from the rocks,
purpose is against Babylon, to destroy it: for it and will make you a burnt mountain. 51:26 They
is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance shall not take of you a stone for a corner,
of his temple. 51:12 Set up a standard against nor a stone for foundations; but you shall
the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, be desolate for ever, says the LORD. 51:27 Set
set the watchmen, prepare the ambushes; for up a standard in the land, blow the shofarj
the LORD has both purposed and done that among the nations, prepare the nations against
which he spoke concerning the inhabitants of her, call together against her the kingdoms
Babylon. 51:13 You who dwell on many waters, of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz: appoint a
abundant in treasures, your end has come, marshal against her; cause the horses to come
j 51:27 or, trumpet
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up as the rough canker worm. 51:28 Prepare bring forth out of his mouth that which he has
against her the nations, the kings of the Medes, swallowed up; and the nations shall not flow
its governors, and all its deputies, and all the any more to him: yes, the wall of Babylon shall
land of their dominion. 51:29 The land trembles fall. 51:45 My people, go away from the midst of
and is in pain; for the purposes of the LORD her, and save yourselves every man from the
against Babylon do stand, to make the land fierce anger of the LORD. 51:46 Don’t let your
of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant. heart faint, neither fear for the news that shall
51:30
The mighty men of Babylon have forborne be heard in the land; for news shall come one
to fight, they remain in their strongholds; their year, and after that in another year shall come
might has failed; they are become as women: news, and violence in the land, ruler against
her dwelling places are set on fire; her bars ruler. 51:47 Therefore behold, the days come,
are broken. 51:31 One runner will run to meet that I will execute judgment on the engraved
another, and one messenger to meet another, images of Babylon; and her whole land shall
to show the king of Babylon that his city is be confounded; and all her slain shall fall in
taken on every quarter: 51:32 and the passages the midst of her. 51:48 Then the heavens and
are seized, and the reeds they have burned the earth, and all that is therein, shall sing for
with fire, and the men of war are frightened. joy over Babylon; for the destroyers shall come
51:33
For thus says the LORD of Hosts, the God to her from the north, says the LORD. 51:49 As
of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a Babylon has caused the slain of Israel to fall,
threshing floor at the time when it is trodden; so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the land.
51:50
yet a little while, and the time of harvest shall You who have escaped the sword, go, don’t
come for her. 51:34 Nebuchadnezzar the king stand still; remember the LORD from afar, and
of Babylon has devoured me, he has crushed let Jerusalem come into your mind. 51:51 We are
me, he has made me an empty vessel, he confounded, because we have heard reproach;
has, like a monster, swallowed me up, he confusion has covered our faces: for strangers
has filled his maw with my delicacies; he have come into the sanctuaries of the LORD’s
has cast me out. 51:35 The violence done to house. 51:52 Therefore behold, the days come,
me and to my flesh be on Babylon, shall the says the LORD, that I will execute judgment
inhabitant of Zion say; and, My blood be on on her engraved images; and through all her
the inhabitants of the Kasdim, shall Jerusalem land the wounded shall groan. 51:53 Though
say. 51:36 Therefore thus says the LORD: Behold, Babylon should mount up to the sky, and
I will plead your cause, and take vengeance for though she should fortify the height of her
you; and I will dry up her sea, and make her strength, yet from me shall destroyers come
fountain dry. 51:37 Babylon shall become heaps, to her, says the LORD. 51:54 The sound of a
a dwelling place for jackals, an astonishment, cry from Babylon, and of great destruction
and a hissing, without inhabitant. 51:38 They from the land of the Kasdim! 51:55 For the
shall roar together like young lions; they shall LORD lays Babylon waste, and destroys out of
growl as lions’ cubs. 51:39 When they are heated, her the great voice; and their waves roar like
I will make their feast, and I will make them many waters; the noise of their voice is uttered:
51:56
drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a for the destroyer has come on her, even on
perpetual sleep, and not wake, says the LORD. Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, their
51:40
I will bring them down like lambs to the bows are broken in pieces; for the LORD is
slaughter, like rams with male goats. 51:41 How a God of recompenses, he will surely requite.
51:57
is Sheshach taken! and the praise of the I will make drunk her princes and her wise
whole earth seized! how is Babylon become men, her governors and her deputies, and her
a desolation among the nations! 51:42 The sea mighty men; and they shall sleep a perpetual
has come up on Babylon; she is covered with sleep, and not wake up, says the King, whose
the multitude of its waves. 51:43 Her cities name is the LORD of Hosts. 51:58 Thus says the
are become a desolation, a dry land, and a LORD of Hosts: The broad walls of Babylon
desert, a land in which no man dwells, neither shall be utterly overthrown, and her high gates
does any son of man pass thereby. 51:44 I will shall be burned with fire; and the peoples shall
execute judgment on Bel in Babylon, and I will labor for vanity, and the nations for the fire;
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and they shall be weary. 51:59 The word which him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah in
Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the the land of Hamath; and he gave judgment
son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when on him. 52:10 The king of Babylon killed the
he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah to sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he killed
Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. Now also all the princes of Judah in Riblah. 52:11 He
Seraiah was chief quartermaster. 51:60 Jeremiah put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of
wrote in a book all the evil that should come Babylon bound him in fetters, and carried him
on Babylon, even all these words that are to Babylon, and put him in prison until the
written concerning Babylon. 51:61 Jeremiah said day of his death. 52:12 Now in the fifth month,
to Seraiah, When you come to Babylon, then in the tenth day of the month, which was the
see that you read all these words, 51:62 and nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar, king
say, LORD, you have spoken concerning this of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan the captain
place, to cut it off, that none shall dwell therein, of the guard, who stood before the king of
neither man nor animal, but that it shall be Babylon, into Jerusalem: 52:13 and he burned
desolate forever. 51:63 It shall be, when you the house of the LORD, and the king’s house;
have made an end of reading this book, that and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every
you shall bind a stone to it, and cast it into great house, burned he with fire. 52:14 All the
the midst of the Euphrates: 51:64 and you shall army of the Kasdim, who were with the captain
say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise of the guard, broke down all the walls of
again because of the evil that I will bring on her; Jerusalem all around. 52:15 Then Nebuzaradan
and they shall be weary. Thus far are the words the captain of the guard carried away captive
of Jeremiah. of the poorest of the people, and the residue
52:1
of the people who were left in the city, and
Zedekiah was twenty-one years old those who fell away, who fell to the king of
when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven Babylon, and the residue of the multitude.
years in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was 52:16
But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard
Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. left of the poorest of the land to be vineyard
52:2
He did that which was evil in the sight keepers and farmers. 52:17 The Kasdim broke
of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim the pillars of brass that were in the house of
had done. 52:3 For through the anger of the the LORD, and the bases and the bronze sea
LORD it happened in Jerusalem and Judah, that were in the house of the LORD in pieces,
until he had cast them out from his presence. and carried all the of their brass to Babylon.
Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon. 52:18
They also took away the pots, the shovels,
52:4
It happened in the ninth year of his reign, the snuffers, the basins, the spoons, and all the
in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the vessels of brass with which they ministered.
month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon 52:19
The captain of the guard took away the
came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, cups, the fire pans, the basins, the pots, the
and encamped against it; and they built forts menorahs, the spoons, and the bowls; that
against it round about. 52:5 So the city was which was of gold, in gold, and that which
besieged to the eleventh year of king Zedekiah. was of silver, in silver. 52:20 They took the two
52:6
In the fourth month, in the ninth day of the pillars, the one sea, and the twelve bronze bulls
month, the famine was severe in the city, so that were under the bases, which king Solomon
that there was no bread for the people of the had made for the house of the LORD. The brass
land. 52:7 Then a breach was made in the city, of all these vessels was without weight. 52:21 As
and all the men of war fled, and went forth for the pillars, the height of the one pillar was
out of the city by night by the way of the gate eighteen cubits; and a line of twelve cubits
between the two walls, which was by the king’s encircled it; and its thickness was four fingers.
garden; (now the Kasdim were against the city It was hollow. 52:22 A capital of brass was on
all around;) and they went toward the Arabah. it; and the height of the one capital was five
52:8
But the army of the Kasdim pursued after cubits, with network and pomegranates on the
the king, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains capital all around, all of brass: and the second
of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from pillar also had like these, and pomegranates.
him. 52:9 Then they took the king, and carried
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52:23
There were ninety-six pomegranates on the
sides; all the pomegranates were one hundred
on the network all around. 52:24 The captain
of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and
Zephaniah the second priest, and the three
keepers of the threshold: 52:25 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 midst of the city. 52:26 Nebuzaradan the
captain of the guard took them, and brought
them to the king of Babylon to Riblah. 52:27 The
king of Babylon struck them, and put them to
death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So
Judah was carried away captive out of his land.
52:28
This is the people whom Nebuchadnezzar
carried away captive: in the seventh year
three thousand twenty-three Jews; 52:29 in the
eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar he carried
away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred
thirty-two persons; 52:30 in the three and twenti-
eth year of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuzaradan the
captain of the guard carried away captive of the
Jews seven hundred forty-five persons: all the
persons were four thousand and six hundred.
52:31
It happened in the seven and thirtieth year
of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in
the twelfth month, in the five and twentieth
day of the month, that Evilmerodach king of
Babylon, in the first year of his reign, lifted
up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and
brought him forth out of prison; 52:32 and he
spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above
the throne of the kings who were with him in
Babylon, 52:33 and changed his prison garments.
Jehoiachin ate bread before him continually all
the days of his life: 52:34 and 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.
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Ezekiel faces of it. 1:16 The appearance of the wheels


and their work was like a beryl: and the four
1:1 of them had one likeness; and their appearance
Now it happened in the thirtieth year, in
and their work was as it were a wheel within
the fourth month, in the fifth of the month, as
a wheel. 1:17 When they went, they went in
I was among the captives by the river Chebar,
their four directions: they didn’t turn when
that the heavens were opened, and I saw
they went. 1:18 As for their rims, they were
visions of Goda . 1:2 In the fifth of the month,
high and dreadful; and the four of them had
which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin’s
their rims full of eyes all around. 1:19 When the
captivity, 1:3 the word of the LORDb came
living creatures went, the wheels went beside
expressly to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi,
them; and when the living creatures were lifted
in the land of the Kasdim by the river Chebar;
up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.
and the hand of the LORD was there on him. 1:20
1:4 Wherever the spirit was to go, they went;
I looked, and behold, a stormy wind came
there was the spirit to go: and the wheels were
out of the north, a great cloud, with flashing
lifted up beside them; for the spirit of the living
lightning, and a brightness around it, and out
creature was in the wheels. 1:21 When those
of its midst as it were glowing metal, out of
went, these went; and when those stood, these
the midst of the fire. 1:5 Out of its midst came
stood; and when those were lifted up from the
the likeness of four living creatures. This was
earth, the wheels were lifted up beside them:
their appearance: they had the likeness of a
for the spirit of the living creature was in the
man. 1:6 Everyone had four faces, and each one
wheels. 1:22 Over the head of the living creature
of them had four wings. 1:7 Their feet were
there was the likeness of an expanse, like the
straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like
awesome crystal to look on, stretched forth
the sole of a calf’s foot; and they sparkled like
over their heads above. 1:23 Under the expanse
burnished brass. 1:8 They had the hands of
were their wings straight, the one toward the
a man under their wings on their four sides;
other: each one had two which covered on this
and the four of them had their faces and their
side, and every one had two which covered on
wings thus: 1:9 their wings were joined one
that side, their bodies. 1:24 When they went, I
to another; they didn’t turn when they went;
heard the noise of their wings like the noise
each one went straight forward. 1:10 As for the
of great waters, like the voice of the Almighty,
likeness of their faces, they had the face of a
a noise of tumult like the noise of an army:
man; and the four of them had the face of a
when they stood, they let down their wings.
lion on the right side; and the four of them had 1:25
There was a voice above the expanse that
the face of an ox on the left side; the four of
was over their heads: when they stood, they
them also had the face of an eagle. 1:11 Such
let down their wings. 1:26 Above the expanse
were their faces. Their wings were spread
that was over their heads was the likeness
out above. Two wings of each one touched
of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphirec
another, and two covered their bodies. 1:12 Each
stone; and on the likeness of the throne was
one went straight forward: where the spirit
a likeness as the appearance of a man on it
was to go, they went; they didn’t turn when
above. 1:27 I saw as it were glowing metal, as the
they went. 1:13 As for the likeness of the living
appearance of fire within it all around, from the
creatures, their appearance was like burning
appearance of his waist and upward; and from
coals of fire, like the appearance of torches:
the appearance of his waist and downward
the fire went up and down among the living
I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and
creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of
there was brightness around him. 1:28 As the
the fire went forth lightning. 1:14 The living
appearance of the rainbow that is in the cloud
creatures ran and returned as the appearance
in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the
of a flash of lightning. 1:15 Now as I saw the
brightness all around. This was the appearance
living creatures, behold, one wheel on the earth
of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. When
beside the living creatures, for each of the four
a 1:1 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “Elohim.”
b 1:3 “LORD” or “GOD” (all capital letters) indicate the 4-letter Holy Name of God
c 1:26 or, lapis lazuli
Ezekiel 2:1 441 Ezekiel 3:21

I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard a voice of are obstinatee and hard-hearted. 3:8 Behold, I
one that spoke. have made your face hard against their faces,
2:1 and your forehead hard against their foreheads.
He said to me, Son of man, stand on your
3:9
feet, and I will speak with you. 2:2 The Spirit As an adamant harder than flint have I made
entered into me when he spoke to me, and set your forehead: don’t be afraid of them, neither
me on my feet; and I heard him who spoke to be dismayed at their looks, though they are a
me. 2:3 He said to me, Son of man, I send you rebellious house. 3:10 Moreover he said to me,
to the children of Israel, to a nation of rebels Son of man, all my words that I shall speak to
who have rebelled against me. They and their you receive in your heart, and hear with your
fathers have transgressed against me even to ears. 3:11 Go to them of the captivity, to the
this very day. 2:4 The children are impudent children of your people, and speak to them, and
and stiff-hearted: I am sending you to them; tell them, Thus says the Lord GOD; whether
and you shall tell them, Thus says the Lordd they will hear, or whether they will forbear.
3:12
the LORD. 2:5 They, whether they will hear, Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard
or whether they will forbear, (for they are a behind me the voice of a great rushing, saying,
rebellious house), yet shall know that there has Blessed be the glory of the LORD from his
been a prophet among them. 2:6 You, son of place. 3:13 I heard the noise of the wings of the
man, don’t be afraid of them, neither be afraid living creatures as they touched one another,
of their words, though briers and thorns are and the noise of the wheels beside them, even
with you, and you do dwell among scorpions: the noise of a great rushing. 3:14 So the Spirit
don’t be afraid of their words, nor be dismayed lifted me up, and took me away; and I went
at their looks, though they are a rebellious in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; and the
house. 2:7 You shall speak my words to them, hand of the LORD was strong on me. 3:15 Then
whether they will hear, or whether they will I came to them of the captivity at Tel Aviv,
forbear; for they are most rebellious. 2:8 But that lived by the river Chebar, and to where
you, son of man, hear what I tell you; don’t be they lived; and I sat there overwhelmed among
rebellious like that rebellious house: open your them seven days. 3:16 It happened at the end
mouth, and eat that which I give you. 2:9 When of seven days, that the word of the LORD
I looked, behold, a hand was put forth to me; came to me, saying, 3:17 Son of man, I have
and, behold, a scroll of a book was therein; made you a watchman to the house of Israel:
2:10 therefore hear the word from my mouth, and
He spread it before me: and it was written
within and without; and there were written give them warning from me. 3:18 When I tell
therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe. the wicked, You shall surely die; and you give
3:1
He said to me, Son of man, eat that which him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked
you find. Eat this scroll, and go, speak to the from his wicked way, to save his life; the same
house of Israel. 3:2 So I opened my mouth, and wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his
he caused me to eat the scroll. 3:3 He said to blood will I require at your hand. 3:19 Yet if
me, Son of man, cause your belly to eat, and you warn the wicked, and he doesn’t turn from
fill your bowels with this scroll that I give you. his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he
Then I ate it; and it was as sweet as honey in my shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered
mouth. 3:4 He said to me, Son of man, go to the your soul. 3:20 Again, when a righteous man
house of Israel, and speak my words to them. does turn from his righteousness, and commit
3:5
For you are not sent to a people of a strange iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before
speech and of a hard language, but to the house him, he shall die: because you have not given
of Israel; 3:6 not to many peoples of a strange him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his
speech and of a hard language, whose words righteous deeds which he has done shall not
you can not understand. Surely, if I sent you be remembered; but his blood will I require at
to them, they would listen to you. 3:7 But the your hand. 3:21 Nevertheless if you warn the
house of Israel will not listen to you; for they righteous man, that the righteous not sin, and
will not listen to me: for all the house of Israel he does not sin, he shall surely live, because
d 2:4 The word translated “Lord” (mixed case) is “Adonai.”
e 3:7 Literally, have a hard forehead
Ezekiel 3:22 442 Ezekiel 5:7

he took warning; and you have delivered your to the number of the days that you shall lie
soul. 3:22 The hand of the LORD was there on on your side, even three hundred ninety days,
me; and he said to me, Arise, go forth into the you shall eat of it. 4:10 Your food which you
plain, and I will there talk with you. 3:23 Then shall eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a
I arose, and went forth into the plain: and day: from time to time you shall eat it. 4:11 You
behold, the glory of the LORD stood there, as shall drink water by measure, the sixth part
the glory which I saw by the river Chebar; and I of a hin: from time to time you shall drink.
fell on my face. 3:24 Then the Spirit entered into 4:12
You shall eat it as barley cakes, and you
me, and set me on my feet; and he spoke with shall bake it in their sight with dung that comes
me, and said to me, Go, shut yourself inside out of man. 4:13 The LORD said, Even thus shall
your house. 3:25 But you, son of man, behold, the children of Israel eat their bread unclean,
they shall lay bands on you, and shall bind you among the nations where I will drive them.
4:14
with them, and you shall not go out among Then I said, Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul
them: 3:26 and I will make your tongue stick to has not been polluted; for from my youth up
the roof of your mouth, that you shall be mute, even until now have I not eaten of that which
and shall not be to them a reprover; for they dies of itself, or is torn of animals; neither
are a rebellious house. 3:27 But when I speak came there abominable flesh into my mouth.
4:15
with you, I will open your mouth, and you shall Then he said to me, Behold, I have given
tell them, Thus says the Lord GOD: He who you cow’s dung for man’s dung, and you shall
hears, let him hear; and he who forbears, let prepare your bread thereon. 4:16 Moreover he
him forbear: for they are a rebellious house. said to me, Son of man, behold, I will break the
4:1
staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat
You also, son of man, take a tile, and bread by weight, and with fearfulness; and they
lay it before yourself, and portray on it a city, shall drink water by measure, and in dismay:
even Jerusalem: 4:2 and lay siege against it, and 4:17
that they may want bread and water, and
build forts against it, and cast up a mound be dismayed one with another, and pine away
against it; set camps also against it, and plant in their iniquity.
battering rams against it all around. 4:3 Take for
5:1
yourself an iron pan, and set it for a wall of You, son of man, take a sharp sword; You
iron between you and the city: and set your shall take it as a barber’s razor to you, and
face toward it, and it shall be besieged, and shall cause it to pass on your head and on
you shall lay siege against it. This shall be your beard: then take balances to weigh, and
a sign to the house of Israel. 4:4 Moreover lie divide the hair. 5:2 A third part you shall burn
on your left side, and lay the iniquity of the in the fire in the midst of the city, when the
house of Israel on it; according to the number days of the siege are fulfilled; and you shall
of the days that you shall lie on it, you shall take a third part, and strike with the sword
bear their iniquity. 4:5 For I have appointed the around it; and a third part you shall scatter
years of their iniquity to be to you a number to the wind, and I will draw out a sword
of days, even three hundred ninety days: so after them. 5:3 You shall take of it a few in
you shall bear the iniquity of the house of number, and bind them in your skirts. 5:4 Of
Israel. 4:6 Again, when you have accomplished these again you shall take, and cast them into
these, you shall lie on your right side, and shall the midst of the fire, and burn them in the
bear the iniquity of the house of Judah: forty fire; from it shall a fire come forth into all the
days, each day for a year, have I appointed it house of Israel. 5:5 Thus says the Lord GOD:
to you. 4:7 You shall set your face toward the This is Jerusalem; I have set her in the midst
siege of Jerusalem, with your arm uncovered; of the nations, and countries are around her.
and you shall prophesy against it. 4:8 Behold, 5:6
She has rebelled against my ordinances in
I lay bands on you, and you shall not turn doing wickedness more than the nations, and
you from one side to the other, until you have against my statutes more than the countries
accomplished the days of your siege. 4:9 Take that are around her; for they have rejected my
for yourself also wheat, and barley, and beans, ordinances, and as for my statutes, they have
and lentils, and millet, and spelt, and put them not walked in them. 5:7 Therefore thus says
in one vessel, and make bread of it; according the Lord GOD: Because you are turbulent more
Ezekiel 5:8 443 Ezekiel 7:2

than the nations that are around you, and have the watercourses and to the valleys: Behold,
not walked in my statutes, neither have kept I, even I, will bring a sword on you, and I
my ordinances, neither have done after the will destroy your high places. 6:4 Your altars
ordinances of the nations that are around you; shall become desolate, and your incense altars
5:8
therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, shall be broken; and I will cast down your
I, even I, am against you; and I will execute slain men before your idols. 6:5 I will lay the
judgments in the midst of you in the sight of dead bodies of the children of Israel before
the nations. 5:9 I will do in you that which I their idols; and I will scatter your bones around
have not done, and whereunto I will not do any your altars. 6:6 In all your dwelling places the
more the like, because of all your abominations. cities shall be laid waste, and the high places
5:10
Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid
the midst of you, and the sons shall eat their waste and made desolate, and your idols may
fathers; and I will execute judgments on you; be broken and cease, and your incense altars
and the whole remnant of you will I scatter to may be cut down, and your works may be
all the winds. 5:11 Therefore as I live, says the abolished. 6:7 The slain shall fall in the midst of
Lord GOD, surely, because you have defiled my you, and you shall know that I am the LORD.
6:8
sanctuary with all your detestable things, and Yet will I leave a remnant, in that you shall
with all your abominations, therefore will I also have some that escape the sword among the
diminish you; neither shall my eye spare, and I nations, when you shall be scattered through
also will have no pity. 5:12 A third part of you the countries. 6:9 Those of you that escape
shall die with the pestilence, and with famine shall remember me among the nations where
shall they be consumed in the midst of you; and they shall be carried captive, how that I have
a third part shall fall by the sword around you; been broken with their lewd heart, which has
and a third part I will scatter to all the winds, departed from me, and with their eyes, which
and will draw out a sword after them. 5:13 Thus play the prostitute after their idols: and they
shall my anger be accomplished, and I will shall loathe themselves in their own sight for
cause my wrath toward them to rest, and I shall the evils which they have committed in all their
be comforted; and they shall know that I, the abominations. 6:10 They shall know that I am
LORD, have spoken in my zeal, when I have the LORD: I have not said in vain that I would
accomplished my wrath on them. 5:14 Moreover do this evil to them. 6:11 Thus says the Lord
I will make you a desolation and a reproach GOD: Strike with your hand, and stamp with
among the nations that are around you, in the your foot, and say, Alas! because of all the evil
sight of all that pass by. 5:15 So it shall be a abominations of the house of Israel; for they
reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by
astonishment, to the nations that are around the pestilence. 6:12 He who is far off shall die of
you, when I shall execute judgments on you in the pestilence; and he who is near shall fall by
anger and in wrath, and in wrathful rebukes; the sword; and he who remains and is besieged
(I, the LORD, have spoken it;) 5:16 when I shall shall die by the famine: thus will I accomplish
send on them the evil arrows of famine, that my wrath on them. 6:13 You shall know that I
are for destruction, which I will send to destroy am the LORD, when their slain men shall be
you: and I will increase the famine on you, and among their idols around their altars, on every
will break your staff of bread; 5:17 and I will high hill, on all the tops of the mountains, and
send on you famine and evil animals, and they under every green tree, and under every thick
shall bereave you; and pestilence and blood oak, the places where they offered pleasant
shall pass through you; and I will bring the aroma to all their idols. 6:14 I will stretch out
sword on you: I, the LORD, have spoken it. my hand on them, and make the land desolate
6:1
and waste, from the wilderness toward Diblah,
The word of the LORD came to me, throughout all their habitations: and they shall
saying, 6:2 Son of man, set your face toward know that I am the LORD.
the mountains of Israel, and prophesy to them,
6:3 7:1
and say, You mountains of Israel, hear the Moreover the word of the LORD came
word of the Lord GOD: Thus says the Lord to me, saying, 7:2 You, son of man, thus says
GOD to the mountains and to the hills, to the Lord GOD to Eretz-Israel, An end: the
Ezekiel 7:3 444 Ezekiel 8:4

end has come on the four corners of the land. and baldness on all their heads. 7:19 They shall
7:3
Now is the end on you, and I will send my cast their silver in the streets, and their gold
anger on you, and will judge you according to shall be as an unclean thing; their silver and
your ways; and I will bring on you all your their gold shall not be able to deliver them in
abominations. 7:4 My eye shall not spare you, the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall
neither will I have pity; but I will bring your not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels;
ways on you, and your abominations shall be because it has been the stumbling block of their
in the midst of you: and you shall know that iniquity. 7:20 As for the beauty of his ornament,
I am the LORD. 7:5 Thus says the Lord GOD: he set it in majesty; but they made the images of
An evil, an only evil; behold, it comes. 7:6 An their abominations and their detestable things
end has come, the end has come; it awakes therein: therefore have I made it to them as an
against you; behold, it comes. 7:7 Your doom unclean thing. 7:21 I will give it into the hands
has come to you, inhabitant of the land: the of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked
time has come, the day is near, a day of tumult, of the earth for a spoil; and they shall profane
and not of joyful shouting, on the mountains. it. 7:22 My face will I turn also from them, and
7:8
Now will I shortly pour out my wrath on they shall profane my secret place; and robbers
you, and accomplish my anger against you, shall enter into it, and profane it. 7:23 Make the
and will judge you according to your ways; chain; for the land is full of bloody crimes, and
and I will bring on you all your abominations. the city is full of violence. 7:24 Therefore I will
7:9
My eye shall not spare, neither will I have bring the worst of the nations, and they shall
pity: I will bring on you according to your possess their houses: I will also make the pride
ways; and your abominations shall be in the of the strong to cease; and their holy places
midst of you; and you shall know that I, the shall be profaned. 7:25 Destruction comes; and
LORD, do strike. 7:10 Behold, the day, behold, they shall seek peace, and there shall be none.
7:26
it comes: your doom is gone forth; the rod Mischief shall come on mischief, and rumor
has blossomed, pride has budded. 7:11 Violence shall be on rumor; and they shall seek a vision
has risen up into a rod of wickedness. None of the prophet; but the law shall perish from
of them shall remain, nor of their multitude, the priest, and counsel from the elders. 7:27 The
nor of their wealth. There shall be nothing of king shall mourn, and the prince shall be
value among them. 7:12 The time has come, the clothed with desolation, and the hands of the
day draws near: don’t let the buyer rejoice, people of the land shall be troubled: I will do
nor the seller mourn; for wrath is on all its to them after their way, and according to their
multitude. 7:13 For the seller shall not return own judgments will I judge them; and they
to that which is sold, although they be yet shall know that I am the LORD.
alive: for the vision is touching the whole 8:1
It happened in the sixth year, in the sixth
multitude of it, none shall return; neither shall month, in the fifth day of the month, as I sat
any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his in my house, and the elders of Judah sat before
life. 7:14 They have blown the shofarf , and have me, that the hand of the Lord GOD fell there
made all ready; but none goes to the battle; for on me. 8:2 Then I saw, and behold, a likeness
my wrath is on all its multitude. 7:15 The sword as the appearance of fire; from the appearance
is outside, and the pestilence and the famine of his waist and downward, fire; and from
within: he who is in the field shall die with his waist and upward, as the appearance of
the sword: and he who is in the city, famine brightness, as it were glowing metal. 8:3 He put
and pestilence shall devour him. 7:16 But those forth the form of a hand, and took me by a
of those who escape shall escape, and shall be lock of my head; and the Spirit lifted me up
on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all between earth and the sky, and brought me in
of them moaning, every one in his iniquity. the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of
7:17
All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall the gate of the inner court that looks toward
be weak as water. 7:18 They shall also clothe the north; where there was the seat of the
themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall image of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy.
cover them; and shame shall be on all faces, 8:4
Behold, the glory of the God of Israel was
f 7:14 or, trumpet
Ezekiel 8:5 445 Ezekiel 10:1

there, according to the appearance that I saw shall not spare, neither will I have pity; and
in the plain. 8:5 Then he said to me, Son of man, though they cry in my ears with a loud voice,
lift up your eyes now the way toward the north. yet will I not hear them.
So I lifted up my eyes the way toward the north, 9:1
Then he cried in my ears with a loud
and see, northward of the gate of the altar this voice, saying, Cause those who are in charge
image of jealousy in the entry. 8:6 He said to me, of the city to draw near, every man with his
Son of man, do you see what they do? even the destroying weapon in his hand. 9:2 Behold, six
great abominations that the house of Israel do men came from the way of the upper gate,
commit here, that I should go far off from my which lies toward the north, every man with
sanctuary? But you shall again see yet other his slaughter weapon in his hand; and one
great abominations. 8:7 He brought me to the man in their midst clothed in linen, with a
door of the court; and when I looked, behold, writer’s inkhorn by his side. They went in,
a hole in the wall. 8:8 Then he said to me, Son and stood beside the bronze altar. 9:3 The glory
of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had of the God of Israel was gone up from the
dug in the wall, behold, a door. 8:9 He said to cherub, whereupon it was, to the threshold of
me, Go in, and see the wicked abominations the house: and he called to the man clothed
that they do here. 8:10 So I went in and saw; in linen, who had the writer’s inkhorn by his
and see, every form of creeping things, and side. 9:4 The LORD said to him, Go through
abominable animals, and all the idols of the the midst of the city, through the midst of
house of Israel, portrayed around on the wall. Jerusalem, and set a mark on the foreheads
8:11
There stood before them seventy men of the of the men that sigh and that cry over all the
elders of the house of Israel; and in their midst abominations that are done in its midst. 9:5 To
stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, every man the others he said in my hearing, Go through
with his censer in his hand; and the odor of the the city after him, and strike: don’t let your
cloud of incense went up. 8:12 Then he said to eye spare, neither have pity; 9:6 kill utterly the
me, Son of man, have you seen what the elders old man, the young man and the virgin, and
of the house of Israel do in the dark, every little children and women; but don’t come near
man in his rooms of imagery? for they say, the any man on whom is the mark: and begin at
LORD doesn’t see us; the LORD has forsaken my sanctuary. Then they began at the old men
the land. 8:13 He said also to me, You shall again that were before the house. 9:7 He said to them,
see yet other great abominations which they do. Defile the house, and fill the courts with the
8:14
Then he brought me to the door of the gate slain. Go forth! They went forth, and struck
of the LORD’s house which was toward the in the city. 9:8 It happened, while they were
north; and see, there sat the women weeping smiting, and I was left, that I fell on my face,
for Tammuz. 8:15 Then he said to me, Have and cried, and said, Ah Lord GOD! will you
you seen this, son of man? You shall again destroy all the residue of Israel in your pouring
see yet greater abominations than these. 8:16 He out of your wrath on Jerusalem? 9:9 Then he
brought me into the inner court of the LORD’s said to me, The iniquity of the house of Israel
house; and see, at the door of the LORD’s and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is
temple, between the porch and the altar, were full of blood, and the city full of perversion: for
about twenty-five men, with their backs toward they say, the LORD has forsaken the land, and
the LORD’s temple, and their faces toward the LORD doesn’t see. 9:10 As for me also, my
the east; and they were worshipping the sun eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, but
toward the east. 8:17 Then he said to me, Have I will bring their way on their head. 9:11 Behold,
you seen this, son of man? Is it a light thing the man clothed in linen, who had the inkhorn
to the house of Judah that they commit the by his side, reported the matter, saying, I have
abominations which they commit here? for done as you have commanded me.
they have filled the land with violence, and 10:1
Then I looked, and see, in the expanse
have turned again to provoke me to anger: that was over the head of the cherubim there
and behold, they put the branch to their nose. appeared above them as it were a sapphireg
8:18
Therefore will I also deal in wrath; my eye stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a
g 10:1 or, lapis lazuli
Ezekiel 10:2 446 Ezekiel 11:12

throne. 10:2 He spoke to the man clothed in these stood; and when they mounted up, these
linen, and said, Go in between the whirling mounted up with them: for the spirit of the
wheels, even under the cherub, and fill both living creature was in them. 10:18 The glory of
your hands with coals of fire from between the the LORD went forth from over the threshold
cherubim, and scatter them over the city. He of the house, and stood over the cherubim.
went in as I watched. 10:3 Now the cherubim 10:19
The cherubim lifted up their wings, and
stood on the right side of the house, when the mounted up from the earth in my sight when
man went in; and the cloud filled the inner they went forth, and the wheels beside them:
court. 10:4 The glory of the LORD mounted up and they stood at the door of the east gate of
from the cherub, and stood over the threshold the LORD’s house; and the glory of the God
of the house; and the house was filled with the of Israel was over them above. 10:20 This is the
cloud, and the court was full of the brightness living creature that I saw under the God of
of the LORD’s glory. 10:5 The sound of the Israel by the river Chebar; and I knew that they
wings of the cherubim was heard even to the were cherubim. 10:21 Every one had four faces,
outer court, as the voice of God Almighty when and every one four wings; and the likeness of
he speaks. 10:6 It came to pass, when he com- the hands of a man was under their wings.
10:22
manded the man clothed in linen, saying, Take As for the likeness of their faces, they were
fire from between the whirling wheels, from the faces which I saw by the river Chebar, their
between the cherubim, that he went in, and appearances and themselves; they went every
stood beside a wheel. 10:7 The cherub stretched one straight forward.
forth his hand from between the cherubim to 11:1
the fire that was between the cherubim, and Moreover the Spirit lifted me up, and
took of it, and put it into the hands of him brought me to the east gate of the LORD’s
who was clothed in linen, who took it and house, which looks eastward: and see, at the
went out. 10:8 There appeared in the cherubim door of the gate twenty-five men; and I saw
the form of a man’s hand under their wings. in their midst Jaazaniah the son of Azzur, and
10:9
I looked, and behold, four wheels beside Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the
the cherubim, one wheel beside one cherub, people. 11:2 He said to me, Son of man, these
and another wheel beside another cherub; and are the men who devise iniquity, and who give
the appearance of the wheels was like a beryl wicked counsel in this city; 11:3 who say, The
stone. 10:10 As for their appearance, the four time is not near to build houses: this is the
of them had one likeness, like a wheel within caldron, and we are the meat. 11:4 Therefore
a wheel. 10:11 When they went, they went prophesy against them, prophesy, son of man.
11:5
in their four directions: they didn’t turn as The Spirit of the LORD fell on me, and he
they went, but to the place where the head said to me, Speak, Thus says the LORD: Thus
looked they followed it; they didn’t turn as you have said, house of Israel; for I know the
they went. 10:12 Their whole body, and their things that come into your mind. 11:6 You have
backs, and their hands, and their wings, and multiplied your slain in this city, and you have
the wheels, were full of eyes all around, even filled its streets with the slain. 11:7 Therefore
the wheels that the four of them had. 10:13 As thus says the Lord GOD: Your slain whom you
for the wheels, they were called in my hearing, have laid in its midst, they are the meat, and
the whirling wheels. 10:14 Every one had four this is the caldron; but you shall be brought out
faces: the first face was the face of the cherub, of its midst. 11:8 You have feared the sword;
and the second face was the face of a man, and I will bring the sword on you, says the
and the third face the face of a lion, and the Lord GOD. 11:9 I will bring you forth out of
fourth the face of an eagle. 10:15 The cherubim its midst, and deliver you into the hands of
mounted up: this is the living creature that strangers, and will execute judgments among
I saw by the river Chebar. 10:16 When the you. 11:10 You shall fall by the sword; I will
cherubim went, the wheels went beside them; judge you in the border of Israel; and you shall
and when the cherubim lifted up their wings to know that I am the LORD. 11:11 This shall not
mount up from the earth, the wheels also didn’t be your caldron, neither shall you be the meat
turn from beside them. 10:17 When they stood, in its midst; I will judge you in the border of
Israel; 11:12 and you shall know that I am the
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LORD: for you have not walked in my statutes, and don’t hear; for they are a rebellious house.
12:3
neither have you executed my ordinances, but Therefore, you son of man, prepare your
have done after the ordinances of the nations stuff for moving, and move by day in their
that are around you. 11:13 It happened, when sight; and you shall move from your place to
I prophesied, that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah another place in their sight: it may be they will
died. Then fell I down on my face, and cried consider, though they are a rebellious house.
12:4
with a loud voice, and said, Ah Lord GOD! You shall bring forth your stuff by day in
will you make a full end of the remnant of their sight, as stuff for moving; and you shall
Israel? 11:14 The word of the LORD came to me, go forth yourself at even in their sight, as when
saying, 11:15 Son of man, your brothers, even men go forth into exile. 12:5 Dig through the
your brothers, the men of your relatives, and wall in their sight, and carry your stuff out that
all the house of Israel, all of them, to whom the way. 12:6 In their sight you shall bear it on your
inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Go far away shoulder, and carry it forth in the dark; you
from the LORD. This land has been given to us shall cover your face, so that you don’t see the
for a possession. 11:16 Therefore say, Thus says land: for I have set you for a sign to the house
the Lord GOD: Whereas I have removed them of Israel. 12:7 I did so as I was commanded:
far off among the nations, and whereas I have I brought forth my stuff by day, as stuff for
scattered them among the countries, yet will I removing, and in the even I dug through the
be to them a sanctuary for a little while in the wall with my hand; I brought it forth in the
countries where they have come. 11:17 Therefore dark, and bore it on my shoulder in their sight.
12:8
say, Thus says the Lord GOD: I will gather you In the morning came the word of the LORD
from the peoples, and assemble you out of the to me, saying, 12:9 Son of man, has not the house
countries where you have been scattered, and of Israel, the rebellious house, said to you,
I will give you Eretz-Israel. 11:18 They shall What are you doing? 12:10 Say to them, Thus
come there, and they shall take away all the says the Lord GOD: This burden concerns the
detestable things of it and all its abominations prince in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel
from there. 11:19 I will give them one heart, among whom they are. 12:11 Say, I am your sign:
and I will put a new spirit within you; and like as I have done, so shall it be done to them;
I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, they shall go into exile, into captivity. 12:12 The
and will give them a heart of flesh; 11:20 that prince who is among them shall bear on his
they may walk in my statutes, and keep my shoulder in the dark, and shall go forth: they
ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my shall dig through the wall to carry out thereby:
people, and I will be their God. 11:21 But as he shall cover his face, because he shall not
for them whose heart walks after the heart of see the land with his eyes. 12:13 My net also
their detestable things and their abominations, will I spread on him, and he shall be taken in
I will bring their way on their own heads, says my snare; and I will bring him to Babylon to
the Lord GOD. 11:22 Then the cherubim lifted up the land of the Kasdim; yet shall he not see
their wings, and the wheels were beside them; it, though he shall die there. 12:14 I will scatter
and the glory of the God of Israel was over toward every wind all who are around him to
them above. 11:23 The glory of the LORD went help him, and all his bands; and I will draw
up from the midst of the city, and stood on the out the sword after them. 12:15 They shall know
mountain which is on the east side of the city. that I am the LORD, when I shall disperse them
11:24
The Spirit lifted me up, and brought me in among the nations, and scatter them through
the vision by the Spirit of God into Kasdimah, the countries. 12:16 But I will leave a few men
to them of the captivity. So the vision that I of them from the sword, from the famine, and
had seen went up from me. 11:25 Then I spoke from the pestilence; that they may declare all
to them of the captivity all the things that the their abominations among the nations where
LORD had shown me. they come; and they shall know that I am the
12:1
LORD. 12:17 Moreover the word of the LORD
The word of the LORD also came to came to me, saying, 12:18 Son of man, eat your
me, saying, 12:2 Son of man, you dwell in the bread with quaking, and drink your water with
midst of the rebellious house, who have eyes trembling and with fearfulness; 12:19 and tell the
to see, and don’t see, who have ears to hear,
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people of the land, Thus says the Lord GOD lies, therefore, behold, I am against you, says
concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the Lord GOD. 13:9 My hand shall be against
Eretz-Israel: They shall eat their bread with the prophets who see false visions, and who
fearfulness, and drink their water in dismay, divine lies: they shall not be in the council of
that her land may be desolate, and all that is my people, neither shall they be written in the
therein, because of the violence of all those who writing of the house of Israel, neither shall they
dwell therein. 12:20 The cities that are inhabited enter into Eretz-Israel; and you shall know that
shall be laid waste, and the land shall be a I am the Lord GOD. 13:10 Because, even because
desolation; and you shall know that I am the they have seduced my people, saying, Peace;
LORD. 12:21 The word of the LORD came to me, and there is no peace; and when one builds up
saying, 12:22 Son of man, what is this proverb a wall, behold, they plaster it with whitewash:
13:11
that you have in Eretz-Israel, saying, The days tell those who plaster it with whitewash,
are prolonged, and every vision fails? 12:23 Tell that it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing
them therefore, Thus says the Lord GOD: I will shower; and you, great hailstones, shall fall;
make this proverb to cease, and they shall no and a stormy wind shall tear it. 13:12 Behold,
more use it as a proverb in Israel; but tell them, when the wall has fallen, shall it not be said to
The days are at hand, and the fulfillment of you, Where is the plaster with which you have
every vision. 12:24 For there shall be no more plastered it? 13:13 Therefore thus says the Lord
any false vision nor flattering divination within GOD: I will even tear it with a stormy wind in
the house of Israel. 12:25 For I am the LORD; I my wrath; and there shall be an overflowing
will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall shower in my anger, and great hailstones in
be performed; it shall be no more deferred: for wrath to consume it. 13:14 So will I break
in your days, rebellious house, will I speak the down the wall that you have plastered with
word, and will perform it, says the Lord GOD. whitewash, and bring it down to the ground,
12:26
Again the word of the LORD came to me, so that its foundation shall be uncovered; and
saying, 12:27 Son of man, behold, they of the it shall fall, and you shall be consumed in
house of Israel say, The vision that he sees is for its midst: and you shall know that I am the
many day to come, and he prophesies of times LORD. 13:15 Thus will I accomplish my wrath
that are far off. 12:28 Therefore tell them, Thus on the wall, and on those who have plastered
says the Lord GOD: None of my words shall be it with whitewash; and I will tell you, The
deferred any more, but the word which I shall wall is no more, neither those who plastered it;
13:16
speak shall be performed, says the Lord GOD. to wit, the prophets of Israel who prophesy
13:1
concerning Jerusalem, and who see visions of
The word of the LORD came to me, peace for her, and there is no peace, says the
saying, 13:2 Son of man, prophesy against the Lord GOD. 13:17 You, son of man, set your
prophets of Israel who prophesy, and say to face against the daughters of your people, who
those who prophesy out of their own heart, prophesy out of their own heart; and prophesy
Hear the word of the LORD: 13:3 Thus says the against them, 13:18 and say, Thus says the Lord
Lord GOD, Woe to the foolish prophets, who GOD: Woe to the women who sew pillows on
follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing! all elbows, and make kerchiefs for the head of
13:4
Israel, your prophets have been like foxes persons of every stature to hunt souls! Will you
in the waste places. 13:5 You have not gone up hunt the souls of my people, and save souls
into the gaps, neither built up the wall for the alive for yourselves? 13:19 You have profaned
house of Israel, to stand in the battle in the day me among my people for handfuls of barley
of the LORD. 13:6 They have seen falsehood and and for pieces of bread, to kill the souls who
lying divination, who say, the LORD says; but should not die, and to save the souls alive who
the LORD has not sent them: and they have should not live, by your lying to my people
made men to hope that the word would be who listen to lies. 13:20 Therefore thus says the
confirmed. 13:7 Haven’t you seen a false vision, Lord GOD: Behold, I am against your pillows,
and haven’t you spoken a lying divination, in with which you there hunt the souls to make
that you say, the LORD says; but I have not them fly, and I will tear them from your arms;
spoken? 13:8 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: and I will let the souls go, even the souls whom
Because you have spoken falsehood, and seen
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you hunt to make them fly. 13:21 Your kerchiefs they may be my people, and I may be their
also will I tear, and deliver my people out of God, says the Lord GOD. 14:12 The word of the
your hand, and they shall be no more in your LORD came to me, saying, 14:13 Son of man,
hand to be hunted; and you shall know that I when a land sins against me by committing a
am the LORD. 13:22 Because with lies you have trespass, and I stretch out my hand on it, and
grieved the heart of the righteous, whom I have break the staff of its bread, and send famine
not made sad; and strengthened the hands of on it, and cut off from it man and animal;
14:14
the wicked, that he should not return from his though these three men, Noah, Daniel,
wicked way, and be saved alive: 13:23 Therefore and Job, were in it, they should deliver but
you shall no more see false visions, nor practice their own souls by their righteousness, says the
divination. I will deliver my people out of your Lord GOD. 14:15 If I cause evil animals to pass
hand; and you shall know that I am the LORD. through the land, and they ravage it, and it
14:1
be made desolate, so that no man may pass
Then came certain of the elders of Israel through because of the animals; 14:16 though
to me, and sat before me. 14:2 The word of these three men were in it, as I live, says the
the LORD came to me, saying, 14:3 Son of man, Lord GOD, they should deliver neither sons
these men have taken their idols into their nor daughters; they only should be delivered,
heart, and put the stumbling block of their but the land should be desolate. 14:17 Or if I
iniquity before their face: should I be inquired bring a sword on that land, and say, Sword,
of at all by them? 14:4 Therefore speak to them, go through the land; so that I cut off from
and tell them, Thus says the Lord GOD: Every it man and animal; 14:18 though these three
man of the house of Israel who takes his idols men were in it, as I live, says the Lord GOD,
into his heart, and puts the stumbling block of they should deliver neither sons nor daughters,
his iniquity before his face, and comes to the but they only should be delivered themselves.
prophet; I the LORD will answer him therein 14:19
Or if I send a pestilence into that land,
according to the multitude of his idols; 14:5 that and pour out my wrath on it in blood, to cut
I may take the house of Israel in their own off from it man and animal; 14:20 though Noah,
heart, because they are all estranged from me Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, says the
through their idols. 14:6 Therefore tell the house Lord GOD, they should deliver neither son nor
of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD: Return, daughter; they should but deliver their own
and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn souls by their righteousness. 14:21 For thus says
away your faces from all your abominations. the Lord GOD: How much more when I send
14:7
For everyone of the house of Israel, or of my four severe judgments on Jerusalem, the
the strangers who live in Israel, who separates sword, and the famine, and the evil animals,
himself from me, and takes his idols into his and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and
heart, and puts the stumbling block of his animal! 14:22 Yet, behold, therein shall be left a
iniquity before his face, and comes to the remnant that shall be carried forth, both sons
prophet to inquire for himself of me; I the and daughters: behold, they shall come forth
LORD will answer him by myself: 14:8 and I to you, and you shall see their way and their
will set my face against that man, and will doings; and you shall be comforted concerning
make him an astonishment, for a sign and a the evil that I have brought on Jerusalem,
proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst even concerning all that I have brought on it.
of my people; and you shall know that I am 14:23
They shall comfort you, when you see their
the LORD. 14:9 If the prophet is deceived and way and their doings; and you shall know that
speak a word, I, the LORD, have deceived that I have not done without cause all that I have
prophet, and I will stretch out my hand on done in it, says the Lord GOD.
him, and will destroy him from the midst of
my people Israel. 14:10 They shall bear their 15:1
The word of the LORD came to me,
iniquity: the iniquity of the prophet shall be saying, 15:2 Son of man, what is the vine tree
even as the iniquity of him who seeks him; more than any tree, the vine-branch which
14:11
that the house of Israel may go no more is among the trees of the forest? 15:3 Shall
astray from me, neither defile themselves any wood be taken of it to make any work? or
more with all their transgressions; but that will men take a pin of it to hang any vessel
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thereon? 15:4 Behold, it is cast into the fire for 16:12


I put a ring on your nose, and earrings in
fuel; the fire has devoured both its ends, and its your ears, and a beautiful crown on your head.
16:13
midst is burned: is it profitable for any work? Thus you were decked with gold and
15:5
Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for silver; and your clothing was of fine linen, and
no work: how much less, when the fire has silk, and embroidered work; you ate fine flour,
devoured it, and it is burned, shall it yet be and honey, and oil; and you were exceeding
meet for any work! 15:6 Therefore thus says the beautiful, and you prospered to royal estate.
16:14
Lord GOD: As the vine tree among the trees Your renown went forth among the nations
of the forest, which I have given to the fire for for your beauty; for it was perfect, through my
fuel, so will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem. majesty which I had put on you, says the Lord
15:7
I will set my face against them; they shall GOD. 16:15 But you trusted in your beauty, and
go forth from the fire, but the fire shall devour played the prostitute because of your renown,
them; and you shall know that I am the LORD, and poured out your prostitution on everyone
when I set my face against them. 15:8 I will make who passed by; his it was. 16:16 You took of
the land desolate, because they have committed your garments, and made for yourselves high
a trespass, says the Lord GOD. places decked with various colors, and played
16:1
the prostitute on them: the like thingsshall not
Again the word of the LORD came to come, neither shall it be so. 16:17 You also
me, saying, 16:2 Son of man, cause Jerusalem took your beautiful jewels of my gold and of
to know her abominations; 16:3 and say, Thus my silver, which I had given you, and made
says the Lord GOD to Jerusalem: Your birth for yourself images of men, and played the
and your birth is of the land of the Canaanite; prostitute with them; 16:18 and you took your
the Amorite was your father, and your mother embroidered garments, and covered them, and
was a Hittite. 16:4 As for your birth, in the set my oil and my incense before them. 16:19 My
day you were born your navel was not cut, bread also which I gave you, fine flour, and
neither were you washed in water to cleanse oil, and honey, with which I fed you, you even
you; you weren’t salted at all, nor swaddled at set it before them for a pleasant aroma; and
all. 16:5 No eye pitied you, to do any of these thusit was, says the Lord GOD. 16:20 Moreover
things to you, to have compassion on you; but you have taken your sons and your daughters,
you were cast out in the open field, for that your whom you have borne to me, and you have
person was abhorred, in the day that you were sacrificed these to them to be devoured. Was
born. 16:6 When I passed by you, and saw you your prostitution a small matter, 16:21 that you
wallowing in your blood, I said to you, Though have slain my children, and delivered them
you are in your blood, live; yes, I said to you, up, in causing them to pass through the fireto
Though you are in your blood, live. 16:7 I caused them? 16:22 In all your abominations and your
you to multiply as that which grows in the field, prostitution you have not remembered the days
and you increased and grew great, and you of your youth, when you were naked and bare,
attained to excellent ornament; your breasts and were wallowing in your blood. 16:23 It
were fashioned, and your hair was grown; yet has happened after all your wickedness, (woe,
you were naked and bare. 16:8 Now when I woe to you! says the Lord GOD), 16:24 that
passed by you, and looked at you, behold, your you have built for yourselves a vaulted place,
time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt and have made yourselves a lofty place in
over you, and covered your nakedness: yes, every street. 16:25 You have built your lofty
I swore to you, and entered into a covenant place at the head of every way, and have
with you, says the Lord GOD, and you became made your beauty an abomination, and have
mine. 16:9 Then washed I you with water; yes, opened your feet to everyone who passed by,
I thoroughly washed away your blood from and multiplied your prostitution. 16:26 You have
you, and I anointed you with oil. 16:10 I clothed also committed sexual immorality with the
you also with embroidered work, and shod you Egyptians, your neighbors, great of flesh; and
with sealskin, and I dressed you about with have multiplied your prostitution, to provoke
fine linen, and covered you with silk. 16:11 I me to anger. 16:27 See therefore, I have stretched
decked you with ornaments, and I put bracelets out my hand over you, and have diminished
on your hands, and a chain on your neck.
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your ordinary food, and delivered you to the to cease from playing the prostitute, and you
will of those who hate you, the daughters of the shall also give no hire any more. 16:42 So will
Philistines, who are ashamed of your lewd way. I cause my wrath toward you to rest, and my
16:28
You have played the prostitute also with jealousy shall depart from you, and I will be
the Assyrians, because you were insatiable; quiet, and will be no more angry. 16:43 Because
yes, you have played the prostitute with them, you have not remembered the days of your
and yet you weren’t satisfied. 16:29 You have youth, but have raged against me in all these
moreover multiplied your prostitution to the things; therefore, behold, I also will bring your
land of merchants, to Kasdimah; and yet you way on your head, says the Lord GOD: and
weren’t satisfied with this. 16:30 How weak you shall not commit this lewdness with all
is your heart, says the Lord GOD, since you your abominations. 16:44 Behold, everyone who
do all these things, the work of an impudent uses proverbs shall use thisproverb against you,
prostitute; 16:31 in that you build your vaulted saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.
16:45
place at the head of every way, and make your You are the daughter of your mother, who
lofty place in every street, and have not been as loathes her husband and her children; and
a prostitute, in that you scorn pay. 16:32 A wife you are the sister of your sisters, who loathed
who commits adultery! who takes strangers their husbands and their children: your mother
instead of her husband! 16:33 They give gifts was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.
16:46
to all prostitutes; but you give your gifts to Your elder sister is Samaria, who dwells
all your lovers, and bribe them, that they may at your left hand, she and her daughters; and
come to you on every side for your prostitution. your younger sister, who dwells at your right
16:34
You are different from otherwomen in your hand, is Sodom and her daughters. 16:47 Yet
prostitution, in that no one follows you to have you not walked in their ways, nor done
play the prostitute; and whereas you give hire, after their abominations; but, as if that werea
and no hire is given to you, therefore you are very little thing, you were more corrupt than
different. 16:35 Therefore, prostitute, hear the they in all your ways. 16:48 As I live, says the
word of the LORD: 16:36 Thus says the Lord Lord GOD, Sodom your sister has not done,
GOD, Because your filthiness was poured out, she nor her daughters, as you have done, you
and your nakedness uncovered through your and your daughters. 16:49 Behold, this was the
prostitution with your lovers; and because of iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fullness of
all the idols of your abominations, and for the bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in
blood of your children, that you gave to them; her daughters; neither did she strengthen the
16:37
therefore see, I will gather all your lovers, hand of the poor and needy. 16:50 They were
with whom you have taken pleasure, and all haughty, and committed abomination before
those who you have loved, with all those who me: therefore I took them away as I saw good.
16:51
you have hated; I will even gather them against Neither has Samaria committed half of
you on every side, and will uncover your your sins; but you have multiplied your abom-
nakedness to them, that they may see all your inations more than they, and have justified
nakedness. 16:38 I will judge you, as women your sisters by all your abominations which
who break wedlock and shed blood are judged; you have done. 16:52 You also, bear you your
and I will bring on you the blood of wrath and own shame, in that you have given judgment
jealousy. 16:39 I will also give you into their for your sisters; through your sins that you
hand, and they shall throw down your vaulted have committed more abominable than they,
place, and break down your lofty places; and they are more righteous that you: yes, be also
they shall strip you of your clothes, and take confounded, and bear your shame, in that you
your beautiful jewels; and they shall leave you have justified your sisters. 16:53 I will turn again
naked and bare. 16:40 They shall also bring up their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her
a company against you, and they shall stone daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her
you with stones, and thrust you through with daughters, and the captivity of your captives in
their swords. 16:41 They shall burn your houses their midst; 16:54 that you may bear your own
with fire, and execute judgments on you in the shame, and may be ashamed because of all
sight of many women; and I will cause you that you have done, in that you are a comfort
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to them. 16:55 Your sisters, Sodom and her that it might bring forth branches, and that
daughters, shall return to their former estate; it might bear fruit, that it might be a goodly
and Samaria and her daughters shall return to vine. 17:9 Say, Thus says the Lord GOD: Shall
their former estate; and you and your daugh- it prosper? shall he not pull up its roots, and
ters shall return to your former estate. 16:56 For cut off its fruit, that it may wither; that all its
your sister Sodom was not mentioned by your fresh springing leaves may wither? and not by
mouth in the day of your pride, 16:57 before a strong arm or many people can it be raised
your wickedness was uncovered, as at the time from its roots. 17:10 Yes, behold, being planted,
of the reproach of the daughters of Syria, and shall it prosper? shall it not utterly wither,
of all who are around her, the daughters of the when the east wind touches it? it shall wither
Philistines, who do despite to you all around. in the beds where it grew. 17:11 Moreover the
16:58
You have borne your lewdness and your word of the LORD came to me, saying, 17:12 Say
abominations, says the LORD. 16:59 For thus now to the rebellious house, Don’t you know
says the Lord GOD: I will also deal with you what these things mean? tell them, Behold, the
as you have done, who have despised the oath king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, and took
in breaking the covenant. 16:60 Nevertheless I its king, and its princes, and brought them to
will remember my covenant with you in the him to Babylon: 17:13 and he took of the seed
days of your youth, and I will establish to royal, and made a covenant with him; he also
you an everlasting covenant. 16:61 Then you brought him under an oath, and took away
shall remember your ways, and be ashamed, the mighty of the land; 17:14 that the kingdom
when you shall receive your sisters, your elder might be base, that it might not lift itself up,
sistersand your younger; and I will give them but that by keeping his covenant it might stand.
17:15
to you for daughters, but not by your covenant. But he rebelled against him in sending his
16:62
I will establish my covenant with you; and ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give
you shall know that I am the LORD; 16:63 that him horses and many people. Shall he prosper?
you may remember, and be confounded, and shall he escape who does such things? shall
never open your mouth any more, because of he break the covenant, and yet escape? 17:16 As
your shame, when I have forgiven you all that I live, says the Lord GOD, surely in the place
you have done, says the Lord GOD. where the king dwells who made him king,
17:1
whose oath he despised, and whose covenant
The word of the LORD came to me, he broke, even with him in the midst of Babylon
saying, 17:2 Son of man, put forth a riddle, he shall die. 17:17 Neither shall Pharaoh with his
and speak a parable to the house of Israel; mighty army and great company help him in
17:3
and say, Thus says the Lord GOD: A great the war, when they cast up mounds and build
eagle with great wings and long feathers, full forts, to cut off many persons. 17:18 For he has
of feathers, which had various colors, came despised the oath by breaking the covenant;
to Lebanon, and took the top of the cedar: and behold, he had given his hand, and yet
17:4
he cropped off the topmost of the young has done all these things; he shall not escape.
twigs of it, and carried it to a land of traffic; 17:19
Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: As I
he set it in a city of merchants. 17:5 He took live, surely my oath that he has despised, and
also of the seed of the land, and planted it my covenant that he has broken, I will even
in a fruitful soil; he placed it beside many bring it on his own head. 17:20 I will spread my
waters; he set it as a willow tree. 17:6 It grew, net on him, and he shall be taken in my snare,
and became a spreading vine of low stature, and I will bring him to Babylon, and will enter
whose branches turned toward him, and its into judgment with him there for his trespass
roots were under him: so it became a vine, and that he has trespassed against me. 17:21 All his
brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs. fugitives in all his bands shall fall by the sword,
17:7
There was also another great eagle with and those who remain shall be scattered toward
great wings and many feathers: and behold, every wind: and you shall know that I, the
this vine bent its roots toward him, and shot LORD, have spoken it. 17:22 Thus says the Lord
forth its branches toward him, from the beds GOD: I will also take of the lofty top of the
of its plantation, that he might water it. 17:8 It cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from the
was planted in a good soil by many waters,
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topmost of its young twigs a tender one, and on the mountains, neither has lifted up his
I will plant it on a high and lofty mountain: eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, has
17:23
in the mountain of the height of Israel will not defiled his neighbor’s wife, 18:16 neither
I plant it; and it shall bring forth boughs, and has wronged any, has not taken anything to
bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar: and under it pledge, neither has taken by robbery, but has
shall dwell all birds of every wing; in the shade given his bread to the hungry, and has cov-
of its branches shall they dwell. 17:24 All the ered the naked with a garment; 18:17 who has
trees of the field shall know that I, the LORD, withdrawn his hand from the poor, who has
have brought down the high tree, have exalted not received interest nor increase, has executed
the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and my ordinances, has walked in my statutes; he
have made the dry tree to flourish; I, the LORD, shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he
have spoken and have done it. shall surely live. 18:18 As for his father, because
18:1
he cruelly oppressed, robbed his brother, and
The word of the LORD came to me again, did that which is not good among his people,
saying, 18:2 What do you mean, that you use this behold, he shall die in his iniquity. 18:19 Yet
proverb concerning Eretz-Israel, saying, The fa- you say, Why doesn’t the son bear the iniquity
thers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s of the father? When the son has done that
teeth are set on edge? 18:3 As I live, says the which is lawful and right, and has kept all my
Lord GOD, you shall not have occasionany more statutes, and has done them, he shall surely
to use this proverb in Israel. 18:4 Behold, all live. 18:20 The soul who sins, he shall die: the
souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also son shall not bear the iniquity of the father,
the soul of the son is mine: the soul who sins, he neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the
shall die. 18:5 But if a man is just, and does that son; the righteousness of the righteous shall be
which is lawful and right, 18:6 and has not eaten on him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall
on the mountains, neither has lifted up his eyes be on him. 18:21 But if the wicked turn from
to the idols of the house of Israel, neither has all his sins that he has committed, and keep
defiled his neighbor’s wife, neither has come all my statutes, and do that which is lawful
near to a woman in her impurity, 18:7 and has and right, he shall surely live, he shall not
not wronged any, but has restored to the debtor die. 18:22 None of his transgressions that he has
his pledge, has taken nothing by robbery, has committed shall be remembered against him:
given his bread to the hungry, and has covered in his righteousness that he has done he shall
the naked with a garment; 18:8 he who has not live. 18:23 Have I any pleasure in the death
given forth on interest, neither has taken any of the wicked? says the Lord GOD; and not
increase, who has withdrawn his hand from rather that he should return from his way, and
iniquity, has executed true justice between man live? 18:24 But when the righteous turns away
and man, 18:9 has walked in my statutes, and from his righteousness, and commits iniquity,
has kept my ordinances, to deal truly; he is just, and does according to all the abominations that
he shall surely live, says the Lord GOD. 18:10 If the wicked man does, shall he live? None
he fathers a son who is a robber, a shedder of of his righteous deeds that he has done shall
blood, and who does any one of these things, be remembered: in his trespass that he has
18:11
and who does not any of those duties, trespassed, and in his sin that he has sinned,
but even has eaten on the mountains, and in them shall he die. 18:25 Yet you say, The way
defiled his neighbor’s wife, 18:12 has wronged of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, house of
the poor and needy, has taken by robbery, has Israel: Is my way not equal? Aren’t your ways
not restored the pledge, and has lifted up his unequal? 18:26 When the righteous man turns
eyes to the idols, has committed abomination, away from his righteousness, and commits
18:13
has given forth on interest, and has taken iniquity, and dies therein; in his iniquity that
increase; shall he then live? he shall not live: he has done shall he die. 18:27 Again, when the
he has done all these abominations; he shall wicked man turns away from his wickedness
surely die; his blood shall be on him. 18:14 Now, that he has committed, and does that which is
behold, if he fathers a son, who sees all his lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.
father’s sins, which he has done, and fears, 18:28
Because he considers, and turns away from
and does not such like; 18:15 who has not eaten
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19:14
all his transgressions that he has committed, he Fire is gone out of the rods of its branches,
shall surely live, he shall not die. 18:29 Yet the it has devoured its fruit, so that there is in it
house of Israel says, “The way of the Lord is no strong rod to be a scepter to rule. This is a
not fair.” House of Israel, aren’t my ways fair? lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.
Aren’t your ways unfair? 18:30 Therefore I will 20:1
judge you, house of Israel, everyone according It happened in the seventh year, in the
to his ways, says the Lord GOD. Return, and fifth month, the tenth dayof the month, that
turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so certain of the elders of Israel came to inquire of
iniquity shall not be your ruin. 18:31 Cast away the LORD, and sat before me. 20:2 The word of
from you all your transgressions, in which you the LORD came to me, saying, 20:3 Son of man,
have transgressed; and make yourself a new speak to the elders of Israel, and tell them, Thus
heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, says the Lord GOD: Is it to inquire of me that
house of Israel? 18:32 For I have no pleasure in you have come? As I live, says the Lord GOD,
the death of him who dies, says the Lord GOD: I will not be inquired of by you. 20:4 Will you
therefore turn yourselves, and live. judge them, son of man, will you judge them?
Cause them to know the abominations of their
19:1
Moreover, take up a lamentation for the fathers; 20:5 and tell them, Thus says the Lord
princes of Israel, 19:2 and say, What was your GOD: In the day when I chose Israel, and swore
mother? A lioness: she couched among lions, in to the seed of the house of Jacob, and made
the midst of the young lions she nourished her myself known to them in the land of Egypt,
cubs. 19:3 She brought up one of her cubs: he when I swore to them, saying, I am the LORD
became a young lion, and he learned to catch your God; 20:6 in that day I swore to them, to
the prey; he devoured men. 19:4 The nations bring them forth out of the land of Egypt into a
also heard of him; he was taken in their pit; land that I had searched out for them, flowing
and they brought him with hooks to the land with milk and honey, which is the glory of
of Egypt. 19:5 Now when she saw that she had all lands. 20:7 I said to them, Cast away every
waited, and her hope was lost, then she took man the abominations of his eyes, and don’t
another of her cubs, and made him a young defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt; I am
lion. 19:6 He went up and down among the the LORD your God. 20:8 But they rebelled
lions; he became a young lion, and he learned against me, and would not listen to me; they
to catch the prey; he devoured men. 19:7 He each didn’t throw away the abominations of
knew their palaces, and laid waste their cities; their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols
and the land was desolate, and its fullness, of Egypt. Then I said I would pour out my
because of the noise of his roaring. 19:8 Then the wrath on them, to accomplish my anger against
nations set against him on every side from the them in the midst of the land of Egypt. 20:9 But
provinces; and they spread their net over him; I worked for my name’s sake, that it should not
he was taken in their pit. 19:9 They put him in a be profaned in the sight of the nations, among
cage with hooks, and brought him to the king which they were, in whose sight I made myself
of Babylon; they brought him into strongholds, known to them, in bringing them forth out of
that his voice should no more be heard on the the land of Egypt. 20:10 So I caused them to
mountains of Israel. 19:10 Your mother was like go forth out of the land of Egypt, and brought
a vine, in your blood, planted by the waters: them into the wilderness. 20:11 I gave them
it was fruitful and full of branches by reason my statutes, and showed them my ordinances,
of many waters. 19:11 It had strong rods for which if a man does, he shall live in them.
20:12
the scepters of those who bore rule, and their Moreover also I gave them my Sabbaths, to
stature was exalted among the thick boughs, be a sign between me and them, that they might
and they were seen in their height with the know that I am the LORD who sanctifies them.
multitude of their branches. 19:12 But it was 20:13
But the house of Israel rebelled against
plucked up in fury, it was cast down to the me in the wilderness: they didn’t walk in
ground, and the east wind dried up its fruit: my statutes, and they rejected my ordinances,
its strong rods were broken off and withered; which if a man keep, he shall live in them;
the fire consumed them. 19:13 Now it is planted and my Sabbaths they greatly profaned. Then
in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land. I said I would pour out my wrath on them
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in the wilderness, to consume them. 20:14 But their sacrifices, and there they presented the
I worked for my name’s sake, that it should provocation of their offering; there also they
not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in made their pleasant aroma, and they poured
whose sight I brought them out. 20:15 Moreover out there their drink offerings. 20:29 Then I said
also I swore to them in the wilderness, that I to them, What does the high place where you
would not bring them into the land which I go mean? So its name is called Bamah to this
had given them, flowing with milk and honey, day. 20:30 Therefore tell the house of Israel, Thus
which is the glory of all lands; 20:16 because they says the Lord GOD: Do you pollute yourselves
rejected my ordinances, and didn’t walk in my in the way of your fathers? and do you play the
statutes, and profaned my Sabbaths: for their prostitute after their abominations? 20:31 and
heart went after their idols. 20:17 Nevertheless when you offer your gifts, when you make your
my eye spared them, and I didn’t destroy them, sons to pass through the fire, do you pollute
neither did I make a full end of them in the yourselves with all your idols to this day? and
wilderness. 20:18 I said to their children in the shall I be inquired of by you, house of Israel?
wilderness, Don’t walk in the statutes of your As I live, says the Lord GOD, I will not be
fathers, neither observe their ordinances, nor inquired of by you; 20:32 and that which comes
defile yourselves with their idols. 20:19 I am the into your mind shall not be at all, in that you
LORD your God: walk in my statutes, and keep say, We will be as the nations, as the families of
my ordinances, and do them; 20:20 and make my the countries, to serve wood and stone. 20:33 As
Sabbaths holy; and they shall be a sign between I live, says the Lord GOD, surely with a mighty
me and you, that you may know that I am the hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with
LORD your God. 20:21 But the children rebelled wrath poured out, will I be king over you:
20:34
against me; they didn’t walk in my statutes, and I will bring you out from the peoples,
neither kept my ordinances to do them, which and will gather you out of the countries in
if a man do, he shall live in them; they profaned which you are scattered, with a mighty hand,
my Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out my and with an outstretched arm, and with wrath
wrath on them, to accomplish my anger against poured out; 20:35 and I will bring you into the
them in the wilderness. 20:22 Nevertheless I wilderness of the peoples, and there will I enter
withdrew my hand, and worked for my name’s into judgment with you face to face. 20:36 Like
sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight as I entered into judgment with your fathers
of the nations, in whose sight I brought them in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will
forth. 20:23 Moreover I swore to them in the I enter into judgment with you, says the Lord
wilderness, that I would scatter them among GOD. 20:37 I will cause you to pass under the
the nations, and disperse them through the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of
countries; 20:24 because they had not executed the covenant; 20:38 and I will purge out from
my ordinances, but had rejected my statutes, among you the rebels, and those who disobey
and had profaned my Sabbaths, and their eyes against me; I will bring them forth out of the
were after their fathers’ idols. 20:25 Moreover land where they live, but they shall not enter
also I gave them statutes that were not good, into Eretz-Israel: and you shall know that I
and ordinances in which they should not live; am the LORD. 20:39 As for you, house of Israel,
20:26
and I polluted them in their own gifts, thus says the Lord GOD: Go, serve everyone
in that they caused to pass through the fireall his idols, and hereafter also, if you will not
that opens the womb, that I might make them listen to me; but my holy name you shall no
desolate, to the end that they might know that more profane with your gifts, and with your
I am the LORD. 20:27 Therefore, son of man, idols. 20:40 For in my holy mountain, in the
speak to the house of Israel, and tell them, mountain of the height of Israel, says the Lord
Thus says the Lord GOD: In this moreover have GOD, there shall all the house of Israel, all of
your fathers blasphemed me, in that they have them, serve me in the land: there will I accept
committed a trespass against me. 20:28 For when them, and there will I require your offerings,
I had brought them into the land, which I swore and the first fruits of your offerings, with all
to give to them, then they saw every high hill, your holy things. 20:41 As a pleasant aroma will
and every thick tree, and they offered there I accept you, when I bring you out from the
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peoples, and gather you out of the countries Lord GOD. 21:8 The word of the LORD came to
in which you have been scattered; and I will me, saying, 21:9 Son of man, prophesy, and say,
be sanctified in you in the sight of the nations. Thus says the LORD: Say, A sword, a sword,
20:42
You shall know that I am the LORD, when it is sharpened, and also furbished; 21:10 it is
I shall bring you into Eretz-Israel, into the sharpened that it may make a slaughter; it is
country which I swore to give to your fathers. furbished that it may be as lightning: shall
20:43
There you shall remember your ways, and we then make mirth? the rod of my son, it
all your doings, in which you have polluted condemns every tree. 21:11 It is given to be
yourselves; and you shall loathe yourselves in furbished, that it may be handled: the sword,
your own sight for all your evils that you have it is sharpened, yes, it is furbished, to give it
committed. 20:44 You shall know that I am the into the hand of the killer. 21:12 Cry and wail,
LORD, when I have dealt with you for my son of man; for it is on my people, it is on all
name’s sake, not according to your evil ways, the princes of Israel: they are delivered over to
nor according to your corrupt doings, you the sword with my people; strike therefore on
house of Israel, says the Lord GOD. 20:45 The your thigh. 21:13 For there is a trial; and what if
word of the LORD came to me, saying, 20:46 Son even the rod that condemns shall be no more?
of man, set your face toward the south, and says the Lord GOD. 21:14 You therefore, son of
drop your wordtoward the south, and prophesy man, prophesy, and strike your hands together;
against the forest of the field in the South; and let the sword be doubled the third time,
20:47
and tell the forest of the South, Hear the the sword of the deadly wounded: it is the
word of the LORD: Thus says the Lord GOD, sword of the great one who is deadly wounded,
Behold, I will kindle a fire in you, and it shall which enters into their rooms. 21:15 I have set
devour every green tree in you, and every dry the threatening sword against all their gates,
tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, that their heart may melt, and their stumblings
and all faces from the south to the north shall be multiplied: ah! it is made as lightning, it
be burnt thereby. 20:48 All flesh shall see that is pointed for slaughter. 21:16 Gather yourselves
I, the LORD, have kindled it; it shall not be together, go to the right, set yourselves in array,
quenched. 20:49 Then I said, Ah Lord GOD! they go to the left, wherever your face is set. 21:17 I
say of me, Isn’t he a speaker of parables? will also strike my hands together, and I will
21:1
cause my wrath to rest: I, the LORD, have
The word of the LORD came to me, spoken it. 21:18 The word of the LORD came
saying, 21:2 Son of man, set your face to- to me again, saying, 21:19 Also, you son of man,
ward Jerusalem, and drop your wordtoward appoint two ways, that the sword of the king
the sanctuaries, and prophesy against Eretz- of Babylon may come; they both shall come
Israel; 21:3 and tell Eretz-Israel, Thus says the forth out of one land: and mark out a place,
LORD: Behold, I am against you, and will draw mark it out at the head of the way to the city.
forth my sword out of its sheath, and will cut 21:20
You shall appoint a way for the sword to
off from you the righteous and the wicked. come to Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and
21:4
Seeing then that I will cut off from you the to Judah in Jerusalem the fortified. 21:21 For
righteous and the wicked, therefore shall my the king of Babylon stood at the parting of
sword go forth out of its sheath against all the way, at the head of the two ways, to use
flesh from the south to the north: 21:5 and all divination: he shook the arrows back and forth,
flesh shall know that I, the LORD, have drawn he consulted the teraphim, he looked in the
forth my sword out of its sheath; it shall not liver. 21:22 In his right hand was the divination
return any more. 21:6 Sigh therefore, you son forJerusalem, to set battering rams, to open the
of man; with the breaking of your thighs and mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice
with bitterness you will sigh before their eyes. with shouting, to set battering rams against the
21:7
It shall be, when they tell you, Why do you gates, to cast up mounds, to build forts. 21:23 It
sigh? that you shall say, Because of the news, shall be to them as a false divination in their
for it comes; and every heart shall melt, and sight, who have sworn oaths to them; but he
all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall brings iniquity to memory, that they may be
faint, and all knees shall be weak as water: taken. 21:24 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD:
behold, it comes, and it shall be done, says the
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Because you have made your iniquity to be they set light by father and mother; in the
remembered, in that your transgressions are midst of you have they dealt by oppression
uncovered, so that in all your doings your sins with the foreigner; in you have they wronged
appear; because you have come to memory, the fatherless and the widow. 22:8 You have
you shall be taken with the hand. 21:25 You, despised my holy things, and have profaned
deadly wounded wicked one, the prince of my Sabbaths. 22:9 Slanderous men have been in
Israel, whose day has come, in the time of you to shed blood; and in you they have eaten
the iniquity of the end, 21:26 thus says the Lord on the mountains: in the midst of you they
GOD: Remove the turban, and take off the have committed lewdness. 22:10 In you have
crown; this shall beno more the same; exalt that they uncovered their fathers’ nakedness; in you
which is low, and abase that which is high. have they humbled her who was unclean in her
21:27
I will overturn, overturn, overturn it: this impurity. 22:11 One has committed abomination
also shall be no more, until he come whose with his neighbor’s wife; and another has
right it is; and I will give it him. 21:28 You, lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law; and an-
son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the other in you has humbled his sister, his father’s
Lord GOD concerning the children of Ammon, daughter. 22:12 In you have they taken bribes
and concerning their reproach; and say, A to shed blood; you have taken interest and
sword, a sword is drawn, for the slaughter it increase, and you have greedily gained of your
is furbished, to cause it to devour, that it may neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten
be as lightning; 21:29 while they see for you false me, says the Lord GOD. 22:13 Behold, therefore,
visions, while they divine lies to you, to lay I have struck my hand at your dishonest gain
you on the necks of the wicked who are deadly which you have made, and at your blood which
wounded, whose day has come in the time of has been in the midst of you. 22:14 Can your
the iniquity of the end. 21:30 Cause it to return heart endure, or can your hands be strong, in
into its sheath. In the place where you were the days that I shall deal with you? I, the
created, in the land of your birth, will I judge LORD, have spoken it, and will do it. 22:15 I will
you. 21:31 I will pour out my indignation on scatter you among the nations, and disperse
you; I will blow on you with the fire of my you through the countries; and I will consume
wrath; and I will deliver you into the hand of your filthiness out of you. 22:16 You shall be
brutish men, skillful to destroy. 21:32 You shall profaned in yourself, in the sight of the nations;
be for fuel to the fire; your blood shall be in the and you shall know that I am the LORD.
22:17
midst of the land; you shall be remembered no The word of the LORD came to me, saying,
22:18
more: for I, the LORD, have spoken it. Son of man, the house of Israel has become
22:1
dross to me: all of them are brass and tin and
Moreover the word of the LORD came to iron and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they
me, saying, 22:2 You, son of man, will you judge, are the dross of silver. 22:19 Therefore thus says
will you judge the bloody city? then cause the Lord GOD: Because you have all become
her to know all her abominations. 22:3 You dross, therefore, behold, I will gather you into
shall say, Thus says the Lord GOD: A city the midst of Jerusalem. 22:20 As they gather
that sheds blood in the midst of her, that silver and brass and iron and lead and tin into
her time may come, and that makes idols the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire on
against herself to defile her! 22:4 You have it, to melt it; so will I gather you in my anger
become guilty in your blood that you have and in my wrath, and I will lay you there,
shed, and are defiled in your idols which you and melt you. 22:21 Yes, I will gather you, and
have made; and you have caused your days to blow on you with the fire of my wrath, and
draw near, and have come even to your years: you shall be melted in its midst. 22:22 As silver
therefore have I made you a reproach to the is melted in the midst of the furnace, so you
nations, and a mocking to all the countries. will be melted in its midst; and you will know
22:5
Those who are near, and those who are far that I, the LORD, have poured out my wrath
from you, shall mock you, you infamous one on you. 22:23 The word of the LORD came to
andfull of tumult. 22:6 Behold, the princes of me, saying, 22:24 Son of man, tell her, You are a
Israel, everyone according to his power, have land that is not cleansed, nor rained on in the
been in you to shed blood. 22:7 In you have
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day of indignation. 22:25 There is a conspiracy the bosom of her virginity; and they poured
of her prophets in its midst, like a roaring out their prostitution on her. 23:9 Therefore
lion ravening the prey: they have devoured I delivered her into the hand of her lovers,
souls; they take treasure and precious things; into the hand of the Assyrians, on whom she
they have made her widows many in its midst. doted. 23:10 These uncovered her nakedness;
22:26
Her priests have done violence to my law, they took her sons and her daughters; and her
and have profaned my holy things: they have they killed with the sword: and she became
made no distinction between the holy and the a byword among women; for they executed
common, neither have they caused men to judgments on her. 23:11 Her sister Oholibah saw
discern between the unclean and the clean, and this, yet was she more corrupt in her doting
have hidden their eyes from my Sabbaths, and than she, and in her prostitution which were
I am profaned among them. 22:27 Her princes more than the prostitution of her sister. 23:12 She
in its midst are like wolves ravening the prey, doted on the Assyrians, governors and rulers,
to shed blood, andto destroy souls, that they herneighbors, clothed most gorgeously, horse-
may get dishonest gain. 22:28 Her prophets have men riding on horses, all of them desirable
plastered for them with whitewash, seeing false young men. 23:13 I saw that she was defiled;
visions, and divining lies to them, saying, Thus they both took one way. 23:14 She increased
says the Lord GOD, when the LORD has not her prostitution; for she saw men portrayed on
spoken. 22:29 The people of the land have the wall, the images of the Kasdim portrayed
used oppression, and exercised robbery; yes, with vermilion, 23:15 dressed with girdles on
they have troubled the poor and needy, and their waists, with flowing turbans on their
have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully. 22:30 I heads, all of them princes to look on, after
sought for a man among them, who should the likeness of the Babylonians in Kasdim, the
build up the wall, and stand in the gap before land of their birth. 23:16 As soon as she saw
me for the land, that I should not destroy it; them she doted on them, and sent messengers
but I found none. 22:31 Therefore have I poured to them into Kasdimah. 23:17 The Babylonians
out my indignation on them; I have consumed came to her into the bed of love, and they
them with the fire of my wrath: their own way defiled her with their prostitution, and she
have I brought on their heads, says the Lord was polluted with them, and her soul was
GOD. alienated from them. 23:18 So she uncovered
23:1
her prostitution, and uncovered her nakedness:
The word of the LORD came again to then my soul was alienated from her, like as my
me, saying, 23:2 Son of man, there were two soul was alienated from her sister. 23:19 Yet she
women, the daughters of one mother: 23:3 and multiplied her prostitution, remembering the
they played the prostitute in Egypt; they played days of her youth, in which she had played the
the prostitute in their youth; there were their prostitute in the land of Egypt. 23:20 She doted
breasts pressed, and there was handled the on their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh
bosom of their virginity. 23:4 Their names were of donkeys, and whose issue is like the issue
Oholah the elder, and Oholibah her sister: and of horses. 23:21 Thus you called to memory the
they became mine, and they bore sons and lewdness of your youth, in the handling of your
daughters. As for their names, Samaria is bosom by the Egyptians for the breasts of your
Oholah, and Jerusalem Oholibah. 23:5 Oholah youth. 23:22 Therefore, Oholibah, thus says the
played the prostitute when she was mine; Lord GOD: Behold, I will raise up your lovers
and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyri- against you, from whom your soul is alienated,
ans herneighbors, 23:6 who were clothed with and I will bring them against you on every side:
blue, governors and rulers, all of them desir- 23:23
the Babylonians and all the Kasdim, Pekod
able young men, horsemen riding on horses. and Shoa and Koa, andall the Assyrians with
23:7
She bestowed her prostitution on them, the them; desirable young men, governors and
choicest men of Assyria all of them; and on rulers all of them, princes and men of renown,
whoever she doted, with all their idols she all of them riding on horses. 23:24 They shall
defiled herself. 23:8 Neither has she left her come against you with weapons, chariots, and
prostitution since the days of Egypt; for in her wagons, and with a company of peoples; they
youth they lay with her, and they handled
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shall set themselves against you with buckler have defiled my sanctuary in the same day,
and shield and helmet all around; and I will and have profaned my Sabbaths. 23:39 For when
commit the judgment to them, and they shall they had slain their children to their idols, then
judge you according to their judgments. 23:25 I they came the same day into my sanctuary to
will set my jealousy against you, and they shall profane it; and behold, thus have they done
deal with you in fury; they shall take away in the midst of my house. 23:40 Furthermore
your nose and your ears; and your residue you have sent for men who come from far,
shall fall by the sword: they shall take your to whom a messenger was sent, and behold,
sons and your daughters; and your residue they came; for whom you did wash yourself,
shall be devoured by the fire. 23:26 They shall paint your eyes, and decorate yourself with
also strip you of your clothes, and take away ornaments, 23:41 and sit on a stately bed, with
your beautiful jewels. 23:27 Thus will I make a table prepared before it, whereupon you set
your lewdness to cease from you, and your my incense and my oil. 23:42 The voice of a mul-
prostitution broughtfrom the land of Egypt; so titude being at ease was with her: and with men
that you shall not lift up your eyes to them, of the common sort were brought drunkards
nor remember Egypt any more. 23:28 For thus from the wilderness; and they put bracelets
says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will deliver on their hands twain, and beautiful crowns on
you into the hand of them whom you hate, their heads. 23:43 Then I said of her who was old
into the hand of them from whom your soul in adulteries, Now will they play the prostitute
is alienated; 23:29 and they shall deal with with her, and she with them. 23:44 They went in
you in hatred, and shall take away all your to her, as they go in to a prostitute: so went they
labor, and shall leave you naked and bare; in to Oholah and to Oholibah, the lewd women.
23:45
and the nakedness of your prostitution shall Righteous men, they shall judge them with
be uncovered, both your lewdness and your the judgment of adulteresses, and with the
prostitution. 23:30 These things shall be done judgment of women who shed blood; because
to you, because you have played the prostitute they are adulteresses, and blood is in their
after the nations, and because you are polluted hands. 23:46 For thus says the Lord GOD: I will
with their idols. 23:31 You have walked in the bring up a company against them, and will give
way of your sister; therefore will I give her them to be tossed back and forth and robbed.
cup into your hand. 23:32 Thus says the Lord 23:47
The company shall stone them with stones,
GOD: You will drink of your sister’s cup, which and dispatch them with their swords; they shall
is deep and large; you will be ridiculed and kill their sons and their daughters, and burn
held in derision; it contains much. 23:33 You up their houses with fire. 23:48 Thus will I
shall be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that
with the cup of astonishment and desolation, all women may be taught not to do after your
with the cup of your sister Samaria. 23:34 You lewdness. 23:49 They shall recompense your
shall even drink it and drain it out, and you lewdness on you, and you shall bear the sins
shall gnaw the broken pieces of it, and shall of your idols; and you shall know that I am the
tear your breasts; for I have spoken it, says the Lord GOD.
Lord GOD. 23:35 Therefore thus says the Lord 24:1
GOD: Because you have forgotten me, and cast Again, in the ninth year, in the tenth
me behind your back, therefore you also bear month, in the tenth dayof the month, the word
your lewdness and your prostitution. 23:36 The of the LORD came to me, saying, 24:2 Son of
LORD said moreover to me: Son of man, man, write the name of the day, evenof this
will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? then same day: the king of Babylon drew close to
declare to them their abominations. 23:37 For Jerusalem this same day. 24:3 Utter a parable
they have committed adultery, and blood is to the rebellious house, and tell them, Thus
in their hands; and with their idols have says the Lord GOD, Set on the caldron, set it
they committed adultery; and they have also on, and also pour water into it: 24:4 gather its
caused their sons, whom they bore to me, to pieces into it, even every good piece, the thigh,
pass through the fireto them to be devoured. and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones.
24:5
23:38
Moreover this they have done to me: they Take the choice of the flock, and also a pile
of woodfor the bones under the caldron; make it
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boil well; yes, let its bones be boiled in its midst. the bread of men. 24:23 Your tires shall be on
24:6
Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Woe to your heads, and your shoes on your feet: you
the bloody city, to the caldron whose rust is shall not mourn nor weep; but you shall pine
therein, and whose rust is not gone out of it! away in your iniquities, and moan one toward
take out of it piece after piece; No lot is fallen another. 24:24 Thus Ezekiel shall be a sign to
on it. 24:7 For her blood is in the midst of her; you; according to all that he has done, you will
she set it on the bare rock; she didn’t pour it do. When this comes, then you will know that
on the ground, to cover it with dust. 24:8 That it I am the Lord GOD. 24:25 You, son of man, shall
may cause wrath to come up to take vengeance, it not be in the day when I take from them their
I have set her blood on the bare rock, that it strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of
should not be covered. 24:9 Therefore thus says their eyes, and that whereupon they set their
the Lord GOD: Woe to the bloody city! I also heart, their sons and their daughters, 24:26 that
will make the pile great. 24:10 Heap on the in that day he who escapes shall come to you, to
wood, make the fire hot, boil well the flesh, cause you to hear it with your ears? 24:27 In that
and make thick the broth, and let the bones day your mouth will be opened to him who has
be burned. 24:11 Then set it empty on its coals, escaped, and you shall speak, and be no more
that it may be hot, and its brass may burn, and mute: so you will be a sign to them; and they
that its filthiness may be molten in it, that its shall know that I am the LORD.
rust may be consumed. 24:12 She has wearied 25:1
herself with toil; yet her great rust doesn’t go The word of the LORD came to me,
forth out of her; her rust doesn’t go forthby fire. saying, 25:2 Son of man, set your face toward
24:13
In your filthiness is lewdness: because I the children of Ammon, and prophesy against
have cleansed you and you weren’t cleansed, them: 25:3 and tell the children of Ammon, Hear
you shall not be cleansed from your filthiness the word of the Lord GOD: Thus says the Lord
any more, until I have caused my wrath toward GOD, Because you said, Aha, against my sanc-
you to rest. 24:14 I, the LORD, have spoken tuary, when it was profaned; and against Eretz-
it: it shall happen, and I will do it: I will Israel, when it was made desolate; and against
not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I the house of Judah, when they went into
repent; according to your ways, and according captivity: 25:4 therefore, behold, I will deliver
to your doings, shall they judge you, says the you to the children of the east for a possession,
Lord GOD. 24:15 Also the word of the LORD and they shall set their encampments in you,
came to me, saying, 24:16 Son of man, behold, and make their dwellings in you; they shall eat
I will take away from you the desire of your your fruit, and they shall drink your milk. 25:5 I
eyes with a stroke: yet you shall neither mourn will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the
nor weep, neither shall your tears run down. children of Ammon a resting place for flocks:
24:17
Sigh, but not aloud, make no mourning for and you shall know that I am the LORD. 25:6 For
the dead; bind your headdress on you, and put thus says the Lord GOD: Because you have
your shoes on your feet, and don’t cover your clapped your hands, and stamped with the
lips, and don’t eat men’s bread. 24:18 So I spoke feet, and rejoiced with all the despite of your
to the people in the morning; and at even my soul against Eretz-Israel; 25:7 therefore, behold,
wife died; and I did in the morning as I was I have stretched out my hand on you, and will
commanded. 24:19 The people said to me, Won’t deliver you for a spoil to the nations; and I
you tell us what these things are to us, that you will cut you off from the peoples, and I will
do so? 24:20 Then I said to them, The word of cause you to perish out of the countries: I will
the LORD came to me, saying, 24:21 Speak to destroy you; and you shall know that I am the
the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD: LORD. 25:8 Thus says the Lord GOD: Because
Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride Moab and Seir say, Behold, the house of Judah
of your power, the desire of your eyes, and that is like all the nations; 25:9 therefore, behold, I
which your soul pities; and your sons and your will open the side of Moab from the cities, from
daughters whom you have left behind shall his cities which are on his frontiers, the glory
fall by the sword. 24:22 You shall do as I have of the country, Beth Jeshimoth, Baal Meon, and
done: you shall not cover your lips, nor eat Kiriathaim, 25:10 to the children of the east, to
goagainst the children of Ammon; and I will
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give them for a possession, that the children ters in the field with the sword; and he shall
of Ammon may not be remembered among make forts against you, and cast up a mound
the nations. 25:11 and I will execute judgments against you, and raise up the buckler against
on Moab; and they shall know that I am the you. 26:9 He shall set his battering engines
LORD. 25:12 Thus says the Lord GOD: Because against your walls, and with his axes he shall
Edom has dealt against the house of Judah by break down your towers. 26:10 By reason of the
taking vengeance, and has greatly offended, abundance of his horses their dust shall cover
and revenged himself on them; 25:13 therefore you: your walls shall shake at the noise of
thus says the Lord GOD, I will stretch out the horsemen, and of the wagons, and of the
my hand on Edom, and will cut off man and chariots, when he shall enter into your gates, as
animal from it; and I will make it desolate from men enter into a city in which is made a breach.
26:11
Teman; even to Dedan shall they fall by the With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread
sword. 25:14 I will lay my vengeance on Edom down all your streets; he shall kill your people
by the hand of my people Israel; and they with the sword; and the pillars of your strength
shall do in Edom according to my anger and shall go down to the ground. 26:12 They shall
according to my wrath; and they shall know my make a spoil of your riches, and make a prey of
vengeance, says the Lord GOD. 25:15 Thus says your merchandise; and they shall break down
the Lord GOD: Because the Philistines have your walls, and destroy your pleasant houses;
dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance and they shall lay your stones and your timber
with despite of soul to destroy with perpetual and your dust in the midst of the waters. 26:13 I
enmity; 25:16 therefore thus says the Lord GOD, will cause the noise of your songs to cease; and
Behold, I will stretch out my hand on the the sound of your harps shall be no more heard.
26:14
Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethites, I will make you a bare rock; you shall be
and destroy the remnant of the sea coast. 25:17 I a place for the spreading of nets; you shall be
will execute great vengeance on them with built no more: for I the LORD have spoken
wrathful rebukes; and they shall know that I it, says the Lord GOD. 26:15 Thus says the Lord
am the LORD, when I shall lay my vengeance GOD to Tyre: shall not the islands shake at the
on them. sound of your fall, when the wounded groan,
26:1
when the slaughter is made in the midst of
It happened in the eleventh year, in the you? 26:16 Then all the princes of the sea shall
first dayof the month, that the word of the come down from their thrones, and lay aside
LORD came to me, saying, 26:2 Son of man, their robes, and strip off their embroidered
because Tyre has said against Jerusalem, Aha, garments: they shall clothe themselves with
she is broken: the gate of the peoples; she is trembling; they shall sit on the ground, and
turned to me; I shall be replenished, now that shall tremble every moment, and be astonished
she is laid waste: 26:3 therefore thus says the at you. 26:17 They shall take up a lamentation
Lord GOD, Behold, I am against you, Tyre, and over you, and tell you, How you are destroyed,
will cause many nations to come up against who were inhabited by seafaring men, the
you, as the sea causes its waves to come up. renowned city, who was strong in the sea, she
26:4
They shall destroy the walls of Tyre, and and her inhabitants, who caused their terror to
break down her towers: I will also scrape be on all who lived there! 26:18 Now shall the
her dust from her, and make her a bare rock. islands tremble in the day of your fall; yes, the
26:5
She shall be a place for the spreading of islands that are in the sea shall be dismayed
nets in the midst of the sea; for I have spoken at your departure. 26:19 For thus says the Lord
it, says the Lord GOD; and she shall become a GOD: When I shall make you a desolate city,
spoil to the nations. 26:6 Her daughters who are like the cities that are not inhabited; when I
in the field shall be slain with the sword: and shall bring up the deep on you, and the great
they shall know that I am the LORD. 26:7 For waters shall cover you; 26:20 then will I bring
thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will bring you down with those who descend into the pit,
on Tyre Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, king to the people of old time, and will make you
of kings, from the north, with horses, and with to dwell in the lower parts of the earth, in the
chariots, and with horsemen, and a company, places that are desolate of old, with those who
and many people. 26:8 He shall kill your daugh-
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go down to the pit, that you be not inhabited; ple, and embroidered work, and fine linen,
and I will set glory in the land of the living: and coral, and rubies. 27:17 Judah, and Eretz-
26:21
I will make you a terror, and you shall no Israel, they were your traffickers: they traded
more have any being; though you are sought for your merchandise wheat of Minnith, and
for, yet you will never be found again, says the confections, and honey, and oil, and balm.
27:18
Lord GOD. Damascus was your merchant for the mul-
27:1
titude of your handiworks, by reason of the
The word of the LORD came again to multitude of all kinds of riches, with the wine
me, saying, 27:2 You, son of man, take up a of Helbon, and white wool. 27:19 Vedan and
lamentation over Tyre; 27:3 and tell Tyre, you Javan traded with yarn for your wares: bright
who dwell at the entry of the sea, who are iron, cassia, and calamus, were among your
the merchant of the peoples to many islands, merchandise. 27:20 Dedan was your trafficker in
thus says the Lord GOD: You, Tyre, have said, precious cloths for riding. 27:21 Arabia, and all
I am perfect in beauty. 27:4 Your borders are the princes of Kedar, they were the merchants
in the heart of the seas; your builders have of your hand; in lambs, and rams, and goats, in
perfected your beauty. 27:5 They have made all these were they your merchants. 27:22 The traf-
your planks of fir trees from Senir; they have fickers of Sheba and Raamah, they were your
taken a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast traffickers; they traded for your wares with the
for you. 27:6 Of the oaks of Bashan have they chief of all spices, and with all precious stones,
made your oars; they have made your benches and gold. 27:23 Haran and Canneh and Eden,
of ivory inlaid in boxwood, from the islands the traffickers of Sheba, Asshur andChilmad,
of Kittim. 27:7 Of fine linen with embroidered were your traffickers. 27:24 These were your
work from Egypt was your sail, that it might be traffickers in choice wares, in wrappings of
to you for a banner; blue and purple from the blue and embroidered work, and in chests
islands of Elishah was your awning. 27:8 The of rich clothing, bound with cords and made
inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were your of cedar, among your merchandise. 27:25 The
rowers: your wise men, Tyre, were in you, ships of Tarshish were your caravans for your
they were your pilots. 27:9 The old men of merchandise: and you were replenished, and
Gebal and the wise men of it were in you your made very glorious in the heart of the seas.
repairers of ship seams: all the ships of the 27:26
Your rowers have brought you into great
sea with their mariners were in you to deal waters: the east wind has broken you in the
in your merchandise. 27:10 Persia and Lud and heart of the seas. 27:27 Your riches, and your
Put were in your army, your men of war: they wares, your merchandise, your mariners, and
hanged the shield and helmet in you; they set your pilots, your repairers of ship seams, and
forth your comeliness. 27:11 The men of Arvad the dealers in your merchandise, and all your
with your army were on your walls all around, men of war, who are in you, with all your
and valorous men were in your towers; they company which is in the midst of you, shall
hanged their shields on your walls all around; fall into the heart of the seas in the day of
they have perfected your beauty. 27:12 Tarshish your ruin. 27:28 At the sound of the cry of
was your merchant by reason of the multitude your pilots the suburbs shall shake. 27:29 All
of all kinds of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and who handled the oar, the mariners, andall the
lead, they traded for your wares. 27:13 Javan, pilots of the sea, shall come down from their
Tubal, and Meshech, they were your traffickers; ships; they shall stand on the land, 27:30 and
they traded the persons of men and vessels of shall cause their voice to be heard over you,
brass for your merchandise. 27:14 They of the and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust
house of Togarmah traded for your wares with on their heads, they shall wallow themselves in
horses and war horses and mules. 27:15 The the ashes: 27:31 and they shall make themselves
men of Dedan were your traffickers; many bald for you, and clothe them with sackcloth,
islands were the market of your hand: they and they shall weep for you in bitterness of soul
brought you in exchange horns of ivory and with bitter mourning. 27:32 In their wailing they
ebony. 27:16 Syria was your merchant by reason shall take up a lamentation for you, and lament
of the multitude of your handiworks: they over you, saying, Who is there like Tyre, like her
traded for your wares with emeralds, pur-
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who is brought to silence in the midst of the pipes was in you. In the day that you were
sea? 27:33 When your wares went forth out of created they were prepared. 28:14 You were the
the seas, you filled many peoples; you enriched anointed cherub who covers: and I set you, so
the kings of the earth with the multitude of thatyou were on the holy mountain of God; you
your riches and of your merchandise. 27:34 In have walked up and down in the midst of the
the time that you were broken by the seas in stones of fire. 28:15 You were perfect in your
the depths of the waters, your merchandise and ways from the day that you were created, until
all your company fell in your midst. 27:35 All unrighteousness was found in you. 28:16 By the
the inhabitants of the islands are astonished at abundance of your traffic they filled the midst
you, and their kings are horribly afraid; they of you with violence, and you have sinned:
are troubled in their face. 27:36 The merchants therefore I have cast you as profane out of the
among the peoples hiss at you; you are become mountain of God; and I have destroyed you,
a terror, and you shall nevermore have any covering cherub, from the midst of the stones
being. of fire. 28:17 Your heart was lifted up because of
28:1 your beauty; you have corrupted your wisdom
The word of the LORD came again to
me, saying, 28:2 Son of man, tell the prince of by reason of your brightness: I have cast you
Tyre, Thus says the Lord GOD: Because your to the ground; I have laid you before kings,
heart is lifted up, and you have said, I am that they may see you. 28:18 By the multitude of
a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst your iniquities, in the unrighteousness of your
of the seas; yet you are man, and not God, traffic, you have profaned your sanctuaries;
though you set your heart as the heart of God— therefore have I brought forth a fire from the
28:3 midst of you; it has devoured you, and I have
behold, you are wiser than Daniel; there is
no secret that is hidden from you; 28:4 by your turned you to ashes on the earth in the sight of
wisdom and by your understanding you have all those who see you. 28:19 All those who know
gotten yourself riches, and have gotten gold you among the peoples shall be astonished
and silver into your treasures; 28:5 by your great at you: you have become a terror, and you
wisdom andby your traffic you have increased shall nevermore have any being. 28:20 The word
your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of the LORD came to me, saying, 28:21 Son of
of your riches—28:6 therefore thus says the Lord man, set your face toward Sidon, and prophesy
GOD: Because you have set your heart as the against it, 28:22 and say, Thus says the Lord
heart of God, 28:7 therefore, behold, I will bring GOD: Behold, I am against you, Sidon; and I
strangers on you, the terrible of the nations; will be glorified in the midst of you; and they
and they shall draw their swords against the shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall
beauty of your wisdom, and they shall defile have executed judgments in her, and shall be
your brightness. 28:8 They shall bring you down sanctified in her. 28:23 For I will send pestilence
to the pit; and you shall die the death of those into her, and blood into her streets; and the
who are slain, in the heart of the seas. 28:9 Will wounded shall fall in the midst of her, with
you yet say before him who kills you, I am the sword on her on every side; and they shall
God? but you are man, and not God, in the know that I am the LORD. 28:24 There shall be
hand of him who wounds you. 28:10 You shall no more a pricking brier to the house of Israel,
die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand nor a hurting thorn of any that are around
of strangers: for I have spoken it, says the Lord them, that scorned them; and they shall know
GOD. 28:11 Moreover the word of the LORD that I am the Lord GOD. 28:25 Thus says the
came to me, saying, 28:12 Son of man, take up a Lord GOD: When I shall have gathered the
lamentation over the king of Tyre, and tell him, house of Israel from the peoples among whom
Thus says the Lord GOD: You seal up the sum, they are scattered, and shall be sanctified in
full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. 28:13 You them in the sight of the nations, then shall they
were in Eden, the garden of God; every pre- dwell in their own land which I gave to my
cious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz, emerald, servant Jacob. 28:26 They shall dwell securely
chrysolite, onyx, jasper, sapphireh , turquoise, therein; yes, they shall build houses, and plant
and beryl. Gold work of tambourines and of vineyards, and shall dwell securely, when I
h 28:13 or, lapis lazuli
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have executed judgments on all those who do Pathros, into the land of their birth; and they
them despite all around them; and they shall shall be there a base kingdom. 29:15 It shall
know that I am the LORD their God. be the base of the kingdoms; neither shall it
29:1
any more lift itself up above the nations: and
In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on I will diminish them, that they shall no more
the twelfth day of the month, the word of the rule over the nations. 29:16 It shall be no more
LORD came to me, saying, 29:2 “Son of man, set the confidence of the house of Israel, bringing
your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and iniquity to memory, when they turn to look
prophesy against him and against all Egypt. after them: and they shall know that I am
29:3
Speak and say, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: the Lord GOD.”’” 29:17 It came to pass in the
“Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of seven and twentieth year, in the first month,
Egypt, the great monster that lies in the midst in the first dayof the month, the word of the
of his rivers, that has said, ‘My river is my own, LORD came to me, saying, 29:18 Son of man,
and I have made it for myself.’ 29:4 I will put Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon caused his
hooks in your jaws, and I will make the fish of army to serve a great service against Tyre:
your rivers stick to your scales; and I will bring every head was made bald, and every shoulder
you up out of the midst of your rivers, with was worn; yet had he no wages, nor his army,
all the fish of your rivers which stick to your from Tyre, for the service that he had served
scales. 29:5 I’ll cast you forth into the wilderness, against it. 29:19 Therefore thus says the Lord
you and all the fish of your rivers. You’ll fall on GOD: Behold, I will give the land of Egypt to
the open field. You won’t be brought together, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and he shall
nor gathered. I have given you for food to carry off her multitude, and take her spoil, and
the animals of the earth and to the birds of the take her prey; and it shall be the wages for his
sky. 29:6 All the inhabitants of Egypt will know army. 29:20 I have given him the land of Egypt
that I am the LORD, because they have been a as his recompense for which he served, because
staff of reed to the house of Israel. 29:7 When they worked for me, says the Lord GOD. 29:21 In
they took hold of you by your hand, you broke, that day will I cause a horn to bud forth to the
and tore all their shoulders; and when they house of Israel, and I will give you the opening
leaned on you, you broke, and paralyzed all of the mouth in their midst; and they shall
of their thighs.” 29:8 Therefore thus says the know that I am the LORD.
Lord GOD: “Behold, I will bring a sword on
30:1
you, and will cut off man and animal from you. The word of the LORD came again to
29:9
The land of Egypt shall be a desolation and me, saying, 30:2 Son of man, prophesy, and say,
a waste; and they shall know that I am the Thus says the Lord GOD: Wail, Alas for the
LORD. Because he has said, ‘The river is mine, day! 30:3 For the day is near, even the day of
and I have made it;’ 29:10 therefore, behold, I the LORD is near; it shall be a day of clouds, a
am against you, and against your rivers, and time of the nations. 30:4 A sword shall come on
I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste Egypt, and anguish shall be in Ethiopia, when
and desolation, from the tower of Seveneh even the slain shall fall in Egypt; and they shall take
to the border of Ethiopia. 29:11 No foot of man away her multitude, and her foundations shall
shall pass through it, nor foot of animal shall be broken down. 30:5 Ethiopia, and Put, and
pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited Lud, and all the mixed people, and Cub, and
forty years. 29:12 I will make the land of Egypt a the children of the land that is allied with them,
desolation in the midst of the countries that are shall fall with them by the sword. 30:6 Thus
desolate; and her cities among the cities that are says the LORD: They also who uphold Egypt
laid waste shall be a desolation forty years; and shall fall; and the pride of her power shall come
I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, down: from the tower of Seveneh shall they
and will disperse them through the countries.” fall in it by the sword, says the Lord GOD.
29:13 30:7
For thus says the Lord GOD: “At the end They shall be desolate in the midst of the
of forty years will I gather the Egyptians from countries that are desolate; and her cities shall
the peoples where they were scattered; 29:14 and be in the midst of the cities that are wasted.
30:8
I will bring back the captivity of Egypt, and They shall know that I am the LORD, when
will cause them to return into the land of I have set a fire in Egypt, and all her helpers
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are destroyed. 30:9 In that day shall messengers of Pharaoh, and he shall groan before him with
go forth from before me in ships to make the the groanings of a deadly wounded man. 30:25 I
careless Ethiopians afraid; and there shall be will hold up the arms of the king of Babylon;
anguish on them, as in the day of Egypt; for, and the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down; and
behold, it comes. 30:10 Thus says the Lord GOD: they shall know that I am the LORD, when I
I will also make the multitude of Egypt to shall put my sword into the hand of the king
cease, by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he shall stretch it out on the
of Babylon. 30:11 He and his people with him, land of Egypt. 30:26 I will scatter the Egyptians
the terrible of the nations, shall be brought in among the nations, and disperse them through
to destroy the land; and they shall draw their the countries; and they shall know that I am the
swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the LORD.
slain. 30:12 I will make the rivers dry, and will 31:1
sell the land into the hand of evil men; and It happened in the eleventh year, in the
I will make the land desolate, and all that is third month, in the first dayof the month, that
therein, by the hand of strangers: I, the LORD, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
31:2
have spoken it. 30:13 Thus says the Lord GOD: I Son of man, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt, and
will also destroy the idols, and I will cause the to his multitude: Whom are you like in your
images to cease from Memphis; and there shall greatness? 31:3 Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar
be no more a prince from the land of Egypt: in Lebanon with beautiful branches, and with
and I will put a fear in the land of Egypt. 30:14 I a forest-like shade, and of high stature; and
will make Pathros desolate, and will set a fire in its top was among the thick boughs. 31:4 The
Zoan, and will execute judgments on No. 30:15 I waters nourished it, the deep made it to grow:
will pour my wrath on Sin, the stronghold of its rivers ran all around its plantation; and it
Egypt; and I will cut off the multitude of No. sent out its channels to all the trees of the field.
31:5
30:16
I will set a fire in Egypt: Sin shall be in Therefore its stature was exalted above all
great anguish, and No shall be broken up; and the trees of the field; and its boughs were
Memphis shall haveadversaries in the daytime. multiplied, and its branches became long by
30:17
The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth reason of many waters, when it shot themforth.
31:6
shall fall by the sword; and these citiesshall go All the birds of the sky made their nests
into captivity. 30:18 At Tehaphnehes also the day in its boughs; and under its branches all the
shall withdraw itself, when I shall break there animals of the field brought forth their young;
the yokes of Egypt, and the pride of her power and all great nations lived under its shadow.
31:7
shall cease in her: as for her, a cloud shall cover Thus was it beautiful in its greatness, in the
her, and her daughters shall go into captivity. length of its branches; for its root was by many
30:19
Thus will I execute judgments on Egypt; waters. 31:8 The cedars in the garden of God
and they shall know that I am the LORD. could not hide it; the fir trees were not like
30:20
It happened in the eleventh year, in the first its boughs, and the plane trees were not as its
month, in the seventh dayof the month, that the branches; nor was any tree in the garden of God
word of the LORD came to me, saying, 30:21 Son like it in its beauty. 31:9 I made it beautiful by the
of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king multitude of its branches, so that all the trees of
of Egypt; and behold, it has not been bound Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied it.
31:10
up, to apply healingmedicines, to put a bandage Therefore thus said the Lord GOD: Because
to bind it, that it be strong to hold the sword. you are exalted in stature, and he has set his top
30:22
Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted
I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will up in his height; 31:11 I will even deliver him
break his arms, the strong arm, and that which into the hand of the mighty one of the nations;
was broken; and I will cause the sword to fall he shall surely deal with him; I have driven
out of his hand. 30:23 I will scatter the Egyptians him out for his wickedness. 31:12 Strangers, the
among the nations, and will disperse them terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and
through the countries. 30:24 I will strengthen have left him: on the mountains and in all the
the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs
sword in his hand: but I will break the arms are broken by all the watercourses of the land;
and all the peoples of the earth are gone down
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from his shadow, and have left him. 31:13 On valleys with your height. 32:6 I will also water
his ruin all the birds of the sky shall dwell, with your blood the land in which you swim,
and all the animals of the field shall be on his even to the mountains; and the watercourses
branches; 31:14 to the end that none of all the shall be full of you. 32:7 When I shall extinguish
trees by the waters exalt themselves in their you, I will cover the heavens, and make its stars
stature, neither set their top among the thick dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the
boughs, nor that their mighty ones stand up moon shall not give its light. 32:8 All the bright
on their height, evenall who drink water: for lights of the sky will I make dark over you,
they are all delivered to death, to the lower and set darkness on your land, says the Lord
parts of the earth, in the midst of the children GOD. 32:9 I will also trouble the hearts of many
of men, with those who go down to the pit. peoples, when I shall bring your destruction
31:15
Thus says the Lord GOD: In the day when among the nations, into the countries which
he went down to Sheoli I caused a mourning: you have not known. 32:10 Yes, I will make
I covered the deep for him, and I restrained many peoples amazed at you, and their kings
its rivers; and the great waters were stayed; shall be horribly afraid for you, when I shall
and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and brandish my sword before them; and they shall
all the trees of the field fainted for him. 31:16 I tremble at every moment, every man for his
made the nations to shake at the sound of his own life, in the day of your fall. 32:11 For
fall, when I cast him down to Sheolj with those thus says the Lord GOD: The sword of the
who descend into the pit; and all the trees of king of Babylon shall come on you. 32:12 By
Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that the swords of the mighty will I cause your
drink water, were comforted in the lower parts multitude to fall; the terrible of the nations are
of the earth. 31:17 They also went down into they all: and they shall bring to nothing the
Sheol with him to those who are slain by the pride of Egypt, and all its multitude shall be
sword; yes, those who were his arm, thatlived destroyed. 32:13 I will destroy also all its animals
under his shadow in the midst of the nations. from beside many waters; neither shall the foot
31:18
To whom are you thus like in glory and of man trouble them any more, nor the hoofs
in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet you of animals trouble them. 32:14 Then will I make
will be brought down with the trees of Eden to their waters clear, and cause their rivers to run
the lower parts of the earth: you shall lie in the like oil, says the Lord GOD. 32:15 When I shall
midst of the uncircumcised, with those who are make the land of Egypt desolate and waste,
slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his a land destitute of that of which it was full,
multitude, says the Lord GOD. when I shall strike all those who dwell therein,
32:1
It happened in the twelfth year, in the then shall they know that I am the LORD.
32:16
twelfth month, in the first dayof the month, that This is the lamentation with which they
the word of the LORD came to me, saying, shall lament; the daughters of the nations shall
32:2
Son of man, take up a lamentation over lament therewith; over Egypt, and over all her
Pharaoh king of Egypt, and tell him, You were multitude, shall they lament therewith, says the
likened to a young lion of the nations: yet you Lord GOD. 32:17 It happened also in the twelfth
are as a monster in the seas; and you broke year, in the fifteenth dayof the month, that the
out with your rivers, and troubled the waters word of the LORD came to me, saying, 32:18 Son
with your feet, and fouled their rivers. 32:3 Thus of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and
says the Lord GOD: I will spread out my net cast them down, even her, and the daughters
on you with a company of many peoples; and of the famous nations, to the lower parts of the
they shall bring you up in my net. 32:4 I will earth, with those who go down into the pit.
32:19
leave you on the land, I will cast you forth on Whom do you pass in beauty? Go down,
the open field, and will cause all the birds of and be laid with the uncircumcised. 32:20 They
the sky to settle on you, and I will satisfy the shall fall in the midst of those who are slain
animals of the whole earth with you. 32:5 I will by the sword: she is delivered to the sword;
lay your flesh on the mountains, and fill the draw her away and all her multitudes. 32:21 The
i 31:15 Sheol is the place of the dead.
j 31:16 Sheol is the place of the dead.
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strong among the mighty shall speak to him shall see them, and shall be comforted over
out of the midst of Sheolk with those who all his multitude, even Pharaoh and all his
help him: they are gone down, they lie still, army, slain by the sword, says the Lord GOD.
32:32
even the uncircumcised, slain by the sword. For I have put his terror in the land of
32:22
Asshur is there and all her company; her the living; and he shall be laid in the midst of
graves are all around her; all of them slain, the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by
fallen by the sword; 32:23 whose graves are set in the sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude,
the uttermost parts of the pit, and her company says the Lord GOD.
is around her grave; all of them slain, fallen by 33:1
the sword, who caused terror in the land of the The word of the LORD came to me,
living. 32:24 There is Elam and all her multitude saying, 33:2 Son of man, speak to the children
around her grave; all of them slain, fallen by of your people, and tell them, When I bring the
the sword, who are gone down uncircumcised sword on a land, and the people of the land take
into the lower parts of the earth, who caused a man from among them, and set him for their
their terror in the land of the living, and have watchman; 33:3 if, when he sees the sword come
borne their shame with those who go down to on the land, he blow the shofarl , and warn the
the pit. 32:25 They have set her a bed in the midst people; 33:4 then whoever hears the sound of
of the slain with all her multitude; her graves the shofarm , and doesn’t take warning, if the
are around her; all of them uncircumcised, slain sword come, and take him away, his blood shall
by the sword; for their terror was caused in be on his own head. 33:5 He heard the sound
the land of the living, and they have borne of the shofarn , and didn’t take warning; his
their shame with those who go down to the blood shall be on him; whereas if he had taken
pit: he is put in the midst of those who are warning, he would have delivered his soul.
33:6
slain. 32:26 There is Meshech, Tubal, and all But if the watchman sees the sword come,
their multitude; their graves are around them; and doesn’t blow the shofaro , and the people
all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; aren’t warned, and the sword comes, and take
for they caused their terror in the land of the any person from among them; he is taken away
living. 32:27 They shall not lie with the mighty in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at
who are fallen of the uncircumcised, who are the watchman’s hand. 33:7 So you, son of man,
gone down to Sheol with their weapons of war, I have set you a watchman to the house of
and have laid their swords under their heads, Israel; therefore hear the word at my mouth,
and their iniquities are on their bones; for they and give them warning from me. 33:8 When I
werethe terror of the mighty in the land of the tell the wicked, O wicked man, you shall surely
living. 32:28 But you shall be broken in the die, and you don’t speak to warn the wicked
midst of the uncircumcised, and shall lie with from his way; that wicked man shall die in his
those who are slain by the sword. 32:29 There iniquity, but his blood will I require at your
is Edom, her kings and all her princes, who hand. 33:9 Nevertheless, if you warn the wicked
in their might are laid with those who are of his way to turn from it, and he doesn’t turn
slain by the sword: they shall lie with the from his way; he shall die in his iniquity, but
uncircumcised, and with those who go down to you have delivered your soul. 33:10 You, son of
the pit. 32:30 There are the princes of the north, man, tell the house of Israel: Thus you speak,
all of them, and all the Sidonians, who are gone saying, Our transgressions and our sins are on
down with the slain; in the terror which they us, and we pine away in them; how then can
caused by their might they are put to shame; we live? 33:11 Tell them, As I live, says the
and they lie uncircumcised with those who are Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death
slain by the sword, and bear their shame with of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from
those who go down to the pit. 32:31 Pharaoh his way and live: turn, turn from your evil
ways; for why will you die, house of Israel?
k 32:21 Sheol is the place of the dead.
l 33:3or, trumpet
m 33:4 or, trumpet
n 33:5 or, trumpet
o 33:6 or, trumpet
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33:12
You, son of man, tell the children of your Thus says the Lord GOD: As I live, surely those
people, The righteousness of the righteous shall who are in the waste places shall fall by the
not deliver him in the day of his disobedience; sword; and him who is in the open field will I
and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he give to the animals to be devoured; and those
shall not fall thereby in the day that he turns who are in the strongholds and in the caves
from his wickedness; neither shall he who is shall die of the pestilence. 33:28 I will make the
righteous be able to live thereby in the day that land a desolation and an astonishment; and
he sins. 33:13 When I tell the righteous, that he the pride of her power shall cease; and the
shall surely live; if he trust to his righteousness, mountains of Israel shall be desolate, so that
and commit iniquity, none of his righteous none shall pass through. 33:29 Then shall they
deeds shall be remembered; but in his iniquity know that I am the LORD, when I have made
that he has committed, therein shall he die. the land a desolation and an astonishment,
33:14
Again, when I say to the wicked, You shall because of all their abominations which they
surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that have committed. 33:30 As for you, son of man,
which is lawful and right; 33:15 if the wicked the children of your people talk of you by the
restore the pledge, give again that which he walls and in the doors of the houses, and speak
had taken by robbery, walk in the statutes of one to another, everyone to his brother, saying,
life, committing no iniquity; he shall surely live, Please come and hear what is the word that
he shall not die. 33:16 None of his sins that comes forth from the LORD. 33:31 They come to
he has committed shall be remembered against you as the people come, and they sit before you
him: he has done that which is lawful and as my people, and they hear your words, but
right; he shall surely live. 33:17 Yet the children don’t do them; for with their mouth they show
of your people say, The way of the Lord is much love, but their heart goes after their gain.
33:32
not equal: but as for them, their way is not Behold, you are to them as a very lovely
equal. 33:18 When the righteous turns from his song of one who has a pleasant voice, and can
righteousness, and commits iniquity, he shall play well on an instrument; for they hear your
even die therein. 33:19 When the wicked turns words, but they don’t do them. 33:33 When
from his wickedness, and does that which is this comes to pass, (behold, it comes), then
lawful and right, he shall live thereby. 33:20 Yet shall they know that a prophet has been among
you say, The way of the Lord is not equal. them.
House of Israel, I will judge every one of you 34:1
after his ways. 33:21 It happened in the twelfth The word of the LORD came to me,
year of our captivity, in the tenth month, in saying, 34:2 Son of man, prophesy against the
the fifth dayof the month, that one who had shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and tell them,
escaped out of Jerusalem came to me, saying, even to the shepherds, Thus says the Lord
The city has been struck. 33:22 Now the hand GOD: Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed
of the LORD had been on me in the evening, themselves! Shouldn’t the shepherds feed the
before he who was escaped came; and he had sheep? 34:3 You eat the fat, and you clothe
opened my mouth, until he came to me in the yourself with the wool, you kill the fatlings;
morning; and my mouth was opened, and I but you don’t feed the sheep. 34:4 You haven’t
was no more mute. 33:23 The word of the LORD strengthened the diseased, neither have you
came to me, saying, 33:24 Son of man, they who healed that which was sick, neither have you
inhabit those waste places in Eretz-Israel speak, bound up that which was broken, neither have
saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the you brought back that which was driven away,
land: but we are many; the land is given us for neither have you sought that which was lost;
inheritance. 33:25 Therefore tell them, Thus says but with force and with rigor you have ruled
the Lord GOD: You eat with the blood, and lift over them. 34:5 They were scattered, because
up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood: and there was no shepherd; and they became food
shall you possess the land? 33:26 You stand on to all the animals of the field, and were scat-
your sword, you work abomination, and every tered. 34:6 My sheep wandered through all the
one of you defiles his neighbor’s wife: and shall mountains, and on every high hill: yes, my
you possess the land? 33:27 You shall tell them, sheep were scattered on all the surface of the
earth; and there was none who searched or
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sought. 34:7 Therefore, you shepherds, hear the the fat sheep and the lean sheep. 34:21 Because
word of the LORD: 34:8 As I live, says the Lord you thrust with side and with shoulder, and
GOD, surely because my sheep became a prey, push all the diseased with your horns, until
and my sheep became food to all the animals you have scattered them abroad; 34:22 therefore
of the field, because there was no shepherd, will I save my flock, and they shall no more
neither did my shepherds search for my sheep, be a prey; and I will judge between sheep and
but the shepherds fed themselves, and didn’t sheep. 34:23 I will set up one shepherd over
feed my sheep; 34:9 therefore, you shepherds, them, and he shall feed them, even my servant
hear the word of the LORD: 34:10 Thus says the David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their
Lord GOD: Behold, I am against the shepherds; shepherd. 34:24 I, the LORD, will be their God,
and I will require my sheep at their hand, and and my servant David prince among them; I,
cause them to cease from feeding the sheep; the LORD, have spoken it. 34:25 I will make with
neither shall the shepherds feed themselves them a covenant of peace, and will cause evil
any more; and I will deliver my sheep from animals to cease out of the land; and they shall
their mouth, that they may not be food for dwell securely in the wilderness, and sleep in
them. 34:11 For thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, the woods. 34:26 I will make them and the
I myself, even I, will search for my sheep, and places around my hill a blessing; and I will
will seek them out. 34:12 As a shepherd seeks cause the shower to come down in its season;
out his flock in the day that he is among his there shall be showers of blessing. 34:27 The
sheep that are scattered abroad, so will I seek tree of the field shall yield its fruit, and the
out my sheep; and I will deliver them out of earth shall yield its increase, and they shall be
all places where they have been scattered in the secure in their land; and they shall know that
cloudy and dark day. 34:13 I will bring them I am the LORD, when I have broken the bars
out from the peoples, and gather them from the of their yoke, and have delivered them out of
countries, and will bring them into their own the hand of those who made slaves of them.
34:28
land; and I will feed them on the mountains They shall no more be a prey to the nations,
of Israel, by the watercourses, and in all the neither shall the animals of the earth devour
inhabited places of the country. 34:14 I will feed them; but they shall dwell securely, and none
them with good pasture; and on the mountains shall make them afraid. 34:29 I will raise up to
of the height of Israel shall their fold be: there them a plantation for renown, and they shall
shall they lie down in a good fold; and on fat be no more consumed with famine in the land,
pasture shall they feed on the mountains of neither bear the shame of the nations any more.
Israel. 34:15 I myself will be the shepherd of 34:30
They shall know that I, the LORD, their
my sheep, and I will cause them to lie down, God am with them, and that they, the house
says the Lord GOD. 34:16 I will seek that which of Israel, are my people, says the Lord GOD.
34:31
was lost, and will bring back that which was You my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are
driven away, and will bind up that which was men, and I am your God, says the Lord GOD.
broken, and will strengthen that which was 35:1
sick: but the fat and the strong I will destroy; Moreover the word of the LORD came
I will feed them in justice. 34:17 As for you, O to me, saying, 35:2 Son of man, set your face
my flock, thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I against Mount Seir, and prophesy against it,
35:3
judge between sheep and sheep, the rams and and tell it, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold,
the male goats. 34:18 Does it seem a small thing I am against you, Mount Seir, and I will stretch
to you to have fed on the good pasture, but you out my hand against you, and I will make
must tread down with your feet the residue of you a desolation and an astonishment. 35:4 I
your pasture? and to have drunk of the clear will lay your cities waste, and you shall be
waters, but you must foul the residue with your desolate; and you shall know that I am the
feet? 34:19 As for my sheep, they eat that which LORD. 35:5 Because you have had a perpetual
you have trodden with your feet, and they enmity, and have given over the children of
drink that which you have fouled with your Israel to the power of the sword in the time of
feet. 34:20 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD their calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the
to them: Behold, I, even I, will judge between end; 35:6 therefore, as I live, says the Lord GOD,
I will prepare you for blood, and blood shall
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pursue you: since you have not hated blood, thus says the Lord GOD: Surely in the fire of
therefore blood shall pursue you. 35:7 Thus my jealousy have I spoken against the residue
will I make Mount Seir an astonishment and a of the nations, and against all Edom, that
desolation; and I will cut off from it him who have appointed my land to themselves for
passes through and him who returns. 35:8 I will a possession with the joy of all their heart,
fill its mountains with its slain: in your hills and with despite of soul, to cast it out for a prey.
36:6
in your valleys and in all your watercourses Therefore prophesy concerning Eretz-Israel,
shall they fall who are slain with the sword. and tell the mountains and to the hills, to
35:9
I will make you a perpetual desolation, and the watercourses and to the valleys, Thus says
your cities shall not be inhabited; and you shall the Lord GOD: Behold, I have spoken in my
know that I am the LORD. 35:10 Because you jealousy and in my wrath, because you have
have said, These two nations and these two borne the shame of the nations: 36:7 therefore
countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; thus says the Lord GOD: I have sworn, saying,
whereas the LORD was there: 35:11 therefore, as Surely the nations that are around you, they
I live, says the Lord GOD, I will do according shall bear their shame. 36:8 But you, mountains
to your anger, and according to your envy of Israel, you shall shoot forth your branches,
which you have shown out of your hatred and yield your fruit to my people Israel; for
against them; and I will make myself known they are at hand to come. 36:9 For, behold,
among them, when I shall judge you. 35:12 You I am for you, and I will turn into you, and
shall know that I, the LORD, have heard all you shall be tilled and sown; 36:10 and I will
your insults which you have spoken against multiply men on you, all the house of Israel,
the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid even all of it; and the cities shall be inhabited,
desolate, they have been given us to devour. and the waste places shall be built; 36:11 and
35:13
You have magnified yourselves against me I will multiply on you man and animal; and
with your mouth, and have multiplied your they shall increase and be fruitful; and I will
words against me: I have heard it. 35:14 Thus cause you to be inhabited after your former
says the Lord GOD: When the whole earth estate, and will do better to youthan at your
rejoices, I will make you desolate. 35:15 As you beginnings: and you shall know that I am the
rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of LORD. 36:12 Yes, I will cause men to walk on
Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do to you, even my people Israel; and they shall
you: you shall be desolate, Mount Seir, and all possess you, and you shall be their inheritance,
Edom, even all of it; and they shall know that I and you shall no more henceforth bereave them
am the LORD. of children. 36:13 Thus says the Lord GOD:
36:1
Because they say to you, You are a devourer of
You, son of man, prophesy to the moun- men, and have been a bereaver of your nation;
tains of Israel, and say, You mountains of Israel, 36:14
therefore you shall devour men no more,
hear the word of the LORD. 36:2 Thus says neither bereave your nation any more, says the
the Lord GOD: Because the enemy has said Lord GOD; 36:15 neither will I let you hear any
against you, Aha! and, The ancient high places more the shame of the nations, neither shall
are ours in possession; 36:3 therefore prophesy, you bear the reproach of the peoples any more,
and say, Thus says the Lord GOD: Because, neither shall you cause your nation to stumble
even because they have made you desolate, any more, says the Lord GOD. 36:16 Moreover
and swallowed you up on every side, that the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
you might be a possession to the residue of 36:17
Son of man, when the house of Israel lived
the nations, and you are taken up in the lips in their own land, they defiled it by their
of talkers, and the evil report of the people; way and by their doings: their way before
36:4
therefore, you mountains of Israel, hear the me was as the uncleanness of a woman in her
word of the Lord GOD: Thus says the Lord impurity. 36:18 Therefore I poured out my wrath
GOD to the mountains and to the hills, to the on them for the blood which they had poured
watercourses and to the valleys, to the desolate out on the land, and because they had defiled
wastes and to the cities that are forsaken, which it with their idols; 36:19 and I scattered them
are become a prey and derision to the residue among the nations, and they were dispersed
of the nations that are all around; 36:5 therefore
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through the countries: according to their way was desolate has become like the garden of
and according to their doings I judged them. Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined
36:20
When they came to the nations, where they cities are fortified and inhabited. 36:36 Then the
went, they profaned my holy name; in that nations that are left around you shall know that
men said of them, These are the people of I, the LORD, have built the ruined places, and
the LORD, and are gone forth out of his land. planted that which was desolate: I, the LORD,
36:21
But I had respect for my holy name, which have spoken it, and I will do it. 36:37 Thus says
the house of Israel had profaned among the the Lord GOD: For this, moreover, will I be
nations, where they went. 36:22 Therefore tell inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for
the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD: them: I will increase them with men like a flock.
36:38
I don’t do thisfor your sake, house of Israel, but As the flock for sacrifice, as the flock of
for my holy name, which you have profaned Jerusalem in her appointed feasts, so shall the
among the nations, where you went. 36:23 I waste cities be filled with flocks of men; and
will sanctify my great name, which has been they shall know that I am the LORD.
profaned among the nations, which you have 37:1
profaned in their midst; and the nations shall The hand of the LORD was on me, and
know that I am the LORD, says the Lord GOD, he brought me out in the Spirit of the LORD,
when I shall be sanctified in you before their and set me down in the midst of the valley;
eyes. 36:24 For I will take you from among the and it was full of bones. 37:2 He caused me
nations, and gather you out of all the countries, to pass by them all around: and behold, there
and will bring you into your own land. 36:25 I were very many in the open valley; and behold,
will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall they were very dry. 37:3 He said to me, Son of
be clean: from all your filthiness, and from man, can these bones live? I answered, Lord
all your idols, will I cleanse you. 36:26 I will GOD, you know. 37:4 Again he said to me,
also give you a new heart, and I will put a Prophesy over these bones, and tell them, you
new spirit within you; and I will take away dry bones, hear the word of the LORD. 37:5 Thus
the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will says the Lord GOD to these bones: Behold, I
give you a heart of flesh. 36:27 I will put my will cause breath to enter into you, and you
Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in shall live. 37:6 I will lay sinews on you, and
my statutes, and you shall keep my ordinances, will bring up flesh on you, and cover you with
and do them. 36:28 You shall dwell in the land skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live;
that I gave to your fathers; and you shall be and you shall know that I am the LORD. 37:7 So
my people, and I will be your God. 36:29 I will I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I
save you from all your uncleanness: and I will prophesied, there was a noise, and behold, an
call for the grain, and will multiply it, and earthquake; and the bones came together, bone
lay no famine on you. 36:30 I will multiply the to its bone. 37:8 I saw, and, behold, there were
fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, sinews on them, and flesh came up, and skin
that you may receive no more the reproach of covered them above; but there was no breath
famine among the nations. 36:31 Then you shall in them. 37:9 Then he said to me, Prophesy to
remember your evil ways, and your doings that the wind, prophesy, son of man, and tell the
were not good; and you shall loathe yourselves wind, Thus says the Lord GOD: Come from
in your own sight for your iniquities and for the four winds, breath, and breathe on these
your abominations. 36:32 Nor for your sake do I slain, that they may live. 37:10 So I prophesied
this, says the Lord GOD, be it known to you: as he commanded me, and the breath came into
be ashamed and confounded for your ways, them, and they lived, and stood up on their
house of Israel. 36:33 Thus says the Lord GOD: feet, an exceedingly great army. 37:11 Then he
In the day that I cleanse you from all your said to me, Son of man, these bones are the
iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited, whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our
and the waste places shall be built. 36:34 The bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we
land that was desolate shall be tilled, whereas are clean cut off. 37:12 Therefore prophesy, and
it was a desolation in the sight of all who tell them, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I
passed by. 36:35 They shall say, This land that will open your graves, and cause you to come
up out of your graves, my people; and I will
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bring you into Eretz-Israel. 37:13 You shall know an everlasting covenant with them; and I will
that I am the LORD, when I have opened your place them, and multiply them, and will set my
graves, and caused you to come up out of your sanctuary in their midst forevermore. 37:27 My
graves, my people. 37:14 I will put my Spirit in tent also shall be with them; and I will be their
you, and you shall live, and I will place you God, and they shall be my people. 37:28 The
in your own land: and you shall know that I, nations shall know that I am the LORD who
the LORD, have spoken it and performed it, sanctifies Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in
says the LORD. 37:15 The word of the LORD their midst forevermore.
came again to me, saying, 37:16 You, son of man, 38:1
take one stick, and write on it, For Judah, and The word of the LORD came to me,
for the children of Israel his companions: then saying, 38:2 Son of man, set your face toward
take another stick, and write on it, For Joseph, Gog, of the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh,
the stick of Ephraim, and forall the house of Meshech, and Tubal, and prophesy against
Israel his companions: 37:17 and join them for him, 38:3 and say, Thus says the Lord GOD:
you one to another into one stick, that they Behold, I am against you, Gog, prince of Rosh,
may become one in your hand. 37:18 When the Meshech, and Tubal: 38:4 and I will turn you
children of your people shall speak to you, around, and put hooks into your jaws, and I
saying, Will you not show us what you mean will bring you forth, with all your army, horses
by these? 37:19 tell them, Thus says the Lord and horsemen, all of them clothed in full armor,
GOD: Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, a great company with buckler and shield, all
which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of them handling swords; 38:5 Persia, Cush,
of Israel his companions; and I will put them and Put with them, all of them with shield
with it, evenwith the stick of Judah, and make and helmet; 38:6 Gomer, and all his hordes;
them one stick, and they shall be one in my the house of Togarmah in the uttermost parts
hand. 37:20 The sticks whereon you write shall of the north, and all his hordes; even many
be in your hand before their eyes. 37:21 Say peoples with you. 38:7 Be prepared, yes, prepare
to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I yourself, you, and all your companies who are
will take the children of Israel from among the assembled to you, and be a guard to them.
38:8
nations, where they are gone, and will gather After many days you shall be visited: in the
them on every side, and bring them into their latter years you shall come into the land that is
own land: 37:22 and I will make them one nation brought back from the sword, that is gathered
in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and out of many peoples, on the mountains of
one king shall be king to them all; and they Israel, which have been a continual waste; but
shall be no more two nations, neither shall they it is brought forth out of the peoples, and they
be divided into two kingdoms any more at shall dwell securely, all of them. 38:9 You shall
all; 37:23 neither shall they defile themselves any ascend, you shall come like a storm, you shall
more with their idols, nor with their detestable be like a cloud to cover the land, you, and
things, nor with any of their transgressions; all your hordes, and many peoples with you.
38:10
but I will save them out of all their dwelling Thus says the Lord GOD: It shall happen
places, in which they have sinned, and will in that day, that things shall come into your
cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and mind, and you shall devise an evil device:
38:11
I will be their God. 37:24 My servant David and you shall say, I will go up to the land of
shall be king over them; and they all shall unwalled villages; I will go to those who are at
have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my rest, who dwell securely, all of them dwelling
ordinances, and observe my statutes, and do without walls, and having neither bars nor
them. 37:25 They shall dwell in the land that gates; 38:12 to take the spoil and to take the prey;
I have given to Jacob my servant, in which to turn your hand against the waste places
your fathers lived; and they shall dwell therein, that are nowinhabited, and against the people
they, and their children, and their children’s who are gathered out of the nations, who have
children, forever: and David my servant shall gotten livestock and goods, who dwell in the
be their prince for ever. 37:26 Moreover I will middle of the earth. 38:13 Sheba, and Dedan,
make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the
young lions of it, shall tell you, Have you come
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to take the spoil? have you assembled your I will strike your bow out of your left hand,
company to take the prey? to carry away silver and will cause your arrows to fall out of your
and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to right hand. 39:4 You shall fall on the mountains
take great spoil? 38:14 Therefore, son of man, of Israel, you, and all your hordes, and the
prophesy, and tell Gog, Thus says the Lord peoples who are with you: I will give you to the
GOD: In that day when my people Israel dwells ravenous birds of every sort, and to the animals
securely, shall you not know it? 38:15 You shall of the field to be devoured. 39:5 You shall fall
come from your place out of the uttermost parts on the open field; for I have spoken it, says the
of the north, you, and many peoples with you, Lord GOD. 39:6 I will send a fire on Magog, and
all of them riding on horses, a great company on those who dwell securely in the islands; and
and a mighty army; 38:16 and you shall come they shall know that I am the LORD. 39:7 My
up against my people Israel, as a cloud to holy name will I make known in the midst
cover the land: it shall happen in the latter of my people Israel; neither will I allow my
days, that I will bring you against my land, holy name to be profaned any more: and the
that the nations may know me, when I shall nations shall know that I am the LORD, the
be sanctified in you, Gog, before their eyes. Holy One in Israel. 39:8 Behold, it comes, and
38:17
Thus says the Lord GOD: Are you he of it shall be done, says the Lord GOD; this is the
whom I spoke in old time by my servants the day about which I have spoken. 39:9 Those who
prophets of Israel, who prophesied in those dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and
days for manyyears that I would bring you shall make fires of the weapons and burn them,
against them? 38:18 It shall happen in that day, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and
when Gog shall come against Eretz-Israel, says the arrows, and the war clubs, and the spears,
the Lord GOD, that my wrath shall come up and they shall make fires of them seven years;
into my nostrils. 38:19 For in my jealousy and 39:10
so that they shall take no wood out of the
in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely field, neither cut down any out of the forests;
in that day there shall be a great shaking in for they shall make fires of the weapons; and
Eretz-Israel; 38:20 so that the fish of the sea, and they shall plunder those who plundered them,
the birds of the sky, and the animals of the and rob those who robbed them, says the Lord
field, and all creeping things who creep on the GOD. 39:11 It shall happen in that day, that I
earth, and all the men who are on the surface of will give to Gog a place for burial in Israel, the
the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the valley of those who pass through on the east
mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep of the sea; and it shall stop those who pass
places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to through: and there shall they bury Gog and all
the ground. 38:21 I will call for a sword against his multitude; and they shall call it The valley
him to all my mountains, says the Lord GOD: of Hamon Gog. 39:12 Seven months shall the
every man’s sword shall be against his brother. house of Israel be burying them, that they may
38:22
With pestilence and with blood will I enter cleanse the land. 39:13 Yes, all the people of the
into judgment with him; and I will rain on him, land shall bury them; and it shall be to them a
and on his hordes, and on the many peoples renown in the day that I shall be glorified, says
who are with him, an overflowing shower, and the Lord GOD. 39:14 They shall set apart men of
great hailstones, fire, and sulfur. 38:23 I will continual employment, who shall pass through
magnify myself, and sanctify myself, and I the land, and, with those who pass through,
will make myself known in the eyes of many those who bury those who remain on the
nations; and they shall know that I am the surface of the land, to cleanse it: after the end
LORD. of seven months shall they search. 39:15 Those
39:1
who pass through the land shall pass through;
You, son of man, prophesy against Gog, and when any sees a man’s bone, then shall
and say, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am he set up a sign by it, until the undertakers
against you, Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech, and have buried it in the valley of Hamon Gog.
Tubal: 39:2 and I will turn you around, and will 39:16
Hamonah shall also be the name of a city.
lead you on, and will cause you to come up Thus shall they cleanse the land. 39:17 You, son
from the uttermost parts of the north; and I will of man, thus says the Lord GOD: Speak to the
bring you on the mountains of Israel; 39:3 and
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birds of every sort, and to every animal of the brought me there. 40:2 In the visions of God
field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather brought he me into Eretz-Israel, and set me
yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that down on a very high mountain, whereon was
I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice as it were the frame of a city on the south.
40:3
on the mountains of Israel, that you may eat He brought me there; and, behold, there
flesh and drink blood. 39:18 You shall eat the was a man, whose appearance was like the
flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his
princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in
goats, of bulls, all of them fatlings of Bashan. the gate. 40:4 The man said to me, Son of man,
39:19
You shall eat fat until you be full, and see with your eyes, and hear with your ears,
drink blood until you are drunk, of my sacrifice and set your heart on all that I shall show
which I have sacrificed for you. 39:20 You shall you; for, to the intent that I may show them
be filled at my table with horses and chariots, to you, you are brought here: declare all that
with mighty men, and with all men of war, you see to the house of Israel. 40:5 Behold, a
says the Lord GOD. 39:21 I will set my glory wall on the outside of the house all around,
among the nations; and all the nations shall and in the man’s hand a measuring reed six
see my judgment that I have executed, and cubits long, of a cubit and a handbreadth each:
my hand that I have laid on them. 39:22 So the so he measured the thickness of the building,
house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD one reed; and the height, one reed. 40:6 Then
their God, from that day and forward. 39:23 The came he to the gate which looks toward the
nations shall know that the house of Israel went east, and went up its steps: and he measured
into captivity for their iniquity; because they the threshold of the gate, one reed broad; and
trespassed against me, and I hid my face from the other threshold, one reed broad. 40:7 Every
them: so I gave them into the hand of their lodge was one reed long, and one reed broad;
adversaries, and they fell all of them by the and the spacebetween the lodges was five cubits;
sword. 39:24 According to their uncleanness and and the threshold of the gate by the porch of
according to their transgressions did I to them; the gate toward the house was one reed. 40:8 He
and I hid my face from them. 39:25 Therefore measured also the porch of the gate toward
thus says the Lord GOD: Now will I bring back the house, one reed. 40:9 Then measured he
the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy on the the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and its
whole house of Israel; and I will be jealous posts, two cubits; and the porch of the gate
for my holy name. 39:26 They shall bear their was toward the house. 40:10 The lodges of the
shame, and all their trespasses by which they gate eastward were three on this side, and three
have trespassed against me, when they shall on that side; they three were of one measure:
dwell securely in their land, and none shall and the posts had one measure on this side
make them afraid; 39:27 when I have brought and on that side. 40:11 He measured the breadth
them back from the peoples, and gathered them of the opening of the gate, ten cubits; and the
out of their enemies’ lands, and am sanctified length of the gate, thirteen cubits; 40:12 and a
in them in the sight of many nations. 39:28 They border before the lodges, one cubit on this side,
shall know that I am the LORD their God, in and a border, one cubit on that side; and the
that I caused them to go into captivity among lodges, six cubits on this side, and six cubits on
the nations, and have gathered them to their that side. 40:13 He measured the gate from the
own land; and I will leave none of them any roof of the one lodge to the roof of the other,
more there; 39:29 neither will I hide my face a breadth of twenty-five cubits; door against
any more from them; for I have poured out door. 40:14 He made also posts, sixty cubits;
my Spirit on the house of Israel, says the Lord and the court reachedto the posts, around the
GOD. gate. 40:15 Fromthe forefront of the gate at the
40:1
entrance to the forefront of the inner porch
In the five and twentieth year of our of the gate were fifty cubits. 40:16 There were
captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the closed windows to the lodges, and to their
tenth dayof the month, in the fourteenth year posts within the gate all around, and likewise to
after that the city was struck, in the same day, the arches; and windows were around inward;
the hand of the LORD was on me, and he
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and on eachpost were palm trees. 40:17 Then its arches, according to these measures: and
brought he me into the outer court; and behold, there were windows therein and in its arches
there were rooms and a pavement, made for all around; it was fifty cubits long, and twenty-
the court all around: thirty rooms were on the five cubits broad. 40:34 The arches of it were
pavement. 40:18 The pavement was by the side toward the outer court; and palm trees were on
of the gates, answerable to the length of the its posts, on this side, and on that side: and the
gates, even the lower pavement. 40:19 Then he ascent to it had eight steps. 40:35 He brought me
measured the breadth from the forefront of the to the north gate: and he measured itaccording
lower gate to the forefront of the inner court to these measures; 40:36 its lodges, its posts, and
outside, one hundred cubits, bothon the east its arches: and there were windows therein all
and on the north. 40:20 The gate of the outer around; the length was fifty cubits, and the
court whose prospect is toward the north, he breadth twenty-five cubits. 40:37 The posts of
measured its length and its breadth. 40:21 The it were toward the outer court; and palm trees
lodges of it were three on this side and three were on its posts, on this side, and on that side:
on that side; and its posts and its arches were and the ascent to it had eight steps. 40:38 A
after the measure of the first gate: its length was room with its door was by the posts at the
fifty cubits, and the breadth twenty-five cubits. gates; there they washed the burnt offering.
40:22 40:39
The windows of it, and its arches, and the In the porch of the gate were two tables
palm trees of it, were after the measure of the on this side, and two tables on that side, to kill
gate whose prospect is toward the east; and thereon the burnt offering and the sin offering
they went up to it by seven steps; and its arches and the trespass offering. 40:40 On the oneside
were before them. 40:23 There was a gate to the outside, as one goes up to the entry of the gate
inner court over against the othergate, bothon toward the north, were two tables; and on the
the north and on the east; and he measured other side, which belonged to the porch of the
from gate to gate one hundred cubits. 40:24 He gate, were two tables. 40:41 Four tables were
led me toward the south; and behold, a gate on this side, and four tables on that side, by
toward the south: and he measured its posts the side of the gate; eight tables, whereupon
and its arches according to these measures. they killed the sacrifices. 40:42 There were four
40:25
There were windows in it and in its arches tables for the burnt offering, of cut stone, a
all around, like those windows: the length cubit and a half long, and a cubit and a half
was fifty cubits, and the breadth twenty-five broad, and one cubit high; whereupon they
cubits. 40:26 There were seven steps to go up laid the instruments with which they killed the
to it, and its arches were before them; and it burnt offering and the sacrifice. 40:43 The hooks,
had palm trees, one on this side, and another a handbreadth long, were fastened within all
on that side, on its posts. 40:27 There was a gate around: and on the tables was the flesh of the
to the inner court toward the south: and he offering. 40:44 Outside of the inner gate were
measured from gate to gate toward the south rooms for the singers in the inner court, which
a hundred cubits. 40:28 Then he brought me was at the side of the north gate; and their
to the inner court by the south gate: and he prospect was toward the south; one at the side
measured the south gate according to these of the east gate having the prospect toward the
measures; 40:29 and its lodges, and its posts, and north. 40:45 He said to me, This room, whose
its arches, according to these measures: and prospect is toward the south, is for the priests,
there were windows in it and in its arches all the keepers of the duty of the house; 40:46 and
around; it was fifty cubits long, and twenty- the room whose prospect is toward the north
five cubits broad. 40:30 There were arches all is for the priests, the keepers of the duty of the
around, twenty-five cubits long, and five cubits altar: these are the sons of Zadok, who from
broad. 40:31 The arches of it were toward the among the sons of Levi come near to the LORD
outer court; and palm trees were on its posts: to minister to him. 40:47 He measured the court,
and the ascent to it had eight steps. 40:32 He one hundred cubits long, and a hundred cubits
brought me into the inner court toward the east: broad, foursquare; and the altar was before the
and he measured the gate according to these house. 40:48 Then he brought me to the porch
measures; 40:33 and its lodges, and its posts, and of the house, and measured each post of the
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porch, five cubits on this side, and five cubits on the side toward the west was seventy cubits
that side: and the breadth of the gate was three broad; and the wall of the building was five
cubits on this side, and three cubits on that cubits thick all around, and its length ninety
side. 40:49 The length of the porch was twenty cubits. 41:13 So he measured the house, one
cubits, and the breadth eleven cubits; even by hundred cubits long; and the separate place,
the steps by which they went up to it: and there and the building, with its walls, one hundred
were pillars by the posts, one on this side, and cubits long; 41:14 also the breadth of the face of
another on that side. the house, and of the separate place toward the
41:1
east, one hundred cubits. 41:15 He measured the
He brought me to the temple, and mea- length of the building before the separate place
sured the posts, six cubits broad on the one which was at its back, and its galleries on the
side, and six cubits broad on the other side, one side and on the other side, one hundred
which was the breadth of the tent. 41:2 The cubits; and the inner temple, and the porches
breadth of the entrance was ten cubits; and of the court; 41:16 the thresholds, and the closed
the sides of the entrance were five cubits on windows, and the galleries around on their
the one side, and five cubits on the other side: three stories, over against the threshold, with
and he measured its length, forty cubits, and wood ceilings all around, and fromthe ground
the breadth, twenty cubits. 41:3 Then went up to the windows, (now the windows were
he inward, and measured each post of the covered), 41:17 to the spaceabove the door, even
entrance, two cubits; and the entrance, six to the inner house, and outside, and by all
cubits; and the breadth of the entrance, seven the wall all around inside and outside, by
cubits. 41:4 He measured its length, twenty measure. 41:18 It was made with cherubim
cubits, and the breadth, twenty cubits, before and palm trees; and a palm tree was between
the temple: and he said to me, This is the most cherub and cherub, and every cherub had two
holy place. 41:5 Then he measured the wall of faces; 41:19 so that there was the face of a man
the house, six cubits; and the breadth of every toward the palm tree on the one side, and the
side room, four cubits, all around the house on face of a young lion toward the palm tree on
every side. 41:6 The side rooms were in three the other side. thus was itmade through all
stories, one over another, and thirty in order; the house all around: 41:20 from the ground
and they entered into the wall which belonged to above the door were cherubim and palm
to the house for the side rooms all around, trees made: thus was the wall of the temple.
that they might have hold therein, and not have 41:21
As for the temple, the door posts were
hold in the wall of the house. 41:7 The side squared; and as for the face of the sanctuary,
rooms were broader as they encompassed the the appearance of itwas as the appearance of the
househigher and higher; for the encompassing temple. 41:22 The altar was of wood, three cubits
of the house went higher and higher around high, and its length two cubits; and its corners,
the house: therefore the breadth of the house and its length, and its walls, were of wood: and
continuedupward; and so one went up fromthe he said to me, This is the table that is before
lowest roomto the highest by the middle room. the LORD. 41:23 The temple and the sanctuary
41:8
I saw also that the house had a raised base had two doors. 41:24 The doors had two leaves
all around: the foundations of the side rooms apiece, two turning leaves: two leavesfor the one
were a full reed of six great cubits. 41:9 The door, and two leaves for the other. 41:25 There
thickness of the wall, which was for the side were made on them, on the doors of the temple,
rooms, on the outside, was five cubits: and that cherubim and palm trees, like as were made on
which was left was the place of the side rooms the walls; and there was a threshold of wood on
that belonged to the house. 41:10 Between the the face of the porch outside. 41:26 There were
rooms was a breadth of twenty cubits around closed windows and palm trees on the one side
the house on every side. 41:11 The doors of the and on the other side, on the sides of the porch:
side rooms were toward the placethat was left, thus were the side rooms of the house, and the
one door toward the north, and another door thresholds.
toward the south: and the breadth of the place
that was left was five cubits all around. 41:12 The 42:1
Then he brought me forth into the outer
building that was before the separate place at court, the way toward the north: and he
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brought me into the room that was over against end of measuring the inner house, he brought
the separate place, and which was over against me forth by the way of the gate whose prospect
the building toward the north. 42:2 Before the is toward the east, and measured it all around.
42:16
length of one hundred cubits was the north He measured on the east side with the
door, and the breadth was fifty cubits. 42:3 Over measuring reed five hundred reeds, with the
against the twenty cubitswhich belonged to the measuring reed all around. 42:17 He measured
inner court, and over against the pavement on the north side five hundred reeds with the
which belonged to the outer court, was gallery measuring reed all around. 42:18 He measured
against gallery in the third story. 42:4 Before on the south side five hundred reeds with the
the rooms was a walk of ten cubits’ breadth measuring reed. 42:19 He turned about to the
inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors west side, and measured five hundred reeds
were toward the north. 42:5 Now the upper with the measuring reed. 42:20 He measured
rooms were shorter; for the galleries took away it on the four sides: it had a wall around it,
from these, more than from the lower and the the length five hundred, and the breadth five
middle, in the building. 42:6 For they were in hundred, to make a separation between that
three stories, and they didn’t have pillars as the which was holy and that which was common.
pillars of the courts: therefore the uppermostwas 43:1
straitened more than the lowest and the middle Afterward he brought me to the gate,
from the ground. 42:7 The wall that was outside even the gate that looks toward the east.
43:2
by the side of the rooms, toward the outer court Behold, the glory of the God of Israel came
before the rooms, its length was fifty cubits. from the way of the east: and his voice was
42:8
For the length of the rooms that were in the like the sound of many waters; and the earth
outer court was fifty cubits: and behold, before shined with his glory. 43:3 It was according to
the temple were one hundred cubits. 42:9 From the appearance of the vision which I saw, even
under these rooms was the entry on the east according to the vision that I saw when I came
side, as one goes into them from the outer court. to destroy the city; and the visions were like
42:10
In the thickness of the wall of the court the vision that I saw by the river Chebar; and
toward the east, before the separate place, and I fell on my face. 43:4 The glory of the LORD
before the building, there were rooms. 42:11 The came into the house by the way of the gate
way before them was like the appearance of whose prospect is toward the east. 43:5 The
the way of the rooms which were toward the Spirit took me up, and brought me into the
north; according to their length so was their inner court; and behold, the glory of the LORD
breadth: and all their exits were both according filled the house. 43:6 I heard one speaking to
to their fashions, and according to their doors. me out of the house; and a man stood by me.
43:7
42:12
According to the doors of the rooms that He said to me, Son of man, this isthe place
were toward the south was a door at the head of my throne, and the place of the soles of my
of the way, even the way directly before the feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the
wall toward the east, as one enters into them. children of Israel forever. The house of Israel
42:13
Then he said to me, The north rooms and shall no more defile my holy name, neither
the south rooms, which are before the separate they, nor their kings, by their prostitution, and
place, they are the holy rooms, where the by the dead bodies of their kings intheir high
priests who are near to the LORD shall eat the places; 43:8 in their setting of their threshold by
most holy things: there shall they lay the most my threshold, and their doorpost beside my
holy things, and the meal offering, and the sin doorpost, and there was butthe wall between
offering, and the trespass offering; for the place me and them; and they have defiled my holy
is holy. 42:14 When the priests enter in, then name by their abominations which they have
shall they not go out of the holy place into committed: therefore I have consumed them
the outer court, but there they shall lay their in my anger. 43:9 Now let them put away
garments in which they minister; for they are their prostitution, and the dead bodies of their
holy: and they shall put on other garments, kings, far from me; and I will dwell in their
and shall approach to that which pertains to midst forever. 43:10 You, son of man, show the
the people. 42:15 Now when he had made an house to the house of Israel, that they may
be ashamed of their iniquities; and let them
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measure the pattern. 43:11 If they be ashamed of a burnt offering to the LORD. 43:25 Seven days
all that they have done, make known to them you shall prepare every day a goat for a sin
the form of the house, and its fashion, and offering: they shall also prepare a young bull,
its exits, and its entrances, and all its forms, and a ram out of the flock, without blemish.
43:26
and all its ordinances, and all its forms, and Seven days shall they make atonement for
all its laws; and write it in their sight; that the altar and purify it; so shall they consecrate
they may keep the whole form of it, and all it. 43:27 When they have accomplished the days,
its ordinances, and do them. 43:12 This is the it shall be that on the eighth day, and forward,
law of the house: on the top of the mountain the priests shall make your burnt offerings on
the whole limit around it shall be most holy. the altar, and your peace offerings; and I will
Behold, this is the law of the house. 43:13 These accept you, says the Lord GOD.
are the measures of the altar by cubits (the cubit 44:1
is a cubit and a handbreadth): the bottom shall Then he brought me back by the way of
be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and its the outer gate of the sanctuary, which looks
border around its edge a span; and this shall toward the east; and it was shut. 44:2 The LORD
be the base of the altar. 43:14 From the bottom said to me, This gate shall be shut; it shall
on the ground to the lower ledge shall be two not be opened, neither shall any man enter in
cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and from the by it; for the LORD, the God of Israel, has
lesser ledge to the greater ledge shall be four entered in by it; therefore it shall be shut. 44:3 As
cubits, and the breadth a cubit. 43:15 The upper for the prince, he shall sit therein as prince to
altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar eat bread before the LORD; he shall enter by
hearth and upward there shall be four horns. the way of the porch of the gate, and shall
43:16
The altar hearth shall be twelve cubitslong go out by the way of the same. 44:4 Then
by twelve broad, square in the four sides of it. he brought me by the way of the north gate
43:17
The ledge shall be fourteen cubitslong by before the house; and I looked, and behold,
fourteen broad in the four sides of it; and the the glory of the LORD filled the house of the
border about it shall be half a cubit; and its LORD: and I fell on my face. 44:5 The LORD
bottom shall be a cubit around; and its steps said to me, Son of man, mark well, and see
shall look toward the east. 43:18 He said to me, with your eyes, and hear with your ears all
Son of man, thus says the Lord GOD: These are that I tell you concerning all the ordinances
the ordinances of the altar in the day when they of the house of the LORD, and all its laws;
shall make it, to offer burnt offerings thereon, and mark well the entrance of the house, with
and to sprinkle blood thereon. 43:19 You shall every exit of the sanctuary. 44:6 You shall tell
give to the priests the Levites who are of the the rebellious, even to the house of Israel, Thus
seed of Zadok, who are near to me, to minister says the Lord GOD: you house of Israel, let it
to me, says the Lord GOD, a young bull for a suffice you of all your abominations, 44:7 in that
sin offering. 43:20 You shall take of its blood, you have brought in foreigners, uncircumcised
and put it on the four horns of it, and on the in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in
four corners of the ledge, and on the border my sanctuary, to profane it, even my house,
all around: thus you shall cleanse it and make when you offer my bread, the fat and the
atonement for it. 43:21 You shall also take the blood, and they have broken my covenant, to
bull of the sin offering, and it shall be burnt addto all your abominations. 44:8 You have not
in the appointed place of the house, outside performed the duty of my holy things; but you
of the sanctuary. 43:22 On the second day you have set performers of my duty in my sanc-
shall offer a male goat without blemish for a sin tuary for yourselves. 44:9 Thus says the Lord
offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as they GOD, No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and
cleansed it with the bull. 43:23 When you have uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my
finished cleansing it, you shall offer a young sanctuary, of any foreigners who are among
bull without blemish, and a ram out of the flock the children of Israel. 44:10 But the Levites who
without blemish. 43:24 You shall bring them went far from me, when Israel went astray,
near to the LORD, and the priests shall cast who went astray from me after their idols, they
salt on them, and they shall offer them up for shall bear their iniquity. 44:11 Yet they shall be
ministers in my sanctuary, having oversight at
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the gates of the house, and ministering in the stand to judge; according to my ordinances
house: they shall kill the burnt offering and the shall they judge it: and they shall keep my
sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand laws and my statutes in all my appointed
before them to minister to them. 44:12 Because feasts; and they shall make my Sabbaths holy.
44:25
they ministered to them before their idols, and They shall go in to no dead person to defile
became a stumbling block of iniquity to the themselves; but for father, or for mother, or
house of Israel; therefore have I lifted up my for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for
hand against them, says the Lord GOD, and sister who has had no husband, they may defile
they shall bear their iniquity. 44:13 They shall themselves. 44:26 After he is cleansed, they shall
not come near to me, to execute the office of reckon to him seven days. 44:27 In the day that
priest to me, nor to come near to any of my holy he goes into the sanctuary, into the inner court,
things, to the things that are most holy; but they to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his
shall bear their shame, and their abominations sin offering, says the Lord GOD. 44:28 They shall
which they have committed. 44:14 Yet will I have an inheritance: I am their inheritance; and
make them performers of the duty of the house, you shall give them no possession in Israel; I
for all its service, and for all that shall be am their possession. 44:29 They shall eat the
done therein. 44:15 But the priests the Levites, meal offering, and the sin offering, and the
the sons of Zadok, who performed the duty trespass offering; and every devoted thing in
of my sanctuary when the children of Israel Israel shall be theirs. 44:30 The first of all the
went astray from me, they shall come near to first fruits of every thing, and every offering
me to minister to me; and they shall stand of everything, of all your offerings, shall be for
before me to offer to me the fat and the blood, the priest: you shall also give to the priests the
says the Lord GOD: 44:16 they shall enter into first of your dough, to cause a blessing to rest
my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my on your house. 44:31 The priests shall not eat of
table, to minister to me, and they shall keep anything that dies of itself, or is torn, whether
my instruction. 44:17 It shall be that, when it be bird or animal.
they enter in at the gates of the inner court, 45:1
they shall be clothed with linen garments; Moreover, when you shall divide by lot
and no wool shall come on them, while they the land for inheritance, you shall offer an
minister in the gates of the inner court, and offering to the LORD, a holy portion of the
within. 44:18 They shall have linen tires on land; the length shall be the length of twenty-
their heads, and shall have linen breeches on five thousand reeds, and the breadth shall be ten
their waists; they shall not clothe themselves thousand: it shall be holy in all its border all
with anything that causessweat. 44:19 When they around. 45:2 Of this there shall be for the holy
go forth into the outer court, even into the place five hundred in lengthby five hundred in
outer court to the people, they shall put off breadth, square all around; and fifty cubits for
their garments in which they minister, and lay its suburbs all around. 45:3 Of this measure you
them in the holy rooms; and they shall put shall measure a length of twenty-five thousand,
on other garments, that they not sanctify the and a breadth of ten thousand: and in it shall
people with their garments. 44:20 Neither shall be the sanctuary, which is most holy. 45:4 It
they shave their heads, nor allow their locks is a holy portion of the land; it shall be for
to grow long; they shall only cut off the hair the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary, who
of their heads. 44:21 Neither shall any of the come near to minister to the LORD; and it shall
priests drink wine, when they enter into the be a place for their houses, and a holy place
inner court. 44:22 Neither shall they take for for the sanctuary. 45:5 Twenty-five thousand in
their wives a widow, nor her who is put away; length, and ten thousand in breadth, shall be
but they shall take virgins of the seed of the to the Levites, the ministers of the house, for
house of Israel, or a widow who is the widow a possession to themselves, fortwenty rooms.
45:6
of a priest. 44:23 They shall teach my people the You shall appoint the possession of the city
difference between the holy and the common, five thousand broad, and twenty-five thousand
and cause them to discern between the unclean long, side by side with the offering of the holy
and the clean. 44:24 In a controversy they shall portion: it shall be for the whole house of Israel.
45:7
Whatever isfor the prince shall beon the one
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side and on the other side of the holy offering the posts of the gate of the inner court. 45:20 So
and of the possession of the city, in front of the you shall do on the seventh dayof the month for
holy offering and in front of the possession of everyone who errs, and for him who is simple:
the city, on the west side westward, and on the so you shall make atonement for the house.
45:21
east side eastward; and in length answerable In the first month, in the fourteenth day
to one of the portions, from the west border of the month, you shall have the Passover, a
to the east border. 45:8 In the land it shall be to feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be
him for a possession in Israel: and my princes eaten. 45:22 On that day shall the prince prepare
shall no more oppress my people; but they shall for himself and for all the people of the land
give the land to the house of Israel according to a bull for a sin offering. 45:23 The seven days
their tribes. 45:9 Thus says the Lord GOD: Let it of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering to
suffice you, princes of Israel: remove violence the LORD, seven bulls and seven rams without
and spoil, and execute justice and righteous- blemish daily the seven days; and a male goat
ness; dispossessing my people, says the Lord daily for a sin offering. 45:24 He shall prepare
GOD. 45:10 You shall have just balances, and a a meal offering, an efah for a bull, and an
just efah,p and a just bath. 45:11 The efah and efah for a ram, and a hin of oil to an efah.
45:25
the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath In the seventh month, in the fifteenth day
may contain the tenth part of a homerq , and of the month, in the feast, shall he do the like
the efah the tenth part of a homer: its measure the seven days; according to the sin offering,
shall be after the homer. 45:12 The shekel shall according to the burnt offering, and according
be twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels plus twenty- to the meal offering, and according to the oil.
five shekels plus fifteen shekels shall be your 46:1
Thus says the Lord GOD: The gate of the
mina. 45:13 This is the offering that you shall inner court that looks toward the east shall be
offer: the sixth part of an efah from a homer shut the six working days; but on the Sabbath
of wheat; and you shall give the sixth part of day it shall be opened, and on the day of the
an efah from a homer of barley; 45:14 and the set new moon it shall be opened. 46:2 The prince
portion of oil, of the bath of oil, the tenth part shall enter by the way of the porch of the gate
of a bath out of the cor, which isten baths, even outside, and shall stand by the post of the gate;
a homer; (for ten baths are a homer;) 45:15 and and the priests shall prepare his burnt offering
one lamb of the flock, out of two hundred, and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at
from the well-watered pastures of Israel—for a the threshold of the gate: then he shall go forth;
meal offering, and for a burnt offering, and for but the gate shall not be shut until the evening.
peace offerings, to make atonement for them, 46:3
The people of the land shall worship at
says the Lord GOD. 45:16 All the people of the the door of that gate before the LORD on the
land shall give to this offering for the prince Sabbaths and on the new moons. 46:4 The burnt
in Israel. 45:17 It shall be the prince’s part to offering that the prince shall offer to the LORD
give the burnt offerings, and the meal offerings, shall be on the Sabbath day six lambs without
and the drink offerings, in the feasts, and on blemish and a ram without blemish; 46:5 and the
the new moons, and on the Sabbaths, in all meal offering shall be an efah for the ram, and
the appointed feasts of the house of Israel: he the meal offering for the lambs as he is able
shall prepare the sin offering, and the meal to give, and a hin of oil to an efah. 46:6 On
offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace the day of the new moon it shall be a young
offerings, to make atonement for the house of bull without blemish, and six lambs, and a ram;
Israel. 45:18 Thus says the Lord GOD: In the first they shall be without blemish: 46:7 and he shall
month, in the first dayof the month, you shall prepare a meal offering, an efah for the bull,
take a young bull without blemish; and you and an efah for the ram, and for the lambs
shall cleanse the sanctuary. 45:19 The priest shall according as he is able, and a hin of oil to an
take of the blood of the sin offering, and put efah. 46:8 When the prince shall enter, he shall
it on the door posts of the house, and on the go in by the way of the porch of the gate, and
four corners of the ledge of the altar, and on he shall go forth by its way. 46:9 But when the
p 45:10 1 efah is about 22 litres or about 2/3 of a bushel
q 45:11 1 homer is about 220 litres or 6 bushels
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people of the land shall come before the LORD andwhere they shall bake the meal offering; that
in the appointed feasts, he who enters by the they not bring them forth into the outer court,
way of the north gate to worship shall go forth to sanctify the people. 46:21 Then he brought
by the way of the south gate; and he who enters me forth into the outer court, and caused me
by the way of the south gate shall go forth by to pass by the four corners of the court; and
the way of the north gate: he shall not return behold, in every corner of the court there was
by the way of the gate by which he came in, a court. 46:22 In the four corners of the court
but shall go forth straight before him. 46:10 The there were courts enclosed, forty cubitslong and
prince, when they go in, shall go in with of thirty broad: these four in the corners were of
them; and when they go out, he shall go out. one measure. 46:23 There was a wall around in
46:11
In the feasts and in the solemnities the meal them, around the four, and boiling places were
offering shall be an efahr for a bull, and an efah made under the walls all around. 46:24 Then he
for a ram, and for the lambs as he is able to said to me, These are the boiling houses, where
give, and a hin of oil to an efah. 46:12 When the the ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifice
prince shall prepare a freewill offering, a burnt of the people.
offering or peace offerings as a freewill offering 47:1
He brought me back to the door of the
to the LORD, one shall open for him the gate house; and behold, waters issued out from
that looks toward the east; and he shall prepare under the threshold of the house eastward; (for
his burnt offering and his peace offerings, as the forefront of the house was toward the east;)
he does on the Sabbath day: then he shall and the waters came down from under, from
go forth; and after his going forth one shall the right side of the house, on the south of the
shut the gate. 46:13 You shall prepare a lamb a altar. 47:2 Then he brought me out by the way
year old without blemish for a burnt offering of the gate northward, and led me round by the
to the LORD daily: morning by morning you way outside to the outer gate, by the way of
shall prepare it. 46:14 You shall prepare a meal the gatethat looks toward the east; and behold,
offering with it morning by morning, the sixth there ran out waters on the right side. 47:3 When
part of an efah, and the third part of a hin of oil, the man went forth eastward with the line in his
to moisten the fine flour; a meal offering to the hand, he measured one thousand cubits, and he
LORD continually by a perpetual ordinance. caused me to pass through the waters, waters
46:15
Thus shall they prepare the lamb, and the that were to the ankles. 47:4 Again he measured
meal offering, and the oil, morning by morning, one thousand, and caused me to pass through
for a continual burnt offering. 46:16 Thus says the waters, waters that were to the knees.
the Lord GOD: If the prince give a gift to any of Again he measured one thousand, and caused
his sons, it is his inheritance, it shall belong to me to pass through the waters, waters that were
his sons; it is their possession by inheritance. to the waist. 47:5 Afterward he measured one
46:17
But if he give of his inheritance a gift to thousand; and it wasa river that I could not
one of his servants, it shall be his to the year pass through; for the waters were risen, waters
of liberty; then it shall return to the prince; to swim in, a river that could not be passed
but as for his inheritance, it shall be for his through. 47:6 He said to me, Son of man, have
sons. 46:18 Moreover the prince shall not take you seen this? Then he brought me, and caused
of the people’s inheritance, to thrust them out me to return to the bank of the river. 47:7 Now
of their possession; he shall give inheritance to when I had returned, behold, on the bank of
his sons out of his own possession, that my the river were very many trees on the one side
people not be scattered every man from his and on the other. 47:8 Then he said to me, These
possession. 46:19 Then he brought me through waters issue forth toward the eastern region,
the entry, which was at the side of the gate, into and shall go down into the Arabah; and they
the holy rooms for the priests, which looked shall go toward the sea; into the sea shall the
toward the north: and behold, there was a place waters gowhich were made to issue forth; and
on the hinder part westward. 46:20 He said to the waters shall be healed. 47:9 It shall happen,
me, This is the place where the priests shall that every living creature which swarms, in
boil the trespass offering and the sin offering, every place where the rivers come, shall live;
r 46:11 1 efah is about 22 litres or about 2/3 of a bushel
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and there shall be a very great multitude of the stranger lives, there you shall give him his
fish; for these waters have come there, and the inheritance, says the Lord GOD.
waters of the seashall be healed, and everything 48:1
shall live wherever the river comes. 47:10 It shall Now these are the names of the tribes:
happen, that fishermen shall stand by it: from From the north end, beside the way of Hethlon
En Gedi even to En Eglaim shall be a place to the entrance of Hamath, Hazar Enan at
for the spreading of nets; their fish shall be the border of Damascus, northward beside
after their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, Hamath, (and they shall have their sides east
exceeding many. 47:11 But the miry places of andwest), Dan, one portion. 48:2 By the border of
it, and its marshes, shall not be healed; they Dan, from the east side to the west side, Asher,
shall be given up to salt. 47:12 By the river on one portion. 48:3 By the border of Asher, from
its bank, on this side and on that side, shall the east side even to the west side, Naphtali,
grow every tree for food, whose leaf shall not one portion. 48:4 By the border of Naphtali, from
wither, neither shall its fruit fail: it shall bring the east side to the west side, Manasseh, one
forth new fruit every month, because its waters portion. 48:5 By the border of Manasseh, from the
issue out of the sanctuary; and its fruit shall east side to the west side, Ephraim, one portion.
48:6
be for food, and its leaf for healing. 47:13 Thus By the border of Ephraim, from the east
says the Lord GOD: This shall be the border, by side even to the west side, Reuben, one portion.
48:7
which you shall divide the land for inheritance By the border of Reuben, from the east side
according to the twelve tribes of Israel: Joseph to the west side, Judah, one portion. 48:8 By the
shall have twoportions. 47:14 You shall inherit it, border of Judah, from the east side to the west
one as well as another; for I swore to give it side, shall be the offering which you shall offer,
to your fathers: and this land shall fall to you twenty-five thousand reedsin breadth, and in
for inheritance. 47:15 This shall be the border length as one of the portions, from the east side
of the land: On the north side, from the great to the west side: and the sanctuary shall be in
sea, by the way of Hethlon, to the entrance of its midst. 48:9 The offering that you shall offer to
Zedad; 47:16 Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which the LORD shall be twenty-five thousand reedsin
is between the border of Damascus and the length, and ten thousand in breadth. 48:10 For
border of Hamath; Hazer Hatticon, which is these, even for the priests, shall be the holy of-
by the border of Hauran. 47:17 The border from fering: toward the north twenty-five thousand
the sea, shall be Hazar Enon at the border in length, and toward the west ten thousand
of Damascus; and on the north northward in breadth, and toward the east ten thousand
is the border of Hamath. This is the north in breadth, and toward the south twenty-five
side. 47:18 The east side, between Hauran and thousand in length: and the sanctuary of the
Damascus and Gilead, and Eretz-Israel, shall LORD shall be in its midst. 48:11 It shall befor the
be the Jordan; from the northborder to the east priests who are sanctified of the sons of Zadok,
sea you shall measure. This is the east side. who have kept my instruction, who didn’t go
47:19
The south side southward shall be from astray when the children of Israel went astray,
Tamar as far as the waters of Meriboth Kadesh, as the Levites went astray. 48:12 It shall be to
to the brook of Egypt, to the great sea. This is the them an offering from the offering of the land,
south side southward. 47:20 The west side shall a thing most holy, by the border of the Levites.
48:13
be the great sea, from the southborder as far as Answerable to the border of the priests,
over against the entrance of Hamath. This is the Levites shall have twenty-five thousand
the west side. 47:21 So you shall divide this land in length, and ten thousand in breadth: all
to you according to the tribes of Israel. 47:22 It the length shall be twenty-five thousand, and
shall happen, that you shall divide it by lot for the breadth ten thousand. 48:14 They shall sell
an inheritance to you and to the aliens who live none of it, nor exchange it, nor shall the first
among you, who shall father children among fruits of the land be alienated; for it is holy
you; and they shall be to you as the native- to the LORD. 48:15 The five thousand that are
born among the children of Israel; they shall left in the breadth, in front of the twenty-five
have inheritance with you among the tribes of thousand, shall be for common use, for the
Israel. 47:23 It shall happen, that in what tribe city, for dwelling and for suburbs; and the city
shall be in its midst. 48:16 These shall be its
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measures: the north side four thousand and shall be after the names of the tribes of Israel,
five hundred, and the south side four thousand three gates northward: the gate of Reuben, one;
and five hundred, and on the east side four the gate of Judah, one; the gate of Levi, one.
48:32
thousand and five hundred, and the west side At the east side four thousand and five
four thousand and five hundred. 48:17 The hundred reeds, and three gates: even the gate
city shall have suburbs: toward the north of Joseph, one; the gate of Benjamin, one; the
two hundred fifty, and toward the south two gate of Dan, one. 48:33 At the south side four
hundred fifty, and toward the east two hundred thousand and five hundred reedsby measure,
fifty, and toward the west two hundred fifty. and three gates: the gate of Simeon, one; the
48:18
The remainder in the length, answerable gate of Issachar, one; the gate of Zebulun,
to the holy offering, shall be ten thousand one. 48:34 At the west side four thousand and
eastward, and ten thousand westward; and it five hundred reeds, with their three gates: the
shall be answerable to the holy offering; and its gate of Gad, one; the gate of Asher, one; the
increase shall be for food to those who labor gate of Naphtali, one. 48:35 It shall be eighteen
in the city. 48:19 Those who labor in the city, thousand reedsaround: and the name of the city
out of all the tribes of Israel, shall cultivate from that day shall be, the LORD is there.
it. 48:20 All the offering shall be twenty-five
thousand by twenty-five thousand: you shall
offer the holy offering foursquare, with the
possession of the city. 48:21 The residue 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, answerable to the portions, it
shall be for the prince: and the holy offering
and the sanctuary of the house shall be in its
midst. 48:22 Moreover from the possession of
the Levites, and from the possession of the city,
being in the midst of that which is the prince’s,
between the border of Judah and the border
of Benjamin, it shall be for the prince. 48:23 As
for the rest of the tribes: from the east side to
the west side, Benjamin, one portion. 48:24 By
the border of Benjamin, from the east side to
the west side, Simeon, one portion. 48:25 By the
border of Simeon, from the east side to the west
side, Issachar, one portion. 48:26 By the border
of Issachar, from the east side to the west side,
Zebulun, one portion. 48:27 By the border of
Zebulun, from the east side to the west side,
Gad, one portion. 48:28 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 of Egypt, to the great sea.
48:29
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
GOD. 48:30 These are the exits of the city: On
the north side four thousand and five hundred
reedsby measure; 48:31 and the gates of the city
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Hosea neither am I her husband;


and let her put away her prostitution from her
1:1
The word of the LORDa that came to face,
Hosea the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, and her adulteries from between her
Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, breasts;
2:3
and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, Lest I strip her naked,
king of Israel. 1:2 When the LORD spoke at first and make her bare as in the day that she
by Hosea, the LORD said to Hosea, “Go, take was born,
for yourself a wife of prostitution and children and make her like a wilderness,
of unfaithfulness; for the land commits great and set her like a dry land,
adultery, forsaking the LORD.” and kill her with thirst.
1:3 2:4
So he went and took Gomer the daughter Indeed, on her children I will have no mercy;
of Diblaim; and she conceived, and bore him a for they are children of unfaithfulness;
2:5
son. For their mother has played the prostitute.
1:4 She who conceived them has done
The LORD said to him, “Call his name
Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will avenge shamefully;
the blood of Jezreel on the house of Jehu, and for she said, ‘I will go after my lovers,
will cause the kingdom of the house of Israel to who give me my bread and my water,
cease. 1:5 It will happen in that day that I will my wool and my flax,
break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel.” my oil and my drink.’
1:6 2:6
She conceived again, and bore a daughter. Therefore behold, I will hedge up your way
Then he said to him, “Call her name Lo- with thorns,
Ruhamahb ; for I will no longer have mercy and I will build a wall against her,
on the house of Israel, that I should in any that she can’t find her way.
2:7
way pardon them. 1:7 But I will have mercy on She will follow after her lovers,
the house of Judah, and will save them by the but she won’t overtake them;
LORD their Godc , and will not save them by and she will seek them,
bow, sword, battle, horses, or horsemen.” but won’t find them.
1:8
Now when she had weaned Lo-Ruhamah, Then she will say, ‘I will go and return to my
she conceived, and bore a son. first husband;
1:9
He said, “Call his name Lo-Ammid ; for for then was it better with me than now.’
2:8
you are not my people, and I will not be For she did not know that I gave her the
yours. 1:10 Yet the number of the children of grain, the new wine, and the oil,
Israel will be as the sand of the sea, which and multiplied to her silver and gold,
can’t be measured nor numbered; and it will which they used for Baal.
2:9
come to pass that, in the place where it was Therefore I will take back my grain in its
said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ they time,
will be called ‘sons of the living God.’ 1:11 The and my new wine in its season,
children of Judah and the children of Israel and will pluck away my wool and my
will be gathered together, and they will appoint flax which should have covered her
themselves one head, and will go up from the nakedness.
land; for great will be the day of Jezreel. 2:10
Now I will uncover her lewdness in the
2:1
“Say to your brothers, ‘My people!’e sight of her lovers,
and to your sisters, ‘My loved one!’f and no one will deliver her out of my
2:2
Contend with your mother! hand.
2:11
Contend, for she is not my wife, I will also cause all her celebrations to cease:
a 1:1 “LORD” or “GOD” (all capital letters) indicate the 4-letter Holy Name of God
b 1:6 Lo-Ruhamah means “not loved.”
c 1:7 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “Elohim.”
d 1:9 Lo-Ammi means “not my people”
e 2:1 ‘Ammi’ in Hebrew
f 2:1 ‘Ruhamah’ in Hebrew
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2:23
her feasts, her new moons, her Sabbaths, I will sow her to me in the earth;
and all her solemn assemblies. and I will have mercy on her who had not
2:12
I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees, obtained mercy;
about which she has said, ‘These are my and I will tell those who were not my
wages that my lovers have given me; people, ‘You are my people;’
and I will make them a forest,’ and they will say, ‘My God!’”
3:1
and the animals of the field shall eat them. The LORD said to me, “Go again, love a
2:13
I will visit on her the days of the Baals, woman loved by another, and an adulteress,
to which she burned incense, even as the LORD loves the children of Israel,
when she decked herself with her earrings and though they turn to other gods, and love cakes
her jewels, of raisins.”
3:2
and went after her lovers, So I bought her for myself for fifteen
and forgot me,” says the LORD. pieces of silver and a homerg and a half of
2:14
“Therefore behold, I will allure her, barley. 3:3 I said to her, “You shall stay with me
and bring her into the wilderness, many days. You shall not play the prostitute,
and speak tenderly to her. and you shall not be with any other man. I will
2:15
I will give her vineyards from there, also be so toward you.”
3:4
and the valley of Achor for a door of For the children of Israel shall live many
hope; days without king, and without prince, and
and she will respond there, without sacrifice, and without sacred stone,
as in the days of her youth, and without ephod or idols. 3:5 Afterward the
and as in the day when she came up out children of Israel shall return, and seek the
of the land of Egypt. LORD their God, and David their king, and
2:16
It will be in that day,” says the LORD, shall come with trembling to the LORD and to
“that you will call me ‘my husband,’ his blessings in the last days.
4:1
and no longer call me ‘my master.’ Hear the word of the LORD, you children
2:17
For I will take away the names of the Baals of Israel;
out of her mouth, for the LORD has a charge against the
and they will no longer be mentioned by inhabitants of the land:
name. “Indeed there is no truth,
2:18
In that day I will make a covenant for them nor goodness,
with the animals of the field, nor knowledge of God in the land.
4:2
and with the birds of the sky, There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and
and with the creeping things of the committing adultery;
ground. they break boundaries, and bloodshed
I will break the bow, the sword, and the battle causes bloodshed.
4:3
out of the land, Therefore the land will mourn,
and will make them lie down safely. and everyone who dwells therein will
2:19
I will betroth you to me forever. waste away.
Yes, I will betroth you to me in righteous- all living things in her,
ness, in justice, in loving kindness, and even the animals of the field and the birds
in compassion. of the sky;
2:20
I will even betroth you to me in faithfulness; yes, the fish of the sea also die.
4:4
and you shall know the LORD. “Yet let no man bring a charge, neither let
2:21
It will happen in that day, I will respond,” any man accuse; For your people are
says the LORD, like those who bring charges against a
“I will respond to the heavens, priest.
4:5
and they will respond to the earth; You will stumble in the day,
2:22
and the earth will respond to the and the prophet will also stumble with
grain, and the new wine, and the oil; you in the night;
and they will respond to Jezreel. and I will destroy your mother.
g 3:2 1 homer is about 220 litres or 6 bushels
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4:6
My people are destroyed for lack of knowl- Then how will the LORD feed them like a
edge. lamb in a meadow.
4:17
Because you have rejected knowledge, I Ephraim is joined to idols.
will also reject you, Leave him alone!
4:18
that you may be no priest to me. Their drink has become sour.
Because you have forgotten your God’s law, They play the prostitute continually.
I will also forget your children. Her rulers dearly love their shameful
4:7
As they were multiplied, so they sinned way.
4:19
against me. The wind has wrapped her up in its wings;
I will change their glory into shame. and they shall be disappointed because of
4:8
They feed on the sin of my people, their sacrifices.
5:1
and set their heart on their iniquity. “Listen to this, you priests!
4:9
It will be, like people, like priest; Listen, house of Israel,
and I will punish them for their ways, and give ear, house of the king!
and will repay them for their deeds. For the judgment is against you;
4:10
They will eat, and not have enough. for you have been a snare at Mizpah,
They will play the prostitute, and will not and a net spread on Tabor.
5:2
increase; The rebels are deep in slaughter;
because they have abandoned giving to but I discipline all of them.
5:3
the LORD. I know Ephraim,
4:11
Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away and Israel is not hidden from me;
understanding. for now, Ephraim, you have played the prosti-
4:12
My people consult with their wooden tute.
idol, Israel is defiled.
5:4
and answer to a stick of wood. Their deeds won’t allow them to turn to their
Indeed the spirit of prostitution has led them God;
astray, for the spirit of prostitution is within
and they have been unfaithful to their them,
God. and they don’t know the LORD.
4:13 5:5
They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains, The pride of Israel testifies to his face.
and burn incense on the hills, under oaks Therefore Israel and Ephraim will stum-
and poplars and terebinths, ble in their iniquity.
because its shade is good. Judah also will stumble with them.
5:6
Therefore your daughters play the prostitute, They will go with their flocks and with their
and your brides commit adultery. herds to seek the LORD;
4:14
I will not punish your daughters when they but they won’t find him.
play the prostitute, He has withdrawn himself from them.
5:7
nor your brides when they commit adul- They are unfaithful to the LORD;
tery; for they have borne illegitimate children.
because the men consort with prostitutes, Now the new moon will devour them
and they sacrifice with the shrine prosti- with their fields.
5:8
tutes; “Blow the cornet in Gibeah,
so the people without understanding will and the shofarh in Ramah!
come to ruin. Sound a battle cry at Beth Aven, behind
4:15
“Though you, Israel, play the prostitute, you, Benjamin!
5:9
yet don’t let Judah offend; Ephraim will become a desolation in the day
and don’t come to Gilgal, of rebuke.
neither go up to Beth Aven, Among the tribes of Israel, I have made
nor swear, ‘As the LORD lives.’ known that which will surely be.
4:16 5:10
For Israel has behaved extremely stub- The princes of Judah are like those who
bornly, like a stubborn heifer. remove a landmark.
h 5:8 or, trumpet
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6:7
I will pour out my wrath on them like But they, like Adam, have broken the
water. covenant.
5:11
Ephraim is oppressed, They were unfaithful to me, there.
6:8
he is crushed in judgment; Gilead is a city of those who work iniquity;
Because he is intent in his pursuit of idols. it is stained with blood.
5:12 6:9
Therefore I am to Ephraim like a moth, As gangs of robbers wait to ambush a man,
and to the house of Judah like rottenness. so the company of priests murder in the
5:13 way toward Shechem,
“When Ephraim saw his sickness,
and Judah his wound, committing shameful crimes.
6:10
Then Ephraim went to Assyria, In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible
and sent to king Jareb: thing.
but he is not able to heal you, There is prostitution in Ephraim.
neither will he cure you of your wound. Israel is defiled.
6:11
5:14
For I will be to Ephraim like a lion, “Also, Judah, there is a harvest appointed
and like a young lion to the house of for you,
Judah. when I restore the fortunes of my people.
7:1
I myself will tear in pieces and go away. When I would heal Israel,
I will carry off, and there will be no one to then the iniquity of Ephraim is uncov-
deliver. ered,
5:15
I will go and return to my place, also the wickedness of Samaria;
until they acknowledge their offense, for they commit falsehood,
and the thief enters in,
and seek my face.
and the gang of robbers ravages outside.
In their affliction they will seek me 7:2
They don’t consider in their hearts that I
earnestly.”
6:1 remember all their wickedness.
“Come, and let us return to the LORD;
Now their own deeds have engulfed
for he has torn us to pieces,
them.
and he will heal us;
They are before my face.
he has injured us, 7:3
They make the king glad with their wicked-
and he will bind up our wounds.
6:2 ness,
After two days he will revive us. and the princes with their lies.
On the third day he will raise us up, 7:4
They are all adulterers.
and we will live before him. They are burning like an oven that the
6:3
Let us acknowledge the LORD. baker stops stirring,
Let us press on to know the LORD. from the kneading of the dough, until it is
As surely as the sun rises, leavened.
The LORD will appear. 7:5
On the day of our king, the princes made
He will come to us like the rain, themselves sick with the heat of wine.
like the spring rain that waters the earth.” He joined his hand with mockers.
6:4 7:6
“Ephraim, what shall I do to you? For they have prepared their heart like an
Judah, what shall I do to you? oven,
For your love is like a morning cloud, while they lie in wait.
and like the dew that disappears early. Their baker sleeps all the night.
6:5
Therefore I have cut them to pieces with the In the morning it burns as a flaming fire.
7:7
prophets; They are all hot as an oven,
I killed them with the words of my and devour their judges.
mouth. All their kings have fallen.
Your judgments are like a flash of light- There is no one among them who calls to
ning. me.
6:6 7:8
For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; Ephraim, he mixes himself among the na-
and the knowledge of God more than tions.
burnt offerings. Ephraim is a pancake not turned over.
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7:9
Strangers have devoured his strength, that they may be cut off.
8:5
and he doesn’t realize it. Let Samaria throw out his calf idol!
Indeed, gray hairs are here and there on him, My anger burns against them!
and he doesn’t realize it. How long will it be until they are capable
7:10
The pride of Israel testifies to his face; of purity?
8:6
yet they haven’t returned to the LORD For this is even from Israel!
their God, The workman made it, and it is no God;
nor sought him, for all this. indeed, the calf of Samaria shall be bro-
7:11
“Ephraim is like an easily deceived dove, ken in pieces.
8:7
without understanding. For they sow the wind,
They call to Egypt. and they will reap the whirlwind.
They go to Assyria. He has no standing grain.
7:12
When they go, I will spread my net on them. The stalk will yield no head.
I will bring them down like the birds of If it does yield, strangers will swallow it
the sky. up.
8:8
I will chastise them, as their congregation Israel is swallowed up.
has heard. Now they are among the nations like a
7:13
Woe to them! worthless thing.
8:9
For they have wandered from me. For they have gone up to Assyria,
Destruction to them! like a wild donkey wandering alone.
For they have trespassed against me. Ephraim has hired lovers for himself.
8:10
Though I would redeem them, But although they sold themselves among
yet they have spoken lies against me. the nations,
7:14
They haven’t cried to me with their heart, I will now gather them;
but they howl on their beds. and they begin to waste away because of
They assemble themselves for grain and new the oppression of the king of mighty
wine. ones.
8:11
They turn away from me. Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for
7:15
Though I have taught and strengthened sinning,
their arms, they became for him altars for sinning.
8:12
yet they plot evil against me. I wrote for him the many things of my law;
7:16
They return, but not to the Most High. but they were regarded as a strange thing.
8:13
They are like a faulty bow. As for the sacrifices of my offerings,
Their princes will fall by the sword for the they sacrifice flesh and eat it;
rage of their tongue. But the LORD doesn’t accept them.
This will be their derision in the land of Now he will remember their iniquity,
Egypt. and punish their sins.
8:1
“Put the shofari to your lips! They will return to Egypt.
8:14
Something like an eagle is over the For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built
LORD’s house, palaces;
because they have broken my covenant, and Judah has multiplied fortified cities;
and rebelled against my law. but I will send a fire on his cities,
8:2
They cry to me, ‘My God, we Israel acknowl- and it will devour its fortresses.”
9:1
edge you!’ Don’t rejoice, Israel, to jubilation like the
8:3
Israel has cast off that which is good. nations;
The enemy will pursue him. for you were unfaithful to your God.
8:4
They have set up kings, but not by me. You love the wages of a prostitute at
They have made princes, and I didn’t every grain threshing floor.
9:2
approve. The threshing floor and the winepress won’t
Of their silver and their gold they have feed them,
made themselves idols, and the new wine will fail her.
i 8:1 or, trumpet
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9:3
They won’t dwell in the LORD’s land; Indeed, woe also to them when I depart
but Ephraim will return to Egypt, from them!
9:13
and they will eat unclean food in Assyria. I have seen Ephraim, like Tyre, planted in a
9:4 pleasant place;
They won’t pour out wine offerings to the
LORD, but Ephraim will bring out his children to
neither will they be pleasing to him. the murderer.
9:14
Their sacrifices will be to them like the Give them—LORD what will you give?
bread of mourners; Give them a miscarrying womb and dry
all who eat of it will be polluted; breasts.
9:15
for their bread will be for their appetite. “All their wickedness is in Gilgal;
It will not come into the house of the for there I hated them.
LORD. Because of the wickedness of their deeds
9:5 I will drive them out of my house!
What will you do in the day of solemn
assembly, I will love them no more.
and in the day of the feast of the LORD? All their princes are rebels.
9:16
9:6
For, behold, they have gone away from Ephraim is struck.
destruction. Their root has dried up.
Egypt will gather them up. They will bear no fruit.
Memphis will bury them. Even though they bring forth, yet I will
Nettles will possess their pleasant things kill the beloved ones of their womb.”
9:17
of silver. My God will cast them away, because they
Thorns will be in their tents. did not listen to him;
9:7 and they will be wanderers among the
The days of visitation have come.
nations.
The days of reckoning have come. 10:1
Israel is a luxuriant vine that puts forth his
Israel will consider the prophet to be a fool,
fruit.
and the man who is inspired to be insane,
According to the abundance of his fruit
because of the abundance of your sins,
he has multiplied his altars.
and because your hostility is great. As their land has prospered, they have
9:8
A prophet watches over Ephraim with my adorned their sacred stones.
God. 10:2
Their heart is divided.
A fowler’s snare is on all of his paths, Now they will be found guilty.
and hostility in the house of his God. He will demolish their altars.
9:9
They have deeply corrupted themselves, He will destroy their sacred stones.
as in the days of Gibeah. 10:3
Surely now they will say, “We have no king;
He will remember their iniquity. for we don’t fear the LORD;
He will punish them for their sins. and the king, what can he do for us?”
9:10 10:4
I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. They make promises, swearing falsely in
I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the making covenants.
fig tree at its first season; Therefore judgment springs up like poi-
but they came to Baal Peor, and con- sonous weeds in the furrows of the
secrated themselves to the shameful field.
thing, 10:5
The inhabitants of Samaria will be in terror
and became abominable like that which for the calves of Beth Aven;
they loved. for its people will mourn over it,
9:11
As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away Along with its priests who rejoiced over
like a bird. it,
There will be no birth, none with child, for its glory, because it has departed from
and no conception. it.
9:12 10:6
Though they bring up their children, It also will be carried to Assyria for a
yet I will bereave them, so that not a man present to a great king.
shall be left. Ephraim will receive shame,
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and Israel will be ashamed of his own They sacrificed to the Baals,
counsel. and burned incense to engraved images.
10:7 11:3
Samaria and her king float away, Yet I taught Ephraim to walk.
like a twig on the water. I took them by his arms;
10:8
The high places also of Aven, the sin of but they didn’t know that I healed them.
Israel, will be destroyed. 11:4
I drew them with cords of a man, with ties
The thorn and the thistle will come up on of love;
their altars. and I was to them like those who lift up
They will tell the mountains, “Cover us!” the yoke on their necks;
and the hills, “Fall on us!” and I bent down to him and I fed him.
10:9 11:5
“Israel, you have sinned from the days of “They won’t return into the land of Egypt;
Gibeah. but the Assyrian will be their king,
There they remained. because they refused to repent.
The battle against the children of iniquity 11:6
The sword will fall on their cities,
doesn’t overtake them in Gibeah. and will destroy the bars of their gates,
10:10
When it is my desire, I will chastise them; and will put an end to their plans.
and the nations will be gathered against 11:7
My people are determined to turn from me.
them, Though they call to the Most High,
when they are bound to their two trans-
he certainly won’t exalt them.
gressions. 11:8
10:11 “How can I give you up, Ephraim?
Ephraim is a trained heifer that loves to
How can I hand you over, Israel?
thresh;
How can I make you like Admah?
so I will put a yoke on her beautiful neck.
How can I make you like Zeboiim?
I will set a rider on Ephraim.
My heart is turned within me,
Judah will plow.
my compassion is aroused.
Jacob will break his clods. 11:9
10:12 I will not execute the fierceness of my anger.
Sow to yourselves in righteousness,
reap according to kindness. I will not return to destroy Ephraim:
Break up your fallow ground; for I am God, and not man; the Holy One
for it is time to seek the LORD, in the midst of you;
until he comes and rains righteousness on and I will not come in wrath.
11:10
you. They will walk after the LORD,
10:13
You have plowed wickedness. who will roar like a lion;
You have reaped iniquity. for he will roar, and the children will
You have eaten the fruit of lies, come trembling from the west.
11:11
for you trusted in your way, in the multi- They will come trembling like a bird out of
tude of your mighty men. Egypt,
10:14
Therefore a battle roar will arise among and like a dove out of the land of Assyria;
your people, and I will settle them in their houses,” says the
and all your fortresses will be destroyed, LORD.
11:12
as Shalman destroyed Beth Arbel in the Ephraim surrounds me with falsehood,
day of battle. and the house of Israel with deceit.
The mother was dashed in pieces with Judah still strays from God,
her children. and is unfaithful to the Holy One.
10:15 12:1
So Bethel will do to you because of your Ephraim feeds on wind,
great wickedness. and chases the east wind.
At daybreak the king of Israel will be He continually multiplies lies and desola-
destroyed. tion.
11:1
“When Israel was a child, then I loved him, They make a covenant with Assyria,
and called my son out of Egypt. and oil is carried into Egypt.
11:2 12:2
They called to them, so they went from The LORD also has a controversy with
them. Judah,
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and will punish Jacob according to his and have made themselves molten im-
ways; ages of their silver,
according to his deeds he will repay him. even idols according to their own under-
12:3
In the womb he took his brother by the heel; standing,
and in his manhood he contended with all of them the work of the craftsmen.
God. They say of them, ‘They offer human
12:4
Indeed, he struggled with the angel, and sacrifice and kiss the calves.’
13:3
prevailed; Therefore they will be like the morning
he wept, and made supplication to him. mist,
He found him at Bethel, and there he and like the dew that passes away early,
spoke with us, like the chaff that is driven with the
12:5
even the LORD, the God of Hosts; whirlwind out of the threshing floor,
The LORD is his name of renown! and like the smoke out of the chimney.
12:6 13:4
Therefore turn to your God. “Yet I am the LORD your God from the land
Keep kindness and justice, of Egypt;
and wait continually for your God. and you shall acknowledge no god but
12:7
A merchant has dishonest scales in his me,
hand. and besides me there is no savior.
13:5
He loves to defraud. I knew you in the wilderness,
12:8
Ephraim said, “Surely I have become rich, in the land of great drought.
13:6
I have found myself wealth. According to their pasture, so were they
In all my wealth they won’t find in me filled;
any iniquity that is sin.” they were filled, and their heart was
12:9
“But I am the LORD your God from the land exalted.
of Egypt. Therefore they have forgotten me.
13:7
I will yet again make you dwell in tents, Therefore I am like a lion to them.
as in the days of the solemn feast. Like a leopard, I will lurk by the path.
12:10 13:8
I have also spoken to the prophets, I will meet them like a bear that is bereaved
and I have multiplied visions; of her cubs,
and by the ministry of the prophets I have and will tear the covering of their heart.
used parables. There I will devour them like a lioness.
12:11
If Gilead is wicked, The wild animal will tear them.
13:9
surely they are worthless. You are destroyed, Israel, because you are
In Gilgal they sacrifice bulls. against me,
Indeed, their altars are like heaps in the against your help.
13:10
furrows of the field. Where is your king now, that he may save
12:12
Jacob fled into the country of Aram, you in all your cities?
and Israel served to get a wife, And your judges, of whom you said,
and for a wife he tended flocks and herds. ‘Give me a king and princes?’
12:13 13:11
By a prophet the LORD brought Israel up I have given you a king in my anger,
out of Egypt, and have taken him away in my wrath.
13:12
and by a prophet he was preserved. The guilt of Ephraim is stored up.
12:14
Ephraim has bitterly provoked anger. His sin is stored up.
13:13
Therefore his blood will be left on him, The sorrows of a travailing woman will
and his Lordj will repay his contempt. come on him.
13:1
When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling. He is an unwise son;
He exalted himself in Israel, for when it is time, he doesn’t come to the
but when he became guilty in Baal, he opening of the womb.
13:14
died. I will ransom them from the power of
13:2
Now they sin more and more, Sheolk .
j 12:14 The word translated “Lord” (mixed case) is “Adonai.”
k 13:14 Sheol is the place of the dead.
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I will redeem them from death! For the ways of the LORD are right,
Death, where are your plagues? and the righteous walk in them;
Sheol, where is your destruction? But the rebellious stumble in them.
“Compassion will be hidden from my eyes.
13:15
Though he is fruitful among his
brothers, an east wind will come,
the breath of the LORD coming up from
the wilderness;
and his spring will become dry,
and his fountain will be dried up.
He will plunder the storehouse of trea-
sure.
13:16
Samaria will bear her guilt;
for she has rebelled against her God.
They will fall by the sword.
Their infants will be dashed in pieces,
and their pregnant women will be ripped
open.”
14:1
Israel, return to the LORD your God;
for you have fallen because of your sin.
14:2
Take words with you, and return to the
LORD.
Tell him, “Forgive all our sins,
and accept that which is good:
so we offer our lips like bulls.
14:3
Assyria can’t save us.
We won’t ride on horses;
neither will we say any more to the work
of our hands, ‘Our gods!’
for in you the fatherless finds mercy.”
14:4
“I will heal their waywardness.
I will love them freely;
for my anger is turned away from him.
14:5
I will be like the dew to Israel.
He will blossom like the lily,
and send down his roots like Lebanon.
14:6
His branches will spread,
and his beauty will be like the olive tree,
and his fragrance like Lebanon.
14:7
Men will dwell in his shade.
They will revive like the grain,
and blossom like the vine.
Their fragrance will be like the wine of
Lebanon.
14:8
Ephraim, what have I to do any more with
idols?
I answer, and will take care of him.
I am like a green fir tree;
from me your fruit is found.”
14:9
Who is wise, that he may understand these
things?
Who is prudent, that he may know them?
Joel 1:1 493 Joel 2:2

Joel even all of the trees of the field are


withered;
1:1
The Word of the LORDa that came to Joel, for joy has withered away from the sons
the son of Pethuel. of men.
1:2 1:13
Hear this, you elders, Put on sackcloth and mourn, you priests!
And listen, all you inhabitants of the land. Wail, you ministers of the altar.
Has this ever happened in your days, Come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers
or in the days of your fathers? of my Godb ,
1:3 for the meal offering and the drink of-
Tell your children about it,
and have your children tell their children, fering are withheld from your God’s
and their children, another generation. house.
1:4 1:14
What the swarming locust has left, the great Sanctify a fast.
locust has eaten. Call a solemn assembly.
What the great locust has left, the Gather the elders,
grasshopper has eaten. and all the inhabitants of the land, to the
What the grasshopper has left, the cater- house of the LORD, your God,
pillar has eaten. and cry to the LORD.
1:5 1:15
Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Alas for the day!
Wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of For the day of the LORD is at hand,
the sweet wine; and it will come as destruction from the
for it is cut off from your mouth. Almighty.
1:6 1:16
For a nation has come up on my land, strong, Isn’t the food cut off before our eyes;
and without number. joy and gladness from the house of our
His teeth are the teeth of a lion, God?
1:17
and he has the fangs of a lioness. The seeds rot under their clods.
1:7 The granaries are laid desolate.
He has laid my vine waste,
and stripped my fig tree. The barns are broken down, for the grain
He has stripped its bark, and thrown it has withered.
1:18
away. How the animals groan!
Its branches are made white. The herds of livestock are perplexed,
1:8 because they have no pasture.
Mourn like a virgin dressed in sackcloth for
the husband of her youth! 1:9 The meal Yes, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.
1:19
offering and the drink offering are cut The LORD, I cry to you,
off from the LORD’s house. For the fire has devoured the pastures of
The priests, the LORD’s ministers, the wilderness,
mourn. and the flame has burned all the trees of
1:10
The field is laid waste. the field.
1:20
The land mourns, for the grain is de- Yes, the animals of the field pant to you,
stroyed, for the water brooks have dried up,
The new wine has dried up, And the fire has devoured the pastures of
and the oil languishes. the wilderness.
1:11 2:1
Be confounded, you farmers! Blow the shofarc in Zion,
Wail, you vineyard keepers; and sound an alarm in my holy moun-
for the wheat and for the barley; tain!
for the harvest of the field has perished. Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble,
1:12
The vine has dried up, and the fig tree for the day of the LORD comes,
withered; for it is close at hand:
2:2
the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, A day of darkness and gloominess,
and the apple tree, a day of clouds and thick darkness.
a 1:1 “LORD” or “GOD” (all capital letters) indicate the 4-letter Holy Name of God
b 1:13 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “Elohim.”
c 2:1 or, trumpet
Joel 2:3 494 Joel 2:22

As the dawn spreading on the mountains, slow to anger, and abundant in loving
a great and strong people; kindness,
there has never been the like, and relents from sending calamity.
2:14
neither will there be any more after them, Who knows? He may turn and relent,
even to the years of many generations. and leave a blessing behind him,
2:3 even a meal offering and a drink offering
A fire devours before them,
and behind them, a flame burns. to the LORD, your God.
2:15
The land is as the garden of Eden before them, Blow the shofard in Zion!
and behind them, a desolate wilderness. Sanctify a fast.
Yes, and no one has escaped them. Call a solemn assembly.
2:4 2:16
Their appearance is as the appearance of Gather the people.
horses, Sanctify the assembly.
and as horsemen, so do they run. Assemble the elders.
2:5
Like the noise of chariots on the tops of the Gather the children, and those who nurse
mountains do they leap, from breasts.
like the noise of a flame of fire that Let the bridegroom go forth from his room,
devours the stubble, and the bride out of her room.
2:17
as a strong people set in battle array. Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD,
2:6
At their presence the peoples are in anguish. weep between the porch and the altar,
All faces have grown pale. and let them say, “Spare your people,
2:7 LORD,
They run like mighty men.
and don’t give your heritage to reproach,
They climb the wall like warriors.
that the nations should rule over them.
They each march in his line, and they
Why should they say among the peoples,
don’t swerve off course.
2:8 ‘Where is their God?’”
Neither does one jostle another; 2:18
Then the LORD was jealous for his land,
they march everyone in his path,
And had pity on his people.
and they burst through the defenses, 2:19
The LORD answered his people,
and don’t break ranks.
2:9 “Behold, I will send you grain, new wine,
They rush on the city.
and oil,
They run on the wall. and you will be satisfied with them;
They climb up into the houses. and I will no more make you a reproach
They enter in at the windows like thieves. among the nations.
2:10
The earth quakes before them. 2:20
But I will remove the northern army far
The heavens tremble. away from you,
The sun and the moon are darkened, and will drive it into a barren and deso-
and the stars withdraw their shining. late land,
2:11
The LORD thunders his voice before his its front into the eastern sea,
army; and its back into the western sea;
for his forces are very great; and its stench will come up,
for he is strong who obeys his command; and its bad smell will rise.”
for the day of the LORD is great and very Surely he has done great things.
awesome, 2:21
Land, don’t be afraid.
and who can endure it? Be glad and rejoice, for the LORD has
2:12
“Yet even now,” says the LORD, “turn to me done great things.
with all your heart, 2:22
Don’t be afraid, you animals of the field;
and with fasting, and with weeping, and for the pastures of the wilderness spring
with mourning.” up,
2:13
Tear your heart, and not your garments, for the tree bears its fruit.
and turn to the LORD, your God; The fig tree and the vine yield their
for he is gracious and merciful, strength.
d 2:15 or, trumpet
Joel 2:23 495 Joel 3:11

2:23
“Be glad then, you children of Zion, and in that time,
and rejoice in the LORD, your God; when I restore the fortunes of Judah and
for he gives you the former rain in just Jerusalem,
3:2
measure, I will gather all nations,
and he causes the rain to come down for and will bring them down into the valley
you, of Jehoshaphat;
the former rain and the latter rain, and I will execute judgment on them
as before. there for my people,
2:24
The threshing floors will be full of wheat, and for my heritage, Israel, whom they
and the vats will overflow with new wine have scattered among the nations.
and oil. They have divided my land,
2:25 3:3
I will restore to you the years that the and have cast lots for my people,
swarming locust has eaten, and have given a boy for a prostitute,
the great locust, the grasshopper, and the and sold a girl for wine, that they may
caterpillar, drink.
3:4
my great army, which I sent among you. “Yes, and what are you to me, Tyre, and
2:26
You will have plenty to eat, and be satisfied, Sidon,
and will praise the name of the LORD, and all the regions of Philistia?
your God, Will you repay me?
who has dealt wondrously with you; And if you repay me,
and my people will never again be disap- I will swiftly and speedily return your
pointed. repayment on your own head.
2:27 3:5
You will know that I am in the midst of Because you have taken my silver and my
Israel, gold,
and that I am the LORD, your God, and and have carried my finest treasures into
there is no one else; your temples,
3:6
and my people will never again be disap- and have sold the children of Judah
pointed. and the children of Jerusalem to the
2:28
“It will happen afterward, that I will pour sons of the Greeks,
out my Spirit on all flesh; that you may remove them far from their
and your sons and your daughters will border.
3:7
prophesy. Behold, I will stir them up out of the place
Your old men will dream dreams. where you have sold them,
Your young men will see visions. and will return your repayment on your
2:29
And also on the servants and on the hand- own head;
3:8
maids in those days, and I will sell your sons and your daughters
I will pour out my Spirit. into the hands of the children of Judah,
2:30
I will show wonders in the heavens and in and they will sell them to the men of
the earth: Sheba,
blood, fire, and pillars of smoke. to a faraway nation,
2:31
The sun will be turned into darkness, for the LORD has spoken it.”
3:9
and the moon into blood, Proclaim this among the nations:
before the great and terrible day of the “Prepare for war!
LORD comes. Stir up the mighty men.
2:32
It will happen that whoever will call on the Let all the warriors draw near.
name of the LORD shall be saved; Let them come up. 3:10 Beat your plow-
for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shares into swords,
will be those who escape, and your pruning hooks into spears.
as the LORD has said, Let the weak say, ‘I am strong.’
3:11
and among the remnant, those whom the Hurry and come, all you surrounding na-
LORD calls. tions,
3:1
“For, behold, in those days, and gather yourselves together.”
Joel 3:12 496 Joel 3:21

Cause your mighty ones to come down there,


LORD.
3:12
“Let the nations arouse themselves,
and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat;
for there will I sit to judge all the sur-
rounding nations.
3:13
Put in the sickle;
for the harvest is ripe.
Come, tread, for the winepress is full,
the vats overflow, for their wickedness is
great.”
3:14
Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of de-
cision!
For the day of the LORD is near, in the
valley of decision.
3:15
The sun and the moon are darkened,
and the stars withdraw their shining.
3:16
The LORD will roar from Zion,
and thunder from Jerusalem;
and the heavens and the earth will shake;
but the LORD will be a refuge to his
people,
and a stronghold to the children of Israel.
3:17
“So you will know that I am the LORD, your
God,
dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain.
Then Jerusalem will be holy,
and no strangers will pass through her
any more.
3:18
It will happen in that day,
that the mountains will drop down sweet
wine,
the hills will flow with milk,
all the brooks of Judah will flow with
waters,
and a fountain will come forth from the
house of the LORD,
and will water the valley of Shittim.
3:19
Egypt will be a desolation,
and Edom will be a desolate wilderness,
for the violence done to the children of
Judah,
because they have shed innocent blood in
their land.
3:20
But Judah will be inhabited forever,
and Jerusalem from generation to genera-
tion.
3:21
I will cleanse their blood,
that I have not cleansed:
for the LORD dwells in Zion.”
Amos 1:1 497 Amos 2:4

Amos and didn’t remember the brotherly


covenant;
1:1 1:10
The words of Amos, who was among the but I will send a fire on the wall of Tyre,
herdsmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning and it will devour its palaces.”
1:11
Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and Thus says the LORD:
in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of “For three transgressions of Edom, yes, for four,
Israel, two years before the earthquake. 1:2 He I will not turn away its punishment;
said: because he pursued his brother with the
“the LORDa will roar from Zion, sword,
and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and cast off all pity,
and the pastures of the shepherds will mourn, and his anger raged continually,
and the top of Carmel will wither.” and he kept his wrath forever;
1:3 1:12
Thus says the LORD: but I will send a fire on Teman,
“For three transgressions of Damascus, yes, for and it will devour the palaces of Bozrah.”
1:13
four, Thus says the LORD:
I will not turn away its punishment; “For three transgressions of the children of
because they have threshed Gilead with Ammon, yes, for four,
threshing instruments of iron; I will not turn away its punishment;
1:4
but I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, because they have ripped open the preg-
and it will devour the palaces of Ben nant women of Gilead,
Hadad. that they may enlarge their border.
1:5 1:14
I will break the bar of Damascus, But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah,
and cut off the inhabitant from the valley and it will devour its palaces,
of Aven, with shouting in the day of battle,
and him who holds the scepter from the with a storm in the day of the whirlwind;
1:15
house of Eden; and their king will go into captivity,
and the people of Syria shall go into he and his princes together,”
captivity to Kir,” says the LORD.
2:1
says the LORD. Thus says the LORD:
1:6
Thus says the LORD: “For three transgressions of Moab, yes, for four,
“For three transgressions of Gaza, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment;
I will not turn away its punishment; because he burned the bones of the king
because they carried away captive the of Edom into lime;
2:2
whole community, but I will send a fire on Moab,
to deliver them up to Edom; and it will devour the palaces of Kerioth;
1:7
but I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, and Moab will die with tumult, with
and it will devour its palaces. shouting, and with the sound of the
1:8
I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, shofarc ;
2:3
and him who holds the scepter from and I will cut off the judge from their midst,
Ashkelon; and will kill all its princes with him,”
and I will turn my hand against Ekron; says the LORD.
2:4
and the remnant of the Philistines will Thus says the LORD:
perish,” “For three transgressions of Judah, yes, for four,
says the Lordb the LORD. I will not turn away its punishment;
1:9
Thus says the LORD: because they have rejected the LORD’s
“For three transgressions of Tyre, yes, for four, law,
I will not turn away its punishment; and have not kept his statutes,
because they delivered up the whole and their lies have led them astray,
community to Edom, after which their fathers walked;
a 1:2 “LORD” or “GOD” (all capital letters) indicate the 4-letter Holy Name of God
b 1:8 The word translated “Lord” (mixed case) is “Adonai.”
c 2:2 or, trumpet
Amos 2:5 498 Amos 3:12

2:5 3:1
But I will send a fire on Judah, Hear this word that the LORD has spoken
and it will devour the palaces of against you, children of Israel, against the
Jerusalem.” whole family which I brought up out of the
2:6
Thus says the LORD: land of Egypt, saying:
3:2
“For three transgressions of Israel, yes, for four, “You only have I chosen of all the families of
I will not turn away its punishment; the earth.
because they have sold the righteous for Therefore I will punish you for all of your
silver, sins.”
3:3
and the needy for a pair of shoes; Do two walk together,
2:7
They trample on the dust of the earth unless they have agreed?
3:4
on the head of the poor, Will a lion roar in the thicket,
and deny justice to the oppressed; when he has no prey?
and a man and his father use the same Does a young lion cry out of his den,
maiden, to profane my holy name; if he has caught nothing?
2:8 3:5
and they lay themselves down beside Can a bird fall in a trap on the earth,
every altar on clothes taken in pledge; where no snare is set for him?
and in the house of their Godd they drink Does a snare spring up from the ground,
the wine of those who have been fined. when there is nothing to catch?
2:9 3:6
Yet I destroyed the Amorite before them, Does the shofare alarm sound in a city,
whose height was like the height of the without the people being afraid?
cedars, Does evil happen to a city,
and he was strong as the oaks; and the LORD hasn’t done it?
3:7
yet I destroyed his fruit from above, Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing,
and his roots from beneath. unless he reveals his secret to his servants
2:10
Also I brought you up out of the land of the prophets.
3:8
Egypt, The lion has roared.
and led you forty years in the wilderness, Who will not fear?
to possess the land of the Amorite. The Lord GOD has spoken.
2:11
I raised up some of your sons for prophets, Who can but prophesy?
3:9
and some of your young men for Proclaim in the palaces at Ashdod,
Nazirites. and in the palaces in the land of Egypt,
Isn’t this true, and say, “Assemble yourselves on the moun-
you children of Israel?” says the LORD. tains of Samaria,
2:12
“But you gave the Nazirites wine to drink, and see what unrest is in her,
and commanded the prophets, saying, and what oppression is among them.”
3:10
‘Don’t prophesy!’ “Indeed they don’t know to do right,” says
2:13
Behold, I will crush you in your place, the LORD,
as a cart crushes that is full of grain. “Who hoard plunder and loot in their
2:14
Flight will perish from the swift; palaces.”
3:11
and the strong won’t strengthen his force; Therefore thus says the Lord GOD:
neither shall the mighty deliver himself; “An adversary will overrun the land;
2:15
neither shall he stand who handles the and he will pull down your strongholds,
bow; and your fortresses will be plundered.”
3:12
and he who is swift of foot won’t escape; Thus says the LORD:
neither shall he who rides the horse de- “As the shepherd rescues out of the mouth of
liver himself; the lion two legs,
2:16
and he who is courageous among the or a piece of an ear,
mighty will flee away naked on that so shall the children of Israel be rescued
day,” who sit in Samaria on the corner of a
says the LORD. couch,
d 2:8 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “Elohim.”
e 3:6 or, trumpet
Amos 3:13 499 Amos 5:5

and on the silken cushions of a bed.” yet you haven’t returned to me,” says the
3:13
“Listen, and testify against the house of LORD.
4:9
Jacob,” says the Lord GOD, the God of Hosts. “I struck you with blight and mildew many
3:14
“For in the day that I visit the transgressions times in your gardens and your vine-
of Israel on him, yards;
I will also visit the altars of Bethel; and your fig trees and your olive trees
and the horns of the altar will be cut off, have the swarming locust devoured:
and fall to the ground. yet you haven’t returned to me,” says the
3:15
I will strike the winter house with the LORD.
4:10
summer house; “I sent plagues among you like I did Egypt.
and the houses of ivory will perish, I have slain your young men with the
and the great houses will have an end,” sword,
says the LORD. and have carried away your horses;
4:1
Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, and I filled your nostrils with the stench
who are on the mountain of Samaria, who of your camp,
oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell yet you haven’t returned to me,” says the
their husbands, “Bring us drinks!” LORD.
4:2 4:11
The Lord GOD has sworn by his holiness “I have overthrown some of you,
that behold, as when God overthrew Sodom and Go-
“The days shall come on you that they morrah,
will take you away with hooks, and you were like a burning stick plucked
and the last of you with fish hooks. out of the fire;
4:3
You will go out at the breaks in the wall, yet you haven’t returned to me,” says the
everyone straight before her; LORD.
4:12
and you will cast yourselves into Har- “Therefore thus will I do to you, Israel;
mon,” says the LORD. because I will do this to you,
4:4
“Go to Bethel, and sin; prepare to meet your God, Israel.
4:13
to Gilgal, and sin more. For, behold, he who forms the mountains,
Bring your sacrifices every morning, and creates the wind,
your tithes every three days, and declares to man what is his thought;
4:5
offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that who makes the morning darkness,
which is leavened, and treads on the high places of the earth:
and proclaim free will offerings and brag The LORD, the God of Hosts, is his
about them: name.”
5:1
for this pleases you, you children of Listen to this word which I take up for a
Israel,” says the Lord GOD. lamentation over you, O house of Israel.
4:6 5:2
“I also have given you cleanness of teeth in “The virgin of Israel has fallen;
all your cities, She shall rise no more.
and lack of bread in every town; She is cast down on her land;
yet you haven’t returned to me,” says the there is no one to raise her up.”
5:3
LORD. For thus says the Lord GOD:
4:7
“I also have withheld the rain from you, “The city that went forth a thousand shall have
when there were yet three months to the a hundred left,
harvest; and that which went forth one hundred
and I caused it to rain on one city, shall have ten left to the house of
and caused it not to rain on another city. Israel.”
5:4
One place was rained on, For thus says the LORD to the house of
and the piece where it didn’t rain with- Israel:
ered. “Seek me, and you will live;
4:8 5:5
So two or three cities staggered to one city to but don’t seek Bethel,
drink water, nor enter into Gilgal,
and were not satisfied: and don’t pass to Beersheba:
Amos 5:6 500 Amos 6:2

for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and they will say in all the streets, ‘Alas!
and Bethel shall come to nothing. Alas!’
5:6
Seek the LORD, and you will live; and they will call the farmer to mourning,
lest he break out like fire in the house of and those who are skillful in lamentation
Joseph, to wailing.
5:17
and it devour, and there be no one to In all vineyards there will be wailing;
quench it in Bethel. for I will pass through the midst of you,”
5:7
You who turn justice to wormwood, says the LORD.
5:18
and cast down righteousness to the earth: “Woe to you who desire the day of the
5:8
seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion, LORD!
and turns the shadow of death into the Why do you long for the day of the
morning, LORD?
and makes the day dark with night; It is darkness,
who calls for the waters of the sea, and not light.
5:19
and pours them out on the surface of the As if a man fled from a lion,
earth, the LORD is his name, and a bear met him;
5:9
who brings sudden destruction on the Or he went into the house and leaned his hand
strong, on the wall,
so that destruction comes on the fortress. and a snake bit him.
5:10 5:20
They hate him who reproves in the gate, Won’t the day of the LORD be darkness,
and they abhor him who speaks blame- and not light?
lessly. Even very dark, and no brightness in it?
5:11 5:21
Forasmuch therefore as you trample on the I hate, I despise your feasts,
poor, and I can’t stand your solemn assemblies.
and take taxes from him of wheat: 5:22
Yes, though you offer me your burnt offer-
You have built houses of cut stone, ings and meal offerings,
but you will not dwell in them. I will not accept them;
You have planted pleasant vineyards, neither will I regard the peace offerings of
but you shall not drink their wine. your fat animals.
5:12 5:23
For I know how many your offenses, Take away from me the noise of your songs!
and how great are your sins— I will not listen to the music of your harps.
5:24
you who afflict the just, But let justice roll on like rivers,
who take a bribe, and righteousness like a mighty stream.
and who turn aside the needy in the 5:25
“Did you bring to me sacrifices and
courts. offerings in the wilderness forty years, house
5:13
Therefore a prudent person keeps silent in of Israel? 5:26 You also carried the tent of your
such a time, king and the shrine of your images, the star
for it is an evil time. of your god, which you made for yourselves.
5:14 5:27
Seek good, and not evil, Therefore will I cause you to go into captiv-
that you may live; ity beyond Damascus,” says the LORD, whose
and so the LORD, the God of Hosts, will name is the God of Hosts.
6:1
be with you, Woe to those who are at ease in Zion,
as you say. and to those who are secure on the moun-
5:15 tain of Samaria,
Hate evil, love good,
and establish justice in the courts. the notable men of the chief of the na-
It may be that the LORD, the God of tions,
Hosts, will be gracious to the remnant to whom the house of Israel come!
6:2
of Joseph.” Go to Calneh, and see;
5:16
Therefore thus says the LORD, the God and from there go to Hamath the great;
of Hosts, the Lord: then go down to Gath of the Philistines.
“Wailing will be in all the broad ways; are they better than these kingdoms?
Amos 6:3 501 Amos 7:16

or is their border greater than your bor- “and they will afflict you from the en-
der? trance of Hamath to the brook of the
6:3 Arabah.”
Those who put far away the evil day,
7:1
and cause the seat of violence to come Thus the Lord GOD showed me: and
near; behold, he formed locusts in the beginning
6:4 of the shooting up of the latter growth; and
Who lie on beds of ivory,
and stretch themselves on their couches, behold, it was the latter growth after the king’s
and eat the lambs out of the flock, harvest. 7:2 It happened that, when they made
an end of eating the grass of the land, then
and the calves out of the midst of the stall;
6:5 I said, “Lord GOD, forgive, I beg you! How
who strum on the strings of a harp;
could Jacob stand? For he is small.”
who invent for themselves instruments of 7:3
The LORD relented concerning this. “It
music, like David;
6:6
shall not be,” says the LORD.
who drink wine in bowls, 7:4
Thus the Lord GOD showed me and
and anoint themselves with the best oils; behold, the Lord GOD called for judgment by
but they are not grieved for the affliction fire; and it dried up the great deep, and would
of Joseph. have devoured the land. 7:5 Then I said, “Lord
6:7
Therefore they will now go captive with the GOD, stop, I beg you! How could Jacob stand?
first who go captive; For he is small.”
and the feasting and lounging will end. 7:6
The LORD relented concerning this. “This
6:8
“The Lord GOD has sworn by himself,” says also shall not be,” says the Lord GOD.
the LORD, the God of Hosts: 7:7
Thus he showed me and behold, the Lord
“I abhor the pride of Jacob, stood beside a wall made by a plumb line, with
and detest his fortresses. a plumb line in his hand. 7:8 The LORD said to
Therefore I will deliver up the city with me, “Amos, what do you see?”
all that is in it. I said, “A plumb line.”
6:9 Then the Lord said, “Behold, I will set a
It will happen, if there remain ten men in one
house, plumb line in the midst of my people Israel. I
that they shall die. will not again pass by them any more. 7:9 The
6:10
“When a man’s relative carries him, even high places of Isaac will be desolate, the sanctu-
he who burns him, to bring bodies out of the aries of Israel will be laid waste; and I will rise
house, and asks him who is in the innermost against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.”
7:10
parts of the house, ‘Is there yet any with you?’ Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent
And he says, ‘No;’ then he will say, ‘Hush! to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, “Amos has
Indeed we must not mention the name of the conspired against you in the midst of the house
LORD.’ of Israel. The land is not able to bear all his
6:11
“For, behold, the LORD commands, and the words. 7:11 For Amos says, ‘Jeroboam will die
great house will be smashed to pieces, by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led
away captive out of his land.’”
and the little house into bits. 7:12
6:12 Amaziah also said to Amos, “You seer,
Do horses run on the rocky crags?
go, flee away into the land of Judah, and there
Does one plow there with oxen?
eat bread, and prophesy there: 7:13 but don’t
But you have turned justice into poison, prophesy again any more at Bethel; for it is the
and the fruit of righteousness into bitter- king’s sanctuary, and it is a royal house!”
ness; 7:14
Then Amos answered Amaziah, “I was
6:13
you who rejoice in a thing of nothing, who no prophet, neither was I a prophet’s son; but I
say, was a herdsman, and a farmer of sycamore figs;
‘Haven’t we taken for ourselves horns by 7:15
and the LORD took me from following the
our own strength?’ flock, and the LORD said to me, ‘Go, prophesy
6:14
For, behold, I will raise up against you a to my people Israel.’ 7:16 Now therefore listen
nation, house of Israel,” to the word of the LORD: ‘You say, Don’t
says the LORD, the God of Hosts; prophesy against Israel, and don’t proclaim
Amos 7:17 502 Amos 9:7

against the house of Isaac.’ 7:17 Therefore thus and I will make you wear sackcloth on all your
says the LORD: ‘Your wife shall be a prostitute bodies,
in the city, and your sons and your daughters and baldness on every head.
shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be I will make it like the mourning for an only son,
divided by line; and you yourself shall die in a and its end like a bitter day.
8:11
land that is unclean, and Israel shall surely be Behold, the days come,” says the Lord
led away captive out of his land.’” GOD,
8:1
Thus the Lord GOD showed me: behold, “that I will send a famine in the land,
a basket of summer fruit. not a famine of bread,
8:2
He said, “Amos, what do you see?” nor a thirst for water,
I said, “A basket of summer fruit.” but of hearing the words of the LORD.
8:12
Then the LORD said to me, They will wander from sea to sea,
“The end has come on my people Israel. and from the north even to the east;
I will not again pass by them any more. they will run back and forth to seek the
8:3 word of the LORD,
The songs of the temple will be wailings in
that day,” says the Lord GOD. and will not find it.
8:13
“The dead bodies will be many. In every In that day the beautiful virgins
place they will throw them out with and the young men will faint for thirst.
8:14
silence. Those who swear by the sin of Samaria,
8:4 and say, ‘As your god, Dan, lives;’
Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the
needy, and, ‘As the way of Beersheba lives;’
and cause the poor of the land to fail, they will fall, and never rise up again.”
8:5 9:1
Saying, ‘When will the new moon be I saw the Lord standing beside the altar,
gone, that we may sell grain? and he said, “Strike the tops of the pillars, that
And the Sabbath, that we may market the thresholds may shake; and break them in
wheat, pieces on the head of all of them; and I will kill
making the efahf small, and the shekel the last of them with the sword: there shall not
large, one of them flee away, and there shall not one
and dealing falsely with balances of de- of them escape. 9:2 Though they dig into Sheolg ,
ceit; there my hand will take them; and though they
8:6
that we may buy the poor for silver, climb up to heaven, there I will bring them
down. 9:3 Though they hide themselves in the
and the needy for a pair of shoes,
top of Carmel, I will search and take them
and sell the sweepings with the wheat?’”
8:7 out there; and though they be hidden from
The LORD has sworn by the pride of Jacob,
my sight in the bottom of the sea, there I will
“Surely I will never forget any of their
command the serpent, and it will bite them.
works. 9:4
8:8
Though they go into captivity before their
Won’t the land tremble for this, enemies, there I will command the sword, and
and everyone mourn who dwells in it? it will kill them. I will set my eyes on them
Yes, it will rise up wholly like the River; for evil, and not for good. 9:5 For the Lord, the
and it will be stirred up and sink again, LORD of Hosts, is he who touches the land and
like the River of Egypt. it melts, and all who dwell in it will mourn; and
8:9
It will happen in that day,” says the Lord it will rise up wholly like the River, and will
GOD, sink again, like the River of Egypt. 9:6 It is he
“that I will cause the sun to go down at who builds his rooms in the heavens, and has
noon, founded his vault on the earth; he who calls
and I will darken the earth in the clear for the waters of the sea, and pours them out
day. on the surface of the earth; the LORD is his
8:10
I will turn your feasts into mourning, name. 9:7 Are you not like the children of the
and all your songs into lamentation; Ethiopians to me, children of Israel?” says the
f 8:5 1 efah is about 22 litres or about 2/3 of a bushel
g 9:2 Sheol is the place of the dead.
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LORD. “Haven’t I brought up Israel out of the


land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor,
and the Syrians from Kir? 9:8 Behold, the eyes of
the Lord GOD 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 the LORD. 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. 9:10 All the sinners of my people will die
by the sword, who say, ‘Evil won’t overtake
nor meet us.’ 9:11 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; 9:12 that they
may possess the remnant of Edom, and all the
nations who are called by my name,” says the
LORD who does this.
9:13
“Behold, the days come,” says the LORD,
“that the plowman shall overtake the
reaper,
and the one treading grapes him who
sows seed;
and sweet wine will drip from the moun-
tains,
and flow from the hills.
9:14
I will bring my people Israel back from
captivity,
and they will rebuild the ruined cities,
and inhabit them;
and they will plant vineyards, and drink
wine from them.
They shall also make gardens,
and eat their fruit.
9:15
I will plant them on their land,
and they will no more be plucked up out
of their land which I have given them,”
says the LORD your God.
Obadiah 1 504 Obadiah 21

Obadiah the day of distress. 15 For the day of the LORD


is near all the nations! As you have done, it
1
The vision of Obadiah. This is what the will be done to you. Your deeds will return
Lorda the LORDb says about Edom. We have upon your own head. 16 For as you have drunk
heard news from the LORD, and an ambas- on my holy mountain, so will all the nations
sador is sent among the nations, saying, “Arise, drink continually. Yes, they will drink, swallow
and let’s rise up against her in battle. 2 Behold, down, and will be as though they had not been.
17
I have made you small among the nations. But in Mount Zion, there will be those who
You are greatly despised. 3 The pride of your escape, and it will be holy. The house of Jacob
heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the will possess their possessions. 18 The house of
clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high, Jacob will be a fire, the house of Joseph a flame,
who says in his heart, ‘Who will bring me and the house of Esau for stubble. They will
down to the ground?’ 4 Though you mount burn among them, and devour them. There
on high as the eagle, and though your nest will not be any remaining to the house of Esau.”
is set among the stars, I will bring you down Indeed, the LORD has spoken.
19
from there,” says the LORD. 5 “If thieves came Those of the South will possess the moun-
to you, if robbers by night—oh, what disaster tain of Esau, and those of the lowland, the
awaits you—wouldn’t they only steal until they Philistines. They will possess the field of
had enough? If grape pickers came to you, Ephraim, and the field of Samaria. Benjamin
wouldn’t they leave some gleaning grapes? will possess Gilead. 20 The captives of this
6
How Esau will be ransacked! How his hidden army of the children of Israel, who are among
treasures are sought out! 7 All the men of your the Canaanites, will possess even to Zarephath;
alliance have brought you on your way, even to and the captives of Jerusalem, who are in
the border. The men who were at peace with Sepharad, will possess the cities of the Negev.
21
you have deceived you, and prevailed against Saviors will go up on Mount Zion to judge
you. Friends who eat your bread lay a snare the mountains of Esau, and the kingdom will
under you. There is no understanding in him.” be the LORD’s.
8
“Won’t I in that day,” says the LORD,
“destroy the wise men out of Edom, and
understanding out of the mountain of Esau?
9
Your mighty men, Teman, will be dismayed,
to the end that everyone may be cut off from
the mountain of Esau by slaughter. 10 For the
violence done to your brother Jacob, shame will
cover you, and you will be cut off forever. 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. 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. 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. 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
a1 The word translated “Lord” (mixed case) is “Adonai.”
b1 “LORD” or “GOD” (all capital letters) indicate the 4-letter Holy Name of God
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Jonah the sea grew more and more stormy against


1:1
them. 1:14 Therefore they cried to the LORD,
Now the word of the LORDa came to and said, “We beg you, LORD, we beg you,
Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, 1:2 “Arise, don’t let us die for this man’s life, and don’t
go to Nineveh, that great city, and proclaim lay on us innocent blood; for you, LORD, have
against it, for their wickedness has come up done as it pleased you.” 1:15 So they took up
before me.” Jonah, and threw him into the sea; and the sea
1:3
But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from ceased its raging. 1:16 Then the men feared the
the presence of the LORD. He went down to LORD exceedingly; and they offered a sacrifice
Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish; so to the LORD, and made vows.
he paid its fare, and went down into it, to go 1:17
The LORD prepared a great fish to swal-
with them to Tarshish from the presence of the low up Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the
LORD. 1:4 But the LORD sent out a great wind fish three days and three nights.
on the sea, and there was a mighty storm on 2:1
Then Jonah prayed to the LORD, his God,
the sea, so that the ship was likely to break up. out of the fish’s belly. 2:2 He said,
1:5
Then the mariners were afraid, and every “I called because of my affliction to the LORD.
man cried to his god. They threw the cargo that
He answered me.
was in the ship into the sea to lighten the ship.
Out of the belly of Sheole I cried.
But Jonah had gone down into the innermost
You heard my voice.
parts of the ship, and he was laying down, and 2:3
For you threw me into the depths,
was fast asleep. 1:6 So the shipmaster came to
in the heart of the seas.
him, and said to him, “What do you mean,
The flood was all around me.
sleeper? Arise, call on your Godb ! Maybe your
Godc will notice us, so that we won’t perish.” All your waves and your billows passed
1:7
They all said to each other, “Come, let us over me.
2:4
cast lots, that we may know who is responsible I said, ‘I have been banished from your sight;
for this evil that is on us.” So they cast lots, and yet I will look again toward your holy
the lot fell on Jonah. 1:8 Then they asked him, temple.’
2:5
“Tell us, please, for whose cause this evil is on The waters surrounded me,
us. What is your occupation? Where do you even to the soul.
come from? What is your country? Of what The deep was around me.
people are you?” The weeds were wrapped around my
1:9 head.
He said to them, “I am a Hebrew, and I
2:6
fear the LORD, the Godd of heaven, who has I went down to the bottoms of the moun-
made the sea and the dry land.” tains.
1:10 The earth barred me in forever:
Then were the men exceedingly afraid,
and said to him, “What is this that you have yet have you brought up my life from the
done?” For the men knew that he was fleeing pit, LORD my God.
2:7
from the presence of the LORD, because he had “When my soul fainted within me, I remem-
told them. 1:11 Then they said to him, “What bered the LORD.
shall we do to you, that the sea may be calm to My prayer came in to you, into your holy
us?” For the sea grew more and more stormy. temple.
1:12 2:8
He said to them, “Take me up, and throw Those who regard lying vanities forsake
me into the sea. Then the sea will be calm for their own mercy.
2:9
you; for I know that because of me this great But I will sacrifice to you with the voice
storm is on you.” of thanksgiving.
1:13
Nevertheless the men rowed hard to get I will pay that which I have vowed.
them back to the land; but they could not, for Salvation belongs to the LORD.”
a 1:1“LORD” or “GOD” (all capital letters) indicate the 4-letter Holy Name of God
b 1:6 or, gods
c 1:6 or, gods
d 1:9 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “Elohim.”
e 2:2 Sheol is the place of the dead.
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2:10
The LORD spoke to the fish, and it made it to come up over Jonah, that it might
vomited out Jonah on the dry land. be a shade over his head, to deliver him from
3:1 his discomfort. So Jonah was exceedingly glad
The word of the LORD came to Jonah the
second time, saying, 3:2 “Arise, go to Nineveh, because of the vine. 4:7 But God prepared a
that great city, and proclaim to it the message worm at dawn the next day, and it chewed on
that I give you.” the vine, so that it withered. 4:8 It happened,
3:3 when the sun arose, that God prepared a sultry
So Jonah arose, and went to Nineveh,
according to the word of the LORD. Now east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah’s head, so
Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three that he fainted, and requested for himself that
days’ journey across. 3:4 Jonah began to enter he might die, and said, “It is better for me to die
into the city a day’s journey, and he cried than to live.”
4:9
out, and said, “In forty days, Nineveh will be God said to Jonah, “Is it right for you to
overthrown!” be angry about the vine?”
3:5
The people of Nineveh believed God; and He said, “I am right to be angry, even to
they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, death.”
4:10
from their greatest even to their least. 3:6 The The LORD said, “You have been con-
news reached the king of Nineveh, and he cerned for the vine, for which you have not la-
arose from his throne, and took off his royal bored, neither made it grow; which came up in
robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat a night, and perished in a night. 4:11 Shouldn’t
in ashes. 3:7 He made a proclamation and I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city,
published through Nineveh by the decree of in which are more than one hundred twenty
the king and his nobles, saying, “Let neither thousand persons who can’t discern between
man nor animal, herd nor flock, taste anything; their right hand and their left hand; and also
let them not feed, nor drink water; 3:8 but let much livestock?”
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. 3:9 Who
knows whether God will not turn and relent,
and turn away from his fierce anger, so that we
might not perish?”
3:10
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.
4:1
But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and
he was angry. 4:2 He prayed to the LORD, and
said, “Please, LORD, 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. 4:3 Therefore now,
LORD, take, I beg you, my life from me; for it is
better for me to die than to live.”
4:4
The LORD said, “Is it right for you to be
angry?”
4:5
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. 4:6 The LORD God prepared a vine, and
Micah 1:1 507 Micah 2:4

Micah At Beth Ophrahc I have rolled myself in


the dust.
1:1 1:11
The word of the LORDa that came to Pass on, inhabitant of Shaphir, in nakedness
Micah the Morashtite in the days of Jotham, and shame.
Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he The inhabitant of Zaanan won’t come out.
saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem. The wailing of Beth Ezel will take from
1:2
Hear, you peoples, all of you. you his protection.
1:12
Listen, O earth, and all that is therein: For the inhabitant of Maroth waits anx-
and let the Lordb the LORD be witness against iously for good,
you, because evil has come down from the
the Lord from his holy temple. LORD to the gate of Jerusalem.
1:3 1:13
For, behold, the LORD comes forth out of his Harness the chariot to the swift steed, in-
place, habitant of Lachish.
and will come down and tread on the She was the beginning of sin to the
high places of the earth. daughter of Zion;
1:4
The mountains melt under him, For the transgressions of Israel were
and the valleys split apart, found in you.
like wax before the fire, 1:14
Therefore you will give a parting gift to
like waters that are poured down a steep Moresheth Gath.
place. The houses of Achzib will be a deceitful
1:5
“All this is for the disobedience of Jacob, thing to the kings of Israel.
and for the sins of the house of Israel. 1:15
I will yet bring to you, inhabitant of Mare-
What is the disobedience of Jacob? shah.
Isn’t it Samaria? He who is the glory of Israel will come to
And what are the high places of Judah? Adullam.
Aren’t they Jerusalem? 1:16
Shave your heads,
1:6
Therefore I will make Samaria like a rubble and cut off your hair for the children of
heap of the field, your delight.
like places for planting vineyards; Enlarge your baldness like the vulture;
and I will pour down its stones into the valley,
for they have gone into captivity from
and I will uncover its foundations.
1:7 you!
All her idols will be beaten to pieces, 2:1
Woe to those who devise iniquity
and all her temple gifts will be burned
and work evil on their beds!
with fire,
When the morning is light, they practice it,
and all her images I will destroy;
for of the hire of a prostitute has she gathered because it is in the power of their hand.
2:2
them, They covet fields, and seize them;
and to the hire of a prostitute shall they and houses, and take them away:
return.” and they oppress a man and his house,
1:8 even a man and his heritage.
For this I will lament and wail;
2:3
I will go stripped and naked; Therefore thus says the LORD:
I will howl like the jackals, “Behold, I am planning against these people a
and moan like the daughters of owls. disaster,
1:9 from which you will not remove your
For her wounds are incurable;
for it has come even to Judah. necks,
It reaches to the gate of my people, neither will you walk haughtily;
even to Jerusalem. for it is an evil time.
1:10 2:4
Don’t tell it in Gath. In that day they will take up a parable
Don’t weep at all. against you,
a 1:1 “LORD” or “GOD” (all capital letters) indicate the 4-letter Holy Name of God
b 1:2 The word translated “Lord” (mixed case) is “Adonai.”
c 1:10 Beth Ophrah means literally “House of Dust.”
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and lament with a doleful lamentation, who tear off their skin,
saying, and their flesh from off their bones;
3:3
‘We are utterly ruined! who also eat the flesh of my people,
My people’s possession is divided up. and flay their skin from off them,
Indeed he takes it from me and assigns and break their bones,
our fields to traitors!’” and chop them in pieces, as for the pot,
2:5
Therefore you will have no one who divides and as flesh within the caldron.
3:4
the land by lot in the assembly of the Then they will cry to the LORD,
LORD. but he will not answer them.
2:6
“Don’t prophesy!” Yes, he will hide his face from them at that time,
They prophesy. because they made their deeds evil.”
3:5
“Don’t prophesy about these things. Thus says the LORD concerning the
Disgrace won’t overtake us.” prophets who lead my people astray; for those
2:7
Shall it be said, O house of Jacob: who feed their teeth, they proclaim, “Peace!”
“Is the Spirit of the LORD angry? and whoever doesn’t provide for their mouths,
Are these his doings? they prepare war against him:
3:6
Don’t my words do good to him who “Therefore night is over you, with no vision,
walks blamelessly?” and it is dark to you, that you may not
2:8
But lately my people have risen up as an divine;
enemy. and the sun will go down on the
You strip the robe and clothing from those prophets,
who pass by without a care, returning and the day will be black over them.
3:7
from battle. The seers shall be disappointed,
2:9
You drive the women of my people out from and the diviners confounded.
their pleasant houses; Yes, they shall all cover their lips;
from their young children you take away for there is no answer from Godd .”
3:8
my blessing forever. But as for me, I am full of power by the Spirit
2:10
Arise, and depart! of the LORD,
For this is not your resting place, and of judgment, and of might,
because of uncleanness that destroys, to declare to Jacob his disobedience,
even with a grievous destruction. and to Israel his sin.
2:11 3:9
If a man walking in a spirit of falsehood lies: Please listen to this, you heads of the house
“I will prophesy to you of wine and of of Jacob,
strong drink”; and rulers of the house of Israel,
he would be the prophet of this people. who abhor justice,
2:12
I will surely assemble, Jacob, all of you; and pervert all equity.
3:10
I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; They build up Zion with blood,
I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
3:11
as a flock in the midst of their pasture; Her leaders judge for bribes,
they will swarm with people. and her priests teach for a price,
2:13
He who breaks open the way goes up before and her prophets of it tell fortunes for
them. money:
They break through the gate, and go out. yet they lean on the LORD, and say,
And their king passes on before them, “Isn’t the LORD in the midst of us?
with the LORD at their head. No disaster will come on us.”
3:1 3:12
I said, Therefore Zion for your sake will be plowed
“Please listen, you heads of Jacob, like a field,
and rulers of the house of Israel: and Jerusalem will become heaps of rub-
Isn’t it for you to know justice? ble,
3:2
You who hate the good, and the mountain of the temple like the
and love the evil; high places of a forest.
d 3:7 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “Elohim.”
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4:1
But in the latter days, that pains have taken hold of you as of a
it will happen that the mountain of the woman in travail?
4:10
LORD’s temple will be established on Be in pain, and labor to bring forth, daugh-
the top of the mountains, ter of Zion,
and it will be exalted above the hills; like a woman in travail;
and peoples will stream to it. for now you will go forth out of the city,
4:2
Many nations will go and say, and will dwell in the field,
“Come, and let us go up to the mountain and will come even to Babylon.
of the LORD, There you will be rescued.
and to the house of the God of Jacob; There the LORD will redeem you from
and he will teach us of his ways, the hand of your enemies.
and we will walk in his paths.” 4:11
Now many nations have assembled against
For out of Zion will go forth the law, you, that say,
and the word of the LORD from “Let her be defiled,
Jerusalem; and let our eye gloat over Zion.”
4:3
and he will judge between many peoples, 4:12
But they don’t know the thoughts of the
and will decide concerning strong nations LORD,
afar off. neither do they understand his counsel;
They will beat their swords into plow- for he has gathered them like the sheaves
shares, to the threshing floor.
and their spears into pruning hooks. 4:13
Arise and thresh, daughter of Zion;
Nation will not lift up sword against nation,
for I will make your horn iron,
neither will they learn war any more.
4:4 and I will make your hoofs brass;
But they will sit every man under his vine
and you will beat in pieces many peoples:
and under his fig tree;
and I will devote their gain to the LORD,
and no one will make them afraid:
For the mouth of the LORD of Hosts has and their substance to the Lord of the
whole earth.
spoken. 4:5 Indeed all the nations may 5:1
walk in the name of their gods; Now you shall gather yourself in troops,
but we will walk in the name of the LORD daughter of troops.
our God forever and ever. He has laid siege against us.
4:6 They will strike the judge of Israel with a
“In that day,” says the LORD,
“I will assemble that which is lame, rod on the cheek.
5:2
and I will gather that which is driven But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah,
away, being small among the clans of Judah,
and that which I have afflicted; out of you one will come forth to me that
4:7 is to be ruler in Israel;
and I will make that which was lame a
remnant, whose goings forth are from of old, from
and that which was cast far off a strong everlasting.
5:3
nation: Therefore he will abandon them until the
and the LORD will reign over them on time that she who is in labor gives
Mount Zion from then on, even for- birth.
ever.” Then the rest of his brothers will return to
4:8 the children of Israel.
You, tower of the flock, the hill of the
5:4
daughter of Zion, He shall stand, and shall shepherd in the
to you it will come, strength of the LORD,
yes, the former dominion will come, in the majesty of the name of the LORD
the kingdom of the daughter of his God:
Jerusalem. and they will live, for then he will be great
4:9
Now why do you cry out aloud? to the ends of the earth.
5:5
Is there no king in you? He will be our peace when Assyria invades
Has your counselor perished, our land,
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and when he marches through our and let the hills hear what you have to
fortresses, say.
6:2
then we will raise against him seven Hear, you mountains, the LORD’s contro-
shepherds, versy,
and eight leaders of men. and you enduring foundations of the
5:6
They will rule the land of Assyria with the earth;
sword, for the LORD has a controversy with his
and the land of Nimrod in its gates. people,
He will deliver us from the Assyrian, and he will contend with Israel.
6:3
when he invades our land, My people, what have I done to you?
and when he marches within our border. How have I burdened you?
5:7
The remnant of Jacob will be in the midst of Answer me!
6:4
many peoples, For I brought you up out of the land of
like dew from the LORD, Egypt,
like showers on the grass, and redeemed you out of the house of
that don’t wait for man, bondage.
nor wait for the sons of men. I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and
5:8
The remnant of Jacob will be among the Miriam.
6:5
nations, My people, remember now what Balak king
in the midst of many peoples, of Moab devised,
like a lion among the animals of the and what Balaam the son of Beor an-
forest, swered him from Shittim to Gilgal,
like a young lion among the flocks of that you may know the righteous acts of
sheep; the LORD.”
6:6
who, if he goes through, treads down and How shall I come before the LORD,
tears in pieces, and bow myself before the exalted God?
and there is no one to deliver. Shall I come before him with burnt offerings,
5:9
Let your hand be lifted up above your with calves a year old?
6:7
adversaries, Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of
and let all of your enemies be cut off. rams?
5:10
“It will happen in that day,” says the LORD, With tens of thousands of rivers of oil?
“That I will cut off your horses out of the Shall I give my firstborn for my disobedience?
midst of you, The fruit of my body for the sin of my
and will destroy your chariots. soul?
5:11 6:8
I will cut off the cities of your land, He has shown you, O man, what is good.
and will tear down all your strongholds. What does the LORD require of you, but
5:12
I will destroy witchcraft from your hand; to act justly,
and you shall have no soothsayers. to love mercy, and to walk humbly with
5:13
I will cut off your engraved images and your God?
6:9
your pillars out of your midst; The LORD’s voice calls to the city,
and you shall no more worship the work and wisdom sees your name:
of your hands. “Listen to the rod,
5:14
I will uproot your Asherim out of your and he who appointed it.
6:10
midst; Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the
and I will destroy your cities. house of the wicked,
5:15
I will execute vengeance in anger, and a short efahe that is accursed?
6:11
and wrath on the nations that didn’t Shall I be pure with dishonest scales,
listen.” and with a bag of deceitful weights?
6:1 6:12
Listen now to what the LORD says: Her rich men are full of violence,
“Arise, plead your case before the mountains, her inhabitants speak lies,
e 6:10An efah is a measure of volume (about 22 litres or about 2/3 of a bushel), and a short efah is made
smaller than a full efah for the purpose of cheating customers.
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and their tongue is deceitful in their the daughter-in-law against her mother-
speech. in-law;
6:13
Therefore I also have struck you with a a man’s enemies are the men of his own
grievous wound. house.
7:7
I have made you desolate because of your But as for me, I will look to the LORD.
sins. I will wait for the God of my salvation.
6:14
You shall eat, but not be satisfied. My God will hear me.
7:8
Your humiliation will be in your midst. Don’t rejoice against me, my enemy.
You will store up, but not save; When I fall, I will arise.
and that which you save I will give up to When I sit in darkness, the LORD will be
the sword. a light to me.
6:15 7:9
You will sow, but won’t reap. I will bear the indignation of the LORD,
You will tread the olives, but won’t anoint because I have sinned against him,
yourself with oil; until he pleads my case, and executes
and crush grapes, but won’t drink the judgment for me.
wine. He will bring me forth to the light.
6:16
For the statutes of Omri are kept, I will see his righteousness.
and all the works of the house of Ahab. 7:10
Then my enemy will see it,
You walk in their counsels, and shame will cover her who said to me,
that I may make you a ruin, where is the LORD your God?
and her inhabitants a hissing; Then my enemy will see me and will cover her
And you will bear the reproach of my shame.
people.” Now she will be trodden down like the
7:1
Misery is mine! mire of the streets.
7:11
Indeed, I am like one who gathers the A day to build your walls—
summer fruits, as gleanings of the In that day, he will extend your boundary.
vineyard: 7:12
In that day they will come to you from
There is no cluster of grapes to eat. Assyria and the cities of Egypt,
My soul desires to eat the early fig. and from Egypt even to the River,
7:2
The godly man has perished out of the earth, and from sea to sea,
and there is no one upright among men. and mountain to mountain.
They all lie in wait for blood; 7:13
Yet the land will be desolate because of
every man hunts his brother with a net. those who dwell therein,
7:3
Their hands are on that which is evil to do it for the fruit of their doings.
diligently. 7:14
Shepherd your people with your staff,
The ruler and judge ask for a bribe; the flock of your heritage,
and the powerful man dictates the evil who dwell by themselves in a forest,
desire of his soul. in the midst of fertile pasture land, let
Thus they conspire together. them feed;
7:4
The best of them is like a brier. in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of
The most upright is worse than a thorn old.
hedge. 7:15
“As in the days of your coming forth out of
The day of your watchmen, the land of Egypt,
even your visitation, has come; I will show them marvelous things.”
now is the time of their confusion. 7:16
The nations will see and be ashamed of all
7:5
Don’t trust in a neighbor. their might.
Don’t put confidence in a friend. They will lay their hand on their mouth.
With the woman lying in your embrace, Their ears will be deaf.
7:17
be careful of the words of your mouth! They will lick the dust like a serpent.
7:6
For the son dishonors the father, Like crawling things of the earth they
the daughter rises up against her mother, shall come trembling out of their dens.
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They will come with fear to the LORD our


God,
and will be afraid because of you.
7:18
Who is a God like you, who pardons iniq-
uity,
and passes over the disobedience of the
remnant of his heritage?
He doesn’t retain his anger forever,
because he delights in loving kindness.
7:19
He will again have compassion on us.
He will tread our iniquities under foot;
and you will cast all their sins into the
depths of the sea.
7:20
You will give truth to Jacob,
and mercy to Abraham,
as you have sworn to our fathers from the
days of old.
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Nahum 2:1
He who dashes in pieces has come up
against you. Keep the fortress! Watch the
1:1
An oracle about Nineveh. The book of the way! Strengthen your waist! Fortify your
vision of Nahum the Elkoshite. 1:2 the LORDa power mightily! 2:2 For the LORD restores the
is a jealous Godb and avenges. The LORD excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel;
avenges and is full of wrath. The LORD takes for the destroyers have destroyed them, and
vengeance on his adversaries, and he maintains ruined their vine branches. 2:3 The shield of his
wrath against his enemies. 1:3 The LORD is mighty men is made red. The valiant men are
slow to anger, and great in power, and will by in scarlet. The chariots flash with steel in the
no means leave the guilty unpunished. The day of his preparation, and the pine spears are
LORD has his way in the whirlwind and in the brandished. 2:4 The chariots rage in the streets.
storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet. They rush back and forth in the broad ways.
1:4
He rebukes the sea, and makes it dry, and Their appearance is like torches. They run
dries up all the rivers. Bashan languishes, and like the lightnings. 2:5 He summons his picked
Carmel; and the flower of Lebanon languishes. troops. They stumble on their way. They dash
1:5
The mountains quake before him, and the to its wall, and the protective shield is put in
hills melt away. The earth trembles at his place. 2:6 The gates of the rivers are opened,
presence, yes, the world, and all who dwell in and the palace is dissolved. 2:7 It is decreed:
it. 1:6 Who can stand before his indignation? she is uncovered, she is carried away; and her
Who can endure the fierceness of his anger? handmaids moan as with the voice of doves,
His wrath is poured out like fire, and the beating on their breasts. 2:8 But Nineveh has
rocks are broken apart by him. 1:7 The LORD been from of old like a pool of water, yet they
is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; flee away. “Stop! Stop!” they cry, but no one
and he knows those who take refuge in him. looks back. 2:9 Take the spoil of silver. Take the
1:8
But with an overflowing flood, he will make spoil of gold, for there is no end of the store, the
a full end of her place, and will pursue his glory of all goodly furniture. 2:10 She is empty,
enemies into darkness. 1:9 What do you plot void, and waste. The heart melts, the knees
against the LORD? He will make a full end. knock together, their bodies and faces have
Affliction won’t rise up the second time. 1:10 For grown pale. 2:11 Where is the den of the lions,
entangled like thorns, and drunken as with and the feeding place of the young lions, where
their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry the lion and the lioness walked, the lion’s cubs,
stubble. 1:11 There is one gone forth out of and no one made them afraid? 2:12 The lion tore
you, who devises evil against the LORD, who in pieces enough for his cubs, and strangled
counsels wickedness. 1:12 Thus says the LORD: for his lionesses, and filled his caves with the
“Though they be in full strength, and likewise kill, and his dens with prey. 2:13 “Behold, I am
many, even so they will be cut down, and he against you,” says the LORD of Hosts, “and I
shall pass away. Though I have afflicted you, I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the
will afflict you no more. 1:13 Now will I break sword will devour your young lions; and I will
his yoke from off you, and will burst your cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice
bonds apart.” 1:14 The LORD has commanded of your messengers will no longer be heard.”
3:1
concerning you: “No more descendants will Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of
bear your name. Out of the house of your gods, lies and robbery. The prey doesn’t depart.
3:2
will I cut off the engraved image and the molten The noise of the whip, the noise of the
image. I will make your grave, for you are rattling of wheels, prancing horses, and bound-
vile.” ing chariots, 3:3 the horseman mounting, and
1:15
Behold, on the mountains the feet of him the flashing sword, the glittering spear, and a
who brings good news, who publishes peace! multitude of slain, and a great heap of corpses,
Keep your feasts, Judah! Perform your vows, and there is no end of the bodies. They stumble
for the wicked one will no more pass through on their bodies, 3:4 because of the multitude
you. He is utterly cut off. of the prostitution of the alluring prostitute,
a 1:2 “LORD” or “GOD” (all capital letters) indicate the 4-letter Holy Name of God
b 1:2 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “Elohim.”
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the mistress of witchcraft, who sells nations


through her prostitution, and families through
her witchcraft. 3:5 “Behold, I am against you,”
says the LORD of Hosts, “and I will lift your
skirts over your face. I will show the na-
tions your nakedness, and the kingdoms your
shame. 3:6 I will throw abominable filth on you,
and make you vile, and will set you a spectacle.
3:7
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?”
3:8
Are you better than No-Amon,c who was
situated among the rivers, who had the waters
around her; whose rampart was the sea, and
her wall was of the sea? 3:9 Cush and Egypt
were her boundless strength. Put and Libya
were her helpers. 3:10 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. 3:11 You also will be drunken. You will
be hidden. You also will seek a stronghold
because of the enemy. 3:12 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. 3:13 Behold, your troops in your
midst are women. The gates of your land are
set wide open to your enemies. The fire has
devoured your bars. 3:14 Draw water for the
siege. Strengthen your fortresses. Go into the
clay, and tread the mortar. Make the brick kiln
strong. 3:15 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. 3:16 You have increased
your merchants more than the stars of the
skies. The grasshopper strips, and flees away.
3:17
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. 3:18 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. 3:19 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?
c 3:8 or, Thebes
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Habakkuk food is good. 1:17 Will he therefore continually


empty his net, and kill the nations without
1:1
The oracle which Habakkuk the prophet mercy?
2:1
saw. 1:2 LORD,a how long will I cry, and you I will stand at my watch, and set myself
will not hear? I cry out to you “Violence!” on the ramparts, and will look out to see what
and will you not save? 1:3 Why do you show he will say to me, and what I will answer
me iniquity, and look at perversity? For concerning my complaint.
2:2
destruction and violence are before me. There The LORD answered me, “Write the vi-
is strife, and contention rises up. 1:4 Therefore sion, and make it plain on tablets, that he who
the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes runs may read it. 2:3 For the vision is yet for the
forth; for the wicked surround the righteous; appointed time, and it hurries toward the end,
therefore justice goes forth perverted. and won’t prove false. Though it takes time,
1:5 wait for it; because it will surely come. It won’t
“Look among the nations, watch, and
wonder marvelously; for I am working a work delay. 2:4 Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not
in your days, which you will not believe upright in him, but the righteous will live by
though it is told you. 1:6 For, behold, I raise up his faith. 2:5 Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous.
the Kasdim, that bitter and hasty nation, that A haughty man who doesn’t stay at home,
march through the breadth of the earth, to pos- who enlarges his desire as Sheolc , and he is
sess dwelling places that are not theirs. 1:7 They like death, and can’t be satisfied, but gathers
are feared and dreaded. Their judgment and to himself all nations, and heaps to himself all
their dignity proceed from themselves. 1:8 Their peoples. 2:6 Won’t all these take up a parable
horses also are swifter than leopards, and are against him, and a taunting proverb against
more fierce than the evening wolves. Their him, and say, ‘Woe to him who increases that
horsemen press proudly on. Yes, their horse- which is not his, and who enriches himself by
men come from afar. They fly as an eagle extortion! How long?’ 2:7 Won’t your debtors
that hurries to devour. 1:9 All of them come rise up suddenly, and wake up those who make
for violence. Their hordes face the desert. He you tremble, and you will be their victim?
2:8
gathers prisoners like sand. 1:10 Yes, he scoffs Because you have plundered many nations,
at kings, and princes are a derision to him. He all the remnant of the peoples will plunder you,
laughs at every stronghold, for he builds up an because of men’s blood, and for the violence
earthen ramp, and takes it. 1:11 Then he sweeps done to the land, to the city and to all who
by like the wind, and goes on. He is indeed dwell in it. 2:9 Woe to him who gets an evil
guilty, whose strength is his god.” gain for his house, that he may set his nest on
1:12 high, that he may be delivered from the hand
Aren’t you from everlasting, LORD my
Godb , my Holy One? We will not die. LORD, of evil! 2:10 You have devised shame to your
you have appointed him for judgment. You, house, by cutting off many peoples, and have
Rock, have established him to punish. 1:13 You sinned against your soul. 2:11 For the stone will
who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the
cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate woodwork will answer it. 2:12 Woe to him who
those who deal treacherously, and keep silent builds a town with blood, and establishes a city
when the wicked swallows up the man who is by iniquity! 2:13 Behold, isn’t it of the LORD of
more righteous than he, 1:14 and make men like Hosts that the peoples labor for the fire, and the
the fish of the sea, like the creeping things, that nations weary themselves for vanity? 2:14 For
have no ruler over them? 1:15 He takes up all of the earth will be filled with the knowledge of
them with the hook. He catches them in his net, the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the
and gathers them in his dragnet. Therefore he sea.
rejoices and is glad. 1:16 Therefore he sacrifices 2:15
“Woe to him who gives his neighbor
to his net, and burns incense to his dragnet, drink, pouring your inflaming wine until they
because by them his life is luxurious, and his are drunk, so that you may gaze at their naked
a 1:2 “LORD” or “GOD” (all capital letters) indicate the 4-letter Holy Name of God
b 1:12 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “Elohim.”
c 2:5 Sheol is the place of the dead.
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bodies! 2:16 You are filled with shame, and not You called for your sworn arrows.
glory. You will also drink, and be exposed! Selah.
The cup of the LORD’s right hand will come You split the earth with rivers.
3:10
around to you, and disgrace will cover your The mountains saw you, and were afraid.
glory. 2:17 For the violence done to Lebanon The storm of waters passed by.
will overwhelm you, and the destruction of the The deep roared and lifted up its hands
animals, which made them afraid; because of on high.
3:11
men’s blood, and for the violence done to the The sun and moon stood still in the sky,
land, to every city and to those who dwell in at the light of your arrows as they went,
them. at the shining of your glittering spear.
2:18 3:12
“What value does the engraved image You marched through the land in wrath.
have, that its maker has engraved it; the molten You threshed the nations in anger.
3:13
image, even the teacher of lies, that he who You went forth for the salvation of your
fashions its form trusts in it, to make mute people,
idols? 2:19 Woe to him who says to the wood, for the salvation of your anointed.
‘Awake!’ or to the mute stone, ‘Arise!’ Shall You crushed the head of the land of wicked-
this teach? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and ness.
silver, and there is no breath at all in its midst. You stripped them head to foot.
2:20
But the LORD is in his holy temple. Let all Selah.
3:14
the earth be silent before him!” You pierced the heads of his warriors with
3:1
A prayer of Habakkuk, the prophet, set to their own spears.
victorious music. They came as a whirlwind to scatter me,
3:2
LORD, I have heard of your fame. gloating as if to devour the wretched in
I stand in awe of your deeds, LORD. secret.
3:15
Renew your work in the midst of the years. You trampled the sea with your horses,
In the midst of the years make it known. churning mighty waters.
3:16
In wrath, you remember mercy. I heard, and my body trembled.
3:3
God came from Teman, My lips quivered at the voice.
the Holy One from Mount Paran. Rottenness enters into my bones, and I tremble
Selah. in my place,
His glory covered the heavens, because I must wait quietly for the day of
and his praise filled the earth. trouble,
3:4 for the coming up of the people who
His splendor is like the sunrise.
Rays shine from his hand, where his invade us.
3:17
power is hidden. For though the fig tree doesn’t flourish,
3:5 nor fruit be in the vines;
Plague went before him,
and pestilence followed his feet. the labor of the olive fails,
3:6 the fields yield no food;
He stood, and shook the earth.
He looked, and made the nations tremble. the flocks are cut off from the fold,
The ancient mountains were crumbled. and there is no herd in the stalls:
3:18
The age-old hills collapsed. yet I will rejoice in the LORD.
His ways are eternal. I will be joyful in the God of my salvation!
3:19
3:7
I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction. The LORD, the Lordd , is my strength.
The dwellings of the land of Midian He makes my feet like deer’s feet,
trembled. and enables me to go in high places.
3:8 For the music director, on my stringed in-
Was the LORD displeased with the rivers?
Was your anger against the rivers, struments.
or your wrath against the sea,
that you rode on your horses,
on your chariots of salvation?
3:9
You uncovered your bow.
d 3:19 The word translated “Lord” (mixed case) is “Adonai.”
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Zephaniah near, and hurries greatly, the voice of the day of


the LORD. The mighty man cries there bitterly.
1:15
1:1 That day is a day of wrath, a day of distress
The word of the LORDa which came
and anguish, a day of trouble and ruin, a day
to Zephaniah, the son of Cushi, the son of
of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and
Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of
blackness, 1:16 a day of the shofarc and alarm,
Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah, the son of
against the fortified cities, and against the high
Amon, king of Judah. 1:2 I will utterly sweep
battlements. 1:17 I will bring distress on men,
away everything off of the surface of the earth,
that they will walk like blind men, because they
says the LORD. 1:3 I will sweep away man
have sinned against the LORD, and their blood
and animal. I will sweep away the birds of
will be poured out like dust, and their flesh like
the sky, the fish of the sea, and the heaps of
dung. 1:18 Neither their silver nor their gold will
rubble with the wicked. I will cut off man
be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD’s
from the surface of the earth, says the LORD.
1:4 wrath, but the whole land will be devoured by
I will stretch out my hand against Judah,
the fire of his jealousy; for he will make an end,
and against all the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
yes, a terrible end, of all those who dwell in the
I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this
land.
place: the name of the idolatrous and pagan
priests, 1:5 those who worship the army of the 2:1
Gather yourselves together, yes, gather to-
sky on the housetops, those who worship and gether, you nation that has no shame, 2:2 before
swear by the LORD and also swear by Malcam, the appointed time when the day passes as
1:6
those who have turned back from following the chaff, before the fierce anger of the LORD
the LORD, and those who haven’t sought the comes on you, before the day of the LORD’s
LORD nor inquired after him. 1:7 Be silent at anger comes on you. 2:3 Seek the LORD, all
the presence of the Lordb the LORD, for the you humble of the land, who have kept his
day of the LORD is at hand. For the LORD ordinances. Seek righteousness. Seek humility.
has prepared a sacrifice. He has consecrated It may be that you will be hidden in the day of
his guests. 1:8 It will happen in the day of the LORD’s anger. 2:4 For Gaza will be forsaken,
the LORD’s sacrifice, that I will punish the and Ashkelon a desolation. They will drive
princes, the king’s sons, and all those who out Ashdod at noonday, and Ekron will be
are clothed with foreign clothing. 1:9 In that rooted up. 2:5 Woe to the inhabitants of the
day, I will punish all those who leap over the sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites! The
threshold, who fill their master’s house with word of the LORD is against you, Canaan,
violence and deceit. 1:10 In that day, says the the land of the Philistines. I will destroy
LORD, there will be the noise of a cry from the you, that there will be no inhabitant. 2:6 The
fish gate, a wailing from the second quarter, sea coast will be pastures, with cottages for
and a great crashing from the hills. 1:11 Wail, shepherds and folds for flocks. 2:7 The coast
you inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the people will be for the remnant of the house of Judah.
of Canaan are undone! All those who were They will find pasture. In the houses of
loaded with silver are cut off. 1:12 It will happen Ashkelon, they will lie down in the evening,
at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with for the LORD, their Godd , will visit them, and
lamps, and I will punish the men who are restore them. 2:8 I have heard the reproach
settled on their dregs, who say in their heart, of Moab, and the insults of the children of
“The LORD will not do good, neither will he Ammon, with which they have reproached my
do evil.” 1:13 Their wealth will become a spoil, people, and magnified themselves against their
and their houses a desolation. Yes, they will border. 2:9 Therefore as I live, says the LORD
build houses, but won’t inhabit them. They will of Hosts, the God of Israel, surely Moab will
plant vineyards, but won’t drink their wine. be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as
1:14
The great day of the LORD is near. It is Gomorrah, a possession of nettles, and salt pits,
a 1:1 “LORD” or “GOD” (all capital letters) indicate the 4-letter Holy Name of God
b 1:7 The word translated “Lord” (mixed case) is “Adonai.”
c 1:16 or, trumpet
d 2:7 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “Elohim.”
Zephaniah 2:10 518 Zephaniah 3:20

and a perpetual desolation. The remnant of my devoured with the fire of my jealousy. 3:9 For
people will plunder them, and the survivors then I will purify the lips of the peoples, that
of my nation will inherit them. 2:10 This they they may all call on the name of the LORD,
will have for their pride, because they have to serve him shoulder to shoulder. 3:10 From
reproached and magnified themselves against beyond the rivers of Cush, my worshipers,
the people of the LORD of Hosts. 2:11 The even the daughter of my dispersed people, will
LORD will be awesome to them, for he will bring my offering. 3:11 In that day you will not
famish all the gods of the land. Men will be disappointed for all your doings, in which
worship him, everyone from his place, even all you have transgressed against me; for then I
the shores of the nations. 2:12 You Cushites also, will take away out of the midst of you your
you will be killed by my sword. 2:13 He will proudly exulting ones, and you will no more
stretch out his hand against the north, destroy be haughty in my holy mountain. 3:12 But I will
Assyria, and will make Nineveh a desolation, leave in the midst of you an afflicted and poor
as dry as the wilderness. 2:14 Herds will lie people, and they will take refuge in the name of
down in the midst of her, all the animals of the the LORD. 3:13 The remnant of Israel will not do
nations. Both the pelican and the porcupine iniquity, nor speak lies, neither will a deceitful
will lodge in its capitals. Their calls will echo tongue be found in their mouth, for they will
through the windows. Desolation will be in the feed and lie down, and no one will make them
thresholds, for he has laid bare the cedar beams. afraid.”
2:15 3:14
This is the joyous city that lived carelessly, Sing, daughter of Zion! Shout, Israel! Be
that said in her heart, “I am, and there is none glad and rejoice with all your heart, daughter of
besides me.” How she has become a desolation, Jerusalem. 3:15 The LORD has taken away your
a place for animals to lie down in! Everyone judgments. He has thrown out your enemy.
who passes by her will hiss, and shake their The King of Israel, the LORD, is in the midst of
fists. you. You will not be afraid of evil any more.
3:16
3:1
In that day, it will be said to Jerusalem,
Woe to her who is rebellious and polluted, “Don’t be afraid, Zion. Don’t let your hands
the oppressing city! 3:2 She didn’t obey the be weak.” 3:17 The LORD, your God, is in the
voice. She didn’t receive correction. She didn’t midst of you, a mighty one who will save. He
trust in the LORD. She didn’t draw near to her will rejoice over you with joy. He will calm
God. 3:3 Her princes in the midst of her are you in his love. He will rejoice over you with
roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves. singing. 3:18 I will remove those who grieve
They leave nothing until the next day. 3:4 Her about the appointed feasts from you. They are
prophets are arrogant and treacherous people. a burden and a reproach to you. 3:19 Behold, at
Her priests have profaned the sanctuary. They that time I will deal with all those who afflict
have done violence to the law. 3:5 The LORD, you, and I will save those who are lame, and
in the midst of her, is righteous. He will do gather those who were driven away. I will give
no wrong. Every morning he brings his justice them praise and honor, whose shame has been
to light. He doesn’t fail, but the unjust know in all the earth. 3:20 At that time will I bring
no shame. 3:6 I have cut off nations. Their you in, and at that time will I gather you; for
battlements are desolate. I have made their I will give you honor and praise among all
streets waste, so that no one passes by. Their the peoples of the earth, when I restore your
cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, so fortunes before your eyes, says the LORD.
that there is no inhabitant. 3:7 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. 3:8 “Therefore
wait for me,” says the LORD, “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
Haggai 1:1 519 Haggai 2:14

Haggai and the spirit of Joshua, the son of Jehozadak,


the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant
1:1
In the second year of Darius the king, in of the people; and they came and worked on
the sixth month, in the first day of the month, the house of the LORD of Hosts, their God,
1:15
the Word of the LORDa came by Haggai, the in the twenty-fourth day of the month, in
prophet, to Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, the sixth month, in the second year of Darius
governor of Judah, and to Joshua, the son of the king.
2:1
Jehozadak, the high priest, saying, 1:2 “This is In the seventh month, in the twenty-first
what the LORD of Hosts says: These people day of the month, the Word of the LORD came
say, ‘The time hasn’t yet come, the time for the by Haggai the prophet, saying, 2:2 “Speak now
LORD’s house to be built.’” to Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of
1:3 Judah, and to Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the
Then the Word of the LORD came by
Haggai, the prophet, saying, 1:4 “Is it a time high priest, and to the remnant of the people,
for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled saying, 2:3 ‘Who is left among you who saw this
houses, while this house lies waste? 1:5 Now house in its former glory? How do you see it
therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says: now? Isn’t it in your eyes as nothing? 2:4 Yet
Consider your ways. 1:6 You have sown much, now be strong, Zerubbabel,’ says the LORD.
and bring in little. You eat, but you don’t have ‘Be strong, Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high
enough. You drink, but you aren’t filled with priest. Be strong, all you people of the land,’
drink. You clothe yourselves, but no one is says the LORD, ‘and work, for I am with you,’
warm, and he who earns wages earns wages to says the LORD of Hosts. 2:5 This is the word
put them into a bag with holes in it.” that I covenanted with you when you came
1:7 out of Egypt, and my Spirit lived among you.
This is what the LORD of Hosts says:
“Consider your ways. 1:8 Go up to the moun- ‘Don’t be afraid.’ 2:6 For this is what the LORD
tain, bring wood, and build the house. I will of Hosts says: ‘Yet once, it is a little while, and
take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified,” I will shake the heavens, the earth, the sea, and
says the LORD. 1:9 “You looked for much, and, the dry land; 2:7 and I will shake all nations.
behold, it came to little; and when you brought The precious things of all nations will come,
it home, I blew it away. Why?” says the and I will fill this house with glory, says the
LORD of Hosts, “Because of my house that lies LORD of Hosts. 2:8 The silver is mine, and the
waste, while each of you is busy with his own gold is mine,’ says the LORD of Hosts. 2:9 ‘The
house. 1:10 Therefore for your sake the heavens latter glory of this house will be greater than
withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its the former,’ says the LORD of Hosts; ‘and in
fruit. 1:11 I called for a drought on the land, on this place will I give peace,’ says the LORD of
the mountains, on the grain, on the new wine, Hosts.”
2:10
on the oil, on that which the ground brings In the twenty-fourth day of the ninth
forth, on men, on livestock, and on all the labor month, in the second year of Darius, the Word
of the hands.” of the LORD came by Haggai the prophet,
1:12
Then Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, saying, 2:11 “Thus says the LORD of Hosts: Ask
and Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high now the priests concerning the law, saying,
2:12
priest, with all the remnant of the people, ‘If someone carries holy meat in the fold of
obeyed the voice of the LORD, their Godb , and his garment, and with his fold touches bread,
the words of Haggai, the prophet, as the LORD, stew, wine, oil, or any food, will it become
their God, had sent him; and the people feared holy?’”
the LORD. The priests answered, “No.”
1:13 2:13
Then Haggai, the LORD’s messenger, Then Haggai said, “If one who is unclean
spoke the LORD’s message to the people, say- by reason of a dead body touch any of these,
ing, “I am with you,” says the LORD. will it be unclean?”
1:14
The LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerub- The priests answered, “It will be unclean.”
2:14
babel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, Then Haggai answered, “‘So is this peo-
a 1:1 “LORD” or “GOD” (all capital letters) indicate the 4-letter Holy Name of God
b 1:12 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “Elohim.”
Haggai 2:15 520 Haggai 2:23

ple, and so is this nation before me,’ says the


LORD; ‘and so is every work of their hands.
That which they offer there is unclean. 2:15 Now,
please consider from this day and backward,
before a stone was laid on a stone in the LORD’s
temple. 2:16 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. 2:17 I
struck you with blight, mildew, and hail in all
the work of your hands; yet you didn’t turn
to me,’ says the LORD. 2:18 ‘Consider, please,
from this day and backward, from the twenty-
fourth day of the ninth month, since the day
that the foundation of the LORD’s temple was
laid, consider it. 2:19 Is the seed yet in the barn?
Yes, the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and
the olive tree haven’t brought forth. From this
day will I bless you.’”
2:20
The Word of the LORD came the second
time to Haggai in the twenty-fourth day of
the month, saying, 2:21 “Speak to Zerubbabel,
governor of Judah, saying, ‘I will shake the
heavens and the earth. 2:22 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.
2:23
In that day, says the LORD of Hosts, will I
take you, Zerubbabel, my servant, the son of
Shealtiel,’ says the LORD, ‘and will make you
as a signet, for I have chosen you,’ says the
LORD of Hosts.”
Zechariah 1:1 521 Zechariah 2:8

Zechariah talked with me with kind and comforting


words. 1:14 So the angel who talked with me
1:1 said to me, “Proclaim, saying, ‘Thus says the
In the eighth month, in the second year
of Darius, the word of the LORDa came to LORD of Hosts: “I am jealous for Jerusalem
Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, and for Zion with a great jealousy. 1:15 I am very
the prophet, saying, 1:2 “The LORD was very angry with the nations that are at ease; for I was
displeased with your fathers. 1:3 Therefore tell but a little displeased, but they added to the
them: Thus says the LORD of Hosts: ‘Return to calamity.” 1:16 Therefore thus says the LORD:
me,’ says the LORD of Hosts, ‘and I will return “I have returned to Jerusalem with mercy. My
to you,’ says the LORD of Hosts. 1:4 Don’t house shall be built in it,” says the LORD of
you be like your fathers, to whom the former Hosts, “and a line shall be stretched forth over
prophets proclaimed, saying: Thus says the Jerusalem.”’
1:17
LORD of Hosts, ‘Return now from your evil “Proclaim further, saying, ‘Thus says the
ways, and from your evil doings;’ but they LORD of Hosts: “My cities will again overflow
did not hear, nor listen to me, says the LORD. with prosperity, and the LORD will again com-
1:5 fort Zion, and will again choose Jerusalem.”’”
Your fathers, where are they? And the
1:18
prophets, do they live forever? 1:6 But my I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold,
words and my decrees, which I commanded four horns. 1:19 I asked the angel who talked
my servants the prophets, didn’t they overtake with me, “What are these?”
your fathers? He answered me, “These are the horns
“Then they repented and said, ‘Just as the which have scattered Judah, Israel, and
LORD of Hosts determined to do to us, accord- Jerusalem.”
1:20
ing to our ways, and according to our practices, The LORD showed me four craftsmen.
1:21
so he has dealt with us.’” 1:7 On the twenty- Then I asked, “What are these coming to
fourth day of the eleventh month, which is the do?”
month Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the He said, “These are the horns which scat-
word of the LORD came to Zechariah the son of tered Judah, so that no man lifted up his head;
Berechiah, the son of Iddo, the prophet, saying, but these have come to terrify them, to cast
1:8
“I had a vision in the night, and behold, a down the horns of the nations, which lifted up
man riding on a red horse, and he stood among their horn against the land of Judah to scatter
the myrtle trees that were in a ravine; and it.”
2:1
behind him there were red, brown, and white I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, a
horses. 1:9 Then I asked, ‘My lord, what are man with a measuring line in his hand. 2:2 Then
these?’” I asked, “Where are you going?”
The angel who talked with me said to me, “I He said to me, “To measure Jerusalem, to see
will show you what these are.” what is its breadth and what is its length.”
1:10 2:3
The man who stood among the myrtle Behold, the angel who talked with me
trees answered, “They are the ones the LORD went forth, and another angel went out to
has sent to go back and forth through the meet him, 2:4 and said to him, “Run, speak
earth.” to this young man, saying, ‘Jerusalem will be
1:11
They reported to the angel of the LORD inhabited as villages without walls, because of
who stood among the myrtle trees, and said, the multitude of men and livestock in it. 2:5 For
“We have walked back and forth through the I,’ says the LORD, ‘will be to her a wall of fire
earth, and behold, all the earth is at rest and in around it, and I will be the glory in the midst of
peace.” her. 2:6 Come! Come! Flee from the land of the
1:12
Then the angel of the LORD replied, “O north,’ says the LORD; ‘for I have spread you
LORD of Hosts, how long will you not have abroad as the four winds of the sky,’ says the
mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, LORD. 2:7 ‘Come, Zion! Escape, you who dwell
against which you have had indignation these with the daughter of Babylon.’ 2:8 For thus says
seventy years?” the LORD of Hosts: ‘For honor he has sent me
1:13
The LORD answered the angel who to the nations which plundered you; for he who
a 1:1 “LORD” or “GOD” (all capital letters) indicate the 4-letter Holy Name of God
Zechariah 2:9 522 Zechariah 5:2

touches you touches the apple of his eye. 2:9 For, 4:1
The angel who talked with me came
behold, I will shake my hand over them, and again, and wakened me, as a man who is
they will be a spoil to those who served them; wakened out of his sleep. 4:2 He said to me,
and you will know that the LORD of Hosts has “What do you see?”
sent me. 2:10 Sing and rejoice, daughter of Zion; I said, “I have seen, and behold, a menorah
for, behold, I come, and I will dwell in the midst all of gold, with its bowl on the top of it, and
of you,’ says the LORD. 2:11 Many nations shall its seven lamps thereon; there are seven pipes
join themselves to the LORD in that day, and to each of the lamps, which are on the top of
shall be my people; and I will dwell in the midst it; 4:3 and two olive trees by it, one on the right
of you, and you shall know that the LORD of side of the bowl, and the other on the left side
Hosts has sent me to you. 2:12 The LORD will of it.”
4:4
inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land, I answered and spoke to the angel who
and will again choose Jerusalem. 2:13 Be silent, talked with me, saying, “What are these, my
all flesh, before the LORD; for he has roused lord?”
4:5
himself from his holy habitation!” Then the angel who talked with me an-
3:1
He showed me Joshua the high priest swered me, “Don’t you know what these are?”
standing before the angel of the LORD, and I said, “No, my lord.”
4:6
Satan standing at his right hand to be his Then he answered and spoke to me,
adversary. 3:2 The LORD said to Satan, “The saying, “This is the word of the LORD to
LORD rebuke you, Satan! Yes, the LORD who Zerubbabel, saying, ‘Not by might, nor by
has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Isn’t this a power, but by my Spirit,’ says the LORD of
burning stick plucked out of the fire?” Hosts. 4:7 Who are you, great mountain? Before
3:3
Now Joshua was clothed with filthy gar- Zerubbabel you are a plain; and he will bring
ments, and was standing before the angel. out the capstone with shouts of ‘Grace, grace,
3:4
He answered and spoke to those who stood to it!’”
4:8
before him, saying, “Take the filthy garments Moreover the word of the LORD came to
off of him.” To him he said, “Behold, I have me, saying, 4:9 “The hands of Zerubbabel have
caused your iniquity to pass from you, and I laid the foundation of this house. His hands
will clothe you with rich clothing.” shall also finish it; and you will know that the
3:5
I said, “Let them set a clean turban on his LORD of Hosts has sent me to you. 4:10 Indeed,
head.” who despises the day of small things? For these
So they set a clean turban on his head, seven shall rejoice, and shall see the plumb line
and clothed him; and the angel of the LORD in the hand of Zerubbabel. These are the eyes
was standing by. 3:6 The angel of the LORD of the LORD, which run back and forth through
protested to Joshua, saying, 3:7 “Thus says the the whole earth.”
4:11
LORD of Hosts: ‘If you will walk in my ways, Then I asked him, “What are these two
and if you will follow my instructions, then olive trees on the right side of the menorah and
you also shall judge my house, and shall also on the left side of it?”
4:12
keep my courts, and I will give you a place of I asked him the second time, “What are
access among these who stand by. 3:8 Hear now, these two olive branches, which are beside the
Joshua the high priest, you and your fellows two golden spouts, that pour the golden oil out
who sit before you; for they are men who are a of themselves?”
4:13
sign: for, behold, I will bring forth my servant, He answered me, “Don’t you know what
the Branch. 3:9 For, behold, the stone that I have these are?”
set before Joshua; on one stone are seven eyes: I said, “No, my lord.”
4:14
behold, I will engrave its engraving,’ says the Then he said, “These are the two
LORD of Hosts, ‘and I will remove the iniquity anointed ones who stand by the Lordb of the
of that land in one day. 3:10 In that day,’ says whole earth.”
5:1
the LORD of Hosts, ‘you will invite every man Then again I lifted up my eyes, and saw,
his neighbor under the vine and under the fig and behold, a flying scroll. 5:2 He said to me,
tree.’” “What do you see?”
b 4:14 The word translated “Lord” (mixed case) is “Adonai.”
Zechariah 5:3 523 Zechariah 7:5

I answered, “I see a flying scroll; its length is them; and the dappled went forth toward the
twenty cubits, and its breadth ten cubits.” south country.” 6:7 The strong went out, and
5:3
Then he said to me, “This is the curse sought to go that they might walk back and
that goes out over the surface of the whole forth through the earth: and he said, “Go
land; for everyone who steals shall be cut off around and through the earth!” So they walked
according to it on the one side; and everyone back and forth through the earth.
6:8
who swears falsely shall be cut off according Then he called to me, and spoke to me,
to it on the other side. 5:4 I will cause it to go saying, “Behold, those who go toward the
out,” says the LORD of Hosts, “and it will enter north country have quieted my spirit in the
into the house of the thief, and into the house north country.”
of him who swears falsely by my name; and it 6:9
The word of the LORD came to me,
will remain in the midst of his house, and will saying, 6:10 “Take of them of the captivity, even
destroy it with its timber and its stones.” of Heldai, of Tobijah, and of Jedaiah; and come
5:5
Then the angel who talked with me came the same day, and go into the house of Josiah
forward, and said to me, “Lift up now your the son of Zephaniah, where they have come
eyes, and see what is this that is appearing.” from Babylon. 6:11 Yes, take silver and gold,
5:6
I said, “What is it?” and make crowns, and set them on the head
He said, “This is the efahc basket that is of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest;
6:12
appearing.” He said moreover, “This is their and speak to him, saying, ‘Thus says the
appearance in all the land 5:7 (and behold, a LORD of Hosts, “Behold, the man whose name
talentd of lead was lifted up); and this is a is the Branch: and he shall grow up out of his
woman sitting in the midst of the efah basket.” place; and he shall build the LORD’s temple;
5:8 6:13
He said, “This is Wickedness”; and he threw even he shall build the LORD’s temple; and
her down into the midst of the efah basket; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule
he threw the weight of lead on its mouth. on his throne; and he shall be a priest on
5:9
Then lifted I up my eyes, and saw, and his throne; and the counsel of peace shall be
behold, there were two women, and the wind between them both. 6:14 The crowns shall be to
was in their wings. Now they had wings like Helem, and to Tobijah, and to Jedaiah, and to
the wings of a stork, and they lifted up the efah Hen the son of Zephaniah, for a memorial in the
basket between earth and the sky. 5:10 Then I LORD’s temple. 6:15 Those who are far off shall
said to the angel who talked with me, “Where come and build in the LORD’s temple; and you
are these carrying the efah basket?” shall know that the LORD of Hosts has sent me
5:11 to you. This will happen, if you will diligently
He said to me, “To build her a house in
the land of Shinar. When it is prepared, she will obey the voice of the LORD your Gode .”’”
7:1
be set there in her own place.” It happened in the fourth year of king
6:1
Again I lifted up my eyes, and saw, Darius that the word of the LORD came to
and behold, four chariots came out from be- Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month,
tween two mountains; and the mountains were the month of Chislev. 7:2 The people of Bethel
mountains of brass. 6:2 In the first chariot were sent Sharezer and Regem Melech, and their
red horses; in the second chariot black horses; men, to entreat the LORD’s favor, 7:3 and to
6:3
in the third chariot white horses; and in speak to the priests of the house of the LORD
the fourth chariot dappled horses, all of them of Hosts, and to the prophets, saying, “Should
powerful. 6:4 Then I asked the angel who talked I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as
with me, “What are these, my lord?” I have done these so many years?”
6:5 7:4
The angel answered me, “These are the Then the word of the LORD of Hosts came
four winds of the sky, which go forth from to me, saying, 7:5 “Speak to all the people of
standing before the Lord of all the earth. 6:6 The the land, and to the priests, saying, ‘When
one with the black horses goes out toward the you fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the
north country; and the white went out after seventh month for these seventy years, did you
c 5:6 An efah is a measure of volume of about 22 litres, 5.8 U. S. gallons, or about 2/3 of a bushel.
d 5:7 A talent is a weight of about 34 kilograms or 75 pounds.
e 6:15 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “Elohim.”
Zechariah 7:6 524 Zechariah 8:22

at all fast to me, really to me? 7:6 When you and they will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem;
eat, and when you drink, don’t you eat for and they will be my people, and I will be their
yourselves, and drink for yourselves? 7:7 Aren’t God, in truth and in righteousness.”
these the words which the LORD proclaimed 8:9
Thus says the LORD of Hosts: “Let your
by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was hands be strong, you who hear in these days
inhabited and in prosperity, and its cities these words from the mouth of the prophets
around her, and the South and the lowland who were in the day that the foundation of the
were inhabited?’” house of the LORD of Hosts was laid, even the
7:8
The word of the LORD came to Zechariah, temple, that it might be built. 8:10 For before
saying, 7:9 “Thus has the LORD of Hosts spo- those days there was no wages for man, nor
ken, saying, ‘Execute true judgment, and show any wages for an animal; neither was there any
kindness and compassion every man to his peace to him who went out or came in, because
brother. 7:10 Don’t oppress the widow, nor the of the adversary. For I set all men everyone
fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let against his neighbor. 8:11 But now I will not be
none of you devise evil against his brother in to the remnant of this people as in the former
your heart.’ 7:11 But they refused to listen, and days,” says the LORD of Hosts. 8:12 “For the
turned their backs, and stopped their ears, that seed of peace and the vine will yield its fruit,
they might not hear. 7:12 Yes, they made their and the ground will give its increase, and the
hearts as hard as flint, lest they might hear the heavens will give their dew; and I will cause
law, and the words which the LORD of Hosts the remnant of this people to inherit all these
had sent by his Spirit by the former prophets. things. 8:13 It shall come to pass that, as you
Therefore great wrath came from the LORD of were a curse among the nations, house of Judah
Hosts. 7:13 It has come to pass that, as he called, and house of Israel, so will I save you, and you
and they refused to listen, so they will call, shall be a blessing. Don’t be afraid. Let your
and I will not listen,” said the LORD of Hosts; hands be strong.”
7:14 8:14
“but I will scatter them with a whirlwind For thus says the LORD of Hosts: “As I
among all the nations which they have not thought to do evil to you, when your fathers
known. Thus the land was desolate after them, provoked me to wrath,” says the LORD of
so that no man passed through nor returned: Hosts, “and I didn’t repent; 8:15 so again have
for they made the pleasant land desolate.” I thought in these days to do good to Jerusalem
8:1
The word of the LORD of Hosts came to and to the house of Judah. Don’t be afraid.
me. 8:2 Thus says the LORD of Hosts: “I am 8:16
These are the things that you shall do: speak
jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I am every man the truth with his neighbor. Execute
jealous for her with great wrath.” the judgment of truth and peace in your gates,
8:3 8:17
Thus says the LORD: “I have returned to and let none of you devise evil in your
Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. hearts against his neighbor, and love no false
Jerusalem shall be called ‘The City of Truth;’ oath: for all these are things that I hate,” says
and the mountain of the LORD of Hosts, ‘The the LORD.
Holy Mountain.’” 8:18
The word of the LORD of Hosts came to
8:4
Thus says the LORD of Hosts: “Old men me. 8:19 Thus says the LORD of Hosts: “The
and old women will again dwell in the streets fasts of the fourth fifth, seventh, and tenth
of Jerusalem, every man with his staff in his months shall be for the house of Judah joy and
hand for very age. 8:5 The streets of the city will gladness, and cheerful feasts. Therefore love
be full of boys and girls playing in its streets.” truth and peace.”
8:6 8:20
Thus says the LORD of Hosts: “If it Thus says the LORD of Hosts: “Many
is marvelous in the eyes of the remnant of peoples, and the inhabitants of many cities will
this people in those days, should it also be yet come; 8:21 and the inhabitants of one shall
marvelous in my eyes?” says the LORD of go to another, saying, ‘Let us go speedily to
Hosts. entreat the favor of the LORD, and to seek
8:7
Thus says the LORD of Hosts: “Behold, I the LORD of Hosts. I will go also.’ 8:22 Yes,
will save my people from the east country, and many peoples and strong nations will come to
from the west country; 8:8 and I will bring them, seek the LORD of Hosts in Jerusalem, and to
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entreat the favor of the LORD.” 8:23 Thus says and the battle bow will be cut off;
the LORD of Hosts: “In those days, ten men and he will speak peace to the nations:
will take hold, out of all the languages of the and his dominion will be from sea to sea,
nations, they will take hold of the skirt of him and from the River to the ends of the
who is a Jew, saying, ‘We will go with you, for earth.
9:11
we have heard that God is with you.’” As for you also,
9:1
An oracle. because of the blood of your covenant,
The word of the LORD is against the land of I have set free your prisoners from the pit
Hadrach, in which is no water.
9:12
and will rest upon Damascus; Turn to the stronghold, you prisoners of
for the eye of man hope!
and of all the tribes of Israel is toward the Even today I declare that I will restore
LORD; double to you.
9:2 9:13
and Hamath, also, which borders on it; For indeed I bend Judah as a bow for me.
Tyre and Sidon, because they are very I have filled the bow with Ephraim;
wise. and I will stir up your sons, Zion,
9:3
Tyre built herself a stronghold, against your sons, Greece,
and heaped up silver like the dust, and will make you like the sword of a
and fine gold like the mire of the streets. mighty man.
9:4 9:14
Behold, the Lord will dispossess her, The LORD will be seen over them;
and he will strike her power in the sea; and his arrow will go flash like lightning;
and she will be devoured with fire. and the Lord GOD will blow the shofarf ,
9:5
Ashkelon will see it, and fear; and will go with whirlwinds of the south.
9:15
Gaza also, and will writhe in agony; The LORD of Hosts will defend them;
as will Ekron, for her expectation will be and they will destroy and overcome with
disappointed; sling stones;
and the king will perish from Gaza, and they will drink, and roar as through
and Ashkelon will not be inhabited. wine;
9:6
Foreigners will dwell in Ashdod, and they will be filled like bowls,
and I will cut off the pride of the like the corners of the altar.
9:16
Philistines. The LORD their God will save them in that
9:7
I will take away his blood out of his mouth, day as the flock of his people;
and his abominations from between his for they are like the jewels of a crown,
teeth; lifted on high over his land.
9:17
and he also will be a remnant for our God; For how great is his goodness,
and he will be as a chieftain in Judah, and how great is his beauty!
and Ekron as a Jebusite. Grain will make the young men flourish,
9:8
I will encamp around my house against the and new wine the virgins.
10:1
army, Ask of the LORD rain in the spring time,
that none pass through or return; The LORD who makes storm clouds,
and no oppressor will pass through them and he gives rain showers to everyone for
any more: the plants in the field.
10:2
for now I have seen with my eyes. For the teraphim have spoken vanity,
9:9
Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! and the diviners have seen a lie;
Shout, daughter of Jerusalem! and they have told false dreams.
Behold, your King comes to you! They comfort in vain.
He is righteous, and having salvation; Therefore they go their way like sheep.
lowly, and riding on a donkey, They are oppressed, because there is no
even on a colt, the foal of a donkey. shepherd.
9:10 10:3
I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, My anger is kindled against the shepherds,
and the horse from Jerusalem; and I will punish the male goats;
f 9:14 or, trumpet
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For the LORD of Hosts has visited his and they will walk up and down in his
flock, the house of Judah, name,” says the LORD.
11:1
and will make them as his majestic horse Open your doors, Lebanon,
in the battle. that the fire may devour your cedars.
10:4 11:2
From him will come forth the cornerstone, Wail, fir tree, for the cedar has fallen,
from him the nail, because the stately ones are destroyed.
from him the battle bow, Wail, you oaks of Bashan,
from him every ruler together. for the strong forest has come down.
10:5 11:3
They shall be as mighty men, A voice of the wailing of the shepherds!
treading down muddy streets in the bat- For their glory is destroyed: a voice of the
tle; roaring of young lions!
and they shall fight, because the LORD is For the pride of the Jordan is ruined.
with them; 11:4
Thus says the LORD my God: “Feed the
and the riders on horses will be con- flock of slaughter. 11:5 Their buyers slaughter
founded. them, and go unpunished. Those who sell them
10:6
“I will strengthen the house of Judah, say, ‘Blessed be the LORD, for I am rich;’ and
and I will save the house of Joseph, their own shepherds don’t pity them. 11:6 For I
and I will bring them back; will no more pity the inhabitants of the land,”
for I have mercy on them; says the LORD; “but, behold, I will deliver the
and they will be as though I had not cast men everyone into his neighbor’s hand, and
them off: into the hand of his king. They will strike the
for I am the LORD their God, and I will land, and out of their hand I will not deliver
hear them. them.”
10:7 11:7
Ephraim will be like a mighty man, So I fed the flock of slaughter, especially
and their heart will rejoice as through the oppressed of the flock. I took for myself two
wine; staffs. The one I called “Favor,” and the other I
yes, their children will see it, and rejoice. called “Union,” and I fed the flock. 11:8 I cut off
Their heart will be glad in the LORD. the three shepherds in one month; for my soul
10:8
I will signal for them, and gather them; was weary of them, and their soul also loathed
for I have redeemed them; me. 11:9 Then I said, “I will not feed you. That
which dies, let it die; and that which is to be cut
and they will increase as they have in-
off, let it be cut off; and let those who are left eat
creased.
10:9 each other’s flesh.” 11:10 I took my staff Favor,
I will sow them among the peoples;
and cut it apart, that I might break my covenant
and they will remember me in far coun-
that I had made with all the peoples. 11:11 It
tries;
was broken in that day; and thus the poor of
and they will live with their children, and
the flock that listened to me knew that it was
will return.
10:10
the word of the LORD. 11:12 I said to them, “If
I will bring them again also out of the land you think it best, give me my wages; and if not,
of Egypt, keep them.” So they weighed for my wages
and gather them out of Assyria; thirty pieces of silver. 11:13 The LORD said to
and I will bring them into the land of Gilead me, “Throw it to the potter, the handsome price
and Lebanon; that I was valued at by them!” I took the thirty
and there won’t be room enough for pieces of silver, and threw them to the potter,
them. in the house of the LORD. 11:14 Then I cut apart
10:11
He will pass through the sea of affliction, my other staff, even Union, that I might break
and will strike the waves in the sea, the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
and all the depths of the Nile will dry up; 11:15
The LORD said to me, “Take for your-
and the pride of Assyria will be brought self yet again the equipment of a foolish
down, shepherd. 11:16 For, behold, I will raise up a
and the scepter of Egypt will depart. shepherd in the land, who will not visit those
10:12
I will strengthen them in the LORD; who are cut off, neither will seek those who are
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scattered, nor heal that which is broken, nor him, as one grieves for his firstborn. 12:11 In
feed that which is sound; but he will eat the that day there will be a great mourning in
flesh of the fat sheep, and will tear their hoofs Jerusalem, like the mourning of Hadadrimmon
in pieces. 11:17 Woe to the worthless shepherd in the valley of Megiddon. 12:12 The land will
who leaves the flock! The sword will be on mourn, every family apart; the family of the
his arm, and on his right eye. His arm will be house of David apart, and their wives apart;
completely withered, and his right eye will be the family of the house of Nathan apart, and
totally blinded!” their wives apart; 12:13 the family of the house
12:1
An oracle. The word of the LORD of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family
concerning Israel. The LORD, who stretches of the Shimeites apart, and their wives apart;
12:14
out the heavens, and lays the foundation of the all the families who remain, every family
earth, and forms the spirit of man within him apart, and their wives apart.
13:1
says: 12:2 “Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup “In that day there will be a spring opened
of reeling to all the surrounding peoples, and to the house of David and to the inhabitants of
on Judah also will it be in the siege against Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness. 13:2 It
Jerusalem. 12:3 It will happen in that day, that will come to pass in that day, says the LORD of
I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for Hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols
all the peoples. All who burden themselves out of the land, and they will be remembered
with it will be severely wounded, and all the no more. I will also cause the prophets and the
nations of the earth will be gathered together spirit of impurity to pass out of the land. 13:3 It
against it. 12:4 In that day,” says the LORD, will happen that, when anyone still prophesies,
“I will strike every horse with terror, and his then his father and his mother who bore him
rider with madness; and I will open my eyes will tell him, ‘You must die, because you speak
on the house of Judah, and will strike every lies in the name of the LORD;’ and his father
horse of the peoples with blindness. 12:5 The and his mother who bore him will stab him
chieftains of Judah will say in their heart, ‘The when he prophesies. 13:4 It will happen in that
inhabitants of Jerusalem are my strength in the day, that the prophets will each be ashamed
LORD of Hosts their God.’ 12:6 In that day I of his vision, when he prophesies; neither will
will make the chieftains of Judah like a pan they wear a hairy mantle to deceive: 13:5 but he
of fire among wood, and like a flaming torch will say, ‘I am no prophet, I am a tiller of the
among sheaves; and they will devour all the ground; for I have been made a bondservant
surrounding peoples, on the right hand and on from my youth.’ 13:6 One will say to him, ‘What
the left; and Jerusalem will yet again dwell in are these wounds between your arms?’ Then he
their own place, even in Jerusalem. 12:7 The will answer, ‘Those with which I was wounded
LORD also will save the tents of Judah first, in the house of my friends.’
13:7
that the glory of the house of David and the “Awake, sword, against my shepherd,
glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem not be and against the man who is close to me,”
magnified above Judah. 12:8 In that day the says the LORD of Hosts.
LORD will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem. “Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be
He who is feeble among them at that day will scattered;
be like David, and the house of David will be and I will turn my hand against the little
like God, like the angel of the LORD before ones.
them. 12:9 It will happen in that day, that I 13:8
It shall happen that in all the land,” says the
will seek to destroy all the nations that come LORD,
against Jerusalem. 12:10 I will pour on the house
“two parts in it will be cut off and die;
of David, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
the spirit of grace and of supplication; and but the third will be left in it.
13:9
they will look to meg whom they have pierced; I will bring the third part into the fire,
and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns and will refine them as silver is refined,
for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for and will test them like gold is tested.
g 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.
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They will call on my name, and I will hear in their mouth. 14:13 It will happen in that day,
them. that a great panic from the LORD will be among
I will say, ‘It is my people;’ them; and they will lay hold everyone on the
and they will say, ‘The LORD is my hand of his neighbor, and his hand will rise up
God.’” against the hand of his neighbor. 14:14 Judah
14:1
Behold, a day of the LORD comes, also will fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of
when your spoil will be divided in your all the surrounding nations will be gathered
midst. 14:2 For I will gather all nations against together: gold, and silver, and clothing, in great
Jerusalem to battle; and the city will be taken, abundance.
14:15
the houses rifled, and the women ravished. So will be the plague of the horse, of
Half of the city will go out into captivity, and the mule, of the camel, and of the donkey,
the rest of the people will not be cut off from the and of all the animals that will be in those
city. 14:3 Then the LORD will go out and fight camps, as that plague. 14:16 It will happen that
against those nations, as when he fought in the everyone who is left of all the nations that came
day of battle. 14:4 His feet will stand in that against Jerusalem will go up from year to year
day on the Mount of Olives, which is before to worship the King, the LORD of Hosts, and
Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives to keep the feast of booths. 14:17 It will be,
will be split in two, from east to west, making that whoever of all the families of the earth
a very great valley. Half of the mountain will doesn’t go up to Jerusalem to worship the King,
move toward the north, and half of it toward the LORD of Hosts, on them there will be no
the south. 14:5 You shall flee by the valley of my rain. 14:18 If the family of Egypt doesn’t go
mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall up, and doesn’t come, neither will it rain on
reach to Azel; yes, you shall flee, just like you them. This will be the plague with which the
fled from before the earthquake in the days of LORD will strike the nations that don’t go up
Uzziah king of Judah. The LORD my God will to keep the feast of booths. 14:19 This will be
come, and all the holy ones with you. 14:6 It will the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment
happen in that day, that there will not be light, of all the nations that don’t go up to keep the
cold, or frost. 14:7 It will be a unique day which feast of booths. 14:20 In that day there will be on
is known to the LORD; not day, and not night; the bells of the horses, “HOLY TO THE LORD”;
but it will come to pass, that at evening time and the pots in the LORD’s house will be like
there will be light. the bowls before the altar. 14:21 Yes, every pot
14:8 in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to the
It will happen in that day, that living
LORD of Hosts; and all those who sacrifice will
waters will go out from Jerusalem; half of them
come and take of them, and cook in them. In
toward the eastern sea, and half of them toward
that day there will no longer be a Canaanite in
the western sea; in summer and in winter will
the house of the LORD of Hosts.
it be.
14:9
The LORD will be King over all the earth.
In that day the LORD will be one, and his
name one. 14:10 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
winepresses. 14:11 Men will dwell therein, and
there will be no more curse; but Jerusalem will
dwell safely. 14:12 This will be the plague with
which the LORD will strike all the peoples
who have warred 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
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Malachi say also, ‘Behold, what a weariness it is!’ and


you have sniffed at it,” says the LORD of Hosts;
1:1 “and you have brought that which was taken
An oracle: the word of the LORDa to
Israel by Malachi. by violence, the lame, and the sick; thus you
1:2
“I have loved you,” says the LORD. bring the offering. Should I accept this at your
Yet you say, “How have you loved us?” hand?” says the LORD.
1:14
“Wasn’t Esau Jacob’s brother?” says the “But the deceiver is cursed, who has in
LORD, “Yet I loved Jacob; 1:3 but Esau I hated, his flock a male, and vows, and sacrifices to
and made his mountains a desolation, and gave the Lordc a blemished thing; for I am a great
his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.” King,” says the LORD of Hosts, “and my name
1:4 is awesome among the nations.”
Whereas Edom says, “We are beaten down,
but we will return and build the waste places”; 2:1
“Now, you priests, this commandment is
thus says the LORD of Hosts, “They shall build, for you. 2:2 If you will not listen, and if you
but I will throw down; and men will call them will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my
‘The Wicked Land,’ even the people against name,” says the LORD of Hosts, “then will I
whom the LORD shows wrath forever.” send the curse on you, and I will curse your
1:5
Your eyes will see, and you will say, “The blessings. Indeed, I have cursed them already,
LORD is great—even beyond the border of because you do not lay it to heart. 2:3 Behold,
Israel!” I will rebuke your seed, and will spread dung
1:6
“A son honors his father, and a servant on your faces, even the dung of your feasts;
his master. If I am a father, then where is my and you will be taken away with it. 2:4 You
honor? And if I am a master, where is the will know that I have sent this commandment
respect due me? Says the LORD of Hosts to to you, that my covenant may be with Levi,”
you, priests, who despise my name. You say, says the LORD of Hosts. 2:5 “My covenant was
‘How have we despised your name?’ 1:7 You with him of life and peace; and I gave them
offer polluted bread on my altar. You say, ‘How to him that he might be reverent toward me;
have we polluted you?’ In that you say, ‘The and he was reverent toward me, and stood
LORD’s table contemptible.’ 1:8 When you offer in awe of my name. 2:6 The law of truth was
the blind for sacrifice, isn’t that evil? And in his mouth, and unrighteousness was not
when you offer the lame and sick, isn’t that found in his lips. He walked with me in peace
evil? Present it now to your governor! Will he and uprightness, and turned many away from
be pleased with you? Or will he accept your iniquity. 2:7 For the priest’s lips should keep
person?” says the LORD of Hosts. knowledge, and they should seek the law at his
1:9
“Now, please entreat the favor of Godb , mouth; for he is the messenger of the LORD
that he may be gracious to us. With this, will he of Hosts. 2:8 But you have turned aside out of
accept any of you?” says the LORD of Hosts. the way. You have caused many to stumble in
1:10
“Oh that there were one among you the law. You have corrupted the covenant of
who would shut the doors, that you might Levi,” says the LORD of Hosts. 2:9 “Therefore
not kindle fire on my altar in vain! I have I have also made you contemptible and base
no pleasure in you,” says the LORD of Hosts, before all the people, according to the way
“neither will I accept an offering at your hand. you have not kept my ways, but have had
1:11
For from the rising of the sun even to the respect for persons in the law. 2:10 Don’t we
going down of the same, my name is great all have one father? Hasn’t one God created
among the nations, and in every place incense us? Why do we deal treacherously every man
will be offered to my name, and a pure offering: against his brother, profaning the covenant of
for my name is great among the nations,” says our fathers? 2:11 Judah has dealt treacherously,
the LORD of Hosts. 1:12 “But you profane it, in and an abomination is committed in Israel
that you say, ‘The LORD’s table is polluted, and and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the
its fruit, even its food, is contemptible.’ 1:13 You holiness of the LORD which he loves, and has
a 1:1 “LORD” or “GOD” (all capital letters) indicate the 4-letter Holy Name of God
b 1:9 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “Elohim.”
c 1:14 The word translated “Lord” (mixed case) is “Adonai.”
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married the daughter of a foreign god. 2:12 The consumed. 3:7 From the days of your fathers
LORD will cut off, to the man who does this, you have turned aside from my ordinances,
him who wakes and him who answers, out and have not kept them. Return to me, and I
of the tents of Jacob, and him who offers an will return to you,” says the LORD of Hosts.
offering to the LORD of Hosts. 2:13 This again “But you say, ‘How shall we return?’ 3:8 Will
you do: you cover the altar of the LORD with a man rob God? Yet you rob me! But you
tears, with weeping, and with sighing, because say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ In tithes and
he doesn’t regard the offering any more, nei- offerings. 3:9 You are cursed with the curse; for
ther receives it with good will at your hand. you rob me, even this whole nation. 3:10 Bring
2:14
Yet you say, ‘Why?’ Because the LORD the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there
has been witness between you and the wife may be food in my house, and test me now in
of your youth, against whom you have dealt this,” says the LORD of Hosts, “if I will not
treacherously, though she is your companion, open you the windows of heaven, and pour
and the wife of your covenant. 2:15 Did he not you out a blessing, that there shall not be room
make you one, although he had the residue enough for. 3:11 I will rebuke the devourer for
of the Spirit? Why one? He sought a godly your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits
seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and of your ground; neither shall your vine cast
let no one deal treacherously against the wife its fruit before its time in the field,” says the
of his youth. 2:16 For I hate divorce,” says the LORD of Hosts. 3:12 “All nations shall call you
LORD, the God of Israel, “and him who covers blessed, for you will be a delightful land,” says
his garment with violence!” says the LORD the LORD of Hosts.
of Hosts. “Therefore take heed to your spirit, 3:13
“Your words have been stout against
that you don’t deal treacherously. 2:17 You have me,” says the LORD. “Yet you say, ‘What have
wearied the LORD with your words. Yet you we spoken against you?’ 3:14 You have said, ‘It
say, ‘How have we wearied him?’ In that you is vain to serve God;’ and ‘What profit is it that
say, ‘Everyone who does evil is good in the we have followed his instructions, and that we
sight of the LORD, and he delights in them;’ or have walked mournfully before the LORD of
‘Where is the God of justice?’ Hosts? 3:15 Now we call the proud happy; yes,
3:1
“Behold, I send my messenger, and he those who work wickedness are built up; yes,
will prepare the way before me; and the Lord, they tempt God, and escape.’ 3:16 Then those
whom you seek, will suddenly come to his who feared the LORD spoke one with another;
temple; and the messenger of the covenant, and the LORD listened, and heard, and a book
whom you desire, behold, he comes!” says of memory was written before him, for those
the LORD of Hosts. 3:2 “But who can endure who feared the LORD, and who honored his
the day of his coming? And who will stand name. 3:17 They shall be mine,” says the LORD
when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s of Hosts, “my own possession in the day that
fire, and like launderer’s soap; 3:3 and he will I make, and I will spare them, as a man spares
sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will his own son who serves him. 3:18 Then you shall
purify the sons of Levi, and refine them as gold return and discern between the righteous and
and silver; and they shall offer to the LORD the wicked, between him who serves God and
offerings in righteousness. 3:4 Then the offering him who doesn’t serve him.
4:1
of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasant to “For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a
the LORD, as in the days of old, and as in furnace; and all the proud, and all who work
ancient years. 3:5 I will come near to you to wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that
judgment; and I will be a swift witness against comes will burn them up,” says the LORD of
the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and Hosts, “that it shall leave them neither root nor
against the perjurers, and against those who branch. 4:2 But to you who fear my name shall
oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, the sun of righteousness arise with healing in
and the fatherless, and who deprive the for- its wings. You will go out, and leap like calves
eigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says the of the stall. 4:3 You shall tread down the wicked;
LORD of Hosts. 3:6 “For I, the LORD, don’t for they will be ashes under the soles of your
change; therefore you, sons of Jacob, are not feet in the day that I make,” says the LORD of
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Hosts.
4:4
“Remember the Torah of Moses my ser-
vant, which I commanded to him in Horeb
for all Israel, even statutes and ordinances.
4:5
Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet
before the great and terrible day of the LORD
comes. 4:6 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.”
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The Psalms 8
Ask of me, and I will give the nations for your
inheritance,
the uttermost parts of the earth for your
possession.
BOOK I 9
You shall break them with a rod of iron.
You shall dash them in pieces like a
Psalm 1 10
potter’s vessel.”
1 Now therefore be wise, you kings.
Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the
Be instructed, you judges of the earth.
counsel of the wicked, 11
Serve the LORD with fear,
nor stand in the way of sinners,
and rejoice with trembling.
nor sit in the seat of scoffers; 12
2 Give sincere homage to the Sond , lest he be
but his delight is in the LORD’sa law.
angry, and you perish in the way,
On his Torah he meditates day and night.
3 for his wrath will soon be kindled.
He will be like a tree planted by the streams of
Blessed are all those who take refuge in
water,
him.
that brings forth its fruit in its season,
whose leaf also does not wither.

4
Whatever he does shall prosper. Psalm 3
The wicked are not so,
but are like the chaff which the wind A Psalm by David, when he fled from
drives away. Absalom his son.
5
Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the 1
judgment, LORD, how my adversaries have increased!
nor sinners in the congregation of the Many are those who rise up against me.
2
righteous. Many there are who say of my soul,
6
For the LORD knows the way of the righteous, “There is no help for him in Gode .”
but the way of the wicked shall perish. Selah.
3
But you, LORD, are a shield around me,
my glory, and the one who lifts up my
Psalm 2 head.
1 4
Why do the nations rage, I cry to the LORD with my voice,
and the peoples plot a vain thing? and he answers me out of his holy hill.
2 Selah.
The kings of the earth take a stand,
5
and the rulers take counsel together, I laid myself down and slept.
against the LORD, and against his I awakened; for the LORD sustains me.
6
Anointed,b saying, I will not be afraid of tens of thousands of
3 people
“Let’s break their bonds apart,
and cast their cords from us.” who have set themselves against me on
4 every side.
He who sits in the heavens will laugh.
7
The Lordc will have them in derision. Arise, LORD!
5
Then he will speak to them in his anger, Save me, my God!
and terrify them in his wrath: For you have struck all of my enemies on the
6
“Yet I have set my King on my holy hill of cheek bone.
Zion.” You have broken the teeth of the wicked.
7 8
I will tell of the decree. Salvation belongs to the LORD.
The LORD said to me, “You are my son. Your blessing be on your people.
Today I have become your father. Selah.
a 1:2 “LORD” or “GOD” (all capital letters) indicate the 4-letter Holy Name of God
b 2:2 The word “Anointed” is the same as the word for “Messiah” or “Christ”
c 2:4 The word translated “Lord” (mixed case) is “Adonai.”
d 2:12 or, Kiss the son
e 3:2 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “Elohim.”
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Psalm 4 6
You hate all workers of iniquity.
You will destroy those who speak lies.
For the Chief Musician; on stringed instru- The LORD abhors the bloodthirsty and
ments. A Psalm by David. deceitful man.
7
But as for me, in the abundance of your loving
1
Answer me when I call, God of my righteous- kindness I will come into your house.
ness. I will bow toward your holy temple in
Give me relief from my distress. reverence of you.
Have mercy on me, and hear my prayer. 8
Lead me, LORD, in your righteousness be-
2
You sons of men, how long shall my glory be cause of my enemies.
turned into dishonor? Make your way straight before my face.
Will you love vanity, and seek after false- 9
For there is no faithfulness in their mouth.
hood? Their heart is destruction.
Selah. Their throat is an open tomb.
3
But know that the LORD has set apart for They flatter with their tongue.
himself him who is godly: 10
Hold them guilty, God.
The LORD will hear when I call to him. Let them fall by their own counsels;
4
Stand in awe, and don’t sin. Thrust them out in the multitude of their
Search your own heart on your bed, and transgressions,
be still. for they have rebelled against you.
Selah. 11
But let all those who take refuge in you
5
Offer the sacrifices of righteousness. rejoice,
Put your trust in the LORD. Let them always shout for joy, because
6
Many say, “Who will show us any good?” you defend them.
LORD, let the light of your face shine on Let them also who love your name be joyful in
us. you.
7 12
You have put gladness in my heart, For you will bless the righteous.
more than when their grain and their new LORD, you will surround him with favor as
wine are increased. with a shield.
8
In peace I will both lay myself down and sleep,
for you, the LORD alone, make me live in Psalm 6
safety.
For the Chief Musician; on stringed instru-
ments, upon the eight-stringed lyre. A Psalm
Psalm 5 by David.
1
LORD, don’t rebuke me in your anger,
For the Chief Musician, with the flutes. A
neither discipline me in your wrath.
Psalm by David. 2
Have mercy on me, LORD, for I am faint.
1
Give ear to my words, LORD. LORD, heal me, for my bones are trou-
Consider my meditation. bled.
2 3
Listen to the voice of my cry, my King and my My soul is also in great anguish.
God; But you, LORD—how long?
4
for to you do I pray. Return, LORD. Deliver my soul,
3
LORD, in the morning you shall hear my and save me for your loving kindness’
voice. sake.
5
In the morning I will lay my requests be- For in death there is no memory of you.
fore you, and will watch expectantly. In Sheolf , who shall give you thanks?
4 6
For you are not a God who has pleasure in I am weary with my groaning.
wickedness. Every night I flood my bed.
Evil can’t live with you. I drench my couch with my tears.
5 7
The arrogant shall not stand in your sight. My eye wastes away because of grief.
f 6:5 Sheol is the place of the dead.
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It grows old because of all my adver- but establish the righteous;


saries. their minds and hearts are searched by
8
Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, the righteous God.
10
for the LORD has heard the voice of my My shield is with God,
weeping. who saves the upright in heart.
9 11
The LORD has heard my supplication. God is a righteous judge,
The LORD accepts my prayer. yes, a God who has indignation every
10
May all my enemies be ashamed and dis- day.
12
mayed. If a man doesn’t relent, he will sharpen his
They shall turn back, they shall be dis- sword;
graced suddenly. he has bent and strung his bow.
13
He has also prepared for himself the instru-
ments of death.
Psalm 7 He makes ready his flaming arrows.
14
Behold, he travails with iniquity.
A meditation by David, which he sang to Yes, he has conceived mischief,
the LORD, concerning the words of Cush, the and brought forth falsehood.
Benjamite. 15
He has dug a hole,
1
LORD, my God, I take refuge in you. and has fallen into the pit which he made.
16
Save me from all those who pursue me, The trouble he causes shall return to his own
and deliver me, head.
2
lest they tear apart my soul like a lion, His violence shall come down on the
ripping it in pieces, while there is none to crown of his own head.
17
deliver. I will give thanks to the LORD according to
3
LORD, my God, if I have done this, his righteousness,
if there is iniquity in my hands, and will sing praise to the name of the
4
if I have rewarded evil to him who was at LORD Most High.
peace with me
(yes, if I have delivered him who without Psalm 8
cause was my adversary),
5
let the enemy pursue my soul, and For the Chief Musician; on an instrument of
overtake it; Gath. A Psalm by David.
1
yes, let him tread my life down to the earth, LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name
and lay my glory in the dust. in all the earth,
Selah. who has set your glory above the heav-
6
Arise, LORD, in your anger. ens!
2
Lift up yourself against the rage of my From the lips of babes and infants you have
adversaries. established strength,
Awake for me. You have commanded judg- because of your adversaries, that you
ment. might silence the enemy and the
7
Let the congregation of the peoples sur- avenger.
3
round you. When I consider your heavens, the work of
Rule over them on high. your fingers,
8
The LORD administers judgment to the peo- the moon and the stars, which you have
ples. ordained;
4
Judge me, LORD, according to my righ- what is man, that you think of him?
teousness, What is the son of man, that you care for
and to my integrity that is in me. him?
9 5
Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to For you have made him a little lower than
an end, God,g
g 8:5
Hebrew: Elohim. The word Elohim, used here, usually means “God,” but can also mean “gods,”
“princes,” or “angels.”
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and crowned him with glory and honor. He doesn’t forget the cry of the afflicted.
6 13
You make him ruler over the works of your Have mercy on me, LORD.
hands. See my affliction by those who hate me,
You have put all things under his feet: and lift me up from the gates of death;
7 14
All sheep and cattle, that I may show forth all your praise.
yes, and the animals of the field, In the gates of the daughter of Zion, I will
8
The birds of the sky, the fish of the sea, rejoice in your salvation.
15
and whatever passes through the paths of The nations have sunk down in the pit that
the seas. they made.
9
LORD, our Lord, In the net which they hid, their own foot
how majestic is your name in all the earth! is taken.
16
The LORD has made himself known.
Psalm 9 He has executed judgment.
The wicked is snared by the work of his
own hands.
For the Chief Musician. Set to “The Death
Meditation. Selah.
of the Son.” A Psalm by David. 17
The wicked shall be turned back to Sheolh ,
1 even all the nations that forget God.
I will give thanks to the LORD with my whole
18
heart. For the needy shall not always be forgotten,
I will tell of all your marvelous works. nor the hope of the poor perish forever.
2 19
I will be glad and rejoice in you. Arise, LORD! Don’t let man prevail.
I will sing praise to your name, O Most Let the nations be judged in your sight.
20
High. Put them in fear, LORD.
3
When my enemies turn back, Let the nations know that they are only
they stumble and perish in your presence. men.
4
For you have maintained my just cause. Selah.
You sit on the throne judging righteously.
5
You have rebuked the nations.
You have destroyed the wicked.
Psalm 10
1
You have blotted out their name forever Why do you stand far off, LORD?
and ever. Why do you hide yourself in times of
6 trouble?
The enemy is overtaken by endless ruin.
2
The very memory of the cities which you In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak.
have overthrown has perished. They are caught in the schemes that they
7 devise.
But the LORD reigns forever.
3
He has prepared his throne for judgment. For the wicked boasts of his heart’s cravings.
8
He will judge the world in righteousness. He blesses the greedy, and condemns the
He will administer judgment to the peo- LORD.
4
ples in uprightness. The wicked, in the pride of his face,
9
The LORD will also be a high tower for the has no room in his thoughts for God.
5
oppressed; His ways are prosperous at all times.
a high tower in times of trouble. He is haughty, and your laws are far from
10
Those who know your name will put their his sight.
trust in you, As for all his adversaries, he sneers at them.
6
for you, LORD, have not forsaken those He says in his heart, “I shall not be
who seek you. shaken.
11
Sing praises to the LORD, who dwells in For generations I shall have no trouble.”
7
Zion, His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and
and declare among the people what he oppression.
has done. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.
12 8
For he who avenges blood remembers them. He lies in wait near the villages.
h 9:17 Sheol is the place of the dead.
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From ambushes, he murders the inno- His eyes examine the children of men.
cent. 5
The LORD examines the righteous,
His eyes are secretly set against the helpless.
9 but the wicked and him who loves vio-
He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush.
lence his soul hates.
He lies in wait to catch the helpless.
6
He catches the helpless, when he draws On the wicked he will rain blazing coals;
him in his net. fire, sulfur, and scorching wind shall be
10
The helpless are crushed. the portion of their cup.
They collapse. 7
For the LORD is righteous.
They fall under his strength.
11 He loves righteousness.
He says in his heart, “God has forgotten.
He hides his face. The upright shall see his face.
He will never see it.”
12
Arise, LORD!
God, lift up your hand!
Don’t forget the helpless. Psalm 12
13
Why does the wicked person condemn God,
and say in his heart, “God won’t call me
into account?” For the Chief Musician; upon an eight-
14
But you do see trouble and grief. stringed lyre. A Psalm of David.
You consider it to take it into your hand.
You help the victim and the fatherless. 1
15 Help, LORD; for the godly man ceases.
Break the arm of the wicked.
As for the evil man, seek out his wicked- For the faithful fail from among the chil-
ness until you find none. dren of men.
16 2
The LORD is King forever and ever! Everyone lies to his neighbor.
The nations will perish out of his land. They speak with flattering lips, and with
17
LORD, you have heard the desire of the a double heart.
humble. 3
You will prepare their heart. May the LORD cut off all flattering lips,
You will cause your ear to hear, and the tongue that boasts,
18 4
to judge the fatherless and the op- who have said, “With our tongue we will
pressed, prevail.
that man who is of the earth may terrify
Our lips are our own.
no more.
Who is lord over us?”
5
Psalm 11 “Because of the oppression of the weak and
because of the groaning of the needy,
For the Chief Musician. By David. I will now arise,” says the LORD;
1 “I will set him in safety from those who malign
In the LORD, I take refuge.
him.”
How can you say to my soul, “Flee as a 6
bird to your mountain!” The words of the LORD are flawless words,
2
For, behold, the wicked bend their bows. as silver refined in a clay furnace, purified
They set their arrows on the strings, seven times.
that they may shoot in darkness at the 7
You will keep them, LORD.
upright in heart.
3 You will preserve them from this genera-
If the foundations are destroyed,
tion forever.
what can the righteous do? 8
4 The wicked walk on every side,
The LORD is in his holy temple.
The LORD is on his throne in heaven. when what is vile is exalted among the
His eyes observe. sons of men.
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Psalm 13 Psalm 15
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. A Psalm by David.
1
How long, LORD? 1
LORD, who shall dwell in your sanctuary?
Will you forget me forever?
Who shall live on your holy hill?
How long will you hide your face from 2
He who walks blamelessly does what is right,
me?
2 and speaks truth in his heart;
How long shall I take counsel in my soul, 3
He who doesn’t slander with his tongue,
having sorrow in my heart every day?
How long shall my enemy triumph over nor does evil to his friend,
me? nor casts slurs against his fellow man;
4
3
Behold, and answer me, LORD, my God. In whose eyes a vile man is despised,
Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death; but who honors those who fear the
4
Lest my enemy say, “I have prevailed LORD;
against him”; he who keeps an oath even when it hurts,
Lest my adversaries rejoice when I fall. and doesn’t change;
5 5
But I trust in your loving kindness. he who doesn’t lend out his money for usury,
My heart rejoices in your salvation. nor take a bribe against the innocent.
6 He who does these things shall never be
I will sing to the LORD,
because he has been good to me. shaken.

Psalm 14 Psalm 16
For the Chief Musician. By David. A Poem by David.
1
The fool has said in his heart, “There is no 1
Preserve me, God, for in you do I take refuge.
God.” 2
My soul, you have said to the LORD, “You are
They are corrupt.
my Lord.
They have done abominable works.
Apart from you I have no good thing.”
There is none who does good. 3
2 As for the holy ones who are in the earth,
The LORD looked down from heaven on the
they are the excellent ones in whom is all
children of men,
my delight.
to see if there were any who understood, 4
Their sorrows shall be multiplied who give
who sought after God.
3 gifts to another god.
They have all gone aside.
They have together become corrupt. Their drink offerings of blood I will not
There is none who does good, no, not one. offer,
4
Have all the workers of iniquity no knowl- nor take their names on my lips.
5
edge, The LORD assigned my portion and my cup.
who eat up my people as they eat bread, You made my lot secure.
6
and don’t call on the LORD? The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places.
5 Yes, I have a good inheritance.
There they were in great fear,
7
for God is in the generation of the righ- I will bless the LORD, who has given me
teous. counsel.
6 Yes, my heart instructs me in the night
You frustrate the plan of the poor,
because the LORD is his refuge. seasons.
7 8
Oh that the salvation [yeshuat] of Israel would I have set the LORD always before me.
come out of Zion! Because he is at my right hand, I shall not
When the LORD restores the fortunes of be moved.
9
his people, Therefore my heart is glad, and my tongue
then Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be rejoices.
glad. My body shall also dwell in safety.
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10
For you will not leave my soul in Sheoli , Cast him down.
neither will you allow your holy one to Deliver my soul from the wicked by your
see corruption. sword;
11 14
You will show me the path of life. from men by your hand, LORD,
In your presence is fullness of joy. from men of the world, whose portion is in this
In your right hand there are pleasures forever- life.
more. You fill the belly of your cherished ones.
Your sons have plenty,
Psalm 17 and they store up wealth for their chil-
dren.
15
As for me, I shall see your face in righteous-
A Prayer by David.
ness.
1 I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with
Hear, LORD, my righteous plea;
Give ear to my prayer, that doesn’t go out seeing your form.
of deceitful lips.
2
Let my sentence come forth from your pres- Psalm 18
ence.
Let your eyes look on equity. For the Chief Musician. By David the
3 servant of the LORD, who spoke to the LORD
You have proved my heart.
You have visited me in the night. the words of this song in the day that the LORD
You have tried me, and found nothing. delivered him from the hand of all his enemies,
I have resolved that my mouth shall not and from the hand of Saul. He said,
disobey. 1
I love you, LORD, my strength.
4 2
As for the works of men, by the word of your The LORD is my rock, my fortress, and my
lips, deliverer;
I have kept myself from the ways of the my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge;
violent. my shield, and the horn of my salvation,
5
My steps have held fast to your paths. my high tower.
My feet have not slipped. 3
I call on the LORD, who is worthy to be
6
I have called on you, for you will answer me, praised;
God. and I am saved from my enemies.
Turn your ear to me. 4
The cords of death surrounded me.
Hear my speech. The floods of ungodliness made me
7
Show your marvelous loving kindness, afraid.
5
you who save those who take refuge by The cords of Sheolj were around me.
your right hand from their enemies. The snares of death came on me.
8 6
Keep me as the apple of your eye. In my distress I called on the LORD,
Hide me under the shadow of your and cried to my God.
wings, He heard my voice out of his temple.
9
from the wicked who oppress me, My cry before him came into his ears.
7
my deadly enemies, who surround me. Then the earth shook and trembled.
10
They close up their callous hearts. The foundations also of the mountains
With their mouth they speak proudly. quaked and were shaken,
11
They have now surrounded us in our steps. because he was angry.
8
They set their eyes to cast us down to the Smoke went out of his nostrils.
earth. Consuming fire came out of his mouth.
12
He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, Coals were kindled by it.
9
as it were a young lion lurking in secret He bowed the heavens also, and came down.
places. Thick darkness was under his feet.
13 10
Arise, LORD, confront him. He rode on a cherub, and flew.
i 16:10 Sheol is the place of the dead.
j 18:5 Sheol is the place of the dead.
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Yes, he soared on the wings of the wind. but the haughty eyes you will bring
11
He made darkness his hiding place, his pavil- down.
28
ion around him, For you will light my lamp, LORD.
darkness of waters, thick clouds of the My God will light up my darkness.
skies. 29
For by you, I advance through a troop.
12
At the brightness before him his thick clouds By my God, I leap over a wall.
passed, 30
As for God, his way is perfect.
hailstones and coals of fire. The word of the LORD is tried.
13
The LORD also thundered in the sky. He is a shield to all those who take refuge
The Most High uttered his voice: in him.
hailstones and coals of fire. 31
For who is God, except the LORD?
14
He sent out his arrows, and scattered them; Who is a rock, besides our God,
Yes, great lightning bolts, and routed 32
the God who arms me with strength,
them. and makes my way perfect?
15
Then the channels of waters appeared. 33
He makes my feet like deer’s feet,
The foundations of the world were laid and sets me on my high places.
bare at your rebuke, LORD, 34
He teaches my hands to war,
at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.
16 so that my arms bend a bow of bronze.
He sent from on high. 35
You have also given me the shield of your
He took me.
salvation.
He drew me out of many waters.
17 Your right hand sustains me.
He delivered me from my strong enemy,
Your gentleness has made me great.
from those who hated me; for they were 36
You have enlarged my steps under me,
too mighty for me.
18 My feet have not slipped.
They came on me in the day of my calamity, 37
but the LORD was my support. I will pursue my enemies, and overtake them.
19
He brought me forth also into a large place. Neither will I turn again until they are
He delivered me, because he delighted in consumed.
38
me. I will strike them through, so that they will
20
The LORD has rewarded me according to my not be able to rise.
righteousness. They shall fall under my feet.
39
According to the cleanness of my hands For you have armed me with strength to the
has he recompensed me. battle.
21 You have subdued under me those who
For I have kept the ways of the LORD,
and have not wickedly departed from my rose up against me.
40
God. You have also made my enemies turn their
22 backs to me,
For all his ordinances were before me.
I didn’t put away his statutes from me. that I might cut off those who hate me.
23 41
I was also blameless with him. They cried, but there was none to save;
I kept myself from my iniquity. even to the LORD, but he didn’t answer
24 them.
Therefore the LORD has rewarded me ac-
42
cording to my righteousness, Then I beat them small as the dust before the
according to the cleanness of my hands in wind.
his eyesight. I cast them out as the mire of the streets.
25 43
With the merciful you will show yourself You have delivered me from the strivings of
merciful. the people.
With the perfect man, you will show You have made me the head of the na-
yourself perfect. tions.
26
With the pure, you will show yourself pure. A people whom I have not known shall serve
With the crooked you will show yourself me.
44
shrewd. As soon as they hear of me they shall
27
For you will save the afflicted people, obey me.
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9
The foreigners shall submit themselves to The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring
me. forever.
45
The foreigners shall fade away, The LORD’s ordinances are true, and
and shall come trembling out of their righteous altogether.
10
close places. More to be desired are they than gold, yes,
46 than much fine gold;
The LORD lives; and blessed be my rock.
Exalted be the God of my salvation, sweeter also than honey and the extract
47 of the honeycomb.
even the God who executes vengeance for
11
me, Moreover by them is your servant warned.
and subdues peoples under me. In keeping them there is great reward.
48 12
He rescues me from my enemies. Who can discern his errors?
Yes, you lift me up above those who rise Forgive me from hidden errors.
13
up against me. Keep back your servant also from presump-
You deliver me from the violent man. tuous sins.
49
Therefore I will give thanks to you, LORD, Let them not have dominion over me.
among the nations, Then I will be upright.
and will sing praises to your name. I will be blameless and innocent of great
50 transgression.
He gives great deliverance to his king, 14
Let the words of my mouth and the medita-
and shows loving kindness to his
tion of my heart
anointed,
be acceptable in your sight,
to David and to his seed, forevermore.
LORD, my rock, and my redeemer.

Psalm 19 Psalm 20
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.
1
1
The heavens declare the glory of God. May the LORD answer you in the day of
trouble.
The expanse shows his handiwork.
2 May the name of the God of Jacob set you
Day after day they pour forth speech,
up on high,
and night after night they display knowl- 2
send you help from the sanctuary,
edge.
3 grant you support from Zion,
There is no speech nor language, 3
remember all your offerings,
where their voice is not heard.
4 and accept your burnt sacrifice.
Their voice has gone out through all the earth, Selah.
their words to the end of the world. 4
May He grant you your heart’s desire,
In them he has set a tent for the sun, and fulfill all your counsel.
5
which is as a bridegroom coming out of 5
We will triumph in your salvation.
his room, In the name of our God, we will set up
like a strong man rejoicing to run his our banners.
course. May the LORD grant all your requests.
6 6
His going forth is from the end of the heavens, Now I know that the LORD saves his
his circuit to its ends; anointed.
There is nothing hidden from its heat. He will answer him from his holy heaven,
7
The LORD’s Torah is perfect, restoring the with the saving strength of his right hand.
soul. 7
Some trust in chariots, and some in horses,
The LORD’s testimony is sure, making but we trust the name of the LORD our
wise the simple. God.
8 8
The LORD’s precepts are right, rejoicing the They are bowed down and fallen,
heart. but we rise up, and stand upright.
9
The LORD’s commandment is pure, en- Save, LORD!
lightening the eyes. Let the King answer us when we call!
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Psalm 21 2
My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don’t
answer;
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. in the night season, and am not silent.
3
But you are holy,
1
The king rejoices in your strength, LORD! you who inhabit the praises of Israel.
How greatly he rejoices in your salvation! 4
Our fathers trusted in you.
2
You have given him his heart’s desire, They trusted, and you delivered them.
and have not withheld the request of his 5
They cried to you, and were delivered.
lips. They trusted in you, and were not disap-
Selah. pointed.
3 6
For you meet him with the blessings of good- But I am a worm, and no man;
ness. a reproach of men, and despised by the
You set a crown of fine gold on his head. people.
4 7
He asked life of you, you gave it to him, All those who see me mock me.
even length of days forever and ever. They insult me with their lips. They
5
His glory is great in your salvation. shake their heads, saying,
You lay honor and majesty on him. 8
“He trusts in the LORD;
6
For you make him most blessed forever. let him deliver him.
You make him glad with joy in your Let him rescue him, since he delights in
presence. him.”
7 9
For the king trusts in the LORD. But you brought me out of the womb.
Through the loving kindness of the Most You made me trust at my mother’s
High, he shall not be moved. breasts.
8 10
Your hand will find out all of your enemies. I was thrown on you from my mother’s
Your right hand will find out those who womb.
hate you. You are my God since my mother bore
9
You will make them as a fiery furnace in the me.
time of your anger. 11
Don’t be far from me, for trouble is near.
The LORD will swallow them up in his For there is none to help.
wrath. 12
Many bulls have surrounded me.
The fire shall devour them. Strong bulls of Bashan have encircled me.
10 13
You will destroy their descendants from the They open their mouths wide against me,
earth, lions tearing prey and roaring.
their posterity from among the children 14
I am poured out like water.
of men. All my bones are out of joint.
11
For they intended evil against you. My heart is like wax;
They plotted evil against you which can- it is melted within me.
not succeed. 15
My strength is dried up like a potsherd.
12
For you will make them turn their back, My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth.
when you aim drawn bows at their face. You have brought me into the dust of death.
13 16
Be exalted, LORD, in your strength, For dogs have surrounded me.
so we will sing and praise your power. A company of evildoers have enclosed
me.
Psalm 22 17
They have pierced my hands and feet.k
I can count all of my bones.
They look and stare at me.
For the Chief Musician; set to “The Doe of 18
They divide my garments among them.
the Morning.” A Psalm by David.
They cast lots for my clothing.
1 19
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? But don’t be far off, LORD.
Why are you so far from helping me, and You are my help: hurry to help me.
20
from the words of my groaning? Deliver my soul from the sword,
k 22:16 So Dead Sea Scrolls. Masoretic Text reads, “Like a lion, they pin my hands and feet.”
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my precious life from the power of the He guides me in the paths of righteous-
dog. ness for his name’s sake.
21 4
Save me from the lion’s mouth! Even though I walk through the valley of the
Yes, from the horns of the wild oxen, you shadow of death,
have answered me. I will fear no evil, for you are with me.
22
I will declare your name to my brothers. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
In the midst of the assembly, I will praise 5
You prepare a table before me in the presence
you.
23 of my enemies.
You who fear the LORD, praise him!
You anoint my head with oil.
All you descendants of Jacob, glorify him!
Stand in awe of him, all you descendants My cup runs over.
6
of Israel! Surely goodness and loving kindness shall
24
For he has not despised nor abhorred the follow me all the days of my life,
affliction of the afflicted, and I will dwell in the LORD’s house
Neither has he hidden his face from him; forever.
but when he cried to him, he heard.
25
Of you comes my praise in the great assem-
bly. Psalm 24
I will pay my vows before those who fear
him.
26 A Psalm by David.
The humble shall eat and be satisfied.
They shall praise the LORD who seek 1
The earth is the LORD’s, with its fullness;
after him.
the world, and those who dwell therein.
Let your hearts live forever. 2
27 For he has founded it on the seas,
All the ends of the earth shall remember and
turn to the LORD. and established it on the floods.
3
All the relatives of the nations shall wor- Who may ascend to the LORD’s hill?
ship before you. Who may stand in his holy place?
28 4
For the kingdom is the LORD’s. He who has clean hands and a pure heart;
He is the ruler over the nations. who has not lifted up his soul to false-
29
All the rich ones of the earth shall eat and hood,
worship. and has not sworn deceitfully.
All those who go down to the dust shall 5
He shall receive a blessing from the LORD,
bow before him,
righteousness from the God of his salva-
even he who can’t keep his soul alive.
30 tion.
Posterity shall serve him. 6
This is the generation of those who seek Him,
Future generations shall be told about the
Lord. who seek your face—even Jacob.
31 Selah.
They shall come and shall declare his righ-
7
teousness to a people that shall be Lift up your heads, you gates!
born, Be lifted up, you everlasting doors,
for he has done it. and the King of glory will come in.
8
Who is the King of glory?
Psalm 23 The LORD strong and mighty,
The LORD mighty in battle.
9
A Psalm by David. Lift up your heads, you gates;
1 yes, lift them up, you everlasting doors,
The LORD is my shepherd:
I shall lack nothing. and the King of glory will come in.
2 10
He makes me lie down in green pastures. Who is this King of glory?
He leads me beside still waters. The LORD of Hosts is the King of glory!
3
He restores my soul. Selah.
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Psalm 25 19
Consider my enemies, for they are many.
They hate me with cruel hatred.
By David. 20
Oh keep my soul, and deliver me.
1 Let me not be disappointed, for I take
To you, LORD, do I lift up my soul.
2
My God, I have trusted in you. refuge in you.
21
Don’t let me be shamed. Let integrity and uprightness preserve me,
Don’t let my enemies triumph over me. for I wait for you.
3
Yes, no one who waits for you shall be 22
Redeem Israel, God,
shamed.
They shall be shamed who deal treacher- out all of his troubles.
ously without cause.
4
Show me your ways, LORD.

5
Teach me your paths. Psalm 26
Guide me in your truth, and teach me,
For you are the God of my salvation,
I wait for you all day long.
6 By David.
LORD, remember your tender mercies and
your loving kindness, 1
for they are from old times. Judge me, LORD, for I have walked in my
7
Don’t remember the sins of my youth, nor my integrity.
transgressions. I have trusted also in LORD without
Remember me according to your loving wavering.
kindness, 2
Examine me, LORD, and prove me.
for your goodness’ sake, LORD.
8 Try my heart and my mind.
Good and upright is the LORD, 3
therefore he will instruct sinners in the For your loving kindness is before my eyes.
way. I have walked in your truth.
9 4
He will guide the humble in justice. I have not sat with deceitful men,
He will teach the humble his way. neither will I go in with hypocrites.
10
All the paths of the LORD are loving kind- 5
I hate the assembly of evildoers,
ness and truth
to such as keep his covenant and his and will not sit with the wicked.
6
testimonies. I will wash my hands in innocence,
11
For your name’s sake, LORD, so I will go about your altar, LORD;
pardon my iniquity, for it is great. 7
12 that I may make the voice of thanksgiv-
What man is he who fears the LORD?
ing to be heard,
He shall instruct him in the way that he
shall choose. and tell of all your wondrous works.
13 8
His soul shall dwell at ease. LORD, I love the habitation of your house,
His seed shall inherit the land. the place where your glory dwells.
14
The friendship of the LORD is with those 9
Don’t gather my soul with sinners,
who fear him.
He will show them his covenant. nor my life with bloodthirsty men;
15 10
My eyes are ever on the LORD, in whose hands is wickedness,
for he will pluck my feet out of the net. their right hand is full of bribes.
16
Turn to me, and have mercy on me, 11
But as for me, I will walk in my integrity.
for I am desolate and afflicted.
17 Redeem me, and be merciful to me.
The troubles of my heart are enlarged.
12
Oh bring me out of my distresses. My foot stands in an even place.
18
Consider my affliction and my travail. In the congregations I will bless the
Forgive all my sins. LORD.
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Psalm 27 I will see the goodness of the LORD in the


land of the living.
14
By David. Wait for the LORD.
Be strong, and let your heart take
1
The LORD is my light and my salvation. courage.
Whom shall I fear? Yes, wait for the LORD.
The LORD is the strength of my life.
Of whom shall I be afraid?
2
When evildoers came at me to eat up my flesh, Psalm 28
even my adversaries and my foes, they
stumbled and fell. By David.
3
Though an army should encamp against me,
1
my heart shall not fear. To you, LORD, I call.
Though war should rise against me, My rock, don’t be deaf to me;
even then I will be confident. lest, if you are silent to me,
4
One thing I have asked of the LORD, that I will I would become like those who go down
seek after, into the pit.
that I may dwell in the house of the LORD 2
Hear the voice of my petitions, when I cry to
all the days of my life, you,
to see the LORD’s beauty, when I lift up my hands toward your
and to inquire in his temple. Most Holy Place.
5 3
For in the day of trouble he will keep me Don’t draw me away with the wicked,
secretly in his pavilion. with the workers of iniquity who speak
In the covert of his tabernacle he will hide peace with their neighbors,
me. but mischief is in their hearts.
He will lift me up on a rock. 4
Give them according to their work, and ac-
6
Now my head will be lifted up above my cording to the wickedness of their
enemies around me. doings.
I will offer sacrifices of joy in his tent. Give them according to the operation of
I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the their hands.
LORD. Bring back on them what they deserve.
7
Hear, LORD, when I cry with my voice. 5
Because they don’t respect the works of the
Have mercy also on me, and answer me. LORD,
8
When you said, “Seek my face,”
nor the operation of his hands,
my heart said to you, “I will seek your
he will break them down and not build
face, LORD.”
9 them up.
Don’t hide your face from me. 6
Blessed be the LORD,
Don’t put your servant away in anger.
because he has heard the voice of my
You have been my help.
petitions.
Don’t abandon me, 7
neither forsake me, God of my salvation. The LORD is my strength and my shield.
10
When my father and my mother forsake me, My heart has trusted in him, and I am
then the LORD will take me up. helped.
11
Teach me your way, LORD. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices.
Lead me in a straight path, because of my With my song I will thank him.
8
enemies. The LORD is their strength.
12 He is a stronghold of salvation to his
Don’t deliver me over to the desire of my
adversaries, anointed.
9
for false witnesses have risen up against Save your people,
me, and bless your inheritance.
such as breathe out cruelty. Be their shepherd also,
13
I am still confident of this: and bear them up forever.
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Psalm 29 5
For his anger is but for a moment.
His favor is for a lifetime.
A Psalm by David. Weeping may stay for the night,
but joy comes in the morning.
1 6
Ascribe to the LORD, you sons of the mighty, As for me, I said in my prosperity,
ascribe to the LORD glory and strength. “I shall never be moved.”
2 7
Ascribe to the LORD the glory due to his You, LORD, when you favored me, made my
name. mountain stand strong;
Worship the LORD in holy array. but when you hid your face, I was trou-
3
The LORD’s voice is on the waters. bled.
The God of glory thunders, even the 8
I cried to you, LORD.
LORD on many waters. To the LORD I made supplication:
4 9
The LORD’s voice is powerful. “What profit is there in my destruction, if I go
The LORD’s voice is full of majesty. down to the pit?
5
The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars. Shall the dust praise you?
Yes, the LORD breaks in pieces the cedars Shall it declare your truth?
of Lebanon. 10
Hear, LORD, and have mercy on me.
6
He makes them also to skip like a calf; LORD, be my helper.”
Lebanon and Sirion like a young, wild ox. 11
You have turned my mourning into dancing
7
The LORD’s voice strikes with flashes of light- for me.
ning. You have removed my sackcloth, and
8
The LORD’s voice shakes the wilder- clothed me with gladness,
ness. 12
To the end that my heart may sing
The LORD shakes the wilderness of praise to you, and not be silent.
Kadesh. LORD my God, I will give thanks to you
9
The LORD’s voice makes the deer calve, forever!
and strips the forests bare.

10
In his temple everything says, “Glory!” Psalm 31
The LORD sat enthroned at the Flood.
Yes, the LORD sits as King forever. For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.
11 1
The LORD will give strength to his people. In you, LORD, I take refuge.
The LORD will bless his people with Let me never be disappointed.
peace. Deliver me in your righteousness.
2
Bow down your ear to me.
Psalm 30 Deliver me speedily.
Be to me a strong rock,
a house of defense to save me.
A Psalm. A Song for the Dedication of the 3
For you are my rock and my fortress,
Temple. By David.
therefore for your name’s sake lead me
1
I will extol you, LORD, for you have raised me and guide me.
4
up, Pluck me out of the net that they have laid
and have not made my foes to rejoice over secretly for me,
me. for you are my stronghold.
2 5
LORD my God, I cried to you, Into your hand I commend my spirit.
and you have healed me. You redeem me, LORD, God of truth.
3 6
LORD, you have brought up my soul from I hate those who regard lying vanities,
Sheoll . but I trust in the LORD.
7
You have kept me alive, that I should not I will be glad and rejoice in your loving
go down to the pit. kindness,
4
Sing praise to the LORD, you holy ones of his. for you have seen my affliction.
Give thanks to his holy name. You have known my soul in adversities.
l 30:3 Sheol is the place of the dead.
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8
You have not shut me up into the hand of the Nevertheless you heard the voice of my
enemy. petitions when I cried to you.
23
You have set my feet in a large place. Oh love the LORD, all you his holy ones!
9
Have mercy on me, LORD, for I am in distress. The LORD preserves the faithful,
My eye, my soul, and my body waste and fully recompenses him who behaves arro-
away with grief. gantly.
10 24
For my life is spent with sorrow, Be strong, and let your heart take courage,
my years with sighing. all you who hope in the LORD.
My strength fails because of my iniquity.
My bones are wasted away.
11
Because of all my adversaries I have become Psalm 32
utterly contemptible to my neighbors,
A fear to my acquaintances. By David. A contemplative psalm.
Those who saw me on the street fled from 1
Blessed is he whose disobedience is forgiven,
me.
12 whose sin is covered.
I am forgotten from their hearts like a dead 2
man. Blessed is the man to whom the LORD doesn’t
I am like broken pottery. impute iniquity,
13
For I have heard the slander of many, terror in whose spirit there is no deceit.
3
on every side, When I kept silence, my bones wasted away
while they conspire together against me, through my groaning all day long.
4
they plot to take away my life. For day and night your hand was heavy on
14
But I trust in you, LORD. me.
I said, “You are my God.” My strength was sapped in the heat of
15
My times are in your hand. summer.
Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, Selah.
5
and from those who persecute me. I acknowledged my sin to you.
16
Make your face to shine on your servant. I didn’t hide my iniquity.
Save me in your loving kindness. I said, I will confess my transgressions to the
17 LORD,
Let me not be disappointed, LORD, for I have
called on you. and you forgave the iniquity of my sin.
Let the wicked be disappointed. Selah.
6
Let them be silent in Sheolm . For this, let everyone who is godly pray to you
18 in a time when you may be found.
Let the lying lips be mute,
which speak against the righteous inso- Surely when the great waters overflow,
lently, with pride and contempt. they shall not reach to him.
19 7
Oh how great is your goodness, You are my hiding place.
which you have laid up for those who You will preserve me from trouble.
fear you, You will surround me with songs of
which you have worked for those who deliverance.
take refuge in you, Selah.
8
before the sons of men! I will instruct you and teach you in the way
20 which you shall go.
In the shelter of your presence you will hide
them from the plotting of man. I will counsel you with my eye on you.
9
You will keep them secretly in a dwelling Don’t be like the horse, or like the mule, which
away from the strife of tongues. have no understanding,
21
Praise be to the LORD, who are controlled by bit and bridle, or
for he has shown me his marvelous lov- else they will not come near to you.
10
ing kindness in a strong city. Many sorrows come to the wicked,
22
As for me, I said in my haste, “I am cut off but loving kindness shall surround him
from before your eyes.” who trusts in the LORD.
m 31:17 Sheol is the place of the dead.
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11
Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, you righ- neither does he deliver any by his great
teous! power.
18
Shout for joy, all you who are upright in Behold, the LORD’s eye is on those who fear
heart! him,
on those who hope in his loving kindness;
19
Psalm 33 to deliver their soul from death,
to keep them alive in famine.
1 20
Rejoice in the LORD, you righteous! Our soul has waited for the LORD.
Praise is fitting for the upright. He is our help and our shield.
2 21
Give thanks to the LORD with the lyre. For our heart rejoices in him,
Sing praises to him with the harp of ten because we have trusted in his holy
strings. name.
3 22
Sing to him a new song. Let your loving kindness be on us, LORD,
Play skillfully with a shout of joy! since we have hoped in you.
4
For the word of the LORD is right.

5
All his work is done in faithfulness.
He loves righteousness and justice.
Psalm 34
The earth is full of the loving kindness of
the LORD. By David; when he pretended to be insane
6
By the LORD’s word, the heavens were made; before Abimelech, who drove him away, and he
all their army by the breath of his mouth. departed.n
7 1
He gathers the waters of the sea together as a I will bless the LORD at all times.
heap. His praise will always be in my mouth.
He lays up the deeps in storehouses. 2
My soul shall boast in the LORD.
8
Let all the earth fear the LORD. The humble shall hear of it, and be glad.
Let all the inhabitants of the world stand 3
Oh magnify the LORD with me.
in awe of him. Let us exalt his name together.
9 4
For he spoke, and it was done. I sought the LORD, and he answered me,
He commanded, and it stood firm. and delivered me from all my fears.
10 5
The LORD brings the counsel of the nations They looked to him, and were radiant.
to nothing. Their faces shall never be covered with
He makes the thoughts of the peoples to shame.
be of no effect. 6
This poor man cried, and the LORD heard
11
The counsel of the LORD stands fast forever, him,
the thoughts of his heart to all genera- and saved him out of all his troubles.
tions. 7
The angel of the LORD encamps around those
12
Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, who fear him,
the people whom he has chosen for his and delivers them.
8
own inheritance. Oh taste and see that the LORD is good.
13
The LORD looks from heaven. Blessed is the man who takes refuge in
He sees all the sons of men. him.
14 9
From the place of his habitation he looks out Oh fear the LORD, you his holy ones,
on all the inhabitants of the earth, for there is no lack with those who fear
15
he who fashions all of their hearts; him.
10
and he considers all of their works. The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger,
16
There is no king saved by the multitude of an but those who seek the LORD shall not
army. lack any good thing.
11
A mighty man is not delivered by great Come, you children, listen to me.
strength. I will teach you the fear of the LORD.
17 12
A horse is a vain thing for safety, Who is someone who desires life,
n 34:0 Psalm 34 is an acrostic poem, with each verse starting with a letter of the alphabet (ordered from Alef
to Tav).
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8
and loves many days, that he may see Let destruction come on him unawares.
good? Let his net that he has hidden catch
13
Keep your tongue from evil, himself.
and your lips from speaking lies. Let him fall into that destruction.
14 9
Depart from evil, and do good. My soul shall be joyful in the LORD.
seek peace, and pursue it. It shall rejoice in his salvation.
15 10
The LORD’s eyes are toward the righteous. All my bones shall say, “LORD, who is like
His ears listen to their cry. you,
16
The LORD’s face is against those who do evil, who delivers the poor from him who is
to cut off their memory from the earth. too strong for him;
17
The righteous cry, and the LORD hears, yes, the poor and the needy from him
and delivers them out of all their troubles. who robs him?”
18 11
The LORD is near to those who have a broken Unrighteous witnesses rise up.
heart, They ask me about things that I don’t
and saves those who have a crushed know about.
12
spirit. They reward me evil for good,
19
Many are the afflictions of the righteous, to the bereaving of my soul.
13
but the LORD delivers him out of them But as for me, when they were sick, my
all. clothing was sackcloth.
20
He protects all of his bones. I afflicted my soul with fasting.
Not one of them is broken. My prayer returned into my own bosom.
21 14
Evil shall kill the wicked. I behaved myself as though it had been my
Those who hate the righteous shall be friend or my brother.
condemned. I bowed down mourning, as one who
22
The LORD redeems the soul of his servants. mourns his mother.
15
None of those who take refuge in him But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gath-
shall be condemned. ered themselves together.
The attackers gathered themselves to-
Psalm 35 gether against me, and I didn’t know
it.
They tore at me, and didn’t cease.
By David. 16
Like the profane mockers in feasts,
1
Contend, LORD, with those who contend with they gnashed their teeth at me.
17
me. Lord, how long will you look on?
Fight against those who fight against me. Rescue my soul from their destruction,
2
Take hold of shield and buckler, my precious life from the lions.
18
and stand up for my help. I will give you thanks in the great assembly.
3
Brandish the spear and block those who pur- I will praise you among many people.
19
sue me. Don’t let those who are my enemies wrong-
Tell my soul, “I am your salvation.” fully rejoice over me;
4
Let those who seek after my soul be disap- neither let those who hate me without a
pointed and brought to dishonor. cause wink their eyes.
20
Let those who plot my ruin be turned For they don’t speak peace,
back and confounded. but they devise deceitful words against
5
Let them be as chaff before the wind, those who are quiet in the land.
21
The LORD’s angel driving them on. Yes, they opened their mouth wide against
6
Let their way be dark and slippery, me.
The LORD’s angel pursuing them. They said, “Aha! Aha! Our eye has seen
7
For without cause they have hidden their net it!”
22
in a pit for me. You have seen it, LORD. Don’t keep silent.
Without cause they have dug a pit for my Lord, don’t be far from me.
23
soul. Wake up! Rise up to defend me, my God!
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My Lord, contend for me! You will make them drink of the river of
24
Vindicate me, LORD my God, according to your pleasures.
9
your righteousness. For with you is the spring of life.
Don’t let them gloat over me. In your light shall we see light.
25 10
Don’t let them say in their heart, “Aha! That’s Oh continue your loving kindness to those
the way we want it!” who know you,
Don’t let them say, “We have swallowed your righteousness to the upright in
him up!” heart.
26 11
Let them be disappointed and confounded Don’t let the foot of pride come against me.
together who rejoice at my calamity. Don’t let the hand of the wicked drive me
Let them be clothed with shame and away.
12
dishonor who magnify themselves There the workers of iniquity are fallen.
against me. They are thrust down, and shall not be
27 able to rise.
Let them shout for joy and be glad, who favor
my righteous cause.
Yes, let them say continually, “The LORD
be magnified,
Psalm 37
who has pleasure in the prosperity of his By David.
servant!”
28 1
My tongue shall talk about your righteous- Don’t fret because of evildoers,
ness and about your praise all day neither be envious against those who
long. work unrighteousness.
2
For they shall soon be cut down like the grass,
and wither like the green herb.
Psalm 36 3
Trust in the LORD, and do good.
Dwell in the land, and enjoy safe pasture.
4
For the Chief Musician. By David, the Also delight yourself in the LORD,
servant of the LORD. and he will give you the desires of your
1
heart.
An oracle is within my heart about the disobe- 5
Commit your way to the LORD.
dience of the wicked: Trust also in him, and he will do this:
“There is no fear of God before his eyes.” 6
he will make your righteousness go forth as
2
For he flatters himself in his own eyes, the light,
too much to detect and hate his sin. and your justice as the noon day sun.
3
The words of his mouth are iniquity and 7
Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him.
deceit. Don’t fret because of him who prospers in
He has ceased to be wise and to do good. his way,
4
He plots iniquity on his bed. because of the man who makes wicked
He sets himself in a way that is not good. plots happen.
He doesn’t abhor evil. 8
Cease from anger, and forsake wrath.
5
Your loving kindness, LORD, is in the heav- Don’t fret, it leads only to evildoing.
ens. 9
For evildoers shall be cut off,
Your faithfulness reaches to the skies. but those who wait for the LORD shall
6
Your righteousness is like the mountains of inherit the land.
God. 10
For yet a little while, and the wicked will be
Your judgments are like a great deep. no more.
LORD, you preserve man and animal. Yes, though you look for his place, he isn’t
7
How precious is your loving kindness, God! there.
11
The children of men take refuge under the But the humble shall inherit the land,
shadow of your wings. and shall delight themselves in the abun-
8
They shall be abundantly satisfied with the dance of peace.
12
abundance of your house. The wicked plots against the just,
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and gnashes at him with his teeth. None of his steps shall slide.
13 32
The Lord will laugh at him, The wicked watches the righteous,
for he sees that his day is coming. and seeks to kill him.
14 33
The wicked have drawn out the sword, and The LORD will not leave him in his hand,
have bent their bow, nor condemn him when he is judged.
34
to cast down the poor and needy, Wait for the LORD, and keep his way,
to kill those who are upright in the way. and he will exalt you to inherit the land.
15
Their sword shall enter into their own heart. When the wicked are cut off, you shall see
Their bows shall be broken. it.
16 35
Better is a little that the righteous has, I have seen the wicked in great power,
than the abundance of many wicked. spreading himself like a green tree in its
17
For the arms of the wicked shall be broken, native soil.
36
but the LORD upholds the righteous. But he passed away, and behold, he was not.
18
The LORD knows the days of the perfect. Yes, I sought him, but he could not be
Their inheritance shall be forever. found.
19 37
They shall not be disappointed in the time of Mark the perfect man, and see the upright,
evil. for there is a future for the man of peace.
38
In the days of famine they shall be satis- As for transgressors, they shall be destroyed
fied. together.
20 The future of the wicked shall be cut off.
But the wicked shall perish.
39
The enemies of the LORD shall be like the But the salvation of the righteous is from the
beauty of the fields. LORD.
They will vanish— He is their stronghold in the time of
vanish like smoke. trouble.
21 40
The wicked borrow, and don’t pay back, The LORD helps them, and rescues them.
but the righteous give generously. He rescues them from the wicked, and
22 saves them,
For such as are blessed by him shall inherit
the land. Because they have taken refuge in him.
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23
off.
A man’s goings are established by the LORD.
Psalm 38
He delights in his way.
24 A Psalm by David, for a memorial.
Though he stumble, he shall not fall,
for the LORD holds him up with his 1
LORD, don’t rebuke me in your wrath,
hand. neither chasten me in your hot displea-
25
I have been young, and now am old, sure.
yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, 2
For your arrows have pierced me,
nor his children begging for bread. your hand presses hard on me.
26 3
All day long he deals graciously, and lends. There is no soundness in my flesh because of
His seed is blessed. your indignation,
27
Depart from evil, and do good. neither is there any health in my bones
Live securely forever. because of my sin.
28 4
For the LORD loves justice, For my iniquities have gone over my head.
and doesn’t forsake his holy ones. As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for
They are preserved forever, me.
5
but the children of the wicked shall be cut My wounds are loathsome and corrupt,
off. because of my foolishness.
29 6
The righteous shall inherit the land, I am pained and bowed down greatly.
and live in it forever. I go mourning all day long.
30 7
The mouth of the righteous talks of wisdom. For my waist is filled with burning.
His tongue speaks justice. There is no soundness in my flesh.
31 8
The law of his God is in his heart. I am faint and severely bruised.
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3
I have groaned by reason of the anguish My heart was hot within me.
of my heart. While I meditated, the fire burned:
9
Lord, all my desire is before you. I spoke with my tongue:
4
My groaning is not hidden from you. “LORD, show me my end,
10
My heart throbs. what is the measure of my days.
My strength fails me. Let me know how frail I am.
5
As for the light of my eyes, it has also left Behold, you have made my days hand-
me. breadths.
11
My lovers and my friends stand aloof from My lifetime is as nothing before you.
my plague. Surely every man stands as a breath.”
My kinsmen stand far away. Selah.
12 6
They also who seek after my life lay snares. “Surely every man walks like a shadow.
Those who seek my hurt speak mis- Surely they busy themselves in vain.
chievous things, He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall
and meditate deceits all day long. gather.
13 7
But I, as a deaf man, don’t hear. Now, Lord, what do I wait for?
I am as a mute man who doesn’t open his My hope is in you.
8
mouth. Deliver me from all my transgressions.
14
Yes, I am as a man who doesn’t hear, Don’t make me the reproach of the fool-
in whose mouth are no reproofs. ish.
15 9
For in you, LORD, do I hope. I was mute.
You will answer, Lord my God. I didn’t open my mouth,
16
For I said, “Don’t let them gloat over me, because you did it.
10
or exalt themselves over me when my Remove your scourge away from me.
foot slips.” I am overcome by the blow of your hand.
17 11
For I am ready to fall. When you rebuke and correct man for iniq-
My pain is continually before me. uity,
18
For I will declare my iniquity. You consume his wealth like a moth.
I will be sorry for my sin. Surely every man is but a breath.”
19
But my enemies are vigorous and many. Selah.
12
Those who hate me without reason are “Hear my prayer, LORD, and give ear to my
numerous. cry.
20
They who also render evil for good are Don’t be silent at my tears.
adversaries to me, For I am a stranger with you,
because I follow what is good. a foreigner, as all my fathers were.
21 13
Don’t forsake me, LORD. Oh spare me, that I may recover strength,
My God, don’t be far from me. before I go away, and exist no more.”
22
Hurry to help me,
Lord, my salvation.
Psalm 40
Psalm 39 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.
1
I waited patiently for the LORD.
For the Chief Musician. For Jeduthun. A
He turned to me, and heard my cry.
Psalm by David. 2
He brought me up also out of a horrible pit,
1
I said, “I will watch my ways, so that I don’t out of the miry clay.
sin with my tongue. He set my feet on a rock,
I will keep my mouth with a bridle while and gave me a firm place to stand.
3
the wicked is before me.” He has put a new song in my mouth, even
2
I was mute with silence. praise to our God.
I held my peace, even from good. Many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust
My sorrow was stirred. in the LORD.
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4
Blessed is the man who makes the LORD his Let such as love your salvation say con-
trust, tinually, “Let the LORD be exalted!”
17
and doesn’t respect the proud, nor such But I am poor and needy.
as turn aside to lies. May the Lord think about me.
5
Many, LORD, my God, are the wonderful You are my help and my deliverer.
works which you have done, Don’t delay, my God.
and your thoughts which are toward us.
They can’t be declared back to you.
If I would declare and speak of them, they
Psalm 41
are more than can be numbered.
6 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.
Sacrifice and offering you didn’t desire.
You have opened my ears. 1
Blessed is he who considers the poor.
You have not required burnt offering and The LORD will deliver him in the day of
sin offering. evil.
7
Then I said, “Behold, I have come. 2
The LORD will preserve him, and keep him
It is written about me in the book in the alive.
scroll. He shall be blessed on the earth,
8
I delight to do your will, my God. and he will not surrender him to the will
Yes, your Torah is within my heart.” of his enemies.
9 3
I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness The LORD will sustain him on his sickbed,
in the great assembly. and restore him from his bed of illness.
Behold, I will not seal my lips, LORD, you 4
I said, “LORD, have mercy on me!
know. Heal me, for I have sinned against you.”
10 5
I have not hidden your righteousness within My enemies speak evil against me:
my heart. “When will he die, and his name perish?”
I have declared your faithfulness and 6
If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood.
your salvation. His heart gathers iniquity to itself.
I have not concealed your loving kind- When he goes abroad, he tells it.
ness and your truth from the great 7
All who hate me whisper together against me.
assembly. They imagine the worst for me.
11
Don’t withhold your tender mercies from me, 8
“An evil disease,” they say, “has afflicted him.
LORD. Now that he lies he shall rise up no
Let your loving kindness and your truth more.”
continually preserve me. 9
Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I
12
For innumerable evils have surrounded me. trusted,
My iniquities have overtaken me, so that who ate bread with me,
I am not able to look up. has lifted up his heel against me.
They are more than the hairs of my head. 10
But you, LORD, have mercy on me, and raise
My heart has failed me. me up,
13
Be pleased, LORD, to deliver me. that I may repay them.
Hurry to help me, LORD. 11
By this I know that you delight in me,
14
Let them be disappointed and confounded because my enemy doesn’t triumph over
together who seek after my soul to me.
destroy it. 12
As for me, you uphold me in my integrity,
Let them be turned backward and and set me in your presence forever.
brought to dishonor who delight in my 13
Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel,
hurt. from everlasting and to everlasting!
15
Let them be desolate by reason of their shame Amen and amen.
that tell me, “Aha! Aha!”
16
Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad
in you. BOOK II
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Psalm 42 Psalm 43
1
Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause
For the Chief Musician. A contemplation by
against an ungodly nation.
the sons of Korah.
Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked
1 men.
As the deer pants for the water brooks,
2
so my soul pants after you, Godo . For you are the God of my strength. Why have
2 you rejected me?
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.
When shall I come and appear before Why do I go mourning because of the
God? oppression of the enemy?
3 3
My tears have been my food day and night, Oh, send out your light and your truth.
while they continually ask me, “Where is Let them lead me.
your God?” Let them bring me to your holy hill,
4 To your tents.
These things I remember, and pour out my
4
soul within me, Then I will go to the altar of God,
how I used to go with the crowd, and led to God, my exceeding joy.
them to God’s house, I will praise you on the harp, God, my God.
5
with the voice of joy and praise, a multi- Why are you in despair, my soul?
tude keeping a holy day. Why are you disturbed within me?
5 Hope in God!
Why are you in despair, my soul?
Why are you disturbed within me? For I shall still praise him:
Hope in God! my Savior, my helper, and my God.
For I shall still praise him for the saving

6
help of his presence.
My God, my soul is in despair within me.
Psalm 44
Therefore I remember you from the land
For the Chief Musician. By the sons of
of the Jordan,
Korah. A contemplative psalm.
the heights of Hermon, from the hill
1
Mizar. We have heard with our ears, God;
7
Deep calls to deep at the noise of your water- our fathers have told us,
falls. what work you did in their days,
All your waves and your billows have in the days of old.
2
swept over me. You drove out the nations with your hand,
8
the LORDp will command his loving kindness but you planted them.
in the daytime. You afflicted the peoples,
In the night his song shall be with me: but you spread them abroad.
3
a prayer to the God of my life. For they didn’t get the land in possession by
9
I will ask God, my rock, “Why have you their own sword,
forgotten me? neither did their own arm save them;
Why do I go mourning because of the but your right hand, and your arm, and the
oppression of the enemy?” light of your face,
10
As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries because you were favorable to them.
4
reproach me, You are my King, God.
while they continually ask me, “Where is Command victories for Jacob!
5
your God?” Through you, will we push down our adver-
11
Why are you in despair, my soul? saries.
Why are you disturbed within me? Through your name, will we tread them
Hope in God! For I shall still praise him, under who rise up against us.
6
the saving help of my countenance, and For I will not trust in my bow,
my God. neither shall my sword save me.
o 42:1 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “Elohim.”
p 42:8 “LORD” or “GOD” (all capital letters) indicate the 4-letter Holy Name of God
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7
But you have saved us from our adversaries, Our body clings to the earth.
26
and have shamed those who hate us. Rise up to help us.
8
In God we have made our boast all day long, Redeem us for your loving kindness’
we will give thanks to your name forever. sake.
Selah.
9
But now you rejected us, and brought us to Psalm 45
dishonor,
and don’t go out with our armies. For the Chief Musician. Set to “The Lilies.”
10 A contemplation by the sons of Korah. A
You make us turn back from the adversary.
Those who hate us take spoil for them- wedding song.
selves. 1
My heart overflows with a noble theme.
11
You have made us like sheep for food, I recite my verses for the king.
and have scattered us among the nations. My tongue is like the pen of a skillful
12
You sell your people for nothing, writer.
and have gained nothing from their sale. 2
You are the most excellent of the sons of men.
13
You make us a reproach to our neighbors, Grace has anointed your lips,
a scoffing and a derision to those who are therefore God has blessed you forever.
around us. 3
Strap your sword on your thigh, mighty one:
14
You make us a byword among the nations, your splendor and your majesty.
a shaking of the head among the peoples. 4
In your majesty ride on victoriously on behalf
15
All day long my dishonor is before me, of truth, humility, and righteousness.
and shame covers my face, Let your right hand display awesome
16
At the taunt of one who reproaches and deeds.
verbally abuses, 5
Your arrows are sharp.
because of the enemy and the avenger. The nations fall under you, with arrows
17
All this has come on us, in the heart of the king’s enemies.
yet have we not forgotten you, 6
Your throne, God, is forever and ever.
Neither have we been false to your A scepter of equity is the scepter of your
covenant. kingdom.
18 7
Our heart has not turned back, You have loved righteousness, and hated
neither have our steps strayed from your wickedness.
path, Therefore God, your God, has anointed
19
Though you have crushed us in the you with the oil of gladness above
haunt of jackals, your fellows.
8
and covered us with the shadow of death. All your garments smell like myrrh, aloes, and
20
If we have forgotten the name of our God, cassia.
or spread forth our hands to a strange Out of ivory palaces stringed instruments
god; have made you glad.
21 9
won’t God search this out? Kings’ daughters are among your honorable
For he knows the secrets of the heart. women.
22
Yes, for your sake we are killed all day long. At your right hand the queen stands in
We are regarded as sheep for the slaugh- gold of Ophir.
10
ter. Listen, daughter, consider, and turn your ear.
23
Wake up! Forget your own people, and also your
Why do you sleep, Lord?q father’s house.
11
Arise! So the king will desire your beauty,
Don’t reject us forever. honor him, for he is your lord.
24 12
Why do you hide your face, The daughter of Tyre comes with a gift.
and forget our affliction and our oppres- The rich among the people entreat your
sion? favor.
25 13
For our soul is bowed down to the dust. The princess inside is all glorious.
q 44:23 The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”
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Her clothing is interwoven with gold. I will be exalted in the earth.”


14 11
She shall be led to the king in embroidered The LORD of Hosts is with us.
work. The God of Jacob is our refuge.
The virgins, her companions who follow Selah.
her, shall be brought to you.
15
With gladness and rejoicing they shall be led. Psalm 47
They shall enter into the king’s palace.
16
Your sons will take the place of your fathers. For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by the sons
You shall make them princes in all the of Korah.
earth. 1
17 Oh clap your hands, all you nations.
I will make your name to be remembered in
Shout to God with the voice of triumph!
all generations. 2
For the LORD Most High is awesome.
Therefore the peoples shall give you
He is a great King over all the earth.
thanks forever and ever. 3
He subdues nations under us,
and peoples under our feet.
Psalm 46 4
He chooses our inheritance for us,
the glory of Jacob whom he loved.
For the Chief Musician. By the sons of Selah.
5
Korah. According to Alamoth.r God has gone up with a shout,
1 The LORD with the sound of a shofars .
God is our refuge and strength, 6
Sing praise to God, sing praises.
a very present help in trouble. Sing praises to our King, sing praises.
2
Therefore we won’t be afraid, though the earth 7
For God is the King of all the earth.
changes, Sing praises with understanding.
though the mountains are shaken into the 8
God reigns over the nations.
heart of the seas; God sits on his holy throne.
3
though its waters roar and are troubled, 9
The princes of the peoples are gathered to-
though the mountains tremble with their gether,
swelling. the people of the God of Abraham.
Selah. For the shields of the earth belong to God.
4
There is a river, the streams of which make the He is greatly exalted!
city of God glad,
the holy place of the tents of the Most
High. Psalm 48
5
God is in her midst. She shall not be moved.
God will help her at dawn. A Song. A Psalm by the sons of Korah.
6 1
The nations raged. The kingdoms were Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised,
moved. in the city of our God, in his holy moun-
He lifted his voice, and the earth melted. tain.
7 2
The LORD of Hosts is with us. Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole
The God of Jacob is our refuge. earth,
Selah. is Mount Zion, on the north sides,
8
Come, see the LORD’s works, the city of the great King.
3
what desolations he has made in the God has shown himself in her citadels as a
earth. refuge.
9 4
He makes wars cease to the end of the earth. For, behold, the kings assembled themselves,
He breaks the bow, and shatters the spear. they passed by together.
5
He burns the chariots in the fire. They saw it, then they were amazed.
10
“Be still, and know that I am God. They were dismayed.
I will be exalted among the nations. They hurried away.
r 46:0 Alamoth is a musical term.
s 47:5 or, trumpet
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6 9
Trembling took hold of them there, That he should live on forever,
pain, as of a woman in travail. that he should not see corruption.
7
With the east wind, you break the ships of 10
Tarshish. For he sees that wise men die;
8
As we have heard, so we have seen, likewise the fool and the senseless perish,
in the city of the LORD of Hosts, in the
and leave their wealth to others.
city of our God.
11
God will establish it forever. Their inward thought is that their houses will
Selah. endure forever,
9
We have thought about your loving kindness, and their dwelling places to all genera-
God, tions.
in the midst of your temple.
10
As is your name, God, They name their lands after themselves.
12
so is your praise to the ends of the earth. But man, despite his riches, doesn’t endure.
Your right hand is full of righteousness. He is like the animals that perish.
11
Let Mount Zion be glad! 13
Let the daughters of Judah rejoice, This is the destiny of those who are foolish,
Because of your judgments. and of those who approve their sayings.
12
Walk about Zion, and go around her.
Selah.
Number its towers.
14
13
Mark well her bulwarks. They are appointed as a flock for Sheolt .
Consider her palaces, Death shall be their shepherd.
that you may tell it to the next generation.
14
For this God is our God forever and ever. The upright shall have dominion over them in
He will be our guide even to death. the morning.
Their beauty shall decay in Sheolu ,
Psalm 49 far from their mansion.
15
But God will redeem my soul from the power
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by the sons of Sheolv ,
of Korah.
for he will receive me.
1
Hear this, all you peoples. Selah.
Listen, all you inhabitants of the world, 16
2
both low and high, Don’t be afraid when a man is made rich,
rich and poor together. when the glory of his house is increased.
3
My mouth will speak words of wisdom. 17
For when he dies he shall carry nothing away.
My heart shall utter understanding.
4 His glory shall not descend after him.
I will incline my ear to a proverb.
I will open my riddle on the harp. 18
Though while he lived he blessed his soul—
5
Why should I fear in the days of evil,
and men praise you when you do well for
when iniquity at my heels surrounds me?
6 yourself—
Those who trust in their wealth,
19
and boast in the multitude of their he shall go to the generation of his
riches— fathers.
7
none of them can by any means redeem They shall never see the light.
his brother, 20
nor give God a ransom for him. A man who has riches without understand-
8
For the redemption of their life is costly, ing,
no payment is ever enough, is like the animals that perish.
t 49:14 Sheol is the place of the dead.
u 49:14 Sheol is the place of the dead.
v 49:15 Sheol is the place of the dead.
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Psalm 50 20
You sit and speak against your brother.
You slander your own mother’s son.
21
A Psalm by Asaph. You have done these things, and I kept silent.
You thought that I was just like you.
1
The Mighty One, God, the LORD, speaks, I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front
and calls the earth from sunrise to sunset. of your eyes.
2 22
Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, “Now consider this, you who forget God,
God shines forth. lest I tear you into pieces, and there be
3
Our God comes, and does not keep silent. none to deliver.
23
A fire devours before him. Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving
It is very stormy around him. glorifies me,
4
He calls to the heavens above, and prepares his way so that I will show
to the earth, that he may judge his people: God’s salvation to him.”
5
“Gather my holy ones together to me,
those who have made a covenant with me
by sacrifice.”
Psalm 51
6
The heavens shall declare his righteousness,
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David,
for God himself is judge.
when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he
Selah.
7 had gone in to Bathsheba.
“Hear, my people, and I will speak;
1
Israel, and I will testify against you. Have mercy on me, God, according to your
I am God, your God. loving kindness.
8
I don’t rebuke you for your sacrifices. According to the multitude of your ten-
Your burnt offerings are continually be- der mercies, blot out my transgres-
fore me. sions.
9 2
I have no need for a bull from your stall, Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity.
nor male goats from your pens. Cleanse me from my sin.
10 3
For every animal of the forest is mine, For I know my transgressions.
and the livestock on a thousand hills. My sin is constantly before me.
11 4
I know all the birds of the mountains. Against you, and you only, have I sinned,
The wild animals of the field are mine. and done that which is evil in your sight;
12
If I were hungry, I would not tell you, that you may be proved right when you speak,
for the world is mine, and all that is in it. and justified when you judge.
13 5
Will I eat the flesh of bulls, Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity.
or drink the blood of goats? In sin my mother conceived me.
14 6
Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving. Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts.
Pay your vows to the Most High. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.
15 7
Call on me in the day of trouble. Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean.
I will deliver you, and you will honor Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
8
me.” Let me hear joy and gladness,
16
But to the wicked God says, That the bones which you have broken
“What right do you have to declare my may rejoice.
9
statutes, Hide your face from my sins,
that you have taken my covenant on your and blot out all of my iniquities.
10
lips, Create in me a clean heart, O God.
17
since you hate instruction, Renew a right spirit within me.
11
and throw my words behind you? Don’t throw me from your presence,
18
When you saw a thief, you consented with and don’t take your holy Spirit from me.
12
him, Restore to me the joy of your salvation.
and have participated with adulterers. Uphold me with a willing spirit.
19 13
“You give your mouth to evil. Then I will teach transgressors your ways.
Your tongue frames deceit. Sinners shall be converted to you.
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14 9
Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, the I will give you thanks forever, because you
God of my salvation. have done it.
My tongue shall sing aloud of your righ- I will hope in your name, for it is good,
teousness. in the presence of your holy ones.
15
Lord, open my lips.

16
My mouth shall declare your praise. Psalm 53
For you don’t delight in sacrifice, or else I
would give it. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of
You have no pleasure in burnt offering. “Mahalath.” A contemplation by David.
17
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. 1
The fool has said in his heart, “There is no
A broken and contrite heart, O God, you God.”
will not despise. They are corrupt, and have done abom-
18
Do well in your good pleasure to Zion. inable iniquity.
Build the walls of Jerusalem. There is no one who does good.
19 2
Then you will delight in the sacrifices of God looks down from heaven on the children
righteousness, of men,
in burnt offerings and in whole burnt to see if there are any who understood,
offerings. who seek after God.
Then they will offer bulls on your altar. 3
Every one of them has gone back.
They have become filthy together.
Psalm 52 There is no one who does good, no, not
one.
4
Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge,
For the Chief Musician. A contemplation by
who eat up my people as they eat bread,
David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told
and don’t call on God?
Saul, “David has come to Abimelech’s house.” 5
There they were in great fear, where no fear
1 was,
Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man?
God’s loving kindness endures continu- for God has scattered the bones of him
ally. who encamps against you.
2 You have put them to shame,
Your tongue plots destruction,
like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. because God has rejected them.
3 6
You love evil more than good, Oh that the salvation [yeshuat] of Israel would
lying rather than speaking the truth. come out of Zion!
Selah. When God brings back his people from
4 captivity,
You love all devouring words,
you deceitful tongue. then Jacob shall rejoice,
5 and Israel shall be glad.
God will likewise destroy you forever.
He will take you up, and pluck you out of
your tent, Psalm 54
and root you out of the land of the living.
Selah. For the Chief Musician. On stringed instru-
6
The righteous also will see it, and fear, ments. A contemplation by David, when the
and laugh at him, saying, Ziphites came and said to Saul, “Isn’t David
7
“Behold, this is the man who didn’t make God hiding himself among us?”
1
his strength, Save me, God, by your name.
but trusted in the abundance of his riches, Vindicate me in your might.
2
and strengthened himself in his wicked- Hear my prayer, God.
ness.” Listen to the words of my mouth.
8 3
But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in For strangers have risen up against me.
God’s house. Violent men have sought after my soul.
I trust in God’s loving kindness forever They haven’t set God before them.
and ever. Selah.
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4
Behold, God is my helper. then I would have hidden myself from
The Lord is the one who sustains my soul. him.
5 13
He will repay the evil to my enemies. But it was you, a man like me,
Destroy them in your truth. my companion, and my familiar friend.
6 14
With a free will offering, I will sacrifice to you. We took sweet fellowship together.
I will give thanks to your name, LORD, We walked in God’s house with company.
15
for it is good. Let death come suddenly on them.
7
For he has delivered me out of all trouble. Let them go down alive into Sheolw .
My eye has seen triumph over my ene- For wickedness is in their dwelling, in
mies. their midst.
16
As for me, I will call on God.
The LORD will save me.
Psalm 55 17
Evening, morning, and at noon, I will cry out
in distress.
For the Chief Musician. On stringed instru- He will hear my voice.
ments. A contemplation by David. 18
He has redeemed my soul in peace from the
1 battle that was against me,
Listen to my prayer, God.
although there are many who oppose me.
Don’t hide yourself from my supplica- 19
God, who is enthroned forever,
tion.
2 will hear, and answer them.
Attend to me, and answer me.
Selah.
I am restless in my complaint, and moan,
3 They never change,
Because of the voice of the enemy, who don’t fear God.
Because of the oppression of the wicked. 20
He raises his hands against his friends.
For they bring suffering on me. He has violated his covenant.
In anger they hold a grudge against me. 21
His mouth was smooth as butter,
4
My heart is severely pained within me. but his heart was war.
The terrors of death have fallen on me. His words were softer than oil,
5
Fearfulness and trembling have come on me. yet they were drawn swords.
Horror has overwhelmed me. 22
Cast your burden on the LORD, and he will
6
I said, “Oh that I had wings like a dove! sustain you.
Then I would fly away, and be at rest. He will never allow the righteous to be
7
Behold, then I would wander far off. moved.
I would lodge in the wilderness.” 23
But you, God, will bring them down into the
Selah. pit of destruction.
8
“I would hurry to a shelter from the stormy Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not
wind and storm.” live out half their days,
9
Confuse them, Lord, and confound their lan- but I will trust in you.
guage,
for I have seen violence and strife in the
city.
Psalm 56
10
Day and night they prowl around on its
walls. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of
“Silent Dove in Distant Lands.” A poem by
Malice and abuse are also within her.
11 David, when the Philistines seized him in Gath.
Destructive forces are within her.
1
Threats and lies don’t depart from her Be merciful to me, God, for man wants to
streets. swallow me up.
12
For it was not an enemy who insulted me, All day long, he attacks and oppresses
then I could have endured it. me.
2
Neither was it he who hated me who raised My enemies want to swallow me up all day
himself up against me, long,
w 55:15 Sheol is the place of the dead.
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for they are many who fight proudly I lie among those who are set on fire,
against me. even the sons of men, whose teeth are
3
When I am afraid, spears and arrows,
I will put my trust in you. and their tongue a sharp sword.
4 5
In God, I praise his word. Be exalted, God, above the heavens!
In God, I put my trust. Let your glory be above all the earth!
6
I will not be afraid. They have prepared a net for my steps.
What can flesh do to me? My soul is bowed down.
5
All day long they twist my words. They dig a pit before me.
All their thoughts are against me for evil. They fall into its midst themselves.
6
They conspire and lurk, Selah.
7
watching my steps, they are eager to take My heart is steadfast, God, my heart is stead-
my life. fast.
7
Shall they escape by iniquity? I will sing, yes, I will sing praises.
8
In anger cast down the peoples, God. Wake up, my glory! Wake up, psaltery and
8
You number my wanderings. harp!
You put my tears into your bottle. I will wake up the dawn.
9
Aren’t they in your book? I will give thanks to you, Lord, among the
9
Then my enemies shall turn back in the day peoples.
that I call. I will sing praises to you among the
I know this, that God is for me. nations.
10 10
In God, I will praise his word. For your great loving kindness reaches to the
In the LORD, I will praise his word. heavens,
11
I have put my trust in God. and your truth to the skies.
11
I will not be afraid. Be exalted, God, above the heavens.
What can man do to me? Let your glory be over all the earth.
12
Your vows are on me, God.
I will give thank offerings to you.
13
For you have delivered my soul from death,
Psalm 58
and prevented my feet from falling,
that I may walk before God in the light of For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Do
the living. Not Destroy.” A poem by David.
1
Do you indeed speak righteousness, silent
Psalm 57 ones?
Do you judge blamelessly, you sons of
men?
For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Do 2
No, in your heart you plot injustice.
Not Destroy.” A poem by David, when he fled
You measure out the violence of your
from Saul, in the cave.
hands in the earth.
1 3
Be merciful to me, God, be merciful to me, The wicked go astray from the womb.
for my soul takes refuge in you. They are wayward as soon as they are
Yes, in the shadow of your wings, I will take born, speaking lies.
4
refuge, Their poison is like the poison of a snake;
until disaster has passed. like a deaf cobra that stops its ear,
2 5
I cry out to God Most High, which doesn’t listen to the voice of
to God who accomplishes my requests for me. charmers,
3
He will send from heaven, and save me, no matter how skillful the charmer may
he rebukes the one who is pursuing me. be.
6
Selah. Break their teeth, God, in their mouth.
God will send out his loving kindness and his Break out the great teeth of the young
truth. lions, LORD.
4 7
My soul is among lions. Let them vanish as water that flows away.
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When they draw the bow, let their arrows God will let me look at my enemies in
be made blunt. triumph.
8 11
Let them be like a snail which melts and Don’t kill them, or my people may forget.
passes away, Scatter them by your power, and bring
like the stillborn child, who has not seen them down, Lord our shield.
12
the sun. For the sin of their mouth, and the words of
9
Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, their lips,
he will sweep away the green and the let them be caught in their pride,
burning alike. for the curses and lies which they utter.
10 13
The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the Consume them in wrath.
vengeance. Consume them, and they will be no more.
He shall wash his feet in the blood of the Let them know that God rules in Jacob,
wicked; to the ends of the earth.
11
so that men shall say, “Most certainly there is Selah.
14
a reward for the righteous. At evening let them return.
Most certainly there is a God who judges Let them howl like a dog, and go around
the earth.” the city.
15
They shall wander up and down for food,
Psalm 59 16
and wait all night if they aren’t satisfied.
But I will sing of your strength.
Yes, I will sing aloud of your loving
For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Do
kindness in the morning.
Not Destroy.” A poem by David, when Saul
For you have been my high tower,
sent, and they watched the house to kill him.
a refuge in the day of my distress.
1 17
Deliver me from my enemies, my God. To you, my strength, I will sing praises.
Set me on high from those who rise up For God is my high tower, the God of my
against me. mercy.
2
Deliver me from the workers of iniquity.

3
Save me from the bloodthirsty men.
For, behold, they lie in wait for my soul.
Psalm 60
The mighty gather themselves together
For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “The
against me,
Lily of the Covenant.” A teaching poem by
not for my disobedience, nor for my sin,
David, when he fought with Aram Naharaim
LORD.
4 and with Aram Zobah, and Joab returned, and
I have done no wrong, yet they are ready to
killed twelve thousand of Edom in the Valley of
attack me.
Salt.
Rise up, behold, and help me!
5 1
You, LORD God of Hosts, the God of Israel, God, you have rejected us.
rouse yourself to punish the nations. You have broken us down.
Show no mercy to the wicked traitors. You have been angry.
Selah. Restore us, again.
6 2
They return at evening, howling like dogs, You have made the land tremble.
and prowl around the city. You have torn it.
7
Behold, they spew with their mouth. Mend its fractures,
Swords are in their lips, for it quakes.
3
“For,” they say, “who hears us?” You have shown your people hard things.
8
But you, LORD, laugh at them. You have made us drink the wine that
You scoff at all the nations. makes us stagger.
9 4
Oh, my Strength, I watch for you, You have given a banner to those who fear
for God is my high tower. you,
10
My God will go before me with his loving that it may be displayed because of the
kindness. truth.
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Selah.
5
Psalm 62
So that your beloved may be delivered,
save with your right hand, and answer
us. For the Chief Musician. To Jeduthan. A
6
God has spoken from his sanctuary: Psalm by David.
“I will triumph.
I will divide Shechem, 1
My soul rests in God alone.
and measure out the valley of Succoth. My salvation [yeshuah-ti] is from him.
7
Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine. 2
He alone is my rock and my salvation
Ephraim also is the defense of my head.
[yeshuah-ti], my fortress—
Judah is my scepter.
8
Moab is my wash basin. I will never be greatly shaken.
3
I will throw my shoe on Edom. How long will you assault a man,
I shout in triumph over Philistia.” would all of you throw him down,
9
Who will bring me into the strong city? Like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?
Who has led me to Edom? 4
They fully intend to throw him down from his
10
Haven’t you, God, rejected us? lofty place.
You don’t go out with our armies, God. They delight in lies.
11
Give us help against the adversary,
They bless with their mouth, but they
for the help of man is vain.
12 curse inwardly.
Through God we shall do valiantly,
for it is he who will tread down our Selah.
5
adversaries. My soul, wait in silence for God alone,
for my expectation is from him.
6
Psalm 61 He alone is my rock and my salvation
[yeshuah-ti], my fortress.
For the Chief Musician. For a stringed I will not be shaken.
7
instrument. By David. With God is my salvation and my honor.
1
The rock of my strength, and my refuge,
Hear my cry, God. is in God.
Listen to my prayer. 8
2 Trust in him at all times, you people.
From the end of the earth, I will call to you,
when my heart is overwhelmed. Pour out your heart before him.
Lead me to the rock that is higher than I. God is a refuge for us.
3
For you have been a refuge for me, Selah.
a strong tower from the enemy. 9
Surely men of low degree are just a breath,
4
I will dwell in your tent forever. and men of high degree are a lie.
I will take refuge in the shelter of your In the balances they will go up.
wings.
They are together lighter than a breath.
Selah. 10
5
For you, God, have heard my vows. Don’t trust in oppression.
You have given me the heritage of those Don’t become vain in robbery.
who fear your name. If riches increase,
6
You will prolong the king’s life; don’t set your heart on them.
his years shall be for generations. 11
God has spoken once;
7
He shall be enthroned in God’s presence for-
twice I have heard this,
ever.
Appoint your loving kindness and truth, that power belongs to God.
12
that they may preserve him. Also to you, Lord, belongs loving kindness,
8
So I will sing praise to your name forever, for you reward every man according to
that I may fulfill my vows daily. his work.
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Psalm 63 5
They encourage themselves in evil plans.
They talk about laying snares secretly.
A Psalm by David, when he was in the They say, “Who will see them?”
6
desert of Judah. They plot injustice, saying, “We have made a
perfect plan!”
1
God, you are my God. Surely man’s mind and heart are cunning.
I will earnestly seek you. 7
But God will shoot at them.
My soul thirsts for you. They will be suddenly struck down with
My flesh longs for you, an arrow.
in a dry and weary land, where there is 8
Their own tongues shall ruin them.
no water. All who see them will shake their heads.
2 9
So I have seen you in the sanctuary, All mankind shall be afraid.
watching your power and your glory. They shall declare the work of God,
3
Because your loving kindness is better than and shall wisely ponder what he has
life, done.
my lips shall praise you. 10
The righteous shall be glad in the LORD,
4
So I will bless you while I live. and shall take refuge in him.
I will lift up my hands in your name. All the upright in heart shall praise him!
5
My soul shall be satisfied as with the richest
food.
My mouth shall praise you with joyful
Psalm 65
lips,
6 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.
when I remember you on my bed,
A song.
and think about you in the night watches.
7 1
For you have been my help. Praise waits for you, God, in Zion.
I will rejoice in the shadow of your wings. To you shall vows be performed.
8 2
My soul stays close to you. You who hear prayer,
Your right hand holds me up. to you all men will come.
9 3
But those who seek my soul, to destroy it, Sins overwhelmed me,
shall go into the lower parts of the earth. but you atoned for our transgressions.
10 4
They shall be given over to the power of the Blessed is one whom you choose, and cause to
sword. come near,
They shall be jackal food. that he may live in your courts.
11 We will be filled with the goodness of
But the king shall rejoice in God.
Everyone who swears by him will praise your house,
him, your holy temple.
5
for the mouth of those who speak lies By awesome deeds of righteousness, you an-
shall be silenced. swer us,
God of our salvation.
Psalm 64 You who are the hope of all the ends of the
earth,
of those who are far away on the sea;
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. 6
Who by his power forms the mountains,
1
Hear my voice, God, in my complaint. having armed yourself with strength;
7
Preserve my life from fear of the enemy. who stills the roaring of the seas,
2
Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked, the roaring of their waves,
from the noisy crowd of the ones doing and the turmoil of the nations.
8
evil; They also who dwell in faraway places are
3
who sharpen their tongue like a sword, afraid at your wonders.
and aim their arrows, deadly words, You call the morning’s dawn and the
4
to shoot innocent men from ambushes. evening with songs of joy.
9
They shoot at him suddenly and fear- You visit the earth, and water it.
lessly. You greatly enrich it.
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The river of God is full of water. but you brought us to the place of abun-
You provide them grain, for so you have dance.
13
ordained it. I will come into your temple with burnt
10
You drench its furrows. offerings.
You level its ridges. I will pay my vows to you, 14 which my
You soften it with showers. lips promised,
You bless it with a crop. and my mouth spoke, when I was in
11
You crown the year with your bounty. distress.
Your carts overflow with abundance. 15
I will offer to you burnt offerings of fat
12
The wilderness grasslands overflow. animals,
The hills are clothed with gladness. with the offering of rams,
13
The pastures are covered with flocks. I will offer bulls with goats.
The valleys also are clothed with grain. Selah.
They shout for joy! 16
Come, and hear, all you who fear God.
They also sing. I will declare what he has done for my
soul.
Psalm 66 17
I cried to him with my mouth.
He was extolled with my tongue.
18
For the Chief Musician. A song. A Psalm. If I cherished sin in my heart,
1
the Lord wouldn’t have listened.
Make a joyful shout to God, all the earth! 19
But most certainly, God has listened.
2
Sing to the glory of his name! He has heard the voice of my prayer.
Offer glory and praise! 20
3 Blessed be God, who has not turned away my
Tell God, “How awesome are your deeds!
prayer,
Through the greatness of your power,
nor his loving kindness from me.
your enemies submit themselves to
you.
4
All the earth will worship you,
and will sing to you;
Psalm 67
they will sing to your name.”
Selah. For the Chief Musician. With stringed
5
Come, and see God’s deeds— instruments. A Psalm. A song.
awesome work on behalf of the children 1
May God be merciful to us, bless us,
of men. and cause his face to shine on us.
6
He turned the sea into dry land. Selah.
They went through the river on foot. 2
That your way may be known on earth,
There, we rejoiced in him.
7 and your salvation [yeshuat] among all
He rules by his might forever.
nations,
His eyes watch the nations. 3
let the peoples praise you, God.
Don’t let the rebellious rise up against
Let all the peoples praise you.
him. 4
Selah. Oh let the nations be glad and sing for joy,
8
Praise our God, you peoples! for you will judge the peoples with eq-
Make the sound of his praise heard, uity,
9
who preserves our life among the living, and govern the nations on earth.
and doesn’t allow our feet to be moved. Selah.
10 5
For you, God, have tested us. Let the peoples praise you, God.
You have refined us, as silver is refined. Let all the peoples praise you.
11 6
You brought us into prison. The earth has yielded its increase.
You laid a burden on our backs. God, even our own God, will bless us.
12 7
You allowed men to ride over our heads. God will bless us.
We went through fire and through water, All the ends of the earth shall fear him.
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Psalm 68 15
The mountains of Bashan are majestic moun-
tains.
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. The mountains of Bashan are rugged.
16
A song. Why do you look in envy, you rugged moun-
tains,
1
Let God arise! at the mountain where God chooses to
Let his enemies be scattered! reign?
Let them who hate him also flee before Yes, the LORD will dwell there forever.
17
him. The chariots of God are tens of thousands and
2
As smoke is driven away, thousands of thousands.
so drive them away. The Lord is among them, from Sinai, into
As wax melts before the fire, the sanctuary.
18
so let the wicked perish at the presence of You have ascended on high.
God. You have led away captives.
3
But let the righteous be glad. You have received gifts among men,
Let them rejoice before God. yes, among the rebellious also, that the
Yes, let them rejoice with gladness. LORD God might dwell there.
4 19
Sing to God! Sing praises to his name! Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears our
Extol him who rides on the clouds: burdens,
to the LORD, his name! even the God who is our salvation.
Rejoice before him! Selah.
5 20
A father of the fatherless, and a defender of God is to us a God of deliverance.
the widows, To the LORD, the Lord, belongs escape
is God in his holy habitation. from death.
6 21
God sets the lonely in families. But God will strike through the head of his
He brings out the prisoners with singing, enemies,
but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched the hairy scalp of such a one as still
land. continues in his guiltiness.
7 22
God, when you went forth before your people, The Lord said, “I will bring you again from
when you marched through the wilder- Bashan,
ness... I will bring you again from the depths of
Selah. the sea;
8 23
The earth trembled. That you may crush them, dipping your foot
The sky also poured down rain at the in blood,
presence of the God of Sinai— that the tongues of your dogs may have
at the presence of God, the God of Israel. their portion from your enemies.”
9 24
You, God, sent a plentiful rain. They have seen your processions, God,
You confirmed your inheritance, when it even the processions of my God, my
was weary. King, into the sanctuary.
10 25
Your congregation lived therein. The singers went before, the minstrels fol-
You, God, prepared your goodness for lowed after,
the poor. in the midst of the ladies playing with
11
The Lord announced the word. tambourines,
26
The ones who proclaim it are a great “Bless God in the congregations,
company. even the Lord in the assembly of Israel!”
12 27
“Kings of armies flee! They flee!” There is little Benjamin, their ruler,
She who waits at home divides the spoil, the princes of Judah, their council,
13
while you sleep among the campfires, the princes of Zebulun, and the princes of
the wings of a dove sheathed with silver, Naphtali.
28
her feathers with shining gold. Your God has commanded your strength.
14
When the Almighty scattered kings in her, Strengthen, God, that which you have
it snowed on Zalmon. done for us.
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29
Because of your temple at Jerusalem, an alien to my mother’s children.
9
kings shall bring presents to you. For the zeal of your house consumes me.
30
Rebuke the wild animal of the reeds, The reproaches of those who reproach
the multitude of the bulls, with the calves you have fallen on me.
10
of the peoples. When I wept and I fasted,
Being humbled, may it bring bars of silver. that was to my reproach.
11
Scatter the nations that delight in war. When I made sackcloth my clothing,
31
Princes shall come out of Egypt. I became a byword to them.
12
Ethiopia shall hurry to stretch out her Those who sit in the gate talk about me.
hands to God. I am the song of the drunkards.
32 13
Sing to God, you kingdoms of the earth! But as for me, my prayer is to you, LORD, in
Sing praises to the Lord! an acceptable time.
Selah. God, in the abundance of your loving
33
To him who rides on the heaven of heavens, kindness, answer me in the truth of
which are of old; your salvation.
14
behold, he utters his voice, a mighty Deliver me out of the mire, and don’t let me
voice. sink.
34
Ascribe strength to God! Let me be delivered from those who hate
His excellency is over Israel, me, and out of the deep waters.
15
his strength is in the skies. Don’t let the flood waters overwhelm me,
35
You are awesome, God, in your sanctuaries. neither let the deep swallow me up.
The God of Israel gives strength and Don’t let the pit shut its mouth on me.
16
power to his people. Answer me, LORD, for your loving kindness
Praise be to God! is good.
According to the multitude of your ten-
Psalm 69 17
der mercies, turn to me.
Don’t hide your face from your servant,
for I am in distress.
For the Chief Musician. To the tune of
Answer me speedily!
“Lilies.” By David. 18
Draw near to my soul, and redeem it.
1
Save me, God, Ransom me because of my enemies.
19
for the waters have come up to my neck! You know my reproach, my shame, and my
2
I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold. dishonor.
I have come into deep waters, where the My adversaries are all before you.
20
floods overflow me. Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full
3
I am weary with my crying. of heaviness.
My throat is dry. I looked for some to take pity, but there
My eyes fail, looking for my God. was none;
4
Those who hate me without a cause are more for comforters, but I found none.
21
than the hairs of my head. They also gave me gall for my food.
Those who want to cut me off, being my In my thirst, they gave me vinegar to
enemies wrongfully, are mighty. drink.
22
I have to restore what I didn’t take away. Let their table before them become a snare.
5
God, you know my foolishness. May it become a retribution and a trap.
23
My sins aren’t hidden from you. Let their eyes be darkened, so that they can’t
6
Don’t let those who wait for you be shamed see.
through me, Lord GOD of Hosts. Let their backs be continually bent.
24
Don’t let those who seek you be brought Pour out your indignation on them.
to dishonor through me, God of Israel. Let the fierceness of your anger overtake
7
Because for your sake, I have borne reproach. them.
25
Shame has covered my face. Let their habitation be desolate.
8
I have become a stranger to my brothers, Let no one dwell in their tents.
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26
For they persecute him whom you have
wounded.
Psalm 71
1
They tell of the sorrow of those whom In you, LORD, I take refuge.
you have hurt. Never let me be disappointed.
27 2
Charge them with crime upon crime. Deliver me in your righteousness, and rescue
Don’t let them come into your righteous- me.
ness. Turn your ear to me, and save me.
28 3
Let them be blotted out of the book of life, Be to me a rock of refuge to which I may
and not be written with the righteous. always go.
29
But I am in pain and distress. Give the command to save me,
Let your salvation, God, protect me. for you are my rock and my fortress.
30 4
I will praise the name of God with a song, Rescue me, my God, from the hand of the
and will magnify him with thanksgiving. wicked,
31
It will please the LORD better than an ox, from the hand of the unrighteous and
or a bull that has horns and hoofs. cruel man.
32
The humble have seen it, and are glad. 5
For you are my hope, Lord GOD;
You who seek after God, let your heart my confidence from my youth.
live. 6
33 I have relied on you from the womb.
For the LORD hears the needy,
You are he who took me out of my
and doesn’t despise his captive people.
34 mother’s womb.
Let heaven and earth praise him;
I will always praise you.
the seas, and everything that moves 7
I am a marvel to many,
therein!
35
For God will save Zion, and build the cities of but you are my strong refuge.
8
Judah. My mouth shall be filled with your praise,
They shall settle there, and own it. with your honor all the day.
36 9
The children also of his servants shall inherit Don’t reject me in my old age.
it. Don’t forsake me when my strength fails.
10
Those who love his name shall dwell For my enemies talk about me.
therein. Those who watch for my soul conspire
together,
Psalm 70 11
saying, “God has forsaken him.
Pursue and take him, for no one will
For the Chief Musician. By David. A rescue him.”
12
reminder. God, don’t be far from me.
1 My God, hurry to help me.
Hurry, God, to deliver me. 13
Let my accusers be disappointed and con-
Come quickly to help me, LORD.
2 sumed.
Let them be disappointed and confounded
Let them be covered with disgrace and
who seek my soul.
scorn who want to harm me.
Let those who desire my ruin be turned 14
back in disgrace. But I will always hope,
3
Let them be turned because of their shame and will add to all of your praise.
15
Who say, “Aha! Aha!” My mouth will tell about your righteousness,
4 and of your salvation all day,
Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad
in you. though I don’t know its full measure.
16
Let those who love your salvation contin- I will come with the mighty acts of the Lord
ually say, GOD.
“Let God be exalted!” I will make mention of your righteous-
5 ness, even of yours alone.
But I am poor and needy.
17
Come to me quickly, God. God, you have taught me from my youth.
You are my help and my deliverer. Until now, I have declared your won-
LORD, don’t delay. drous works.
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18
Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, and abundance of peace, until the moon
God, don’t forsake me, is no more.
8
until I have declared your strength to the He shall have dominion also from sea to sea,
next generation, from the River to the ends of the earth.
9
your might to everyone who is to come. Those who dwell in the wilderness shall bow
19
Your righteousness also, God, reaches to the before him.
heavens; His enemies shall lick the dust.
10
you have done great things. The kings of Tarshish and of the islands will
God, who is like you? bring tribute.
20 The kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer
You, who have shown us many and bitter
troubles, gifts.
11
you will let me live. Yes, all kings shall fall down before him.
You will bring us up again from the All nations shall serve him.
12
depths of the earth. For he will deliver the needy when he cries;
21 the poor, who has no helper.
Increase my honor,
13
and comfort me again. He will have pity on the poor and needy.
22 He will save the souls of the needy.
I will also praise you with the harp for your
14
faithfulness, my God. He will redeem their soul from oppression
I sing praises to you with the lyre, Holy and violence.
One of Israel. Their blood will be precious in his sight.
23 15
My lips shall shout for joy! They shall live, and to him shall be given of
My soul, which you have redeemed, the gold of Sheba.
sings praises to you! Men shall pray for him continually.
24 They shall bless him all day long.
My tongue will also talk about your righ- 16
teousness all day long, Abundance of grain shall be throughout the
for they are disappointed, and they are land.
confounded, Its fruit sways like Lebanon.
who want to harm me. Let it flourish, thriving like the grass of
the field.
17
His name endures forever.
Psalm 72 His name continues as long as the sun.
Men shall be blessed by him.
By Solomon. All nations will call him blessed.
18
1 Praise be to the LORD God, the God of Israel,
God, give the king your justice;
who alone does marvelous deeds.
your righteousness to the royal son. 19
2 Blessed be his glorious name forever!
He will judge your people with righteousness, Let the whole earth be filled with his
and your poor with justice. glory!
3
The mountains shall bring prosperity to the Amen and amen.
people. 20
This ends the prayers by David, the son of
The hills bring the fruit of righteousness. Jesse.
4
He will judge the poor of the people.
He will save the children of the needy,
and will break the oppressor in pieces. BOOK III
5
They shall fear you while the sun endures;
and as long as the moon, throughout all
generations.
Psalm 73
6
He will come down like rain on the mown
A Psalm by Asaph.
grass,
1
as showers that water the earth. Surely Godx is good to Israel,
7
In his days, the righteous shall flourish, to those who are pure in heart.
x 73:1 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “Elohim.”
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2
But as for me, my feet were almost gone. and afterward receive me to glory.
25
My steps had nearly slipped. Whom do I have in heaven?
3
For I was envious of the arrogant, There is no one on earth whom I desire
when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. besides you.
4 26
For there are no struggles in their death, My flesh and my heart fails,
but their strength is firm. but God is the strength of my heart and
5
They are free from burdens of men, my portion forever.
27
neither are they plagued like other men. For, behold, those who are far from you shall
6
Therefore pride is like a chain around their perish.
neck. You have destroyed all those who are
Violence covers them like a garment. unfaithful to you.
7 28
Their eyes bulge with fat. But it is good for me to come close to God.
Their minds pass the limits of conceit. I have made the Lord the LORDz my
8
They scoff and speak with malice. refuge,
In arrogance, they threaten oppression. that I may tell of all your works.
9
They have set their mouth in the heavens.

10
Their tongue walks through the earth.
Therefore their people return to them,
Psalm 74
and they drink up waters of abundance.
11 A contemplation by Asaph.
They say, “How does God know?
Is there knowledge in the Most High?” 1
God, why have you rejected us forever?
12
Behold, these are the wicked. Why does your anger smolder against the
Being always at ease, they increase in sheep of your pasture?
riches. 2
Remember your congregation, which you pur-
13
Surely in vain I have cleansed my heart, chased of old,
and washed my hands in innocence, which you have redeemed to be the tribe
14
For all day long have I been plagued, of your inheritance;
and punished every morning. Mount Zion, in which you have lived.
15 3
If I had said, “I will speak thus”; Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins,
behold, I would have betrayed the gener- all the evil that the enemy has done in the
ation of your children. sanctuary.
16 4
When I tried to understand this, Your adversaries have roared in the midst of
it was too painful for me; your assembly.
17
Until I entered God’s sanctuary, They have set up their standards as signs.
5
and considered their latter end. They behaved like men wielding axes,
18
Surely you set them in slippery places. cutting through a thicket of trees.
6
You throw them down to destruction. Now they break all its carved work down with
19
How they are suddenly destroyed! hatchet and hammers.
7
They are completely swept away with They have burned your sanctuary to the
terrors. ground.
20
As a dream when one wakes up, They have profaned the dwelling place of
so, Lord,y when you awake, you will your Name.
8
despise their fantasies. They said in their heart, “We will crush them
21
For my soul was grieved. completely.”
I was embittered in my heart. They have burned up all the places in the
22
I was so senseless and ignorant. land where God was worshiped.
9
I was a brute beast before you. We see no miraculous signs.
23
Nevertheless, I am continually with you. There is no longer any prophet,
You have held my right hand. neither is there among us anyone who
24
You will guide me with your counsel, knows how long.
y 73:20 The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”
z 73:28 “LORD” or “GOD” (all capital letters) indicate the 4-letter Holy Name of God
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10 3
How long, God, shall the adversary re- The earth and all its inhabitants quake.
proach? I firmly hold its pillars.
Shall the enemy blaspheme your name Selah.
4
forever? I said to the arrogant, “Don’t boast!”
11
Why do you draw back your hand, even your I said to the wicked, “Don’t lift up the
right hand? horn.
5
Take it out of your pocket and consume Don’t lift up your horn on high.
them! Don’t speak with a stiff neck.”
12 6
Yet God is my King of old, For neither from the east, nor from the west,
working salvation in the midst of the nor yet from the south, comes exaltation.
7
earth. But God is the judge.
13
You divided the sea by your strength. He puts down one, and lifts up another.
8
You broke the heads of the sea monsters For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup,
in the waters. full of foaming wine mixed with spices.
14
You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces. He pours it out.
You gave him as food to people and Indeed the wicked of the earth drink and
desert creatures. drink it to its very dregs.
15 9
You opened up spring and stream. But I will declare this forever:
You dried up mighty rivers. I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.
16 10
The day is yours, the night is also yours. I will cut off all the horns of the wicked,
You have prepared the light and the sun. but the horns of the righteous shall be
17
You have set all the boundaries of the earth. lifted up.
You have made summer and winter.
18
Remember this, that the enemy has mocked
you, LORD.
Psalm 76
Foolish people have blasphemed your
name. For the Chief Musician. On stringed instru-
19
Don’t deliver the soul of your dove to wild ments. A Psalm by Asaph. A song.
beasts. 1
In Judah, God is known.
Don’t forget the life of your poor forever. His name is great in Israel.
20
Honor your covenant, 2
His tabernacle is also in Salem;
for haunts of violence fill the dark places His dwelling place in Zion.
of the earth. 3
There he broke the flaming arrows of the bow,
21
Don’t let the oppressed return ashamed. the shield, and the sword, and the
Let the poor and needy praise your name. weapons of war.
22
Arise, God! Plead your own cause. Selah.
Remember how the foolish man mocks 4
Glorious are you, and excellent,
you all day. more than mountains of game.
23
Don’t forget the voice of your adversaries. 5
Valiant men lie plundered,
The tumult of those who rise up against they have slept their last sleep.
you ascends continually. None of the men of war can lift their
hands.
6
Psalm 75 At your rebuke, God of Jacob,
both chariot and horse are cast into a deep
sleep.
For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Do 7
You, even you, are to be feared.
Not Destroy.” A Psalm by Asaph. A song.
Who can stand in your sight when you
1
We give thanks to you, God. are angry?
8
We give thanks, for your Name is near. You pronounced judgment from heaven.
Men tell about your wondrous works. The earth feared, and was silent,
2 9
When I choose the appointed time, when God arose to judgment,
I will judge blamelessly. to save all the afflicted ones of the earth.
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Selah. You have made your strength known


10
Surely the wrath of man praises you. among the peoples.
15
The survivors of your wrath are re- You have redeemed your people with your
strained. arm,
11
Make vows to the LORD your God, and fulfill the sons of Jacob and Joseph.
them! Selah.
16
Let all of his neighbors bring presents to The waters saw you, God.
him who is to be feared. The waters saw you, and they writhed.
12
He will cut off the spirit of princes. The depths also convulsed.
17
He is feared by the kings of the earth. The clouds poured out water.
The skies resounded with thunder.
Your arrows also flashed around.
Psalm 77 18
The voice of your thunder was in the whirl-
wind.
For the Chief Musician. To Jeduthun. A The lightnings lit up the world.
Psalm by Asaph. The earth trembled and shook.
19
1
My cry goes to God! Your way was through the sea;
Indeed, I cry to God for help, your paths through the great waters.
and for him to listen to me. Your footsteps were not known.
20
2
In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. You led your people like a flock,
My hand was stretched out in the night, by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
and didn’t get tired.

3
My soul refused to be comforted. Psalm 78
I remember God, and I groan.
I complain, and my spirit is over- A contemplation by Asaph.
whelmed. 1
Hear my teaching, my people.
Selah. Turn your ears to the words of my mouth.
4 2
You hold my eyelids open. I will open my mouth in a parable.
I am so troubled that I can’t speak. I will utter dark sayings of old,
5 3
I have considered the days of old, Which we have heard and known,
the years of ancient times. and our fathers have told us.
6 4
I remember my song in the night. We will not hide them from their children,
I consider in my own heart; telling to the generation to come the
my spirit diligently inquires: praises of the LORD,
7
“Will the Lord reject us forever? his strength, and his wondrous works
Will he be favorable no more? that he has done.
8 5
Has his loving kindness vanished forever? For he established a testimony in Jacob,
Does his promise fail for generations? and appointed a teaching in Israel,
9
Has God forgotten to be gracious? which he commanded our fathers,
Has he, in anger, withheld his compas- that they should make them known to
sion?” their children;
Selah. 6
that the generation to come might know, even
10
Then I thought, “I will appeal to this: the children who should be born;
the years of the right hand of the Most who should arise and tell their children,
7
High.” that they might set their hope in God,
11
I will remember the LORD’s deeds; and not forget the works of God,
for I will remember your wonders of old. but keep his commandments,
12 8
I will also meditate on all your work, and might not be as their fathers,
and consider your doings. a stubborn and rebellious generation,
13
Your way, God, is in the sanctuary. a generation that didn’t make their hearts
What god is great like God? loyal,
14
You are the God who does wonders. whose spirit was not steadfast with God.
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9 29
The children of Ephraim, being armed and So they ate, and were well filled.
carrying bows, He gave them their own desire.
30
turned back in the day of battle. They didn’t turn from their cravings.
10
They didn’t keep God’s covenant, Their food was yet in their mouths,
31
and refused to walk by his Torah. when the anger of God went up against
11
They forgot his doings, them,
his wondrous works that he had shown killed some of their fattest,
them. and struck down the young men of Israel.
12 32
He did marvelous things in the sight of their For all this they still sinned,
fathers, and didn’t believe in his wondrous
in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. works.
13 33
He split the sea, and caused them to pass Therefore he consumed their days in vanity,
through. and their years in terror.
34
He made the waters stand as a heap. When he killed them, then they inquired after
14
In the daytime he also led them with a cloud, him.
and all night with a light of fire. They returned and sought God earnestly.
15 35
He split rocks in the wilderness, They remembered that God was their rock,
and gave them drink abundantly as out the Most High God, their redeemer.
36
of the depths. But they flattered him with their mouth,
16
He brought streams also out of the rock, and lied to him with their tongue.
37
and caused waters to run down like For their heart was not right with him,
rivers. neither were they faithful in his covenant.
17 38
Yet they still went on to sin against him, But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and
to rebel against the Most High in the didn’t destroy them.
desert. Yes, many times he turned his anger
18
They tempted God in their heart away,
by asking food according to their desire. and didn’t stir up all his wrath.
19 39
Yes, they spoke against God. He remembered that they were but flesh,
They said, “Can God prepare a table in a wind that passes away, and doesn’t
the wilderness? come again.
20 40
Behold, he struck the rock, so that waters How often they rebelled against him in the
gushed out, wilderness,
and streams overflowed. and grieved him in the desert!
41
Can he give bread also? They turned again and tempted God,
Will he provide flesh for his people?” and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
21 42
Therefore the LORD heard, and was angry. They didn’t remember his hand,
A fire was kindled against Jacob, nor the day when he redeemed them
anger also went up against Israel, from the adversary;
22 43
because they didn’t believe in God, how he set his signs in Egypt,
and didn’t trust in his salvation [yeshuat]. his wonders in the field of Zoan,
23 44
Yet he commanded the skies above, he turned their rivers into blood,
and opened the doors of heaven. and their streams, so that they could not
24
He rained down manna on them to eat, drink.
45
and gave them food from the sky. He sent among them swarms of flies, which
25
Man ate the bread of angels. devoured them;
He sent them food to the full. and frogs, which destroyed them.
26 46
He caused the east wind to blow in the sky. He gave also their increase to the caterpillar,
By his power he guided the south wind. and their labor to the locust.
27 47
He rained also flesh on them as the dust; He destroyed their vines with hail,
winged birds as the sand of the seas. their sycamore fig trees with frost.
28 48
He let them fall in the midst of their camp, He gave over their livestock also to the hail,
around their habitations. and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
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49
He threw on them the fierceness of his anger, and didn’t choose the tribe of Ephraim,
68
wrath, indignation, and trouble, But chose the tribe of Judah,
and a band of angels of evil. Mount Zion which he loved.
50 69
He made a path for his anger. He built his sanctuary like the heights,
He didn’t spare their soul from death, like the earth which he has established
but gave their life over to the pestilence, forever.
51 70
and struck all the firstborn in Egypt, He also chose David his servant,
the chief of their strength in the tents of and took him from the sheepfolds;
71
Ham. from following the ewes that have their
52
But he led forth his own people like sheep, young,
and guided them in the wilderness like a he brought him to be the shepherd of
flock. Jacob, his people,
53
He led them safely, so that they weren’t and Israel, his inheritance.
72
afraid, So he was their shepherd according to the
but the sea overwhelmed their enemies. integrity of his heart,
54
He brought them to the border of his sanctu- and guided them by the skillfulness of his
ary, hands.
to this mountain, which his right hand

55
had taken.
He also drove out the nations before them,
Psalm 79
allotted them for an inheritance by line,
A Psalm by Asaph.
and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in
their tents. 1
God, the nations have come into your inheri-
56
Yet they tempted and rebelled against the tance.
Most High God, They have defiled your holy temple.
and didn’t keep his testimonies; They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.
57 2
but turned back, and dealt treacherously like They have given the dead bodies of your
their fathers. servants to be food for the birds of the
They were turned aside like a deceitful sky,
bow. the flesh of your holy ones to the animals
58
For they provoked him to anger with their of the earth.
3
high places, Their blood they have shed like water around
and moved him to jealousy with their Jerusalem.
engraved images. There was no one to bury them.
59 4
When God heard this, he was angry, We have become a reproach to our neighbors,
and greatly abhorred Israel; a scoffing and derision to those who are
60
So that he forsook the tent of Shiloh, around us.
5
the tent which he placed among men; How long, LORD?
61
and delivered his strength into captivity, Will you be angry forever?
his glory into the adversary’s hand. Will your jealousy burn like fire?
62 6
He also gave his people over to the sword, Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t
and was angry with his inheritance. know you;
63
Fire devoured their young men. on the kingdoms that don’t call on your
Their virgins had no wedding song. name;
64 7
Their priests fell by the sword, For they have devoured Jacob,
and their widows couldn’t weep. and destroyed his homeland.
65 8
Then the Lord awakened as one out of sleep, Don’t hold the iniquities of our forefathers
like a mighty man who shouts by reason against us.
of wine. Let your tender mercies speedily meet us,
66
He struck his adversaries backward. for we are in desperate need.
9
He put them to a perpetual reproach. Help us, God of our salvation, for the glory of
67
Moreover he rejected the tent of Joseph, your name.
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Deliver us, and forgive our sins, for your You drove out the nations, and planted it.
9
name’s sake. You cleared the ground for it.
10
Why should the nations say, “Where is their It took deep root, and filled the land.
10
God?” The mountains were covered with its
Let it be known among the nations, before shadow.
our eyes, Its boughs were like God’s cedars.
11
that vengeance for your servants’ blood is It sent out its branches to the sea,
being poured out. Its shoots to the River.
11 12
Let the sighing of the prisoner come before Why have you broken down its walls,
you. so that all those who pass by the way
According to the greatness of your power, pluck it?
13
preserve those who are sentenced to The boar out of the wood ravages it.
death. The wild animals of the field feed on it.
12 14
Pay back to our neighbors seven times into Turn again, we beg you, God of Hosts.
their bosom Look down from heaven, and see, and
their reproach with which they have re- visit this vine,
15
proached you, Lord. the stock which your right hand planted,
13
So we, your people and sheep of your pas- the branch that you made strong for
ture, yourself.
16
will give you thanks forever. It’s burned with fire.
We will praise you forever, to all genera- It’s cut down.
tions. They perish at your rebuke.
17
Let your hand be on the man of your right
Psalm 80 hand,
on the son of man whom you made
strong for yourself.
For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “The 18
So we will not turn away from you.
Lilies of the Covenant.” A Psalm by Asaph.
Revive us, and we will call on your name.
1 19
Hear us, Shepherd of Israel, Turn us again, LORD God of Hosts.
you who lead Joseph like a flock, Cause your face to shine, and we will be
you who sit above the cherubim, shine saved.
forth.
2
Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh,
stir up your might!
Psalm 81
Come to save us!
3 For the Chief Musician. On an instrument
Turn us again, God.
of Gath. By Asaph.
Cause your face to shine,
1
and we will be saved. Sing aloud to God, our strength!
4
LORD God of Hosts, Make a joyful shout to the God of Jacob!
2
How long will you be angry against the Raise a song, and bring here the tambourine,
prayer of your people? the pleasant lyre with the harp.
5 3
You have fed them with the bread of tears, Blow the shofara at the New Moon,
and given them tears to drink in large at the full moon, on our feast day.
4
measure. For it is a statute for Israel,
6
You make us a source of contention to our an ordinance of the God of Jacob.
5
neighbors. He appointed it in Joseph for a testimony,
Our enemies laugh among themselves. when he went out over the land of Egypt,
7
Turn us again, God of Hosts. I heard a language that I didn’t know.
6
Cause your face to shine, “I removed his shoulder from the burden.
and we will be saved. His hands were freed from the basket.
8 7
You brought a vine out of Egypt. You called in trouble, and I delivered you.
a 81:3 or, trumpet
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6
I answered you in the secret place of I said, “You are gods,
thunder. all of you are sons of the Most High.
7
I tested you at the waters of Meribah.” Nevertheless you shall die like men,
Selah. and fall like one of the rulers.”
8 8
“Hear, my people, and I will testify to you, Arise, God, judge the earth,
Israel, if you would listen to me! for you inherit all of the nations.
9
There shall be no strange god in you,
neither shall you worship any foreign
god.
Psalm 83
10
I am the LORD, your God, A song. A Psalm by Asaph.
who brought you up out of the land of 1
God, don’t keep silent.
Egypt.
Don’t keep silent,
Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.
11 and don’t be still, God.
But my people didn’t listen to my voice. 2
For, behold, your enemies are stirred up.
Israel desired none of me.
12 Those who hate you have lifted up their
So I let them go after the stubbornness of their
heads.
hearts, 3
They conspire with cunning against your peo-
that they might walk in their own coun-
ple.
sels.
13 They plot against your cherished ones.
Oh that my people would listen to me, 4
“Come,” they say, “and let’s destroy them as a
that Israel would walk in my ways!
14 nation,
I would soon subdue their enemies, that the name of Israel may be remem-
and turn my hand against their adver- bered no more.”
saries. 5
For they have conspired together with one
15
The haters of the LORD would cringe before mind.
him, They form an alliance against you.
and their punishment would last forever. 6
The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites;
16
But he would have also fed them with the Moab, and the Hagrites;
finest of the wheat. 7
Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek;
I will satisfy you with honey out of the Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;
rock.” 8
Assyria also is joined with them.
They have helped the children of Lot.
Psalm 82 Selah.
9
Do to them as you did to Midian,
A Psalm by Asaph. as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river
Kishon;
1 10
God presides in the great assembly. who perished at Endor,
He judges among the gods. who became as dung for the earth.
2 11
“How long will you judge unjustly, Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb;
and show partiality to the wicked?” yes, all their princes like Zebah and Zal-
Selah. munna;
3 12
“Defend the weak, the poor, and the father- who said, “Let us take possession of
less. God’s pasturelands.”
13
Maintain the rights of the poor and op- My God, make them like tumbleweed;
pressed. like chaff before the wind.
4 14
Rescue the weak and needy. As the fire that burns the forest,
Deliver them out of the hand of the as the flame that sets the mountains on
wicked.” fire,
5 15
They don’t know, neither do they understand. so pursue them with your tempest,
They walk back and forth in darkness. and terrify them with your storm.
16
All the foundations of the earth are Fill their faces with confusion,
shaken. that they may seek your name, LORD.
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17
Let them be disappointed and dismayed
forever.
Psalm 85
Yes, let them be confounded and perish; For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by the sons
18 of Korah.
that they may know that you alone, whose
name is the LORD, 1
LORD, you have been favorable to your land.
are the Most High over all the earth. You have restored the fortunes of Jacob.
2
You have forgiven the iniquity of your people.
Psalm 84 Selah.
You have covered all their sin.

3
You have taken away all your wrath.
For the Chief Musician. On an instrument You have turned from the fierceness of
of Gath. A Psalm by the sons of Korah. your anger.
4
1
How lovely are your dwellings, Turn us, God of our salvation,
LORD of Hosts! and cause your indignation toward us to
2 cease.
My soul longs, and even faints for the courts 5
Will you be angry with us forever?
of the LORD.
Will you draw out your anger to all
My heart and my flesh cry out for the
generations?
living God. 6
3 Won’t you revive us again,
Yes, the sparrow has found a home,
that your people may rejoice in you?
and the swallow a nest for herself, where 7
Show us your loving kindness, LORD.
she may have her young,
Grant us your salvation.
near your altars, LORD of Hosts, my 8
I will hear what God, the LORD, will speak,
King, and my God.
4 for he will speak peace to his people, his
Blessed are those who dwell in your house. holy ones;
They are always praising you. but let them not turn again to folly.
Selah. 9
Surely his salvation is near those who fear
5
Blessed are those whose strength is in you; him,
who have set their hearts on a pilgrimage. that glory may dwell in our land.
6 10
Passing through the valley of Weeping, they Mercy and truth meet together.
make it a place of springs. Righteousness and peace have kissed
Yes, the autumn rain covers it with bless- each other.
ings. 11
Truth springs out of the earth.
7
They go from strength to strength. Righteousness has looked down from
Everyone of them appears before God in heaven.
Zion. 12
Yes, the LORD will give that which is good.
8
LORD, God of Hosts, hear my prayer. Our land will yield its increase.
13
Listen, God of Jacob. Righteousness goes before him,
Selah. And prepares the way for his steps.
9
Behold, God our shield,

10
look at the face of your anointed. Psalm 86
For a day in your courts is better than a
thousand. A Prayer by David.
I would rather be a doorkeeper in the 1
Hear, LORD, and answer me,
house of my God, for I am poor and needy.
than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. 2
Preserve my soul, for I am godly.
11
For the LORD God is a sun and a shield. You, my God, save your servant who
The LORD will give grace and glory. trusts in you.
3
He withholds no good thing from those Be merciful to me, Lord,
who walk blamelessly. for I call to you all day long.
12 4
LORD of Hosts, Bring joy to the soul of your servant,
blessed is the man who trusts in you. for to you, Lord, do I lift up my soul.
Psalms 86:5 577 Psalms 88:9

5 3
For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive; Glorious things are spoken about you, city of
abundant in loving kindness to all those God.
who call on you. Selah.
6 4
Hear, LORD, my prayer. I will record Rahabc and Babylon among those
Listen to the voice of my petitions. who acknowledge me.
7
In the day of my trouble I will call on you, Behold, Philistia, Tyre, and also Ethiopia:
for you will answer me. “This one was born there.”
8 5
There is no one like you among the gods, Lord, Yes, of Zion it will be said, “This one and that
nor any deeds like your deeds. one was born in her”;
9
All nations you have made will come and the Most High himself will establish her.
6
worship before you, Lord. The LORD will count, when he writes up the
They shall glorify your name. peoples,
10 “This one was born there.”
For you are great, and do wondrous things.
You are God alone. Selah.
11 7
Teach me your way, LORD. Those who sing as well as those who dance
I will walk in your truth. say,
Make my heart undivided to fear your “All my springs are in you.”
name.
12
I will praise you, Lord my God, with my Psalm 88
whole heart.
I will glorify your name forevermore. A Song. A Psalm by the sons of Korah.
13 For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “The
For your loving kindness is great toward me.
You have delivered my soul from the Suffering of Affliction.” A contemplation by
lowest Sheolb . Heman, the Ezrahite.
14 1
God, the proud have risen up against me. LORD, the God of my salvation,
A company of violent men have sought I have cried day and night before you.
after my soul, 2
Let my prayer enter into your presence.
and they don’t hold regard for you before Turn your ear to my cry.
them. 3
For my soul is full of troubles.
15
But you, Lord, are a merciful and gracious My life draws near to Sheold .
God, 4
I am counted among those who go down into
slow to anger, and abundant in loving the pit.
kindness and truth. I am like a man who has no help,
16 5
Turn to me, and have mercy on me! set apart among the dead,
Give your strength to your servant. like the slain who lie in the grave,
Save the son of your handmaid. whom you remember no more.
17
Show me a sign of your goodness, They are cut off from your hand.
that those who hate me may see it, and be 6
You have laid me in the lowest pit,
shamed, in the darkest depths.
because you, LORD, have helped me, and 7
Your wrath lies heavily on me.
comforted me. You have afflicted me with all your
waves.
Psalm 87 Selah.
8
You have taken my friends from me.
A Psalm by the sons of Korah; a Song. You have made me an abomination to
them.
1
His foundation is in the holy mountains. I am confined, and I can’t escape.
2 9
The LORD loves the gates of Zion more My eyes are dim from grief.
than all the dwellings of Jacob. I have called on you daily, LORD.
b 86:13 Sheol is the place of the dead.
c 87:4 Rahab is a reference to Egypt.
d 88:3 Sheol is the place of the dead.
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I have spread out my hands to you. to be feared above all those who are
10
Do you show wonders to the dead? around him?
8
Do the dead rise up and praise you? LORD, God of Hosts, who is a mighty one, like
Selah. you?
11
Is your loving kindness declared in the The LORD, your faithfulness is around
grave? you.
9
Or your faithfulness in Destruction? You rule the pride of the sea.
12
Are your wonders made known in the dark? When its waves rise up, you calm them.
10
Or your righteousness in the land of You have broken Rahab in pieces, like one of
forgetfulness? the slain.
13
But to you, LORD, I have cried. You have scattered your enemies with
In the morning, my prayer comes before your mighty arm.
11
you. The heavens are yours.
14
LORD, why do you reject my soul? The earth also is yours;
Why do you hide your face from me? the world and its fullness.
15
I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth You have founded them.
12
up. The north and the south, you have created
While I suffer your terrors, I am dis- them.
tracted. Tabor and Hermon rejoice in your name.
16 13
Your fierce wrath has gone over me. You have a mighty arm.
Your terrors have cut me off. Your hand is strong, and your right hand
17
They came around me like water all day long. is exalted.
They completely engulfed me. 14
Righteousness and justice are the foundation
18
You have put lover and friend far from me, of your throne.
and my friends into darkness. Loving kindness and truth go before your
face.
15
Psalm 89 Blessed are the people who learn to acclaim
you.
They walk in the light of your presence,
A contemplation by Ethan, the Ezrahite. LORD.
1 16
I will sing of the loving kindness of the LORD In your name they rejoice all day.
forever. In your righteousness, they are exalted.
17
With my mouth, I will make known your For you are the glory of their strength.
faithfulness to all generations. In your favor, our horn will be exalted.
2 18
I indeed declare, “Love stands firm forever. For our shield belongs to the LORD;
You established the heavens. our king to the Holy One of Israel.
19
Your faithfulness is in them.” Then you spoke in vision to your holy ones,
3 and said, “I have bestowed strength on
“I have made a covenant with my chosen one,
I have sworn to David, my servant, the warrior.
4 I have exalted a young man from the
‘I will establish your seed forever,
and build up your throne to all genera- people.
20
tions.’” I have found David, my servant.
Selah. I have anointed him with my holy oil,
5 21
The heavens will praise your wonders, LORD; with whom my hand shall be established.
your faithfulness also in the assembly of My arm will also strengthen him.
22
the holy ones. No enemy will tax him.
6
For who in the skies can be compared to the No wicked man will oppress him.
23
LORD? I will beat down his adversaries before him,
Who among the sons of the heavenly and strike those who hate him.
24
beings is like the LORD, But my faithfulness and my loving kindness
7
a very awesome God in the council of the holy will be with him.
ones, In my name, his horn will be exalted.
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25 46
I will set his hand also on the sea, How long, LORD?
and his right hand on the rivers. Will you hide yourself forever?
26
He will call to me, ‘You are my Father, Will your wrath burn like fire?
47
my God, and the rock of my salvation!’ Remember how short my time is!
27
I will also appoint him my firstborn, For what vanity have you created all the
the highest of the kings of the earth. children of men!
28 48
I will keep my loving kindness for him What man is he who shall live and not see
forevermore. death,
My covenant will stand firm with him. who shall deliver his soul from the power
29
I will also make his seed endure forever, of Sheole ?
and his throne as the days of heaven. Selah.
30 49
If his children forsake my Torah, Lord, where are your former loving kind-
and don’t walk in my ordinances; nesses,
31 which you swore to David in your faith-
if they break my statutes,
and don’t keep my commandments; fulness?
32 50
then I will punish their sin with the rod, Remember, Lord, the reproach of your ser-
and their iniquity with stripes. vants,
33 how I bear in my heart the taunts of all
But I will not completely take my loving
kindness from him, the mighty peoples,
51
nor allow my faithfulness to fail. With which your enemies have mocked,
34 LORD,
I will not break my covenant,
nor alter what my lips have uttered. with which they have mocked the foot-
35 steps of your anointed one.
Once have I sworn by my holiness,
52
I will not lie to David. Blessed be the LORD forevermore.
36 Amen, and Amen.
His seed will endure forever,
his throne like the sun before me.
37
It will be established forever like the moon, BOOK IV
the faithful witness in the sky.”
Selah.
38
But you have rejected and spurned. Psalm 90
You have been angry with your anointed.
39
You have renounced the covenant of your A Prayer by Moses, the man of Godf .
servant. 1
Lord,g you have been our dwelling place for
You have defiled his crown in the dust. all generations.
40 2
You have broken down all his hedges. Before the mountains were brought
You have brought his strongholds to ruin. forth,
41
All who pass by the way rob him. before you had formed the earth and the
He has become a reproach to his neighbors. world,
42
You have exalted the right hand of his adver- even from everlasting to everlasting, you
saries. are God.
3
You have made all of his enemies rejoice. You turn man to destruction, saying,
43
Yes, you turn back the edge of his sword, “Return, you children of men.”
4
and haven’t supported him in battle. For a thousand years in your sight are just like
44
You have ended his splendor, yesterday when it is past,
and thrown his throne down to the like a watch in the night.
5
ground. You sweep them away as they sleep.
45
You have shortened the days of his youth. In the morning they sprout like new
You have covered him with shame. grass.
6
Selah. In the morning it sprouts and springs up.
e 89:48 Sheol is the place of the dead.
f 90:0 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “Elohim.”
g 90:1 The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”
Psalms 90:7 580 Psalms 92:6

By evening, it is withered and dry. nor of the arrow that flies by day;
7 6
For we are consumed in your anger. nor of the pestilence that walks in dark-
We are troubled in your wrath. ness,
8
You have set our iniquities before you, nor of the destruction that wastes at
our secret sins in the light of your pres- noonday.
7
ence. A thousand may fall at your side,
9
For all our days have passed away in your and ten thousand at your right hand;
wrath. but it will not come near you.
8
We bring our years to an end as a sigh. You will only look with your eyes,
10
The days of our years are seventy, and see the recompense of the wicked.
9
or even by reason of strength eighty Because you have made LORD your refuge,
years; and the Most High your dwelling place,
10
yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, no evil shall happen to you,
for it passes quickly, and we fly away. neither shall any plague come near your
11
Who knows the power of your anger, dwelling.
11
your wrath according to the fear that is For he will put his angels in charge of you,
due to you? to guard you in all your ways.
12 12
So teach us to number our days, They will bear you up in their hands,
that we may gain a heart of wisdom. so that you won’t dash your foot against
13
Relent, LORD!h a stone.
13
How long? You will tread on the lion and cobra.
Have compassion on your servants! You will trample the young lion and the
14
Satisfy us in the morning with your loving serpent underfoot.
14
kindness, “Because he has set his love on me, therefore
that we may rejoice and be glad all our I will deliver him.
days. I will set him on high, because he has
15
Make us glad for as many days as you have known my name.
15
afflicted us, He will call on me, and I will answer him.
for as many years as we have seen evil. I will be with him in trouble.
16
Let your work appear to your servants; I will deliver him, and honor him.
16
your glory to their children. I will satisfy him with long life,
17
Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us; and show him my salvation [yeshuah-
establish the work of our hands for us; ti].”
yes, establish the work of our hands.
Psalm 92
Psalm 91
1 A Psalm. A song for the Sabbath day.
He who dwells in the secret place of the Most
1
High It is a good thing to give thanks to the LORD,
will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. to sing praises to your name, Most High;
2 2
I will say of the LORD, “He is my refuge and to proclaim your loving kindness in the morn-
my fortress; ing,
my God, in whom I trust.” and your faithfulness every night,
3 3
For he will deliver you from the snare of the with the ten-stringed lute, with the harp,
fowler, and with the melody of the lyre.
4
and from the deadly pestilence. For you, LORD, have made me glad through
4
He will cover you with his feathers. your work.
Under his wings you will take refuge. I will triumph in the works of your hands.
5
His faithfulness is your shield and ram- How great are your works, LORD!
part. Your thoughts are very deep.
5 6
You shall not be afraid of the terror by night, A senseless man doesn’t know,
h 90:13 “LORD” or “GOD” (all capital letters) indicate the 4-letter Holy Name of God
Psalms 92:7 581 Psalms 94:23

neither does a fool understand this: how long will the wicked triumph?
7 4
though the wicked spring up as the grass, They pour out arrogant words.
and all the evildoers flourish, All the evildoers boast.
they will be destroyed forever. 5
They break your people in pieces, LORD,
8
But you, LORD, are on high forevermore. and afflict your heritage.
9
For, behold, your enemies, LORD, 6
They kill the widow and the alien,
for, behold, your enemies shall perish.
and murder the fatherless.
All the evildoers will be scattered. 7
10 They say, “The LORD will not see,
But you have exalted my horn like that of the
wild ox. neither will Jacob’s God consider.”
8
I am anointed with fresh oil. Consider, you senseless among the people;
11 you fools, when will you be wise?
My eye has also seen my enemies.
9
My ears have heard of the wicked ene- He who implanted the ear, won’t he hear?
mies who rise up against me. He who formed the eye, won’t he see?
12 10
The righteous shall flourish like the palm He who disciplines the nations, won’t he
tree. punish?
He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon. He who teaches man knows.
13 11
They are planted in the LORD’s house. The LORD knows the thoughts of man,
They will flourish in our God’s courts. that they are futile.
14
They will still bring forth fruit in old age. 12
Blessed is the man whom you discipline,
They will be full of sap and green, LORD,
15
to show that the LORD is upright.
and teach out of your Torah;
He is my rock, 13
that you may give him rest from the days of
and there is no unrighteousness in him.
adversity,
until the pit is dug for the wicked.
Psalm 93 14
For the LORD won’t reject his people,
1 neither will he forsake his inheritance.
The LORD reigns! 15
He is clothed with majesty! For judgment will return to righteousness.
The LORD is armed with strength. All the upright in heart shall follow it.
16
The world also is established. Who will rise up for me against the wicked?
It can’t be moved. Who will stand up for me against the
2 evildoers?
Your throne is established from long ago.
17
You are from everlasting. Unless the LORD had been my help,
3
The floods have lifted up, LORD, my soul would have soon lived in silence.
the floods have lifted up their voice. 18
When I said, “My foot is slipping!”
The floods lift up their waves. Your loving kindness, LORD, held me up.
4
Above the voices of many waters, 19
In the multitude of my thoughts within me,
the mighty breakers of the sea, your comforts delight my soul.
The LORD on high is mighty. 20
5 Shall the throne of wickedness have fellow-
Your statutes stand firm.
ship with you,
Holiness adorns your house,
which brings about mischief by statute?
LORD, forevermore. 21
They gather themselves together against the
soul of the righteous,
Psalm 94 and condemn the innocent blood.
22
1
LORD, you God to whom vengeance belongs, But the LORD has been my high tower,
you God to whom vengeance belongs, my God, the rock of my refuge.
23
shine forth. He has brought on them their own iniquity,
2
Rise up, you judge of the earth. and will cut them off in their own wicked-
Pay back the proud what they deserve. ness.
3
LORD, how long will the wicked, The LORD, our God, will cut them off.
Psalms 95:1 582 Psalms 97:11

Psalm 95 Bring an offering, and come into his


courts.
1
Oh come, let’s sing to the LORD. 9
Worship the LORD in holy array.
Let’s shout aloud to the rock of our Tremble before him, all the earth.
salvation! 10
Say among the nations, “The LORD reigns.”
2
Let’s come before his presence with thanksgiv- The world is also established.
ing. It can’t be moved.
Let’s extol him with songs! He will judge the peoples with equity.
3
For the LORD is a great God, 11
Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth
a great King above all gods. rejoice.
4
In his hand are the deep places of the earth. Let the sea roar, and its fullness!
The heights of the mountains are also his. 12
Let the field and all that is in it exult!
5
The sea is his, and he made it. Then all the trees of the woods shall sing
His hands formed the dry land. for joy
6
Oh come, let’s worship and bow down. 13
before the LORD; for he comes,
Let’s kneel before the LORD, our Maker, for he comes to judge the earth.
7
for he is our God. He will judge the world with righteousness,
We are the people of his pasture, the peoples with his truth.
and the sheep in his care.
Today, oh that you would hear his voice!
8
Don’t harden your heart, as at Meribah,
Psalm 97
1
as in the day of Massah in the wilderness, The LORD reigns!
9
when your fathers tempted me, Let the earth rejoice!
tested me, and saw my work. Let the multitude of islands be glad!
10 2
Forty long years I was grieved with that Clouds and darkness are around him.
generation, Righteousness and justice are the founda-
and said, “It is a people that errs in their tion of his throne.
3
heart. A fire goes before him,
They have not known my ways.” and burns up his adversaries on every
11
Therefore I swore in my wrath, side.
4
“They won’t enter into my rest.” His lightning lights up the world.
The earth sees, and trembles.
5
Psalm 96 The mountains melt like wax at the presence
of the LORD,
1
Sing to the LORD a new song! at the presence of the Lord of the whole
Sing to the LORD, all the earth. earth.
2 6
Sing to the LORD! The heavens declare his righteousness.
Bless his name! All the peoples have seen his glory.
7
Proclaim his salvation from day to day! Let all them be shamed who serve engraved
3
Declare his glory among the nations, images,
his marvelous works among all the peo- who boast in their idols.
ples. Worship him, all you gods!
4 8
For great is the LORD, and greatly to be Zion heard and was glad.
praised! The daughters of Judah rejoiced,
He is to be feared above all gods. because of your judgments, LORD.
5 9
For all the gods of the peoples are idols, For you, LORD, are most high above all the
but the LORD made the heavens. earth.
6
Honor and majesty are before him. You are exalted far above all gods.
10
Strength and beauty are in his sanctuary. You who love the LORD, hate evil.
7
Ascribe to the LORD, you families of nations, He preserves the souls of his holy ones.
ascribe to the LORD glory and strength. He delivers them out of the hand of the
8
Ascribe to the LORD the glory due to his wicked.
11
name. Light is sown for the righteous,
Psalms 97:12 583 Psalms 101:4

5
and gladness for the upright in heart. Exalt the LORD our God.
12
Be glad in the LORD, you righteous people! Worship at his footstool.
Give thanks to his holy Name. He is Holy!
6
Moses and Aaron were among his priests,
Psalm 98 Samuel among those who call on his
name;
they called on the LORD, and he an-
A Psalm. swered them.
1 7
Sing to the LORD a new song, He spoke to them in the pillar of cloud.
for he has done marvelous things! They kept his testimonies,
His right hand, and his holy arm, have the statute that he gave them.
8
worked salvation for him. You answered them, LORD our God.
2 You are a God who forgave them,
The LORD has made known his salvation.
He has openly shown his righteousness although you took vengeance for their
in the sight of the nations. doings.
3 9
He has remembered his loving kindness and Exalt the LORD, our God.
his faithfulness toward the house of Worship at his holy hill,
Israel. for the LORD, our God, is holy!
All the ends of the earth have seen the

4
salvation of our God.
Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the earth!
Psalm 100
Burst out and sing for joy, yes, sing
A Psalm of thanksgiving.
praises!
5 1
Sing praises to the LORD with the harp, Shout for joy to the LORD, all you lands!
2
with the harp and the voice of melody. Serve the LORD with gladness.
6
With shofarsi and sound of the ram’s horn, Come before his presence with singing.
3
make a joyful noise before the King, the Know that the LORD, he is God.
LORD. It is he who has made us, and we are his.
7
Let the sea roar with its fullness; We are his people, and the sheep of his
the world, and those who dwell therein. pasture.
8 4
Let the rivers clap their hands. Enter into his gates with thanksgiving,
Let the mountains sing for joy together. into his courts with praise.
9
Let them sing before the LORD, Give thanks to him, and bless his name.
5
for he comes to judge the earth. For the LORD is good.
He will judge the world with righteousness, His loving kindness endures forever,
and the peoples with equity. his faithfulness to all generations.

Psalm 99 Psalm 101


1
The LORD reigns! Let the peoples tremble.
A Psalm by David.
He sits enthroned among the cherubim.
1
Let the earth be moved. I will sing of loving kindness and justice.
2
The LORD is great in Zion. To you, LORD, I will sing praises.
2
He is high above all the peoples. I will be careful to live a blameless life.
3
Let them praise your great and awesome When will you come to me?
name. I will walk within my house with a
He is Holy! blameless heart.
4 3
The King’s strength also loves justice. I will set no vile thing before my eyes.
You do establish equity. I hate the deeds of faithless men.
You execute justice and righteousness in They will not cling to me.
4
Jacob. A perverse heart will be far from me.
i 98:6 or, trumpets
Psalms 101:5 584 Psalms 102:28

I will have nothing to do with evil. your renown endures to all generations.
5 13
I will silence whoever secretly slanders his You will arise and have mercy on Zion;
neighbor. for it is time to have pity on her.
I won’t tolerate one who is haughty and
Yes, the set time has come.
conceited. 14
6
My eyes will be on the faithful of the land, For your servants take pleasure in her stones,
that they may dwell with me. and have pity on her dust.
15
He who walks in a perfect way, So the nations will fear the name of the
he will serve me. LORD;
7
He who practices deceit won’t dwell within all the kings of the earth your glory.
my house. 16
For the LORD has built up Zion.
He who speaks falsehood won’t be estab- He has appeared in his glory.
lished before my eyes. 17
8 He has responded to the prayer of the desti-
Morning by morning, I will destroy all the
tute,
wicked of the land;
to cut off all the workers of iniquity from and has not despised their prayer.
18
the LORD’s city. This will be written for the generation to
come.

Psalm 102 A people which will be created will praise


the LORD.
19
For he has looked down from the height of
A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is over-
his sanctuary.
whelmed and pours out his complaint before
the LORD. From heaven, the LORD saw the earth;
20
to hear the groans of the prisoner;
1
Hear my prayer, LORD! to free those who are condemned to
Let my cry come to you. death;
2
Don’t hide your face from me in the day of my 21
that men may declare the name of the LORD
distress.
in Zion,
Turn your ear to me.
Answer me quickly in the day when I call. and his praise in Jerusalem;
3 22
For my days consume away like smoke. when the peoples are gathered together,
My bones are burned as a torch. the kingdoms, to serve the LORD.
4 23
My heart is blighted like grass, and withered, He weakened my strength along the course.
for I forget to eat my bread. He shortened my days.
5
By reason of the voice of my groaning, 24
I said, “My God, don’t take me away in the
my bones stick to my skin.
6 midst of my days.
I am like a pelican of the wilderness.
I have become as an owl of the waste Your years are throughout all genera-
places. tions.
7 25
I watch, and have become like a sparrow Of old, you laid the foundation of the earth.
that is alone on the housetop. The heavens are the work of your hands.
8 26
My enemies reproach me all day. They will perish, but you will endure.
Those who are mad at me use my name Yes, all of them will wear out like a
as a curse. garment.
9
For I have eaten ashes like bread, You will change them like a cloak, and
and mixed my drink with tears, they will be changed.
10
Because of your indignation and your wrath, 27
But you are the same.
for you have taken me up, and thrown me
away. Your years will have no end.
11 28
My days are like a long shadow. The children of your servants will continue.
I have withered like grass. Their seed will be established before
12
But you, LORD, will remain forever; you.”
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Psalm 103 19
The LORD has established his throne in the
heavens.
By David. His kingdom rules over all.
20
Praise the LORD, you angels of his,
1
Praise the LORD, my soul! who are mighty in strength, who fulfill
All that is within me, praise his holy his word,
name! obeying the voice of his word.
2 21
Praise the LORD, my soul, Praise the LORD, all you armies of his,
and don’t forget all his benefits; you servants of his, who do his pleasure.
3 22
who forgives all your sins; Praise the LORD, all you works of his,
who heals all your diseases; in all places of his dominion.
4
who redeems your life from destruction; Praise the LORD, my soul!
who crowns you with loving kindness
and tender mercies;
5
who satisfies your desire with good things, Psalm 104
so that your youth is renewed like the 1
Bless the LORD, my soul.
eagle’s. The LORD, my God, you are very great.
6
The LORD executes righteous acts, You are clothed with honor and majesty.
and justice for all who are oppressed. 2
He covers himself with light as with a gar-
7
He made known his ways to Moses, ment.
his deeds to the children of Israel. He stretches out the heavens like a cur-
8
The LORD is merciful and gracious, tain.
slow to anger, and abundant in loving 3
He lays the beams of his rooms in the waters.
kindness. He makes the clouds his chariot.
9
He will not always accuse; He walks on the wings of the wind.
4
neither will he stay angry forever. He makes his messengersj winds;
10
He has not dealt with us according to our his servants flames of fire.
sins, 5
He laid the foundations of the earth,
nor repaid us for our iniquities. that it should not be moved forever.
11 6
For as the heavens are high above the earth, You covered it with the deep as with a cloak.
so great is his loving kindness toward The waters stood above the mountains.
7
those who fear him. At your rebuke they fled.
12
As far as the east is from the west, At the voice of your thunder they hurried
so far has he removed our transgressions away.
8
from us. The mountains rose,
13
Like a father has compassion on his children, the valleys sank down,
so the LORD has compassion on those to the place which you had assigned to
who fear him. them.
14 9
For he knows how we are made. You have set a boundary that they may not
He remembers that we are dust. pass over;
15
As for man, his days are like grass. that they don’t turn again to cover the
As a flower of the field, so he flourishes. earth.
16 10
For the wind passes over it, and it is gone. He sends forth springs into the valleys.
Its place remembers it no more. They run among the mountains.
17 11
But the LORD’s loving kindness is from They give drink to every animal of the field.
everlasting to everlasting with those The wild donkeys quench their thirst.
12
who fear him, The birds of the sky nest by them.
his righteousness to children’s children; They sing among the branches.
18 13
to those who keep his covenant, He waters the mountains from his rooms.
to those who remember to obey his pre- The earth is filled with the fruit of your
cepts. works.
j 104:4 or, angels
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14
He causes the grass to grow for the livestock, I will sing praise to my God while I have
and plants for man to cultivate, any being.
34
that he may bring forth food out of the Let your meditation be sweet to him.
earth: I will rejoice in the LORD.
15 35
wine that makes glad the heart of man, Let sinners be consumed out of the earth.
oil to make his face to shine, Let the wicked be no more.
and bread that strengthens man’s heart. Bless the LORD, my soul.
16
The LORD’s trees are well watered, Praise the LORD!
the cedars of Lebanon, which he has

17
planted;
where the birds make their nests.
Psalm 105
1
The stork makes its home in the fir trees. Give thanks to the LORD! Call on his name!
18
The high mountains are for the wild goats. Make his doings known among the peo-
The rocks are a refuge for the rock bad- ples.
2
gers. Sing to him, sing praises to him!
19
He appointed the moon for seasons. Tell of all his marvelous works.
3
The sun knows when to set. Glory in his holy name.
20
You make darkness, and it is night, Let the heart of those who seek the LORD
in which all the animals of the forest rejoice.
4
prowl. Seek the LORD and his strength.
21
The young lions roar after their prey, Seek his face forever more.
5
and seek their food from God. Remember his marvelous works that he has
22
The sun rises, and they steal away, done;
and lay down in their dens. his wonders, and the judgments of his
23
Man goes forth to his work, mouth,
6
to his labor until the evening. you seed of Abraham, his servant,
24
The LORD, how many are your works! you children of Jacob, his chosen ones.
7
In wisdom have you made them all. He is the LORD, our God.
The earth is full of your riches. His judgments are in all the earth.
25 8
There is the sea, great and wide, He has remembered his covenant forever,
in which are innumerable living things, the word which he commanded to a
both small and large animals. thousand generations,
26 9
There the ships go, the covenant which he made with Abraham,
and leviathan, whom you formed to play his oath to Isaac,
10
there. and confirmed the same to Jacob for a statute;
27
These all wait for you, to Israel for an everlasting covenant,
11
that you may give them their food in due saying, “To you I will give the land of
season. Canaan,
28
You give to them; they gather. the lot of your inheritance”;
12
You open your hand; they are satisfied when they were but a few men in number,
with good. yes, very few, and foreigners in it.
29 13
You hide your face: they are troubled; They went about from nation to nation,
you take away their breath: they die, and from one kingdom to another people.
14
return to the dust. He allowed no one to do them wrong.
30
You send forth your Spirit: they are created. Yes, he reproved kings for their sakes,
15
You renew the face of the ground. “Don’t touch my anointed ones!
31
Let the glory of the LORD endure forever. Do my prophets no harm!”
16
Let the LORD rejoice in his works. He called for a famine on the land.
32
He looks at the earth, and it trembles. He destroyed the food supplies.
17
He touches the mountains, and they He sent a man before them.
smoke. Joseph was sold for a slave.
33 18
I will sing to the LORD as long as I live. They bruised his feet with shackles.
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His neck was locked in irons, and Abraham, his servant.


19 43
until the time that his word happened, He brought forth his people with joy,
and the LORD’s word proved him true. his chosen with singing.
20 44
The king sent and freed him; He gave them the lands of the nations.
even the ruler of peoples, and let him go They took the labor of the peoples in
free. possession,
21 45
He made him lord of his house, that they might keep his statutes,
and ruler of all of his possessions; and observe his laws.
22
to discipline his princes at his pleasure, Praise the LORD!
and to teach his elders wisdom.
23
Israel also came into Egypt.
Jacob lived in the land of Ham.
Psalm 106
24 1
He increased his people greatly, Praise the LORD!
and made them stronger than their adver- Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good,
saries. for his loving kindness endures forever.
25 2
He turned their heart to hate his people, Who can utter the mighty acts of the LORD,
to conspire against his servants. or fully declare all his praise?
26 3
He sent Moses, his servant, Blessed are those who keep justice.
and Aaron, whom he had chosen. Blessed is one who does what is right at
27
They performed miracles among them, all times.
4
and wonders in the land of Ham. Remember me, LORD, with the favor that you
28
He sent darkness, and made it dark. show to your people.
They didn’t rebel against his words. Visit me with your salvation,
29 5
He turned their waters into blood, that I may see the prosperity of your chosen,
and killed their fish. that I may rejoice in the gladness of your
30
Their land swarmed with frogs, nation,
even in the rooms of their kings. that I may glory with your inheritance.
31 6
He spoke, and swarms of flies came, We have sinned with our fathers.
and lice in all their borders. We have committed iniquity.
32
He gave them hail for rain, We have done wickedly.
7
with lightning in their land. Our fathers didn’t understand your wonders
33
He struck their vines and also their fig trees, in Egypt.
and shattered the trees of their country. They didn’t remember the multitude of
34
He spoke, and the locusts came, your loving kindnesses,
and the grasshoppers, without number, but were rebellious at the sea, even at the
35
ate up every plant in their land; Sea of Suf.
8
and ate up the fruit of their ground. Nevertheless he saved them for his name’s
36
He struck also all the firstborn in their land, sake,
the first fruits of all their manhood. that he might make his mighty power
37
He brought them forth with silver and gold. known.
9
There was not one feeble person among He rebuked the Sea of Suf also, and it was
his tribes. dried up;
38
Egypt was glad when they departed, so he led them through the depths, as
for the fear of them had fallen on them. through a desert.
39 10
He spread a cloud for a covering, He saved them from the hand of him who
fire to give light in the night. hated them,
40
They asked, and he brought quails, and redeemed them from the hand of the
and satisfied them with the bread of the enemy.
11
sky. The waters covered their adversaries.
41
He opened the rock, and waters gushed out. There was not one of them left.
12
They ran as a river in the dry places. Then they believed his words.
42
For he remembered his holy word, They sang his praise.
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13
They soon forgot his works. he spoke rashly with his lips.
They didn’t wait for his counsel, 34
They didn’t destroy the peoples,
14
but gave in to craving in the desert, as the LORD commanded them,
and tested God in the wasteland. 35
but mixed themselves with the nations,
15
He gave them their request,
and learned their works.
but sent leanness into their soul. 36
16
They envied Moses also in the camp, They served their idols,
and Aaron, the LORD’s holy one. which became a snare to them.
17 37
The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, Yes, they sacrificed their sons and their
and covered the company of Abiram. daughters to demons.
18 38
A fire was kindled in their company. They shed innocent blood,
The flame burned up the wicked. even the blood of their sons and of their
19
They made a calf in Horeb, daughters,
and worshiped a molten image. whom they sacrificed to the idols of
20
Thus they exchanged their glory Canaan.
for an image of a bull that eats grass. The land was polluted with blood.
21
They forgot God, their Savior, 39
Thus were they defiled with their works,
who had done great things in Egypt,
22 and prostituted themselves in their
Wondrous works in the land of Ham,
deeds.
and awesome things by the Sea of Suf. 40
23
Therefore he said that he would destroy Therefore the LORD burned with anger
them, against his people.
had Moses, his chosen, not stood before He abhorred his inheritance.
41
him in the breach, He gave them into the hand of the nations.
to turn away his wrath, so that he Those who hated them ruled over them.
wouldn’t destroy them. 42
Their enemies also oppressed them.
24
Yes, they despised the pleasant land. They were brought into subjection under
They didn’t believe his word, their hand.
25
but murmured in their tents, 43
Many times he delivered them,
and didn’t listen to the LORD’s voice.
26
Therefore he swore to them but they were rebellious in their counsel,
that he would overthrow them in the and were brought low in their iniquity.
44
wilderness, Nevertheless he regarded their distress,
27
that he would overthrow their seed when he heard their cry.
among the nations, 45
He remembered for them his covenant,
and scatter them in the lands. and repented according to the multitude
28
They joined themselves also to Baal Peor, of his loving kindnesses.
and ate the sacrifices of the dead. 46
He made them also to be pitied
29
Thus they provoked him to anger with their
by all those who carried them captive.
deeds. 47
The plague broke in on them. Save us, LORD, our God,
30 gather us from among the nations,
Then Phinehas stood up, and executed judg-
ment, to give thanks to your holy name,
so the plague was stopped. to triumph in your praise!
31 48
That was credited to him for righteousness, Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel,
for all generations to come. from everlasting even to everlasting!
32
They angered him also at the waters of
Let all the people say, “Amen.”
Meribah,
Praise the LORD!
so that Moses was troubled for their
sakes;
33
because they were rebellious against his
spirit, BOOK V
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Psalm 107 17
Fools are afflicted because of their disobedi-
ence,
1
Give thanks to the LORD,k and because of their iniquities.
for he is good, 18
Their soul abhors all kinds of food.
for his loving kindness endures forever. They draw near to the gates of death.
2 19
Let the redeemed by the LORD say so, Then they cry to the LORD in their trouble,
whom he has redeemed from the hand of he saves them out of their distresses.
20
the adversary, He sends his word, and heals them,
3
And gathered out of the lands, and delivers them from their graves.
21
from the east and from the west, Let them praise the LORD for his loving
from the north and from the south. kindness,
4 for his wonderful works to the children of
They wandered in the wilderness in a desert
way. men!
22
They found no city to live in. Let them offer the sacrifices of thanksgiving,
5 and declare his works with singing.
Hungry and thirsty,
23
their soul fainted in them. Those who go down to the sea in ships,
6
Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble, who do business in great waters;
24
and he delivered them out of their dis- These see the LORD’s works,
tresses, and his wonders in the deep.
25
7
he led them also by a straight way, For he commands, and raises the stormy
that they might go to a city to live in. wind,
8 which lifts up its waves.
Let them praise the LORD for his loving 26
They mount up to the sky; they go down
kindness,
again to the depths.
for his wonderful works to the children of
Their soul melts away because of trouble.
men! 27
9 They reel back and forth, and stagger like a
For he satisfies the longing soul.
drunken man,
He fills the hungry soul with good.
10 and are at their wits’ end.
Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of 28
Then they cry to the LORD in their trouble,
death,
and he brings them out of their distress.
being bound in affliction and iron, 29
He makes the storm a calm,
11
because they rebelled against the words so that its waves are still.
of Godl , 30
Then they are glad because it is calm,
and condemned the counsel of the Most so he brings them to their desired haven.
High. 31
Let them praise the LORD for his loving
12
Therefore he brought down their heart with kindness,
labor. for his wonderful works for the children
They fell down, and there was none to of men!
help. 32
Let them exalt him also in the assembly of the
13
Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble, people,
and he saved them out of their distresses. and praise him in the seat of the elders.
14 33
He brought them out of darkness and the He turns rivers into a desert,
shadow of death, water springs into a thirsty ground,
and broke their bonds in sunder. 34
and a fruitful land into a salt waste,
15
Let them praise the LORD for his loving for the wickedness of those who dwell in
kindness, it.
35
for his wonderful works to the children of He turns a desert into a pool of water,
men! and a dry land into water springs.
16 36
For he has broken the gates of brass, There he makes the hungry live,
and cut through bars of iron. that they may prepare a city to live in,
k 107:1 “LORD” or “GOD” (all capital letters) indicate the 4-letter Holy Name of God
l 107:11 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “Elohim.”
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37
sow fields, plant vineyards, Who has led me to Edom?
11
and reap the fruits of increase. Haven’t you rejected us, God?
38
He blesses them also, so that they are multi- You don’t go forth, God, with our armies.
12
plied greatly. Give us help against the enemy,
He doesn’t allow their livestock to de- for the help of man is vain.
13
crease. Through God, we will do valiantly.
39
Again, they are diminished and bowed down For it is he who will tread down our
through oppression, trouble, and sorrow. enemies.
40
He pours contempt on princes,
and causes them to wander in a trackless
waste.
Psalm 109
41
Yet he lifts the needy out of their affliction,
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.
and increases their families like a flock.
42 1
The upright will see it, and be glad. God of my praise, don’t remain silent,
All the wicked will shut their mouths. 2
for they have opened the mouth of
43
Whoever is wise will pay attention to these the wicked and the mouth of deceit
things. against me.
They will consider the loving kindnesses They have spoken to me with a lying
of the LORD. tongue.
3
They have also surrounded me with words of
Psalm 108 hatred,
and fought against me without a cause.
4
In return for my love, they are my adversaries;
A Song. A Psalm by David.
but I am in prayer.
1 5
My heart is steadfast, God. They have rewarded me evil for good,
I will sing and I will make music with my and hatred for my love.
6
soul. Set a wicked man over him.
2
Wake up, harp and lyre! Let an adversary stand at his right hand.
7
I will wake up the dawn. When he is judged, let him come forth guilty.
3
I will give thanks to you, LORD, among the Let his prayer be turned into sin.
8
nations. Let his days be few.
I will sing praises to you among the Let another take his office.
9
peoples. Let his children be fatherless,
4
For your loving kindness is great above the and his wife a widow.
10
heavens. Let his children be wandering beggars.
Your faithfulness reaches to the skies. Let them be sought from their ruins.
5 11
Be exalted, God, above the heavens! Let the creditor seize all that he has.
Let your glory be over all the earth. Let strangers plunder the fruit of his
6
That your beloved may be delivered, labor.
12
save with your right hand, and answer Let there be no one to extend kindness to him,
us. neither let there be anyone to have pity on
7
God has spoken from his sanctuary: “In his fatherless children.
13
triumph, Let his posterity be cut off.
I will divide Shechem, and measure out In the generation following let their name
the valley of Succoth. be blotted out.
8 14
Gilead is mine. Manasseh is mine. Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered
Ephraim also is my helmet. by the LORD.
Judah is my scepter. Don’t let the sin of his mother be blotted
9
Moab is my wash pot. out.
15
I will toss my sandal on Edom. Let them be before the LORD continually,
I will shout over Philistia.” that he may cut off their memory from the
10
Who will bring me into the fortified city? earth;
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16
because he didn’t remember to show kind-
ness,
Psalm 110
but persecuted the poor and needy man, A Psalm by David.
the broken in heart, to kill them. 1
17 The LORD says to my Lord, “Sit at my right
Yes, he loved cursing, and it came to him.
hand,
He didn’t delight in blessing, and it was
until I make your enemies your footstool
far from him.
18 for your feet.”
He clothed himself also with cursing as with 2
The LORD will send forth the rod of your
his garment.
strength out of Zion.
It came into his inward parts like water, Rule in the midst of your enemies.
like oil into his bones. 3
Your people offer themselves willingly in the
19
Let it be to him as the clothing with which he day of your power, in holy array.
covers himself, Out of the womb of the morning, you
for the belt that is always around him. have the dew of your youth.
20 4
This is the reward of my adversaries from the The LORD has sworn, and will not change his
LORD, mind:
of those who speak evil against my soul. “You are a priest forever in the order of
21
But deal with me, the LORD the Lord,m for Melchizedek.”
your name’s sake, 5
The Lord is at your right hand.
because your loving kindness is good, He will crush kings in the day of his
deliver me; wrath.
22 6
for I am poor and needy. He will judge among the nations.
My heart is wounded within me. He will heap up dead bodies.
23
I fade away like an evening shadow. He will crush the ruler of the whole earth.
7
I am shaken off like a locust. He will drink of the brook in the way;
24 therefore he will lift up his head.
My knees are weak through fasting.
My body is thin and lacks fat.
25
I have also become a reproach to them. Psalm 111
When they see me, they shake their head. 1
26 Praise the LORD!n
Help me, LORD, my God.
I will give thanks to the LORD with my
Save me according to your loving kind-
whole heart,
ness;
27 in the council of the upright, and in the
that they may know that this is your hand;
congregation.
that you, LORD, have done it. 2
The LORD’s works are great,
28
They may curse, but you bless. pondered by all those who delight in
When they arise, they will be shamed, them.
but your servant shall rejoice. 3
His work is honor and majesty.
29
Let my adversaries be clothed with dishonor. His righteousness endures forever.
Let them cover themselves with their 4
He has caused his wonderful works to be
own shame as with a robe. remembered.
30
I will give great thanks to the LORD with my The LORD is gracious and merciful.
mouth. 5
He has given food to those who fear him.
Yes, I will praise him among the multi- He always remembers his covenant.
tude. 6
He has shown his people the power of his
31
For he will stand at the right hand of the works,
needy, in giving them the heritage of the nations.
7
to save him from those who judge his The works of his hands are truth and justice.
soul. All his precepts are sure.
m 109:21The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”
n 111:1Psalm 111 is an acrostic poem, with each verse after the initial “Praise the LORD!” starting with a
letter of the alphabet (ordered from Alef to Tav).
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8
They are established forever and ever. from this time forth and forevermore.
They are done in truth and uprightness. 3
From the rising of the sun to the going down
9
He has sent redemption to his people. of the same,
He has ordained his covenant forever.
His name is holy and awesome! The LORD’s name is to be praised.
10 4
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of The LORD is high above all nations,
wisdom. his glory above the heavens.
All those who do his work have a good 5
understanding. Who is like the LORD, our God,
His praise endures forever! who has his seat on high,
6
Who stoops down to see in heaven and
Psalm 112 7
in the earth?
1 He raises up the poor out of the dust.
Praise the LORD!o
Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, Lifts up the needy from the ash heap;
who delights greatly in his command- 8
that he may set him with princes,
ments.
2 even with the princes of his people.
His seed will be mighty in the land.
9
The generation of the upright will be He settles the barren woman in her home,
blessed. as a joyful mother of children.
3
Wealth and riches are in his house.
Praise the LORD!
His righteousness endures forever.
4
Light dawns in the darkness for the upright,
gracious, merciful, and righteous.
5
It is well with the man who deals graciously
and lends.
Psalm 114
He will maintain his cause in judgment.
6 1
For he will never be shaken. When Israel went forth out of Egypt,
The righteous will be remembered for-
the house of Jacob from a people of
ever.
7 foreign language;
He will not be afraid of evil news.
2
His heart is steadfast, trusting in the Judah became his sanctuary,
LORD. Israel his dominion.
8
His heart is established. 3
The sea saw it, and fled.
He will not be afraid in the end when he
sees his adversaries. The Jordan was driven back.
9 4
He has dispersed, he has given to the poor. The mountains skipped like rams,
His righteousness endures forever.
the little hills like lambs.
His horn will be exalted with honor.
10 5
The wicked will see it, and be grieved. What was it, you sea, that you fled?
He shall gnash with his teeth, and melt You Jordan, that you turned back?
away. 6
You mountains, that you skipped like rams;
The desire of the wicked will perish.
you little hills, like lambs?
7
Psalm 113 Tremble, you earth, at the presence of the
Lord,
1
Praise the LORD! at the presence of the God of Jacob,
Praise, you servants of the LORD, 8
praise the name of the LORD. who turned the rock into a pool of water,
2
Blessed be the name of the LORD, the flint into a spring of waters.
o 112:1 Psalm 112 is an acrostic poem, with each verse after the initial “Praise the LORD!” starting with a
letter of the alphabet (ordered from Alef to Tav).
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Psalm 115 Psalm 116


1
1
Not to us, LORD, not to us, I love the LORD, because he listens to my
voice,
but to your name give glory,
and my cries for mercy.
for your loving kindness, and for your 2
Because he has turned his ear to me,
truth’s sake.
2 therefore I will call on him as long as I
Why should the nations say,
live.
“Where is their God, now?” 3
The cords of death surrounded me,
3
But our God is in the heavens. the pains of Sheolp got a hold of me.
He does whatever he pleases. I found trouble and sorrow.
4 4
Their idols are silver and gold, Then I called on the name of the LORD:
the work of men’s hands. “LORD, I beg you, deliver my soul.”
5 5
They have mouths, but they don’t speak. The LORD is Gracious and righteous.
They have eyes, but they don’t see. Yes, our God is merciful.
6
6
They have ears, but they don’t hear. The LORD preserves the simple.
They have noses, but they don’t smell. I was brought low, and he saved me.
7
7 Return to your rest, my soul,
They have hands, but they don’t feel.
for the LORD has dealt bountifully with
They have feet, but they don’t walk,
you.
neither do they speak through their 8
For you have delivered my soul from death,
throat. my eyes from tears,
8
Those who make them will be like them; and my feet from falling.
yes, everyone who trusts in them. 9
I will walk before the LORD in the land of the
9
Israel, trust in the LORD! living.
10
He is their help and their shield. I believed, therefore I said,
10 “I was greatly afflicted.”
House of Aaron, trust in the LORD!
11
He is their help and their shield. I said in my haste,
11
You who fear the LORD, trust in the LORD! “All men are liars.”
12
He is their help and their shield. What will I give to the LORD for all his
12 benefits toward me?
The LORD remembers us. He will bless us. 13
I will take the cup of salvation, and call
He will bless the house of Israel. on the name of the LORD.
He will bless the house of Aaron. 14
I will pay my vows to the LORD,
13
He will bless those who fear the LORD, yes, in the presence of all his people.
both small and great. 15
Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death
14
May the LORD increase you more and more, of his holy ones.
16
you and your children. LORD, truly I am your servant.
15
Blessed are you by the LORD, I am your servant, the son of your hand-
maid.
who made heaven and earth.
16 You have freed me from my chains.
The heavens are the heavens of the LORD; 17
I will offer to you the sacrifice of thanksgiv-
but the earth has he given to the children ing,
of men.
17
and will call on the name of the LORD.
The dead don’t praise the LORD, 18
I will pay my vows to the LORD,
neither any who go down into silence; yes, in the presence of all his people,
18 19
But we will bless the LORD, in the courts of the LORD’s house,
from this time forth and forevermore. in the midst of you, Jerusalem.
Praise the LORD! Praise the LORD!
p 116:3 Sheol is the place of the dead.
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Psalm 117 17
I will not die, but live,
and declare the LORD’s works.
1 18
Praise the LORD, all you nations! The LORD has punished me severely,
Extol him, all you peoples! but he has not given me over to death.
2 19
For his loving kindness is great toward us. Open to me the gates of righteousness.
The LORD’s faithfulness endures forever. I will enter into them.
Praise the LORD! I will give thanks to the LORD.
20
This is the gate of the LORD;
Psalm 118 21
the righteous will enter into it.
1
I will give thanks to you, for you have
Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, answered me,
for his loving kindness endures forever. and have become my salvation
2
Let Israel now say [yeshu‘ah].
that his loving kindness endures forever. 22
The stone which the builders rejected has
3
Let the house of Aaron now say become the head of the corner.
that his loving kindness endures forever. 23
This is the LORD’s doing.
4
Now let those who fear the LORD say It is marvelous in our eyes.
that his loving kindness endures forever. 24
This is the day that the LORD has made.
5
Out of my distress, I called on the LORD. We will rejoice and be glad in it!
The LORD answered me with freedom. 25
Save us now, we beg you, LORD!
6
The LORD is on my side. I will not be afraid. LORD, we beg you, send prosperity now.
What can man do to me? 26
Blessed is he who comes in the name of the
7
The LORD is on my side among those who LORD!
help me. We have blessed you out of the house of
Therefore I will look in triumph at those the LORD.
who hate me. 27
The LORD is God, and he has given us light.
8
It is better to take refuge in the LORD, Bind the sacrifice with cords, even to the
than to put confidence in man. horns of the altar.
9
It is better to take refuge in the LORD, 28
You are my God, and I will give thanks to
than to put confidence in princes. you.
10
All the nations surrounded me, You are my God, I will exalt you.
but in the name of the LORD, I cut them 29
Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good,
off. for his loving kindness endures forever.
11
They surrounded me, yes, they surrounded
me.
In the name of the LORD I indeed cut Psalm 119
them off.
12 ALEPH
They surrounded me like bees.
1
They are quenched like the burning Blessed are those whose ways are blameless,
thorns. who walk according to the LORD’s Torah.
2
In the name of the LORD I cut them off. Blessed are those who keep his statutes,
13
You pushed me back hard, to make me fall, who seek him with their whole heart.
3
but the LORD helped me. Yes, they do nothing wrong.
14
The LORD is my strength and song. They walk in his ways.
4
He has become my salvation [yeshu‘ah]. You have commanded your precepts,
15
The voice of rejoicing and salvation that we should fully obey them.
5
[yeshu‘ah] is in the tents of the Oh that my ways were steadfast
righteous. to obey your statutes!
6
“The right hand of the LORD does Then I wouldn’t be disappointed,
valiantly. when I consider all of your command-
16
The right hand of the LORD is exalted! ments.
7
The right hand of the LORD does I will give thanks to you with uprightness of
valiantly!” heart,
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when I learn your righteous judgments. Then I will meditate on your wondrous
8
I will observe your statutes. works.
28
Don’t utterly forsake me. My soul is weary with sorrow:
strengthen me according to your word.
BET 29
Keep me from the way of deceit.
9 Grant me your Torah graciously!
How can a young man keep his way pure?
30
By living according to your word. I have chosen the way of truth.
10 I have set your ordinances before me.
With my whole heart, I have sought you.
31
Don’t let me wander from your com- I cling to your statutes, LORD.
mandments. Don’t let me be disappointed.
11 32
I have hidden your word in my heart, I run in the path of your commandments,
that I might not sin against you. for you have set my heart free.
12
Blessed are you, LORD.
HEY
Teach me your statutes.
13 33
With my lips, Teach me, LORD, the way of your statutes.
I have declared all the ordinances of your I will keep them to the end.
34
mouth. Give me understanding, and I will keep your
14
I have rejoiced in the way of your testimonies, Torah.
as much as in all riches. Yes, I will obey it with my whole heart.
15 35
I will meditate on your precepts, Direct me in the path of your command-
and consider your ways. ments,
16
I will delight myself in your statutes. for I delight in them.
36
I will not forget your word. Turn my heart toward your statutes,
not toward selfish gain.
GIMEL 37
Turn my eyes away from looking at worthless
17
Do good to your servant. things.
I will live and I will obey your word. Revive me in your ways.
18 38
Open my eyes, Fulfill your promise to your servant,
that I may see wondrous things out of that you may be feared.
39
your Torah. Take away my disgrace that I dread,
19
I am a stranger on the earth. for your ordinances are good.
40
Don’t hide your commandments from Behold, I long for your precepts!
me. Revive me in your righteousness.
20
My soul is consumed with longing for your
WAW
ordinances at all times.
21 41
You have rebuked the proud who are cursed, Let your loving kindness also come to me,
who wander from your commandments. LORD,
22
Take reproach and contempt away from me, your salvation, according to your word.
for I have kept your statutes. 42
So I will have an answer for him who re-
23
Though princes sit and slander me, proaches me,
your servant will meditate on your for I trust in your word.
statutes. 43
Don’t snatch the word of truth out of my
24
Indeed your statutes are my delight, mouth,
and my counselors. for I put my hope in your ordinances.
44
So I will obey your Torah continually,
DALED
forever and ever.
25 45
My soul is laid low in the dust. I will walk in liberty,
Revive me according to your word! for I have sought your precepts.
26 46
I declared my ways, and you answered me. I will also speak of your statutes before kings,
Teach me your statutes. and will not be disappointed.
27 47
Let me understand the teaching of your I will delight myself in your commandments,
precepts! because I love them.
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48
I reach out my hands for your command- Teach me your statutes.
69
ments, which I love. The proud have smeared a lie upon me.
I will meditate on your statutes. With my whole heart, I will keep your
precepts.
ZAYIN 70
Their heart is as callous as the fat,
49 but I delight in your Torah.
Remember your word to your servant,
71
because you gave me hope. It is good for me that I have been afflicted,
50 that I may learn your statutes.
This is my comfort in my affliction,
72
for your word has revived me. The Torah you have spoken is better to me
51 than thousands of pieces of gold and
The arrogant mock me excessively,
but I don’t swerve from your Torah. silver.
52
I remember your ordinances of old, LORD,
YUD
and have comforted myself.
53 73
Indignation has taken hold on me, Your hands have made me and formed me.
because of the wicked who forsake your Give me understanding, that I may learn
Torah. your commandments.
54 74
Your statutes have been my songs, Those who fear you will see me and be glad,
in the house where I live. because I have put my hope in your word.
55 75
I have remembered your name, LORD, in the LORD, I know that your judgments are righ-
night, teous,
and I obey your Torah. that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.
56 76
This is my way, Please let your loving kindness be for my
that I keep your precepts. comfort,
according to your word to your servant.
CHET 77
Let your tender mercies come to me, that I
57
The LORD is my portion. may live;
I promised to obey your words. for your Torah is my delight.
58 78
I sought your favor with my whole heart. Let the proud be disappointed, for they have
Be merciful to me according to your overthrown me wrongfully.
word. I will meditate on your precepts.
59 79
I considered my ways, Let those who fear you turn to me.
and turned my steps to your statutes. They will know your statutes.
60 80
I will hurry, and not delay, Let my heart be blameless toward your de-
to obey your commandments. crees,
61
The ropes of the wicked bind me, that I may not be disappointed.
but I won’t forget your Torah.
62 KAF
At midnight I will rise to give thanks to you,
81
because of your righteous ordinances. My soul faints for your salvation.
63
I am a friend of all those who fear you, I hope in your word.
of those who observe your precepts. 82
My eyes fail for your word.
64
The earth is full of your loving kindness, I say, “When will you comfort me?”
LORD. 83
For I have become like a wineskin in the
Teach me your statutes. smoke.
I don’t forget your statutes.
TET 84
How many are the days of your servant?
65
Do good to your servant, When will you execute judgment on
according to your word, LORD. those who persecute me?
66 85
Teach me good judgment and knowledge, The proud have dug pits for me,
for I believe in your commandments. contrary to your Torah.
67 86
Before I was afflicted, I went astray; All of your commandments are faithful.
but now I observe your word. They persecute me wrongfully.
68
You are good, and do good. Help me!
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87
They had almost wiped me from the earth, that I will obey your righteous ordi-
but I didn’t forsake your precepts. nances.
88 107
Preserve my life according to your loving I am afflicted very much.
kindness, Revive me, LORD, according to your
so I will obey the statutes of your mouth. word.
108
Accept, I beg you, the willing offerings of
LAMED
my mouth.
89 LORD, teach me your ordinances.
LORD, your word is settled in heaven for-
109
ever. My soul is continually in my hand,
90 yet I won’t forget your Torah.
Your faithfulness is to all generations.
110
You have established the earth, and it The wicked have laid a snare for me,
remains. yet I haven’t gone astray from your pre-
91 cepts.
Your laws remain to this day,
111
for all things serve you. I have taken your testimonies as a heritage
92 forever,
Unless your Torah had been my delight,
I would have perished in my affliction. for they are the joy of my heart.
93 112
I will never forget your precepts, I have set my heart to perform your statutes
for with them, you have revived me. forever,
94 even to the end.
I am yours.
Save me, for I have sought your precepts.
95 SAMEKH
The wicked have waited for me, to destroy
113
me. I hate double-minded men,
I will consider your statutes. but I love your Torah.
96 114
I have seen a limit to all perfection, You are my hiding place and my shield.
but your commands are boundless. I hope in your word.
115
Depart from me, you evildoers,
MEM
that I may keep the commandments of
97
How I love your Torah! my God.
116
It is my meditation all day. Uphold me according to your word, that I
98
Your commandments make me wiser than may live.
my enemies, Let me not be ashamed of my hope.
117
for your commandments are always with Hold me up, and I will be safe,
me. and will have respect for your statutes
99
I have more understanding than all my teach- continually.
118
ers, You reject all those who stray from your
for your testimonies are my meditation. statutes,
100
I understand more than the aged, for their deceit is in vain.
119
because I have kept your precepts. You put away all the wicked of the earth like
101
I have kept my feet from every evil way, dross.
that I might observe your word. Therefore I love your testimonies.
102 120
I have not turned aside from your ordi- My flesh trembles for fear of you.
nances, I am afraid of your judgments.
for you have taught me.
103 AYIN
How sweet are your promises to my taste,
more than honey to my mouth! 121
I have done what is just and righteous.
104
Through your precepts, I get understanding; Don’t leave me to my oppressors.
therefore I hate every false way. 122
Ensure your servant’s well-being.
Don’t let the proud oppress me.
NUN 123
My eyes fail looking for your salvation,
105
Your word is a lamp to my feet, for your righteous word.
124
and a light for my path. Deal with your servant according to your
106
I have sworn, and have confirmed it, loving kindness.
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Teach me your statutes. Give me understanding, that I may live.


125
I am your servant. Give me understanding,
KUF
that I may know your testimonies.
126 145
It is time to act, LORD, I have called with my whole heart.
for they break your Torah. Answer me, LORD!
127 I will keep your statutes.
Therefore I love your commandments more
146
than gold, I have called to you. Save me!
yes, more than pure gold. I will obey your statutes.
128 147
Therefore I consider all of your precepts to I rise before dawn and cry for help.
be right. I put my hope in your words.
148
I hate every false way. My eyes stay open through the night
watches,
PEY that I might meditate on your word.
149
129 Hear my voice according to your loving
Your testimonies are wonderful, kindness.
therefore my soul keeps them. Revive me, LORD, according to your
130
The entrance of your words gives light. ordinances.
It gives understanding to the simple. 150
They draw near who follow after wicked-
131
I opened my mouth wide and panted, ness.
for I longed for your commandments. They are far from your Torah.
132 151
Turn to me, and have mercy on me, You are near, LORD.
as you always do to those who love your All your commandments are truth.
name. 152
Of old I have known from your testimonies,
133
Establish my footsteps in your word. that you have founded them forever.
Don’t let any iniquity have dominion
RESH
over me.
134 153
Redeem me from the oppression of man, Consider my affliction, and deliver me,
so I will observe your precepts. for I don’t forget your Torah.
135 154
Make your face shine on your servant. Plead my cause, and redeem me!
Teach me your statutes. Revive me according to your promise.
136 155
Streams of tears run down my eyes, Salvation is far from the wicked,
because they don’t observe your Torah. for they don’t seek your statutes.
156
Great are your tender mercies, LORD.
TZADI Revive me according to your ordinances.
157
137 Many are my persecutors and my adver-
You are righteous, LORD.
saries.
Your judgments are upright.
138 I haven’t swerved from your testimonies.
You have commanded your statutes in righ- 158
I look at the faithless with loathing,
teousness.
because they don’t observe your word.
They are fully trustworthy. 159
Consider how I love your precepts.
139
My zeal wears me out, Revive me, LORD, according to your
because my enemies ignore your words. loving kindness.
140 160
Your promises have been thoroughly tested, All of your words are truth.
and your servant loves them. Every one of your righteous ordinances
141
I am small and despised. endures forever.
I don’t forget your precepts.
142
Your righteousness is an everlasting righ- SIN AND SHIN
teousness. 161
Princes have persecuted me without a cause,
Your Torah is truth. but my heart stands in awe of your
143
Trouble and anguish have taken hold of me. words.
162
Your commandments are my delight. I rejoice at your word,
144
Your testimonies are righteous forever. as one who finds great spoil.
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163 6
I hate and abhor falsehood. My soul has had her dwelling too long
I love your Torah. with him who hates peace.
164 7
Seven times a day, I praise you, I am for peace,
because of your righteous ordinances. but when I speak, they are for war.
165
Those who love your Torah have great
peace.
Nothing causes them to stumble.
Psalm 121
166
I have hoped for your salvation, LORD. A Song of Ascents.
I have done your commandments.
167 1
My soul has observed your testimonies. I will lift up my eyes to the hills.
I love them exceedingly. Where does my help come from?
168 2
I have obeyed your precepts and your testi- My help comes from the LORD,
monies, who made heaven and earth.
3
for all my ways are before you. He will not allow your foot to be moved.
He who keeps you will not slumber.
TAV 4
Behold, he who keeps Israel
169
Let my cry come before you, LORD. will neither slumber nor sleep.
5
The LORD is your keeper.
Give me understanding according to
The LORD is your shade on your right
your word.
170 hand.
Let my supplication come before you. 6
The sun will not harm you by day,
Deliver me according to your word.
171 nor the moon by night.
Let my lips utter praise, 7
The LORD will keep you from all evil.
for you teach me your statutes.
172 He will keep your soul.
Let my tongue sing of your word, 8
The LORD will keep your going out and your
for all your commandments are righ-
coming in,
teousness.
173 from this time forth, and forevermore.
Let your hand be ready to help me,
for I have chosen your precepts.
174
I have longed for your salvation [yeshuat], Psalm 122
LORD.
Your Torah is my delight. A Song of Ascents. By David.
175 1
Let my soul live, that I may praise you. I was glad when they said to me,
Let your ordinances help me. “Let’s go to the LORD’s house!”
176 2
I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Our feet are standing within your gates,
Seek your servant, for I don’t forget your Jerusalem;
commandments. 3
Jerusalem, that is built as a city that is
compact together;
Psalm 120 4
where the tribes go up, even the LORD’s
tribes,
A Song of Ascents. according to an ordinance for Israel,
to give thanks to the name of the LORD.
1 5
In my distress, I cried to the LORD. For there are set thrones for judgment,
He answered me. the thrones of David’s house.
2 6
Deliver my soul, LORD, from lying lips, Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
from a deceitful tongue. Those who love you will prosper.
3 7
What will be given to you, and what will be Peace be within your walls,
done more to you, and prosperity within your palaces.
8
you deceitful tongue? For my brothers’ and companions’ sakes,
4
Sharp arrows of the mighty, I will now say, “Peace be within you.”
9
with coals of juniper. For the sake of the house of the LORD our
5
Woe is me, that I live in Meshech, God,
that I dwell among the tents of Kedar! I will seek your good.
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Psalm 123 2
As the mountains surround Jerusalem,
so the LORD surrounds his people from
A Song of Ascents. this time forth and forevermore.
3
For the scepter of wickedness won’t remain
1
To you I do lift up my eyes, over the allotment of the righteous;
you who sit in the heavens. so that the righteous won’t use their
2
Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hands to do evil.
hand of their master, 4
Do good, LORD, to those who are good,
as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her to those who are upright in their hearts.
mistress; 5
But as for those who turn aside to their
so our eyes look to the LORD, our God, crooked ways,
until he has mercy on us. The LORD will lead them away with the
3
Have mercy on us, LORD, have mercy on us, workers of iniquity.
for we have endured much contempt. Peace be on Israel.
4
Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing
of those who are at ease,
with the contempt of the proud. Psalm 126
A Song of Ascents.
Psalm 124 1
When the LORD brought back those who
A Song of Ascents. By David. returned to Zion,
1
we were like those who dream.
If it had not been the LORD who was on our 2
Then our mouth was filled with laughter,
side, and our tongue with singing.
let Israel now say, Then they said among the nations,
2
if it had not been the LORD who was on our “The LORD has done great things for
side, them.”
when men rose up against us; 3
The LORD has done great things for us,
3
then they would have swallowed us up alive, and we are glad.
when their wrath was kindled against us; 4
Restore our fortunes again, LORD,
4
then the waters would have overwhelmed us,
like the streams in the Negev.
the stream would have gone over our 5
Those who sow in tears will reap in joy.
soul; 6
5 He who goes out weeping, carrying seed
then the proud waters would have gone over
for sowing,
our soul.
6 will certainly come again with joy, carry-
Blessed be the LORD,
ing his sheaves.
who has not given us as a prey to their
teeth.
7
Our soul has escaped like a bird out of the Psalm 127
fowler’s snare.
The snare is broken, and we have es- A Song of Ascents. By Solomon.
caped. 1
8 Unless the LORD builds the house,
Our help is in the name of the LORD,
who made heaven and earth. they labor in vain who build it.
Unless the LORD watches over the city,
Psalm 125 2
the watchman guards it in vain.
It is vain for you to rise up early,
to stay up late,
A Song of Ascents.
eating the bread of toil;
1
Those who trust in the LORD are as Mount for he gives sleep to his loved ones.
3
Zion, Behold, children are a heritage of the LORD.
which can’t be moved, but remains for- The fruit of the womb is his reward.
4
ever. As arrows in the hand of a mighty man,
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5
so are the children of youth. Psalm 130
Happy is the man who has his quiver full of
them.
They won’t be disappointed when they
speak with their enemies in the gate. A Song of Ascents.

Psalm 128 1
Out of the depths I have cried to you, LORD.
2
Lord, hear my voice.
A Song of Ascents. Let your ears be attentive to the voice of
1 my petitions.
Blessed is everyone who fears the LORD,
who walks in his ways. 3
If you, LORD, kept a record of sins,
2
For you will eat the labor of your hands.
Lord, who could stand?
You will be happy, and it will be well with 4
you. But there is forgiveness with you,
3
Your wife will be as a fruitful vine, therefore you are feared.
in the innermost parts of your house; 5
I wait for the LORD.
your children like olive plants,
around your table. My soul waits.
4
Behold, thus is the man blessed who fears the I hope in his word.
LORD. 6
My soul longs for the Lord more than watch-
5
May the LORD bless you out of Zion, men long for the morning;
and may you see the good of Jerusalem
all the days of your life. more than watchmen for the morning.
6 7
Yes, may you see your children’s children. Israel, hope in the LORD,
Peace be upon Israel. for with the LORD there is loving kind-
ness.
Psalm 129 With him is abundant redemption.
8
He will redeem Israel from all their sins.
A Song of Ascents.
1
Many times they have afflicted me from my
youth up.
Let Israel now say,
Psalm 131
2
many times they have afflicted me from my
youth up,
yet they have not prevailed against me. A Song of Ascents. By David.
3
The plowers plowed on my back.
They made their furrows long.
4 1
The LORD is righteous. LORD, my heart isn’t haughty, nor my eyes
He has cut apart the cords of the wicked. lofty;
5
Let them be disappointed and turned back- nor do I concern myself with great mat-
ward, ters,
all those who hate Zion.
6 or things too wonderful for me.
Let them be as the grass on the housetops,
2
which withers before it grows up; Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul,
7
with which the reaper doesn’t fill his hand, like a weaned child with his mother,
nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom. like a weaned child is my soul within me.
8
Neither do those who go by say, 3
“The blessing of the LORD be on you. Israel, hope in the LORD,
We bless you in the name of the LORD.” from this time forth and forevermore.
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Psalm 132 Psalm 133


A Song of Ascents. By David.
A Song of Ascents.
1
See how good and how pleasant it is
1 for brothers to live together in unity!
LORD, remember David and all his affliction, 2
2
how he swore to the LORD, It is like the precious oil on the head,
that ran down on the beard,
and vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob:
3
even Aaron’s beard;
“Surely I will not come into the structure of that came down on the edge of his robes;
my house, 3
like the dew of Hermon,
nor go up into my bed; that comes down on the hills of Zion:
4
I will not give sleep to my eyes, for there the LORD gives the blessing,
or slumber to my eyelids; even life forevermore.
5
until I find out a place for the LORD,
a dwelling for the Mighty One of Jacob.” Psalm 134
6
Behold, we heard of it in Ephrathah.
We found it in the field of Jaar: A Song of Ascents.
7 1
“We will go into his dwelling place. Look! Praise the LORD, all you servants of the
We will worship at his footstool. LORD,
8
Arise, LORD, into your resting place; who stand by night in the LORD’s house!
2
Lift up your hands in the sanctuary.
you, and the ark of your strength.
9
Praise the LORD!
Let your priest be clothed with righteousness. 3
May the LORD bless you from Zion;
Let your holy ones shout for joy!” even he who made heaven and earth.
10
For your servant David’s sake,
don’t turn away the face of your anointed
one.
Psalm 135
1
11
The LORD has sworn to David in truth. Praise the LORD!
Praise the name of the LORD!
He will not turn from it:
Praise him, you servants of the LORD,
“I will set the fruit of your body on your 2
you who stand in the house of the LORD,
throne. in the courts of our God’s house.
12 3
If your children will keep my covenant, Praise the LORD, for the LORD is good.
my testimony that I will teach them, Sing praises to his name, for that is
their children also will sit on your throne pleasant.
4
forevermore.” For the LORD has chosen Jacob for himself;
13
For the LORD has chosen Zion. Israel for his own possession.
5
For I know that the LORD is great,
He has desired it for his habitation.
14 that our Lord is above all gods.
“This is my resting place forever. 6
Whatever the LORD pleased, that he has done,
Here I will live, for I have desired it. in heaven and in earth, in the seas and in
15
I will abundantly bless her provision. all deeps;
7
I will satisfy her poor with bread. who causes the clouds to rise from the ends of
16 the earth;
Her priests I will also clothe with salvation.
Her holy ones will shout aloud for joy. who makes lightnings with the rain;
17 who brings forth the wind out of his
There I will make the horn of David to bud.
treasuries;
I have ordained a lamp for my anointed. 8
Who struck the firstborn of Egypt,
18
I will clothe his enemies with shame, both of man and animal;
9
but on himself, his crown will be resplen- Who sent signs and wonders into the midst of
dent.” you, Egypt,
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on Pharaoh, and on all his servants; for his loving kindness endures forever:
10 10
who struck many nations, To him who struck down the Egyptian first-
and killed mighty kings, born;
11
Sihon king of the Amorites, for his loving kindness endures forever;
11
Og king of Bashan, And brought out Israel from among them;
and all the kingdoms of Canaan, for his loving kindness endures forever;
12 12
and gave their land for a heritage, With a strong hand, and with an outstretched
a heritage to Israel, his people. arm;
13
Your name, LORD, endures forever; for his loving kindness endures forever:
13
your renown, LORD, throughout all gen- To him who divided the Sea of Suf apart;
erations. for his loving kindness endures forever;
14 14
For the LORD will judge his people, And made Israel to pass through its midst;
and have compassion on his servants. for his loving kindness endures forever;
15 15
The idols of the nations are silver and gold, But overthrew Pharaoh and his army in the
the work of men’s hands. Sea of Suf;
16 for his loving kindness endures forever:
They have mouths, but they can’t speak.
16
They have eyes, but they can’t see. To him who led his people through the
17 wilderness;
They have ears, but they can’t hear;
neither is there any breath in their for his loving kindness endures forever:
17
mouths. To him who struck great kings;
18 for his loving kindness endures forever;
Those who make them will be like them;
18
yes, everyone who trusts in them. And killed mighty kings;
19 for his loving kindness endures forever:
House of Israel, praise the LORD!
19
House of Aaron, praise the LORD! Sihon king of the Amorites;
20 for his loving kindness endures forever;
House of Levi, praise the LORD!
20
You who fear the LORD, praise the Og king of Bashan;
LORD! for his loving kindness endures forever;
21 21
Blessed be the LORD from Zion, And gave their land as an inheritance;
Who dwells at Jerusalem. for his loving kindness endures forever;
22
Praise the LORD! Even a heritage to Israel his servant;
for his loving kindness endures forever:
23
Psalm 136 Who remembered us in our low estate;
for his loving kindness endures forever;
1 24
Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; And has delivered us from our adversaries;
for his loving kindness endures forever. for his loving kindness endures forever:
2 25
Give thanks to the God of gods; Who gives food to every creature;
for his loving kindness endures forever. for his loving kindness endures forever.
3 26
Give thanks to the Lord of lords; Oh give thanks to the God of heaven;
for his loving kindness endures forever: for his loving kindness endures forever.
4
To him who alone does great wonders;

5
for his loving kindness endures forever:
To him who by understanding made the heav-
Psalm 137
1
ens; By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down.
for his loving kindness endures forever: Yes, we wept, when we remembered
6
To him who spread out the earth above the Zion.
2
waters; On the willows in its midst,
for his loving kindness endures forever: we hung up our harps.
7 3
To him who made the great lights; For there, those who led us captive asked us
for his loving kindness endures forever: for songs.
8
The sun to rule by day; Those who tormented us demanded
for his loving kindness endures forever; songs of joy:
9
The moon and stars to rule by night; “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”
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4 8
How can we sing the LORD’s song in a foreign The LORD will fulfill that which concerns me;
land? your loving kindness, LORD, endures
5
If I forget you, Jerusalem, forever.
let my right hand forget its skill. Don’t forsake the works of your own
6
Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if hands.
I don’t remember you;
if I don’t prefer Jerusalem above my chief Psalm 139
joy.
7
Remember, LORD, against the children of For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.
Edom, 1
LORD, you have searched me,
the day of Jerusalem;
and you know me.
who said, “Raze it! 2
You know my sitting down and my rising up.
Raze it even to its foundation!”
8 You perceive my thoughts from afar.
Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, 3
You search out my path and my lying down,
he will be happy who rewards you,
and are acquainted with all my ways.
as you have served us. 4
9 For there is not a word on my tongue,
Happy shall he be,
but, behold, LORD, you know it alto-
who takes and dashes your little ones gether.
against the rock. 5
You hem me in behind and before.
You laid your hand on me.
Psalm 138 6
This knowledge is beyond me.
It’s lofty.
By David. I can’t attain it.
7
Where could I go from your Spirit?
1
I will give you thanks with my whole heart. Or where could I flee from your presence?
Before the godsq , I will sing praises to 8
If I ascend up into heaven, you are there.
you. If I make my bed in Sheolr , behold, you
2
I will bow down toward your holy temple, are there!
and give thanks to your Name for your 9
If I take the wings of the dawn,
loving kindness and for your truth; and settle in the uttermost parts of the
for you have exalted your Name and your sea;
Word above all. 10
Even there your hand will lead me,
3
In the day that I called, you answered me. and your right hand will hold me.
11
You encouraged me with strength in my If I say, “Surely the darkness will overwhelm
soul. me;
4
All the kings of the earth will give you thanks, the light around me will be night”;
12
LORD, even the darkness doesn’t hide from you,
for they have heard the words of your but the night shines as the day.
mouth. The darkness is like light to you.
5 13
Yes, they will sing of the ways of the LORD; For you formed my inmost being.
for great is the LORD’s glory. You knit me together in my mother’s
6
For though the LORD is high, yet he looks womb.
14
after the lowly; I will give thanks to you,
but the proud, he knows from afar. for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
7
Though I walk in the midst of trouble, you will Your works are wonderful.
revive me. My soul knows that very well.
15
You will stretch forth your hand against My frame wasn’t hidden from you,
the wrath of my enemies. when I was made in secret,
Your right hand will save me. woven together in the depths of the earth.
q 138:1 The word elohim, used here, usually means “God,” but can also mean “gods,” “princes,” or

“angels.”
r 139:8 Sheol is the place of the dead.
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16
Your eyes saw my body. Don’t let their evil plans succeed, or they
In your book they were all written, will become proud.
the days that were ordained for me, Selah.
9
when as yet there were none of them. As for the head of those who surround me,
17 let the mischief of their own lips cover
How precious to me are your thoughts, God!
How vast is their sum! them.
18 10
If I would count them, they are more in Let burning coals fall on them.
number than the sand. Let them be thrown into the fire,
When I wake up, I am still with you. into miry pits, from where they never
19 rise.
If only you, God, would kill the wicked.
11
Get away from me, you bloodthirsty men! An evil speaker won’t be established in the
20 earth.
For they speak against you wickedly.
Your enemies take your name in vain. Evil will hunt the violent man to over-
21 throw him.
LORD, don’t I hate those who hate you? 12
Am I not grieved with those who rise up I know that the LORD will maintain the cause
against you? of the afflicted,
22
I hate them with perfect hatred. and justice for the needy.
13
They have become my enemies. Surely the righteous will give thanks to your
23
Search me, God, and know my heart. name.
Try me, and know my thoughts. The upright will dwell in your presence.
24
See if there is any wicked way in me,
and lead me in the everlasting way. Psalm 141
Psalm 140 A Psalm by David.
1
LORD, I have called on you.
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. Come to me quickly!
1
Listen to my voice when I call to you.
Deliver me, LORD, from the evil man. 2
Let my prayer be set before you like incense;
Preserve me from the violent man; the lifting up of my hands like the
2
those who devise mischief in their hearts. evening sacrifice.
They continually gather themselves to- 3
Set a watch, LORD, before my mouth.
gether for war. Keep the door of my lips.
3 4
They have sharpened their tongues like a Don’t incline my heart to any evil thing,
serpent. to practice deeds of wickedness with men
Viper’s poison is under their lips. who work iniquity.
Selah. Don’t let me eat of their delicacies.
4 5
LORD, keep me from the hands of the wicked. Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness;
Preserve me from the violent men who let him reprove me, it is like oil on the
have determined to trip my feet. head;
5
The proud have hidden a snare for me, don’t let my head refuse it;
they have spread the cords of a net by the Yet my prayer is always against evil
path. deeds.
They have set traps for me. 6
Their judges are thrown down by the sides of
Selah. the rock.
6
I said to the LORD, “You are my God.” They will hear my words, for they are
Listen to the cry of my petitions, LORD. well spoken.
7 7
LORD, the Lord, the strength of my salvation, “As when one plows and breaks up the earth,
you have covered my head in the day of our bones are scattered at the mouth of
battle. Sheols .”
8 8
LORD, don’t grant the desires of the wicked. For my eyes are on you, LORD, the Lord.
s 141:7 Sheol is the place of the dead.
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In you, I take refuge. He has struck my life down to the


Don’t leave my soul destitute. ground.
9
Keep me from the snare which they have laid He has made me live in dark places, as
for me, those who have been long dead.
4
from the traps of the workers of iniquity. Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within
10
Let the wicked fall together into their own me.
nets, My heart within me is desolate.
5
while I pass by. I remember the days of old.
I meditate on all your doings.
I contemplate the work of your hands.
Psalm 142 6
I spread forth my hands to you.
My soul thirsts for you, like a parched
A contemplation by David, when he was in land.
the cave. A Prayer. Selah.
7
1 Hurry to answer me, LORD.
I cry with my voice to the LORD.
My spirit fails.
With my voice, I ask the LORD for mercy.
2 Don’t hide your face from me,
I pour out my complaint before him.
so that I don’t become like those who go
I tell him my troubles.
3 down into the pit.
When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, 8
Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the
you knew my path.
morning,
In the way in which I walk,
for I trust in you.
they have hidden a snare for me.
4 Cause me to know the way in which I should
Look on my right, and see; walk,
for there is no one who is concerned for for I lift up my soul to you.
me. 9
Deliver me, LORD, from my enemies.
Refuge has fled from me. I flee to you to hide me.
No one cares for my soul. 10
Teach me to do your will,
5
I cried to you, LORD. for you are my God.
I said, “You are my refuge, Your Spirit is good.
my portion in the land of the living.” Lead me in the land of uprightness.
6
Listen to my cry, 11
Revive me, LORD, for your name’s sake.
for I am in desperate need. In your righteousness, bring my soul out
deliver me from my persecutors, of trouble.
For they are stronger than me. 12
In your loving kindness, cut off my enemies,
7
Bring my soul out of prison, and destroy all those who afflict my soul,
that I may give thanks to your name. For I am your servant.
The righteous will surround me,
for you will be good to me.
Psalm 144
Psalm 143 By David.
1
A Psalm by David. Blessed be the LORD, my rock,
who teaches my hands to war,
1
Hear my prayer, LORD. and my fingers to battle:
2
Listen to my petitions. my loving kindness, my fortress,
In your faithfulness and righteousness, my high tower, my deliverer,
relieve me. my shield, and he in whom I take refuge;
2
Don’t enter into judgment with your servant, who subdues my people under me.
3
for in your sight no man living is righ- LORD, what is man, that you care for him?
teous. Or the son of man, that you think of him?
3 4
For the enemy pursues my soul. Man is like a breath.
Psalms 144:5 607 Psalms 145:19

His days are like a shadow that passes I will extol your name forever and ever.
3
away. Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised!
5
Part your heavens, LORD, and come down. His greatness is unsearchable.
4
Touch the mountains, and they will One generation will commend your works to
smoke. another,
6
Throw out lightning, and scatter them. and will declare your mighty acts.
5
Send out your arrows, and rout them. Of the glorious majesty of your honor,
7
Stretch out your hand from above, of your wondrous works, I will meditate.
6
rescue me, and deliver me out of great Men will speak of the might of your awesome
waters, acts.
out of the hands of foreigners; I will declare your greatness.
8 7
whose mouths speak deceit, They will utter the memory of your great
Whose right hand is a right hand of goodness,
falsehood. and will sing of your righteousness.
9 8
I will sing a new song to you, God. The LORD is gracious, merciful,
On a ten-stringed lyre, I will sing praises slow to anger, and of great loving kind-
to you. ness.
10 9
You are he who gives salvation to kings, The LORD is good to all.
who rescues David, his servant, from the His tender mercies are over all his works.
10
deadly sword. All your works will give thanks to you,
11
Rescue me, and deliver me out of the hands LORD.
of foreigners, Your holy ones will extol you.
11
whose mouths speak deceit, They will speak of the glory of your kingdom,
whose right hand is a right hand of and talk about your power;
12
falsehood. to make known to the sons of men his mighty
12
Then our sons will be like well-nurtured acts,
plants, the glory of the majesty of his kingdom.
13
our daughters like pillars carved to adorn Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom.
a palace. Your dominion endures throughout all
13
Our barns are full, filled with all kinds of generations.
provision. the LORD is faithful in all his words,
Our sheep bring forth thousands and ten and loving in all his deeds.u
14
thousands in our fields. The LORD upholds all who fall,
14
Our oxen will pull heavy loads. and raises up all those who are bowed
There is no breaking in, and no going down.
away, 15
The eyes of all wait for you.
and no outcry in our streets. You give them their food in due season.
15 16
Happy are the people who are in such a You open your hand,
situation. and satisfy the desire of every living
Happy are the people whose God is the thing.
LORD. 17
The LORD is righteous in all his ways,
and gracious in all his works.
18
Psalm 145 The LORD is near to all those who call on
him,
to all who call on him in truth.
A praise psalm by David.t 19
He will fulfill the desire of those who fear
1
I will exalt you, my God, the King. him.
I will praise your name forever and ever. He also will hear their cry, and will save
2
Every day I will praise you. them.
t 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.


u 145:13 Some manuscripts omit these last two lines.
Psalms 145:20 608 Psalms 148:6

20
The LORD preserves all those who love him, He brings the wicked down to the
but all the wicked he will destroy. ground.
21 7
My mouth will speak the praise of the LORD. Sing to the LORD with thanksgiving.
Let all flesh bless his holy name forever Sing praises on the harp to our God,
8
and ever. who covers the sky with clouds,
who prepares rain for the earth,
Psalm 146 9
who makes grass grow on the mountains.
1
He provides food for the livestock,
Praise the LORD! and for the young ravens when they call.
Praise the LORD, my soul. 10
He doesn’t delight in the strength of the
2
While I live, I will praise the LORD. horse.
I will sing praises to my God as long as I He takes no pleasure in the legs of a man.
exist. 11
The LORD takes pleasure in those who fear
3
Don’t put your trust in princes, him,
each a son of man in whom there is no in those who hope in his loving kindness.
help. 12
Praise the LORD, Jerusalem!
4
His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. Praise your God, Zion!
In that very day, his thoughts perish. 13
For he has strengthened the bars of your
5
Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his gates.
help,
He has blessed your children within you.
whose hope is in the LORD, his God: 14
6 He makes peace in your borders.
who made heaven and earth,
He fills you with the finest of the wheat.
the sea, and all that is in them; 15
He sends out his commandment to the earth.
who keeps truth forever;
7 His word runs very swiftly.
who executes justice for the oppressed; 16
He gives snow like wool,
who gives food to the hungry.
and scatters frost like ashes.
The LORD frees the prisoners. 17
8 He hurls down his hail like pebbles.
The LORD opens the eyes of the blind.
Who can stand before his cold?
The LORD raises up those who are 18
He sends out his word, and melts them.
bowed down.
He causes his wind to blow, and the
The LORD loves the righteous.
9 waters flow.
The LORD preserves the foreigners. 19
He upholds the fatherless and widow, He shows his word to Jacob;
but the way of the wicked he turns upside his statutes and his ordinances to Israel.
20
down. He has not done this for just any nation.
10
The LORD will reign forever; They don’t know his ordinances.
your God, O Zion, to all generations. Praise the LORD!
Praise the LORD!
Psalm 148
Psalm 147 1
Praise the LORD!
1 Praise the LORD from the heavens!
Praise the LORD,
for it is good to sing praises to our God; Praise him in the heights!
2
for it is pleasant and fitting to praise him. Praise him, all his angels!
2 Praise him, all his army!
The LORD builds up Jerusalem.
3
He gathers together the outcasts of Israel. Praise him, sun and moon!
3 Praise him, all you shining stars!
He heals the broken in heart,
4
and binds up their wounds. Praise him, you heavens of heavens,
4
He counts the number of the stars. You waters that are above the heavens.
5
He calls them all by their names. Let them praise the name of the LORD,
5
Great is our Lord, and mighty in power. For he commanded, and they were cre-
His understanding is infinite. ated.
6 6
The LORD upholds the humble. He has also established them forever and ever.
Psalms 148:7 609 Psalms 150:6

He has made a decree which will not pass


away.
Psalm 150
7 1
Praise the LORD from the earth, Praise the LORD!
you great sea creatures, and all depths! Praise God in his sanctuary!
8 Praise him in his heavens for his acts of
Lightning and hail, snow and clouds;
stormy wind, fulfilling his word; power!
2
9
mountains and all hills; Praise him for his mighty acts!
fruit trees and all cedars; Praise him according to his excellent
10
wild animals and all livestock; greatness!
3
small creatures and flying birds; Praise him with the sounding of the shofarv !
11
kings of the earth and all peoples; Praise him with harp and lyre!
4
princes and all judges of the earth; Praise him with tambourine and dancing!
12
both young men and maidens; Praise him with stringed instruments and
old men and children: flute!
5
13
let them praise the name of the LORD, Praise him with loud cymbals!
for his name alone is exalted. Praise him with resounding cymbals!
6
His glory is above the earth and the Let everything that has breath praise the
heavens. LORD!
14
He has lifted up the horn of his people, Praise the LORD!
the praise of all his holy ones;
even of the children of Israel, a people
near to him.
Praise the LORD!

Psalm 149
1
Praise the LORD!
Sing to the LORD a new song,
his praise in the assembly of the holy
ones.
2
Let Israel rejoice in him who made them.
Let the children of Zion be joyful in their
King.
3
Let them praise his name in the dance!
Let them sing praises to him with tam-
bourine and harp!
4
For the LORD takes pleasure in his people.
He crowns the humble with salvation
[yeshu‘ah].
5
Let the holy ones rejoice in honor.
Let them sing for joy on their beds.
6
May the high praises of God be in their
mouths,
and a two-edged sword in their hand;
7
To execute vengeance on the nations,
and punishments on the peoples;
8
To bind their kings with chains,
and their nobles with fetters of iron;
9
to execute on them the written judgment.
All his holy ones have this honor.
Praise the LORD!
v 150:3 or, trumpet
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Proverbs 1:21
She utters her voice in the public squares.
She calls at the head of noisy places.
1:1 At the entrance of the city gates, she
The proverbs of Solomon, the son of
David, king of Israel: utters her words:
1:2 1:22
to know wisdom and instruction; “How long, you simple ones, will you love
to discern the words of understanding; simplicity?
1:3 How long will mockers delight them-
to receive instruction in wise dealing,
in righteousness, justice, and equity; selves in mockery,
1:4 and fools hate knowledge?
to give prudence to the simple,
1:23
knowledge and discretion to the young Turn at my reproof.
man: Behold, I will pour out my spirit on you.
1:5 I will make known my words to you.
that the wise man may hear, and increase in
1:24
learning; Because I have called, and you have re-
that the man of understanding may attain fused;
to sound counsel: I have stretched out my hand, and no one
1:6 has paid attention;
to understand a proverb, and parables,
1:25
the words and riddles of the wise. but you have ignored all my counsel,
1:7
The fear of the LORDa is the beginning of and wanted none of my reproof;
1:26
knowledge; I also will laugh at your disaster.
but the foolish despise wisdom and in- I will mock when calamity overtakes you;
1:27
struction. when calamity overtakes you like a storm,
1:8
My son, listen to your father’s instruction, when your disaster comes on like a whirl-
and don’t forsake your mother’s teach- wind;
ing: when distress and anguish come on you.
1:9 1:28
for they will be a garland to grace your head, Then will they call on me, but I will not
and chains around your neck. answer.
1:10
My son, if sinners entice you, don’t consent. They will seek me diligently, but they will
1:11
If they say, “Come with us, not find me;
1:29
Let’s lay in wait for blood; because they hated knowledge,
let’s lurk secretly for the innocent without and didn’t choose the fear of the LORD.
1:30
cause; They wanted none of my counsel.
1:12
let’s swallow them up alive like Sheolb , They despised all my reproof.
1:31
and whole, like those who go down into Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their
the pit. own way,
1:13
We’ll find all valuable wealth. and be filled with their own schemes.
1:32
We’ll fill our houses with spoil. For the backsliding of the simple will kill
1:14
You shall cast your lot among us. them.
We’ll all have one purse.” The careless ease of fools will destroy
1:15
My son, don’t walk in the way with them. them.
1:33
Keep your foot from their path, But whoever listens to me will dwell se-
1:16
for their feet run to evil. curely,
They hurry to shed blood. and will be at ease, without fear of harm.”
1:17 2:1
For in vain is the net spread in the sight of My son, if you will receive my words,
any bird: and store up my commandments within
1:18
but these lay wait for their own blood. you;
2:2
They lurk secretly for their own lives. So as to turn your ear to wisdom,
1:19
So are the ways of everyone who is greedy and apply your heart to understanding;
2:3
for gain. Yes, if you call out for discernment,
It takes away the life of its owners. and lift up your voice for understanding;
1:20 2:4
Wisdom calls aloud in the street. If you seek her as silver,
a 1:7 “LORD” or “GOD” (all capital letters) indicate the 4-letter Holy Name of God
b 1:12 Sheol is the place of the dead.
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and search for her as for hidden treasures: and good understanding in the sight of
2:5
then you will understand the fear of the God and man.
3:5
LORD, Trust in the LORD with all your heart,
and find the knowledge of Godc . and don’t lean on your own understand-
2:6
For the LORD gives wisdom. ing.
3:6
Out of his mouth comes knowledge and In all your ways acknowledge him,
understanding. and he will make your paths straight.
2:7 3:7
He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. Don’t be wise in your own eyes.
He is a shield to those who walk in Fear the LORD, and depart from evil.
integrity; 3:8
It will be health to your body,
2:8
that he may guard the paths of justice, and nourishment to your bones.
and preserve the way of his holy ones. 3:9
Honor the LORD with your substance,
2:9
Then you will understand righteousness and with the first fruits of all your increase:
justice, 3:10
so your barns will be filled with plenty,
equity and every good path. and your vats will overflow with new
2:10
For wisdom will enter into your heart. wine.
Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul. 3:11
My son, don’t despise the LORD’s disci-
2:11
Discretion will watch over you. pline,
Understanding will keep you, neither be weary of his reproof:
2:12
to deliver you from the way of evil, 3:12
for whom the LORD loves, he reproves;
from the men who speak perverse things;
2:13 even as a father reproves the son in whom
who forsake the paths of uprightness, he delights.
to walk in the ways of darkness; 3:13
2:14 Happy is the man who finds wisdom,
who rejoice to do evil,
the man who gets understanding.
and delight in the perverseness of evil; 3:14
2:15 For her good profit is better than getting
who are crooked in their ways,
silver,
and wayward in their paths:
2:16 and her return is better than fine gold.
To deliver you from the strange woman, 3:15
She is more precious than rubies.
even from the foreigner who flatters with
None of the things you can desire are to
her words;
2:17 be compared to her.
who forsakes the friend of her youth, 3:16
and forgets the covenant of her God: Length of days is in her right hand.
2:18
for her house leads down to death, In her left hand are riches and honor.
3:17
her paths to the dead. Her ways are ways of pleasantness.
2:19
None who go to her return again, All her paths are peace.
3:18
neither do they attain to the paths of life: She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of
2:20
that you may walk in the way of good men, her.
and keep the paths of the righteous. Happy is everyone who retains her.
2:21 3:19
For the upright will dwell in the land. By wisdom the LORD founded the earth.
The perfect will remain in it. By understanding, he established the
2:22 heavens.
But the wicked will be cut off from the land.
3:20
The treacherous will be rooted out of it. By his knowledge, the depths were broken
3:1 up,
My son, don’t forget my teaching;
but let your heart keep my command- and the skies drop down the dew.
3:21
ments: My son, let them not depart from your eyes.
3:2 Keep sound wisdom and discretion:
for length of days, and years of life,
3:22
and peace, will they add to you. so they will be life to your soul,
3:3 and grace for your neck.
Don’t let kindness and truth forsake you.
3:23
Bind them around your neck. Then you shall walk in your way securely.
Write them on the tablet of your heart. Your foot won’t stumble.
3:4 3:24
So you will find favor, When you lie down, you will not be afraid.
c 2:5 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “Elohim.”
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4:8
Yes, you will lie down, and your sleep Esteem her, and she will exalt you.
will be sweet. She will bring you to honor, when you
3:25
Don’t be afraid of sudden fear, embrace her.
4:9
neither of the desolation of the wicked, She will give to your head a garland of grace.
when it comes: She will deliver a crown of splendor to
3:26
for the LORD will be your confidence, you.”
4:10
and will keep your foot from being taken. Listen, my son, and receive my sayings.
3:27
Don’t withhold good from those to whom it The years of your life will be many.
4:11
is due, I have taught you in the way of wisdom.
when it is in the power of your hand to I have led you in straight paths.
4:12
do it. When you go, your steps will not be ham-
3:28
Don’t say to your neighbor, “Go, and come pered.
again; When you run, you will not stumble.
4:13
tomorrow I will give it to you,” Take firm hold of instruction.
when you have it by you. Don’t let her go.
3:29
Don’t devise evil against your neighbor, Keep her, for she is your life.
4:14
since he dwells securely by you. Don’t enter into the path of the wicked.
3:30
Don’t strive with a man without cause, Don’t walk in the way of evil men.
4:15
if he has done you no harm. Avoid it, and don’t pass by it.
3:31
Don’t envy the man of violence. Turn from it, and pass on.
4:16
Choose none of his ways. For they don’t sleep, unless they do evil.
3:32
For the perverse is an abomination to the Their sleep is taken away, unless they
LORD, make someone fall.
4:17
but his friendship is with the upright. For they eat the bread of wickedness,
3:33
The LORD’s curse is in the house of the and drink the wine of violence.
4:18
wicked, But the path of the righteous is like the
but he blesses the habitation of the righ- dawning light,
teous. that shines more and more until the per-
3:34
Surely he mocks the mockers, fect day.
4:19
but he gives grace to the humble. The way of the wicked is like darkness.
3:35
The wise will inherit glory, They don’t know what they stumble over.
4:20
but shame will be the promotion of fools. My son, attend to my words.
4:1
Listen, sons, to a father’s instruction. Turn your ear to my sayings.
4:21
Pay attention and know understanding; Let them not depart from your eyes.
4:2
for I give you sound learning. Keep them in the midst of your heart.
4:22
Don’t forsake my law. For they are life to those who find them,
4:3
For I was a son to my father, and health to their whole body.
4:23
tender and an only child in the sight of Keep your heart with all diligence,
my mother. for out of it is the wellspring of life.
4:4 4:24
He taught me, and said to me: Put away from yourself a perverse mouth.
“Let your heart retain my words. Put corrupt lips far from you.
4:25
Keep my commandments, and live. Let your eyes look straight ahead.
4:5
Get wisdom. Fix your gaze directly before you.
4:26
Get understanding. Make the path of your feet level.
Don’t forget, neither swerve from the Let all of your ways be established.
4:27
words of my mouth. Don’t turn to the right hand nor to the left.
4:6
Don’t forsake her, and she will preserve you. Remove your foot from evil.
5:1
Love her, and she will keep you. My son, pay attention to my wisdom.
4:7
Wisdom is supreme. Turn your ear to my understanding:
5:2
Get wisdom. that you may maintain discretion,
Yes, though it costs all your possessions, that your lips may preserve knowledge.
5:3
get understanding. For the lips of an adulteress drip honey.
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6:1
Her mouth is smoother than oil, My son, if you have become collateral for
5:4
But in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, your neighbor,
and as sharp as a two-edged sword. if you have struck your hands in pledge
5:5
Her feet go down to death. for a stranger;
6:2
Her steps lead straight to Sheold . You are trapped by the words of your mouth.
5:6
She gives no thought to the way of life. You are ensnared with the words of your
Her ways are crooked, and she doesn’t mouth.
know it. 6:3
Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself,
5:7
Now therefore, my sons, listen to me. since you have come into the hand of
Don’t depart from the words of my your neighbor.
mouth. Go, humble yourself.
5:8
Remove your way far from her. Press your plea with your neighbor.
Don’t come near the door of her house, 6:4
Give no sleep to your eyes,
5:9
lest you give your honor to others, nor slumber to your eyelids.
and your years to the cruel one; 6:5
Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of
5:10
lest strangers feast on your wealth, the hunter,
and your labors enrich another man’s like a bird from the snare of the fowler.
house. 6:6
Go to the ant, you sluggard.
5:11
You will groan at your latter end, Consider her ways, and be wise;
when your flesh and your body are con- 6:7
which having no chief, overseer, or ruler,
sumed, 6:8
provides her bread in the summer,
5:12
and say, “How I have hated instruction, and gathers her food in the harvest.
and my heart despised reproof; 6:9
5:13 How long will you sleep, sluggard?
neither have I obeyed the voice of my
When will you arise out of your sleep?
teachers, 6:10
A little sleep, a little slumber,
nor turned my ear to those who in-
a little folding of the hands to sleep:
structed me! 6:11
5:14 so your poverty will come as a robber,
I have come to the brink of utter ruin,
and your scarcity as an armed man.
in the midst of the gathered assembly.” 6:12
5:15 A worthless person, a man of iniquity,
Drink water out of your own cistern,
running water out of your own well. is he who walks with a perverse mouth;
6:13
5:16
Should your springs overflow in the streets, who winks with his eyes, who signals with
streams of water in the public squares? his feet,
5:17
Let them be for yourself alone, who motions with his fingers;
6:14
not for strangers with you. in whose heart is perverseness,
5:18
Let your spring be blessed. who devises evil continually,
Rejoice in the wife of your youth. who always sows discord.
5:19 6:15
A loving doe and a graceful deer— Therefore his calamity will come suddenly.
let her breasts satisfy you at all times. He will be broken suddenly, and that
Be captivated always with her love. without remedy.
5:20 6:16
For why should you, my son, be captivated There are six things which the LORD hates;
with an adulteress? yes, seven which are an abomination to
Why embrace the bosom of another? him:
5:21 6:17
For the ways of man are before the eyes of haughty eyes, a lying tongue,
the LORD. hands that shed innocent blood;
6:18
He examines all his paths. a heart that devises wicked schemes,
5:22
The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him. feet that are swift in running to mischief,
6:19
The cords of his sin hold him firmly. a false witness who utters lies,
5:23
He will die for lack of instruction. and he who sows discord among broth-
In the greatness of his folly, he will go ers.
6:20
astray. My son, keep your father’s commandment,
d 5:5 Sheol is the place of the dead.
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and don’t forsake your mother’s teach- Call understanding your relative,
7:5
ing. that they may keep you from the strange
6:21
Bind them continually on your heart. woman,
Tie them around your neck. from the foreigner who flatters with her
6:22
When you walk, it will lead you. words.
7:6
When you sleep, it will watch over you. For at the window of my house,
When you awake, it will talk with you. I looked out through my lattice.
6:23 7:7
For the commandment is a lamp, I saw among the simple ones.
and the Torah is light. I discerned among the youths a young
Reproofs of instruction are the way of life, man void of understanding,
6:24 7:8
to keep you from the immoral woman, passing through the street near her corner,
from the flattery of the wayward wife’s he went the way to her house,
7:9
tongue. in the twilight, in the evening of the day,
6:25
Don’t lust after her beauty in your heart, in the middle of the night and in the
neither let her captivate you with her darkness.
7:10
eyelids. Behold, there a woman met him with the
6:26
For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of attire of a prostitute,
bread. and with crafty intent.
7:11
The adulteress hunts for your precious She is loud and defiant.
life. Her feet don’t stay in her house.
6:27 7:12
Can a man scoop fire into his lap, Now she is in the streets, now in the
and his clothes not be burned? squares,
6:28
Or can one walk on hot coals, and lurking at every corner.
7:13
and his feet not be scorched? So she caught him, and kissed him.
6:29
So is he who goes in to his neighbor’s wife. With an impudent face she said to him:
7:14
Whoever touches her will not be unpun- “Sacrifices of peace offerings are with me.
ished. This day I have paid my vows.
6:30 7:15
Men don’t despise a thief, Therefore I came out to meet you,
if he steals to satisfy himself when he is to diligently seek your face,
hungry: and I have found you.
6:31 7:16
but if he is found, he shall restore seven I have spread my couch with carpets of
times. tapestry,
He shall give all the wealth of his house. with striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt.
6:32 7:17
He who commits adultery with a woman is I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes,
void of understanding. and cinnamon.
7:18
He who does it destroys his own soul. Come, let’s take our fill of loving until the
6:33
He will get wounds and dishonor. morning.
His reproach will not be wiped away. Let’s solace ourselves with loving.
6:34 7:19
For jealousy arouses the fury of the hus- For my husband isn’t at home.
band. He has gone on a long journey.
7:20
He won’t spare in the day of vengeance. He has taken a bag of money with him.
6:35
He won’t regard any ransom, He will come home at the full moon.”
7:21
neither will he rest content, though you With persuasive words, she led him astray.
give many gifts. With the flattering of her lips, she se-
7:1
My son, keep my words. duced him.
7:22
Lay up my commandments within you. He followed her immediately,
7:2
Keep my commandments and live! as an ox goes to the slaughter,
Guard my teaching as the apple of your as a fool stepping into a noose.
7:23
eye. Until an arrow strikes through his liver,
7:3
Bind them on your fingers. as a bird hurries to the snare,
Write them on the tablet of your heart. and doesn’t know that it will cost his life.
7:4 7:24
Tell wisdom, “You are my sister.” Now therefore, sons, listen to me.
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8:19
Pay attention to the words of my mouth. My fruit is better than gold, yes, than fine
7:25
Don’t let your heart turn to her ways. gold;
Don’t go astray in her paths, my yield than choice silver.
7:26 8:20
for she has thrown down many wounded. I walk in the way of righteousness,
Yes, all her slain are a mighty army. in the midst of the paths of justice;
7:27 8:21
Her house is the way to Sheole , That I may give wealth to those who love
going down to the rooms of death. me.
8:1
Doesn’t wisdom cry out? I fill their treasuries.
8:22
Doesn’t understanding raise her voice? “The LORD possessed me in the beginning
8:2
On the top of high places by the way, of his work,
where the paths meet, she stands. before his deeds of old.
8:3 8:23
Beside the gates, at the entry of the city, I was set up from everlasting, from the
at the entry doors, she cries aloud: beginning,
8:4
“To you men, I call! before the earth existed.
8:24
I send my voice to the sons of mankind. When there were no depths, I was brought
8:5 forth,
You simple, understand prudence.
You fools, be of an understanding heart. when there were no springs abounding
8:6 with water.
Hear, for I will speak excellent things.
8:25
The opening of my lips is for right things. Before the mountains were settled in place,
8:7 before the hills, I was brought forth;
For my mouth speaks truth.
8:26
Wickedness is an abomination to my lips. while as yet he had not made the earth, nor
8:8 the fields,
All the words of my mouth are in righteous-
ness. nor the beginning of the dust of the
There is nothing crooked or perverse in world.
8:27
them. When he established the heavens, I was
8:9 there;
They are all plain to him who understands,
right to those who find knowledge. when he set a circle on the surface of the
8:10 deep,
Receive my instruction rather than silver;
8:28
knowledge rather than choice gold. when he established the clouds above,
8:11 when the springs of the deep became
For wisdom is better than rubies.
All the things that may be desired can’t strong,
8:29
be compared to it. when he gave to the sea its boundary,
8:12 that the waters should not violate his
“I, wisdom, have made prudence my
dwelling. commandment,
Find out knowledge and discretion. when he marked out the foundations of
8:13 the earth;
The fear of the LORD is to hate evil.
8:30
I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and then I was the craftsman by his side.
the perverse mouth. I was a delight day by day,
8:14 always rejoicing before him,
Counsel and sound knowledge are mine.
8:31
I have understanding and power. Rejoicing in his whole world.
8:15 My delight was with the sons of men.
By me kings reign,
8:32
and princes decree justice. “Now therefore, my sons, listen to me,
8:16 for blessed are those who keep my ways.
By me princes rule;
8:33
nobles, and all the righteous rulers of the Hear instruction, and be wise.
earth. Don’t refuse it.
8:17 8:34
I love those who love me. Blessed is the man who hears me,
Those who seek me diligently will find watching daily at my gates,
me. waiting at my door posts.
8:18 8:35
With me are riches, honor, For whoever finds me, finds life,
enduring wealth, and prosperity. and will obtain favor from the LORD.
e 7:27 Sheol is the place of the dead.
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8:36
But he who sins against me wrongs his own but a foolish son brings grief to his
soul. mother.
10:2
All those who hate me love death.” Treasures of wickedness profit nothing,
9:1
Wisdom has built her house. but righteousness delivers from death.
10:3
She has carved out her seven pillars. The LORD will not allow the soul of the
9:2
She has prepared her meat. righteous to go hungry,
She has mixed her wine. but he thrusts away the desire of the
She has also set her table. wicked.
9:3 10:4
She has sent out her maidens. He becomes poor who works with a lazy
She cries from the highest places of the hand,
city: but the hand of the diligent brings wealth.
9:4 10:5
“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” He who gathers in summer is a wise son,
As for him who is void of understanding, but he who sleeps during the harvest is a
she says to him, son who causes shame.
9:5 10:6
“Come, eat some of my bread, Blessings are on the head of the righteous,
Drink some of the wine which I have but violence covers the mouth of the
mixed! wicked.
9:6 10:7
Leave your simple ways, and live. The memory of the righteous is blessed,
Walk in the way of understanding.” but the name of the wicked will rot.
9:7 10:8
He who corrects a mocker invites insult. The wise in heart accept commandments,
He who reproves a wicked man invites but a chattering fool will fall.
10:9
abuse. He who walks blamelessly walks surely,
9:8
Don’t reprove a scoffer, lest he hate you. but he who perverts his ways will be
Reprove a wise man, and he will love found out.
10:10
you. One winking with the eye causes sorrow,
9:9
Instruct a wise man, and he will be still wiser. but a chattering fool will fall.
10:11
Teach a righteous man, and he will in- The mouth of the righteous is a spring of
crease in learning. life,
9:10
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of but violence covers the mouth of the
wisdom. wicked.
10:12
The knowledge of the Holy One is under- Hatred stirs up strife,
standing. but love covers all wrongs.
9:11 10:13
For by me your days will be multiplied. Wisdom is found on the lips of him who
The years of your life will be increased. has discernment,
9:12
If you are wise, you are wise for yourself. but a rod is for the back of him who is
If you mock, you alone will bear it. void of understanding.
9:13 10:14
The foolish woman is loud, Wise men lay up knowledge,
Undisciplined, and knows nothing. but the mouth of the foolish is near ruin.
9:14 10:15
She sits at the door of her house, The rich man’s wealth is his strong city.
on a seat in the high places of the city, The destruction of the poor is their
9:15
To call to those who pass by, poverty.
10:16
who go straight on their ways, The labor of the righteous leads to life.
9:16
“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here.” The increase of the wicked leads to sin.
10:17
as for him who is void of understanding, He is in the way of life who heeds correc-
she says to him, tion,
9:17
“Stolen water is sweet. but he who forsakes reproof leads others
Food eaten in secret is pleasant.” astray.
9:18 10:18
But he doesn’t know that the dead are there, He who hides hatred has lying lips.
that her guests are in the depths of Sheolf . He who utters a slander is a fool.
10:1 10:19
The proverbs of Solomon. In the multitude of words there is no lack
A wise son makes a glad father; of disobedience,
f 9:18 Sheol is the place of the dead.
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but he who restrains his lips does wisely. but the wicked shall fall by his own
10:20
The tongue of the righteous is like choice wickedness.
11:6
silver. The righteousness of the upright shall de-
The heart of the wicked is of little worth. liver them,
10:21 but the unfaithful will be trapped by evil
The lips of the righteous feed many,
but the foolish die for lack of understand- desires.
11:7
ing. When a wicked man dies, hope perishes,
10:22 and expectation of power comes to noth-
The LORD’s blessing brings wealth,
and he adds no trouble to it. ing.
10:23 11:8
It is a fool’s pleasure to do wickedness, A righteous person is delivered out of trou-
but wisdom is a man of understanding’s ble,
pleasure. and the wicked takes his place.
11:9
10:24
What the wicked fear, will overtake them, With his mouth the godless man destroys
but the desire of the righteous will be his neighbor,
granted. but the righteous will be delivered
10:25
When the whirlwind passes, the wicked is through knowledge.
11:10
no more; When it goes well with the righteous, the
but the righteous stand firm forever. city rejoices.
10:26
As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the When the wicked perish, there is shout-
eyes, ing.
11:11
so is the sluggard to those who send him. By the blessing of the upright, the city is
10:27 exalted,
The fear of the LORD prolongs days,
but it is overthrown by the mouth of the
but the years of the wicked shall be
wicked.
shortened. 11:12
10:28 One who despises his neighbor is void of
The prospect of the righteous is joy,
wisdom,
but the hope of the wicked will perish.
10:29 but a man of understanding holds his
The way of the LORD is a stronghold to the
peace.
upright, 11:13
One who brings gossip betrays a confi-
but it is a destruction to the workers of dence,
iniquity.
10:30
but one who is of a trustworthy spirit is
The righteous will never be removed, one who keeps a secret.
but the wicked will not dwell in the land. 11:14
Where there is no wise guidance, the na-
10:31
The mouth of the righteous brings forth tion falls,
wisdom, but in the multitude of counselors there is
but the perverse tongue will be cut off. victory.
10:32 11:15
The lips of the righteous know what is He who is collateral for a stranger will
acceptable, suffer for it,
but the mouth of the wicked is perverse. but he who refuses pledges of collateral is
11:1
A false balance is an abomination to the secure.
LORD, 11:16
A gracious woman obtains honor,
but accurate weights are his delight. but violent men obtain riches.
11:2 11:17
When pride comes, then comes shame, The merciful man does good to his own
but with humility comes wisdom. soul,
11:3
The integrity of the upright shall guide but he who is cruel troubles his own flesh.
them, 11:18
Wicked people earn deceitful wages,
but the perverseness of the treacherous but one who sows righteousness reaps a
shall destroy them. sure reward.
11:4 11:19
Riches don’t profit in the day of wrath, He who is truly righteous gets life.
but righteousness delivers from death. He who pursues evil gets death.
11:5 11:20
The righteousness of the blameless will Those who are perverse in heart are an
direct his way, abomination to the LORD,
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12:5
but those whose ways are blameless are The thoughts of the righteous are just,
his delight. but the advice of the wicked is deceitful.
11:21 12:6
Most certainly, the evil man will not be The words of the wicked are about lying in
unpunished, wait for blood,
but the seed of the righteous will be but the speech of the upright rescues
delivered. them.
11:22 12:7
Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout, The wicked are overthrown, and are no
is a beautiful woman who lacks discre- more,
tion. but the house of the righteous shall stand.
11:23 12:8
The desire of the righteous is only good. A man shall be commended according to his
The expectation of the wicked is wrath. wisdom,
11:24
There is one who scatters, and increases yet but he who has a warped mind shall be
more. despised.
12:9
There is one who withholds more than is Better is he who is lightly esteemed, and has
appropriate, but gains poverty. a servant,
11:25
The liberal soul shall be made fat. than he who honors himself, and lacks
He who waters shall be watered also bread.
12:10
himself. A righteous man respects the life of his
11:26
People curse someone who withholds animal,
grain, but the tender mercies of the wicked are
but blessing will be on the head of him cruel.
12:11
who sells it. He who tills his land shall have plenty of
11:27
He who diligently seeks good seeks favor, bread,
but he who searches after evil, it shall but he who chases fantasies is void of
come to him. understanding.
11:28 12:12
He who trusts in his riches will fall, The wicked desires the plunder of evil
but the righteous shall flourish as the men,
green leaf. but the root of the righteous flourishes.
11:29 12:13
He who troubles his own house shall in- An evil man is trapped by sinfulness of
herit the wind. lips,
The foolish shall be servant to the wise of but the righteous shall come out of trou-
heart. ble.
11:30 12:14
The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life. A man shall be satisfied with good by the
He who is wise wins souls. fruit of his mouth.
11:31 The work of a man’s hands shall be
Behold, the righteous shall be repaid in the
earth; rewarded to him.
12:15
how much more the wicked and the The way of a fool is right in his own eyes,
sinner! but he who is wise listens to counsel.
12:1 12:16
Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, A fool shows his annoyance the same day,
but he who hates reproof is stupid. but one who overlooks an insult is pru-
12:2 dent.
A good man shall obtain favor from the
12:17
LORD, He who is truthful testifies honestly,
but he will condemn a man of wicked but a false witness lies.
12:18
devices. There is one who speaks rashly like the
12:3
A man shall not be established by wicked- piercing of a sword,
ness, but the tongue of the wise heals.
12:19
but the root of the righteous shall not be Truth’s lips will be established forever,
moved. but a lying tongue is only momentary.
12:4 12:20
A worthy woman is the crown of her hus- Deceit is in the heart of those who plot evil,
band, but joy comes to the promoters of peace.
12:21
but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in No mischief shall happen to the righteous,
his bones. but the wicked shall be filled with evil.
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12:22 13:13
Lying lips are an abomination to the Whoever despises instruction will pay for
LORD, it,
but those who do the truth are his delight. but he who respects a command will be
12:23
A prudent man keeps his knowledge, rewarded.
13:14
but the hearts of fools proclaim foolish- The teaching of the wise is a spring of life,
ness. to turn from the snares of death.
12:24 13:15
The hands of the diligent ones shall rule, Good understanding wins favor;
but laziness ends in slave labor. but the way of the unfaithful is hard.
12:25 13:16
Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs it down, Every prudent man acts from knowledge,
but a kind word makes it glad. but a fool exposes folly.
12:26 13:17
A righteous person is cautious in friend- A wicked messenger falls into trouble,
ship, but a trustworthy envoy gains healing.
13:18
but the way of the wicked leads them Poverty and shame come to him who
astray. refuses discipline,
12:27
The slothful man doesn’t roast his game, but he who heeds correction shall be
but the possessions of diligent men are honored.
13:19
prized. Longing fulfilled is sweet to the soul,
12:28
In the way of righteousness is life; but fools detest turning from evil.
13:20
in its path there is no death. One who walks with wise men grows wise,
13:1
A wise son listens to his father’s instruction, but a companion of fools suffers harm.
13:21
but a scoffer doesn’t listen to rebuke. Misfortune pursues sinners,
13:2
By the fruit of his lips, a man enjoys good but prosperity rewards the righteous.
13:22
things; A good man leaves an inheritance to his
but the unfaithful crave violence. children’s children,
13:3
He who guards his mouth guards his soul. but the wealth of the sinner is stored for
One who opens wide his lips comes to the righteous.
13:23
ruin. An abundance of food is in poor people’s
13:4
The soul of the sluggard desires, and has fields,
nothing, but injustice sweeps it away.
13:24
but the desire of the diligent shall be fully One who spares the rod hates his son,
satisfied. but one who loves him is careful to
13:5
A righteous man hates lies, discipline him.
13:25
but a wicked man brings shame and The righteous one eats to the satisfying of
disgrace. his soul,
13:6
Righteousness guards the way of integrity, but the belly of the wicked goes hungry.
14:1
but wickedness overthrows the sinner. Every wise woman builds her house,
13:7
There are some who pretend to be rich, yet but the foolish one tears it down with her
have nothing. own hands.
14:2
There are some who pretend to be poor, He who walks in his uprightness fears the
yet have great wealth. LORD,
13:8
The ransom of a man’s life is his riches, but he who is perverse in his ways de-
but the poor hear no threats. spises him.
13:9 14:3
The light of the righteous shines brightly, The fool’s talk brings a rod to his back,
but the lamp of the wicked is snuffed out. but the lips of the wise protect them.
13:10 14:4
Pride only breeds quarrels, Where no oxen are, the crib is clean,
but with ones who take advice is wisdom. but much increase is by the strength of the
13:11
Wealth gained dishonestly dwindles away, ox.
14:5
but he who gathers by hand makes it A truthful witness will not lie,
grow. but a false witness pours out lies.
13:12 14:6
Hope deferred makes the heart sick, A scoffer seeks wisdom, and doesn’t find it,
but when longing is fulfilled, it is a tree of but knowledge comes easily to a discern-
life. ing person.
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14:7 14:26
Stay away from a foolish man, In the fear of the LORD is a secure fortress,
for you won’t find knowledge on his lips. and he will be a refuge for his children.
14:8 14:27
The wisdom of the prudent is to think about The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life,
his way, turning people from the snares of death.
but the folly of fools is deceit. 14:28
In the multitude of people is the king’s
14:9
Fools mock at making atonement for sins, glory,
but among the upright there is good will. but in the lack of people is the destruction
14:10
The heart knows its own bitterness and joy; of the prince.
he will not share these with a stranger. 14:29
He who is slow to anger has great under-
14:11
The house of the wicked will be over- standing,
thrown, but he who has a quick temper displays
but the tent of the upright will flourish. folly.
14:12 14:30
There is a way which seems right to a man, The life of the body is a heart at peace,
but in the end it leads to death. but envy rots the bones.
14:13
Even in laughter the heart may be sorrow- 14:31
He who oppresses the poor shows con-
ful, tempt for his Maker,
and mirth may end in heaviness. but he who is kind to the needy honors
14:14
The unfaithful will be repaid for his own him.
ways; 14:32
The wicked is brought down in his
likewise a good man will be rewarded for calamity,
his ways. but in death, the righteous has a refuge.
14:15
A simple man believes everything, 14:33
Wisdom rests in the heart of one who has
but the prudent man carefully considers understanding,
his ways.
14:16 and is even made known in the inward
A wise man fears, and shuns evil,
part of fools.
but the fool is hotheaded and reckless. 14:34
14:17 Righteousness exalts a nation,
He who is quick to become angry will
but sin is a disgrace to any people.
commit folly, 14:35
The king’s favor is toward a servant who
and a crafty man is hated.
14:18 deals wisely,
The simple inherit folly,
but his wrath is toward one who causes
but the prudent are crowned with knowl-
shame.
edge. 15:1
14:19 A gentle answer turns away wrath,
The evil bow down before the good,
but a harsh word stirs up anger.
and the wicked at the gates of the righ- 15:2
teous. The tongue of the wise commends knowl-
14:20
The poor person is shunned even by his edge,
own neighbor, but the mouth of fools gush out folly.
15:3
but the rich person has many friends. The LORD’s eyes are everywhere,
14:21
He who despises his neighbor sins, keeping watch on the evil and the good.
15:4
but blessed is he who has pity on the A gentle tongue is a tree of life,
poor. but deceit in it crushes the spirit.
14:22 15:5
Don’t they go astray who plot evil? A fool despises his father’s correction,
But love and faithfulness belong to those but he who heeds reproof shows pru-
who plan good. dence.
14:23 15:6
In all hard work there is profit, In the house of the righteous is much trea-
but the talk of the lips leads only to sure,
poverty. but the income of the wicked brings
14:24 trouble.
The crown of the wise is their riches,
15:7
but the folly of fools crowns them with The lips of the wise spread knowledge;
folly. not so with the heart of fools.
14:25 15:8
A truthful witness saves souls, The sacrifice made by the wicked is an
but a false witness is deceitful. abomination to the LORD,
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but the prayer of the upright is his de- but he will keep the widow’s borders
light. intact.
15:9 15:26
The way of the wicked is an abomination to The LORD detests the thoughts of the
the LORD, wicked,
but he loves him who follows after righ- but the thoughts of the pure are pleasing.
15:27
teousness. He who is greedy for gain troubles his own
15:10 house,
There is stern discipline for one who for-
sakes the way: but he who hates bribes will live.
15:28
whoever hates reproof shall die. The heart of the righteous weighs answers,
15:11 but the mouth of the wicked gushes out
Sheolg and Abaddon are before the
LORD— evil.
15:29
how much more then the hearts of the The LORD is far from the wicked,
children of men! but he hears the prayer of the righteous.
15:12 15:30
A scoffer doesn’t love to be reproved; The light of the eyes rejoices the heart.
he will not go to the wise. Good news gives health to the bones.
15:31
15:13
A glad heart makes a cheerful face; The ear that listens to reproof lives,
but an aching heart breaks the spirit. and will be at home among the wise.
15:32
15:14
The heart of one who has understanding He who refuses correction despises his
seeks knowledge, own soul,
but the mouths of fools feed on folly. but he who listens to reproof gets under-
15:15
All the days of the afflicted are wretched, standing.
15:33
The fear of the LORD teaches wisdom.
but one who has a cheerful heart enjoys a
Before honor is humility.
continual feast. 16:1
15:16 The plans of the heart belong to man,
Better is little, with the fear of the LORD,
but the answer of the tongue is from the
than great treasure with trouble.
15:17 LORD.
Better is a dinner of herbs, where love is, 16:2
All the ways of a man are clean in his own
than a fattened calf with hatred.
15:18 eyes;
A wrathful man stirs up contention,
but the LORD weighs the motives.
but one who is slow to anger appeases 16:3
Commit your deeds to the LORD,
strife. and your plans shall succeed.
15:19
The way of the sluggard is like a thorn 16:4
The LORD has made everything for its own
patch, end—
but the path of the upright is a highway. yes, even the wicked for the day of evil.
15:20
A wise son makes a father glad, 16:5
Everyone who is proud in heart is an abom-
but a foolish man despises his mother. ination to the LORD:
15:21
Folly is joy to one who is void of wisdom, they shall certainly not be unpunished.
but a man of understanding keeps his 16:6
By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for.
way straight. By the fear of the LORD men depart from
15:22
Where there is no counsel, plans fail; evil.
but in a multitude of counselors they are 16:7
When a man’s ways please the LORD,
established. he makes even his enemies to be at peace
15:23
Joy comes to a man with the reply of his with him.
mouth. 16:8
Better is a little with righteousness,
How good is a word at the right time! than great revenues with injustice.
15:24 16:9
The path of life leads upward for the wise, A man’s heart plans his course,
to keep him from going downward to but the LORD directs his steps.
16:10
Sheolh . Inspired judgments are on the lips of the
15:25
The LORD will uproot the house of the king.
proud, He shall not betray his mouth.
g 15:11 Sheol is the place of the dead.
h 15:24 Sheol is the place of the dead.
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16:11 16:31
Honest balances and scales are the Gray hair is a crown of glory.
LORD’s; It is attained by a life of righteousness.
16:32
all the weights in the bag are his work. One who is slow to anger is better than the
16:12
It is an abomination for kings to do wrong, mighty;
for the throne is established by righteous- one who rules his spirit, than he who
ness. takes a city.
16:13 16:33
Righteous lips are the delight of kings. The lot is cast into the lap,
They value one who speaks the truth. but its every decision is from the LORD.
16:14 17:1
The king’s wrath is a messenger of death, Better is a dry morsel with quietness,
but a wise man will pacify it. than a house full of feasting with strife.
16:15 17:2
In the light of the king’s face is life. A servant who deals wisely will rule over a
His favor is like a cloud of the spring rain. son who causes shame,
16:16
How much better it is to get wisdom than and shall have a part in the inheritance
gold! among the brothers.
17:3
Yes, to get understanding is to be chosen The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace
rather than silver. for gold,
16:17
The highway of the upright is to depart but the LORD tests the hearts.
17:4
from evil. An evildoer heeds wicked lips.
He who keeps his way preserves his soul. A liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue.
16:18 17:5
Pride goes before destruction, Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his
and a haughty spirit before a fall. Maker.
16:19
It is better to be of a lowly spirit with the He who is glad at calamity shall not be
poor, unpunished.
17:6
than to divide the plunder with the Children’s children are the crown of old
proud. men;
16:20
He who heeds the Word finds prosperity. the glory of children are their parents.
17:7
Whoever trusts in the LORD is blessed. Arrogant speech isn’t fitting for a fool,
16:21
The wise in heart shall be called prudent. much less do lying lips fit a prince.
17:8
Pleasantness of the lips promotes instruc- A bribe is a precious stone in the eyes of him
tion. who gives it;
16:22
Understanding is a fountain of life to one wherever he turns, he prospers.
17:9
who has it, He who covers an offense promotes love;
but the punishment of fools is their folly. but he who repeats a matter separates
16:23
The heart of the wise instructs his mouth, best friends.
17:10
and adds learning to his lips. A rebuke enters deeper into one who has
16:24
Pleasant words are a honeycomb, understanding
sweet to the soul, and health to the bones. than a hundred lashes into a fool.
16:25 17:11
There is a way which seems right to a man, An evil man seeks only rebellion;
but in the end it leads to death. therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent
16:26
The appetite of the laboring man labors for against him.
17:12
him; Let a bear robbed of her cubs meet a man,
for his mouth urges him on. rather than a fool in his folly.
16:27 17:13
A worthless man devises mischief. Whoever rewards evil for good,
His speech is like a scorching fire. evil shall not depart from his house.
16:28 17:14
A perverse man stirs up strife. The beginning of strife is like breaching a
A whisperer separates close friends. dam,
16:29
A man of violence entices his neighbor, therefore stop contention before quarrel-
and leads him in a way that is not good. ing breaks out.
16:30 17:15
One who winks his eyes to plot perversi- He who justifies the wicked, and he who
ties, condemns the righteous,
one who compresses his lips, is bent on both of them alike are an abomination to
evil. the LORD.
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17:16 18:6
Why is there money in the hand of a fool to A fool’s lips come into strife,
buy wisdom, and his mouth invites beatings.
18:7
since he has no understanding? A fool’s mouth is his destruction,
17:17
A friend loves at all times; and his lips are a snare to his soul.
18:8
and a brother is born for adversity. The words of a gossip are like dainty
17:18
A man void of understanding strikes morsels:
hands, they go down into a person’s innermost
and becomes collateral in the presence of parts.
18:9
his neighbor. One who is slack in his work
17:19
He who loves disobedience loves strife. is brother to him who is a master of
One who builds a high gate seeks de- destruction.
18:10
struction. The name of the LORD is a strong tower:
17:20
One who has a perverse heart doesn’t find the righteous run to him, and are safe.
18:11
prosperity, The rich man’s wealth is his strong city,
and one who has a deceitful tongue falls like an unscalable wall in his own imagi-
into trouble. nation.
17:21 18:12
He who becomes the father of a fool Before destruction the heart of man is
grieves. proud,
The father of a fool has no joy. but before honor is humility.
17:22 18:13
A cheerful heart makes good medicine, He who gives answer before he hears,
but a crushed spirit dries up the bones. that is folly and shame to him.
17:23 18:14
A wicked man receives a bribe in secret, A man’s spirit will sustain him in sickness,
to pervert the ways of justice. but a crushed spirit, who can bear?
17:24 18:15
Wisdom is before the face of one who has The heart of the discerning gets knowl-
understanding, edge.
but the eyes of a fool wander to the ends The ear of the wise seeks knowledge.
18:16
of the earth. A man’s gift makes room for him,
17:25
A foolish son brings grief to his father, and brings him before great men.
18:17
and bitterness to her who bore him. He who pleads his cause first seems right;
17:26
Also to punish the righteous is not good, until another comes and questions him.
18:18
nor to flog officials for their integrity. The lot settles disputes,
17:27
He who spares his words has knowledge. and keeps strong ones apart.
18:19
He who is even tempered is a man of A brother offended is more difficult than a
understanding. fortified city;
17:28
Even a fool, when he keeps silent, is and disputes are like the bars of a castle.
18:20
counted wise. A man’s stomach is filled with the fruit of
When he shuts his lips, he is thought to his mouth.
be discerning. With the harvest of his lips he is satisfied.
18:1 18:21
An unfriendly man pursues selfishness, Death and life are in the power of the
and defies all sound judgment. tongue;
18:2
A fool has no delight in understanding, those who love it will eat its fruit.
18:22
but only in revealing his own opinion. Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing,
18:3
When wickedness comes, contempt also and obtains favor of the LORD.
18:23
comes, The poor plead for mercy,
and with shame comes disgrace. but the rich answer harshly.
18:4 18:24
The words of a man’s mouth are like deep A man of many companions may be ru-
waters. ined,
The fountain of wisdom is like a flowing but there is a friend who sticks closer than
brook. a brother.
18:5 19:1
To be partial to the faces of the wicked is not Better is the poor who walks in his integrity
good, than he who is perverse in his lips and is
nor to deprive the innocent of justice. a fool.
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19:2
It isn’t good to have zeal without knowl- that you may be wise in your latter end.
19:21
edge; There are many plans in a man’s heart,
nor being hasty with one’s feet and miss- but the LORD’s counsel will prevail.
19:22
ing the way. That which makes a man to be desired is
19:3
The foolishness of man subverts his way; his kindness.
his heart rages against the LORD. A poor man is better than a liar.
19:4 19:23
Wealth adds many friends, The fear of the LORD leads to life, then
but the poor is separated from his friend. contentment;
19:5
A false witness shall not be unpunished. he rests and will not be touched by
He who pours out lies shall not go free. trouble.
19:6 19:24
Many will entreat the favor of a ruler, The sluggard buries his hand in the dish;
and everyone is a friend to a man who he will not so much as bring it to his
gives gifts. mouth again.
19:7 19:25
All the relatives of the poor shun him: Flog a scoffer, and the simple will learn
how much more do his friends avoid him! prudence;
He pursues them with pleas, but they are rebuke one who has understanding, and
gone. he will gain knowledge.
19:8 19:26
He who gets wisdom loves his own soul. He who robs his father and drives away his
He who keeps understanding shall find mother,
good. is a son who causes shame and brings
19:9
A false witness shall not be unpunished. reproach.
19:27
He who utters lies shall perish. If you stop listening to instruction, my son,
19:10
Delicate living is not appropriate for a fool, you will stray from the words of knowl-
much less for a servant to have rule over edge.
19:28
princes. A corrupt witness mocks justice,
19:11
The discretion of a man makes him slow to and the mouth of the wicked gulps down
anger. iniquity.
19:29
It is his glory to overlook an offense. Penalties are prepared for scoffers,
19:12
The king’s wrath is like the roaring of a and beatings for the backs of fools.
20:1
lion, Wine is a mocker, and beer is a brawler.
but his favor is like dew on the grass. Whoever is led astray by them is not wise.
19:13 20:2
A foolish son is the calamity of his father. The terror of a king is like the roaring of a
A wife’s quarrels are a continual drip- lion.
ping. He who provokes him to anger forfeits
19:14
House and riches are an inheritance from his own life.
20:3
fathers, It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from
but a prudent wife is from the LORD. strife;
19:15
Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep. but every fool will be quarreling.
20:4
The idle soul shall suffer hunger. The sluggard will not plow by reason of the
19:16
He who keeps the commandment keeps winter;
his soul, therefore he shall beg in harvest, and
but he who is contemptuous in his ways have nothing.
20:5
shall die. Counsel in the heart of man is like deep
19:17
He who has pity on the poor lends to the water;
LORD; but a man of understanding will draw it
he will reward him. out.
19:18 20:6
Discipline your son, for there is hope; Many men claim to be men of unfailing
don’t be a willing party to his death. love,
19:19
A hot-tempered man must pay the penalty, but who can find a faithful man?
20:7
for if you rescue him, you must do it A righteous man walks in integrity.
again. Blessed are his children after him.
19:20 20:8
Listen to counsel and receive instruction, A king who sits on the throne of judgment
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scatters away all evil with his eyes. searching all his innermost parts.
20:9 20:28
Who can say, “I have made my heart pure. Love and faithfulness keep the king safe.
I am clean and without sin?” His throne is sustained by love.
20:10 20:29
Differing weights and differing measures, The glory of young men is their strength.
both of them alike are an abomination to The splendor of old men is their gray hair.
20:30
the LORD. Wounding blows cleanse away evil,
20:11
Even a child makes himself known by his and beatings purge the innermost parts.
21:1
doings, The king’s heart is in the LORD’s hand like
whether his work is pure, and whether it the watercourses.
is right. He turns it wherever he desires.
20:12 21:2
The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, Every way of a man is right in his own eyes,
The LORD has made even both of them. but the LORD weighs the hearts.
20:13 21:3
Don’t love sleep, lest you come to poverty. To do righteousness and justice
Open your eyes, and you shall be satis- is more acceptable to the LORD than
fied with bread. sacrifice.
20:14 21:4
“It’s no good, it’s no good,” says the buyer; A high look, and a proud heart,
but when he is gone his way, then he the lamp of the wicked, is sin.
21:5
boasts. The plans of the diligent surely lead to
20:15
There is gold and abundance of rubies; profit;
but the lips of knowledge are a rare jewel. and everyone who is hasty surely rushes
20:16
Take the garment of one who puts up to poverty.
21:6
collateral for a stranger; Getting treasures by a lying tongue
and hold him in pledge for a wayward is a fleeting vapor for those who seek
woman. death.
20:17 21:7
Fraudulent food is sweet to a man, The violence of the wicked will drive them
but afterwards his mouth is filled with away,
gravel. because they refuse to do what is right.
20:18 21:8
Plans are established by advice; The way of the guilty is devious,
by wise guidance you wage war! but the conduct of the innocent is upright.
20:19 21:9
He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals It is better to dwell in the corner of the
secrets; housetop,
therefore don’t keep company with him than to share a house with a contentious
who opens wide his lips. woman.
20:20 21:10
Whoever curses his father or his mother, The soul of the wicked desires evil;
his lamp shall be put out in blackness of his neighbor finds no mercy in his eyes.
21:11
darkness. When the mocker is punished, the simple
20:21
An inheritance quickly gained at the begin- gains wisdom.
ning, When the wise is instructed, he receives
won’t be blessed in the end. knowledge.
20:22 21:12
Don’t say, “I will pay back evil.” The Righteous One considers the house of
Wait for the LORD, and he will save you. the wicked,
20:23
The LORD detests differing weights, and brings the wicked to ruin.
21:13
and dishonest scales are not pleasing. Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the
20:24
A man’s steps are from the LORD; poor,
how then can man understand his way? he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.
20:25 21:14
It is a snare to a man to make a rash A gift in secret pacifies anger;
dedication, and a bribe in the cloak, strong wrath.
21:15
then later to consider his vows. It is joy to the righteous to do justice;
20:26
A wise king winnows out the wicked, but it is a destruction to the workers of
and drives the threshing wheel over iniquity.
21:16
them. The man who wanders out of the way of
20:27
The spirit of man is the LORD’s lamp, understanding
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22:4
shall rest in the assembly of the dead. The result of humility and the fear of the
21:17
He who loves pleasure shall be a poor man. LORD
He who loves wine and oil shall not be is wealth, honor, and life.
22:5
rich. Thorns and snares are in the path of the
21:18 wicked:
The wicked is a ransom for the righteous;
the treacherous for the upright. whoever guards his soul stays from them.
21:19 22:6
It is better to dwell in a desert land, Train up a child in the way he should go,
than with a contentious and fretful and when he is old he will not depart
woman. from it.
21:20 22:7
There is precious treasure and oil in the The rich rule over the poor.
dwelling of the wise; The borrower is servant to the lender.
22:8
but a foolish man swallows it up. He who sows wickedness reaps trouble,
21:21 and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.
He who follows after righteousness and
22:9
kindness He who has a generous eye will be blessed;
finds life, righteousness, and honor. for he shares his food with the poor.
22:10
21:22
A wise man scales the city of the mighty, Drive out the mocker, and strife will go out;
and brings down the strength of its confi- yes, quarrels and insults will stop.
22:11
dence. He who loves purity of heart and speaks
21:23
Whoever guards his mouth and his tongue gracefully
keeps his soul from troubles. is the king’s friend.
22:12
21:24 The eyes of the LORD watch over knowl-
The proud and haughty man, “scoffer” is
edge;
his name;
but he frustrates the words of the unfaith-
he works in the arrogance of pride.
21:25 ful.
The desire of the sluggard kills him, 22:13
The sluggard says, “There is a lion outside!
for his hands refuse to labor.
21:26 I will be killed in the streets!”
There are those who covet greedily all day 22:14
The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit:
long;
he who is under the LORD’s wrath will
but the righteous give and don’t with-
fall into it.
hold. 22:15
21:27 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child:
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomina-
the rod of discipline drives it far from
tion:
him.
how much more, when he brings it with 22:16
Whoever oppresses the poor for his own
a wicked mind! increase and whoever gives to the rich,
21:28
A false witness will perish, both come to poverty.
and a man who listens speaks to eternity. 22:17
Turn your ear, and listen to the words of
21:29
A wicked man hardens his face; the wise.
but as for the upright, he establishes his Apply your heart to my teaching.
ways. 22:18
For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them
21:30
There is no wisdom nor understanding within you,
nor counsel against the LORD. if all of them are ready on your lips.
21:31 22:19
The horse is prepared for the day of battle; That your trust may be in the LORD,
but victory is with the LORD. I teach you today, even you.
22:1 22:20
A good name is more desirable than great Haven’t I written to you thirty excellent
riches, things
and loving favor is better than silver and of counsel and knowledge,
gold. 22:21
To teach you truth, reliable words,
22:2
The rich and the poor have this in common: to give sound answers to the ones who
The LORD is the maker of them all. sent you?
22:3 22:22
A prudent man sees danger, and hides Don’t exploit the poor, because he is poor;
himself; and don’t crush the needy in court;
22:23
but the simple pass on, and suffer for it. for the LORD will plead their case,
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and plunder the life of those who plunder If you punish him with the rod, he will
them. not die.
22:24 23:14
Don’t befriend a hot-tempered man, Punish him with the rod,
and don’t associate with one who harbors and save his soul from Sheoli .
23:15
anger: My son, if your heart is wise,
22:25
lest you learn his ways, then my heart will be glad, even mine:
23:16
and ensnare your soul. yes, my heart will rejoice,
22:26
Don’t you be one of those who strike when your lips speak what is right.
23:17
hands, Don’t let your heart envy sinners;
of those who are collateral for debts. but rather fear the LORD all the day long.
22:27 23:18
If you don’t have means to pay, Indeed surely there is a future hope,
why should he take away your bed from and your hope will not be cut off.
23:19
under you? Listen, my son, and be wise,
22:28
Don’t move the ancient boundary stone, and keep your heart on the right path!
23:20
which your fathers have set up. Don’t be among ones drinking too much
22:29
Do you see a man skilled in his work? wine,
He will serve kings. or those who gorge themselves on meat:
23:21
He won’t serve obscure men. for the drunkard and the glutton shall
23:1
When you sit to eat with a ruler, become poor;
consider diligently what is before you; and drowsiness clothes them in rags.
23:2 23:22
put a knife to your throat, Listen to your father who gave you life,
if you are a man given to appetite. and don’t despise your mother when she
23:3
Don’t be desirous of his dainties, is old.
23:23
since they are deceitful food. Buy the truth, and don’t sell it.
23:4
Don’t weary yourself to be rich. Get wisdom, discipline, and understand-
In your wisdom, show restraint. ing.
23:5 23:24
Why do you set your eyes on that which is The father of the righteous has great joy.
not? Whoever fathers a wise child delights in
For it certainly sprouts wings like an him.
23:25
eagle and flies in the sky. Let your father and your mother be glad!
23:6
Don’t eat the food of him who has a stingy Let her who bore you rejoice!
23:26
eye, My son, give me your heart;
and don’t crave his delicacies: and let your eyes keep in my ways.
23:7 23:27
for as he thinks about the cost, so he For a prostitute is a deep pit;
is. and a wayward wife is a narrow well.
23:28
“Eat and drink!” he says to you, Yes, she lies in wait like a robber,
but his heart is not with you. and increases the unfaithful among men.
23:8 23:29
The morsel which you have eaten you shall Who has woe?
vomit up, Who has sorrow?
and lose your good words. Who has strife?
23:9
Don’t speak in the ears of a fool, Who has complaints?
for he will despise the wisdom of your Who has needless bruises?
words. Who has bloodshot eyes?
23:10 23:30
Don’t move the ancient boundary stone. Those who stay long at the wine;
Don’t encroach on the fields of the father- those who go to seek out mixed wine.
23:31
less: Don’t look at the wine when it is red,
23:11
for their Defender is strong. when it sparkles in the cup,
He will plead their case against you. when it goes down smoothly.
23:12 23:32
Apply your heart to instruction, In the end, it bites like a snake,
and your ears to the words of knowledge. and poisons like a viper.
23:13 23:33
Don’t withhold correction from a child. Your eyes will see strange things,
i 23:14 Sheol is the place of the dead.
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24:16
and your mind will imagine confusing for a righteous man falls seven times, and
things. rises up again;
23:34
Yes, you will be as he who lies down in the but the wicked are overthrown by
midst of the sea, calamity.
24:17
or as he who lies on top of the rigging: Don’t rejoice when your enemy falls.
23:35
“They hit me, and I was not hurt! Don’t let your heart be glad when he is
They beat me, and I don’t feel it! overthrown;
24:18
When will I wake up? I can do it again. lest the LORD see it, and it displease him,
I can find another.” and he turn away his wrath from him.
24:1 24:19
Don’t be envious of evil men; Don’t fret yourself because of evildoers;
neither desire to be with them: neither be envious of the wicked:
24:2 24:20
for their hearts plot violence, for there will be no reward to the evil man;
and their lips talk about mischief. and the lamp of the wicked shall be
24:3
Through wisdom a house is built; snuffed out.
24:21
by understanding it is established; My son, fear the LORD and the king.
24:4
by knowledge the rooms are filled Don’t join those who are rebellious:
24:22
with all rare and beautiful treasure. for their calamity will rise suddenly;
24:5 the destruction from them both—who
A wise man has great power;
knows?
and a knowledgeable man increases 24:23
These also are sayings of the wise.
strength;
24:6 To show partiality in judgment is not good.
for by wise guidance you wage your war; 24:24
He who says to the wicked, “You are
and victory is in many advisors.
24:7 righteous”;
Wisdom is too high for a fool:
peoples shall curse him, and nations shall
he doesn’t open his mouth in the gate.
24:8 abhor him—
One who plots to do evil 24:25
but it will go well with those who convict
will be called a schemer. the guilty,
24:9
The schemes of folly are sin. and a rich blessing will come on them.
The mocker is detested by men. 24:26
An honest answer
24:10
If you falter in the time of trouble, is like a kiss on the lips.
your strength is small. 24:27
Prepare your work outside,
24:11
Rescue those who are being led away to and get your fields ready.
death! Afterwards, build your house.
Indeed, hold back those who are stagger- 24:28
Don’t be a witness against your neighbor
ing to the slaughter! without cause.
24:12
If you say, “Behold, we didn’t know this”; Don’t deceive with your lips.
doesn’t he who weighs the hearts con- 24:29
Don’t say, “I will do to him as he has done
sider it? to me;
He who keeps your soul, doesn’t he know it? I will render to the man according to his
Shall he not render to every man accord- work.”
ing to his work? 24:30
I went by the field of the sluggard,
24:13
My son, eat honey, for it is good; by the vineyard of the man void of under-
the droppings of the honeycomb, which standing;
24:31
are sweet to your taste: Behold, it was all grown over with thorns.
24:14
so you shall know wisdom to be to your Its surface was covered with nettles,
soul; and its stone wall was broken down.
24:32
if you have found it, then there will be a Then I saw, and considered well.
reward, I saw, and received instruction:
24:33
your hope will not be cut off. a little sleep, a little slumber,
24:15
Don’t lay in wait, wicked man, against the a little folding of the hands to sleep;
24:34
habitation of the righteous. so your poverty will come as a robber,
Don’t destroy his resting place: and your want as an armed man.
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25:1 25:18
These also are proverbs of Solomon, A man who gives false testimony against
which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah his neighbor
copied out. is like a club, a sword, or a sharp arrow.
25:2 25:19
It is the glory of God to conceal a thing, Confidence in someone unfaithful in time
but the glory of kings is to search out a of trouble
matter. is like a bad tooth, or a lame foot.
25:3 25:20
As the heavens for height, and the earth for As one who takes away a garment in cold
depth, weather,
so the hearts of kings are unsearchable. or vinegar on soda,
25:4 so is one who sings songs to a heavy
Take away the dross from the silver,
and material comes out for the refiner; heart.
25:5 25:21
Take away the wicked from the king’s pres- If your enemy is hungry, give him food to
ence, eat.
and his throne will be established in If he is thirsty, give him water to drink:
25:22
righteousness. for you will heap coals of fire on his head,
25:6 and the LORD will reward you.
Don’t exalt yourself in the presence of the
25:23
king, The north wind brings forth rain:
or claim a place among great men; so a backbiting tongue brings an angry
25:7
for it is better that it be said to you, “Come face.
25:24
up here,” It is better to dwell in the corner of the
than that you should be put lower in the housetop,
presence of the prince, than to share a house with a contentious
whom your eyes have seen. woman.
25:25
25:8
Don’t be hasty in bringing charges to court. Like cold water to a thirsty soul,
so is good news from a far country.
What will you do in the end when your 25:26
neighbor shames you? Like a muddied spring, and a polluted
25:9 well,
Debate your case with your neighbor,
so is a righteous man who gives way
and don’t betray the confidence of an-
before the wicked.
other; 25:27
25:10 It is not good to eat much honey;
lest one who hears it put you to
nor is it honorable to seek one’s own
shame,
honor.
and your bad reputation never depart. 25:28
25:11 Like a city that is broken down and with-
A word fitly spoken
out walls
is like apples of gold in settings of silver. is a man whose spirit is without restraint.
25:12
As an earring of gold, and an ornament of 26:1
Like snow in summer, and as rain in har-
fine gold, vest,
so is a wise reprover to an obedient ear. so honor is not fitting for a fool.
25:13
As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, 26:2
Like a fluttering sparrow,
so is a faithful messenger to those who like a darting swallow,
send him; so the undeserved curse doesn’t come to
for he refreshes the soul of his masters. rest.
25:14 26:3
As clouds and wind without rain, A whip is for the horse,
so is he who boasts of gifts deceptively. a bridle for the donkey,
25:15
By patience a ruler is persuaded. and a rod for the back of fools!
A soft tongue breaks the bone. 26:4
Don’t answer a fool according to his folly,
25:16
Have you found honey? lest you also be like him.
Eat as much as is sufficient for you, 26:5
Answer a fool according to his folly,
lest you eat too much, and vomit it. lest he be wise in his own eyes.
25:17 26:6
Let your foot be seldom in your neighbor’s One who sends a message by the hand of a
house, fool
lest he be weary of you, and hate you. is cutting off feet and drinking violence.
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26:7
Like the legs of the lame that hang loose: but his wickedness will be exposed in the
so is a parable in the mouth of fools. assembly.
26:8 26:27
As one who binds a stone in a sling, Whoever digs a pit shall fall into it.
so is he who gives honor to a fool. Whoever rolls a stone, it will come back
26:9 on him.
Like a thornbush that goes into the hand of
26:28
a drunkard, A lying tongue hates those it hurts;
so is a parable in the mouth of fools. and a flattering mouth works ruin.
26:10 27:1
As an archer who wounds all, Don’t boast about tomorrow;
so is he who hires a fool for you don’t know what a day may bring
or he who hires those who pass by. forth.
27:2
26:11
As a dog that returns to his vomit, Let another man praise you,
so is a fool who repeats his folly. and not your own mouth;
26:12
Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? a stranger, and not your own lips.
27:3
There is more hope for a fool than for him. A stone is heavy,
26:13
The sluggard says, “There is a lion in the and sand is a burden;
road! but a fool’s provocation is heavier than
A fierce lion roams the streets!” both.
27:4
26:14 Wrath is cruel,
As the door turns on its hinges,
and anger is overwhelming;
so does the sluggard on his bed.
26:15 but who is able to stand before jealousy?
The sluggard buries his hand in the dish. 27:5
Better is open rebuke
He is too lazy to bring it back to his
than hidden love.
mouth. 27:6
26:16 Faithful are the wounds of a friend;
The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes
although the kisses of an enemy are pro-
than seven men who answer with discre-
fuse.
tion. 27:7
26:17 A full soul loathes a honeycomb;
Like one who grabs a dog’s ears
but to a hungry soul, every bitter thing is
is one who passes by and meddles in a sweet.
quarrel not his own. 27:8
26:18
As a bird that wanders from her nest,
Like a madman who shoots torches, ar- so is a man who wanders from his home.
rows, and death, 27:9
26:19
Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart;
is the man who deceives his neighbor so does earnest counsel from a man’s
and says, “Am I not joking?” friend.
26:20
For lack of wood a fire goes out. 27:10
Don’t forsake your friend and your fa-
Without gossip, a quarrel dies down. ther’s friend.
26:21
As coals are to hot embers, Don’t go to your brother’s house in the
and wood to fire, day of your disaster:
so is a contentious man to kindling strife. better is a neighbor who is near than a
26:22
The words of a whisperer are as dainty distant brother.
morsels, 27:11
Be wise, my son,
they go down into the innermost parts. and bring joy to my heart,
26:23
Like silver dross on an earthen vessel then I can answer my tormentor.
are the lips of a fervent one with an evil 27:12
A prudent man sees danger and takes
heart. refuge;
26:24
A malicious man disguises himself with but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.
his lips, 27:13
Take his garment when he puts up collat-
but he harbors evil in his heart. eral for a stranger.
26:25
When his speech is charming, don’t believe Hold it for a wayward woman!
27:14
him; He who blesses his neighbor with a loud
for there are seven abominations in his voice early in the morning,
heart. it will be taken as a curse by him.
26:26 27:15
His malice may be concealed by deception, A continual dropping on a rainy day
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and a contentious wife are alike: than he who is perverse in his ways, and
27:16
restraining her is like restraining the wind, he is rich.
28:7
or like grasping oil in his right hand. Whoever keeps the Torah is a wise son;
27:17
Iron sharpens iron; but he who is a companion of gluttons
so a man sharpens his friend’s counte- shames his father.
28:8
nance. He who increases his wealth by excessive
27:18
Whoever tends the fig tree shall eat its fruit. interest
He who looks after his master shall be gathers it for one who has pity on the
honored. poor.
27:19 28:9
As water reflects a face, He who turns away his ear from hearing the
so a man’s heart reflects the man. Torah,
27:20
Sheolj and Abaddon are never satisfied; even his prayer is an abomination.
28:10
and a man’s eyes are never satisfied. Whoever causes the upright to go astray in
27:21
The crucible is for silver, an evil way,
and the furnace for gold; he will fall into his own trap;
but man is refined by his praise. but the blameless will inherit good.
27:22 28:11
Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a The rich man is wise in his own eyes;
pestle along with grain, but the poor who has understanding sees
yet his foolishness will not be removed through him.
28:12
from him. When the righteous triumph, there is great
27:23
Know well the state of your flocks, glory;
and pay attention to your herds: but when the wicked rise, men hide
27:24
for riches are not forever, themselves.
28:13
nor does even the crown endure to all He who conceals his sins doesn’t prosper,
generations. but whoever confesses and renounces
27:25
The hay is removed, and the new growth them finds mercy.
28:14
appears, Blessed is the man who always fears;
the grasses of the hills are gathered in. but one who hardens his heart falls into
27:26
The lambs are for your clothing, trouble.
28:15
and the goats are the price of a field. As a roaring lion or a charging bear,
27:27
There will be plenty of goats’ milk for your so is a wicked ruler over helpless people.
28:16
food, A tyrannical ruler lacks judgment.
for your family’s food, One who hates ill-gotten gain will have
and for the nourishment of your servant long days.
28:17
girls. A man who is tormented by life blood will
28:1
The wicked flee when no one pursues; be a fugitive until death;
but the righteous are as bold as a lion. no one will support him.
28:2 28:18
In rebellion, a land has many rulers, Whoever walks blamelessly is kept safe;
but order is maintained by a man of but one with perverse ways will fall
understanding and knowledge. suddenly.
28:3 28:19
A needy man who oppresses the poor One who works his land will have an
is like a driving rain which leaves no abundance of food;
crops. but one who chases fantasies will have his
28:4
Those who forsake the Torah praise the fill of poverty.
28:20
wicked; A faithful man is rich with blessings;
but those who keep the Torah contend but one who is eager to be rich will not go
with them. unpunished.
28:5 28:21
Evil men don’t understand justice; To show partiality is not good;
but those who seek the LORD understand yet a man will do wrong for a piece of
it fully. bread.
28:6 28:22
Better is the poor who walks in his integrity, A stingy man hurries after riches,
j 27:20 Sheol is the place of the dead.
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and doesn’t know that poverty waits for but a wise man brings himself under
him. control.
28:23 29:12
One who rebukes a man will afterward If a ruler listens to lies,
find more favor all of his officials are wicked.
29:13
than one who flatters with the tongue. The poor man and the oppressor have this
28:24 in common:
Whoever robs his father or his mother, and
says, “It’s not wrong.” The LORD gives sight to the eyes of both.
29:14
He is a partner with a destroyer. The king who fairly judges the poor,
28:25 his throne shall be established forever.
One who is greedy stirs up strife;
29:15
but one who trusts in the LORD will The rod of correction gives wisdom,
prosper. but a child left to himself causes shame to
28:26 his mother.
One who trusts in himself is a fool;
29:16
but one who walks in wisdom is kept When the wicked increase, sin increases;
safe. but the righteous will see their downfall.
29:17
28:27
One who gives to the poor has no lack; Correct your son, and he will give you
but one who closes his eyes will have peace;
many curses. yes, he will bring delight to your soul.
29:18
28:28
When the wicked rise, men hide them- Where there is no revelation, the people
selves; cast off restraint;
but when they perish, the righteous but one who keeps the Torah is blessed.
29:19
thrive. A servant can’t be corrected by words.
29:1
He who is often rebuked and stiffens his Though he understands, yet he will not
neck respond.
29:20
Do you see a man who is hasty in his
will be destroyed suddenly, with no rem-
words?
edy.
29:2 There is more hope for a fool than for him.
When the righteous thrive, the people re- 29:21
He who pampers his servant from youth
joice;
will have him become a son in the end.
but when the wicked rule, the people 29:22
An angry man stirs up strife,
groan.
29:3 and a wrathful man abounds in sin.
Whoever loves wisdom brings joy to his 29:23
A man’s pride brings him low,
father;
but one of lowly spirit gains honor.
but a companion of prostitutes squanders 29:24
Whoever is an accomplice of a thief is an
his wealth.
29:4 enemy of his own soul.
The king by justice makes the land stable,
He takes an oath, but dares not testify.
but he who takes bribes tears it down. 29:25
29:5 The fear of man proves to be a snare,
A man who flatters his neighbor
but whoever puts his trust in the LORD is
spreads a net for his feet. kept safe.
29:6
An evil man is snared by his sin, 29:26
Many seek the ruler’s favor,
but the righteous can sing and be glad. but a man’s justice comes from the LORD.
29:7 29:27
The righteous care about justice for the poor. A dishonest man detests the righteous,
The wicked aren’t concerned about and the upright in their ways detest the
knowledge. wicked.
29:8 30:1
Mockers stir up a city, The words of Agur the son of Jakeh, the
but wise men turn away anger. oracle:
29:9
If a wise man goes to court with a foolish the man says to Ithiel,
man, to Ithiel and Ucal:
the fool rages or scoffs, and there is no 30:2
“Surely I am the most ignorant man,
peace. and don’t have a man’s understanding.
29:10 30:3
The bloodthirsty hate a man of integrity; I have not learned wisdom,
and they seek the life of the upright. neither do I have the knowledge of the
29:11
A fool vents all of his anger, Holy One.
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30:4
Who has ascended up into heaven, and the ravens of the valley shall pick it out,
descended? the young eagles shall eat it.
30:18
Who has gathered the wind in his fists? “There are three things which are too
Who has bound the waters in his gar- amazing for me,
ment? four which I don’t understand:
30:19
Who has established all the ends of the The way of an eagle in the air;
earth? the way of a serpent on a rock;
What is his name, and what is his son’s the way of a ship in the midst of the sea;
name, if you know? and the way of a man with a maiden.
30:5 30:20
“Every word of God is flawless. “So is the way of an adulterous woman:
He is a shield to those who take refuge in she eats and wipes her mouth,
him. and says, ‘I have done nothing wrong.’
30:6 30:21
Don’t you add to his words, “For three things the earth tremble,
lest he reprove you, and you be found a and under four, it can’t bear up:
30:22
liar. For a servant when he is king;
30:7
“Two things I have asked of you; a fool when he is filled with food;
30:23
don’t deny me before I die: for an unloved woman when she is
30:8
Remove far from me falsehood and lies. married;
Give me neither poverty nor riches. and a handmaid who is heir to her mis-
Feed me with the food that is needful for tress.
30:24
me; “There are four things which are little on
30:9
lest I be full, deny you, and say, ‘Who is the the earth,
LORD?’ but they are exceedingly wise:
30:25
or lest I be poor, and steal, the ants are not a strong people,
and so dishonor the name of my God. yet they provide their food in the sum-
30:10
“Don’t slander a servant to his master, mer.
30:26
lest he curse you, and you be held guilty. The conies are but a feeble folk,
30:11
There is a generation that curses their yet make they their houses in the rocks.
30:27
father, The locusts have no king,
and doesn’t bless their mother. yet they advance in ranks.
30:12 30:28
There is a generation that is pure in their You can catch a lizard with your
own eyes, hands,
yet are not washed from their filthiness. yet it is in kings’ palaces.
30:13 30:29
There is a generation, oh how lofty are their “There are three things which are stately in
eyes! their march,
Their eyelids are lifted up. four which are stately in going:
30:14 30:30
There is a generation whose teeth are like The lion, which is mightiest among
swords, animals,
and their jaws like knives, and doesn’t turn away for any;
30:31
to devour the poor from the earth, and the the greyhound,
needy from among men. the male goat also;
30:15
“The leach has two daughters: and the king against whom there is no
‘Give, give.’ rising up.
30:32
“There are three things that are never satisfied; “If you have done foolishly in lifting up
four that don’t say, ‘Enough:’ yourself,
30:16
Sheolk , or if you have thought evil,
the barren womb; put your hand over your mouth.
30:33
the earth that is not satisfied with water; For as the churning of milk brings
and the fire that doesn’t say, ‘Enough.’ forth butter,
30:17
“The eye that mocks at his father, and the wringing of the nose brings forth
and scorns obedience to his mother: blood;
k 30:16 Sheol is the place of the dead.
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so the forcing of wrath brings forth yes, she extends her hands to the needy.
31:21
strife.” She is not afraid of the snow for her
31:1
The words of king Lemuel; the oracle household;
which his mother taught him. for all her household are clothed with
31:2
“Oh, my son! scarlet.
31:22
Oh, son of my womb! She makes for herself carpets of tapestry.
Oh, son of my vows! Her clothing is fine linen and purple.
31:3 31:23
Don’t give your strength to women, Her husband is respected in the gates,
nor your ways to that which destroys when he sits among the elders of the land.
31:24
kings. She makes linen garments and sells them,
31:4
It is not for kings, Lemuel; and delivers sashes to the merchant.
31:25
it is not for kings to drink wine; Strength and dignity are her clothing.
nor for princes to say, ‘Where is strong She laughs at the time to come.
31:26
drink?’ She opens her mouth with wisdom.
31:5
lest they drink, and forget the decree, Faithful instruction is on her tongue.
31:27
and pervert the justice due to anyone who She looks well to the ways of her house-
is afflicted. hold,
31:6 and doesn’t eat the bread of idleness.
Give strong drink to him who is ready to
31:28
perish; Her children rise up and call her blessed.
and wine to the bitter in soul: Her husband also praises her:
31:7 31:29
Let him drink, and forget his poverty, “Many women do noble things,
and remember his misery no more. but you excel them all.”
31:8 31:30
Open your mouth for the mute, Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain;
in the cause of all who are left desolate. but a woman who fears the LORD, she
31:9 shall be praised.
Open your mouth, judge righteously,
31:31
and serve justice to the poor and needy.” Give her of the fruit of her hands!
31:10 l Let her works praise her in the gates!
Who can find a worthy woman?
For her price is far above rubies.
31:11
The heart of her husband trusts in her.
He shall have no lack of gain.
31:12
She does him good, and not harm,
all the days of her life.
31:13
She seeks wool and flax,
and works eagerly with her hands.
31:14
She is like the merchant ships.
She brings her bread from afar.
31:15
She rises also while it is yet night,
gives food to her household,
and portions for her servant girls.
31:16
She considers a field, and buys it.
With the fruit of her hands, she plants a
vineyard.
31:17
She arms her waist with strength,
and makes her arms strong.
31:18
She perceives that her merchandise is prof-
itable.
Her lamp doesn’t go out by night.
31:19
She lays her hands to the distaff,
and her hands hold the spindle.
31:20
She opens her arms to the poor;
l 31:10 Proverbs 31:10-31 form an acrostic, with each verse starting with each letter of the Hebrew alphabet,
in order.
Job 1:1 635 Job 2:4

Job their eldest brother’s house, 1:14 that there came


a messenger to Job, and said, “The oxen were
1:1 plowing, and the donkeys feeding beside them,
There was a man in the land of Uz,
1:15
whose name was Job. That man was blameless and the Sabeans attacked, and took them
and upright, and one who feared Goda , and away. Yes, they have killed the servants with
turned away from evil. 1:2 There were born to the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped
him seven sons and three daughters. 1:3 His to tell you.”
1:16
possessions also were seven thousand sheep, While he was still speaking, there also
three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of came another, and said, “The fire of God has
oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very fallen from the sky, and has burned up the
great household; so that this man was the sheep and the servants, and consumed them,
greatest of all the children of the east. 1:4 His and I alone have escaped to tell you.”
1:17
sons went and held a feast in the house of While he was still speaking, there came
each one on his birthday; and they sent and also another, and said, “The Kasdim made
called for their three sisters to eat and to drink three bands, and swept down on the camels,
with them. 1:5 It was so, when the days of and have taken them away, yes, and killed the
their feasting had run their course, that Job sent servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone
and sanctified them, and rose up early in the have escaped to tell you.”
1:18
morning, and offered burnt offerings according While he was still speaking, there came
to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may also another, and said, “Your sons and your
be that my sons have sinned, and renounced daughters were eating and drinking wine in
God in their hearts.” Job did so continually. their eldest brother’s house, 1:19 and behold,
1:6 there came a great wind from the wilderness,
Now it happened on the day when God’s
sons came to present themselves before the and struck the four corners of the house, and
LORD,b that Satan also came among them. it fell on the young men, and they are dead. I
1:7 alone have escaped to tell you.”
The LORD said to Satan, “Where have you
1:20
come from?” Then Job arose, and tore his robe, and
Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, shaved his head, and fell down on the ground,
“From going back and forth in the earth, and and worshiped. 1:21 He said, “Naked I came out
from walking up and down in it.” of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return
1:8 there. The LORD gave, and the LORD has
The LORD said to Satan, “Have you con-
sidered my servant, Job? For there is none like taken away. Blessed be the name of the LORD.”
1:22
him in the earth, a blameless and an upright In all this, Job did not sin, nor charge God
man, one who fears God, and turns away from with wrongdoing.
2:1
evil.” Again it happened on the day when the
1:9 God’s sons came to present themselves before
Then Satan answered the LORD, and said,
“Does Job fear God for nothing? 1:10 Haven’t the LORD, that Satan came also among them to
you made a hedge around him, and around present himself before the LORD. 2:2 The LORD
his house, and around all that he has, on every said to Satan, “Where have you come from?”
side? You have blessed the work of his hands, Satan answered the LORD, and said, “From
and his substance is increased in the land. going back and forth in the earth, and from
1:11
But put forth your hand now, and touch all walking up and down in it.”
2:3
that he has, and he will renounce you to your The LORD said to Satan, “Have you
face.” considered my servant Job? For there is none
1:12
The LORD said to Satan, “Behold, all that like him in the earth, a blameless and an
he has is in your power. Only on himself don’t upright man, one who fears God, and turns
put forth your hand.” away from evil. He still maintains his integrity,
So Satan went forth from the presence of the although you incited me against him, to ruin
LORD. 1:13 It fell on a day when his sons and him without cause.”
2:4
his daughters were eating and drinking wine in Satan answered the LORD, and said,
a 1:1 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “Elohim.”
b 1:6 “LORD” or “GOD” (all capital letters) indicate the 4-letter Holy Name of God
Job 2:5 636 Job 4:2

3:8
“Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has he will Let them curse it who curse the day,
give for his life. 2:5 But put forth your hand now, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.
3:9
and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will Let the stars of its twilight be dark.
renounce you to your face.” Let it look for light, but have none,
2:6
The LORD said to Satan, “Behold, he is in neither let it see the eyelids of the morn-
your hand. Only spare his life.” ing,
2:7 3:10
So Satan went forth from the presence of because it didn’t shut up the doors of my
the LORD, and struck Job with painful sores mother’s womb,
from the sole of his foot to his head. 2:8 He nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.
3:11
took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself “Why didn’t I die from the womb?
with, and he sat among the ashes. 2:9 Then his Why didn’t I give up the spirit when my
wife said to him, “Do you still maintain your mother bore me?
3:12
integrity? Renounce God, and die.” Why did the knees receive me?
2:10
But he said to her, “You speak as one of Or why the breast, that I should nurse?
3:13
the foolish women would speak. What? Shall For now should I have lain down and been
we receive good at the hand of God, and shall quiet.
we not receive evil?” I should have slept, then I would have
In all this Job didn’t sin with his lips. been at rest,
2:11 3:14
Now when Job’s three friends heard of all with kings and counselors of the earth,
this evil that had come on him, they each came who built up waste places for themselves;
from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bil- 3:15
or with princes who had gold,
dad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, who filled their houses with silver:
and they made an appointment together to 3:16
or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been,
come to sympathize with him and to comfort as infants who never saw light.
him. 2:12 When they lifted up their eyes from a 3:17
There the wicked cease from troubling.
distance, and didn’t recognize him, they raised There the weary are at rest.
their voices, and wept; and they each tore his 3:18
There the prisoners are at ease together.
robe, and sprinkled dust on their heads toward They don’t hear the voice of the taskmas-
the sky. 2:13 So they sat down with him on the ter.
ground seven days and seven nights, and none 3:19
The small and the great are there.
spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief The servant is free from his master.
was very great. 3:20
“Why is light given to him who is in misery,
3:1
After this Job opened his mouth, and life to the bitter in soul,
cursed the day of his birth. 3:2 Job answered: 3:21
Who long for death, but it doesn’t come;
3:3
“Let the day perish in which I was born, and dig for it more than for hidden
the night which said, ‘There is a boy treasures,
conceived.’ 3:22
who rejoice exceedingly,
3:4
Let that day be darkness. and are glad, when they can find the
Don’t let God from above seek for it, grave?
neither let the light shine on it. 3:23
Why is light given to a man whose way is
3:5
Let darkness and the shadow of death claim hidden,
it for their own. whom God has hedged in?
Let a cloud dwell on it. 3:24
For my sighing comes before I eat.
Let all that makes black the day terrify it. My groanings are poured out like water.
3:6 3:25
As for that night, let thick darkness seize on For the thing which I fear comes on me,
it. That which I am afraid of comes to me.
3:26
Let it not rejoice among the days of the I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither
year. have I rest;
Let it not come into the number of the but trouble comes.”
4:1
months. Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,
3:7 4:2
Behold, let that night be barren. “If someone ventures to talk with you, will
Let no joyful voice come therein. you be grieved?
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4:21
But who can withhold himself from Isn’t their tent cord plucked up within
speaking? them?
4:3
Behold, you have instructed many, They die, and that without wisdom.’
5:1
you have strengthened the weak hands. “Call now; is there any who will answer
4:4
Your words have supported him who was you?
falling, To which of the holy ones will you turn?
5:2
You have made firm the feeble knees. For resentment kills the foolish man,
4:5
But now it has come to you, and you faint. and jealousy kills the simple.
5:3
It touches you, and you are troubled. I have seen the foolish taking root,
4:6
Isn’t your piety your confidence? but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
5:4
Isn’t the integrity of your ways your His children are far from safety.
hope? They are crushed in the gate.
4:7
“Remember, now, whoever perished, being Neither is there any to deliver them,
5:5
innocent? whose harvest the hungry eats up,
Or where were the upright cut off? and take it even out of the thorns.
4:8
According to what I have seen, those who The snare gapes for their substance.
5:6
plow iniquity, For affliction doesn’t come forth from the
and sow trouble, dust,
reap the same. neither does trouble spring out of the
4:9
By the breath of God they perish. ground;
5:7
By the blast of his anger are they con- but man is born to trouble,
sumed. as the sparks fly upward.
4:10 5:8
The roaring of the lion, “But as for me, I would seek God.
and the voice of the fierce lion, I would commit my cause to God,
5:9
the teeth of the young lions, are broken. who does great things that can’t be fath-
4:11
The old lion perishes for lack of prey. omed,
The cubs of the lioness are scattered marvelous things without number;
5:10
abroad. who gives rain on the earth,
4:12
“Now a thing was secretly brought to me. and sends waters on the fields;
5:11
My ear received a whisper of it. so that he sets up on high those who are low,
4:13
In thoughts from the visions of the night, those who mourn are exalted to safety.
5:12
when deep sleep falls on men, He frustrates the devices of the crafty,
4:14
fear came on me, and trembling, So that their hands can’t perform their
which made all my bones shake. enterprise.
4:15 5:13
Then a spirit passed before my face. He takes the wise in their own craftiness;
The hair of my flesh stood up. the counsel of the cunning is carried
4:16
It stood still, but I couldn’t discern its headlong.
5:14
appearance. They meet with darkness in the day time,
A form was before my eyes. and grope at noonday as in the night.
5:15
Silence, then I heard a voice, saying, But he saves from the sword of their mouth,
4:17
‘Shall mortal man be more just than God? even the needy from the hand of the
Shall a man be more pure than his Maker? mighty.
4:18 5:16
Behold, he puts no trust in his servants. So the poor has hope,
He charges his angels with error. and injustice shuts her mouth.
4:19 5:17
How much more, those who dwell in “Behold, happy is the man whom God
houses of clay, corrects.
whose foundation is in the dust, Therefore do not despise the chastening
who are crushed before the moth! of the Almighty.
4:20 5:18
Between morning and evening they are For he wounds, and binds up.
destroyed. He injures, and his hands make whole.
5:19
They perish forever without any regard- He will deliver you in six troubles;
ing it. yes, in seven no evil shall touch you.
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5:20
In famine he will redeem you from death; that I have not denied the words of the
in war, from the power of the sword. Holy One.
5:21 6:11
You shall be hidden from the scourge of the What is my strength, that I should wait?
tongue, What is my end, that I should be patient?
6:12
neither shall you be afraid of destruction Is my strength the strength of stones?
when it comes. Or is my flesh of brass?
5:22 6:13
At destruction and famine you shall laugh, Isn’t it that I have no help in me,
neither shall you be afraid of the animals That wisdom is driven quite from me?
6:14
of the earth. “To him who is ready to faint, kindness
5:23 should be shown from his friend;
For you shall be allied with the stones of the
field. even to him who forsakes the fear of the
The animals of the field shall be at peace Almighty.
6:15
with you. My brothers have dealt deceitfully as a
5:24 brook,
You shall know that your tent is in peace.
You shall visit your fold, and shall miss as the channel of brooks that pass away;
6:16
nothing. Which are black by reason of the ice,
5:25
You shall know also that your seed shall be in which the snow hides itself.
6:17
great, In the dry season, they vanish.
Your offspring as the grass of the earth. When it is hot, they are consumed out of
5:26
You shall come to your grave in a full age, their place.
6:18
like a shock of grain comes in its season. The caravans that travel beside them turn
5:27 aside.
Look this, we have searched it, so it is.
They go up into the waste, and perish.
Hear it, and know it for your good.” 6:19
6:1 The caravans of Tema looked.
Then Job answered,
6:2 The companies of Sheba waited for them.
“Oh that my anguish were weighed, 6:20
They were distressed because they were
and all my calamity laid in the balances!
6:3 confident.
For now it would be heavier than the sand of
They came there, and were confounded.
the seas, 6:21
For now you are nothing.
therefore have my words been rash.
6:4
You see a terror, and are afraid.
For the arrows of the Almighty are within 6:22
Did I say, ‘Give to me?’
me. or, ‘Offer a present for me from your
My spirit drinks up their poison. substance?’
The terrors of God set themselves in array 6:23
or, ‘Deliver me from the adversary’s hand?’
against me. or, ‘Redeem me from the hand of the
6:5
Does the wild donkey bray when he oppressors?’
has grass? 6:24
“Teach me, and I will hold my peace.
Or does the ox low over his fodder? Cause me to understand wherein I have
6:6
Can that which has no flavor be eaten erred.
without salt? 6:25
How forcible are words of uprightness!
Or is there any taste in the white of an egg? But your reproof, what does it reprove?
6:7 6:26
My soul refuses to touch them. Do you intend to reprove words,
They are as loathsome food to me. since the speeches of one who is desper-
6:8
“Oh that I might have my request, ate are as wind?
that God would grant the thing that I long 6:27
Yes, you would even cast lots for the father-
for, less,
6:9
even that it would please God to crush me; and make merchandise of your friend.
6:28
that he would let loose his hand, and cut Now therefore be pleased to look at me,
me off! for surely I shall not lie to your face.
6:10 6:29
Be it still my consolation, Please return.
yes, let me exult in pain that doesn’t Let there be no injustice.
spare, Yes, return again.
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7:17
My cause is righteous. What is man, that you should magnify him,
6:30
Is there injustice on my tongue? that you should set your mind on him,
7:18
Can’t my taste discern mischievous that you should visit him every morning,
things? and test him every moment?
7:1 7:19
“Isn’t a man forced to labor on earth? How long will you not look away from me,
Aren’t his days like the days of a hired nor leave me alone until I swallow down
hand? my spittle?
7:2 7:20
As a servant who earnestly desires the If I have sinned, what do I do to you, you
shadow, watcher of men?
as a hireling who looks for his wages, Why have you set me as a mark for you,
7:3
so am I made to possess months of misery, so that I am a burden to myself?
wearisome nights are appointed to me. 7:21
Why do you not pardon my disobedience,
7:4
When I lie down, I say, and take away my iniquity?
‘When shall I arise, and the night be For now shall I lie down in the dust.
gone?’ You will seek me diligently, but I shall not
I toss and turn until the dawning of the be.”
day. 8:1
Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,
7:5
My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of 8:2
“How long will you speak these things?
dust. Shall the words of your mouth be a
My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh. mighty wind?
7:6
My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, 8:3
Does God pervert justice?
and are spent without hope. Or does the Almighty pervert righteous-
7:7
Oh remember that my life is a breath. ness?
My eye shall no more see good. 8:4
7:8 If your children have sinned against him,
The eye of him who sees me shall see me no
He has delivered them into the hand of
more.
their disobedience.
Your eyes shall be on me, but I shall not 8:5
If you want to seek God diligently,
be.
7:9 make your supplication to the Almighty.
As the cloud is consumed and vanishes 8:6
If you were pure and upright,
away,
surely now he would awaken for you,
so he who goes down to Sheolc shall come
up no more. and make the habitation of your righteousness
7:10
He shall return no more to his house, prosperous.
8:7
neither shall his place know him any Though your beginning was small,
more. yet your latter end would greatly increase.
8:8
7:11
“Therefore I will not keep silent. “Please inquire of past generations.
I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. Find out about the learning of their fa-
I will complain in the bitterness of my thers.
8:9
soul. (For we are but of yesterday, and know
7:12
Am I a sea, or a sea monster, nothing,
that you put a guard over me? because our days on earth are a shadow.)
7:13 8:10
When I say, ‘My bed shall comfort me. Shall they not teach you, tell you,
My couch shall ease my complaint;’ and utter words out of their heart?
7:14 8:11
then you scare me with dreams, “Can the papyrus grow up without mire?
and terrify me through visions: Can the rushes grow without water?
7:15 8:12
so that my soul chooses strangling, While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down,
death rather than my bones. it withers before any other reed.
7:16 8:13
I loathe my life. So are the paths of all who forget God.
I don’t want to live forever. The hope of the godless man shall perish,
8:14
Leave me alone, for my days are but a Whose confidence shall break apart,
breath. Whose trust is a spider’s web.
c 7:9 Sheol is the place of the dead.
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8:15
He shall lean on his house, but it shall not And choose my words to argue with him?
9:15
stand. Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn’t
He shall cling to it, but it shall not endure. answer him.
8:16
He is green before the sun. I would make supplication to my judge.
9:16
His shoots go forth over his garden. If I had called, and he had answered me,
8:17
His roots are wrapped around the rock pile. yet I wouldn’t believe that he listened to
He sees the place of stones. my voice.
8:18 9:17
If he is destroyed from his place, For he breaks me with a storm,
then it shall deny him, saying, ‘I have not and multiplies my wounds without
seen you.’ cause.
8:19 9:18
Behold, this is the joy of his way: He will not allow me to catch my breath,
out of the earth, others shall spring. but fills me with bitterness.
8:20 9:19
“Behold, God will not cast away a blameless If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is
man, mighty!
neither will he uphold the evildoers. If of justice, ‘Who,’ says he, ‘will summon
8:21
He will still fill your mouth with laughter, me?’
9:20
your lips with shouting. Though I am righteous, my own mouth
8:22
Those who hate you shall be clothed with shall condemn me.
shame. Though I am blameless, it shall prove me
The tent of the wicked shall be no more.” perverse.
9:1 9:21
Then Job answered, I am blameless.
9:2
“Truly I know that it is so, I don’t respect myself.
but how can man be just with God? I despise my life.
9:3 9:22
If he is pleased to contend with him, “It is all the same.
he can’t answer him one time in a thou- Therefore I say he destroys the blameless
sand. and the wicked.
9:4 9:23
God who is wise in heart, and mighty in If the scourge kills suddenly,
strength: he will mock at the trial of the innocent.
9:24
who has hardened himself against him, The earth is given into the hand of the
and prospered? wicked.
9:5
He removes the mountains, and they don’t He covers the faces of its judges.
know it, If not he, then who is it?
9:25
when he overturns them in his anger. “Now my days are swifter than a runner.
9:6
He shakes the earth out of its place. They flee away, they see no good,
9:26
Its pillars tremble. They have passed away as the swift ships,
9:7
He commands the sun, and it doesn’t rise, as the eagle that swoops on the prey.
9:27
and seals up the stars. If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint,
9:8
He alone stretches out the heavens, I will put off my sad face, and cheer up;’
9:28
and treads on the waves of the sea. I am afraid of all my sorrows,
9:9
He makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, I know that you will not hold me inno-
and the rooms of the south. cent.
9:10 9:29
He does great things past finding out; I shall be condemned.
yes, marvelous things without number. Why then do I labor in vain?
9:11 9:30
Behold, he goes by me, and I don’t see him. If I wash myself with snow,
He passes on also, but I don’t perceive and cleanse my hands with lye,
9:31
him. yet you will plunge me in the ditch.
9:12
Behold, he snatches away. My own clothes shall abhor me.
9:32
Who can hinder him? For he is not a man, as I am, that I should
Who will ask him, ‘What are you doing?’ answer him,
9:13
“God will not withdraw his anger. that we should come together in judg-
The helpers of Rahab stoop under him. ment.
9:14 9:33
How much less shall I answer him, There is no umpire between us,
Job 9:34 641 Job 11:11

that might lay his hand on us both. Changes and warfare are with me.
9:34 10:18
Let him take his rod away from me. “‘Why, then, have you brought me forth
Let his terror not make me afraid; out of the womb?
9:35
then I would speak, and not fear him, I wish I had given up the spirit, and no
for I am not so in myself. eye had seen me.
10:1 10:19
“My soul is weary of my life. I should have been as though I had not
I will give free course to my complaint. been.
I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. I should have been carried from the
10:2
I will tell God, ‘Do not condemn me. womb to the grave.
10:20
Show me why you contend with me. Aren’t my days few?
10:3
Is it good to you that you should oppress, Cease then.
that you should despise the work of your Leave me alone, that I may find a little
hands, comfort,
10:21
and smile on the counsel of the wicked? before I go where I shall not return from,
10:4
Do you have eyes of flesh? to the land of darkness and of the shadow
Or do you see as man sees? of death;
10:5 10:22
Are your days as the days of mortals, the land dark as midnight,
or your years as man’s years, of the shadow of death,
10:6
that you inquire after my iniquity, without any order,
and search after my sin? where the light is as midnight.’”
10:7 11:1
Although you know that I am not wicked, Then Zophar, the Naamathite, answered,
11:2
there is no one who can deliver out of “Shouldn’t the multitude of words be an-
your hand. swered?
10:8
“‘Your hands have framed me and fash- Should a man full of talk be justified?
11:3
ioned me altogether, Should your boastings make men hold their
yet you destroy me. peace?
10:9
Remember, I beg you, that you have fash- When you mock, shall no man make you
ioned me as clay. ashamed?
11:4
Will you bring me into dust again? For you say, ‘My doctrine is pure.
10:10
Haven’t you poured me out like milk, I am clean in your eyes.’
11:5
and curdled me like cheese? But oh that God would speak,
10:11
You have clothed me with skin and flesh, and open his lips against you,
11:6
and knit me together with bones and that he would show you the secrets of
sinews. wisdom!
10:12
You have granted me life and loving kind- For true wisdom has two sides.
ness. Know therefore that God exacts of you
Your visitation has preserved my spirit. less than your iniquity deserves.
10:13 11:7
Yet you hid these things in your heart. “Can you fathom the mystery of God?
I know that this is with you: Or can you probe the limits of the
10:14
if I sin, then you mark me. Almighty?
11:8
You will not acquit me from my iniquity. They are high as heaven. What can you do?
10:15
If I am wicked, woe to me. They are deeper than Sheold . What can
If I am righteous, I still shall not lift up my you know?
11:9
head, Its measure is longer than the earth,
being filled with disgrace, and broader than the sea.
11:10
and conscious of my affliction. If he passes by, or confines,
10:16
If my head is held high, you hunt me like a or convenes a court, then who can oppose
lion. him?
11:11
Again you show yourself powerful to me. For he knows false men.
10:17
You renew your witnesses against me, He sees iniquity also, even though he
and increase your indignation on me. doesn’t consider it.
d 11:8 Sheol is the place of the dead.
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11:12 12:10
An empty-headed man becomes wise in whose hand is the life of every living
when a man is born as a wild donkey’s thing,
colt. and the breath of all mankind?
11:13 12:11
“If you set your heart aright, Doesn’t the ear try words,
stretch out your hands toward him. even as the palate tastes its food?
11:14 12:12
If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away. With aged men is wisdom,
Don’t let unrighteousness dwell in your in length of days understanding.
12:13
tents. “With God is wisdom and might.
11:15
Surely then you shall lift up your face He has counsel and understanding.
12:14
without spot; Behold, he breaks down, and it can’t be
Yes, you shall be steadfast, and shall not built again.
fear: He imprisons a man, and there can be no
11:16
for you shall forget your misery. release.
12:15
You shall remember it as waters that are Behold, he withholds the waters, and they
passed away. dry up.
11:17
Life shall be clearer than the noonday. Again, he sends them out, and they
Though there is darkness, it shall be as the overturn the earth.
12:16
morning. With him is strength and wisdom.
11:18
You shall be secure, because there is hope. The deceived and the deceiver are his.
12:17
Yes, you shall search, and shall take your He leads counselors away stripped.
rest in safety. He makes judges fools.
11:19 12:18
Also you shall lie down, and none shall He loosens the bond of kings.
make you afraid. He binds their waist with a belt.
12:19
Yes, many shall court your favor. He leads priests away stripped,
11:20
But the eyes of the wicked shall fail. and overthrows the mighty.
12:20
They shall have no way to flee. He removes the speech of those who are
Their hope shall be the giving up of the trusted,
spirit.” and takes away the understanding of the
12:1
Then Job answered, elders.
12:2 12:21
“No doubt, but you are the people, He pours contempt on princes,
and wisdom shall die with you. and loosens the belt of the strong.
12:3 12:22
But I have understanding as well as you; He uncovers deep things out of darkness,
I am not inferior to you. and brings out to light the shadow of
Yes, who doesn’t know such things as death.
12:23
these? He increases the nations, and he destroys
12:4
I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, them.
I, who called on God, and he answered. He enlarges the nations, and he leads
The just, the blameless man is a joke. them captive.
12:5 12:24
In the thought of him who is at ease there is He takes away understanding from the
contempt for misfortune. chiefs of the people of the earth,
It is ready for them whose foot slips. and causes them to wander in a wilder-
12:6
The tents of robbers prosper. ness where there is no way.
12:25
Those who provoke God are secure, They grope in the dark without light.
who carry their God in their hands. He makes them stagger like a drunken
12:7
“But ask the animals, now, and they shall man.
13:1
teach you; “Behold, my eye has seen all this.
the birds of the sky, and they shall tell My ear has heard and understood it.
13:2
you. What you know, I know also.
12:8
Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach you. I am not inferior to you.
13:3
The fish of the sea shall declare to you. “Surely I would speak to the Almighty.
12:9
Who doesn’t know that in all these, I desire to reason with God.
13:4
the hand of the LORD has done this, But you are forgers of lies.
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13:26
You are all physicians of no value. For you write bitter things against me,
13:5
Oh that you would be completely silent! and make me inherit the iniquities of my
Then you would be wise. youth:
13:6 13:27
Hear now my reasoning. You also put my feet in the stocks,
Listen to the pleadings of my lips. and mark all my paths.
13:7
Will you speak unrighteously for God, You set a bound to the soles of my feet,
13:28
and talk deceitfully for him? though I am decaying like a rotten thing,
13:8
Will you show partiality to him? like a garment that is moth-eaten.
14:1
Will you contend for God? “Man, who is born of a woman,
13:9
Is it good that he should search you out? is of few days, and full of trouble.
14:2
Or as one deceives a man, will you He comes forth like a flower, and is cut
deceive him? down.
13:10
He will surely reprove you He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t
if you secretly show partiality. continue.
13:11 14:3
Shall not his majesty make you afraid, Do you open your eyes on such a one,
And his dread fall on you? and bring me into judgment with you?
13:12 14:4
Your memorable sayings are proverbs of Who can bring a clean thing out of an
ashes, unclean?
Your defenses are defenses of clay. Not one.
13:13 14:5
“Be silent, leave me alone, that I may Seeing his days are determined,
speak. the number of his months is with you,
Let come on me what will. and you have appointed his bounds that
13:14
Why should I take my flesh in my teeth, he can’t pass;
14:6
and put my life in my hand? Look away from him, that he may rest,
13:15
Behold, he will kill me. until he shall accomplish, as a hireling,
I have no hope. his day.
14:7
Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways “For there is hope for a tree,
before him. If it is cut down, that it will sprout again,
13:16
This also shall be my salvation, that the tender branch of it will not cease.
14:8
that a godless man shall not come before Though its root grows old in the earth,
him. and its stock dies in the ground,
13:17 14:9
Hear diligently my speech. yet through the scent of water it will bud,
Let my declaration be in your ears. and put forth boughs like a plant.
13:18 14:10
See now, I have set my cause in order. But man dies, and is laid low.
I know that I am righteous. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is
13:19
Who is he who will contend with me? he?
14:11
For then would I hold my peace and give As the waters fail from the sea,
up the spirit. and the river wastes and dries up,
13:20 14:12
“Only don’t do two things to me; so man lies down and doesn’t rise.
then I will not hide myself from your face: Until the heavens are no more, they shall
13:21
withdraw your hand far from me; not awake,
and don’t let your terror make me afraid. nor be roused out of their sleep.
13:22 14:13
Then call, and I will answer; “Oh that you would hide me in Sheole ,
or let me speak, and you answer me. that you would keep me secret, until your
13:23
How many are my iniquities and sins? wrath is past,
Make me know my disobedience and my that you would appoint me a set time,
sin. and remember me!
13:24 14:14
Why hide you your face, If a man dies, shall he live again?
and hold me for your enemy? All the days of my warfare would I wait,
13:25
Will you harass a driven leaf? until my release should come.
14:15
Will you pursue the dry stubble? You would call, and I would answer you.
e 14:13 Sheol is the place of the dead.
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You would have a desire to the work of and let such words go out of your mouth?
15:14
your hands. What is man, that he should be clean?
14:16
But now you number my steps. What is he who is born of a woman, that
Don’t you watch over my sin? he should be righteous?
14:17 15:15
My disobedience is sealed up in a bag. Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones.
You fasten up my iniquity. Yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight;
14:18 15:16
“But the mountain falling comes to noth- how much less one who is abominable and
ing. corrupt,
The rock is removed out of its place; a man who drinks iniquity like water!
14:19 15:17
The waters wear the stones. “I will show you, listen to me;
The torrents of it wash away the dust of that which I have seen I will declare:
the earth. 15:18
(Which wise men have told by their fa-
So you destroy the hope of man. thers,
14:20
You forever prevail against him, and he and have not hidden it;
departs. 15:19
to whom alone the land was given,
You change his face, and send him away. and no stranger passed among them):
14:21
His sons come to honor, and he doesn’t 15:20
the wicked man writhes in pain all his
know it.
days,
They are brought low, but he doesn’t
even the number of years that are laid up
perceive it of them.
14:22 for the oppressor.
But his flesh on him has pain, 15:21
A sound of terrors is in his ears.
and his soul within him mourns.”
15:1 In prosperity the destroyer shall come on
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,
15:2 him.
“Should a wise man answer with vain 15:22
He doesn’t believe that he shall return out
knowledge,
of darkness.
and fill himself with the east wind?
15:3 He is waited for by the sword.
Should he reason with unprofitable talk, 15:23
He wanders abroad for bread, saying,
or with speeches with which he can do no
‘Where is it?’
good?
15:4
Yes, you do away with fear, He knows that the day of darkness is
ready at his hand.
and hinder devotion before God. 15:24
15:5
For your iniquity teaches your mouth, Distress and anguish make him afraid.
and you choose the language of the crafty. They prevail against him, as a king ready
15:6
Your own mouth condemns you, and not I. to the battle.
15:25
Yes, your own lips testify against you. Because he has stretched out his hand
15:7
“Are you the first man who was born? against God,
Or were you brought forth before the and behaves himself proudly against the
hills? Almighty;
15:26
15:8
Have you heard the secret counsel of God? he runs at him with a stiff neck,
Do you limit wisdom to yourself? with the thick shields of his bucklers;
15:9 15:27
What do you know, that we don’t know? because he has covered his face with his
What do you understand, which is not in fatness,
us? and gathered fat on his thighs.
15:10 15:28
With us are both the gray-headed and the He has lived in desolate cities,
very aged men, in houses which no one inhabited,
much elder than your father. which were ready to become heaps.
15:11 15:29
Are the consolations of God too small for He shall not be rich, neither shall his
you, substance continue,
even the word that is gentle toward you? neither shall their possessions be ex-
15:12
Why does your heart carry you away? tended on the earth.
15:30
Why do your eyes flash, He shall not depart out of darkness.
15:13
That you turn your spirit against God, The flame shall dry up his branches.
Job 15:31 645 Job 17:10

By the breath of God’s mouth shall he go Yes, he has taken me by the neck, and
away. dashed me to pieces.
15:31
Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving He has also set me up for his target.
16:13
himself; His archers surround me.
for emptiness shall be his reward. He splits my kidneys apart, and does not
15:32 spare.
It shall be accomplished before his time.
His branch shall not be green. He pours out my gall on the ground.
15:33 16:14
He shall shake off his unripe grape as the He breaks me with breach on breach.
vine, He runs on me like a giant.
16:15
and shall cast off his flower as the olive I have sewed sackcloth on my skin,
tree. and have thrust my horn in the dust.
15:34 16:16
For the company of the godless shall be My face is red with weeping.
barren, Deep darkness is on my eyelids.
16:17
and fire shall consume the tents of Although there is no violence in my hands,
bribery. and my prayer is pure.
15:35 16:18
They conceive mischief, and bring forth “Earth, don’t cover my blood.
iniquity. Let my cry have no place to rest.
16:19
Their heart prepares deceit.” Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven.
16:1 He who vouches for me is on high.
Then Job answered,
16:20
16:2
“I have heard many such things. My friends scoff at me.
You are all miserable comforters! My eyes pour out tears to God,
16:21
16:3
Shall vain words have an end? that he would maintain the right of a man
Or what provokes you that you answer? with God,
16:4
I also could speak as you do. of a son of man with his neighbor!
16:22
For when a few years have come,
If your soul were in my soul’s place,
I shall go the way of no return.
I could join words together against you, 17:1
“My spirit is consumed.
and shake my head at you,
16:5 My days are extinct,
but I would strengthen you with my mouth.
And the grave is ready for me.
The solace of my lips would relieve you. 17:2
16:6 Surely there are mockers with me.
“Though I speak, my grief is not subsided.
My eye dwells on their provocation.
Though I forbear, what am I eased? 17:3
“Now give a pledge, be collateral for me
16:7
But now, God, you have surely worn me with yourself.
out. Who is there who will strike hands with
You have made desolate all my company. me?
16:8
You have shriveled me up. This is a witness 17:4
For you have hidden their heart from un-
against me. derstanding,
My leanness rises up against me. Therefore you shall not exalt them.
It testifies to my face. 17:5
He who denounces his friends for a prey,
16:9
He has torn me in his wrath, and persecuted Even the eyes of his children shall fail.
me. 17:6
“But he has made me a byword of the
He has gnashed on me with his teeth. people.
My adversary sharpens his eyes on me. They spit in my face.
16:10 17:7
They have gaped on me with their mouth. My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow.
They have struck me on the cheek re- All my members are as a shadow.
proachfully. 17:8
Upright men shall be astonished at this.
They gather themselves together against The innocent shall stir up himself against
me. the godless.
16:11 17:9
God delivers me to the ungodly, Yet shall the righteous hold on his way.
and casts me into the hands of the He who has clean hands shall grow
wicked. stronger and stronger.
16:12 17:10
I was at ease, and he broke me apart. But as for you all, come on now again;
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18:15
I shall not find a wise man among you. There shall dwell in his tent that which is
17:11
My days are past, my plans are broken off, none of his.
as are the thoughts of my heart. Sulfur shall be scattered on his habitation.
17:12 18:16
They change the night into day, His roots shall be dried up beneath.
saying ‘The light is near’ in the presence Above shall his branch be cut off.
of darkness. 18:17
His memory shall perish from the earth.
17:13
If I look for Sheolf as my house, He shall have no name in the street.
if I have spread my couch in the darkness, 18:18
He shall be driven from light into darkness,
17:14
If I have said to corruption, ‘You are my and chased out of the world.
father;’ 18:19
He shall have neither son nor grandson
to the worm, ‘My mother,’ and ‘my sister;’ among his people,
17:15
where then is my hope? nor any remaining where he lived.
as for my hope, who shall see it? 18:20
17:16
Those who come after shall be astonished
Shall it go down with me to the gates of at his day,
Sheolg , as those who went before were fright-
or descend together into the dust?” ened.
18:1
Then Bildad the Shuhite answered, 18:21
Surely such are the dwellings of the un-
18:2
“How long will you hunt for words? righteous.
Consider, and afterwards we will speak. This is the place of him who doesn’t know
18:3
Why are we counted as animals, God.”
which have become unclean in your 19:1
Then Job answered,
sight? 19:2
“How long will you torment me,
18:4
You who tear yourself in your anger, and crush me with words?
shall the earth be forsaken for you? 19:3
You have reproached me ten times.
Or shall the rock be removed out of its
You aren’t ashamed that you attack me.
place? 19:4
18:5 If it is true that I have erred,
“Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out,
my error remains with myself.
The spark of his fire shall not shine. 19:5
18:6 If indeed you will magnify yourselves
The light shall be dark in his tent.
against me,
His lamp above him shall be put out.
18:7 and plead against me my reproach;
The steps of his strength shall be shortened. 19:6
His own counsel shall cast him down. know now that God has subverted me,
18:8
For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and has surrounded me with his net.
19:7
and he wanders into its mesh. “Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not
18:9
A snare will take him by the heel. heard.
A trap will catch him. I cry for help, but there is no justice.
19:8
18:10
A noose is hidden for him in the ground, He has walled up my way so that I can’t
a trap for him in the way. pass,
18:11
Terrors shall make him afraid on every and has set darkness in my paths.
19:9
side, He has stripped me of my glory,
and shall chase him at his heels. and taken the crown from my head.
18:12 19:10
His strength shall be famished. He has broken me down on every side, and
Calamity shall be ready at his side. I am gone.
18:13 My hope he has plucked up like a tree.
The members of his body shall be de-
19:11
voured. He has also kindled his wrath against me.
The firstborn of death shall devour his He counts me among his adversaries.
19:12
members. His troops come on together,
18:14
He shall be rooted out of his tent where he build a siege ramp against me,
trusts. and encamp around my tent.
19:13
He shall be brought to the king of terrors. “He has put my brothers far from me.
f 17:13 Sheol is the place of the dead.
g 17:16 Sheol is the place of the dead.
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20:4
My acquaintances are wholly estranged Don’t you know this from old time,
from me. since man was placed on earth,
19:14 20:5
My relatives have gone away. that the triumphing of the wicked is short,
My familiar friends have forgotten me. the joy of the godless but for a moment?
19:15 20:6
Those who dwell in my house, and my Though his height mount up to the heavens,
maids, count me for a stranger. and his head reach to the clouds,
20:7
I am an alien in their sight. yet he shall perish forever like his own
19:16
I call to my servant, and he gives me no dung.
answer. Those who have seen him shall say,
I beg him with my mouth. ‘Where is he?’
19:17 20:8
My breath is offensive to my wife. He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not
I am loathsome to the children of my own be found.
mother. Yes, he shall be chased away like a vision
19:18
Even young children despise me. of the night.
20:9
If I arise, they speak against me. The eye which saw him shall see him no
19:19
All my familiar friends abhor me. more,
They whom I loved have turned against neither shall his place any more see him.
20:10
me. His children shall seek the favor of the
19:20
My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. poor.
I have escaped by the skin of my teeth. His hands shall give back his wealth.
19:21 20:11
“Have pity on me, have pity on me, you His bones are full of his youth,
my friends; but youth shall lie down with him in the
for the hand of God has touched me. dust.
19:22 20:12
Why do you persecute me as God, “Though wickedness is sweet in his
and are not satisfied with my flesh? mouth,
19:23
“Oh that my words were now written! though he hide it under his tongue,
20:13
Oh that they were inscribed in a book! though he spare it, and will not let it go,
19:24
That with an iron pen and lead but keep it still within his mouth;
20:14
they were engraved in the rock forever! yet his food in his bowels is turned.
19:25
But as for me, I know that my Redeemer It is cobra venom within him.
20:15
lives. He has swallowed down riches, and he
In the end, he will stand upon the earth. shall vomit them up again.
19:26
After my skin is destroyed, God will cast them out of his belly.
20:16
then in my flesh shall I see God, He shall suck cobra venom.
19:27
Whom I, even I, shall see on my side. The viper’s tongue shall kill him.
20:17
My eyes shall see, and not as a stranger. He shall not look at the rivers,
“My heart is consumed within me. the flowing streams of honey and butter.
19:28 20:18
If you say, ‘How we will persecute him!’ That for which he labored he shall restore,
because the root of the matter is found in and shall not swallow it down.
me, According to the substance that he has
19:29
be afraid of the sword, gotten, he shall not rejoice.
20:19
for wrath brings the punishments of the For he has oppressed and forsaken the
sword, poor.
that you may know there is a judgment.” He has violently taken away a house, and
20:1
Then Zophar the Naamathite answered, he shall not build it up.
20:2 20:20
“Therefore do my thoughts give answer to “Because he knew no quietness within
me, him,
even by reason of my haste that is in me. he shall not save anything of that in
20:3
I have heard the reproof which puts me to which he delights.
20:21
shame. There was nothing left that he didn’t de-
The spirit of my understanding answers vour,
me. therefore his prosperity shall not endure.
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20:22
In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.
21:13
shall overtake him. They spend their days in prosperity.
The hand of everyone who is in misery In an instant they go down to Sheolh .
21:14
shall come on him. They tell God, ‘Depart from us,
20:23
When he is about to fill his belly, God will for we don’t want to know about your
cast the fierceness of his wrath on him. ways.
21:15
It will rain on him while he is eating. What is the Almighty, that we should serve
20:24
He shall flee from the iron weapon. him?
The bronze arrow shall strike him What profit should we have, if we pray to
through. him?’
20:25 21:16
He draws it forth, and it comes out of his Behold, their prosperity is not in their
body. hand.
Yes, the glittering point comes out of his The counsel of the wicked is far from me.
21:17
liver. “How often is it that the lamp of the
Terrors are on him. wicked is put out,
20:26
All darkness is laid up for his treasures. that their calamity comes on them,
An unfanned fire shall devour him. that God distributes sorrows in his anger?
21:18
It shall consume that which is left in his How often is it that they are as stubble
tent. before the wind,
20:27
The heavens shall reveal his iniquity. as chaff that the storm carries away?
21:19
The earth shall rise up against him. You say, ‘God lays up his iniquity for his
20:28
The increase of his house shall depart. children.’
They shall rush away in the day of his Let him recompense it to himself, that he
wrath. may know it.
20:29 21:20
This is the portion of a wicked man from Let his own eyes see his destruction.
God, Let him drink of the wrath of the
the heritage appointed to him by God.” Almighty.
21:1 21:21
Then Job answered, For what does he care for his house after
21:2
“Listen diligently to my speech. him,
Let this be your consolation. when the number of his months is cut off?
21:3 21:22
Allow me, and I also will speak; “Shall any teach God knowledge,
After I have spoken, mock on. since he judges those who are high?
21:4 21:23
As for me, is my complaint to man? One dies in his full strength,
Why shouldn’t I be impatient? being wholly at ease and quiet.
21:5 21:24
Look at me, and be astonished. His pails are full of milk.
Lay your hand on your mouth. The marrow of his bones is moistened.
21:6 21:25
When I remember, I am troubled. Another dies in bitterness of soul,
Horror takes hold of my flesh. and never tastes of good.
21:7 21:26
“Why do the wicked live, They lie down alike in the dust.
become old, yes, and grow mighty in The worm covers them.
21:27
power? “Behold, I know your thoughts,
21:8
Their child is established with them in their the devices with which you would wrong
sight, me.
21:28
their offspring before their eyes. For you say, ‘Where is the house of the
21:9
Their houses are safe from fear, prince?
neither is the rod of God upon them. Where is the tent in which the wicked
21:10
Their bulls breed without fail. lived?’
21:29
Their cows calve, and don’t miscarry. Haven’t you asked wayfaring men?
21:11
They send forth their little ones like a flock. Don’t you know their evidences,
21:30
Their children dance. that the evil man is reserved to the day of
21:12
They sing to the tambourine and harp, calamity,
h 21:13 Sheol is the place of the dead.
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22:16
That they are led forth to the day of who were snatched away before their time,
wrath? whose foundation was poured out as a
21:31
Who shall declare his way to his face? stream,
22:17
Who shall repay him what he has done? who said to God, ‘Depart from us;’
21:32
Yet he will be borne to the grave. and, ‘What can the Almighty do for us?’
Men shall keep watch over the tomb. 22:18
Yet he filled their houses with good things,
21:33
The clods of the valley shall be sweet to but the counsel of the wicked is far from
him. me.
All men shall draw after him, 22:19
The righteous see it, and are glad.
as there were innumerable before him. The innocent ridicule them,
21:34 22:20
So how can you comfort me with nonsense, saying, ‘Surely those who rose up against
because in your answers there remains us are cut off.
only falsehood?” The fire has consumed their remnant.’
22:1
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, 22:21
“Acquaint yourself with him, now, and be
22:2
“Can a man be profitable to God? at peace.
Surely he who is wise is profitable to Thereby good shall come to you.
himself. 22:22
Please receive instruction from his mouth,
22:3
Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that you and lay up his words in your heart.
are righteous? 22:23
If you return to the Almighty, you shall be
Or does it benefit him, that you make built up,
your ways perfect?
22:4 if you put away unrighteousness far from
Is it for your piety that he reproves you,
your tents.
that he enters with you into judgment? 22:24
22:5 Lay your treasure in the dust,
Isn’t your wickedness great?
the gold of Ophir among the stones of the
Neither is there any end to your iniqui-
brooks.
ties. 22:25
22:6 The Almighty will be your treasure,
For you have taken pledges from your
and precious silver to you.
brother for nothing, 22:26
For then you will delight yourself in the
and stripped the naked of their clothing.
22:7 Almighty,
You haven’t given water to the weary to
drink, and shall lift up your face to God.
22:27
and you have withheld bread from the You shall make your prayer to him, and he
hungry. will hear you.
22:8
But as for the mighty man, he had the earth. You shall pay your vows.
22:28
The honorable man, he lived in it. You shall also decree a thing, and it shall be
22:9
You have sent widows away empty, established to you.
and the arms of the fatherless have been Light shall shine on your ways.
22:29
broken. When they cast down, you shall say, ‘be
22:10 lifted up.’
Therefore snares are around you.
Sudden fear troubles you, He will save the humble person.
22:11 22:30
or darkness, so that you can not see, He will even deliver him who is not inno-
and floods of waters cover you. cent.
22:12 Yes, he shall be delivered through the
“Isn’t God in the heights of heaven?
See the height of the stars, how high they cleanness of your hands.”
23:1
are! Then Job answered,
22:13 23:2
You say, ‘What does God know? “Even today my complaint is rebellious.
Can he judge through the thick darkness? His hand is heavy in spite of my groan-
22:14 ing.
Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that
23:3
he doesn’t see. Oh that I knew where I might find him!
He walks on the vault of the sky.’ That I might come even to his seat!
22:15 23:4
Will you keep the old way, I would set my cause in order before him,
which wicked men have trodden, and fill my mouth with arguments.
Job 23:5 650 Job 24:20

23:5
I would know the words which he would they go forth to their work, seeking dili-
answer me, gently for food.
and understand what he would tell me. The wilderness yields them bread for their
23:6
Would he contend with me in the greatness children.
24:6
of his power? They cut their provender in the field.
No, but he would listen to me. They glean the vineyard of the wicked.
23:7 24:7
There the upright might reason with him, They lie all night naked without cloth-
so I should be delivered forever from my ing,
judge. and have no covering in the cold.
23:8 24:8
“If I go east, he is not there; They are wet with the showers of the
if west, I can’t find him; mountains,
23:9
He works to the north, but I can’t see him. and embrace the rock for lack of a shelter.
24:9
He turns south, but I can’t catch a glimpse There are those who pluck the father-
of him. less from the breast,
23:10
But he knows the way that I take. and take a pledge of the poor,
24:10
When he has tried me, I shall come forth So that they go around naked with-
like gold. out clothing.
23:11
My foot has held fast to his steps. Being hungry, they carry the sheaves.
24:11
I have kept his way, and not turned aside. They make oil within the walls of these
23:12
I haven’t gone back from the command- men.
ment of his lips. They tread wine presses, and suffer thirst.
24:12
I have treasured up the words of his From out of the populous city, men groan.
mouth more than my necessary food. The soul of the wounded cries out,
23:13
But he stands alone, and who can oppose yet God doesn’t regard the folly.
24:13
him? “These are of those who rebel against the
What his soul desires, even that he does. light.
23:14
For he performs that which is appointed They don’t know its ways,
for me. nor stay in its paths.
24:14
Many such things are with him. The murderer rises with the light.
23:15
Therefore I am terrified at his presence. He kills the poor and needy.
When I consider, I am afraid of him. In the night he is like a thief.
23:16 24:15
For God has made my heart faint. The eye also of the adulterer waits for the
The Almighty has terrified me. twilight,
23:17
Because I was not cut off before the dark- saying, ‘No eye shall see me.’
ness, He disguises his face.
24:16
neither did he cover the thick darkness In the dark they dig through houses.
from my face. They shut themselves up in the daytime.
24:1
“Why aren’t times laid up by the Almighty? They don’t know the light.
24:17
Why don’t those who know him see his For the morning is to all of them like thick
days? darkness,
24:2
There are people who remove the land- for they know the terrors of the thick
marks. darkness.
24:18
They violently take away flocks, and feed “They are foam on the surface of the
them. waters.
24:3
They drive away the donkey of the father- Their portion is cursed in the earth.
less, They don’t turn into the way of the
and they take the widow’s ox for a vineyards.
24:19
pledge. Drought and heat consume the snow wa-
24:4
They turn the needy out of the way. ters,
The poor of the earth all hide themselves. so does Sheoli those who have sinned.
24:5 24:20
Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, The womb shall forget him.
i 24:19 Sheol is the place of the dead.
Job 24:21 651 Job 27:12

The worm shall feed sweetly on him. and the cloud is not burst under them.
26:9
He shall be no more remembered. He encloses the face of his throne,
Unrighteousness shall be broken as a tree. and spreads his cloud on it.
24:21 26:10
He devours the barren who don’t bear. He has described a boundary on the sur-
He shows no kindness to the widow. face of the waters,
24:22
Yet God preserves the mighty by his and to the confines of light and darkness.
power. 26:11
The pillars of heaven tremble
He rises up who has no assurance of life. and are astonished at his rebuke.
24:23 26:12
God gives them security, and they rest in it. He stirs up the sea with his power,
His eyes are on their ways. and by his understanding he strikes
24:24
They are exalted; yet a little while, and they through Rahab.
are gone. 26:13
By his Spirit the heavens are garnished.
Yes, they are brought low, they are taken His hand has pierced the swift serpent.
out of the way as all others, 26:14
Behold, these are but the outskirts of his
and are cut off as the tops of the ears of ways.
grain. How small a whisper do we hear of him!
24:25
If it isn’t so now, who will prove me a liar,
But the thunder of his power who can
and make my speech worth nothing?”
25:1 understand?”
Then Bildad the Shuhite answered, 27:1
25:2 Job again took up his parable, and said,
“Dominion and fear are with him. 27:2
“As God lives, who has taken away my
He makes peace in his high places.
25:3 right,
Can his armies be counted?
the Almighty, who has made my soul
On whom does his light not arise?
25:4 bitter.
How then can man be just with God? 27:3
(For the length of my life is still in me,
Or how can he who is born of a woman
and the spirit of God is in my nostrils);
be clean? 27:4
25:5 surely my lips shall not speak unrighteous-
Behold, even the moon has no brightness,
ness,
and the stars are not pure in his sight;
25:6
How much less man, who is a worm, neither shall my tongue utter deceit.
27:5
the son of man, who is a worm!” Far be it from me that I should justify you.
26:1
Then Job answered, Until I die I will not put away my in-
26:2
“How have you helped him who is without tegrity from me.
27:6
power! I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not
How have you saved the arm that has no let it go.
strength! My heart shall not reproach me so long as
26:3
How have you counseled him who has no I live.
27:7
wisdom, “Let my enemy be as the wicked.
and plentifully declared sound knowl- Let him who rises up against me be as the
edge! unrighteous.
26:4 27:8
To whom have you uttered words? For what is the hope of the godless, when
Whose spirit came forth from you? he is cut off, when God takes away his
26:5 life?
“Those who are deceased tremble,
27:9
those beneath the waters and all that live Will God hear his cry when trouble
in them. comes on him?
26:6 27:10
Sheolj is naked before God, Will he delight himself in the Almighty,
and Abaddonk has no covering. and call on God at all times?
26:7 27:11
He stretches out the north over empty I will teach you about the hand of God.
space, That which is with the Almighty will I not
and hangs the earth on nothing. conceal.
26:8 27:12
He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves;
j 26:6 Sheol is the lower world or the grave.
k 26:6 Abaddon means Destroyer.
Job 27:13 652 Job 28:27

why then have you become altogether neither has the falcon’s eye seen it.
28:8
vain? The proud animals have not trodden it,
27:13
“This is the portion of a wicked man with nor has the fierce lion passed by there.
28:9
God, He puts forth his hand on the flinty rock,
the heritage of oppressors, which they and he overturns the mountains by the
receive from the Almighty. roots.
27:14 28:10
If his children are multiplied, it is for the He cuts out channels among the rocks.
sword. His eye sees every precious thing.
28:11
His offspring shall not be satisfied with He binds the streams that they don’t
bread. trickle.
27:15
Those who remain of him shall be buried The thing that is hidden he brings forth to
in death. light.
28:12
His widows shall make no lamentation. “But where shall wisdom be found?
27:16
Though he heap up silver as the dust, Where is the place of understanding?
28:13
and prepare clothing as the clay; Man doesn’t know its price;
27:17
he may prepare it, but the just shall put it Neither is it found in the land of the
on, living.
28:14
and the innocent shall divide the silver. The deep says, ‘It isn’t in me.’
27:18
He builds his house as the moth, The sea says, ‘It isn’t with me.’
28:15
as a booth which the watchman makes. It can’t be gotten for gold,
27:19
He lies down rich, but he shall not do so neither shall silver be weighed for its
again. price.
28:16
He opens his eyes, and he is not. It can’t be valued with the gold of Ophir,
27:20
Terrors overtake him like waters. with the precious onyx, or the sapphirel .
28:17
A storm steals him away in the night. Gold and glass can’t equal it,
27:21
The east wind carries him away, and he neither shall it be exchanged for jewels of
departs. fine gold.
28:18
It sweeps him out of his place. No mention shall be made of coral or of
27:22
For it hurls at him, and does not spare, crystal.
as he flees away from his hand. Yes, the price of wisdom is above rubies.
27:23 28:19
Men shall clap their hands at him, The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it,
and shall hiss him out of his place. Neither shall it be valued with pure gold.
28:1 28:20
“Surely there is a mine for silver, Where then does wisdom come from?
and a place for gold which they refine. Where is the place of understanding?
28:2 28:21
Iron is taken out of the earth, Seeing it is hidden from the eyes of all
and copper is smelted out of the ore. living,
28:3
Man sets an end to darkness, and kept close from the birds of the sky.
28:22
and searches out, to the furthest bound, Destruction and Death say,
the stones of obscurity and of thick dark- ‘We have heard a rumor of it with our
ness. ears.’
28:4 28:23
He breaks open a shaft away from where “God understands its way,
people live. and he knows its place.
28:24
They are forgotten by the foot. For he looks to the ends of the earth,
They hang far from men, they swing back and sees under the whole sky.
28:25
and forth. He establishes the force of the wind.
28:5
As for the earth, out of it comes bread; Yes, he measures out the waters by mea-
Underneath it is turned up as it were by sure.
28:26
fire. When he made a decree for the rain,
28:6
Sapphires come from its rocks. and a way for the lightning of the thun-
It has dust of gold. der;
28:7 28:27
That path no bird of prey knows, then he saw it, and declared it.
l 28:16 or, lapis lazuli
Job 28:28 653 Job 30:12

He established it, yes, and searched it out. I shall number my days as the sand.
28:28 29:19
To man he said, My root is spread out to the waters.
‘Behold, the fear of the Lordm , that is The dew lies all night on my branch.
wisdom. 29:20
My glory is fresh in me.
To depart from evil is understanding.’” My bow is renewed in my hand.’
29:1 29:21
Job again took up his parable, and said, “Men listened to me, waited,
29:2
“Oh that I were as in the months of old, and kept silence for my counsel.
as in the days when God watched over 29:22
After my words they didn’t speak again.
me; My speech fell on them.
29:3 29:23
when his lamp shone on my head, They waited for me as for the rain.
and by his light I walked through dark- Their mouths drank as with the spring
ness, rain.
29:4
as I was in the ripeness of my days, 29:24
I smiled on them when they had no confi-
when the friendship of God was in my dence.
tent, They didn’t reject the light of my face.
29:5
when the Almighty was yet with me, 29:25
I chose out their way, and sat as chief.
and my children were around me, I lived as a king in the army,
29:6
when my steps were washed with butter, as one who comforts the mourners.
and the rock poured out streams of oil for 30:1
“But now those who are younger than I
me,
29:7 have me in derision,
when I went forth to the city gate,
whose fathers I would have disdained to
when I prepared my seat in the street.
29:8 put with my sheep dogs.
The young men saw me and hid them- 30:2
Of what use is the strength of their hands to
selves.
me,
The aged rose up and stood.
29:9 men in whom ripe age has perished?
The princes refrained from talking, 30:3
They are gaunt from lack and famine.
and laid their hand on their mouth.
29:10 They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom
The voice of the nobles was hushed,
of waste and desolation.
and their tongue stuck to the roof of their 30:4
They pluck salt herbs by the bushes.
mouth.
29:11 The roots of the broom are their food.
For when the ear heard me, then it blessed 30:5
me; They are driven out from the midst of men.
and when the eye saw me, it commended They cry after them as after a thief;
30:6
me: So that they dwell in frightful valleys,
29:12
Because I delivered the poor who cried, and in holes of the earth and of the rocks.
30:7
and the fatherless also, who had none to Among the bushes they bray;
help him, and under the nettles they are gathered
29:13 together.
the blessing of him who was ready to
30:8
perish came on me, They are children of fools, yes, children of
and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for base men.
joy. They were flogged out of the land.
29:14 30:9
I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. “Now I have become their song.
My justice was as a robe and a diadem. Yes, I am a byword to them.
29:15 30:10
I was eyes to the blind, They abhor me, they stand aloof from me,
and feet to the lame. and don’t hesitate to spit in my face.
29:16 30:11
I was a father to the needy. For he has untied his cord, and afflicted
The cause of him who I didn’t know, I me;
searched out. and they have thrown off restraint before
29:17
I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, me.
30:12
and plucked the prey out of his teeth. On my right hand rise the rabble.
29:18
Then I said, ‘I shall die in my own house, They thrust aside my feet,
m 28:28 The word translated “Lord” (mixed case) is “Adonai.”
Job 30:13 654 Job 31:20

They cast up against me their ways of how then should I look lustfully at a
destruction. young woman?
30:13 31:2
They mar my path, For what is the portion from God above,
They set forward my calamity, and the heritage from the Almighty on
without anyone’s help. high?
30:14 31:3
As through a wide breach they come, Is it not calamity to the unrighteous,
in the midst of the ruin they roll them- and disaster to the workers of iniquity?
31:4
selves in. Doesn’t he see my ways,
30:15
Terrors have turned on me. and number all my steps?
31:5
They chase my honor as the wind. “If I have walked with falsehood,
My welfare has passed away as a cloud. and my foot has hurried to deceit
30:16 31:6
“Now my soul is poured out within me. (let me be weighed in an even balance,
Days of affliction have taken hold on me. that God may know my integrity);
30:17 31:7
In the night season my bones are pierced in if my step has turned out of the way,
me, if my heart walked after my eyes,
and the pains that gnaw me take no rest. if any defilement has stuck to my hands,
30:18 31:8
By great force is my garment disfigured. then let me sow, and let another eat.
It binds me about as the collar of my coat. Yes, let the produce of my field be rooted
30:19
He has cast me into the mire. out.
31:9
I have become like dust and ashes. “If my heart has been enticed to a woman,
30:20
I cry to you, and you do not answer me. and I have laid wait at my neighbor’s
I stand up, and you gaze at me. door,
30:21 31:10
You have turned to be cruel to me. then let my wife grind for another,
With the might of your hand you perse- and let others sleep with her.
31:11
cute me. For that would be a heinous crime.
30:22
You lift me up to the wind, and drive me Yes, it would be an iniquity to be pun-
with it. ished by the judges:
31:12
You dissolve me in the storm. For it is a fire that consumes to destruction,
30:23
For I know that you will bring me to death, and would root out all my increase.
31:13
To the house appointed for all living. “If I have despised the cause of my male
30:24
“However doesn’t one stretch out a hand servant
in his fall? or of my female servant,
Or in his calamity therefore cry for help? when they contended with me;
30:25 31:14
Didn’t I weep for him who was in trouble? What then shall I do when God rises up?
Wasn’t my soul grieved for the needy? When he visits, what shall I answer him?
30:26 31:15
When I looked for good, then evil came; Didn’t he who made me in the womb make
When I waited for light, there came dark- him?
ness. Didn’t one fashion us in the womb?
30:27 31:16
My heart is troubled, and doesn’t rest. “If I have withheld the poor from their
Days of affliction have come on me. desire,
30:28
I go mourning without the sun. or have caused the eyes of the widow to
I stand up in the assembly, and cry for fail,
31:17
help. or have eaten my morsel alone,
30:29
I am a brother to jackals, and the fatherless has not eaten of it
31:18
and a companion to ostriches. (no, from my youth he grew up with me as
30:30
My skin grows black and peels from me. with a father,
My bones are burned with heat. her have I guided from my mother’s
30:31
Therefore my harp has turned to mourn- womb);
31:19
ing, if I have seen any perish for want of
and my pipe into the voice of those who clothing,
weep. or that the needy had no covering;
31:1 31:20
“I made a covenant with my eyes, if his heart hasn’t blessed me,
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31:38
if he hasn’t been warmed with my sheep’s If my land cries out against me,
fleece; and its furrows weep together;
31:21 31:39
if I have lifted up my hand against the if I have eaten its fruits without money,
fatherless, or have caused its owners to lose their
because I saw my help in the gate, life,
31:22 31:40
then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder let briars grow instead of wheat,
blade, and stinkweed instead of barley.”
and my arm be broken from the bone. The words of Job are ended.
31:23 32:1
For calamity from God is a terror to me. So these three men ceased to answer Job,
Because his majesty, I can do nothing. because he was righteous in his own eyes.
31:24 32:2
“If I have made gold my hope, Then the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel,
and have said to the fine gold, ‘You are the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was kindled
my confidence;’ against Job. His wrath was kindled because
31:25
If I have rejoiced because my wealth was he justified himself rather than God. 32:3 Also
great, his wrath was kindled against his three friends,
and because my hand had gotten much; because they had found no answer, and yet had
31:26
if I have seen the sun when it shined, condemned Job. 32:4 Now Elihu had waited to
or the moon moving in splendor, speak to Job, because they were elder than he.
31:27 32:5
and my heart has been secretly enticed, When Elihu saw that there was no answer
and my hand threw a kiss from my in the mouth of these three men, his wrath was
mouth, kindled.
31:28 32:6
this also would be an iniquity to be pun- Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite
ished by the judges; answered,
for I should have denied the God who is “I am young, and you are very old;
above. Therefore I held back, and didn’t dare
31:29 show you my opinion.
“If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him
32:7
who hated me, I said, ‘Days should speak,
or lifted up myself when evil found him; and multitude of years should teach wis-
31:30 dom.’
(yes, I have not allowed my mouth to sin
32:8
by asking his life with a curse); But there is a spirit in man,
31:31 and the breath of the Almighty gives
if the men of my tent have not said,
‘Who can find one who has not been filled them understanding.
32:9
with his meat?’ It is not the great who are wise,
31:32 nor the aged who understand justice.
(the foreigner has not lodged in the street,
32:10
but I have opened my doors to the trav- Therefore I said, ‘Listen to me;
eler); I also will show my opinion.’
31:33 32:11
if like Adam I have covered my transgres- “Behold, I waited for your words,
sions, and I listened for your reasoning,
by hiding my iniquity in my heart, while you searched out what to say.
31:34 32:12
because I feared the great multitude, Yes, I gave you my full attention,
and the contempt of families terrified me, but there was no one who convinced Job,
so that I kept silence, and didn’t go out of or who answered his words, among you.
32:13
the door— Beware lest you say, ‘We have found wis-
31:35
oh that I had one to hear me! dom,
(behold, here is my signature, let the God may refute him, not man;’
32:14
Almighty answer me); for he has not directed his words against
let the accuser write my indictment! me;
31:36
Surely I would carry it on my shoulder; neither will I answer him with your
and I would bind it to me as a crown. speeches.
31:37 32:15
I would declare to him the number of my “They are amazed. They answer no more.
steps. They don’t have a word to say.
32:16
as a prince would I go near to him. Shall I wait, because they don’t speak,
Job 32:17 656 Job 33:33

because they stand still, and answer no because he doesn’t give account of any of
more? his matters?
32:17 33:14
I also will answer my part, For God speaks once,
and I also will show my opinion. yes twice, though man pays no attention.
32:18 33:15
For I am full of words. In a dream, in a vision of the night,
The spirit within me constrains me. when deep sleep falls on men,
32:19
Behold, my breast is as wine which has no in slumbering on the bed;
33:16
vent; Then he opens the ears of men,
like new wineskins it is ready to burst. and seals their instruction,
32:20 33:17
I will speak, that I may be refreshed. That he may withdraw man from his pur-
I will open my lips and answer. pose,
32:21
Please don’t let me respect any man’s and hide pride from man.
33:18
person, He keeps back his soul from the pit,
neither will I give flattering titles to any and his life from perishing by the sword.
33:19
man. He is chastened also with pain on his bed,
32:22
For I don’t know how to give flattering with continual strife in his bones;
33:20
titles; So that his life abhors bread,
or else my Maker would soon take me and his soul dainty food.
33:21
away. His flesh is so consumed away, that it can’t
33:1
“However, Job, please hear my speech, be seen.
and listen to all my words. His bones that were not seen stick out.
33:2 33:22
See now, I have opened my mouth. Yes, his soul draws near to the pit,
My tongue has spoken in my mouth. and his life to the destroyers.
33:3 33:23
My words shall utter the uprightness of my “If there is beside him an angel,
heart. an interpreter, one among a thousand,
That which my lips know they shall speak to show to man what is right for him;
33:24
sincerely. then God is gracious to him, and says,
33:4
The Spirit of God has made me, ‘Deliver him from going down to the pit,
and the breath of the Almighty gives me I have found a ransom.’
33:25
life. His flesh shall be fresher than a child’s.
33:5
If you can, answer me. He returns to the days of his youth.
33:26
Set your words in order before me, and He prays to God, and he is favorable to
stand forth. him,
33:6
Behold, I am toward God even as you are. so that he sees his face with joy.
I am also formed out of the clay. He restores to man his righteousness.
33:7 33:27
Behold, my terror shall not make you afraid, He sings before men, and says,
neither shall my pressure be heavy on ‘I have sinned, and perverted that which
you. was right,
33:8
“Surely you have spoken in my hearing, and it didn’t profit me.
33:28
I have heard the voice of your words, He has redeemed my soul from going into
saying, the pit.
33:9
‘I am clean, without disobedience. My life shall see the light.’
33:29
I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in “Behold, God works all these things,
me. twice, yes three times, with a man,
33:10 33:30
Behold, he finds occasions against me. to bring back his soul from the pit,
He counts me for his enemy. that he may be enlightened with the light
33:11
He puts my feet in the stocks. of the living.
33:31
He marks all my paths.’ Mark well, Job, and listen to me.
33:12
“Behold, I will answer you. In this you are Hold your peace, and I will speak.
33:32
not just, If you have anything to say, answer me.
for God is greater than man. Speak, for I desire to justify you.
33:13 33:33
Why do you strive against him, If not, listen to me.
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Hold your peace, and I will teach you nor respects the rich more than the poor;
wisdom.” for they all are the work of his hands.
34:1 34:20
Moreover Elihu answered, In a moment they die, even at midnight.
34:2
“Hear my words, you wise men. The people are shaken and pass away.
Give ear to me, you who have knowl- The mighty are taken away without a
edge. hand.
34:3 34:21
For the ear tries words, “For his eyes are on the ways of a man.
as the palate tastes food. He sees all his goings.
34:4 34:22
Let us choose for us that which is right. There is no darkness, nor thick gloom,
Let us know among ourselves what is where the workers of iniquity may hide
good. themselves.
34:5 34:23
For Job has said, ‘I am righteous, For he doesn’t need to consider a man
God has taken away my right: further,
34:6
Notwithstanding my right I am considered that he should go before God in judg-
a liar. ment.
34:24
My wound is incurable, though I am He breaks in pieces mighty men in ways
without disobedience.’ past finding out,
34:7
What man is like Job, and sets others in their place.
34:25
who drinks scorn like water, Therefore he takes knowledge of their
34:8
Who goes in company with the workers of works.
iniquity, He overturns them in the night, so that
and walks with wicked men? they are destroyed.
34:9 34:26
For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing He strikes them as wicked men
that he should delight himself with God.’ in the open sight of others;
34:10 34:27
“Therefore listen to me, you men of under- because they turned aside from following
standing: him,
far be it from God, that he should do and wouldn’t pay attention to any of his
wickedness, ways,
34:28
from the Almighty, that he should com- so that they caused the cry of the poor to
mit iniquity. come to him.
34:11
For the work of a man he will render to He heard the cry of the afflicted.
34:29
him, When he gives quietness, who then can
and cause every man to find according to condemn?
his ways. When he hides his face, who then can see
34:12
Yes surely, God will not do wickedly, him?
neither will the Almighty pervert justice. Alike whether to a nation, or to a man,
34:13 34:30
Who put him in charge of the earth? that the godless man may not reign,
or who has appointed him over the whole that there be no one to ensnare the people.
34:31
world? “For has any said to God,
34:14
If he set his heart on himself, ‘I am guilty, but I will not offend any
If he gathered to himself his spirit and his more.
34:32
breath, Teach me that which I don’t see.
34:15
all flesh would perish together, If I have done iniquity, I will do it no
and man would turn again to dust. more’?
34:16 34:33
“If now you have understanding, hear this. Shall his recompense be as you desire, that
Listen to the voice of my words. you refuse it?
34:17
Shall even one who hates justice govern? For you must choose, and not I.
Will you condemn him who is righteous Therefore speak what you know.
34:34
and mighty?— Men of understanding will tell me,
34:18
Who says to a king, ‘Vile!’ yes, every wise man who hears me:
34:35
or to nobles, ‘Wicked!’? ‘Job speaks without knowledge.
34:19
Who doesn’t respect the persons of princes, His words are without wisdom.’
Job 34:36 658 Job 36:17

34:36
I wish that Job were tried to the end, and he multiplies words without knowl-
because of his answering like wicked edge.”
36:1
men. Elihu also continued, and said,
34:37 36:2
For he adds rebellion to his sin. “Bear with me a little, and I will show you;
He claps his hands among us, for I still have something to say on God’s
and multiplies his words against God.” behalf.
35:1 36:3
Moreover Elihu answered, I will get my knowledge from afar,
35:2 and will ascribe righteousness to my
“Do you think this to be your right,
or do you say, ‘My righteousness is more Maker.
36:4
than God’s,’ For truly my words are not false.
35:3 One who is perfect in knowledge is with
That you ask, ‘What advantage will it be to
you? you.
36:5
What profit shall I have, more than if I “Behold, God is mighty, and doesn’t despise
had sinned?’ anyone.
35:4
I will answer you, He is mighty in strength of understand-
and your companions with you. ing.
36:6
35:5
Look to the heavens, and see. He doesn’t preserve the life of the wicked,
but gives to the afflicted their right.
See the skies, which are higher than you. 36:7
35:6 He doesn’t withdraw his eyes from the
If you have sinned, what effect do you have
righteous,
against him?
but with kings on the throne,
If your transgressions are multiplied,
he sets them forever, and they are exalted.
what do you do to him? 36:8
35:7 If they are bound in fetters,
If you are righteous, what do you give him?
and are taken in the cords of afflictions,
Or what does he receive from your hand? 36:9
35:8 then he shows them their work,
Your wickedness may hurt a man as you
and their transgressions, that they have
are,
behaved themselves proudly.
and your righteousness may profit a son 36:10
He also opens their ears to instruction,
of man.
35:9 and commands that they return from
“By reason of the multitude of oppressions iniquity.
they cry out. 36:11
If they listen and serve him,
They cry for help by reason of the arm of they shall spend their days in prosperity,
the mighty. and their years in pleasures.
35:10
But none says, ‘Where is God my Maker, 36:12
But if they don’t listen, they shall perish by
who gives songs in the night, the sword;
35:11
who teaches us more than the animals of they shall die without knowledge.
the earth, 36:13
“But those who are godless in heart lay up
and makes us wiser than the birds of the anger.
sky?’ They don’t cry for help when he binds
35:12
There they cry, but none gives answer, them.
because of the pride of evil men. 36:14
They die in youth.
35:13
Surely God will not hear an empty cry, Their life perishes among the unclean.
neither will the Almighty regard it. 36:15
He delivers the afflicted by their affliction,
35:14
How much less when you say you don’t and opens their ear in oppression.
see him. 36:16
Yes, he would have allured you out of
The cause is before him, and you wait for distress,
him! into a broad place, where there is no
35:15
But now, because he has not visited in his restriction.
anger, That which is set on your table would be
neither does he greatly regard arrogance. full of fatness.
35:16 36:17
Therefore Job opens his mouth with empty “But you are full of the judgment of the
talk, wicked.
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37:6
Judgment and justice take hold of you. For he says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth;’
36:18
Don’t let riches entice you to wrath, likewise to the shower of rain,
neither let the great size of a bribe turn and to the showers of his mighty rain.
37:7
you aside. He seals up the hand of every man,
36:19
Would your wealth sustain you in distress, that all men whom he has made may
or all the might of your strength? know it.
36:20 37:8
Don’t desire the night, Then the animals take cover,
when people are cut off in their place. and remain in their dens.
36:21 37:9
Take heed, don’t regard iniquity; Out of its room comes the storm,
for you have chosen this rather than and cold out of the north.
37:10
affliction. By the breath of God, ice is given,
36:22
Behold, God is exalted in his power. and the breadth of the waters is frozen.
37:11
Who is a teacher like him? Yes, he loads the thick cloud with moisture.
36:23
Who has prescribed his way for him? He spreads abroad the cloud of his light-
Or who can say, ‘You have committed ning.
37:12
unrighteousness?’ It is turned around by his guidance,
36:24
“Remember that you magnify his work, that they may do whatever he commands
whereof men have sung. them
36:25
All men have looked thereon. on the surface of the habitable world,
37:13
Man sees it afar off. Whether it is for correction, or for his land,
36:26
Behold, God is great, and we don’t know or for loving kindness, that he causes it to
him. come.
37:14
The number of his years is unsearchable. “Listen to this, Job.
36:27
For he draws up the drops of water, Stand still, and consider the wondrous
which distill in rain from his vapor, works of God.
36:28 37:15
Which the skies pour down Do you know how God controls them,
and which drop on man abundantly. and causes the lightning of his cloud to
36:29
Yes, can any understand the spreading of shine?
37:16
the clouds, Do you know the workings of the clouds,
and the thunderings of his pavilion? the wondrous works of him who is per-
36:30
Behold, he spreads his light around him. fect in knowledge?
37:17
He covers the bottom of the sea. You whose clothing is warm,
36:31
For by these he judges the people. when the earth is still by reason of the
He gives food in abundance. south wind?
36:32 37:18
He covers his hands with the lightning, Can you, with him, spread out the sky,
and commands it to strike the mark. which is strong as a cast metal mirror?
36:33 37:19
Its noise tells about him, Teach us what we shall tell him,
and the livestock also concerning the for we can’t make our case by reason of
storm that comes up. darkness.
37:1 37:20
“Yes, at this my heart trembles, Shall it be told him that I would speak?
and is moved out of its place. Or should a man wish that he were
37:2
Hear, oh, hear the noise of his voice, swallowed up?
37:21
the sound that goes out of his mouth. Now men don’t see the light which is
37:3
He sends it forth under the whole sky, bright in the skies,
and his lightning to the ends of the earth. but the wind passes, and clears them.
37:4 37:22
After it a voice roars. Out of the north comes golden splendor.
He thunders with the voice of his majesty. With God is awesome majesty.
37:23
He doesn’t hold back anything when his We can’t reach the Almighty.
voice is heard. He is exalted in power.
37:5
God thunders marvelously with his voice. In justice and great righteousness, he will
He does great things, which we can’t not oppress.
37:24
comprehend. Therefore men revere him.
Job 38:1 660 Job 38:40

He doesn’t regard any who are wise of that you should discern the paths to its
heart.” house?
38:1 38:21
Then the LORD answered Job out of the Surely you know, for you were born then,
whirlwind, and the number of your days is great!
38:2 38:22
“Who is this who darkens counsel Have you entered the treasuries of the
by words without knowledge? snow,
38:3 or have you seen the treasures of the hail,
Brace yourself like a man,
38:23
for I will question you, then you answer which I have reserved against the time of
me! trouble,
38:4 against the day of battle and war?
“Where were you when I laid the founda-
38:24
tions of the earth? By what way is the lightning distributed,
Declare, if you have understanding. or the east wind scattered on the earth?
38:5 38:25
Who determined its measures, if you know? Who has cut a channel for the flood water,
Or who stretched the line on it? or the path for the thunderstorm;
38:6 38:26
Whereupon were its foundations fastened? To cause it to rain on a land where no man
Or who laid its cornerstone, is;
38:7
when the morning stars sang together, on the wilderness, in which there is no
and all the sons of God shouted for joy? man;
38:27
38:8
“Or who shut up the sea with doors, to satisfy the waste and desolate ground,
to cause the tender grass to spring forth?
when it broke forth from the womb, 38:28
38:9 Does the rain have a father?
when I made clouds its garment,
Or who fathers the drops of dew?
and wrapped it in thick darkness, 38:29
38:10 Out of whose womb came the ice?
marked out for it my bound,
The gray frost of the sky, who has given
set bars and doors,
38:11 birth to it?
and said, ‘Here you may come, but no 38:30
The waters become hard like stone,
further.
when the surface of the deep is frozen.
Here your proud waves shall be stayed?’ 38:31
38:12 “Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades,
“Have you commanded the morning in or loosen the cords of Orion?
your days, 38:32
Can you lead forth the constellations in
and caused the dawn to know its place; their season?
38:13
that it might take hold of the ends of the Or can you guide the Bear with her cubs?
earth, 38:33
Do you know the laws of the heavens?
and shake the wicked out of it? Can you establish its dominion over the
38:14
It is changed as clay under the seal, earth?
and stands forth as a garment. 38:34
“Can you lift up your voice to the clouds,
38:15
From the wicked, their light is withheld. That abundance of waters may cover
The high arm is broken. you?
38:16 38:35
“Have you entered into the springs of the Can you send forth lightnings, that they
sea? may go?
Or have you walked in the recesses of the Do they report to you, ‘Here we are?’
deep? 38:36
Who has put wisdom in the inward parts?
38:17
Have the gates of death been revealed to Or who has given understanding to the
you? mind?
Or have you seen the gates of the shadow 38:37
Who can number the clouds by wisdom?
of death? Or who can pour out the bottles of the
38:18
Have you comprehended the earth in its sky,
breadth? 38:38
when the dust runs into a mass,
Declare, if you know it all. and the clods of earth stick together?
38:19 38:39
“What is the way to the dwelling of light? “Can you hunt the prey for the lioness,
As for darkness, where is its place, or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,
38:20 38:40
that you should take it to its bound, when they crouch in their dens,
Job 38:41 661 Job 40:4

and lie in wait in the thicket? Though her labor is in vain, she is without
38:41
Who provides for the raven his prey, fear,
39:17
when his young ones cry to God, because God has deprived her of wisdom,
and wander for lack of food? neither has he imparted to her under-
39:1 standing.
“Do you know the time when the mountain
39:18
goats give birth? When she lifts up herself on high,
Do you watch when the doe bears fawns? she scorns the horse and his rider.
39:2 39:19
Can you number the months that they “Have you given the horse might?
fulfill? Have you clothed his neck with a quiver-
Or do you know the time when they give ing mane?
39:20
birth? Have you made him to leap as a locust?
39:3 The glory of his snorting is awesome.
They bow themselves, they bring forth their
39:21
young, He paws in the valley, and rejoices in his
they end their labor pains. strength.
39:4
Their young ones become strong. He goes out to meet the armed men.
39:22
They grow up in the open field. He mocks at fear, and is not dismayed,
They go forth, and don’t return again. neither does he turn back from the sword.
39:23
39:5
“Who has set the wild donkey free? The quiver rattles against him,
Or who has loosened the bonds of the the flashing spear and the javelin.
39:24
swift donkey, He eats up the ground with fierceness and
39:6 rage,
Whose home I have made the wilderness,
neither does he stand still at the sound of
and the salt land his dwelling place?
39:7 the shofarn .
He scorns the tumult of the city, 39:25
As often as the shofaro sounds he snorts,
neither does he hear the shouting of the
‘Aha!’
driver.
39:8 He smells the battle afar off,
The range of the mountains is his pasture,
the thunder of the captains, and the
He searches after every green thing.
39:9
shouting.
“Will the wild ox be content to serve you? 39:26
“Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars,
Or will he stay by your feeding trough? and stretches her wings toward the
39:10
Can you hold the wild ox in the furrow south?
with his harness? 39:27
Is it at your command that the eagle
Or will he till the valleys after you? mounts up,
39:11
Will you trust him, because his strength is and makes his nest on high?
great? 39:28
On the cliff he dwells, and makes his home,
Or will you leave to him your labor? on the point of the cliff, and the
39:12
Will you confide in him, that he will bring stronghold.
home your seed, 39:29
From there he spies out the prey.
and gather the grain of your threshing His eyes see it afar off.
floor? 39:30
His young ones also suck up blood.
39:13
“The wings of the ostrich wave proudly; Where the slain are, there he is.”
but are they the feathers and plumage of 40:1
Moreover the LORD answered Job,
love? 40:2
“Shall he who argues contend with the
39:14
For she leaves her eggs on the earth, Almighty?
warms them in the dust, He who argues with God, let him answer
39:15
and forgets that the foot may crush them, it.”
40:3
or that the wild animal may trample Then Job answered the LORD,
40:4
them. “Behold, I am of small account. What shall
39:16
She deals harshly with her young ones, as I answer you?
if they were not hers. I lay my hand on my mouth.
n 39:24 or, trumpet
o 39:25 or, trumpet
Job 40:5 662 Job 41:22

40:5 41:1
I have spoken once, and I will not answer; “Can you draw out Leviathanp with a fish-
Yes, twice, but I will proceed no further.” hook,
40:6
Then the LORD answered Job out of the or press down his tongue with a cord?
41:2
whirlwind, Can you put a rope into his nose,
40:7 or pierce his jaw through with a hook?
“Now brace yourself like a man.
41:3
I will question you, and you will answer Will he make many petitions to you,
me. or will he speak soft words to you?
40:8 41:4
Will you even annul my judgment? Will he make a covenant with you,
Will you condemn me, that you may be that you should take him for a servant
justified? forever?
40:9 41:5
Or do you have an arm like God? Will you play with him as with a bird?
Can you thunder with a voice like him? Or will you bind him for your girls?
40:10 41:6
“Now deck yourself with excellency and Will traders barter for him?
dignity. Will they part him among the merchants?
41:7
Array yourself with honor and majesty. Can you fill his skin with barbed irons,
40:11
Pour out the fury of your anger. or his head with fish spears?
41:8
Look at everyone who is proud, and bring Lay your hand on him.
him low. Remember the battle, and do so no more.
41:9
40:12
Look at everyone who is proud, and hum- Behold, the hope of him is in vain.
ble him. Won’t one be cast down even at the sight
Crush the wicked in their place. of him?
41:10
40:13
Hide them in the dust together. None is so fierce that he dare stir him up.
Who then is he who can stand before me?
Bind their faces in the hidden place. 41:11
40:14 Who has first given to me, that I should
Then I will also admit to you
repay him?
that your own right hand can save you.
40:15 Everything under the heavens is mine.
“See now, behemoth, which I made as well 41:12
“I will not keep silence concerning his
as you.
limbs,
He eats grass as an ox.
40:16 nor his mighty strength, nor his goodly
Look now, his strength is in his thighs.
frame.
His force is in the muscles of his belly. 41:13
40:17
Who can strip off his outer garment?
He moves his tail like a cedar. Who shall come within his jaws?
The sinews of his thighs are knit together. 41:14
Who can open the doors of his face?
40:18
His bones are like tubes of brass. Around his teeth is terror.
His limbs are like bars of iron. 41:15
Strong scales are his pride,
40:19
He is the chief of the ways of God. shut up together with a close seal.
He who made him gives him his sword. 41:16
One is so near to another,
40:20
Surely the mountains produce food for that no air can come between them.
him, 41:17
They are joined one to another.
where all the animals of the field play. They stick together, so that they can’t be
40:21
He lies under the lotus trees, pulled apart.
in the covert of the reed, and the marsh. 41:18
His sneezing flashes out light.
40:22
The lotuses cover him with their shade. His eyes are like the eyelids of the morn-
The willows of the brook surround him. ing.
40:23 41:19
Behold, if a river overflows, he doesn’t Out of his mouth go burning torches.
tremble. Sparks of fire leap forth.
41:20
He is confident, though the Jordan swells Out of his nostrils a smoke goes,
even to his mouth. as of a boiling pot over a fire of reeds.
40:24 41:21
Shall any take him when he is on the His breath kindles coals.
watch, A flame goes forth from his mouth.
41:22
or pierce through his nose with a snare? There is strength in his neck.
p 41:1 Leviathan is a name for a crocodile or similar creature.
Job 41:23 663 Job 42:17

Terror dances before him. you have not spoken of me the thing that is
41:23
The flakes of his flesh are joined together. right, as my servant Job has. 42:8 Now therefore,
They are firm on him. take to yourselves seven bulls and seven rams,
They can’t be moved. and go to my servant Job, and offer up for
41:24
His heart is as firm as a stone, yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job
yes, firm as the lower millstone. shall pray for you, for I will accept him, that I
41:25
When he raises himself up, the mighty are not deal with you according to your folly. For
afraid. you have not spoken of me the thing that is
They retreat before his thrashing. right, as my servant Job has.”
41:26 42:9
If one attacks him with the sword, it can’t So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the
prevail; Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and
nor the spear, the dart, nor the pointed did what the LORD commanded them, and the
shaft. LORD accepted Job.
41:27 42:10
He counts iron as straw; The LORD turned the captivity of Job,
and brass as rotten wood. when he prayed for his friends. The LORD
41:28
The arrow can’t make him flee. gave Job twice as much as he had before.
42:11
Sling stones are like chaff to him. Then came there to him all his brothers,
41:29 and all his sisters, and all those who had been
Clubs are counted as stubble.
He laughs at the rushing of the javelin. of his acquaintance before, and ate bread with
41:30 him in his house. They comforted him, and
His undersides are like sharp potsherds,
leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing consoled him concerning all the evil that the
sledge. LORD had brought on him. Everyone also gave
41:31 him a piece of money,q and everyone a ring of
He makes the deep to boil like a pot.
He makes the sea like a pot of ointment. gold.
41:32 42:12
He makes a path shine after him. So the LORD blessed the latter end
One would think the deep had white hair. of Job more than his beginning. He had
41:33 fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels,
On earth there is not his equal,
that is made without fear. one thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand
41:34
He sees everything that is high. female donkeys. 42:13 He had also seven sons
He is king over all the sons of pride.” and three daughters. 42:14 He called the name
42:1 of the first, Jemimah; and the name of the
Then Job answered the LORD,
42:2 second, Keziah; and the name of the third,
“I know that you can do all things,
and that no purpose of yours can be Keren Happuch. 42:15 In all the land were no
restrained. women found so beautiful as the daughters
42:3 of Job. Their father gave them an inheritance
You asked, ‘Who is this who hides counsel
without knowledge?’ among their brothers. 42:16 After this Job lived
therefore I have uttered that which I did one hundred forty years, and saw his sons, and
not understand, his sons’ sons, to four generations. 42:17 So Job
things too wonderful for me, which I died, being old and full of days.
didn’t know.
42:4
You said, ‘Listen, now, and I will speak;
I will question you, and you will answer
me.’
42:5
I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear,
but now my eye sees you.
42:6
Therefore I abhor myself,
and repent in dust and ashes.”
42:7
It was so, that after the LORD had
spoken these words to Job, the LORD said to
Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled
against you, and against your two friends; for
q 42:11 literally, kesitah, a unit of money, probably silver
Song of Solomon 1:1 664 Song of Solomon 2:13

Song of Solomon 1:15


Behold, you are beautiful, my love.
Behold, you are beautiful.
1:1
The Song of songs, which is Solomon’s. Your eyes are doves.
Beloved Beloved
1:16
1:2
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth; Behold, you are beautiful, my beloved, yes,
for your love is better than wine. pleasant;
1:3
Your oils have a pleasing fragrance. and our couch is verdant.
Your name is oil poured forth, Lover
1:17
therefore the virgins love you. The beams of our house are cedars.
1:4 Our rafters are firs.
Take me away with you.
Let us hurry. Beloved
2:1
The king has brought me into his rooms. I am a rose of Sharon,
Friends a lily of the valleys.
We will be glad and rejoice in you. Lover
2:2
We will praise your love more than wine! As a lily among thorns,
Beloved so is my love among the daughters.
They are right to love you. Beloved
1:5 2:3
I am dark, but lovely, As the apple tree among the trees of the
you daughters of Jerusalem, wood,
like Kedar’s tents, so is my beloved among the sons.
like Solomon’s curtains. I sat down under his shadow with great de-
1:6 light,
Don’t stare at me because I am dark,
because the sun has scorched me. his fruit was sweet to my taste.
2:4
My mother’s sons were angry with me. He brought me to the banquet hall.
They made me keeper of the vineyards. His banner over me is love.
2:5
I haven’t kept my own vineyard. Strengthen me with raisins,
1:7 refresh me with apples;
Tell me, you whom my soul loves,
where you graze your flock, For I am faint with love.
2:6
where you rest them at noon; His left hand is under my head.
For why should I be as one who is veiled His right hand embraces me.
2:7
beside the flocks of your companions? I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem,
Lover by the roes, or by the hinds of the field,
1:8 that you not stir up, nor awaken love,
If you don’t know, most beautiful among
women, until it so desires.
2:8
follow the tracks of the sheep. The voice of my beloved!
Graze your young goats beside the shep- Behold, he comes,
herds’ tents. leaping on the mountains,
1:9
I have compared you, my love, skipping on the hills.
2:9
to a steed in Pharaoh’s chariots. My beloved is like a roe or a young hart.
1:10
Your cheeks are beautiful with earrings, Behold, he stands behind our wall!
your neck with strings of jewels. He looks in at the windows.
1:11
We will make you earrings of gold, He glances through the lattice.
2:10
with studs of silver. My beloved spoke, and said to me,
Beloved “Rise up, my love, my beautiful one, and
1:12
While the king sat at his table, come away.
2:11
my perfume spread its fragrance. For, behold, the winter is past.
1:13
My beloved is to me a sachet of myrrh, The rain is over and gone.
2:12
that lies between my breasts. The flowers appear on the earth.
1:14
My beloved is to me a cluster of henna The time of the singing has come,
blossoms and the voice of the turtledove is heard in
from the vineyards of En Gedi. our land.
2:13
Lover The fig tree ripens her green figs.
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The vines are in blossom. Every man has his sword on his thigh,
They give forth their fragrance. because of fear in the night.
3:9
Arise, my love, my beautiful one, King Solomon made himself a carriage
and come away.” of the wood of Lebanon.
3:10
Lover He made its pillars of silver,
2:14
My dove in the clefts of the rock, its bottom of gold, its seat of purple,
In the hiding places of the mountainside, its midst being paved with love,
Let me see your face. from the daughters of Jerusalem.
3:11
Let me hear your voice; Go forth, you daughters of Zion, and see
for your voice is sweet, and your face is king Solomon,
lovely. with the crown with which his mother
2:15
Catch for us the foxes, has crowned him,
the little foxes that spoil the vineyards; in the day of his weddings,
for our vineyards are in blossom. in the day of the gladness of his heart.
Beloved Lover
2:16 4:1
My beloved is mine, and I am his. Behold, you are beautiful, my love.
He browses among the lilies. Behold, you are beautiful.
2:17
Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee Your eyes are doves behind your veil.
away, Your hair is as a flock of goats,
turn, my beloved, that descend from Mount Gilead.
4:2
and be like a roe or a young hart on the Your teeth are like a newly shorn flock,
mountains of Bether. which have come up from the washing,
3:1
By night on my bed, where every one of them has twins.
I sought him whom my soul loves. None is bereaved among them.
4:3
I sought him, but I didn’t find him. Your lips are like scarlet thread.
3:2
I will get up now, and go about the city; Your mouth is lovely.
in the streets and in the squares I will seek Your temples are like a piece of a
him whom my soul loves. pomegranate behind your veil.
4:4
I sought him, but I didn’t find him. Your neck is like David’s tower built for an
3:3
The watchmen who go about the city found armory,
me; whereon a thousand shields hang,
“Have you seen him whom my soul all the shields of the mighty men.
4:5
loves?” Your two breasts are like two fawns
3:4
I had scarcely passed from them, that are twins of a roe,
when I found him whom my soul loves. which feed among the lilies.
4:6
I held him, and would not let him go, Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee
until I had brought him into my mother’s away,
house, I will go to the mountain of myrrh,
into the room of her who conceived me. to the hill of frankincense.
3:5 4:7
I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, You are all beautiful, my love.
by the roes, or by the hinds of the field, There is no spot in you.
4:8
that you not stir up, nor awaken love, Come with me from Lebanon, my bride,
until it so desires. with me from Lebanon.
3:6
Who is this who comes up from the wilder- Look from the top of Amana,
ness like pillars of smoke, from the top of Senir and Hermon,
perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, from the lions’ dens,
with all spices of the merchant? from the mountains of the leopards.
3:7 4:9
Behold, it is Solomon’s carriage! You have ravished my heart, my sister, my
Sixty mighty men are around it, bride.
of the mighty men of Israel. You have ravished my heart with one of
3:8
They all handle the sword, and are expert in your eyes,
war. with one chain of your neck.
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4:10 5:4
How beautiful is your love, my sister, my My beloved thrust his hand in through the
bride! latch opening.
How much better is your love than wine! My heart pounded for him.
5:5
The fragrance of your perfumes than all I rose up to open for my beloved.
kinds of spices! My hands dripped with myrrh,
4:11
Your lips, my bride, drip like the honey- my fingers with liquid myrrh,
comb. on the handles of the lock.
5:6
Honey and milk are under your tongue. I opened to my beloved;
The smell of your garments is like the but my beloved left; and had gone away.
smell of Lebanon. My heart went out when he spoke.
4:12 I looked for him, but I didn’t find him.
A locked up garden is my sister, my bride;
a locked up spring, I called him, but he didn’t answer.
5:7
a sealed fountain. The watchmen who go about the city found
4:13 me.
Your shoots are an orchard of
pomegranates, with precious fruits: They beat me.
henna with spikenard plants, They bruised me.
4:14 The keepers of the walls took my cloak
spikenard and saffron,
calamus and cinnamon, with every kind away from me.
5:8
of incense tree; I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem,
myrrh and aloes, with all the best spices, If you find my beloved,
4:15
a fountain of gardens, that you tell him that I am faint with love.
a well of living waters, Friends
5:9
flowing streams from Lebanon. How is your beloved better than another
beloved,
Beloved
4:16 you fairest among women?
Awake, north wind; and come, you south!
How is your beloved better than another
Blow on my garden, that its spices may
beloved,
flow out.
that you do so adjure us?
Let my beloved come into his garden,
Beloved
and taste his precious fruits. 5:10
My beloved is white and ruddy.
Lover
5:1 The best among ten thousand.
I have come into my garden, my sister, my 5:11
His head is like the purest gold.
bride.
His hair is bushy, black as a raven.
I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; 5:12
His eyes are like doves beside the water
I have eaten my honeycomb with my brooks,
honey; washed with milk, mounted like jewels.
I have drunk my wine with my milk. 5:13
His cheeks are like a bed of spices with
Friends towers of perfumes.
Eat, friends! His lips are like lilies, dropping liquid
Drink, yes, drink abundantly, beloved. myrrh.
Beloved 5:14
His hands are like rings of gold set with
5:2
I was asleep, but my heart was awake. beryl.
It is the voice of my beloved who knocks: His body is like ivory work overlaid with
“Open to me, my sister, my love, my sapphires.
dove, my undefiled; 5:15
His legs are like pillars of marble set on
for my head is filled with dew, sockets of fine gold.
and my hair with the dampness of the His appearance is like Lebanon, excellent
night.” as the cedars.
5:3 5:16
I have taken off my robe. Indeed, must I put His mouth is sweetness;
it on? yes, he is altogether lovely.
I have washed my feet. Indeed, must I This is my beloved, and this is my friend,
soil them? daughters of Jerusalem.
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Friends Your rounded thighs are like jewels,


6:1
Where has your beloved gone, you fairest the work of the hands of a skillful work-
among women? man.
7:2
Where has your beloved turned, that we Your body is like a round goblet,
may seek him with you? no mixed wine is wanting.
Beloved Your waist is like a heap of wheat,
6:2
My beloved has gone down to his garden, set about with lilies.
7:3
to the beds of spices, Your two breasts are like two fawns,
to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies. that are twins of a roe.
6:3 7:4
I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine. Your neck is like an ivory tower.
He browses among the lilies, Your eyes are like the pools in Heshbon
6:4
You are beautiful, my love, as Tirzah, by the gate of Bathrabbim.
lovely as Jerusalem, Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon
awesome as an army with banners. which looks toward Damascus.
6:5 7:5
Turn away your eyes from me, Your head on you is like Carmel.
for they have overcome me. The hair of your head like purple.
Your hair is like a flock of goats, The king is held captive in its tresses.
7:6
that lie along the side of Gilead. How beautiful and how pleasant you are,
6:6
Your teeth are like a flock of ewes, love, for delights!
7:7
which have come up from the washing; This, your stature, is like a palm tree,
of which every one has twins; your breasts like its fruit.
7:8
none is bereaved among them. I said, “I will climb up into the palm tree.
6:7
Your temples are like a piece of a I will take hold of its fruit.”
pomegranate behind your veil. Let your breasts be like clusters of the vine,
6:8
There are sixty queens, eighty concubines, the smell of your breath like apples,
and virgins without number. Beloved
6:9 7:9
My dove, my perfect one, is unique. Your mouth like the best wine,
She is her mother’s only daughter. that goes down smoothly for my beloved,
She is the favorite one of her who bore gliding through the lips of those who are
her. asleep.
7:10
The daughters saw her, and called her blessed; I am my beloved’s.
the queens and the concubines, and they His desire is toward me.
7:11
praised her. Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the
6:10
Who is she who looks forth as the morning, field.
beautiful as the moon, Let us lodge in the villages.
7:12
clear as the sun, Let’s go early up to the vineyards.
and awesome as an army with banners? Let’s see whether the vine has budded,
6:11
I went down into the nut tree grove, its blossom is open,
to see the green plants of the valley, and the pomegranates are in flower.
to see whether the vine budded, There I will give you my love.
7:13
and the pomegranates were in flower. The mandrakes give forth fragrance.
6:12
Without realizing it, At our doors are all kinds of precious
my desire set me with my royal people’s fruits, new and old,
chariots. which I have stored up for you, my
Friends beloved.
6:13 8:1
Return, return, Shulammite! Oh that you were like my brother,
Return, return, that we may gaze at you. who nursed from the breasts of my
Lover mother!
Why do you desire to gaze at the Shulammite, If I found you outside, I would kiss you;
as at the dance of Mahanaim? yes, and no one would despise me.
7:1 8:2
How beautiful are your feet in sandals, I would lead you, bringing you into my
prince’s daughter! mother’s house,
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who would instruct me. Beloved


8:14
I would have you drink spiced wine, Come away, my beloved!
of the juice of my pomegranate. Be like a gazelle or a young stag on the
8:3
His left hand would be under my head. mountains of spices!
His right hand would embrace me.
8:4
I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem,
that you not stir up, nor awaken love,
until it so desires.
Friends
8:5
Who is this who comes up from the wilder-
ness,
leaning on her beloved?
Under the apple tree I aroused you.
There your mother conceived you.
There she was in labor and bore you.
8:6
Set me as a seal on your heart,
as a seal on your arm;
for love is strong as death.
Jealousy is as cruel as Sheola .
Its flashes are flashes of fire,
a very flame of the LORD.b
8:7
Many waters can’t quench love,
neither can floods drown it.
If a man would give all the wealth of his house
for love,
he would be utterly scorned.
Friends
8:8
We have a little sister.
She has no breasts.
What shall we do for our sister
in the day when she is to be spoken for?
8:9
If she is a wall,
we will build on her a turret of silver.
if she is a door,
we will enclose her with boards of cedar.
Beloved
8:10
I am a wall, and my breasts like towers,
then I was in his eyes like one who found
peace.
8:11
Solomon had a vineyard at Baal Hamon.
He leased out the vineyard to keepers.
Each was to bring a thousand shekels of
silver for its fruit.
8:12
My own vineyard is before me.
The thousand are for you, Solomon;
two hundred for those who tend its fruit.
Lover
8:13
You who dwell in the gardens, with friends
in attendance,
let me hear your voice!
a 8:6 Sheol is the place of the dead.
b 8:6 “LORD” or “GOD” (all capital letters) indicate the 4-letter Holy Name of God
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Lamentations 1:9
Her filthiness was in her skirts; she didn’t
remember her latter end;
1:1
How the city sits solitary, that was full of therefore is she come down wonderfully; she
people! has no comforter:
She has become as a widow, who was great see, LORD, my affliction; for the enemy has
among the nations! magnified himself.
1:10
She who was a princess among the provinces The adversary has spread out his hand on
has become tributary! all her pleasant things:
1:2
She weeps bitterly in the night, and her tears for she has seen that the nations are entered into
are on her cheeks; her sanctuary,
concerning whom you commanded that they
among all her lovers she has none to comfort
should not enter into your assembly.
her: 1:11
All her people sigh, they seek bread;
All her friends have dealt treacherously with
they have given their pleasant things for food
her; they are become her enemies.
1:3 to refresh the soul:
Judah is gone into captivity because of afflic-
look, LORD, and see; for I am become abject.
tion, and because of great servitude; 1:12
Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by?
she dwells among the nations, she finds no rest:
Look, and see if there is any sorrow like my
all her persecutors overtook her within the
sorrow, which is brought on me,
straits.
1:4 With which the LORD has afflicted me in the
The ways of Zion do mourn, because none
day of his fierce anger.
come to the solemn assembly; 1:13
From on high has he sent fire into my bones,
all her gates are desolate, her priests do sigh: and it prevails against them;
her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in He has spread a net for my feet, he has turned
bitterness. me back:
1:5
Her adversaries are become the head, her He has made me desolate and faint all the day.
enemies prosper; 1:14
The yoke of my transgressions is bound by
for the LORDa has afflicted her for the multi- his hand;
tude of her transgressions: They are knit together, they have come up on
her young children are gone into captivity my neck; he has made my strength to
before the adversary. fail:
1:6
From the daughter of Zion all her majesty is The Lordb has delivered me into their hands,
departed: against whom I am not able to stand.
her princes are become like harts that find no 1:15
The Lord has set at nothing all my mighty
pasture, men in the midst of me;
they are gone without strength before the pur- He has called a solemn assembly against me to
suer. crush my young men:
1:7
Jerusalem remembers in the days of her The Lord has trodden as in a winepress the
affliction and of her miseries all her virgin daughter of Judah.
pleasant things that were from the 1:16
For these things I weep; my eye, my eye
days of old: runs down with water;
when her people fell into the hand of the Because the comforter who should refresh my
adversary, and no one helped her, soul is far from me:
The adversaries saw her, they mocked at her My children are desolate, because the enemy
desolations. has prevailed.
1:8 1:17
Jerusalem has grievously sinned; therefore Zion spreads forth her hands; there is none
she has become as an unclean thing; to comfort her;
all who honored her despise her, because they The LORD has commanded concerning Jacob,
have seen her nakedness: that those who are around him should
yes, she sighs, and turns backward. be his adversaries:
a 1:5 “LORD” or “GOD” (all capital letters) indicate the 4-letter Holy Name of God
b 1:14 The word translated “Lord” (mixed case) is “Adonai.”
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2:5
Jerusalem is among them as an unclean thing. The Lord has become as an enemy, he has
1:18
The LORD is righteous; for I have rebelled swallowed up Israel;
against his commandment: He has swallowed up all her palaces, he has
Please hear all you peoples, and see my sorrow: destroyed his strongholds;
My virgins and my young men are gone into He has multiplied in the daughter of Judah
captivity. mourning and lamentation.
1:19 2:6
I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: He has violently taken away his tabernacle,
My priests and my elders gave up the spirit in as if it were of a garden; he has
the city, destroyed his place of assembly:
While they sought them food to refresh their The LORD has caused solemn assembly and
souls. Sabbath to be forgotten in Zion,
1:20
See, LORD; for I am in distress; my heart is Has despised in the indignation of his anger the
troubled; king and the priest.
2:7
My heart is turned within me; for I have The Lord has cast off his altar, he has ab-
grievously rebelled: horred his sanctuary;
Abroad the sword bereaves, at home there is as He has given up into the hand of the enemy the
death. walls of her palaces:
1:21
They have heard that I sigh; there is none to They have made a noise in the house of the
comfort me; LORD, as in the day of a solemn
All my enemies have heard of my trouble; they assembly.
2:8
are glad that you have done it: The LORD has purposed to destroy the wall
You will bring the day that you have pro- of the daughter of Zion;
claimed, and they shall be like me. He has stretched out the line, he has not
1:22
Let all their wickedness come before you; withdrawn his hand from destroying;
Do to them, as you have done to me for all my He has made the rampart and wall to lament;
transgressions: they languish together.
2:9
For my sighs are many, and my heart is faint. Her gates are sunk into the ground; he has
2:1
How has the Lord covered the daughter of destroyed and broken her bars:
Zion with a cloud in his anger! Her king and her princes are among the nations
He has cast down from heaven to the earth the where the law is not;
beauty of Israel, Yes, her prophets find no vision from the
And hasn’t remembered his footstool in the day LORD.
2:10
of his anger. The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the
2:2
The Lord has swallowed up all the habita- ground, they keep silence;
tions of Jacob, and has not pitied: They have cast up dust on their heads; they
He has thrown down in his wrath the have clothed themselves with sack-
strongholds of the daughter of Judah; cloth:
He has brought them down to the ground; The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their
he has profaned the kingdom and its heads to the ground.
2:11
princes. My eyes do fail with tears, my heart is
2:3
He has cut off in fierce anger all the horn of troubled;
Israel; My liver is poured on the earth, because of
He has drawn back his right hand from before the destruction of the daughter of my
the enemy: people,
He has burned up Jacob like a flaming fire, Because the young children and the infants
which devours all around. swoon in the streets of the city.
2:4 2:12
He has bent his bow like an enemy, he They tell their mothers, Where is grain and
has stood with his right hand as an wine?
adversary, When they swoon as the wounded in the streets
Has killed all that were pleasant to the eye: of the city,
In the tent of the daughter of Zion he has When their soul is poured out into their moth-
poured out his wrath like fire. ers’ bosom.
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2:13
What shall I testify to you? what shall I You have killed them in the day of your anger;
liken to you, daughter of Jerusalem? you have slaughtered, and not pitied.
What shall I compare to you, that I may comfort 2:22
You have called, as in the day of a solemn
you, virgin daughter of Zion? assembly, my terrors on every side;
For your breach is great like the sea: who can There was none that escaped or remained in the
heal you? day of the LORD’s anger:
2:14
Your prophets have seen for you false and Those that I have dandled and brought up has
foolish visions; my enemy consumed.
They have not uncovered your iniquity, to 3:1
I am the man that has seen affliction by the
bring back your captivity, rod of his wrath.
but have seen for you false oracles and causes 3:2
He has led me and caused me to walk in
of banishment.
2:15 darkness, and not in light.
All that pass by clap their hands at you. 3:3
Surely against me he turns his hand again
They hiss and wag their head at the daughter
and again all the day.
of Jerusalem, saying, 3:4
My flesh and my skin has he made old; he
Is this the city that men called The perfection of
has broken my bones.
beauty, The joy of the whole earth? 3:5
2:16
All your enemies have opened their mouth He has built against me, and surrounded me
wide against you; with gall and travail.
3:6
They hiss and gnash the teeth; they say, We He has made me to dwell in dark places, as
have swallowed her up; those that have been long dead.
3:7
Certainly this is the day that we looked for; we He has walled me about, that I can’t go forth;
have found, we have seen it. he has made my chain heavy.
2:17 3:8
The LORD has done that which he pur- Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts
posed; he has fulfilled his word that he out my prayer.
3:9
commanded in the days of old; He has walled up my ways with cut stone;
He has thrown down, and has not pitied: he has made my paths crooked.
3:10
He has caused the enemy to rejoice over you; He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion
he has exalted the horn of your adver- in secret places.
saries. 3:11
He has turned aside my ways, and pulled
2:18
Their heart cried to the Lord: me in pieces; he has made me desolate.
wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down 3:12
He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark
like a river day and night; for the arrow.
Give yourself no respite; don’t let the apple of 3:13
He has caused the shafts of his quiver to
your eye cease. enter into my kidneys.
2:19
Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning 3:14
I am become a derision to all my people,
of the watches; and their song all the day.
Pour out your heart like water before the face 3:15
He has filled me with bitterness, he has
of the Lord:
sated me with wormwood.
Lift up your hands toward him for the life 3:16
He has also broken my teeth with gravel
of your young children, that faint for
stones; he has covered me with ashes.
hunger at the head of every street. 3:17
2:20
Look, LORD, and see to whom you have You have removed my soul far off from
done thus! peace; I forgot prosperity.
3:18
Shall the women eat their fruit, the children I said, My strength is perished, and my
that are dandled in the hands? expectation from the LORD.
3:19
Shall the priest and the prophet be killed in the Remember my affliction and my misery, the
sanctuary of the Lord? wormwood and the gall.
2:21 3:20
The youth and the old man lie on the My soul still remembers them, and is bowed
ground in the streets; down within me.
3:21
My virgins and my young men are fallen by the This I recall to my mind; therefore have I
sword: hope.
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3:22 3:45
It is because of the LORD’s loving kind- You have made us an off-scouring and
nesses that we are not consumed, be- refuse in the midst of the peoples.
3:46
cause his compassion doesn’t fail. All our enemies have opened their mouth
3:23
They are new every morning; great is your wide against us.
3:47
faithfulness. Fear and the pit have come on us, devasta-
3:24
The LORD is my portion, says my soul; tion and destruction.
3:48
therefore will I hope in him. My eye runs down with streams of water,
3:25
The LORD is good to those who wait for for the destruction of the daughter of
him, to the soul that seeks him. my people.
3:26 3:49
It is good that a man should hope and My eye pours down, and doesn’t cease,
quietly wait for the salvation of the without any intermission,
3:50
LORD. Until the LORD look down, and see from
3:27
It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in heaven.
3:51
his youth. My eye affects my soul, because of all the
3:28
Let him sit alone and keep silence, because daughters of my city.
3:52
he has laid it on him. They have chased me relentlessly like a
3:29
Let him put his mouth in the dust, if so be bird, those who are my enemies with-
there may be hope. out cause.
3:30 3:53
Let him give his cheek to him who strikes They have cut off my life in the dungeon,
him; let him be filled full with re- and have cast a stone on me.
3:54
proach. Waters flowed over my head; I said, I am cut
3:31
For the Lord will not cast off forever. off.
3:32 3:55
For though he cause grief, yet he will have I called on your name, LORD, out of the
compassion according to the multi- lowest dungeon.
3:56
tude of his loving kindnesses. You heard my voice; don’t hide your ear at
3:33
For he does not afflict willingly, nor grieve my breathing, at my cry.
3:57
the children of men. You drew near in the day that I called on
3:34
To crush under foot all the prisoners of the you; you said, Don’t be afraid.
3:58
earth, Lord, you have pleaded the causes of my
3:35
To turn aside the right of a man before the soul; you have redeemed my life.
3:59
face of the Most High, LORD, you have seen my wrong. Judge my
3:36
To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord cause.
3:60
doesn’t approve. You have seen all their vengeance and all
3:37
Who is he who says, and it comes to pass, their devices against me.
3:61
when the Lord doesn’t command it? You have heard their reproach, LORD, and
3:38
Doesn’t evil and good come out of the all their devices against me,
3:62
mouth of the Most High? The lips of those that rose up against me,
3:39
Why does a living man complain, a man for and their device against me all the day.
3:63
the punishment of his sins? You see their sitting down, and their rising
3:40
Let us search and try our ways, and turn up; I am their song.
3:64
again to the LORD. You will render to them a recompense,
3:41
Let us lift up our heart with our hands to LORD, according to the work of their
Godc in the heavens. hands.
3:42 3:65
We have transgressed and have rebelled; You will give them hardness of heart, your
you have not pardoned. curse to them.
3:43 3:66
You have covered with anger and pursued You will pursue them in anger, and destroy
us; you have killed, you have not them from under the heavens of the
pitied. LORD.
3:44 4:1
You have covered yourself with a cloud, so How the gold has become dim! The most
that no prayer can pass through. pure gold has changed!
c 3:41 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “Elohim.”
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4:14
The stones of the sanctuary are poured out at They wander as blind men in the streets,
the head of every street. they are polluted with blood,
4:2
The precious sons of Zion, comparable to So that men can’t touch their garments.
4:15
fine gold, Depart! they cried to them, Unclean! de-
How are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the part, depart, don’t touch!
work of the hands of the potter! When they fled away and wandered, men said
4:3 among the nations, They shall not live
Even the jackals draw out the breast, they
nurse their young ones: here any more.
4:16
The daughter of my people has become cruel, The anger of the LORD has scattered them;
like the ostriches in the wilderness. he will no more regard them:
4:4 They didn’t respect the persons of the priests,
The tongue of the nursing child clings to the
roof of his mouth for thirst: they didn’t favor the elders.
4:17
The young children ask bread, and no man Our eyes still fail, looking in vain for our
breaks it to them. help:
4:5
Those who fed delicately are desolate in the In our watching we have watched for a nation
streets: that could not save.
4:18
Those who were brought up in scarlet embrace They hunt our steps, so that we can’t go in
dunghills. our streets:
4:6 Our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our
For the iniquity of the daughter of my people
end has come.
is greater than the sin of Sodom, 4:19
Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles
That was overthrown as in a moment, and no
of the sky:
hands were laid on her.
4:7 They chased us on the mountains, they laid
Her Nazirites were purer than snow, they
wait for us in the wilderness.
were whiter than milk; 4:20
The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of
They were more ruddy in body than rubies,
the LORD, was taken in their pits;
their polishing was as of sapphire.
4:8
Of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall
Their appearance is blacker than a coal; they live among the nations.
are not known in the streets: 4:21
Rejoice and be glad, daughter of Edom, that
Their skin clings to their bones; it is withered, it dwell in the land of Uz:
has become like a stick. The cup shall pass through to you also; you
4:9
Those who are killed with the sword are shall be drunken, and shall make your-
better than those who are killed with self naked.
hunger; 4:22
The punishment of your iniquity is accom-
For these pine away, stricken through, for want plished, daughter of Zion; he will no
of the fruits of the field. more carry you away into captivity:
4:10
The hands of the pitiful women have boiled He will visit your iniquity, daughter of Edom;
their own children; he will uncover your sins.
They were their food in the destruction of the 5:1
Remember, LORD, what has come on us:
daughter of my people. Look, and see our reproach.
4:11 5:2
The LORD has accomplished his wrath, he Our inheritance is turned to strangers,
has poured out his fierce anger; Our houses to aliens.
He has kindled a fire in Zion, which has 5:3
We are orphans and fatherless;
devoured its foundations. Our mothers are as widows.
4:12 5:4
The kings of the earth didn’t believe, neither We have drunken our water for money;
all the inhabitants of the world, Our wood is sold to us.
5:5
That the adversary and the enemy would enter Our pursuers are on our necks:
into the gates of Jerusalem. We are weary, and have no rest.
4:13 5:6
It is because of the sins of her prophets, and We have given the hand to the Egyptians,
the iniquities of her priests, To the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
5:7
That have shed the blood of the just in the midst Our fathers sinned, and are no more;
of her. We have borne their iniquities.
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5:8
Servants rule over us:
There is none to deliver us out of their hand.
5:9
We get our bread at the peril of our lives,
Because of the sword of the wilderness.
5:10
Our skin is black like an oven,
Because of the burning heat of famine.
5:11
They ravished the women in Zion,
The virgins in the cities of Judah.
5:12
Princes were hanged up by their hand:
The faces of elders were not honored.
5:13
The young men bare the mill;
The children stumbled under the wood.
5:14
The elders have ceased from the gate,
The young men from their music.
5:15
The joy of our heart is ceased;
Our dance is turned into mourning.
5:16
The crown is fallen from our head:
Woe to us! for we have sinned.
5:17
For this our heart is faint;
For these things our eyes are dim;
5:18
For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate:
The foxes walk on it.
5:19
You, LORD, remain forever;
Your throne is from generation to generation.
5:20
Why do you forget us forever,
And forsake us so long time?
5:21
Turn us to yourself, LORD, and we shall be
turned.
Renew our days as of old.
5:22
But you have utterly rejected us;
You are very angry against us.
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Ecclesiastes 2:1
I said in my heart, “Come now, I will
test you with mirth: therefore enjoy pleasure”;
1:1 and behold, this also was vanity. 2:2 I said
The words of Koheleta , the son of David,
king in Jerusalem: of laughter, “It is foolishness”; and of mirth,
1:2 “What does it accomplish?”
“Vanity of vanities,” says Koheletb ; “Van-
2:3
ity of vanities, all is vanity.” 1:3 What does I searched in my heart how to cheer my
man gain from all his labor in which he flesh with wine, my heart yet guiding me with
labors under the sun? 1:4 One generation goes, wisdom, and how to lay hold of folly, until
and another generation comes; but the earth I might see what it was good for the sons of
remains forever. 1:5 The sun also rises, and men that they should do under heaven all the
the sun goes down, and hurries to its place days of their lives. 2:4 I made myself great
where it rises. 1:6 The wind goes toward the works. I built myself houses. I planted myself
south, and turns around to the north. It turns vineyards. 2:5 I made myself gardens and parks,
around continually as it goes, and the wind and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit.
2:6
returns again to its courses. 1:7 All the rivers I made myself pools of water, to water from it
run into the sea, yet the sea is not full. To the forest where trees were reared. 2:7 I bought
the place where the rivers flow, there they male servants and female servants, and had
flow again. 1:8 All things are full of weariness servants born in my house. I also had great
beyond uttering. The eye is not satisfied with possessions of herds and flocks, above all who
seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. 1:9 That were before me in Jerusalem; 2:8 I also gathered
which has been is that which shall be; and that silver and gold for myself, and the treasure of
which has been done is that which shall be kings and of the provinces. I got myself male
done: and there is no new thing under the sun. and female singers, and the delights of the sons
1:10 of men—musical instruments, and that of all
Is there a thing of which it may be said,
“Behold, this is new?” It has been long ago, sorts. 2:9 So I was great, and increased more
in the ages which were before us. 1:11 There is than all who were before me in Jerusalem. My
no memory of the former; neither shall there wisdom also remained with me. 2:10 Whatever
be any memory of the latter that are to come, my eyes desired, I didn’t keep from them. I
among those that shall come after. didn’t withhold my heart from any joy, for my
1:12 heart rejoiced because of all my labor, and this
I, Koheletc , was king over Israel in
Jerusalem. 1:13 I applied my heart to seek and was my portion from all my labor. 2:11 Then
to search out by wisdom concerning all that I looked at all the works that my hands had
is done under the sky. It is a heavy burden worked, and at the labor that I had labored to
that Godd has given to the sons of men to be do; and behold, all was vanity and a chasing
afflicted with. 1:14 I have seen all the works after wind, and there was no profit under the
that are done under the sun; and behold, all sun.
is vanity and a chasing after wind. 1:15 That 2:12
I turned myself to consider wisdom,
which is crooked can’t be made straight; and madness, and folly: for what can the king’s
that which is lacking can’t be counted. 1:16 I successor do? Just that which has been done
said to myself, “Behold, I have obtained for long ago. 2:13 Then I saw that wisdom excels
myself great wisdom above all who were before folly, as far as light excels darkness. 2:14 The
me in Jerusalem. Yes, my heart has had great wise man’s eyes are in his head, and the fool
experience of wisdom and knowledge.” 1:17 I walks in darkness—and yet I perceived that
applied my heart to know wisdom, and to one event happens to them all. 2:15 Then I said
know madness and folly. I perceived that this in my heart, “As it happens to the fool, so will
also was a chasing after wind. 1:18 For in much it happen even to me; and why was I then more
wisdom is much grief; and he who increases wise?” Then I said in my heart that this also is
knowledge increases sorrow. vanity. 2:16 For of the wise man, even as of the
a 1:1 the Preacher (or, Assembler)
b 1:2 the Preacher (or, Assembler)
c 1:12 the Preacher (or, Assembler)
d 1:13 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “Elohim.”
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fool, there is no memory for ever, since in the a time to embrace,


days to come all will have been long forgotten. and a time to refrain from embracing;
Indeed, the wise man must die just like the fool! 3:6
a time to seek,
2:17
So I hated life, because the work that is and a time to lose;
worked under the sun was grievous to me; for a time to keep,
all is vanity and a chasing after wind. 2:18 I and a time to cast away;
hated all my labor in which I labored under 3:7
a time to tear,
the sun, because I must leave it to the man and a time to sew;
who comes after me. 2:19 Who knows whether a time to keep silence,
he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will and a time to speak;
have rule over all of my labor in which I have 3:8
a time to love,
labored, and in which I have shown myself and a time to hate;
wise under the sun. This also is vanity.
2:20 a time for war,
Therefore I began to cause my heart to
and a time for peace.
despair concerning all the labor in which I had 3:9
What profit has he who works in that in
labored under the sun. 2:21 For there is a man
which he labors? 3:10 I have seen the burden
whose labor is with wisdom, with knowledge,
which God has given to the sons of men to
and with skillfulness; yet he shall leave it for
be afflicted with. 3:11 He has made everything
his portion to a man who has not labored for
beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity
it. This also is vanity and a great evil. 2:22 For
in their hearts, yet so that man can’t find out
what has a man of all his labor, and of the
the work that God has done from the beginning
striving of his heart, in which he labors under
even to the end. 3:12 I know that there is nothing
the sun? 2:23 For all his days are sorrows, and
better for them than to rejoice, and to do good
his travail is grief; yes, even in the night his
as long as they live. 3:13 Also that every man
heart takes no rest. This also is vanity. 2:24 There
should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all
is nothing better for a man than that he should
his labor, is the gift of God. 3:14 I know that
eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in
whatever God does, it shall be forever. Nothing
his labor. This also I saw, that it is from the hand
can be added to it, nor anything taken from
of God. 2:25 For who can eat, or who can have
it; and God has done it, that men should fear
enjoyment, more than I? 2:26 For to the man who
before him. 3:15 That which is has been long
pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge,
ago, and that which is to be has been long ago:
and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to
and God seeks again that which is passed away.
gather and to heap up, that he may give to him 3:16
Moreover I saw under the sun, in the
who pleases God. This also is vanity and a
place of justice, that wickedness was there; and
chasing after wind.
3:1 in the place of righteousness, that wickedness
For everything there is a season, and a
was there. 3:17 I said in my heart, “God will
time for every purpose under heaven:
3:2 judge the righteous and the wicked; for there
a time to be born,
is a time there for every purpose and for every
and a time to die;
work.” 3:18 I said in my heart, “As for the sons
a time to plant, of men, God tests them, so that they may see
and a time to pluck up that which is that they themselves are like animals. 3:19 For
planted; that which happens to the sons of men happens
3:3
a time to kill, to animals. Even one thing happens to them.
and a time to heal; As the one dies, so the other dies. Yes, they
a time to break down, have all one breath; and man has no advantage
and a time to build up; over the animals: for all is vanity. 3:20 All go
3:4
a time to weep, to one place. All are from the dust, and all
and a time to laugh; turn to dust again. 3:21 Who knows the spirit
a time to mourn, of man, whether it goes upward, and the spirit
and a time to dance; of the animal, whether it goes downward to the
3:5
a time to cast away stones, earth?”
3:22
and a time to gather stones together; Therefore I saw that there is nothing
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better, than that a man should rejoice in his to utter anything before God; for God is in
works; for that is his portion: for who can bring heaven, and you on earth. Therefore let your
him to see what will be after him? words be few. 5:3 For as a dream comes with
4:1 a multitude of cares, so a fool’s speech with a
Then I returned and saw all the oppres-
sions that are done under the sun: and behold, multitude of words. 5:4 When you vow a vow
the tears of those who were oppressed, and to God, don’t defer to pay it; for he has no
they had no comforter; and on the side of their pleasure in fools. Pay that which you vow. 5:5 It
oppressors there was power; but they had no is better that you should not vow, than that you
comforter. 4:2 Therefore I praised the dead who should vow and not pay. 5:6 Don’t allow your
have been long dead more than the living who mouth to lead you into sin. Don’t protest before
are yet alive. 4:3 Yes, better than them both is the messenger that this was a mistake. Why
him who has not yet been, who has not seen the should God be angry at your voice, and destroy
evil work that is done under the sun. 4:4 Then I the work of your hands? 5:7 For in the multitude
saw all the labor and achievement that is the of dreams there are vanities, as well as in many
envy of a man’s neighbor. This also is vanity words: but you must fear God.
5:8
and a striving after wind. If you see the oppression of the poor,
4:5 and the violent taking away of justice and
The fool folds his hands together and
ruins himself. 4:6 Better is a handful, with righteousness in a district, don’t marvel at the
quietness, than two handfuls with labor and matter: for one official is eyed by a higher one;
chasing after wind. and there are officials over them. 5:9 Moreover
4:7 the profit of the earth is for all. The king profits
Then I returned and saw vanity under the
sun. 4:8 There is one who is alone, and he has from the field.
5:10
neither son nor brother. There is no end to He who loves silver shall not be satisfied
all of his labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with silver; nor he who loves abundance, with
with wealth. “For whom then, do I labor, and increase: this also is vanity. 5:11 When goods
deprive my soul of enjoyment?” This also is increase, those who eat them are increased; and
vanity. Yes, it is a miserable business. what advantage is there to its owner, except to
4:9 feast on them with his eyes?
Two are better than one, because they
5:12
have a good reward for their labor. 4:10 For if The sleep of a laboring man is sweet,
they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe whether he eats little or much; but the abun-
to him who is alone when he falls, and doesn’t dance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.
have another to lift him up. 4:11 Again, if two 5:13
There is a grievous evil which I have seen
lie together, then they have warmth; but how under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his
can one keep warm alone? 4:12 If a man prevails harm. 5:14 Those riches perish by misfortune,
against one who is alone, two shall withstand and if he has fathered a son, there is nothing
him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken. in his hand. 5:15 As he came forth from his
4:13
Better is a poor and wise youth than an mother’s womb, naked shall he go again as
old and foolish king who doesn’t know how he came, and shall take nothing for his labor,
to receive admonition any more. 4:14 For out of which he may carry away in his hand. 5:16 This
prison he came forth to be king; yes, even in also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he
his kingdom he was born poor. 4:15 I saw all came, so shall he go. And what profit does he
the living who walk under the sun, that they have who labors for the wind? 5:17 All his days
were with the youth, the other, who succeeded he also eats in darkness, he is frustrated, and
him. 4:16 There was no end of all the people, has sickness and wrath.
even of all them over whom he was—yet those 5:18
Behold, that which I have seen to be good
who come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely and proper is for one to eat and to drink, and to
this also is vanity and a chasing after wind. enjoy good in all his labor, in which he labors
5:1
Guard your steps when you go to God’s under the sun, all the days of his life which God
house; for to draw near to listen is better than has given him; for this is his portion. 5:19 Every
to give the sacrifice of fools, for they don’t man also to whom God has given riches and
know that they do evil. 5:2 Don’t be rash with wealth, and has given him power to eat of it,
your mouth, and don’t let your heart be hasty and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his
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labor—this is the gift of God. 5:20 For he shall understanding. 7:8 Better is the end of a thing
not often reflect on the days of his life; because than its beginning.
God occupies him with the joy of his heart. The patient in spirit is better than the proud
6:1
There is an evil which I have seen under in spirit. 7:9 Don’t be hasty in your spirit
the sun, and it is heavy on men: 6:2 a man to to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of
whom God gives riches, wealth, and honor, so fools. 7:10 Don’t say, “Why were the former
that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he days better than these?” For you do not ask
desires, yet God gives him no power to eat of wisely about this.
7:11
it, but an alien eats it. This is vanity, and it is an Wisdom is as good as an inheritance. Yes,
evil disease. it is more excellent for those who see the sun.
6:3 7:12
If a man fathers a hundred children, and For wisdom is a defense, even as money is a
lives many years, so that the days of his years defense; but the excellency of knowledge is that
are many, but his soul is not filled with good, wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.
7:13
and moreover he has no burial; I say, that a Consider the work of God, for who
stillborn child is better than he: 6:4 for it comes can make that straight, which he has made
in vanity, and departs in darkness, and its name crooked? 7:14 In the day of prosperity be joyful,
is covered with darkness. 6:5 Moreover it has and in the day of adversity consider; yes, God
not seen the sun nor known it. This has rest has made the one side by side with the other, to
rather than the other. 6:6 Yes, though he live the end that man should not find out anything
a thousand years twice told, and yet fails to after him.
enjoy good, don’t all go to one place? 6:7 All 7:15
All this have I seen in my days of vanity:
the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the there is a righteous man who perishes in his
appetite is not filled. 6:8 For what advantage righteousness, and there is a wicked man who
has the wise more than the fool? What has the lives long in his evildoing. 7:16 Don’t be overly
poor man, that knows how to walk before the righteous, neither make yourself overly wise.
living? 6:9 Better is the sight of the eyes than the Why should you destroy yourself? 7:17 Don’t be
wandering of the desire. This also is vanity and too wicked, neither be foolish. Why should you
a chasing after wind. 6:10 Whatever has been, its die before your time? 7:18 It is good that you
name was given long ago; and it is known what should take hold of this. Yes, also from that
man is; neither can he contend with him who is don’t withdraw your hand; for he who fears
mightier than he. 6:11 For there are many words God will come forth from them all. 7:19 Wisdom
that create vanity. What does that profit man? is a strength to the wise man more than ten
6:12
For who knows what is good for man in life, rulers who are in a city. 7:20 Surely there is
all the days of his vain life which he spends like not a righteous man on earth, who does good
a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be and doesn’t sin. 7:21 Also don’t take heed to
after him under the sun? all words that are spoken, lest you hear your
7:1
A good name is better than fine perfume; servant curse you; 7:22 for often your own heart
and the day of death better than the day of knows that you yourself have likewise cursed
one’s birth. 7:2 It is better to go to the house of others. 7:23 All this have I proved in wisdom.
mourning than to go to the house of feasting: I said, “I will be wise”; but it was far from
for that is the end of all men, and the living me. 7:24 That which is, is far off and exceedingly
should take this to heart. 7:3 Sorrow is better deep. Who can find it out? 7:25 I turned around,
than laughter; for by the sadness of the face the and my heart sought to know and to search out,
heart is made good. 7:4 The heart of the wise and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things,
is in the house of mourning; but the heart of and to know that wickedness is stupidity, and
fools is in the house of mirth. 7:5 It is better to that foolishness is madness.
7:26
hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to I find more bitter than death the woman
hear the song of fools. 7:6 For as the crackling of whose heart is snares and traps, whose hands
thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool. are chains. Whoever pleases God shall escape
This also is vanity. 7:7 Surely extortion makes from her; but the sinner will be ensnared by her.
7:27
the wise man foolish; and a bribe destroys the “Behold, I have found this,” says Ko-
e 7:27 the Preacher (or, Assembler)
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helete , “one to another, to find out the scheme; thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink,
7:28
which my soul still seeks; but I have not and to be joyful: for that will accompany him in
found. One man among a thousand have I his labor all the days of his life which God has
found; but I have not found a woman among given him under the sun.
all those. 7:29 Behold, this only have I found: 8:16
When I applied my heart to know wis-
that God made man upright; but they search dom, and to see the business that is done on the
for many schemes.” earth (for also there is that neither day nor night
8:1
Who is like the wise man? And who sees sleep with his eyes), 8:17 then I saw all the
knows the interpretation of a thing? A man’s work of God, that man can’t find out the work
wisdom makes his face shine, and the hardness that is done under the sun, because however
of his face is changed. 8:2 I say, “Keep the much a man labors to seek it out, yet he won’t
king’s command!” because of the oath to God. find it. Yes even though a wise man thinks he
8:3
Don’t be hasty to go out of his presence. can comprehend it, he won’t be able to find it.
9:1
Don’t persist in an evil thing, for he does For all this I laid to my heart, even to
whatever pleases him, 8:4 for the king’s word is explore all this: that the righteous, and the
supreme. Who can say to him, “What are you wise, and their works, are in the hand of God;
doing?” 8:5 Whoever keeps the commandment whether it is love or hatred, man doesn’t know
shall not come to harm, and his wise heart will it; all is before them. 9:2 All things come alike
know the time and procedure. 8:6 For there to all. There is one event to the righteous and
is a time and procedure for every purpose, to the wicked; to the good, to the clean, to
although the misery of man is heavy on him. the unclean, to him who sacrifices, and to him
8:7
For he doesn’t know that which will be; for who doesn’t sacrifice. As is the good, so is the
who can tell him how it will be? 8:8 There sinner; he who takes an oath, as he who fears
is no man who has power over the spirit to an oath. 9:3 This is an evil in all that is done
contain the spirit; neither does he have power under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes
over the day of death. There is no discharge also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil,
in war; neither shall wickedness deliver those and madness is in their heart while they live,
who practice it. and after that they go to the dead. 9:4 For to him
8:9
All this have I seen, and applied my mind who is joined with all the living there is hope;
to every work that is done under the sun. for a living dog is better than a dead lion. 9:5 For
There is a time in which one man has power the living know that they will die, but the dead
over another to his hurt. 8:10 So I saw the don’t know anything, neither do they have any
wicked buried. Indeed they came also from more a reward; for their memory is forgotten.
9:6
holiness. They went and were forgotten in the Also their love, their hatred, and their envy
city where they did this. This also is vanity. has perished long ago; neither have they any
8:11
Because sentence against an evil work is more a portion forever in anything that is done
not executed speedily, therefore the heart of under the sun.
9:7
the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. Go your way—eat your bread with joy,
8:12
Though a sinner commits crimes a hundred and drink your wine with a merry heart; for
times, and lives long, yet surely I know that it God has already accepted your works. 9:8 Let
will be better with those who fear God, who are your garments be always white, and don’t let
reverent before him. 8:13 But it shall not be well your head lack oil. 9:9 Live joyfully with the
with the wicked, neither shall he lengthen days wife whom you love all the days of your life of
like a shadow; because he doesn’t fear God. vanity, which he has given you under the sun,
8:14
There is a vanity which is done on the all your days of vanity: for that is your portion
earth, that there are righteous men to whom it in life, and in your labor in which you labor
happens according to the work of the wicked. under the sun. 9:10 Whatever your hand finds
Again, there are wicked men to whom it hap- to do, do it with your might; for there is no
pens according to the work of the righteous. work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom,
I said that this also is vanity. 8:15 Then I in Sheolf , where you are going.
9:11
commended mirth, because a man has no better I returned, and saw under the sun, that
f 9:10 Sheol is the place of the dead.
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the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the mischievous madness. 10:14 A fool also multi-
strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet plies words.
riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor Man doesn’t know what will be; and that
to men of skill; but time and chance happen which will be after him, who can tell him?
to them all. 9:12 For man also doesn’t know his 10:15
The labor of fools wearies every one of
time. As the fish that are taken in an evil net, them; for he doesn’t know how to go to the city.
10:16
and as the birds that are caught in the snare, Woe to you, land, when your king is a
even so are the sons of men snared in an evil child,
time, when it falls suddenly on them. and your princes eat in the morning!
9:13 10:17
I have also seen wisdom under the sun in Happy are you, land, when your
this way, and it seemed great to me. 9:14 There king is the son of nobles,
was a little city, and few men within it; and a and your princes eat in due season,
great king came against it, besieged it, and built for strength, and not for drunkenness!
10:18
great bulwarks against it. 9:15 Now a poor wise By slothfulness the roof sinks in;
man was found in it, and he by his wisdom and through idleness of the hands the
delivered the city; yet no man remembered that house leaks.
same poor man. 9:16 Then I said, “Wisdom is 10:19
A feast is made for laughter,
better than strength.” Nevertheless the poor and wine makes the life glad;
man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are and money is the answer for all things.
not heard. 9:17 The words of the wise heard 10:20
Don’t curse the king, no, not in your
in quiet are better than the cry of him who thoughts;
rules among fools. 9:18 Wisdom is better than and don’t curse the rich in your bedroom:
weapons of war; but one sinner destroys much for a bird of the sky may carry your voice,
good. and that which has wings may tell the
10:1
Dead flies cause the oil of the perfumer matter.
11:1
to send forth an evil odor; so does a little folly Cast your bread on the waters;
outweigh wisdom and honor. 10:2 A wise man’s for you shall find it after many days.
11:2
heart is at his right hand, but a fool’s heart at Give a portion to seven, yes, even to eight;
his left. 10:3 Yes also, when the fool walks by the for you don’t know what evil will be on
way, his understanding fails him, and he says the earth.
to everyone that he is a fool. 10:4 If the spirit of 11:3
If the clouds are full of rain, they empty
the ruler rises up against you, don’t leave your themselves on the earth;
place; for gentleness lays great offenses to rest. and if a tree falls toward the south, or
10:5
There is an evil which I have seen under toward the north,
the sun, the sort of error which proceeds from in the place where the tree falls, there
the ruler. 10:6 Folly is set in great dignity, and shall it be.
11:4
the rich sit in a low place. 10:7 I have seen ser- He who observes the wind won’t sow;
vants on horses, and princes walking like ser- and he who regards the clouds won’t
vants on the earth. 10:8 He who digs a pit may reap.
11:5
fall into it; and whoever breaks through a wall As you don’t know what is the way of the
may be bitten by a snake. 10:9 Whoever carves wind,
out stones may be injured by them. Whoever nor how the bones grow in the womb of
splits wood may be endangered thereby. 10:10 If her who is with child;
the axe is blunt, and one doesn’t sharpen the even so you don’t know the work of God
edge, then he must use more strength; but skill who does all.
brings success. 11:6
In the morning sow your seed,
10:11
If the snake bites before it is charmed, and in the evening don’t withhold your
then is there no profit for the charmer’s tongue. hand;
10:12
The words of a wise man’s mouth are for you don’t know which will prosper,
gracious; but a fool is swallowed by his own whether this or that,
lips. 10:13 The beginning of the words of his or whether they both will be equally
mouth is foolishness; and the end of his talk is good.
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11:7
Truly the light is sweet, or the wheel broken at the cistern,
12:7
and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to and the dust returns to the earth as it was,
see the sun. and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
11:8 12:8
Yes, if a man lives many years, let him “Vanity of vanities,” says Koheletg .
rejoice in them all; “All is vanity!”
12:9
but let him remember the days of dark- Further, because Koheleth was wise, he
ness, for they shall be many. still taught the people knowledge. Yes, he
All that comes is vanity. pondered, sought out, and set in order many
11:9
Rejoice, young man, in your youth, proverbs. 12:10 The Preacher sought to find out
and let your heart cheer you in the days acceptable words, and that which was written
of your youth, blamelessly, words of truth. 12:11 The words
and walk in the ways of your heart, of the wise are like goads; and like nails well
and in the sight of your eyes; fastened are words from the masters of as-
but know that for all these things God semblies, which are given from one shepherd.
12:12
will bring you into judgment. Furthermore, my son, be admonished: of
11:10 making many books there is no end; and much
Therefore remove sorrow from your heart,
and put away evil from your flesh; study is a weariness of the flesh.
12:13
for youth and the dawn of life are vanity. This is the end of the matter. All
12:1 has been heard. Fear God, and keep his
Remember also your Creator in the days of
your youth, commandments; for this is the whole duty of
before the evil days come, and the years man. 12:14 For God will bring every work into
draw near, judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it
when you will say, “I have no pleasure in is good, or whether it is evil.
them”;
12:2
Before the sun, the light, the moon, and the
stars are darkened,
and the clouds return after the rain;
12:3
in the day when the keepers of the house
shall tremble,
and the strong men shall bow themselves,
and the grinders cease because they are
few,
and those who look out of the windows
are darkened,
12:4
and the doors shall be shut in the street;
when the sound of the grinding is low,
and one shall rise up at the voice of a bird,
and all the daughters of music shall be
brought low;
12:5
yes, they shall be afraid of heights,
and terrors will be in the way;
and the almond tree shall blossom,
and the grasshopper shall be a burden,
and desire shall fail;
because man goes to his everlasting
home,
and the mourners go about the streets:
12:6
before the silver cord is severed,
or the golden bowl is broken,
or the pitcher is broken at the spring,
g 12:8 the Preacher (or, Assembler)
h 12:9 the Preacher (or, Assembler)
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Esther 1:15
“What shall we do to the queen Vashti
according to law, because she has not done
1:1 the bidding of the King Ahasuerus by the
Now it happened in the days of Aha-
eunuchs?”
suerus (this is Ahasuerus who reigned from 1:16
India even to Ethiopia, over one hundred Memucan answered before the king and
twenty-seven provinces), 1:2 that in those days, the princes, “Vashti the queen has not done
when the King Ahasuerus sat on the throne of wrong to just the king, but also to all the
his kingdom, which was in Shushan the palace, princes, and to all the people who are in all
1:3
in the third year of his reign, he made a feast the provinces of the King Ahasuerus. 1:17 For
for all his princes and his servants; the power of this deed of the queen will become known to
Persia and Media, the nobles and princes of the all women, causing them to show contempt
provinces, being before him. 1:4 He displayed for their husbands, when it is reported, ‘King
the riches of his glorious kingdom and the Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be
honor of his excellent majesty many days, even brought in before him, but she didn’t come.’
1:18
one hundred eighty days. 1:5 When these days Today, the princesses of Persia and Media
were fulfilled, the king made a seven day feast who have heard of the queen’s deed will tell
for all the people who were present in Shushan all the king’s princes. This will cause much
the palace, both great and small, in the court of contempt and wrath.
1:19
the garden of the king’s palace. 1:6 There were “If it please the king, let a royal com-
hangings of white, green, and blue material, mandment go from him, and let it be written
fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to among the laws of the Persians and the Medes,
silver rings and marble pillars. The couches so that it cannot be altered, that Vashti may
were of gold and silver, on a pavement of red, never again come before King Ahasuerus; and
white, yellow, and black marble. 1:7 They gave let the king give her royal estate to another who
them drinks in golden vessels of various kinds, is better than she. 1:20 When the king’s decree
including royal wine in abundance, according which he shall make is published throughout
to the bounty of the king. 1:8 In accordance with all his kingdom (for it is great), all the wives
the law, the drinking was not compulsory; for will give their husbands honor, both great and
so the king had instructed all the officials of his small.”
1:21
house, that they should do according to every This advice pleased the king and the
man’s pleasure. 1:9 Also Vashti the queen made princes, and the king did according to the word
a feast for the women in the royal house which of Memucan: 1:22 for he sent letters into all the
belonged to King Ahasuerus. king’s provinces, into every province according
1:10 to its writing, and to every people in their
On the seventh day, when the heart
of the king was merry with wine, he com- language, that every man should rule his own
manded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, house, speaking in the language of his own
and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcass, the seven people.
2:1
eunuchs who served in the presence of Aha- After these things, when the wrath of
suerus the king, 1:11 to bring Vashti the queen King Ahasuerus was pacified, he remembered
before the king with the royal crown, to show Vashti, and what she had done, and what
the people and the princes her beauty; for was decreed against her. 2:2 Then the king’s
she was beautiful. 1:12 But the queen Vashti servants who served him said, “Let beautiful
refused to come at the king’s commandment young virgins be sought for the king. 2:3 Let
by the eunuchs. Therefore the king was very the king appoint officers in all the provinces
angry, and his anger burned in him. 1:13 Then of his kingdom, that they may gather together
the king said to the wise men, who knew the all the beautiful young virgins to the citadel of
times, (for it was the king’s custom to consult Susa, to the women’s house, to the custody of
those who knew law and judgment; 1:14 and the Hegai the king’s eunuch, keeper of the women.
next to him were Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Let cosmetics be given them; 2:4 and let the
Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the maiden who pleases the king be queen instead
seven princes of Persia and Media, who saw of Vashti.” The thing pleased the king, and he
the king’s face, and sat first in the kingdom), did so.
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2:5
There was a certain Jew in the citadel all those who looked at her. 2:16 So Esther was
of Susa, whose name was Mordecai, the son taken to King Ahasuerus into his royal house
of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, in the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth,
a Benjamite, 2:6 who had been carried away in the seventh year of his reign. 2:17 The king
from Jerusalem with the captives who had loved Esther more than all the women, and
been carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, she obtained favor and kindness in his sight
whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon more than all the virgins; so that he set the
had carried away. 2:7 He brought up Hadassah, royal crown on her head, and made her queen
that is, Esther, his uncle’s daughter; for she instead of Vashti.
had neither father nor mother. The maiden 2:18
Then the king made a great feast for
was fair and beautiful; and when her father all his princes and his servants, even Esther’s
and mother were dead, Mordecai took her for feast; and he proclaimed a holiday in the
his own daughter. 2:8 So it happened, when provinces, and gave gifts according to the
the king’s commandment and his decree was king’s bounty.
heard, and when many maidens were gathered 2:19
When the virgins were gathered together
together to the citadel of Susa, to the custody
the second time, Mordecai was sitting in the
of Hegai, that Esther was taken into the king’s
king’s gate. 2:20 Esther had not yet made known
house, to the custody of Hegai, keeper of the
her relatives nor her people, as Mordecai had
women. 2:9 The maiden pleased him, and she
commanded her; for Esther obeyed Mordecai,
obtained kindness from him. He quickly gave
like she did when she was brought up by him.
her cosmetics and her portions of food, and the 2:21
In those days, while Mordecai was sitting
seven choice maidens who were to be given her
in the king’s gate, two of the king’s eunuchs,
out of the king’s house. He moved her and
Bigthan and Teresh, who were doorkeepers,
her maidens to the best place in the women’s
were angry, and sought to lay hands on the
house. 2:10 Esther had not made known her
King Ahasuerus. 2:22 This thing became known
people nor her relatives, because Mordecai had
to Mordecai, who informed Esther the queen;
instructed her that she should not make it
and Esther informed the king in Mordecai’s
known. 2:11 Mordecai walked every day in front
name. 2:23 When this matter was investigated,
of the court of the women’s house, to find
and it was found to be so, they were both
out how Esther was doing, and what would
hanged on a tree; and it was written in the book
become of her.
of the chronicles in the king’s presence.
2:12 3:1
Each young woman’s turn came to go After these things King Ahasuerus pro-
in to King Ahasuerus after her purification for moted Haman the son of Hammedatha the
twelve months (for so were the days of their Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat
purification accomplished, six months with oil above all the princes who were with him. 3:2 All
of myrrh, and six months with sweet fragrances the king’s servants who were in the king’s gate
and with preparations for beautifying women). bowed down, and paid homage to Haman;
2:13
The young woman then came to the king for the king had so commanded concerning
like this: whatever she desired was given her him. But Mordecai didn’t bow down or pay
to go with her out of the women’s house to the him homage. 3:3 Then the king’s servants, who
king’s house. 2:14 In the evening she went, and were in the king’s gate, said to Mordecai, “Why
on the next day she returned into the second do you disobey the king’s commandment?”
3:4
women’s house, to the custody of Shaashgaz, Now it came to pass, when they spoke daily
the king’s eunuch, who kept the concubines. to him, and he didn’t listen to them, that they
She came in to the king no more, unless the told Haman, to see whether Mordecai’s reason
king delighted in her, and she was called by would stand; for he had told them that he was a
name. 2:15 Now when the turn of Esther, the Jew. 3:5 When Haman saw that Mordecai didn’t
daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who bow down, nor pay him homage, Haman was
had taken her for his daughter, came to go in to full of wrath. 3:6 But he scorned the thought
the king, she required nothing but what Hegai of laying hands on Mordecai alone, for they
the king’s eunuch, the keeper of the women, had made known to him Mordecai’s people.
advised. Esther obtained favor in the sight of Therefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews
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who were throughout the whole kingdom of a bitterly. 4:2 He came even before the king’s
Ahasuerus, even Mordecai’s people. gate, for no one is allowed inside the king’s gate
3:7
In the first month, which is the month clothed with sackcloth. 4:3 In every province,
Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, wherever the king’s commandment and his
they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman decree came, there was great mourning among
from day to day, and from month to month, and the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wail-
chose the twelfth month, which is the month ing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.
4:4
Adar. 3:8 Haman said to King Ahasuerus, Esther’s maidens and her eunuchs came and
“There is a certain people scattered abroad told her this, and the queen was exceedingly
and dispersed among the peoples in all the grieved. She sent clothing to Mordecai, to
provinces of your kingdom, and their laws are replace his sackcloth; but he didn’t receive
different than other people’s. They don’t keep it. 4:5 Then Esther called for Hathach, one of
the king’s laws. Therefore it is not for the king’s the king’s eunuchs, whom he had appointed
profit to allow them to remain. 3:9 If it pleases to attend her, and commanded him to go to
the king, let it be written that they be destroyed; Mordecai, to find out what this was, and why
and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver it was. 4:6 So Hathach went out to Mordecai, to
into the hands of those who are in charge of city square which was before the king’s gate.
4:7
the king’s business, to bring it into the king’s Mordecai told him of all that had happened
treasuries.” to him, and the exact sum of the money that
3:10 Haman had promised to pay to the king’s
The king took his ring from his hand, and
treasuries for the destruction of the Jews. 4:8 He
gave it to Haman the son of Hammedatha the
also gave him the copy of the writing of the
Agagite, the Jews’ enemy. 3:11 The king said to
decree that was given out in Shushan to destroy
Haman, “The silver is given to you, the people
them, to show it to Esther, and to declare it to
also, to do with them as it seems good to you.”
3:12 her, and to urge her to go in to the king, to make
Then the king’s scribes were called in on the
supplication to him, and to make request before
first month, on the thirteenth day of the month;
him, for her people.
and all that Haman commanded was written
4:9
to the king’s satraps, and to the governors Hathach came and told Esther the words
who were over every province, and to the of Mordecai. 4:10 Then Esther spoke to Hathach,
princes of every people, to every province and gave him a message to Mordecai: 4:11 “All
according its writing, and to every people in the king’s servants, and the people of the king’s
their language. It was written in the name of provinces, know, that whoever, whether man
King Ahasuerus, and it was sealed with the or woman, comes to the king into the inner
king’s ring. 3:13 Letters were sent by couriers court without being called, there is one law
into all the king’s provinces, to destroy, to for him, that he be put to death, except those
kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both to whom the king might hold out the golden
young and old, little children and women, in scepter, that he may live. I have not been called
one day, even on the thirteenth day of the to come in to the king these thirty days.”
4:12
twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and They told to Mordecai Esther’s words.
to plunder their possessions. 3:14 A copy of 4:13
Then Mordecai asked them return answer
the letter, that the decree should be given out to Esther, “Don’t think to yourself that you will
in every province, was published to all the escape in the king’s house any more than all
peoples, that they should be ready against that the Jews. 4:14 For if you remain silent now, then
day. 3:15 The couriers went forth in haste by relief and deliverance will come to the Jews
the king’s commandment, and the decree was from another place, but you and your father’s
given out in the citadel of Susa. The king house will perish. Who knows if you haven’t
and Haman sat down to drink; but the city of come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”
Shushan was perplexed. 4:15
Then Esther asked them to answer
4:1
Now when Mordecai found out all that Mordecai, 4:16 “Go, gather together all the Jews
was done, Mordecai tore his clothes, and put who are present in Shushan, and fast for me,
on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into and neither eat nor drink three days, night or
the midst of the city, and wailed loudly and day. I and my maidens will also fast the same
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way. Then I will go in to the king, which is also invited by her together with the king.
against the law; and if I perish, I perish.” 4:17 So 5:13
Yet all this avails me nothing, so long as I
Mordecai went his way, and did according to see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.”
5:14
all that Esther had commanded him. Then Zeresh his wife and all his friends
5:1
Now it happened on the third day that said to him, “Let a gallows be made fifty cubits
Esther put on her royal clothing, and stood high, and in the morning speak to the king
in the inner court of the king’s house, next to about hanging Mordecai on it. Then go in
the king’s house. The king sat on his royal merrily with the king to the banquet.” This
throne in the royal house, next to the entrance pleased Haman, so he had the gallows made.
of the house. 5:2 When the king saw Esther the 6:1
On that night, the king couldn’t sleep.
queen standing in the court, she obtained favor He commanded the book of records of the
in his sight; and the king held out to Esther chronicles to be brought, and they were read to
the golden scepter that was in his hand. So the king. 6:2 It was found written that Mordecai
Esther came near, and touched the top of the had told of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the
scepter. 5:3 Then the king asked her, “What king’s eunuchs, who were doorkeepers, who
would you like, queen Esther? What is your had tried to lay hands on the King Ahasuerus.
6:3
request? It shall be given you even to the half The king said, “What honor and dignity has
of the kingdom.” been bestowed on Mordecai for this?”
5:4
Esther said, “If it seems good to the king, Then the king’s servants who attended him
let the king and Haman come today to the said, “Nothing has been done for him.”
6:4
banquet that I have prepared for him.” The king said, “Who is in the court?”
5:5
Then the king said, “Bring Haman Now Haman had come into the outer court of
quickly, so that it may be done as Esther has the king’s house, to speak to the king about
said.” So the king and Haman came to the hanging Mordecai on the gallows that he had
banquet that Esther had prepared. prepared for him.
5:6 6:5
The king said to Esther at the banquet The king’s servants said to him, “Behold,
of wine, “What is your petition? It shall be Haman stands in the court.”
granted you. What is your request? Even to The king said, “Let him come in.” 6:6 So
the half of the kingdom it shall be performed.” Haman came in. The king said to him, “What
5:7 shall be done to the man whom the king
Then Esther answered and said, “My
petition and my request is this. 5:8 If I have delights to honor?”
found favor in the sight of the king, and if Now Haman said in his heart, “Who would
it please the king to grant my petition and to the king delight to honor more than myself?”
6:7
perform my request, let the king and Haman Haman said to the king, “For the man whom
come to the banquet that I will prepare for the king delights to honor, 6:8 let royal clothing
them, and I will do tomorrow as the king has be brought which the king uses to wear, and the
said.” horse that the king rides on, and on the head of
5:9
Then Haman went out that day joyful and which a crown royal is set. 6:9 Let the clothing
glad of heart, but when Haman saw Mordecai and the horse be delivered to the hand of one
in the king’s gate, that he didn’t stand up of the king’s most noble princes, that they may
nor move for him, he was filled with wrath array the man whom the king delights to honor
against Mordecai. 5:10 Nevertheless Haman with them, and have him ride on horseback
restrained himself, and went home. There, he through the city square, and proclaim before
sent and called for his friends and Zeresh his him, ‘Thus shall it be done to the man whom
wife. 5:11 Haman recounted to them the glory the king delights to honor!’”
6:10
of his riches, the multitude of his children, all Then the king said to Haman, “Hurry
the things in which the king had promoted and take the clothing and the horse, as you
him, and how he had advanced him above the have said, and do this for Mordecai the Jew,
princes and servants of the king. 5:12 Haman who sits at the king’s gate. Let nothing fail of
also said, “Yes, Esther the queen let no man all that you have spoken.”
6:11
come in with the king to the banquet that she Then Haman took the clothing and the
had prepared but myself; and tomorrow I am horse, and arrayed Mordecai, and had him ride
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through the city square, and proclaimed before were with the king said, “Behold, the gallows
him, “Thus shall it be done to the man whom fifty cubits high, which Haman has made for
the king delights to honor!” Mordecai, who spoke good for the king, is
6:12 standing at Haman’s house.”
Mordecai came back to the king’s gate,
but Haman hurried to his house, mourning The king said, “Hang him on it!”
and having his head covered. 6:13 Haman 7:10
So they hanged Haman on the gallows
recounted to Zeresh his wife and all his friends that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was
everything that had happened to him. Then the king’s wrath pacified.
his wise men and Zeresh his wife said to him, 8:1
On that day, King Ahasuerus gave the
“If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to house of Haman, the Jews’ enemy, to Esther
fall, is of Jewish descent, you will not prevail the queen. Mordecai came before the king; for
against him, but you will surely fall before Esther had told what he was to her. 8:2 The
him.” 6:14 While they were yet talking with king took off his ring, which he had taken from
him, the king’s eunuchs came, and hurried to Haman, and gave it to Mordecai. Esther set
bring Haman to the banquet that Esther had Mordecai over the house of Haman. 8:3 Esther
prepared. spoke yet again before the king, and fell down
7:1
So the king and Haman came to banquet at his feet, and begged him with tears to put
with Esther the queen. 7:2 The king said again away the mischief of Haman the Agagite, and
to Esther on the second day at the banquet of his device that he had devised against the Jews.
wine, “What is your petition, queen Esther? It 8:4
Then the king held out to Esther the golden
shall be granted you. What is your request? scepter. So Esther arose, and stood before the
Even to the half of the kingdom it shall be king. 8:5 She said, “If it pleases the king, and if
performed.” I have found favor in his sight, and the thing
7:3
Then Esther the queen answered, “If I seem right to the king, and I am pleasing in
have found favor in your sight, O king, and if his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters
it please the king, let my life be given me at my devised by Haman, the son of Hammedatha the
petition, and my people at my request. 7:4 For Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews
we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, who are in all the king’s provinces. 8:6 For how
to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been can I endure to see the evil that would come
sold for bondservants and bondmaids, I would to my people? How can I endure to see the
have held my peace, although the adversary destruction of my relatives?”
could not have compensated for the king’s 8:7
Then King Ahasuerus said to Esther the
loss.” queen and to Mordecai the Jew, “See, I have
7:5
Then King Ahasuerus said to Esther the given Esther the house of Haman, and him they
queen, “Who is he, and where is he who dared have hanged on the gallows, because he laid his
presume in his heart to do so?” hand on the Jews. 8:8 Write also to the Jews, as it
7:6
Esther said, “An adversary and an enemy, pleases you, in the king’s name, and seal it with
even this wicked Haman!” the king’s ring; for the writing which is written
Then Haman was afraid before the king and in the king’s name, and sealed with the king’s
the queen. 7:7 The king arose in his wrath from ring, may not be reversed by any man.”
the banquet of wine and went into the palace 8:9
Then the king’s scribes were called at that
garden. Haman stood up to make request for time, in the third month Sivan, on the twenty-
his life to Esther the queen; for he saw that third day of the month; and it was written
there was evil determined against him by the according to all that Mordecai commanded to
king. 7:8 Then the king returned out of the the Jews, and to the satraps, and the governors
palace garden into the place of the banquet and princes of the provinces which are from
of wine; and Haman had fallen on the couch India to Ethiopia, one hundred twenty-seven
where Esther was. Then the king said, “Will provinces, to every province according to its
he even assault the queen in front of me in the writing, and to every people in their language,
house?” As the word went out of the king’s and to the Jews in their writing, and in their
mouth, they covered Haman’s face. language. 8:10 He wrote in the name of King
7:9
Then Harbonah, one of the eunuchs who Ahasuerus, and sealed it with the king’s ring,
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and sent letters by courier on horseback, riding struck all their enemies with the stroke of the
on royal horses that were bread from swift sword, and with slaughter and destruction, and
steeds. 8:11 In those letters, the king granted did what they wanted to those who hated them.
9:6
the Jews who were in every city to gather In the citadel of Susa, the Jews killed and
themselves together, and to defend their life, to destroyed five hundred men. 9:7 They killed
destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all the Parshandatha, Dalphon, Aspatha, 9:8 Poratha,
power of the people and province that would Adalia, Aridatha, 9:9 Parmashta, Arisai, Aridai,
assault them, their little ones and women, and and Vaizatha, 9:10 the ten sons of Haman the
to plunder their possessions, 8:12 on one day son of Hammedatha, the Jew’s enemy, but they
in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, on didn’t lay their hand on the plunder. 9:11 On
the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which that day, the number of those who were slain in
is the month Adar. 8:13 A copy of the letter, the citadel of Susa was brought before the king.
9:12
that the decree should be given out in every The king said to Esther the queen, “The
province, was published to all the peoples, Jews have slain and destroyed five hundred
that the Jews should be ready for that day to men in the citadel of Susa, including the ten
avenge themselves on their enemies. 8:14 So sons of Haman; what then have they done in
the couriers who rode on royal horses went the rest of the king’s provinces! Now what is
out, hastened and pressed on by the king’s your petition? It shall be granted you. What is
commandment. The decree was given out in your further request? It shall be done.”
the citadel of Susa. 9:13
Then Esther said, “If it pleases the king,
8:15
Mordecai went out of the presence of let it be granted to the Jews who are in Shushan
the king in royal clothing of blue and white, to do tomorrow also according to this day’s
and with a great crown of gold, and with a decree, and let Haman’s ten sons be hanged on
robe of fine linen and purple; and the city of the gallows.”
Susa shouted and was glad. 8:16 The Jews had 9:14
The king commanded this to be done.
light, gladness, joy, and honor. 8:17 In every A decree was given out in Shushan; and they
province, and in every city, wherever the king’s hanged Haman’s ten sons. 9:15 The Jews who
commandment and his decree came, the Jews were in Shushan gathered themselves together
had gladness, joy, a feast, and a good day. on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar,
Many from among the peoples of the land and killed three hundred men in Shushan; but
became Jews; for the fear of the Jews was fallen they didn’t lay their hand on the spoil. 9:16 The
on them. other Jews who were in the king’s provinces
9:1
Now in the twelfth month, which is the gathered themselves together, defended their
month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the lives, had rest from their enemies, and killed
month, when the king’s commandment and his seventy-five thousand of those who hated
decree drew near to be put in execution, on them; but they didn’t lay their hand on the
the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped plunder. 9:17 This was done on the thirteenth
to conquer them, (but it was turned out the day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth
opposite happened, that the Jews conquered day of that month they rested and made it a
those who hated them), 9:2 the Jews gathered day of feasting and gladness. 9:18 But the Jews
themselves together in their cities throughout who were in Shushan assembled together on
all the provinces of the King Ahasuerus, to lay the thirteenth and on the fourteenth days of the
hands on those who wanted to harm them. No month; and on the fifteenth day of that month,
one could withstand them, because the fear of they rested, and made it a day of feasting
them had fallen on all the people. 9:3 All the and gladness. 9:19 Therefore the Judeans of
princes of the provinces, the satraps, the gov- the villages, who live in the unwalled towns,
ernors, and those who did the king’s business make the fourteenth day of the month Adar
helped the Jews, because the fear of Mordecai a day of gladness and feasting, a good day,
had fallen on them. 9:4 For Mordecai was and a day of sending presents of food to one
great in the king’s house, and his fame went another. 9:20 Mordecai wrote these things, and
out throughout all the provinces; for the man sent letters to all the Jews who were in all the
Mordecai grew greater and greater. 9:5 The Jews provinces of the king Ahasuerus, both near and
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far, 9:21 to enjoin them that they should keep land, and on the islands of the sea. 10:2 All the
the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month acts of his power and of his might, and the full
Adar yearly, 9:22 as the days in which the Jews account of the greatness of Mordecai, to which
had rest from their enemies, and the month the king advanced him, aren’t they written in
which was turned to them from sorrow to the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media
gladness, and from mourning into a good day; and Persia? 10:3 For Mordecai the Jew was next
that they should make them days of feasting to King Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews,
and gladness, and of sending presents of food and accepted by the multitude of his brothers,
to one another, and gifts to the needy. 9:23 The seeking the good of his people, and speaking
Jews accepted the custom that they had begun, peace to all his descendants.
as Mordecai had written to them; 9:24 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; 9:25 but when this became known to the
king, he commanded by letters that his wicked
device, which he had devised against the Jews,
should return on his own head, and that he
and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
9:26
Therefore they called these days “Purim,a ”
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, 9:27 the Jews established, and
imposed on themselves, and on their descen-
dants, 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; 9:28 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 seed.
9:29
Then Esther the queen, the daughter of
Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, wrote with
all authority to confirm this second letter of
Purim. 9:30 He sent letters to all the Jews,
to the hundred twenty-seven provinces of the
kingdom of Ahasuerus, with words of peace
and truth, 9:31 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. 9:32 The commandment of Esther
confirmed these matters of Purim; and it was
written in the book.
10:1
King Ahasuerus laid a tribute on the
a 9:26 Purim is the Hebrew plural for pur, which means lot.
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Ruth your sister-in-law has gone back to her people,


and to her god. Follow your sister-in-law.”
1:1 1:16
It happened in the days when the judges Ruth said, “Don’t entreat me to leave
judged, that there was a famine in the land. A you, and to return from following after you, for
certain man of Bethlehem Judah went to live where you go, I will go; and where you lodge, I
in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and will lodge; your people shall be my people, and
his two sons. 1:2 The name of the man was your Godb my God; 1:17 where you die, will I
Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, die, and there will I be buried. The LORD do
and the name of his two sons Mahlon and so to me, and more also, if anything but death
Chilion, Ephrathites of Bethlehem Judah. They part you and me.”
1:18
came into the country of Moab, and continued When she saw that she was steadfastly
there. 1:3 Elimelech, Naomi’s husband, died; minded to go with her, she left off speaking to
and she was left, and her two sons. 1:4 They her.
1:19
took them wives of the women of Moab; the So they two went until they came to
name of the one was Orpah, and the name of Bethlehem. It happened, when they had come
the other Ruth: and they lived there about ten to Bethlehem, that all the city was moved about
years. 1:5 Mahlon and Chilion both died, and them, and they asked, “Is this Naomi?”
1:20
the woman was bereaved of her two children She said to them, “Don’t call me Naomi.
and of her husband. 1:6 Then she arose with her Call me Mara; for the Almighty has dealt very
daughters-in-law, that she might return from bitterly with me. 1:21 I went out full, and the
the country of Moab: for she had heard in LORD has brought me home again empty;
the country of Moab how that the LORDa had why do you call me Naomi, since the LORD
visited his people in giving them bread. 1:7 She has testified against me, and the Almighty has
went forth out of the place where she was, afflicted me?” 1:22 So Naomi returned, and Ruth
and her two daughters-in-law with her; and the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, with her,
they went on the way to return to the land of who returned out of the country of Moab: and
Judah. 1:8 Naomi said to her two daughters-in- they came to Bethlehem in the beginning of
law, “Go, return each of you to her mother’s barley harvest.
2:1
house: the LORD deal kindly with you, as you Naomi had a kinsman of her husband’s,
have dealt with the dead, and with me. 1:9 The a mighty man of wealth, of the family of
LORD grant you that you may find rest, each of Elimelech, and his name was Boaz. 2:2 Ruth the
you in the house of her husband.” Moabitess said to Naomi, “Let me now go to
Then she kissed them, and they lifted up the field, and glean among the ears of grain
their voice, and wept. 1:10 They said to her, “No, after him in whose sight I shall find favor.”
but we will return with you to your people.” She said to her, “Go, my daughter.” 2:3 She
1:11 went, and came and gleaned in the field after
Naomi said, “Go back, my daughters.
Why do you want to go with me? Do I still the reapers: and she happened to come to the
have sons in my womb, that they may be your portion of the field belonging to Boaz, who was
husbands? 1:12 Go back, my daughters, go your of the family of Elimelech.
2:4
way; for I am too old to have a husband. If Behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and
I should say, ‘I have hope,’ if I should even said to the reapers, “The LORD be with you.”
have a husband tonight, and should also bear They answered him, “The LORD bless you.”
2:5
sons; 1:13 would you then wait until they were Then Boaz said to his servant who was set
grown? Would you then refrain from having over the reapers, “Whose young lady is this?”
2:6
husbands? No, my daughters, for it grieves me The servant who was set over the reapers
much for your sakes, for the hand of the LORD answered, “It is the Moabite lady who came
has gone out against me.” back with Naomi out of the country of Moab.
1:14 2:7
They lifted up their voice, and wept She said, ‘Please let me glean and gather
again: and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but after the reapers among the sheaves.’ So
Ruth joined with her. 1:15 She said, “Behold, she came, and has continued even from the
a 1:6 “LORD” or “GOD” (all capital letters) indicate the 4-letter Holy Name of God
b 1:16 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “Elohim.”
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morning until now, except that she stayed a worked? Blessed be he who noticed you.”
little in the house.” She showed her mother-in-law with
2:8
Then Boaz said to Ruth, “Listen, my whom she had worked, and said, “The
daughter. Don’t go to glean in another field, man’s name with whom I worked today is
and don’t go from here, but stay here close to Boaz.” 2:20 Naomi said to her daughter-in-law,
my maidens. 2:9 Let your eyes be on the field “Blessed be he of the LORD, who has not left
that they reap, and go after them. Haven’t I off his kindness to the living and to the dead.”
commanded the young men not to touch you? Naomi said to her, “The man is a close relative
When you are thirsty, go to the vessels, and to us, one of our near kinsmen.”
2:21
drink from that which the young men have Ruth the Moabitess said, “Yes, he said
drawn.” to me, ‘You shall stay close to my young men,
2:10
Then she fell on her face, and bowed until they have ended all my harvest.’”
2:22
herself to the ground, and said to him, “Why Naomi said to Ruth her daughter-in-law,
have I found favor in your sight, that you “It is good, my daughter, that you go out with
should take knowledge of me, since I am a his maidens, and that they not meet you in
foreigner?” any other field.” 2:23 So she stayed close to the
2:11
Boaz answered her, “It has fully been maidens of Boaz, to glean to the end of barley
shown me, all that you have done to your harvest and of wheat harvest; and she lived
mother-in-law since the death of your husband; with her mother-in-law.
3:1
and how you have left your father and your Naomi her mother-in-law said to her,
mother, and the land of your birth, and have “My daughter, shall I not seek rest for you,
come to a people that you didn’t know before. that it may be well with you? 3:2 Now isn’t
2:12
May the LORD repay your work, and a full Boaz our kinsman, with whose maidens you
reward be given you from the LORD, the God were? Behold, he winnows barley tonight in
of Israel, under whose wings you have come to the threshing floor. 3:3 Therefore wash yourself,
take refuge.” anoint yourself, get dressed, and go down to
2:13
Then she said, “Let me find favor in your the threshing floor, but don’t make yourself
sight, my lord, because you have comforted known to the man until he has finished eating
me, and because you have spoken kindly to and drinking. 3:4 It shall be, when he lies down,
your handmaid, though I am not as one of your that you shall mark the place where he shall lie,
handmaidens.” and you shall go in, and uncover his feet, and
2:14
At meal time Boaz said to her, “Come lay down; then he will tell you what you shall
here, and eat of the bread, and dip your morsel do.”
3:5
in the vinegar.” She said to her, “All that you say I will
She sat beside the reapers, and they reached do.” 3:6 She went down to the threshing floor,
her parched grain, and she ate, and was satis- and did according to all that her mother-in-
fied, and left some of it. 2:15 When she had risen law told her. 3:7 When Boaz had eaten and
up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men, drunk, and his heart was merry, he went to
saying, “Let her glean even among the sheaves, lie down at the end of the heap of grain. She
and don’t reproach her. 2:16 Also pull out some came softly, uncovered his feet, and laid her
for her from the bundles, and leave it, and let down. 3:8 It happened at midnight, that the man
her glean, and don’t rebuke her.” was startled and turned himself; and behold,
2:17
So she gleaned in the field until evening; a woman lay at his feet. 3:9 He said, “Who are
and she beat out that which she had gleaned, you?”
and it was about an efahc of barley. 2:18 She She answered, “I am Ruth your handmaid.
took it up, and went into the city; and her Therefore spread your skirt over your hand-
mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned: and maid; for you are a near kinsman.”
3:10
she brought out and gave to her that which she He said, “Blessed are you by the LORD,
had left after she was sufficed. my daughter. You have shown more kindness
2:19
Her mother-in-law said to her, “Where in the latter end than at the beginning, inas-
have you gleaned today? Where have you much as you didn’t follow young men, whether
c 2:17 1 efah is about 22 litres or about 2/3 of a bushel
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poor or rich. 3:11 Now, my daughter, don’t be 4:6


The near kinsman said, “I can’t redeem it
afraid; I will do to you all that you say; for all for myself, lest I mar my own inheritance. Take
the city of my people does know that you are my right of redemption for yourself; for I can’t
a worthy woman. 3:12 Now it is true that I am redeem it.”
a near kinsman; however there is a kinsman 4:7
Now this was the custom in former time
nearer than I. 3:13 Stay this night, and it shall in Israel concerning redeeming and concerning
be in the morning, that if he will perform for exchanging, to confirm all things: a man took
you the part of a kinsman, well; let him do the off his shoe, and gave it to his neighbor; and
kinsman’s part. But if he will not do the part of this was the way of attestation in Israel. 4:8 So
a kinsman for you, then will I do the part of a the near kinsman said to Boaz, “Buy it for
kinsman for you, as the LORD lives. Lie down yourself.” He took off his shoe.
until the morning.” 4:9
Boaz said to the elders, and to all the
3:14
She lay at his feet until the morning. people, “You are witnesses this day, that I have
She rose up before one could discern another. bought all that was Elimelech’s, and all that
For he said, “Let it not be known that the was Chilion’s and Mahlon’s, from the hand of
woman came to the threshing floor.” 3:15 He Naomi. 4:10 Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the
said, “Bring the mantle that is on you, and hold wife of Mahlon, I have purchased to be my
it.” She held it; and he measured six measures wife, to raise up the name of the dead on his
of barley, and laid it on her; and he went into inheritance, that the name of the dead not be
the city. cut off from among his brothers, and from the
3:16
When she came to her mother-in-law, she gate of his place. You are witnesses this day.”
said, “How did it go, my daughter?” 4:11
All the people who were in the gate,
She told her all that the man had done to her. and the elders, said, “We are witnesses. May
3:17
She said, “He gave me these six measures the LORD make the woman who has come
of barley; for he said, ‘Don’t go empty to your into your house like Rachel and like Leah,
mother-in-law.’” which two built the house of Israel; and treat
3:18
Then she said, “Sit still, my daughter, you worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in
until you know how the matter will fall; for the Bethlehem. 4:12 Let your house be like the house
man will not rest, until he has finished the thing of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, of the
this day.” seed which the LORD shall give you of this
4:1
Now Boaz went up to the gate, and sat young woman.”
4:13
down there. Behold, the near kinsman of whom So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his
Boaz spoke came by; to whom he said, “Come wife; and he went in to her, and the LORD gave
over here, friend, and sit down!” He turned her conception, and she bore a son. 4:14 The
aside, and sat down. 4:2 He took ten men of women said to Naomi, “Blessed be the LORD,
the elders of the city, and said, “Sit down here.” who has not left you this day without a near
They sat down. 4:3 He said to the near kinsman, kinsman; and let his name be famous in Israel.
4:15
“Naomi, who has come back out of the country He shall be to you a restorer of life, and
of Moab, is selling the parcel of land, which was sustain you in your old age, for your daughter-
our brother Elimelech’s. 4:4 I thought to disclose in-law, who loves you, who is better to you than
it to you, saying, ‘Buy it before those who sit seven sons, has borne him.” 4:16 Naomi took
here, and before the elders of my people.’ If the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became
you will redeem it, redeem it; but if you will nurse to it. 4:17 The women, her neighbors, gave
not redeem it, then tell me, that I may know. him a name, saying, “There is a son born to
For there is no one to redeem it besides you; Naomi”; and they named him Obed. He is the
and I am after you.” father of Jesse, the father of David.
He said, “I will redeem it.” 4:18
Now this is the history of the generations
4:5
Then Boaz said, “On the day you buy the of Perez: Perez became the father of Hezron,
4:19
field from the hand of Naomi, you must buy it and Hezron became the father of Ram, and
also from Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the Ram became the father of Amminadab, 4:20 and
dead, to raise up the name of the dead on his Amminadab became the father of Nahshon,
inheritance.” and Nahshon became the father of Salmon,
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4:21
and Salmon became the father of Boaz, and
Boaz became the father of Obed, 4:22 and Obed
became the father of Jesse, and Jesse became the
father of David.
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Daniel you see, deal with your servants. 1:14 So he


listened to them in this matter, and proved
1:1
In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim them ten days. 1:15 At the end of ten days
king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of their faces appeared fairer, and they were fatter
Babylon to Jerusalem, and besieged it. 1:2 The in flesh, than all the youths who ate of the
Lorda gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his king’s dainties. 1:16 So the steward took away
hand, with part of the vessels of the house of their dainties, and the wine that they should
Godb ; and he carried them into the land of drink, and gave them pulse. 1:17 Now as for
Shinar to the house of his god: and he brought these four youths, God gave them knowledge
the vessels into the treasure house of his god. and skill in all learning and wisdom: and
1:3
The king spoke to Ashpenaz the master of Daniel had understanding in all visions and
his eunuchs, that he should bring in certainof dreams. 1:18 At the end of the days which the
the children of Israel, even of the seed royal king had appointed for bringing them in, the
and of the nobles; 1:4 youths in whom was no prince of the eunuchs brought them in before
blemish, but well-favored, and skillful in all Nebuchadnezzar. 1:19 The king talked with
wisdom, and endowed with knowledge, and them; and among them all was found none
understanding science, and such as had ability like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah:
to stand in the king’s palace; and that he should therefore stood they before the king. 1:20 In
teach them the learning and the language of every matter of wisdom and understanding,
the Kasdim. 1:5 The king appointed for them concerning which the king inquired of them,
a daily portion of the king’s dainties, and of he found them ten times better than all the
the wine which he drank, and that they should magicians and enchanters who were in all his
be nourished three years; that at its end they realm. 1:21 Daniel continued even to the first
should stand before the king. 1:6 Now among year of king Cyrus.
2:1
these were, of the children of Judah, Daniel, In the second year of the reign of
Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. 1:7 The prince Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar dreamed
of the eunuchs gave names to them: to Daniel dreams; and his spirit was troubled, and
he gave the name of Belteshazzar; and to Hana- his sleep went from him. 2:2 Then the king
niah, of Shadrach; and to Mishael, of Meshach; commanded to call the magicians, and the
and to Azariah, of Abednego. 1:8 But Daniel enchanters, and the sorcerers, and the Kasdim,
purposed in his heart that he would not defile to tell the king his dreams. So they came in
himself with the king’s dainties, nor with the and stood before the king. 2:3 The king said to
wine which he drank: therefore he requested them, I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit is
of the prince of the eunuchs that he might troubled to know the dream. 2:4 Then spoke the
not defile himself. 1:9 Now God made Daniel Kasdim to the king in the Syrian language, O
to find kindness and compassion in the sight king, live forever: tell your servants the dream,
of the prince of the eunuchs. 1:10 The prince and we will show the interpretation. 2:5 The
of the eunuchs said to Daniel, I fear my lord king answered the Kasdim, The thing is gone
the king, who has appointed your food and from me: if you don’t make known to me the
your drink: for why should he see your faces dream and its interpretation, you shall be cut
worse looking than the youths who are of your in pieces, and your houses shall be made a
own age? so would you endanger my head dunghill. 2:6 But if you show the dream and
with the king. 1:11 Then Daniel said to the its interpretation, you shall receive of me gifts
steward whom the prince of the eunuchs had and rewards and great honor: therefore show
appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and me the dream and its interpretation. 2:7 They
Azariah: 1:12 Test your servants, I beg you, ten answered the second time and said, Let the
days; and let them give us vegetables to eat, king tell his servants the dream, and we will
and water to drink. 1:13 Then let our faces show the interpretation. 2:8 The king answered,
be looked on before you, and the face of the I know of a certainty that you would gain
youths who eat of the king’s dainties; and as time, because you see the thing is gone from
a 1:2 The word translated “Lord” (mixed case) is “Adonai.”
b 1:2 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “Elohim.”
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me. 2:9 But if you don’t make known to me said thus to him: Don’t destroy the wise men of
the dream, there is but one law for you; for Babylon; bring me in before the king, and I will
you have prepared lying and corrupt words to show to the king the interpretation. 2:25 Then
speak before me, until the time be changed: Arioch brought in Daniel before the king in
therefore tell me the dream, and I shall know haste, and said thus to him, I have found a man
that you can show me its interpretation. 2:10 The of the children of the captivity of Judah, who
Kasdians answered before the king, and said, will make known to the king the interpretation.
2:26
There is not a man on the earth who can show The king answered Daniel, whose name
the king’s matter, because no king, lord, or was Belteshazzar, Are you able to make known
ruler, has asked such a thing of any magician, to me the dream which I have seen, and its
or enchanter, or Chaldean. 2:11 It is a rare interpretation? 2:27 Daniel answered before the
thing that the king requires, and there is no king, and said, The secret which the king has
other who can show it before the king, except demanded can neither wise men, enchanters,
the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh. magicians, nor soothsayers, show to the king;
2:12 2:28
For this cause the king was angry and very but there is a God in heaven who reveals
furious, and commanded to destroy all the secrets, and he has made known to the king
wise men of Babylon. 2:13 So the decree went Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter
forth, and the wise men were to be slain; and days. Your dream, and the visions of your head
they sought Daniel and his companions to be on your bed, are these: 2:29 as for you, O king,
slain. 2:14 Then Daniel returned answer with your thoughts came into your mindon your bed,
counsel and prudence to Arioch the captain what should happen hereafter; and he who
of the king’s guard, who was gone forth to reveals secrets has made known to you what
kill the wise men of Babylon; 2:15 he answered shall happen. 2:30 But as for me, this secret is
Arioch the king’s captain, Why is the decree not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have
so urgent from the king? Then Arioch made more than any living, but to the intent that the
the thing known to Daniel. 2:16 Daniel went in, interpretation may be made known to the king,
and desired of the king that he would appoint and that you may know the thoughts of your
him a time, and he would show the king the heart. 2:31 You, O king, saw, and behold, a great
interpretation. 2:17 Then Daniel went to his image. This image, which was mighty, and
house, and made the thing known to Hananiah, whose brightness was excellent, stood before
Mishael, and Azariah, his companions: 2:18 that you; and its aspect was awesome. 2:32 As for
they would desire mercies of the God of heaven this image, its head was of fine gold, its breast
concerning this secret; that Daniel and his and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of
companions should not perish with the rest brass, 2:33 its legs of iron, its feet part of iron,
of the wise men of Babylon. 2:19 Then was and part of clay. 2:34 You saw until a stone
the secret revealed to Daniel in a vision of the was cut out without hands, which struck the
night. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven. image on its feet that were of iron and clay, and
2:20
Daniel answered, Blessed be the name of broke them in pieces. 2:35 Then was the iron, the
God forever and ever; for wisdom and might clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken
are his. 2:21 He changes the times and the in pieces together, and became like the chaff
seasons; he removes kings, and sets up kings; of the summer threshing floors; and the wind
he gives wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to carried them away, so that no place was found
those who have understanding; 2:22 he reveals for them: and the stone that struck the image
the deep and secret things; he knows what is became a great mountain, and filled the whole
in the darkness, and the light dwells with him. earth. 2:36 This is the dream; and we will tell
2:23
I thank you, and praise you, you God of its interpretation before the king. 2:37 You, O
my fathers, who have given me wisdom and king, are king of kings, to whom the God of
might, and have now made known to me what heaven has given the kingdom, the power, and
we desired of you; for you have made known to the strength, and the glory; 2:38 and wherever
us the king’s matter. 2:24 Therefore Daniel went the children of men dwell, the animals of the
in to Arioch, whom the king had appointed to field and the birds of the sky has he given into
destroy the wise men of Babylon; he went and your hand, and has made you to rule over them
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all: you are the head of gold. 2:39 After you and the governors, the judges, the treasurers,
shall arise another kingdom inferior to you; the counselors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers
and another third kingdom of brass, which of the provinces, to come to the dedication of
shall bear rule over all the earth. 2:40 The fourth the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had
kingdom shall be strong as iron, because iron set up. 3:3 Then the satraps, the deputies, and
breaks in pieces and subdues all things; and the governors, the judges, the treasurers, the
as iron that crushes all these, shall it break in counselors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of
pieces and crush. 2:41 Whereas you saw the the provinces, were gathered together to the
feet and toes, part of potters’ clay, and part dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar
of iron, it shall be a divided kingdom; but the king had set up; and they stood before
there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up.
3:4
because you saw the iron mixed with miry clay. Then the herald cried aloud, To you it is
2:42
As the toes of the feet were part of iron, commanded, peoples, nations, and languages,
3:5
and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly that whenever you hear the sound of the
strong, and partly broken. 2:43 Whereas you horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all
saw the iron mixed with miry clay, they shall kinds of music, you fall down and worship
mingle themselves with the seed of men; but the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the
they shall not cling to one another, even as iron king has set up; 3:6 and whoever doesn’t fall
does not mingle with clay. 2:44 In the days of down and worship shall the same hour be
those kings shall the God of heaven set up a cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.
3:7
kingdom which shall never be destroyed, nor Therefore at that time, when all the peoples
shall its sovereignty be left to another people; heard the sound of the horn, flute, zither,
but it shall break in pieces and consume all lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music, all
these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever. the peoples, the nations, and the languages,
2:45
Because you saw that a stone was cut out of fell down and worshiped the golden image
the mountain without hands, and that it broke that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.
3:8
in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, Therefore at that time certain Kasdim came
and the gold; the great God has made known near, and brought accusation against the Jews.
3:9
to the king what shall happen hereafter: and They answered Nebuchadnezzar the king, O
the dream is certain, and its interpretation sure. king, live for ever. 3:10 You, O king, have made a
2:46
Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell on his decree, that every man that shall hear the sound
face, and worshiped Daniel, and commanded of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and
that they should offer an offering and sweet all kinds of music, shall fall down and worship
odors to him. 2:47 The king answered to Daniel, the golden image; 3:11 and whoever doesn’t fall
and said, Of a truth your God is the God of down and worship shall be cast into the midst
gods, and the Lord of kings, and a revealer of of a burning fiery furnace. 3:12 There are certain
secrets, since you have been able to reveal this Jews whom you have appointed over the affairs
secret. 2:48 Then the king made Daniel great, of the province of Babylon: Shadrach, Meshach,
and gave him many great gifts, and made him and Abednego; these men, O king, have not
to rule over the whole province of Babylon, respected you. They don’t serve your gods, nor
and to be chief governor over all the wise worship the golden image which you have set
men of Babylon. 2:49 Daniel requested of the up. 3:13 Then Nebuchadnezzar in hisrage and
king, and he appointed Shadrach, Meshach, fury commanded to bring Shadrach, Meshach,
and Abednego, over the affairs of the province and Abednego. Then they brought these men
of Babylon: but Daniel was in the gate of the before the king. 3:14 Nebuchadnezzar answered
king. them, Is it on purpose, Shadrach, Meshach, and
3:1
Abednego, that you don’t serve my god, nor
Nebuchadnezzar the king made an im- worship the golden image which I have set
age of gold, whose height was sixty cubits, up? 3:15 Now if you are ready whenever you
and its breadth six cubits: he set it up in hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre,
the plain of Dura, in the province of Baby- harp, pipe, and all kinds of music to fall down
lon. 3:2 Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent and worship the image which I have made,
to gather together the satraps, the deputies,
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well: but if you don’t worship, you shall be and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach,
cast the same hour into the midst of a burning Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent his
fiery furnace; and who is that god that shall angel, and delivered his servants who trusted
deliver you out of my hands? 3:16 Shadrach, in him, and have changed the king’s word, and
Meshach, and Abednego answered the king, have yielded their bodies, that they might not
Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer serve nor worship any god, except their own
you in this matter. 3:17 If it be so, our God whom God. 3:29 Therefore I make a decree, that every
we serve is able to deliver us from the burning people, nation, and language, which speak
fiery furnace; and he will deliver us out of your anything evil against the God of Shadrach,
hand, O king. 3:18 But if not, be it known to you, Meshach, and Abednego, shall be cut in pieces,
O king, that we will not serve your gods, nor and their houses shall be made a dunghill;
worship the golden image which you have set because there is no other god who is able
up. 3:19 Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, to deliver after this sort. 3:30 Then the king
and the form of his appearance was changed promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego
against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego: in the province of Babylon.
thereforehe spoke, and commanded that they 4:1
should heat the furnace seven times more than Nebuchadnezzar the king, to all the peo-
it was usually heated. 3:20 He commanded ples, nations, and languages, who dwell in all
certain mighty men who were in his army the earth: Peace be multiplied to you. 4:2 It
to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, has seemed good to me to show the signs
andto cast them into the burning fiery fur- and wonders that the Most High God has
nace. 3:21 Then these men were bound in their worked toward me. 4:3 How great are his
pants, their tunics, and their mantles, and their signs! and how mighty are his wonders! his
othergarments, and were cast into the midst kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his
of the burning fiery furnace. 3:22 Therefore dominion is from generation to generation. 4:4 I,
because the king’s commandment was urgent, Nebuchadnezzar, was at rest in my house, and
and the furnace exceeding hot, the flame of the flourishing in my palace. 4:5 I saw a dream
fire killed those men who took up Shadrach, which made me afraid; and the thoughts on
Meshach, and Abednego. 3:23 These three men, my bed and the visions of my head troubled
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell down me. 4:6 Therefore made I a decree to bring in all
bound into the midst of the burning fiery the wise men of Babylon before me, that they
furnace. 3:24 Then Nebuchadnezzar the king might make known to me the interpretation of
was astonished, and rose up in haste: he spoke the dream. 4:7 Then came in the magicians, the
and said to his counselors, Didn’t we cast enchanters, the Kasdim, and the soothsayers;
three men bound into the midst of the fire? and I told the dream before them; but they did
They answered the king, True, O king. 3:25 He not make known to me its interpretation. 4:8 But
answered, Look, I see four men loose, walking at the last Daniel came in before me, whose
in the midst of the fire, and they are unharmed; name was Belteshazzar, according to the name
and the aspect of the fourth is like a son of of my god, and in whom is the spirit of the
the gods. 3:26 Then Nebuchadnezzar came near holy gods: and I told the dream before him,
to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace: saying, 4:9 Belteshazzar, master of the magicians,
he spoke and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and because I know that the spirit of the holy gods
Abednego, you servants of the Most High God, is in you, and no secret troubles you, tell me
come forth, and come here. Then Shadrach, the visions of my dream that I have seen, and
Meshach, and Abednego came forth out of the its interpretation. 4:10 Thus were the visions
midst of the fire. 3:27 The satraps, the deputies, of my head on my bed: I saw, and behold, a
and the governors, and the king’s counselors, tree in the midst of the earth; and its height
being gathered together, saw these men, that was great. 4:11 The tree grew, and was strong,
the fire had no power on their bodies, nor and its height reached to the sky, and its sight
was the hair of their head singed, neither were to the end of all the earth. 4:12 The leaves of
their pants changed, nor had the smell of fire it were beautiful, and its fruit much, and in
passed on them. 3:28 Nebuchadnezzar spoke it was food for all: the animals of the field
had shadow under it, and the birds of the
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sky lived in its branches, and all flesh was and it is the decree of the Most High, which
fed from it. 4:13 I saw in the visions of my has come on my lord the king: 4:25 that you
head on my bed, and behold, a watcher and shall be driven from men, and your dwelling
a holy one came down from the sky. 4:14 He shall be with the animals of the field, and you
cried aloud, and said thus, Cut down the tree, shall be made to eat grass as oxen, and shall
and cut off its branches, shake off its leaves, be wet with the dew of the sky, and seven
and scatter its fruit: let the animals get away times shall pass over you; until you know that
from under it, and the fowls from its branches. the Most High rules in the kingdom of men,
4:15
Nevertheless leave the stump of its roots in and gives it to whomever he will. 4:26 Whereas
the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, they commanded to leave the stump of the
in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet roots of the tree; your kingdom shall be sure
with the dew of the sky: and let his portion to you, after that you shall have known that
be with the animals in the grass of the earth: the heavens do rule. 4:27 Therefore, O king, let
4:16
let his heart be changed from man’s, and let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off
an animal’s heart be given to him; and let seven your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities
times pass over him. 4:17 The sentence is by the by showing mercy to the poor; if there may be
decree of the watchers, and the demand by the a lengthening of your tranquility. 4:28 All this
word of the holy ones; to the intent that the came on the king Nebuchadnezzar. 4:29 At the
living may know that the Most High rules in end of twelve months he was walking in the
the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever royal palace of Babylon. 4:30 The king spoke
he will, and sets up over it the lowest of and said, Is not this great Babylon, which I have
men. 4:18 This dream I, king Nebuchadnezzar, built for the royal dwelling place, by the might
have seen; and you, Belteshazzar, declare the of my power and for the glory of my majesty?
4:31
interpretation, because all the wise men of my While the word was in the king’s mouth,
kingdom are not able to make known to me the there fell a voice from the sky, saying, O king
interpretation; but you are able; for the spirit of Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is spoken: The king-
the holy gods is in you. 4:19 Then Daniel, whose dom has departed from you: 4:32 and you shall
name was Belteshazzar, was stricken mute for a be driven from men; and your dwelling shall
while, and his thoughts troubled him. The king be with the animals of the field; you shall be
answered, Belteshazzar, don’t let the dream, or made to eat grass as oxen; and seven times shall
the interpretation, trouble you. Belteshazzar pass over you; until you know that the Most
answered, My lord, the dream be to those High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it
who hate you, and its interpretation to your to whomever he will. 4:33 The same hour was
adversaries. 4:20 The tree that you saw, which the thing fulfilled on Nebuchadnezzar: and he
grew, and was strong, whose height reached to was driven from men, and ate grass as oxen,
the sky, and its sight to all the earth; 4:21 whose and his body was wet with the dew of the sky,
leaves were beautiful, and its fruit much, and until his hair was grown like eagles’ feathers,
in it was food for all; under which the animals and his nails like birds’ claws. 4:34 At the end of
of the field lived, and on whose branches the the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes
birds of the sky had their habitation: 4:22 it is to heaven, and my understanding returned to
you, O king, that are grown and become strong; me, and I blessed the Most High, and I praised
for your greatness is grown, and reaches to the and honored him who lives forever; for his
sky, and your dominion to the end of the earth. dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his
4:23
Whereas the king saw a watcher and a holy kingdom from generation to generation. 4:35 All
one coming down from the sky, and saying, the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as
Cut down the tree, and destroy it; nevertheless nothing; and he does according to his will in
leave the stump of its roots in the earth, even the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants
with a band of iron and brass, in the tender of the earth; and none can stay his hand, or
grass of the field, and let it be wet with the ask him, What are you doing? 4:36 At the same
dew of the sky: and let his portion be with time my understanding returned to me; and
the animals of the field, until seven times pass for the glory of my kingdom, my majesty and
over him; 4:24 this is the interpretation, O king, brightness returned to me; and my counselors
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and my lords sought to me; and I was estab- soothsayers; 5:12 because an excellent spirit, and
lished in my kingdom, and excellent greatness knowledge, and understanding, interpreting of
was added to me. 4:37 Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, dreams, and showing of dark sentences, and
praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; dissolving of doubts, were found in the same
for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar.
and those who walk in pride he is able to abase. Now let Daniel be called, and he will show the
5:1
interpretation. 5:13 Then was Daniel brought in
Belshazzar the king made a great feast to before the king. The king spoke and said to
a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before Daniel, Are you that Daniel, who are of the
the thousand. 5:2 Belshazzar, while he tasted children of the captivity of Judah, whom the
the wine, commanded to bring the golden and king my father brought out of Judah? 5:14 I have
silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar his father heard of you, that the spirit of the gods is in
had taken out of the temple which was in you, and that light and understanding and ex-
Jerusalem; that the king and his lords, his wives cellent wisdom are found in you. 5:15 Now the
and his concubines, might drink from them. wise men, the enchanters, have been brought in
5:3
Then they brought the golden vessels that before me, that they should read this writing,
were taken out of the temple of God’s house and make known to me its interpretation; but
which was at Jerusalem; and the king and his they could not show the interpretation of the
lords, his wives and his concubines, drank from thing. 5:16 But I have heard of you, that you can
them. 5:4 They drank wine, and praised the give interpretations, and dissolve doubts; now
gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, if you can read the writing, and make known
of wood, and of stone. 5:5 In the same hour to me its interpretation, you shall be clothed
came forth the fingers of a man’s hand, and with purple, and have a chain of gold about
wrote over against the menorah on the plaster your neck, and shall be the third ruler in the
of the wall of the king’s palace: and the king kingdom. 5:17 Then Daniel answered before the
saw the part of the hand that wrote. 5:6 Then king, Let your gifts be to yourself, and give
the king’s face was changed in him, and his your rewards to another; nevertheless I will
thoughts troubled him; and the joints of his read the writing to the king, and make known
thighs were loosened, and his knees struck one to him the interpretation. 5:18 You, king, the
against another. 5:7 The king cried aloud to Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your
bring in the enchanters, the Kasdim, and the father the kingdom, and greatness, and glory,
soothsayers. The king spoke and said to the and majesty: 5:19 and because of the greatness
wise men of Babylon, Whoever shall read this that he gave him, all the peoples, nations,
writing, and show me its interpretation, shall and languages trembled and feared before him:
be clothed with purple, and have a chain of whom he would he killed, and whom he would
gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler he kept alive; and whom he would he raised
in the kingdom. 5:8 Then came in all the king’s up, and whom he would he put down. 5:20 But
wise men; but they could not read the writing, when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit
nor make known to the king the interpretation. was hardened so that he dealt proudly, he was
5:9
Then was king Belshazzar greatly troubled, deposed from his kingly throne, and they took
and his face was changed in him, and his lords his glory from him: 5:21 and he was driven from
were perplexed. 5:10 Nowthe queen by reason of the sons of men, and his heart was made like
the words of the king and his lords came into the animals’, and his dwelling was with the
the banquet house: the queen spoke and said, O wild donkeys; he was fed with grass like oxen,
king, live forever; don’t let your thoughts trou- and his body was wet with the dew of the
ble you, nor let your face be changed. 5:11 There sky; until he knew that the Most High God
is a man in your kingdom, in whom is the rules in the kingdom of men, and that he sets
spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of your up over it whomever he will. 5:22 You, his
father light and understanding and wisdom, son, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart,
like the wisdom of the gods, were found in though you knew all this, 5:23 but have lifted up
him; and the king Nebuchadnezzar your father, yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they
the king, I say, your father, made him master have brought the vessels of his house before
of the magicians, enchanters, Kasdim, and
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you, and you and your lords, your wives and and sign the writing, that it not be changed,
your concubines, have drunk wine from them; according to the law of the Medes and Persians,
and you have praised the gods of silver and which doesn’t alter. 6:9 Therefore king Darius
gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which signed the writing and the decree. 6:10 When
don’t see, nor hear, nor know; and the God in Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he
whose hand your breath is, and whose are all went into his house (now his windows were
your ways, you have not glorified. 5:24 Then open in his room toward Jerusalem) and he
was the part of the hand sent from before kneeled on his knees three times a day, and
him, and this writing was inscribed. 5:25 This prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as
is the writing that was inscribed: MENE, he did before. 6:11 Then these men assembled
MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN. 5:26 This is the together, and found Daniel making petition
interpretation of the thing: MENE; God has and supplication before his God. 6:12 Then they
numbered your kingdom, and brought it to came near, and spoke before the king concern-
an end; 5:27 TEKEL; you are weighed in the ing the king’s decree: Haven’t you signed an
balances, and are found wanting. 5:28 PERES; decree, that every man who shall make petition
your kingdom is divided, and given to the to any god or man within thirty days, except
Medes and Persians. 5:29 Then commanded to you, O king, shall be cast into the den of
Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel with pur- lions? The king answered, The thing is true,
ple, and put a chain of gold about his neck, according to the law of the Medes and Persians,
and made proclamation concerning him, that which doesn’t alter. 6:13 Then answered they
he should be the third ruler in the kingdom. and said before the king, That Daniel, who
5:30
In that night Belshazzar the Kasdian King is of the children of the captivity of Judah,
was slain. 5:31 Darius the Mede received the doesn’t respect you, O king, nor the decree
kingdom, being about sixty-two years old. that you have signed, but makes his petition
6:1
three times a day. 6:14 Then the king, when he
It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom heard these words, was very displeased, and
one hundred twenty satraps, who should be set his heart on Daniel to deliver him; and
throughout the whole kingdom; 6:2 and over he labored until the going down of the sun
them three presidents, of whom Daniel was to rescue him. 6:15 Then these men assembled
one; that these satraps might give account together to the king, and said to the king,
to them, and that the king should have no Know, O king, that it is a law of the Medes
damage. 6:3 Then this Daniel was distinguished and Persians, that no decree nor statute which
above the presidents and the satraps, because the king establishes may be changed. 6:16 Then
an excellent spirit was in him; and the king the king commanded, and they brought Daniel,
thought to set him over the whole realm. and cast him into the den of lions. Nowthe king
6:4
Then the presidents and the satraps sought spoke and said to Daniel, Your God whom you
to find occasion against Daniel as touching serve continually, he will deliver you. 6:17 A
the kingdom; but they could find no occasion stone was brought, and laid on the mouth of the
nor fault, because he was faithful, neither den; and the king sealed it with his own signet,
was there any error or fault found in him. and with the signet of his lords; that nothing
6:5
Then these men said, We shall not find any might be changed concerning Daniel. 6:18 Then
occasion against this Daniel, except we find the king went to his palace, and passed the
it against him concerning the law of his God. night fasting; neither were instruments of mu-
6:6
Then these presidents and satraps assembled sic brought before him: and his sleep fled from
together to the king, and said thus to him, King him. 6:19 Then the king arose very early in the
Darius, live forever. 6:7 All the presidents of morning, and went in haste to the den of lions.
the kingdom, the deputies and the satraps, the 6:20
When he came near to the den to Daniel, he
counselors and the governors, have consulted cried with a lamentable voice; the king spoke
together to establish a royal statute, and to and said to Daniel, Daniel, servant of the living
make a strong decree, that whoever shall ask God, is your God, whom you serve continually,
a petition of any god or man for thirty days, ex- able to deliver you from the lions? 6:21 Then
cept of you, O king, he shall be cast into the den Daniel said to the king, O king, live forever.
of lions. 6:8 Now, O king, establish the decree,
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6:22
My God has sent his angel, and has shut residue with its feet: and it was diverse from all
the lions’ mouths, and they have not hurt me; the animals that were before it; and it had ten
because as before him innocence was found in horns. 7:8 I considered the horns, and behold,
me; and also before you, O king, have I done there came up among them another horn, a
no hurt. 6:23 Then was the king exceeding glad, little one, before which three of the first horns
and commanded that they should take Daniel were plucked up by the roots: and behold, in
up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and
of the den, and no kind of harm was found on a mouth speaking great things. 7:9 I saw until
him, because he had trusted in his God. 6:24 The thrones were placed, and one who was ancient
king commanded, and they brought those men of days sat: his clothing was white as snow, and
who had accused Daniel, and they cast them the hair of his head like pure wool; his throne
into the den of lions, them, their children, and was fiery flames, andits wheels burning fire.
7:10
their wives; and the lions mauled them, and A fiery stream issued and came forth from
broke all their bones in pieces, before they before him: thousands of thousands ministered
came to the bottom of the den. 6:25 Then king to him, and ten thousand times ten thousand
Darius wrote to all the peoples, nations, and stood before him: the judgment was set, and
languages, who dwell in all the earth: Peace the books were opened. 7:11 I saw at that time
be multiplied to you. 6:26 I make a decree, because of the voice of the great words which
that in all the dominion of my kingdom men the horn spoke; I saw even until the animal was
tremble and fear before the God of Daniel; for slain, and its body destroyed, and it was given
he is the living God, and steadfast forever, His to be burned with fire. 7:12 As for the rest of the
kingdom that which shall not be destroyed; animals, their dominion was taken away: yet
and his dominion shall be even to the end. their lives were prolonged for a season and a
6:27
He delivers and rescues, and he works signs time. 7:13 I saw in the night visions, and behold,
and wonders in heaven and in earth, who has there came with the clouds of the sky one like
delivered Daniel from the power of the lions. a son of man, and he came even to the ancient
6:28
So this Daniel prospered in the reign of of days, and they brought him near before him.
7:14
Darius, and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian. There was given him dominion, and glory,
7:1
and a kingdom, that all the peoples, nations,
In the first year of Belshazzar king of and languages should serve him: his dominion
Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his is an everlasting dominion, which shall not
head on his bed: then he wrote the dream and pass away, and his kingdom that which shall
told the sum of the matters. 7:2 Daniel spoke not be destroyed. 7:15 As for me, Daniel, my
and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, spirit was grieved in the midst of my body, and
behold, the four winds of the sky broke forth the visions of my head troubled me. 7:16 I came
on the great sea. 7:3 Four great animals came up near to one of those who stood by, and asked
from the sea, diverse one from another. 7:4 The him the truth concerning all this. So he told me,
first was like a lion, and had eagle’s wings: I and made me know the interpretation of the
saw until its wings were plucked, and it was things. 7:17 These great animals, which are four,
lifted up from the earth, and made to stand on are four kings, who shall arise out of the earth.
two feet as a man; and a man’s heart was given 7:18
But the holy ones of the Most High shall
to it. 7:5 Behold, another animal, a second, like receive the kingdom, and possess the kingdom
a bear; and it was raised up on one side, and forever, even forever and ever. 7:19 Then I
three ribs were in its mouth between its teeth: desired to know the truth concerning the fourth
and they said thus to it, Arise, devour much animal, which was diverse from all of them,
flesh. 7:6 After this I saw, and behold, another, exceedingly terrible, whose teeth were of iron,
like a leopard, which had on its back four and its nails of brass; which devoured, broke in
wings of a bird; the animal had also four heads; pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet;
and dominion was given to it. 7:7 After this I 7:20
and concerning the ten horns that were on
saw in the night visions, and, behold, a fourth its head, and the other hornwhich came up,
animal, awesome and powerful, and strong and before which three fell, even that horn that
exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth; it had eyes, and a mouth that spoke great things,
devoured and broke in pieces, and stamped the
Daniel 7:21 701 Daniel 8:20

whose look was more stout than its fellows. that had the two horns, which I saw standing
7:21
I saw, and the same horn made war with the before the river, and ran on him in the fury
holy ones, and prevailed against them; 7:22 until of his power. 8:7 I saw him come close to the
the ancient of days came, and judgment was ram, and he was moved with anger against
given to the holy ones of the Most High, and him, and struck the ram, and broke his two
the time came that the holy ones possessed the horns; and there was no power in the ram to
kingdom. 7:23 Thus he said, The fourth animal stand before him; but he cast him down to
shall be a fourth kingdom on earth, which the ground, and trampled on him; and there
shall be diverse from all the kingdoms, and was none who could deliver the ram out of
shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread his hand. 8:8 The male goat magnified himself
it down, and break it in pieces. 7:24 As for the exceedingly: and when he was strong, the great
ten horns, out of this kingdom shall ten kings horn was broken; and instead of it there came
arise: and another shall arise after them; and he up four notable hornstoward the four winds of
shall be diverse from the former, and he shall the sky. 8:9 Out of one of them came forth a
put down three kings. 7:25 He shall speak words little horn, which grew exceeding great, toward
against the Most High, and shall wear out the the south, and toward the east, and toward the
holy ones of the Most High; and he shall think glorious land. 8:10 It grew great, even to the
to change the times and the law; and they shall army of the sky; and some of the army and
be given into his hand until a time and times of the stars it cast down to the ground, and
and half a time. 7:26 But the judgment shall be trampled on them. 8:11 Yes, it magnified itself,
set, and they shall take away his dominion, to even to the prince of the army; and it took away
consume and to destroy it to the end. 7:27 The from him the continual burnt offering, and the
kingdom and the dominion, and the greatness place of his sanctuary was cast down. 8:12 The
of the kingdoms under the whole sky, shall be army was given over to ittogether with the
given to the people of the holy ones of the Most continual burnt offeringthrough disobedience;
High: his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and it cast down truth to the ground, and
and all dominions shall serve and obey him. it did its pleasureand prospered. 8:13 Then I
7:28
Here is the end of the matter. As for me, heard a holy one speaking; and another holy
Daniel, my thoughts much troubled me, and one said to that certain one who spoke, How
my face was changed in me: but I kept the long shall be the vision concerningthe continual
matter in my heart. burnt offering, and the disobedience that makes
8:1
desolate, to give both the sanctuary and the
In the third year of the reign of king army to be trodden under foot? 8:14 He said
Belshazzar a vision appeared to me, even to to me, To two thousand and three hundred
me, Daniel, after that which appeared to me evenings andmornings; then shall the sanctuary
at the first. 8:2 I saw in the vision; now it was be cleansed. 8:15 It happened, when I, even I
so, that when I saw, I was in the citadel of Daniel, had seen the vision, that I sought to
Susa, which is in the province of Elam; and understand it; and behold, there stood before
I saw in the vision, and I was by the river me as the appearance of a man. 8:16 I heard
Ulai. 8:3 Then I lifted up my eyes, and saw, a man’s voice between the banks of the Ulai,
and behold, there stood before the river a ram which called, and said, Gabriel, make this
which had two horns: and the two horns were man to understand the vision. 8:17 So he came
high; but one was higher than the other, and the near where I stood; and when he came, I was
higher came up last. 8:4 I saw the ram pushing frightened, and fell on my face: but he said
westward, and northward, and southward; and to me, Understand, son of man; for the vision
no animals could stand before him, neither belongs to the time of the end. 8:18 Now as
was there any who could deliver out of his he was speaking with me, I fell into a deep
hand; but he did according to his will, and sleep with my face toward the ground; but he
magnified himself. 8:5 As I was considering, touched me, and set me upright. 8:19 He said,
behold, a male goat came from the west over Behold, I will make you know what shall be in
the surface of the whole earth, and didn’t touch the latter time of the indignation; for it belongs
the ground: and the goat had a notable horn to the appointed time of the end. 8:20 The ram
between his eyes. 8:6 He came to the ram
Daniel 8:21 702 Daniel 9:19

which you saw, that had the two horns, they Jerusalem, and to all Israel, who are near, and
are the kings of Media and Persia. 8:21 The who are far off, through all the countries where
rough male goat is the king of Greece: and the you have driven them, because of their trespass
great horn that is between his eyes is the first that they have trespassed against you. 9:8 Lord,
king. 8:22 As for that which was broken, in the to us belongs confusion of face, to our kings,
place where four stood up, four kingdoms shall to our princes, and to our fathers, because we
stand up out of the nation, but not with his have sinned against you. 9:9 To the Lord our
power. 8:23 In the latter time of their kingdom, God belong mercies and forgiveness; for we
when the transgressors have come to the full, have rebelled against him; 9:10 neither have we
a king of fierce face, and understanding dark obeyed the voice of the LORD our God, to
sentences, shall stand up. 8:24 His power shall walk in his laws, which he set before us by his
be mighty, but not by his own power; and he servants the prophets. 9:11 Yes, all Israel have
shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper transgressed your law, turning aside, that they
and do his pleasure; and he shall destroy the should not obey your voice: therefore the curse
mighty ones and the holy people. 8:25 Through and the oath written in the Torah of Moses the
his policy he shall cause craft to prosper in his servant of God has been poured out on us;
hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, for we have sinned against him. 9:12 He has
and in theirsecurity shall he destroy many: he confirmed his words, which he spoke against
shall also stand up against the prince of princes; us, and against our judges who judged us, by
but he shall be broken without hand. 8:26 The bringing on us a great evil; for under the whole
vision of the evenings and mornings which sky, such has not been done as has been done
has been told is true: but seal up the vision; to Jerusalem. 9:13 As it is written in the Torah of
for it belongs to many days to come. 8:27 I, Moses, all this evil has come on us: yet have we
Daniel, fainted, and was sick certain days; then not entreated the favor of the LORD our God,
I rose up, and did the king’s business: and I that we should turn from our iniquities, and
wondered at the vision, but none understood have discernment in your truth. 9:14 Therefore
it. has the LORD watched over the evil, and
9:1 brought it on us; for the LORD our God is
In the first year of Darius the son of
Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, who was righteous in all his works which he does, and
made king over the realm of the Kasdim, 9:2 in we have not obeyed his voice. 9:15 Now, Lord
the first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood our God, who has brought your people forth
by the books the number of the years about out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand,
which the word of the LORDc came to Jeremiah and have gotten yourself renown, as at this
the prophet, for the accomplishing of the deso- day; we have sinned, we have done wickedly.
9:16
lations of Jerusalem, even seventy years. 9:3 I set Lord, according to all your righteousness,
my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and let your anger and please let your wrath be
petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes. turned away from your city Jerusalem, your
9:4 holy mountain; because for our sins, and for
I prayed to the LORD my God, and made
confession, and said, Oh, Lord, the great and the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and your
dreadful God, who keeps covenant and loving people have become a reproach to all who
kindness with those who love him and keep his are around us. 9:17 Now therefore, our God,
commandments, 9:5 we have sinned, and have listen to the prayer of your servant, and to
dealt perversely, and have done wickedly, and his petitions, and cause your face to shine on
have rebelled, even turning aside from your your sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord’s
precepts and from your ordinances; 9:6 neither sake. 9:18 My God, turn your ear, and hear;
have we listened to your servants the prophets, open your eyes, and see our desolations, and
who spoke in your name to our kings, our the city which is called by your name: for
princes, and our fathers, and to all the people we do not present our petitions before you for
of the land. 9:7 Lord, righteousness belongs to our righteousness, but for your great mercies’
you, but to us confusion of face, as at this day; sake. 9:19 Lord, hear; Lord, forgive; Lord, listen
to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of and do; don’t defer, for your own sake, my
c 9:2 “LORD” or “GOD” (all capital letters) indicate the 4-letter Holy Name of God
Daniel 9:20 703 Daniel 10:17

God, because your city and your people are whole weeks were fulfilled. 10:4 In the four
called by your name. 9:20 While I was speaking, and twentieth day of the first month, as I
and praying, and confessing my sin and the was by the side of the great river, which is
sin of my people Israel, and presenting my Hiddekel, 10:5 I lifted up my eyes, and looked,
supplication before the LORD my God for the and behold, a man clothed in linen, whose
holy mountain of my God; 9:21 yes, while I was thighs were adorned with pure gold of Uphaz:
10:6
speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I his body also was like the beryl, and his face
had seen in the vision at the beginning, being as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as
caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time flaming torches, and his arms and his feet like
of the evening offering. 9:22 He instructed me, burnished brass, and the voice of his words like
and talked with me, and said, Daniel, I am the voice of a multitude. 10:7 I, Daniel, alone
now come forth to give you wisdom and under- saw the vision; for the men who were with
standing. 9:23 At the beginning of your petitions me didn’t see the vision; but a great quaking
the commandment went forth, and I have fell on them, and they fled to hide themselves.
10:8
come to tell you; for you are greatly beloved: So I was left alone, and saw this great vision,
therefore consider the matter, and understand and there remained no strength in me; for my
the vision. 9:24 Seventy weeks are decreed on comeliness was turned in me into corruption,
your people and on your holy city, to finish and I retained no strength. 10:9 Yet heard I the
disobedience, and to make an end of sins, and voice of his words; and when I heard the voice
to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring of his words, then was I fallen into a deep sleep
in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up on my face, with my face toward the ground.
10:10
vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Behold, a hand touched me, which set me
holy. 9:25 Know therefore and discern, that from on my knees and on the palms of my hands.
10:11
the going forth of the commandment to restore He said to me, Daniel, you man greatly
and to build Jerusalem to the Anointed One,d beloved, understand the words that I speak to
the prince, shall be seven weeks, and sixty- you, and stand upright; for am I now sent to
two weeks: it shall be built again, with street you. When he had spoken this word to me, I
and moat, even in troubled times. 9:26 After stood trembling. 10:12 Then he said to me, Don’t
the sixty-two weeks the Anointed Onee shall be be afraid, Daniel; for from the first day that you
cut off, and shall have nothing: and the people set your heart to understand, and to humble
of the prince who shall come shall destroy the yourself before your God, your words were
city and the sanctuary; and its end shall be heard: and I have come for your words’ sake.
10:13
with a flood, and even to the end shall be war; But the prince of the kingdom of Persia
desolations are determined. 9:27 He shall make withstood me twenty-one days; but, behold,
a firm covenant with many for one week: and Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help
in the midst of the week he shall cause the me: and I remained there with the kings of
sacrifice and the offering to cease; and on the Persia. 10:14 Now I have come to make you
wing of abominations shall comeone who makes understand what shall happen to your people
desolate; and even to the full end, and that in the latter days; for the vision is yet for
determined, shall wrathbe poured out on the manydays: 10:15 and when he had spoken to me
desolate. according to these words, I set my face toward
10:1
In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a the ground, and was mute. 10:16 Behold, one in
thing was revealed to Daniel, whose name was the likeness of the sons of men touched my lips:
called Belteshazzar; and the thing was true, then I opened my mouth, and spoke and said to
even a great warfare: and he understood the him who stood before me, my lord, by reason
thing, and had understanding of the vision. of the vision my sorrows are turned on me,
10:2
In those days I, Daniel, was mourning three and I retain no strength. 10:17 For how can the
whole weeks. 10:3 I ate no pleasant bread, servant of this my lord talk with this my lord?
neither came flesh nor wine into my mouth, for as for me, immediately there remained no
neither did I anoint myself at all, until three strength in me, neither was there breath left in
d 9:25 “Anointed One” can also be translated “Messiah” (same as “Messiah”).
e 9:26 “Anointed One” can also be translated “Messiah” (same as “Messiah”).
Daniel 10:18 704 Daniel 11:22

me. 10:18 Then there touched me again one like return into his own land. 11:10 His sons shall
the appearance of a man, and he strengthened war, and shall assemble a multitude of great
me. 10:19 He said, “Greatly beloved man, don’t forces, which shall come on, and overflow, and
be afraid: peace be to you, be strong, yes, be pass through; and they shall return and war,
strong.” even to his fortress. 11:11 The king of the south
When he spoke to me, I was strengthened, shall be moved with anger, and shall come forth
and said, “Let my lord speak; for you have and fight with him, even with the king of the
strengthened me.” north; and he shall set forth a great multitude,
10:20 and the multitude shall be given into his hand.
Then he said, “Do you know why I have 11:12
The multitude shall be lifted up, and his
come to you? Now I will return to fight with
heart shall be exalted; and he shall cast down
the prince of Persia. When I go forth, behold,
tens of thousands, but he shall not prevail.
the prince of Greece shall come. 10:21 But I will 11:13
The king of the north shall return, and shall
tell you that which is inscribed in the writing
set forth a multitude greater than the former;
of truth: and there is none who holds with me
and he shall come on at the end of the times,
against these, but Michael your prince.”
11:1
even of years, with a great army and with much
“As for me, in the first year of Darius substance. 11:14 In those times there shall many
the Mede, I stood up to confirm and strengthen stand up against the king of the south: also the
him. 11:2 Now will I show you the truth. children of the violent among your people shall
Behold, there shall stand up yet three kings lift themselves up to establish the vision; but
in Persia; and the fourth shall be far richer they shall fall. 11:15 So the king of the north shall
than they all: and when he has grown strong come, and cast up a mound, and take a well-
through his riches, he shall stir up all against fortified city: and the forces of the south shall
the realm of Greece. 11:3 A mighty king shall not stand, neither his chosen people, neither
stand up, who shall rule with great dominion, shall there be any strength to stand. 11:16 But he
and do according to his will. 11:4 When he shall who comes against him shall do according to
stand up, his kingdom shall be broken, and his own will, and none shall stand before him;
shall be divided toward the four winds of the and he shall stand in the glorious land, and in
sky, but not to his posterity, nor according to his his hand shall be destruction. 11:17 He shall set
dominion with which he ruled; for his kingdom his face to come with the strength of his whole
shall be plucked up, even for others besides kingdom, and with him equitable conditions;
these. 11:5 The king of the south shall be strong, and he shall perform them: and he shall give
and oneof his princes; and he shall be strong him the daughter of women, to corrupt her;
above him, and have dominion; his dominion but she shall not stand, neither be for him.
shall be a great dominion. 11:6 At the end of 11:18
After this shall he turn his face to the
years they shall join themselves together; and islands, and shall take many: but a prince shall
the daughter of the king of the south shall come cause the reproach offered by him to cease;
to the king of the north to make an agreement: yes, moreover, he shall cause his reproach to
but she shall not retain the strength of her arm; turn on him. 11:19 Then he shall turn his face
neither shall he stand, nor his arm; but she toward the fortresses of his own land; but he
shall be given up, and those who brought her, shall stumble and fall, and shall not be found.
and he who became the father of her, and he 11:20
Then shall stand up in his place one who
who strengthened her in those times. 11:7 But shall cause a tax collector to pass through the
out of a shoot from her roots shall one stand kingdom to maintain its glory; but within few
up in his place, who shall come to the army, days he shall be destroyed, neither in anger,
and shall enter into the fortress of the king of nor in battle. 11:21 In his place shall stand up
the north, and shall deal against them, and a contemptible person, to whom they had not
shall prevail. 11:8 Also their gods, with their given the honor of the kingdom: but he shall
molten images, andwith their goodly vessels of come in time of security, and shall obtain the
silver and of gold, shall he carry captive into kingdom by flatteries. 11:22 The overwhelming
Egypt; and he shall refrain some years from forces shall be overwhelmed from before him,
the king of the north. 11:9 He shall come into and shall be broken; yes, also the prince of the
the realm of the king of the south, but he shall
Daniel 11:23 705 Daniel 12:4

covenant. 11:23 After the treaty made with him and shall speak marvelous things against the
he shall work deceitfully; for he shall come up, God of gods; and he shall prosper until the
and shall become strong, with a small people. indignation be accomplished; for that which is
11:24
In time of security shall he come even determined shall be done. 11:37 Neither shall he
on the fattest places of the province; and he regard the gods of his fathers, nor the desire
shall do that which his fathers have not done, of women, nor regard any god; for he shall
nor his fathers’ fathers; he shall scatter among magnify himself above all. 11:38 But in his place
them prey, and spoil, and substance: yes, he shall he honor the god of fortresses; and a
shall devise his devices against the strongholds, god whom his fathers didn’t know shall he
even for a time. 11:25 He shall stir up his power honor with gold, and silver, and with precious
and his courage against the king of the south stones, and pleasant things. 11:39 He shall deal
with a great army; and the king of the south with the strongest fortresses by the help of
shall war in battle with an exceeding great and a foreign god: whoever acknowledges himhe
mighty army; but he shall not stand; for they will increase with glory; and he shall cause
shall devise devices against him. 11:26 Yes, they them to rule over many, and shall divide the
who eat of his dainties shall destroy him, and land for a price. 11:40 At the time of the end
his army shall overflow; and many shall fall shall the king of the south contend with him;
down slain. 11:27 As for both these kings, their and the king of the north shall come against
hearts shall be to do mischief, and they shall him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with
speak lies at one table: but it shall not prosper; horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall
for yet the end shall be at the time appointed. enter into the countries, and shall overflow
11:28
Then shall he return into his land with and pass through. 11:41 He shall enter also into
great substance; and his heart shall beagainst the glorious land, and many countriesshall be
the holy covenant; and he shall do his pleasure, overthrown; but these shall be delivered out of
and return to his own land. 11:29 At the time his hand: Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the
appointed he shall return, and come into the children of Ammon. 11:42 He shall stretch forth
south; but it shall not be in the latter time as it his hand also on the countries; and the land of
was in the former. 11:30 For ships of Kittim shall Egypt shall not escape. 11:43 But he shall have
come against him; therefore he shall be grieved, power over the treasures of gold and of silver,
and shall return, and have indignation against and over all the precious things of Egypt; and
the holy covenant, and shall do his pleasure: the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his
he shall even return, and have regard to those steps. 11:44 But news out of the east and out
who forsake the holy covenant. 11:31 Forces of the north shall trouble him; and he shall go
shall stand on his part, and they shall profane forth with great fury to destroy and utterly to
the sanctuary, even the fortress, and shall take sweep away many. 11:45 He shall plant the tents
away the continual burnt offering, and they shall of his palace between the sea and the glorious
set up the abomination that makes desolate. holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end,
11:32
Such as do wickedly against the covenant and none shall help him.
shall he pervert by flatteries; but the people 12:1
who know their God shall be strong, and do “At that time shall Michael stand up, the
exploits. 11:33 Those who are wise among the great prince who stands for the children of your
people shall instruct many; yet they shall fall people; and there shall be a time of trouble,
by the sword and by flame, by captivity and by such as never was since there was a nation
spoil, manydays. 11:34 Now when they shall fall, even to that same time: and at that time your
they shall be helped with a little help; but many people shall be delivered, everyone who shall
shall join themselves to them with flatteries. be found written in the book. 12:2 Many of those
11:35
Some of those who are wise shall fall, to who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake,
refine them, and to purify, and to make them some to everlasting life, and some to shame and
white, even to the time of the end; because it everlasting contempt. 12:3 Those who are wise
is yet for the time appointed. 11:36 The king shall shine as the brightness of the expanse; and
shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt those who turn many to righteousness as the
himself, and magnify himself above every god, stars forever and ever. 12:4 But you, Daniel, shut
up the words, and seal the book, even to the
Daniel 12:5 706 Daniel 12:13

time of the end: many shall run back and forth,


and knowledge shall be increased.”
12:5
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.
12:6
One said to the man clothed in linen, who
was above the waters of the river, How long
shall it be to the end of these wonders? 12:7 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 shall be
for a time, times, and a half; and when they
have made an end of breaking in pieces the
power of the holy people, all these things shall
be finished. 12:8 I heard, but I didn’t under-
stand: then I said, my lord, what shall be the
issue of these things? 12:9 He said, Go your way,
Daniel; for the words are shut up and sealed
until the time of the end. 12:10 Many shall purify
themselves, and make themselves white, and
be refined; but the wicked shall do wickedly;
and none of the wicked shall understand; but
those who are wise shall understand. 12:11 From
the time that the continual burnt offering shall
be taken away, and the abomination that makes
desolate set up, there shall be one thousand two
hundred ninety days. 12:12 Blessed is he who
waits, and comes to the one thousand three
hundred thirty-five days. 12:13 But go you your
way until the end; for you shall rest, and shall
stand in your lot, at the end of the days.
Ezra 1:1 707 Ezra 2:36

Ezra Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had car-


ried away to Babylon, and who returned to
1:1 Jerusalem and Judah, everyone to his city;
Now in the first year of Cyrus king of 2:2
Persia, that the word of the LORDa by the who came with Zerubbabel, Yeshua, Ne-
mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, hemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan,
the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, Baanah. The number
of Persia, so that he made a proclamation of the men of the people of Israel: 2:3 The
throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in children of Parosh, two thousand one hundred
writing, saying, 1:2 “Thus says Cyrus king of seventy-two. 2:4 The children of Shephatiah,
Persia, ‘The LORD, the Godb of heaven, has three hundred seventy-two. 2:5 The children
given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and of Arah, seven hundred seventy-five. 2:6 The
he has commanded me to build him a house in children of Pahathmoab, of the children of
Jerusalem, which is in Judah. 1:3 Whoever there Yeshua and Joab, two thousand eight hundred
is among you of all his people, may his God twelve. 2:7 The children of Elam, one thousand
be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, two hundred fifty-four. 2:8 The children of
which is in Judah, and build the house of the Zattu, nine hundred forty-five. 2:9 The children
LORD, the God of Israel (he is God), which is of Zaccai, seven hundred sixty. 2:10 The children
in Jerusalem. 1:4 Whoever is left, in any place of Bani, six hundred forty-two. 2:11 The children
where he lives, let the men of his place help him of Bebai, six hundred twenty-three. 2:12 The
with silver, with gold, with goods, and with children of Azgad, one thousand two hundred
animals, besides the freewill offering for God’s twenty-two. 2:13 The children of Adonikam, six
house which is in Jerusalem.’” hundred sixty-six. 2:14 The children of Bigvai,
1:5
Then the heads of fathers’ households of two thousand fifty-six. 2:15 The children of
Judah and Benjamin, and the priests, and the Adin, four hundred fifty-four. 2:16 The children
Levites, even all whose spirit God had stirred of Ater, of Hezekiah, ninety-eight. 2:17 The
to go up rose up to build the house of the children of Bezai, three hundred twenty-three.
2:18
LORD which is in Jerusalem. 1:6 All those who The children of Jorah, one hundred twelve.
2:19
were around them strengthened their hands The children of Hashum, two hundred
2:20
with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, twenty-three. The children of Gibbar,
and with animals, and with precious things, ninety-five. 2:21 The children of Bethlehem,
besides all that was willingly offered. 1:7 Also one hundred twenty-three. 2:22 The men of
Cyrus the king brought forth the vessels of the Netophah, fifty-six. 2:23 The men of Anathoth,
house of the LORD, which Nebuchadnezzar one hundred twenty-eight. 2:24 The children
had brought out of Jerusalem, and had put in of Azmaveth, forty-two. 2:25 The children of
the house of his gods; 1:8 even those, Cyrus Kiriath Arim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven
king of Persia brought out by the hand of hundred forty-three. 2:26 The children of Ramah
Mithredath the treasurer, and numbered them and Geba, six hundred twenty-one. 2:27 The
to Sheshbazzar, the prince of Judah. 1:9 This men of Michmas, one hundred twenty-two.
2:28
is the number of them: thirty platters of gold, The men of Bethel and Ai, two hundred
one thousand platters of silver, twenty-nine twenty-three. 2:29 The children of Nebo, fifty-
knives, 1:10 thirty bowls of gold, silver bowls two. 2:30 The children of Magbish, one hundred
of a second sort four hundred and ten, and fifty-six. 2:31 The children of the other Elam, one
other vessels one thousand. 1:11 All the vessels thousand two hundred fifty-four. 2:32 The chil-
of gold and of silver were five thousand and dren of Harim, three hundred twenty. 2:33 The
four hundred. Sheshbazzar brought all these children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hun-
up, when the captives were brought up from dred twenty-five. 2:34 The children of Jericho,
Babylon to Jerusalem. three hundred forty-five. 2:35 The children of
2:1
Now these are the children of the Senaah, three thousand six hundred thirty.
2:36
province, who went up out of the captivity The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of
of those who had been carried away, whom the house of Yeshua, nine hundred seventy-
a 1:1 “LORD” or “GOD” (all capital letters) indicate the 4-letter Holy Name of God
b 1:2 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “Elohim.”
Ezra 2:37 708 Ezra 3:7

three. 2:37 The children of Immer, one thousand were registered by genealogy, but they were
fifty-two. 2:38 The children of Pashhur, one not found: therefore were they deemed pol-
thousand two hundred forty-seven. 2:39 The luted and put from the priesthood. 2:63 The
children of Harim, one thousand seventeen. governor said to them, that they should not
2:40
The Levites: the children of Yeshua and eat of the most holy things, until there stood
Kadmiel, of the children of Hodaviah, seventy- up a priest with Urim and with Thummim.
four. 2:41 The singers: the children of Asaph, 2:64
The whole assembly together was forty-two
one hundred twenty-eight. 2:42 The children thousand three hundred sixty, 2:65 besides their
of the porters: the children of Shallum, the male servants and their female servants, of
children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the whom there were seven thousand three hun-
children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the dred thirty-seven: and they had two hundred
children of Shobai, in all one hundred thirty- singing men and singing women. 2:66 Their
nine. 2:43 The Nethinim: the children of Ziha, horses were seven hundred thirty-six; their
the children of Hasupha, the children of Tab- mules, two hundred forty-five; 2:67 their camels,
baoth, 2:44 the children of Keros, the children four hundred thirty-five; their donkeys, six
of Siaha, the children of Padon, 2:45 the chil- thousand seven hundred and twenty. 2:68 Some
dren of Lebanah, the children of Hagabah, the of the heads of fathers’ households, when they
children of Akkub, 2:46 the children of Hagab, came to the house of the LORD which is in
the children of Shamlai, the children of Hanan, Jerusalem, offered willingly for God’s house
2:47
the children of Giddel, the children of Ga- to set it up in its place: 2:69 they gave after
har, the children of Reaiah, 2:48 the children of their ability into the treasury of the work sixty-
Rezin, the children of Nekoda, the children one thousand darics of gold, and five thousand
of Gazzam, 2:49 the children of Uzza, the chil- minas of silver, and one hundred priests’ gar-
dren of Paseah, the children of Besai, 2:50 the ments. 2:70 So the priests, and the Levites, and
children of Asnah, the children of Meunim, some of the people, and the singers, and the
the children of Nephisim, 2:51 the children of porters, and the Nethinim, lived in their cities,
Bakbuk, the children of Hakupha, the children and all Israel in their cities.
of Harhur, 2:52 the children of Bazluth, the 3:1
children of Mehida, the children of Harsha, When the seventh month had come, and
2:53
the children of Barkos, the children of Sis- the children of Israel were in the cities, the
era, the children of Temah, 2:54 the children people gathered themselves together as one
of Neziah, the children of Hatipha. 2:55 The man to Jerusalem. 3:2 Then Yeshua the son of
children of Solomon’s servants: the children Jozadak stood up with his brothers the priests,
of Sotai, the children of Hassophereth, the and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and his
children of Peruda, 2:56 the children of Jaalah, brothers, and built the altar of the God of Israel,
the children of Darkon, the children of Giddel, to offer burnt offerings thereon, as it is written
2:57
the children of Shephatiah, the children of in the Torah of Moses the man of God. 3:3 In
Hattil, the children of Pochereth Hazzebaim, spite of their fear because of the peoples of
the children of Ami. 2:58 All the Nethinim, and the surrounding lands, they set the altar on its
the children of Solomon’s servants, were three base; and they offered burnt offerings on it to
hundred ninety-two. 2:59 These were those who the LORD, even burnt offerings morning and
went up from Tel Melah, Tel Harsha, Cherub, evening. 3:4 They kept the feast of booths, as it
Addan, and Immer; but they could not show is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings
their fathers’ houses, and their seed, whether by number, according to the ordinance, as the
they were of Israel: 2:60 the children of Delaiah, duty of every day required; 3:5 and afterward
the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, the continual burnt offering, the offerings of
six hundred fifty-two. 2:61 Of the children the new moons, of all the set feasts of the
of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the LORD that were consecrated, and of everyone
children of Hakkoz, the children of Barzillai, who willingly offered a freewill offering to the
who took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai LORD. 3:6 From the first day of the seventh
the Gileadite, and was called after their name. month, they began to offer burnt offerings to
2:62
These sought their place among those who the LORD; but the foundation of the LORD’s
temple was not yet laid. 3:7 They also gave
Ezra 3:8 709 Ezra 4:15

money to the masons, and to the carpenters. here.”


They also gave food, drink, and oil to the 4:3
But Zerubbabel, and Yeshua, and the rest
people of Sidon and Tyre, to bring cedar trees of the heads of fathers’ households of Israel,
from Lebanon to the sea, to Joppa, according said to them, “You have nothing to do with
to the grant that they had from Cyrus King of us in building a house to our God; but we
Persia. ourselves together will build to the LORD, the
3:8
Now in the second year of their coming God of Israel, as king Cyrus the king of Persia
to God’s house at Jerusalem, in the second has commanded us.”
month, Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and 4:4
Then the people of the land weakened
Yeshua the son of Jozadak, and the rest of their the hands of the people of Judah, and trou-
brothers the priests and the Levites, and all bled them in building, 4:5 and hired counselors
those who had come out of the captivity to against them, to frustrate their purpose, all
Jerusalem, began the work and appointed the the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until
Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to the reign of Darius king of Persia. 4:6 In the
have the oversight of the work of the LORD’s reign of Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his
house. 3:9 Then Yeshua stood with his sons reign, wrote they an accusation against the
and his brothers, Kadmiel and his sons, the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem. 4:7 In the
sons of Judah, together, to have the oversight days of Artaxerxes wrote Bishlam, Mithredath,
of the workmen in God’s house: the sons of Tabeel, and the rest of his companions, to
Henadad, with their sons and their brothers Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the writing of
the Levites. 3:10 When the builders laid the the letter was written in Syrian, and set forth in
foundation of the LORD’s temple, they set the the Syrian language. 4:8 Rehum the chancellor
priests in their clothing with shofarsc , with the and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against
Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king in this sort:
praise the LORD, according to the directions 4:9
then Rehum the chancellor, and Shimshai
of David king of Israel. 3:11 They sang to one the scribe, and the rest of their companions,
another in praising and giving thanks to the the Dinaites, and the Apharsathchites, the
LORD, “For he is good, for his loving kindness Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the Archevites, the
endures forever toward Israel.” All the people Babylonians, the Shushanchites, the Dehaites,
shouted with a great shout, when they praised the Elamites, 4:10 and the rest of the nations
the LORD, because the foundation of the house whom the great and noble Osnappar brought
of the LORD had been laid. over, and set in the city of Samaria, and in
3:12
But many of the priests and Levites and the rest of the country beyond the River, and
heads of fathers’ households, the old men who so forth, wrote. 4:11 This is the copy of the
had seen the first house, when the foundation letter that they sent to Artaxerxes the king:
of this house was laid before their eyes, wept Your servants the men beyond the River, and
with a loud voice. Many also shouted aloud for so forth. 4:12 Be it known to the king, that the
joy, 3:13 so that the people could not discern the Jews who came up from you have come to us
noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the to Jerusalem; they are building the rebellious
weeping of the people; for the people shouted and the bad city, and have finished the walls,
with a loud shout, and the noise was heard far and repaired the foundations. 4:13 Be it known
away. now to the king that if this city is built, and
4:1
Now when the adversaries of Judah and the walls finished, they will not pay tribute,
Benjamin heard that the children of the cap- custom, or toll, and in the end it will be hurtful
tivity were building a temple to the LORD, to the kings. 4:14 Now because we eat the salt
the God of Israel; 4:2 then they drew near of the palace, and it is not appropriate for us to
to Zerubbabel, and to the heads of fathers’ see the king’s dishonor, therefore have we sent
households, and said to them, “Let us build and informed the king; 4:15 that search may be
with you; for we seek your God, as you do; made in the book of the records of your fathers:
and we sacrifice to him since the days of Esar so you shall find in the book of the records,
Haddon king of Assyria, who brought us up and know that this city is a rebellious city, and
c 3:10 or, trumpets
Ezra 4:16 710 Ezra 6:2

hurtful to kings and provinces, and that they that Tattenai, the governor beyond the River,
have moved sedition within the same of old and Shetharbozenai, and his companions the
time; for which cause was this city laid waste. Apharsachites, who were beyond the River,
4:16
We inform the king that, if this city be built, sent to Darius the king; 5:7 they sent a letter
and the walls finished, by this means you shall to him, in which was written thus: To Darius
have no portion beyond the River. 4:17 Then the the king, all peace. 5:8 Be it known to the king,
king sent an answer to Rehum the chancellor, that we went into the province of Judah, to
and to Shimshai the scribe, and to the rest of the house of the great God, which is built with
their companions who dwell in Samaria, and great stones, and timber is laid in the walls; and
in the rest of the country beyond the River: this work goes on with diligence and prospers
Peace, and so forth. 4:18 The letter which you in their hands. 5:9 Then we asked those elders,
sent to us has been plainly read before me. and said to them thus, “Who gave you a decree
4:19
I decreed, and search has been made, and to build this house, and to finish this wall?”
5:10
it is found that this city of old time has made We asked them their names also, to inform
insurrection against kings, and that rebellion you that we might write the names of the men
and sedition have been made therein. 4:20 There who were at their head. 5:11 Thus they returned
have been mighty kings also over Jerusalem, us answer, saying, “We are the servants of the
who have ruled over all the country beyond the God of heaven and earth, and are building the
River; and tribute, custom, and toll, was paid house that was built these many years ago,
to them. 4:21 Make a decree now to cause these which a great king of Israel built and finished.
5:12
men to cease, and that this city not be built, But after that our fathers had provoked the
until a decree shall be made by me. 4:22 Take God of heaven to wrath, he gave them into the
heed that you not be slack herein: why should hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the
damage grow to the hurt of the kings? 4:23 Then Kasdian, who destroyed this house, and carried
when the copy of king Artaxerxes’ letter was the people away into Babylon. 5:13 But in the
read before Rehum, and Shimshai the scribe, first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, Cyrus the
and their companions, they went in haste to king made a decree to build this house of God.
5:14
Jerusalem to the Jews, and made them to cease The gold and silver vessels also of God’s
by force and power. 4:24 Then ceased the work house, which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the
of God’s house which is at Jerusalem; and it temple that was in Jerusalem, and brought into
ceased until the second year of the reign of the temple of Babylon, those Cyrus the king
Darius king of Persia. took out of the temple of Babylon, and they
5:1
were delivered to one whose name was Shesh-
Now the prophets, Haggai the prophet, bazzar, whom he had made governor; 5:15 and
and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied to he said to him, ‘Take these vessels, go, put them
the Jews who were in Judah and Jerusalem; in in the temple that is in Jerusalem, and let God’s
the name of the God of Israel they prophesied house be built in its place.’ 5:16 Then the same
to them. 5:2 Then rose up Zerubbabel the son Sheshbazzar came, and laid the foundations of
of Shealtiel, and Yeshua the son of Jozadak, God’s house which is in Jerusalem: and since
and began to build God’s house which is at that time even until now has it been in building,
Jerusalem; and with them were the prophets of and yet it is not completed. 5:17 Now therefore,
God, helping them. 5:3 At the same time came to if it seem good to the king, let a search be made
them Tattenai, the governor beyond the River, in the king’s treasure house, which is there at
and Shetharbozenai, and their companions, Babylon, whether it be so, that a decree was
and said thus to them, “Who gave you a decree made of Cyrus the king to build this house of
to build this house, and to finish this wall?” God at Jerusalem; and let the king send his
5:4
Then we told them in this way, what the pleasure to us concerning this matter.”
names of the men were who were making this
building. 5:5 But the eye of their God was 6:1
Then Darius the king made a decree,
on the Jewish elders, and they did not make and search was made in the house of the
them cease, until the matter should come to archives, where the treasures were laid up in
Darius, and then answer should be returned by Babylon. 6:2 There was found at Achmetha, in
letter concerning it. 5:6 The copy of the letter the palace that is in the province of Media,
Ezra 6:3 711 Ezra 7:7

a scroll, and therein was thus written for a and Zechariah the son of Iddo. They built and
record: 6:3 In the first year of Cyrus the king, finished it, according to the commandment of
Cyrus the king made a decree: Concerning the God of Israel, and according to the decree
God’s house at Jerusalem, let the house be of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes king of
built, the place where they offer sacrifices, Persia. 6:15 This house was finished on the
and let its foundations be strongly laid; its third day of the month Adar, which was in
height sixty cubits, and its breadth sixty cubits; the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.
6:4 6:16
with three courses of great stones, and a The children of Israel, the priests, and the
course of new timber: and let the expenses Levites, and the rest of the children of the
be given out of the king’s house. 6:5 Also let captivity, kept the dedication of this house of
the gold and silver vessels of God’s house, God with joy. 6:17 They offered at the dedication
which Nebuchadnezzar took forth out of the of this house of God one hundred bulls, two
temple which is at Jerusalem, and brought to hundred rams, four hundred lambs; and for
Babylon, be restored, and brought again to a sin offering for all Israel, twelve male goats,
the temple which is at Jerusalem, everyone to according to the number of the tribes of Israel.
6:18
its place; and you shall put them in God’s They set the priests in their divisions, and
house. 6:6 Now therefore, Tattenai, governor the Levites in their courses, for the service of
beyond the River, Shetharbozenai, and your God, which is at Jerusalem; as it is written
companions the Apharsachites, who are be- in the book of Moses. 6:19 The children of the
yond the River, you must stay far from there. captivity kept the Passover on the fourteenth
6:7
Leave the work of this house of God alone; day of the first month. 6:20 For the priests and
let the governor of the Jews and the Jewish the Levites had purified themselves together;
elders build this house of God in its place. all of them were pure: and they killed the
6:8
Moreover I make a decree what you shall do Passover for all the children of the captivity,
to these Jewish elders for the building of this and for their brothers the priests, and for
house of God: that of the king’s goods, even of themselves. 6:21 The children of Israel who had
the tribute beyond the River, expenses be given come again out of the captivity, and all such
with all diligence to these men, that they be as had separated themselves to them from the
not hindered. 6:9 That which they have need filthiness of the nations of the land, to seek the
of, both young bulls, and rams, and lambs, LORD, the God of Israel, ate, 6:22 and kept the
for burnt offerings to the God of heaven; also feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy:
wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the for the LORD had made them joyful, and had
word of the priests who are at Jerusalem, let it turned the heart of the king of Assyria to them,
be given them day by day without fail; 6:10 that to strengthen their hands in the work of God’s
they may offer sacrifices of pleasant aroma to house, the God of Israel.
the God of heaven, and pray for the life of the 7:1
king, and of his sons. 6:11 Also I have made a Now after these things, in the reign of
decree, that whoever shall alter this word, let a Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the son of
beam be pulled out from his house, and let him Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah,
7:2
be lifted up and fastened thereon; and let his the son of Shallum, the son of Zadok, the
house be made a dunghill for this: 6:12 and the son of Ahitub, 7:3 the son of Amariah, the son
God who has caused his name to dwell there of Azariah, the son of Meraioth, 7:4 the son of
overthrow all kings and peoples who shall put Zerahiah, the son of Uzzi, the son of Bukki,
7:5
forth their hand to alter the same, to destroy the son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas,
this house of God which is at Jerusalem. I the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the chief
Darius have made a decree; let it be done with priest; 7:6 this Ezra went up from Babylon:
all diligence. 6:13 Then Tattenai, the governor and he was a ready scribe in the Torah of
beyond the River, Shetharbozenai, and their Moses, which the LORD, the God of Israel,
companions, because Darius the king had sent had given; and the king granted him all his
a decree, did accordingly with all diligence. request, according to the hand of the LORD
6:14
The Jewish elders built and prospered, his God on him. 7:7 There went up some of
through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet the children of Israel, and of the priests, and
the Levites, and the singers, and the porters,
Ezra 7:8 712 Ezra 8:10

and the Nethinim, to Jerusalem, in the seventh one hundred baths of wine, and to one hundred
year of Artaxerxes the king. 7:8 He came to baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how
Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the much. 7:23 Whatever is commanded by the God
seventh year of the king. 7:9 For on the first of heaven, let it be done exactly for the house
day of the first month began he to go up from of the God of heaven; for why should there
Babylon; and on the first day of the fifth month be wrath against the realm of the king and his
came he to Jerusalem, according to the good sons? 7:24 Also we inform you, that touching
hand of his God on him. 7:10 For Ezra had set any of the priests and Levites, the singers,
his heart to seek the law of the LORD, and porters, Nethinim, or servants of this house of
to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and God, it shall not be lawful to impose tribute,
ordinances. 7:11 Now this is the copy of the custom, or toll, on them. 7:25 You, Ezra, after the
letter that the king Artaxerxes gave to Ezra the wisdom of your God who is in your hand, ap-
priest, the scribe, even the scribe of the words point magistrates and judges, who may judge
of the commandments of the LORD, and of his all the people who are beyond the River, all
statutes to Israel: 7:12 Artaxerxes, king of kings, such as know the laws of your God; and teach
to Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the him who doesn’t know them. 7:26 Whoever
God of heaven, perfect and so forth. 7:13 I make will not do the law of your God, and the law
a decree, that all those of the people of Israel, of the king, let judgment be executed on him
and their priests and the Levites, in my realm, with all diligence, whether it be to death, or
who are minded of their own free will to go to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or
to Jerusalem, go with you. 7:14 Because you to imprisonment. 7:27 Blessed be the LORD, the
are sent of the king and his seven counselors, God of our fathers, who has put such a thing as
to inquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem, this in the king’s heart, to beautify the house
according to the law of your God which is of the LORD which is in Jerusalem; 7:28 and
in your hand, 7:15 and to carry the silver and has extended loving kindness to me before
gold, which the king and his counselors have the king, and his counselors, and before all
freely offered to the God of Israel, whose the king’s mighty princes. I was strengthened
habitation is in Jerusalem, 7:16 and all the silver according to the hand of the LORD my God on
and gold that you shall find in all the province me, and I gathered together out of Israel chief
of Babylon, with the freewill offering of the men to go up with me.
people, and of the priests, offering willingly for 8:1
the house of their God which is in Jerusalem; Now these are the heads of their fathers’
7:17
therefore you shall with all diligence buy households, and this is the genealogy of those
with this money bulls, rams, lambs, with their who went up with me from Babylon, in the
meal offerings and their drink offerings, and reign of Artaxerxes the king: 8:2 Of the sons of
shall offer them on the altar of the house of Phinehas, Gershom. Of the sons of Ithamar,
your God which is in Jerusalem. 7:18 Whatever Daniel. Of the sons of David, Hattush. 8:3 Of
shall seem good to you and to your brothers to the sons of Shecaniah, of the sons of Parosh,
do with the rest of the silver and the gold, do Zechariah; and with him were reckoned by
that after the will of your God. 7:19 The vessels genealogy of the males one hundred fifty. 8:4 Of
that are given to you for the service of the the sons of Pahathmoab, Eliehoenai the son of
house of your God, deliver before the God of Zerahiah; and with him two hundred males.
8:5
Jerusalem. 7:20 Whatever more shall be needful Of the sons of Shecaniah, the son of Jahaziel;
for the house of your God, which you shall and with him three hundred males. 8:6 Of
have occasion to bestow, bestow it out of the the sons of Adin, Ebed the son of Jonathan;
king’s treasure house. 7:21 I, even I Artaxerxes and with him fifty males. 8:7 Of the sons
the king, do make a decree to all the treasurers of Elam, Jeshaiah the son of Athaliah; and
who are beyond the River, that whatever Ezra with him seventy males. 8:8 Of the sons of
the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of Shephatiah, Zebadiah the son of Michael; and
heaven, shall require of you, it be done with all with him eighty males. 8:9 Of the sons of Joab,
diligence, 7:22 to one hundred talents of silver, Obadiah the son of Jehiel; and with him two
and to one hundred measures of wheat, and to hundred and eighteen males. 8:10 Of the sons
of Shelomith, the son of Josiphiah; and with
Ezra 8:11 713 Ezra 9:2

him one hundred sixty males. 8:11 Of the sons of there present, had offered: 8:26 I weighed into
Bebai, Zechariah the son of Bebai; and with him their hand six hundred fifty talents of silver,
twenty-eight males. 8:12 Of the sons of Azgad, and silver vessels one hundred talents; of gold
Yochanan the son of Hakkatan; and with him one hundred talents; 8:27 and twenty bowls of
one hundred ten males. 8:13 Of the sons of gold, of one thousand darics; and two vessels
Adonikam, who were the last; and these are of fine bright brass, precious as gold. 8:28 I said
their names: Eliphelet, Jeuel, and Shemaiah; to them, “You are holy to the LORD, and the
and with them sixty males. 8:14 Of the sons vessels are holy; and the silver and the gold
of Bigvai, Uthai and Zabbud; and with them are a freewill offering to the LORD, the God
seventy males. 8:15 I gathered them together of your fathers. 8:29 Watch, and keep them,
to the river that runs to Ahava; and there we until you weigh them before the chiefs of the
encamped three days: and I viewed the people, priests and the Levites, and the princes of the
and the priests, and found there none of the fathers’ households of Israel, at Jerusalem, in
sons of Levi. 8:16 Then sent I for Eliezer, for the rooms of the house of the LORD.” 8:30 So the
Ariel, for Shemaiah, and for Elnathan, and for priests and the Levites received the weight of
Jarib, and for Elnathan, and for Nathan, and the silver and the gold, and the vessels, to bring
for Zechariah, and for Meshullam, chief men; them to Jerusalem to the house of our God.
8:31
also for Joiarib, and for Elnathan, who were Then we departed from the river Ahava on
teachers. 8:17 I sent them forth to Iddo the the twelfth day of the first month, to go to
chief at the place Casiphia; and I told them Jerusalem: and the hand of our God was on us,
what they should tell Iddo, and his brothers and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy
the Nethinim, at the place Casiphia, that they and the bandit by the way. 8:32 We came to
should bring to us ministers for the house of Jerusalem, and stayed there three days. 8:33 On
our God. 8:18 According to the good hand the fourth day the silver and the gold and the
of our God on us they brought us a man of vessels were weighed in the house of our God
discretion, of the sons of Mahli, the son of into the hand of Meremoth the son of Uriah
Levi, the son of Israel; and Sherebiah, with the priest; and with him was Eleazar the son of
his sons and his brothers, eighteen; 8:19 and Phinehas; and with them was Jozabad the son
Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of Yeshua, and Noadiah the son of Binnui, the
of Merari, his brothers and their sons, twenty; Levite; 8:34 the whole by number and by weight:
8:20
and of the Nethinim, whom David and and all the weight was written at that time.
8:35
the princes had given for the service of the The children of the captivity, who had come
Levites, two hundred and twenty Nethinim: all out of exile, offered burnt offerings to the God
of them were mentioned by name. 8:21 Then I of Israel, twelve bulls for all Israel, ninety-six
proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that rams, seventy-seven lambs, and twelve male
we might humble ourselves before our God, to goats for a sin offering: all this was a burnt
seek of him a straight way for us, and for our offering to the LORD. 8:36 They delivered the
little ones, and for all our substance. 8:22 For king’s commissions to the king’s satraps, and
I was ashamed to ask of the king a band of to the governors beyond the River: and they
soldiers and horsemen to help us against the furthered the people and God’s house.
enemy in the way, because we had spoken to 9:1
the king, saying, “The hand of our God is on Now when these things were done, the
all those who seek him, for good; but his power princes drew near to me, saying, “The people of
and his wrath is against all those who forsake Israel, and the priests and the Levites, have not
him.” 8:23 So we fasted and begged our God for separated themselves from the peoples of the
this: and he was entreated of us. 8:24 Then I set lands, following their abominations, even those
apart twelve of the chiefs of the priests, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites,
Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brothers the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the
with them, 8:25 and weighed to them the silver, Egyptians, and the Amorites. 9:2 For they have
and the gold, and the vessels, even the offering taken of their daughters for themselves and for
for the house of our God, which the king, and their sons, so that the holy seed have mixed
his counselors, and his princes, and all Israel themselves with the peoples of the lands. Yes,
the hand of the princes and rulers has been
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9:14
chief in this trespass.” shall we again break your commandments,
9:3 and join in affinity with the peoples that do
When I heard this thing, I tore my gar-
ment and my robe, and plucked off the hair these abominations? Wouldn’t you be angry
of my head and of my beard, and sat down with us until you had consumed us, so that
confounded. 9:4 Then were assembled to me there should be no remnant, nor any to escape?
9:15
everyone who trembled at the words of the LORD, the God of Israel, you are righteous;
God of Israel, because of their trespass of for we are left a remnant that has escaped, as
the captivity; and I sat confounded until the it is this day. Behold, we are before you in
evening offering. 9:5 At the evening offering our guiltiness; for none can stand before you
I arose up from my humiliation, even with because of this.”
10:1
my garment and my robe torn; and I fell on Now while Ezra prayed and made con-
my knees, and spread out my hands to the fession, weeping and casting himself down be-
LORD my God; 9:6 and I said, “My God, I am fore God’s house, there was gathered together
ashamed and blush to lift up my face to you, to him out of Israel a very great assembly of
my God; for our iniquities have increased over men and women and children; for the people
our head, and our guiltiness has grown up to wept very bitterly. 10:2 Shecaniah the son of
the heavens. 9:7 Since the days of our fathers Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered Ezra,
we have been exceeding guilty to this day; “We have trespassed against our God, and
and for our iniquities we, our kings, and our have married foreign women of the peoples
priests, have been delivered into the hand of of the land. Yet now there is hope for Israel
the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, concerning this thing. 10:3 Now therefore let us
to plunder, and to confusion of face, as it is make a covenant with our God to put away
this day. 9:8 Now for a little moment grace has all the wives, and such as are born of them,
been shown from the LORD our God, to leave according to the counsel of my lord, and of
us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail those who tremble at the commandment of our
in his holy place, that our God may lighten God. Let it be done according to the law.
10:4
our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our Arise; for the matter belongs to you, and we
bondage. 9:9 For we are bondservants; yet our are with you. Be courageous, and do it.”
God has not forsaken us in our bondage, but 10:5
Then Ezra arose, and made the chiefs
has extended loving kindness to us in the sight of the priests, the Levites, and all Israel, to
of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to swear that they would do according to this
set up the house of our God, and to repair its word. So they swore. 10:6 Then Ezra rose up
ruins, and to give us a wall in Judah and in from before God’s house, and went into the
Jerusalem. room of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib: and
9:10
“Now, our God, what shall we say after when he came there, he ate no bread, nor drank
this? For we have forsaken your command- water; for he mourned because of their trespass
ments, 9:11 which you have commanded by of the captivity. 10:7 They made proclamation
your servants the prophets, saying, ‘The land, throughout Judah and Jerusalem to all the chil-
to which you go to possess it, is an unclean dren of the captivity, that they should gather
land through the uncleanness of the peoples of themselves together to Jerusalem; 10:8 and that
the lands, through their abominations, which whoever didn’t come within three days, ac-
have filled it from one end to another with cording to the counsel of the princes and the
their filthiness. 9:12 Now therefore don’t give elders, all his substance should be forfeited,
your daughters to their sons, neither take their and himself separated from the assembly of
daughters to your sons, nor seek their peace the captivity. 10:9 Then all the men of Judah
or their prosperity forever; that you may be and Benjamin gathered themselves together
strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave to Jerusalem within the three days; it was
it for an inheritance to your children forever.’ the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the
9:13 month: and all the people sat in the broad place
“After all that has come on us for our evil
deeds, and for our great guilt, since you, our before God’s house, trembling because of this
God, have punished us less than our iniquities matter, and for the great rain.
10:10
deserve, and have given us such a remnant, Ezra the priest stood up, and said to
Ezra 10:11 715 Ezra 10:44

them, “You have trespassed, and have mar- Abdi, and Jeremoth, and Elijah. 10:27 Of the sons
ried foreign women, to increase the guilt of of Zattu: Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, and Jer-
Israel. 10:11 Now therefore make confession emoth, and Zabad, and Aziza. 10:28 Of the sons
to the LORD, the God of your fathers, and of Bebai: Jehohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai, Athlai.
10:29
do his pleasure; and separate yourselves from Of the sons of Bani: Meshullam, Mal-
the peoples of the land, and from the foreign luch, and Adaiah, Jashub, and Sheal, Jeremoth.
10:30
women.” Of the sons of Pahathmoab: Adna, and
10:12
Then all the assembly answered with a Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel,
loud voice, “As you have said concerning us, so and Binnui, and Manasseh. 10:31 Of the sons of
must we do. 10:13 But the people are many, and Harim: Eliezer, Isshijah, Malchijah, Shemaiah,
it is a time of much rain, and we are not able to Shimeon, 10:32 Benjamin, Malluch, Shemariah.
10:33
stand outside; neither is this a work of one day Of the sons of Hashum: Mattenai, Mat-
or two; for we have greatly transgressed in this tattah, Zabad, Eliphelet, Jeremai, Manasseh,
matter. 10:14 Let now our princes be appointed Shimei. 10:34 Of the sons of Bani: Maadai,
for all the assembly, and let all those who are Amram, and Uel, 10:35 Benaiah, Bedeiah,
in our cities who have married foreign women Cheluhi, 10:36 Vaniah, Meremoth, Eliashib,
10:37
come at appointed times, and with them the Mattaniah, Mattenai, and Jaasu, 10:38 and
elders of every city, and its judges, until the Bani, and Binnui, Shimei, 10:39 and Shelemiah,
fierce wrath of our God be turned from us, until and Nathan, and Adaiah, 10:40 Machnadebai,
this matter is resolved.” Shashai, Sharai, 10:41 Azarel, and Shelemiah,
10:15
Shemariah, 10:42 Shallum, Amariah, Joseph.
Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and 10:43
Of the sons of Nebo: Jeiel, Mattithiah,
Jahzeiah the son of Tikvah stood up against Zabad, Zebina, Iddo, and Joel, Benaiah. 10:44 All
this; and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite these had taken foreign wives; and some of
helped them. 10:16 The children of the captivity them had wives by whom they had children.
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.
10:17
They made an end with all the men who
had married foreign women by the first day
of the first month. 10:18 Among the sons of
the priests there were found who had married
foreign women: of the sons of Yeshua, the son
of Jozadak, and his brothers, Maaseiah, and
Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah. 10:19 They
gave their hand that they would put away
their wives; and being guilty, they offered a
ram of the flock for their guilt. 10:20 Of the
sons of Immer: Hanani and Zebadiah. 10:21 Of
the sons of Harim: Maaseiah, and Elijah, and
Shemaiah, and Jehiel, and Uzziah. 10:22 Of the
sons of Pashhur: Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael,
Nethanel, Jozabad, and Elasah. 10:23 Of the
Levites: Jozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah (the
same is Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.
10:24
Of the singers: Eliashib. Of the porters:
Shallum, and Telem, and Uri. 10:25 Of Israel:
Of the sons of Parosh: Ramiah, and Izziah,
and Malchijah, and Mijamin, and Eleazar, and
Malchijah, and Benaiah. 10:26 Of the sons of
Elam: Mattaniah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, and
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Nehemiah this man.”


Now I was cup bearer to the king.
1:1 2:1
The words of Nehemiah the son of Ha- It happened in the month Nisan, in the
caliah. Now it happened in the month Chislev, twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, when
in the twentieth year, as I was in Shushan the wine was before him, that I took up the wine,
palace, 1:2 that Hanani, one of my brothers, and gave it to the king. Now I had not been sad
came, he and certain men out of Judah; and before in his presence. 2:2 The king said to me,
I asked them concerning the Jews who had “Why is your face sad, since you are not sick?
escaped, who were left of the captivity, and This is nothing else but sorrow of heart.”
concerning Jerusalem. 1:3 They said to me, Then I was very much afraid. 2:3 I said to the
“The remnant who are left of the captivity king, “Let the king live forever! Why shouldn’t
there in the province are in great affliction and my face be sad, when the city, the place of my
reproach. The wall of Jerusalem also is broken fathers’ tombs, lies waste, and its gates have
down, and its gates are burned with fire.” 1:4 It been consumed with fire?”
2:4
happened, when I heard these words, that I Then the king said to me, “For what do
sat down and wept, and mourned certain days; you make request?”
and I fasted and prayed before the Goda of So I prayed to the God of heaven. 2:5 I said
heaven, 1:5 and said, “I beg you, LORD,b the to the king, “If it pleases the king, and if your
God of heaven, the great and awesome God, servant has found favor in your sight, that you
who keeps covenant and loving kindness with would send me to Judah, to the city of my
those who love him and keep his command- fathers’ tombs, that I may build it.”
2:6
ments: 1:6 Let your ear now be attentive, and The king said to me (the queen was also
your eyes open, that you may listen to the sitting by him), “For how long shall your
prayer of your servant, which I pray before you journey be? And when will you return?”
at this time, day and night, for the children of So it pleased the king to send me; and I set
Israel your servants while I confess the sins of him a time. 2:7 Moreover I said to the king, “If
the children of Israel, which we have sinned it pleases the king, let letters be given me to the
against you. Yes, I and my father’s house have governors beyond the River, that they may let
sinned. 1:7 We have dealt very corruptly against me pass through until I come to Judah; 2:8 and
you, and have not kept the commandments, a letter to Asaph the keeper of the king’s forest,
nor the statutes, nor the ordinances, which you that he may give me timber to make beams for
commanded your servant Moses. the gates of the citadel by the temple, for the
1:8
“Remember, I beg you, the word that you wall of the city, and for the house that I shall
commanded your servant Moses, saying, ‘If enter into.”
you trespass, I will scatter you abroad among The king granted my requests, because of
the peoples; 1:9 but if you return to me, and the good hand of my God on me. 2:9 Then I
keep my commandments and do them, though came to the governors beyond the River, and
your outcasts were in the uttermost part of the gave them the king’s letters. Now the king
heavens, yet will I gather them from there, and had sent with me captains of the army and
will bring them to the place that I have chosen, horsemen. 2:10 When Sanballat the Horonite,
to cause my name to dwell there.’ and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard
1:10
“Now these are your servants and of it, it grieved them exceedingly, because
your people, whom you have redeemed by a man had come to seek the welfare of the
your great power, and by your strong hand. children of Israel. 2:11 So I came to Jerusalem,
1:11
Lordc, I beg you, let your ear be attentive and was there three days. 2:12 I arose in the
now to the prayer of your servant, and to the night, I and some few men with me; neither
prayer of your servants, who delight to fear told I any man what my God put into my
your name; and please prosper your servant heart to do for Jerusalem; neither was there
this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of any animal with me, except the animal that I
a 1:4 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “Elohim.”
b 1:5 “LORD” or “GOD” (all capital letters) indicate the 4-letter Holy Name of God
c 1:11 The word translated “Lord” (mixed case) is “Adonai.”
Nehemiah 2:13 717 Nehemiah 3:21

rode on. 2:13 I went out by night by the valley and set up its doors, and its bolts, and its
gate, even toward the jackal’s well, and to the bars. 3:7 Next to them, Melatiah the Gibeonite,
dung gate, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem, and Jadon the Meronothite, the men of Gibeon,
which were broken down, and its gates were and of Mizpah, repaired the residence of the
consumed with fire. 2:14 Then I went on to the governor beyond the River. 3:8 Next to him,
spring gate and to the king’s pool: but there Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, goldsmiths, made
was no place for the animal that was under me repairs. Next to him, Hananiah one of the
to pass. 2:15 Then went I up in the night by perfumers made repairs, and they fortified
the brook, and viewed the wall; and I turned Jerusalem even to the broad wall. 3:9 Next to
back, and entered by the valley gate, and so them, Rephaiah the son of Hur, the ruler of
returned. 2:16 The rulers didn’t know where I half the district of Jerusalem, made repairs.
3:10
went, or what I did; neither had I as yet told it Next to them, Jedaiah the son of Harumaph
to the Jews, nor to the priests, nor to the nobles, made repairs across from his house. Next to
nor to the rulers, nor to the rest who did the him, Hattush the son of Hashabneiah made
work. 2:17 Then I said to them, “You see the evil repairs. 3:11 Malchijah the son of Harim, and
case that we are in, how Jerusalem lies waste, Hasshub the son of Pahathmoab, repaired an-
and its gates are burned with fire. Come, let us other portion, and the tower of the furnaces.
3:12
build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we won’t Next to him, Shallum the son of Hallohesh,
be disgraced.” 2:18 I told them of the hand of the ruler of half the district of Jerusalem, he and
my God which was good on me, as also of the his daughters, made repairs. 3:13 Hanun and
king’s words that he had spoken to me. the inhabitants of Zanoah repaired the valley
They said, “Let’s rise up and build.” So they gate. They built it, and set up its doors, its
strengthened their hands for the good work. bolts, and its bars, and one thousand cubits
2:19
But when Sanballat the Horonite, and To- of the wall to the dung gate. 3:14 Malchijah
biah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the son of Rechab, the ruler of the district of
the Arabian, heard it, they ridiculed us, and Beth Haccherem repaired the dung gate. He
despised us, and said, “What is this thing that built it, and set up its doors, its bolts, and
you are doing? Will you rebel against the its bars. 3:15 Shallun the son of Colhozeh, the
king?” ruler of the district of Mizpah repaired the
2:20 spring gate. He built it, and covered it, and
Then answered I them, and said to them,
set up its doors, its bolts, and its bars, and
“The God of heaven will prosper us. Therefore
the wall of the pool of Shelah by the king’s
we, his servants, will arise and build; but you
garden, even to the stairs that go down from
have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in
the city of David. 3:16 After him, Nehemiah the
Jerusalem.”
3:1
son of Azbuk, the ruler of half the district of
Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with Beth Zur, made repairs to the place opposite
his brothers the priests, and they built the sheep the tombs of David, and to the pool that was
gate; they sanctified it, and set up its doors; made, and to the house of the mighty men.
even to the tower of Hammeah they sanctified 3:17
After him, the Levites, Rehum the son of
it, to the tower of Hananel. 3:2 Next to him built Bani made repairs. Next to him, Hashabiah, the
the men of Jericho. Next to them built Zaccur ruler of half the district of Keilah, made repairs
the son of Imri. 3:3 The sons of Hassenaah built for his district. 3:18 After him, their brothers,
the fish gate. They laid its beams, and set up its Bavvai the son of Henadad, the ruler of half
doors, its bolts, and its bars. 3:4 Next to them, the district of Keilah made repairs. 3:19 Next
Meremoth the son of Uriah, the son of Hakkoz to him, Ezer the son of Yeshua, the ruler of
made repairs. Next to them, Meshullam the Mizpah, repaired another portion, across from
son of Berechiah, the son of Meshezabel made the ascent to the armory at the turning of the
repairs. Next to them, Zadok the son of Baana wall. 3:20 After him, Baruch the son of Zabbai
made repairs. 3:5 Next to them, the Tekoites earnestly repaired another portion, from the
made repairs; but their nobles didn’t put their turning of the wall to the door of the house
necks to the work of their lord. 3:6 Joiada the son of Eliashib the high priest. 3:21 After him,
of Paseah and Meshullam the son of Besodeiah Meremoth the son of Uriah the son of Hakkoz
repaired the old gate. They laid its beams,
Nehemiah 3:22 718 Nehemiah 4:18

repaired another portion, from the door of the turn back their reproach on their own head,
house of Eliashib even to the end of the house give them up for a spoil in a land of captivity;
of Eliashib. 3:22 After him, the priests, the men 4:5
don’t cover their iniquity, and don’t let their
of the Plain made repairs. 3:23 After them, sin be blotted out from before you; for they
Benjamin and Hasshub made repairs across have insulted the builders.”
4:6
from their house. After them, Azariah the son So we built the wall; and all the wall
of Maaseiah the son of Ananiah made repairs was joined together to half its height: for the
beside his own house. 3:24 After him, Binnui people had a mind to work. 4:7 But it happened
the son of Henadad repaired another portion, that when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabians, the
from the house of Azariah to the turning of the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that
wall, and to the corner. 3:25 Palal the son of Uzai the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem went
made repairs opposite the turning of the wall, forward, and that the breaches began to be
and the tower that stands out from the upper filled, then they were very angry; 4:8 and they
house of the king, which is by the court of the conspired all of them together to come and
guard. After him Pedaiah the son of Parosh fight against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion
made repairs. 3:26 (Now the Nethinim lived in therein. 4:9 But we made our prayer to our God,
Ophel, to the place over against the water gate and set a watch against them day and night,
toward the east, and the tower that stands out.) because of them. 4:10 Judah said, “The strength
3:27
After him the Tekoites repaired another por- of the bearers of burdens is fading, and there is
tion, over against the great tower that stands much rubbish; so that we are not able to build
out, and to the wall of Ophel. 3:28 Above the the wall.” 4:11 Our adversaries said, “They shall
horse gate, the priests made repairs, everyone not know, neither see, until we come into their
across from his own house. 3:29 After them, midst, and kill them, and cause the work to
Zadok the son of Immer made repairs across cease.”
from his own house. After him, Shemaiah 4:12
It happened that when the Jews who
the son of Shecaniah, the keeper of the east lived by them came, they said to us ten times
gate made repairs. 3:30 After him, Hananiah from all places, “Wherever you turn, they will
the son of Shelemiah, and Hanun the sixth attack us.” 4:13 Therefore set I in the lowest
son of Zalaph, repaired another portion. After parts of the space behind the wall, in the open
him, Meshullam the son of Berechiah made places, I set the people after their families with
repairs across from his room. 3:31 After him, their swords, their spears, and their bows. 4:14 I
Malchijah one of the goldsmiths to the house looked, and rose up, and said to the nobles,
of the Nethinim, and of the merchants, made and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people,
repairs over against the gate of Hammiphkad, “Don’t be afraid of them! Remember the Lord,
and to the ascent of the corner. 3:32 Between who is great and awesome, and fight for your
the ascent of the corner and the sheep gate, the brothers, your sons, and your daughters, your
goldsmiths and the merchants made repairs. wives, and your houses.”
4:1 4:15
But it happened that when Sanballat It happened, when our enemies heard
heard that we were building the wall, he was that it was known to us, and God had brought
angry, and took great indignation, and mocked their counsel to nothing, that we returned all
the Jews. 4:2 He spoke before his brothers of us to the wall, everyone to his work. 4:16 It
and the army of Samaria, and said, “What happened from that time forth, that half of
are these feeble Jews doing? Will they fortify my servants worked in the work, and half of
themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they them held the spears, the shields, and the bows,
finish in a day? Will they revive the stones and the coats of mail; and the rulers were
out of the heaps of rubbish, since they are behind all the house of Judah. 4:17 They all built
burned?” 4:3 Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by the wall and those who bore burdens loaded
him, and he said, “What they are building, if a themselves; everyone with one of his hands
fox climbed up it, he would break down their worked in the work, and with the other held his
stone wall.” weapon; 4:18 and the builders, everyone wore
4:4
“Hear, our God; for we are despised; and his sword at his side, and so built. He who
d 4:18 or, trumpet
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sounded the shofard was by me. 4:19 I said to the usury. 5:11 Please restore to them, even this day,
nobles, and to the rulers and to the rest of the their fields, their vineyards, their olive groves,
people, “The work is great and large, and we and their houses, also the hundredth part of the
are separated on the wall, one far from another. money, and of the grain, the new wine, and the
4:20
Wherever you hear the sound of the shofare , oil, that you are charging them.”
5:12
rally there to us. Our God will fight for us.” Then they said, “We will restore them,
4:21
So we worked in the work: and half of and will require nothing of them; so will we do,
them held the spears from the rising of the even as you say.”
morning until the stars appeared. 4:22 Likewise Then I called the priests, and took an oath
at the same time said I to the people, of them, that they would do according to this
“Let everyone with his servant lodge within promise. 5:13 Also I shook out my lap, and said,
Jerusalem, that in the night they may be a guard “So may God shake out every man from his
to us, and may labor in the day.” 4:23 So neither house, and from his labor, that doesn’t perform
I, nor my brothers, nor my servants, nor the this promise; even thus be he shaken out, and
men of the guard who followed me, none of us emptied.”
took off our clothes. Everyone took his weapon All the assembly said, “Amen,” and praised
to the water. the LORD. The people did according to this
5:1
Then there arose a great cry of the people promise.
5:14
and of their wives against their brothers the Moreover from the time that I was ap-
Jews. 5:2 For there were that said, “We, our pointed to be their governor in the land of
sons and our daughters, are many. Let us get Judah, from the twentieth year even to the two
grain, that we may eat and live.” 5:3 Some also and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that is,
there were that said, “We are mortgaging our twelve years, I and my brothers have not eaten
fields, and our vineyards, and our houses. Let the bread of the governor. 5:15 But the former
us get grain, because of the famine.” 5:4 There governors who were before me were supported
were also some who said, “We have borrowed by the people, and took bread and wine from
money for the king’s tribute using our fields them, besides forty shekels of silver; yes, even
and our vineyards as collateral. 5:5 Yet now their servants ruled over the people: but I
our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our didn’t do so, because of the fear of God. 5:16 Yes,
children as their children. Behold, we bring also I continued in the work of this wall, neither
into bondage our sons and our daughters to bought we any land: and all my servants were
be servants, and some of our daughters have gathered there to the work. 5:17 Moreover there
been brought into bondage. Neither is it in our were at my table, of the Jews and the rulers, one
power to help it; for other men have our fields hundred fifty men, besides those who came to
and our vineyards.” us from among the nations that were around
5:6
I was very angry when I heard their us. 5:18 Now that which was prepared for one
cry and these words. 5:7 Then I consulted day was one ox and six choice sheep; also
with myself, and contended with the nobles fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten
and the rulers, and said to them, “You exact days store of all sorts of wine: yet for all this
usury, everyone of his brother.” I held a great I didn’t demand the bread of the governor,
assembly against them. 5:8 I said to them, “We, because the bondage was heavy on this people.
5:19
after our ability, have redeemed our brothers Remember to me, my God, for good, all that
the Jews that were sold to the nations; and I have done for this people.
6:1
would you even sell your brothers, and should Now it happened, when it was reported
they be sold to us?” Then they held their peace, to Sanballat and Tobiah, and to Geshem the
and found never a word. 5:9 Also I said, “The Arabian, and to the rest of our enemies, that I
thing that you do is not good. Ought you had built the wall, and that there was no breach
not to walk in the fear of our God, because of left therein; (though even to that time I had not
the reproach of the nations our enemies? 5:10 I set up the doors in the gates;) 6:2 that Sanballat
likewise, my brothers and my servants, lend and Geshem sent to me, saying, “Come, let us
them money and grain. Please let us stop this meet together in the villages in the plain of
e 4:20 or, trumpet
Nehemiah 6:3 720 Nehemiah 7:18

Ono.” But they intended to harm me. and Tobiah’s letters came to them. 6:18 For there
6:3 were many in Judah sworn to him, because
I sent messengers to them, saying, “I am
doing a great work, so that I can’t come down. he was the son-in-law of Shecaniah the son of
Why should the work cease, while I leave it, Arah; and his son Jehohanan had taken the
and come down to you?” 6:4 They sent to me daughter of Meshullam the son of Berechiah as
four times after this sort; and I answered them wife. 6:19 Also they spoke of his good deeds
the same way. 6:5 Then Sanballat sent his ser- before me, and reported my words to him.
vant to me the same way the fifth time with an Tobiah sent letters to put me in fear.
open letter in his hand, 6:6 in which was written, 7:1
Now it happened, when the wall was
“It is reported among the nations, and Gashmu built, and I had set up the doors, and the
says it, that you and the Jews intend to rebel. porters and the singers and the Levites were
Because of that, you are building the wall. appointed, 7:2 that I put my brother Hanani,
You would be their king, according to these and Hananiah the governor of the castle, in
words. 6:7 You have also appointed prophets charge of Jerusalem; for he was a faithful man,
to proclaim of you at Jerusalem, saying, ‘There and feared God above many. 7:3 I said to them,
is a king in Judah!’ Now it will be reported to “Don’t let the gates of Jerusalem be opened
the king according to these words. Come now until the sun is hot; and while they stand
therefore, and let us take counsel together.” guard, let them shut the doors, and you bar
6:8
Then I sent to him, saying, “There are no them: and appoint watches of the inhabitants
such things done as you say, but you imagine of Jerusalem, everyone in his watch, with
them out of your own heart.” 6:9 For they all everyone near his house.”
would have made us afraid, saying, “Their 7:4
Now the city was wide and large; but
hands will be weakened from the work, that it the people were few therein, and the houses
not be done. But now, strengthen my hands.” were not built. 7:5 My God put into my heart
6:10
I went to the house of Shemaiah the son to gather together the nobles, and the rulers,
of Delaiah the son of Mehetabel, who was shut and the people, that they might be reckoned by
in at his home; and he said, “Let us meet genealogy. I found the book of the genealogy
together in God’s house, within the temple, and of those who came up at the first, and I found
let us shut the doors of the temple; for they written therein: 7:6 These are the children of
will come to kill you; yes, in the night will they the province, who went up out of the captivity
come to kill you.” of those who had been carried away, whom
6:11
I said, “Should such a man as I flee? Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had car-
Who is there that, being such as I, would go ried away, and who returned to Jerusalem and
into the temple to save his life? I will not to Judah, everyone to his city; 7:7 who came
go in.” 6:12 I discerned, and behold, God had with Zerubbabel, Yeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah,
not sent him; but he pronounced this prophecy Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mis-
against me. Tobiah and Sanballat had hired pereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. The number of
him. 6:13 He hired so that I would be afraid, do the men of the people of Israel: 7:8 The children
so, and sin, and that they might have material of Parosh, two thousand one hundred seventy-
for an evil report, that they might reproach two. 7:9 The children of Shephatiah, three hun-
me. 6:14 “Remember, my God, Tobiah and dred seventy-two. 7:10 The children of Arah, six
Sanballat according to these their works, and hundred fifty-two. 7:11 The children of Pahath-
also the prophetess Noadiah, and the rest of the moab, of the children of Yeshua and Joab, two
prophets, that would have put me in fear.” thousand eight hundred eighteen. 7:12 The chil-
6:15
So the wall was finished in the twenty- dren of Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-
fifth day of Elul, in fifty-two days. 6:16 It four. 7:13 The children of Zattu, eight hundred
happened, when all our enemies heard of it, forty-five. 7:14 The children of Zaccai, seven
that all the nations that were about us were hundred sixty. 7:15 The children of Binnui, six
afraid, and were much cast down in their own hundred forty-eight. 7:16 The children of Bebai,
eyes; for they perceived that this work was six hundred twenty-eight. 7:17 The children of
worked of our God. 6:17 Moreover in those days Azgad, two thousand three hundred twenty-
the nobles of Judah sent many letters to Tobiah, two. 7:18 The children of Adonikam, six hun-
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dred sixty-seven. 7:19 The children of Bigvai, of Harhur, 7:54 the children of Bazlith, the chil-
two thousand sixty-seven. 7:20 The children of dren of Mehida, the children of Harsha, 7:55 the
Adin, six hundred fifty-five. 7:21 The children children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the
of Ater, of Hezekiah, ninety-eight. 7:22 The children of Temah, 7:56 the children of Neziah,
children of Hashum, three hundred Twenty- the children of Hatipha. 7:57 The children of
eight. 7:23 The children of Bezai, three hundred Solomon’s servants: the children of Sotai, the
twenty-four. 7:24 The children of Hariph, one children of Sophereth, the children of Perida,
hundred twelve. 7:25 The children of Gibeon, 7:58
the children of Jaala, the children of Darkon,
ninety-five. 7:26 The men of Bethlehem and the children of Giddel, 7:59 the children of
Netophah, one hundred eighty-eight. 7:27 The Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the chil-
men of Anathoth, one hundred twenty-eight. dren of Pochereth Hazzebaim, the children of
7:28
The men of Beth Azmaveth, forty-two. Amon. 7:60 All the Nethinim, and the children
7:29
The men of Kiriath Jearim, Chephirah, and of Solomon’s servants, were three hundred
Beeroth, seven hundred forty-three. 7:30 The ninety-two. 7:61 These were those who went up
men of Ramah and Geba, six hundred twenty- from Tel Melah, Tel Harsha, Cherub, Addon,
one. 7:31 The men of Michmas, one hundred and Immer; but they could not show their
and twenty-two. 7:32 The men of Bethel and fathers’ houses, nor their seed, whether they
Ai, a hundred twenty-three. 7:33 The men of were of Israel: 7:62 The children of Delaiah, the
the other Nebo, fifty-two. 7:34 The children of children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda,
the other Elam, one thousand two hundred six hundred forty-two. 7:63 Of the priests: the
fifty-four. 7:35 The children of Harim, three children of Hobaiah, the children of Hakkoz,
hundred twenty. 7:36 The children of Jericho, the children of Barzillai, who took a wife of
three hundred forty-five. 7:37 The children of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and
Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred twenty- was called after their name. 7:64 These searched
one. 7:38 The children of Senaah, three thousand for their geneological records, but couldn’t find
nine hundred thirty. 7:39 The priests: The them. Therefore were they deemed polluted
children of Jedaiah, of the house of Yeshua, and put from the priesthood. 7:65 The governor
nine hundred seventy-three. 7:40 The children said to them, that they should not eat of the
of Immer, one thousand fifty-two. 7:41 The most holy things, until there stood up a priest
children of Pashhur, one thousand two hun- with Urim and Thummim. 7:66 The whole as-
dred forty-seven. 7:42 The children of Harim, sembly together was forty-two thousand three
one thousand seventeen. 7:43 The Levites: the hundred sixty, 7:67 besides their male servants
children of Yeshua, of Kadmiel, of the children and their female servants, of whom there were
of Hodevah, seventy-four. 7:44 The singers: the seven thousand three hundred thirty-seven:
children of Asaph, one hundred forty-eight. and they had two hundred forty-five singing
7:45
The porters: the children of Shallum, the men and singing women. 7:68 Their horses
children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the were seven hundred thirty-six; their mules, two
children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the hundred forty-five; 7:69 their camels, four hun-
children of Shobai, one hundred thirty-eight. dred thirty-five; their donkeys, six thousand
7:46
The Nethinim: the children of Ziha, the seven hundred twenty. 7:70 Some from among
children of Hasupha, the children of Tabbaoth, the heads of fathers’ households gave to the
7:47
the children of Keros, the children of Sia, the work. The governor gave to the treasury one
children of Padon, 7:48 the children of Lebana, thousand darics of gold, fifty basins, and five
the children of Hagaba, the children of Salmai, hundred thirty priests’ garments. 7:71 Some of
7:49
the children of Hanan, the children of Gid- the heads of fathers’ households gave into the
del, the children of Gahar, 7:50 the children of treasury of the work twenty thousand darics
Reaiah, the children of Rezin, the children of of gold, and two thousand two hundred minas
Nekoda, 7:51 the children of Gazzam, the chil- of silver. 7:72 That which the rest of the people
dren of Uzza, the children of Paseah. 7:52 The gave was twenty thousand darics of gold, and
children of Besai, the children of Meunim, the two thousand minas of silver, and sixty-seven
children of Nephushesim, 7:53 the children of priests’ garments. 7:73 So the priests, and the
Bakbuk, the children of Hakupha, the children Levites, and the porters, and the singers, and
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8:11
some of the people, and the Nethinim, and all So the Levites stilled all the people,
Israel, lived in their cities. When the seventh saying, “Hold your peace, for the day is holy;
month had come, the children of Israel were in neither be grieved.”
their cities. 8:12
All the people went their way to eat, and
8:1 to drink, and to send portions, and to make
All the people gathered themselves to-
great mirth, because they had understood the
gether as one man into the broad place that
words that were declared to them. 8:13 On the
was before the water gate; and they spoke to
second day were gathered together the heads
Ezra the scribe to bring the scroll of the Torah
of fathers’ households of all the people, the
of Moses, which the LORD had commanded
priests, and the Levites, to Ezra the scribe,
to Israel. 8:2 Ezra the priest brought the law
even to give attention to the words of the law.
before the assembly, both men and women, 8:14
They found written in the Torah, how that
and all who could hear with understanding,
the LORD had commanded by Moses, that the
on the first day of the seventh month. 8:3 He
children of Israel should dwell in booths in
read therein before the broad place that was
the feast of the seventh month; 8:15 and that
before the water gate from early morning until
they should publish and proclaim in all their
midday, in the presence of the men and the
cities, and in Jerusalem, saying, “Go out to
women, and of those who could understand;
the mountain, and get olive branches, and
and the ears of all the people were attentive
branches of wild olive, and myrtle branches,
to the scroll of the Torah. 8:4 Ezra the scribe
and palm branches, and branches of thick trees,
stood on a pulpit of wood, which they had
to make booths, as it is written.”
made for the purpose; and beside him stood
8:16
Mattithiah, and Shema, and Anaiah, and Uriah, So the people went out, and brought
and Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on his right hand; them, and made themselves booths, everyone
and on his left hand, Pedaiah, and Mishael, and on the roof of his house, and in their courts, and
Malchijah, and Hashum, and Hashbaddanah, in the courts of God’s house, and in the broad
Zechariah, and Meshullam. 8:5 Ezra opened the place of the water gate, and in the broad place
book in the sight of all the people; (for he was of the gate of Ephraim. 8:17 All the assembly of
above all the people;) and when he opened it, those who had come again out of the captivity
all the people stood up: 8:6 and Ezra blessed made booths, and lived in the booths; for since
the LORD, the great God. All the people the days of Yeshua the son of Nun to that day
answered, “Amen, Amen,” with the lifting the children of Israel had not done so. There
up of their hands. They bowed their heads, was very great gladness. 8:18 Also day by day,
and worshiped the LORD with their faces to from the first day to the last day, he read in the
the ground. 8:7 Also Yeshua, and Bani, and scroll of the Torah of God. They kept the feast
Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, seven days; and on the eighth day was a solemn
Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, assembly, according to the ordinance.
9:1
Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to Now in the twenty-fourth day of this
understand the law: and the people stayed month the children of Israel were assembled
in their place. 8:8 They read in the book, in with fasting, and with sackcloth, and earth
9:2
the law of God, distinctly; and they gave the on them. The seed of Israel separated
sense, so that they understood the reading. themselves from all foreigners, and stood and
8:9
Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their
the priest the scribe, and the Levites who taught fathers. 9:3 They stood up in their place, and
the people, said to all the people, “This day read in the scroll of the Torah of the LORD
is holy to the LORD your God. Don’t mourn, their God a fourth part of the day; and a fourth
nor weep.” For all the people wept, when part they confessed, and worshiped the LORD
they heard the words of the law. 8:10 Then he their God. 9:4 Then Yeshua, and Bani, Kad-
said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat, drink miel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and
the sweet, and send portions to him for whom Chenani of the Levites stood up on the stairs,
nothing is prepared; for this day is holy to our and cried with a loud voice to the LORD their
Lord. Don’t be grieved; for the joy of the LORD God. 9:5 Then the Levites, Yeshua, and Kad-
is your strength.” miel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah,
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Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, “Stand up and to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and
bless the LORD your God from everlasting to didn’t forsake them. 9:18 Yes, when they had
everlasting! Bessed be your glorious name, made them a molten calf, and said, ‘This is
which is exalted above all blessing and praise! your God who brought you up out of Egypt,’
9:6
You are the LORD, even you alone. You have and had committed awful blasphemies; 9:19 yet
made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all you in your manifold mercies didn’t forsake
their army, the earth and all things that are them in the wilderness: the pillar of cloud
on it, the seas and all that is in them, and didn’t depart from over them by day, to lead
you preserve them all. The army of heaven them in the way; neither the pillar of fire by
worships you. 9:7 You are the LORD, the God night, to show them light, and the way in which
who chose Abram, and brought him out of Ur- they should go. 9:20 You gave also your good
Kasdim, and gave him the name of Abraham, Spirit to instruct them, and didn’t withhold
9:8
and found his heart faithful before you, and your manna from their mouth, and gave them
made a covenant with him to give the land of water for their thirst.
the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, and the 9:21
“Yes, forty years you sustained them in
Perizzite, and the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, the wilderness. They lacked nothing. Their
to give it to his seed, and have performed your clothes didn’t grow old, and their feet didn’t
words; for you are righteous. swell. 9:22 Moreover you gave them kingdoms
9:9
“You saw the affliction of our fathers in and peoples, which you allotted according to
Egypt, and heard their cry by the Sea of Suf, their portions. So they possessed the land of
9:10
and showed signs and wonders against Sihon, even the land of the king of Heshbon,
Pharaoh, and against all his servants, and and the land of Og king of Bashan. 9:23 You
against all the people of his land; for you knew also multiplied their children as the stars of the
that they dealt proudly against them, and made sky, and brought them into the land concerning
a name for yourself, as it is this day. 9:11 You which you said to their fathers, that they should
divided the sea before them, so that they went go in to possess it.
through the midst of the sea on the dry land; 9:24
“So the children went in and possessed
and you cast their pursuers into the depths, as the land, and you subdued before them the
a stone into the mighty waters. 9:12 Moreover, inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and
in a pillar of cloud you led them by day; and in gave them into their hands, with their kings,
a pillar of fire by night, to give them light in the and the peoples of the land, that they might
way in which they should go. do with them as they pleased. 9:25 They took
9:13
“You came down also on Mount Sinai, fortified cities, and a rich land, and possessed
and spoke with them from heaven, and gave houses full of all good things, cisterns dug out,
them right ordinances and true laws, good vineyards, and olive groves, and fruit trees in
statutes and commandments, 9:14 and made abundance. So they ate, were filled, became
known to them your holy Sabbath, and com- fat, and delighted themselves in your great
manded them commandments, and statutes, goodness.
and a law, by Moses your servant, 9:15 and gave 9:26
“Nevertheless they were disobedient,
them bread from the sky for their hunger, and and rebelled against you, and cast your law
brought forth water for them out of the rock behind their back, and killed your prophets
for their thirst, and commanded them that they that testified against them to turn them again
should go in to possess the land which you had to you, and they committed awful blasphemies.
sworn to give them. 9:27
Therefore you delivered them into the hand
9:16
“But they and our fathers dealt proudly of their adversaries, who distressed them. In
and hardened their neck, didn’t listen to your the time of their trouble, when they cried to
commandments, 9:17 and refused to obey, nei- you, you heard from heaven; and according to
ther were they mindful of your wonders that your manifold mercies you gave them saviors
you did among them, but hardened their neck, who saved them out of the hand of their ad-
and in their rebellion appointed a captain to versaries. 9:28 But after they had rest, they did
return to their bondage. But you are a God evil again before you; therefore left you them in
ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow the hand of their enemies, so that they had the
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10:7
dominion over them; yet when they returned, Meshullam, Abijah, Mijamin, 10:8 Maaziah,
and cried to you, you heard from heaven; and Bilgai, Shemaiah; these were the priests.
10:9
many times you delivered them according to The Levites: namely, Yeshua the son of Aza-
your mercies, 9:29 and testified against them, niah, Binnui of the sons of Henadad, Kadmiel;
10:10
that you might bring them again to your law. and their brothers, Shebaniah, Hodiah,
Yet they dealt proudly, and didn’t listen to Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan, 10:11 Mica, Rehob,
your commandments, but sinned against your Hashabiah, 10:12 Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah,
10:13
ordinances, (which if a man does, he shall live Hodiah, Bani, Beninu. 10:14 The chiefs of
in them), turned their backs, stiffened their the people: Parosh, Pahathmoab, Elam, Zattu,
neck, and would not hear. 9:30 Yet many years Bani, 10:15 Bunni, Azgad, Bebai, 10:16 Adonijah,
you put up with them, and testified against Bigvai, Adin, 10:17 Ater, Hezekiah, Azzur,
10:18
them by your Spirit through your prophets. Yet Hodiah, Hashum, Bezai, 10:19 Hariph,
would they not give ear. Therefore you gave Anathoth, Nobai, 10:20 Magpiash, Meshullam,
them into the hand of the peoples of the lands. Hezir, 10:21 Meshezabel, Zadok, Jaddua,
10:22
9:31
“Nevertheless in your manifold mercies Pelatiah, Hanan, Anaiah, 10:23 Hoshea,
you did not make a full end of them, nor Hananiah, Hasshub, 10:24 Hallohesh, Pilha,
forsake them; for you are a gracious and Shobek, 10:25 Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah,
10:26
merciful God. 9:32 Now therefore, our God, and Ahiah, Hanan, Anan, 10:27 Malluch,
the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, Harim, Baanah. 10:28 The rest of the people,
who keeps covenant and loving kindness, don’t the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers,
let all the travail seem little before you, that the Nethinim, and all those who had separated
has come on us, on our kings, on our princes, themselves from the peoples of the lands to the
and on our priests, and on our prophets, and law of God, their wives, their sons, and their
on our fathers, and on all your people, since daughters, everyone who had knowledge, and
the time of the kings of Assyria to this day. understanding— 10:29 they joined with their
9:33 brothers, their nobles, and entered into a curse,
However you are just in all that has come
on us; for you have dealt truly, but we have and into an oath, to walk in God’s law, which
done wickedly; 9:34 neither have our kings, was given by Moses the servant of God, and
our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept to observe and do all the commandments of
your law, nor listened to your commandments the LORD our Lord, and his ordinances and
and your testimonies with which you testified his statutes; 10:30 and that we would not give
against them. 9:35 For they have not served you our daughters to the peoples of the land, nor
in their kingdom, and in your great goodness take their daughters for our sons; 10:31 and if
that you gave them, and in the large and rich the peoples of the land bring wares or any
land which you gave before them, neither did grain on the Sabbath day to sell, that we would
they turn from their wicked works. not buy of them on the Sabbath, or on a holy
9:36 day; and that we would forego the seventh
“Behold, we are servants this day, and as
year, and the exaction of every debt. 10:32 Also
for the land that you gave to our fathers to eat
we made ordinances for ourselves, to charge
its fruit and its good, behold, we are servants
ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel
in it. 9:37 It yields much increase to the kings
for the service of the house of our God; 10:33 for
whom you have set over us because of our sins:
the show bread, and for the continual meal
also they have power over our bodies, and over
offering, and for the continual burnt offering,
our livestock, at their pleasure, and we are in
for the Sabbaths, for the new moons, for the
great distress. 9:38 Yet for all this, we make a
set feasts, and for the holy things, and for
sure covenant, and write it; and our princes,
the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel,
our Levites, and our priests, seal it.”
10:1
and for all the work of the house of our God.
Now those who sealed were: Nehemiah 10:34
We cast lots, the priests, the Levites, and
the governor, the son of Hacaliah, and the people, for the wood offering, to bring it
Zedekiah, 10:2 Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah, into the house of our God, according to our
10:3
Pashhur, Amariah, Malchijah, 10:4 Hattush, fathers’ houses, at times appointed, year by
Shebaniah, Malluch, 10:5 Harim, Meremoth, year, to burn on the altar of the LORD our God,
Obadiah, 10:6 Daniel, Ginnethon, Baruch,
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as it is written in the Torah; 10:35 and to bring the son of Jeshaiah. 11:8 After him Gabbai,
the first fruits of our ground, and the first fruits Sallai, nine hundred twenty-eight. 11:9 Joel the
of all fruit of all kinds of trees, year by year, to son of Zichri was their overseer; and Judah
the house of the LORD; 10:36 also the firstborn the son of Hassenuah was second over the
of our sons, and of our livestock, as it is written city. 11:10 Of the priests: Jedaiah the son of
in the Torah, and the firstborn of our herds and Joiarib, Jachin, 11:11 Seraiah the son of Hilkiah,
of our flocks, to bring to the house of our God, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the
to the priests who minister in the house of our son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, the ruler
God; 10:37 and that we should bring the first of God’s house, 11:12 and their brothers who
fruits of our dough, and our wave offerings, did the work of the house, eight hundred
and the fruit of all kinds of trees, the new twenty-two; and Adaiah the son of Jeroham,
wine and the oil, to the priests, to the rooms the son of Pelaliah, the son of Amzi, the son
of the house of our God; and the tithes of our of Zechariah, the son of Pashhur, the son of
ground to the Levites; for they, the Levites, Malchijah, 11:13 and his brothers, chiefs of fa-
take the tithes in all the cities of our tillage. thers’ households, two hundred forty-two; and
10:38
The priest the son of Aaron shall be with Amashsai the son of Azarel, the son of Ahzai,
the Levites, when the Levites take tithes: and the son of Meshillemoth, the son of Immer,
11:14
the Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes and their brothers, mighty men of valor,
to the house of our God, to the rooms, into the one hundred twenty-eight; and their overseer
treasure house. 10:39 For the children of Israel was Zabdiel, the son of Haggedolim. 11:15 Of
and the children of Levi shall bring the wave the Levites: Shemaiah the son of Hasshub,
offering of the grain, of the new wine, and of the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah,
the oil, to the rooms, where are the vessels of the son of Bunni; 11:16 and Shabbethai and
the sanctuary, and the priests who minister, Jozabad, of the chiefs of the Levites, who
and the porters, and the singers. We will not had the oversight of the outward business of
forsake the house of our God. God’s house; 11:17 and Mattaniah the son of
11:1
Mica, the son of Zabdi, the son of Asaph,
The princes of the people lived in who was the chief to begin the thanksgiving
Jerusalem: the rest of the people also cast lots, in prayer, and Bakbukiah, the second among
to bring one of ten to dwell in Jerusalem the his brothers; and Abda the son of Shammua,
holy city, and nine parts in the other cities. the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun. 11:18 All
11:2
The people blessed all the men who will- the Levites in the holy city were two hundred
ingly offered themselves to dwell in Jerusalem. eighty-four. 11:19 Moreover the porters, Akkub,
11:3
Now these are the chiefs of the province Talmon, and their brothers, who kept watch
who lived in Jerusalem; but in the cities of at the gates, were one hundred seventy-two.
Judah everyone lived in his possession in their 11:20
The residue of Israel, of the priests, the
cities: Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and Levites, were in all the cities of Judah, everyone
the Nethinim, and the children of Solomon’s in his inheritance. 11:21 But the Nethinim lived
servants. 11:4 In Jerusalem lived certain of in Ophel: and Ziha and Gishpa were over the
the children of Judah, and of the children of Nethinim. 11:22 The overseer also of the Levites
Benjamin. Of the children of Judah: Athaiah at Jerusalem was Uzzi the son of Bani, the son
the son of Uzziah, the son of Zechariah, the of Hashabiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of
son of Amariah, the son of Shephatiah, the Mica, of the sons of Asaph, the singers, over
son of Mahalalel, of the children of Perez; the business of God’s house. 11:23 For there
11:5
and Maaseiah the son of Baruch, the son was a commandment from the king concerning
of Colhozeh, the son of Hazaiah, the son of them, and a settled provision for the singers,
Adaiah, the son of Joiarib, the son of Zechariah, as every day required. 11:24 Pethahiah the son
the son of the Shilonite. 11:6 All the sons of Perez of Meshezabel, of the children of Zerah the
who lived in Jerusalem were four hundred son of Judah, was at the king’s hand in all
sixty-eight valiant men. 11:7 These are the sons matters concerning the people. 11:25 As for the
of Benjamin: Sallu the son of Meshullam, the villages, with their fields, some of the children
son of Joed, the son of Pedaiah, the son of of Judah lived in Kiriath Arba and its towns,
Kolaiah, the son of Maaseiah, the son of Ithiel,
Nehemiah 11:26 726 Nehemiah 12:37

and in Dibon and its towns, and in Jekabzeel there were recorded the heads of fathers’
and its villages, 11:26 and in Yeshua, and in households; also the priests, in the reign of
Moladah, and Beth Pelet, 11:27 and in Hazar Darius the Persian. 12:23 The sons of Levi,
Shual, and in Beersheba and its towns, 11:28 and heads of fathers’ households, were written
in Ziklag, and in Meconah and in its towns, in the book of the chronicles, even until the
11:29
and in En Rimmon, and in Zorah, and days of Yochanan the son of Eliashib. 12:24 The
in Jarmuth, 11:30 Zanoah, Adullam, and their chiefs of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah,
villages, Lachish and its fields, Azekah and its and Yeshua the son of Kadmiel, with their
towns. So they encamped from Beersheba to brothers over against them, to praise and give
the valley of Hinnom. 11:31 The children of Ben- thanks, according to the commandment of
jamin also lived from Geba onward, at Mich- David the man of God, watch next to watch.
12:25
mash and Aija, and at Bethel and its towns, Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah,
11:32
at Anathoth, Nob, Ananiah, 11:33 Hazor, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were porters
Ramah, Gittaim, 11:34 Hadid, Zeboim, Neballat, keeping the watch at the storehouses of the
11:35
Lod, and Ono, the valley of craftsmen. gates. 12:26 These were in the days of Joiakim
11:36
Of the Levites, certain divisions in Judah the son of Yeshua, the son of Jozadak, and
settled in Benjamin’s territory. in the days of Nehemiah the governor, and
12:1
Now these are the priests and the of Ezra the priest the scribe. 12:27 At the
Levites who went up with Zerubbabel dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought
the son of Shealtiel, and Yeshua: Seraiah, the Levites out of all their places, to bring
Jeremiah, Ezra, 12:2 Amariah, Malluch, Hattush, them to Jerusalem, to keep the dedication with
12:3
Shecaniah, Rehum, Meremoth, 12:4 Iddo, gladness, both with giving thanks, and with
Ginnethoi, Abijah, 12:5 Mijamin, Maadiah, singing, with cymbals, stringed instruments,
Bilgah, 12:6 Shemaiah, and Joiarib, Jedaiah. and with harps. 12:28 The sons of the singers
12:7 gathered themselves together, both out of
Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah. These were
the chiefs of the priests and of their brothers the plain around Jerusalem, and from the
in the days of Yeshua. 12:8
Moreover the villages of the Netophathites; 12:29 also from
Levites: Yeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Beth Gilgal, and out of the fields of Geba and
Judah, and Mattaniah, who was over the Azmaveth: for the singers had built them
thanksgiving, he and his brothers. 12:9 Also villages around Jerusalem. 12:30 The priests
Bakbukiah and Unno, their brothers, were and the Levites purified themselves; and they
over against them according to their offices. purified the people, and the gates, and the
12:10
Yeshua became the father of Joiakim, and wall. 12:31 Then I brought up the princes of
Joiakim became the father of Eliashib, and Judah on the wall, and appointed two great
Eliashib became the father of Joiada, 12:11 and companies who gave thanks and went in
Joiada became the father of Jonathan, and procession. One went on the right hand on
Jonathan became the father of Jaddua. 12:12 In the wall toward the dung gate; 12:32 and after
the days of Joiakim were priests, heads of them went Hoshaiah, and half of the princes of
fathers’ households: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Judah, 12:33 and Azariah, Ezra, and Meshullam,
12:34
Jeremiah, Hananiah; 12:13 of Ezra, Meshullam; Judah, and Benjamin, and Shemaiah, and
of Amariah, Jehohanan; 12:14 of Malluchi, Jeremiah, 12:35 and certain of the priests’ sons
Jonathan; of Shebaniah, Joseph; 12:15 of Harim, with shofarsf : Zechariah the son of Jonathan,
Adna; of Meraioth, Helkai; 12:16 of Iddo, the son of Shemaiah, the son of Mattaniah, the
Zechariah; of Ginnethon, Meshullam; 12:17 of son of Micaiah, the son of Zaccur, the son of
Abijah, Zichri; of Miniamin, of Moadiah, Asaph; 12:36 and his brothers, Shemaiah, and
Piltai; 12:18 of Bilgah, Shammua; of Shemaiah, Azarel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel, and
Jehonathan; 12:19 and of Joiarib, Mattenai; of Judah, Hanani, with the musical instruments
Jedaiah, Uzzi; 12:20 of Sallai, Kallai; of Amok, of David the man of God; and Ezra the scribe
Eber; 12:21 of Hilkiah, Hashabiah; of Jedaiah, was before them. 12:37 By the spring gate,
Nethanel. 12:22 As for the Levites, in the days of and straight before them, they went up by
Eliashib, Joiada, and Yochanan, and Jaddua, the stairs of the city of David, at the ascent
f 12:35 or, trumpets
Nehemiah 12:38 727 Nehemiah 13:16

of the wall, above the house of David, even a blessing. 13:3 It came to pass, when they had
to the water gate eastward. 12:38 The other heard the law, that they separated from Israel
company of those who gave thanks went to all the mixed multitude. 13:4 Now before this,
meet them, and I after them, with the half of Eliashib the priest, who was appointed over the
the people, on the wall, above the tower of rooms of the house of our God, being allied to
the furnaces, even to the broad wall, 12:39 and Tobiah, 13:5 had prepared for him a great room,
above the gate of Ephraim, and by the old where before they laid the meal offerings, the
gate, and by the fish gate, and the tower of frankincense, and the vessels, and the tithes of
Hananel, and the tower of Hammeah, even the grain, the new wine, and the oil, which
to the sheep gate: and they stood still in were given by commandment to the Levites,
the gate of the guard. 12:40 So stood the two and the singers, and the porters; and the wave
companies of those who gave thanks in God’s offerings for the priests. 13:6 But in all this, I was
house, and I, and the half of the rulers with not at Jerusalem; for in the two and thirtieth
me; 12:41 and the priests, Eliakim, Maaseiah, year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon I went to
Miniamin, Micaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah, and the king: and after certain days asked I leave
Hananiah, with shofarsg ; 12:42 and Maaseiah, of the king, 13:7 and I came to Jerusalem, and
and Shemaiah, and Eleazar, and Uzzi, and understood the evil that Eliashib had done for
Jehohanan, and Malchijah, and Elam, and Ezer. Tobiah, in preparing him a room in the courts
The singers sang loud, with Jezrahiah their of God’s house. 13:8 It grieved me severely:
overseer. 12:43 They offered great sacrifices that therefore I cast forth all the household stuff of
day, and rejoiced; for God had made them Tobiah out of the room. 13:9 Then I commanded,
rejoice with great joy; and the women also and they cleansed the rooms: and there brought
and the children rejoiced: so that the joy of I again the vessels of God’s house, with the
Jerusalem was heard even afar off. 12:44 On that meal offerings and the frankincense. 13:10 I
day were men appointed over the rooms for perceived that the portions of the Levites had
the treasures, for the wave offerings, for the not been given them; so that the Levites and the
first fruits, and for the tithes, to gather into singers, who did the work, had fled everyone to
them, according to the fields of the cities, the his field. 13:11 Then I contended with the rulers,
portions appointed by the law for the priests and said, “Why is God’s house forsaken?” I
and Levites: for Judah rejoiced for the priests gathered them together, and set them in their
and for the Levites who waited. 12:45 They place. 13:12 Then brought all Judah the tithe
performed the duty of their God, and the duty of the grain and the new wine and the oil
of the purification, and so did the singers and to the treasuries. 13:13 I made treasurers over
the porters, according to the commandment of the treasuries, Shelemiah the priest, and Zadok
David, and of Solomon his son. 12:46 For in the the scribe, and of the Levites, Pedaiah: and
days of David and Asaph of old there was a next to them was Hanan the son of Zaccur,
chief of the singers, and songs of praise and the son of Mattaniah; for they were counted
thanksgiving to God. 12:47 All Israel in the days faithful, and their business was to distribute
of Zerubbabel, and in the days of Nehemiah, to their brothers. 13:14 Remember me, my God,
gave the portions of the singers and the porters, concerning this, and don’t wipe out my good
as every day required: and they set apart that deeds that I have done for the house of my God,
which was for the Levites; and the Levites set and for its observances. 13:15 In those days saw I
apart that which was for the sons of Aaron. in Judah some men treading winepresses on the
13:1 Sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and loading
On that day they read in the book of
Moses in the audience of the people; and donkeys; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and
therein was found written, that an Ammonite all kinds of burdens, which they brought into
and a Moabite should not enter into the as- Jerusalem on the Sabbath day: and I testified
sembly of God forever, 13:2 because they didn’t against them in the day in which they sold
meet the children of Israel with bread and with food. 13:16 There lived men of Tyre also therein,
water, but hired Balaam against them, to curse who brought in fish, and all kinds of wares, and
them: however our God turned the curse into sold on the Sabbath to the children of Judah,
g 12:41 or, trumpets
Nehemiah 13:17 728 Nehemiah 13:31

and in Jerusalem. 13:17 Then I contended with Levites, everyone in his work; 13:31 and for the
the nobles of Judah, and said to them, “What wood offering, at times appointed, and for the
evil thing is this that you do, and profane the first fruits. Remember me, my God, for good.
Sabbath day? 13:18 Didn’t your fathers do thus,
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.”
13:19
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, that no
burden should be brought in on the Sabbath
day. 13:20 So the merchants and sellers of all
kinds of wares lodged outside of Jerusalem
once or twice. 13:21 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. 13:22 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. 13:23 In
those days also saw I the Jews who had married
women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:
13:24
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. 13:25 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. 13:26 Didn’t Solomon king of
Israel sin by these things? Yet among many
nations was there no king like him, and he was
beloved of his God, and God made him king
over all Israel. Nevertheless foreign women
caused even him to sin. 13:27 Shall we then
listen to you to do all this great evil, to trespass
against our God in marrying foreign women?”
13:28
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. 13:29 Remember them, my God, be-
cause they have defiled the priesthood, and the
covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites.
13:30
Thus I cleansed them from all foreigners,
and appointed duties for the priests and for the
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The First Book of of Midian: Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch,


Chronicles and Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the
sons of Keturah. 1:34 Abraham became the
1:1
Adam, Seth, Enosh, 1:2 Kenan, Mahalalel, father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau, and
Jared, 1:3 Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech, 1:4 Noah, Israel. 1:35 The sons of Esau: Eliphaz, Reuel, and
Shem, Ham, and Japheth. 1:5 The sons of Jeush, and Jalam, and Korah. 1:36 The sons of
Japheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Eliphaz: Teman, and Omar, Zephi, and Gatam,
Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras. Kenaz, and Timna, and Amalek. 1:37 The sons of
1:6 Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah.
The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, and Diphath,
1:38
and Togarmah. 1:7 The sons of Javan: Elishah, The sons of Seir: Lotan, and Shobal, and
and Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim. 1:8 The Zibeon, and Anah, and Dishon, and Ezer,
sons of Ham: Cush, and Mizraim, Put, and and Dishan. 1:39 The sons of Lotan: Hori,
Canaan. 1:9 The sons of Cush: Seba, and Hav- and Homam; and Timna was Lotan’s sister.
1:40
ilah, and Sabta, and Raama, and Sabteca. The The sons of Shobal: Alian, and Manahath,
sons of Raamah: Sheba, and Dedan. 1:10 Cush and Ebal, Shephi, and Onam. The sons of
became the father of Nimrod; he began to Zibeon: Aiah, and Anah. 1:41 The sons of
be a mighty one in the earth. 1:11 Mizraim Anah: Dishon. The sons of Dishon: Hamran,
became the father of Ludim, and Anamim, and and Eshban, and Ithran, and Cheran. 1:42 The
Lehabim, and Naphtuhim, 1:12 and Pathrusim, sons of Ezer: Bilhan, and Zaavan, Jaakan.
and Casluhim (where the Philistines came The sons of Dishan: Uz, and Aran. 1:43 Now
from), and Caphtorim. 1:13 Canaan became these are the kings who reigned in the land of
the father of Sidon his firstborn, and Heth, Edom, before there reigned any king over the
1:14 children of Israel: Bela the son of Beor; and the
and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the
Girgashite, 1:15 and the Hivite, and the Arkite, name of his city was Dinhabah. 1:44 Bela died,
and the Sinite, 1:16 and the Arvadite, and the and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned
Zemarite, and the Hamathite. 1:17 The sons of in his place. 1:45 Jobab died, and Husham
Shem: Elam, and Asshur, and Arpachshad, of the land of the Temanites reigned in his
and Lud, and Aram, and Uz, and Hul, and place. 1:46 Husham died, and Hadad the son
Gether, and Meshech. 1:18 Arpachshad became of Bedad, who struck Midian in the field of
the father of Shelah, and Shelah became the Moab, reigned in his place; and the name of his
father of Eber. 1:19 To Eber were born two sons: city was Avith. 1:47 Hadad died, and Samlah of
the name of the one was Peleg; for in his days Masrekah reigned in his place. 1:48 Samlah died,
the earth was divided; and his brother’s name and Shaul of Rehoboth by the River reigned in
was Joktan. 1:20 Joktan became the father of his place. 1:49 Shaul died, and Baal Hanan the
Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and son of Achbor reigned in his place. 1:50 Baal
Jerah, 1:21 and Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah, Hanan died, and Hadad reigned in his place;
1:22
and Ebal, and Abimael, and Sheba, 1:23 and and the name of his city was Pai: and his wife’s
Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab. All these were name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred,
the sons of Joktan. 1:24 Shem, Arpachshad, the daughter of Mezahab. 1:51 Hadad died. The
Shelah, 1:25 Eber, Peleg, Reu, 1:26 Serug, Na- chiefs of Edom were: chief Timna, chief Aliah,
hor, Terah, 1:27 Abram (the same is Abraham). chief Jetheth, 1:52 chief Oholibamah, chief Elah,
1:28
The sons of Abraham: Isaac, and Ishmael. chief Pinon, 1:53 chief Kenaz, chief Teman, chief
1:29
These are their generations: the firstborn Mibzar, 1:54 chief Magdiel, chief Iram. These are
of Ishmael, Nebaioth; then Kedar, and Adbeel, the chiefs of Edom.
and Mibsam, 1:30 Mishma, and Dumah, Massa, 2:1
These are the sons of Israel: Reuben,
Hadad, and Tema, 1:31 Jetur, Naphish, and Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebu-
Kedemah. These are the sons of Ishmael. lun, 2:2 Dan, Joseph, and Benjamin, Naphtali,
1:32
The sons of Keturah, Abraham’s concubine: Gad, and Asher. 2:3 The sons of Judah: Er, and
she bore Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, Onan, and Shelah; which three were born to
and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah. The sons him of Shua’s daughter the Canaanitess. Er,
of Jokshan: Sheba, and Dedan. 1:33 The sons Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the sight of
a 2:3 “LORD” or “GOD” (all capital letters) indicate the 4-letter Holy Name of God
1 Chronicles 2:4 730 1 Chronicles 2:54

the LORD;a and he killed him. 2:4 Tamar his bore him Ahban, and Molid. 2:30 The sons of
daughter-in-law bore him Perez and Zerah. All Nadab: Seled, and Appaim; but Seled died
the sons of Judah were five. 2:5 The sons of without children. 2:31 The sons of Appaim:
Perez: Hezron, and Hamul. 2:6 The sons of Ishi. The sons of Ishi: Sheshan. The sons
Zerah: Zimri, and Ethan, and Heman, and of Sheshan: Ahlai. 2:32 The sons of Jada the
Calcol, and Dara; five of them in all. 2:7 The brother of Shammai: Jether, and Jonathan; and
sons of Carmi: Achar, the troubler of Israel, Jether died without children. 2:33 The sons of
who committed a trespass in the devoted thing. Jonathan: Peleth, and Zaza. These were the
2:8
The sons of Ethan: Azariah. 2:9 The sons also sons of Jerahmeel. 2:34 Now Sheshan had no
of Hezron, who were born to him: Jerahmeel, sons, but daughters. Sheshan had a servant, an
and Ram, and Chelubai. 2:10 Ram became Egyptian, whose name was Jarha. 2:35 Sheshan
the father of Amminadab, and Amminadab gave his daughter to Jarha his servant as wife;
became the father of Nahshon, prince of the and she bore him Attai. 2:36 Attai became
children of Judah; 2:11 and Nahshon became the the father of Nathan, and Nathan became the
father of Salma, and Salma became the father father of Zabad, 2:37 and Zabad became the
of Boaz, 2:12 and Boaz became the father of father of Ephlal, and Ephlal became the father
Obed, and Obed became the father of Jesse; of Obed, 2:38 and Obed became the father of
2:13
and Jesse became the father of his firstborn Jehu, and Jehu became the father of Azariah,
2:39
Eliab, and Abinadab the second, and Shimea and Azariah became the father of Helez,
the third, 2:14 Nethanel the fourth, Raddai the and Helez became the father of Eleasah, 2:40 and
fifth, 2:15 Ozem the sixth, David the seventh; Eleasah became the father of Sismai, and Sismai
2:16
and their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. became the father of Shallum, 2:41 and Shallum
The sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, and Joab, and became the father of Jekamiah, and Jekamiah
Asahel, three. 2:17 Abigail bore Amasa; and became the father of Elishama. 2:42 The sons
the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite. of Caleb the brother of Jerahmeel were Mesha
2:18
Caleb the son of Hezron became the father his firstborn, who was the father of Ziph; and
of children of Azubah his wife, and of Jerioth; the sons of Mareshah the father of Hebron.
2:43
and these were her sons: Jesher, and Shobab, The sons of Hebron: Korah, and Tappuah,
and Ardon. 2:19 Azubah died, and Caleb took and Rekem, and Shema. 2:44 Shema became the
to him Ephrath, who bore him Hur. 2:20 Hur father of Raham, the father of Jorkeam; and
became the father of Uri, and Uri became the Rekem became the father of Shammai. 2:45 The
father of Bezalel. 2:21 Afterward Hezron went in son of Shammai was Maon; and Maon was
to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, the father of Beth Zur. 2:46 Ephah, Caleb’s
whom he took as wife when he was sixty years concubine, bore Haran, and Moza, and Gazez;
old; and she bore him Segub. 2:22 Segub became and Haran became the father of Gazez. 2:47 The
the father of Jair, who had twenty-three cities in sons of Jahdai: Regem, and Jothan, and Geshan,
the land of Gilead. 2:23 Geshur and Aram took and Pelet, and Ephah, and Shaaph. 2:48 Maacah,
the towns of Jair from them, with Kenath, and Caleb’s concubine, bore Sheber and Tirhanah.
2:49
its villages, even sixty cities. All these were the She bore also Shaaph the father of Madman-
sons of Machir the father of Gilead. 2:24 After nah, Sheva the father of Machbena, and the
that Hezron was dead in Caleb Ephrathah, father of Gibea; and the daughter of Caleb was
then Abijah Hezron’s wife bore him Ashhur Achsah. 2:50 These were the sons of Caleb, the
the father of Tekoa. 2:25 The sons of Jerahmeel son of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah: Shobal
the firstborn of Hezron were Ram the firstborn, the father of Kiriath Jearim, 2:51 Salma the father
and Bunah, and Oren, and Ozem, Ahijah. of Bethlehem, Hareph the father of Beth Gader.
2:26 2:52
Jerahmeel had another wife, whose name Shobal the father of Kiriath Jearim had sons:
was Atarah; she was the mother of Onam. Haroeh, half of the Menuhoth. 2:53 The families
2:27
The sons of Ram the firstborn of Jerahmeel of Kiriath Jearim: The Ithrites, and the Puthites,
were Maaz, and Jamin, and Eker. 2:28 The sons and the Shumathites, and the Mishraites; of
of Onam were Shammai, and Jada. The sons of them came the Zorathites and the Eshtaolites.
Shammai: Nadab, and Abishur. 2:29 The name 2:54
The sons of Salma: Bethlehem, and the
of the wife of Abishur was Abihail; and she Netophathites, Atroth Beth Joab, and half of
1 Chronicles 2:55 731 1 Chronicles 4:19

the Manahathites, the Zorites. 2:55 The families Yochanan, and Delaiah, and Anani, seven.
4:1
of scribes who lived at Jabez: the Tirathites, The sons of Judah: Perez, Hezron, and
the Shimeathites, the Sucathites. These are the Carmi, and Hur, and Shobal. 4:2 Reaiah the
Kenites who came of Hammath, the father of son of Shobal became the father of Jahath;
the house of Rechab. and Jahath became the father of Ahumai and
3:1 Lahad. These are the families of the Zo-
Now these were the sons of David, who
were born to him in Hebron: the firstborn, Am- rathites. 4:3 These were the sons of the father
non, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess; the second, of Etam: Jezreel, and Ishma, and Idbash; and
Daniel, of Abigail the Carmelitess; 3:2 the third, the name of their sister was Hazzelelponi;
4:4
Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of and Penuel the father of Gedor, and Ezer
Talmai king of Geshur; the fourth, Adonijah the father of Hushah. These are the sons of
the son of Haggith; 3:3 the fifth, Shephatiah of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah, the father of
Abital; the sixth, Ithream by Eglah his wife: Bethlehem. 4:5 Ashhur the father of Tekoa had
3:4
six were born to him in Hebron; and there two wives, Helah and Naarah. 4:6 Naarah bore
he reigned seven years and six months. In him Ahuzzam, and Hepher, and Temeni, and
Jerusalem he reigned thirty-three years; 3:5 and Haahashtari. These were the sons of Naarah.
4:7
these were born to him in Jerusalem: Shimea, The sons of Helah were Zereth, Izhar, and
and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon, four, Ethnan. 4:8 Hakkoz became the father of Anub,
of Bathshua the daughter of Ammiel; 3:6 and and Zobebah, and the families of Aharhel the
Ibhar, and Elishama, and Eliphelet, 3:7 and son of Harum. 4:9 Jabez was more honorable
Nogah, and Nepheg, and Japhia, 3:8 and El- than his brothers: and his mother named
ishama, and Eliada, and Eliphelet, nine. 3:9 All him Jabez, saying, “Because I bore him with
these were the sons of David, besides the sons sorrow.”
4:10
of the concubines; and Tamar was their sis- Jabez called on the Godb of Israel, saying,
ter. 3:10 Solomon’s son was Rehoboam, Abijah “Oh that you would bless me indeed, and
his son, Asa his son, Jehoshaphat his son, enlarge my border, and that your hand might
3:11
Joram his son, Ahaziah his son, Joash his be with me, and that you would keep me from
son, 3:12 Amaziah his son, Azariah his son, evil, that it not be to my sorrow!”
Jotham his son, 3:13 Ahaz his son, Hezekiah God granted him that which he requested.
his son, Manasseh his son, 3:14 Amon his son, 4:11
Chelub the brother of Shuhah became the
Josiah his son. 3:15 The sons of Josiah: the first- father of Mehir, who was the father of Eshton.
4:12
born Yochanan, the second Jehoiakim, the third Eshton became the father of Beth Rapha,
Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum. 3:16 The sons of and Paseah, and Tehinnah the father of Ir
Jehoiakim: Jeconiah his son, Zedekiah his son. Nahash. These are the men of Recah. 4:13 The
3:17
The sons of Jeconiah, the captive: Shealtiel sons of Kenaz: Othniel, and Seraiah. The sons
his son, 3:18 and Malchiram, and Pedaiah, and of Othniel: Hathath. 4:14 Meonothai became
Shenazzar, Jekamiah, Hoshama, and Nedabiah. the father of Ophrah: and Seraiah became the
3:19
The sons of Pedaiah: Zerubbabel, and father of Joab the father of Ge Harashim; for
Shimei. The sons of Zerubbabel: Meshullam, they were craftsmen. 4:15 The sons of Caleb the
and Hananiah; and Shelomith was their sister; son of Jephunneh: Iru, Elah, and Naam; and
3:20
and Hashubah, and Ohel, and Berechiah, the sons of Elah; and Kenaz. 4:16 The sons of
and Hasadiah, Jushab Hesed, five. 3:21 The Jehallelel: Ziph, and Ziphah, Tiria, and Asarel.
4:17
sons of Hananiah: Pelatiah, and Jeshaiah; the The sons of Ezrah: Jether, and Mered, and
sons of Rephaiah, the sons of Arnan, the sons Epher, and Jalon; and she bore Miriam, and
of Obadiah, the sons of Shecaniah. 3:22 The Shammai, and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa.
4:18
sons of Shecaniah: Shemaiah. The sons of His wife Yehudiyah bore Jered the father
Shemaiah: Hattush, and Igal, and Bariah, and of Gedor, and Heber the father of Soco, and
Neariah, and Shaphat, six. 3:23 The sons of Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah. These are the
Neariah: Elioenai, and Hizkiah, and Azrikam, sons of Bithiah the daughter of Pharaoh, whom
three. 3:24 The sons of Elioenai: Hodaviah, Mered took. 4:19 The sons of the wife of Hodiah,
and Eliashib, and Pelaiah, and Akkub, and the sister of Naham, were the father of Keilah
b 4:10 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “Elohim.”
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the Garmite, and Eshtemoa the Maacathite. was pasture there for their flocks. 4:42 Some of
4:20
The sons of Shimon: Amnon, and Rinnah, them, even of the sons of Simeon, five hundred
Ben Hanan, and Tilon. The sons of Ishi: Zoheth, men, went to Mount Seir, having for their
and Ben Zoheth. 4:21 The sons of Shelah the captains Pelatiah, and Neariah, and Rephaiah,
son of Judah: Er the father of Lecah, and and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi. 4:43 They struck the
Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the families remnant of the Amalekites who escaped, and
of the house of those who worked fine linen, have lived there to this day.
of the house of Ashbea; 4:22 and Jokim, and 5:1
the men of Cozeba, and Joash, and Saraph, The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel
who had dominion in Moab, and Jashubilehem. (for he was the firstborn; but, because he
The records are ancient. 4:23 These were the defiled his father’s couch, his birthright was
potters, and the inhabitants of Netaim and given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel;
Gederah: there they lived with the king for and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after
his work. 4:24 The sons of Simeon: Nemuel, the birthright. 5:2 For Judah prevailed above
and Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, Shaul; 4:25 Shallum his brothers, and of him came the prince; but
his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma his son. the birthright was Joseph’s:) 5:3 the sons of
4:26
The sons of Mishma: Hammuel his son, Reuben the firstborn of Israel: Hanoch, and
Zaccur his son, Shimei his son. 4:27 Shimei Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi. 5:4 The sons of Joel:
had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his Shemaiah his son, Gog his son, Shimei his son,
5:5
brothers didn’t have many children, neither Micah his son, Reaiah his son, Baal his son,
5:6
did all their family multiply like the children Beerah his son, whom Tilgath Pilneser king
of Judah. 4:28 They lived at Beersheba, and of Assyria carried away captive: he was prince
Moladah, and Hazarshual, 4:29 and at Bilhah, of the Reubenites. 5:7 His brothers by their fam-
and at Ezem, and at Tolad, 4:30 and at Bethuel, ilies, when the genealogy of their generations
and at Hormah, and at Ziklag, 4:31 and at Beth was reckoned: the chief, Jeiel, and Zechariah,
5:8
Marcaboth, and Hazar Susim, and at Beth Biri, and Bela the son of Azaz, the son of Shema,
and at Shaaraim. These were their cities to the son of Joel, who lived in Aroer, even to
the reign of David. 4:32 Their villages were Nebo and Baal Meon: 5:9 and eastward he lived
Etam, and Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, and even to the entrance of the wilderness from the
Ashan, five cities; 4:33 and all their villages that river Euphrates, because their livestock were
were around the same cities, to Baal. These multiplied in the land of Gilead. 5:10 In the days
were their habitations, and they have their of Saul, they made war with the Hagrites, who
genealogy. 4:34 Meshobab, and Jamlech, and fell by their hand; and they lived in their tents
Joshah the son of Amaziah, 4:35 and Joel, and throughout all the land east of Gilead. 5:11 The
Jehu the son of Joshibiah, the son of Seraiah, sons of Gad lived over against them, in the land
the son of Asiel, 4:36 and Elioenai, and Jaakobah, of Bashan to Salecah: 5:12 Joel the chief, and
and Jeshohaiah, and Asaiah, and Adiel, and Shapham the second, and Janai, and Shaphat
Jesimiel, and Benaiah, 4:37 and Ziza the son of in Bashan. 5:13 Their brothers of their fathers’
Shiphi, the son of Allon, the son of Jedaiah, the houses: Michael, and Meshullam, and Sheba,
son of Shimri, the son of Shemaiah—4:38 these and Jorai, and Jacan, and Zia, and Eber, seven.
5:14
mentioned by name were princes in their fami- These were the sons of Abihail, the son of
lies: and their fathers’ houses increased greatly. Huri, the son of Jaroah, the son of Gilead, the
4:39
They went to the entrance of Gedor, even son of Michael, the son of Jeshishai, the son of
to the east side of the valley, to seek pasture Jahdo, the son of Buz; 5:15 Ahi the son of Abdiel,
for their flocks. 4:40 They found fat pasture the son of Guni, chief of their fathers’ houses.
5:16
and good, and the land was wide, and quiet, They lived in Gilead in Bashan, and in its
and peaceable; for those who lived there before towns, and in all the suburbs of Sharon, as far
were of Ham. 4:41 These written by name came as their borders. 5:17 All these were reckoned
in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and by genealogies in the days of Jotham king of
struck their tents, and the Meunim who were Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam king of
found there, and destroyed them utterly to this Israel. 5:18 The sons of Reuben, and the Gadites,
day, and lived in their place; because there and the half-tribe of Manasseh, of valiant men,
men able to bear buckler and sword, and to
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shoot with bow, and skillful in war, were forty- Solomon built in Jerusalem), 6:11 and Azariah
four thousand seven hundred and sixty, that became the father of Amariah, and Amariah
were able to go forth to war. 5:19 They made became the father of Ahitub, 6:12 and Ahitub
war with the Hagrites, with Jetur, and Naphish, became the father of Zadok, and Zadok became
and Nodab. 5:20 They were helped against the father of Shallum, 6:13 and Shallum became
them, and the Hagrites were delivered into the father of Hilkiah, and Hilkiah became
their hand, and all who were with them; for the father of Azariah, 6:14 and Azariah became
they cried to God in the battle, and he was the father of Seraiah, and Seraiah became the
entreated of them, because they put their trust father of Jehozadak; 6:15 Jehozadak went into
in him. 5:21 They took away their livestock; of captivity, when the LORD carried away Judah
their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two and Jerusalem by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar.
6:16
hundred fifty thousand, and of donkeys two The sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and
thousand, and of men one hundred thousand. Merari. 6:17 These are the names of the sons of
5:22
For there fell many slain, because the war Gershom: Libni and Shimei. 6:18 The sons of
was of God. They lived in their place until Kohath were Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron,
the captivity. 5:23 The children of the half-tribe and Uzziel. 6:19 The sons of Merari: Mahli
of Manasseh lived in the land: they increased and Mushi. These are the families of the
from Bashan to Baal Hermon and Senir and Levites according to their fathers’ households.
Mount Hermon. 5:24 These were the heads of 6:20
Of Gershom: Libni his son, Jahath his son,
their fathers’ houses: even Epher, and Ishi, and Zimmah his son, 6:21 Joah his son, Iddo his son,
Eliel, and Azriel, and Jeremiah, and Hodaviah, Zerah his son, Jeatherai his son. 6:22 The sons
and Jahdiel, mighty men of valor, famous of Kohath: Amminadab his son, Korah his son,
men, heads of their fathers’ houses. 5:25 They Assir his son, 6:23 Elkanah his son, and Ebiasaph
trespassed against the God of their fathers, his son, and Assir his son, 6:24 Tahath his son,
and played the prostitute after the gods of Uriel his son, Uzziah his son, and Shaul his son.
6:25
the peoples of the land, whom God destroyed The sons of Elkanah: Amasai, and Ahimoth.
before them. 5:26 The God of Israel stirred up 6:26
As for Elkanah, the sons of Elkanah: Zophai
the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit his son, and Nahath his son, 6:27 Eliab his son,
of Tilgath Pilneser king of Assyria, and he Jeroham his son, Elkanah his son. 6:28 The
carried them away, even the Reubenites, and sons of Samuel: the firstborn Joel, and the
the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, second Abijah. 6:29 The sons of Merari: Mahli,
and brought them to Halah, and Habor, and Libni his son, Shimei his son, Uzzah his son,
6:30
Hara, and to the river of Gozan, to this day. Shimea his son, Haggiah his son, Asaiah his
6:1
son. 6:31 These are they whom David set over
The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and the service of song in the house of the LORD,
Merari. 6:2 The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, after that the ark had rest. 6:32 They ministered
and Hebron, and Uzziel. 6:3 The children of with song before the tabernacle of the Tent of
Amram: Aaron, and Moses, and Miriam. The Meeting, until Solomon had built the house of
sons of Aaron: Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, the LORD in Jerusalem: and they waited on
and Ithamar. 6:4 Eleazar became the father their office according to their order. 6:33 These
of Phinehas, Phinehas became the father of are those who waited, and their sons. Of the
Abishua, 6:5 and Abishua became the father of sons of the Kohathites: Heman the singer, the
Bukki, and Bukki became the father of Uzzi, son of Joel, the son of Samuel, 6:34 the son of
6:6
and Uzzi became the father of Zerahiah, Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel,
and Zerahiah became the father of Meraioth, the son of Toah, 6:35 the son of Zuph, the son of
6:7
Meraioth became the father of Amariah, and Elkanah, the son of Mahath, the son of Amasai,
Amariah became the father of Ahitub, 6:8 and 6:36
the son of Elkanah, the son of Joel, the son
Ahitub became the father of Zadok, and Zadok of Azariah, the son of Zephaniah, 6:37 the son of
became the father of Ahimaaz, 6:9 and Ahimaaz Tahath, the son of Assir, the son of Ebiasaph,
became the father of Azariah, and Azariah be- the son of Korah, 6:38 the son of Izhar, the son
came the father of Yochanan, 6:10 and Yochanan of Kohath, the son of Levi, the son of Israel.
became the father of Azariah, (he it is who 6:39
His brother Asaph, who stood on his right
executed the priest’s office in the house that
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hand, even Asaph the son of Berechiah, the families, out of the tribe of Reuben, and out
son of Shimea, 6:40 the son of Michael, the son of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of
of Baaseiah, the son of Malchijah, 6:41 the son Zebulun, twelve cities. 6:64 The children of
of Ethni, the son of Zerah, the son of Adaiah, Israel gave to the Levites the cities with their
6:42
the son of Ethan, the son of Zimmah, the suburbs. 6:65 They gave by lot out of the tribe
son of Shimei, 6:43 the son of Jahath, the son of of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of
Gershom, the son of Levi. 6:44 On the left hand the children of Simeon, and out of the tribe of
their brothers the sons of Merari: Ethan the son the children of Benjamin, these cities which are
of Kishi, the son of Abdi, the son of Malluch, mentioned by name. 6:66 Some of the families
6:45
the son of Hashabiah, the son of Amaziah, of the sons of Kohath had cities of their borders
the son of Hilkiah, 6:46 the son of Amzi, the out of the tribe of Ephraim. 6:67 They gave to
son of Bani, the son of Shemer, 6:47 the son of them the cities of refuge, Shechem in the hill
Mahli, the son of Mushi, the son of Merari, the country of Ephraim with its suburbs; Gezer
son of Levi. 6:48 Their brothers the Levites were also with its suburbs, 6:68 and Jokmeam with
appointed for all the service of the tabernacle its suburbs, and Beth Horon with its suburbs,
of God’s house. 6:49 But Aaron and his sons 6:69
and Aijalon with its suburbs, and Gath
offered on the altar of burnt offering, and on Rimmon with its suburbs; 6:70 and out of the
the altar of incense, for all the work of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Aner with its suburbs,
most holy place, and to make atonement for and Bileam with its suburbs, for the rest of the
Israel, according to all that Moses the servant family of the sons of Kohath. 6:71 To the sons of
of God had commanded. 6:50 These are the Gershom were given, out of the family of the
sons of Aaron: Eleazar his son, Phinehas his half-tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan with
son, Abishua his son, 6:51 Bukki his son, Uzzi its suburbs, and Ashtaroth with its suburbs;
his son, Zerahiah his son, 6:52 Meraioth his son, 6:72
and out of the tribe of Issachar, Kedesh with
Amariah his son, Ahitub his son, 6:53 Zadok its suburbs, Daberath with its suburbs, 6:73 and
his son, Ahimaaz his son. 6:54 Now these Ramoth with its suburbs, and Anem with its
are their dwelling places according to their suburbs; 6:74 and out of the tribe of Asher,
encampments in their borders: to the sons of Mashal with its suburbs, and Abdon with its
Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites (for suburbs, 6:75 and Hukok with its suburbs, and
theirs was the first lot), 6:55 to them they gave Rehob with its suburbs; 6:76 and out of the
Hebron in the land of Judah, and its suburbs tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its
around it; 6:56 but the fields of the city, and suburbs, and Hammon with its suburbs, and
its villages, they gave to Caleb the son of Kiriathaim with its suburbs. 6:77 To the rest of
Jephunneh. 6:57 To the sons of Aaron they the Levites, the sons of Merari, were given,
gave the cities of refuge, Hebron; Libnah also out of the tribe of Zebulun, Rimmono with
with its suburbs, and Jattir, and Eshtemoa with its suburbs, Tabor with its suburbs; 6:78 and
its suburbs, 6:58 and Hilen with its suburbs, beyond the Jordan at Jericho, on the east side
Debir with its suburbs, 6:59 and Ashan with its of the Jordan, were given them, out of the tribe
suburbs, and Beth Shemesh with its suburbs; of Reuben, Bezer in the wilderness with its
6:60
and out of the tribe of Benjamin, Geba with suburbs, and Jahzah with its suburbs, 6:79 and
its suburbs, and Allemeth with its suburbs, Kedemoth with its suburbs, and Mephaath
and Anathoth with its suburbs. All their cities with its suburbs; 6:80 and out of the tribe of
throughout their families were thirteen cities. Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with its suburbs, and
6:61
To the rest of the sons of Kohath were given Mahanaim with its suburbs, 6:81 and Heshbon
by lot, out of the family of the tribe, out of with its suburbs, and Jazer with its suburbs.
the half-tribe, the half of Manasseh, ten cities. 7:1
6:62
To the sons of Gershom, according to their Of the sons of Issachar: Tola, and Puah,
families, out of the tribe of Issachar, and out Jashub, and Shimron, four. 7:2 The sons of
of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Tola: Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and
Naphtali, and out of the tribe of Manasseh Jahmai, and Ibsam, and Shemuel, heads of
in Bashan, thirteen cities. 6:63 To the sons of their fathers’ houses, of Tola; mighty men of
Merari were given by lot, according to their valor in their generations: their number in the
days of David was twenty-two thousand six
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hundred. 7:3 The sons of Uzzi: Izrahiah. The whom the men of Gath who were born in the
sons of Izrahiah: Michael, and Obadiah, and land killed, because they came down to take
Joel, Isshiah, five; all of them chief men. 7:4 With away their livestock. 7:22 Ephraim their father
them, by their generations, after their fathers’ mourned many days, and his brothers came to
houses, were bands of the army for war, thirty- comfort him. 7:23 He went in to his wife, and
six thousand; for they had many wives and she conceived, and bore a son, and he named
sons. 7:5 Their brothers among all the families him Beriah, because it went evil with his house.
7:24
of Issachar, mighty men of valor, reckoned in His daughter was Sheerah, who built Beth
all by genealogy, were eighty-seven thousand. Horon the lower and the upper, and Uzzen
7:6
The sons of Benjamin: Bela, and Becher, and Sheerah. 7:25 Rephah was his son, and Resheph,
Jediael, three. 7:7 The sons of Bela: Ezbon, and Telah his son, and Tahan his son, 7:26 Ladan
and Uzzi, and Uzziel, and Jerimoth, and Iri, his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son,
7:27
five; heads of fathers’ houses, mighty men of Nun his son, Joshua his son. 7:28 Their
valor; and they were reckoned by genealogy possessions and habitations were Bethel and its
twenty-two thousand thirty-four. 7:8 The sons towns, and eastward Naaran, and westward
of Becher: Zemirah, and Joash, and Eliezer, and Gezer, with its towns; Shechem also and its
Elioenai, and Omri, and Jeremoth, and Abijah, towns, to Azzah and its towns; 7:29 and by
and Anathoth, and Alemeth. All these were the borders of the children of Manasseh, Beth
the sons of Becher. 7:9 They were reckoned Shean and its towns, Taanach and its towns,
by genealogy, after their generations, heads Megiddo and its towns, Dor and its towns. In
of their fathers’ houses, mighty men of valor, these lived the children of Joseph the son of Is-
twenty thousand two hundred. 7:10 The sons rael. 7:30 The sons of Asher: Imnah, and Ishvah,
of Jediael: Bilhan. The sons of Bilhan: Jeush, and Ishvi, and Beriah, and Serah their sister.
7:31
and Benjamin, and Ehud, and Chenaanah, and The sons of Beriah: Heber, and Malchiel,
Zethan, and Tarshish, and Ahishahar. 7:11 All who was the father of Birzaith. 7:32 Heber
these were sons of Jediael, according to the became the father of Japhlet, and Shomer, and
heads of their fathers’ households, mighty men Hotham, and Shua their sister. 7:33 The sons
of valor, seventeen thousand and two hundred, of Japhlet: Pasach, and Bimhal, and Ashvath.
who were able to go forth in the army for war. These are the children of Japhlet. 7:34 The sons
7:12
Shuppim also, and Huppim, the sons of of Shemer: Ahi, and Rohgah, Jehubbah, and
Ir, Hushim, the sons of Aher. 7:13 The sons of Aram. 7:35 The sons of Helem his brother:
Naphtali: Jahziel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Zophah, and Imna, and Shelesh, and Amal.
Shallum, the sons of Bilhah. 7:14 The sons of 7:36
The sons of Zophah: Suah, and Harnepher,
Manasseh: Asriel, whom his concubine the and Shual, and Beri, and Imrah, 7:37 Bezer, and
Aramitess bore: she bore Machir the father Hod, and Shamma, and Shilshah, and Ithran,
of Gilead: 7:15 and Machir took a wife of and Beera. 7:38 The sons of Jether: Jephunneh,
Huppim and Shuppim, whose sister’s name and Pispa, and Ara. 7:39 The sons of Ulla: Arah,
was Maacah; and the name of the second was and Hanniel, and Rizia. 7:40 All these were the
Zelophehad: and Zelophehad had daughters. children of Asher, heads of the fathers’ houses,
7:16
Maacah the wife of Machir bore a son, and choice and mighty men of valor, chief of the
she named him Peresh; and the name of his princes. The number of them reckoned by
brother was Sheresh; and his sons were Ulam genealogy for service in war was twenty-six
and Rakem. 7:17 The sons of Ulam: Bedan. thousand men.
These were the sons of Gilead the son of 8:1
Machir, the son of Manasseh. 7:18 His sister Benjamin became the father of Bela his
Hammolecheth bore Ishhod, and Abiezer, and firstborn, Ashbel the second, and Aharah the
Mahlah. 7:19 The sons of Shemida were Ahian, third, 8:2 Nohah the fourth, and Rapha the fifth.
8:3
and Shechem, and Likhi, and Aniam. 7:20 The Bela had sons: Addar, and Gera, and Abi-
sons of Ephraim: Shuthelah, and Bered his hud, 8:4 and Abishua, and Naaman, and Ahoah,
8:5
son, and Tahath his son, and Eleadah his son, and Gera, and Shephuphan, and Huram.
8:6
and Tahath his son, 7:21 and Zabad his son, These are the sons of Ehud: these are the
and Shuthelah his son, and Ezer, and Elead, heads of fathers’ households of the inhabitants
of Geba, and they carried them captive to
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Manahath: 8:7 and Naaman, and Ahijah, and son, Eleasah his son, Azel his son. 8:38 Azel
Gera, he carried them captive: and he became had six sons, whose names are these: Azrikam,
the father of Uzza and Ahihud. 8:8 Shaharaim Bocheru, and Ishmael, and Sheariah, and Oba-
became the father of children in the field of diah, and Hanan. All these were the sons of
Moab, after he had sent them away; Hushim Azel. 8:39 The sons of Eshek his brother: Ulam
and Baara were his wives. 8:9 He became the his firstborn, Jeush the second, and Eliphelet
father of Hodesh his wife, Jobab, and Zibia, and the third. 8:40 The sons of Ulam were mighty
Mesha, and Malcam, 8:10 and Jeuz, and Shachia, men of valor, archers, and had many sons, and
and Mirmah. These were his sons, heads of sons’ sons, one hundred fifty. All these were of
fathers’ households. 8:11 Of Hushim he became the sons of Benjamin.
the father of Abitub and Elpaal. 8:12 The sons 9:1
of Elpaal: Eber, and Misham, and Shemed, So all Israel were reckoned by genealo-
who built Ono and Lod, with its towns; 8:13 and gies; and behold, they are written in the book
Beriah, and Shema, who were heads of fathers’ of the kings of Israel: and Judah was carried
households of the inhabitants of Aijalon, who away captive to Babylon for their disobedi-
put to flight the inhabitants of Gath; 8:14 and ence. 9:2 Now the first inhabitants who lived
Ahio, Shashak, and Jeremoth, 8:15 and Zeba- in their possessions in their cities were Israel,
diah, and Arad, and Eder, 8:16 and Michael, and the priests, the Levites, and the Nethinim. 9:3 In
Ishpah, and Joha, the sons of Beriah, 8:17 and Jerusalem lived of the children of Judah, and
Zebadiah, and Meshullam, and Hizki, and of the children of Benjamin, and of the children
Heber, 8:18 and Ishmerai, and Izliah, and Jobab, of Ephraim and Manasseh: 9:4 Uthai the son of
the sons of Elpaal, 8:19 and Jakim, and Zichri, Ammihud, the son of Omri, the son of Imri,
and Zabdi, 8:20 and Elienai, and Zillethai, and the son of Bani, of the children of Perez the
Eliel, 8:21 and Adaiah, and Beraiah, and Shim- son of Judah. 9:5 Of the Shilonites: Asaiah the
rath, the sons of Shimei, 8:22 and Ishpan, and firstborn, and his sons. 9:6 Of the sons of Zerah:
Eber, and Eliel, 8:23 and Abdon, and Zichri, Jeuel, and their brothers, six hundred ninety.
9:7
and Hanan, 8:24 and Hananiah, and Elam, and Of the sons of Benjamin: Sallu the son of
Anthothijah, 8:25 and Iphdeiah, and Penuel, Meshullam, the son of Hodaviah, the son of
the sons of Shashak, 8:26 and Shamsherai, and Hassenuah, 9:8 and Ibneiah the son of Jeroham,
Shehariah, and Athaliah, 8:27 and Jaareshiah, and Elah the son of Uzzi, the son of Michri, and
and Elijah, and Zichri, the sons of Jeroham. Meshullam the son of Shephatiah, the son of
8:28
These were heads of fathers’ households Reuel, the son of Ibnijah; 9:9 and their brothers,
throughout their generations, chief men: these according to their generations, nine hundred
lived in Jerusalem. 8:29 In Gibeon there lived fifty-six. All these men were heads of fathers’
the father of Gibeon, whose wife’s name was households by their fathers’ houses. 9:10 Of
Maacah; 8:30 and his firstborn son Abdon, and the priests: Jedaiah, and Jehoiarib, Jachin,
9:11
Zur, and Kish, and Baal, and Nadab, 8:31 and and Azariah the son of Hilkiah, the son
Gedor, and Ahio, and Zecher. 8:32 Mikloth of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of
became the father of Shimeah. They also Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, the ruler of God’s
lived with their brothers in Jerusalem, over house; 9:12 and Adaiah the son of Jeroham,
against their brothers. 8:33 Ner became the the son of Pashhur, the son of Malchijah, and
father of Kish; and Kish became the father of Maasai the son of Adiel, the son of Jahzerah,
Saul; and Saul became the father of Jonathan, the son of Meshullam, the son of Meshillemith,
and Malchishua, and Abinadab, and Eshbaal. the son of Immer; 9:13 and their brothers, heads
8:34
The son of Jonathan was Merib Baal; and of their fathers’ houses, one thousand seven
Merib Baal became the father of Micah. 8:35 The hundred sixty; very able men for the work
sons of Micah: Pithon, and Melech, and Tarea, of the service of God’s house. 9:14 Of the
and Ahaz. 8:36 Ahaz became the father of Levites: Shemaiah the son of Hasshub, the
Jehoaddah; and Jehoaddah became the father son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, of the
of Alemeth, and Azmaveth, and Zimri; and sons of Merari; 9:15 and Bakbakkar, Heresh, and
Zimri became the father of Moza. 8:37 Moza Galal, and Mattaniah the son of Mica, the son
became the father of Binea; Raphah was his of Zichri, the son of Asaph, 9:16 and Obadiah
the son of Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son
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of Jeduthun, and Berechiah the son of Asa, the in their work day and night. 9:34 These were
son of Elkanah, who lived in the villages of heads of fathers’ households of the Levites,
the Netophathites. 9:17 The porters: Shallum, throughout their generations, chief men: these
and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and lived at Jerusalem. 9:35 In Gibeon there lived the
their brothers (Shallum was the chief), 9:18 who father of Gibeon, Jeiel, whose wife’s name was
previously served in the king’s gate eastward: Maacah: 9:36 and his firstborn son Abdon, and
they were the porters for the camp of the Zur, and Kish, and Baal, and Ner, and Nadab,
children of Levi. 9:19 Shallum the son of Kore, 9:37
and Gedor, and Ahio, and Zechariah, and
the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his Mikloth. 9:38 Mikloth became the father of
brothers, of his father’s house, the Korahites, Shimeam. They also lived with their brothers in
were over the work of the service, keepers of Jerusalem, over against their brothers. 9:39 Ner
the thresholds of the tent: and their fathers became the father of Kish; and Kish became
had been over the camp of the LORD, keepers the father of Saul; and Saul became the father
of the entry. 9:20 Phinehas the son of Eleazar of Jonathan, and Malchishua, and Abinadab,
was ruler over them in time past, and the and Eshbaal. 9:40 The son of Jonathan was
LORD was with him. 9:21 Zechariah the son of Merib Baal; and Merib Baal became the father
Meshelemiah was porter of the door of the Tent of Micah. 9:41 The sons of Micah: Pithon,
of Meeting. 9:22 All these who were chosen to and Melech, and Tahrea, and Ahaz. 9:42 Ahaz
be porters in the thresholds were two hundred became the father of Jarah; and Jarah became
and twelve. These were reckoned by genealogy the father of Alemeth, and Azmaveth, and
in their villages, whom David and Samuel the Zimri; and Zimri became the father of Moza;
seer ordained in their office of trust. 9:23 So 9:43
and Moza became the father of Binea; and
they and their children had the oversight of Rephaiah his son, Eleasah his son, Azel his son.
9:44
the gates of the house of the LORD, even the Azel had six sons, whose names are these:
house of the tent, by wards. 9:24 On the four Azrikam, Bocheru, and Ishmael, and Sheariah,
sides were the porters, toward the east, west, and Obadiah, and Hanan: these were the sons
north, and south. 9:25 Their brothers, in their of Azel.
villages, were to come in every seven days from 10:1
Now the Philistines fought against Is-
time to time to be with them: 9:26 for the four rael: and the men of Israel fled from be-
chief porters, who were Levites, were in an fore the Philistines, and fell down slain on
office of trust, and were over the rooms and Mount Gilboa. 10:2 The Philistines followed
over the treasuries in God’s house. 9:27 They hard after Saul and after his sons; and the
lodged around God’s house, because that duty Philistines killed Jonathan, and Abinadab, and
was on them; and to them pertained its opening Malchishua, the sons of Saul. 10:3 The battle
morning by morning. 9:28 Certain of them went hard against Saul, and the archers over-
were in charge of the vessels of service; for took him; and he was distressed by reason of
by count were these brought in and by count the archers. 10:4 Then Saul said to his armor
were these taken out. 9:29 Some of them also bearer, “Draw your sword, and thrust me
were appointed over the furniture, and over through with it, lest these uncircumcised come
all the vessels of the sanctuary, and over the and abuse me.”
fine flour, and the wine, and the oil, and the
frankincense, and the spices. 9:30 Some of the But his armor bearer would not; for he was
sons of the priests prepared the confection of terrified. Therefore Saul took his sword, and
the spices. 9:31 Mattithiah, one of the Levites, fell on it. 10:5 When his armor bearer saw that
who was the firstborn of Shallum the Korahite, Saul was dead, he likewise fell on his sword,
had the office of trust over the things that were and died. 10:6 So Saul died, and his three sons;
baked in pans. 9:32 Some of their brothers, of and all his house died together. 10:7 When all
the sons of the Kohathites, were over the show the men of Israel who were in the valley saw
bread, to prepare it every Sabbath. 9:33 These that they fled, and that Saul and his sons were
are the singers, heads of fathers’ households of dead, they forsook their cities, and fled; and
the Levites, who lived in the rooms and were the Philistines came and lived in them. 10:8 It
free from other service; for they were employed happened on the next day, when the Philistines
came to strip the slain, that they found Saul
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and his sons fallen on Mount Gilboa. 10:9 They Israel. 11:11 This is the number of the mighty
stripped him, and took his head, and his armor, men whom David had: Jashobeam, the son
and sent into the land of the Philistines all of a Hachmonite, the chief of the thirty; he
around, to carry the news to their idols, and lifted up his spear against three hundred and
to the people. 10:10 They put his armor in the killed them at one time. 11:12 After him was
house of their gods, and fastened his head Eleazar the son of Dodo, the Ahohite, who
in the house of Dagon. 10:11 When all Jabesh was one of the three mighty men. 11:13 He
Gilead heard all that the Philistines had done was with David at Pasdammim, and there the
to Saul, 10:12 all the valiant men arose, and took Philistines were gathered together to battle,
away the body of Saul, and the bodies of his where there was a plot of ground full of barley;
sons, and brought them to Jabesh, and buried and the people fled from before the Philistines.
11:14
their bones under the oak in Jabesh, and fasted They stood in the midst of the plot, and
seven days. 10:13 So Saul died for his trespass defended it, and killed the Philistines; and the
which he committed against the LORD, be- LORD saved them by a great victory. 11:15 Three
cause of the word of the LORD, which he didn’t of the thirty chief men went down to the rock
keep; and also because he asked counsel of one to David, into the cave of Adullam; and the
who had a familiar spirit, to inquire, 10:14 and army of the Philistines were encamped in the
didn’t inquire of the LORD: therefore he killed valley of Rephaim. 11:16 David was then in the
him, and turned the kingdom to David the son stronghold, and the garrison of the Philistines
of Jesse. was then in Bethlehem. 11:17 David longed, and
11:1
Then all Israel gathered themselves to said, “Oh that one would give me water to
David to Hebron, saying, “Behold, we are your drink of the well of Bethlehem, which is by the
bone and your flesh. 11:2 In times past, even gate!”
11:18
when Saul was king, it was you who led out The three broke through the army of the
and brought in Israel. The LORD your God said Philistines, and drew water out of the well of
to you, ‘You shall be shepherd of my people Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and took it,
Israel, and you shall be prince over my people and brought it to David: but David would not
Israel.’” drink of it, but poured it out to the LORD,
11:19
11:3
So all the elders of Israel came to the king and said, “My God forbid it me, that I
to Hebron; and David made a covenant with should do this! Shall I drink the blood of these
them in Hebron before the LORD; and they men who have put their lives in jeopardy?” For
anointed David king over Israel, according to they risked their lives to bring it. Therefore he
the word of the LORD by Samuel. 11:4 David would not drink it. The three mighty men did
and all Israel went to Jerusalem (the same is these things.
11:20
Jebus); and the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the Abishai, the brother of Joab, he was
land, were there. 11:5 The inhabitants of Jebus chief of the three; for he lifted up his spear
said to David, “You shall not come in here.” against three hundred and killed them, and had
Nevertheless David took the stronghold of a name among the three. 11:21 Of the three, he
Zion. The same is the city of David. 11:6 David was more honorable than the two, and was
said, “Whoever strikes the Jebusites first shall made their captain: however he didn’t attain to
be chief and captain.” Joab the son of Zeruiah the three. 11:22 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the
went up first, and was made chief. 11:7 David son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done
lived in the stronghold; therefore they called mighty deeds, he killed the two sons of Ariel
it the city of David. 11:8 He built the city all of Moab: he went down also and killed a lion
around, from Millo even around; and Joab in the midst of a pit in time of snow. 11:23 He
repaired the rest of the city. 11:9 David grew killed an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five
greater and greater; for the LORD of Hosts was cubits high; and in the Egyptian’s hand was a
with him. 11:10 Now these are the chief of the spear like a weaver’s beam; and he went down
mighty men whom David had, who showed to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out
themselves strong with him in his kingdom, of the Egyptian’s hand, and killed him with his
together with all Israel, to make him king, own spear. 11:24 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada
according to the word of the LORD concerning did these things, and had a name among the
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three mighty men. 11:25 Behold, he was more and Shemariah, and Shephatiah the Haruphite,
12:6
honorable than the thirty, but he didn’t attain Elkanah, and Isshiah, and Azarel, and
to the three: and David set him over his guard. Joezer, and Jashobeam, the Korahites, 12:7 and
11:26
Also the mighty men of the armies: Asahel Joelah, and Zebadiah, the sons of Jeroham
the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of of Gedor. 12:8 Of the Gadites there separated
Bethlehem, 11:27 Shammoth the Harorite, Helez themselves to David to the stronghold in the
the Pelonite, 11:28 Ira the son of Ikkesh the wilderness, mighty men of valor, men trained
Tekoite, Abiezer the Anathothite, 11:29 Sibbecai for war, that could handle shield and spear;
the Hushathite, Ilai the Ahohite, 11:30 Maharai whose faces were like the faces of lions, and
the Netophathite, Heled the son of Baanah they were as swift as the roes on the moun-
the Netophathite, 11:31 Ithai the son of Ribai of tains; 12:9 Ezer the chief, Obadiah the second,
Gibeah of the children of Benjamin, Benaiah Eliab the third, 12:10 Mishmannah the fourth,
the Pirathonite, 11:32 Hurai of the brooks of Jeremiah the fifth, 12:11 Attai the sixth, Eliel
Gaash, Abiel the Arbathite, 11:33 Azmaveth the the seventh, 12:12 Yochanan the eighth, Elzabad
Baharumite, Eliahba the Shaalbonite, 11:34 the the ninth, 12:13 Jeremiah the tenth, Machbannai
sons of Hashem the Gizonite, Jonathan the the eleventh. 12:14 These of the sons of Gad
son of Shagee the Hararite, 11:35 Ahiam the were captains of the army: he who was least
son of Sacar the Hararite, Eliphal the son was equal to one hundred, and the greatest to
of Ur, 11:36 Hepher the Mecherathite, Ahijah one thousand. 12:15 These are those who went
the Pelonite, 11:37 Hezro the Carmelite, Naarai over the Jordan in the first month, when it
the son of Ezbai, 11:38 Joel the brother of had overflowed all its banks; and they put to
Nathan, Mibhar the son of Hagri, 11:39 Zelek the flight all them of the valleys, both toward the
Ammonite, Naharai the Berothite, the armor east, and toward the west. 12:16 There came
bearer of Joab the son of Zeruiah, 11:40 Ira of the children of Benjamin and Judah to the
the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite, 11:41 Uriah the stronghold to David. 12:17 David went out to
Hittite, Zabad the son of Ahlai, 11:42 Adina meet them, and answered them, “If you have
the son of Shiza the Reubenite, a chief of the come peaceably to me to help me, my heart
Reubenites, and thirty with him, 11:43 Hanan shall be knit to you; but if you have come to
the son of Maacah, and Joshaphat the Mithnite, betray me to my adversaries, since there is no
11:44
Uzzia the Ashterathite, Shama and Jeiel wrong in my hands, may the God of our fathers
the sons of Hotham the Aroerite, 11:45 Jediael look thereon, and rebuke it.” 12:18 Then the
the son of Shimri, and Joha his brother, the Spirit came on Amasai, who was chief of the
Tizite, 11:46 Eliel the Mahavite, and Jeribai, and thirty, and he said, “We are yours, David, and
Joshaviah, the sons of Elnaam, and Ithmah the on your side, you son of Jesse: peace, peace be
Moabite, 11:47 Eliel, and Obed, and Jaasiel the to you, and peace be to your helpers; for your
Mezobaite. God helps you.” Then David received them,
12:1
and made them captains of the band. 12:19 Of
Now these are those who came to David Manasseh also there fell away some to David,
to Ziklag, while he yet kept himself close when he came with the Philistines against Saul
because of Saul the son of Kish; and they to battle; but they didn’t help them; for the
were among the mighty men, his helpers in lords of the Philistines sent him away after
war. 12:2 They were armed with bows, and consultation, saying, “He will fall away to his
could use both the right hand and the left in master Saul to the jeopardy of our heads.”
slinging stones and in shooting arrows from
12:20
the bow: they were of Saul’s brothers of As he went to Ziklag, there fell to him
Benjamin. 12:3 The chief was Ahiezer; then of Manasseh, Adnah, and Jozabad, and Jediael,
Joash, the sons of Shemaah the Gibeathite, and and Michael, and Jozabad, and Elihu, and
Jeziel, and Pelet, the sons of Azmaveth, and Zillethai, captains of thousands who were of
Beracah, and Jehu the Anathothite, 12:4 and Ish- Manasseh. 12:21 They helped David against
maiah the Gibeonite, a mighty man among the the band of rovers: for they were all mighty
thirty, and over the thirty, and Jeremiah, and men of valor, and were captains in the army.
12:22
Jahaziel, and Yochanan, and Jozabad the Ged- For from day to day men came to David
erathite, 12:5 Eluzai, and Jerimoth, and Bealiah, to help him, until there was a great army, like
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the army of God. 12:23 These are the numbers and Zebulun and Naphtali, brought bread on
of the heads of those who were armed for donkeys, and on camels, and on mules, and on
war, who came to David to Hebron, to turn oxen, food of meal, cakes of figs, and clusters of
the kingdom of Saul to him, according to the raisins, and wine, and oil, and cattle, and sheep
word of the LORD. 12:24 The children of Judah in abundance: for there was joy in Israel.
13:1
who bore shield and spear were six thousand David consulted with the captains of
and eight hundred, armed for war. 12:25 Of thousands and of hundreds, even with every
the children of Simeon, mighty men of valor leader. 13:2 David said to all the assembly of
for the war, seven thousand and one hundred. Israel, “If it seems good to you, and if it is of the
12:26
Of the children of Levi four thousand and LORD our God, let us send abroad everywhere
six hundred. 12:27 Jehoiada was the leader of to our brothers who are left in all Eretz-Israel,
the household of Aaron; and with him were with whom the priests and Levites are in their
three thousand and seven hundred, 12:28 and cities that have suburbs, that they may gather
Zadok, a young man mighty of valor, and of themselves to us; 13:3 and let us bring again the
his father’s house twenty-two captains. 12:29 Of ark of our God to us. For we didn’t seek it in
the children of Benjamin, the brothers of Saul, the days of Saul.”
three thousand: for hitherto the greatest part of 13:4
All the assembly said that they would do
them had kept their allegiance to the house of so; for the thing was right in the eyes of all
Saul. 12:30 Of the children of Ephraim twenty the people. 13:5 So David assembled all Israel
thousand eight hundred, mighty men of valor, together, from the Shihor the brook of Egypt
famous men in their fathers’ houses. 12:31 Of even to the entrance of Hamath, to bring the
the half-tribe of Manasseh eighteen thousand, ark of God from Kiriath Jearim. 13:6 David
who were mentioned by name, to come and went up, and all Israel, to Baalah, that is, to
make David king. 12:32 Of the children of Kiriath Jearim, which belonged to Judah, to
Issachar, men who had understanding of the bring up from there the ark of God the LORD
times, to know what Israel ought to do, their that sits above the cherubim, that is called by
heads were two hundred; and all their brothers the Name. 13:7 They carried the ark of God on
were at their commandment. 12:33 Of Zebulun, a new cart, and brought it out of the house
such as were able to go out in the army, who of Abinadab: and Uzza and Ahio drove the
could set the battle in array, with all kinds of cart. 13:8 David and all Israel played before
instruments of war, fifty thousand, and who God with all their might, even with songs, and
could command and were not of double heart. with harps, and with stringed instruments, and
12:34
Of Naphtali one thousand captains, and with tambourines, and with cymbals, and with
with them with shield and spear thirty-seven shofarsc . 13:9 When they came to the threshing
thousand. 12:35 Of the Danites who could set floor of Chidon, Uzza put forth his hand to hold
the battle in array, twenty-eight thousand six the ark; for the oxen stumbled. 13:10 The anger
hundred. 12:36 Of Asher, such as were able to of the LORD was kindled against Uzza, and he
go out in the army, who could set the battle struck him, because he put forth his hand to the
in array, forty thousand. 12:37 On the other ark; and there he died before God. 13:11 David
side of the Jordan, of the Reubenites, and the was displeased, because the LORD had broken
Gadites, and of the half-tribe of Manasseh, with forth on Uzza; and he called that place Perez
all kinds of instruments of war for the battle, Uzza, to this day. 13:12 David was afraid of
one hundred twenty thousand. 12:38 All these God that day, saying, “How shall I bring the
being men of war, who could order the battle ark of God home to me?” 13:13 So David didn’t
array, came with a perfect heart to Hebron, to move the ark to him into the city of David, but
make David king over all Israel: and all the rest carried it aside into the house of Obed-Edom
also of Israel were of one heart to make David the Gittite. 13:14 The ark of God remained with
king. 12:39 They were there with David three the family of Obed-Edom in his house three
days, eating and drinking; for their brothers months: and the LORD blessed the house of
had made preparation for them. 12:40 Moreover Obed-Edom, and all that he had.
those who were near to them, as far as Issachar 14:1
Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to
c 13:8 or, trumpets
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David, and cedar trees, and masons, and to bring up the ark of the LORD to its place,
carpenters, to build him a house. 14:2 David which he had prepared for it. 15:4
David
perceived that the LORD had established him gathered together the sons of Aaron, and the
king over Israel; for his kingdom was ex- Levites: 15:5 of the sons of Kohath, Uriel the
alted on high, for his people Israel’s sake. chief, and his brothers one hundred twenty;
14:3 15:6
David took more wives at Jerusalem; and of the sons of Merari, Asaiah the chief,
David became the father of more sons and and his brothers two hundred twenty; 15:7 of
daughters. 14:4 These are the names of the the sons of Gershom, Joel the chief, and his
children whom he had in Jerusalem: Shammua, brothers one hundred thirty; 15:8 of the sons of
and Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon, 14:5 and Elizaphan, Shemaiah the chief, and his brothers
Ibhar, and Elishua, and Elpelet, 14:6 and Nogah, two hundred; 15:9 of the sons of Hebron, Eliel
and Nepheg, and Japhia, 14:7 and Elishama, the chief, and his brothers eighty; 15:10 of the
and Beeliada, and Eliphelet. 14:8 When the sons of Uzziel, Amminadab the chief, and
Philistines heard that David was anointed king his brothers one hundred twelve. 15:11 David
over all Israel, all the Philistines went up to called for Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and
seek David: and David heard of it, and went for the Levites, for Uriel, Asaiah, and Joel,
out against them. 14:9 Now the Philistines had Shemaiah, and Eliel, and Amminadab, 15:12 and
come and made a raid in the valley of Rephaim. said to them, “You are the heads of the fathers’
14:10
David inquired of God, saying, “Shall I go households of the Levites. Sanctify yourselves,
up against the Philistines? Will you deliver both you and your brothers, that you may bring
them into my hand?” up the ark of the LORD, the God of Israel, to
The LORD said to him, “Go up; for I will the place that I have prepared for it. 15:13 For
deliver them into your hand.” because you didn’t carry it at first, the LORD
14:11 our God made broke out against us, because we
So they came up to Baal Perazim, and
David struck them there; and David said, God didn’t seek him according to the ordinance.”
has broken my enemies by my hand, like the 15:14
So the priests and the Levites sanctified
breach of waters. Therefore they called the themselves to bring up the ark of the LORD,
name of that place Baal Perazim. 14:12 They left the God of Israel. 15:15 The children of the
their gods there; and David gave command- Levites bore the ark of God on their shoulders
ment, and they were burned with fire. 14:13 The with the poles thereon, as Moses commanded
Philistines yet again made a raid in the valley. according to the word of the LORD. 15:16 David
14:14
David inquired again of God; and God spoke to the chief of the Levites to appoint their
said to him, “You shall not go up after them. brothers the singers, with instruments of music,
Turn away from them, and come on them over stringed instruments and harps and cymbals,
against the mulberry trees. 14:15 It shall be, sounding aloud and lifting up the voice with
when you hear the sound of marching in the joy. 15:17 So the Levites appointed Heman the
tops of the mulberry trees, that then you shall son of Joel; and of his brothers, Asaph the son
go out to battle; for God has gone out before of Berechiah; and of the sons of Merari their
you to strike the army of the Philistines.” brothers, Ethan the son of Kushaiah; 15:18 and
14:16
David did as God commanded him: and with them their brothers of the second degree,
they struck the army of the Philistines from Zechariah, Ben, and Jaaziel, and Shemiramoth,
Gibeon even to Gezer. 14:17 The fame of David and Jehiel, and Unni, Eliab, and Benaiah,
went out into all lands; and the LORD brought and Maaseiah, and Mattithiah, and Eliphelehu,
the fear of him on all nations. and Mikneiah, and Obed-Edom, and Jeiel,
15:1
David made him houses in the city of the doorkeepers. 15:19 So the singers, Heman,
David; and he prepared a place for the ark of Asaph, and Ethan, were given cymbals of
God, and pitched for it a tent. 15:2 Then David brass to sound aloud; 15:20 and Zechariah, and
said, “No one ought to carry the ark of God but Aziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni,
the Levites. For the LORD has chosen them to and Eliab, and Maaseiah, and Benaiah, with
carry the ark of God, and to minister to him stringed instruments set to Alamoth; 15:21 and
forever.” Mattithiah, and Eliphelehu, and Mikneiah, and
15:3
David assembled all Israel at Jerusalem, Obed-Edom, and Jeiel, and Azaziah, with
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harps tuned to the eight-stringed lyre, to lead. continually, before the ark of the covenant of
15:22
Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, was over God.
16:7
the song: he instructed about the song, because Then on that day David first ordained to
he was skillful. 15:23 Berechiah and Elkanah give thanks to the LORD, by the hand of Asaph
were doorkeepers for the ark. 15:24 Shebaniah, and his brothers.
and Joshaphat, and Nethanel, and Amasai, 16:8
Oh give thanks to the LORD.
and Zechariah, and Benaiah, and Eliezer, the Call on his name.
priests, blew the shofarsd before the ark of God: Make his doings known among the peo-
and Obed-Edom and Jehiah were doorkeepers ples.
for the ark. 15:25 So David, and the elders of 16:9
Sing to him.
Israel, and the captains over thousands, went Sing praises to him.
to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Tell of all his marvelous works.
LORD out of the house of Obed-Edom with 16:10
Glory in his holy name.
joy. 15:26 It happened, when God helped the Let the heart of those who seek the LORD
Levites who bore the ark of the covenant of rejoice.
the LORD, that they sacrificed seven bulls and 16:11
Seek the LORD and his strength.
seven rams. 15:27 David was clothed with a robe
Seek his face forever more.
of fine linen, and all the Levites who bore the 16:12
Remember his marvelous works that he
ark, and the singers, and Chenaniah the master
has done,
of the song with the singers: and David had
his wonders, and the judgments of his
on him an ephod of linen. 15:28 Thus all Israel
mouth,
brought up the ark of the covenant of the LORD 16:13
you seed of Israel his servant,
with shouting, and with sound of the cornet,
you children of Jacob, his chosen ones.
and with shofarse , and with cymbals, sounding 16:14
aloud with stringed instruments and harps. He is the LORD our God.
15:29
It happened, as the ark of the covenant His judgments are in all the earth.
16:15
of the LORD came to the city of David, that Remember his covenant forever,
Michal the daughter of Saul looked out at the the word which he commanded to a
window, and saw king David dancing and thousand generations,
16:16
playing; and she despised him in her heart. the covenant which he made with
16:1
Abraham,
They brought in the ark of God, and
his oath to Isaac.
set it in the midst of the tent that David had 16:17
He confirmed the same to Jacob for a
pitched for it: and they offered burnt offerings
statute,
and peace offerings before God. 16:2 When
and to Israel for an everlasting covenant,
David had made an end of offering the burnt 16:18
saying, “I will give you the land of Canaan,
offering and the peace offerings, he blessed the
The lot of your inheritance,”
people in the name of the LORD. 16:3 He dealt 16:19
to everyone of Israel, both man and woman, to when you were but a few men in
every one a loaf of bread, and a portion of meat, number,
and a cake of raisins. 16:4 He appointed certain yes, very few, and foreigners were in it.
16:20
of the Levites to minister before the ark of the They went about from nation to nation,
LORD, and to celebrate and to thank and praise from one kingdom to another people.
16:21
the LORD, the God of Israel: 16:5 Asaph the He allowed no man to do them wrong.
chief, and second to him Zechariah, Jeiel, and Yes, he reproved kings for their sakes,
16:22
Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Mattithiah, and “Don’t touch my anointed ones!
Eliab, and Benaiah, and Obed-Edom, and Jeiel, Do my prophets no harm!”
16:23
with stringed instruments and with harps; and Sing to the LORD, all the earth!
Asaph with cymbals, sounding aloud; 16:6 and Display his salvation from day to day.
16:24
Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests with shofarsf Declare his glory among the nations,
d 15:24 or, trumpets
e 15:28 or, trumpets
f 16:6 or, trumpets
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and his marvelous works among all the the Torah of the LORD, which he commanded
peoples. to Israel; 16:41 and with them Heman and Je-
16:25
For great is the LORD, and greatly to be duthun, and the rest who were chosen, who
praised. were mentioned by name, to give thanks to
He also is to be feared above all gods. the LORD, because his loving kindness endures
16:26
For all the gods of the peoples are idols, forever; 16:42 and with them Heman and Je-
but the LORD made the heavens. duthun with shofarsg and cymbals for those
16:27
Honor and majesty are before him. that should sound aloud, and with instruments
Strength and gladness are in his place. for the songs of God; and the sons of Jeduthun
16:28
Ascribe to the LORD, you relatives of the to be at the gate. 16:43 All the people departed
peoples, every man to his house: and David returned to
ascribe to the LORD glory and strength! bless his house.
16:29 17:1
Ascribe to the LORD the glory due to his It happened, when David lived in his
name. house, that David said to Nathan the prophet,
Bring an offering, and come before him. “Behold, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark
Worship the LORD in holy array. of the covenant of the LORD is under curtains.”
16:30 17:2
Tremble before him, all the earth. Nathan said to David, “Do all that is in
The world also is established that it can’t your heart; for God is with you.”
17:3
be moved. It happened the same night, that the
16:31
Let the heavens be glad, word of God came to Nathan, saying, 17:4 “Go
and let the earth rejoice! and tell David my servant, ‘Thus says the
Let them say among the nations, “The LORD, “You shall not build me a house to
LORD reigns!” dwell in; 17:5 for I have not lived in a house since
16:32
Let the sea roar, and its fullness! the day that I brought up Israel, to this day,
Let the field exult, and all that is therein! but have gone from tent to tent, and from one
16:33
Then the trees of the forest will sing for joy tent to another. 17:6 In all places in which I have
before the LORD, walked with all Israel, did I speak a word with
for he comes to judge the earth. any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded
16:34
Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, to be shepherd of my people, saying, ‘Why
for his loving kindness endures forever. have you not built me a house of cedar?’”’
16:35 17:7
Say, “Save us, God of our salvation! “Now therefore, you shall tell my servant
Gather us together and deliver us from David, ‘Thus says the LORD of Hosts, “I took
the nations, you from the sheep pen, from following the
to give thanks to your holy name, sheep, that you should be prince over my peo-
to triumph in your praise.” ple Israel. 17:8 I have been with you wherever
16:36
Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, you have gone, and have cut off all your ene-
from everlasting even to everlasting. mies from before you. I will make you a name,
All the people said, “Amen,” and praised like the name of the great ones who are in the
the LORD. earth. 17:9 I will appoint a place for my people
16:37
So he left there, before the ark of the Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell
covenant of the LORD, Asaph and his brothers, in their own place, and be moved no more;
to minister before the ark continually, as every neither shall the children of wickedness waste
day’s work required; 16:38 and Obed-Edom with them any more, as at the first, 17:10 and from
their brothers, sixty-eight; Obed-Edom also the the day that I commanded judges to be over
son of Jeduthun and Hosah to be doorkeepers; my people Israel; and I will subdue all your
16:39
and Zadok the priest, and his brothers enemies. Moreover I tell you that the LORD
the priests, before the tabernacle of the LORD will build you a house. 17:11 It shall happen,
in the high place that was at Gibeon, 16:40 to when your days are fulfilled that you must
offer burnt offerings to the LORD on the al- go to be with your fathers, that I will set up
tar of burnt offering continually morning and your seed after you, who shall be of your sons;
evening, even according to all that is written in and I will establish his kingdom. 17:12 He shall
g 16:42 or, trumpets
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build me a house, and I will establish his throne the Philistines, and subdued them, and took
forever. 17:13 I will be his father, and he shall Gath and its towns out of the hand of
18:2
be my son. I will not take my loving kindness the Philistines. He struck Moab; and
away from him, as I took it from him that was the Moabites became servants to David, and
before you; 17:14 but I will settle him in my brought tribute. 18:3 David struck Hadadezer
house and in my kingdom forever. His throne king of Zobah to Hamath, as he went to
shall be established forever.”’” 17:15 According establish his dominion by the river Euphrates.
18:4
to all these words, and according to all this David took from him one thousand chari-
vision, so Nathan spoke to David. ots, and seven thousand horsemen, and twenty
17:16
Then David the king went in, and sat thousand footmen; and David hamstrung all
before the LORD; and he said, “Who am I, the chariot horses, but reserved of them for
LORD God, and what is my house, that you one hundred chariots. 18:5 When the Syrians
have brought me thus far? 17:17 This was of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of
a small thing in your eyes, God; but you Zobah, David struck of the Syrians twenty-two
have spoken of your servant’s house for a thousand men. 18:6 Then David put garrisons
great while to come, and have respected me in Syria of Damascus; and the Syrians became
according to the estate of a man of high degree, servants to David, and brought tribute. The
LORD God. 17:18 What can David say yet LORD gave victory to David wherever he went.
18:7
more to you concerning the honor which is David took the shields of gold that were on
done to your servant? For you know your the servants of Hadadezer, and brought them
servant. 17:19 LORD, for your servant’s sake, to Jerusalem. 18:8 From Tibhath and from Cun,
and according to your own heart, you have cities of Hadadezer, David took very much
worked all this greatness, to make known all brass, with which Solomon made the bronze
these great things. 17:20 LORD, there is none sea, and the pillars, and the vessels of brass.
18:9
like you, neither is there any God besides you, When Tou king of Hamath heard that David
according to all that we have heard with our had struck all the army of Hadadezer king of
ears. 17:21 What one nation in the earth is like Zobah, 18:10 he sent Hadoram his son to king
your people Israel, whom God went to redeem David, to Greet him, and to bless him, because
to himself for a people, to make you a name he had fought against Hadadezer and struck
by great and awesome things, in driving out him; (for Hadadezer had wars with Tou;) and
nations from before your people, whom you he had with him all kinds of vessels of gold
redeem out of Egypt? 17:22 For your people and silver and brass. 18:11 King David also dedi-
Israel you made your own people forever; and cated these to the LORD, with the silver and the
you, LORD, became their God. 17:23 Now, gold that he carried away from all the nations;
LORD, let the word that you have spoken from Edom, and from Moab, and from the chil-
concerning your servant, and concerning his dren of Ammon, and from the Philistines, and
house, be established forever, and do as you from Amalek. 18:12 Moreover Abishai the son of
have spoken. 17:24 Let your name be established Zeruiah struck of the Edomites in the Valley of
and magnified forever, saying, ‘The LORD of Salt eighteen thousand. 18:13 He put garrisons
Hosts is the God of Israel, even a God to in Edom; and all the Edomites became servants
Israel. The house of David your servant is to David. The LORD gave victory to David
established before you.’ 17:25 For you, my God, wherever he went. 18:14 David reigned over all
have revealed to your servant that you will Israel; and he executed justice and righteous-
build him a house. Therefore your servant has ness to all his people. 18:15 Joab the son of
found courage to pray before you. 17:26 Now, Zeruiah was over the army; and Jehoshaphat
LORD, you are God, and have promised this the son of Ahilud was recorder; 18:16 and Zadok
good thing to your servant. 17:27 Now it has the son of Ahitub, and Abimelech the son of
pleased you to bless the house of your servant, Abiathar, were priests; and Shavsha was scribe;
18:17
that it may continue forever before you; for and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over
you, LORD, have blessed, and it is blessed the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and the sons
forever.” of David were chief about the king.
18:1 19:1
After this it happened, that David struck It happened after this, that Nahash the
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king of the children of Ammon died, and his and they fled before him. 19:15 When the chil-
son reigned in his place. 19:2 David said, “I will dren of Ammon saw that the Syrians had fled,
show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, they likewise fled before Abishai his brother,
because his father showed kindness to me.” and entered into the city. Then Joab came to
So David sent messengers to comfort him Jerusalem. 19:16 When the Syrians saw that they
concerning his father. David’s servants came were defeated by Israel, they sent messengers,
into the land of the children of Ammon to and drew forth the Syrians who were beyond
Hanun, to comfort him. 19:3 But the princes of the River, with Shophach the captain of the
the children of Ammon said to Hanun, “Do army of Hadadezer at their head. 19:17 It was
you think that David honors your father, in that told David; and he gathered all Israel together,
he has sent comforters to you? Haven’t his and passed over the Jordan, and came on
servants come to you to search, to overthrow, them, and set the battle in array against them.
and to spy out the land?” 19:4 So Hanun took So when David had put the battle in array
David’s servants, and shaved them, and cut against the Syrians, they fought with him.
19:18
off their garments in the middle, even to their The Syrians fled before Israel; and David
buttocks, and sent them away. 19:5 Then there killed of the Syrians the men of seven thou-
went certain persons, and told David how the sand chariots, and forty thousand footmen,
men were served. He sent to meet them; for and killed Shophach the captain of the army.
19:19
the men were greatly ashamed. The king said, When the servants of Hadadezer saw that
“Stay at Jericho until your beards have grown, they were defeated by Israel, they made peace
and then return.” with David, and served him: neither would the
19:6 Syrians help the children of Ammon any more.
When the children of Ammon saw that
they had made themselves odious to David, 20:1
It happened, at the time of the return
Hanun and the children of Ammon sent one of the year, at the time when kings go out,
thousand talents of silver to hire them chariots that Joab led forth the army, and wasted the
and horsemen out of Mesopotamia, and out country of the children of Ammon, and came
of Arammaacah, and out of Zobah. 19:7 So and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at
they hired for themselves thirty-two thousand Jerusalem. Joab struck Rabbah, and overthrew
chariots, and the king of Maacah and his peo- it. 20:2 David took the crown of their king from
ple, who came and encamped before Medeba. off his head, and found it to weigh a talent of
The children of Ammon gathered themselves gold, and there were precious stones in it; and it
together from their cities, and came to battle. was set on David’s head: and he brought forth
19:8
When David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the spoil of the city, exceeding much. 20:3 He
the army of the mighty men. 19:9 The children brought forth the people who were therein, and
of Ammon came out, and put the battle in cut them with saws, and with iron picks, and
array at the gate of the city: and the kings with axes. David did so to all the cities of
who had come were by themselves in the field. the children of Ammon. David and all the
19:10
Now when Joab saw that the battle was people returned to Jerusalem. 20:4 It happened
set against him before and behind, he chose of after this, that there arose war at Gezer with
all the choice men of Israel, and put them in the Philistines: then Sibbecai the Hushathite
array against the Syrians. 19:11 The rest of the killed Sippai, of the sons of the giant; and
people he committed into the hand of Abishai they were subdued. 20:5 There was again war
his brother; and they put themselves in array with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son of Jair
against the children of Ammon. 19:12 He said, killed Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite,
“If the Syrians are too strong for me, then you the staff of whose spear was like a weaver’s
are to help me; but if the children of Ammon are beam. 20:6 There was again war at Gath, where
too strong for you, then I will help you. 19:13 Be there was a man of great stature, whose fingers
courageous, and let us be strong for our people, and toes were twenty-four, six on each hand,
and for the cities of our God. May the LORD do and six on each foot; and he also was born to
that which seems good to him.” the giant. 20:7 When he defied Israel, Jonathan
19:14
So Joab and the people who were with the son of Shimea David’s brother killed him.
20:8
him drew near before the Syrians to the battle; These were born to the giant in Gath; and
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they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand stay your hand.” The angel of the LORD was
of his servants. standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the
21:1
Satan stood up against Israel, and moved Jebusite. 21:16 David lifted up his eyes, and saw
David to number Israel. 21:2 David said to Joab the angel of the LORD standing between earth
and to the princes of the people, “Go, number and the sky, having a drawn sword in his hand
Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring stretched out over Jerusalem.
me word, that I may know the sum of them.” Then David and the elders, clothed in sack-
21:3
Joab said, “May the LORD make his cloth, fell on their faces. 21:17 David said to
people a hundred times as many as they are. God, “Isn’t it I who commanded the people to
But, my lord the king, aren’t they all my lord’s be numbered? It is even I who have sinned
servants? Why does my lord require this thing? and done very wickedly; but these sheep, what
Why will he be a cause of guilt to Israel?” have they done? Please let your hand, O LORD
21:4 my God, be against me, and against my father’s
Nevertheless the king’s word prevailed
against Joab. Therefore Joab departed, and house; but not against your people, that they
went throughout all Israel, and came to should be plagued.”
21:18
Jerusalem. 21:5 Joab gave up the sum of the Then the angel of the LORD com-
numbering of the people to David. All those of manded Gad to tell David that David should go
Israel were one million one hundred thousand up, and raise an altar to the LORD in the thresh-
men who drew sword: and in Judah were ing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. 21:19 David went
four hundred seventy thousand men who drew up at the saying of Gad, which he spoke in
sword. 21:6
But he didn’t count Levi and the name of the LORD. 21:20 Ornan turned back,
Benjamin among them; for the king’s word was and saw the angel; and his four sons who were
abominable to Joab. 21:7 God was displeased with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was
with this thing; therefore he struck Israel. threshing wheat. 21:21 As David came to Ornan,
21:8
David said to God, “I have sinned greatly, in Ornan looked and saw David, and went out
that I have done this thing. But now, put away, I of the threshing floor, and bowed himself to
beg you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have David with his face to the ground. 21:22 Then
done very foolishly.” David said to Ornan, “Give me the place of
21:9 this threshing floor, that I may build thereon an
The LORD spoke to Gad, David’s seer,
saying, 21:10 “Go and speak to David, saying, altar to the LORD. You shall sell it to me for the
‘Thus says the LORD, “I offer you three things. full price, that the plague may be stopped from
Choose one of them, that I may do it to you.”’” afflicting the people.”
21:11 21:23
So Gad came to David, and said to Ornan said to David, “Take it for your-
him, “Thus says the LORD, ‘Take your choice: self, and let my lord the king do that which is
21:12
either three years of famine; or three good in his eyes. Behold, I give the oxen for
months to be consumed before your foes, while burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments
the sword of your enemies overtakes you; or for wood, and the wheat for the meal offering.
else three days the sword of the LORD, even I give it all.”
21:24
pestilence in the land, and the angel of the King David said to Ornan, “No; but I
LORD destroying throughout all the borders of will most certainly buy it for the full price. For I
Israel. Now therefore consider what answer I will not take that which is yours for the LORD,
shall return to him who sent me.’” nor offer a burnt offering without cost.”
21:13 21:25
David said to Gad, “I am in distress. Let So David gave to Ornan six hundred
me fall, I pray, into the hand of the LORD; for shekels of gold by weight for the place.
his mercies are very great. Let me not fall into 21:26
David built an altar to the LORD there, and
the hand of man.” offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and
21:14
So the LORD sent a pestilence on Is- called on the LORD; and he answered him from
rael; and seventy thousand men of Israel fell. the sky by fire on the altar of burnt offering.
21:15 21:27
God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy The LORD commanded the angel; and he
it. As he was about to destroy, the LORD put up his sword again into its sheath. 21:28 At
saw, and he relented of the disaster, and said that time, when David saw that the LORD
to the destroying angel, “It is enough; now had answered him in the threshing floor of
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Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there. Don’t be afraid, neither be dismayed. 22:14 Now,
21:29
For the tabernacle of the LORD, which behold, in my affliction I have prepared for
Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar the house of the LORD one hundred thousand
of burnt offering, were at that time in the high talents of gold, one million talents of silver,
place at Gibeon. 21:30 But David couldn’t go and brass and iron without weight; for it is in
before it to inquire of God; for he was afraid abundance. I have also prepared timber and
because of the sword of the angel of the LORD. stone; and you may add to them. 22:15 There are
22:1
also workmen with you in abundance, cutters
Then David said, “This is the house of and workers of stone and timber, and all kinds
the LORD God, and this is the altar of burnt of men who are skillful in every kind of work:
offering for Israel.” 22:2 David gave orders to 22:16
of the gold, the silver, and the brass, and
gather together the foreigners who were in the iron, there is no number. Arise and be
Eretz-Israel; and he set masons to cut worked doing, and may the LORD be with you.”
stones to build God’s house. 22:3 David pre- 22:17
David also commanded all the princes
pared iron in abundance for the nails for the
of Israel to help Solomon his son, saying,
doors of the gates, and for the couplings; and 22:18
“Isn’t the LORD your God with you?
brass in abundance without weight; 22:4 and
Hasn’t he given you rest on every side? For
cedar trees without number: for the Sidonians
he has delivered the inhabitants of the land
and they of Tyre brought cedar trees in abun-
into my hand; and the land is subdued before
dance to David. 22:5 David said, “Solomon my
the LORD, and before his people. 22:19 Now
son is young and tender, and the house that is
set your heart and your soul to seek after the
to be built for the LORD must be exceedingly
LORD your God. Arise therefore, and build the
magnificent, of fame and of glory throughout
sanctuary of the LORD God, to bring the ark of
all countries. I will therefore make preparation
the covenant of the LORD, and the holy vessels
for it.” So David prepared abundantly before
of God, into the house that is to be built to the
his death. 22:6 Then he called for Solomon his
name of the LORD.”
son, and commanded him to build a house
23:1
for the LORD, the God of Israel. 22:7 David Now David was old and full of days;
said to Solomon his son, “As for me, it was in and he made Solomon his son king over Is-
my heart to build a house to the name of the rael. 23:2 He gathered together all the princes
LORD my God. 22:8 But the word of the LORD of Israel, with the priests and the Levites.
23:3
came to me, saying, ‘You have shed blood The Levites were numbered from thirty
abundantly, and have made great wars. You years old and upward: and their number by
shall not build a house to my name, because their polls, man by man, was thirty-eight thou-
you have shed much blood on the earth in my sand. 23:4 David said, “Of these, twenty-four
sight. 22:9 Behold, a son shall be born to you, thousand were to oversee the work of the house
who shall be a man of rest. I will give him rest of the LORD; six thousand were officers and
from all his enemies all around; for his name judges; 23:5 four thousand were doorkeepers;
shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and and four thousand praised the LORD with the
quietness to Israel in his days. 22:10 He shall instruments which I made, for giving praise.”
23:6
build a house for my name; and he shall be David divided them into divisions ac-
my son, and I will be his father; and I will cording to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath,
establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel and Merari. 23:7 Of the Gershonites: Ladan
for ever.’ 22:11 Now, my son, may the LORD and Shimei. 23:8 The sons of Ladan: Jehiel the
be with you and prosper you, and build the chief, and Zetham, and Joel, three. 23:9 The
house of the LORD your God, as he has spoken sons of Shimei: Shelomoth, and Haziel, and
concerning you. 22:12 May the LORD give you Haran, three. These were the heads of the
discretion and understanding, and put you in fathers’ households of Ladan. 23:10 The sons of
charge of Israel; that so you may keep the law Shimei: Jahath, Zina, and Jeush, and Beriah.
of the LORD your God. 22:13 Then you will These four were the sons of Shimei. 23:11 Jahath
prosper, if you observe to do the statutes and was the chief, and Zizah the second: but Jeush
the ordinances which the LORD gave Moses and Beriah didn’t have many sons; therefore
concerning Israel. Be strong, and courageous. they became a fathers’ house in one reckoning.
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23:12
The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, He- that they should keep the duty of the Tent of
bron, and Uzziel, four. 23:13 The sons of Amram: Meeting, and the duty of the holy place, and
Aaron and Moses; and Aaron was separated, the duty of the sons of Aaron their brothers, for
that he should sanctify the most holy things, he the service of the house of the LORD.
and his sons, forever, to burn incense before the 24:1
LORD, to minister to him, and to bless in his These were the divisions of the sons
name, forever. 23:14 But as for Moses the man of Aaron. The sons of Aaron: Nadab and
of God, his sons were named among the tribe Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. 24:2 But Nadab
of Levi. 23:15 The sons of Moses: Gershom and and Abihu died before their father, and had
Eliezer. 23:16 The sons of Gershom: Shebuel the no children: therefore Eleazar and Ithamar
chief. 23:17 The sons of Eliezer were: Rehabiah executed the priest’s office. 24:3 David with
the chief; and Eliezer had no other sons; but Zadok of the sons of Eleazar, and Ahimelech
the sons of Rehabiah were very many. 23:18 The of the sons of Ithamar, divided them according
sons of Izhar: Shelomith the chief. 23:19 The to their ordering in their service. 24:4 There
sons of Hebron: Jeriah the chief, Amariah the were more chief men found of the sons of
second, Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the Eleazar than of the sons of Ithamar; and they
fourth. 23:20 The sons of Uzziel: Micah the were divided like this: of the sons of Eleazar
chief, and Isshiah the second. 23:21 The sons there were sixteen, heads of fathers’ houses;
of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. The sons of and of the sons of Ithamar, according to their
Mahli: Eleazar and Kish. 23:22 Eleazar died, fathers’ houses, eight. 24:5 Thus were they
and had no sons, but daughters only: and divided impartially by drawing lots; for there
their brothers the sons of Kish took them as were princes of the sanctuary, and princes
wives. 23:23 The sons of Mushi: Mahli, and of God, both of the sons of Eleazar, and of
Eder, and Jeremoth, three. 23:24 These were the the sons of Ithamar. 24:6 Shemaiah the son of
sons of Levi after their fathers’ houses, even Nethanel the scribe, who was of the Levites,
the heads of the fathers’ houses of those who wrote them in the presence of the king, and the
were counted individually, in the number of princes, and Zadok the priest, and Ahimelech
names by their polls, who did the work for the son of Abiathar, and the heads of the
the service of the house of the LORD, from fathers’ households of the priests and of the
twenty years old and upward. 23:25 For David Levites; one fathers’ house being taken for
said, “The LORD, the God of Israel, has given Eleazar, and one taken for Ithamar. 24:7 Now
rest to his people; and he dwells in Jerusalem the first lot came forth to Jehoiarib, the second
forever. 23:26 Also the Levites will no longer to Jedaiah, 24:8 the third to Harim, the fourth to
need to carry the tabernacle and all its vessels Seorim, 24:9 the fifth to Malchijah, the sixth to
for its service.” 23:27 For by the last words of Mijamin, 24:10 the seventh to Hakkoz, the eighth
David the sons of Levi were numbered, from to Abijah, 24:11 the ninth to Yeshua, the tenth
twenty years old and upward. 23:28 For their to Shecaniah, 24:12 the eleventh to Eliashib, the
office was to wait on the sons of Aaron for the twelfth to Jakim, 24:13 the thirteenth to Huppah,
service of the house of the LORD, in the courts, the fourteenth to Jeshebeab, 24:14 the fifteenth to
and in the rooms, and in the purifying of all Bilgah, the sixteenth to Immer, 24:15 the seven-
holy things, even the work of the service of teenth to Hezir, the eighteenth to Happizzez,
24:16
God’s house; 23:29 for the show bread also, and the nineteenth to Pethahiah, the twenti-
for the fine flour for a meal offering, whether eth to Jehezkel, 24:17 the twenty-first to Jachin,
of unleavened wafers, or of that which is baked the twenty-second to Gamul, 24:18 the twenty-
in the pan, or of that which is soaked, and for third to Delaiah, the twenty-fourth to Maaziah.
24:19
all kinds of measure and size; 23:30 and to stand This was their ordering in their service, to
every morning to thank and praise the LORD, come into the house of the LORD according
and likewise in the evening; 23:31 and to offer all to the ordinance given to them by Aaron their
burnt offerings to the LORD, on the Sabbaths, father, as the LORD, the God of Israel, had
on the new moons, and on the set feasts, in commanded him. 24:20 Of the rest of the sons
number according to the ordinance concerning of Levi: of the sons of Amram, Shubael; of the
them, continually before the LORD; 23:32 and sons of Shubael, Jehdeiah. 24:21 Of Rehabiah:
of the sons of Rehabiah, Isshiah the chief.
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24:22
Of the Izharites, Shelomoth; of the sons of teacher as the scholar. 25:9 Now the first lot
Shelomoth, Jahath. 24:23 The sons of Hebron: came forth for Asaph to Joseph: the second to
Jeriah, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, Gedaliah; he and his brothers and sons were
Jekameam the fourth. 24:24 The sons of Uzziel, twelve: 25:10 the third to Zaccur, his sons and his
Micah; of the sons of Micah, Shamir. 24:25 The brothers, twelve: 25:11 the fourth to Izri, his sons
brother of Micah, Isshiah; of the sons of Isshiah, and his brothers, twelve: 25:12 the fifth to Netha-
Zechariah. 24:26 The sons of Merari: Mahli and niah, his sons and his brothers, twelve: 25:13 the
Mushi; the sons of Jaaziah: Beno. 24:27 The sons sixth to Bukkiah, his sons and his brothers,
of Merari: of Jaaziah, Beno, and Shoham, and twelve: 25:14 the seventh to Jesharelah, his sons
Zaccur, and Ibri. 24:28 Of Mahli: Eleazar, who and his brothers, twelve: 25:15 the eighth to
had no sons. 24:29 Of Kish; the sons of Kish: Jeshaiah, his sons and his brothers, twelve:
Jerahmeel. 24:30 The sons of Mushi: Mahli, and 25:16
the ninth to Mattaniah, his sons and his
Eder, and Jerimoth. These were the sons of the brothers, twelve: 25:17 the tenth to Shimei, his
Levites after their fathers’ houses. 24:31 These sons and his brothers, twelve: 25:18 the eleventh
likewise cast lots even as their brothers the sons to Azarel, his sons and his brothers, twelve:
25:19
of Aaron in the presence of David the king, the twelfth to Hashabiah, his sons and
and Zadok, and Ahimelech, and the heads of his brothers, twelve: 25:20 for the thirteenth,
the fathers’ households of the priests and of Shubael, his sons and his brothers, twelve:
25:21
the Levites; the fathers’ households of the chief for the fourteenth, Mattithiah, his sons and
even as those of his younger brother. his brothers, twelve: 25:22 for the fifteenth to
25:1
Jeremoth, his sons and his brothers, twelve:
Moreover, David and the captains of the 25:23
for the sixteenth to Hananiah, his sons and
army set apart for the service certain of the sons his brothers, twelve: 25:24 for the seventeenth
of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who to Joshbekashah, his sons and his brothers,
should prophesy with harps, with stringed in- twelve: 25:25 for the eighteenth to Hanani, his
struments, and with cymbals: and the number sons and his brothers, twelve: 25:26 for the
of those who did the work according to their nineteenth to Mallothi, his sons and his broth-
service was: 25:2 of the sons of Asaph: Zaccur, ers, twelve: 25:27 for the twentieth to Eliathah,
and Joseph, and Nethaniah, and Asharelah, the his sons and his brothers, twelve: 25:28 for the
sons of Asaph, under the hand of Asaph, who one and twentieth to Hothir, his sons and his
prophesied after the order of the king. 25:3 Of brothers, twelve: 25:29 for the two and twentieth
Jeduthun; the sons of Jeduthun: Gedaliah, and to Giddalti, his sons and his brothers, twelve:
Zeri, and Jeshaiah, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, 25:30
for the three and twentieth to Mahazioth,
six, under the hands of their father Jeduthun his sons and his brothers, twelve: 25:31 for the
with the harp, who prophesied in giving thanks four and twentieth to Romamti-Ezer, his sons
and praising the LORD. 25:4 Of Heman; the and his brothers, twelve.
sons of Heman: Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel,
26:1
Shebuel, and Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, For the divisions of the doorkeepers: of
Eliathah, Giddalti, and Romamti-Ezer, Josh- the Korahites, Meshelemiah the son of Kore, of
bekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, Mahazioth. 25:5 All the sons of Asaph. 26:2 Meshelemiah had sons:
these were the sons of Heman the king’s seer in Zechariah the firstborn, Jediael the second, Ze-
the words of God, to lift up the horn. God gave badiah the third, Jathniel the fourth, 26:3 Elam
to Heman fourteen sons and three daughters. the fifth, Jehohanan the sixth, Eliehoenai the
25:6
All these were under the hands of their seventh. 26:4 Obed-Edom had sons: Shemaiah
father for song in the house of the LORD, with the firstborn, Jehozabad the second, Joah the
cymbals, stringed instruments, and harps, for third, and Sacar the fourth, and Nethanel
the service of God’s house; Asaph, Jeduthun, the fifth, 26:5 Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the
and Heman being under the order of the king. seventh, Peullethai the eighth; for God blessed
25:7
The number of them, with their brothers him. 26:6 Also to Shemaiah his son were sons
who were instructed in singing to the LORD, born, who ruled over the house of their father;
even all who were skillful, was two hundred for they were mighty men of valor. 26:7 The
eighty-eight. 25:8 They cast lots for their offices, sons of Shemaiah: Othni, and Rephael, and
all alike, as well the small as the great, the Obed, Elzabad, whose brothers were valiant
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men, Elihu, and Semachiah. 26:8 All these Saul the son of Kish, and Abner the son of Ner,
were of the sons of Obed-Edom: they and and Joab the son of Zeruiah, had dedicated,
their sons and their brothers, able men in whoever had dedicated anything, it was under
strength for the service; sixty-two of Obed- the hand of Shelomoth, and of his brothers.
Edom. 26:9 Meshelemiah had sons and brothers, 26:29
Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons
valiant men, eighteen. 26:10 Also Hosah, of were for the outward business over Israel, for
the children of Merari, had sons: Shimri the officers and judges. 26:30 Of the Hebronites,
chief, (for though he was not the firstborn, Hashabiah and his brothers, men of valor, one
yet his father made him chief), 26:11 Hilkiah thousand seven hundred, had the oversight of
the second, Tebaliah the third, Zechariah the Israel beyond the Jordan westward, for all the
fourth: all the sons and brothers of Hosah were business of the LORD, and for the service of
thirteen. 26:12 Of these were the divisions of the king. 26:31 Of the Hebronites was Jerijah
the doorkeepers, even of the chief men, having the chief, even of the Hebronites, according to
offices like their brothers, to minister in the their generations by fathers’ households. In the
house of the LORD. 26:13 They cast lots, the fortieth year of the reign of David they were
small as well as the great, according to their sought for, and there were found among them
fathers’ houses, for every gate. 26:14 The lot mighty men of valor at Jazer of Gilead. 26:32 His
eastward fell to Shelemiah. Then for Zechariah brothers, men of valor, were two thousand
his son, a wise counselor, they cast lots; and his seven hundred, heads of fathers’ households,
lot came out northward. 26:15 To Obed-Edom whom king David made overseers over the
southward; and to his sons the storehouse. Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe
26:16
To Shuppim and Hosah westward, by the of the Manassites, for every matter pertaining
gate of Shallecheth, at the causeway that goes to God, and for the affairs of the king.
up, watch against watch. 26:17 Eastward were 27:1
six Levites, northward four a day, southward Now the children of Israel after their
four a day, and for the storehouse two and number, the heads of fathers’ households and
two. 26:18 For Parbar westward, four at the the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and
causeway, and two at Parbar. 26:19 These were their officers who served the king, in any matter
the divisions of the doorkeepers; of the sons of of the divisions which came in and went out
the Korahites, and of the sons of Merari. 26:20 Of month by month throughout all the months
the Levites, Ahijah was over the treasures of of the year—of every division were twenty-
God’s house, and over the treasures of the four thousand. 27:2 Over the first division for
dedicated things. 26:21 The sons of Ladan, the the first month was Jashobeam the son of
sons of the Gershonites belonging to Ladan, the Zabdiel: and in his division were twenty-four
heads of the fathers’ households belonging to thousand. 27:3 He was of the children of Perez,
Ladan the Gershonite: Jehieli. 26:22 The sons of the chief of all the captains of the army for
Jehieli: Zetham, and Joel his brother, over the the first month. 27:4 Over the division of the
treasures of the house of the LORD. 26:23 Of the second month was Dodai the Ahohite, and his
Amramites, of the Izharites, of the Hebronites, division; and Mikloth the ruler: and in his
of the Uzzielites: 26:24 and Shebuel the son of division were twenty-four thousand. 27:5 The
Gershom, the son of Moses, was ruler over third captain of the army for the third month
the treasures. 26:25 His brothers: of Eliezer, Re- was Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada the priest,
habiah his son, and Jeshaiah his son, and Joram chief: and in his division were twenty-four
his son, and Zichri his son, and Shelomoth his thousand. 27:6 This is that Benaiah, who was the
son. 26:26 This Shelomoth and his brothers were mighty man of the thirty, and over the thirty:
over all the treasures of the dedicated things, and of his division was Ammizabad his son.
27:7
which David the king, and the heads of the fa- The fourth captain for the fourth month was
thers’ households, the captains over thousands Asahel the brother of Joab, and Zebadiah his
and hundreds, and the captains of the army, son after him: and in his division were twenty-
had dedicated. 26:27 They dedicated some of four thousand. 27:8 The fifth captain for this fifth
the spoil won in battles to repair the house of month was Shamhuth the Izrahite: and in his
the LORD. 26:28 All that Samuel the seer, and division were twenty-four thousand. 27:9 The
sixth captain for the sixth month was Ira the
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son of Ikkesh the Tekoite: and in his division Shiphmite: 27:28 and over the olive trees and the
were twenty-four thousand. 27:10 The seventh sycamore trees that were in the lowland was
captain for the seventh month was Helez the Baal Hanan the Gederite: and over the cellars of
Pelonite, of the children of Ephraim: and in his oil was Joash: 27:29 and over the herds that fed
division were twenty-four thousand. 27:11 The in Sharon was Shitrai the Sharonite: and over
eighth captain for the eighth month was Sibbe- the herds that were in the valleys was Shaphat
cai the Hushathite, of the Zerahites: and in his the son of Adlai: 27:30 and over the camels
division were twenty-four thousand. 27:12 The was Obil the Ishmaelite: and over the donkeys
ninth captain for the ninth month was Abiezer was Jehdeiah the Meronothite: and over the
the Anathothite, of the Benjamites: and in his flocks was Jaziz the Hagrite. 27:31 All these
division were twenty-four thousand. 27:13 The were the rulers of the substance which was king
tenth captain for the tenth month was Maharai David’s. 27:32 Also Jonathan, David’s uncle,
the Netophathite, of the Zerahites: and in his was a counselor, a man of understanding, and
division were Twenty-four thousand. 27:14 The a scribe: and Jehiel the son of Hachmoni was
eleventh captain for the eleventh month was with the king’s sons: 27:33 Ahithophel was the
Benaiah the Pirathonite, of the children of king’s counselor: and Hushai the Archite was
Ephraim: and in his division were twenty- the king’s friend: 27:34 and after Ahithophel was
four thousand. 27:15 The twelfth captain for the Jehoiada the son of Benaiah, and Abiathar: and
twelfth month was Heldai the Netophathite, of the captain of the king’s army was Joab.
Othniel: and in his division were twenty-four 28:1
thousand. 27:16 Furthermore over the tribes of David assembled all the princes of Israel,
Israel: of the Reubenites was Eliezer the son of the princes of the tribes, and the captains of
Zichri the ruler: of the Simeonites, Shephatiah the companies who served the king by divi-
the son of Maacah: 27:17 of Levi, Hashabiah the sion, and the captains of thousands, and the
son of Kemuel: of Aaron, Zadok: 27:18 of Judah, captains of hundreds, and the rulers over all
Elihu, one of the brothers of David: of Issachar, the substance and possessions of the king and
Omri the son of Michael: 27:19 of Zebulun, of his sons, with the officers, and the mighty
Ishmaiah the son of Obadiah: of Naphtali, men, even all the mighty men of valor, to
Jeremoth the son of Azriel: 27:20 of the children Jerusalem. 28:2 Then David the king stood up
of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Azaziah: of on his feet, and said, “Hear me, my brothers,
the half-tribe of Manasseh, Joel the son of and my people! As for me, it was in my heart to
Pedaiah: 27:21 of the half-tribe of Manasseh in build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant
Gilead, Iddo the son of Zechariah: of Benjamin, of the LORD, and for the footstool of our God;
Jaasiel the son of Abner: 27:22 of Dan, Azarel and I had prepared for the building. 28:3 But
the son of Jeroham. These were the captains God said to me, ‘You shall not build a house for
of the tribes of Israel. 27:23 But David didn’t my name, because you are a man of war, and
take the number of them from twenty years have shed blood.’ 28:4 However the LORD, the
old and under, because the LORD had said he God of Israel, chose me out of all the house of
would increase Israel like the stars of the sky. my father to be king over Israel forever. For he
27:24
Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number, has chosen Judah to be prince; and in the house
but didn’t finish; and there came wrath for of Judah, the house of my father; and among
this on Israel; neither was the number put into the sons of my father he took pleasure in me to
the account in the chronicles of king David. make me king over all Israel. 28:5 Of all my sons
27:25
Over the king’s treasures was Azmaveth (for the LORD has given me many sons), he has
the son of Adiel: and over the treasures in chosen Solomon my son to sit on the throne
the fields, in the cities, and in the villages, of the LORD’s kingdom over Israel. 28:6 He
and in the towers, was Jonathan the son of said to me, ‘Solomon, your son, shall build my
Uzziah: 27:26 Over those who did the work of house and my courts; for I have chosen him to
the field for tillage of the ground was Ezri the be my son, and I will be his father. 28:7 I will
son of Chelub: 27:27 and over the vineyards was establish his kingdom forever, if he continues
Shimei the Ramathite: and over the increase of to do my commandments and my ordinances,
the vineyards for the winecellars was Zabdi the as at this day.’ 28:8 Now therefore, in the sight
of all Israel, the assembly of the LORD, and
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in the audience of our God, observe and seek fail you, nor forsake you, until all the work
out all the commandments of the LORD your for the service of the house of the LORD is
God; that you may possess this good land, and finished. 28:21 Behold, there are the divisions of
leave it for an inheritance to your children after the priests and the Levites, for all the service
you forever. 28:9 You, Solomon my son, know of God’s house. There shall be with you in
the God of your father, and serve him with a all kinds of work every willing man who has
perfect heart and with a willing mind; for the skill, for any kind of service. Also the captains
LORD searches all hearts, and understands all and all the people will be entirely at your
the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek command.”
him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake 29:1
him, he will cast you off forever. 28:10 Take heed David the king said to all the assembly,
now; for the LORD has chosen you to build a “Solomon my son, whom alone God has cho-
house for the sanctuary. Be strong, and do it.” sen, is yet young and tender, and the work is
28:11
great; for the palace is not for man, but for the
Then David gave to Solomon his son LORD God. 29:2 Now I have prepared with all
the pattern of the porch of the temple, and my might for the house of my God the gold for
of its houses, and of its treasuries, and of the the things of gold, and the silver for the things
upper rooms of it, and of the inner rooms of of silver, and the brass for the things of brass,
it, and of the place of the mercy seat; 28:12 and the iron for the things of iron, and wood for
the pattern of all that he had by the Spirit, for the things of wood; onyx stones, and stones to
the courts of the house of the LORD, and for be set, stones for inlaid work, and of various
all the surrounding rooms, for the treasuries colors, and all kinds of precious stones, and
of God’s house, and for the treasuries of the marble stones in abundance. 29:3 In addition,
dedicated things; 28:13 also for the divisions of because I have set my affection on the house
the priests and the Levites, and for all the work of my God, since I have a treasure of my own
of the service of the house of the LORD, and of gold and silver, I give it to the house of my
for all the vessels of service in the house of the God, over and above all that I have prepared
LORD; 28:14 of gold by weight for the gold, for for the holy house, 29:4 even three thousand
all vessels of every kind of service; for all the talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and seven
vessels of silver by weight, for all vessels of thousand talents of refined silver, with which
every kind of service; 28:15 by weight also for to overlay the walls of the houses; 29:5 of gold
the menorahs of gold, and for its lamps, of gold, for the things of gold, and of silver for the
by weight for every menorah and for its lamps; things of silver, and for all kinds of work to
and for the menorahs of silver, by weight for be made by the hands of artisans. Who then
every menorah and for its lamps, according to offers willingly to consecrate himself this day to
the use of every menorah; 28:16 and the gold by the LORD?” 29:6 Then the princes of the fathers’
weight for the tables of show bread, for every households, and the princes of the tribes of
table; and silver for the tables of silver; 28:17 and Israel, and the captains of thousands and of
the forks, and the basins, and the cups, of hundreds, with the rulers over the king’s work,
pure gold; and for the golden bowls by weight offered willingly; 29:7 and they gave for the
for every bowl; and for the silver bowls by service of God’s house of gold five thousand
weight for every bowl; 28:18 and for the altar of talents and ten thousand darics, and of silver
incense refined gold by weight; and gold for the ten thousand talents, and of brass eighteen
pattern of the chariot, the cherubim, that spread thousand talents, and of iron a hundred thou-
out, and covered the ark of the covenant of sand talents. 29:8 They with whom precious
the LORD. 28:19 “All this,” said David, “I have stones were found gave them to the treasure of
been made to understand in writing from the the house of the LORD, under the hand of Jehiel
hand of the LORD, even all the works of this the Gershonite. 29:9 Then the people rejoiced,
pattern.” because they offered willingly, because with
28:20
David said to Solomon his son, “Be a perfect heart they offered willingly to the
strong and courageous, and do it. Don’t be LORD: and David the king also rejoiced with
afraid, nor be dismayed; for the LORD God, great joy. 29:10 Therefore David blessed the
even my God, is with you. He will not LORD before all the assembly; and David said,
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“You are blessed, LORD, the God of Israel our his father, and prospered; and all Israel obeyed
father, forever and ever. 29:11 Yours, LORD, is him. 29:24 All the princes, the mighty men, and
the greatness, the power, the glory, the victory, also all of the sons of king David submitted
and the majesty! For all that is in the heavens themselves to Solomon the king. 29:25 The
and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, LORD magnified Solomon exceedingly in the
LORD, and you are exalted as head above all. sight of all Israel, and bestowed on him such
29:12
Both riches and honor come from you, and royal majesty as had not been on any king
you rule over all; and in your hand is power before him in Israel. 29:26 Now David the son
and might; and it is in your hand to make great, of Jesse reigned over all Israel. 29:27 The time
and to give strength to all. 29:13 Now therefore, that he reigned over Israel was forty years; he
our God, we thank you, and praise your reigned seven years in Hebron, and he reigned
glorious name. 29:14 But who am I, and what thirty-three years in Jerusalem. 29:28 He died
is my people, that we should be able to offer so in a good old age, full of days, riches, and
willingly as this? For all things come from you, honor: and Solomon his son reigned in his
and of your own have we given you. 29:15 For place. 29:29 Now the acts of David the king, first
we are strangers before you, and foreigners, as and last, behold, they are written in the history
all our fathers were. Our days on the earth of Samuel the seer, and in the history of Nathan
are as a shadow, and there is no remaining. the prophet, and in the history of Gad the seer,
29:16 29:30
LORD our God, all this store that we have with all his reign and his might, and the
prepared to build you a house for your holy times that went over him, and over Israel, and
name comes from your hand, and is all your over all the kingdoms of the countries.
own. 29:17 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 have
I seen with joy your people, that are present
here, offer willingly to you. 29:18 LORD, the
God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, our
fathers, keep this forever in the imagination of
the thoughts of the heart of your people, and
prepare their heart for you; 29:19 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.”
29:20
David said to all the assembly, “Now bless
the LORD your God!”

All the assembly blessed the LORD, the God


of their fathers, and bowed down their heads
and prostrated themselves before the LORD
and the king. 29:21 They sacrificed sacrifices to
the LORD, and offered burnt offerings to the
LORD, 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, 29:22 and
ate and drink before the LORD on that day with
great gladness. They made Solomon the son
of David king the second time, and anointed
him to the LORD to be prince, and Zadok
to be priest. 29:23 Then Solomon sat on the
throne of the LORD as king instead of David
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The Second Book of Meeting, to Jerusalem; and he reigned over Is-


rael. 1:14 Solomon gathered chariots and horse-
Chronicles men: and he had one thousand four hundred
1:1
Solomon the son of David was strength- chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, that
ened in his kingdom, and the LORDa his Godb he placed in the chariot cities, and with the
was with him, and magnified him exceedingly. king at Jerusalem. 1:15 The king made silver
1:2
Solomon spoke to all Israel, to the captains of and gold to be in Jerusalem as stones, and
thousands and of hundreds, and to the judges, cedars made he to be as the sycamore trees
and to every prince in all Israel, the heads of that are in the lowland, for abundance. 1:16 The
the fathers’ households. 1:3 So Solomon, and horses which Solomon had were brought out
all the assembly with him, went to the high of Egypt and from Kue; the king’s merchants
place that was at Gibeon; for there was the Tent purchased them from Kue. 1:17 They brought
of Meeting of God, which Moses the servant up and brought out of Egypt a chariot for six
of the LORD had made in the wilderness. hundred pieces of silver, and a horse for one
1:4
But David had brought the ark of God up hundred fifty: and so for all the kings of the
from Kiriath Jearim to the place that David Hittites, and the kings of Syria, they brought
had prepared for it; for he had pitched a tent them out by their means.
2:1
for it at Jerusalem. 1:5 Moreover the bronze Now Solomon purposed to build a house
altar, that Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of for the name of the LORD, and a house for
Hur, had made, was there before the tabernacle his kingdom. 2:2 Solomon counted out seventy
of the LORD: and Solomon and the assembly thousand men to bear burdens, and eighty
were seeking counsel there. 1:6 Solomon went thousand men who were stone cutters in the
up there to the bronze altar before the LORD, mountains, and three thousand and six hun-
which was at the Tent of Meeting, and offered dred to oversee them. 2:3 Solomon sent to
one thousand burnt offerings on it. 1:7 In that Huram the king of Tyre, saying, “As you dealt
night God appeared to Solomon, and said to with David my father, and sent him cedars to
him, “Ask what I shall give you.” 1:8 Solomon build him a house in which to dwell, so deal
said to God, “You have shown great loving with me. 2:4 Behold, I am about to build a house
kindness to David my father, and have made for the name of the LORD my God, to dedicate
me king in his place. 1:9 Now, LORD God, it to him, and to burn before him incense
let your promise to David my father be es- of sweet spices, and for the continual show
tablished; for you have made me king over a bread, and for the burnt offerings morning
people like the dust of the earth in multitude. and evening, on the Sabbaths, and on the new
1:10 moons, and on the set feasts of the LORD our
Now give me wisdom and knowledge, that
I may go out and come in before this people; God. This is an ordinance forever to Israel.
2:5
for who can judge this your people, that is so “The house which I build is great; for our
great?” God is great above all gods. 2:6 But who is able
1:11 to build him a house, since heaven and the
God said to Solomon, “Because this was
in your heart, and you have not asked riches, heaven of heavens can’t contain him? who am
wealth, or honor, nor the life of those who I then, that I should build him a house, except
hate you, neither yet have asked long life; just to burn incense before him?
2:7
but have asked wisdom and knowledge for “Now therefore send me a man skillful to
yourself, that you may judge my people, over work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and
whom I have made you king: 1:12 wisdom and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue,
knowledge is granted to you. I will give you and who knows how to engrave engravings,
riches, wealth, and honor, such as none of the to be with the skillful men who are with me
kings have had who have been before you; in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my
neither shall there any after you have the like.” father provided.
1:13 2:8
So Solomon came from the high place “Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and
that was at Gibeon, from before the Tent of algum trees, out of Lebanon; for I know that
a 1:1 “LORD” or “GOD” (all capital letters) indicate the 4-letter Holy Name of God
b 1:1 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “Elohim.”
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your servants know how to cut timber in of his reign. 3:3 Now these are the foundations
Lebanon: and behold, my servants shall be which Solomon laid for the building of God’s
with your servants, 2:9 even to prepare me house. The length by cubits after the first
timber in abundance; for the house which I am measure was sixty cubits, and the breadth
about to build shall be great and wonderful. twenty cubits. 3:4 The porch that was in front,
2:10
Behold, I will give to your servants, the its length, according to the breadth of the
cutters who cut timber, twenty thousand mea- house, was twenty cubits, and the height one
sures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand hundred twenty; and he overlaid it within with
measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths pure gold. 3:5 The greater house he made a
of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.” ceiling with fir wood, which he overlaid with
2:11 fine gold, and ornamented it with palm trees
Then Huram the king of Tyre answered
in writing, which he sent to Solomon, “Because and chains. 3:6 He garnished the house with
the LORD loves his people, he has made precious stones for beauty: and the gold was
you king over them.” 2:12 Huram continued, gold of Parvaim. 3:7 He overlaid also the house,
“Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, that the beams, the thresholds, and its walls, and
made heaven and earth, who has given to its doors, with gold; and engraved cherubim
David the king a wise son, endowed with dis- on the walls. 3:8 He made the most holy
cretion and understanding, that should build house: its length, according to the breadth of
a house for the LORD, and a house for his the house, was twenty cubits, and its breadth
kingdom. 2:13 Now I have sent a skillful man, twenty cubits; and he overlaid it with fine
endowed with understanding, of Huram my gold, amounting to six hundred talents. 3:9 The
father’s, 2:14 the son of a woman of the daugh- weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold.
ters of Dan; and his father was a man of Tyre, He overlaid the upper rooms with gold. 3:10 In
skillful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, the most holy house he made two cherubim of
in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in image work; and they overlaid them with gold.
3:11
blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson, also to The wings of the cherubim were twenty
engrave any kind of engraving, and to devise cubits long: the wing of the one was five cubits,
any device; that there may be a place appointed reaching to the wall of the house; and the other
to him with your skillful men, and with the wing was five cubits, reaching to the wing of
skillful men of my lord David your father. the other cherub. 3:12 The wing of the other
2:15 cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of
“Now therefore the wheat and the barley,
the house; and the other wing was five cubits,
the oil and the wine, which my lord has spoken
joining to the wing of the other cherub. 3:13 The
of, let him send to his servants: 2:16 and we
wings of these cherubim spread themselves
will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as
forth twenty cubits: and they stood on their
you shall need; and we will bring it to you in
feet, and their faces were toward the house.
floats by sea to Joppa; and you shall carry it 3:14
He made the veil of blue, and purple, and
up to Jerusalem.” 2:17 Solomon numbered all
crimson, and fine linen, and ornamented it with
the foreigners who were in Eretz-Israel, after
cherubim. 3:15 Also he made before the house
the numbering with which David his father
two pillars of thirty-five cubits high, and the
had numbered them; and they were found
capital that was on the top of each of them was
one hundred fifty-three thousand six hundred.
2:18 five cubits. 3:16 He made chains in the oracle,
He set seventy thousand of them to bear
and put them on the tops of the pillars; and
burdens, and eighty thousand who were stone
he made one hundred pomegranates, and put
cutters in the mountains, and three thousand
them on the chains. 3:17 He set up the pillars
six hundred overseers to set the people at work.
3:1
before the temple, one on the right hand, and
Then Solomon began to build the house the other on the left; and called the name of that
of the LORD at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, on the right hand Jachin, and the name of that
where the LORD appeared to David his father, on the left Boaz.
which he prepared in the place that David had
4:1
appointed, in the threshing floor of Ornan the Then he made an altar of brass, twenty
Jebusite. 3:2 He began to build in the second cubits its length, and twenty cubits its breadth,
day of the second month, in the fourth year and ten cubits its height. 4:2 Also he made the
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4:19
molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, Solomon made all the vessels that were in
round in compass; and its height was five God’s house, the golden altar also, and the
cubits; and a line of thirty cubits encircled it. tables with the show bread on them; 4:20 and the
4:3
Under it was the likeness of oxen, which menorahs with their lamps, to burn according
encircled it, for ten cubits, encircling the sea. to the ordinance before the oracle, of pure gold;
4:21
The oxen were in two rows, cast when it was and the flowers, and the lamps, and the
cast. 4:4 It stood on twelve oxen, three looking tongs, of gold, and that perfect gold; 4:22 and the
toward the north, and three looking toward snuffers, and the basins, and the spoons, and
the west, and three looking toward the south, the fire pans, of pure gold: and as for the entry
and three looking toward the east: and the sea of the house, the inner doors of it for the most
was set on them above, and all their hinder holy place, and the doors of the main hall of the
parts were inward. 4:5 It was a handbreadth temple were of gold.
thick; and its brim was worked like the brim 5:1
of a cup, like the flower of a lily: it received Thus all the work that Solomon did for
and held three thousand baths. 4:6 He made the house of the LORD was finished. Solomon
also ten basins, and put five on the right hand, brought in the things that David his father had
and five on the left, to wash in them; such dedicated, even the silver, and the gold, and all
things as belonged to the burnt offering they the vessels, and put them in the treasuries of
washed in them; but the sea was for the priests the house of God. 5:2 Then Solomon assembled
to wash in. 4:7 He made the ten menorahs the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the
of gold according to the ordinance concerning tribes, the princes of the fathers’ households
them; and he set them in the temple, five on of the children of Israel, to Jerusalem, to bring
the right hand, and five on the left. 4:8 He up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out
made also ten tables, and placed them in the of the city of David, which is Zion. 5:3 And
temple, five on the right side, and five on the all the men of Israel assembled themselves to
left. He made one hundred basins of gold. the king at the feast, which was in the seventh
4:9
Furthermore he made the court of the priests, month. 5:4 All the elders of Israel came: and the
and the great court, and doors for the court, Levites took up the ark; 5:5 and they brought
and overlaid their doors with brass. 4:10 He set up the ark, and the Tent of Meeting, and all
the sea on the right side of the house eastward, the holy vessels that were in the Tent; these
toward the south. 4:11 Huram made the pots, the priests the Levites brought up. 5:6 King
and the shovels, and the basins. So Huram Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, that
made an end of doing the work that he did were assembled to him, were before the ark,
for king Solomon in God’s house: 4:12 the two sacrificing sheep and cattle, that could not be
pillars, and the bowls, and the two capitals counted nor numbered for multitude. 5:7 The
which were on the top of the pillars, and the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of
two networks to cover the two bowls of the the LORD to its place, into the oracle of the
capitals that were on the top of the pillars, house, to the most holy place, even under the
4:13
and the four hundred pomegranates for the wings of the cherubim. 5:8 For the cherubim
two networks; two rows of pomegranates for spread forth their wings over the place of the
each network, to cover the two bowls of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and its
capitals that were on the pillars. 4:14 He made poles above. 5:9 The poles were so long that the
also the bases, and the basins made he on the ends of the poles were seen from the ark before
bases; 4:15 one sea, and the twelve oxen under the oracle; but they were not seen outside:
it. 4:16 Huram his father also made the pots, and there it is to this day. 5:10 There was
the shovels, the forks, and all its vessels for nothing in the ark except the two tables which
king Solomon for the house of the LORD of Moses put at Horeb, when the LORD made a
bright brass. 4:17 The king cast them in the covenant with the children of Israel, when they
plain of the Jordan, in the clay ground between came out of Egypt. 5:11 It happened, when the
Succoth and Zeredah. 4:18 Thus Solomon made priests had come out of the holy place, (for
all these vessels in great abundance: for the all the priests who were present had sanctified
weight of the brass could not be found out. themselves, and didn’t keep their divisions;
5:12
also the Levites who were the singers, all
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of them, even Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and house for the name of the LORD, the God of
their sons and their brothers, arrayed in fine Israel. 6:11 There I have set the ark, in which is
linen, with cymbals and stringed instruments the covenant of the LORD, which he made with
and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, the children of Israel.”
6:12
and with them one hundred twenty priests He stood before the altar of the LORD in
sounding with shofarsc ;) 5:13 it happened, when the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and
the trumpeters and singers were as one, to spread forth his hands 6:13 (for Solomon had
make one sound to be heard in praising and made a bronze scaffold, five cubits long, and
thanking the LORD; and when they lifted up five cubits broad, and three cubits high, and
their voice with the shofarsd and cymbals and had set it in the midst of the court; and on it he
instruments of music, and praised the LORD, stood, and kneeled down on his knees before
saying, all the assembly of Israel, and spread forth his
“For he is good; hands toward heaven;) 6:14 and he said, “LORD,
for his loving kindness endures forever!” the God of Israel, there is no God like you, in
that then the house was filled with a heaven, or on earth; you who keep covenant
cloud, even the house of the LORD, and loving kindness with your servants, who
5:14
so that the priests could not stand walk before you with all their heart; 6:15 who
to minister by reason of the cloud: for have kept with your servant David my father
the glory of the LORD filled God’s that which you promised him: yes, you spoke
house. with your mouth, and have fulfilled it with
6:1 your hand, as it is this day.
Then Solomon said, “The LORD has said
6:16
that he would dwell in the thick darkness. “Now therefore, LORD, the God of Is-
6:2
But I have built you a house of habitation, rael, keep with your servant David my father
and a place for you to dwell in forever.” that which you have promised him, saying,
6:3 ‘There shall not fail you a man in my sight
The king turned his face, and blessed all
the assembly of Israel: and all the assembly to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your
of Israel stood. 6:4 He said, “Blessed be the children take heed to their way, to walk in my
LORD, the God of Israel, who spoke with his law as you have walked before me.’ 6:17 Now
mouth to David my father, and has with his therefore, LORD, the God of Israel, let your
hands fulfilled it, saying, 6:5 ‘Since the day that word be verified, which you spoke to your
I brought forth my people out of the land of servant David.
6:18
Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of “But will God indeed dwell with men
Israel to build a house in, that my name might on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven
be there; neither chose I any man to be prince of heavens can’t contain you; how much less
over my people Israel: 6:6 but I have chosen this house which I have built! 6:19 Yet have
Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and respect for the prayer of your servant, and to
have chosen David to be over my people Israel.’ his supplication, LORD my God, to listen to
6:7
Now it was in the heart of David my father the cry and to the prayer which your servant
to build a house for the name of the LORD, the prays before you; 6:20 that your eyes may be
God of Israel. 6:8 But the LORD said to David open toward this house day and night, even
my father, ‘Whereas it was in your heart to toward the place where you have said that
build a house for my name, you did well that it you would put your name; to listen to the
was in your heart: 6:9 nevertheless you shall not prayer which your servant shall pray toward
build the house; but your son who shall come this place. 6:21 Listen to the petitions of your
forth out of your body, he shall build the house servant, and of your people Israel, when they
for my name.’ shall pray toward this place: yes, hear from
6:10 your dwelling place, even from heaven; and
“The LORD has performed his word that
he spoke; for I have risen up in the place of when you hear, forgive.
6:22
David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, “If a man sin against his neighbor, and an
as the LORD promised, and have built the oath is laid on him to cause him to swear, and
c 5:12 or, trumpets
d 5:13 or, trumpets
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6:34
he comes and swears before your altar in this “If your people go out to battle against
house; 6:23 then hear from heaven, and do, and their enemies, by whatever way you shall send
judge your servants, bringing retribution to the them, and they pray to you toward this city
wicked, to bring his way on his own head; and which you have chosen, and the house which
justifying the righteous, to give him according I have built for your name; 6:35 then hear from
to his righteousness. heaven their prayer and their supplication, and
6:24 maintain their cause.
“If your people Israel be struck down
6:36
before the enemy, because they have sinned “If they sin against you (for there is no
against you, and shall turn again and confess man who doesn’t sin), and you are angry with
your name, and pray and make supplication them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that
before you in this house; 6:25 then hear from they carry them away captive to a land far off
heaven, and forgive the sin of your people or near; 6:37 yet if they shall repent themselves
Israel, and bring them again to the land which in the land where they are carried captive, and
you gave to them and to their fathers. turn again, and make supplication to you in
6:26 the land of their captivity, saying, ‘We have
“When the sky is shut up, and there is no
rain, because they have sinned against you; if sinned, we have done perversely, and have
they pray toward this place, and confess your dealt wickedly;’ 6:38 if they return to you with
name, and turn from their sin, when you afflict all their heart and with all their soul in the
them: 6:27 then hear in heaven, and forgive the land of their captivity, where they have carried
sin of your servants, and of your people Israel, them captive, and pray toward their land,
when you teach them the good way in which which you gave to their fathers, and the city
they should walk; and send rain on your land, which you have chosen, and toward the house
which you have given to your people for an which I have built for your name: 6:39 then hear
inheritance. from heaven, even from your dwelling place,
6:28
“If there is famine in the land, if there is their prayer and their petitions, and maintain
pestilence, if there is blight or mildew, locust their cause, and forgive your people who have
or caterpillar; if their enemies besiege them sinned against you.
6:40
in the land of their cities; whatever plague or “Now, my God, let, I beg you, your eyes
whatever sickness there is; 6:29 whatever prayer be open, and let your ears be attentive, to the
and supplication be made by any man, or by prayer that is made in this place.
6:41
all your people Israel, who shall know every “Now therefore arise, LORD God, into
man his own plague and his own sorrow, and your resting place, you, and the ark of your
shall spread forth his hands toward this house: strength: let your priests, LORD God, be
6:30 clothed with salvation [yeshu‘ah], and let your
then hear from heaven, your dwelling place
and forgive, and render to every man according holy ones rejoice in goodness.
6:42
to all his ways, whose heart you know; (for you, “LORD God, don’t turn away the face
even you only, know the hearts of the children of your anointed. Remember your loving
of men;) 6:31 that they may fear you, to walk kindnesses to David your servant.”
7:1
in your ways, so long as they live in the land Now when Solomon had made an end of
which you gave to our fathers. praying, the fire came down from heaven, and
6:32 consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices;
“Moreover concerning the foreigner,
who is not of your people Israel, when he and the glory of the LORD filled the house.
7:2
shall come from a far country for your great The priests could not enter into the house
name’s sake, and your mighty hand, and your of the LORD, because the glory of the LORD
outstretched arm; when they shall come and filled the LORD’s house. 7:3 All the children of
pray toward this house: 6:33 then hear from Israel looked on, when the fire came down, and
heaven, even from your dwelling place, and do the glory of the LORD was on the house; and
according to all that the foreigner calls to you they bowed themselves with their faces to the
for; that all the peoples of the earth may know ground on the pavement, and worshiped, and
your name, and fear you, as does your people gave thanks to the LORD, saying,
Israel, and that they may know that this house “For he is good;
which I have built is called by your name. for his loving kindness endures for ever.”
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7:4
Then the king and all the peo- prayer that is made in this place. 7:16 For now
ple offered sacrifice before the LORD. have I chosen and made this house holy, that
7:5
King Solomon offered a sacrifice of my name may be there forever; and my eyes
twenty-two thousand head of cattle, and my heart shall be there perpetually.
and a hundred and twenty thousand 7:17
“As for you, if you will walk before me
sheep. So the king and all the people as David your father walked, and do according
dedicated God’s house. 7:6 The priests to all that I have commanded you, and will
stood, according to their positions; the keep my statutes and my ordinances; 7:18 then
Levites also with instruments of music I will establish the throne of your kingdom,
of the LORD, which David the king according as I covenanted with David your
had made to give thanks to the LORD, father, saying, ‘There shall not fail you a man to
when David praised by their ministry, be ruler in Israel.’ 7:19 But if you turn away, and
saying “For his loving kindness en- forsake my statutes and my commandments
dures for ever.” The priests sounded which I have set before you, and shall go and
shofarse before them; and all Israel serve other gods, and worship them; 7:20 then I
stood. will pluck them up by the roots out of my land
7:7
Moreover Solomon made the middle of which I have given them; and this house, which
the court holy that was before the house of the I have made holy for my name, I will cast out
LORD; for there he offered the burnt offerings, of my sight, and I will make it a proverb and
and the fat of the peace offerings, because the a byword among all peoples. 7:21 This house,
bronze altar which Solomon had made was not which is so high, everyone who passes by it
able to receive the burnt offering, and the meal shall be astonished, and shall say, ‘Why has
offering, and the fat. 7:8 So Solomon held the the LORD done thus to this land, and to this
feast at that time seven days, and all Israel with house?’ 7:22 They shall answer, ‘Because they
him, a very great assembly, from the entrance abandoned the LORD, the God of their fathers,
of Hamath to the brook of Egypt. 7:9 On the who brought them forth out of the land of
eighth day they held a solemn assembly: for Egypt, and took other gods, worshiped them,
they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and served them. Therefore he has brought all
and the feast seven days. 7:10 On the three this evil on them.’”
and twentieth day of the seventh month he 8:1
It happened at the end of twenty years,
sent the people away to their tents, joyful and in which Solomon had built the house of the
glad of heart for the goodness that the LORD LORD, and his own house, 8:2 that the cities
had shown to David, and to Solomon, and to which Huram had given to Solomon, Solomon
Israel his people. 7:11 Thus Solomon finished built them, and caused the children of Israel
the house of the LORD, and the king’s house: to dwell there. 8:3 Solomon went to Hamath
and he successfully completed all that came Zobah, and prevailed against it. 8:4 He built
into Solomon’s heart to make in the house of Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the storage
the LORD, and in his own house. cities, which he built in Hamath. 8:5 Also he
7:12
The LORD appeared to Solomon by built Beth Horon the upper, and Beth Horon
night, and said to him, “I have heard your the lower, fortified cities, with walls, gates, and
prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for bars; 8:6 and Baalath, and all the storage cities
a house of sacrifice. that Solomon had, and all the cities for his
7:13
“If I shut up the sky so that there is no chariots, and the cities for his horsemen, and all
rain, or if I command the locust to devour the that Solomon desired to build for his pleasure
land, or if I send pestilence among my people; in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the
7:14
if my people, who are called by my name, land of his dominion. 8:7 As for all the people
shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek who were left of the Hittites, and the Amorites,
my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the
will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their Jebusites, who were not of Israel; 8:8 of their
sin, and will heal their land. 7:15 Now my eyes children who were left after them in the land,
shall be open, and my ears attentive, to the whom the children of Israel didn’t consume, of
e 7:6 or, trumpets
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them Solomon conscripted forced labor to this he didn’t tell her. 9:3 When the queen of Sheba
day. 8:9 But of the children of Israel, Solomon had seen the wisdom of Solomon, and the
made no servants for his work; but they were house that he had built, 9:4 and the food of his
men of war, and chief of his captains, and rulers table, and the sitting of his servants, and the
of his chariots and of his horsemen. 8:10 These attendance of his ministers, and their clothing,
were the chief officers of king Solomon, even his cup bearers also, and their clothing, and his
two-hundred fifty, who ruled over the people. ascent by which he went up to the house of the
8:11 LORD; there was no more spirit in her.
Solomon brought up the daughter of
Pharaoh out of the city of David to the house 9:5
She said to the king, “It was a true report
that he had built for her; for he said, “My wife that I heard in my own land of your acts,
shall not dwell in the house of David king of and of your wisdom. 9:6 However I didn’t
Israel, because the places where the ark of the believe their words, until I came, and my
LORD has come are holy.” eyes had seen it; and behold, the half of the
8:12 greatness of your wisdom was not told me: you
Then Solomon offered burnt offerings to
the LORD on the altar of the LORD, which exceed the fame that I heard. 9:7 Happy are
he had built before the porch, 8:13 even as the your men, and happy are these your servants,
duty of every day required, offering according who stand continually before you, and hear
to the commandment of Moses, on the Sab- your wisdom. 9:8 Blessed be the LORD your
baths, and on the new moons, and on the set God, who delighted in you, to set you on his
feasts, three times in the year, in the feast of throne, to be king for the LORD your God:
unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, because your God loved Israel, to establish
and in the feast of booths. 8:14 He appointed, them forever, therefore made he you king over
according to the ordinance of David his father, them, to do justice and righteousness.”
the divisions of the priests to their service, 9:9
She gave the king one hundred and
and the Levites to their offices, to praise, and twenty talents of gold, and spices in great
to minister before the priests, as the duty of abundance, and precious stones: neither was
every day required; the doorkeepers also by there any such spice as the queen of Sheba
their divisions at every gate: for so had David gave to king Solomon. 9:10 The servants also
the man of God commanded. 8:15 They didn’t of Huram, and the servants of Solomon, who
depart from the commandment of the king to brought gold from Ophir, brought algum trees
the priests and Levites concerning any matter, and precious stones. 9:11 The king made of
or concerning the treasures. 8:16 Now all the the algum trees terraces for the house of the
work of Solomon was prepared to the day of LORD, and for the king’s house, and harps
the foundation of the house of the LORD, and and stringed instruments for the singers: and
until it was finished. So the house of the LORD there were none like these seen before in the
was completed. 8:17 Then went Solomon to land of Judah. 9:12 King Solomon gave to the
Ezion Geber, and to Eloth, on the seashore in queen of Sheba all her desire, whatever she
the land of Edom. 8:18 Huram sent him ships asked, besides that which she had brought to
and servants who had knowledge of the sea by the king. So she turned, and went to her
the hands of his servants; and they came with own land, she and her servants. 9:13 Now the
the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and fetched weight of gold that came to Solomon in one
from there four hundred fifty talents of gold, year was six hundred and sixty-six talents of
and brought them to king Solomon. gold, 9:14 besides that which the traders and
9:1
When the queen of Sheba heard of the merchants brought: and all the kings of Arabia
fame of Solomon, she came to prove Solomon and the governors of the country brought gold
with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a and silver to Solomon. 9:15 King Solomon
very great train, and camels that bore spices, made two hundred bucklers of beaten gold; six
and gold in abundance, and precious stones: hundred shekels of beaten gold went to one
and when she had come to Solomon, she buckler. 9:16 He made three hundred shields
talked with him of all that was in her heart. of beaten gold; three hundred shekels of gold
9:2
Solomon told her all her questions; and there went to one shield: and the king put them in the
was not anything hidden from Solomon which house of the forest of Lebanon. 9:17 Moreover
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the king made a great throne of ivory, and Israel came, and they spoke to Rehoboam, say-
overlaid it with pure gold. 9:18 And there were ing, 10:4 “Your father made our yoke grievous:
six steps to the throne, with a footstool of gold, now therefore make you the grievous service of
which were fastened to the throne, and stays your father, and his heavy yoke which he put
on either side by the place of the seat, and two on us, lighter, and we will serve you.”
lions standing beside the stays. 9:19 Twelve lions 10:5
He said to them, “Come again to me after
stood there on the one side and on the other on three days.”
the six steps: there was nothing like it made in The people departed. 10:6 King Rehoboam
any kingdom. 9:20 All king Solomon’s drinking took counsel with the old men, who had stood
vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of before Solomon his father while he yet lived,
the house of the forest of Lebanon were of saying, “What counsel do you give me to return
pure gold: silver was nothing accounted of answer to this people?”
in the days of Solomon. 9:21 For the king had 10:7
They spoke to him, saying, “If you are
ships that went to Tarshish with the servants of kind to this people, and please them, and speak
Huram; once every three years came the ships good words to them, then they will be your
of Tarshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, servants forever.”
and apes, and peacocks. 9:22 So king Solomon 10:8
But he forsook the counsel of the old men
exceeded all the kings of the earth in riches and which they had given him, and took counsel
wisdom. 9:23 All the kings of the earth sought with the young men who had grown up with
the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, him, who stood before him. 10:9 He said to
which God had put in his heart. 9:24 They them, “What counsel do you give, that we may
brought every man his tribute, vessels of silver, return answer to this people, who have spoken
and vessels of gold, and clothing, armor, and to me, saying, ‘Make the yoke that your father
spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year. put on us lighter?’”
9:25
Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses 10:10
The young men who had grown up
and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen,
with him spoke to him, saying, “Thus you
that he stationed in the chariot cities, and with
shall tell the people who spoke to you, saying,
the king at Jerusalem. 9:26 He ruled over all the
‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but make
kings from the River even to the land of the
it lighter on us;’ thus you shall say to them,
Philistines, and to the border of Egypt. 9:27 The
‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s
king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones,
waist. 10:11 Now whereas my father burdened
and he made cedars to be as the sycamore
you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke.
trees that are in the lowland, for abundance.
9:28 My father chastised you with whips, but I will
They brought horses for Solomon out of
chastise you with scorpions.’”
Egypt, and out of all lands. 9:29 Now the 10:12
So Jeroboam and all the people came
rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last,
to Rehoboam the third day, as the king asked,
aren’t they written in the history of Nathan
saying, “Come to me again the third day.”
the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah 10:13
The king answered them roughly; and king
the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the
Rehoboam forsook the counsel of the old men,
seer concerning Jeroboam the son of Nebat? 10:14
9:30 and spoke to them after the counsel of
Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel
the young men, saying, “My father made your
forty years. 9:31 Solomon slept with his fathers,
yoke heavy, but I will add to it. My father
and he was buried in the city of David his
chastised you with whips, but I will chastise
father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his
you with scorpions.”
place. 10:15
So the king didn’t listen to the people;
10:1
Rehoboam went to Shechem; for all Is- for it was brought about of God, that the LORD
rael had come to Shechem to make him king. might establish his word, which he spoke by
10:2
It happened, when Jeroboam the son of Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of
Nebat heard of it, (for he was in Egypt, where Nebat. 10:16 When all Israel saw that the king
he had fled from the presence of king Solomon), didn’t listen to them, the people answered the
that Jeroboam returned out of Egypt. 10:3 They king, saying, “What portion have we in David?
sent and called him; and Jeroboam and all Neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse!
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Every man to your tents, Israel! Now see to the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam
your own house, David.” So all Israel departed the son of Solomon strong, three years; for
to their tents. they walked three years in the way of David
10:17
But as for the children of Israel who and Solomon. 11:18 Rehoboam took him a wife,
lived in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth the son of
over them. 10:18 Then king Rehoboam sent David, and of Abihail the daughter of Eliab
Hadoram, who was over the men subject to the son of Jesse; 11:19 and she bore him sons:
forced labor; and the children of Israel stoned Jeush, and Shemariah, and Zaham. 11:20 After
him to death with stones. King Rehoboam her he took Maacah the daughter of Absalom;
made speed to get himself up to his chariot, to and she bore him Abijah, and Attai, and Ziza,
flee to Jerusalem. 10:19 So Israel rebelled against and Shelomith. 11:21 Rehoboam loved Maacah
the house of David to this day. the daughter of Absalom above all his wives
11:1
and his concubines: (for he took eighteen
When Rehoboam had come to Jerusalem, wives, and sixty concubines, and became the
he assembled the house of Judah and Benjamin, father of twenty-eight sons and sixty daugh-
one hundred eighty thousand chosen men, ters.) 11:22 Rehoboam appointed Abijah the son
who were warriors, to fight against Israel, to of Maacah to be chief, the prince among his
bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam. 11:2 But brothers; for he intended to make him king.
the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah 11:23
He dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his
the man of God, saying, 11:3 “Speak to Re- sons throughout all the lands of Judah and
hoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, Benjamin, to every fortified city: and he gave
and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin, saying, them food in abundance. He sought for them
11:4
‘Thus says the LORD, “You shall not go many wives.
up, nor fight against your brothers! Return 12:1
It happened, when the kingdom of Re-
every man to his house; for this thing is
hoboam was established, and he was strong,
of me.”’” So they listened to the words of
that he forsook the law of the LORD, and
the LORD, and returned from going against
all Israel with him. 12:2 It happened in the
Jeroboam. 11:5 Rehoboam lived in Jerusalem,
fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king
and built cities for defense in Judah. 11:6 He
of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because
built Bethlehem, and Etam, and Tekoa, 11:7 Beth
they had trespassed against the LORD, 12:3 with
Zur, and Soco, and Adullam, 11:8 and Gath,
twelve hundred chariots, and sixty thousand
and Mareshah, and Ziph, 11:9 and Adoraim,
horsemen. The people were without number
and Lachish, and Azekah, 11:10 and Zorah, and
who came with him out of Egypt: the Lubim,
Aijalon, and Hebron, which are in Judah and
the Sukkiim, and the Ethiopians. 12:4 He took
in Benjamin, fortified cities. 11:11 He fortified
the fortified cities which pertained to Judah,
the strongholds, and put captains in them, and
and came to Jerusalem. 12:5 Now Shemaiah
stores of food, and oil and wine. 11:12 He put
the prophet came to Rehoboam, and to the
shields and spears in every city, and made
princes of Judah, who were gathered together
them exceeding strong. Judah and Benjamin
to Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said to
belonged to him. 11:13 The priests and the
them, “Thus says the LORD, ‘You have for-
Levites who were in all Israel resorted to him
saken me, therefore have I also left you in the
out of all their border. 11:14 For the Levites
hand of Shishak.’”
left their suburbs and their possession, and
12:6
came to Judah and Jerusalem: for Jeroboam Then the princes of Israel and the king
and his sons cast them off, that they should humbled themselves; and they said, “The
not execute the priest’s office to the LORD; LORD is righteous.”
11:15 12:7
and he appointed him priests for the high When the LORD saw that they humbled
places, and for the male goats, and for the themselves, the word of the LORD came to
calves which he had made. 11:16 After them, Shemaiah, saying, “They have humbled them-
out of all the tribes of Israel, such as set their selves. I will not destroy them; but I will grant
hearts to seek the LORD, the God of Israel, them some deliverance, and my wrath shall
came to Jerusalem to sacrifice to the LORD, the not be poured out on Jerusalem by the hand
God of their fathers. 11:17 So they strengthened of Shishak. 12:8 Nevertheless they shall be his
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servants, that they may know my service, and his sons by a covenant of salt? 13:6 Yet Jeroboam
the service of the kingdoms of the countries.” the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon the
12:9 son of David, rose up, and rebelled against
So Shishak king of Egypt came up
against Jerusalem, and took away the treasures his lord. 13:7 There were gathered to him
of the house of the LORD, and the treasures worthless men, base fellows, who strength-
of the king’s house. He took it all away. ened themselves against Rehoboam the son
He also took away the shields of gold which of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and
Solomon had made. 12:10 King Rehoboam made tenderhearted, and could not withstand them.
13:8
in their place shields of brass, and committed “Now you think to withstand the king-
them to the hands of the captains of the guard, dom of the LORD in the hand of the sons of
who kept the door of the king’s house. 12:11 It David; and you are a great multitude, and there
was so, that as often as the king entered into are with you the golden calves which Jeroboam
the house of the LORD, the guard came and made you for gods. 13:9 Haven’t you driven out
bore them, and brought them back into the the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and
guard room. 12:12 When he humbled himself, the Levites, and made priests for yourselves
the wrath of the LORD turned from him, so after the ways of the peoples of other lands? so
as not to destroy him altogether: and more- that whoever comes to consecrate himself with
over in Judah there were good things found. a young bull and seven rams, the same may be
12:13
So king Rehoboam strengthened himself a priest of those who are no gods.
13:10
in Jerusalem, and reigned: for Rehoboam was “But as for us, the LORD is our God,
forty-one years old when he began to reign, and and we have not forsaken him; and we have
he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the priests ministering to the LORD, the sons of
city which the LORD had chosen out of all the Aaron, and the Levites in their work: 13:11 and
tribes of Israel, to put his name there: and his they burn to the LORD every morning and ev-
mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess. ery evening burnt offerings and sweet incense.
12:14
He did that which was evil, because he They also set the show bread in order on the
didn’t set his heart to seek the LORD. 12:15 Now pure table; and the menorah of gold with its
the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, aren’t they lamps, to burn every evening: for we keep the
written in the histories of Shemaiah the prophet instruction of the LORD our God; but you have
and of Iddo the seer, after the way of genealo- forsaken him. 13:12 Behold, God is with us at
gies? There were wars between Rehoboam our head, and his priests with the shofarsf of
and Jeroboam continually. 12:16 Rehoboam slept alarm to sound an alarm against you. Children
with his fathers, and was buried in the city of of Israel, don’t fight against the LORD, the God
David: and Abijah his son reigned in his place. of your fathers; for you shall not prosper.”
13:1 13:13
In the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam But Jeroboam caused an ambush to
began Abijah to reign over Judah. 13:2 He come about behind them: so they were before
reigned three years in Jerusalem: and his Judah, and the ambush was behind them.
13:14
mother’s name was Micaiah the daughter of When Judah looked back, behold, the bat-
Uriel of Gibeah. There was war between Abijah tle was before and behind them; and they cried
and Jeroboam. 13:3 Abijah joined battle with to the LORD, and the priests sounded with
an army of valiant men of war, even four the shofarsg . 13:15 Then the men of Judah gave
hundred thousand chosen men: and Jeroboam a shout: and as the men of Judah shouted,
set the battle in array against him with eight it happened, that God struck Jeroboam and
hundred thousand chosen men, who were all Israel before Abijah and Judah. 13:16 The
mighty men of valor. 13:4 Abijah stood up on children of Israel fled before Judah; and God
Mount Zemaraim, which is in the hill country delivered them into their hand. 13:17 Abijah and
of Ephraim, and said, “Hear me, Jeroboam and his people killed them with a great slaughter:
all Israel: 13:5 Ought you not to know that the so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred
LORD, the God of Israel, gave the kingdom thousand chosen men. 13:18 Thus the children
over Israel to David forever, even to him and to of Israel were brought under at that time, and
f 13:12 or, trumpets
g 13:14 or, trumpets
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14:12
the children of Judah prevailed, because they So the LORD struck the Ethiopians be-
relied on the LORD, the God of their fathers. fore Asa, and before Judah; and the Ethiopians
13:19
Abijah pursued after Jeroboam, and took fled. 14:13 Asa and the people who were with
cities from him, Bethel with its towns, and him pursued them to Gerar: and there fell of
Jeshanah with its towns, and Ephron with its the Ethiopians so many that they could not
towns. 13:20 Jeroboam didn’t recover strength recover themselves; for they were destroyed
again in the days of Abijah. The LORD struck before the LORD, and before his army; and
him, and he died. 13:21 But Abijah grew mighty, they carried away very much booty. 14:14 They
and took to himself fourteen wives, and be- struck all the cities around Gerar; for the fear of
came the father of twenty-two sons, and sixteen the LORD came on them: and they despoiled
daughters. 13:22 The rest of the acts of Abijah, all the cities; for there was much spoil in them.
14:15
and his ways, and his sayings, are written in They struck also the tents of livestock, and
the commentary of the prophet Iddo. carried away sheep in abundance, and camels,
14:1
and returned to Jerusalem.
So Abijah slept with his fathers, and they 15:1
buried him in the city of David; and Asa his The Spirit of God came on Azariah the
son reigned in his place. In his days the land son of Oded: 15:2 and he went out to meet Asa,
was quiet ten years. 14:2 Asa did that which and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah
was good and right in the eyes of the LORD and Benjamin! the LORD is with you, while
his God: 14:3 for he took away the foreign you are with him; and if you seek him, he will
altars, and the high places, and broke down be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will
the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, 14:4 and forsake you. 15:3 Now for a long time Israel was
commanded Judah to seek the LORD, the God without the true God, and without a teaching
of their fathers, and to do the law and the priest, and without law. 15:4 But when in their
commandment. 14:5 Also he took away out of distress they turned to the LORD, the God of
all the cities of Judah the high places and the Israel, and sought him, he was found by them.
15:5
sun images: and the kingdom was quiet before In those times there was no peace to him
him. 14:6 He built fortified cities in Judah; for who went out, nor to him who came in; but
the land was quiet, and he had no war in great troubles were on all the inhabitants of the
those years, because the LORD had given him lands. 15:6 They were broken in pieces, nation
rest. 14:7 For he said to Judah, “Let us build against nation, and city against city; for God
these cities, and make walls around them, with troubled them with all adversity. 15:7 But you
towers, gates, and bars. The land is yet before be strong, and don’t let your hands be slack; for
us, because we have sought the LORD our God; your work shall be rewarded.”
15:8
we have sought him, and he has given us rest When Asa heard these words, and
on every side.” So they built and prospered. the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took
14:8
Asa had an army that bore bucklers and courage, and put away the abominations out
spears, out of Judah three hundred thousand; of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and
and out of Benjamin, that bore shields and out of the cities which he had taken from the
drew bows, two hundred eighty thousand: all hill country of Ephraim; and he renewed the
these were mighty men of valor. 14:9 There came altar of the LORD, that was before the porch
out against them Zerah the Ethiopian with an of the LORD. 15:9 He gathered all Judah and
army of a million troops, and three hundred Benjamin, and those who lived with them out
chariots; and he came to Mareshah. 14:10 Then of Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of Simeon:
Asa went out to meet him, and they set the for they fell to him out of Israel in abundance,
battle in array in the valley of Zephathah at when they saw that the LORD his God was
Mareshah. 14:11 Asa cried to the LORD his God, with him. 15:10 So they gathered themselves
and said, “LORD, there is none besides you to together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the
help, between the mighty and him who has no fifteenth year of the reign of Asa. 15:11 They
strength. Help us, LORD our God; for we rely sacrificed to the LORD in that day, of the spoil
on you, and in your name are we come against which they had brought, seven hundred head
this multitude. LORD, you are our God. Don’t of cattle and seven thousand sheep. 15:12 They
let man prevail against you.” entered into the covenant to seek the LORD,
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the God of their fathers, with all their heart of your hand. 16:8 Weren’t the Ethiopians and
and with all their soul; 15:13 and that whoever the Lubim a huge army, with chariots and
would not seek the LORD, the God of Israel, horsemen exceeding many? Yet, because you
should be put to death, whether small or great, relied on the LORD, he delivered them into
whether man or woman. 15:14 They swore your hand. 16:9 For the eyes of the LORD run
to the LORD with a loud voice, and with back and forth throughout the whole earth,
shouting, and with shofarsh , and with cornets. to show himself strong in the behalf of them
15:15
All Judah rejoiced at the oath; for they whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein you
had sworn with all their heart, and sought him have done foolishly; for from henceforth you
with their whole desire; and he was found of shall have wars.”
them: and the LORD gave them rest all around. 16:10
Then Asa was angry with the seer, and
15:16
Also Maacah, the mother of Asa the king, put him in the prison; for he was in a rage with
he removed from being queen, because she had him because of this thing. Asa oppressed some
made an abominable image for an Asherah; of the people at the same time. 16:11 Behold,
and Asa cut down her image, and made dust of the acts of Asa, first and last, behold, they are
it, and burnt it at the brook Kidron. 15:17 But the written in the book of the kings of Judah and
high places were not taken away out of Israel: Israel. 16:12 In the thirty-ninth year of his reign
nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all Asa was diseased in his feet; his disease was
his days. 15:18 He brought into God’s house the exceeding great: yet in his disease he didn’t
things that his father had dedicated, and that seek the LORD, but to the physicians. 16:13 Asa
he himself had dedicated, silver, and gold, and slept with his fathers, and died in the one and
vessels. 15:19 There was no more war to the five fortieth year of his reign. 16:14 They buried
and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa. him in his own tombs, which he had dug out
16:1
In the six and thirtieth year of the reign for himself in the city of David, and laid him
of Asa, Baasha king of Israel went up against in the bed which was filled with sweet odors
Judah, and built Ramah, that he might not and various kinds of spices prepared by the
allow anyone to go out or come in to Asa king perfumers’ art: and they made a very great
of Judah. 16:2 Then Asa brought out silver and burning for him.
gold out of the treasures of the house of the 17:1
Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his place,
LORD and of the king’s house, and sent to Ben and strengthened himself against Israel. 17:2 He
Hadad king of Syria, who lived at Damascus, placed forces in all the fortified cities of Judah,
saying, 16:3 “Let there be a treaty between me and set garrisons in the land of Judah, and in
and you, as there was between my father and the cities of Ephraim, which Asa his father had
your father. Behold, I have sent you silver and taken. 17:3 The LORD was with Jehoshaphat,
gold. Go, break your treaty with Baasha king of because he walked in the first ways of his father
Israel, that he may depart from me.” David, and didn’t seek the Baals, 17:4 but sought
16:4
Ben Hadad listened to king Asa, and to the God of his father, and walked in his
sent the captains of his armies against the commandments, and not after the doings of
cities of Israel; and they struck Ijon, and Dan, Israel. 17:5 Therefore the LORD established the
and Abel Maim, and all the storage cities of kingdom in his hand; and all Judah brought
Naphtali. 16:5 It happened, when Baasha heard to Jehoshaphat tribute; and he had riches and
of it, that he left off building Ramah, and let honor in abundance. 17:6 His heart was lifted
his work cease. 16:6 Then Asa the king took up in the ways of the LORD: and furthermore
all Judah; and they carried away the stones he took away the high places and the Asherim
of Ramah, and its timber, with which Baasha out of Judah. 17:7 Also in the third year of
had built; and he built therewith Geba and his reign he sent his princes, even Ben Hail,
Mizpah. 16:7 At that time Hanani the seer came and Obadiah, and Zechariah, and Nethanel,
to Asa king of Judah, and said to him, “Because and Micaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah;
17:8
you have relied on the king of Syria, and have and with them the Levites, even Shemaiah,
not relied on the LORD your God, therefore and Nethaniah, and Zebadiah, and Asahel, and
is the army of the king of Syria escaped out Shemiramoth, and Jehonathan, and Adonijah,
h 15:14 or, trumpets
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and Tobijah, and Tobadonijah, the Levites; and battle, or shall I forbear?”
with them Elishama and Jehoram, the priests. They said, “Go up; for God will deliver it
17:9
They taught in Judah, having the scroll of into the hand of the king.”
the Torah of the LORD with them; and they 18:6
But Jehoshaphat said, “Isn’t there here
went about throughout all the cities of Judah, a prophet of the LORD besides, that we may
and taught among the people. 17:10 The fear inquire of him?”
of the LORD fell on all the kingdoms of the 18:7
The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat,
lands that were around Judah, so that they “There is yet one man by whom we may in-
made no war against Jehoshaphat. 17:11 Some quire of the LORD; but I hate him, for he never
of the Philistines brought Jehoshaphat presents, prophesies good concerning me, but always
and silver for tribute; the Arabians also brought evil. He is Micaiah the son of Imla.”
him flocks, seven thousand and seven hundred Jehoshaphat said, “Don’t let the king say
rams, and seven thousand and seven hundred so.”
male goats. 17:12 Jehoshaphat grew great ex- 18:8
Then the king of Israel called an officer,
ceedingly; and he built in Judah castles and and said, “Get Micaiah the son of Imla quickly.”
cities of store. 17:13 He had many works in 18:9
Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat
the cities of Judah; and men of war, mighty the king of Judah sat each on his throne,
men of valor, in Jerusalem. 17:14 This was the arrayed in their robes, and they were sitting
numbering of them according to their fathers’ in an open place at the entrance of the gate
houses: Of Judah, the captains of thousands: of Samaria; and all the prophets were proph-
Adnah the captain, and with him mighty men esying before them. 18:10 Zedekiah the son of
of valor three hundred thousand; 17:15 and next Chenaanah made him horns of iron, and said,
to him Jehohanan the captain, and with him “Thus says the LORD, ‘With these you shall
two hundred eighty thousand; 17:16 and next to push the Syrians, until they are consumed.’”
him Amasiah the son of Zichri, who willingly 18:11
All the prophets prophesied so, saying,
offered himself to the LORD; and with him “Go up to Ramoth Gilead, and prosper; for the
two hundred thousand mighty men of valor. LORD will deliver it into the hand of the king.”
17:17
Of Benjamin: Eliada a mighty man of valor, 18:12
The messenger who went to call Mica-
and with him two hundred thousand armed iah spoke to him, saying, “Behold, the words of
with bow and shield; 17:18 and next to him the prophets declare good to the king with one
Jehozabad and with him one hundred eighty mouth. Let your word therefore, please be like
thousand ready prepared for war. 17:19 These one of theirs, and speak good.”
were those who waited on the king, besides 18:13
Micaiah said, “As the LORD lives, what
those whom the king put in the fortified cities my God says, that will I speak.”
throughout all Judah. 18:14
When he had come to the king, the king
18:1
Now Jehoshaphat had riches and honor said to him, “Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth
in abundance; and he joined affinity with Ahab. Gilead to battle, or shall I forbear?”
18:2
After certain years he went down to Ahab He said, “Go up, and prosper. They shall be
to Samaria. Ahab killed sheep and cattle for delivered into your hand.”
him in abundance, and for the people who were 18:15
The king said to him, “How many times
with him, and moved him to go up with him to shall I adjure you that you speak to me nothing
Ramoth Gilead. 18:3 Ahab king of Israel said to but the truth in the name of the LORD?”
Jehoshaphat king of Judah, “Will you go with 18:16
He said, “I saw all Israel scattered on
me to Ramoth Gilead?” the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd.
He answered him, “I am as you are, and my The LORD said, ‘These have no master. Let
people as your people. We will be with you in them return every man to his house in peace.’”
the war.” 18:4 Jehoshaphat said to the king of 18:17
The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat,
Israel, “Please inquire first for the word of the “Didn’t I tell you that he would not prophesy
LORD.” good concerning me, but evil?”
18:5 18:18
Then the king of Israel gathered the Micaiah said, “Therefore hear the word
prophets together, four hundred men, and said of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on his
to them, “Shall we go to Ramoth Gilead to throne, and all the army of heaven standing on
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his right hand and on his left. 18:19 The LORD king of Israel between the joints of the armor.
said, ‘Who shall entice Ahab king of Israel, that Therefore he said to the driver of the chariot,
he may go up and fall at Ramoth Gilead?’ One “Turn your hand, and carry me out of the army;
spoke saying in this way, and another saying in for I am severely wounded.” 18:34 The battle
that way. 18:20 A spirit came out, stood before increased that day. However the king of Israel
the LORD, and said, ‘I will entice him.’ propped himself up in his chariot against the
“The LORD said to him, ‘How?’ Syrians until the evening; and about the time of
18:21 the going down of the sun, he died.
“He said, ‘I will go forth, and will be a
19:1
lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’ Jehoshaphat the king of Judah returned
“He said, ‘You will entice him, and will to his house in peace to Jerusalem. 19:2 Jehu
prevail also. Go forth, and do so.’ the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet
18:22
“Now therefore, behold, the LORD has him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, “Should
put a lying spirit in the mouth of these your you help the wicked, and love those who hate
prophets; and the LORD has spoken evil con- the LORD? Because of this, wrath is on you
cerning you.” from before the LORD. 19:3 Nevertheless there
18:23 are good things found in you, in that you have
Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah
came near, and struck Micaiah on the cheek, put away the Asheroth out of the land, and
and said, “Which way did the Spirit of the have set your heart to seek God.”
19:4
LORD go from me to speak to you?” Jehoshaphat lived at Jerusalem: and
18:24
Micaiah said, “Behold, you shall see on he went out again among the people from
that day, when you shall go into an inner room Beersheba to the hill country of Ephraim, and
to hide yourself.” brought them back to the LORD, the God of
18:25
The king of Israel said, “Take Micaiah, their fathers. 19:5 He set judges in the land
and carry him back to Amon the governor of throughout all the fortified cities of Judah, city
the city, and to Joash the king’s son; 18:26 and by city, 19:6 and said to the judges, “Consider
say, ‘Thus says the king, “Put this fellow in the what you do: for you don’t judge for man,
prison, and feed him with bread of affliction but for the LORD; and he is with you in the
and with water of affliction, until I return in judgment. 19:7 Now therefore let the fear of the
peace.”’” LORD be on you. Take heed and do it: for
18:27 there is no iniquity with the LORD our God,
Micaiah said, “If you return at all in
peace, the LORD has not spoken by me.” He nor respect of persons, nor taking of bribes.”
said, “Listen, you peoples, all of you!” 18:28 So 19:8
Moreover in Jerusalem Jehoshaphat ap-
the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of pointed Levites and priests, and of the heads of
Judah went up to Ramoth Gilead. 18:29 The king the fathers’ households of Israel, for the judg-
of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “I will disguise ment of the LORD, and for controversies. They
myself, and go into the battle; but you put returned to Jerusalem. 19:9 He commanded
on your robes.” So the king of Israel dis- them, saying, “Thus you shall do in the fear of
guised himself; and they went into the battle. the LORD, faithfully, and with a perfect heart.
18:30 19:10
Now the king of Syria had commanded the Whenever any controversy shall come to
captains of his chariots, saying, “Fight neither you from your brothers who dwell in their
with small nor great, except only with the king cities, between blood and blood, between law
of Israel.” and commandment, statutes and ordinances,
18:31
It happened, when the captains of the you shall warn them, that they not be guilty
chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, “It towards the LORD, and so wrath come on you
is the king of Israel!” Therefore they turned and on your brothers. Do this, and you shall
around to fight against him. But Jehoshaphat not be guilty. 19:11 Behold, Amariah the chief
cried out, and the LORD helped him; and priest is over you in all matters of the LORD;
God moved them to depart from him. 18:32 It and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the ruler of
happened, when the captains of the chariots the house of Judah, in all the king’s matters:
saw that it was not the king of Israel, that they also the Levites shall be officers before you.
turned back from pursuing him. 18:33 A certain Deal courageously, and may the LORD be with
man drew his bow at random, and struck the the good.”
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20:1
It happened after this, that the children down against them. Behold, they are coming
of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and with up by the ascent of Ziz. You shall find them
them some of the Ammonites, came against at the end of the valley, before the wilderness
Jehoshaphat to battle. 20:2 Then some came who of Jeruel. 20:17 You will not need to fight this
told Jehoshaphat, saying, “A great multitude battle. Set yourselves, stand still, and see the
is coming against you from beyond the sea salvation of the LORD with you, O Judah and
from Syria. Behold, they are in Hazazon Jerusalem. Don’t be afraid, nor be dismayed.
Tamar” (that is, En Gedi). 20:3 Jehoshaphat Go out against them tomorrow, for the LORD
was alarmed, and set himself to seek to the is with you.’”
LORD. He proclaimed a fast throughout all 20:18
Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his
Judah. 20:4 Judah gathered themselves together, face to the ground; and all Judah and the inhab-
to seek help from the LORD. They came out itants of Jerusalem fell down before the LORD,
of all the cities of Judah to seek the LORD. worshipping the LORD. 20:19 The Levites, of the
20:5
Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah children of the Kohathites and of the children
and Jerusalem, in the house of the LORD, be- of the Korahites, stood up to praise the LORD,
fore the new court; 20:6 and he said, “LORD, the the God of Israel, with an exceeding loud voice.
God of our fathers, aren’t you God in heaven? 20:20
They rose early in the morning, and went
Aren’t you ruler over all the kingdoms of the forth into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they
nations? Power and might are in your hand, so went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Listen
that no one is able to withstand you. 20:7 Didn’t to me, Judah, and you inhabitants of Jerusalem!
you, our God, drive out the inhabitants of this Believe in the LORD your God, so you shall be
land before your people Israel, and give it to the established! Believe his prophets, so you shall
seed of Abraham your friend forever? 20:8 They prosper.”
lived in it, and have built you a sanctuary 20:21
in it for your name, saying, 20:9 ‘If evil comes When he had taken counsel with the
on us—the sword, judgment, pestilence, or people, he appointed those who should sing
famine—we will stand before this house, and to the LORD, and give praise in holy array, as
before you, (for your name is in this house), they went out before the army, and say, Give
and cry to you in our affliction, and you will thanks to the LORD; for his loving kindness
hear and save.’ 20:10 Now, behold, the children endures forever. 20:22 When they began to
of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir, whom sing and to praise, the LORD set ambushers
you would not let Israel invade, when they against the children of Ammon, Moab, and
came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned Mount Seir, who had come against Judah;
aside from them, and didn’t destroy them; and they were struck. 20:23 For the children
20:11
behold, how they reward us, to come to of Ammon and Moab stood up against the
cast us out of your possession, which you have inhabitants of Mount Seir, utterly to kill and
given us to inherit. 20:12 Our God, will you not destroy them: and when they had made an end
judge them? For we have no might against this of the inhabitants of Seir, everyone helped to
great company that comes against us; neither destroy another. 20:24 When Judah came to the
know we what to do, but our eyes are on you.” place overlooking the wilderness, they looked
at the multitude; and behold, they were dead
20:13
All Judah stood before the LORD, with bodies fallen to the earth, and there were none
their little ones, their wives, and their chil- who escaped. 20:25 When Jehoshaphat and his
dren. 20:14 Then the Spirit of the LORD came people came to take their spoil, they found
on Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, the son of among them in abundance both riches and
Benaiah, the son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, dead bodies, and precious jewels, which they
the Levite, of the sons of Asaph, in the midst stripped off for themselves, more than they
of the assembly; 20:15 and he said, “Listen, all could carry away: and they were three days
Judah, and you inhabitants of Jerusalem, and in taking the spoil, it was so much. 20:26 On
you king Jehoshaphat. Thus says the LORD the fourth day they assembled themselves in
to you, ‘Don’t be afraid, neither be dismayed the valley of Beracah; for there they blessed
by reason of this great multitude; for the battle the LORD: therefore the name of that place
is not yours, but God’s. 20:16 Tomorrow go was called The valley of Beracah to this day.
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20:27 21:5
Then they returned, every man of Judah Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he
and Jerusalem, and Jehoshaphat in their fore- began to reign; and he reigned eight years in
front, to go again to Jerusalem with joy; for Jerusalem. 21:6 He walked in the way of the
the LORD had made them to rejoice over their kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab; for he
enemies. 20:28 They came to Jerusalem with had the daughter of Ahab as wife: and he did
stringed instruments and harps and shofarsi that which was evil in the sight of the LORD.
to the house of the LORD. 20:29 The fear of 21:7
However the LORD would not destroy the
God was on all the kingdoms of the countries, house of David, because of the covenant that he
when they heard that the LORD fought against had made with David, and as he promised to
the enemies of Israel. 20:30 So the realm of give a lamp to him and to his children always.
21:8
Jehoshaphat was quiet; for his God gave him In his days Edom revolted from under the
rest all around. 20:31 Jehoshaphat reigned over hand of Judah, and made a king over them-
Judah: he was thirty-five years old when he selves. 21:9 Then Jehoram passed over with his
began to reign; and he reigned twenty-five captains, and all his chariots with him: and he
years in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was rose up by night, and struck the Edomites who
Azubah the daughter of Shilhi. 20:32 He walked surrounded him, along with the captains of the
in the way of Asa his father, and didn’t turn chariots. 21:10 So Edom revolted from under
aside from it, doing that which was right in the hand of Judah to this day: then Libnah
the eyes of the LORD. 20:33 However the high revolted at the same time from under his hand,
places were not taken away; neither as yet because he had forsaken the LORD, the God
had the people set their hearts to the God of of his fathers. 21:11 Moreover he made high
their fathers. 20:34 Now the rest of the acts places in the mountains of Judah, and made the
of Jehoshaphat, first and last, behold, they inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the prostitute,
are written in the history of Jehu the son of and led Judah astray. 21:12 A letter came to
Hanani, which is inserted in the book of the him from Elijah the prophet, saying, “Thus
kings of Israel. 20:35 After this Jehoshaphat king says the LORD, the God of David your father,
of Judah joined himself with Ahaziah king of ‘Because you have not walked in the ways of
Israel. The same did very wickedly: 20:36 and Jehoshaphat your father, nor in the ways of Asa
he joined himself with him to make ships to go king of Judah, 21:13 but have walked in the way
to Tarshish; and they made the ships in Ezion of the kings of Israel, and have made Judah
Geber. 20:37 Then Eliezer the son of Dodavahu and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the
of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, prostitute, like the house of Ahab did, and also
saying, “Because you have joined yourself have slain your brothers of your father’s house,
with Ahaziah, the LORD has destroyed your who were better than yourself: 21:14 behold,
works.” The ships were broken, so that they the LORD will strike with a great plague your
were not able to go to Tarshish. people, and your children, and your wives,
21:1
Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and and all your substance; 21:15 and you shall have
was buried with his fathers in the city of great sickness by disease of your bowels, until
David: and Jehoram his son reigned in his your bowels fall out by reason of the sickness,
place. 21:2 He had brothers, the sons of Je- day by day.’”
21:16
hoshaphat: Azariah, and Jehiel, and Zechariah, The LORD stirred up against Jehoram
and Azariah, and Michael, and Shephatiah; all the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians
these were the sons of Jehoshaphat king of who are beside the Ethiopians: 21:17 and they
Israel. 21:3 Their father gave them great gifts, of came up against Judah, and broke into it,
silver, and of gold, and of precious things, with and carried away all the substance that was
fortified cities in Judah: but the kingdom gave found in the king’s house, and his sons also,
he to Jehoram, because he was the firstborn. and his wives; so that there was never a son
21:4
Now when Jehoram was risen up over the left him, except Jehoahaz, the youngest of
kingdom of his father, and had strengthened his sons. 21:18 After all this the LORD struck
himself, he killed all his brothers with the him in his bowels with an incurable disease.
21:19
sword, and various also of the princes of Israel. It happened, in process of time, at the
i 20:28 or, trumpets
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end of two years, that his bowels fell out by daughter of the king, took Joash the son of
reason of his sickness, and he died of severe Ahaziah, and stole him away from among the
diseases. His people made no burning for him, king’s sons who were slain, and put him and
like the burning of his fathers. 21:20 Thirty- his nurse in the bedroom. So Jehoshabeath, the
two years old was he when he began to reign, daughter of king Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada
and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years: and the priest (for she was the sister of Ahaziah),
he departed without being desired; and they hid him from Athaliah, so that she didn’t kill
buried him in the city of David, but not in the him. 22:12 He was with them hidden in God’s
tombs of the kings. house six years: and Athaliah reigned over the
22:1
land.
The inhabitants of Jerusalem made 23:1
Ahaziah his youngest son king in his place; for In the seventh year Jehoiada strength-
the band of men who came with the Arabians ened himself, and took the captains of hun-
to the camp had slain all the eldest. So Ahaziah dreds, Azariah the son of Jeroham, and Ishmael
the son of Jehoram king of Judah reigned. the son of Jehohanan, and Azariah the son of
22:2
Forty-two years old was Ahaziah when Obed, and Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, and
he began to reign; and he reigned one year Elishaphat the son of Zichri, into covenant
in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was with him. 23:2 They went about in Judah, and
Athaliah the daughter of Omri. 22:3 He also gathered the Levites out of all the cities of
walked in the ways of the house of Ahab; for Judah, and the heads of fathers’ households
his mother was his counselor to do wickedly. of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem. 23:3 All
22:4
He did that which was evil in the sight of the assembly made a covenant with the king
the LORD, as did the house of Ahab; for they in God’s house. He said to them, “Behold,
were his counselors after the death of his father, the king’s son shall reign, as the LORD has
to his destruction. 22:5 He walked also after spoken concerning the sons of David. 23:4 This
their counsel, and went with Jehoram the son is the thing that you shall do. A third part
of Ahab king of Israel to war against Hazael of you, who come in on the Sabbath, of the
king of Syria at Ramoth Gilead: and the Syrians priests and of the Levites, shall be porters of
wounded Joram. 22:6 He returned to be healed the thresholds. 23:5 A third part shall be at the
in Jezreel of the wounds which they had given king’s house; and a third part at the gate of
him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael the foundation. All the people shall be in the
king of Syria. Azariah the son of Jehoram king courts of the LORD’s house. 23:6 But let no one
of Judah went down to see Jehoram the son of come into the house of the LORD, except the
Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick. 22:7 Now priests, and those who minister of the Levites.
the destruction of Ahaziah was of God, in that They shall come in, for they are holy, but all the
he went to Joram: for when he had come, he people shall follow the LORD’s instructions.
23:7
went out with Jehoram against Jehu the son of The Levites shall surround the king, every
Nimshi, whom the LORD had anointed to cut man with his weapons in his hand. Whoever
off the house of Ahab. 22:8 It happened, when comes into the house, let him be slain. Be with
Jehu was executing judgment on the house of the king when he comes in, and when he goes
Ahab, that he found the princes of Judah, and out.”
23:8
the sons of the brothers of Ahaziah, ministering So the Levites and all Judah did accord-
to Ahaziah, and killed them. 22:9 He sought ing to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded:
Ahaziah, and they caught him (now he was and they took every man his men, those who
hiding in Samaria), and they brought him to were to come in on the Sabbath; with those who
Jehu, and killed him; and they buried him, were to go out on the Sabbath; for Jehoiada
for they said, “He is the son of Jehoshaphat, the priest didn’t dismiss the shift. 23:9 Jehoiada
who sought the LORD with all his heart.” The the priest delivered to the captains of hundreds
house of Ahaziah had no power to hold the the spears, and bucklers, and shields, that had
kingdom. 22:10 Now when Athaliah the mother been king David’s, which were in God’s house.
23:10
of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she He set all the people, every man with his
arose and destroyed all the royal seed of the weapon in his hand, from the right side of the
house of Judah. 22:11 But Jehoshabeath, the house to the left side of the house, along by the
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altar and the house, around the king. 23:11 Then gan to reign; and he reigned forty years in
they brought out the king’s son, and put the Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Zibiah,
crown on him, and gave him the testimony, of Beersheba. 24:2 Joash did that which was
and made him king: and Jehoiada and his sons right in the eyes of the LORD all the days
anointed him; and they said, “Long live the of Jehoiada the priest. 24:3 Jehoiada took for
king!” him two wives; and he became the father of
23:12
When Athaliah heard the noise of the sons and daughters. 24:4 It happened after this,
people running and praising the king, she came that Joash intended to restore the house of the
to the people into the house of the LORD: LORD. 24:5 He gathered together the priests and
23:13 the Levites, and said to them, “Go out to the
and she looked, and, behold, the king
stood by his pillar at the entrance, and the cap- cities of Judah, and gather money to repair the
tains and the shofarsj by the king; and all the house of your God from all Israel from year
people of the land rejoiced, and blew shofarsk ; to year. See that you expedite this matter.”
the singers also played musical instruments, However the Levites didn’t do it right away.
24:6
and led the singing of praise. Then Athaliah The king called for Jehoiada the chief, and
tore her clothes, and said, “Treason! treason!” said to him, “Why haven’t you required of
23:14 the Levites to bring in the tax of Moses the
Jehoiada the priest brought out the cap-
tains of hundreds who were set over the army, servant of the LORD, and of the assembly of
and said to them, “Bring her out between the Israel, out of Judah and out of Jerusalem, for
ranks; and whoever follows her, let him be slain the tent of the testimony?” 24:7 For the sons
with the sword.” For the priest said, “Don’t of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken
kill her in the the LORD’s house.” 23:15 So they up God’s house; and they also gave all the
made way for her. She went to the entrance dedicated things of the house of the LORD to
of the horse gate to the king’s house; and they the Baals. 24:8 So the king commanded, and
killed her there. 23:16 Jehoiada made a covenant they made a chest, and set it outside at the
between himself, and all the people, and the gate of the house of the LORD. 24:9 They made
king, that they should be the LORD’s people. a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem,
23:17 to bring in for the LORD the tax that Moses the
All the people went to the house of Baal,
and broke it down, and broke his altars and his servant of God laid on Israel in the wilderness.
24:10
images in pieces, and killed Mattan the priest of All the princes and all the people rejoiced,
Baal before the altars. 23:18 Jehoiada appointed and brought in, and cast into the chest, until
the officers of the house of the LORD under the they had made an end. 24:11 It was so, that
hand of the priests the Levites, whom David whenever the chest was brought to the king’s
had distributed in the house of the LORD, to officers by the hand of the Levites, and when
offer the burnt offerings of the LORD, as it is they saw that there was much money, the king’s
written in the Torah of Moses, with rejoicing scribe and the chief priest’s officer came and
and with singing, according to the order of emptied the chest, and took it, and carried it to
David. 23:19 He set the porters at the gates of its place again. Thus they did day by day, and
the house of the LORD, that no one who was gathered money in abundance. 24:12 The king
unclean in anything should enter in. 23:20 He and Jehoiada gave it to such as did the work
took the captains of hundreds, and the nobles, of the service of the house of the LORD; and
and the governors of the people, and all the they hired masons and carpenters to restore
people of the land, and brought down the king the house of the LORD, and also such as
from the house of the LORD: and they came worked iron and brass to repair the house of
through the upper gate to the king’s house, the LORD. 24:13 So the workmen worked, and
and set the king on the throne of the kingdom. the work of repairing went forward in their
23:21 hands, and they set up God’s house in its state,
So all the people of the land rejoiced, and
the city was quiet. Athaliah they had slain with and strengthened it. 24:14 When they had made
the sword. an end, they brought the rest of the money
24:1
Joash was seven years old when he be- before the king and Jehoiada, of which were
j 23:13 or, trumpets
k 23:13 or, trumpets
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made vessels for the house of the LORD, even the son of Shimrith the Moabitess. 24:27 Now
vessels with which to minister and to offer, concerning his sons, and the greatness of the
and spoons, and vessels of gold and silver. burdens laid on him, and the rebuilding of
They offered burnt offerings in the house of God’s house, behold, they are written in the
the LORD continually all the days of Jehoiada. commentary of the book of the kings. Amaziah
24:15
But Jehoiada grew old and was full of days, his son reigned in his place.
and he died; one hundred thirty years old was 25:1
Amaziah was twenty-five years old
he when he died. 24:16 They buried him in the when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty-
city of David among the kings, because he had nine years in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name
done good in Israel, and toward God and his was Jehoaddan, of Jerusalem. 25:2 He did that
house. 24:17 Now after the death of Jehoiada which was right in the eyes of the LORD, but
came the princes of Judah, and made obeisance not with a perfect heart. 25:3 Now it happened,
to the king. Then the king listened to them. when the kingdom was established to him, that
24:18
They forsook the house of the LORD, the he killed his servants who had killed the king
God of their fathers, and served the Asherim his father. 25:4 But he didn’t put their children
and the idols: and wrath came on Judah and to death, but did according to that which is
Jerusalem for this their guiltiness. 24:19 Yet he written in the Torah in the book of Moses, as
sent prophets to them, to bring them again to the LORD commanded, saying, “The fathers
the LORD; and they testified against them: but shall not die for the children, neither shall the
they would not give ear. 24:20 The Spirit of children die for the fathers; but every man shall
God came on Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the die for his own sin.” 25:5 Moreover Amaziah
priest; and he stood above the people, and said gathered Judah together, and ordered them ac-
to them, “Thus says God, ‘Why do you disobey cording to their fathers’ houses, under captains
the commandments of the LORD, so that you of thousands and captains of hundreds, even all
can’t prosper? Because you have forsaken the Judah and Benjamin: and he numbered them
LORD, he has also forsaken you.’” from twenty years old and upward, and found
24:21 them three hundred thousand chosen men, able
They conspired against him, and stoned
to go forth to war, who could handle spear
him with stones at the commandment of the
and shield. 25:6 He hired also one hundred
king in the court of the house of the LORD.
24:22 thousand mighty men of valor out of Israel for
Thus Joash the king didn’t remember the
one hundred talents of silver. 25:7 A man of
kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to
God came to him, saying, “O king, don’t let the
him, but killed his son. When he died, he said,
army of Israel go with you; for the LORD is not
“May the LORD look at it, and repay it.” 24:23 It
with Israel, with all the children of Ephraim.
happened at the end of the year, that the army 25:8
But if you will go, take action, be strong
of the Syrians came up against him: and they
for the battle. God will overthrow you before
came to Judah and Jerusalem, and destroyed
the enemy; for God has power to help, and to
all the princes of the people from among the
overthrow.”
people, and sent all their spoil to the king of 25:9
Damascus. 24:24 For the army of the Syrians Amaziah said to the man of God, “But
came with a small company of men; and the what shall we do for the hundred talents which
LORD delivered a very great army into their I have given to the army of Israel?”
hand, because they had forsaken the LORD, the The man of God answered, “The LORD is
God of their fathers. So they executed judg- able to give you much more than this.”
ment on Joash. 24:25 When they were departed 25:10
Then Amaziah separated them, the
for him (for they left him very sick), his own army that had come to him out of Ephraim,
servants conspired against him for the blood of to go home again: therefore their anger was
the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and killed him greatly kindled against Judah, and they re-
on his bed, and he died; and they buried him turned home in fierce anger. 25:11 Amaziah took
in the city of David, but they didn’t bury him courage, and led forth his people, and went to
in the tombs of the kings. 24:26 These are those the Valley of Salt, and struck ten thousand of
who conspired against him: Zabad the son the children of Seir. 25:12 The children of Judah
of Shimeath the Ammonitess, and Jehozabad carry away ten thousand alive, and brought
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them to the top of the rock, and threw them him to Jerusalem, and broke down the wall
down from the top of the rock, so that they of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the
all were broken in pieces. 25:13 But the men corner gate, four hundred cubits. 25:24 He took
of the army whom Amaziah sent back, that all the gold and silver, and all the vessels
they should not go with him to battle, fell on that were found in God’s house with Obed-
the cities of Judah, from Samaria even to Beth Edom, and the treasures of the king’s house,
Horon, and struck of them three thousand, and the hostages also, and returned to Samaria.
took much spoil. 25:14 Now it happened, after 25:25
Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah
that Amaziah had come from the slaughter of lived after the death of Joash son of Jehoahaz
the Edomites, that he brought the gods of the king of Israel fifteen years. 25:26 Now the rest
children of Seir, and set them up to be his of the acts of Amaziah, first and last, behold,
gods, and bowed down himself before them, aren’t they written in the book of the kings
and burned incense to them. 25:15 Therefore of Judah and Israel? 25:27 Now from the time
the anger of the LORD was kindled against that Amaziah turned away from following the
Amaziah, and he sent to him a prophet, who LORD, they made a conspiracy against him
said to him, “Why have you sought after the in Jerusalem. He fled to Lachish; but they
gods of the people, which have not delivered sent after him to Lachish, and killed him there.
25:28
their own people out of your hand?” They brought him on horses, and buried
25:16 him with his fathers in the city of Judah.
It happened, as he talked with him, that
the king said to him, “Have we made you one 26:1
All the people of Judah took Uzziah, who
of the king’s counselors? Stop! Why should
was sixteen years old, and made him king in
you be struck down?”
the place of his father Amaziah. 26:2 He built
Then the prophet stopped, and said, “I Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after that the
know that God has determined to destroy you, king slept with his fathers. 26:3 Sixteen years
because you have done this, and have not old was Uzziah when he began to reign; and
listened to my counsel.” he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem: and
25:17
Then Amaziah king of Judah consulted his mother’s name was Jechiliah, of Jerusalem.
his advisers, and sent to Joash, the son of 26:4
He did that which was right in the eyes
Jehoahaz the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, of the LORD, according to all that his father
“Come, let us look one another in the face.” Amaziah had done. 26:5 He set himself to
25:18
Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah seek God in the days of Zechariah, who had
king of Judah, saying, “The thistle that was in understanding in the vision of God: and as
Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, long as he sought the LORD, God made him
saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son as his to prosper. 26:6 He went forth and warred
wife; then a wild animal that was in Lebanon against the Philistines, and broke down the
passed by, and trampled down the thistle. wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and
25:19
You say to yourself that you have struck the wall of Ashdod; and he built cities in the
Edom; and your heart lifts you up to boast. country of Ashdod, and among the Philistines.
Now stay at home. Why should you meddle 26:7
God helped him against the Philistines, and
with trouble, that you should fall, even you, against the Arabians who lived in Gur Baal,
and Judah with you?’” and the Meunim. 26:8 The Ammonites gave
25:20
But Amaziah would not listen; for it was tribute to Uzziah: and his name spread abroad
of God, that he might deliver them into the even to the entrance of Egypt; for he grew
hand of their enemies, because they had sought exceeding strong. 26:9 Moreover Uzziah built
after the gods of Edom. 25:21 So Joash king of towers in Jerusalem at the corner gate, and at
Israel went up; and he and Amaziah king of the valley gate, and at the turning of the wall,
Judah looked one another in the face at Beth and fortified them. 26:10 He built towers in the
Shemesh, which belongs to Judah. 25:22 Judah wilderness, and dug out many cisterns, for he
was defeated by Israel; and they fled every had much livestock; in the lowland also, and
man to his tent. 25:23 Joash king of Israel took in the plain: and he had farmers and vineyard
Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash the keepers in the mountains and in the fruitful
son of Jehoahaz, at Beth Shemesh, and brought fields; for he loved farming. 26:11 Moreover
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Uzziah had an army of fighting men, who went belonged to the kings; for they said, “He is a
out to war by bands, according to the number leper.” Jotham his son reigned in his place.
of their reckoning made by Jeiel the scribe 27:1
Jotham was twenty-five years old when
and Maaseiah the officer, under the hand of he began to reign; and he reigned sixteen
Hananiah, one of the king’s captains. 26:12 The years in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name
whole number of the heads of fathers’ house- was Jerushah the daughter of Zadok. 27:2 He
holds, even the mighty men of valor, was two did that which was right in the eyes of the
thousand and six hundred. 26:13 Under their LORD, according to all that his father Uzziah
hand was an army, three hundred thousand had done: however he didn’t enter into the
and seven thousand and five hundred, who LORD’s temple. The people still did corruptly.
made war with mighty power, to help the king 27:3
He built the upper gate of the house of the
against the enemy. 26:14 Uzziah prepared for LORD, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.
them, even for all the army, shields, and spears, 27:4
Moreover he built cities in the hill country
and helmets, and coats of mail, and bows, and of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and
stones for slinging. 26:15 He made in Jerusalem towers. 27:5 He fought also with the king of
engines, invented by skillful men, to be on the children of Ammon, and prevailed against
the towers and on the battlements, with which them. The children of Ammon gave him the
to shoot arrows and great stones. His name same year one hundred talents of silver, and ten
spread far abroad; for he was marvelously thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand
helped, until he was strong. 26:16 But when he of barley. The children of Ammon gave that
was strong, his heart was lifted up, so that he much to him in the second year also, and in the
did corruptly, and he trespassed against the third. 27:6 So Jotham became mighty, because
LORD his God; for he went into the LORD’s he ordered his ways before the LORD his God.
temple to burn incense on the altar of incense. 27:7
Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all
26:17
Azariah the priest went in after him, and his wars, and his ways, behold, they are written
with him eighty priests of the LORD, who were in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.
valiant men: 26:18 and they resisted Uzziah the 27:8
He was five and twenty years old when he
king, and said to him, “It isn’t for you, Uzziah, began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in
to burn incense to the LORD, but for the priests Jerusalem. 27:9 Jotham slept with his fathers,
the sons of Aaron, who are consecrated to burn and they buried him in the city of David: and
incense. Go out of the sanctuary; for you have Ahaz his son reigned in his place.
trespassed; neither shall it be for your honor 28:1
from the LORD God.” Ahaz was twenty years old when he
began to reign; and he reigned sixteen years
26:19
Then Uzziah was angry; and he had a in Jerusalem: and he didn’t do that which was
censer in his hand to burn incense; and while right in the eyes of the LORD, like David his
he was angry with the priests, the leprosy broke father; 28:2 but he walked in the ways of the
forth in his forehead before the priests in the kings of Israel, and made also molten images
house of the LORD, beside the altar of incense. for the Baals. 28:3 Moreover he burnt incense in
26:20
Azariah the chief priest, and all the priests, the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his
looked on him, and behold, he was leprous in children in the fire, according to the abomina-
his forehead, and they thrust him out quickly tions of the nations whom the LORD cast out
from there; yes, himself hurried also to go out, before the children of Israel. 28:4 He sacrificed
because the LORD had struck him. 26:21 Uzziah and burnt incense in the high places, and on the
the king was a leper to the day of his death, hills, and under every green tree. 28:5 Therefore
and lived in a separate house, being a leper; the LORD his God delivered him into the hand
for he was cut off from the house of the LORD: of the king of Syria; and they struck him,
and Jotham his son was over the king’s house, and carried away of his a great multitude of
judging the people of the land. 26:22 Now the captives, and brought them to Damascus. He
rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and last, Isaiah was also delivered into the hand of the king of
the prophet, the son of Amoz, wrote. 26:23 So Israel, who struck him with a great slaughter.
28:6
Uzziah slept with his fathers; and they buried For Pekah the son of Remaliah killed in
him with his fathers in the field of burial which Judah one hundred twenty thousand in one
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day, all of them valiant men; because they had and Gederoth, and Soco with its towns, and
forsaken the LORD, the God of their fathers. Timnah with its towns, Gimzo also and its
28:7
Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, killed towns: and they lived there. 28:19 For the LORD
Maaseiah the king’s son, and Azrikam the ruler brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of
of the house, and Elkanah who was next to Israel; for he had dealt wantonly in Judah,
the king. 28:8 The children of Israel carried and trespassed severely against the LORD.
28:20
away captive of their brothers two hundred Tilgath Pilneser king of Assyria came to
thousand, women, sons, and daughters, and him, and distressed him, but didn’t strengthen
took also away much spoil from them, and him. 28:21 For Ahaz took away a portion out of
brought the spoil to Samaria. 28:9 But a prophet the house of the LORD, and out of the house
of the LORD was there, whose name was Oded: of the king and of the princes, and gave it to
and he went out to meet the army that came the king of Assyria: but it didn’t help him.
28:22
to Samaria, and said to them, “Behold, because In the time of his distress, he trespassed yet
the LORD, the God of your fathers, was angry more against the LORD, this same king Ahaz.
28:23
with Judah, he has delivered them into your For he sacrificed to the gods of Damascus,
hand, and you have slain them in a rage which which struck him; and he said, “Because the
has reached up to heaven. 28:10 Now you pur- gods of the kings of Syria helped them, so
pose to keep under the children of Judah and I will sacrifice to them, that they may help
Jerusalem for bondservants and bondmaids me.” But they were the ruin of him, and of all
for yourselves. Aren’t there even with you Israel. 28:24 Ahaz gathered together the vessels
trespasses of your own against the LORD your of God’s house, and cut in pieces the vessels
God? 28:11 Now hear me therefore, and send of God’s house, and shut up the doors of the
back the captives, that you have taken captive house of the LORD; and he made him altars in
from your brothers; for the fierce wrath of the every corner of Jerusalem. 28:25 In every city of
LORD is on you.” 28:12 Then some of the heads Judah he made high places to burn incense to
of the children of Ephraim, Azariah the son of other gods, and provoked to anger the LORD,
Yochanan, Berechiah the son of Meshillemoth, the God of his fathers. 28:26 Now the rest of his
and Jehizkiah the son of Shallum, and Amasa acts, and all his ways, first and last, behold,
the son of Hadlai, stood up against those who they are written in the book of the kings of
came from the war, 28:13 and said to them, “You Judah and Israel. 28:27 Ahaz slept with his
shall not bring in the captives here: for you fathers, and they buried him in the city, even
purpose that which will bring on us a trespass in Jerusalem; for they didn’t bring him into the
against the LORD, to add to our sins and to our tombs of the kings of Israel: and Hezekiah his
trespass; for our trespass is great, and there is son reigned in his place.
fierce wrath against Israel.” 29:1
Hezekiah began to reign when he was
28:14
So the armed men left the captives and twenty-five years old; and he reigned twenty-
the spoil before the princes and all the assem- nine years in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name
bly. 28:15 The men who have been mentioned was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah. 29:2 He
by name rose up, and took the captives, and did that which was right in the eyes of the
with the spoil clothed all who were naked LORD, according to all that David his father
among them, dressed them, gave them sandals, had done. 29:3 He in the first year of his reign,
and gave them something to eat and to drink, in the first month, opened the doors of the
anointed them, carried all the feeble of them house of the LORD, and repaired them. 29:4 He
on donkeys, and brought them to Jericho, the brought in the priests and the Levites, and
city of palm trees, to their brothers. Then gathered them together into the broad place
they returned to Samaria. 28:16 At that time on the east, 29:5 and said to them, “Listen to
king Ahaz sent to the kings of Assyria to help me, you Levites! Now sanctify yourselves, and
him. 28:17 For again the Edomites had come sanctify the house of the LORD, the God of
and struck Judah, and carried away captives. your fathers, and carry out the filthiness out
28:18
The Philistines also had invaded the cities of the holy place. 29:6 For our fathers have
of the lowland, and of the South of Judah, trespassed, and done that which was evil in
and had taken Beth Shemesh, and Aijalon, the sight of the LORD our God, and have
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forsaken him, and have turned away their faces its vessels. 29:19 Moreover all the vessels, which
from the habitation of the LORD, and turned king Ahaz in his reign threw away when he
their backs. 29:7 Also they have shut up the trespassed, have we prepared and sanctified;
doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and behold, they are before the altar of the
and have not burned incense nor offered burnt LORD.”
offerings in the holy place to the God of Israel. 29:20
Then Hezekiah the king arose early, and
29:8
Therefore the wrath of the LORD was on gathered the princes of the city, and went up
Judah and Jerusalem, and he has delivered to the house of the LORD. 29:21 They brought
them to be tossed back and forth, to be an seven bulls, and seven rams, and seven lambs,
astonishment, and a hissing, as you see with and seven male goats, for a sin offering for
your eyes. 29:9 For, behold, our fathers have the kingdom and for the sanctuary and for
fallen by the sword, and our sons and our Judah. He commanded the priests the sons
daughters and our wives are in captivity for of Aaron to offer them on the altar of the
this. 29:10 Now it is in my heart to make a LORD. 29:22 So they killed the bulls, and the
covenant with the LORD, the God of Israel, priests received the blood, and sprinkled it
that his fierce anger may turn away from us. on the altar: and they killed the rams, and
29:11
My sons, don’t be negligent now; for the sprinkled the blood on the altar: they killed
LORD has chosen you to stand before him, to also the lambs, and sprinkled the blood on
minister to him, and that you should be his the altar. 29:23 They brought near the male
ministers, and burn incense.” goats for the sin offering before the king and
29:12
Then the Levites arose, Mahath, the son the assembly; and they laid their hands on
of Amasai, and Joel the son of Azariah, of them: 29:24 and the priests killed them, and they
the sons of the Kohathites; and of the sons made a sin offering with their blood on the
of Merari, Kish the son of Abdi, and Azariah altar, to make atonement for all Israel; for the
the son of Jehallelel; and of the Gershonites, king commanded that the burnt offering and
Joah the son of Zimmah, and Eden the son of the sin offering should be made for all Israel.
Joah; 29:13 and of the sons of Elizaphan, Shimri 29:25
He set the Levites in the house of the LORD
and Jeuel; and of the sons of Asaph, Zechariah with cymbals, with stringed instruments, and
and Mattaniah; 29:14 and of the sons of Heman, with harps, according to the commandment
Jehuel and Shimei; and of the sons of Jeduthun, of David, and of Gad the king’s seer, and
Shemaiah and Uzziel. 29:15 They gathered their Nathan the prophet; for the commandment
brothers, and sanctified themselves, and went was of the LORD by his prophets. 29:26 The
in, according to the commandment of the king Levites stood with the instruments of David,
by the words of the LORD, to cleanse the house and the priests with the shofarsl . 29:27 Hezekiah
of the LORD. 29:16 The priests went in to the commanded to offer the burnt offering on the
inner part of the house of the LORD, to cleanse altar. When the burnt offering began, the song
it, and brought out all the uncleanness that of the LORD began also, and the shofarsm ,
they found in the LORD’s temple into the court together with the instruments of David king
of the house of the LORD. The Levites took of Israel. 29:28 All the assembly worshiped,
it, to carry it out abroad to the brook Kidron. and the singers sang, and the trumpeters
29:17
Now they began on the first day of the first sounded; all this continued until the burnt
month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the offering was finished. 29:29 When they had
month came they to the porch of the LORD; made an end of offering, the king and all who
and they sanctified the house of the LORD in were present with him bowed themselves and
eight days: and on the sixteenth day of the first worshiped. 29:30 Moreover Hezekiah the king
month they made an end. 29:18 Then they went and the princes commanded the Levites to sing
in to Hezekiah the king within the palace, and praises to the LORD with the words of David,
said, “We have cleansed all the house of the and of Asaph the seer. They sang praises
LORD, and the altar of burnt offering, with all with gladness, and they bowed their heads
its vessels, and the table of show bread, with all and worshiped. 29:31 Then Hezekiah answered,
l 29:26 or, trumpets
m 29:27 or, trumpets
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“Now you have consecrated yourselves to the the kings of Assyria. 30:7 Don’t be like your
LORD; come near and bring sacrifices and fathers, and like your brothers, who trespassed
thank offerings into the house of the LORD.” against the LORD, the God of their fathers, so
The assembly brought in sacrifices and thank that he gave them up to desolation, as you see.
30:8
offerings; and as many as were of a willing Now don’t be stiff-necked, as your fathers
heart brought burnt offerings. 29:32 The number were; but yield yourselves to the LORD, and
of the burnt offerings which the assembly enter into his sanctuary, which he has sanctified
brought was seventy bulls, one hundred rams, forever, and serve the LORD your God, that his
and two hundred lambs: all these were for fierce anger may turn away from you. 30:9 For
a burnt offering to the LORD. 29:33 The conse- if you turn again to the LORD, your brothers
crated things were six hundred head of cattle and your children shall find compassion before
and three thousand sheep. 29:34 But the priests those who led them captive, and shall come
were too few, so that they could not flay all again into this land: for the LORD your God is
the burnt offerings: therefore their brothers the gracious and merciful, and will not turn away
Levites helped them, until the work was ended, his face from you, if you return to him.”
and until the priests had sanctified themselves; 30:10
for the Levites were more upright in heart to So the couriers passed from city to city
sanctify themselves than the priests. 29:35 Also through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh,
the burnt offerings were in abundance, with even to Zebulun: but they ridiculed them,
the fat of the peace offerings, and with the and mocked them. 30:11 Nevertheless certain
drink offerings for every burnt offering. So men of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun
the service of the house of the LORD was humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem.
30:12
set in order. 29:36 Hezekiah rejoiced, and all Also on Judah came the hand of God to
the people, because of that which God had give them one heart, to do the commandment
prepared for the people: for the thing was done of the king and of the princes by the word
suddenly. of the LORD. 30:13 Many people assembled at
Jerusalem to keep the feast of unleavened bread
30:1
Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, in the second month, a very great assembly.
30:14
and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Man- They arose and took away the altars that
asseh, that they should come to the house of were in Jerusalem, and all the altars for incense
the LORD at Jerusalem, to keep the Passover took they away, and cast them into the brook
to the LORD, the God of Israel. 30:2 For the Kidron. 30:15 Then they killed the Passover
king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all on the fourteenth day of the second month:
the assembly in Jerusalem, to keep the Passover and the priests and the Levites were ashamed,
in the second month. 30:3 For they could not and sanctified themselves, and brought burnt
keep it at that time, because the priests had offerings into the house of the LORD. 30:16 They
not sanctified themselves in sufficient number, stood in their place after their order, according
neither had the people gathered themselves to the Torah of Moses the man of God: the
together to Jerusalem. 30:4 The thing was right priests sprinkled the blood which they received
in the eyes of the king and of all the assembly. of the hand of the Levites. 30:17 For there were
30:5
So they established a decree to make procla- many in the assembly who had not sancti-
mation throughout all Israel, from Beersheba fied themselves: therefore the Levites were in
even to Dan, that they should come to keep charge of killing the Passovers for everyone
the Passover to the LORD, the God of Israel, who was not clean, to sanctify them to the
at Jerusalem: for they had not kept it in great LORD. 30:18 For a multitude of the people, even
numbers in such sort as it is written. 30:6 So many of Ephraim and Manasseh, Issachar and
the couriers went with the letters from the Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet they
king and his princes throughout all Israel and ate the Passover otherwise than it is written.
Judah, and according to the commandment of For Hezekiah had prayed for them, saying,
the king, saying, “You children of Israel, turn “May the good the LORD pardon everyone
30:19
again to the LORD, the God of Abraham, Isaac, who sets his heart to seek God, the LORD,
and Israel, that he may return to the remnant the God of his fathers, even if they aren’t clean
that have escaped of you out of the hand of according to the purification of the sanctuary.”
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30:20
The LORD listened to Hezekiah, and manded the people who lived in Jerusalem to
healed the people. 30:21 The children of Israel give the portion of the priests and the Levites,
who were present at Jerusalem kept the feast of that they might give themselves to the law of
unleavened bread seven days with great glad- the LORD. 31:5 As soon as the commandment
ness; and the Levites and the priests praised came abroad, the children of Israel gave in
the LORD day by day, singing with loud abundance the first fruits of grain, new wine,
instruments to the LORD. 30:22 Hezekiah spoke and oil, and honey, and of all the increase of the
comfortably to all the Levites who had good field; and the tithe of all things brought they
understanding in the service of the LORD. So in abundantly. 31:6 The children of Israel and
they ate throughout the feast for the seven Judah, who lived in the cities of Judah, they
days, offering sacrifices of peace offerings, and also brought in the tithe of cattle and sheep,
making confession to the LORD, the God of and the tithe of dedicated things which were
their fathers. 30:23 The whole assembly took consecrated to the LORD their God, and laid
counsel to keep other seven days; and they kept them by heaps. 31:7 In the third month they
another seven days with gladness. 30:24 For began to lay the foundation of the heaps, and
Hezekiah king of Judah gave to the assembly finished them in the seventh month. 31:8 When
for offerings one thousand bulls and seven Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the
thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the heaps, they blessed the LORD, and his peo-
assembly a thousand bulls and ten thousand ple Israel. 31:9 Then Hezekiah questioned the
sheep: and a great number of priests sanctified priests and the Levites concerning the heaps.
themselves. 30:25 All the assembly of Judah, 31:10
Azariah the chief priest, of the house of
with the priests and the Levites, and all the Zadok, answered him and said, “Since people
assembly who came out of Israel, and the began to bring the offerings into the house of
foreigners who came out of Eretz-Israel, and the LORD, we have eaten and had enough,
who lived in Judah, rejoiced. 30:26 So there was and have left plenty: for the LORD has blessed
great joy in Jerusalem; for since the time of his people; and that which is left is this great
Solomon the son of David king of Israel there store.” 31:11 Then Hezekiah commanded them
was not the like in Jerusalem. 30:27 Then the to prepare rooms in the house of the LORD;
priests the Levites arose and blessed the people: and they prepared them. 31:12 They brought in
and their voice was heard, and their prayer the offerings and the tithes and the dedicated
came up to his holy habitation, even to heaven. things faithfully: and over them Conaniah the
31:1
Levite was ruler, and Shimei his brother was
Now when all this was finished, all Israel second. 31:13 Jehiel, and Azaziah, and Nahath,
who were present went out to the cities of and Asahel, and Jerimoth, and Jozabad, and
Judah, and broke in pieces the pillars, and Eliel, and Ismachiah, and Mahath, and Benaiah,
cut down the Asherim, and broke down the were overseers under the hand of Conaniah
high places and the altars out of all Judah and and Shimei his brother, by the appointment
Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until of Hezekiah the king, and Azariah the ruler
they had destroyed them all. Then all the of God’s house. 31:14 Kore the son of Imnah
children of Israel returned, every man to his the Levite, the porter at the east gate, was
possession, into their own cities. 31:2 Hezekiah over the freewill offerings of God, to distribute
appointed the divisions of the priests and the offerings of the LORD, and the most holy
the Levites after their divisions, every man things. 31:15 Under him were Eden, and Mini-
according to his service, both the priests and amin, and Yeshua, and Shemaiah, Amariah,
the Levites, for burnt offerings and for peace and Shecaniah, in the cities of the priests, in
offerings, to minister, and to give thanks, and their office of trust, to give to their brothers
to praise in the gates of the camp of the LORD. by divisions, as well to the great as to the
31:3
He appointed also the king’s portion of his small: 31:16 besides those who were reckoned
substance for the burnt offerings, for the morn- by genealogy of males, from three years old
ing and evening burnt offerings, and the burnt and upward, even everyone who entered into
offerings for the Sabbaths, and for the new the house of the LORD, as the duty of ev-
moons, and for the set feasts, as it is written in ery day required, for their service in their
the Torah of the LORD. 31:4 Moreover he com-
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offices according to their divisions; 31:17 and king of Judah. 32:9 After this, Sennacherib king
those who were reckoned by genealogy of the of Assyria sent his servants to Jerusalem, (now
priests by their fathers’ houses, and the Levites he was before Lachish, and all his power with
from twenty years old and upward, in their him), to Hezekiah king of Judah, and to all
offices by their divisions; 31:18 and those who Judah who were at Jerusalem, saying, 32:10 Thus
were reckoned by genealogy of all their little says Sennacherib king of Assyria, “In whom
ones, their wives, and their sons, and their do you trust, that you remain under siege in
daughters, through all the congregation: for in Jerusalem? 32:11 Doesn’t Hezekiah persuade
their office of trust they sanctified themselves you, to give you over to die by famine and by
in holiness. 31:19 Also for the sons of Aaron the thirst, saying, ‘The LORD our God will deliver
priests, who were in the fields of the suburbs us out of the hand of the king of Assyria?’
32:12
of their cities, in every city, there were men Hasn’t the same Hezekiah taken away his
who were mentioned by name, to give portions high places and his altars, and commanded
to all the males among the priests, and to all Judah and Jerusalem, saying, ‘You shall wor-
who were reckoned by genealogy among the ship before one altar, and on it you shall burn
Levites. 31:20 Hezekiah did so throughout all incense?’ 32:13 Don’t you know what I and
Judah; and he worked that which was good and my fathers have done to all the peoples of the
right and faithful before the LORD his God. lands? Were the gods of the nations of the
31:21
In every work that he began in the service lands in any way able to deliver their land
of God’s house, and in the law, and in the out of my hand? 32:14 Who was there among
commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all the gods of those nations which my fathers
all his heart, and prospered. utterly destroyed, that could deliver his people
32:1
After these things, and this faithfulness, out of my hand, that your God should be able
Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and entered to deliver you out of my hand? 32:15 Now
into Judah, and encamped against the fortified therefore don’t let Hezekiah deceive you, nor
cities, and thought to win them for himself. persuade you in this way, neither believe him;
32:2
When Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib had for no god of any nation or kingdom was able
come, and that he was purposed to fight against to deliver his people out of my hand, and out
Jerusalem, 32:3 he took counsel with his princes of the hand of my fathers. How much less will
and his mighty men to stop the waters of the your God deliver you out of my hand?”
springs which were outside of the city; and 32:16
His servants spoke yet more against the
they helped him. 32:4 So many people gathered LORD God, and against his servant Hezekiah.
together, and they stopped all the springs, and 32:17
He also wrote letters insulting the LORD,
the brook that flowed through the midst of the the God of Israel, and to speak against him,
land, saying, “Why should the kings of Assyria saying, “As the gods of the nations of the lands,
come, and find much water?” which have not delivered their people out of
32:5
He took courage, and built up all the my hand, so shall the God of Hezekiah not
wall that was broken down, and raised it up deliver his people out of my hand.” 32:18 They
to the towers, and the other wall outside, cried with a loud voice in the Jews’ language to
and strengthened Millo in the city of David, the people of Jerusalem who were on the wall,
and made weapons and shields in abundance. to frighten them, and to trouble them; that they
32:6
He set captains of war over the people, might take the city. 32:19 They spoke of the God
and gathered them together to him in the of Jerusalem, as of the gods of the peoples of
broad place at the gate of the city, and spoke the earth, which are the work of men’s hands.
comfortably to them, saying, 32:7 “Be strong and 32:20
Hezekiah the king, and Isaiah the prophet
courageous, don’t be afraid nor dismayed for the son of Amoz, prayed because of this, and
the king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude cried to heaven. 32:21 The LORD sent an angel,
who is with him; for there is a greater with who cut off all the mighty men of valor, and
us than with him. 32:8 With him is an arm of the leaders and captains, in the camp of the
flesh; but with us is the LORD our God to king of Assyria. So he returned with shame
help us, and to fight our battles.” The people of face to his own land. When he had come
rested themselves on the words of Hezekiah into the house of his god, those who came forth
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from his own bowels killed him there with the of the nations whom the LORD cast out before
sword. 32:22 Thus the LORD saved Hezekiah the children of Israel. 33:3 For he built again
and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand the high places which Hezekiah his father had
of Sennacherib the king of Assyria, and from broken down; and he reared up altars for the
the hand of all others, and guided them on Baals, and made Asheroth, and worshiped all
every side. 32:23 Many brought gifts to the the army of the sky, and served them. 33:4 He
LORD to Jerusalem, and precious things to built altars in the house of the LORD, of which
Hezekiah king of Judah; so that he was exalted the LORD said, “My name shall be in Jerusalem
in the sight of all nations from thenceforth. forever.” 33:5 He built altars for all the army
32:24
In those days Hezekiah was sick even to of the sky in the two courts of the house of
death: and he prayed to the LORD; and he the LORD. 33:6 He also made his children to
spoke to him, and gave him a sign. 32:25 But pass through the fire in the valley of the son
Hezekiah didn’t render again according to the of Hinnom; and he practiced sorcery, and used
benefit done to him; for his heart was lifted enchantments, and practiced sorcery, and dealt
up: therefore there was wrath on him, and with those who had familiar spirits, and with
on Judah and Jerusalem. 32:26 Notwithstanding wizards: he worked much evil in the sight of
Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his the LORD, to provoke him to anger. 33:7 He set
heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the engraved image of the idol, which he had
so that the wrath of the LORD didn’t come on made, in God’s house, of which God said to
them in the days of Hezekiah. 32:27 Hezekiah David and to Solomon his son, “In this house,
had exceeding much riches and honor: and he and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all
provided him treasuries for silver, and for gold, the tribes of Israel, will I put my name forever:
33:8
and for precious stones, and for spices, and neither will I any more remove the foot of
for shields, and for all kinds of goodly vessels; Israel from off the land which I have appointed
32:28
storehouses also for the increase of grain for your fathers, if only they will observe to do
and new wine and oil; and stalls for all kinds all that I have commanded them, even all the
of animals, and flocks in folds. 32:29 Moreover law and the statutes and the ordinances given
he provided him cities, and possessions of by Moses.” 33:9 Manasseh seduced Judah and
flocks and herds in abundance; for God had the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that they did
given him very much substance. 32:30 This more evil than the nations whom the LORD
same Hezekiah also stopped the upper spring destroyed before the children of Israel did.
33:10
of the waters of Gihon, and brought them The LORD spoke to Manasseh, and to his
straight down on the west side of the city of people; but they gave no heed. 33:11 Therefore
David. Hezekiah prospered in all his works. the LORD brought on them the captains of the
32:31
However concerning the ambassadors of army of the king of Assyria, who took Man-
the princes of Babylon, who sent to him to asseh in chains, and bound him with fetters,
inquire of the wonder that was done in the and carried him to Babylon. 33:12 When he was
land, God left him, to try him, that he might in distress, he begged the LORD his God, and
know all that was in his heart. 32:32 Now the humbled himself greatly before the God of his
rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his good deeds, fathers. 33:13 He prayed to him; and he was
behold, they are written in the vision of Isaiah entreated by him, and heard his supplication,
the prophet the son of Amoz, in the book of the and brought him again to Jerusalem into his
kings of Judah and Israel. 32:33 Hezekiah slept kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD
with his fathers, and they buried him in the was God. 33:14 Now after this he built an outer
ascent of the tombs of the sons of David: and all wall to the city of David, on the west side
Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entrance
honor at his death. Manasseh his son reigned at the fish gate; and he encircled Ophel with
in his place. it, and raised it up to a very great height:
33:1
and he put valiant captains in all the fortified
Manasseh was twelve years old when he cities of Judah. 33:15 He took away the foreign
began to reign; and he reigned fifty-five years gods, and the idol out of the house of the
in Jerusalem. 33:2 He did that which was evil in LORD, and all the altars that he had built in
the sight of the LORD, after the abominations
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the mountain of the house of the LORD, and in pieces, and made dust of them, and strewed
Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city. 33:16 He it on the graves of those who had sacrificed to
built up the altar of the LORD, and offered them. 34:5 He burnt the bones of the priests on
thereon sacrifices of peace offerings and of their altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem.
34:6
thanksgiving, and commanded Judah to serve He did this in the cities of Manasseh and
the LORD, the God of Israel. 33:17 Nevertheless Ephraim and Simeon, even to Naphtali, around
the people sacrificed still in the high places, but in their ruins. 34:7 He broke down the altars,
only to the LORD their God. 33:18 Now the rest and beat the Asherim and the engraved images
of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer to his into powder, and cut down all the incense
God, and the words of the seers who spoke to altars throughout all Eretz-Israel, and returned
him in the name of the LORD, the God of Israel, to Jerusalem. 34:8 Now in the eighteenth year
behold, they are written among the acts of the of his reign, when he had purged the land and
kings of Israel. 33:19 His prayer also, and how the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah,
God was entreated of him, and all his sin and and Maaseiah the governor of the city, and
his trespass, and the places in which he built Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder, to repair
high places, and set up the Asherim and the the house of the LORD his God. 34:9 They
engraved images, before he humbled himself: came to Hilkiah the high priest, and delivered
behold, they are written in the history of Hozai. the money that was brought into God’s house,
33:20
So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and which the Levites, the keepers of the threshold,
they buried him in his own house: and Amon had gathered of the hand of Manasseh and
his son reigned in his place. 33:21 Amon was Ephraim, and of all the remnant of Israel, and of
twenty-two years old when he began to reign; all Judah and Benjamin, and of the inhabitants
and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. 33:22 He of Jerusalem. 34:10 They delivered it into the
did that which was evil in the sight of the hand of the workmen who had the oversight
LORD, as did Manasseh his father; and Amon of the house of the LORD; and the workmen
sacrificed to all the engraved images which who labored in the house of the LORD gave
Manasseh his father had made, and served it to mend and repair the house; 34:11 even to
them. 33:23 He didn’t humble himself before the the carpenters and to the builders gave they
LORD, as Manasseh his father had humbled it, to buy cut stone, and timber for couplings,
himself; but this same Amon trespassed more and to make beams for the houses which the
and more. 33:24 His servants conspired against kings of Judah had destroyed. 34:12 The men did
him, and put him to death in his own house. the work faithfully: and their overseers were
33:25
But the people of the land killed all those Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of
who had conspired against king Amon; and the Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the
people of the land made Josiah his son king in sons of the Kohathites, to set it forward; and
his place. others of the Levites, all who were skillful with
34:1
instruments of music. 34:13 Also they were over
Josiah was eight years old when he be- the bearers of burdens, and set forward all who
gan to reign; and he reigned thirty-one years in did the work in every kind of service: and of
Jerusalem. 34:2 He did that which was right in the Levites there were scribes, and officers, and
the eyes of the LORD, and walked in the ways porters. 34:14 When they brought out the money
of David his father, and didn’t turn aside to the that was brought into the house of the LORD,
right hand or to the left. 34:3 For in the eighth Hilkiah the priest found the scroll of the Torah
year of his reign, while he was yet young, he of the LORD given by Moses. 34:15 Hilkiah
began to seek after the God of David his father; answered Shaphan the scribe, “I have found the
and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah scroll of the Torah in the house of the LORD.”
and Jerusalem from the high places, and the Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan.
Asherim, and the engraved images, and the
molten images. 34:4 They broke down the altars 34:16
Shaphan carried the book to the king,
of the Baals in his presence; and the incense and moreover brought back word to the king,
altars that were on high above them he cut saying, “All that was committed to your ser-
down; and the Asherim, and the engraved vants, they are doing. 34:17 They have emptied
images, and the molten images, he broke in out the money that was found in the house
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of the LORD, and have delivered it into the all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem. 34:30 The
hand of the overseers, and into the hand of king went up to the house of the LORD, and
the workmen.” 34:18 Shaphan the scribe told the all the men of Judah and the inhabitants of
king, saying, “Hilkiah the priest has delivered Jerusalem, and the priests, and the Levites,
me a book.” Shaphan read therein before the and all the people, both great and small: and
king. he read in their ears all the words of the
34:19
It happened, when the king had heard book of the covenant that was found in the
the words of the law, that he tore his house of the LORD. 34:31 The king stood in
clothes. 34:20 The king commanded Hilkiah, his place, and made a covenant before the
and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Abdon LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep
the son of Micah, and Shaphan the scribe, his commandments, and his testimonies, and
and Asaiah the king’s servant, saying, 34:21 “Go his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his
inquire of the LORD for me, and for those soul, to perform the words of the covenant that
who are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning were written in this book. 34:32 He caused all
the words of the book that is found; for great who were found in Jerusalem and Benjamin
is the wrath of the LORD that is poured out to stand. The inhabitants of Jerusalem did
on us, because our fathers have not kept the according to the covenant of God, the God
word of the LORD, to do according to all that of their fathers. 34:33 Josiah took away all
is written in this book.” 34:22 So Hilkiah, and the abominations out of all the countries that
they whom the king had commanded, went to pertained to the children of Israel, and made all
Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the who were found in Israel to serve, even to serve
son of Tokhath, the son of Hasrah, keeper of the LORD their God. All his days they didn’t
the wardrobe; (now she lived in Jerusalem in depart from following the LORD, the God of
the second quarter;) and they spoke to her to their fathers.
that effect. 34:23 She said to them, “Thus says 35:1
Josiah kept a Passover to the LORD in
the LORD, the God of Israel: ‘Tell the man Jerusalem: and they killed the Passover on the
who sent you to me, 34:24 “Thus says the LORD, fourteenth day of the first month. 35:2 He set the
‘Behold, I will bring evil on this place, and priests in their offices, and encouraged them to
on its inhabitants, even all the curses that are the service of the house of the LORD. 35:3 He
written in the book which they have read before said to the Levites who taught all Israel, who
the king of Judah. 34:25 Because they have were holy to the LORD, “Put the holy ark in the
forsaken me, and have burned incense to other house which Solomon the son of David king of
gods, that they might provoke me to anger with Israel built. There shall no more be a burden
all the works of their hands; therefore is my on your shoulders. Now serve the LORD
wrath poured out on this place, and it shall not your God, and his people Israel. 35:4 Prepare
be quenched.’”’ 34:26 But to the king of Judah, yourselves after your fathers’ houses by your
who sent you to inquire of the LORD, thus divisions, according to the writing of David
you shall tell him, ‘Thus says the LORD, the king of Israel, and according to the writing of
God of Israel: “As touching the words which Solomon his son. 35:5 Stand in the holy place
you have heard, 34:27 because your heart was according to the divisions of the fathers’ houses
tender, and you humbled yourself before God, of your brothers the children of the people,
when you heard his words against this place, and let there be for each a portion of a fathers’
and against its inhabitants, and have humbled house of the Levites. 35:6 Kill the Passover,
yourself before me, and have torn your clothes, and sanctify yourselves, and prepare for your
and wept before me; I also have heard you,” brothers, to do according to the word of the
says the LORD. 34:28 “Behold, I will gather you LORD by Moses.”
to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to 35:7
Josiah gave to the children of the people,
your grave in peace, neither shall your eyes see of the flock, lambs and young goats, all of
all the evil that I will bring on this place, and on them for the Passover offerings, to all who were
its inhabitants.”’” present, to the number of thirty thousand, and
They brought back word to the king. three thousand bulls: these were of the king’s
34:29
Then the king sent and gathered together substance. 35:8 His princes gave for a freewill
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offering to the people, to the priests, and to Passover kept. 35:20 After all this, when Josiah
the Levites. Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, had prepared the temple, Neco king of Egypt
the rulers of God’s house, gave to the priests went up to fight against Carchemish by the
for the Passover offerings two thousand and Euphrates: and Josiah went out against him.
35:21
six hundred small livestock, and three hundred But he sent ambassadors to him, saying,
head of cattle. 35:9 Conaniah also, and Shemaiah “What have I to do with you, you king of
and Nethanel, his brothers, and Hashabiah and Judah? I come not against you this day, but
Jeiel and Jozabad, the chiefs of the Levites, against the house with which I have war. God
gave to the Levites for the Passover offerings has commanded me to make haste. Beware that
five thousand small livestock, and five hundred it is God who is with me, that he not destroy
head of cattle. 35:10 So the service was prepared, you.”
and the priests stood in their place, and the 35:22
Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his
Levites by their divisions, according to the face from him, but disguised himself, that he
king’s commandment. 35:11 They killed the might fight with him, and didn’t listen to the
Passover, and the priests sprinkled the blood words of Neco from the mouth of God, and
which they received of their hand, and the came to fight in the valley of Megiddo. 35:23 The
Levites flayed them. 35:12 They removed the archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said
burnt offerings, that they might give them to his servants, “Take me away, because I am
according to the divisions of the fathers’ houses seriously wounded!”
of the children of the people, to offer to the 35:24
So his servants took him out of the
LORD, as it is written in the book of Moses. So
chariot, and put him in the second chariot that
they did with the cattle. 35:13 They roasted the
he had, and brought him to Jerusalem; and
Passover with fire according to the ordinance:
he died, and was buried in the tombs of his
and the holy offerings boiled they in pots,
fathers. All Judah and Jerusalem mourned for
and in caldrons, and in pans, and carried
Josiah. 35:25 Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and
them quickly to all the children of the people.
35:14 all the singing men and singing women spoke
Afterward they prepared for themselves,
of Josiah in their lamentations to this day; and
and for the priests, because the priests the sons
they made them an ordinance in Israel: and
of Aaron were busy with offering the burnt
behold, they are written in the lamentations.
offerings and the fat until night: therefore the 35:26
Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his
Levites prepared for themselves, and for the
good deeds, according to that which is written
priests the sons of Aaron. 35:15 The singers the
in the Torah of the LORD, 35:27 and his acts, first
sons of Asaph were in their place, according
and last, behold, they are written in the book of
to the commandment of David, and Asaph,
the kings of Israel and Judah.
and Heman, and Jeduthun the king’s seer; and 36:1
the porters were at every gate: they didn’t Then the people of the land took Jehoa-
need to depart from their service; for their haz the son of Josiah, and made him king
brothers the Levites prepared for them. 35:16 So in his father’s place in Jerusalem. 36:2 Joahaz
all the service of the LORD was prepared was twenty-three years old when he began
the same day, to keep the Passover, and to to reign; and he reigned three months in
offer burnt offerings on the altar of the LORD, Jerusalem. 36:3 The king of Egypt deposed
according to the commandment of king Josiah. him at Jerusalem, and fined the land one
35:17
The children of Israel who were present hundred talents of silver and a talent of
kept the Passover at that time, and the feast of gold. 36:4 The king of Egypt made Eliakim his
unleavened bread seven days. 35:18 There was brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and
no Passover like that kept in Israel from the changed his name to Jehoiakim. Neco took
days of Samuel the prophet; neither did any Joahaz his brother, and carried him to Egypt.
36:5
of the kings of Israel keep such a Passover as Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when
Josiah kept, and the priests, and the Levites, he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years
and all Judah and Israel who were present, in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in
and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 35:19 In the the sight of the LORD his God. 36:6 Against him
eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was this came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and
bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.
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36:7
Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels were servants to him and his sons until the
of the house of the LORD to Babylon, and put reign of the kingdom of Persia: 36:21 to fulfill the
them in his temple at Babylon. 36:8 Now the rest word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah,
of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his abominations until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths. As
which he did, and that which was found in long as it lay desolate it kept Sabbath, to fulfill
him, behold, they are written in the book of seventy years. 36:22 Now in the first year of
the kings of Israel and Judah: and Jehoiachin Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the
his son reigned in his place. 36:9 Jehoiachin LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be
was eight years old when he began to reign; accomplished, the LORD stirred up the spirit
and he reigned three months and ten days in of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a
Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and
the sight of the LORD. 36:10 At the return of the put it also in writing, saying, 36:23 “Thus says
year king Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought Cyrus king of Persia, ‘The LORD, the God of
him to Babylon, with the goodly vessels of heaven, has given all the kingdoms of the earth
the house of the LORD, and made Zedekiah to me; and he has commanded me to build
his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem. him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah.
36:11
Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when Whoever there is among you of all his people,
he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years the LORD his God be with him, and let him go
in Jerusalem: 36:12 and he did that which was up.’”
evil in the sight of the LORD his God; he didn’t
humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet
speaking from the mouth of the LORD. 36:13 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 the LORD, the God of Israel.
36:14
Moreover all the chiefs of the priests, and
the people, trespassed very greatly after all the
abominations of the nations; and they polluted
the house of the LORD which he had made
holy in Jerusalem. 36:15 The LORD, 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: 36:16 but they mocked the messengers of
God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his
prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose
against his people, until there was no remedy.
36:17
Therefore he brought on them the king of
the Kasdim, 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. 36:18 All the vessels of God’s house,
great and small, and the treasures of the house
of the LORD, and the treasures of the king, and
of his princes, all these he brought to Babylon.
36:19
They burnt God’s house, and broke down
the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all its palaces
with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels
of it. 36:20 He carried those who had escaped
from the sword away to Babylon; and they
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The Good News generations; and from the carrying away to


According to Matthew Babylon to the Messiah, fourteen generations.
1:18
Now the birth of Yeshua the Messiah was
1:1
like this; for after his mother, Miriam, was
A record of the genealogy of Yeshua the engaged to Joseph, before they came together,
Messiaha , the son of David, the son of Abra- she was found pregnant by the Holy Spirit.
ham. 1:2 Abraham became the father of Isaac. 1:19
Joseph, her husband, being a righteous
Isaac became the father of Jacob. Jacob became man, and not willing to make her a public
the father of Judah and his brothers. 1:3 Judah example, intended to put her away secretly.
became the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar. 1:20
But when he thought about these things,
Perez became the father of Hezron. Hezron behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him
became the father of Ram. 1:4 Ram became the in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, don’t
father of Amminadab. Amminadab became the be afraid to take to yourself Miriam, your wife,
father of Nahshon. Nahshon became the father for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy
of Salmon. 1:5 Salmon became the father of Boaz Spirit. 1:21 She shall bring forth a son. You shall
by Rahab. Boaz became the father of Obed by call his name Yeshua, for it is he who shall save
Ruth. Obed became the father of Jesse. 1:6 Jesse his people from their sins.”
became the father of King David. David 1:22
Now all this has happened, that it might
became the father of Solomon by her who had be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord
been the wife of Uriah. 1:7 Solomon became the through the prophet, saying,
father of Rehoboam. Rehoboam became the 1:23
“Behold, the virgin shall be with child,
father of Abijah. Abijah became the father of
and shall bring forth a son.
Asa. 1:8 Asa became the father of Jehoshaphat.
They shall call his name Immanuel”;
Jehoshaphat became the father of Joram. Joram
became the father of Uzziah. 1:9 Uzziah became which is, being interpreted, “God with
the father of Jotham. Jotham became the father us.”c
1:24
of Ahaz. Ahaz became the father of Hezekiah. Joseph arose from his sleep, and did as
1:10
Hezekiah became the father of Manasseh. the angel of the Lord commanded him, and
Manasseh became the father of Amon. Amon took his wife to himself; 1:25 and didn’t know
became the father of Josiah. 1:11 Josiah became her sexually until she had brought forth her
the father of Jechoniah and his brothers, at firstborn son. He named him Yeshua.
2:1
the time of the exile to Babylon. 1:12 After Now when Yeshua was born in Beth-
the exile to Babylon, Jechoniah became the lehem of Judea in the days of King Herod,
father of Shealtiel. Shealtiel became the father behold, wise mend from the east came to
of Zerubbabel. 1:13 Zerubbabel became the Jerusalem, saying, 2:2 “Where is he who is born
father of Abiud. Abiud became the father of King of the Jews? For we saw his star in the
Eliakim. Eliakim became the father of Azor. east, and have come to worship him.” 2:3 When
1:14 King Herod heard it, he was troubled, and all
Azor became the father of Zadok. Zadok
became the father of Achim. Achim became the Jerusalem with him. 2:4 Gathering together all
father of Eliud. 1:15 Eliud became the father of the chief priests and scribes of the people, he
Eleazar. Eleazar became the father of Matthan. asked them where the Messiah would be born.
2:5
Matthan became the father of Jacob. 1:16 Jacob They said to him, “In Bethlehem of Judea, for
became the father of Joseph, the husband of this is written through the prophet,
2:6
Miriam, from whom was born Yeshuab , who is ‘You Bethlehem, land of Judah,
called Messiah. 1:17 So all the generations from are in no way least among the princes of
Abraham to David are fourteen generations; Judah:
from David to the exile to Babylon fourteen for out of you shall come forth a governor,
a 1:1 Messiah (Hebrew) and Christ (Greek) both mean “Anointed One”
b 1:16 “Yeshua” means “Salvation.”
c 1:23 Isaiah 7:14
d 2:1 The word for “wise men” (magoi) can also mean teachers, scientists, physicians, astrologers, seers,

interpreters of dreams, or sorcerers.


e 2:6 Micah 5:2
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2:19
who shall shepherd my people, Israel.’”e But when Herod was dead, behold, an
2:7
Then Herod secretly called the wise men, angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph
and learned from them exactly what time the in Egypt, saying, 2:20 “Arise and take the young
star appeared. 2:8 He sent them to Bethlehem, child and his mother, and go into Eretz-Israel,
and said, “Go and search diligently for the for those who sought the young child’s life are
young child. When you have found him, bring dead.”
2:21
me word, so that I also may come and worship He arose and took the young child and
him.” his mother, and came into Eretz-Israel. 2:22 But
2:9
They, having heard the king, went their when he heard that Archelaus was reigning
way; and behold, the star, which they saw over Judea in the place of his father, Herod,
in the east, went before them, until it came he was afraid to go there. Being warned
and stood over where the young child was. in a dream, he withdrew into the region of
2:10
When they saw the star, they rejoiced Galilee, 2:23 and came and lived in a city called
with exceedingly great joy. 2:11 They came Nazareth; that it might be fulfilled which was
into the house and saw the young child with spoken through the prophets: “He will be
Miriam, his mother, and they fell down and called a Nazarene.”
3:1
worshiped him. Opening their treasures, they In those days, Yochanan the Immerser
offered to him gifts: gold, frankincense, and came, proclaiming in the wilderness of Judea,
myrrh. 2:12 Being warned in a dream that they saying, 3:2 “Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven
shouldn’t return to Herod, they went back to is at hand!” 3:3 For this is he who was spoken of
their own country another way. by Isaiah the prophet, saying,
2:13
Now when they had departed, behold, “The voice of one crying in the wilderness,
an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a make ready the way of the Lord.
dream, saying, “Arise and take the young child Make his paths straight.”h
and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and stay 3:4
Now Yochanan himself wore clothing
there until I tell you, for Herod will seek the made of camel’s hair, with a leather belt around
young child to destroy him.” his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.
2:14 3:5
He arose and took the young child and Then people from Jerusalem, all of Judea,
his mother by night, and departed into Egypt, and all the region around the Jordan went out
2:15
and was there until the death of Herod; to him. 3:6 They were immersed by him in
that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Jordan, confessing their sins. 3:7 But when
the Lord through the prophet, saying, “Out of he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees
Egypt I called my son.”f coming for his immersion he said to them,
2:16
Then Herod, when he saw that he was “You offspring of vipers, who warned you to
mocked by the wise men, was exceedingly flee from the wrath to come? 3:8 Therefore
angry, and sent out, and killed all the male bring forth fruit worthy of repentance! 3:9 Don’t
children who were in Bethlehem and in all the think to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our
surrounding countryside, from two years old father,’ for I tell you that God is able to raise up
and under, according to the exact time which children to Abraham from these stones.
he had learned from the wise men. 2:17 Then 3:10
“Even now the axe lies at the root of the
that which was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet trees. Therefore every tree that doesn’t bring
was fulfilled, saying, forth good fruit is cut down, and cast into
2:18
“A voice was heard in Ramah, the fire. 3:11 I indeed immerse you in water
lamentation, weeping and great mourn- for repentance, but he who comes after me is
ing, mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to
Rachel weeping for her children; carry. He will immerse you in the Holy Spirit.i
3:12
she wouldn’t be comforted, His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he
because they are no more.”g will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He
f 2:15Hosea 11:1
g 2:18 Jeremiah 31:15
h 3:3 Isaiah 40:3
i 3:11 TR and NU add “and with fire”
Matthew 3:13 787 Matthew 4:25

will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff worship the Lord your God, and you shall
he will burn up with unquenchable fire.” serve him only.’”n
3:13 4:11
Then Yeshua came from Galilee to the Then the devil left him, and behold,
Jordan to Yochanan, to be immersed by him. angels came and served him. 4:12 Now when
3:14
But Yochanan would have hindered him, Yeshua heard that Yochanan was delivered
saying, “I need to be immersed by you, and you up, he withdrew into Galilee. 4:13 Leaving
come to me?” Nazareth, he came and lived in Capernaum,
3:15 which is by the sea, in the region of Zebulun
But Yeshua, answering, said to him,
“Allow it now, for this is the fitting way for us and Naphtali, 4:14 that it might be fulfilled
to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he allowed which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet,
him. 3:16 Yeshua, when he was immersed, went saying,
4:15
up directly from the water: and behold, the “The land of Zebulun and the land of
heavens were opened to him. He saw the Spirit Naphtali,
of God descending as a dove, and coming on toward the sea, beyond the Jordan,
him. 3:17 Behold, a voice out of the heavens Galilee of the Gentiles,
said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am 4:16
the people who sat in darkness saw a great
well pleased.” light,
4:1
Then Yeshua was led up by the Spirit to those who sat in the region and shadow
into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. of death,
4:2
When he had fasted forty days and forty to them light has dawned.”o
4:3
nights, he was hungry afterward. The 4:17
From that time, Yeshua began to pro-
tempter came and said to him, “If you are the claim, and to say, “Repent! For the Kingdom
Son of God, command that these stones become of Heaven is at hand.”
bread.” 4:18
4:4 Walking by the sea of Galilee, hep saw
But he answered, “It is written, ‘Man two brothers: Simon, who is called Peter, and
shall not live by bread alone, but by ev- Andrew, his brother, casting a net into the sea;
ery word that proceeds out of the mouth of for they were fishermen. 4:19 He said to them,
God.’”j “Come after me, and I will make you fishers
4:5
Then the devil took him into the holy city. for men.”
He set him on the pinnacle of the temple, 4:6 and 4:20
They immediately left their nets and
said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw followed him. 4:21 Going on from there, he saw
yourself down, for it is written, ‘He will put his two other brothers, Jacob the son of Zebedee,
angels in charge of you.’ and, and Yochanan his brother, in the boat with
‘On their hands they will bear you up, Zebedee their father, mending their nets. He
so that you don’t dash your foot against a called them. 4:22 They immediately left the boat
stone.’”k and their father, and followed him.
4:7 4:23
Yeshua said to him, “Again, it is written, Yeshua went about in all Galilee, teach-
‘You shall not test the Lord, your God.’”l ing in their synagogues, proclaiming the Good
4:8
Again, the devil took him to an exceed- News of the Kingdom, and healing every
ingly high mountain, and showed him all the disease and every sickness among the people.
kingdoms of the world, and their glory. 4:9 He 4:24
The report about him went out into all Syria.
said to him, “I will give you all of these things, They brought to him all who were sick, afflicted
if you will fall down and worship me.” with various diseases and torments, possessed
4:10
Then Yeshua said to him, “Get behind with demons, epileptics, and paralytics; and
me,m Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall he healed them. 4:25 Great multitudes from
j 4:4 Deuteronomy 8:3
k 4:6 Psalm 91:11-12
l 4:7 Deuteronomy 6:16
m 4:10 TR and NU read “Go away” instead of “Get behind me”
n 4:10 Deuteronomy 6:13
o 4:16 Isaiah 9:1-2
p 4:18 TR reads “Yeshua” instead of “he”
Matthew 5:1 788 Matthew 5:26

Galilee, Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea and from may see your good works, and glorify your
beyond the Jordan followed him. Father who is in heaven.
5:1 5:17
Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto “Don’t think that I came to destroy
the mountain. When he had sat down, his the Torah or the Prophets. I didn’t come to
disciples came to him. 5:2 He opened his mouth destroy, but to fulfill. 5:18 For most certainly,
and taught them, saying, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away,
5:3
“Blessed are the poor in spirit, not even one smallest lettert or one tiny pen
for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.q strokeu shall in any way pass away from
5:4 the Torah, until all things are accomplished.
Blessed are those who mourn,
5:19
for they shall be comforted.r Whoever, therefore, shall break one of
5:5
Blessed are the gentle, these least commandments, and teach others
for they shall inherit the earth.s to do so, shall be called least in the Kingdom
5:6 of Heaven; but whoever shall do and teach
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst
them shall be called great in the Kingdom of
after righteousness,
Heaven. 5:20 For I tell you that unless your
for they shall be filled.
5:7
righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and
Blessed are the merciful, Pharisees, there is no way you will enter into
for they shall obtain mercy. the Kingdom of Heaven.
5:8
Blessed are the pure in heart, 5:21
“You have heard that it was said to the
for they shall see God. ancient ones, ‘You shall not murder;’v and
5:9
Blessed are the peacemakers, ‘Whoever shall murder shall be in danger of
for they shall be called children of God. the judgment.’ 5:22 But I tell you, that every-
5:10
Blessed are those who have been perse- one who is angry with his brother without a
cuted for righteousness’ sake, causew shall be in danger of the judgment;
for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven. and whoever shall say to his brother, ‘You
5:11
“Blessed are you when people reproach good-for-nothingx!’ shall be in danger of the
you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil council; and whoever shall say, ‘You fool!’
against you falsely, for my sake. 5:12 Rejoice, shall be in danger of the fire of Gehinnom.y
and be exceedingly glad, for great is your 5:23
“If therefore you are offering your gift
reward in heaven. For that is how they at the altar, and there remember that your
persecuted the prophets who were before you. brother has anything against you, 5:24 leave
5:13
“You are the salt of the earth, but if your gift there before the altar, and go your
the salt has lost its flavor, with what will way. First be reconciled to your brother, and
it be salted? It is then good for nothing, then come and offer your gift. 5:25 Agree with
but to be cast out and trodden under the your adversary quickly, while you are with
feet of men. 5:14 You are the light of the him in the way; lest perhaps the prosecutor
world. A city located on a hill can’t be hidden. deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver
5:15
Neither do you light a lamp, and put it you to the officer, and you be cast into prison.
5:26
under a measuring basket, but on a stand; and Most certainly I tell you, you shall by no
it shines to all who are in the house. 5:16 Even means get out of there, until you have paid the
so, let your light shine before men; that they last penny.z
q 5:3 Isaiah 57:15; 66:2
r 5:4 Isaiah 61:2; 66:10,13
s 5:5 or, land. Psalm 37:11
t 5:18 literally, iota
u 5:18 or, serif
v 5:21 Exodus 20:13
w 5:22 NU omits “without a cause”.
x 5:22 “You good-for-nothing” is an Aramaic insult, related to the word for “empty” and conveying the

idea of empty-headedness.
y 5:22 or, Hell
z 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.


Matthew 5:27 789 Matthew 6:8

5:27 5:43
“You have heard that it was said, a ‘You “You have heard that it was said, ‘You
shall not commit adultery;’b 5:28 but I tell you shall love your neighbor,g and hate your
that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust enemy.h ’ 5:44 But I tell you, love your enemies,
after her has committed adultery with her bless those who curse you, do good to those
already in his heart. 5:29 If your right eye who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat
causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw you and persecute you, 5:45 that you may be
it away from you. For it is more profitable children of your Father who is in heaven.
for you that one of your members should For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and
perish, than for your whole body to be cast the good, and sends rain on the just and the
into Gehinnom.c 5:30 If your right hand causes unjust. 5:46 For if you love those who love
you to stumble, cut it off, and throw it away you, what reward do you have? Don’t even
from you. For it is more profitable for you that the tax collectors do the same? 5:47 If you only
one of your members should perish, than for greet your friends, what more do you do than
your whole body to be cast into Gehinnom.d others? Don’t even the tax collectorsi do the
5:31
“It was also said, ‘Whoever shall put same? 5:48 Therefore you shall be perfect, just
away his wife, let him give her a writing as your Father in heaven is perfect.
of divorce,’e 5:32 but I tell you that whoever 6:1
“Be careful that you don’t do your char-
puts away his wife, except for the cause of itable giving before men, to be seen by them,
sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; or else you have no reward from your Father
and whoever marries her when she is put who is in heaven. 6:2 Therefore when you
away commits adultery. do merciful deeds, don’t sound a shofarj
5:33
“Again you have heard that it was said before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the
to them of old time, ‘You shall not make synagogues and in the streets, that they may
false vows, but shall perform to the Lord your get glory from men. Most certainly I tell you,
vows,’ 5:34 but I tell you, don’t swear at all: they have received their reward. 6:3 But when
neither by heaven, for it is the throne of God; you do merciful deeds, don’t let your left hand
5:35
nor by the earth, for it is the footstool of know what your right hand does, 6:4 so that
his feet; nor by Jerusalem, for it is the city of your merciful deeds may be in secret, then
the great King. 5:36 Neither shall you swear your Father who sees in secret will reward you
by your head, for you can’t make one hair openly.
white or black. 5:37 But let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes’ 6:5
“When you pray, you shall not be as the
and your ‘No’ be ‘No.’ Whatever is more than hypocrites, for they love to stand and pray
these is of the evil one. in the synagogues and in the corners of the
5:38
“You have heard that it was said, ‘An streets, that they may be seen by men. Most
eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.’f 5:39 But certainly, I tell you, they have received their
I tell you, don’t resist him who is evil; but reward. 6:6 But you, when you pray, enter
whoever strikes you on your right cheek, turn into your inner room, and having shut your
to him the other also. 5:40 If anyone sues you to door, pray to your Father who is in secret, and
take away your coat, let him have your cloak your Father who sees in secret will reward
also. 5:41 Whoever compels you to go one mile, you openly. 6:7 In praying, don’t use vain
go with him two. 5:42 Give to him who asks repetitions, as the Gentiles do; for they think
you, and don’t turn away him who desires to that they will be heard for their much speak-
borrow from you. ing. 6:8 Therefore don’t be like them, for your
a 5:27 TR adds “to the ancients,”
b 5:27 Exodus 20:14
c 5:29 or, Hell
d 5:30 or, Hell
e 5:31 Deuteronomy 24:1
f 5:38 Exodus 21:24; Leviticus 24:20; Deuteronomy 19:21
g 5:43 Leviticus 19:18
h 5:43 not in the Bible, but see Qumran Manual of Discipline Ix, 21-26
i 5:47 NU reads “Gentiles” instead of “tax collectors”.
j 6:2 or, trumpet
Matthew 6:9 790 Matthew 7:11

Father knows what things you need, before heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you of
you ask him. 6:9 Pray like this: ‘Our Father in much more value than they?
heaven, may your name be kept holy. 6:10 Let 6:27
“Which of you, by being anxious, can
your Kingdom come. Let your will be done, as add one momentl to his lifespan? 6:28 Why
in heaven, so on earth. 6:11 Give us today our are you anxious about clothing? Consider the
daily bread. 6:12 Forgive us our debts, as we lilies of the field, how they grow. They don’t
also forgive our debtors. 6:13 Bring us not into toil, neither do they spin, 6:29 yet I tell you that
temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. even Solomon in all his glory was not dressed
For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the like one of these. 6:30 But if God so clothes
glory forever. Amen.k ’ the grass of the field, which today exists, and
6:14
“For if you forgive men their trespasses, tomorrow is thrown into the oven, won’t he
your heavenly Father will also forgive you. much more clothe you, you of little faith?
6:15 6:31
But if you don’t forgive men their tres- “Therefore don’t be anxious, saying,
passes, neither will your Father forgive your ‘What will we eat?’, ‘What will we drink?’ or,
trespasses. ‘With what will we be clothed?’ 6:32 For the
6:16
“Moreover when you fast, don’t be like Gentiles seek after all these things; for your
the hypocrites, with sad faces. For they heavenly Father knows that you need all these
disfigure their faces, that they may be seen by things. 6:33 But seek first God’s Kingdom, and
men to be fasting. Most certainly I tell you, his righteousness; and all these things will
they have received their reward. 6:17 But you, be given to you as well. 6:34 Therefore don’t
when you fast, anoint your head, and wash be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will
your face; 6:18 so that you are not seen by men be anxious for itself. Each day’s own evil is
to be fasting, but by your Father who is in sufficient.
7:1
secret, and your Father, who sees in secret, “Don’t judge, so that you won’t be
will reward you. judged. 7:2 For with whatever judgment you
6:19
“Don’t lay up treasures for yourselves judge, you will be judged; and with whatever
on the earth, where moth and rust consume, measure you measure, it will be measured to
and where thieves break through and steal; you. 7:3 Why do you see the speck that is
6:20
but lay up for yourselves treasures in in your brother’s eye, but don’t consider the
heaven, where neither moth nor rust con- beam that is in your own eye? 7:4 Or how
sume, and where thieves don’t break through will you tell your brother, ‘Let me remove the
and steal; 6:21 for where your treasure is, there speck from your eye;’ and behold, the beam
your heart will be also. is in your own eye? 7:5 You hypocrite! First
6:22
“The lamp of the body is the eye. If remove the beam out of your own eye, and
therefore your eye is sound, your whole body then you can see clearly to remove the speck
will be full of light. 6:23 But if your eye is evil, out of your brother’s eye.
7:6
your whole body will be full of darkness. If “Don’t give that which is holy to the
therefore the light that is in you is darkness, dogs, neither throw your pearls before the
how great is the darkness! pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under
6:24
“No one can serve two masters, for their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.
7:7
either he will hate the one and love the other; “Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and
or else he will be devoted to one and despise you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for
the other. You can’t serve both God and you. 7:8 For everyone who asks receives. He
Mammon. 6:25 Therefore I tell you, don’t be who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be
anxious for your life: what you will eat, or opened. 7:9 Or who is there among you, who,
what you will drink; nor yet for your body, if his son asks him for bread, will give him
what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, a stone? 7:10 Or if he asks for a fish, who will
and the body more than clothing? 6:26 See the give him a serpent? 7:11 If you then, being evil,
birds of the sky, that they don’t sow, neither know how to give good gifts to your children,
do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your how much more will your Father who is in
k 6:13 NU omits “For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen.”
l 6:27 literally, cubit
Matthew 7:12 791 Matthew 8:20

heaven give good things to those who ask “Lord, if you want to, you can make me clean.”
him! 7:12 Therefore whatever you desire for 8:3
Yeshua stretched out his hand, and
men to do to you, you shall also do to them; touched him, saying, “I want to. Be made
for this is the Torah and the Prophets. clean.” Immediately his leprosy was cleansed.
7:13 8:4
“Enter in by the narrow gate; for wide Yeshua said to him, “See that you tell
is the gate and broad is the way that leads nobody, but go, show yourself to the priest,
to destruction, and many are those who enter and offer the gift that Moses commanded, as
in by it. 7:14 Howm narrow is the gate, and a testimony to them.”
8:5
restricted is the way that leads to life! Few are When he came into Capernaum, a centu-
those who find it. rion came to him, asking him, 8:6 and saying,
7:15
“Beware of false prophets, who come “Lord, my servant lies in the house paralyzed,
to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are grievously tormented.”
8:7
ravening wolves. 7:16 By their fruits you will Yeshua said to him, “I will come and heal
know them. Do you gather grapes from him.”
thorns, or figs from thistles? 7:17 Even so, every 8:8
The centurion answered, “Lord, I’m not
good tree produces good fruit; but the corrupt worthy for you to come under my roof. Just
tree produces evil fruit. 7:18 A good tree can’t say the word, and my servant will be healed.
8:9
produce evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree For I am also a man under authority, having
produce good fruit. 7:19 Every tree that doesn’t under myself soldiers. I tell this one, ‘Go,’ and
grow good fruit is cut down, and thrown into he goes; and tell another, ‘Come,’ and he comes;
the fire. 7:20 Therefore by their fruits you will and tell my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.”
know them. 7:21 Not everyone who says to 8:10
When Yeshua heard it, he marveled, and
me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom said to those who followed, “Most certainly I
of Heaven; but he who does the will of my tell you, I haven’t found so great a faith, not
Father who is in heaven. 7:22 Many will tell me even in Israel. 8:11 I tell you that many will
in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, didn’t we prophesy come from the east and the west, and will
in your name, in your name cast out demons, sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in
and in your name do many mighty works?’ the Kingdom of Heaven, 8:12 but the children
7:23
Then I will tell them, ‘I never knew you. of the Kingdom will be thrown out into the
Depart from me, you who work iniquity.’ outer darkness. There will be weeping and
7:24
“Everyone therefore who hears these gnashing of teeth.” 8:13 Yeshua said to the
words of mine, and does them, I will liken centurion, “Go your way. Let it be done for
him to a wise man, who built his house on you as you have believed.” His servant was
a rock. 7:25 The rain came down, the floods healed in that hour.
8:14
came, and the winds blew, and beat on that When Yeshua came into Peter’s house,
house; and it didn’t fall, for it was founded on he saw his wife’s mother lying sick with a fever.
the rock. 7:26 Everyone who hears these words 8:15
He touched her hand, and the fever left her.
of mine, and doesn’t do them will be like a She got up and served him.n 8:16 When evening
foolish man, who built his house on the sand. came, they brought to him many possessed
7:27
The rain came down, the floods came, and with demons. He cast out the spirits with a
the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it word, and healed all who were sick; 8:17 that it
fell—and great was its fall.” might be fulfilled which was spoken through
7:28
It happened, when Yeshua had finished Isaiah the prophet, saying: “He took our infir-
saying these things, that the multitudes were mities, and bore our diseases.”o 8:18 Now when
astonished at his teaching, 7:29 for he taught Yeshua saw great multitudes around him, he
them with authority, and not like the scribes. gave the order to depart to the other side.
8:1 8:19
When he came down from the mountain, A scribe came, and said to him, “Rabbi, I
great multitudes followed him. 8:2 Behold, a will follow you wherever you go.”
8:20
leper came to him and worshiped him, saying, Yeshua said to him, “The foxes have
m 7:14 TR reads “Because” instead of “How”
n 8:15 TR reads “them” instead of “him”
o 8:17 Isaiah 53:4
Matthew 8:21 792 Matthew 9:19

holes, and the birds of the sky have nests, but selves, “This man blasphemes.”
9:4
the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.” Yeshua, knowing their thoughts, said,
8:21
Another of his disciples said to him, “Why do you think evil in your hearts? 9:5 For
“Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.” which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven;’
8:22
But Yeshua said to him, “Follow me, and or to say, ‘Get up, and walk?’ 9:6 But that you
leave the dead to bury their own dead.” may know that the Son of Man has authority
8:23 on earth to forgive sins...” (then he said to the
When he got into a boat, his disciples
followed him. 8:24 Behold, a violent storm came paralytic), “Get up, and take up your mat, and
up on the sea, so much that the boat was go up to your house.”
9:7
covered with the waves, but he was asleep. He arose and departed to his house.
8:25 9:8
They came to him, and woke him up, But when the multitudes saw it, they mar-
saying, “Save us, Lord! We are dying!” veled and glorified God, who had given such
8:26
He said to them, “Why are you fearful, authority to men.
9:9
O you of little faith?” Then he got up, rebuked As Yeshua passed by from there, he saw a
the wind and the sea, and there was a great man called Matthew sitting at the tax collection
calm. office. He said to him, “Follow me.” He got
8:27
The men marveled, saying, “What kind up and followed him. 9:10 It happened as he sat
of man is this, that even the wind and the sea in the house, behold, many tax collectors and
obey him?” sinners came and sat down with Yeshua and his
8:28
When he came to the other side, into disciples. 9:11 When the Pharisees saw it, they
the country of the Gergesenes,p two people said to his disciples, “Why does your rabbi eat
possessed by demons met him there, coming with tax collectors and sinners?”
9:12
out of the tombs, exceedingly fierce, so that When Yeshua heard it, he said to them,
nobody could pass that way. 8:29 Behold, they “Those who are healthy have no need for a
cried out, saying, “What do we have to do with physician, but those who are sick do. 9:13 But
you, Yeshua, Son of God? Have you come here you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire
to torment us before the time?” 8:30 Now there mercy, and not sacrifice,’q for I came not to call
was a herd of many pigs feeding far away from the righteous, but sinners to repentance.r ”
them. 8:31 The demons begged him, saying, “If 9:14
Then Yochanan’s disciples came to him,
you cast us out, permit us to go away into the saying, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast
herd of pigs.” often, but your disciples don’t fast?”
8:32 9:15
He said to them, “Go!” Yeshua said to them, “Can the friends
They came out, and went into the herd of the bridegroom mourn, as long as the
of pigs: and behold, the whole herd of pigs bridegroom is with them? But the days will
rushed down the cliff into the sea, and died in come when the bridegroom will be taken
the water. 8:33 Those who fed them fled, and away from them, and then they will fast.
9:16
went away into the city, and told everything, No one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on
including what happened to those who were an old garment; for the patch would tear away
possessed with demons. 8:34 Behold, all the city from the garment, and a worse hole is made.
9:17
came out to meet Yeshua. When they saw him, Neither do people put new wine into old
they begged that he would depart from their wineskins, or else the skins would burst, and
borders. the wine be spilled, and the skins ruined. No,
9:1
He entered into a boat, and crossed over, they put new wine into fresh wineskins, and
and came into his own city. 9:2 Behold, they both are preserved.”
9:18
brought to him a man who was paralyzed, While he told these things to them, be-
lying on a bed. Yeshua, seeing their faith, said hold, a ruler came and worshiped him, saying,
to the paralytic, “Son, cheer up! Your sins are “My daughter has just died, but come and lay
forgiven you.” your hand on her, and she will live.”
9:3 9:19
Behold, some of the scribes said to them- Yeshua got up and followed him, as did
p 8:28 NU reads “Gadarenes”
q 9:13 Hosea 6:6
r 9:13 NU omits “to repentance”.
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his disciples. 9:20 Behold, a woman who had therefore that the Lord of the harvest will
an issue of blood for twelve years came behind send out laborers into his harvest.”
him, and touched the fringes of his garment; 10:1
He called to himself his twelve disciples,
9:21
for she said within herself, “If I just touch and gave them authority over unclean spirits,
his garment, I will be made well.” to cast them out, and to heal every disease
9:22
But Yeshua, turning around and seeing and every sickness. 10:2 Now the names of the
her, said, “Daughter, cheer up! Your faith has twelve emissaries are these. The first, Simon,
made you well.” And the woman was made who is called Peter; Andrew, his brother; Jacob
well from that hour. the son of Zebedee; Yochanan, his brother;
9:23 10:3
When Yeshua came into the ruler’s Philip; Bartholomew; Thomas; Matthew the
house, and saw the flute players, and the tax collector; Jacob the son of Halfai; Labbai,
crowd in noisy disorder, 9:24 he said to them, whose surname wasu Taddai; 10:4 Simon the
“Make room, because the girl isn’t dead, but Canaanite; and Judah Iscariot, who also be-
sleeping.” trayed him.
They were ridiculing him. 9:25 But when the 10:5
Yeshua sent these twelve out, and com-
crowd was put out, he entered in, took her by manded them, saying, “Don’t go among the
the hand, and the girl arose. 9:26 The report of Gentiles, and don’t enter into any city of the
this went out into all that land. 9:27 As Yeshua Samaritans. 10:6 Rather, go to the lost sheep of
passed by from there, two blind men followed the house of Israel. 10:7 As you go, proclaim,
him, calling out and saying, “Have mercy on saying, ‘The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!’
us, son of David!” 10:8
Heal the sick, cleanse the lepersv , and cast
9:28
When he had come into the house, the out demons. Freely you received, so freely
blind men came to him. Yeshua said to them, give. 10:9 Don’t take any gold, nor silver, nor
“Do you believe that I am able to do this?” brass in your money belts. 10:10 Take no bag
They told him, “Yes, Lord.” for your journey, neither two coats, nor shoes,
9:29
Then he touched their eyes, saying, “Ac- nor staff: for the laborer is worthy of his
cording to your faith be it done to you.” food. 10:11 Into whatever city or village you
9:30
Their eyes were opened. Yeshua strictly enter, find out who in it is worthy; and stay
commanded them, saying, “See that no one there until you go on. 10:12 As you enter into
knows about this.” 9:31 But they went out and the household, greet it. 10:13 If the household
spread abroad his fame in all that land. is worthy, let your peace come on it, but
9:32
As they went out, behold, a mute man if it isn’t worthy, let your peace return to
who was demon possessed was brought to him. you. 10:14 Whoever doesn’t receive you, nor
9:33
When the demon was cast out, the mute hear your words, as you go out of that house
man spoke. The multitudes marveled, saying, or that city, shake off the dust from your
“Nothing like this has ever been seen in Israel!” feet. 10:15 Most certainly I tell you, it will
9:34 be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and
But the Pharisees said, “By the prince of
the demons, he casts out demons.” Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for
9:35 that city.
Yeshua went about all the cities and
10:16
the villages, teaching in their synagogues, and “Behold, I send you out as sheep in
proclaiming the Good News of the Kingdom, the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as
and healing every disease and every sickness serpents, and harmless as doves. 10:17 But
among the people. 9:36 But when he saw the beware of men: for they will deliver you up
multitudes, he was moved with compassion for to councils, and in their synagogues they will
them, because they were harassedt and scat- scourge you. 10:18 Yes, and you will be brought
tered, like sheep without a shepherd. 9:37 Then before governors and kings for my sake, for a
he said to his disciples, “The harvest indeed testimony to them and to the nations. 10:19 But
is plentiful, but the laborers are few. 9:38 Pray when they deliver you up, don’t be anxious
s 9:20or, tzitzit
t 9:36TR reads “weary” instead of “harassed”
u 10:3 NU omits “Labbai, whose surname was”
v 10:8 TR adds “, raise the dead”
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how or what you will say, for it will be given mother-in-law. 10:36 A man’s foes will be those
you in that hour what you will say. 10:20 For it of his own household.y 10:37 He who loves
is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your father or mother more than me is not worthy
Father who speaks in you. of me; and he who loves son or daughter
10:21
“Brother will deliver up brother to more than me isn’t worthy of me. 10:38 He
death, and the father his child. Children will who doesn’t take his cross and follow after
rise up against parents, and cause them to be me, isn’t worthy of me. 10:39 He who seeks
put to death. 10:22 You will be hated by all his life will lose it; and he who loses his
men for my name’s sake, but he who endures life for my sake will find it. 10:40 He who
to the end will be saved. 10:23 But when they receives you receives me, and he who receives
persecute you in this city, flee into the next, me receives him who sent me. 10:41 He who
for most certainly I tell you, you will not have receives a prophet in the name of a prophet
gone through the cities of Israel, until the Son will receive a prophet’s reward. He who
of Man has come. receives a righteous man in the name of a
10:24 righteous man will receive a righteous man’s
“A disciple is not above his rabbi, nor
reward. 10:42 Whoever gives one of these little
a servant above his lord. 10:25 It is enough
ones just a cup of cold water to drink in the
for the disciple that he be like his rabbi, and
name of a disciple, most certainly I tell you he
the servant like his lord. If they have called
will in no way lose his reward.”
the master of the house Beelzebul, how much
11:1
more those of his household! 10:26 Therefore It happened that when Yeshua had fin-
don’t be afraid of them, for there is nothing ished directing his twelve disciples, he de-
covered that will not be revealed; and hidden parted from there to teach and proclaim in their
that will not be known. 10:27 What I tell you cities. 11:2 Now when Yochanan heard in the
in the darkness, speak in the light; and what prison the works of Messiah, he sent two of his
you hear whispered in the ear, proclaim on the disciples 11:3 and said to him, “Are you he who
housetops. 10:28 Don’t be afraid of those who comes, or should we look for another?”
kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. 11:4
Yeshua answered them, “Go and tell
Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both Yochanan the things which you hear and see:
soul and body in Gehinnom.w 11:5
the blind receive their sight, the lame
10:29 walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear,z
“Aren’t two sparrows sold for an as-
sarion coinx ? Not one of them falls on the the dead are raised up, and the poor have good
ground apart from your Father’s will, 10:30 but news preached to them.a 11:6 Blessed is he who
the very hairs of your head are all numbered. finds no occasion for stumbling in me.”
10:31 11:7
Therefore don’t be afraid. You are of more As these went their way, Yeshua began
value than many sparrows. 10:32 Everyone to say to the multitudes concerning Yochanan,
therefore who confesses me before men, him “What did you go out into the wilderness to
I will also confess before my Father who is in see? A reed shaken by the wind? 11:8 But
heaven. 10:33 But whoever denies me before what did you go out to see? A man in
men, him I will also deny before my Father soft clothing? Behold, those who wear soft
who is in heaven. clothing are in king’s houses. 11:9 But why did
10:34
“Don’t think that I came to send peace you go out? To see a prophet? Yes, I tell
on the earth. I didn’t come to send peace, you, and much more than a prophet. 11:10 For
but a sword. 10:35 For I came to set a man at this is he, of whom it is written, ‘Behold,
odds against his father, and a daughter against I send my messenger before your face, who
her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her will prepare your way before you.’b 11:11 Most
w 10:28 or, Hell.
x 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.
y 10:36 Micah 7:6
z 11:5 Isaiah 35:5
a 11:5 Isaiah 61:1-4
b 11:10 Malachi 3:1
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certainly I tell you, among those who are born ered to me by my Father. No one knows the
of women there has not arisen anyone greater Son, except the Father; neither does anyone
than Yochanan the Immerser; yet he who is know the Father, except the Son, and he to
least in the Kingdom of Heaven is greater whom the Son desires to reveal him.
than he. 11:12 From the days of Yochanan the 11:28
“Come to me, all you who labor and
Immerser until now, the Kingdom of Heaven are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.
suffers violence, and the violent take it by 11:29
Take my yoke upon you, and learn from
force.c 11:13 For all the Prophets and the Torah me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart; and
prophesied until Yochanan. 11:14 If you are you will find rest for your souls. 11:30 For my
willing to receive it, this is Elijah, who is to yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”
come. 11:15 He who has ears to hear, let him 12:1
At that time, Yeshua went on the Sabbath
hear. day through the grain fields. His disciples were
11:16
“But to what shall I compare this gen- hungry and began to pluck heads of grain and
eration? It is like children sitting in the to eat. 12:2 But the Pharisees, when they saw it,
marketplaces, who call to their companions said to him, “Behold, your disciples do what is
11:17
and say, ‘We played the flute for you, and not lawful to do on the Sabbath.”
you didn’t dance. We mourned for you, and 12:3
But he said to them, “Haven’t you read
you didn’t lament.’ 11:18 For Yochanan came what David did, when he was hungry, and
neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He those who were with him; 12:4 how he entered
has a demon.’ 11:19 The Son of Man came into God’s house, and ate the show bread,
eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Behold, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither
a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend for those who were with him, but only for
of tax collectors and sinners!’ But wisdom is the priests?f 12:5 Or have you not read in the
justified by her children.d ” Torah, that on the Sabbath day, the priests in
11:20
Then he began to denounce the cities the temple profane the Sabbath, and are guilt-
in which most of his mighty works had been less? 12:6 But I tell you that one greater than
done, because they didn’t repent. 11:21 “Woe the temple is here. 12:7 But if you had known
to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not
For if the mighty works had been done in sacrifice,’g you would not have condemned
Tyre and Sidon which were done in you, they the guiltless. 12:8 For the Son of Man is Lord
would have repented long ago in sackcloth of the Sabbath.”
and ashes. 11:22 But I tell you, it will be more 12:9
He departed there, and went into their
tolerable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of synagogue. 12:10 And behold there was a man
judgment than for you. 11:23 You, Capernaum, with a withered hand. They asked him, “Is it
who are exalted to heaven, you will go down lawful to heal on the Sabbath day?” that they
to Sheol.e For if the mighty works had been might accuse him.
done in Sodom which were done in you, it 12:11
He said to them, “What man is there
would have remained until this day. 11:24 But among you, who has one sheep, and if this
I tell you that it will be more tolerable for the one falls into a pit on the Sabbath day, won’t
land of Sodom, on the day of judgment, than he grab on to it, and lift it out? 12:12 Of
for you.” how much more value then is a man than
11:25
At that time, Yeshua answered, “I thank a sheep! Therefore it is lawful to do good
you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that on the Sabbath day.” 12:13 Then he told the
you hid these things from the wise and un- man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched
derstanding, and revealed them to infants. it out; and it was restored whole, just like the
11:26
Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in other. 12:14 But the Pharisees went out, and
your sight. 11:27 All things have been deliv- conspired against him, how they might destroy
c 11:12 or, plunder it.
d 11:19 NU reads “actions” instead of “children”
e 11:23 or, Hell
f 12:4 1 Samuel 21:3-6
g 12:7 Hosea 6:6
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him. 12:15 Yeshua, perceiving that, withdrew Spirit, it will not be forgiven him, neither in
from there. Great multitudes followed him; this age, nor in that which is to come.
and he healed them all, 12:16 and commanded 12:33
“Either make the tree good, and its
them that they should not make him known: fruit good, or make the tree corrupt, and its
12:17
that it might be fulfilled which was spoken fruit corrupt; for the tree is known by its
through Isaiah the prophet, saying, fruit. 12:34 You offspring of vipers, how can
12:18
“Behold, my servant whom I have chosen; you, being evil, speak good things? For out of
my beloved in whom my soul is well the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.
12:35
pleased: The good man out of his good treasure
I will put my Spirit on him. brings out good things, and the evil man out
He will proclaim justice to the nations. of his evil treasurei brings out evil things.
12:36
12:19 I tell you that every idle word that men
He will not strive, nor shout;
speak, they will give account of it in the day
neither will anyone hear his voice in the
of judgment. 12:37 For by your words you will
streets.
12:20
be justified, and by your words you will be
He won’t break a bruised reed. condemned.”
He won’t quench a smoking flax, 12:38
Then certain of the scribes and Pharisees
until he leads justice to victory. answered, “Rabbi, we want to see a sign from
12:21
In his name, the nations will hope.”h you.”
12:22 12:39
Then one possessed by a demon, blind But he answered them, “An evil and
and mute, was brought to him and he healed adulterous generation seeks after a sign, but
him, so that the blind and mute man both spoke no sign will be given it but the sign of Jonah
and saw. 12:23 All the multitudes were amazed, the prophet. 12:40 For as Jonah was three days
and said, “Can this be the son of David?” and three nights in the belly of the whale, so
12:24
But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, will the Son of Man be three days and three
“This man does not cast out demons, except by nights in the heart of the earth. 12:41 The men
Beelzebul, the prince of the demons.” of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment
12:25
Knowing their thoughts, Yeshua said to with this generation, and will condemn it, for
them, “Every kingdom divided against itself they repented at the proclaiming of Jonah;
is brought to desolation, and every city or and behold, someone greater than Jonah is
house divided against itself will not stand. here. 12:42 The queen of the south will rise
12:26
If Satan casts out Satan, he is divided up in the judgment with this generation, and
against himself. How then will his kingdom will condemn it, for she came from the ends
stand? 12:27 If I by Beelzebul cast out demons, of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon;
by whom do your children cast them out? and behold, someone greater than Solomon
Therefore they will be your judges. 12:28 But is here. 12:43 But the unclean spirit, when
if I by the Spirit of God cast out demons, he is gone out of the man, passes through
then the Kingdom of God has come upon you. waterless places, seeking rest, and doesn’t
12:29
Or how can one enter into the house of find it. 12:44 Then he says, ‘I will return into
the strong man, and plunder his goods, unless my house from which I came out,’ and when
he first bind the strong man? Then he will he has come back, he finds it empty, swept,
plunder his house. and put in order. 12:45 Then he goes, and takes
12:30
“He who is not with me is against with himself seven other spirits more evil
me, and he who doesn’t gather with me, than he is, and they enter in and dwell there.
scatters. 12:31 Therefore I tell you, every sin The last state of that man becomes worse than
and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the first. Even so will it be also to this evil
the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be generation.”
forgiven men. 12:32 Whoever speaks a word 12:46
While he was yet speaking to the mul-
against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven titudes, behold, his mother and his broth-
him; but whoever speaks against the Holy ers stood outside, seeking to speak to him.
h 12:21 Isaiah 42:1-4
i 12:35 TR adds “of the heart”
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12:47
One said to him, “Behold, your mother and or else perhaps they might perceive with their
your brothers stand outside, seeking to speak to eyes,
you.” hear with their ears,
12:48
But he answered him who spoke to him, understand with their heart,
“Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?” and should turn again;
12:49
He stretched out his hand towards his and I would heal them.’j
disciples, and said, “Behold, my mother and 13:16
“But blessed are your eyes, for they
my brothers! 12:50 For whoever does the will of see; and your ears, for they hear. 13:17 For most
my Father who is in heaven, he is my brother, certainly I tell you that many prophets and
and sister, and mother.” righteous men desired to see the things which
13:1
On that day Yeshua went out of the you see, and didn’t see them; and to hear the
house, and sat by the seaside. 13:2 Great mul- things which you hear, and didn’t hear them.
titudes gathered to him, so that he entered into 13:18
“Hear, then, the parable of the farmer.
a boat, and sat, and all the multitude stood on 13:19
When anyone hears the word of the King-
the beach. 13:3 He spoke to them many things in dom, and doesn’t understand it, the evil one
parables, saying, “Behold, a farmer went out to comes, and snatches away that which has
sow. 13:4 As he sowed, some seeds fell by the been sown in his heart. This is what was
roadside, and the birds came and devoured sown by the roadside. 13:20 What was sown
them. 13:5 Others fell on rocky ground, where on the rocky places, this is he who hears the
they didn’t have much soil, and immediately word, and immediately with joy receives it;
they sprang up, because they had no depth 13:21
yet he has no root in himself, but endures
of earth. 13:6 When the sun had risen, they for a while. When oppression or persecution
were scorched. Because they had no root, arises because of the word, immediately he
they withered away. 13:7 Others fell among stumbles. 13:22 What was sown among the
thorns. The thorns grew up and choked them. thorns, this is he who hears the word, but
13:8
Others fell on good soil, and yielded fruit: the cares of this age and the deceitfulness
some one hundred times as much, some sixty, of riches choke the word, and he becomes
and some thirty. 13:9 He who has ears to hear, unfruitful. 13:23 What was sown on the good
let him hear.” ground, this is he who hears the word, and
13:10
The disciples came, and said to him, understands it, who most certainly bears fruit,
“Why do you speak to them in parables?” and brings forth, some one hundred times as
13:11
He answered them, “To you it is given much, some sixty, and some thirty.”
to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of 13:24
He set another parable before them,
Heaven, but it is not given to them. 13:12 For saying, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like
whoever has, to him will be given, and he a man who sowed good seed in his field,
will have abundance, but whoever doesn’t 13:25
but while people slept, his enemy came
have, from him will be taken away even that and sowed darnel weedsk also among the
which he has. 13:13 Therefore I speak to them wheat, and went away. 13:26 But when the
in parables, because seeing they don’t see, blade sprang up and brought forth fruit, then
and hearing, they don’t hear, neither do they the darnel weeds appeared also. 13:27 The
understand. 13:14 In them the prophecy of servants of the householder came and said to
Isaiah is fulfilled, which says, him, ‘Sir, didn’t you sow good seed in your
‘By hearing you will hear, field? Where did this darnel come from?’
and will in no way understand; 13:28
“He said to them, ‘An enemy has done
Seeing you will see, this.’
and will in no way perceive: “The servants asked him, ‘Do you want us
13:15
for this people’s heart has grown callous, to go and gather them up?’
13:29
their ears are dull of hearing, “But he said, ‘No, lest perhaps while
they have closed their eyes; you gather up the darnel weeds, you root
j 13:15
Isaiah 6:9-10
k 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.
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up the wheat with them. 13:30 Let both grow a treasure hidden in the field, which a man
together until the harvest, and in the harvest found, and hid. In his joy, he goes and sells
time I will tell the reapers, “First, gather up all that he has, and buys that field.
13:45
the darnel weeds, and bind them in bundles “Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is
to burn them; but gather the wheat into my like a man who is a merchant seeking fine
barn.”’” pearls, 13:46 who having found one pearl of
13:31
He set another parable before them, great price, he went and sold all that he had,
saying, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a and bought it.
13:47
grain of mustard seed, which a man took, “Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like
and sowed in his field; 13:32 which indeed is a dragnet, that was cast into the sea, and
smaller than all seeds. But when it is grown, it gathered some fish of every kind, 13:48 which,
is greater than the herbs, and becomes a tree, when it was filled, they drew up on the
so that the birds of the air come and lodge in beach. They sat down, and gathered the good
its branches.” into containers, but the bad they threw away.
13:33 13:49
He spoke another parable to them. “The So will it be in the end of the world.
Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast, which a The angels will come forth, and separate the
woman took, and hid in three measuresl of wicked from among the righteous, 13:50 and
meal, until it was all leavened.” will cast them into the furnace of fire. There
13:34
Yeshua spoke all these things in para- will be the weeping and the gnashing of
bles to the multitudes; and without a parable, teeth.” 13:51 Yeshua said to them, “Have you
he didn’t speak to them, 13:35 that it might understood all these things?”
be fulfilled which was spoken through the They answered him, “Yes, Lord.”
13:52
prophet, saying, He said to them, “Therefore every
“I will open my mouth in parables; scribe who has been made a disciple in the
I will utter things hidden from the foun- Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a
dation of the world.”m householder, who brings out of his treasure
13:36
Then Yeshua sent the multitudes away, new and old things.”
13:53
and went into the house. His disciples came to It happened that when Yeshua had fin-
him, saying, “Explain to us the parable of the ished these parables, he departed from there.
13:54
darnel weeds of the field.” Coming into his own country, he taught
13:37
He answered them, “He who sows them in their synagogue, so that they were
the good seed is the Son of Man, 13:38 the astonished, and said, “Where did this man
field is the world; and the good seed, these get this wisdom, and these mighty works?
13:55
are the children of the Kingdom; and the Isn’t this the carpenter’s son? Isn’t his
darnel weeds are the children of the evil mother called Miriam, and his brothers, Jacob,
one. 13:39 The enemy who sowed them is the Yosi, Simon, and Judah? 13:56 Aren’t all of his
devil. The harvest is the end of the age, sisters with us? Where then did this man get all
and the reapers are angels. 13:40 As therefore of these things?” 13:57 They were offended by
the darnel weeds are gathered up and burned him.
with fire; so will it be at the end of this age. But Yeshua said to them, “A prophet is not
13:41
The Son of Man will send out his angels, without honor, except in his own country, and
and they will gather out of his Kingdom all in his own house.” 13:58 He didn’t do many
things that cause stumbling, and those who mighty works there because of their unbelief.
do iniquity, 13:42 and will cast them into the 14:1
At that time, Herod the tetrarch heard
furnace of fire. There will be weeping and the report concerning Yeshua, 14:2 and said to
the gnashing of teeth. 13:43 Then the righteous his servants, “This is Yochanan the Immerser.
will shine forth like the sun in the Kingdom He is risen from the dead. That is why these
of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let powers work in him.” 14:3 For Herod had laid
him hear. hold of Yochanan, and bound him, and put
13:44
“Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his
l 13:33 literally, three sata. 3 sata is about 39 litres or a bit more than a bushel
m 13:35 Psalm 78:2
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brother Philip’s wife. 14:4 For Yochanan said 14:22


Immediately Yeshua made the disciples
to him, “It is not lawful for you to have her.” get into the boat, and to go ahead of him to
14:5
When he would have put him to death, he the other side, while he sent the multitudes
feared the multitude, because they counted him away. 14:23 After he had sent the multitudes
as a prophet. 14:6 But when Herod’s birthday away, he went up into the mountain by himself
came, the daughter of Herodias danced among to pray. When evening had come, he was there
them and pleased Herod. 14:7 Whereupon he alone. 14:24 But the boat was now in the middle
promised with an oath to give her whatever of the sea, distressed by the waves, for the
she should ask. 14:8 She, being prompted by her wind was contrary. 14:25 In the fourth watch
mother, said, “Give me here on a platter the of the night,n Yeshua came to them, walking
head of Yochanan the Immerser.” on the sea.o 14:26 When the disciples saw him
14:9 walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying,
The king was grieved, but for the sake of
his oaths, and of those who sat at the table with “It’s a ghost!” and they cried out for fear.
14:27
him, he commanded it to be given, 14:10 and But immediately Yeshua spoke to them,
he sent and beheaded Yochanan in the prison. saying “Cheer up! It is I!p Don’t be afraid.”
14:11 14:28
His head was brought on a platter, and Peter answered him and said, “Lord, if
given to the young lady: and she brought it to it is you, command me to come to you on the
her mother. 14:12 His disciples came, and took waters.”
14:29
the body, and buried it; and they went and told He said, “Come!”
Yeshua. 14:13 Now when Yeshua heard this, he Peter stepped down from the boat, and
withdrew from there in a boat, to a deserted walked on the waters to come to Yeshua.
place apart. When the multitudes heard it, they 14:30
But when he saw that the wind was strong,
followed him on foot from the cities. he was afraid, and beginning to sink, he cried
14:14
Yeshua went out, and he saw a great out, saying, “Lord, save me!”
multitude. He had compassion on them, and 14:31
Immediately Yeshua stretched out his
healed their sick. 14:15 When evening had come, hand, took hold of him, and said to him, “You
his disciples came to him, saying, “This place of little faith, why did you doubt?” 14:32 When
is deserted, and the hour is already late. Send they got up into the boat, the wind ceased.
the multitudes away, that they may go into the 14:33
Those who were in the boat came and
villages, and buy themselves food.” worshiped him, saying, “You are truly the Son
14:16
But Yeshua said to them, “They don’t of God!”
need to go away. You give them something to 14:34
When they had crossed over, they came
eat.” to the land of Gennesaret. 14:35 When the people
14:17
They told him, “We only have here five of that place recognized him, they sent into all
loaves and two fish.” that surrounding region, and brought to him
14:18
He said, “Bring them here to me.” all who were sick, 14:36 and they begged him
14:19
He commanded the multitudes to sit down that they might just touch the fringeq of his
on the grass; and he took the five loaves and the garment. As many as touched it were made
two fish, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, whole.
15:1
broke and gave the loaves to the disciples, and Then Pharisees and scribes came to
the disciples gave to the multitudes. 14:20 They Yeshua from Jerusalem, saying, 15:2 “Why do
all ate, and were filled. They took up twelve your disciples disobey the tradition of the
baskets full of that which remained left over elders? For they don’t wash their hands when
from the broken pieces. 14:21 Those who ate they eat bread.”
15:3
were about five thousand men, besides women He answered them, “Why do you also
and children. disobey the commandment of God because
n 14:25 The night was equally divided into four watches, so the fourth watch is approximately 3:00 A. M.

to sunrise.
o 14:25 see Job 9:8
p 14:27 or, I AM!
q 14:36 or, tzitzit
r 15:4 Exodus 20:12; Deuteronomy 5:16
Matthew 15:4 800 Matthew 15:38

of your tradition? 15:4 For God commanded, on me, Lord, you son of David! My daughter is
‘Honor your father and your mother,’r and, severely demonized!”
15:23
‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, But he answered her not a word.
let him be put to death.’s 15:5 But you say, His disciples came and begged him, saying,
‘Whoever may tell his father or his mother, “Send her away; for she cries after us.”
“Whatever help you might otherwise have 15:24
But he answered, “I wasn’t sent to
gotten from me is a gift devoted to God,” anyone but the lost sheep of the house of
15:6
he shall not honor his father or mother.’ Israel.”
You have made the commandment of God 15:25
But she came and worshiped him, say-
void because of your tradition. 15:7 You hyp- ing, “Lord, help me.”
ocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, 15:26
But he answered, “It is not appropriate
saying, to take the children’s bread and throw it to the
15:8
‘These people draw near to me with their dogs.”
mouth, 15:27
But she said, “Yes, Lord, but even the
and honor me with their lips; dogs eat the crumbs which fall from their
but their heart is far from me. masters’ table.”
15:9 15:28
And in vain do they worship me, Then Yeshua answered her, “Woman,
teaching as doctrine rules made by great is your faith! Be it done to you even
men.’”t as you desire.” And her daughter was healed
15:10
He summoned the multitude, and said from that hour.
to them, “Hear, and understand. 15:11 That 15:29
Yeshua departed there, and came near
which enters into the mouth doesn’t defile to the sea of Galilee; and he went up into the
the man; but that which proceeds out of the mountain, and sat there. 15:30 Great multitudes
mouth, this defiles the man.” came to him, having with them the lame, blind,
15:12
Then the disciples came, and said to mute, maimed, and many others, and they
him, “Do you know that the Pharisees were put them down at his feet. He healed them,
15:31
offended, when they heard this saying?” so that the multitude wondered when they
15:13
But he answered, “Every plant which saw the mute speaking, injured whole, lame
my heavenly Father didn’t plant will be up- walking, and blind seeing—and they glorified
rooted. 15:14 Leave them alone. They are blind the God of Israel.
15:32
guides of the blind. If the blind guide the Yeshua summoned his disciples and
blind, both will fall into a pit.” said, “I have compassion on the multitude,
15:15
Peter answered him, “Explain the para- because they continue with me now three
ble to us.” days and have nothing to eat. I don’t want to
15:16
So Yeshua said, “Do you also still not send them away fasting, or they might faint
understand? 15:17 Don’t you understand that on the way.”
15:33
whatever goes into the mouth passes into the The disciples said to him, “Where
belly, and then out of the body? 15:18 But should we get so many loaves in a deserted
the things which proceed out of the mouth place as to satisfy so great a multitude?”
15:34
come out of the heart, and they defile the Yeshua said to them, “How many
man. 15:19 For out of the heart come forth loaves do you have?”
evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual They said, “Seven, and a few small fish.”
15:35
sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies. He commanded the multitude to sit
15:20
These are the things which defile the down on the ground; 15:36 and he took the
man; but to eat with unwashed hands doesn’t seven loaves and the fish. He gave thanks and
defile the man.” broke them, and gave to the disciples, and the
15:21
Yeshua went out from there, and with- disciples to the multitudes. 15:37 They all ate,
drew into the region of Tyre and Sidon. and were filled. They took up seven baskets
15:22
Behold, a Canaanite woman came out from full of the broken pieces that were left over.
15:38
those borders, and cried, saying, “Have mercy Those who ate were four thousand men,
s 15:4 Exodus 21:17; Leviticus 20:9
t 15:9 Isaiah 29:13
Matthew 15:39 801 Matthew 17:4

besides women and children. 15:39 Then he sent you, Simon Bar Jonah, for flesh and blood
away the multitudes, got into the boat, and has not revealed this to you, but my Father
came into the borders of Magdala. who is in heaven. 16:18 I also tell you that
16:1
The Pharisees and Sadducees came, and you are Peter,u and on this rockv I will build
testing him, asked him to show them a sign my assembly, and the gates of Sheolw will
from heaven. 16:2
But he answered them, not prevail against it. 16:19 I will give to you
“When it is evening, you say, ‘It will be the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven, and
fair weather, for the sky is red.’ 16:3 In the whatever you bind on earth will have been
morning, ‘It will be foul weather today, for bound in heaven; and whatever you release
the sky is red and threatening.’ Hypocrites! on earth will have been released in heaven.”
16:20
You know how to discern the appearance of Then he commanded the disciples that
the sky, but you can’t discern the signs of the they should tell no one that he was Yeshua the
times! 16:4 An evil and adulterous generation Messiah. 16:21 From that time, Yeshua began to
seeks after a sign, and there will be no sign show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem
given to it, except the sign of the prophet and suffer many things from the elders, chief
Jonah.” priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third
He left them, and departed. 16:5 The disciples day be raised up.
16:22
came to the other side and had forgotten to take Peter took him aside, and began to
bread. 16:6 Yeshua said to them, “Take heed rebuke him, saying, “Far be it from you, Lord!
and beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and This will never be done to you.”
Sadducees.” 16:23
But he turned, and said to Peter, “Get
16:7
They reasoned among themselves, say- behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block
ing, “We brought no bread.” to me, for you are not setting your mind
16:8
Yeshua, perceiving it, said, “Why do on the things of God, but on the things of
you reason among yourselves, you of little men.” 16:24 Then Yeshua said to his disciples,
faith, ‘because you have brought no bread?’ “If anyone desires to come after me, let him
16:9
Don’t you yet perceive, neither remember deny himself, and take up his cross, and
the five loaves for the five thousand, and how follow me. 16:25 For whoever desires to save
many baskets you took up? 16:10 Nor the seven his life will lose it, and whoever will lose his
loaves for the four thousand, and how many life for my sake will find it. 16:26 For what
baskets you took up? 16:11 How is it that will it profit a man, if he gains the whole
you don’t perceive that I didn’t speak to you world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a
concerning bread? But beware of the yeast of man give in exchange for his life? 16:27 For
the Pharisees and Sadducees.” the Son of Man will come in the glory of
16:12
Then they understood that he didn’t tell his Father with his angels, and then he will
them to beware of the yeast of bread, but of render to everyone according to his deeds.
16:28
the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees. Most certainly I tell you, there are some
16:13
Now when Yeshua came into the parts standing here who will in no way taste of
of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, death, until they see the Son of Man coming
saying, “Who do men say that I, the Son of in his Kingdom.”
Man, am?” 17:1
After six days, Yeshua took with him
16:14
They said, “Some say Yochanan the Peter, Jacob, and Yochanan his brother, and
Immerser, some, Elijah, and others, Jeremiah, brought them up into a high mountain by
or one of the prophets.” themselves. 17:2 He was transfigured before
16:15
He said to them, “But who do you say them. His face shone like the sun, and his gar-
that I am?” ments became as white as the light. 17:3 Behold,
16:16
Simon Peter answered, “You are the Moses and Elijah appeared to them talking
Messiah, the Son of the living God.” with him.
16:17 17:4
Yeshua answered him, “Blessed are Peter answered, and said to Yeshua,
u 16:18 Peter’s name, Petros in Greek, is the word for a specific rock or stone.
v 16:18 Greek, petra, a rock mass or bedrock.
w 16:18 or, Hell
Matthew 17:5 802 Matthew 18:8

“Lord, it is good for us to be here. If you want, will tell this mountain, ‘Move from here to
let’s make three tents here: one for you, one for there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be
Moses, and one for Elijah.” impossible for you. 17:21 But this kind doesn’t
17:5 go out except by prayer and fasting.”
While he was still speaking, behold, a
17:22
bright cloud overshadowed them. Behold, a While they were staying in Galilee,
voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is my Yeshua said to them, “The Son of Man is about
beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to be delivered up into the hands of men,
17:23
to him.” and they will kill him, and the third day
17:6 he will be raised up.”
When the disciples heard it, they fell on
their faces, and were very afraid. 17:7 Yeshua They were exceedingly sorry. 17:24 When
came and touched them and said, “Get up, and they had come to Capernaum, those who col-
don’t be afraid.” 17:8 Lifting up their eyes, they lected the didrachma coinsx came to Peter, and
saw no one, except Yeshua alone. 17:9 As they said, “Doesn’t your rabbi pay the didrachma?”
17:25
were coming down from the mountain, Yeshua He said, “Yes.”
commanded them, saying, “Don’t tell anyone When he came into the house, Yeshua an-
what you saw, until the Son of Man has risen ticipated him, saying, “What do you think,
from the dead.” Simon? From whom do the kings of the earth
17:10
His disciples asked him, saying, “Then receive toll or tribute? From their children, or
why do the scribes say that Elijah must come from strangers?”
first?” 17:26
Peter said to him, “From strangers.”
17:11
Yeshua answered them, “Elijah indeed Yeshua said to him, “Therefore the children
comes first, and will restore all things, 17:12 but are exempt. 17:27 But, lest we cause them to
I tell you that Elijah has come already, and stumble, go to the sea, cast a hook, and take
they didn’t recognize him, but did to him up the first fish that comes up. When you have
whatever they wanted to. Even so the Son of opened its mouth, you will find a stater coin.y
Man will also suffer by them.” 17:13 Then the Take that, and give it to them for me and you.”
disciples understood that he spoke to them of 18:1
In that hour the disciples came to Yeshua,
Yochanan the Immerser. saying, “Who then is greatest in the Kingdom
17:14
When they came to the multitude, a of Heaven?”
man came to him, kneeling down to him, 18:2
Yeshua called a little child to himself, and
saying, 17:15 “Lord, have mercy on my son, for set him in their midst, 18:3 and said, “Most cer-
he is epileptic, and suffers grievously; for he tainly I tell you, unless you turn, and become
often falls into the fire, and often into the water. as little children, you will in no way enter
17:16
So I brought him to your disciples, and into the Kingdom of Heaven. 18:4 Whoever
they could not cure him.” therefore humbles himself as this little child,
17:17
Yeshua answered, “Faithless and per- the same is the greatest in the Kingdom
verse generation! How long will I be with of Heaven. 18:5 Whoever receives one such
you? How long will I bear with you? Bring little child in my name receives me, 18:6 but
him here to me.” 17:18 Yeshua rebuked him, the whoever causes one of these little ones who
demon went out of him, and the boy was cured believe in me to stumble, it would be better
from that hour. for him that a huge millstone should be hung
17:19
Then the disciples came to Yeshua pri- around his neck, and that he should be sunk
vately, and said, “Why weren’t we able to cast in the depths of the sea.
it out?” 18:7
“Woe to the world because of occasions
17:20
He said to them, “Because of your of stumbling! For it must be that the occasions
unbelief. For most certainly I tell you, if you come, but woe to that person through whom
have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you the occasion comes! 18:8 If your hand or your
x 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.
y 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.
Matthew 18:9 803 Matthew 19:4

foot causes you to stumble, cut it off, and cast until seven times, but, until seventy times
it from you. It is better for you to enter into seven. 18:23 Therefore the Kingdom of Heaven
life maimed or crippled, rather than having is like a certain king, who wanted to reconcile
two hands or two feet to be cast into the accounts with his servants. 18:24 When he
eternal fire. 18:9 If your eye causes you to had begun to reconcile, one was brought to
stumble, pluck it out, and cast it from you. him who owed him ten thousand talents.b
18:25
It is better for you to enter into life with one But because he couldn’t pay, his lord
eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into commanded him to be sold, with his wife, his
the Gehinnomz of fire. 18:10 See that you don’t children, and all that he had, and payment to
despise one of these little ones, for I tell you be made. 18:26 The servant therefore fell down
that in heaven their angels always see the face and kneeled before him, saying, ‘Lord, have
of my Father who is in heaven. 18:11 For the patience with me, and I will repay you all!’
18:27
Son of Man came to save that which was lost. The lord of that servant, being moved
18:12 with compassion, released him, and forgave
“What do you think? If a man has
one hundred sheep, and one of them goes him the debt.
18:28
astray, doesn’t he leave the ninety-nine, go “But that servant went out, and found
to the mountains, and seek that which has one of his fellow servants, who owed him one
gone astray? 18:13 If he finds it, most certainly hundred denarii,c and he grabbed him, and
I tell you, he rejoices over it more than over took him by the throat, saying, ‘Pay me what
the ninety-nine which have not gone astray. you owe!’
18:14 18:29
Even so it is not the will of your Father “So his fellow servant fell down at his
who is in heaven that one of these little ones feet and begged him, saying, ‘Have patience
should perish. with me, and I will repay you!’ 18:30 He
18:15
“If your brother sins against you, go, would not, but went and cast him into prison,
show him his fault between you and him until he should pay back that which was
alone. If he listens to you, you have gained due. 18:31 So when his fellow servants saw
back your brother. 18:16 But if he doesn’t what was done, they were exceedingly sorry,
listen, take one or two more with you, that and came and told to their lord all that was
at the mouth of two or three witnesses every done. 18:32 Then his lord called him in, and
word may be established.a 18:17 If he refuses said to him, ‘You wicked servant! I forgave
to listen to them, tell it to the assembly. If he you all that debt, because you begged me.
18:33
refuses to hear the assembly also, let him be Shouldn’t you also have had mercy on
to you as a Gentile or a tax collector. 18:18 Most your fellow servant, even as I had mercy on
certainly I tell you, whatever things you bind you?’ 18:34 His lord was angry, and delivered
on earth will have been bound in heaven, him to the tormentors, until he should pay
and whatever things you release on earth will all that was due to him. 18:35 So my heavenly
have been released in heaven. 18:19 Again, Father will also do to you, if you don’t each
assuredly I tell you, that if two of you will forgive your brother from your hearts for his
agree on earth concerning anything that they misdeeds.”
will ask, it will be done for them by my Father 19:1
It happened when Yeshua had finished
who is in heaven. 18:20 For where two or three these words, he departed from Galilee, and
are gathered together in my name, there I am came into the borders of Judea beyond the
in their midst.” Jordan. 19:2 Great multitudes followed him, and
18:21
Then Peter came and said to him, “Lord, he healed them there. 19:3 Pharisees came to
how often shall my brother sin against me, and him, testing him, and saying, “Is it lawful for
I forgive him? Until seven times?” a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”
18:22 19:4
Yeshua said to him, “I don’t tell you He answered, “Haven’t you read that
z 18:9 or, Hell
a 18:16 Deuteronomy 19:15
b 18:24 Ten thousand talents 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.
c 18:28 100 denarii was about one sixtieth of a talent.
Matthew 19:5 804 Matthew 20:2

19:18
he who made them from the beginning made He said to him, “Which ones?”
them male and female,d 19:5 and said, ‘For this Yeshua said, “‘You shall not murder.’ ‘You
cause a man shall leave his father and mother, shall not commit adultery.’ ‘You shall not
and shall join to his wife; and the two shall steal.’ ‘You shall not offer false testimony.’
become one flesh?’e 19:6 So that they are no 19:19
‘Honor your father and mother.’g And,
more two, but one flesh. What therefore God ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’”h
has joined together, don’t let man tear apart.” 19:20
The young man said to him, “All these
19:7
They asked him, “Why then did Moses things I have observed from my youth. What
command us to give her a bill of divorce, and do I still lack?”
divorce her?” 19:21
Yeshua said to him, “If you want to
19:8
He said to them, “Moses, because of be perfect, go, sell what you have, and give
the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to to the poor, and you will have treasure in
divorce your wives, but from the beginning heaven; and come, follow me.” 19:22 But when
it has not been so. 19:9 I tell you that whoever the young man heard the saying, he went away
divorces his wife, except for sexual immoral- sad, for he was one who had great posses-
ity, and marries another, commits adultery; sions. 19:23 Yeshua said to his disciples, “Most
and he who marries her when she is divorced certainly I say to you, a rich man will enter
commits adultery.” into the Kingdom of Heaven with difficulty.
19:10 19:24
His disciples said to him, “If this is the Again I tell you, it is easier for a cameli to
case of the man with his wife, it is not expedient go through a needle’s eye, than for a rich man
to marry.” to enter into the Kingdom of God.”
19:11 19:25
But he said to them, “Not all men can When the disciples heard it, they were
receive this saying, but those to whom it is exceedingly astonished, saying, “Who then can
given. 19:12 For there are eunuchs who were be saved?”
19:26
born that way from their mother’s womb, and Looking at them, Yeshua said, “With
there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men this is impossible, but with God all
men; and there are eunuchs who made them- things are possible.”
selves eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven’s 19:27
Then Peter answered, “Behold, we have
sake. He who is able to receive it, let him left everything, and followed you. What then
receive it.” will we have?”
19:13 19:28
Then little children were brought to Yeshua said to them, “Most certainly I
him, that he should lay his hands on them and tell you that you who have followed me, in
pray; and the disciples rebuked them. 19:14 But the regeneration when the Son of Man will
Yeshua said, “Allow the little children, and sit on the throne of his glory, you also will sit
don’t forbid them to come to me; for the on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes
Kingdom of Heaven belongs to ones like of Israel. 19:29 Everyone who has left houses,
these.” 19:15 He laid his hands on them, and or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother,
departed from there. or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s
19:16
Behold, one came to him and said, sake, will receive one hundred times, and will
“Good Rabbi, what good thing shall I do, that I inherit eternal life. 19:30 But many will be last
may have eternal life?” who are first; and first who are last.
19:17 20:1
He said to him, “Why do you call me “For the Kingdom of Heaven is like a
good?f No one is good but one, that is, God. man who was the master of a household, who
But if you want to enter into life, keep the went out early in the morning to hire laborers
commandments.” for his vineyard. 20:2 When he had agreed with
d 19:4 Genesis 1:27
e 19:5 Genesis 2:24
f 19:17 So MT and TR. NU reads “Why do you ask me about what is good?”
g 19:19 Exodus 20:12-16; Deuteronomy 5:16-20
h 19:19 Leviticus 19:18
i 19:24 The Peshitta Aramaic word means camel, rope or beam.
j 20:2 A denarius is a silver Roman coin worth 1/25th of a Roman aureus. This was a common wage for a
Matthew 20:3 805 Matthew 20:34

the laborers for a denariusj a day, he sent them day he will be raised up.”
into his vineyard. 20:3 He went out about the 20:20
Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee
third hour,k and saw others standing idle in came to him with her sons, kneeling and asking
the marketplace. 20:4 To them he said, ‘You a certain thing of him. 20:21 He said to her,
also go into the vineyard, and whatever is “What do you want?”
right I will give you.’ So they went their way. She said to him, “Command that these, my
20:5
Again he went out about the sixth and the two sons, may sit, one on your right hand, and
ninth hour,l and did likewise. 20:6 About the one on your left hand, in your Kingdom.”
eleventh hourm he went out, and found others 20:22
But Yeshua answered, “You don’t know
standing idle. He said to them, ‘Why do you what you are asking. Are you able to drink
stand here all day idle?’ the cup that I am about to drink, and be
20:7
“They said to him, ‘Because no one has immersed with the immersion that I am im-
hired us.’ mersed with?”
“He said to them, ‘You also go into the They said to him, “We are able.”
20:23
vineyard, and you will receive whatever is He said to them, “You will indeed
right.’ 20:8 When evening had come, the lord drink my cup, and be immersed with the
of the vineyard said to his manager, ‘Call the immersion that I am immersed with, but to sit
laborers and pay them their wages, beginning on my right hand and on my left hand is not
from the last to the first.’ mine to give; but it is for whom it has been
20:9 prepared by my Father.”
“When those who were hired at about
20:24
the eleventh hour came, they each received a When the ten heard it, they were indig-
denarius. 20:10 When the first came, they sup- nant with the two brothers.
20:25
posed that they would receive more; and they But Yeshua summoned them, and said,
likewise each received a denarius. 20:11 When “You know that the rulers of the nations lord
they received it, they murmured against the it over them, and their great ones exercise
master of the household, 20:12 saying, ‘These authority over them. 20:26 It shall not be
last have spent one hour, and you have made so among you, but whoever desires to be-
them equal to us, who have borne the burden come great among you shall ben your servant.
20:27
of the day and the scorching heat!’ Whoever desires to be first among you
20:13
“But he answered one of them, ‘Friend, shall be your bondservant, 20:28 even as the
I am doing you no wrong. Didn’t you agree Son of Man came not to be served, but to
with me for a denarius? 20:14 Take that which serve, and to give his life as a ransom for
is yours, and go your way. It is my desire many.”
20:29
to give to this last just as much as to you. As they went out from Jericho, a great
20:15
Isn’t it lawful for me to do what I want to multitude followed him. 20:30 Behold, two blind
with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because men sitting by the road, when they heard that
I am good?’ 20:16 So the last will be first, and Yeshua was passing by, cried out, “Lord, have
the first last. For many are called, but few are mercy on us, you son of David!” 20:31 The
chosen.” multitude rebuked them, telling them that they
20:17 should be quiet, but they cried out even more,
As Yeshua was going up to Jerusalem,
he took the twelve disciples aside, and on “Lord, have mercy on us, you son of David!”
20:32
the way he said to them, 20:18 “Behold, we Yeshua stood still, and called them, and
are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of asked, “What do you want me to do for you?”
20:33
Man will be delivered to the chief priests and They told him, “Lord, that our eyes may
scribes, and they will condemn him to death, be opened.”
20:19 20:34
and will hand him over to the Gentiles to Yeshua, being moved with compassion,
mock, to scourge, and to crucify; and the third touched their eyes; and immediately their eyes
day of farm labor.
k 20:3 Time was measured from sunrise to sunset, so the third hour would be about 9:00 AM.
l 20:5 noon and 3:00 P. M.
m 20:6 5:00 PM
n 20:26 TR reads “let him be” instead of “shall be”
Matthew 21:1 806 Matthew 21:30

received their sight, and they followed him. what these are saying?”
21:1
When they drew near to Jerusalem, and Yeshua said to them, “Yes. Did you never
came to Bethsphage,o to the Mount of Olives, read, ‘Out of the mouth of babes and nursing
then Yeshua sent two disciples, 21:2 saying to babies you have perfected praise?’”u
21:17
them, “Go into the village that is opposite He left them, and went out of the city
you, and immediately you will find a donkey to Bethany, and lodged there. 21:18 Now in the
tied, and a colt with her. Untie them, and morning, as he returned to the city, he was
bring them to me. 21:3 If anyone says anything hungry. 21:19 Seeing a fig tree by the road, he
to you, you shall say, ‘The Lord needs them,’ came to it, and found nothing on it but leaves.
and immediately he will send them.” He said to it, “Let there be no fruit from you
21:4
All this was done, that it might be ful- forever!”
filled which was spoken through the prophet, Immediately the fig tree withered away.
21:20
saying, When the disciples saw it, they marveled,
21:5
“Tell the daughter of Zion, saying, “How did the fig tree immediately
behold, your King comes to you, wither away?”
21:21
humble, and riding on a donkey, Yeshua answered them, “Most certainly
on a colt, the foal of a donkey.”p I tell you, if you have faith, and don’t doubt,
21:6
The disciples went, and did just as you will not only do what was done to the
Yeshua commanded them, 21:7 and brought the fig tree, but even if you told this mountain,
donkey and the colt, and laid their clothes on ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ it would
them; and he sat on them. 21:8 A very great be done. 21:22 All things, whatever you ask in
multitude spread their clothes on the road. prayer, believing, you will receive.”
21:23
Others cut branches from the trees, and spread When he had come into the temple, the
them on the road. 21:9 The multitudes who went chief priests and the elders of the people came
before him, and who followed kept shouting, to him as he was teaching, and said, “By what
“Hoshia’naq to the son of David! Blessed is he authority do you do these things? Who gave
who comes in the name of the Lord! Hoshia’na you this authority?”
21:24
in the highest!”r Yeshua answered them, “I also will
21:10
When he had come into Jerusalem, all ask you one question, which if you tell me,
the city was stirred up, saying, “Who is this?” I likewise will tell you by what authority
21:11
The multitudes said, “This is the prophet, I do these things. 21:25 The immersion of
Yeshua, from Nazareth of Galilee.” Yochanan, where was it from? From heaven
21:12
Yeshua entered into the temple of God, or from men?”
and drove out all of those who sold and bought They reasoned with themselves, saying, “If
in the temple, and overthrew the money chang- we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will ask us, ‘Why
ers’ tables and the seats of those who sold the then did you not believe him?’ 21:26 But if we
doves. 21:13 He said to them, “It is written, ‘My say, ‘From men,’ we fear the multitude, for
house shall be called a house of prayer,’s but all hold Yochanan as a prophet.” 21:27 They
you have made it a den of robbers!”t answered Yeshua, and said, “We don’t know.”
21:14
The blind and the lame came to him He also said to them, “Neither will I tell you
in the temple, and he healed them. 21:15 But by what authority I do these things. 21:28 But
when the chief priests and the scribes saw the what do you think? A man had two sons, and
wonderful things that he did, and the children he came to the first, and said, ‘Son, go work
who were crying in the temple and saying, today in my vineyard.’ 21:29 He answered, ‘I
“Hoshia’na to the son of David!” they were will not,’ but afterward he changed his mind,
indignant, 21:16 and said to him, “Do you hear and went. 21:30 He came to the second, and
o 21:1 TR & NU read “Bethphage” instead of “Bethsphage”
p 21:5 Zechariah 9:9
q 21:9 “Hoshia’na” means “save us” or “help us, we pray.”
r 21:9 Psalm 118:26
s 21:13 Isaiah 56:7
t 21:13 Jeremiah 7:11
u 21:16 Psalm 8:2
Matthew 21:31 807 Matthew 22:17

said the same thing. He answered, ‘I go, sir,’ heard his parables, they perceived that he
but he didn’t go. 21:31 Which of the two did the spoke about them. 21:46 When they sought to
will of his father?” seize him, they feared the multitudes, because
They said to him, “The first.” they considered him to be a prophet.
Yeshua said to them, “Most certainly I tell 22:1
Yeshua answered and spoke again in
you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes parables to them, saying, 22:2 “The Kingdom
are entering into the Kingdom of God before of Heaven is like a certain king, who made
you. 21:32 For Yochanan came to you in the a marriage feast for his son, 22:3 and sent out
way of righteousness, and you didn’t believe his servants to call those who were invited
him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes to the marriage feast, but they would not
believed him. When you saw it, you didn’t come. 22:4 Again he sent out other servants,
even repent afterward, that you might believe saying, ‘Tell those who are invited, “Behold, I
him. have prepared my dinner. My cattle and my
21:33
“Hear another parable. There was a fatlings are killed, and all things are ready.
man who was a master of a household, who Come to the marriage feast!”’ 22:5 But they
planted a vineyard, set a hedge about it, dug made light of it, and went their ways, one
a winepress in it, built a tower, leased it to his own farm, another to his merchandise,
out to farmers, and went into another coun- 22:6
and the rest grabbed his servants, and
try. 21:34 When the season for the fruit drew treated them shamefully, and killed them.
near, he sent his servants to the farmers, to 22:7
When the king heard that, he was angry,
receive his fruit. 21:35 The farmers took his and sent his armies, destroyed those murder-
servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned ers, and burned their city.
another. 21:36 Again, he sent other servants
22:8
more than the first: and they treated them “Then he said to his servants, ‘The
the same way. 21:37 But afterward he sent wedding is ready, but those who were in-
to them his son, saying, ‘They will respect vited weren’t worthy. 22:9 Go therefore to
my son.’ 21:38 But the farmers, when they the intersections of the highways, and as
saw the son, said among themselves, ‘This many as you may find, invite to the marriage
is the heir. Come, let’s kill him, and seize feast.’ 22:10 Those servants went out into the
his inheritance.’ 21:39 So they took him, and highways, and gathered together as many as
threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him. they found, both bad and good. The wedding
21:40
When therefore the lord of the vineyard was filled with guests. 22:11 But when the
comes, what will he do to those farmers?” king came in to see the guests, he saw there
21:41 a man who didn’t have on wedding clothing,
They told him, “He will miserably de- 22:12
stroy those miserable men, and will lease out and he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you
the vineyard to other farmers, who will give come in here not wearing wedding clothing?’
him the fruit in its season.” He was speechless. 22:13 Then the king said
21:42
Yeshua said to them, “Did you never to the servants, ‘Bind him hand and foot,
read in the Scriptures, take him away, and throw him into the outer
‘The stone which the builders rejected, darkness; there is where the weeping and
the same was made the head of the grinding of teeth will be.’ 22:14 For many are
corner. called, but few chosen.”
22:15
This was from the Lord. Then the Pharisees went and took coun-
It is marvelous in our eyes?’v sel how they might entrap him in his talk.
21:43 22:16
“Therefore I tell you, the Kingdom of They sent their disciples to him, along with
God will be taken away from you, and will the Herodians, saying, “Rabbi, we know that
be given to a nation bringing forth its fruit. you are honest, and teach the way of God in
21:44
He who falls on this stone will be broken truth, no matter whom you teach, for you aren’t
to pieces, but on whomever it will fall, it will partial to anyone. 22:17 Tell us therefore, what
scatter him as dust.” do you think? Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar,
21:45
When the chief priests and the Pharisees or not?”
v 21:42 Psalm 118:22-23
Matthew 22:18 808 Matthew 23:12

22:18
But Yeshua perceived their wickedness, your soul, and with all your mind.’x 22:38 This
and said, “Why do you test me, you hyp- is the first and great commandment. 22:39 A
ocrites? 22:19 Show me the tax money.” second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your
They brought to him a denarius. neighbor as yourself.’y 22:40 The whole Torah
22:20 and the Prophets depend on these two com-
He asked them, “Whose is this image
and inscription?” mandments.”
22:21 22:41
They said to him, “Caesar’s.” Now while the Pharisees were gath-
Then he said to them, “Give therefore to ered together, Yeshua asked them a question,
22:42
Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God saying, “What do you think of the Mes-
the things that are God’s.” siah? Whose son is he?”
22:22
When they heard it, they marveled, and They said to him, “Of David.”
22:43
left him, and went away. He said to them, “How then does
22:23
On that day Sadducees (those who say David in the Spirit call him Lord, saying,
22:44
that there is no resurrection) came to him. They ‘The Lord said to my Lord,
asked him, 22:24 saying, “Rabbi, Moses said, ‘If sit on my right hand,
a man dies, having no children, his brother until I make your enemies a footstool for
shall marry his wife, and raise up seed for your feet?’z
his brother.’ 22:25 Now there were with us 22:45
“If then David calls him Lord, how is
seven brothers. The first married and died, he his son?”
and having no seed left his wife to his brother. 22:46
No one was able to answer him a word,
22:26
In the same way, the second also, and the neither did any man dare ask him any more
third, to the seventh. 22:27 After them all, the questions from that day forth.
woman died. 22:28 In the resurrection therefore, 23:1
Then Yeshua spoke to the multitudes and
whose wife will she be of the seven? For they to his disciples, 23:2 saying, “The scribes and
all had her.” the Pharisees sat on Moses’ seat. 23:3 All things
22:29
But Yeshua answered them, “You are therefore whatever they tell you to observe,
mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the observe and do, but don’t do their works;
power of God. 22:30 For in the resurrection for they say, and don’t do. 23:4 For they bind
they neither marry, nor are given in mar- heavy burdens that are grievous to be borne,
riage, but are like God’s angels in heaven. and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they
22:31
But concerning the resurrection of the themselves will not lift a finger to help them.
dead, haven’t you read that which was spoken 23:5
But all their works they do to be seen by
to you by God, saying, 22:32 ‘I am the God of men. They make their tefillina broad, enlarge
Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God the fringeb of their garments, 23:6 and love
of Jacob?’w God is not the God of the dead, the place of honor at feasts, the best seats
but of the living.” in the synagogues, 23:7 the salutations in the
22:33
When the multitudes heard it, they were marketplaces, and to be called ‘Rabbi, Rabbi’
astonished at his teaching. 22:34 But the Phar- by men. 23:8 But don’t you be called ‘Rabbi,’
isees, when they heard that he had silenced for one is your Rabbi, the Messiah, and all of
the Sadducees, gathered themselves together. you are brothers. 23:9 Call no man on the earth
22:35
One of them, a Torah scholar, asked him a your father, for one is your Father, he who
question, testing him. 22:36 “Rabbi, which is the is in heaven. 23:10 Neither be called masters,
greatest commandment in the law?” for one is your master, the Messiah. 23:11 But
22:37
Yeshua said to him, “‘You shall love the he who is greatest among you will be your
Lord your God with all your heart, with all servant. 23:12 Whoever exalts himself will be
w 22:32 Exodus 3:6
x 22:37 Deuteronomy 6:5
y 22:39 Leviticus 19:18
z 22:44 Psalm 110:1
a 23:5 tefillin 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.
b 23:5 or, tzitziot
Matthew 23:13 809 Matthew 24:1

humbled, and whoever humbles himself will of extortion and unrighteousness.g 23:26 You
be exalted. blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup
23:13
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, and of the platter, that its outside may become
hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, clean also.
23:27
and as a pretense you make long prayers. “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees,
Therefore you will receive greater condemna- hypocrites! For you are like whitened tombs,
tion. which outwardly appear beautiful, but in-
23:14
“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, wardly are full of dead men’s bones, and of all
hypocrites! Because you shut up the Kingdom uncleanness. 23:28 Even so you also outwardly
of Heaven against men; for you don’t enter appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are
in yourselves, neither do you allow those full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
who are entering in to enter.c 23:15 Woe to 23:29
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees,
you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For hypocrites! For you build the tombs of
you travel around by sea and land to make the prophets, and decorate the tombs of the
one proselyte; and when he becomes one, righteous, 23:30 and say, ‘If we had lived in
you make him twice as much of a son of the days of our fathers, we wouldn’t have
Gehinnomd as yourselves. been partakers with them in the blood of
23:16
“Woe to you, you blind guides, who the prophets.’ 23:31 Therefore you testify to
say, ‘Whoever swears by the temple, it is yourselves that you are children of those who
nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of killed the prophets. 23:32 Fill up, then, the
the temple, he is obligated.’ 23:17 You blind measure of your fathers. 23:33 You serpents,
fools! For which is greater, the gold, or the you offspring of vipers, how will you escape
temple that sanctifies the gold? 23:18 ‘Whoever the judgment of Gehinnomh ? 23:34 Therefore
swears by the altar, it is nothing; but who- behold, I send to you prophets, wise men,
ever swears by the gift that is on it, he is and scribes. Some of them you will kill and
obligated?’ 23:19 You blind fools! For which crucify; and some of them you will scourge in
is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies your synagogues, and persecute from city to
the gift? 23:20 He therefore who swears by the city; 23:35 that on you may come all the righ-
altar, swears by it, and by everything on it. teous blood shed on the earth, from the blood
23:21
He who swears by the temple, swears by of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah
it, and by him who was livinge in it. 23:22 He son of Berechiah, whom you killed between
who swears by heaven, swears by the throne the sanctuary and the altar. 23:36 Most certainly
of God, and by him who sits on it. I tell you, all these things will come upon this
23:23
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, generation.
23:37
hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the
cumin,f and have left undone the weightier prophets, and stones those who are sent to
matters of the Torah: justice, mercy, and faith. her! How often I would have gathered your
But you ought to have done these, and not children together, even as a hen gathers her
to have left the other undone. 23:24 You blind chicks under her wings, and you would not!
23:38
guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a Behold, your house is left to you desolate.
23:39
camel! For I tell you, you will not see me from
23:25
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, now on, until you say, ‘Blessed is he who
hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the comes in the name of the Lord!’”i
24:1
cup and of the platter, but within they are full Yeshua went out from the temple, and
c 23:14 Some Greek manuscripts reverse the order of verses 13 and 14, and some omit verse 13, numbering

verse 14 as 13.
d 23:15 or, Hell
e 23:21 NU reads “lives”
f 23:23 cumin is an aromatic seed from Cuminum cyminum, resembling caraway in flavor and appearance.

It is used as a spice.
g 23:25 TR reads “self-indulgence” instead of “unrighteousness”
h 23:33 or, Hell
i 23:39 Psalm 118:26
Matthew 24:2 810 Matthew 24:36

was going on his way. His disciples came to on a Sabbath, 24:21 for then there will be great
him to show him the buildings of the temple. oppression, such as has not been from the
24:2
But he answered them, “You see all of beginning of the world until now, no, nor
these things, don’t you? Most certainly I tell ever will be. 24:22 Unless those days had been
you, there will not be left here one stone on shortened, no flesh would have been saved.
another, that will not be thrown down.” But for the sake of the chosen ones, those days
24:3 will be shortened.
As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the
24:23
disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell “Then if any man tells you, ‘Behold,
us, when will these things be? What is the sign here is the Messiah,’ or, ‘There,’ don’t believe
of your coming, and of the end of the age?” it. 24:24 For there will arise false messiahs, and
24:4 false prophets, and they will show great signs
Yeshua answered them, “Be careful that
no one leads you astray. 24:5 For many will and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible,
come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Messiah,’ even the chosen ones.
and will lead many astray. 24:6 You will hear 24:25
“Behold, I have told you beforehand.
24:26
of wars and rumors of wars. See that you If therefore they tell you, ‘Behold, he is in
aren’t troubled, for all this must happen, but the wilderness,’ don’t go out; ‘Behold, he is in
the end is not yet. 24:7 For nation will rise the inner rooms,’ don’t believe it. 24:27 For as
against nation, and kingdom against king- the lightning flashes from the east, and is seen
dom; and there will be famines, plagues, even to the west, so will be the coming of the
and earthquakes in various places. 24:8 But Son of Man. 24:28 For wherever the carcass is,
all these things are the beginning of birth there is where the vulturesk gather together.
pains. 24:9 Then they will deliver you up to 24:29
But immediately after the oppression of
oppression, and will kill you. You will be those days, the sun will be darkened, the
hated by all of the nations for my name’s sake. moon will not give its light, the stars will fall
24:10
Then many will stumble, and will deliver from the sky, and the powers of the heavens
up one another, and will hate one another. will be shaken;l 24:30 and then the sign of the
24:11
Many false prophets will arise, and will Son of Man will appear in the sky. Then all
lead many astray. 24:12 Because iniquity will the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they
be multiplied, the love of many will grow will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds
cold. 24:13 But he who endures to the end, the of the sky with power and great glory. 24:31 He
same will be saved. 24:14 This Good News of will send out his angels with a great sound of
the Kingdom will be preached in the whole a shofarm , and they will gather together his
world for a testimony to all the nations, and chosen ones from the four winds, from one
then the end will come. end of the sky to the other.
24:15 24:32
“When, therefore, you see the abom- “Now from the fig tree learn this para-
ination of desolation,j which was spoken ble. When its branch has now become tender,
of through Daniel the prophet, standing in and puts forth its leaves, you know that the
the holy place (let the reader understand), summer is near. 24:33 Even so you also, when
24:16
then let those who are in Judea flee to you see all these things, know that it is
the mountains. 24:17 Let him who is on the near, even at the doors. 24:34 Most certainly
housetop not go down to take out things that I tell you, this generationn will not pass
are in his house. 24:18 Let him who is in away, until all these things are accomplished.
24:35
the field not return back to get his clothes. Heaven and earth will pass away, but my
24:19
But woe to those who are with child and words will not pass away. 24:36 But no one
to nursing mothers in those days! 24:20 Pray knows of that day and hour, not even the
that your flight will not be in the winter, nor angels of heaven,o but my Father only.
j 24:15 Daniel 9:27; 11:31; 12:11
k 24:28 or, eagles
l 24:29 Isaiah 13:10; 34:4
m 24:31 or, trumpet
n 24:34 The word for “generation” (genea) can also be translated as “race.”
o 24:36 NU adds “nor the son”
Matthew 24:37 811 Matthew 25:24

24:37
“As the days of Noah were, so will ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are
be the coming of the Son of Man. 24:38 For going out.’ 25:9 But the wise answered, saying,
as in those days which were before the flood ‘What if there isn’t enough for us and you?
they were eating and drinking, marrying and You go rather to those who sell, and buy for
giving in marriage, until the day that Noah yourselves.’ 25:10 While they went away to
entered into the ship, 24:39 and they didn’t buy, the bridegroom came, and those who
know until the flood came, and took them all were ready went in with him to the marriage
away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. feast, and the door was shut. 25:11 Afterward
24:40
Then two men will be in the field: one the other virgins also came, saying, ‘Lord,
will be taken and one will be left; 24:41 two Lord, open to us.’ 25:12 But he answered,
women grinding at the mill, one will be taken ‘Most certainly I tell you, I don’t know you.’
and one will be left. 24:42 Watch therefore, 25:13
Watch therefore, for you don’t know the
for you don’t know in what hour your Lord day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is
comes. 24:43 But know this, that if the master coming.
of the house had known in what watch of the 25:14
“For it is like a man, going into another
night the thief was coming, he would have country, who called his own servants, and
watched, and would not have allowed his entrusted his goods to them. 25:15 To one he
house to be broken into. 24:44 Therefore also gave five talents, to another two, to another
be ready, for in an hour that you don’t expect, one; to each according to his own ability. Then
the Son of Man will come. he went on his journey. 25:16 Immediately he
24:45 who received the five talents went and traded
“Who then is the faithful and wise
servant, whom his lord has set over his house- with them, and made another five talents.
25:17
hold, to give them their food in due season? In the same way, he also who got the two
24:46
Blessed is that servant whom his lord gained another two. 25:18 But he who received
finds doing so when he comes. 24:47 Most the one went away and dug in the earth, and
certainly I tell you that he will set him over all hid his lord’s money.
25:19
that he has. 24:48 But if that evil servant should “Now after a long time the lord of
say in his heart, ‘My lord is delaying his those servants came, and reconciled accounts
coming,’ 24:49 and begins to beat his fellow ser- with them. 25:20 He who received the five
vants, and eat and drink with the drunkards, talents came and brought another five talents,
24:50 saying, ‘Lord, you delivered to me five talents.
the lord of that servant will come in a
day when he doesn’t expect it, and in an hour Behold, I have gained another five talents
when he doesn’t know it, 24:51 and will cut him besides them.’
25:21
in pieces, and appoint his portion with the “His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good
hypocrites. There is where the weeping and and faithful servant. You have been faithful
grinding of teeth will be. over a few things, I will set you over many
25:1 things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’
“Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be
25:22
like ten virgins, who took their lamps, and “He also who got the two talents came
went out to meet the bridegroom. 25:2 Five and said, ‘Lord, you delivered to me two
of them were foolish, and five were wise. talents. Behold, I have gained another two
25:3 talents besides them.’
Those who were foolish, when they took
25:23
their lamps, took no oil with them, 25:4 but the “His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good
wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. and faithful servant. You have been faithful
25:5 over a few things, I will set you over many
Now while the bridegroom delayed, they
all slumbered and slept. 25:6 But at midnight things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’
25:24
there was a cry, ‘Behold! The bridegroom is “He also who had received the one
coming! Come out to meet him!’ 25:7 Then talent came and said, ‘Lord, I knew you that
all those virgins arose, and trimmed their you are a hard man, reaping where you did
lamps.p 25:8 The foolish said to the wise, not sow, and gathering where you did not
p 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.
Matthew 25:25 812 Matthew 26:14

scatter. 25:25 I was afraid, and went away and devil and his angels; 25:42 for I was hungry,
hid your talent in the earth. Behold, you have and you didn’t give me food to eat; I was
what is yours.’ thirsty, and you gave me no drink; 25:43 I was
25:26 a stranger, and you didn’t take me in; naked,
“But his lord answered him, ‘You
wicked and slothful servant. You knew that and you didn’t clothe me; sick, and in prison,
I reap where I didn’t sow, and gather where and you didn’t visit me.’
25:44
I didn’t scatter. 25:27 You ought therefore to “Then they will also answer, saying,
have deposited my money with the bankers, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry, or thirsty,
and at my coming I should have received or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison,
back my own with interest. 25:28 Take away and didn’t help you?’
25:45
therefore the talent from him, and give it “Then he will answer them, saying,
to him who has the ten talents. 25:29 For to ‘Most certainly I tell you, inasmuch as you
everyone who has will be given, and he will didn’t do it to one of the least of these, you
have abundance, but from him who doesn’t didn’t do it to me.’ 25:46 These will go away
have, even that which he has will be taken into eternal punishment, but the righteous
away. 25:30 Throw out the unprofitable servant into eternal life.”
into the outer darkness, where there will be 26:1
It happened, when Yeshua had finished
weeping and gnashing of teeth.’ all these words, that he said to his disci-
25:31
“But when the Son of Man comes ples, 26:2 “You know that after two days the
in his glory, and all the holy angels with Passover is coming, and the Son of Man will
him, then he will sit on the throne of his be delivered up to be crucified.”
glory. 25:32 Before him all the nations will 26:3
Then the chief priests, the scribes, and
be gathered, and he will separate them one the elders of the people were gathered together
from another, as a shepherd separates the in the court of the high priest, who was called
sheep from the goats. 25:33 He will set the Caiaphas. 26:4 They took counsel together that
sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the they might take Yeshua by deceit, and kill him.
left. 25:34 Then the King will tell those on 26:5
But they said, “Not during the feast, lest a
his right hand, ‘Come, blessed of my Father, riot occur among the people.”
inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from 26:6
Now when Yeshua was in Bethany, in the
the foundation of the world; 25:35 for I was house of Simon the leperr , 26:7 a woman came to
hungry, and you gave me food to eat. I him having an alabaster jar of very expensive
was thirsty, and you gave me drink. I was ointment, and she poured it on his head as he
a stranger, and you took me in. 25:36 I was sat at the table. 26:8 But when his disciples saw
naked, and you clothed me. I was sick, and this, they were indignant, saying, “Why this
you visited me. I was in prison, and you came waste? 26:9 For this ointment might have been
to me.’ sold for much, and given to the poor.”
25:37 26:10
“Then the righteous will answer him, However, knowing this, Yeshua said
saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry, to them, “Why do you trouble the woman?
and feed you; or thirsty, and give you a Because she has done a good work for me.
drink? 25:38 When did we see you as a stranger, 26:11
For you always have the poor with you;
26:12
and take you in; or naked, and clothe you? but you don’t always have me. For
25:39
When did we see you sick, or in prison, in pouring this ointment on my body, she
and come to you?’ did it to prepare me for burial. 26:13 Most
25:40
“The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, wherever this Good News
certainly I tell you, inasmuch as you did it to is preached in the whole world, what this
one of the least of these my brothersq , you did woman has done will also be spoken of as a
it to me.’ 25:41 Then he will say also to those memorial of her.”
26:14
on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, Then one of the twelve, who was
into the eternal fire which is prepared for the called Judah Iscariot, went to the chief priests,
q 25:40
The word for “brothers” here may be also correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”
r 26:6
The unpointed Peshitta Aramaic word is either Ga’Rabba “leper” or Garaba “potter” or “jar
merchant.”
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26:15
and said, “What are you willing to give go before you into Galilee.”
26:33
me, that I should deliver him to you?” They But Peter answered him, “Even if all
weighed out for him thirty pieces of silver. will be made to stumble because of you, I will
26:16
From that time he sought opportunity to never be made to stumble.”
betray him. 26:34
Yeshua said to him, “Most certainly I
26:17
Now on the first day of unleavened tell you that tonight, before the rooster crows,
bread, the disciples came to Yeshua, saying to you will deny me three times.”
him, “Where do you want us to prepare for you 26:35
Peter said to him, “Even if I must die
to eat the Passover?” with you, I will not deny you.” All of the
26:18
He said, “Go into the city to a certain disciples also said likewise.
person, and tell him, ‘The Rabbi says, “My 26:36
Then Yeshua came with them to a
time is at hand. I will keep the Passover at place called Gethsemane, and said to his dis-
your house with my disciples.”’” ciples, “Sit here, while I go there and pray.”
26:19 26:37
The disciples did as Yeshua com- He took with him Peter and the two sons
manded them, and they prepared the Passover. of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and
26:20
Now when evening had come, he was severely troubled. 26:38 Then he said to them,
reclining at the table with the twelve disciples. “My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to
26:21
As they were eating, he said, “Most cer- death. Stay here, and watch with me.”
tainly I tell you that one of you will betray 26:39
He went forward a little, fell on his
me.” face, and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it
26:22
They were exceedingly sorrowful, and is possible, let this cup pass away from me;
each began to ask him, “It isn’t me, is it, Lord?” nevertheless, not what I desire, but what you
26:23
He answered, “He who dipped his desire.”
26:40
hand with me in the dish, the same will betray He came to the disciples, and found
me. 26:24 The Son of Man goes, even as it is them sleeping, and said to Peter, “What,
written of him, but woe to that man through couldn’t you watch with me for one hour?
26:41
whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would Watch and pray, that you don’t enter into
be better for that man if he had not been temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but
born.” the flesh is weak.”
26:25 26:42
Judah, who betrayed him, answered, “It Again, a second time he went away,
isn’t me, is it, Rabbi?” and prayed, saying, “My Father, if this cup
He said to him, “You said it.” can’t pass away from me unless I drink it,
26:26
As they were eating, Yeshua took bread, your desire be done.” 26:43 He came again and
gave thanks fors it, and broke it. He gave found them sleeping, for their eyes were heavy.
26:44
to the disciples, and said, “Take, eat; this He left them again, went away, and prayed
is my body.” 26:27 He took the cup, gave a third time, saying the same words. 26:45 Then
thanks, and gave to them, saying, “All of you he came to his disciples, and said to them,
drink it, 26:28 for this is my blood of the new “Sleep on now, and take your rest. Behold,
covenant, which is poured out for many for the hour is at hand, and the Son of Man is
the remission of sins. 26:29 But I tell you that betrayed into the hands of sinners. 26:46 Arise,
I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from let’s be going. Behold, he who betrays me is
now on, until that day when I drink it anew at hand.”
with you in my Father’s Kingdom.” 26:30 When 26:47
While he was still speaking, behold,
they had sung the Hallel, they went out to the Judah, one of the twelve, came, and with
Mount of Olives. him a great multitude with swords and clubs,
26:31
Then Yeshua said to them, “All of from the chief priest and elders of the people.
26:48
you will be made to stumble because of me Now he who betrayed him gave them
tonight, for it is written, ‘I will strike the a sign, saying, “Whoever I kiss, he is the
shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be one. Seize him.” 26:49 Immediately he came to
scattered.’t 26:32 But after I am raised up, I will Yeshua, and said, “Hail, Rabbi!” and kissed
s 26:26 TR reads “blessed” instead of “gave thanks for”
t 26:31 Zechariah 13:7
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26:67
him. Then they spit in his face and beat him with
26:50
Yeshua said to him, “Friend, why are their fists, and some slapped him, 26:68 saying,
you here?” Then they came and laid hands on “Prophesy to us, you Messiah! Who hit you?”
Yeshua, and took him. 26:51 Behold, one of those 26:69
Now Peter was sitting outside in the
who were with Yeshua stretched out his hand, court, and a maid came to him, saying, “You
and drew his sword, and struck the servant of were also with Yeshua, the Galilean!”
the high priest, and struck off his ear. 26:52 Then 26:70
But he denied it before them all, saying,
Yeshua said to him, “Put your sword back into “I don’t know what you are talking about.”
its place, for all those who take the sword will 26:71
When he had gone out onto the porch,
die by the sword. 26:53 Or do you think that someone else saw him, and said to those who
I couldn’t ask my Father, and he would even were there, “This man also was with Yeshua of
now send me more than twelve legions of Nazareth.”
angels? 26:54 How then would the Scriptures 26:72
Again he denied it with an oath, “I don’t
be fulfilled that it must be so?” know the man.”
26:55
In that hour Yeshua said to the multi- 26:73
After a little while those who stood by
tudes, “Have you come out as against a robber
came and said to Peter, “Surely you are also one
with swords and clubs to seize me? I sat daily
of them, for your speech makes you known.”
in the temple teaching, and you didn’t arrest 26:74
Then he began to curse and to swear, “I
me. 26:56 But all this has happened, that the
don’t know the man!”
Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.”
Then all the disciples left him, and fled. Immediately the rooster crowed. 26:75 Peter
26:57
Those who had taken Yeshua led him away remembered the word which Yeshua had said
to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes to him, “Before the rooster crows, you will deny
and the elders were gathered together. 26:58 But me three times.” He went out and wept bitterly.
27:1
Peter followed him from a distance, to the Now when morning had come, all the
court of the high priest, and entered in and chief priests and the elders of the people took
sat with the officers, to see the end. 26:59 Now counsel against Yeshua to put him to death:
27:2
the chief priests, the elders, and the whole and they bound him, and led him away,
council sought false testimony against Yeshua, and delivered him up to Pontius Pilate, the
that they might put him to death; 26:60 and they governor. 27:3 Then Judah, who betrayed him,
found none. Even though many false witnesses when he saw that Yeshua was condemned, felt
came forward, they found none. But at last two remorse, and brought back the thirty pieces of
false witnesses came forward, 26:61 and said, silver to the chief priests and elders, 27:4 saying,
“This man said, ‘I am able to destroy the temple “I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent
of God, and to build it in three days.’” blood.”
26:62 But they said, “What is that to us? You see
The high priest stood up, and said to
him, “Have you no answer? What is this that to it.”
27:5
these testify against you?” 26:63 But Yeshua held He threw down the pieces of silver in the
his peace. The high priest answered him, “I sanctuary, and departed. He went away and
adjure you by the living God, that you tell us hanged himself. 27:6 The chief priests took the
whether you are the Messiah, the Son of God.” pieces of silver, and said, “It’s not lawful to
26:64 put them into the treasury, since it is the price
Yeshua said to him, “You have said it.
Nevertheless, I tell you, after this you will see of blood.” 27:7 They took counsel, and bought
the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the potter’s field with them, to bury strangers
Power, and coming on the clouds of the sky.” in. 27:8 Therefore that field was called “The
26:65
Then the high priest tore his clothing, Field of Blood” to this day. 27:9 Then that which
saying, “He has spoken blasphemy! Why do was spoken through Jeremiahu the prophet was
we need any more witnesses? Behold, now you fulfilled, saying,
have heard his blasphemy. 26:66 What do you “They took the thirty pieces of silver,
think?” the price of him upon whom a price had
They answered, “He is worthy of death!” been set,
u 27:9 some manuscripts omit “Jeremiah”
Matthew 27:10 815 Matthew 27:45

whom some of the children of Israel blood be on us, and on our children!”
priced, 27:26
Then he released to them Barabbas, but
27:10
and they gave them for the potter’s field, Yeshua he flogged and delivered to be cruci-
as the Lord commanded me.”v fied. 27:27 Then the governor’s soldiers took
27:11
Now Yeshua stood before the governor: Yeshua into the Praetorium, and gathered the
and the governor asked him, saying, “Are you whole garrison together against him. 27:28 They
the King of the Jews?” stripped him, and put a scarlet robe on him.
27:29
Yeshua said to him, “So you say.” They braided a crown of thorns and put it
27:12 on his head, and a reed in his right hand; and
When he was accused by the chief
priests and elders, he answered nothing. they kneeled down before him, and mocked
27:13
Then Pilate said to him, “Don’t you hear him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” 27:30 They
how many things they testify against you?” spat on him, and took the reed and struck
27:14
He gave him no answer, not even one him on the head. 27:31 When they had mocked
word, so that the governor marveled greatly. him, they took the robe off of him, and put his
27:15 clothes on him, and led him away to crucify
Now at the feast the governor was accus-
tomed to release to the multitude one prisoner, him.
27:32
whom they desired. 27:16 They had then a As they came out, they found a man of
notable prisoner, called Barabbas. 27:17 When Cyrene, Simon by name, and they compelled
therefore they were gathered together, Pilate him to go with them, that he might carry
said to them, “Whom do you want me to his cross. 27:33 They came to a place called
release to you? Barabbas, or Yeshua, who is “Golgotha,” that is to say, “The place of a
called Messiah?” 27:18 For he knew that because skull.” 27:34 They gave him sour wine to drink
of envy they had delivered him up. mixed with gall. When he had tasted it, he
27:19
While he was sitting on the judgment would not drink. 27:35 When they had crucified
seat, his wife sent to him, saying, “Have him, they divided his clothing among them,
nothing to do with that righteous man, for I casting lots,w 27:36 and they sat and watched
have suffered many things this day in a dream him there. 27:37 They set up over his head
because of him.” 27:20 Now the chief priests the accusation against him written, “THIS IS
and the elders persuaded the multitudes to ask YESHUA, THE KING OF THE JEWS.”
for Barabbas, and destroy Yeshua. 27:21 But the 27:38
Then there were two robbers crucified
governor answered them, “Which of the two do with him, one on his right hand and one on
you want me to release to you?” the left. 27:39 Those who passed by blasphemed
They said, “Barabbas!” him, wagging their heads, 27:40 and saying,
27:22
Pilate said to them, “What then shall I “You who destroy the temple, and build it in
do to Yeshua, who is called Messiah?” three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of
They all said to him, “Let him be crucified!” God, come down from the cross!”
27:23 27:41
But the governor said, “Why? What evil Likewise the chief priests also mocking,
has he done?” with the scribes, the Pharisees,x and the elders,
But they cried out exceedingly, saying, “Let said, 27:42 “He saved others, but he can’t save
him be crucified!” himself. If he is the King of Israel, let him come
27:24 down from the cross now, and we will believe
So when Pilate saw that nothing was
being gained, but rather that a disturbance was in him. 27:43 He trusts in God. Let God deliver
starting, he took water, and washed his hands him now, if he wants him; for he said, ‘I am
before the multitude, saying, “I am innocent of the Son of God.’” 27:44 The robbers also who
the blood of this righteous person. You see to were crucified with him cast on him the same
it.” reproach.
27:25 27:45
All the people answered, “May his Now from the sixth houry there was
v 27:10 Zechariah 11:12-13; Jeremiah 19:1-13; 32:6-9
w 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 Yochanan 19:24]
x 27:41 TR omits “the Pharisees”
y 27:45 noon
Matthew 27:46 816 Matthew 28:14

darkness over all the land until the ninth again.’ 27:64 Command therefore that the tomb
hour.z 27:46 About the ninth hour Yeshua cried be made secure until the third day, lest perhaps
with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, limaa his disciples come at night and steal him away,
sabachthani?” That is, “My God, my God, and tell the people, ‘He is risen from the dead;’
why have you forsaken me?”b and the last deception will be worse than the
27:47 first.”
Some of them who stood there, when
27:65
they heard it, said, “This man is calling Elijah.” Pilate said to them, “You have a guard.
27:48
Immediately one of them ran, and took Go, make it as secure as you can.” 27:66 So they
a sponge, and filled it with vinegar, and put went with the guard and made the tomb secure,
it on a reed, and gave him a drink. 27:49 The sealing the stone.
28:1
rest said, “Let him be. Let’s see whether Elijah Now after the Sabbath, as it began to
comes to save him.” dawn on the first day of the week, Miriam
27:50 Magdalene and the other Miriam came to
Yeshua cried again with a loud voice,
and yielded up his spirit. 27:51 Behold, the see the tomb. 28:2 Behold, there was a great
veil of the temple was torn in two from the earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descended
top to the bottom. The earth quaked and from the sky, and came and rolled away the
the rocks were split. 27:52 The tombs were stone from the door, and sat on it. 28:3 His
opened, and many bodies of the holy ones appearance was like lightning, and his clothing
who had fallen asleep were raised; 27:53 and white as snow. 28:4 For fear of him, the guards
coming out of the tombs after his resurrection, shook, and became like dead men. 28:5 The
they entered into the holy city and appeared angel answered the women, “Don’t be afraid,
to many. 27:54 Now the centurion, and those for I know that you seek Yeshua, who has been
who were with him watching Yeshua, when crucified. 28:6 He is not here, for he has risen,
they saw the earthquake, and the things that just like he said. Come, see the place where
were done, feared exceedingly, saying, “Truly the Lord was lying. 28:7 Go quickly and tell
this was the Son of God.” his disciples, ‘He has risen from the dead, and
27:55
Many women were there watching from behold, he goes before you into Galilee; there
afar, who had followed Yeshua from Galilee, you will see him.’ Behold, I have told you.”
28:8
serving him. 27:56 Among them were Miriam They departed quickly from the tomb
Magdalene, Miriam the mother of Jacob and with fear and great joy, and ran to bring his
Yosi, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee. disciples word. 28:9 As they went to tell his
27:57
When evening had come, a rich man from disciples, behold, Yeshua met them, saying,
Arimathaea, named Joseph, who himself was “Rejoice!”
also Yeshua’s disciple came. 27:58 This man They came and took hold of his feet, and
went to Pilate, and asked for Yeshua’s body. worshiped him.
28:10
Then Pilate commanded the body to be given Then Yeshua said to them, “Don’t be
up. 27:59 Joseph took the body, and wrapped afraid. Go tell my brothersc that they should
it in a clean linen cloth, 27:60 and laid it in go into Galilee, and there they will see me.”
28:11
his own new tomb, which he had cut out in Now while they were going, behold,
the rock, and he rolled a great stone to the some of the guards came into the city, and
door of the tomb, and departed. 27:61 Miriam told the chief priests all the things that had
Magdalene was there, and the other Miriam, happened. 28:12 When they were assembled
sitting opposite the tomb. 27:62 Now on the next with the elders, and had taken counsel, they
day, which was the day after the Preparation gave a large amount of silver to the soldiers,
28:13
Day, the chief priests and the Pharisees were saying, “Say that his disciples came by
gathered together to Pilate, 27:63 saying, “Sir, night, and stole him away while we slept.
28:14
we remember what that deceiver said while If this comes to the governor’s ears, we will
he was still alive: ‘After three days I will rise persuade him and make you free of worry.”
z 27:45 3:00 P. M.
a 27:46 TR reads “lama” instead of “lima”
b 27:46 Psalm 22:1
c 28:10 The word for “brothers” here may be also correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”
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28:15
So they took the money and did as they
were told. This saying was spread abroad
among the Judeans, and continues until this
day.
28:16
But the eleven disciples went into
Galilee, to the mountain where Yeshua had sent
them. 28:17 When they saw him, they bowed
down to him, but some doubted. 28:18 Yeshua
came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All
authority has been given to me in heaven and
on earth. 28:19 Go,d and make disciples of all
nations, immersing them in the name of the
Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
28:20
teaching them to observe all things that
I commanded you. Behold, I am with you
always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.

d 28:19 TR and NU add “therefore”


Mark 1:1 818 Mark 1:37

The Good News 1:18


Immediately they left their nets, and
followed him. 1:19 Going on a little further from
According to Mark there, he saw Jacob the son of Zebedee, and
Yochanan, his brother, who were also in the
1:1
The beginning of the Good News of boat mending the nets. 1:20 Immediately he
Yeshua the Messiah, the Son of God. 1:2 As it called them, and they left their father, Zebedee,
is written in the Prophets, in the boat with the hired servants, and went
“Behold, I send my messenger before your face, after him. 1:21 They went into Capernaum, and
who will prepare your way before you.a immediately on the Sabbath day he entered
1:3
The voice of one crying in the wilderness, into the synagogue and taught. 1:22 They were
‘Make ready the way of the Lord! astonished at his teaching, for he taught them
Make his paths straight!’”b as having authority, and not as the scribes.
1:4 1:23
Yochanan came immersing in the wilder- Immediately there was in their synagogue
ness and proclaiming the immersion of repen- a man with an unclean spirit, and he cried out,
1:24
tance for forgiveness of sins. 1:5 All the country saying, “Ha! What do we have to do with
of Judea and all those of Jerusalem went out you, Yeshua, you Nazarene? Have you come to
to him. They were immersed by him in the destroy us? I know you who you are: the Holy
Jordan river, confessing their sins. 1:6 Yochanan One of God!”
1:25
was clothed with camel’s hair and a leather Yeshua rebuked him, saying, “Be quiet,
belt around his waist. He ate locusts and and come out of him!”
wild honey. 1:7 He preached, saying, “After me 1:26
The unclean spirit, convulsing him and
comes he who is mightier than I, the thong of crying with a loud voice, came out of him.
1:27
whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down They were all amazed, so that they ques-
and loosen. 1:8 I immersed you inc water, but he tioned among themselves, saying, “What is
will immerse you in the Holy Spirit.” this? A new teaching? For with authority he
1:9
It happened in those days, that Yeshua commands even the unclean spirits, and they
came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was obey him!” 1:28 The report of him went out
immersed by Yochanan in the Jordan. immediately everywhere into all the region of
1:10
Immediately coming up from the water, Galilee and its surrounding area.
1:29
he saw the heavens parting, and the Spirit Immediately, when they had come out
descending on him like a dove. 1:11 A voice of the synagogue, they came into the house of
came out of the sky, “You are my beloved Son, Simon and Andrew, with Jacob and Yochanan.
1:30
in whom I am well pleased.” Now Simon’s wife’s mother lay sick with
1:12
Immediately the Spirit drove him out a fever, and immediately they told him about
into the wilderness. 1:13 He was there in the her. 1:31 He came and took her by the hand,
wilderness forty days tempted by Satan. He and raised her up. The fever left her, and she
was with the wild animals; and the angels were served them. 1:32 At evening, when the sun
serving him. had set, they brought to him all who were sick,
1:14
Now after Yochanan was taken into cus- and those who were possessed by demons.
1:33
tody, Yeshua came into Galilee, proclaiming the All the city was gathered together at the
Good News of the Kingdom of God, 1:15 and door. 1:34 He healed many who were sick with
saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the King- various diseases, and cast out many demons.
dom of God is at hand! Repent, and believe He didn’t allow the demons to speak, because
in the Good News.” they knew him.
1:16 1:35
Passing along by the sea of Galilee, he Early in the morning, while it was still
saw Simon and Andrew the brother of Simon dark, he rose up and went out, and de-
casting a net into the sea, for they were fisher- parted into a deserted place, and prayed there.
men. 1:17 Yeshua said to them, “Come after me, 1:36
Simon and those who were with him fol-
and I will make you into fishers for men.” lowed after him; 1:37 and they found him, and
a 1:2 Malachi 3:1
b 1:3 Isaiah 40:3
c 1:8 The Greek word (en) translated here as “in” could also be translated as “with” in some contexts.
Mark 1:38 819 Mark 2:25

told him, “Everyone is looking for you.” take up your mat, and go to your house.”
1:38 2:12
He said to them, “Let’s go elsewhere He arose, and immediately took up the
into the next towns, that I may proclaim there mat, and went out in front of them all; so
also, because I came out for this reason.” that they were all amazed, and glorified God,
1:39
He went into their synagogues through- saying, “We never saw anything like this!”
2:13
out all Galilee, proclaiming and casting out He went out again by the seaside. All the
demons. multitude came to him, and he taught them.
1:40 2:14
A leper came to him, begging him, kneel- As he passed by, he saw Levi, the son of
ing down to him, and saying to him, “If you Halfai, sitting at the tax office, and he said to
want to, you can make me clean.” him, “Follow me.” And he arose and followed
1:41 him.
Being moved with compassion, he
2:15
stretched out his hand, and touched him, and It happened, that he was reclining at the
said to him, “I want to. Be made clean.” table in his house, and many tax collectors and
1:42
When he had said this, immediately the sinners sat down with Yeshua and his disciples,
leprosy departed from him, and he was for there were many, and they followed him.
2:16
made clean. 1:43 He strictly warned him, and The scribes and the Pharisees, when they
immediately sent him out, 1:44 and said to saw that he was eating with the sinners and
him, “See you say nothing to anybody, but tax collectors, said to his disciples, “Why is it
go show yourself to the priest, and offer that he eats and drinks with tax collectors and
for your cleansing the things which Moses sinners?”
2:17
commanded, for a testimony to them.” When Yeshua heard it, he said to them,
1:45
But he went out, and began to proclaim “Those who are healthy have no need for a
it much, and to spread about the matter, so that physician, but those who are sick. I came
Yeshua could no more openly enter into a city, not to call the righteous, but sinners to repen-
but was outside in desert places: and they came tance.”
2:18
to him from everywhere. Yochanan’s disciples and the Pharisees
2:1
When he entered again into Capernaum were fasting, and they came and asked him,
after some days, it was heard that he was in “Why do Yochanan’s disciples and the disciples
the house. 2:2 Immediately many were gathered of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples don’t
together, so that there was no more room, fast?”
2:19
not even around the door; and he spoke the Yeshua said to them, “Can the grooms-
word to them. 2:3 Four people came, carrying a men fast while the bridegroom is with them?
paralytic to him. 2:4 When they could not come As long as they have the bridegroom with
near to him for the crowd, they removed the them, they can’t fast. 2:20 But the days will
roof where he was. When they had broken it come when the bridegroom will be taken
up, they let down the mat that the paralytic away from them, and then will they fast in
was lying on. 2:5 Yeshua, seeing their faith, said that day. 2:21 No one sews a piece of unshrunk
to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven cloth on an old garment, or else the patch
you.” shrinks and the new tears away from the old,
2:6
But there were some of the scribes sitting and a worse hole is made. 2:22 No one puts
there, and reasoning in their hearts, 2:7 “Why new wine into old wineskins, or else the new
does this man speak blasphemies like that? wine will burst the skins, and the wine pours
Who can forgive sins but God alone?” out, and the skins will be destroyed; but they
2:8 put new wine into fresh wineskins.”
Immediately Yeshua, perceiving in his
2:23
spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, It happened that he was going on the
said to them, “Why do you reason these things Sabbath day through the grain fields, and his
in your hearts? 2:9 Which is easier, to tell disciples began, as they went, to pluck the
the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven;’ or to ears of grain. 2:24 The Pharisees said to him,
say, ‘Arise, and take up your bed, and walk?’ “Behold, why do they do that which is not
2:10
But that you may know that the Son of lawful on the Sabbath day?”
2:25
Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”— He said to them, “Did you never read
he said to the paralytic—2:11 “I tell you, arise, what David did, when he had need, and was
Mark 2:26 820 Mark 4:4

3:18
hungry—he, and those who were with him? Andrew; Philip; Bartholomew; Matthew;
2:26
How he entered into God’s house when Thomas; Jacob, the son of Halfai; Taddai; Simon
Abiathar was high priestd , and ate the show the Zealot; 3:19 and Judah Iscariot, who also
bread, which is not lawful to eat except for betrayed him.
the priests, and gave also to those who were He came into a house. 3:20 The multitude
with him?” 2:27 He said to them, “The Sabbath came together again, so that they could not so
was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. much as eat bread. 3:21 When his friends heard
2:28
Therefore the Son of Man is lord even of it, they went out to seize him: for they said,
the Sabbath.” “He is insane.” 3:22 The scribes who came down
3:1
He entered again into the synagogue, and from Jerusalem said, “He has Beelzebul,” and,
there was a man there who had his hand “By the prince of the demons he casts out the
withered. 3:2 They watched him, whether he demons.”
3:23
would heal him on the Sabbath day, that they He summoned them, and said to them
might accuse him. 3:3 He said to the man who in parables, “How can Satan cast out Satan?
had his hand withered, “Stand up.” 3:4 He said 3:24
If a kingdom is divided against itself,
to them, “Is it lawful on the Sabbath day to that kingdom cannot stand. 3:25 If a house
do good, or to do harm? To save a life, or is divided against itself, that house cannot
to kill?” But they were silent. 3:5 When he stand. 3:26 If Satan has risen up against him-
had looked around at them with anger, being self, and is divided, he can’t stand, but has
grieved at the hardening of their hearts, he an end. 3:27 But no one can enter into the
said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He house of the strong man to plunder, unless he
stretched it out, and his hand was restored as first binds the strong man; and then he will
healthy as the other. 3:6 The Pharisees went out, plunder his house. 3:28 Most certainly I tell
and immediately conspired with the Herodians you, all sins of the descendants of man will
against him, how they might destroy him. be forgiven, including their blasphemies with
3:7
Yeshua withdrew to the sea with his disci- which they may blaspheme; 3:29 but whoever
ples, and a great multitude followed him from may blaspheme against the Holy Spirit never
Galilee, from Judea, 3:8 from Jerusalem, from has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal
Idumaea, beyond the Jordan, and those from sin”3:30 —because they said, “He has an un-
around Tyre and Sidon. A great multitude, clean spirit.”
3:31
hearing what great things he did, came to him. His mother and his brothers came, and
3:9
He spoke to his disciples that a little boat standing outside, they sent to him, calling him.
3:32
should stay near him because of the crowd, A multitude was sitting around him, and
so that they wouldn’t press on him. 3:10 For they told him, “Behold, your mother, your
he had healed many, so that as many as had brothers, and your sisterse are outside looking
diseases pressed on him that they might touch for you.”
him. 3:11 The unclean spirits, whenever they 3:33
He answered them, “Who are my
saw him, fell down before him, and cried, “You mother and my brothers?” 3:34 Looking around
are the Son of God!” 3:12 He sternly warned at those who sat around him, he said, “Behold,
them that they should not make him known. my mother and my brothers! 3:35 For whoever
3:13
He went up into the mountain, and does the will of God, the same is my brother,
called to himself those whom he wanted, and and my sister, and mother.”
they went to him. 3:14 He appointed twelve, 4:1
Again he began to teach by the seaside.
that they might be with him, and that he might A great multitude was gathered to him, so
send them out to proclaim, 3:15 and to have that he entered into a boat in the sea, and sat
authority to heal sicknesses and to cast out down. All the multitude were on the land
demons: 3:16 Simon, to whom he gave the name by the sea. 4:2 He taught them many things
Peter; 3:17 Jacob the son of Zebedee; Yochanan, in parables, and told them in his teaching,
4:3
the brother of Jacob, and he surnamed them “Listen! Behold, the farmer went out
Benei-Regesh, which means, Sons of Thunder; to sow, 4:4 and it happened, as he sowed,
d 2:26 some manuscripts lack “when Abiathar was high priest”
e 3:32 TR omits “your sisters”
Mark 4:5 821 Mark 4:40

some seed fell by the road, and the birdsf it put on a stand? 4:22 For there is nothing
came and devoured it. 4:5 Others fell on the hidden, except that it should be made known;
rocky ground, where it had little soil, and neither was anything made secret, but that it
immediately it sprang up, because it had no should come to light. 4:23 If any man has ears
depth of soil. 4:6 When the sun had risen, to hear, let him hear.”
4:24
it was scorched; and because it had no root, He said to them, “Take heed what you
it withered away. 4:7 Others fell among the hear. With whatever measure you measure,
thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it will be measured to you, and more will be
it, and it yielded no fruit. 4:8 Others fell into given to you who hear. 4:25 For whoever has, to
the good ground, and yielded fruit, growing him will more be given, and he who doesn’t
up and increasing. Some brought forth thirty have, even that which he has will be taken
times, some sixty times, and some one hun- away from him.”
dred times as much.”4:9 He said, “Whoever has 4:26
He said, “The Kingdom of God is as if
ears to hear, let him hear.” a man should cast seed on the earth, 4:27 and
4:10
When he was alone, those who were should sleep and rise night and day, and the
around him with the twelve asked him about seed should spring up and grow, he doesn’t
the parables. 4:11 He said to them, “To you is know how. 4:28 For the earth bears fruit: first
given the mystery of the Kingdom of God, the blade, then the ear, then the full grain
but to those who are outside, all things are in the ear. 4:29 But when the fruit is ripe,
done in parables, 4:12 that ‘seeing they may immediately he puts forth the sickle, because
see, and not perceive; and hearing they may the harvest has come.”
4:30
hear, and not understand; lest perhaps they He said, “How will we liken the King-
should turn again, and their sins should be dom of God? Or with what parable will we
forgiven them.’”g illustrate it? 4:31 It’s like a grain of mustard
4:13
He said to them, “Don’t you understand seed, which, when it is sown in the earth,
this parable? How will you understand all of though it is less than all the seeds that are on
the parables? 4:14 The farmer sows the word. the earth, 4:32 yet when it is sown, grows up,
4:15
The ones by the road are the ones where and becomes greater than all the herbs, and
the word is sown; and when they have heard, puts out great branches, so that the birds of
immediately Satan comes, and takes away the the sky can lodge under its shadow.”
word which has been sown in them. 4:16 These 4:33
With many such parables he spoke the
in the same way are those who are sown on word to them, as they were able to hear it.
4:34
the rocky places, who, when they have heard Without a parable he didn’t speak to them;
the word, immediately receive it with joy. but privately to his own disciples he explained
4:17
They have no root in themselves, but are everything.
4:35
short-lived. When oppression or persecution On that day, when evening had come,
arises because of the word, immediately they he said to them, “Let’s go over to the other
stumble. 4:18 Others are those who are sown side.” 4:36 Leaving the multitude, they took him
among the thorns. These are those who have with them, even as he was, in the boat. Other
heard the word, 4:19 and the cares of this age, small boats were also with him. 4:37 A big wind
and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts storm arose, and the waves beat into the boat,
of other things entering in choke the word, so much that the boat was already filled. 4:38 He
and it becomes unfruitful. 4:20 Those which himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion,
were sown on the good ground are those who and they woke him up, and told him, “Rabbi,
hear the word, and accept it, and bear fruit, don’t you care that we are dying?”
some thirty times, some sixty times, and some 4:39
He awoke, and rebuked the wind, and
one hundred times.” said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” The wind
4:21
He said to them, “Is the lamp brought to ceased, and there was a great calm. 4:40 He said
be put under a basketh or under a bed? Isn’t to them, “Why are you so afraid? How is it
f 4:4TR adds “of the air”
g 4:12 Isaiah 6:9-10
h 4:21 literally, a modion, a dry measuring basket containing about a peck (about 9 litres)
Mark 4:41 822 Mark 5:38

that you have no faith?” the Lord has done for you, and how he had
4:41 mercy on you.”
They were greatly afraid, and said to one
5:20
another, “Who then is this, that even the wind He went his way, and began to proclaim
and the sea obey him?” in Decapolis how Yeshua had done great things
5:1 for him, and everyone marveled.
They came to the other side of the sea, into
5:21
the country of the Gadarenes. 5:2 When he had When Yeshua had crossed back over in
come out of the boat, immediately a man with the boat to the other side, a great multitude
an unclean spirit met him out of the tombs. was gathered to him; and he was by the sea.
5:3 5:22
He lived in the tombs. Nobody could bind Behold, one of the rulers of the synagogue,
him any more, not even with chains, 5:4 because Jairus by name, came; and seeing him, he fell at
he had been often bound with fetters and his feet, 5:23 and begged him much, saying, “My
chains, and the chains had been torn apart by little daughter is at the point of death. Please
him, and the fetters broken in pieces. Nobody come and lay your hands on her, that she may
had the strength to tame him. 5:5 Always, night be made healthy, and live.”
5:24
and day, in the tombs and in the mountains, He went with him, and a great multitude
he was crying out, and cutting himself with followed him, and they pressed upon him on
stones. 5:6 When he saw Yeshua from afar, he all sides. 5:25 A certain woman, who had an
ran and bowed down to him, 5:7 and crying out issue of blood for twelve years, 5:26 and had
with a loud voice, he said, “What have I to do suffered many things by many physicians, and
with you, Yeshua, you Son of the Most High had spent all that she had, and was no better,
God? I adjure you by God, don’t torment me.” but rather grew worse, 5:27 having heard the
5:8
For he said to him, “Come out of the man, things concerning Yeshua, came up behind him
you unclean spirit!” in the crowd, and touched his clothes. 5:28 For
5:9
He asked him, “What is your name?” she said, “If I just touch his clothes, I will be
He said to him, “My name is Legion, for made well.” 5:29 Immediately the flow of her
we are many.” 5:10 He begged him much that blood was dried up, and she felt in her body
he would not send them away out of the that she was healed of her affliction.
5:30
country. 5:11 Now on the mountainside there Immediately Yeshua, perceiving in him-
was a great herd of pigs feeding. 5:12 All the self that the power had gone out from him,
demons begged him, saying, “Send us into the turned around in the crowd, and asked, “Who
pigs, that we may enter into them.” touched my clothes?”
5:13 5:31
At once Yeshua gave them permission. His disciples said to him, “You see the
The unclean spirits came out and entered into multitude pressing against you, and you say,
the pigs. The herd of about two thousand ‘Who touched me?’”
5:32
rushed down the steep bank into the sea, and He looked around to see her who had
they were drowned in the sea. 5:14 Those who done this thing. 5:33 But the woman, fearing and
fed them fled, and told it in the city and in the trembling, knowing what had been done to her,
country. came and fell down before him, and told him all
The people came to see what it was that the truth.
5:34
had happened. 5:15 They came to Yeshua, and He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has
saw him who had been possessed by demons made you well. Go in peace, and be cured of
sitting, clothed, and in his right mind, even your disease.”
5:35
him who had the legion; and they were afraid. While he was still speaking, people
5:16
Those who saw it declared to them how came from the synagogue ruler’s house saying,
it happened to him who was possessed by “Your daughter is dead. Why bother the Rabbi
demons, and about the pigs. 5:17 They began to any more?”
beg him to depart from their region. 5:36
But Yeshua, when he heard the message
5:18
As he was entering into the boat, he who spoken, immediately said to the ruler of the
had been possessed by demons begged him synagogue, “Don’t be afraid, only believe.”
that he might be with him. 5:19 He didn’t allow 5:37
He allowed no one to follow him, except
him, but said to him, “Go to your house, to Peter, Jacob, and Yochanan the brother of Jacob.
5:38
your friends, and tell them what great things He came to the synagogue ruler’s house,
Mark 5:39 823 Mark 6:30

and he saw an uproar, weeping, and great should repent. 6:13 They cast out many demons,
wailing. 5:39 When he had entered in, he said and anointed many with oil who were sick,
to them, “Why do you make an uproar and and healed them. 6:14 King Herod heard this,
weep? The child is not dead, but is asleep.” for his name had become known, and he said,
5:40 “Yochanan the Immerser has risen from the
They ridiculed him. But he, having put
them all out, took the father of the child, her dead, and therefore these powers are at work
mother, and those who were with him, and in him.” 6:15 But others said, “He is Elijah.”
went in where the child was lying. 5:41 Taking Others said, “He is a prophet, or like one
the child by the hand, he said to her, “Talitha of the prophets.” 6:16 But Herod, when he
cumi!” which means, being interpreted, “Girl, heard this, said, “This is Yochanan, whom
I tell you, get up!” 5:42 Immediately the girl I beheaded. He has risen from the dead.”
6:17
rose up and walked, for she was twelve years For Herod himself had sent out and arrested
old. They were amazed with great amazement. Yochanan, and bound him in prison for the
5:43 sake of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, for
He strictly ordered them that no one should
know this, and commanded that something he had married her. 6:18 For Yochanan said to
should be given to her to eat. Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have your
6:1
He went out from there. He came into his brother’s wife.” 6:19 Herodias set herself against
own country, and his disciples followed him. him, and desired to kill him, but she couldn’t,
6:20
6:2
When the Sabbath had come, he began to for Herod feared Yochanan, knowing that
teach in the synagogue, and many hearing him he was a righteous and holy man, and kept him
were astonished, saying, “Where did this man safe. When he heard him, he did many things,
get these things?” and, “What is the wisdom and he heard him gladly.
6:21
that is given to this man, that such mighty Then a convenient day came, that Herod
works come about by his hands? 6:3 Isn’t this on his birthday made a supper for his nobles,
the carpenter, the son of Miriam, and brother the high officers, and the chief men of Galilee.
6:22
of Jacob, Yosi, Judah, and Simon? Aren’t his When the daughter of Herodias herself
sisters here with us?” They were offended at came in and danced, she pleased Herod and
him. those sitting with him. The king said to the
6:4
Yeshua said to them, “A prophet is not young lady, “Ask me whatever you want, and
without honor, except in his own country, I will give it to you.” 6:23 He swore to her,
and among his own relatives, and in his own “Whatever you shall ask of me, I will give you,
house.” 6:5 He could do no mighty work there, up to half of my kingdom.”
6:24
except that he laid his hands on a few sick She went out, and said to her mother,
people, and healed them. 6:6 He marveled “What shall I ask?”
because of their unbelief. She said, “The head of Yochanan the Im-
He went around the villages teaching. 6:7 He merser.”
6:25
called to himself the twelve, and began to send She came in immediately with haste to
them out two by two; and he gave them author- the king, and asked, “I want you to give me
ity over the unclean spirits. 6:8 He commanded right now the head of Yochanan the Immerser
them that they should take nothing for their on a platter.”
6:26
journey, except a staff only: no bread, no wallet, The king was exceedingly sorry, but for
no money in their purse, 6:9 but to wear sandals, the sake of his oaths, and of his dinner guests,
and not put on two tunics. 6:10 He said to them, he didn’t wish to refuse her. 6:27 Immediately
“Wherever you enter into a house, stay there the king sent out a soldier of his guard, and
until you depart from there. 6:11 Whoever commanded to bring Yochanan’s head, and he
will not receive you nor hear you, as you went and beheaded him in the prison, 6:28 and
depart from there, shake off the dust that brought his head on a platter, and gave it to the
is under your feet for a testimony against young lady; and the young lady gave it to her
them. Assuredly, I tell you, it will be more mother.
6:29
tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day When his disciples heard this, they came
of judgment than for that city!” and took up his corpse, and laid it in a tomb.
6:12 6:30
They went out and preached that people The emissaries gathered themselves to-
Mark 6:31 824 Mark 7:6

gether to Yeshua, and they told him all things, of them, he went up the mountain to pray.
whatever they had done, and whatever they 6:47
When evening had come, the boat was
had taught. 6:31 He said to them, “You come in the midst of the sea, and he was alone
apart into a deserted place, and rest awhile.” on the land. 6:48 Seeing them distressed in
For there were many coming and going, and rowing, for the wind was contrary to them,
they had no leisure so much as to eat. 6:32 They about the fourth watch of the night he came
went away in the boat to a deserted place to them, walking on the sea,l and he would
by themselves. 6:33 Theyi saw them going, have passed by them, 6:49 but they, when they
and many recognized him and ran there on saw him walking on the sea, supposed that it
foot from all the cities. They arrived before was a ghost, and cried out; 6:50 for they all saw
them and came together to him. 6:34 Yeshua him, and were troubled. But he immediately
came out, saw a great multitude, and he had spoke with them, and said to them, “Cheer
compassion on them, because they were like up! It is I!m Don’t be afraid.” 6:51 He got into
sheep without a shepherd, and he began to the boat with them; and the wind ceased, and
teach them many things. 6:35 When it was late they were very amazed among themselves, and
in the day, his disciples came to him, and said, marveled; 6:52 for they hadn’t understood about
“This place is deserted, and it is late in the the loaves, but their hearts were hardened.
day. 6:36 Send them away, that they may go 6:53
When they had crossed over, they came
into the surrounding country and villages, and to land at Gennesaret, and moored to the shore.
buy themselves bread, for they have nothing to 6:54
When they had come out of the boat, im-
eat.” mediately the people recognized him, 6:55 and
6:37
But he answered them, “You give them ran around that whole region, and began to
something to eat.” bring those who were sick, on their mats, to
They asked him, “Shall we go and buy two where they heard he was. 6:56 Wherever he
hundred denariij worth of bread, and give them entered, into villages, or into cities, or into the
something to eat?” country, they laid the sick in the marketplaces,
6:38
He said to them, “How many loaves do and begged him that they might touch just the
you have? Go see.” fringen of his garment; and as many as touched
When they knew, they said, “Five, and two him were made well.
7:1
fish.” Then the Pharisees, and some of the
6:39
He commanded them that everyone scribes gathered together to him, having come
should sit down in groups on the green grass. from Jerusalem. 7:2 Now when they saw some
6:40
They sat down in ranks, by hundreds and of his disciples eating bread with defiled, that
by fifties. 6:41 He took the five loaves and is, unwashed, hands, they found fault. 7:3 (For
the two fish, and looking up to heaven, he the Pharisees, and all the Judeans, don’t eat un-
blessed and broke the loaves, and he gave to less they wash their hands and forearms, hold-
his disciples to set before them, and he divided ing to the tradition of the elders. 7:4 They don’t
the two fish among them all. 6:42 They all eat when they come from the marketplace,
ate, and were filled. 6:43 They took up twelve unless they bathe themselves, and there are
baskets full of broken pieces and also of the many other things, which they have received
fish. 6:44 Those who ate the loaves werek five to hold to: washings of cups, pitchers, bronze
thousand men. vessels, and couches.) 7:5 The Pharisees and the
6:45 scribes asked him, “Why don’t your disciples
Immediately he made his disciples get
into the boat, and to go ahead to the other walk according to the tradition of the elders,
side, to Bethsaida, while he himself sent the but eat their bread with unwashed hands?”
multitude away. 6:46 After he had taken leave 7:6
He answered them, “Well did Isaiah
i 6:33 TR reads “The multitudes” instead of “They”
j 6:37 200 denarii was about 7 or 8 months wages for an agricultural laborer.
k 6:44 TR adds “about”
l 6:48 see Job 9:8
m 6:50 or, “I AM!”
n 6:56 or, tzitzit
Mark 7:7 825 Mark 8:3

prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, the borders of Tyre and Sidon. He entered into
‘This people honors me with their lips, a house, and didn’t want anyone to know it,
but their heart is far from me. but he couldn’t escape notice. 7:25 For a woman,
7:7
But in vain do they worship me, whose little daughter had an unclean spirit,
teaching as doctrines the command- having heard of him, came and fell down at
ments of men.’o his feet. 7:26 Now the woman was a Greek, a
7:8 Syrophoenician by race. She begged him that
“For you set aside the commandment
he would cast the demon out of her daughter.
of God, and hold tightly to the tradition 7:27
But Yeshua said to her, “Let the children be
of men—the washing of pitchers and cups,
filled first, for it is not appropriate to take the
and you do many other such things.” 7:9 He
children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.”
said to them, “Full well do you reject the 7:28
commandment of God, that you may keep But she answered him, “Yes, Lord. Yet
your tradition. 7:10 For Moses said, ‘Honor even the dogs under the table eat the children’s
your father and your mother;’p and, ‘He who crumbs.”
7:29
speaks evil of father or mother, let him be He said to her, “For this saying, go
put to death.’q 7:11 But you say, ‘If a man your way. The demon has gone out of your
tells his father or his mother, “Whatever profit daughter.”
7:30
you might have received from me is Corbanr , She went away to her house, and found
that is to say, given to God”;’ 7:12 then you the child having been laid on the bed, with the
no longer allow him to do anything for his demon gone out.
father or his mother, 7:13 making void the word 7:31
Again he departed from the borders of
of God by your tradition, which you have Tyre and Sidon, and came to the sea of Galilee,
handed down. You do many things like this.” through the midst of the region of Decapolis.
7:14 7:32
He called all the multitude to himself, They brought to him one who was deaf
and said to them, “Hear me, all of you, and and had an impediment in his speech. They
understand. 7:15 There is nothing from outside begged him to lay his hand on him. 7:33 He took
of the man, that going into him can defile him; him aside from the multitude, privately, and
but the things which proceed out of the man put his fingers into his ears, and he spat, and
are those that defile the man. 7:16 If anyone has touched his tongue. 7:34 Looking up to heaven,
ears to hear, let him hear!” he sighed, and said to him, “Ephphatha!” that
7:17
When he had entered into a house away is, “Be opened!” 7:35 Immediately his ears were
from the multitude, his disciples asked him opened, and the impediment of his tongue
about the parable. 7:18 He said to them, “Are was released, and he spoke clearly. 7:36 He
you thus without understanding also? Don’t commanded them that they should tell no one,
you perceive that whatever goes into the man but the more he commanded them, so much the
from outside can’t defile him, 7:19 because it more widely they proclaimed it. 7:37 They were
doesn’t go into his heart, but into his stom- astonished beyond measure, saying, “He has
ach, then into the latrine, thus purifying all done all things well. He makes even the deaf
foodss ?” 7:20 He said, “That which proceeds hear, and the mute speak!”
out of the man, that defiles the man. 7:21 For 8:1
In those days, when there was a very great
from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed multitude, and they had nothing to eat, Yeshua
evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, mur- called his disciples to himself, and said to
ders, thefts, 7:22 covetings, wickedness, deceit, them, 8:2 “I have compassion on the multitude,
lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, because they have stayed with me now three
and foolishness. 7:23 All these evil things days, and have nothing to eat. 8:3 If I send
come from within, and defile the man.” them away fasting to their home, they will
7:24
From there he arose, and went away into faint on the way, for some of them have come
o 7:7 Isaiah 29:13
p 7:10 Exodus 20:12; Deuteronomy 5:16
q 7:10 Exodus 21:17; Leviticus 20:9
r 7:11 Corban is a Hebrew word for an offering devoted to God.
s 7:19 or, making all foods clean
Mark 8:4 826 Mark 9:1

a long way.” him. 8:23 He took hold of the blind man by the
8:4
His disciples answered him, “From where hand, and brought him out of the village. When
could one satisfy these people with bread here he had spit on his eyes, and laid his hands on
in a deserted place?” him, he asked him if he saw anything.
8:5 8:24
He asked them, “How many loaves do He looked up, and said, “I see men; for I
you have?” see them like trees walking.”
8:25
They said, “Seven.” Then again he laid his hands on his eyes.
8:6
He commanded the multitude to sit down He looked intently, and was restored, and saw
on the ground, and he took the seven loaves. everyone clearly. 8:26 He sent him away to his
Having given thanks, he broke them, and gave house, saying, “Don’t enter into the village,
them to his disciples to serve, and they served nor tell anyone in the village.”
the multitude. 8:7 They had a few small fish. 8:27
Yeshua went out, with his disciples, into
Having blessed them, he said to serve these the villages of Caesarea Philippi. On the way
also. 8:8 They ate, and were filled. They took he asked his disciples, “Who do men say that I
up seven baskets of broken pieces that were left am?”
over. 8:9 Those who had eaten were about four 8:28
They told him, “Yochanan the Immerser,
thousand. Then he sent them away. and others say Elijah, but others: one of the
8:10
Immediately he entered into the boat prophets.”
8:29
with his disciples, and came into the region of He said to them, “But who do you say
Dalmanutha. 8:11 The Pharisees came out and that I am?”
began to question him, seeking from him a sign Peter answered, “You are the Messiah.”
from heaven, and testing him. 8:12 He sighed 8:30
He commanded them that they should
deeply in his spirit, and said, “Why does this tell no one about him. 8:31 He began to teach
generationt seek a sign? Most certainly I tell them that the Son of Man must suffer many
you, no sign will be given to this generation.” things, and be rejected by the elders, the chief
8:13
He left them, and again entering into the priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after
boat, departed to the other side. 8:14 They forgot three days rise again. 8:32 He spoke to them
to take bread; and they didn’t have more than openly. Peter took him, and began to rebuke
one loaf in the boat with them. 8:15 He warned him. 8:33 But he, turning around, and seeing his
them, saying, “Take heed: beware of the yeast disciples, rebuked Peter, and said, “Get behind
of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod.” me, Satan! For you have in mind not the
8:16
They reasoned with one another, saying, things of God, but the things of men.”
“It’s because we have no bread.” 8:34
He called the multitude to himself with
8:17
Yeshua, perceiving it, said to them, his disciples, and said to them, “Whoever
“Why do you reason that it’s because you have wants to come after me, let him deny himself,
no bread? Don’t you perceive yet, neither and take up his cross, and follow me. 8:35 For
understand? Is your heart still hardened? whoever wants to save his life will lose it;
8:18
Having eyes, don’t you see? Having and whoever will lose his life for my sake
ears, don’t you hear? Don’t you remember? and the sake of the Good News will save
8:19
When I broke the five loaves among the it. 8:36 For what does it profit a man, to gain
five thousand, how many baskets full of the whole world, and forfeit his life? 8:37 For
broken pieces did you take up?” what will a man give in exchange for his
They told him, “Twelve.” life? 8:38 For whoever will be ashamed of
8:20
“When the seven loaves fed the four me and of my words in this adulterous and
thousand, how many baskets full of broken sinful generation, the Son of Man also will be
pieces did you take up?” ashamed of him, when he comes in the glory
They told him, “Seven.” of his Father with the holy angels.”
8:21 9:1
He asked them, “Don’t you understand, He said to them, “Most certainly I tell
yet?” you, there are some standing here who will in
8:22
He came to Bethsaida. They brought a no way taste death until they see the Kingdom
blind man to him, and begged him to touch of God come with power.”
t 8:12 The word translated “generation” here (genea) could also be translated “people,” “race,” or “family.”
Mark 9:2 827 Mark 9:38

9:2
After six days Yeshua took with him Peter, him, and he fell on the ground, wallowing and
Jacob, and Yochanan, and brought them up foaming at the mouth.
9:21
onto a high mountain privately by themselves, He asked his father, “How long has it
and he was changed into another form in front been since this has come to him?”
of them. 9:3 His clothing became glistening, He said, “From childhood. 9:22 Often it has
exceedingly white, like snow, such as no laun- cast him both into the fire and into the water, to
derer on earth can whiten them. 9:4 Elijah and destroy him. But if you can do anything, have
Moses appeared to them, and they were talking compassion on us, and help us.”
with Yeshua. 9:23
Yeshua said to him, “If you can believe,
9:5
Peter answered Yeshua, “Rabbi, it is good all things are possible to him who believes.”
for us to be here. Let’s make three tents: one for 9:24
Immediately the father of the child cried
you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.” 9:6 For out with tears, “I believe. Help my unbelief!”
he didn’t know what to say, for they were very 9:25
When Yeshua saw that a multitude came
afraid. running together, he rebuked the unclean spirit,
9:7
A cloud came, overshadowing them, and saying to him, “You mute and deaf spirit, I
a voice came out of the cloud, “This is my command you, come out of him, and never
beloved Son. Listen to him.” enter him again!”
9:8 9:26
Suddenly looking around, they saw no Having cried out, and convulsed greatly,
one with them any more, except Yeshua only. it came out of him. The boy became like one
9:9
As they were coming down from the dead; so much that most of them said, “He is
mountain, he commanded them that they dead.” 9:27 But Yeshua took him by the hand,
should tell no one what things they had seen, and raised him up; and he arose.
until after the Son of Man had risen from the 9:28
When he had come into the house, his
dead. 9:10 They kept this saying to themselves, disciples asked him privately, “Why couldn’t
questioning what the “rising from the dead” we cast it out?” 9:29 He said to them, “This kind
meant. can come out by nothing, except by prayer and
9:11
They asked him, saying, “Why do the fasting.”
9:30
scribes say that Elijah must come first?” They went out from there, and passed
9:12
He said to them, “Elijah indeed comes through Galilee. He didn’t want anyone to
first, and restores all things. How is it written know it. 9:31 For he was teaching his disciples,
about the Son of Man, that he should suffer and said to them, “The Son of Man is being
many things and be despised? 9:13 But I tell handed over to the hands of men, and they
you that Elijah has come, and they have also will kill him; and when he is killed, on the
done to him whatever they wanted to, even as third day he will rise again.”
9:32
it is written about him.” But they didn’t understand the saying,
9:14
Coming to the disciples, he saw a great and were afraid to ask him.
9:33
multitude around them, and scribes question- He came to Capernaum, and when he
ing them. 9:15 Immediately all the multitude, was in the house he asked them, “What were
when they saw him, were greatly amazed, and you arguing among yourselves on the way?”
running to him greeted him. 9:16 He asked the 9:34
But they were silent, for they had dis-
scribes, “What are you asking them?” puted one with another on the way about who
9:17
One of the multitude answered, “Rabbi, was the greatest.
9:35
I brought to you my son, who has a mute He sat down, and called the twelve; and
spirit; 9:18 and wherever it seizes him, it throws he said to them, “If any man wants to be first,
him down, and he foams at the mouth, and he shall be last of all, and servant of all.”
9:36
grinds his teeth, and wastes away. I asked your He took a little child, and set him in their
disciples to cast it out, and they weren’t able.” midst. Taking him in his arms, he said to them,
9:19 9:37
He answered him, “Unbelieving gener- “Whoever receives one such little child in
ation, how long shall I be with you? How long my name, receives me, and whoever receives
shall I bear with you? Bring him to me.” me, doesn’t receive me, but him who sent
9:20
They brought him to him, and when me.”
9:38
he saw him, immediately the spirit convulsed Yochanan said to him, “Rabbi, we saw
Mark 9:39 828 Mark 10:21

10:4
someone who doesn’t follow us casting out They said, “Moses allowed a certificate
demons in your name; and we forbade him, of divorce to be written, and to divorce her.”
because he doesn’t follow us.” 10:5
But Yeshua said to them, “For your
9:39
But Yeshua said, “Don’t forbid him, for hardness of heart, he wrote you this com-
there is no one who will do a mighty work in mandment. 10:6 But from the beginning of the
my name, and be able quickly to speak evil of creation, God made them male and female.y
me. 9:40 For whoever is not against us is on our 10:7
For this cause a man will leave his father
side. 9:41 For whoever will give you a cup of and mother, and will join to his wife, 10:8 and
water to drink in my name, because you are the two will become one flesh,z so that they
Messiah’s, most certainly I tell you, he will are no longer two, but one flesh. 10:9 What
in no way lose his reward. 9:42 Whoever will therefore God has joined together, let no man
cause one of these little ones who believe in separate.”
me to stumble, it would be better for him if 10:10
In the house, his disciples asked him
he were thrown into the sea with a millstone again about the same matter. 10:11 He said to
hung around his neck. 9:43 If your hand causes them, “Whoever divorces his wife, and mar-
you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you ries another, commits adultery against her.
to enter into life maimed, rather than having 10:12
If a woman herself divorces her husband,
your two hands to go into Gehinnom,u into and marries another, she commits adultery.”
the unquenchable fire, 9:44 ‘where their worm 10:13
They were bringing to him little chil-
doesn’t die, and the fire is not quenched.’
9:45 dren, that he should touch them, but the dis-
If your foot causes you to stumble, cut it
ciples rebuked those who were bringing them.
off. It is better for you to enter into life lame, 10:14
But when Yeshua saw it, he was moved
rather than having your two feet to be cast into
with indignation, and said to them, “Allow the
Gehinnom,v into the fire that will never be
little children to come to me! Don’t forbid
quenched—9:46 ‘where their worm doesn’t die,
them, for the Kingdom of God belongs to
and the fire is not quenched.’ 9:47 If your eye
such as these. 10:15 Most certainly I tell you,
causes you to stumble, cast it out. It is better
whoever will not receive the Kingdom of God
for you to enter into the Kingdom of God with
like a little child, he will in no way enter into
one eye, rather than having two eyes to be
it.” 10:16 He took them in his arms, and blessed
cast into the Gehinnomw of fire, 9:48 ‘where
them, laying his hands on them.
their worm doesn’t die, and the fire is not 10:17
As he was going out into the way, one
quenched.’x 9:49 For everyone will be salted
ran to him, knelt before him, and asked him,
with fire, and every sacrifice will be seasoned
“Good Rabbi, what shall I do that I may inherit
with salt. 9:50 Salt is good, but if the salt has
eternal life?”
lost its saltiness, with what will you season it? 10:18
Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with Yeshua said to him, “Why do you call
one another.” me good? No one is good except one—God.
10:19
10:1
He arose from there and came into You know the commandments: ‘Do not
the borders of Judea and beyond the Jordan. murder,’ ‘Do not commit adultery,’ ‘Do not
Multitudes came together to him again. As steal,’ ‘Do not give false testimony,’ ‘Do not
he usually did, he was again teaching them. defraud,’ ‘Honor your father and mother.’”a
10:2 10:20
Pharisees came to him testing him, and He said to him, “Rabbi, I have observed
asked him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce all these things from my youth.”
10:21
his wife?” Yeshua looking at him loved him, and
10:3
He answered, “What did Moses com- said to him, “One thing you lack. Go, sell
mand you?” whatever you have, and give to the poor, and
u 9:43 or, Hell
v 9:45 or, Hell
w 9:47 or, Hell
x 9:48 Isaiah 66:24
y 10:6 Genesis 1:27
z 10:8 Genesis 2:24
a 10:19 Exodus 20:12-16; Deuteronomy 5:16-20
Mark 10:22 829 Mark 10:52

you will have treasure in heaven; and come, may sit, one at your right hand, and one at your
follow me, taking up the cross.” left hand, in your glory.”
10:22 10:38
But his face fell at that saying, and he But Yeshua said to them, “You don’t
went away sorrowful, for he was one who had know what you are asking. Are you able
great possessions. 10:23 Yeshua looked around, to drink the cup that I drink, and to be
and said to his disciples, “How difficult it is immersed with the immersion that I am im-
for those who have riches to enter into the mersed with?”
10:39
Kingdom of God!” They said to him, “We are able.”
10:24
The disciples were amazed at his words. Yeshua said to them, “You shall indeed
But Yeshua answered again, “Children, how drink the cup that I drink, and you shall
hard is it for those who trust in riches to enter be immersed with the immersion that I am
into the Kingdom of God! 10:25 It is easier for immersed with; 10:40 but to sit at my right hand
a camelb to go through a needle’s eye than for and at my left hand is not mine to give, but for
a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God.” whom it has been prepared.”
10:26 10:41
They were exceedingly astonished, say- When the ten heard it, they began to be
ing to him, “Then who can be saved?” indignant towards Jacob and Yochanan.
10:27 10:42
Yeshua, looking at them, said, “With Yeshua summoned them, and said to
men it is impossible, but not with God, for all them, “You know that they who are rec-
things are possible with God.” ognized as rulers over the nations lord it
10:28
Peter began to tell him, “Behold, we over them, and their great ones exercise
have left all, and have followed you.” authority over them. 10:43 But it shall not
10:29
Yeshua said, “Most certainly I tell you, be so among you, but whoever wants to
there is no one who has left house, or broth- become great among you shall be your ser-
ers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or vant. 10:44 Whoever of you wants to become
children, or land, for my sake, and for the sake first among you, shall be bondservant of all.
10:45
of the Good News, 10:30 but he will receive one For the Son of Man also came not to be
hundred times more now in this time, houses, served, but to serve, and to give his life as a
brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and land, ransom for many.”
10:46
with persecutions; and in the age to come They came to Jericho. As he went out
eternal life. 10:31 But many who are first will from Jericho, with his disciples and a great mul-
be last; and the last first.” titude, the son of Timaeus, Bartimaeus, a blind
10:32
They were on the way, going up to beggar, was sitting by the road. 10:47 When
Jerusalem; and Yeshua was going in front of he heard that it was Yeshua the Nazarene, he
them, and they were amazed; and those who began to cry out, and say, “Yeshua, you son of
followed were afraid. He again took the twelve, David, have mercy on me!” 10:48 Many rebuked
and began to tell them the things that were him, that he should be quiet, but he cried out
going to happen to him. 10:33 “Behold, we much more, “You son of David, have mercy on
are going up to Jerusalem. The Son of Man me!”
10:49
will be delivered to the chief priests and the Yeshua stood still, and said, “Call him.”
scribes. They will condemn him to death, and They called the blind man, saying to him,
will deliver him to the Gentiles. 10:34 They “Cheer up! Get up. He is calling you!”
10:50
will mock him, spit on him, scourge him, and He, casting away his cloak, sprang up,
kill him. On the third day he will rise again.” and came to Yeshua.
10:35 10:51
Jacob and Yochanan, the sons of Yeshua asked him, “What do you want
Zebedee, came near to him, saying, “Rabbi, me to do for you?”
we want you to do for us whatever we will The blind man said to him, “Rabboni,c that I
ask.” may see again.”
10:36 10:52
He said to them, “What do you want me Yeshua said to him, “Go your way. Your
to do for you?” faith has made you well.” Immediately he
10:37
They said to him, “Grant to us that we received his sight, and followed Yeshua in the
b 10:25 The Peshitta Aramaic word means camel, rope or beam.
c 10:51 Rabboni is a transliteration of the Hebrew word for “great teacher.”
Mark 11:1 830 Mark 11:33

way. a container through the temple. 11:17 He taught,


11:1 saying to them, “Isn’t it written, ‘My house
When they drew near to Jerusalem, to
Bethsphaged and Bethany, at the Mount of will be called a house of prayer for all the
Olives, he sent two of his disciples, 11:2 and said nations?’g But you have made it a den of
to them, “Go your way into the village that robbers!”h
11:18
is opposite you. Immediately as you enter The chief priests and the scribes heard
into it, you will find a young donkey tied, on it, and sought how they might destroy him. For
which no one has sat. Untie him, and bring they feared him, because all the multitude was
him. 11:3 If anyone asks you, ‘Why are you astonished at his teaching.
doing this?’ say, ‘The Lord needs him;’ and 11:19
When evening came, he went out of the
immediately he will send him back here.” city. 11:20 As they passed by in the morning,
11:4
They went away, and found a young they saw the fig tree withered away from the
donkey tied at the door outside in the open roots. 11:21 Peter, remembering, said to him,
street, and they untied him. 11:5 Some of those “Rabbi, look! The fig tree which you cursed has
who stood there asked them, “What are you withered away.”
doing, untying the young donkey?” 11:6 They 11:22
Yeshua answered them, “Have faith
said to them just as Yeshua had said, and they in God. 11:23 For most certainly I tell you,
let them go. whoever may tell this mountain, ‘Be taken up
11:7
They brought the young donkey to and cast into the sea,’ and doesn’t doubt in
Yeshua, and threw their garments on it, and his heart, but believes that what he says is
Yeshua sat on it. 11:8 Many spread their gar- happening; he shall have whatever he says.
11:24
ments on the way, and others were cutting Therefore I tell you, all things whatever
down branches from the trees, and spread- you pray and ask for, believe that you have
ing them on the road. 11:9 Those who went received them, and you shall have them.
11:25
in front, and those who followed, cried out, Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if
“Hoshia’nae ! Blessed is he who comes in the you have anything against anyone; so that
name of the Lord!f 11:10 Blessed is the kingdom your Father, who is in heaven, may also
of our father David that is coming in the name forgive you your transgressions. 11:26 But if
of the Lord! Hoshia’na in the highest!” you do not forgive, neither will your Father
11:11 in heaven forgive your transgressions.”
Yeshua entered into the temple in
11:27
Jerusalem. When he had looked around at They came again to Jerusalem, and as
everything, it being now evening, he went out he was walking in the temple, the chief priests,
to Bethany with the twelve. and the scribes, and the elders came to him,
11:12 11:28
The next day, when they had come out and they began saying to him, “By what
from Bethany, he was hungry. 11:13 Seeing a fig authority do you do these things? Or who gave
tree afar off having leaves, he came to see if you this authority to do these things?”
11:29
perhaps he might find anything on it. When Yeshua said to them, “I will ask you
he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for one question. Answer me, and I will tell you
it was not the season for figs. 11:14 Yeshua told by what authority I do these things. 11:30 The
it, “May no one ever eat fruit from you again!” immersion of Yochanan—was it from heaven,
and his disciples heard it. or from men? Answer me.”
11:15 11:31
They came to Jerusalem, and Yeshua They reasoned with themselves, saying,
entered into the temple, and began to throw out “If we should say, ‘From heaven;’ he will say,
those who sold and those who bought in the ‘Why then did you not believe him?’ 11:32 If
temple, and overthrew the tables of the money we should say, ‘From men’”—they feared the
changers, and the seats of those who sold the people, for all held Yochanan to really be a
doves. 11:16 He would not allow anyone to carry prophet. 11:33 They answered Yeshua, “We
d 11:1 TR & NU read “Bethphage” instead of “Bethsphage”
e 11:9“Hoshia’na” means “save us” or “help us, we pray.”
f 11:9 Psalm 118:25-26
g 11:17 Isaiah 56:7
h 11:17 Jeremiah 7:11
Mark 12:1 831 Mark 12:31

don’t know.” He said to them, “Whose is this image and


Yeshua said to them, “Neither do I tell you inscription?”
by what authority I do these things.” They said to him, “Caesar’s.”
12:1 12:17
He began to speak to them in parables. Yeshua answered them, “Render to
“A man planted a vineyard, put a hedge Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God
around it, dug a pit for the winepress, built a the things that are God’s.”
tower, rented it out to a farmer, and went into They marveled greatly at him.
another country. 12:2 When it was time, he sent 12:18
There came to him Sadducees, who say
a servant to the farmer to get from the farmer that there is no resurrection. They asked
his share of the fruit of the vineyard. 12:3 They him, saying, 12:19 “Rabbi, Moses wrote to us,
took him, beat him, and sent him away empty. ‘If a man’s brother dies, and leaves a wife
12:4
Again, he sent another servant to them; behind him, and leaves no children, that his
and they threw stones at him, wounded him brother should take his wife, and raise up
in the head, and sent him away shamefully offspring for his brother.’ 12:20 There were seven
treated. 12:5 Again he sent another; and they brothers. The first took a wife, and dying left
killed him; and many others, beating some, no offspring. 12:21 The second took her, and
and killing some. 12:6 Therefore still having died, leaving no children behind him. The third
one, his beloved son, he sent him last to them, likewise; 12:22 and the seven took her and left
saying, ‘They will respect my son.’ 12:7 But no children. Last of all the woman also died.
those farmers said among themselves, ‘This 12:23
In the resurrection, when they rise, whose
is the heir. Come, let’s kill him, and the wife will she be of them? For the seven had her
inheritance will be ours.’ 12:8 They took him, as a wife.”
killed him, and cast him out of the vine- 12:24
Yeshua answered them, “Isn’t this be-
yard. 12:9 What therefore will the lord of the cause you are mistaken, not knowing the
vineyard do? He will come and destroy the Scriptures, nor the power of God? 12:25 For
farmers, and will give the vineyard to others. when they will rise from the dead, they
12:10
Haven’t you even read this Scripture: neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but
‘The stone which the builders rejected, are like angels in heaven. 12:26 But about the
the same was made the head of the dead, that they are raised; haven’t you read
corner. in the book of Moses, about the Bush, how
12:11
This was from the Lord, God spoke to him, saying, ‘I am the God of
it is marvelous in our eyes’?”i Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of
12:12
They tried to seize him, but they feared Jacob’j ? 12:27 He is not the God of the dead,
the multitude; for they perceived that he spoke but of the living. You are therefore badly
the parable against them. They left him, mistaken.”
and went away. 12:13 They sent some of the 12:28
One of the scribes came, and heard
Pharisees and of the Herodians to him, that them questioning together. Knowing that he
they might trap him with words. 12:14 When had answered them well, asked him, “Which
they had come, they asked him, “Rabbi, we commandment is the greatest of all?”
know that you are honest, and don’t defer to 12:29
Yeshua answered, “The greatest is,
anyone; for you aren’t partial to anyone, but ‘Hear, Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is
truly teach the way of God. Is it lawful to pay one: 12:30 you shall love the Lord your God
taxes to Caesar, or not? 12:15 Shall we give, or with all your heart, and with all your soul,
shall we not give?” and with all your mind, and with all your
But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said to strength.’k This is the first commandment.
12:31
them, “Why do you test me? Bring me a The second is like this, ‘You shall love
denarius, that I may see it.” your neighbor as yourself.’l There is no other
12:16
They brought it. commandment greater than these.”
i 12:11Psalm 118:22-23
j 12:26Exodus 3:6
k 12:30 Deuteronomy 6:4-5
l 12:31 Leviticus 19:18
Mark 12:32 832 Mark 13:17

12:32
The scribe said to him, “Truly, Rabbi, great buildings? There will not be left here
you have said well that he is one, and there is one stone on another, which will not be
none other but he, 12:33 and to love him with all thrown down.”
13:3
the heart, and with all the understanding, with As he sat on the Mount of Olives op-
all the soul, and with all the strength, and to posite the temple, Peter, Jacob, Yochanan, and
love his neighbor as himself, is more important Andrew asked him privately, 13:4 “Tell us, when
than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.” will these things be? What is the sign that these
12:34
When Yeshua saw that he answered things are all about to be fulfilled?”
13:5
wisely, he said to him, “You are not far from Yeshua, answering, began to tell them,
the Kingdom of God.” “Be careful that no one leads you astray.
13:6
No one dared ask him any question after For many will come in my name, saying,
that. 12:35 Yeshua responded, as he taught in the ‘I am he!p ’ and will lead many astray.
temple, “How is it that the scribes say that the 13:7
“When you hear of wars and rumors
Messiah is the son of David? 12:36 For David of wars, don’t be troubled. For those must
himself said in the Holy Spirit, happen, but the end is not yet. 13:8 For
‘The Lord said to my Lord, nation will rise against nation, and kingdom
“Sit at my right hand, against kingdom. There will be earthquakes
until I make your enemies the footstool in various places. There will be famines and
of your feet.”’m troubles. These things are the beginning of
12:37
Therefore David himself calls him birth pains. 13:9 But watch yourselves, for they
Lord, so how can he be his son?” will deliver you up to councils. You will be
The common people heard him gladly. beaten in synagogues. You will stand before
12:38
In his teaching he said to them, “Beware rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony
of the scribes, who like to walk in long robes, to them. 13:10 The Good News must first be
and to get greetings in the marketplaces, preached to all the nations. 13:11 When they
12:39
and the best seats in the synagogues, lead you away and deliver you up, don’t be
and the best places at feasts: 12:40 those who anxious beforehand, or premeditate what you
devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense will say, but say whatever will be given you
make long prayers. These will receive greater in that hour. For it is not you who speak, but
condemnation.” the Holy Spirit.
12:41 13:12
Yeshua sat down opposite the treasury, “Brother will deliver up brother to
and saw how the multitude cast money into the death, and the father his child. Children will
treasury. Many who were rich cast in much. rise up against parents, and cause them to be
12:42
A poor widow came, and she cast in two put to death. 13:13 You will be hated by all
small brass coins,n which equal a quadrans men for my name’s sake, but he who endures
coin.o 12:43 He called his disciples to himself, to the end, the same will be saved. 13:14 But
and said to them, “Most certainly I tell you, when you see the abomination of desolation,q
this poor widow gave more than all those who spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing
are giving into the treasury, 12:44 for they all where it ought not (let the reader understand),
gave out of their abundance, but she, out of then let those who are in Judea flee to the
her poverty, gave all that she had to live on.” mountains, 13:15 and let him who is on the
13:1
As he went out of the temple, one of his housetop not go down, nor enter in, to take
disciples said to him, “Rabbi, see what kind of anything out of his house. 13:16 Let him who
stones and what kind of buildings!” is in the field not return back to take his
13:2
Yeshua said to him, “Do you see these cloak. 13:17 But woe to those who are with
m 12:36 Psalm 110:1
n 12:42 literally, lepta (or widow’s mites). Lepta are very small brass coins worth half a quadrans each,
which is a quarter of the copper assarion. Lepta are worth less than 1% of an agricultural worker’s daily
wages.
o 12:42 A quadrans is a coin worth about 1/64 of a denarius. A denarius is about one day’s wages for an

agricultural laborer.
p 13:6 or, “I AM!”
q 13:14 Daniel 9:17; 11:31; 12:11
Mark 13:18 833 Mark 14:14

child and to those who nurse babies in those coming, whether at evening, or at midnight,
days! 13:18 Pray that your flight won’t be in or when the rooster crows, or in the morning;
the winter. 13:19 For in those days there will 13:36
lest coming suddenly he might find you
be oppression, such as there has not been the sleeping. 13:37 What I tell you, I tell all:
like from the beginning of the creation which Watch.”
God created until now, and never will be. 14:1
It was now two days before the feast of
13:20
Unless the Lord had shortened the days, the Passover and the unleavened bread, and
no flesh would have been saved; but for the the chief priests and the scribes sought how
sake of the chosen ones, whom he picked out, they might seize him by deception, and kill
he shortened the days. 13:21 Then if anyone him. 14:2 For they said, “Not during the feast,
tells you, ‘Look, here is the Messiah!’ or, because there might be a riot of the people.”
‘Look, there!’ don’t believe it. 13:22 For there 14:3
While he was at Bethany, in the house of
will arise false messiahs and false prophets, Simon the lepert , as he sat at the table, a woman
and will show signs and wonders, that they came having an alabaster jar of ointment of
may lead astray, if possible, even the chosen pure nard—very costly. She broke the jar, and
ones. 13:23 But you watch. poured it over his head. 14:4 But there were
“Behold, I have told you all things be- some who were indignant among themselves,
forehand. 13:24 But in those days, after that saying, “Why has this ointment been wasted?
14:5
oppression, the sun will be darkened, the For this might have been sold for more than
moon will not give its light, 13:25 the stars will three hundred denarii,u and given to the poor.”
be falling from the sky, and the powers that They grumbled against her.
are in the heavens will be shaken.r 13:26 Then 14:6
But Yeshua said, “Leave her alone. Why
they will see the Son of Man coming in clouds do you trouble her? She has done a good
with great power and glory. 13:27 Then he will work for me. 14:7 For you always have the poor
send out his angels, and will gather together with you, and whenever you want to, you
his chosen ones from the four winds, from the can do them good; but you will not always
ends of the earth to the ends of the sky. have me. 14:8 She has done what she could.
13:28
“Now from the fig tree, learn this She has anointed my body beforehand for
parable. When the branch has now become the burying. 14:9 Most certainly I tell you,
tender, and puts forth its leaves, you know wherever this Good News may be preached
that the summer is near; 13:29 even so you also, throughout the whole world, that which this
when you see these things coming to pass, woman has done will also be spoken of for a
know that it is near, at the doors. 13:30 Most memorial of her.”
certainly I say to you, this generations will 14:10
Judah Iscariot, who was one of the
not pass away until all these things happen. twelve, went away to the chief priests, that he
13:31
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my might deliver him to them. 14:11 They, when
words will not pass away. 13:32 But of that they heard it, were glad, and promised to
day or that hour no one knows, not even the give him money. He sought how he might
angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the conveniently deliver him. 14:12 On the first day
Father. 13:33 Watch, keep alert, and pray; for of unleavened bread, when they sacrificed the
you don’t know when the time is. Passover, his disciples asked him, “Where do
13:34 you want us to go and prepare that you may
“It is like a man, traveling to another
country, having left his house, and given eat the Passover?”
14:13
authority to his servants, and to each one his He sent two of his disciples, and said
work, and also commanded the doorkeeper to them, “Go into the city, and there you
to keep watch. 13:35 Watch therefore, for you will meet a man carrying a pitcher of water.
don’t know when the lord of the house is Follow him, 14:14 and wherever he enters in,
r 13:25Isaiah 13:10; 34:4
s 13:30The word translated “generation” (genea) could also be translated “race,” “family,” or “people.”
t 14:3 The unpointed Peshitta Aramaic word is either Ga’Rabba “leper” or Garaba “potter” or “jar

merchant.”
u 14:5 300 denarii was about a years wages for an agricultural laborer.
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tell the master of the house, ‘The Rabbi says, Gethsemane. He said to his disciples, “Sit here,
“Where is the guest room, where I may eat while I pray.” 14:33 He took with him Peter,
the Passover with my disciples?”’ 14:15 He Jacob, and Yochanan, and began to be greatly
will himself show you a large upper room troubled and distressed. 14:34 He said to them,
furnished and ready. Get ready for us there.” “My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to
14:16
His disciples went out, and came into death. Stay here, and watch.”
14:35
the city, and found things as he had said to He went forward a little, and fell on the
them, and they prepared the Passover. ground, and prayed that, if it were possible, the
14:17
When it was evening he came with the hour might pass away from him. 14:36 He said,
twelve. 14:18 As they sat and were eating, “Abba, Father, all things are possible to you.
Yeshua said, “Most certainly I tell you, one of Please remove this cup from me. However,
you will betray me—he who eats with me.” not what I desire, but what you desire.”
14:19 14:37
They began to be sorrowful, and to ask He came and found them sleeping,
him one by one, “Surely not I?” And another and said to Peter, “Simon, are you sleeping?
said, “Surely not I?” Couldn’t you watch one hour? 14:38 Watch and
14:20
He answered them, “It is one of the pray, that you may not enter into temptation.
twelve, he who dips with me in the dish. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is
14:21
For the Son of Man goes, even as it is weak.”
14:39
written about him, but woe to that man by Again he went away, and prayed, say-
whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would ing the same words. 14:40 Again he returned,
be better for that man if he had not been and found them sleeping, for their eyes were
born.” very heavy, and they didn’t know what to
14:22
As they were eating, Yeshua took bread, answer him. 14:41 He came the third time, and
and when he had blessed, he broke it, and gave said to them, “Sleep on now, and take your
to them, and said, “Take, eat. This is my rest. It is enough. The hour has come. Behold,
body.” the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of
14:23
He took the cup, and when he had given sinners. 14:42 Arise, let us be going. Behold, he
thanks, he gave to them. They all drank of it. who betrays me is at hand.”
14:24 14:43
He said to them, “This is my blood of the Immediately, while he was still speak-
new covenant, which is poured out for many. ing, Judah, one of the twelve, came—and with
14:25
Most certainly I tell you, I will no more him a multitude with swords and clubs, from
drink of the fruit of the vine, until that day the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders.
14:44
when I drink it anew in the Kingdom of God.” Now he who betrayed him had given them
14:26
When they had sung the Hallel, they went a sign, saying, “Whomever I will kiss, that is
out to the Mount of Olives. he. Seize him, and lead him away safely.”
14:27 14:45
Yeshua said to them, “All of you will be When he had come, immediately he came
made to stumble because of me tonight, for to him, and said, “Rabbi! Rabbi!” and kissed
it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and him. 14:46 They laid their hands on him, and
the sheep will be scattered.’v 14:28 However, seized him. 14:47 But a certain one of those
after I am raised up, I will go before you into who stood by drew his sword, and struck the
Galilee.” servant of the high priest, and cut off his ear.
14:29 14:48
But Peter said to him, “Although all will Yeshua answered them, “Have you
be offended, yet I will not.” come out, as against a robber, with swords and
14:30
Yeshua said to him, “Most certainly I clubs to seize me? 14:49 I was daily with you
tell you, that you today, even this night, before in the temple teaching, and you didn’t arrest
the rooster crows twice, you will deny me me. But this is so that the Scriptures might be
three times.” fulfilled.”
14:31 14:50
But he spoke all the more, “If I must die They all left him, and fled. 14:51 A certain
with you, I will not deny you.” They all said young man followed him, having a linen cloth
the same thing. thrown around himself, over his naked body.
14:32
They came to a place which was named The young men grabbed him, 14:52 but he left
v 14:27 Zechariah 13:7
Mark 14:53 835 Mark 15:20

the linen cloth, and fled from them naked. whom you speak!” 14:72 The rooster crowed the
14:53
They led Yeshua away to the high priest. second time. Peter remembered the word, how
All the chief priests, the elders, and the scribes that Yeshua said to him, “Before the rooster
came together with him. crows twice, you will deny me three times.”
14:54 When he thought about that, he wept.
Peter had followed him from a distance,
15:1
until he came into the court of the high priest. Immediately in the morning the chief
He was sitting with the officers, and warming priests, with the elders and scribes, and the
himself in the light of the fire. 14:55 Now the whole council, held a consultation, and bound
chief priests and the whole council sought Yeshua, and carried him away, and delivered
witnesses against Yeshua to put him to death, him up to Pilate. 15:2 Pilate asked him, “Are you
and found none. 14:56 For many gave false the King of the Jews?”
testimony against him, and their testimony He answered, “So you say.”
didn’t agree with each other. 14:57 Some stood 15:3
The chief priests accused him of many
up, and gave false testimony against him, things. 15:4 Pilate again asked him, “Have you
saying, 14:58 “We heard him say, ‘I will destroy no answer? See how many things they testify
this temple that is made with hands, and in against you!”
three days I will build another made without 15:5
But Yeshua made no further answer, so
hands.’” 14:59 Even so, their testimony did not that Pilate marveled.
agree. 15:6
Now at the feast he used to release to
14:60
The high priest stood up in the midst, them one prisoner, whom they asked of him.
and asked Yeshua, “Have you no answer? 15:7
There was one called Barabbas, bound with
What is it which these testify against you?” those who had made insurrection, men who
14:61
But he stayed quiet, and answered nothing. in the insurrection had committed murder.
Again the high priest asked him, “Are you the 15:8
The multitude, crying aloud, began to ask
Messiah, the Son of the Blessed?” him to do as he always did for them. 15:9 Pilate
14:62
Yeshua said, “I am. You will see the answered them, saying, “Do you want me to
Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power, release to you the King of the Jews?” 15:10 For
and coming with the clouds of the sky.” he perceived that for envy the chief priests had
14:63
The high priest tore his clothes, and delivered him up. 15:11 But the chief priests
said, “What further need have we of witnesses? stirred up the multitude, that he should release
14:64
You have heard the blasphemy! What do Barabbas to them instead. 15:12 Pilate again
you think?” They all condemned him to be asked them, “What then should I do to him
worthy of death. 14:65 Some began to spit on whom you call the King of the Jews?”
15:13
him, and to cover his face, and to beat him with They cried out again, “Crucify him!”
fists, and to tell him, “Prophesy!” The officers 15:14
Pilate said to them, “Why, what evil has
struck him with the palms of their hands. he done?”
14:66
As Peter was in the courtyard below, But they cried out exceedingly, “Crucify
one of the maids of the high priest came, him!”
14:67 15:15
and seeing Peter warming himself, she Pilate, wishing to please the multitude,
looked at him, and said, “You were also with released Barabbas to them, and handed over
the Nazarene, Yeshua!” Yeshua, when he had flogged him, to be cru-
14:68
But he denied it, saying, “I neither cified. 15:16 The soldiers led him away within
know, nor understand what you are saying.” the court, which is the Praetorium; and they
He went out on the porch, and the rooster called together the whole cohort. 15:17 They
crowed. clothed him with purple, and weaving a crown
14:69
The maid saw him, and began again to of thorns, they put it on him. 15:18 They began to
tell those who stood by, “This is one of them.” salute him, “Hail, King of the Jews!” 15:19 They
14:70
But he again denied it. After a little while struck his head with a reed, and spat on him,
again those who stood by said to Peter, “You and bowing their knees, did homage to him.
15:20
truly are one of them, for you are a Galilean, When they had mocked him, they took the
and your speech shows it.” 14:71 But he began to purple off of him, and put his own garments
curse, and to swear, “I don’t know this man of on him. They led him out to crucify him.
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15:21
They compelled one passing by, coming bottom. 15:39 When the centurion, who stood by
from the country, Simon of Cyrene, the father opposite him, saw that he cried out like this and
of Alexander and Rufus, to go with them, that breathed his last, he said, “Truly this man was
he might bear his cross. 15:22 They brought him the Son of God!”
to the place called Golgotha, which is, being 15:40
There were also women watching from
interpreted, “The place of a skull.” 15:23 They afar, among whom were both Miriam Magda-
offered him wine mixed with myrrh to drink, lene, and Miriam the mother of Jacob the less
but he didn’t take it. and of Yosi, and Shalom; 15:41 who, when he
15:24
Crucifying him, they parted his gar- was in Galilee, followed him, and served him;
ments among them, casting lots on them, what and many other women who came up with him
each should take. 15:25 It was the third hour,w to Jerusalem.
and they crucified him. 15:26 The superscription 15:42
When evening had now come, because
of his accusation was written over him, “THE it was the Preparation Day, that is, the day
KING OF THE JEWS.” 15:27 With him they before the Sabbath, 15:43 Joseph of Arimathaea,
crucified two robbers; one on his right hand, a prominent council member who also himself
and one on his left. 15:28 The Scripture was was looking for the Kingdom of God, came. He
fulfilled, which says, “He was numbered with boldly went in to Pilate, and asked for Yeshua’s
transgressors.”x body. 15:44 Pilate marveled if he were already
15:29
Those who passed by blasphemed him, dead; and summoning the centurion, he asked
wagging their heads, and saying, “Ha! You him whether he had been dead long. 15:45 When
who destroy the temple, and build it in three he found out from the centurion, he granted the
days, 15:30 save yourself, and come down from body to Joseph. 15:46 He bought a linen cloth,
the cross!” and taking him down, wound him in the linen
15:31
Likewise, also the chief priests mocking cloth, and laid him in a tomb which had been
among themselves with the scribes said, “He cut out of a rock. He rolled a stone against the
saved others. He can’t save himself. 15:32 Let door of the tomb. 15:47 Miriam Magdalene and
the Messiah, the King of Israel, now come Miriam, the mother of Yosi, saw where he was
down from the cross, that we may see and laid.
believe him.y ” Those who were crucified with 16:1
When the Sabbath was past, Miriam
him insulted him. Magdalene, and Miriam the mother of Jacob,
15:33
When the sixth hourz had come, there and Shalom, bought spices, that they might
was darkness over the whole land until the come and anoint him. 16:2 Very early on the first
ninth hour.a 15:34 At the ninth hour Yeshua cried day of the week, they came to the tomb when
with a loud voice, saying, “Eloi, Eloi, lama the sun had risen. 16:3 They were saying among
sabachthani?” which is, being interpreted, themselves, “Who will roll away the stone from
“My God, my God, why have you forsaken the door of the tomb for us?” 16:4 for it was very
me?”b big. Looking up, they saw that the stone was
15:35
Some of those who stood by, when they rolled back.
heard it, said, “Behold, he is calling Elijah.” 16:5
Entering into the tomb, they saw a young
15:36
One ran, and filling a sponge full of man sitting on the right side, dressed in a white
vinegar, put it on a reed, and gave it to him to robe, and they were amazed. 16:6 He said to
drink, saying, “Let him be. Let’s see whether them, “Don’t be amazed. You seek Yeshua,
Elijah comes to take him down.” the Nazarene, who has been crucified. He has
15:37
Yeshua cried out with a loud voice, risen. He is not here. Behold, the place where
and gave up the spirit. 15:38 The veil of the they laid him! 16:7 But go, tell his disciples and
temple was torn in two from the top to the Peter, ‘He goes before you into Galilee. There
w 15:25 9:00 A. M.
x 15:28 NU omits verse 28.
y 15:32 TR omits “him”
z 15:33 or, noon
a 15:33 3:00 PM
b 15:34 Psalm 22:1
Mark 16:8 837 Mark 16:20

you will see him, as he said to you.’”


16:8
They went out,c and fled from the tomb,
for trembling and astonishment had come on
them. They said nothing to anyone; for they
were afraid. 16:9 Now when he had risen early
on the first day of the week, he appeared
first to Miriam Magdalene, from whom he had
cast out seven demons. 16:10 She went and
told those who had been with him, as they
mourned and wept. 16:11 When they heard that
he was alive, and had been seen by her, they
disbelieved. 16:12 After these things he was
revealed in another form to two of them, as
they walked, on their way into the country.
16:13
They went away and told it to the rest.
They didn’t believe them, either.
16:14
Afterward he was revealed to the
Eleven themselves as they sat at the table,
and he rebuked them for their unbelief and
hardness of heart, because they didn’t believe
those who had seen him after he had risen.
16:15
He said to them, “Go into all the world,
and proclaim the Good News to the whole cre-
ation. 16:16 He who believes and is immersed
will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be
condemned. 16:17 These signs will accompany
those who believe: in my name they will
cast out demons; they will speak with new
languages; 16:18 they will take up serpents; and
if they drink any deadly thing, it will in no
way hurt them; they will lay hands on the
sick, and they will recover.”
16:19
So then the Lordd , after he had spoken
to them, was received up into heaven, and
sat down at the right hand of God. 16:20 They
went out, and preached everywhere, the Lord
working with them, and confirming the word
by the signs that followed. Amen.

c 16:8 TR adds “quickly”


d 16:19 NA adds “Yeshua”
Luke 1:1 838 Luke 1:37

The Good News 1:19


The angel answered him, “I am Gabriel,
According to Luke who stands in the presence of God. I was sent
to speak to you, and to bring you this good
1:1 news. 1:20 Behold, you will be silent and not
Since many have undertaken to set in or- able to speak, until the day that these things
der a narrative concerning those matters which will happen, because you didn’t believe my
have been fulfilled among us, 1:2 even as those words, which will be fulfilled in their proper
who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and time.”
servants of the word delivered them to us, 1:21
1:3 The people were waiting for Zechariah,
it seemed good to me also, having traced
and they marveled that he delayed in the tem-
the course of all things accurately from the
ple. 1:22 When he came out, he could not speak
first, to write to you in order, most excellent
to them, and they perceived that he had seen
Theophilus; 1:4 that you might know the cer-
a vision in the temple. He continued making
tainty concerning the things in which you were
signs to them, and remained mute. 1:23 It
instructed.
1:5 happened, when the days of his service were
There was in the days of Herod, the king
fulfilled, he departed to his house. 1:24 After
of Judea, a certain priest named Zechariah,
these days Elisheva, his wife, conceived, and
of the priestly division of Abijah. He had a
she hid herself five months, saying, 1:25 “Thus
wife of the daughters of Aaron, and her name
has the Lord done to me in the days in which he
was Elisheva. 1:6 They were both righteous
looked at me, to take away my reproach among
before God, walking blamelessly in all the
men.”
commandments and ordinances of the Lord. 1:26
1:7
But they had no child, because Elisheva was Now in the sixth month, the angel
barren, and they both were well advanced in Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee,
years. 1:8 Now it happened, while he executed named Nazareth, 1:27 to a virgin pledged to be
the priest’s office before God in the order of married to a man whose name was Joseph, of
his division, 1:9 according to the custom of the the house of David. The virgin’s name was
priest’s office, his lot was to enter into the Miriam. 1:28 Having come in, the angel said to
temple of the Lord and burn incense. 1:10 The her, “Rejoice, you highly favored one! The Lord
whole multitude of the people were praying is with you. Blessed are you among women!”
1:29
outside at the hour of incense. But when she saw him, she was greatly
1:11 troubled at the saying, and considered what
An angel of the Lord appeared to him,
standing on the right side of the altar of incense. kind of salutation this might be. 1:30 The angel
1:12 said to her, “Don’t be afraid, Miriam, for you
Zechariah was troubled when he saw him,
and fear fell upon him. 1:13 But the angel said have found favor with God. 1:31 Behold, you
to him, “Don’t be afraid, Zechariah, because will conceive in your womb, and bring forth a
your request has been heard, and your wife, son, and will call his name ‘Yeshua.’ 1:32 He will
Elisheva, will bear you a son, and you shall be great, and will be called the Son of the Most
call his name Yochanan. 1:14 You will have joy High. The Lord God will give him the throne of
and gladness; and many will rejoice at his birth. his father, David, 1:33 and he will reign over the
1:15 house of Jacob forever. There will be no end to
For he will be great in the sight of the Lord,
and he will drink no wine nor strong drink. He his Kingdom.”
1:34
will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his Miriam said to the angel, “How can this
mother’s womb. 1:16 He will turn many of the be, seeing I am a virgin?”
children of Israel to the Lord, their God. 1:17 He 1:35
The angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit
will go before him in the spirit and power of will come on you, and the power of the Most
Elijah, ‘to turn the hearts of the fathers to the High will overshadow you. Therefore also the
children,’ and the disobedient to the wisdom of holy one who is born from you will be called
the just; to prepare a people prepared for the the Son of God. 1:36 Behold, Elisheva, your
Lord.” relative, also has conceived a son in her old
1:18
Zechariah said to the angel, “How can I age; and this is the sixth month with her who
be sure of this? For I am an old man, and my was called barren. 1:37 For everything spoken
wife is well advanced in years.” by God is possible.”
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1:38
Miriam said, “Behold, the handmaid of Zechariah, after the name of the father. 1:60 His
the Lord; be it to me according to your word.” mother answered, “Not so; but he will be called
The angel departed from her. 1:39 Miriam Yochanan.”
1:61
arose in those days and went into the hill They said to her, “There is no one among
country with haste, into a city of Judah, 1:40 and your relatives who is called by this name.”
1:62
entered into the house of Zechariah and greeted They made signs to his father, what he
Elisheva. 1:41 It happened, when Elisheva heard would have him called.
1:63
Miriam’s greeting, that the baby leaped in her He asked for a writing tablet, and wrote,
womb, and Elisheva was filled with the Holy “His name is Yochanan.”
Spirit. 1:42 She called out with a loud voice, They all marveled. 1:64 His mouth was
and said, “Blessed are you among women, and opened immediately, and his tongue freed,
blessed is the fruit of your womb! 1:43 Why am and he spoke, blessing God. 1:65 Fear came
I so favored, that the mother of my Lord should on all who lived around them, and all these
come to me? 1:44 For behold, when the voice sayings were talked about throughout all the
of your greeting came into my ears, the baby hill country of Judea. 1:66 All who heard them
leaped in my womb for joy! 1:45 Blessed is she laid them up in their heart, saying, “What then
who believed, for there will be a fulfillment of will this child be?” The hand of the Lord was
the things which have been spoken to her from with him. 1:67 His father, Zechariah, was filled
the Lord!” with the Holy Spirit, and prophesied, saying,
1:46 1:68
Miriam said, “Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel,
“My soul magnifies the Lord. for he has visited and worked redemp-
1:47
My spirit has rejoiced in God my tion for his people;
1:69
Savior, and has raised up a horn of salvation for us
1:48
for he has looked at the humble state in the house of his servant David
1:70
of his handmaid. (as he spoke by the mouth of his holy
For behold, from now on, all generations will prophets who have been from of old),
1:71
call me blessed. salvation from our enemies, and from
1:49
For he who is mighty has done great the hand of all who hate us;
1:72
things for me. to show mercy towards our fathers,
Holy is his name. to remember his holy covenant,
1:50 1:73
His mercy is for generations of gener- the oath which he spoke to Abraham, our
ations on those who fear him. father,
1:51 1:74
He has shown strength with his arm. to grant to us that we, being delivered
He has scattered the proud in the imagi- out of the hand of our enemies,
nation of their hearts. should serve him without fear,
1:52 1:75
He has put down princes from their thrones. In holiness and righteousness before
And has exalted the lowly. him all the days of our life.
1:53 1:76
He has filled the hungry with good things. And you, child, will be called a prophet of
He has sent the rich away empty. the Most High,
1:54
He has given help to Israel, his servant, that for you will go before the face of the Lord
he might remember mercy, to prepare his ways,
1:55 1:77
As he spoke to our fathers, to give knowledge of salvation to his
to Abraham and his seed forever.” people by the remission of their sins,
1:56 1:78
Miriam stayed with her about three because of the tender mercy of our God,
months, and then returned to her house. whereby the dawn from on high will visit
1:57 us,
Now the time that Elisheva should give
1:79
birth was fulfilled, and she brought forth a son. to shine on those who sit in darkness
1:58
Her neighbors and her relatives heard that and the shadow of death;
the Lord had magnified his mercy towards her, to guide our feet into the way of peace.”
and they rejoiced with her. 1:59 It happened on 1:80
The child was growing, and becoming
the eighth day, that they came to circumcise strong in spirit, and was in the desert until the
the child; and they would have called him day of his public appearance to Israel.
Luke 2:2 840 Luke 2:37

2:1
Now it happened in those days, that a seen, just as it was told them.
2:21
decree went out from Caesar Augustus that When eight days were fulfilled for the
all the world should be enrolled. 2:2 This circumcision of the child, his name was called
was the first enrollment made when Quirinius Yeshua, which was given by the angel before
was governor of Syria. 2:3 All went to enroll he was conceived in the womb.
themselves, everyone to his own city. 2:4 Joseph 2:22
When the days of their purification ac-
also went up from Galilee, out of the city of cording to the Torah of Moses were fulfilled,
Nazareth, into Judea, to the city of David, they brought him up to Jerusalem, to present
which is called Bethlehem, because he was of him to the Lord 2:23 (as it is written in the Torah
the house and family of David; 2:5 to enroll of the Lord, “Every male who opens the womb
himself with Miriam, who was pledged to be shall be called holy to the Lord”),a 2:24 and to
married to him as wife, being pregnant. offer a sacrifice according to that which is said
2:6
It happened, while they were there, that in the Torah of the Lord, “A pair of turtledoves,
the day had come that she should give birth. or two young pigeons.”b
2:7 2:25
She brought forth her firstborn son, and Behold, there was a man in Jerusalem
she wrapped him in bands of cloth, and laid whose name was Simeon. This man was righ-
him in a feeding trough, because there was teous and devout, looking for the consolation
no room for them in the inn. 2:8 There were of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was on him.
2:26
shepherds in the same country staying in the It had been revealed to him by the Holy
field, and keeping watch by night over their Spirit that he should not see death before he
flock. 2:9 Behold, an angel of the Lord stood by had seen the Lord’s Messiah.c 2:27 He came in
them, and the glory of the Lord shone around the Spirit into the temple. When the parents
them, and they were terrified. 2:10 The angel brought in the child, Yeshua, that they might do
said to them, “Don’t be afraid, for behold, I concerning him according to the requirement
bring you good news of great joy which will be of the Torah, 2:28 then he received him into his
to all the people. 2:11 For there is born to you, arms, and blessed God, and said,
2:29
this day, in the city of David, a Savior, who is “Now you are releasing your servant, Mas-
Messiah the Lord. 2:12 This is the sign to you: ter,
you will find a baby wrapped in strips of cloth, according to your word, in peace;
lying in a feeding trough.” 2:13 Suddenly, there 2:30
for my eyes have seen your salvation,
was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly 2:31
which you have prepared before the
army praising God, and saying, face of all peoples;
2:14 2:32
“Glory to God in the highest, a light for revelation to the nations,
on earth peace, good will toward men.” and the glory of your people Israel.”
2:15 2:33
It happened, when the angels went away Joseph and his mother were marveling
from them into the sky, that the shepherds said at the things which were spoken concerning
one to another, “Let’s go to Bethlehem, now, him, 2:34 and Simeon blessed them, and said to
and see this thing that has happened, which Miriam, his mother, “Behold, this child is set for
the Lord has made known to us.” 2:16 They the falling and the rising of many in Israel, and
came with haste, and found both Miriam and for a sign which is spoken against. 2:35 Yes, a
Joseph, and the baby was lying in the feeding sword will pierce through your own soul, that
trough. 2:17 When they saw it, they publicized the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.”
2:36
widely the saying which was spoken to them There was one Hannah, a prophetess,
about this child. 2:18 All who heard it wondered the daughter of Penuel, of the tribe of Asher
at the things which were spoken to them by (she was of a great age, having lived with a
the shepherds. 2:19 But Miriam kept all these husband seven years from her virginity, 2:37 and
sayings, pondering them in her heart. 2:20 The she had been a widow for about eighty-four
shepherds returned, glorifying and praising years), who didn’t depart from the temple,
God for all the things that they had heard and worshipping with fastings and petitions night
a 2:23 Exodus 13:2,12
b 2:24 Leviticus 12:8
c 2:26 “Christ” (Greek) and “Messiah” (Hebrew) both mean “Anointed One”
Luke 2:38 841 Luke 3:19

and day. 2:38 Coming up at that very hour, she written in the scroll of the words of Isaiah the
gave thanks to the Lord, and spoke of him to prophet,
all those who were looking for redemption in “The voice of one crying in the wilderness,
Jerusalem. ‘Make ready the way of the Lord.
2:39
When they had accomplished all things Make his paths straight.
3:5
that were according to the Torah of the Lord, Every valley will be filled.
they returned into Galilee, to their own city, Every mountain and hill will be brought low.
Nazareth. 2:40 The child was growing, and was The crooked will become straight,
becoming strong in spirit, being filled with and the rough ways smooth.
3:6
wisdom, and the grace of God was upon him. All flesh will see God’s salvation.’”d
2:41 3:7
His parents went every year to Jerusalem at He said therefore to the multitudes who
the feast of the Passover. went out to be immersed by him, “You off-
2:42
When he was twelve years old, they went spring of vipers, who warned you to flee from
up to Jerusalem according to the custom of the wrath to come? 3:8 Bring forth therefore
the feast, 2:43 and when they had fulfilled the fruits worthy of repentance, and don’t begin
days, as they were returning, the boy Yeshua to say among yourselves, ‘We have Abraham
stayed behind in Jerusalem. Joseph and his for our father;’ for I tell you that God is able
mother didn’t know it, 2:44 but supposing him to raise up children to Abraham from these
to be in the company, they went a day’s journey, stones! 3:9 Even now the axe also lies at the root
and they looked for him among their relatives of the trees. Every tree therefore that doesn’t
and acquaintances. 2:45 When they didn’t find bring forth good fruit is cut down, and thrown
him, they returned to Jerusalem, looking for into the fire.”
him. 2:46 It happened after three days they 3:10
The multitudes asked him, “What then
found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of must we do?”
3:11
the rabbis, both listening to them, and asking He answered them, “He who has two
them questions. 2:47 All who heard him were coats, let him give to him who has none. He
amazed at his understanding and his answers. who has food, let him do likewise.”
2:48 3:12
When they saw him, they were astonished, Tax collectors also came to be immersed,
and his mother said to him, “Son, why have and they said to him, “Rabbi, what must we
you treated us this way? Behold, your father do?”
3:13
and I were anxiously looking for you.” He said to them, “Collect no more than
2:49
He said to them, “Why were you look- that which is appointed to you.”
3:14
ing for me? Didn’t you know that I must Soldiers also asked him, saying, “What
be in my Father’s house?” 2:50 They didn’t about us? What must we do?”
understand the saying which he spoke to He said to them, “Extort from no one by
them. 2:51 And he went down with them, and violence, neither accuse anyone wrongfully. Be
came to Nazareth. He was subject to them, content with your wages.”
3:15
and his mother kept all these sayings in her As the people were in expectation, and
heart. 2:52 And Yeshua increased in wisdom and all men reasoned in their hearts concerning
stature, and in favor with God and men. Yochanan, whether perhaps he was the Mes-
3:1
Now in the fifteenth year of the reign siah, 3:16 Yochanan answered them all, “I in-
of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being gov- deed immerse you with water, but he comes
ernor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of who is mightier than I, the latchet of whose
Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the sandals I am not worthy to loosen. He will im-
region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias merse you in the Holy Spirit and fire, 3:17 whose
tetrarch of Abilene, 3:2 in the high priesthood fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly
of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God cleanse his threshing floor, and will gather the
came to Yochanan, the son of Zechariah, in wheat into his barn; but he will burn up the
the wilderness. 3:3 He came into all the region chaff with unquenchable fire.”
3:18
around the Jordan, proclaiming the immersion Then with many other exhortations he
of repentance for remission of sins. 3:4 As it is preached good news to the people, 3:19 but
d 3:6 Isaiah 40:3-5
Luke 3:20 842 Luke 4:17

Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into
Herodias, his brother’se wife, and for all the the wilderness 4:2 for forty days, being tempted
evil things which Herod had done, 3:20 added by the devil. He ate nothing in those days.
this also to them all, that he shut up Yochanan Afterward, when they were completed, he was
in prison. 3:21 Now it happened, when all the hungry. 4:3 The devil said to him, “If you are
people were immersed, Yeshua also had been the Son of God, command this stone to become
immersed, and was praying. The sky was bread.”
opened, 3:22 and the Holy Spirit descended in a 4:4
Yeshua answered him, saying, “It is writ-
bodily form as a dove on him; and a voice came ten, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by
out of the sky, saying “You are my beloved Son. every word of God.’”g
In you I am well pleased.” 4:5
The devil, leading him up on a high
3:23 mountain, showed him all the kingdoms of the
Yeshua himself, when he began to teach,
was about thirty years old, being the son (as world in a moment of time. 4:6 The devil said to
was supposed) of Joseph, the son of Eli, 3:24 the him, “I will give you all this authority, and their
son of Matthat, the son of Levi, the son of glory, for it has been delivered to me; and I give
Melchi, the son of Jannai, the son of Joseph, it to whomever I want. 4:7 If you therefore will
3:25 worship before me, it will all be yours.”
the son of Mattithiah, the son of Amos,
4:8
the son of Nahum, the son of Esli, the son Yeshua answered him, “Get behind me
of Naggai, 3:26 the son of Maath, the son of Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship
Mattithiah, the son of Shimei, the son of Joseph, the Lord your God, and you shall serve him
the son of Judah, 3:27 the son of Yochanan, the only.’”h
4:9
son of Rhesa, the son of Zerubbabel, the son of He led him to Jerusalem, and set him on
Shealtiel, the son of Neri, 3:28 the son of Melchi, the pinnacle of the temple, and said to him,
the son of Addi, the son of Cosam, the son of “If you are the Son of God, cast yourself down
Elmodam, the son of Er, 3:29 the son of Yosi, from here, 4:10 for it is written,
the son of Eliezer, the son of Jorim, the son of ‘He will put his angels in charge of you, to
Matthat, the son of Levi, 3:30 the son of Simeon, guard you;’
4:11
the son of Judah, the son of Joseph, the son of and,
Jonan, the son of Eliakim, 3:31 the son of Maleah, ‘On their hands they will bear you up,
the son of Manah, the son of Mattathah, the lest perhaps you dash your foot against a
son of Nathan, the son of David, 3:32 the son stone.’”i
of Jesse, the son of Obed, the son of Boaz, the 4:12
Yeshua answering, said to him, “It has
son of Salmon, the son of Nahshon, 3:33 the son been said, ‘You shall not tempt the Lord your
of Amminadab, the son of Ram,f the son of God.’”j
Hezron, the son of Perez, the son of Judah, 4:13
3:34
When the devil had completed every
the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son temptation, he departed from him until another
of Abraham, the son of Terah, the son of Nahor, time.
3:35
the son of Serug, the son of Reu, the son of 4:14
Yeshua returned in the power of the
Peleg, the son of Eber, the son of Shelah, 3:36 the Spirit into Galilee, and news about him spread
son of Kenan, the son of Arpachshad, the son through all the surrounding area. 4:15 He taught
of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech, in their synagogues, being glorified by all.
3:37
the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the 4:16
He came to Nazareth, where he had been
son of Jared, the son of Mahalalel, the son of brought up. He entered, as was his custom, into
Kenan, 3:38 the son of Enosh, the son of Seth, the the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood
son of Adam, the son of God. up to read. 4:17 The scroll of the prophet Isaiah
4:1
Yeshua, full of the Holy Spirit, returned was handed to him. He opened the scroll, and
e 3:19 TR reads “brother Philip’s” instead of “brother’s”
f 3:33 NU reads “Admin, the son of Arni” instead of “Ram”
g 4:4 Deuteronomy 8:3
h 4:8 Deuteronomy 6:13
i 4:11 Psalm 91:11-12
j 4:12 Deuteronomy 6:16
Luke 4:18 843 Luke 5:6

found the place where it was written, are: the Holy One of God!”
4:18 4:35
“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, Yeshua rebuked him, saying, “Be silent,
because he has anointed me to proclaim and come out of him!” When the demon had
good news to the poor. thrown him down in their midst, he came out
He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted,k of him, having done him no harm.
4:36
to proclaim release to the captives, Amazement came on all, and they spoke
recovering of sight to the blind, together, one with another, saying, “What is
to deliver those who are crushed, this word? For with authority and power he
4:19
and to proclaim the acceptable year commands the unclean spirits, and they come
of the Lord.”l out!” 4:37 News about him went out into every
4:20 place of the surrounding region.
He closed the scroll, gave it back to the
4:38
shammash, and sat down. The eyes of all in the He rose up from the synagogue, and
synagogue were fastened on him. 4:21 He began entered into Simon’s house. Simon’s mother-
to tell them, “Today, this Scripture has been in-law was afflicted with a great fever, and they
fulfilled in your hearing.” begged him for her. 4:39 He stood over her, and
4:22
All testified about him, and wondered at rebuked the fever; and it left her. Immediately
the gracious words which proceeded out of his she rose up and served them. 4:40 When the sun
mouth, and they said, “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?” was setting, all those who had any sick with
4:23 various diseases brought them to him; and he
He said to them, “Doubtless you will
tell me this parable, ‘Physician, heal yourself! laid his hands on every one of them, and healed
Whatever we have heard done at Capernaum, them. 4:41 Demons also came out from many,
do also here in your hometown.’” 4:24 He crying out, and saying, “You are the Messiah,
said, “Most certainly I tell you, no prophet the Son of God!” Rebuking them, he didn’t
is acceptable in his hometown. 4:25 But truly allow them to speak, because they knew that
I tell you, there were many widows in Israel he was the Messiah.
4:42
in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut When it was day, he departed and went
up three years and six months, when a great into an uninhabited place, and the multitudes
famine came over all the land. 4:26 Elijah was looked for him, and came to him, and held on
sent to none of them, except to Zarephath, in to him, so that he wouldn’t go away from them.
4:43
the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a But he said to them, “I must proclaim the
widow. 4:27 There were many lepers in Israel good news of the Kingdom of God to the other
in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one cities also. For this reason I have been sent.”
4:44
of them was cleansed, except Naaman, the He was proclaiming in the synagogues of
Syrian.” Galilee.
4:28 5:1
They were all filled with wrath in the Now it happened, while the multitude
synagogue, as they heard these things. 4:29 They pressed on him and heard the word of God,
rose up, threw him out of the city, and led that he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret.
5:2
him to the brow of the hill that their city was He saw two boats standing by the lake, but
built on, that they might throw him off the cliff. the fishermen had gone out of them, and were
4:30
But he, passing through their midst, went washing their nets. 5:3 He entered into one of
his way. the boats, which was Simon’s, and asked him to
4:31
He came down to Capernaum, a city put out a little from the land. He sat down and
of Galilee. He was teaching them on the taught the multitudes from the boat. 5:4 When
Sabbath day, 4:32 and they were astonished at he had finished speaking, he said to Simon,
his teaching, for his word was with authority. “Put out into the deep, and let down your nets
4:33
In the synagogue there was a man who had for a catch.”
5:5
a spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried out Simon answered him, “Master, we
with a loud voice, 4:34 saying, “Ah! what have worked all night, and took nothing; but at your
we to do with you, Yeshua of Nazareth? Have word I will let down the net.” 5:6 When they
you come to destroy us? I know you who you had done this, they caught a great multitude
k 4:18 NU omits “to heal the brokenhearted”
l 4:19 Isaiah 61:1-2
Luke 5:7 844 Luke 6:1

of fish, and their net was breaking. 5:7 They answered them, “Why are you reasoning so in
beckoned to their partners in the other boat, your hearts? 5:23 Which is easier to say, ‘Your
that they should come and help them. They sins are forgiven you;’ or to say, ‘Arise and
came, and filled both boats, so that they began walk?’ 5:24 But that you may know that the
to sink. 5:8 But Simon Peter, when he saw it, fell Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive
down at Yeshua’s knees, saying, “Depart from sins” (he said to the paralyzed man), “I tell
me, for I am a sinful man, Lord.” 5:9 For he you, arise, and take up your cot, and go to your
was amazed, and all who were with him, at the house.”
catch of fish which they had caught; 5:10 and so 5:25
Immediately he rose up before them,
also were Jacob and Yochanan, sons of Zebedee, and took up that which he was laying on,
who were partners with Simon. and departed to his house, glorifying God.
5:26
Yeshua said to Simon, “Don’t be afraid. Amazement took hold on all, and they
From now on you will be catching people glorified God. They were filled with fear,
alive.” saying, “We have seen strange things today.”
5:11 5:27
When they had brought their boats to After these things he went out, and saw a
land, they left everything, and followed him. tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax office,
5:12
It happened, while he was in one of the and said to him, “Follow me!”
cities, behold, there was a man full of leprosy. 5:28
He left everything, and rose up and
When he saw Yeshua, he fell on his face, and followed him. 5:29 Levi made a great feast for
begged him, saying, “Lord, if you want to, you him in his house. There was a great crowd
can make me clean.” of tax collectors and others who were reclining
5:13
He stretched out his hand, and touched with them. 5:30 Their scribes and the Pharisees
him, saying, “I want to. Be made clean.” murmured against his disciples, saying, “Why
Immediately the leprosy left him. 5:14 He do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and
commanded him to tell no one, “But go your sinners?” 5:31 Yeshua answered them, “Those
way, and show yourself to the priest, and offer who are healthy have no need for a physician,
for your cleansing according to what Moses but those who are sick do. 5:32 I have not
commanded, for a testimony to them.” 5:15 But come to call the righteous, but sinners to
the report concerning him spread much more, repentance.”
5:33
and great multitudes came together to hear, They said to him, “Why do Yochanan’s
and to be healed by him of their infirmities. disciples often fast and pray, likewise also the
5:16
But he withdrew himself into the desert, disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and
and prayed. drink?”
5:17 5:34
It happened on one of those days, that He said to them, “Can you make the
he was teaching; and there were Pharisees friends of the bridegroom fast, while the
and teachers of the Torah sitting by, who had bridegroom is with them? 5:35 But the days
come out of every village of Galilee, Judea, and will come when the bridegroom will be taken
Jerusalem. The power of the Lord was with away from them. Then they will fast in those
him to heal them. 5:18 Behold, men brought days.” 5:36 He also told a parable to them. “No
a paralyzed man on a cot, and they sought one puts a piece from a new garment on an
to bring him in to lay before Yeshua. 5:19 Not old garment, or else he will tear the new, and
finding a way to bring him in because of the also the piece from the new will not match
multitude, they went up to the housetop, and the old. 5:37 No one puts new wine into old
let him down through the tiles with his cot into wineskins, or else the new wine will burst
the midst before Yeshua. 5:20 Seeing their faith, the skins, and it will be spilled, and the skins
he said to him, “Man, your sins are forgiven will be destroyed. 5:38 But new wine must
you.” be put into fresh wineskins, and both are
5:21
The scribes and the Pharisees began to preserved. 5:39 No man having drunk old wine
reason, saying, “Who is this that speaks blas- immediately desires new, for he says, ‘The old
phemies? Who can forgive sins, but God is better.’”
alone?” 6:1
Now it happened on the second Sabbath
5:22
But Yeshua, perceiving their thoughts, after the first, that he was going through the
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6:19
grain fields. His disciples plucked the heads All the multitude sought to touch him, for
of grain, and ate, rubbing them in their hands. power came out from him and healed them all.
6:2 6:20
But some of the Pharisees said to them, He lifted up his eyes to his disciples, and
“Why do you do that which is not lawful to do said,
on the Sabbath day?” “Blessed are you who are poor,
6:3
Yeshua, answering them, said, “Haven’t for yours is the Kingdom of God.
you read what David did when he was hun- 6:21
Blessed are you who hunger now,
gry, he, and those who were with him; 6:4 how for you will be filled.
he entered into God’s house, and took and Blessed are you who weep now,
ate the show bread, and gave also to those for you will laugh.
who were with him, which is not lawful to 6:22
Blessed are you when men shall hate you,
eat except for the priests alone?” 6:5 He said
and when they shall exclude and
to them, “The Son of Man is lord of the
mock you, and throw out your name
Sabbath.”
6:6
as evil, for the Son of Man’s sake.
It also happened on another Sabbath that 6:23
Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy,
he entered into the synagogue and taught. for behold, your reward is great in
There was a man there, and his right hand heaven, for their fathers did the same
was withered. 6:7 The scribes and the Pharisees thing to the prophets.
watched him, to see whether he would heal on 6:24
“But woe to you who are rich!
the Sabbath, that they might find an accusation
For you have received your consolation.
against him. 6:8 But he knew their thoughts; 6:25
and he said to the man who had the withered Woe to you, you who are full now,
hand, “Rise up, and stand in the middle.” He for you will be hungry.
arose and stood. 6:9 Then Yeshua said to them, Woe to you who laugh now,
“I will ask you something: Is it lawful on the for you will mourn and weep.
6:26
Sabbath to do good, or to do harm? To save Woe,m whenn men speak well of you,
a life, or to kill?” 6:10 He looked around at for their fathers did the same thing to
them all, and said to the man, “Stretch out your the false prophets.
6:27
hand.” He did, and his hand was restored as “But I tell you who hear: love your
sound as the other. 6:11 But they were filled with enemies, do good to those who hate you,
6:28
rage, and talked with one another about what bless those who curse you, and pray for
they might do to Yeshua. those who mistreat you. 6:29 To him who
6:12
It happened in these days, that he went strikes you on the cheek, offer also the other;
out to the mountain to pray, and he continued and from him who takes away your cloak,
all night in prayer to God. 6:13 When it was don’t withhold your coat also. 6:30 Give to
day, he called his disciples, and from them everyone who asks you, and don’t ask him
he chose twelve, whom he also named emis- who takes away your goods to give them back
saries: 6:14 Simon, whom he also named Peter; again.
6:31
Andrew, his brother; Jacob; Yochanan; Philip; “As you would like people to do to you,
Bartholomew; 6:15 Matthew; Thomas; Jacob, do exactly so to them. 6:32 If you love those
the son of Halfai; Simon, who was called the who love you, what credit is that to you? For
Zealot; 6:16 Judah the son of Jacob; and Judah even sinners love those who love them. 6:33 If
Iscariot, who also became a traitor. 6:17 He you do good to those who do good to you,
came down with them, and stood on a level what credit is that to you? For even sinners do
place, with a crowd of his disciples, and a the same. 6:34 If you lend to those from whom
great number of the people from all Judea and you hope to receive, what credit is that to
Jerusalem, and the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to receive
who came to hear him and to be healed of their back as much. 6:35 But love your enemies, and
diseases; 6:18 as well as those who were troubled do good, and lend, expecting nothing back;
by unclean spirits, and they were being healed. and your reward will be great, and you will
m 6:26 TR adds “to you”
n 6:26 TR adds “all”
Luke 6:36 846 Luke 7:17

be children of the Most High; for he is kind foundation, against which the stream broke,
toward the unthankful and evil. and immediately it fell, and the ruin of that
6:36
Therefore be merciful, house was great.”
7:1
even as your Father is also merciful. After he had finished speaking in the
6:37
Don’t judge, hearing of the people, he entered into Caper-
and you won’t be judged. naum. 7:2 A certain centurion’s servant, who
Don’t condemn, was dear to him, was sick and at the point
and you won’t be condemned. of death. 7:3 When he heard about Yeshua, he
Set free, sent to him Jewish elders, asking him to come
and you will be set free. and save his servant. 7:4 When they came to
6:38 Yeshua, they begged him earnestly, saying, “He
“Give, and it will be given to you: good
measure, pressed down, shaken together, and is worthy for you to do this for him, 7:5 for he
running over, will be given to you.o For loves our nation, and he built our synagogue
with the same measure you measure it will be for us.” 7:6 Yeshua went with them. When he
measured back to you.” was now not far from the house, the centurion
6:39 sent friends to him, saying to him, “Lord, don’t
He spoke a parable to them. “Can the
blind guide the blind? Won’t they both fall trouble yourself, for I am not worthy for you to
into a pit? 6:40 A disciple is not above his come under my roof. 7:7 Therefore I didn’t even
rabbi, but everyone when he is fully trained think myself worthy to come to you; but say the
will be like his rabbi. 6:41 Why do you see word, and my servant will be healed. 7:8 For I
the speck of chaff that is in your brother’s also am a man placed under authority, having
eye, but don’t consider the beam that is in under myself soldiers. I tell this one, ‘Go!’ and
your own eye? 6:42 Or how can you tell your he goes; and to another, ‘Come!’ and he comes;
brother, ‘Brother, let me remove the speck of and to my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.”
7:9
chaff that is in your eye,’ when you yourself When Yeshua heard these things, he mar-
don’t see the beam that is in your own eye? veled at him, and turned and said to the
You hypocrite! First remove the beam from multitude who followed him, “I tell you, I
your own eye, and then you can see clearly have not found such great faith, no, not in
to remove the speck of chaff that is in your Israel.” 7:10 Those who were sent, returning to
brother’s eye. 6:43 For there is no good tree that the house, found that the servant who had been
brings forth rotten fruit; nor again a rotten sick was well.
7:11
tree that brings forth good fruit. 6:44 For each It happened soon afterwards, that he
tree is known by its own fruit. For people went to a city called Nain. Many of his
don’t gather figs from thorns, nor do they disciples, along with a great multitude, went
gather grapes from a bramble bush. 6:45 The with him. 7:12 Now when he drew near to the
good man out of the good treasure of his gate of the city, behold, one who was dead was
heart brings out that which is good, and the carried out, the only son of his mother, and she
evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart was a widow. Many people of the city were
brings out that which is evil, for out of the with her. 7:13 When the Lord saw her, he had
abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks. compassion on her, and said to her, “Don’t cry.”
6:46 7:14
“Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and He came near and touched the coffin, and
don’t do the things which I say? 6:47 Everyone the bearers stood still. He said, “Young man, I
who comes to me, and hears my words, and tell you, arise!” 7:15 He who was dead sat up,
does them, I will show you who he is like. and began to speak. And he gave him to his
6:48
He is like a man building a house, who mother.
7:16
dug and went deep, and laid a foundation Fear took hold of all, and they glori-
on the rock. When a flood arose, the stream fied God, saying, “A great prophet has arisen
broke against that house, and could not shake among us!” and, “God has visited his people!”
it, because it was founded on the rock. 6:49 But 7:17
This report went out concerning him in the
he who hears, and doesn’t do, is like a man whole of Judea, and in all the surrounding
who built a house on the earth without a region.
o 6:38 literally, into your bosom.
Luke 7:18 847 Luke 8:1

7:18
The disciples of Yochanan told him about bread nor drinking wine, and you say, ‘He
all these things. 7:19 Yochanan, calling to him- has a demon.’ 7:34 The Son of Man has come
self two of his disciples, sent them to Yeshua, eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Behold,
saying, “Are you the one who is coming, or a gluttonous man, and a drunkard; a friend
should we look for another?” 7:20 When the of tax collectors and sinners!’ 7:35 Wisdom is
men had come to him, they said, “Yochanan the justified by all her children.”
7:36
Immerser has sent us to you, saying, ‘Are you One of the Pharisees invited him to eat
he who comes, or should we look for another?’” with him. He entered into the Pharisee’s
7:21
In that hour he cured many of diseases house, and sat at the table. 7:37 Behold, a
and plagues and evil spirits; and to many who woman in the city who was a sinner, when she
were blind he gave sight. 7:22 Yeshua answered knew that he was reclining in the Pharisee’s
them, “Go and tell Yochanan the things which house, she brought an alabaster jar of ointment.
7:38
you have seen and heard: that the blind Standing behind at his feet weeping, she
receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers began to wet his feet with her tears, and she
are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised wiped them with the hair of her head, kissed
up, and the poor have good news preached to his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.
7:39
them. 7:23 Blessed is he who finds no occasion Now when the Pharisee who had invited
for stumbling in me.” him saw it, he said to himself, “This man, if he
7:24
When Yochanan’s messengers had de- were a prophet, would have perceived who and
parted, he began to tell the multitudes about what kind of woman this is who touches him,
Yochanan, “What did you go out into the that she is a sinner.”
7:40
wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the Yeshua answered him, “Simon, I have
wind? 7:25 But what did you go out to see? something to tell you.”
A man clothed in soft clothing? Behold, He said, “Rabbi, say on.”
7:41
those who are gorgeously dressed, and live “A certain lender had two debtors. The
delicately, are in kings’ courts. 7:26 But what one owed five hundred denarii, and the other
did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell fifty. 7:42 When they couldn’t pay, he forgave
you, and much more than a prophet. 7:27 This them both. Which of them therefore will love
is he of whom it is written, him most?”
7:43
‘Behold, I send my messenger before your Simon answered, “He, I suppose, to
face, whom he forgave the most.”
who will prepare your way before you.’p He said to him, “You have judged cor-
7:28
“For I tell you, among those who are rectly.” 7:44 Turning to the woman, he said to
born of women there is not a greater prophet Simon, “Do you see this woman? I entered
than Yochanan the Immerser, yet he who is into your house, and you gave me no water
least in the Kingdom of God is greater than for my feet, but she has wet my feet with her
he.” tears, and wiped them with the hair of her
7:29
When all the people and the tax col- head. 7:45 You gave me no kiss, but she, since
lectors heard this, they declared God to be the time I came in, has not ceased to kiss my
just, having been immersed with Yochanan’s feet. 7:46 You didn’t anoint my head with oil,
immersion. 7:30 But the Pharisees and the Torah but she has anointed my feet with ointment.
7:47
scholars rejected the counsel of God, not being Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are
immersed by him themselves. many, are forgiven, for she loved much. But to
7:31q whom little is forgiven, the same loves little.”
“To what then will I liken the people
7:48
of this generation? What are they like? He said to her, “Your sins are forgiven.”
7:32 7:49
They are like children who sit in the Those who sat at the table with him
marketplace, and call one to another, saying, began to say to themselves, “Who is this who
‘We piped to you, and you didn’t dance. even forgives sins?”
We mourned, and you didn’t weep.’ 7:33 For 7:50
He said to the woman, “Your faith has
Yochanan the Immerser came neither eating saved you. Go in peace.”
p 7:27 Malachi 3:1
q 7:31 TR adds “But the Lord said,”
Luke 8:2 848 Luke 8:30

8:1
It happened soon afterwards, that he went puts it on a stand, that those who enter in may
about through cities and villages, proclaiming see the light. 8:17 For nothing is hidden, that
and bringing the good news of the Kingdom of will not be revealed; nor anything secret, that
God. With him were the twelve, 8:2 and certain will not be known and come to light. 8:18 Be
women who had been healed of evil spirits and careful therefore how you hear. For whoever
infirmities: Miriam who was called Magda- has, to him will be given; and whoever
lene, from whom seven demons had gone out; doesn’t have, from him will be taken away
8:3
and Yochanah, the wife of Kuza, Herod’s even that which he thinks he has.”
steward; Shoshanah; and many others; who 8:19
His mother and brothers came to him,
served themr from their possessions. 8:4 When and they could not come near him for the
a great multitude came together, and people crowd. 8:20 It was told him by some saying,
from every city were coming to him, he spoke “Your mother and your brothers stand outside,
by a parable. 8:5 “The farmer went out to sow desiring to see you.”
his seed. As he sowed, some fell along the 8:21
But he answered them, “My mother and
road, and it was trampled under foot, and the my brothers are these who hear the word of
birds of the sky devoured it. 8:6 Other seed fell God, and do it.”
on the rock, and as soon as it grew, it withered 8:22
Now it happened on one of those days,
away, because it had no moisture. 8:7 Other that he entered into a boat, himself and his
fell amid the thorns, and the thorns grew with disciples, and he said to them, “Let’s go over to
it, and choked it. 8:8 Other fell into the good the other side of the lake.” So they launched
ground, and grew, and brought forth fruit one out. 8:23 But as they sailed, he fell asleep. A
hundred times.” As he said these things, he wind storm came down on the lake, and they
called out, “He who has ears to hear, let him were taking on dangerous amounts of water.
hear!” 8:24
They came to him, and awoke him, saying,
8:9
Then his disciples asked him, “What does “Master, master, we are dying!” He awoke, and
this parable mean?” rebuked the wind and the raging of the water,
8:10
He said, “To you it is given to know and they ceased, and it was calm.t 8:25 He said
the mysteries of the Kingdom of God, but to to them, “Where is your faith?” Being afraid
the rest in parables; that ‘seeing they may not they marveled, saying one to another, “Who is
see, and hearing they may not understand.’s this, then, that he commands even the winds
8:11
Now the parable is this: The seed is the and the water, and they obey him?” 8:26 They
word of God. 8:12 Those along the road are arrived at the country of the Gadarenes, which
those who hear, then the devil comes, and is opposite Galilee.
8:27
takes away the word from their heart, that When Yeshua stepped ashore, a certain
they may not believe and be saved. 8:13 Those man out of the city who had demons for a long
on the rock are they who, when they hear, time met him. He wore no clothes, and didn’t
receive the word with joy; but these have no live in a house, but in the tombs. 8:28 When
root, who believe for a while, then fall away he saw Yeshua, he cried out, and fell down
in time of temptation. 8:14 That which fell before him, and with a loud voice said, “What
among the thorns, these are those who have do I have to do with you, Yeshua, you Son of
heard, and as they go on their way they are the Most High God? I beg you, don’t torment
choked with cares, riches, and pleasures of me!” 8:29 For Yeshua was commanding the
life, and bring no fruit to maturity. 8:15 That unclean spirit to come out of the man. For the
in the good ground, these are such as in unclean spirit had often seized the man. He
an honest and good heart, having heard the was kept under guard, and bound with chains
word, hold it tightly, and bring forth fruit and fetters. Breaking the bands apart, he was
with patience. driven by the demon into the desert.
8:16 8:30
“No one, when he has lit a lamp, covers Yeshua asked him, “What is your
it with a container, or puts it under a bed; but name?”
r 8:3 TR reads “him” instead of “them”
s 8:10 Isaiah 6:9
t 8:24 See Psalm 107:29
Luke 8:31 849 Luke 9:9

He said, “Legion,” for many demons had out of me.” 8:47 When the woman saw that
entered into him. 8:31 They begged him that he she was not hidden, she came trembling, and
would not command them to go into the abyss. falling down before him declared to him in
8:32
Now there was there a herd of many pigs the presence of all the people the reason why
feeding on the mountain, and they begged him she had touched him, and how she was healed
that he would allow them to enter into those. immediately. 8:48 He said to her, “Daughter,
He allowed them. 8:33 The demons came out cheer up. Your faith has made you well. Go
from the man, and entered into the pigs, and in peace.”
8:49
the herd rushed down the steep bank into the While he still spoke, one from the ruler
lake, and were drowned. 8:34 When those who of the synagogue’s house came, saying to him,
fed them saw what had happened, they fled, “Your daughter is dead. Don’t trouble the
and told it in the city and in the country. Rabbi.”
8:35 8:50
People went out to see what had hap- But Yeshua hearing it, answered him,
pened. They came to Yeshua, and found the “Don’t be afraid. Only believe, and she will
man from whom the demons had gone out, be healed.”
sitting at Yeshua’s feet, clothed and in his right 8:51
When he came to the house, he didn’t al-
mind; and they were afraid. 8:36 Those who saw low anyone to enter in, except Peter, Yochanan,
it told them how he who had been possessed Jacob, the father of the child, and her mother.
by demons was healed. 8:37 All the people 8:52
All were weeping and mourning her, but
of the surrounding country of the Gadarenes he said, “Don’t weep. She isn’t dead, but
asked him to depart from them, for they were sleeping.”
very much afraid. He entered into the boat, 8:53
They were ridiculing him, knowing that
and returned. 8:38 But the man from whom she was dead. 8:54 But he put them all outside,
the demons had gone out begged him that he and taking her by the hand, he called, saying,
might go with him, but Yeshua sent him away, “Child, arise!” 8:55 Her spirit returned, and
saying, 8:39 “Return to your house, and declare she rose up immediately. He commanded that
what great things God has done for you.” something be given to her to eat. 8:56 Her
He went his way, proclaiming throughout the parents were amazed, but he commanded them
whole city what great things Yeshua had done to tell no one what had been done.
for him. 9:1
He called the twelvev together, and gave
8:40
It happened, when Yeshua returned, that them power and authority over all demons,
the multitude welcomed him, for they were and to cure diseases. 9:2 He sent them forth
all waiting for him. 8:41 Behold, there came a to proclaim the Kingdom of God, and to heal
man named Jairus, and he was a ruler of the the sick. 9:3 He said to them, “Take nothing
synagogue. He fell down at Yeshua’s feet, and for your journey—neither staffs, nor wallet,
begged him to come into his house, 8:42 for he nor bread, nor money; neither have two coats
had an only daughter, about twelve years of apiece. 9:4 Into whatever house you enter, stay
age, and she was dying. But as he went, the there, and depart from there. 9:5 As many as
multitudes pressed against him. 8:43 A woman don’t receive you, when you depart from that
who had a flow of blood for twelve years, who city, shake off even the dust from your feet for
had spent all her living on physicians, and a testimony against them.”
could not be healed by any, 8:44 came behind 9:6
They departed, and went throughout the
him, and touched the fringeu of his cloak, and villages, proclaiming the Good News, and heal-
immediately the flow of her blood stopped. ing everywhere. 9:7 Now Herod the tetrarch
8:45
Yeshua said, “Who touched me?” heard of all that was done by him; and he was
When all denied it, Peter and those with him very perplexed, because it was said by some
said, “Master, the multitudes press and jostle that Yochanan had risen from the dead, 9:8 and
you, and you say, ‘Who touched me?’” by some that Elijah had appeared, and by oth-
8:46
But Yeshua said, “Someone did touch ers that one of the old prophets had risen again.
9:9
me, for I perceived that power has gone Herod said, “Yochanan I beheaded, but who
u 8:44 or, tzitzit
v 9:1 TR reads “his twelve disciples” instead of “the twelve”
Luke 9:10 850 Luke 9:41

is this, about whom I hear such things?” He save it. 9:25 For what does it profit a man
sought to see him. 9:10 The emissaries, when if he gains the whole world, and loses or
they had returned, told him what things they forfeits his own self? 9:26 For whoever will be
had done. ashamed of me and of my words, of him will
He took them, and withdrew apart to a de- the Son of Man be ashamed, when he comes
serted place of a city called Bethsaida. 9:11 But in his glory, and the glory of the Father, and
the multitudes, perceiving it, followed him. of the holy angels. 9:27 But I tell you the truth:
He welcomed them, and spoke to them of the There are some of those who stand here, who
Kingdom of God, and he cured those who will in no way taste of death, until they see
needed healing. 9:12 The day began to wear the Kingdom of God.”
9:28
away; and the twelve came, and said to him, It happened about eight days after these
“Send the multitude away, that they may go sayings, that he took with him Peter, Yochanan,
into the surrounding villages and farms, and and Jacob, and went up onto the mountain to
lodge, and get food, for we are here in a pray. 9:29 As he was praying, the appearance of
deserted place.” his face was altered, and his clothing became
9:13
But he said to them, “You give them white and dazzling. 9:30 Behold, two men were
something to eat.” talking with him, who were Moses and Elijah,
9:31
They said, “We have no more than five who appeared in glory, and spoke of his
loaves and two fish, unless we should go and departure,x which he was about to accomplish
buy food for all these people.” 9:14 For they at Jerusalem.
9:32
were about five thousand men. Now Peter and those who were with him
He said to his disciples, “Make them sit were heavy with sleep, but when they were
down in groups of about fifty each.” 9:15 They fully awake, they saw his glory, and the two
did so, and made them all sit down. 9:16 He took men who stood with him. 9:33 It happened, as
the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up they were parting from him, that Peter said to
to the sky, he blessed them, and broke them, Yeshua, “Master, it is good for us to be here.
and gave them to the disciples to set before the Let’s make three tents: one for you, and one for
multitude. 9:17 They ate, and were all filled. Moses, and one for Elijah,” not knowing what
They gathered up twelve baskets of broken he said.
9:34
pieces that were left over. While he said these things, a cloud came
9:18
It happened, as he was praying alone, and overshadowed them, and they were afraid
that the disciples were with him, and he asked as they entered into the cloud. 9:35 A voice came
them, “Who do the multitudes say that I am?” out of the cloud, saying, “This is my beloved
9:19
They answered, “‘Yochanan the Im- Son. Listen to him!” 9:36 When the voice came,
merser,’ but others say, ‘Elijah,’ and others, that Yeshua was found alone. They were silent, and
one of the old prophets is risen again.” told no one in those days any of the things
9:20
He said to them, “But who do you say which they had seen.
9:37
that I am?” It happened on the next day, when they
Peter answered, “The Messiah of God.” had come down from the mountain, that a great
9:21
But he warned them, and commanded multitude met him. 9:38 Behold, a man from
them to tell this to no one, 9:22 saying, “The the crowd called out, saying, “Rabbi, I beg you
Son of Man must suffer many things, and to look at my son, for he is my only child.
9:39
be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and Behold, a spirit takes him, he suddenly cries
scribes, and be killed, and the third day be out, and it convulses him so that he foams,
raised up.” and it hardly departs from him, bruising him
9:23
He said to all, “If anyone desires to come severely. 9:40 I begged your disciples to cast it
after me, let him deny himself, take up his out, and they couldn’t.”
cross,w and follow me. 9:24 For whoever de- 9:41
Yeshua answered, “Faithless and per-
sires to save his life will lose it, but whoever verse generation, how long shall I be with you
will lose his life for my sake, the same will and bear with you? Bring your son here.”
w 9:23 TR, NU add “daily”
x 9:31 literally, “exodus”
Luke 9:42 851 Luke 10:15

9:42 9:59
While he was still coming, the demon He said to another, “Follow me!”
threw him down and convulsed him violently. But he said, “Lord, allow me first to go and
But Yeshua rebuked the unclean spirit, and bury my father.”
healed the boy, and gave him back to his father. 9:60
But Yeshua said to him, “Leave the dead
9:43
They were all astonished at the majesty of to bury their own dead, but you go and
God. announce the Kingdom of God.”
But while all were marveling at all the things 9:61
Another also said, “I want to follow you,
which Yeshua did, he said to his disciples, Lord, but first allow me to say good-bye to
9:44
“Let these words sink into your ears, for those who are at my house.”
the Son of Man will be delivered up into the 9:62
But Yeshua said to him, “No one, having
hands of men.” 9:45 But they didn’t understand put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is
this saying. It was concealed from them, that fit for the Kingdom of God.”
they should not perceive it, and they were 10:1
Now after these things, the Lord also
afraid to ask him about this saying. appointed seventy others, and sent them two
9:46
There arose an argument among them by two ahead of himy into every city and place,
about which of them was the greatest. where he was about to come. 10:2 Then he
9:47
Yeshua, perceiving the reasoning of their said to them, “The harvest is indeed plentiful,
hearts, took a little child, and set him by his but the laborers are few. Pray therefore to
side, 9:48 and said to them, “Whoever receives the Lord of the harvest, that he may send
this little child in my name receives me. out laborers into his harvest. 10:3 Go your
Whoever receives me receives him who sent ways. Behold, I send you out as lambs among
me. For whoever is least among you all, this wolves. 10:4 Carry no purse, nor wallet, nor
one will be great.” sandals. Greet no one on the way. 10:5 Into
9:49
Yochanan answered, “Master, we saw whatever house you enter, first say, ‘Peace be
someone casting out demons in your name, and to this house.’ 10:6 If a son of peace is there,
we forbade him, because he doesn’t follow with your peace will rest on him; but if not, it will
us.” return to you. 10:7 Remain in that same house,
9:50
Yeshua said to him, “Don’t forbid him, eating and drinking the things they give, for
for he who is not against us is for us.” the laborer is worthy of his wages. Don’t go
9:51
It came to pass, when the days were near from house to house. 10:8 Into whatever city
that he should be taken up, he intently set his you enter, and they receive you, eat the things
face to go to Jerusalem, 9:52 and sent messengers that are set before you. 10:9 Heal the sick
before his face. They went, and entered into who are therein, and tell them, ‘The Kingdom
a village of the Samaritans, so as to prepare of God has come near to you.’ 10:10 But
for him. 9:53 They didn’t receive him, because into whatever city you enter, and they don’t
he was traveling with his face set towards receive you, go out into its streets and say,
Jerusalem. 9:54 When his disciples, Jacob and 10:11
‘Even the dust from your city that clings
Yochanan, saw this, they said, “Lord, do you to us, we wipe off against you. Nevertheless
want us to command fire to come down from know this, that the Kingdom of God has come
the sky, and destroy them, just as Elijah did?” near to you.’ 10:12 I tell you, it will be more
9:55
But he turned and rebuked them, “You tolerable in that day for Sodom than for that
don’t know of what kind of spirit you are. city.
9:56 10:13
For the Son of Man didn’t come to destroy “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you,
men’s lives, but to save them.” Bethsaida! For if the mighty works had been
They went to another village. 9:57 As they done in Tyre and Sidon which were done
went on the way, a certain man said to him, “I in you, they would have repented long ago,
want to follow you wherever you go, Lord.” sitting in sackcloth and ashes. 10:14 But it will
9:58
Yeshua said to him, “The foxes have be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the
holes, and the birds of the sky have nests, but judgment than for you. 10:15 You, Capernaum,
the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.” who are exalted to heaven, will be brought
y 10:1 literally, “before his face”
z 10:15 Sheol is the lower realm of the dead, or Hell.
Luke 10:16 852 Luke 11:3

down to Sheol.z 10:16 Whoever listens to you he fell among robbers, who both stripped
listens to me, and whoever rejects you rejects him and beat him, and departed, leaving him
me. Whoever rejects me rejects him who sent half dead. 10:31 By chance a certain priest was
me.” going down that way. When he saw him, he
10:17
The seventy returned with joy, saying, passed by on the other side. 10:32 In the same
“Lord, even the demons are subject to us in way a Levite also, when he came to the place,
your name!” and saw him, passed by on the other side.
10:18 10:33
He said to them, “I saw Satan But a certain Samaritan, as he traveled,
having fallen like lightning from heaven. came where he was. When he saw him, he was
10:19
Behold, I give you authority to tread on moved with compassion, 10:34 came to him,
serpents and scorpions, and over all the power and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil
of the enemy. Nothing will in any way hurt and wine. He set him on his own animal,
you. 10:20 Nevertheless, don’t rejoice in this, and brought him to an inn, and took care of
that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice him. 10:35 On the next day, when he departed,
that your names are written in heaven.” he took out two denarii, and gave them to
10:21 the host, and said to him, ‘Take care of him.
In that same hour Yeshua rejoiced in
the Holy Spirit, and said, “I thank you, O Whatever you spend beyond that, I will repay
Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you you when I return.’ 10:36 Now which of these
have hidden these things from the wise and three do you think seemed to be a neighbor to
understanding, and revealed them to little him who fell among the robbers?”
10:37
children. Yes, Father, for so it was well- He said, “He who showed mercy on
pleasing in your sight.” him.”
10:22
Turning to the disciples, he said, “All Then Yeshua said to him, “Go and do
things have been delivered to me by my likewise.”
10:38
Father. No one knows who the Son is, except It happened as they went on their way,
the Father, and who the Father is, except the he entered into a certain village, and a certain
Son, and he to whomever the Son desires to woman named Martha received him into her
reveal him.” house. 10:39 She had a sister called Miriam,
10:23
Turning to the disciples, he said pri- who also sat at Yeshua’s feet, and heard his
vately, “Blessed are the eyes which see the word. 10:40 But Martha was distracted with
things that you see, 10:24 for I tell you that much serving, and she came up to him, and
many prophets and kings desired to see the said, “Lord, don’t you care that my sister left
things which you see, and didn’t see them, me to serve alone? Ask her therefore to help
and to hear the things which you hear, and me.”
10:41
didn’t hear them.” Yeshua answered her, “Martha, Martha,
10:25
Behold, a certain Torah scholar stood up you are anxious and troubled about many
and tested him, saying, “Rabbi, what shall I do things, 10:42 but one thing is needed. Miriam
to inherit eternal life?” has chosen the good part, which will not be
10:26 taken away from her.”
He said to him, “What is written in the
11:1
Torah? How do you read it?” It happened, that when he finished pray-
10:27 ing in a certain place, one of his disciples said to
He answered, “You shall love the Lord
your God with all your heart, with all your him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as Yochanan
soul, with all your strength, and with all your also taught his disciples.”
11:2
mind;a and your neighbor as yourself.”b He said to them, “When you pray, say,
10:28
He said to him, “You have answered ‘Our Father in heaven,
correctly. Do this, and you will live.” may your name be kept holy.
10:29
But he, desiring to justify himself, asked May your Kingdom come.
Yeshua, “Who is my neighbor?” May your will be done on earth, as it is
10:30
Yeshua answered, “A certain man was in heaven.
11:3
going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and Give us day by day our daily bread.
a 10:27 Deuteronomy 6:5
b 10:27 Leviticus 19:18
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11:4 11:22
Forgive us our sins, But when someone stronger attacks him
for we ourselves also forgive everyone and overcomes him, he takes from him his
who is indebted to us. whole armor in which he trusted, and divides
Bring us not into temptation, his spoils.
11:23
but deliver us from the evil one.’” “He that is not with me is against
11:5 me. He who doesn’t gather with me scatters.
He said to them, “Which of you, if you
11:24
go to a friend at midnight, and tell him, The unclean spirit, when he has gone
‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread, 11:6 for out of the man, passes through dry places,
a friend of mine has come to me from a seeking rest, and finding none, he says, ‘I
journey, and I have nothing to set before him,’ will turn back to my house from which I
11:7
and he from within will answer and say, came out.’ 11:25 When he returns, he finds it
‘Don’t bother me. The door is now shut, and swept and put in order. 11:26 Then he goes,
my children are with me in bed. I can’t get up and takes seven other spirits more evil than
and give it to you’? 11:8 I tell you, although he himself, and they enter in and dwell there.
will not rise and give it to him because he is The last state of that man becomes worse than
his friend, yet because of his persistence, he the first.”
11:27
will get up and give him as many as he needs. It came to pass, as he said these things,
11:9 a certain woman out of the multitude lifted
“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be
given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. up her voice, and said to him, “Blessed is the
Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you. womb that bore you, and the breasts which
11:10 nursed you!”
For everyone who asks receives. He who
11:28
seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be But he said, “On the contrary, blessed
opened. are those who hear the word of God, and keep
11:11 it.”
“Which of you fathers, if your son asks
11:29
for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks When the multitudes were gathering
for a fish, he won’t give him a snake instead together to him, he began to say, “This is an
of a fish, will he? 11:12 Or if he asks for an egg, evil generation. It seeks after a sign. No
he won’t give him a scorpion, will he? 11:13 If sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah,
you then, being evil, know how to give good the prophet. 11:30 For even as Jonah became
gifts to your children, how much more will a sign to the Ninevites, so will also the Son
your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to of Man be to this generation. 11:31 The Queen
those who ask him?” of the South will rise up in the judgment
11:14
He was casting out a demon, and it was with the men of this generation, and will
mute. It happened, when the demon had gone condemn them: for she came from the ends
out, the mute man spoke; and the multitudes of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon;
marveled. 11:15 But some of them said, “He and behold, one greater than Solomon is
casts out demons by Beelzebul, the prince of the here. 11:32 The men of Nineveh will stand
demons.” 11:16 Others, testing him, sought from up in the judgment with this generation, and
him a sign from heaven. 11:17 But he, knowing will condemn it: for they repented at the
their thoughts, said to them, “Every kingdom proclaiming of Jonah, and behold, one greater
divided against itself is brought to desolation. than Jonah is here.
A house divided against itself falls. 11:18 If 11:33
“No one, when he has lit a lamp,
Satan also is divided against himself, how puts it in a cellar or under a basket, but on
will his kingdom stand? For you say that I a stand, that those who come in may see
cast out demons by Beelzebul. 11:19 But if I the light. 11:34 The lamp of the body is the
cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do eye. Therefore when your eye is good, your
your children cast them out? Therefore will whole body is also full of light; but when
they be your judges. 11:20 But if I by the finger it is evil, your body also is full of darkness.
of God cast out demons, then the Kingdom of 11:35
Therefore see whether the light that is
God has come to you. in you isn’t darkness. 11:36 If therefore your
11:21
“When the strong man, fully armed, whole body is full of light, having no part
guards his own dwelling, his goods are safe. dark, it will be wholly full of light, as when
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the lamp with its bright shining gives you angry, and to draw many things out of him;
11:54
light.” lying in wait for him, and seeking to catch
11:37 him in something he might say, that they might
Now as he spoke, a certain Pharisee
asked him to dine with him. He went in, and accuse him.
12:1
sat at the table. 11:38 When the Pharisee saw it, Meanwhile, when a multitude of many
he marveled that he had not first washed him- thousands had gathered together, so much so
self before dinner. 11:39 The Lord said to him, that they trampled on each other, he began to
“Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the tell his disciples first of all, “Beware of the
cup and of the platter, but your inward part yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
12:2
is full of extortion and wickedness. 11:40 You But there is nothing covered up, that will
foolish ones, didn’t he who made the outside not be revealed, nor hidden, that will not be
make the inside also? 11:41 But give for gifts known. 12:3 Therefore whatever you have said
to the needy those things which are within, in the darkness will be heard in the light.
and behold, all things will be clean to you. What you have spoken in the ear in the inner
11:42
But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe rooms will be proclaimed on the housetops.
12:4
mint and rue and every herb, but you bypass “I tell you, my friends, don’t be afraid
justice and the love of God. You ought to of those who kill the body, and after that have
have done these, and not to have left the other no more that they can do. 12:5 But I will warn
undone. 11:43 Woe to you Pharisees! For you you whom you should fear. Fear him, who
love the best seats in the synagogues, and after he has killed, has power to cast into
the greetings in the marketplaces. 11:44 Woe Gehinnom.c Yes, I tell you, fear him.
12:6
to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For “Aren’t five sparrows sold for two as-
you are like hidden graves, and the men who saria coinsd ? Not one of them is forgotten by
walk over them don’t know it.” God. 12:7 But the very hairs of your head are
11:45
One of the Torah scholars answered all numbered. Therefore don’t be afraid. You
him, “Rabbi, in saying this you insult us also.” are of more value than many sparrows.
11:46 12:8
He said, “Woe to you Torah scholars “I tell you, everyone who confesses me
also! For you load men with burdens that before men, him will the Son of Man also
are difficult to carry, and you yourselves won’t confess before the angels of God; 12:9 but
even lift one finger to help carry those bur- he who denies me in the presence of men
dens. 11:47 Woe to you! For you build the will be denied in the presence of the angels
tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed of God. 12:10 Everyone who speaks a word
them. 11:48 So you testify and consent to the against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but
works of your fathers. For they killed them, those who blaspheme against the Holy Spirit
and you build their tombs. 11:49 Therefore will not be forgiven. 12:11 When they bring
also the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send to you before the synagogues, the rulers, and the
them prophets and emissaries; and some of authorities, don’t be anxious how or what you
them they will kill and persecute, 11:50 that will answer, or what you will say; 12:12 for the
the blood of all the prophets, which was Holy Spirit will teach you in that same hour
shed from the foundation of the world, may what you must say.”
12:13
be required of this generation; 11:51 from the One of the multitude said to him,
blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who “Rabbi, tell my brother to divide the inheri-
perished between the altar and the sanctuary.’ tance with me.”
12:14
Yes, I tell you, it will be required of this But he said to him, “Man, who made
generation. 11:52 Woe to you Torah scholars! me a judge or an arbitrator over you?” 12:15 He
For you took away the key of knowledge. said to them, “Beware! Keep yourselves from
You didn’t enter in yourselves, and those who covetousness, for a man’s life doesn’t consist
were entering in, you hindered.” of the abundance of the things which he
11:53
As he said these things to them, the possesses.”
12:16
scribes and the Pharisees began to be terribly He spoke a parable to them, saying,
c 12:5 or, Hell
d 12:6 An assarion was a small copper coin worth about an hour’s wages for an agricultural laborer.
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“The ground of a certain rich man brought may immediately open to him. 12:37 Blessed
forth abundantly. 12:17 He reasoned within are those servants, whom the lord will find
himself, saying, ‘What will I do, because I watching when he comes. Most certainly
don’t have room to store my crops?’ 12:18 He I tell you, that he will dress himself, and
said, ‘This is what I will do. I will pull down make them recline, and will come and serve
my barns, and build bigger ones, and there I them. 12:38 They will be blessed if he comes
will store all my grain and my goods. 12:19 I in the second or third watch, and finds them
will tell my soul, “Soul, you have many goods so. 12:39 But know this, that if the master
laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, of the house had known in what hour the
drink, be merry.”’ thief was coming, he would have watched,
12:20 and not allowed his house to be broken into.
“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one,
12:40
tonight your soul is required of you. The Therefore be ready also, for the Son of
things which you have prepared—whose will Man is coming in an hour that you don’t
they be?’ 12:21 So is he who lays up treasure expect him.”
12:41
for himself, and is not rich toward God.” Peter said to him, “Lord, are you telling
12:22 this parable to us, or to everybody?”
He said to his disciples, “Therefore I
12:42
tell you, don’t be anxious for your life, what The Lord said, “Who then is the faith-
you will eat, nor yet for your body, what you ful and wise steward, whom his lord will set
will wear. 12:23 Life is more than food, and the over his household, to give them their portion
body is more than clothing. 12:24 Consider the of food at the right times? 12:43 Blessed is
ravens: they don’t sow, they don’t reap, they that servant whom his lord will find doing
have no warehouse or barn, and God feeds so when he comes. 12:44 Truly I tell you, that
them. How much more valuable are you than he will set him over all that he has. 12:45 But
birds! 12:25 Which of you by being anxious can if that servant says in his heart, ‘My lord
add a cubit to his height? 12:26 If then you delays his coming,’ and begins to beat the
aren’t able to do even the least things, why are menservants and the maidservants, and to eat
you anxious about the rest? 12:27 Consider the and drink, and to be drunken, 12:46 then the
lilies, how they grow. They don’t toil, neither lord of that servant will come in a day when
do they spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in he isn’t expecting him, and in an hour that
all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. he doesn’t know, and will cut him in two,
12:28
But if this is how God clothes the grass and place his portion with the unfaithful.
12:47
in the field, which today exists, and tomorrow That servant, who knew his lord’s will,
is cast into the oven, how much more will he and didn’t prepare, nor do what he wanted,
clothe you, O you of little faith? 12:29 Don’t will be beaten with many stripes, 12:48 but
seek what you will eat or what you will drink; he who didn’t know, and did things worthy
neither be anxious. 12:30 For the nations of of stripes, will be beaten with few stripes.
the world seek after all of these things, but To whomever much is given, of him will
your Father knows that you need these things. much be required; and to whom much was
12:31
But seek God’s Kingdom, and all these entrusted, of him more will be asked.
things will be added to you. 12:32 Don’t be 12:49
“I came to throw fire on the earth.
afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good I wish it were already kindled. 12:50 But I
pleasure to give you the Kingdom. 12:33 Sell have a immersion to be immersed with, and
that which you have, and give gifts to the how distressed I am until it is accomplished!
needy. Make for yourselves purses which 12:51
Do you think that I have come to give
don’t grow old, a treasure in the heavens peace in the earth? I tell you, no, but rather
that doesn’t fail, where no thief approaches, division. 12:52 For from now on, there will
neither moth destroys. 12:34 For where your be five in one house divided, three against
treasure is, there will your heart be also. two, and two against three. 12:53 They will be
12:35
“Let your waist be dressed and your divided, father against son, and son against
lamps burning. 12:36 Be like men watching for father; mother against daughter, and daughter
their lord, when he returns from the marriage against her mother; mother-in-law against her
feast; that, when he comes and knocks, they daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against
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her mother-in-law.”e mity eighteen years, and she was bent over,
12:54 and could in no way straighten herself up.
He said to the multitudes also, “When
13:12
you see a cloud rising from the west, imme- When Yeshua saw her, he called her, and
diately you say, ‘A shower is coming,’ and so said to her, “Woman, you are freed from your
it happens. 12:55 When a south wind blows, infirmity.” 13:13 He laid his hands on her,
you say, ‘There will be a scorching heat,’ and and immediately she stood up straight, and
it happens. 12:56 You hypocrites! You know glorified God.
13:14
how to interpret the appearance of the earth The ruler of the synagogue, being in-
and the sky, but how is it that you don’t dignant because Yeshua had healed on the
interpret this time? 12:57 Why don’t you judge Sabbath, said to the multitude, “There are six
for yourselves what is right? 12:58 For when days in which men ought to work. Therefore
you are going with your adversary before the come on those days and be healed, and not on
magistrate, try diligently on the way to be the Sabbath day!”
13:15
released from him, lest perhaps he drag you Therefore the Lord answered him, “You
to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the hypocrites! Doesn’t each one of you free his
officer, and the officer throw you into prison. ox or his donkey from the stall on the Sab-
12:59
I tell you, you will by no means get out bath, and lead him away to water? 13:16 Ought
of there, until you have paid the very last not this woman, being a daughter of Abra-
penny.f ” ham, whom Satan had bound eighteen long
13:1 years, be freed from this bondage on the
Now there were some present at the
same time who told him about the Galileans, Sabbath day?”
13:17
whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sac- As he said these things, all his adver-
rifices. 13:2 Yeshua answered them, “Do you saries were disappointed, and all the multitude
think that these Galileans were worse sinners rejoiced for all the glorious things that were
than all the other Galileans, because they done by him.
suffered such things? 13:3 I tell you, no, but 13:18
He said, “What is the Kingdom of God
unless you repent, you will all perish in the like? To what shall I compare it? 13:19 It is
same way. 13:4 Or those eighteen, on whom like a grain of mustard seed, which a man
the tower in Siloam fell, and killed them; do took, and put in his own garden. It grew, and
you think that they were worse offenders than became a large tree, and the birds of the sky
all the men who dwell in Jerusalem? 13:5 I tell lodged in its branches.”
you, no, but, unless you repent, you will all 13:20
Again he said, “To what shall I com-
perish in the same way.” pare the Kingdom of God? 13:21 It is like
13:6
He spoke this parable. “A certain man yeast, which a woman took and hid in three
had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and measuresg of flour, until it was all leavened.”
13:22
he came seeking fruit on it, and found none. He went on his way through cities
13:7
He said to the vine dresser, ‘Behold, these and villages, teaching, and traveling on to
three years I have come looking for fruit on Jerusalem. 13:23 One said to him, “Lord, are they
this fig tree, and found none. Cut it down. few who are saved?”
Why does it waste the soil?’ 13:8 He answered, He said to them, 13:24 “Strive to enter in
‘Lord, leave it alone this year also, until I by the narrow door, for many, I tell you,
dig around it, and fertilize it. 13:9 If it bears will seek to enter in, and will not be able.
fruit, fine; but if not, after that, you can cut it 13:25
When once the master of the house has
down.’” risen up, and has shut the door, and you
13:10
He was teaching in one of the syn- begin to stand outside, and to knock at the
agogues on the Sabbath day. 13:11 Behold, door, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us!’ then
there was a woman who had a spirit of infir- he will answer and tell you, ‘I don’t know
e 12:53 Micah 7:6
f 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.
g 13:21 literally, three sata. 3 sata is about 39 litres or a bit more than a bushel
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you or where you come from.’ 13:26 Then invited by anyone to a marriage feast, don’t
you will begin to say, ‘We ate and drank in sit in the best seat, since perhaps someone
your presence, and you taught in our streets.’ more honorable than you might be invited
13:27
He will say, ‘I tell you, I don’t know by him, 14:9 and he who invited both of you
where you come from. Depart from me, all would come and tell you, ‘Make room for this
you workers of iniquity.’ 13:28 There will be person.’ Then you would begin, with shame,
weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see to take the lowest place. 14:10 But when you
Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets, are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, so
in the Kingdom of God, and yourselves being that when he who invited you comes, he may
thrown outside. 13:29 They will come from the tell you, ‘Friend, move up higher.’ Then you
east, west, north, and south, and will sit down will be honored in the presence of all who sit
in the Kingdom of God. 13:30 Behold, there are at the table with you. 14:11 For everyone who
some who are last who will be first, and there exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever
are some who are first who will be last.” humbles himself will be exalted.”
13:31 14:12
On that same day, some Pharisees came, He also said to the one who had invited
saying to him, “Get out of here, and go away, him, “When you make a dinner or a supper,
for Herod wants to kill you.” don’t call your friends, nor your brothers, nor
13:32
He said to them, “Go and tell that your kinsmen, nor rich neighbors, or perhaps
fox, ‘Behold, I cast out demons and perform they might also return the favor, and pay you
cures today and tomorrow, and the third day back. 14:13 But when you make a feast, ask
I complete my mission. 13:33 Nevertheless I the poor, the maimed, the lame, or the blind;
14:14
must go on my way today and tomorrow and and you will be blessed, because they
the next day, for it can’t be that a prophet don’t have the resources to repay you. For
perish outside of Jerusalem.’ you will be repaid in the resurrection of the
13:34
“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that kills the righteous.”
14:15
prophets, and stones those who are sent to When one of those who sat at the table
her! How often I wanted to gather your with him heard these things, he said to him,
children together, like a hen gathers her own “Blessed is he who will feast in the Kingdom
brood under her wings, and you refused! of God!”
13:35 14:16
Behold, your house is left to you desolate. But he said to him, “A certain man
I tell you, you will not see me, until you say, made a great supper, and he invited many
‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the people. 14:17 He sent out his servant at supper
Lord!’”h time to tell those who were invited, ‘Come, for
14:1
It happened, when he went into the everything is ready now.’ 14:18 They all as one
house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on began to make excuses.
a Sabbath to eat bread, that they were watching “The first said to him, ‘I have bought a
him. 14:2 Behold, a certain man who had dropsy field, and I must go and see it. Please have
was in front of him. 14:3 Yeshua, answering, me excused.’
14:19
spoke to the Torah scholars and Pharisees, “Another said, ‘I have bought five yoke
saying, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?” of oxen, and I must go try them out. Please
14:4
But they were silent. have me excused.’
14:20
He took him, and healed him, and let him “Another said, ‘I have married a wife,
go. 14:5 He answered them, “Which of you, if and therefore I can’t come.’
14:21
your soni or an ox fell into a well, wouldn’t “That servant came, and told his lord
immediately pull him out on a Sabbath day?” these things. Then the master of the house,
14:6
They couldn’t answer him regarding being angry, said to his servant, ‘Go out
these things. quickly into the streets and lanes of the city,
14:7
He spoke a parable to those who were and bring in the poor, maimed, blind, and
invited, when he noticed how they chose the lame.’
best seats, and said to them, 14:8 “When you are 14:22
“The servant said, ‘Lord, it is done as
h 13:35 Psalm 118:26
i 14:5 TR reads “donkey” instead of “son”
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you commanded, and there is still room.’ one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine
14:23
“The lord said to the servant, ‘Go out righteous people who need no repentance.
15:8
into the highways and hedges, and compel Or what woman, if she had ten drachmak
them to come in, that my house may be filled. coins, if she lost one drachma coin, wouldn’t
14:24
For I tell you that none of those men who light a lamp, sweep the house, and seek
were invited will taste of my supper.’” diligently until she found it? 15:9 When she
14:25 has found it, she calls together her friends
Now great multitudes were going with
him. He turned and said to them, 14:26 “If any- and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for
one comes to me, and doesn’t disregardj his I have found the drachma which I had lost.’
15:10
own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the
and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t presence of the angels of God over one sinner
be my disciple. 14:27 Whoever doesn’t bear his repenting.”
15:11
own cross, and come after me, can’t be my He said, “A certain man had two sons.
15:12
disciple. 14:28 For which of you, desiring to The younger of them said to his father,
build a tower, doesn’t first sit down and count ‘Father, give me my share of your property.’
the cost, to see if he has enough to complete He divided his livelihood between them.
15:13
it? 14:29 Or perhaps, when he has laid a Not many days after, the younger son
foundation, and is not able to finish, everyone gathered all of this together and traveled into
who sees begins to mock him, 14:30 saying, a far country. There he wasted his property
‘This man began to build, and wasn’t able with riotous living. 15:14 When he had spent
to finish.’ 14:31 Or what king, as he goes to all of it, there arose a severe famine in that
encounter another king in war, will not sit country, and he began to be in need. 15:15 He
down first and consider whether he is able went and joined himself to one of the citizens
with ten thousand to meet him who comes of that country, and he sent him into his fields
against him with twenty thousand? 14:32 Or to feed pigs. 15:16 He wanted to fill his belly
else, while the other is yet a great way off, with the husks that the pigs ate, but no one
he sends an envoy, and asks for conditions of gave him any. 15:17 But when he came to
peace. 14:33 So therefore whoever of you who himself he said, ‘How many hired servants of
doesn’t renounce all that he has, he can’t be my father’s have bread enough to spare, and
my disciple. 14:34 Salt is good, but if the salt I’m dying with hunger! 15:18 I will get up and
becomes flat and tasteless, with what do you go to my father, and will tell him, “Father, I
season it? 14:35 It is fit neither for the soil nor have sinned against heaven, and in your sight.
15:19
for the manure pile. It is thrown out. He who I am no more worthy to be called your
has ears to hear, let him hear.” son. Make me as one of your hired servants.”’
15:1 15:20
Now all the tax collectors and sinners “He arose, and came to his father. But
were coming close to him to hear him. 15:2 The while he was still far off, his father saw him,
Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, and was moved with compassion, and ran,
“This man welcomes sinners, and eats with and fell on his neck, and kissed him. 15:21 The
them.” son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against
15:3
He told them this parable. 15:4 “Which of heaven, and in your sight. I am no longer
you men, if you had one hundred sheep, and worthy to be called your son.’
15:22
lost one of them, wouldn’t leave the ninety- “But the father said to his servants,
nine in the wilderness, and go after the one ‘Bring out the best robe, and put it on him.
that was lost, until he found it? 15:5 When he Put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet.
15:23
has found it, he carries it on his shoulders, Bring the fattened calf, kill it, and let us
rejoicing. 15:6 When he comes home, he calls eat, and celebrate; 15:24 for this, my son, was
together his friends and his neighbors, saying dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is
to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found found.’ They began to celebrate.
my sheep which was lost!’ 15:7 I tell you that 15:25
“Now his elder son was in the field. As
even so there will be more joy in heaven over he came near to the house, he heard music and
j 14:26 or, hate
k 15:8 A drachma coin was worth about 2 days wages for an agricultural laborer.
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dancing. 15:26 He called one of the servants to means of unrighteous mammon, so that when
him, and asked what was going on. 15:27 He you fail, they may receive you into the eternal
said to him, ‘Your brother has come, and your tents. 16:10 He who is faithful in a very little is
father has killed the fattened calf, because faithful also in much. He who is dishonest in
he has received him back safe and healthy.’ a very little is also dishonest in much. 16:11 If
15:28
But he was angry, and would not go in. therefore you have not been faithful in the
Therefore his father came out, and begged unrighteous mammon, who will commit to
him. 15:29 But he answered his father, ‘Behold, your trust the true riches? 16:12 If you have not
these many years I have served you, and I been faithful in that which is another’s, who
never disobeyed a commandment of yours, will give you that which is your own? 16:13 No
but you never gave me a goat, that I might servant can serve two masters, for either he
celebrate with my friends. 15:30 But when this, will hate the one, and love the other; or else
your son, came, who has devoured your living he will hold to one, and despise the other. You
with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf aren’t able to serve God and mammonn .”
for him.’ 16:14
The Pharisees, who were lovers of
15:31
“He said to him, ‘Son, you are always money, also heard all these things, and they
with me, and all that is mine is yours. 15:32 But scoffed at him. 16:15 He said to them, “You are
it was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, those who justify yourselves in the sight of
for this, your brother, was dead, and is alive men, but God knows your hearts. For that
again. He was lost, and is found.’” which is exalted among men is an abomi-
16:1
He also said to his disciples, “There was nation in the sight of God. 16:16 The Torah
a certain rich man who had a manager. An and the Prophets were until Yochanan. From
accusation was made to him that this man that time the Good News of the Kingdom of
was wasting his possessions. 16:2 He called God is preached, and everyone is forcing his
him, and said to him, ‘What is this that way into it. 16:17 But it is easier for heaven
I hear about you? Give an accounting of and earth to pass away, than for one tiny
your management, for you can no longer be stroke of a pen in the Torah to become void.
16:18
manager.’ Everyone who divorces his wife, and
16:3 marries another, commits adultery. He who
“The manager said within himself,
‘What will I do, seeing that my lord is taking marries one who is divorced from a husband
away the management position from me? I commits adultery.
don’t have strength to dig. I am ashamed to 16:19
“Now there was a certain rich man, and
beg. 16:4 I know what I will do, so that when he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living
I am removed from management, they may in luxury every day. 16:20 A certain beggar,
receive me into their houses.’ 16:5 Calling each named Lazarus, was laid at his gate, full of
one of his lord’s debtors to him, he said to sores, 16:21 and desiring to be fed with the
the first, ‘How much do you owe to my lord?’ crumbs that fell from the rich man’s table.
16:6
He said, ‘A hundred batosl of oil.’ He said Yes, even the dogs came and licked his sores.
to him, ‘Take your bill, and sit down quickly 16:22
It happened that the beggar died, and
and write fifty.’ 16:7 Then he said to another, that he was carried away by the angels to
‘How much do you owe?’ He said, ‘A hundred Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died,
corsm of wheat.’ He said to him, ‘Take your and was buried. 16:23 In Sheolo , he lifted up
bill, and write eighty.’ his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham
16:8
“His lord commended the dishonest far off, and Lazarus at his bosom. 16:24 He
manager because he had done wisely, for the cried and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy
children of this world are, in their own gen- on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the
eration, wiser than the children of the light. tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue!
16:9
I tell you, make for yourselves friends by For I am in anguish in this flame.’
l 16:6100 batos is about 395 litres or 104 U. S. gallons.
m 16:7 100 cors = about 3,910 litres or 600 bushels.
n 16:13 “Mammon” refers to riches or a false god of wealth.
o 16:23 or, Hell
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16:25
“But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember ‘We are unworthy servants. We have done our
that you, in your lifetime, received your good duty.’”
things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad 17:11
It happened as he was on his way to
things. But now here he is comforted and you Jerusalem, that he was passing along the bor-
are in anguish. 16:26 Besides all this, between ders of Samaria and Galilee. 17:12 As he entered
us and you there is a great gulf fixed, that into a certain village, ten men who were lepers
those who want to pass from here to you are met him, who stood at a distance. 17:13 They
not able, and that none may cross over from lifted up their voices, saying, “Yeshua, Master,
there to us.’ have mercy on us!”
16:27 17:14
“He said, ‘I ask you therefore, father, When he saw them, he said to them,
that you would send him to my father’s house; “Go and show yourselves to the priests.”
16:28
for I have five brothers, that he may It happened that as they went, they were
testify to them, so they won’t also come into cleansed. 17:15 One of them, when he saw
this place of torment.’ that he was healed, turned back, glorifying
16:29
“But Abraham said to him, ‘They have God with a loud voice. 17:16 He fell on his
Moses and the Prophets. Let them listen to face at Yeshua’s feet, giving him thanks; and
them.’ he was a Samaritan. 17:17 Yeshua answered,
16:30
“He said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if “Weren’t the ten cleansed? But where are
one goes to them from the dead, they will the nine? 17:18 Were there none found who
repent.’ returned to give glory to God, except this
16:31
“He said to him, ‘If they don’t listen to stranger?” 17:19 Then he said to him, “Get up,
Moses and the Prophets, neither will they be and go your way. Your faith has healed you.”
persuaded if one rises from the dead.’” 17:20
Being asked by the Pharisees when the
17:1
He said to the disciples, “It is impossible Kingdom of God would come, he answered
that no occasions of stumbling should come, them, “The Kingdom of God doesn’t come
but woe to him through whom they come! with observation; 17:21 neither will they say,
17:2
It would be better for him if a millstone ‘Look, here!’ or, ‘Look, there!’ for behold, the
were hung around his neck, and he were Kingdom of God is within you.”
thrown into the sea, rather than that he should 17:22
He said to the disciples, “The days will
cause one of these little ones to stumble. come, when you will desire to see one of the
17:3
Be careful. If your brother sins against days of the Son of Man, and you will not see
you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive it. 17:23 They will tell you, ‘Look, here!’ or
him. 17:4 If he sins against you seven times ‘Look, there!’ Don’t go away, nor follow after
in the day, and seven times returns, saying, ‘I them, 17:24 for as the lightning, when it flashes
repent,’ you shall forgive him.” out of the one part under the sky, shines to
17:5
The emissaries said to the Lord, “In- the other part under the sky; so will the Son
crease our faith.” of Man be in his day. 17:25 But first, he must
17:6
The Lord said, “If you had faith like suffer many things and be rejected by this
a grain of mustard seed, you would tell this generation. 17:26 As it happened in the days
sycamore tree, ‘Be uprooted, and be planted in of Noah, even so will it be also in the days
the sea,’ and it would obey you. 17:7 But who is of the Son of Man. 17:27 They ate, they drank,
there among you, having a servant plowing or they married, they were given in marriage,
keeping sheep, that will say, when he comes until the day that Noah entered into the ship,
in from the field, ‘Come immediately and sit and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
down at the table,’ 17:8 and will not rather 17:28
Likewise, even as it happened in the days
tell him, ‘Prepare my supper, clothe yourself of Lot: they ate, they drank, they bought, they
properly, and serve me, while I eat and drink. sold, they planted, they built; 17:29 but in the
Afterward you shall eat and drink’? 17:9 Does day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained
he thank that servant because he did the fire and sulfur from the sky, and destroyed
things that were commanded? I think not. them all. 17:30 It will be the same way in the
17:10
Even so you also, when you have done day that the Son of Man is revealed. 17:31 In
all the things that are commanded you, say, that day, he who will be on the housetop, and
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his goods in the house, let him not go down who humbles himself will be exalted.”
18:15
to take them away. Let him who is in the They were also bringing their babies
field likewise not turn back. 17:32 Remember to him, that he might touch them. But
Lot’s wife! 17:33 Whoever seeks to save his life when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them.
18:16
loses it, but whoever loses his life preserves it. Yeshua summoned them, saying, “Allow
17:34
I tell you, in that night there will be two the little children to come to me, and don’t
people in one bed. The one will be taken, and hinder them, for the Kingdom of God belongs
the other will be left. 17:35 There will be two to such as these. 18:17 Most certainly, I tell you,
grinding grain together. One will be taken, whoever doesn’t receive the Kingdom of God
and the other will be left.” 17:36 p like a little child, he will in no way enter into
17:37
They, answering, asked him, “Where, it.”
18:18
Lord?” A certain ruler asked him, saying,
He said to them, “Where the body is, there “Good Rabbi, what shall I do to inherit eternal
will the vultures also be gathered together.” life?”
18:1 18:19
He also spoke a parable to them that they Yeshua asked him, “Why do you call
must always pray, and not give up, 18:2 saying, me good? No one is good, except one—God.
18:20
“There was a judge in a certain city who You know the commandments: ‘Don’t
didn’t fear God, and didn’t respect man. 18:3 A commit adultery,’ ‘Don’t murder,’ ‘Don’t
widow was in that city, and she often came to steal,’ ‘Don’t give false testimony,’ ‘Honor
him, saying, ‘Defend me from my adversary!’ your father and your mother.’”q
18:4 18:21
He wouldn’t for a while, but afterward he He said, “I have observed all these
said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God, things from my youth up.”
18:22
nor respect man, 18:5 yet because this widow When Yeshua heard these things, he
bothers me, I will defend her, or else she will said to him, “You still lack one thing. Sell all
wear me out by her continual coming.’” that you have, and distribute it to the poor.
18:6 You will have treasure in heaven. Come,
The Lord said, “Listen to what the un-
righteous judge says. 18:7 Won’t God avenge follow me.”
18:23
his chosen ones, who are crying out to him But when he heard these things, he
day and night, and yet he exercises patience became very sad, for he was very rich.
18:24
with them? 18:8 I tell you that he will avenge Yeshua, seeing that he became very sad,
them quickly. Nevertheless, when the Son of said, “How hard it is for those who have riches
Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?” to enter into the Kingdom of God! 18:25 For
18:9
He spoke also this parable to certain it is easier for a camelr to enter in through a
people who were convinced of their own needle’s eye, than for a rich man to enter into
righteousness, and who despised all others. the Kingdom of God.”
18:10 18:26
“Two men went up into the temple to Those who heard it said, “Then who can
pray; one was a Pharisee, and the other was be saved?”
18:27
a tax collector. 18:11 The Pharisee stood and But he said, “The things which are
prayed to himself like this: ‘God, I thank you, impossible with men are possible with God.”
18:28
that I am not like the rest of men, extortioners, Peter said, “Look, we have left every-
unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax thing, and followed you.”
18:29
collector. 18:12 I fast twice a week. I give tithes He said to them, “Most certainly I tell
of all that I get.’ 18:13 But the tax collector, you, there is no one who has left house, or
standing far away, wouldn’t even lift up his wife, or brothers, or parents, or children, for
eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, the Kingdom of God’s sake, 18:30 who will not
‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’ 18:14 I receive many times more in this time, and in
tell you, this man went down to his house the world to come, eternal life.”
18:31
justified rather than the other; for everyone He took the twelve aside, and said to
who exalts himself will be humbled, but he them, “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem,
p 17:36 Some Greek manuscripts add: “Two will be in the field: the one taken, and the other left.”
q 18:20 Exodus 20:12-16; Deuteronomy 5:16-20
r 18:25 The Peshitta Aramaic word means camel, rope or beam.
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and all the things that are written through the to seek and to save that which was lost.”
19:11
prophets concerning the Son of Man will be As they heard these things, he went
completed. 18:32 For he will be delivered up to on and told a parable, because he was near
the Gentiles, will be mocked, treated shame- Jerusalem, and they supposed that the King-
fully, and spit on. 18:33 They will scourge and dom of God would be revealed immediately.
19:12
kill him. On the third day, he will rise again.” He said therefore, “A certain nobleman
18:34
They understood none of these things. went into a far country to receive for himself
This saying was hidden from them, and they a kingdom, and to return. 19:13 He called
didn’t understand the things that were said. ten servants of his, and gave them ten mina
18:35
It happened, as he came near Jericho, a coins,s and told them, ‘Conduct business until
certain blind man sat by the road, begging. I come.’ 19:14 But his citizens hated him, and
18:36
Hearing a multitude going by, he asked sent an envoy after him, saying, ‘We don’t
what this meant. 18:37 They told him that want this man to reign over us.’
Yeshua of Nazareth was passing by. 18:38 He 19:15
“It happened when he had come back
cried out, “Yeshua, you son of David, have again, having received the kingdom, that he
mercy on me!” 18:39 Those who led the way commanded these servants, to whom he had
rebuked him, that he should be quiet; but he given the money, to be called to him, that he
cried out all the more, “You son of David, have might know what they had gained by con-
mercy on me!” ducting business. 19:16 The first came before
18:40
Standing still, Yeshua commanded him him, saying, ‘Lord, your mina has made ten
to be brought to him. When he had come near, more minas.’
he asked him, 18:41 “What do you want me to 19:17
“He said to him, ‘Well done, you good
do?” servant! Because you were found faithful
He said, “Lord, that I may see again.” with very little, you shall have authority over
18:42
Yeshua said to him, “Receive your ten cities.’
19:18
sight. Your faith has healed you.” “The second came, saying, ‘Your mina,
18:43
Immediately he received his sight, and Lord, has made five minas.’
19:19
followed him, glorifying God. All the people, “So he said to him, ‘And you are to be
when they saw it, praised God. over five cities.’ 19:20 Another came, saying,
19:1
He entered and was passing through ‘Lord, behold, your mina, which I kept laid
Jericho. 19:2 There was a man named Zaccha- away in a handkerchief, 19:21 for I feared you,
eus. He was a chief tax collector, and he was because you are an exacting man. You take up
rich. 19:3 He was trying to see who Yeshua was, that which you didn’t lay down, and reap that
and couldn’t because of the crowd, because he which you didn’t sow.’
was short. 19:4 He ran on ahead, and climbed 19:22
“He said to him, ‘Out of your own
up into a sycamore tree to see him, for he was mouth will I judge you, you wicked servant!
to pass that way. 19:5 When Yeshua came to You knew that I am an exacting man, taking
the place, he looked up and saw him, and said up that which I didn’t lay down, and reaping
to him, “Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, that which I didn’t sow. 19:23 Then why didn’t
for today I must stay at your house.” 19:6 He you deposit my money in the bank, and at my
hurried, came down, and received him joyfully. coming, I might have earned interest on it?’
19:7 19:24
When they saw it, they all murmured, He said to those who stood by, ‘Take the
saying, “He has gone in to lodge with a man mina away from him, and give it to him who
who is a sinner.” has the ten minas.’
19:8 19:25
Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “They said to him, ‘Lord, he has ten
“Behold, Lord, half of my goods I give to the minas!’ 19:26 ‘For I tell you that to everyone
poor. If I have wrongfully exacted anything of who has, will more be given; but from him
anyone, I restore four times as much.” who doesn’t have, even that which he has
19:9
Yeshua said to him, “Today, salvation will be taken away from him. 19:27 But bring
has come to this house, because he also is a those enemies of mine who didn’t want me
son of Abraham. 19:10 For the Son of Man came to reign over them here, and kill them before
s 19:13 10 minas was more than 3 years’ wages for an agricultural laborer.
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me.’” 19:28 Having said these things, he went on ‘den of robbers’!”w


ahead, going up to Jerusalem. 19:47
He was teaching daily in the temple, but
19:29
It happened, when he drew near to the chief priests and the scribes and the leading
Bethsphaget and Bethany, at the mountain that men among the people sought to destroy him.
19:48
is called Olivet, he sent two of his disciples, They couldn’t find what they might do, for
19:30
saying, “Go your way into the village on all the people hung on to every word that he
the other side, in which, as you enter, you will said.
find a colt tied, whereon no man ever yet sat. 20:1
It happened on one of those days, as he
Untie it, and bring it. 19:31 If anyone asks you, was teaching the people in the temple and pro-
‘Why are you untying it?’ say to him: ‘The claiming the Good News, that the x priests and
Lord needs it.’” scribes came to him with the elders. 20:2 They
19:32
Those who were sent went away, and asked him, “Tell us: by what authority do you
found things just as he had told them. 19:33 As do these things? Or who is giving you this
they were untying the colt, its owners said authority?”
to them, “Why are you untying the colt?” 20:3
He answered them, “I also will ask you
19:34
They said, “The Lord needs it.” 19:35 They one question. Tell me: 20:4 the immersion of
brought it to Yeshua. They threw their cloaks Yochanan, was it from heaven, or from men?”
on the colt, and set Yeshua on them. 19:36 As 20:5
They reasoned with themselves, saying,
he went, they spread their cloaks in the way. “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say, ‘Why
19:37
As he was now getting near, at the descent didn’t you believe him?’ 20:6 But if we say,
of the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of ‘From men,’ all the people will stone us,
the disciples began to rejoice and praise God for they are persuaded that Yochanan was a
with a loud voice for all the mighty works prophet.” 20:7 They answered that they didn’t
which they had seen, 19:38 saying, “Blessed is know where it was from.
the King who comes in the name of the Lord!u 20:8
Yeshua said to them, “Neither will I tell
Peace in heaven, and glory in the highest!” you by what authority I do these things.”
19:39
Some of the Pharisees from the multi- 20:9
He began to tell the people this parable.
tude said to him, “Rabbi, rebuke your disci- “A y man planted a vineyard, and rented it out
ples!” to some farmers, and went into another coun-
19:40
He answered them, “I tell you that if try for a long time. 20:10 At the proper season,
these were silent, the stones would cry out.” he sent a servant to the farmers to collect his
19:41
When he drew near, he saw the city and share of the fruit of the vineyard. But the
wept over it, 19:42 saying, “If you, even you, farmers beat him, and sent him away empty.
20:11
had known today the things which belong to He sent yet another servant, and they also
your peace! But now, they are hidden from beat him, and treated him shamefully, and
your eyes. 19:43 For the days will come on you, sent him away empty. 20:12 He sent yet a third,
when your enemies will throw up a barricade and they also wounded him, and threw him
against you, surround you, hem you in on out. 20:13 The lord of the vineyard said, ‘What
every side, 19:44 and will dash you and your shall I do? I will send my beloved son. It may
children within you to the ground. They will be that seeing him, they will respect him.’
not leave in you one stone on another, because 20:14
“But when the farmers saw him, they
you didn’t know the time of your visitation.” reasoned among themselves, saying, ‘This
19:45
He entered into the temple, and began is the heir. Come, let’s kill him, that the
to drive out those who bought and sold in it, inheritance may be ours.’ 20:15 They threw him
19:46
saying to them, “It is written, ‘My house out of the vineyard, and killed him. What
is a house of prayer,’v but you have made it a therefore will the lord of the vineyard do to
t 19:29TR, NU read “Bethpage” instead of “Bethsphage”
u 19:38 Psalm 118:26
v 19:46 Isaiah 56:7
w 19:46 Jeremiah 7:11
x 20:1 TR adds “chief”
y 20:9 NU (in brackets) and TR add “certain”
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them? 20:16 He will come and destroy these them will she be? For the seven had her as a
farmers, and will give the vineyard to others.” wife.”
20:34
When they heard it, they said, “May it never Yeshua said to them, “The children of
be!” this age marry, and are given in marriage.
20:17 20:35
But he looked at them, and said, “Then But those who are considered worthy to
what is this that is written, attain to that age and the resurrection from the
‘The stone which the builders rejected, dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage.
20:36
the same was made the chief corner- For they can’t die any more, for they are
stone?’z like the angels, and are children of God, being
20:18
Everyone who falls on that stone will be children of the resurrection. 20:37 But that the
broken to pieces, dead are raised, even Moses showed at the
but it will crush whomever it falls on to bush, when he called the Lord ‘The God of
dust.” Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of
20:19
The chief priests and the scribes sought Jacob.’a 20:38 Now he is not the God of the
to lay hands on him that very hour, but dead, but of the living, for all are alive to
they feared the people—for they knew he had him.”
20:39
spoken this parable against them. 20:20 They Some of the scribes answered, “Rabbi,
watched him, and sent out spies, who pre- you speak well.” 20:40 They didn’t dare to ask
tended to be righteous, that they might trap him any more questions.
20:41
him in something he said, so as to deliver him He said to them, “Why do they say
up to the power and authority of the governor. that the Messiah is David’s son? 20:42 David
20:21 himself says in the scroll of Psalms,
They asked him, “Rabbi, we know that you
say and teach what is right, and aren’t partial to ‘The Lord said to my Lord,
anyone, but truly teach the way of God. 20:22 Is “Sit at my right hand,
20:43
it lawful for us to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?” until I make your enemies the foot-
20:23
But he perceived their craftiness, and stool of your feet.”’b
20:44
said to them, “Why do you test me? 20:24 Show “David therefore calls him Lord, so
me a denarius. Whose image and inscription how is he his son?”
20:45
are on it?” In the hearing of all the people, he said
They answered, “Caesar’s.” to his disciples, 20:46 “Beware of the scribes,
20:25
He said to them, “Then give to Caesar who like to walk in long robes, and love
the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the greetings in the marketplaces, the best seats in
things that are God’s.” the synagogues, and the best places at feasts;
20:26 20:47
They weren’t able to trap him in his who devour widows’ houses, and for a
words before the people. They marveled at pretense make long prayers: these will receive
his answer, and were silent. 20:27 Some of the greater condemnation.”
21:1
Sadducees came to him, those who deny that He looked up, and saw the rich people
there is a resurrection. 20:28 They asked him, who were putting their gifts into the treasury.
21:2
“Rabbi, Moses wrote to us that if a man’s He saw a certain poor widow casting in
brother dies having a wife, and he is childless, two small brass coins.c 21:3 He said, “Truly I
his brother should take the wife, and raise tell you, this poor widow put in more than
up children for his brother. 20:29 There were all of them, 21:4 for all these put in gifts for
therefore seven brothers. The first took a wife, God from their abundance, but she, out of her
and died childless. 20:30 The second took her as poverty, put in all that she had to live on.”
wife, and he died childless. 20:31 The third took 21:5
As some were talking about the temple
her, and likewise the seven all left no children, and how it was decorated with beautiful stones
and died. 20:32 Afterward the woman also died. and gifts, he said, 21:6 “As for these things
20:33
Therefore in the resurrection whose wife of which you see, the days will come, in which
z 20:17 Psalm 118:22
a 20:37 Exodus 3:6
b 20:43 Psalm 110:1
c 21:2 literally, “two lepta.” 2 lepta was about 1% of a day’s wages for an agricultural laborer.
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there will not be left here one stone on of nations, in perplexity for the roaring of the
another that will not be thrown down.” sea and the waves; 21:26 men fainting for fear,
21:7
They asked him, “Rabbi, so when will and for expectation of the things which are
these things be? What is the sign that these coming on the world: for the powers of the
things are about to happen?” heavens will be shaken. 21:27 Then they will
21:8
He said, “Watch out that you don’t see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with
get led astray, for many will come in my power and great glory. 21:28 But when these
name, saying, ‘I am hed ,’ and, ‘The time is at things begin to happen, look up, and lift up
hand.’ Therefore don’t follow them. 21:9 When your heads, because your redemption is near.”
21:29
you hear of wars and disturbances, don’t be He told them a parable. “See the fig
terrified, for these things must happen first, tree, and all the trees. 21:30 When they are
but the end won’t come immediately.” already budding, you see it and know by your
21:10
Then he said to them, “Nation will rise own selves that the summer is already near.
21:31
against nation, and kingdom against king- Even so you also, when you see these
dom. 21:11 There will be great earthquakes, things happening, know that the Kingdom of
famines, and plagues in various places. There God is near. 21:32 Most certainly I tell you, this
will be terrors and great signs from heaven. generation will not pass away until all things
21:12
But before all these things, they will lay are accomplished. 21:33 Heaven and earth will
their hands on you and will persecute you, pass away, but my words will by no means
delivering you up to synagogues and prisons, pass away.
21:34
bringing you before kings and governors for “So be careful, or your hearts will be
my name’s sake. 21:13 It will turn out as a loaded down with carousing, drunkenness,
testimony for you. 21:14 Settle it therefore in and cares of this life, and that day will come
your hearts not to meditate beforehand how on you suddenly. 21:35 For it will come like a
to answer, 21:15 for I will give you a mouth snare on all those who dwell on the surface
and wisdom which all your adversaries will of all the earth. 21:36 Therefore be watchful
not be able to withstand or to contradict. all the time, praying that you may be counted
21:16
You will be handed over even by parents, worthy to escape all these things that will
brothers, relatives, and friends. They will happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.”
cause some of you to be put to death. 21:17 You 21:37
Every day Yeshua was teaching in the
will be hated by all men for my name’s sake. temple, and every night he would go out and
21:18
And not a hair of your head will perish. spend the night on the mountain that is called
21:19
“By your endurance you will win your Olivet. 21:38 All the people came early in the
lives. morning to him in the temple to hear him.
21:20 22:1
“But when you see Jerusalem sur- Now the feast of unleavened bread,
rounded by armies, then know that its deso- which is called the Passover, drew near. 22:2 The
lation is at hand. 21:21 Then let those who are chief priests and the scribes sought how they
in Judea flee to the mountains. Let those who might put him to death, for they feared the
are in the midst of her depart. Let those who people. 22:3 Satan entered into Judah, who was
are in the country not enter therein. 21:22 For surnamed Iscariot, who was numbered with
these are days of vengeance, that all things the twelve. 22:4 He went away, and talked with
which are written may be fulfilled. 21:23 Woe the chief priests and captains about how he
to those who are pregnant and to those who might deliver him to them. 22:5 They were glad,
nurse infants in those days! For there will be and agreed to give him money. 22:6 He con-
great distress in the land, and wrath to this sented, and sought an opportunity to deliver
people. 21:24 They will fall by the edge of the him to them in the absence of the multitude.
22:7
sword, and will be led captive into all the The day of unleavened bread came, on
nations. Jerusalem will be trampled down by which the Passover must be sacrificed. 22:8 He
the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles sent Peter and Yochanan, saying, “Go and
are fulfilled. 21:25 There will be signs in the prepare the Passover for us, that we may eat.”
22:9
sun, moon, and stars; and on the earth anxiety They said to him, “Where do you want
d 21:8 or, I AM
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us to prepare?” my Father conferred on me, 22:30 that you may


22:10
He said to them, “Behold, when you eat and drink at my table in my Kingdom. You
have entered into the city, a man carrying a will sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes
pitcher of water will meet you. Follow him of Israel.”
22:31
into the house which he enters. 22:11 Tell the The Lord said, “Simon, Simon, behold,
master of the house, ‘The Rabbi says to you, Satan asked to have you, that he might sift
“Where is the guest room, where I may eat you as wheat, 22:32 but I prayed for you, that
the Passover with my disciples?”’ 22:12 He your faith wouldn’t fail. You, when once you
will show you a large, furnished upper room. have turned again, establish your brotherse .”
22:33
Make preparations there.” He said to him, “Lord, I am ready to go
22:13 with you both to prison and to death!”
They went, found things as he had
22:34
told them, and they prepared the Passover. He said, “I tell you, Peter, the rooster
22:14 will by no means crow today until you deny
When the hour had come, he sat down
with the twelve emissaries. 22:15 He said to that you know me three times.”
22:35
them, “I have earnestly desired to eat this He said to them, “When I sent you out
Passover with you before I suffer, 22:16 for I tell without purse, and wallet, and shoes, did you
you, I will no longer by any means eat of it lack anything?”
until it is fulfilled in the Kingdom of God.” They said, “Nothing.”
22:17 22:36
He received a cup, and when he had given Then he said to them, “But now, who-
thanks, he said, “Take this, and share it among ever has a purse, let him take it, and likewise
yourselves, 22:18 for I tell you, I will not drink a wallet. Whoever has none, let him sell his
at all again from the fruit of the vine, until the cloak, and buy a sword. 22:37 For I tell you that
Kingdom of God comes.” this which is written must still be fulfilled in
22:19 me: ‘He was counted with transgressors.’f For
He took bread, and when he had given
thanks, he broke it, and gave to them, saying, that which concerns me has an end.”
22:38
“This is my body which is given for you. They said, “Lord, behold, here are two
Do this in memory of me.” 22:20 Likewise, he swords.”
took the cup after supper, saying, “This cup He said to them, “That is enough.”
22:39
is the new covenant in my blood, which is He came out, and went, as his custom
poured out for you. 22:21 But behold, the hand was, to the Mount of Olives. His disciples also
of him who betrays me is with me on the followed him. 22:40 When he was at the place,
table. 22:22 The Son of Man indeed goes, as he said to them, “Pray that you don’t enter into
it has been determined, but woe to that man temptation.”
22:41
through whom he is betrayed!” He was withdrawn from them about a
22:23
They began to question among them- stone’s throw, and he knelt down and prayed,
22:42
selves, which of them it was who would do saying, “Father, if you are willing, remove
this thing. 22:24 There arose also a contention this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will,
among them, which of them was considered to but yours, be done.”
22:43
be greatest. 22:25 He said to them, “The kings of An angel from heaven appeared to him,
the nations lord it over them, and those who strengthening him. 22:44 Being in agony he
have authority over them are called ‘benefac- prayed more earnestly. His sweat became
tors.’ 22:26 But not so with you. But one who like great drops of blood falling down on the
is the greater among you, let him become as ground.
22:45
the younger, and one who is governing, as When he rose up from his prayer, he
one who serves. 22:27 For who is greater, one came to the disciples, and found them sleeping
who sits at the table, or one who serves? Isn’t because of grief, 22:46 and said to them, “Why
it he who sits at the table? But I am in the do you sleep? Rise and pray that you may not
midst of you as one who serves. 22:28 But you enter into temptation.”
22:47
are those who have continued with me in my While he was still speaking, behold, a
trials. 22:29 I confer on you a kingdom, even as multitude, and he who was called Judah, one
e 22:32 The word for “brothers” here may be also correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”
f 22:37 Isaiah 53:12
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of the twelve, was leading them. He came near the Messiah, tell us.”
to Yeshua to kiss him. 22:48 But Yeshua said to But he said to them, “If I tell you, you won’t
him, “Judah, do you betray the Son of Man believe, 22:68 and if I ask, you will in no way
with a kiss?” answer me or let me go. 22:69 From now on, the
22:49
When those who were around him saw Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of
what was about to happen, they said to him, the power of God.”
“Lord, shall we strike with the sword?” 22:50 A 22:70
They all said, “Are you then the Son of
certain one of them struck the servant of the God?”
high priest, and cut off his right ear. He said to them, “You say it, because I am.”
22:51 22:71
But Yeshua answered, “Let me at least They said, “Why do we need any more
do this”—and he touched his ear, and healed witness? For we ourselves have heard from his
him. 22:52 Yeshua said to the chief priests, cap- own mouth!”
tains of the temple, and elders, who had come 23:1
The whole company of them rose up and
against him, “Have you come out as against a brought him before Pilate. 23:2 They began to
robber, with swords and clubs? 22:53 When I accuse him, saying, “We found this man per-
was with you in the temple daily, you didn’t verting the nation, forbidding paying taxes to
stretch out your hands against me. But this is Caesar, and saying that he himself is Messiah, a
your hour, and the power of darkness.” king.”
22:54 23:3
They seized him, and led him away, Pilate asked him, “Are you the King of
and brought him into the high priest’s house. the Jews?”
But Peter followed from a distance. 22:55 When He answered him, “So you say.”
they had kindled a fire in the middle of the 23:4
Pilate said to the chief priests and the
courtyard, and had sat down together, Peter sat multitudes, “I find no basis for a charge against
among them. 22:56 A certain servant girl saw this man.”
him as he sat in the light, and looking intently 23:5
But they insisted, saying, “He stirs up the
at him, said, “This man also was with him.” people, teaching throughout all Judea, begin-
22:57
He denied Yeshua, saying, “Woman, I ning from Galilee even to this place.” 23:6 But
don’t know him.” when Pilate heard Galilee mentioned, he asked
22:58
After a little while someone else saw if the man was a Galilean. 23:7 When he found
him, and said, “You also are one of them!” out that he was in Herod’s jurisdiction, he
But Peter answered, “Man, I am not!” sent him to Herod, who was also in Jerusalem
22:59
After about one hour passed, another during those days.
confidently affirmed, saying, “Truly this man 23:8
Now when Herod saw Yeshua, he was
also was with him, for he is a Galilean!” exceedingly glad, for he had wanted to see
22:60
But Peter said, “Man, I don’t know what him for a long time, because he had heard
you are talking about!” Immediately, while he many things about him. He hoped to see some
was still speaking, a rooster crowed. 22:61 The miracle done by him. 23:9 He questioned him
Lord turned, and looked at Peter. Then Peter with many words, but he gave no answers.
23:10
remembered the Lord’s word, how he said to The chief priests and the scribes stood,
him, “Before the rooster crows you will deny vehemently accusing him. 23:11 Herod with
me three times.” 22:62 He went out, and wept his soldiers humiliated him and mocked him.
bitterly. Dressing him in luxurious clothing, they sent
22:63
The men who held Yeshua mocked him him back to Pilate. 23:12 Herod and Pilate
and beat him. 22:64 Having blindfolded him, became friends with each other that very day,
they struck him on the face and asked him, for before that they were enemies with each
“Prophesy! Who is the one who struck you?” other.
22:65 23:13
They spoke many other things against him, Pilate called together the chief priests
insulting him. and the rulers and the people, 23:14 and said to
22:66
As soon as it was day, the assembly of them, “You brought this man to me as one that
the elders of the people was gathered together, perverts the people, and see, I have examined
both chief priests and scribes, and they led him him before you, and found no basis for a charge
away into their council, saying, 22:67 “If you are against this man concerning those things of
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which you accuse him. 23:15 Neither has Herod, rulers with them also scoffed at him, saying,
for I sent you to him, and see, nothing worthy “He saved others. Let him save himself, if this
of death has been done by him. 23:16 I will is the Messiah of God, his chosen one!”
23:36
therefore chastise him and release him.” The soldiers also mocked him, coming
23:17
Now he had to release one prisoner to to him and offering him vinegar, 23:37 and
them at the feast. 23:18 But they all cried out saying, “If you are the King of the Jews, save
together, saying, “Away with this man! Release yourself!”
to us Barabbas!”—23:19 one who was thrown 23:38
An inscription was also written over
into prison for a certain revolt in the city, and him in letters of Greek, Latin, and Hebrew:
for murder. “THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.”
23:20 23:39
Then Pilate spoke to them again, want- One of the criminals who was hanged
ing to release Yeshua, 23:21 but they shouted, insulted him, saying, “If you are the Messiah,
saying, “Crucify! Crucify him!” save yourself and us!”
23:22 23:40
He said to them the third time, “Why? But the other answered, and rebuking
What evil has this man done? I have found no him said, “Don’t you even fear God, seeing you
capital crime in him. I will therefore chastise are under the same condemnation? 23:41 And
him and release him.” 23:23 But they were we indeed justly, for we receive the due reward
urgent with loud voices, asking that he might for our deeds, but this man has done nothing
be crucified. Their voices and the voices of the wrong.” 23:42 He said to Yeshua, “Lord, remem-
chief priests prevailed. 23:24 Pilate decreed that ber me when you come into your Kingdom.”
what they asked for should be done. 23:25 He 23:43
Yeshua said to him, “Assuredly I tell
released him who had been thrown into prison you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”
23:44
for insurrection and murder, for whom they It was now about the sixth hourh , and
asked, but he delivered Yeshua up to their will. darkness came over the whole land until the
23:26 23:45
When they led him away, they grabbed ninth hour.i The sun was darkened,
one Simon of Cyrene, coming from the coun- and the veil of the temple was torn in two.
try, and laid on him the cross, to carry it 23:46
Yeshua, crying with a loud voice, said,
after Yeshua. 23:27 A great multitude of the “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!”
people followed him, including women who Having said this, he breathed his last.
also mourned and lamented him. 23:28 But 23:47
When the centurion saw what was
Yeshua, turning to them, said, “Daughters of done, he glorified God, saying, “Certainly this
Jerusalem, don’t weep for me, but weep for was a righteous man.” 23:48 All the multitudes
yourselves and for your children. 23:29 For that came together to see this, when they saw
behold, the days are coming in which they the things that were done, returned home beat-
will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, the wombs ing their breasts. 23:49 All his acquaintances,
that never bore, and the breasts that never and the women who followed with him from
nursed.’ 23:30 Then they will begin to tell the Galilee, stood at a distance, watching these
mountains, ‘Fall on us!’ and tell the hills, things.
‘Cover us.’g 23:31 For if they do these things in 23:50
Behold, a man named Joseph, who was
the green tree, what will be done in the dry?” a member of the council, a good and righ-
23:32
There were also others, two criminals, teous man 23:51 (he had not consented to their
led with him to be put to death. 23:33 When they counsel and deed), from Arimathaea, a city
came to the place that is called The Skull, they of the Judeans, who was also waiting for the
crucified him there with the criminals, one on Kingdom of God: 23:52 this man went to Pilate,
the right and the other on the left. and asked for Yeshua’s body. 23:53 He took it
23:34
Yeshua said, “Father, forgive them, for down, and wrapped it in a linen cloth, and laid
they don’t know what they are doing.” him in a tomb that was cut in stone, where no
Dividing his garments among them, they one had ever been laid. 23:54 It was the day of
cast lots. 23:35 The people stood watching. The the Preparation, and the Sabbath was drawing
g 23:30 Hosea 10:8
h 23:44 Time was counted from sunrise, so the sixth hour was about noon.
i 23:44 3:00 PM
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near. 23:55 The women, who had come with Yeshua, the Nazarene, who was a prophet
him out of Galilee, followed after, and saw the mighty in deed and word before God and all
tomb, and how his body was laid. 23:56 They the people; 24:20 and how the chief priests and
returned, and prepared spices and ointments. our rulers delivered him up to be condemned
On the Sabbath they rested according to the to death, and crucified him. 24:21 But we were
commandment. hoping that it was he who would redeem Israel.
24:1
But on the first day of the week, at early Yes, and besides all this, it is now the third day
dawn, they and some others came to the tomb, since these things happened. 24:22 Also, certain
bringing the spices which they had prepared. women of our company amazed us, having
24:2
They found the stone rolled away from the arrived early at the tomb; 24:23 and when they
tomb. 24:3 They entered in, and didn’t find the didn’t find his body, they came saying that they
Lord Yeshua’s body. 24:4 It happened, while had also seen a vision of angels, who said that
they were greatly perplexed about this, behold, he was alive. 24:24 Some of us went to the tomb,
two men stood by them in dazzling clothing. and found it just like the women had said, but
24:5
Becoming terrified, they bowed their faces they didn’t see him.”
24:25
down to the earth. He said to them, “Foolish men, and
They said to them, “Why do you seek the slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets
living among the dead? 24:6 He isn’t here, but have spoken! 24:26 Didn’t the Messiah have
is risen. Remember what he told you when he to suffer these things and to enter into his
was still in Galilee, 24:7 saying that the Son of glory?” 24:27 Beginning from Moses and from
Man must be delivered up into the hands of all the prophets, he explained to them in all
sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day the Scriptures the things concerning himself.
24:28
rise again?” They drew near to the village, where they
24:8
They remembered his words, were going, and he acted like he would go
24:9
returned from the tomb, and told all further.
24:29
these things to the Eleven, and to all the They urged him, saying, “Stay with us,
rest. 24:10 Now they were Miriam Magdalene, for it is almost evening, and the day is almost
Yochanah, and Miriam the mother of Jacob. over.”
The other women with them told these things He went in to stay with them. 24:30 It
to the emissaries. 24:11 These words seemed happened, that when he had sat down at the
to them to be nonsense, and they didn’t believe table with them, he took the bread and gave
them. 24:12 But Peter got up and ran to the tomb. thanks. Breaking it, he gave to them. 24:31 Their
Stooping and looking in, he saw the strips of eyes were opened, and they recognized him,
linen lying by themselves, and he departed to and he vanished out of their sight. 24:32 They
his home, wondering what had happened. said one to another, “Weren’t our hearts burn-
24:13
Behold, two of them were going that ing within us, while he spoke to us along
very day to a village named Emmaus, which the way, and while he opened the Scriptures
was sixty stadiaj from Jerusalem. 24:14 They to us?” 24:33 They rose up that very hour,
talked with each other about all of these returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven
things which had happened. 24:15 It happened, gathered together, and those who were with
while they talked and questioned together, that them, 24:34 saying, “The Lord is risen indeed,
Yeshua himself came near, and went with them. and has appeared to Simon!” 24:35 They related
24:16
But their eyes were kept from recognizing the things that happened along the way, and
him. 24:17 He said to them, “What are you how he was recognized by them in the breaking
talking about as you walk, and are sad?” of the bread.
24:18 24:36
One of them, named Klofah, answered As they said these things, Yeshua him-
him, “Are you the only stranger in Jerusalem self stood among them, and said to them,
who doesn’t know the things which have hap- “Peace be to you.”
24:37
pened there in these days?” But they were terrified and filled with
24:19
He said to them, “What things?” fear, and supposed that they had seen a spirit.
24:38
They said to him, “The things concerning He said to them, “Why are you trou-
j 24:13 60 stadia = about 11 kilometers or about 7 miles.
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bled? Why do doubts arise in your hearts?


24:39
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.”
24:40
When he had said this, he showed them his
hands and his feet. 24:41 While they still didn’t
believe for joy, and wondered, he said to them,
“Do you have anything here to eat?”
24:42
They gave him a piece of a broiled fish
and some honeycomb. 24:43 He took them, and
ate in front of them. 24:44 He said to them,
“This is what I told you, while I was still with
you, that all things which are written in the
Torah of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms,
concerning me must be fulfilled.”
24:45
Then he opened their minds, that they
might understand the Scriptures. 24:46 He said
to them, “Thus it is written, and thus it was
necessary for the Messiah to suffer and to
rise from the dead the third day, 24:47 and that
repentance and remission of sins should be
preached in his name to all the nations, be-
ginning at Jerusalem. 24:48 You are witnesses
of these things. 24:49 Behold, I send forth the
promise of my Father on you. But wait in the
city of Jerusalem until you are clothed with
power from on high.”
24:50
He led them out as far as Bethany,
and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them.
24:51
It happened, while he blessed them, that
he withdrew from them, and was carried up
into heaven. 24:52 They worshiped him, and
returned to Jerusalem with great joy, 24:53 and
were continually in the temple, praising and
blessing God. Amen.
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The Good News He said, “I am not.”


According to “Are you the prophet?”
He answered, “No.”
Yochanan 1:22
They said therefore to him, “Who are
you? Give us an answer to take back to those
1:1 who sent us. What do you say about yourself?”
In the beginning was the Word, and the
1:23
Word was with God, and the Word was God. He said, “I am the voice of one crying in
1:2
The same was in the beginning with God. the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the
1:3
All things were made through him. Without Lord,’c as Isaiah the prophet said.”
1:24
him was not anything made that has been The ones who had been sent were from
made. 1:4 In him was life, and the life was the Pharisees. 1:25 They asked him, “Why then
the light of men. 1:5 The light shines in the do you immerse, if you are not the Messiah, nor
darkness, and the darkness hasn’t overcomea Elijah, nor the prophet?”
it. 1:6 There came a man, sent from God, whose 1:26
Yochanan answered them, “I immerse in
name was Yochanan. 1:7 The same came as a water, but among you stands one whom you
witness, that he might testify about the light, don’t know. 1:27 He is the one who comes after
that all might believe through him. 1:8 He was me, who is preferred before me, whose sandal
not the light, but was sent that he might testify strap I’m not worthy to loosen.” 1:28 These
about the light. 1:9 The true light that enlightens things were done in Bethany beyond the Jor-
everyone was coming into the world. dan, where Yochanan was immersing.
1:10 1:29
He was in the world, and the world The next day, he saw Yeshua coming to
was made through him, and the world didn’t him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who
recognize him. 1:11 He came to his own, and takes away the sin of the world! 1:30 This is he
those who were his own didn’t receive him. of whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who
1:12
But as many as received him, to them he is preferred before me, for he was before me.’
1:31
gave the right to become God’s children, to I didn’t know him, but for this reason I came
those who believe in his name: 1:13 who were immersing in water: that he would be revealed
born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, to Israel.” 1:32 Yochanan testified, saying, “I
nor of the will of man, but of God. 1:14 The Word have seen the Spirit descending like a dove out
became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his of heaven, and it remained on him. 1:33 I didn’t
glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of recognize him, but he who sent me to immerse
the Father, full of grace and truth. 1:15 Yochanan in water, he said to me, ‘On whomever you
testified about him. He cried out, saying, “This will see the Spirit descending, and remaining
was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after on him, the same is he who immerses in the
me has surpassed me, for he was before me.’” Holy Spirit.’ 1:34 I have seen, and have testified
1:16
From his fullness we all received grace upon that this is the Son of God.”
grace. 1:17 For the Torah was given through 1:35
Again, the next day, Yochanan was
Moses. Grace and truth were realized through standing with two of his disciples, 1:36 and he
Yeshua the Messiah. 1:18 No one has seen God looked at Yeshua as he walked, and said, “Be-
at any time. The one and only Son,b who is in hold, the Lamb of God!” 1:37 The two disciples
the bosom of the Father, he has declared him. heard him speak, and they followed Yeshua.
1:19 1:38
This is Yochanan’s testimony, when Yeshua turned, and saw them following,
the Judeans sent priests and Levites from and said to them, “What are you looking for?”
Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?” They said to him, “Rabbi” (which is to say,
1:20
He declared, and didn’t deny, but he being interpreted, Teacher), “where are you
declared, “I am not the Messiah.” staying?”
1:21 1:39
They asked him, “What then? Are you He said to them, “Come, and see.”
Elijah?” They came and saw where he was staying,
a 1:5 The word translated “overcome” (katelaben) can also be translated “comprehended.” It refers to

getting a grip on an enemy to defeat him.


b 1:18 NU reads “God”
c 1:23 Isaiah 40:3
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and they stayed with him that day. It was has not yet come.”
about the tenth hour.d 1:40 One of the two 2:5
His mother said to the servants, “What-
who heard Yochanan, and followed him, was ever he says to you, do it.” 2:6 Now there
Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother. 1:41 He first were six water pots of stone set there after the
found his own brother, Simon, and said to Jews’ way of purifying, containing two or three
him, “We have found the Messiah!” (which metretesg apiece. 2:7 Yeshua said to them, “Fill
is, being interpreted, Anointed Onee ). 1:42 He the water pots with water.” They filled them
brought him to Yeshua. Yeshua looked at up to the brim. 2:8 He said to them, “Now
him, and said, “You are Simon the son of draw some out, and take it to the ruler of the
Jonah. You shall be called Kefaf ” (which is feast.” So they took it. 2:9 When the ruler of
by interpretation, Peter). 1:43 On the next day, the feast tasted the water now become wine,
he was determined to go out into Galilee, and and didn’t know where it came from (but the
he found Philip. Yeshua said to him, “Follow servants who had drawn the water knew), the
me.” 1:44 Now Philip was from Bethsaida, of ruler of the feast called the bridegroom, 2:10 and
the city of Andrew and Peter. 1:45 Philip found said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine
Nathanael, and said to him, “We have found first, and when the guests have drunk freely,
him, of whom Moses in the Torah, and the then that which is worse. You have kept the
Prophets, wrote: Yeshua of Nazareth, the son good wine until now!” 2:11 This beginning of
of Joseph.” his signs Yeshua did in Cana of Galilee, and
1:46
Nathanael said to him, “Can any good revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in
thing come out of Nazareth?” him.
Philip said to him, “Come and see.” 2:12
After this, he went down to Capernaum,
1:47
Yeshua saw Nathanael coming to him, he, and his mother, his brothers, and his disci-
and said about him, “Behold, an Israelite ples; and they stayed there a few days. 2:13 The
indeed, in whom is no deceit!” Passover in Judea was at hand, and Yeshua
1:48
Nathanael said to him, “How do you went up to Jerusalem. 2:14 He found in the
know me?” temple those who sold oxen, sheep, and doves,
Yeshua answered him, “Before Philip called and the changers of money sitting. 2:15 He made
you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw a whip of cords, and threw all out of the temple,
you.” both the sheep and the oxen; and he poured
1:49 out the changers’ money, and overthrew their
Nathanael answered him, “Rabbi, you
are the Son of God! You are King of Israel!” tables. 2:16 To those who sold the doves, he said,
1:50 “Take these things out of here! Don’t make
Yeshua answered him, “Because I told
you, ‘I saw you underneath the fig tree,’ do my Father’s house a marketplace!” 2:17 His
you believe? You will see greater things than disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal
these!” 1:51 He said to him, “Most certainly, for your house will eat me up.”h
2:18
I tell you, hereafter you will see heaven The Judeans therefore answered him,
opened, and the angels of God ascending and “What sign do you show us, seeing that you do
descending on the Son of Man.” these things?”
2:1 2:19
The third day, there was a marriage in Yeshua answered them, “Destroy this
Cana of Galilee. Yeshua’s mother was there. temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”
2:2 2:20
Yeshua also was invited, with his disciples, The Judeans therefore said, “It took
to the marriage. 2:3 When the wine ran out, forty-six years to build this temple! Will you
Yeshua’s mother said to him, “They have no raise it up in three days?” 2:21 But he spoke of
wine.” the temple of his body. 2:22 When therefore he
2:4
Yeshua said to her, “Woman, what does was raised from the dead, his disciples remem-
that have to do with you and me? My hour bered that he said this, and they believed the
d 1:39 4:00 PM.
e 1:41 “Messiah” (Hebrew) and “Christ” (Greek) both mean “Anointed One”.
f 1:42 Greek: Cephas
g 2:6 2 to 3 metretes is about 20 to 30 U. S. Gallons, or 75 to 115 litres.
h 2:17 Psalm 69:9
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Scripture, and the word which Yeshua had said. life. 3:17 For God didn’t send his Son into the
2:23
Now when he was in Jerusalem at the world to judge the world, but that the world
Passover, during the feast, many believed in his should be saved through him. 3:18 He who
name, observing his signs which he did. 2:24 But believes in him is not judged. He who doesn’t
Yeshua didn’t trust himself to them, because he believe has been judged already, because he
knew everyone, 2:25 and because he didn’t need has not believed in the name of the one and
for anyone to testify concerning man; for he only Son of God. 3:19 This is the judgment,
himself knew what was in man. that the light has come into the world, and
3:1 men loved the darkness rather than the light;
Now there was a man of the Pharisees
named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Judeans. for their works were evil. 3:20 For everyone
3:2 who does evil hates the light, and doesn’t
The same came to him by night, and said to
him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come to the light, lest his works would be
come from God, for no one can do these signs exposed. 3:21 But he who does the truth comes
that you do, unless God is with him.” to the light, that his works may be revealed,
3:3 that they have been done in God.”
Yeshua answered him, “Most certainly, I
3:22
tell you, unless one is born anew,i he can’t see After these things, Yeshua came with his
the Kingdom of God.” disciples into the land of Judea. He stayed there
3:4
Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man with them, and immersed. 3:23 Yochanan also
be born when he is old? Can he enter a second was immersing in Enon near Salim, because
time into his mother’s womb, and be born?” there was much water there. They came, and
3:5
Yeshua answered, “Most certainly I tell were immersed. 3:24 For Yochanan was not yet
you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he thrown into prison. 3:25 There arose therefore a
can’t enter into the Kingdom of God! 3:6 That questioning on the part of Yochanan’s disciples
which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which with some Judeans about purification. 3:26 They
is born of the Spirit is spirit. 3:7 Don’t marvel came to Yochanan, and said to him, “Rabbi, he
that I said to you, ‘You must be born anew.’ who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom
3:8
The windj blows where it wants to, and you you have testified, behold, the same immerses,
hear its sound, but don’t know where it comes and everyone is coming to him.”
from and where it is going. So is everyone 3:27
Yochanan answered, “A man can receive
who is born of the Spirit.” nothing, unless it has been given him from
3:9
Nicodemus answered him, “How can heaven. 3:28 You yourselves testify that I said,
these things be?” ‘I am not the Messiah,’ but, ‘I have been sent
3:10
Yeshua answered him, “Are you the before him.’ 3:29 He who has the bride is the
teacher of Israel, and don’t understand these bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom,
things? 3:11 Most certainly I tell you, we who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly
speak that which we know, and testify of that because of the bridegroom’s voice. This, my
which we have seen, and you don’t receive joy, therefore is made full. 3:30 He must increase,
our witness. 3:12 If I told you earthly things but I must decrease. 3:31 He who comes from
and you don’t believe, how will you believe above is above all. He who is from the
if I tell you heavenly things? 3:13 No one has earth belongs to the earth, and speaks of the
ascended into heaven, but he who descended earth. He who comes from heaven is above
out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in all. 3:32 What he has seen and heard, of that he
heaven. 3:14 As Moses lifted up the serpent testifies; and no one receives his witness. 3:33 He
in the wilderness, even so must the Son of who has received his witness has set his seal to
Man be lifted up, 3:15 that whoever believes in this, that God is true. 3:34 For he whom God has
him should not perish, but have eternal life. sent speaks the words of God; for God gives the
3:16
For God so loved the world, that he gave Spirit without measure. 3:35 The Father loves
his one and only Son, that whoever believes the Son, and has given all things into his hand.
3:36
in him should not perish, but have eternal One who believes in the Son has eternal life,
i 3:3 The word translated “anew” here and in Yochanan 3:7 (anothen) also means “again” and “from

above”.
j 3:8 The same Greek word (pneuma) means wind, breath, and spirit.
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but one who disobeysk the Son won’t see life, shiped in this mountain, and you say that in
but the wrath of God remains on him.” Jerusalem is the place where people ought to
4:1
Therefore when the Lord knew that the worship.”
4:21
Pharisees had heard that Yeshua was making Yeshua said to her, “Woman, believe
and immersing more disciples than Yochanan me, the hour comes, when neither in this
4:2
(although Yeshua himself didn’t immerse, mountain, nor in Jerusalem, will you worship
but his disciples), 4:3 he left Judea, and departed the Father. 4:22 You worship that which you
into Galilee. 4:4 He needed to pass through don’t know. We worship that which we know;
Samaria. 4:5 So he came to a city of Samaria, for salvation is from the Jews. 4:23 But the hour
called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that comes, and now is, when the true worshippers
Jacob gave to his son, Joseph. 4:6 Jacob’s well will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for
was there. Yeshua therefore, being tired from the Father seeks such to be his worshippers.
4:24
his journey, sat down by the well. It was about God is spirit, and those who worship him
the sixth hourl . 4:7 A woman of Samaria came must worship in spirit and truth.”
4:25
to draw water. Yeshua said to her, “Give me a The woman said to him, “I know that
drink.” 4:8 For his disciples had gone away into Messiah comes,” (he who is called Anointed
the city to buy food. One). “When he has come, he will declare to
4:9
The Samaritan woman therefore said to us all things.”
4:26
him, “How is it that you, being a Jew, ask for Yeshua said to her, “I am he, the one who
a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” (For speaks to you.” 4:27 At this, his disciples came.
Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.) They marveled that he was speaking with a
4:10
Yeshua answered her, “If you knew the woman; yet no one said, “What are you looking
gift of God, and who it is who says to you, for?” or, “Why do you speak with her?” 4:28 So
‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, the woman left her water pot, and went away
and he would have given you living water.” into the city, and said to the people, 4:29 “Come,
4:11
The woman said to him, “Sir, you have see a man who told me everything that I did.
nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Can this be the Messiah?”
4:30
From where then have you that living water? They went out of the city, and were
4:12
Are you greater than our father, Jacob, who coming to him. 4:31 In the meanwhile, the
gave us the well, and drank of it himself, as did disciples urged him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.”
4:32
his children, and his livestock?” But he said to them, “I have food to eat
4:13
Yeshua answered her, “Everyone who that you don’t know about.”
drinks of this water will thirst again, 4:14 but 4:33
The disciples therefore said one to an-
whoever drinks of the water that I will give other, “Has anyone brought him something to
him will never thirst again; but the water that eat?”
I will give him will become in him a well of 4:34
Yeshua said to them, “My food is to do
water springing up to eternal life.” the will of him who sent me, and to accom-
4:15
The woman said to him, “Sir, give me plish his work. 4:35 Don’t you say, ‘There are
this water, so that I don’t get thirsty, neither yet four months until the harvest?’ Behold,
come all the way here to draw.” I tell you, lift up your eyes, and look at the
4:16
Yeshua said to her, “Go, call your hus- fields, that they are white for harvest already.
4:36
band, and come here.” He who reaps receives wages, and gathers
4:17
The woman answered, “I have no hus- fruit to eternal life; that both he who sows and
band.” he who reaps may rejoice together. 4:37 For in
Yeshua said to her, “You said well, ‘I have this the saying is true, ‘One sows, and another
no husband,’ 4:18 for you have had five hus- reaps.’ 4:38 I sent you to reap that for which
bands; and he whom you now have is not your you haven’t labored. Others have labored,
husband. This you have said truly.” and you have entered into their labor.”
4:19 4:39
The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive From that city many of the Samaritans
that you are a prophet. 4:20 Our fathers wor- believed in him because of the word of the
k 3:36 The same word can be translated “disobeys” or “disbelieves” in this context.
l 4:6 noon
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woman, who testified, “He told me everything Whoever stepped in first after the stirring of the
that I did.” 4:40 So when the Samaritans came water was made whole of whatever disease he
to him, they begged him to stay with them. had. 5:5 A certain man was there, who had been
He stayed there two days. 4:41 Many more sick for thirty-eight years. 5:6 When Yeshua saw
believed because of his word. 4:42 They said to him lying there, and knew that he had been sick
the woman, “Now we believe, not because of for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to
your speaking; for we have heard for ourselves, be made well?”
5:7
and know that this is indeed the Messiah, the The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have
Savior of the world.” no one to put me into the pool when the water
4:43 is stirred up, but while I’m coming, another
After the two days he went out from
there and went into Galilee. 4:44 For Yeshua steps down before me.”
5:8
himself testified that a prophet has no honor Yeshua said to him, “Arise, take up your
in his own country. 4:45 So when he came mat, and walk.”
5:9
into Galilee, the Galileans received him, having Immediately, the man was made well, and
seen all the things that he did in Jerusalem took up his mat and walked.
at the feast, for they also went to the feast. Now it was the Sabbath on that day. 5:10 So
4:46
Yeshua came therefore again to Cana of the Judeans said to him who was cured, “It is
Galilee, where he made the water into wine. the Sabbath. It is not lawful for you to carry the
There was a certain nobleman whose son was mat.”
sick at Capernaum. 4:47 When he heard that 5:11
He answered them, “He who made me
Yeshua had come out of Judea into Galilee, he well, the same said to me, ‘Take up your mat,
went to him, and begged him that he would and walk.’”
come down and heal his son, for he was at the 5:12
Then they asked him, “Who is the man
point of death. 4:48 Yeshua therefore said to him, who said to you, ‘Take up your mat, and
“Unless you see signs and wonders, you will walk’?”
in no way believe.” 5:13
But he who was healed didn’t know who
4:49
The nobleman said to him, “Sir, come it was, for Yeshua had withdrawn, a crowd
down before my child dies.” 4:50 Yeshua said being in the place.
to him, “Go your way. Your son lives.” The 5:14
Afterward Yeshua found him in the tem-
man believed the word that Yeshua spoke to ple, and said to him, “Behold, you are made
him, and he went his way. 4:51 As he was well. Sin no more, so that nothing worse
now going down, his servants met him and happens to you.”
reported, saying “Your child lives!” 4:52 So he 5:15
The man went away, and told the
inquired of them the hour when he began to get Judeans that it was Yeshua who had made him
better. They said therefore to him, “Yesterday at well. 5:16 For this cause the Judeans persecuted
the seventh hour,m the fever left him.” 4:53 So Yeshua, and sought to kill him, because he did
the father knew that it was at that hour in these things on the Sabbath. 5:17 But Yeshua
which Yeshua said to him, “Your son lives.” answered them, “My Father is still working,
He believed, as did his whole house. 4:54 This is so I am working, too.” 5:18 For this cause
again the second sign that Yeshua did, having therefore the Judeans sought all the more to kill
come out of Judea into Galilee. him, because he not only broke the Sabbath, but
5:1
After these things, there was a Jewish also called God his own Father, making himself
festival, and Yeshua went up to Jerusalem. equal with God. 5:19 Yeshua therefore answered
5:2
Now in Jerusalem by the sheep gate, there is them, “Most certainly, I tell you, the Son can
a pool, which is called in Hebrew, “Bethesda,n ” do nothing of himself, but what he sees the
having five porches. 5:3 In these lay a great Father doing. For whatever things he does,
multitude of those who were sick, blind, lame, these the Son also does likewise. 5:20 For the
or paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the Father has affection for the Son, and shows
water; 5:4 for an angel went down at certain him all things that he himself does. He will
times into the pool, and stirred up the water. show him greater works than these, that you
m 4:52 1:00 P. M.
n 5:2 Old Syriac reads “Beth Hesda”
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may marvel. 5:21 For as the Father raises the men. 5:42 But I know you, that you don’t have
dead and gives them life, even so the Son God’s love in yourselves. 5:43 I have come in
also gives life to whom he desires. 5:22 For my Father’s name, and you don’t receive me.
the Father judges no one, but he has given all If another comes in his own name, you will
judgment to the Son, 5:23 that all may honor receive him. 5:44 How can you believe, who
the Son, even as they honor the Father. He receive glory from one another, and you don’t
who doesn’t honor the Son doesn’t honor the seek the glory that comes from the only God?
Father who sent him. 5:45
“Don’t think that I will accuse you to
5:24 the Father. There is one who accuses you,
“Most certainly I tell you, he who hears
my word, and believes him who sent me, has even Moses, on whom you have set your hope.
5:46
eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, For if you believed Moses, you would
but has passed out of death into life. 5:25 Most believe me; for he wrote about me. 5:47 But if
certainly, I tell you, the hour comes, and now you don’t believe his writings, how will you
is, when the dead will hear the Son of God’s believe my words?”
voice; and those who hear will live. 5:26 For as 6:1
After these things, Yeshua went away to
the Father has life in himself, even so he gave the other side of the sea of Galilee, which is also
to the Son also to have life in himself. 5:27 He called the Sea of Tiberias. 6:2 A great multitude
also gave him authority to execute judgment, followed him, because they saw his signs which
because he is a son of man. 5:28 Don’t marvel at he did on those who were sick. 6:3 Yeshua went
this, for the hour comes, in which all that are up into the mountain, and he sat there with
in the tombs will hear his voice, 5:29 and will his disciples. 6:4 Now the Passover, the Jewish
come out; those who have done good, to the festival, was at hand. 6:5 Yeshua therefore lifting
resurrection of life; and those who have done up his eyes, and seeing that a great multitude
evil, to the resurrection of judgment. 5:30 I was coming to him, said to Philip, “Where are
can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, we to buy bread, that these may eat?” 6:6 This
and my judgment is righteous; because I don’t he said to test him, for he himself knew what
seek my own will, but the will of my Father he would do.
who sent me. 6:7
Philip answered him, “Two hundred
5:31
“If I testify about myself, my witness denarii worth of bread is not sufficient for
is not valid. 5:32 It is another who testifies them, that everyone of them may receive a
about me. I know that the testimony which little.”
he testifies about me is true. 5:33 You have sent 6:8
One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Pe-
to Yochanan, and he has testified to the truth. ter’s brother, said to him, 6:9 “There is a boy
5:34
But the testimony which I receive is not here who has five barley loaves and two fish,
from man. However, I say these things that but what are these among so many?”
you may be saved. 5:35 He was the burning 6:10
Yeshua said, “Have the people sit
and shining lamp, and you were willing to down.” Now there was much grass in that
rejoice for a while in his light. 5:36 But the place. So the men sat down, in number about
testimony which I have is greater than that five thousand. 6:11 Yeshua took the loaves;
of Yochanan, for the works which the Father and having given thanks, he distributed to the
gave me to accomplish, the very works that I disciples, and the disciples to those who were
do, testify about me, that the Father has sent sitting down; likewise also of the fish as much
me. 5:37 The Father himself, who sent me, has as they desired. 6:12 When they were filled, he
testified about me. You have neither heard his said to his disciples, “Gather up the broken
voice at any time, nor seen his form. 5:38 You pieces which are left over, that nothing be
don’t have his word living in you; because lost.” 6:13 So they gathered them up, and filled
you don’t believe him whom he sent. twelve baskets with broken pieces from the five
5:39
“You search the Scriptures, because you barley loaves, which were left over by those
think that in them you have eternal life; who had eaten. 6:14 When therefore the people
and these are they which testify about me. saw the sign which Yeshua did, they said, “This
5:40
Yet you will not come to me, that you is truly the Prophet who comes into the world.”
may have life. 5:41 I don’t receive glory from 6:15
Yeshua therefore, perceiving that they were
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about to come and take him by force, to make fathers ate the manna in the wilderness. As it is
him king, withdrew again to the mountain by written, ‘He gave them bread out of heavenr to
himself. eat.’”s
6:16 6:32
When evening came, his disciples went Yeshua therefore said to them, “Most
down to the sea, 6:17 and they entered into the certainly, I tell you, it wasn’t Moses who gave
boat, and were going over the sea to Caper- you the bread out of heaven, but my Father
naum. It was now dark, and Yeshua had not gives you the true bread out of heaven. 6:33 For
come to them. 6:18 The sea was tossed by a great the bread of God is that which comes down
wind blowing. 6:19 When therefore they had out of heaven, and gives life to the world.”
rowed about twenty-five or thirty stadia,o they 6:34
They said therefore to him, “Lord, al-
saw Yeshua walking on the sea,p and drawing ways give us this bread.”
near to the boat; and they were afraid. 6:20 But 6:35
Yeshua said to them, “I am the bread
he said to them, “It is Iq . Don’t be afraid.” of life. He who comes to me will not be
6:21
They were willing therefore to receive him hungry, and he who believes in me will never
into the boat. Immediately the boat was at the be thirsty. 6:36 But I told you that you have
land where they were going. seen me, and yet you don’t believe. 6:37 All
6:22
On the next day, the multitude that stood those whom the Father gives me will come to
on the other side of the sea saw that there me. He who comes to me I will in no way
was no other boat there, except the one in throw out. 6:38 For I have come down from
which his disciples had embarked, and that heaven, not to do my own will, but the will
Yeshua hadn’t entered with his disciples into of him who sent me. 6:39 This is the will of my
the boat, but his disciples had gone away alone. Father who sent me, that of all he has given
6:23
However boats from Tiberias came near to to me I should lose nothing, but should raise
the place where they ate the bread after the him up at the last day. 6:40 This is the will
Lord had given thanks. 6:24 When the multi- of the one who sent me, that everyone who
tude therefore saw that Yeshua wasn’t there, sees the Son, and believes in him, should have
nor his disciples, they themselves got into eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last
the boats, and came to Capernaum, seeking day.”
Yeshua. 6:25 When they found him on the other 6:41
The Judeans therefore murmured con-
side of the sea, they asked him, “Rabbi, when
cerning him, because he said, “I am the bread
did you come here?”
6:26
which came down out of heaven.” 6:42 They
Yeshua answered them, “Most certainly said, “Isn’t this Yeshua, the son of Joseph,
I tell you, you seek me, not because you saw whose father and mother we know? How
signs, but because you ate of the loaves, and then does he say, ‘I have come down out of
were filled. 6:27 Don’t work for the food which heaven?’”
perishes, but for the food which remains to 6:43
Therefore Yeshua answered them,
eternal life, which the Son of Man will give
“Don’t murmur among yourselves. 6:44 No
to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”
6:28
one can come to me unless the Father who
They said therefore to him, “What must sent me draws him, and I will raise him up in
we do, that we may work the works of God?” the last day. 6:45 It is written in the Prophets,
6:29
Yeshua answered them, “This is the ‘They will all be taught by God.’t Therefore
work of God, that you believe in him whom everyone who hears from the Father, and has
he has sent.” learned, comes to me. 6:46 Not that anyone has
6:30
They said therefore to him, “What then seen the Father, except he who is from God.
do you do for a sign, that we may see, and He has seen the Father. 6:47 Most certainly, I
believe you? What work do you do? 6:31 Our tell you, he who believes in me has eternal
o 6:19 25 to 30 stadia is about 5 to 6 kilometers or about 3 to 4 miles
p 6:19 see Job 9:8
q 6:20 or, I AM
r 6:31 Greek and Hebrew use the same word for “heaven”, “the heavens”, “the sky”, and “the air”.
s 6:31 Exodus 16:4; Nehemiah 9:15; Psalm 78:24-25
t 6:45 Isaiah 54:13
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life. 6:48 I am the bread of life. 6:49 Your fathers eternal life. 6:69 We have come to believe and
ate the manna in the wilderness, and they know that you are the Messiah, the Son of the
died. 6:50 This is the bread which comes down living God.”
out of heaven, that anyone may eat of it and 6:70
Yeshua answered them, “Didn’t I choose
not die. 6:51 I am the living bread which came you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?”
down out of heaven. If anyone eats of this 6:71
Now he spoke of Judah, the son of Simon
bread, he will live forever. Yes, the bread Iscariot, for it was he who would betray him,
which I will give for the life of the world is being one of the twelve.
my flesh.” 7:1
After these things, Yeshua was walking in
6:52
The Judeans therefore contended with Galilee, for he wouldn’t walk in Judea, because
one another, saying, “How can this man give the Judeans sought to kill him. 7:2 Now the
us his flesh to eat?” Jewish festival, the Feast of Sukkot, was at
6:53
Yeshua therefore said to them, “Most hand. 7:3 His brothers therefore said to him,
certainly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh “Depart from here, and go into Judea, that
of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you your disciples also may see your works which
don’t have life in yourselves. 6:54 He who eats you do. 7:4 For no one does anything in secret,
my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal and himself seeks to be known openly. If you
life, and I will raise him up at the last day. do these things, reveal yourself to the world.”
6:55 7:5
For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood For even his brothers didn’t believe in him.
is drink indeed. 6:56 He who eats my flesh and 7:6
Yeshua therefore said to them, “My time
drinks my blood lives in me, and I in him. has not yet come, but your time is always
6:57
As the living Father sent me, and I live ready. 7:7 The world can’t hate you, but it hates
because of the Father; so he who feeds on me, me, because I testify about it, that its works
he will also live because of me. 6:58 This is the are evil. 7:8 You go up to the feast. I am not yet
bread which came down out of heaven—not going up to this feast, because my time is not
as our fathers ate the manna, and died. He yet fulfilled.”
who eats this bread will live forever.” 6:59 He 7:9
Having said these things to them, he
said these things in the synagogue, as he taught stayed in Galilee. 7:10 But when his brothers
in Capernaum. had gone up to the feast, then he also went up,
6:60
Therefore many of his disciples, when not publicly, but as it were in secret. 7:11 The
they heard this, said, “This is a hard saying! Judeans therefore sought him at the feast, and
Who can listen to it?” said, “Where is he?” 7:12 There was much
6:61
But Yeshua knowing in himself that his murmuring among the multitudes concerning
disciples murmured at this, said to them, him. Some said, “He is a good man.” Others
“Does this cause you to stumble? 6:62 Then said, “Not so, but he leads the multitude
what if you would see the Son of Man ascend- astray.” 7:13 Yet no one spoke openly of him for
ing to where he was before? 6:63 It is the spirit fear of the Judeans. 7:14 But when it was now
who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The the midst of the feast, Yeshua went up into the
words that I speak to you are spirit, and are temple and taught. 7:15 The Judeans therefore
life. 6:64 But there are some of you who don’t marveled, saying, “How does this man know
believe.” For Yeshua knew from the beginning letters, having never been educated?”
who they were who didn’t believe, and who it 7:16
Yeshua therefore answered them, “My
was who would betray him. 6:65 He said, “For teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.
this cause have I said to you that no one can 7:17
If anyone desires to do his will, he will
come to me, unless it is given to him by my know about the teaching, whether it is from
Father.” God, or if I am speaking from myself. 7:18 He
6:66
At this, many of his disciples went back, who speaks from himself seeks his own glory,
and walked no more with him. 6:67 Yeshua said but he who seeks the glory of him who sent
therefore to the twelve, “You don’t also want to him is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.
go away, do you?” 7:19
Didn’t Moses give you the Torah, and yet
6:68
Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to none of you keeps the Torah? Why do you
whom would we go? You have the words of seek to kill me?”
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7:20 7:37
The multitude answered, “You have a Now on the last and greatest day of the
demon! Who seeks to kill you?” feastu , Yeshua stood and cried out, “If anyone
7:21 is thirsty, let him come to me and drink!
Yeshua answered them, “I did one work,
7:38
and you all marvel because of it. 7:22 Moses He who believes in me, as the Scripture
has given you circumcision (not that it is of has said, from within him will flow rivers of
Moses, but of the fathers), and on the Sabbath living water.” 7:39 But he said this about the
you circumcise a boy. 7:23 If a boy receives Spirit, which those believing in him were to
circumcision on the Sabbath, that the Torah of receive. For the Holy Spirit was not yet given,
Moses may not be broken, are you angry with because Yeshua wasn’t yet glorified.
7:40
me, because I made a man completely healthy Many of the multitude therefore, when
on the Sabbath? 7:24 Don’t judge according to they heard these words, said, “This is truly
appearance, but judge righteous judgment.” the Prophet.” 7:41 Others said, “This is the
7:25 Messiah.” But some said, “What, does the
Therefore some of them of Jerusalem
said, “Isn’t this he whom they seek to kill? Messiah come out of Galilee? 7:42 Hasn’t the
7:26 Scripture said that the Messiah comes of the
Behold, he speaks openly, and they say
nothing to him. Can it be that the rulers seed of David,v and from Bethlehem,w the
indeed know that this is truly the Messiah? village where David was?” 7:43 So there arose
7:27 a division in the multitude because of him.
However we know where this man comes
7:44
from, but when the Messiah comes, no one will Some of them would have arrested him, but
know where he comes from.” no one laid hands on him. 7:45 The officers
7:28 therefore came to the chief priests and Phar-
Yeshua therefore cried out in the temple,
teaching and saying, “You both know me, and isees, and they said to them, “Why didn’t you
know where I am from. I have not come of bring him?”
7:46
myself, but he who sent me is true, whom The officers answered, “No man ever
you don’t know. 7:29 I know him, because I am spoke like this man!”
7:47
from him, and he sent me.” The Pharisees therefore answered them,
7:30
They sought therefore to take him; but “You aren’t also led astray, are you? 7:48 Have
no one laid a hand on him, because his hour any of the rulers believed in him, or of the
had not yet come. 7:31 But of the multitude, Pharisees? 7:49 But this multitude that doesn’t
many believed in him. They said, “When know the Torah is accursed.”
7:50
the Messiah comes, he won’t do more signs Nicodemus (he who came to him by
than those which this man has done, will night, being one of them) said to them,
he?” 7:32 The Pharisees heard the multitude 7:51
“Does our Torah judge a man, unless it first
murmuring these things concerning him, and hears from him personally and knows what he
the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers does?”
to arrest him. 7:52
They answered him, “Are you also from
7:33
Then Yeshua said, “I will be with you a Galilee? Search, and see that no prophet has
little while longer, then I go to him who sent arisen out of Galilee.x ”
me. 7:34 You will seek me, and won’t find me; 7:53
Everyone went to his own house, 8:1 but
and where I am, you can’t come.” Yeshua went to the Mount of Olives. 8:2 Now
7:35
The Judeans therefore said among them- very early in the morning, he came again into
selves, “Where will this man go that we won’t the temple, and all the people came to him.
find him? Will he go to the Diaspora among He sat down, and taught them. 8:3 The scribes
the Greeks, and teach the Greeks? 7:36 What and the Pharisees brought a woman taken in
is this word that he said, ‘You will seek me, adultery. Having set her in the midst, 8:4 they
and won’t find me; and where I am, you can’t told him, “Rabbi, we found this woman in
come’?” adultery, in the very act. 8:5 Now in our Torah,
u 7:37 Known today as Hoshana Rabbah.
v 7:42 2 Samuel 7:12
w 7:42 Micah 5:2
x 7:52 See Isaiah 9:1 and Matthew 4:13-16.
y 8:5 Leviticus 20:10; Deuteronomy 22:22
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Moses commanded us to stone such.y What therefore again to them, “I am going away, and
then do you say about her?” 8:6 They said this you will seek me, and you will die in your
testing him, that they might have something to sins. Where I go, you can’t come.”
8:22
accuse him of. The Judeans therefore said, “Will he kill
But Yeshua stooped down, and wrote on himself, that he says, ‘Where I am going, you
the ground with his finger. 8:7 But when they can’t come?’”
8:23
continued asking him, he looked up and said He said to them, “You are from beneath.
to them, “He who is without sin among you, I am from above. You are of this world. I
let him throw the first stone at her.” 8:8 Again am not of this world. 8:24 I said therefore to
he stooped down, and with his finger wrote on you that you will die in your sins; for unless
the ground. you believe that I amb he, you will die in your
8:9
They, when they heard it, being convicted sins.”
by their conscience, went out one by one, 8:25
They said therefore to him, “Who are
beginning from the oldest, even to the last. you?”
Yeshua was left alone with the woman where Yeshua said to them, “Just what I have been
she was, in the middle. 8:10 Yeshua, standing saying to you from the beginning. 8:26 I have
up, saw her and said, “Woman, where are your many things to speak and to judge concerning
accusers? Did no one condemn you?” you. However he who sent me is true; and the
8:11
She said, “No one, Lord.” things which I heard from him, these I say to
Yeshua said, “Neither do I condemn you. the world.”
Go your way. From now on, sin no more.” 8:27
They didn’t understand that he spoke to
8:12
Again, therefore, Yeshua spoke to them, them about the Father. 8:28 Yeshua therefore
saying, “I am the light of the world.z He who said to them, “When you have lifted up the
follows me will not walk in the darkness, but Son of Man, then you will know that I am
will have the light of life.” he, and I do nothing of myself, but as my
8:13
The Pharisees therefore said to him, “You Father taught me, I say these things. 8:29 He
testify about yourself. Your testimony is not who sent me is with me. The Father hasn’t
valid.” left me alone, for I always do the things that
8:14 are pleasing to him.”
Yeshua answered them, “Even if I testify
8:30
about myself, my testimony is true, for I know As he spoke these things, many believed
where I came from, and where I am going; in him. 8:31 Yeshua therefore said to those
but you don’t know where I came from, or Judeans who had believed him, “If you remain
where I am going. 8:15 You judge according in my word, then you are truly my disciples.
8:32
to the flesh. I judge no one. 8:16 Even if I do You will know the truth, and the truth will
judge, my judgment is true, for I am not alone, make you free.”c
but I am with the Father who sent me. 8:17 It’s 8:33
They answered him, “We are Abraham’s
also written in your Torah that the testimony seed, and have never been in bondage to
of two people is valid.a 8:18 I am one who anyone. How do you say, ‘You will be made
testifies about myself, and the Father who sent free?’”
me testifies about me.” 8:34
Yeshua answered them, “Most certainly
8:19
They said therefore to him, “Where is I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the
your Father?” bondservant of sin. 8:35 A bondservant doesn’t
Yeshua answered, “You know neither me, live in the house forever. A son remains
nor my Father. If you knew me, you would forever. 8:36 If therefore the Son makes you
know my Father also.” 8:20 Yeshua spoke these free, you will be free indeed. 8:37 I know that
words in the treasury, as he taught in the you are Abraham’s seed, yet you seek to kill
temple. Yet no one arrested him, because me, because my word finds no place in you.
his hour had not yet come. 8:21 Yeshua said 8:38
I say the things which I have seen with my
z 8:12 Isaiah 60:1
a 8:17 Deuteronomy 17:6; 19:15
b 8:24 or, I AM
c 8:32 Psalm 119:45
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Father; and you also do the things which you word. 8:56 Your father Abraham rejoiced to see
have seen with your father.” my day. He saw it, and was glad.”
8:39 8:57
They answered him, “Our father is Abra- The Judeans therefore said to him, “You
ham.” are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen
Yeshua said to them, “If you were Abra- Abraham?”
8:58
ham’s children, you would do the works of Yeshua said to them, “Most certainly, I
Abraham. 8:40 But now you seek to kill me, a tell you, before Abraham came into existence,
man who has told you the truth, which I heard I AM.d ”
from God. Abraham didn’t do this. 8:41 You do 8:59
Therefore they took up stones to throw
the works of your father.” at him, but Yeshua was hidden, and went out
They said to him, “We were not born of of the temple, having gone through their midst,
sexual immorality. We have one Father, God.” and so passed by.
8:42 9:1
Therefore Yeshua said to them, “If God As he passed by, he saw a man blind from
were your father, you would love me, for birth. 9:2 His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who
I came out and have come from God. For sinned, this man or his parents, that he was
I haven’t come of myself, but he sent me. born blind?”
8:43 9:3
Why don’t you understand my speech? Yeshua answered, “Neither did this man
Because you can’t hear my word. 8:44 You are sin, nor his parents; but, that the works of
of your father, the devil, and you want to do God might be revealed in him. 9:4 I must work
the desires of your father. He was a murderer the works of him who sent me, while it is
from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the day. The night is coming, when no one can
truth, because there is no truth in him. When work. 9:5 While I am in the world, I am the
he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he light of the world.” 9:6 When he had said this,
is a liar, and its father. 8:45 But because I tell he spat on the ground, made mud with the
the truth, you don’t believe me. 8:46 Which of saliva, anointed the blind man’s eyes with the
you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why mud, 9:7 and said to him, “Go, wash in the pool
do you not believe me? 8:47 He who is of God of Siloam” (which means “Sent”). So he went
hears the words of God. For this cause you away, washed, and came back seeing. 9:8 The
don’t hear, because you are not of God.” neighbors therefore, and those who saw that he
8:48
Then the Judeans answered him, “Don’t was blind before, said, “Isn’t this he who sat
we say well that you are a Samaritan, and have and begged?” 9:9 Others were saying, “It is he.”
a demon?” Still others were saying, “He looks like him.”
8:49
Yeshua answered, “I don’t have a de- He said, “I am he.” 9:10 They therefore were
mon, but I honor my Father, and you dishonor asking him, “How were your eyes opened?”
9:11
me. 8:50 But I don’t seek my own glory. He answered, “A man called Yeshua
There is one who seeks and judges. 8:51 Most made mud, anointed my eyes, and said to me,
certainly, I tell you, if a person keeps my ‘Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash.’ So I went
word, he will never see death.” away and washed, and I received sight.”
8:52 9:12
Then the Judeans said to him, “Now we Then they asked him, “Where is he?”
know that you have a demon. Abraham died, He said, “I don’t know.”
9:13
and the prophets; and you say, ‘If a man keeps They brought him who had been blind
my word, he will never taste of death.’ 8:53 Are to the Pharisees. 9:14 It was a Sabbath when
you greater than our father, Abraham, who Yeshua made the mud and opened his eyes.
9:15
died? The prophets died. Who do you make Again therefore the Pharisees also asked
yourself out to be?” him how he received his sight. He said to them,
8:54
Yeshua answered, “If I glorify myself, “He put mud on my eyes, I washed, and I see.”
9:16
my glory is nothing. It is my Father who Some therefore of the Pharisees said,
glorifies me, of whom you say that he is our “This man is not from God, because he doesn’t
God. 8:55 You have not known him, but I know keep the Sabbath.” Others said, “How can a
him. If I said, ‘I don’t know him,’ I would be man who is a sinner do such signs?” There was
like you, a liar. But I know him, and keep his division among them. 9:17 Therefore they asked
d 8:58 or, I am
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9:35
the blind man again, “What do you say about Yeshua heard that they had thrown him
him, because he opened your eyes?” out, and finding him, he said, “Do you believe
He said, “He is a prophet.” in the Son of God?”
9:18 9:36
The Judeans therefore did not believe He answered, “Who is he, Lord, that I
concerning him, that he had been blind, and may believe in him?”
9:37
had received his sight, until they called the Yeshua said to him, “You have both seen
parents of him who had received his sight, him, and it is he who speaks with you.”
9:19 9:38
and asked them, “Is this your son, whom He said, “Lord, I believe!” and he
you say was born blind? How then does he worshiped him.
now see?” 9:39
Yeshua said, “I came into this world for
9:20
His parents answered them, “We know judgment, that those who don’t see may see;
that this is our son, and that he was born blind; and that those who see may become blind.”
9:21 9:40
but how he now sees, we don’t know; or Those of the Pharisees who were with
who opened his eyes, we don’t know. He is him heard these things, and said to him, “Are
of age. Ask him. He will speak for himself.” we also blind?”
9:22 9:41
His parents said these things because they Yeshua said to them, “If you were blind,
feared the Judeans; for the Judeans had already you would have no sin; but now you say, ‘We
agreed that if any man would confess him as see.’ Therefore your sin remains.
Messiah, he would be put out of the synagogue. 10:1
“Most certainly, I tell you, one who
9:23
Therefore his parents said, “He is of age. doesn’t enter by the door into the sheep fold,
Ask him.” but climbs up some other way, the same is a
9:24
So they called the man who was blind a thief and a robber. 10:2 But one who enters
second time, and said to him, “Give glory to in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.
God. We know that this man is a sinner.” 10:3
The gatekeeper opens the gate for him,
9:25
He therefore answered, “I don’t know if and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls
he is a sinner. One thing I do know: that though his own sheep by name, and leads them out.
I was blind, now I see.” 10:4
Whenever he brings out his own sheep,
9:26
They said to him again, “What did he do he goes before them, and the sheep follow
to you? How did he open your eyes?” him, for they know his voice. 10:5 They will
9:27
He answered them, “I told you already, by no means follow a stranger, but will flee
and you didn’t listen. Why do you want to from him; for they don’t know the voice of
hear it again? You don’t also want to become strangers.” 10:6 Yeshua spoke this parable to
his disciples, do you?” them, but they didn’t understand what he was
9:28
They insulted him and said, “You are his telling them.
disciple, but we are disciples of Moses. 9:29 We 10:7
Yeshua therefore said to them again,
know that God has spoken to Moses. But as “Most certainly, I tell you, I am the sheep’s
for this man, we don’t know where he comes door. 10:8 All who came before me are thieves
from.” and robbers, but the sheep didn’t listen to
9:30
The man answered them, “How amaz- them. 10:9 I am the door. If anyone enters
ing! You don’t know where he comes from, in by me, he will be saved, and will go in
yet he opened my eyes. 9:31 We know that and go out, and will find pasture. 10:10 The
God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I
worshipper of God, and does his will, he listens came that they may have life, and may have
to him.e 9:32 Since the world began it has never it abundantly. 10:11 I am the good shepherd.f
been heard of that anyone opened the eyes of The good shepherd lays down his life for the
someone born blind. 9:33 If this man were not sheep. 10:12 He who is a hired hand, and not
from God, he could do nothing.” a shepherd, who doesn’t own the sheep, sees
9:34
They answered him, “You were alto- the wolf coming, leaves the sheep, and flees.
gether born in sins, and do you teach us?” They The wolf snatches the sheep, and scatters
threw him out. them. 10:13 The hired hand flees because he is
e 9:31 Psalm 66:18, Proverbs 15:29; 28:9
f 10:11 Isaiah 40:11; Ezekiel 34:11-12,15,22
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a hired hand, and doesn’t care for the sheep. stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy:
10:14
I am the good shepherd. I know my own, because you, being a man, make yourself God.”
and I’m known by my own; 10:15 even as the 10:34
Yeshua answered them, “Isn’t it written
Father knows me, and I know the Father. I in your law, ‘I said, you are gods?’k 10:35 If
lay down my life for the sheep. 10:16 I have he called them gods, to whom the word of
other sheep, which are not of this fold.g I God came (and the Scripture can’t be broken),
must bring them also, and they will hear my 10:36
do you say of him whom the Father
voice. They will become one flock with one sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You blas-
shepherd. 10:17 Therefore the Father loves me, pheme,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God?’
because I lay down my life,h that I may take it 10:37
If I don’t do the works of my Father, don’t
again. 10:18 No one takes it away from me, but believe me. 10:38 But if I do them, though you
I lay it down by myself. I have power to lay don’t believe me, believe the works; that you
it down, and I have power to take it again. I may know and believe that the Father is in
received this commandment from my Father.” me, and I in the Father.”
10:19 10:39
Therefore a division arose again among They sought again to seize him, and he
the Judeans because of these words. 10:20 Many went out of their hand. 10:40 He went away
of them said, “He has a demon, and is insane! again beyond the Jordan into the place where
Why do you listen to him?” 10:21 Others said, Yochanan was immersing at first, and there he
“These are not the sayings of one possessed by stayed. 10:41 Many came to him. They said,
a demon. It isn’t possible for a demon to open “Yochanan indeed did no sign, but everything
the eyes of the blind, is it?”i that Yochanan said about this man is true.”
10:22 10:42
It was the Feast of Hanukkahj at Many believed in him there.
Jerusalem. 10:23 It was winter, and Yeshua was 11:1
Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus
walking in the temple, in Solomon’s porch. from Bethany, of the village of Miriam and her
10:24
The Judeans therefore came around him sister, Martha. 11:2 It was that Miriam who had
and said to him, “How long will you hold us anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped
in suspense? If you are the Messiah, tell us his feet with her hair, whose brother, Lazarus,
plainly.” was sick. 11:3 The sisters therefore sent to him,
10:25
Yeshua answered them, “I told you, and saying, “Lord, behold, he for whom you have
you don’t believe. The works that I do in my great affection is sick.” 11:4 But when Yeshua
Father’s name, these testify about me. 10:26 But heard it, he said, “This sickness is not to death,
you don’t believe, because you are not of my but for the glory of God, that God’s Son may
sheep, as I told you. 10:27 My sheep hear my be glorified by it.” 11:5 Now Yeshua loved
voice, and I know them, and they follow me. Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus. 11:6 When
10:28
I give eternal life to them. They will therefore he heard that he was sick, he stayed
never perish, and no one will snatch them out two days in the place where he was. 11:7 Then
of my hand. 10:29 My Father, who has given after this he said to the disciples, “Let’s go into
them to me, is greater than all. No one is able Judea again.”
to snatch them out of my Father’s hand. 10:30 I 11:8
The disciples told him, “Rabbi, the
and the Father are one.” Judeans were just trying to stone you, and are
10:31
Therefore the Judeans took up stones you going there again?”
again to stone him. 10:32 Yeshua answered 11:9
Yeshua answered, “Aren’t there twelve
them, “I have shown you many good works hours of daylight? If a man walks in the
from my Father. For which of those works do day, he doesn’t stumble, because he sees the
you stone me?” light of this world. 11:10 But if a man walks in
10:33
The Judeans answered him, “We don’t the night, he stumbles, because the light isn’t
g 10:16 Isaiah 56:8
h 10:17 Isaiah 53:7-8
i 10:21 Exodus 4:11
j 10:22 The “Feast of the Dedication” is the Greek name for “Hanukkah,” a celebration of the rededication

of the Temple.
k 10:34 Psalm 82:6
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in him.” 11:11 He said these things, and after saying, “She is going to the tomb to weep
that, he said to them, “Our friend, Lazarus, has there.” 11:32 Therefore when Miriam came to
fallen asleep, but I am going so that I may where Yeshua was, and saw him, she fell down
awake him out of sleep.” at his feet, saying to him, “Lord, if you would
11:12
The disciples therefore said, “Lord, if he have been here, my brother wouldn’t have
has fallen asleep, he will recover.” died.”
11:13 11:33
Now Yeshua had spoken of his death, When Yeshua therefore saw her weep-
but they thought that he spoke of taking rest in ing, and the Judeans weeping who came with
sleep. 11:14 So Yeshua said to them plainly then, her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled,
11:34
“Lazarus is dead. 11:15 I am glad for your sakes and said, “Where have you laid him?”
that I was not there, so that you may believe. They told him, “Lord, come and see.”
11:35
Nevertheless, let’s go to him.” Yeshua wept.
11:16 11:36
Thomas therefore, who is called Didy- The Judeans therefore said, “See how
mus,l said to his fellow disciples, “Let’s go also, much affection he had for him!” 11:37 Some of
that we may die with him.” them said, “Couldn’t this man, who opened the
11:17
So when Yeshua came, he found that eyes of him who was blind, have also kept this
he had been in the tomb four days already. man from dying?”
11:18 11:38
Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about Yeshua therefore, again groaning in
fifteen stadiam away. 11:19 Many of the Judeans himself, came to the tomb. Now it was a cave,
had joined the women around Martha and and a stone lay against it. 11:39 Yeshua said,
Miriam, to console them concerning their “Take away the stone.”
brother. 11:20 Then when Martha heard that Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said
Yeshua was coming, she went and met him, to him, “Lord, by this time there is a stench, for
but Miriam stayed in the house. 11:21 Therefore he has been dead four days.”
Martha said to Yeshua, “Lord, if you would 11:40
Yeshua said to her, “Didn’t I tell you
have been here, my brother wouldn’t have that if you believed, you would see God’s
died. 11:22 Even now I know that, whatever you glory?”
ask of God, God will give you.” 11:23 Yeshua 11:41
So they took away the stone from the
said to her, “Your brother will rise again.” place where the dead man was lying.n Yeshua
11:24
Martha said to him, “I know that he will lifted up his eyes, and said, “Father, I thank
rise again in the resurrection at the last day.” you that you listened to me. 11:42 I know
11:25
Yeshua said to her, “I am the resurrec- that you always listen to me, but because
tion and the life. He who believes in me will of the multitude that stands around I said
still live, even if he dies. 11:26 Whoever lives this, that they may believe that you sent me.”
11:43
and believes in me will never die. Do you When he had said this, he cried with a loud
believe this?” voice, “Lazarus, come out!”
11:27 11:44
She said to him, “Yes, Lord. I have come He who was dead came out, bound
to believe that you are the Messiah, God’s Son, hand and foot with wrappings, and his face
he who comes into the world.” was wrapped around with a cloth.
11:28
When she had said this, she went away, Yeshua said to them, “Free him, and let him
and called Miriam, her sister, secretly, saying, go.”
11:45
“The Rabbi is here, and is calling you.” Therefore many of the Judeans, who
11:29
When she heard this, she arose quickly, came to Miriam and saw what Yeshua did,
and went to him. 11:30 Now Yeshua had not believed in him. 11:46 But some of them went
yet come into the village, but was in the place away to the Pharisees, and told them the things
where Martha met him. 11:31 Then the Judeans which Yeshua had done. 11:47 The chief priests
who were with her in the house, and were therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council,
consoling her, when they saw Miriam, that she and said, “What are we doing? For this man
rose up quickly and went out, followed her, does many signs. 11:48 If we leave him alone
l 11:16“Didymus” means “Twin”
m 11:18 15 stadia is about 2.8 kilometers or 1.7 miles
n 11:41 NU omits “from the place where the dead man was lying.”
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like this, everyone will believe in him, and the it. 12:7 But Yeshua said, “Leave her alone. She
Romans will come and take away both our has kept this for the day of my burial. 12:8 For
place and our nation.” you always have the poor with you, but you
11:49 don’t always have me.”
But a certain one of them, Caiaphas,
12:9
being high priest that year, said to them, “You A large crowd therefore of the Judeans
know nothing at all, 11:50 nor do you consider learned that he was there, and they came, not
that it is advantageous for us that one man for Yeshua’s sake only, but that they might see
should die for the people, and that the whole Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the
nation not perish.” 11:51 Now he didn’t say this dead. 12:10 But the chief priests conspired to put
of himself, but being high priest that year, he Lazarus to death also, 12:11 because on account
prophesied that Yeshua would die for the na- of him many of the Judeans went away and
tion, 11:52 and not for the nation only, but that he believed in Yeshua.
might also gather together into one the children 12:12
On the next day a great multitude had
of God who are scattered abroad. 11:53 So from come to the feast. When they heard that Yeshua
that day forward they took counsel that they was coming to Jerusalem, 12:13 they took the
might put him to death. 11:54 Yeshua therefore branches of the palm trees, and went out to
walked no more openly among the Judeans, meet him, and cried out, “Hoshia’naq ! Blessed
but departed from there into the country near is he who comes in the name of the Lord,r the
the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim. He King of Israel!”
stayed there with his disciples. 12:14
Yeshua, having found a young donkey,
11:55
Now the Passover in Judea was at hand. sat on it. As it is written, 12:15 “Don’t be afraid,
Many went up from the country to Jerusalem daughter of Zion. Behold, your King comes,
before the Passover, to purify themselves. sitting on a donkey’s colt.”s 12:16 His disciples
11:56
Then they sought for Yeshua and spoke didn’t understand these things at first, but
one with another, as they stood in the temple, when Yeshua was glorified, then they remem-
“What do you think—that he isn’t coming to bered that these things were written about him,
the feast at all?” 11:57 Now the chief priests and and that they had done these things to him.
12:17
the Pharisees had commanded that if anyone The multitude therefore that was with him
knew where he was, he should report it, that when he called Lazarus out of the tomb, and
they might seize him. raised him from the dead, was testifying about
12:1
Then six days before the Passover, it. 12:18 For this cause also the multitude went
Yeshua came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, and met him, because they heard that he had
who had been dead, whom he raised from the done this sign. 12:19 The Pharisees therefore said
dead. 12:2 So they made him a supper there. among themselves, “See how you accomplish
Martha served, but Lazarus was one of those nothing. Behold, the world has gone after
who sat at the table with him. 12:3 Miriam, him.”
12:20
therefore, took a poundo of ointment of pure Now there were certain Greeks among
nard, very precious, and anointed the feet of those that went up to worship at the feast.
12:21
Yeshua, and wiped his feet with her hair. The These, therefore, came to Philip, who was
house was filled with the fragrance of the from Bethsaida of Galilee, and asked him, say-
ointment. 12:4 Then Judah Iscariot, Simon’s son, ing, “Sir, we want to see Yeshua.” 12:22 Philip
one of his disciples, who would betray him, came and told Andrew, and in turn, An-
said, 12:5 “Why wasn’t this ointment sold for drew came with Philip, and they told Yeshua.
12:23
three hundred denarii,p and given to the poor?” Yeshua answered them, “The time has
12:6
Now he said this, not because he cared for come for the Son of Man to be glorified.
12:24
the poor, but because he was a thief, and having Most certainly I tell you, unless a grain of
the money box, used to steal what was put into wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains
o 12:3 a Roman pound of 12 ounces, or about 340 grams
p 12:5 300 denarii was about a year’s wages for an agricultural laborer.
q 12:13 “Hoshia’na” means “save us” or “help us, we pray.”
r 12:13 Psalm 118:25-26
s 12:15 Zechariah 9:9
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by itself alone. But if it dies, it bears much lest they should see with their eyes,
fruit. 12:25 He who loves his life will lose it. He and perceive with their heart,
who hates his life in this world will keep it to and would turn,
eternal life. 12:26 If anyone serves me, let him and I would heal them.”v
follow me. Where I am, there will my servant 12:41
Isaiah said these things when he saw his
also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will
glory, and spoke of him.w 12:42 Nevertheless
honor him.
12:27
even of the rulers many believed in him, but
“Now my soul is troubled. What shall because of the Pharisees they didn’t confess
I say? ‘Father, save me from this time?’ But it, so that they wouldn’t be put out of the
for this cause I came to this time. 12:28 Father, synagogue, 12:43 for they loved men’s praise
glorify your name!” more than God’s praise.
Then there came a voice out of the sky, 12:44
Yeshua cried out and said, “Whoever
saying, “I have both glorified it, and will glorify believes in me, believes not in me, but in
it again.” him who sent me. 12:45 He who sees me sees
12:29
The multitude therefore, who stood by him who sent me. 12:46 I have come as a
and heard it, said that it had thundered. Others light into the world, that whoever believes in
said, “An angel has spoken to him.” me may not remain in the darkness. 12:47 If
12:30
Yeshua answered, “This voice hasn’t anyone listens to my sayings, and doesn’t
come for my sake, but for your sakes. believe, I don’t judge him. For I came not
12:31
Now is the judgment of this world. Now to judge the world, but to save the world.
the prince of this world will be cast out. 12:48
12:32
He who rejects me, and doesn’t receive
And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, my sayings, has one who judges him. The
will draw all people to myself.” 12:33 But he word that I spoke, the same will judge him
said this, signifying by what kind of death he in the last day. 12:49 For I spoke not from
should die. 12:34 The multitude answered him, myself, but the Father who sent me, he gave
“We have heard out of the law that the Messiah me a commandment, what I should say, and
remains forever.t How do you say, ‘The Son of what I should speak. 12:50 I know that his
Man must be lifted up?’ Who is this Son of commandment is eternal life. The things
Man?” therefore which I speak, even as the Father
12:35
Yeshua therefore said to them, “Yet a lit- has said to me, so I speak.”
tle while the light is with you. Walk while you 13:1
Now before the feast of the Passover,
have the light, that darkness doesn’t overtake Yeshua, knowing that his time had come that
you. He who walks in the darkness doesn’t he would depart from this world to the Father,
know where he is going. 12:36 While you have having loved his own who were in the world,
the light, believe in the light, that you may he loved them to the end. 13:2 During supper,
become children of light.” Yeshua said these the devil having already put into the heart
things, and he departed and hid himself from of Judah Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him,
them. 12:37 But though he had done so many 13:3
Yeshua, knowing that the Father had given
signs before them, yet they didn’t believe in all things into his hands, and that he came forth
him, 12:38 that the word of Isaiah the prophet from God, and was going to God, 13:4 arose
might be fulfilled, which he spoke, from supper, and laid aside his outer garments.
“Lord, who has believed our report? He took a towel, and wrapped a towel around
To whom has the arm of the Lord been his waist. 13:5 Then he poured water into the
revealed?”u basin, and began to wash the disciples’ feet,
12:39
For this cause they couldn’t believe, for and to wipe them with the towel that was
Isaiah said again, wrapped around him. 13:6 Then he came to
12:40
“He has blinded their eyes and he hard- Simon Peter. He said to him, “Lord, do you
ened their heart, wash my feet?”
t 12:34Isaiah 9:7; Daniel 2:44 (but see also Isaiah 53:8)
u 12:38 Isaiah 53:1
v 12:40 Isaiah 6:10
w 12:41 Isaiah 6:1
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13:7
Yeshua answered him, “You don’t know piece of bread, he gave it to Judah, the son of
what I am doing now, but you will understand Simon Iscariot. 13:27 After the piece of bread,
later.” then Satan entered into him.
13:8
Peter said to him, “You will never wash Then Yeshua said to him, “What you do, do
my feet!” quickly.”
13:28
Yeshua answered him, “If I don’t wash you, Now no man at the table knew why he
you have no part with me.” said this to him. 13:29 For some thought, because
13:9
Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, not my Judah had the money box, that Yeshua said to
feet only, but also my hands and my head!” him, “Buy what things we need for the feast,”
13:10
Yeshua said to him, “Someone who has or that he should give something to the poor.
13:30
bathed only needs to have his feet washed, Therefore having received that morsel, he
but is completely clean. You are clean, but not went out immediately. It was night.
13:31
all of you.” 13:11 For he knew him who would When he had gone out, Yeshua said,
betray him, therefore he said, “You are not all “Now the Son of Man has been glorified,
clean.” 13:12 So when he had washed their feet, and God has been glorified in him. 13:32 If
put his outer garment back on, and sat down God has been glorified in him, God will also
again, he said to them, “Do you know what I glorify him in himself, and he will glorify
have done to you? 13:13 You call me, ‘Rabbi’ him immediately. 13:33 Little children, I will
and ‘Lord.’ You say so correctly, for so I am. be with you a little while longer. You will
13:14
If I then, the Lord and the Rabbi, have seek me, and as I said to the Judeans, ‘Where
washed your feet, you also ought to wash one I am going, you can’t come,’ so now I tell you.
13:34
another’s feet. 13:15 For I have given you an A new commandment I give to you, that
example, that you also should do as I have you love one another, just like I have loved
done to you. 13:16 Most certainly I tell you, you; that you also love one another. 13:35 By
a servant is not greater than his lord, neither this everyone will know that you are my
one who is sent greater than he who sent him. disciples, if you have love for one another.”
13:17 13:36
If you know these things, blessed are you Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, where
if you do them. 13:18 I don’t speak concerning are you going?”
all of you. I know whom I have chosen. Yeshua answered, “Where I am going, you
But that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He can’t follow now, but you will follow after-
who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel wards.”
against me.’x 13:19 From now on, I tell you 13:37
Peter said to him, “Lord, why can’t I
before it happens, that when it happens, you follow you now? I will lay down my life for
may believe that I am he. 13:20 Most certainly you.”
13:38
I tell you, he who receives whomever I send, Yeshua answered him, “Will you lay
receives me; and he who receives me, receives down your life for me? Most certainly I tell
him who sent me.” you, the rooster won’t crow until you have
13:21
When Yeshua had said this, he was denied me three times.
14:1
troubled in spirit, and testified, “Most certainly “Don’t let your heart be troubled. Be-
I tell you that one of you will betray me.” lieve in God. Believe also in me. 14:2 In my
13:22
The disciples looked at one another, per- Father’s house are many homes. If it weren’t
plexed about whom he spoke. 13:23 One of his so, I would have told you. I am going to
disciples, whom Yeshua loved, was at the table, prepare a place for you. 14:3 If I go and prepare
leaning against Yeshua’s breast. 13:24 Simon a place for you, I will come again, and will
Peter therefore beckoned to him, and said to receive you to myself; that where I am, you
him, “Tell us who it is of whom he speaks.” may be there also. 14:4 Where I go, you know,
13:25
He, leaning back, as he was, on Yeshua’s and you know the way.”
14:5
breast, asked him, “Lord, who is it?” Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t
13:26
Yeshua therefore answered, “It is he to know where you are going. How can we know
whom I will give this piece of bread when I the way?”
14:6
have dipped it.” So when he had dipped the Yeshua said to him, “I am the way, the
x 13:18 Psalm 41:9
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truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send
except through me. 14:7 If you had known me, in my name, he will teach you all things,
you would have known my Father also. From and will remind you of all that I said to you.
14:27
now on, you know him, and have seen him.” Peace I leave with you. My peace I give
14:8
Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the to you; not as the world gives, give I to you.
Father, and that will be enough for us.” Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let
14:9
Yeshua said to him, “Have I been with it be fearful. 14:28 You heard how I told you,
you such a long time, and do you not know ‘I go away, and I come to you.’ If you loved
me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen me, you would have rejoiced, because I said
the Father. How do you say, ‘Show us the ‘I am going to my Father;’ for the Father is
Father?’ 14:10 Don’t you believe that I am in greater than I. 14:29 Now I have told you before
the Father, and the Father in me? The words it happens so that, when it happens, you may
that I tell you, I speak not from myself; but believe. 14:30 I will no more speak much with
the Father who lives in me does his works. you, for the prince of the world comes, and
14:11
Believe me that I am in the Father, and the he has nothing in me. 14:31 But that the world
Father in me; or else believe me for the very may know that I love the Father, and as the
works’ sake. 14:12 Most certainly I tell you, Father commanded me, even so I do. Arise,
he who believes in me, the works that I do, let us go from here.
15:1
he will do also; and he will do greater works “I am the true vine, and my Father is the
than these, because I am going to my Father. farmer. 15:2 Every branch in me that doesn’t
14:13
Whatever you will ask in my name, that bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch
will I do, that the Father may be glorified in that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear
the Son. 14:14 If you will ask anything in my more fruit. 15:3 You are already pruned clean
name, I will do it. 14:15 If you love me, keep my because of the word which I have spoken to
commandments. 14:16 I will pray to the Father, you. 15:4 Remain in me, and I in you. As
and he will give you another Counselor,y that the branch can’t bear fruit by itself, unless it
he may be with you forever,—14:17 the Spirit remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless
of truth, whom the world can’t receive; for you remain in me. 15:5 I am the vine. You are
it doesn’t see him, neither knows him. You the branches. He who remains in me, and I in
know him, for he lives with you, and will be him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from
in you. 14:18 I will not leave you orphans. I me you can do nothing. 15:6 If a man doesn’t
will come to you. 14:19 Yet a little while, and remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch,
the world will see me no more; but you will and is withered; and they gather them, throw
see me. Because I live, you will live also. them into the fire, and they are burned. 15:7 If
14:20
In that day you will know that I am in my you remain in me, and my words remain in
Father, and you in me, and I in you. 14:21 One you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it
who has my commandments, and keeps them, will be done for you.
15:8
that person is one who loves me. One who “In this is my Father glorified, that
loves me will be loved by my Father, and I you bear much fruit; and so you will be my
will love him, and will reveal myself to him.” disciples. 15:9 Even as the Father has loved me,
14:22
Judah (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.
15:10
what has happened that you are about to reveal If you keep my commandments, you will
yourself to us, and not to the world?” remain in my love; even as I have kept my
14:23 Father’s commandments, and remain in his
Yeshua answered him, “If a man loves
me, he will keep my word. My Father will love. 15:11 I have spoken these things to you,
love him, and we will come to him, and make that my joy may remain in you, and that your
our home with him. 14:24 He who doesn’t love joy may be made full.
15:12
me doesn’t keep my words. The word which “This is my commandment, that you
you hear isn’t mine, but the Father’s who sent love one another, even as I have loved you.
me. 14:25 I have said these things to you, while 15:13
Greater love has no one than this, that
still living with you. 14:26 But the Counselor, someone lay down his life for his friends.
y 14:16 Greek Parakleton: Counselor, Helper, Intercessor, Advocate, and Comforter.
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15:14
You are my friends, if you do whatever I have not known the Father, nor me. 16:4 But
command you. 15:15 No longer do I call you I have told you these things, so that when
servants, for the servant doesn’t know what the time comes, you may remember that I
his lord does. But I have called you friends, told you about them. I didn’t tell you these
for everything that I heard from my Father, things from the beginning, because I was with
I have made known to you. 15:16 You didn’t you. 16:5 But now I am going to him who
choose me, but I chose you, and appointed sent me, and none of you asks me, ‘Where
you, that you should go and bear fruit, and are you going?’ 16:6 But because I have told
that your fruit should remain; that whatever you these things, sorrow has filled your heart.
16:7
you will ask of the Father in my name, he may Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is to
give it to you. your advantage that I go away, for if I don’t go
15:17 away, the Counselor won’t come to you. But
“I command these things to you, that
you may love one another. 15:18 If the world if I go, I will send him to you. 16:8 When he
hates you, you know that it has hated me has come, he will convict the world about sin,
before it hated you. 15:19 If you were of the about righteousness, and about judgment;
16:9
world, the world would love its own. But about sin, because they don’t believe in
because you are not of the world, since I chose me; 16:10 about righteousness, because I am
you out of the world, therefore the world going to my Father, and you won’t see me any
hates you. 15:20 Remember the word that I said more; 16:11 about judgment, because the prince
to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his lord.’z of this world has been judged.
16:12
If they persecuted me, they will also persecute “I have yet many things to tell you,
you. If they kept my word, they will keep but you can’t bear them now. 16:13 However
yours also. 15:21 But all these things will they when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will
do to you for my name’s sake, because they guide you into all truth, for he will not speak
don’t know him who sent me. 15:22 If I had from himself; but whatever he hears, he will
not come and spoken to them, they would not speak. He will declare to you things that are
have had sin; but now they have no excuse coming. 16:14 He will glorify me, for he will
for their sin. 15:23 He who hates me, hates take from what is mine, and will declare it to
my Father also. 15:24 If I hadn’t done among you. 16:15 All things whatever the Father has
them the works which no one else did, they are mine; therefore I said that he takesd of
wouldn’t have had sin. But now have they mine, and will declare it to you. 16:16 A little
seen and also hated both me and my Father. while, and you will not see me. Again a little
15:25
But this happened so that the word may while, and you will see me.”
be fulfilled which was written in their law, 16:17
Some of his disciples therefore said to
‘They hated me without a cause.’a one another, “What is this that he says to us,
15:26
“When the Counselorb has come, ‘A little while, and you won’t see me, and
whom I will send to you from the Father, the again a little while, and you will see me;’ and,
Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, ‘Because I go to the Father?’” 16:18 They said
he will testify about me. 15:27 You will also therefore, “What is this that he says, ‘A little
testify, because you have been with me from while?’ We don’t know what he is saying.”
the beginning. 16:19
Therefore Yeshua perceived that they
16:1
“These things have I spoken to you, wanted to ask him, and he said to them, “Do
so that you wouldn’t be caused to stumble. you inquire among yourselves concerning
16:2
They will put you out of the synagogues. this, that I said, ‘A little while, and you won’t
Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you see me, and again a little while, and you
will think that he offers service to God. will see me?’ 16:20 Most certainly I tell you,
16:3
They will do these thingsc because they that you will weep and lament, but the world
z 15:20 Yochanan 13:16
a 15:25 Psalms 35:19; 69:4
b 15:26 Greek Parakletos: Counselor, Helper, Advocate, Intercessor, and Comforter.
c 16:3 TR adds “to you”
d 16:15 TR reads “will take” instead of “takes”
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will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your Yeshua the Messiah. 17:4 I glorified you on
sorrow will be turned into joy. 16:21 A woman, the earth. I have accomplished the work
when she gives birth, has sorrow, because her which you have given me to do. 17:5 Now,
time has come. But when she has delivered Father, glorify me with your own self with the
the child, she doesn’t remember the anguish glory which I had with you before the world
any more, for the joy that a human being is existed. 17:6 I revealed your name to the people
born into the world. 16:22 Therefore you now whom you have given me out of the world.
have sorrow, but I will see you again, and your They were yours, and you have given them
heart will rejoice, and no one will take your to me. They have kept your word. 17:7 Now
joy away from you. they have known that all things whatever you
16:23
“In that day you will ask me no ques- have given me are from you, 17:8 for the words
tions. Most certainly I tell you, whatever which you have given me I have given to
you may ask of the Father in my name, he them, and they received them, and knew for
will give it to you. 16:24 Until now, you have sure that I came forth from you, and they have
asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will believed that you sent me. 17:9 I pray for them.
receive, that your joy may be made full. 16:25 I I don’t pray for the world, but for those whom
have spoken these things to you in figures of you have given me, for they are yours. 17:10 All
speech. But the time is coming when I will things that are mine are yours, and yours are
no more speak to you in figures of speech, mine, and I am glorified in them. 17:11 I am no
but will tell you plainly about the Father. more in the world, but these are in the world,
16:26
In that day you will ask in my name; and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep
and I don’t say to you, that I will pray to them through your name which you have
the Father for you, 16:27 for the Father himself given me, that they may be one, even as we
loves you, because you have loved me, and are. 17:12 While I was with them in the world,
have believed that I came forth from God. I kept them in your name. Those whom you
16:28
I came out from the Father, and have come have given me I have kept. None of them is
into the world. Again, I leave the world, and lost, except the son of destruction, that the
go to the Father.” Scripture might be fulfilled. 17:13 But now I
16:29 come to you, and I say these things in the
His disciples said to him, “Behold, now
you speak plainly, and speak no figures of world, that they may have my joy made full in
speech. 16:30 Now we know that you know all themselves. 17:14 I have given them your word.
things, and don’t need for anyone to question The world hated them, because they are not of
you. By this we believe that you came forth the world, even as I am not of the world. 17:15 I
from God.” pray not that you would take them from the
16:31 world, but that you would keep them from the
Yeshua answered them, “Do you now
believe? 16:32 Behold, the time is coming, yes, evil one. 17:16 They are not of the world even
and has now come, that you will be scattered, as I am not of the world. 17:17 Sanctify them
everyone to his own place, and you will leave in your truth. Your word is truth.e 17:18 As
me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the you sent me into the world, even so I have
Father is with me. 16:33 I have told you these sent them into the world. 17:19 For their sakes
things, that in me you may have peace. In the I sanctify myself, that they themselves also
world you have oppression; but cheer up! I may be sanctified in truth. 17:20 Not for these
have overcome the world.” only do I pray, but for those also who believe
17:1
Yeshua said these things, and lifting up in me through their word, 17:21 that they may
his eyes to heaven, he said, “Father, the time all be one; even as you, Father, are in me,
has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son and I in you, that they also may be one in
may also glorify you; 17:2 even as you gave him us; that the world may believe that you sent
authority over all flesh, he will give eternal me. 17:22 The glory which you have given
life to all whom you have given him. 17:3 This me, I have given to them; that they may be
is eternal life, that they should know you, one, even as we are one; 17:23 I in them, and
the only true God, and him whom you sent, you in me, that they may be perfected into
e 17:17 Psalm 119:142
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one; that the world may know that you sent who was high priest that year. 18:14 Now it was
me, and loved them, even as you loved me. Caiaphas who advised the Judeans that it was
17:24
Father, I desire that they also whom you expedient that one man should perish for the
have given me be with me where I am, that people. 18:15 Simon Peter followed Yeshua, as
they may see my glory, which you have given did another disciple. Now that disciple was
me, for you loved me before the foundation known to the high priest, and entered in with
of the world. 17:25 Righteous Father, the world Yeshua into the court of the high priest; 18:16 but
hasn’t known you, but I knew you; and these Peter was standing at the door outside. So
knew that you sent me. 17:26 I made known to the other disciple, who was known to the high
them your name, and will make it known; that priest, went out and spoke to her who kept the
the love with which you loved me may be in door, and brought in Peter. 18:17 Then the maid
them, and I in them.” who kept the door said to Peter, “Are you also
18:1
When Yeshua had spoken these words, one of this man’s disciples?”
he went out with his disciples over the brook He said, “I am not.”
18:18
Kidron, where there was a garden, into which Now the servants and the officers were
he and his disciples entered. 18:2 Now Judah, standing there, having made a fire of coals,
who betrayed him, also knew the place, for for it was cold. They were warming them-
Yeshua often met there with his disciples. selves. Peter was with them, standing and
18:3
Judah then, having taken a detachment warming himself. 18:19 The high priest therefore
of soldiers and officers from the chief priests asked Yeshua about his disciples, and about
and the Pharisees, came there with lanterns, his teaching. 18:20 Yeshua answered him, “I
torches, and weapons. 18:4 Yeshua therefore, spoke openly to the world. I always taught
knowing all the things that were happening to in synagogues, and in the temple, where the
him, went forth, and said to them, “Who are Jews always meet. I said nothing in secret.
18:21
you looking for?” Why do you ask me? Ask those who have
18:5
They answered him, “Yeshua of heard me what I said to them. Behold, these
Nazareth.” know the things which I said.”
18:22
Yeshua said to them, “I am he.” When he had said this, one of the
Judah also, who betrayed him, was standing officers standing by slapped Yeshua with his
with them. 18:6 When therefore he said to them, hand, saying, “Do you answer the high priest
“I am he,” they went backward, and fell to the like that?”
18:23
ground. Yeshua answered him, “If I have spo-
18:7
Again therefore he asked them, “Who ken evil, testify of the evil; but if well, why
are you looking for?” do you beat me?”
18:24
They said, “Yeshua of Nazareth.” Annas sent him bound to Caiaphas,
18:8
Yeshua answered, “I told you that I am the high priest. 18:25 Now Simon Peter was
he. If therefore you seek me, let these go standing and warming himself. They said
their way,” 18:9 that the word might be fulfilled therefore to him, “You aren’t also one of his
which he spoke, “Of those whom you have disciples, are you?”
given me, I have lost none.”f He denied it, and said, “I am not.”
18:10 18:26
Simon Peter therefore, having a sword, One of the servants of the high priest,
drew it, and struck the high priest’s servant, being a relative of him whose ear Peter had cut
and cut off his right ear. The servant’s name off, said, “Didn’t I see you in the garden with
was Malchus. 18:11 Yeshua therefore said to him?”
18:27
Peter, “Put the sword into its sheath. The cup Peter therefore denied it again, and
which the Father has given me, shall I not immediately the rooster crowed.
18:28
surely drink it?” They led Yeshua therefore from Ca-
18:12
So the detachment, the commanding iaphas into the Praetorium. It was early, and
officer, and the officers of the Judeans, seized they themselves didn’t enter into the Praeto-
Yeshua and bound him, 18:13 and led him to An- rium, that they might not be defiled, but might
nas first, for he was father-in-law to Caiaphas, eat the Passover. 18:29 Pilate therefore went out
f 18:9 Yochanan 6:39
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to them, and said, “What accusation do you them, “Behold, I bring him out to you, that
bring against this man?” you may know that I find no basis for a charge
18:30
They answered him, “If this man against him.”
19:5
weren’t an evildoer, we wouldn’t have deliv- Yeshua therefore came out, wearing the
ered him up to you.” crown of thorns and the purple garment. Pilate
18:31
Pilate therefore said to them, “Take him said to them, “Behold, the man!”
19:6
yourselves, and judge him according to your When therefore the chief priests and the
law.” officers saw him, they shouted, saying, “Cru-
Therefore the Judeans said to him, “It is not cify! Crucify!”
lawful for us to put anyone to death,” 18:32 that Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves,
the word of Yeshua might be fulfilled, which and crucify him, for I find no basis for a charge
he spoke, signifying by what kind of death he against him.”
19:7
should die. The Judeans answered him, “We have a
18:33
Pilate therefore entered again into the law, and by our law he ought to die, because he
Praetorium, called Yeshua, and said to him, made himself the Son of God.”
19:8
“Are you the King of the Jews?” When therefore Pilate heard this saying,
18:34
Yeshua answered him, “Do you say this he was more afraid. 19:9 He entered into the
by yourself, or did others tell you about me?” Praetorium again, and said to Yeshua, “Where
18:35
Pilate answered, “I’m not a Jew, am I? are you from?” But Yeshua gave him no an-
Your own nation and the chief priests delivered swer. 19:10 Pilate therefore said to him, “Aren’t
you to me. What have you done?” you speaking to me? Don’t you know that I
18:36
Yeshua answered, “My Kingdom is not have power to release you, and have power to
of this world. If my Kingdom were of this crucify you?”
19:11
world, then my servants would fight, that I Yeshua answered, “You would have
wouldn’t be delivered to the Judeans. But no power at all against me, unless it were
now my Kingdom is not from here.” given to you from above. Therefore he who
18:37
Pilate therefore said to him, “Are you a delivered me to you has greater sin.”
19:12
king then?” At this, Pilate was seeking to release
Yeshua answered, “You say that I am a king. him, but the Judeans cried out, saying, “If you
For this reason I have been born, and for release this man, you aren’t Caesar’s friend!
this reason I have come into the world, that Everyone who makes himself a king speaks
I should testify to the truth. Everyone who is against Caesar!”
19:13
of the truth listens to my voice.” When Pilate therefore heard these
18:38
Pilate said to him, “What is truth?” words, he brought Yeshua out, and sat down
When he had said this, he went out again to on the judgment seat at a place called “The
the Judeans, and said to them, “I find no basis Pavement,” but in Hebrew, “Gabbatha.”
19:14
for a charge against him. 18:39 But you have a Now it was the Preparation Day of the
custom, that I should release someone to you Passover, at about the sixth hour.g He said to
at the Passover. Therefore do you want me to the Judeans, “Behold, your King!”
19:15
release to you the King of the Jews?” They cried out, “Away with him! Away
18:40
Then they all shouted again, saying, with him! Crucify him!”
“Not this man, but Barabbas!” Now Barabbas Pilate said to them, “Shall I crucify your
was a robber. King?”
19:1
So Pilate then took Yeshua, and flogged The chief priests answered, “We have no
him. 19:2 The soldiers twisted thorns into a king but Caesar!”
19:16
crown, and put it on his head, and dressed So then he delivered him to them to be
him in a purple garment. 19:3 They kept saying, crucified. So they took Yeshua and led him
“Hail, King of the Jews!” and they kept away. 19:17 He went out, bearing his cross, to
slapping him. the place called “The Place of a Skull,” which
19:4
Then Pilate went out again, and said to is called in Hebrew, “Golgotha,” 19:18 where
g 19:14 “the sixth hour” would have been 6:00 AM according to the Roman timekeeping system, or noon
for the Jewish timekeeping system in use, then.
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they crucified him, and with him two others, they might be taken away. 19:32 Therefore the
on either side one, and Yeshua in the mid- soldiers came, and broke the legs of the first,
dle. 19:19 Pilate wrote a title also, and put it and of the other who was crucified with him;
19:33
on the cross. There was written, “YESHUA but when they came to Yeshua, and saw
OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS.” that he was already dead, they didn’t break his
19:20
Therefore many of the Judeans read this legs. 19:34 However one of the soldiers pierced
title, for the place where Yeshua was crucified his side with a spear, and immediately blood
was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, and water came out. 19:35 He who has seen
in Latin, and in Greek. 19:21 The chief priests has testified, and his testimony is true. He
of the Judeans therefore said to Pilate, “Don’t knows that he tells the truth, that you may
write, ‘The King of the Jews,’ but, ‘he said, I am believe. 19:36 For these things happened, that
King of the Jews.’” the Scripture might be fulfilled, “A bone of
19:22
Pilate answered, “What I have written, I him will not be broken.”j 19:37 Again another
have written.” Scripture says, “They will look on him whom
19:23
Then the soldiers, when they had cruci- they pierced.”k
19:38
fied Yeshua, took his garments and made four After these things, Joseph of Arimath-
parts, to every soldier a part; and also the coat. aea, being a disciple of Yeshua, but secretly
Now the coat was without seam, woven from for fear of the Judeans, asked of Pilate that he
the top throughout. 19:24 Then they said to one might take away Yeshua’s body. Pilate gave
another, “Let’s not tear it, but cast lots for it him permission. He came therefore and took
to decide whose it will be,” that the Scripture away his body. 19:39 Nicodemus, who at first
might be fulfilled, which says, came to Yeshua by night, also came bringing a
“They parted my garments among them. mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred
For my cloak they cast lots.”h Roman pounds.l 19:40 So they took Yeshua’s
Therefore the soldiers did these things. body, and bound it in linen cloths with the
19:25 spices, as the custom of the Judeans is to bury.
But there were standing by the cross of
19:41
Yeshua his mother, and his mother’s sister, Now in the place where he was crucified
Miriam the wife of Klofah, and Miriam Mag- there was a garden. In the garden was a new
dalene. 19:26 Therefore when Yeshua saw his tomb in which no man had ever yet been laid.
19:42
mother, and the disciple whom he loved stand- Then because of the Judeans’ Preparation
ing there, he said to his mother, “Woman, Day (for the tomb was near at hand) they laid
behold your son!” 19:27 Then he said to the Yeshua there.
20:1
disciple, “Behold, your mother!” From that Now on the first day of the week, Miriam
hour, the disciple took her to his own home. Magdalene went early, while it was still dark, to
19:28
After this, Yeshua, seeingi that all things the tomb, and saw the stone taken away from
were now finished, that the Scripture might be the tomb. 20:2 Therefore she ran and came to
fulfilled, said, “I am thirsty.” 19:29 Now a vessel Simon Peter, and to the other disciple whom
full of vinegar was set there; so they put a Yeshua loved, and said to them, “They have
sponge full of the vinegar on hyssop, and held taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we
it at his mouth. 19:30 When Yeshua therefore had don’t know where they have laid him!”
20:3
received the vinegar, he said, “It is finished.” Therefore Peter and the other disciple
He bowed his head, and gave up his spirit. went out, and they went toward the tomb.
19:31 20:4
Therefore the Judeans, because it was They both ran together. The other disci-
the Preparation Day, so that the bodies ple outran Peter, and came to the tomb first.
20:5
wouldn’t remain on the cross on the Sabbath Stooping and looking in, he saw the linen
(for that Sabbath was a special one), asked of cloths lying, yet he didn’t enter in. 20:6 Then
Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that Simon Peter came, following him, and entered
h 19:24 Psalm 22:18
i 19:28 NU, TR read “knowing” instead of “seeing”
j 19:36 Exodus 12:46; Numbers 9:12; Psalm 34:20
k 19:37 Zechariah 12:10
l 19:39 100 Roman pounds of 12 ounces each, or about 72 pounds, or 33 Kilograms.
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into the tomb. He saw the linen cloths lying, Holy Spirit! 20:23 If you forgive anyone’s sins,
20:7
and the cloth that had been on his head, not they have been forgiven them. If you retain
lying with the linen cloths, but rolled up in a anyone’s sins, they have been retained.”
place by itself. 20:8 So then the other disciple 20:24
But Thomas, one of the twelve, called
who came first to the tomb also entered in, and Didymus, wasn’t with them when Yeshua
he saw and believed. 20:9 For as yet they didn’t came. 20:25 The other disciples therefore said to
know the Scripture, that he must rise from the him, “We have seen the Lord!”
dead. 20:10 So the disciples went away again to But he said to them, “Unless I see in his
their own homes. hands the print of the nails, and put my hand
20:11
But Miriam was standing outside at the into his side, I will not believe.”
20:26
tomb weeping. So, as she wept, she stooped After eight days again his disciples were
and looked into the tomb, 20:12 and she saw two inside, and Thomas was with them. Yeshua
angels in white sitting, one at the head, and came, the doors being locked, and stood in the
one at the feet, where the body of Yeshua had midst, and said, “Peace be to you.” 20:27 Then
lain. 20:13 They told her, “Woman, why are you he said to Thomas, “Reach here your finger,
weeping?” and see my hands. Reach here your hand, and
She said to them, “Because they have taken put it into my side. Don’t be unbelieving, but
away my Lord, and I don’t know where they believing.”
have laid him.” 20:14 When she had said this, 20:28
Thomas answered him, “My Lord and
she turned around and saw Yeshua standing, my God!”
and didn’t know that it was Yeshua. 20:29
Yeshua said to him, “Because you have
20:15
Yeshua said to her, “Woman, why are seen me,n you have believed. Blessed are
you weeping? Who are you looking for?” those who have not seen, and have believed.”
20:30
She, supposing him to be the gardener, said Therefore Yeshua did many other signs
to him, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell in the presence of his disciples, which are
me where you have laid him, and I will take not written in this book; 20:31 but these are
him away.” written, that you may believe that Yeshua is the
20:16
Yeshua said to her, “Miriam.” Messiah, the Son of God, and that believing you
She turned and said to him, “Rabbonim !” may have life in his name.
21:1
which is to say, “Great Teacher!” After these things, Yeshua revealed him-
20:17
Yeshua said to her, “Don’t hold me, for self again to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias.
I haven’t yet ascended to my Father; but go to He revealed himself this way. 21:2 Simon Peter,
my brothers, and tell them, ‘I am ascending Thomas called Didymus, Nathanael of Cana
to my Father and your Father, to my God and in Galilee, and the sons of Zebedee, and two
your God.’” others of his disciples were together. 21:3 Simon
20:18 Peter said to them, “I’m going fishing.”
Miriam Magdalene came and told the
disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that They told him, “We are also coming with
he had said these things to her. 20:19 When you.” They immediately went out, and entered
therefore it was evening, on that day, the first into the boat. That night, they caught nothing.
21:4
day of the week, and when the doors were But when day had already come, Yeshua
locked where the disciples were assembled, for stood on the beach, yet the disciples didn’t
fear of the Judeans, Yeshua came and stood in know that it was Yeshua. 21:5 Yeshua therefore
the midst, and said to them, “Peace be to you.” said to them, “Children, have you anything to
20:20 eat?”
When he had said this, he showed them
his hands and his side. The disciples therefore They answered him, “No.”
21:6
were glad when they saw the Lord. 20:21 Yeshua He said to them, “Cast the net on the
therefore said to them again, “Peace be to you. right side of the boat, and you will find some.”
As the Father has sent me, even so I send They cast it therefore, and now they weren’t
you.” 20:22 When he had said this, he breathed able to draw it in for the multitude of fish.
21:7
on them, and said to them, “Receive the That disciple therefore whom Yeshua loved
m 20:16 Rabboni is a transliteration of the Hebrew word for “great teacher.”
n 20:29 TR adds “ Thomas,”
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said to Peter, “It’s the Lord!” had said this, he said to him, “Follow me.”
21:20
So when Simon Peter heard that it was the Then Peter, turning around, saw a dis-
Lord, he wrapped his coat around him (for he ciple following. This was the disciple whom
was naked), and threw himself into the sea. Yeshua sincerely loved, the one who had also
21:8
But the other disciples came in the little boat leaned on Yeshua’s breast at the supper and
(for they were not far from the land, but about asked, “Lord, who is going to betray You?”
21:21
two hundred cubitso away), dragging the net Peter seeing him, said to Yeshua, “Lord,
full of fish. 21:9 So when they got out on the what about this man?”
21:22
land, they saw a fire of coals there, and fish Yeshua said to him, “If I desire that
laid on it, and bread. 21:10 Yeshua said to them, he stay until I come, what is that to you?
“Bring some of the fish which you have just You follow me.” 21:23 This saying therefore
caught.” went out among the brothersp , that this disciple
21:11
Simon Peter went up, and drew the net wouldn’t die. Yet Yeshua didn’t say to him that
to land, full of great fish, one hundred fifty- he wouldn’t die, but, “If I desire that he stay
three; and even though there were so many, the until I come, what is that to you?” 21:24 This
net wasn’t torn. is the disciple who testifies about these things,
21:12 and wrote these things. We know that his
Yeshua said to them, “Come and eat
breakfast.” witness is true. 21:25 There are also many other
None of the disciples dared inquire of him, things which Yeshua did, which if they would
“Who are you?” knowing that it was the Lord. all be written, I suppose that even the world
21:13 itself wouldn’t have room for the books that
Then Yeshua came and took the bread,
gave it to them, and the fish likewise. 21:14 This would be written.
is now the third time that Yeshua was revealed
to his disciples, after he had risen from the
dead. 21:15 So when they had eaten their break-
fast, Yeshua said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son
of Jonah, do you love me more than these?”
He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I
have affection for you.”
He said to him, “Feed my lambs.” 21:16 He
said to him again a second time, “Simon, son
of Jonah, do you love me?”
He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I
have affection for you.”
He said to him, “Tend my sheep.” 21:17 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.”
Yeshua said to him, “Feed my sheep.
21:18
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.”
21:19
Now he said this, signifying by what
kind of death he would glorify God. When he
o 21:8 200 cubits is about 100 yards or about 91 meters
p 21:23 The word for “brothers” here may be also correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”
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The Acts of the 1:15


In these days, Peter stood up in the
Emissaries midst of the disciples (and the number of
names was about one hundred twenty), and
1:1
The first book I wrote, Theophilus, con- said, 1:16 “Brothers, it was necessary that this
cerned all that Yeshua began both to do and Scripture should be fulfilled, which the Holy
to teach, 1:2 until the day in which he was Spirit spoke before by the mouth of David
received up, after he had given commandment concerning Judah, who was guide to those who
through the Holy Spirit to the emissaries whom took Yeshua. 1:17 For he was numbered with
he had chosen. 1:3 To these he also showed us, and received his portion in this ministry.
1:18
himself alive after he suffered, by many proofs, Now this man obtained a field with the
appearing to them over a period of forty days, reward for his wickedness, and falling head-
and speaking about God’s Kingdom. 1:4 Being long, his body burst open, and all his intestines
assembled together with them, he commanded gushed out. 1:19 It became known to everyone
them, “Don’t depart from Jerusalem, but wait who lived in Jerusalem that in their language
for the promise of the Father, which you heard that field was called ‘Hakel-Dema,’ that is, ‘The
from me. 1:5 For Yochanan indeed immersed field of blood.’ 1:20 For it is written in the scroll
in water, but you will be immersed in the of Psalms,
Holy Spirit not many days from now.” ‘Let his habitation be made desolate.
1:6
Therefore when they had come together, Let no one dwell therein;’a
they asked him, “Lord, are you now restoring and,
the kingdom to Israel?” ‘Let another take his office.’b
1:7 1:21
He said to them, “It isn’t for you to know “Of the men therefore who have accom-
times or seasons which the Father has set panied us all the time that the Lord Yeshua
within his own authority. 1:8 But you will went in and out among us, 1:22 beginning from
receive power when the Holy Spirit has come the immersion of Yochanan, to the day that he
upon you. You will be witnesses to me in was received up from us, of these one must
Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to become a witness with us of his resurrection.”
1:23
the uttermost parts of the earth.” They put forward two, Joseph called
1:9
When he had said these things, as they Barsabbas, who was surnamed Justus, and
were looking, he was taken up, and a cloud Matthiah. 1:24 They prayed, and said, “You,
received him out of their sight. 1:10 While Lord, who know the hearts of all men, show
they were looking steadfastly into the sky as which one of these two you have chosen 1:25 to
he went, behold, two men stood by them in take part in this ministry and office of emissary
white clothing, 1:11 who also said, “You men of from which Judah fell away, that he might
Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky? go to his own place.” 1:26 They drew lots for
This Yeshua, who was received up from you them, and the lot fell on Matthiah, and he was
into the sky will come back in the same way numbered with the Eleven emissaries.
2:1
as you saw him going into the sky.” Now when the day of Shavu‘ot had
1:12
Then they returned to Jerusalem from come, they were all with one accord in one
the mountain called Olivet, which is near place. 2:2 Suddenly there came from the sky
Jerusalem, a Sabbath day’s journey away. a sound like the rushing of a mighty wind,
1:13
When they had come in, they went up and it filled all the house where they were
into the upper room, where they were staying; sitting. 2:3 Tongues like fire appeared and
that is Peter, Yochanan, Jacob, Andrew, Philip, were distributed to them, and one sat on
Thomas, Bartholomew, Matthew, Jacob the son each of them. 2:4 They were all filled with
of Halfai, Simon the Zealot, and Judah the son the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with
of Jacob. 1:14 All these with one accord con- other languages, as the Spirit gave them the
tinued steadfastly in prayer and supplication, ability to speak. 2:5 Now there were dwelling
along with the women, and Miriam the mother in Jerusalem Jews, devout men, from every
of Yeshua, and with his brothers. nation under the sky. 2:6 When this sound
a 1:20 Psalm 69:25
b 1:20 Psalm 109:8
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was heard, the multitude came together, and God did by him in the midst of you, even as you
were bewildered, because everyone heard them yourselves know, 2:23 him, being delivered up
speaking in his own language. 2:7 They were all by the determined counsel and foreknowledge
amazed and marveled, saying to one another, of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless
“Behold, aren’t all these who speak Galileans? men, crucified and killed; 2:24 whom God raised
2:8
How do we hear, everyone in our own native up, having freed him from the agony of death,
language? 2:9 Parthians, Medes, Elamites, and because it was not possible that he should be
people from Mesopotamia, Judea, Cappadocia, held by it. 2:25 For David says concerning him,
Pontus, Asia, 2:10 Phrygia, Pamphylia, Egypt, ‘I saw the Lord always before my face,
the parts of Libya around Cyrene, visitors from For he is on my right hand, that I should
Rome, both Jews and proselytes, 2:11 Cretans not be moved.
and Arabians: we hear them speaking in our 2:26
Therefore my heart was glad, and my
languages the mighty works of God!” 2:12 They tongue rejoiced.
were all amazed, and were perplexed, say- Moreover my flesh also will dwell in
ing one to another, “What does this mean?” hope;
2:13
Others, mocking, said, “They are filled with 2:27
because you will not leave my soul in
new wine.” Sheole ,
2:14
But Peter, standing up with the Eleven, neither will you allow your Holy One to
lifted up his voice, and spoke out to them, see decay.
“You men of Judea, and all you who dwell at 2:28
You made known to me the ways of life.
Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and listen
You will make me full of gladness with
to my words. 2:15 For these aren’t drunken, as
your presence.’f
you suppose, seeing it is only the third hour of 2:29
“Brothers, I may tell you freely of the
the dayc . 2:16 But this is what has been spoken
patriarch David, that he both died and was
through the prophet Joel:
2:17 buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.
‘It will be in the last days, says God, 2:30
Therefore, being a prophet, and knowing
that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh.
that God had sworn with an oath to him that
Your sons and your daughters will prophesy. of the fruit of his body, according to the flesh,
Your young men will see visions. he would raise up the Messiah to sit on his
Your old men will dream dreams. throne, 2:31 he foreseeing this spoke about the
2:18
Yes, and on my servants and on my hand- resurrection of the Messiah, that neither was his
maidens in those days, soul left in Sheolg , nor did his flesh see decay.
I will pour out my Spirit, and they will 2:32
This Yeshua God raised up, to which we
prophesy. all are witnesses. 2:33 Being therefore exalted
2:19
I will show wonders in the sky above, by the right hand of God, and having received
and signs on the earth beneath; from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit,
blood, and fire, and billows of smoke. he has poured out this, which you now see
2:20
The sun will be turned into darkness, and hear. 2:34 For David didn’t ascend into the
and the moon into blood, heavens, but he says himself,
before the great and glorious day of the ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit by my right
Lord comes. hand,
2:21 2:35
It will be, that whoever will call on the until I make your enemies a footstool
name of the Lord will be saved.’d for your feet.”’h
2:22 2:36
“Men of Israel, hear these words! Yeshua “Let all the house of Israel therefore
of Nazareth, a man approved by God to you know certainly that God has made him both
by mighty works and wonders and signs which Lord and Messiah, this Yeshua whom you
c 2:15 about 9:00 AM
d 2:21 Joel 2:28-32
e 2:27 or, Hell
f 2:28 Psalm 16:8-11
g 2:31 or, Hell
h 2:35 Psalm 110:1
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crucified.” received strength. 3:8 Leaping up, he stood, and


2:37 began to walk. He entered with them into the
Now when they heard this, they were cut
to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the temple, walking, leaping, and praising God.
3:9
emissaries, “Brothers, what shall we do?” All the people saw him walking and praising
2:38
Peter said to them, “Repent, and be God. 3:10 They recognized him, that it was he
immersed, every one of you, in the name of who used to sit begging for gifts for the needy
Yeshua the Messiah for the forgiveness of sins, at the Yafeh Gate of the temple. They were
and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. filled with wonder and amazement at what had
2:39
For the promise is to you, and to your happened to him. 3:11 As the lame man who
children, and to all who are far off, even as was healed held on to Peter and Yochanan, all
many as the Lord our God will call to himself.” the people ran together to them in the porch
2:40 that is called Solomon’s, greatly wondering.
With many other words he testified, and
3:12
exhorted them, saying, “Save yourselves from When Peter saw it, he responded to
this crooked generation!” the people, “You men of Israel, why do you
2:41 marvel at this man? Why do you fasten your
Then those who gladly received his word
were immersed. There were added that day eyes on us, as though by our own power or
about three thousand souls. 2:42 They con- godliness we had made him walk? 3:13 The
tinued steadfastly in the emissaries’ teaching God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of
and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and our fathers, has glorified his Servant Yeshua,
prayer. 2:43 Fear came on every soul, and many whom you delivered up, and denied in the
wonders and signs were done through the presence of Pilate, when he had determined to
emissaries. 2:44 All who believed were together, release him. 3:14 But you denied the Holy and
and had all things in common. 2:45 They sold Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to
their possessions and goods, and distributed be granted to you, 3:15 and killed the Prince of
them to all, according as anyone had need. life, whom God raised from the dead, to which
2:46
Day by day, continuing steadfastly with we are witnesses. 3:16 By faith in his name, his
one accord in the temple, and breaking bread name has made this man strong, whom you
at home, they took their food with gladness see and know. Yes, the faith which is through
and singleness of heart, 2:47 praising God, and him has given him this perfect soundness in the
having favor with all the people. The Lord presence of you all.
3:17
added to the assembly day by day those who “Now, brothersk , I know that you did
were being saved. this in ignorance, as did also your rulers.
3:1 3:18
Peter and Yochanan were going up into But the things which God announced by the
the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth mouth of all his prophets, that Messiah should
houri . 3:2 A certain man who was lame from his suffer, he thus fulfilled.
3:19
mother’s womb was being carried, whom they “Repent therefore, and turn again, that
laid daily at the door of the temple which is your sins may be blotted out, so that there may
called Yafehj , to ask gifts for the needy of those come times of refreshing from the presence of
who entered into the temple. 3:3 Seeing Peter the Lord, 3:20 and that he may send Messiah
and Yochanan about to go into the temple, he Yeshua, who was ordained for you before,
asked to receive gifts for the needy. 3:4 Peter, 3:21
whom heaven must receive until the times
fastening his eyes on him, with Yochanan, said, of restoration of all things, which God spoke
“Look at us.” 3:5 He listened to them, expecting long ago by the mouth of his holy prophets.
to receive something from them. 3:6 But Peter 3:22
For Moses indeed said to the fathers, ‘The
said, “Silver and gold have I none, but what I Lord God will raise up a prophet for you
have, that I give you. In the name of Yeshua the from among your brothers, like me. You shall
Messiah of Nazareth, get up and walk!” 3:7 He listen to him in all things whatever he says
took him by the right hand, and raised him to you. 3:23 It will be, that every soul that
up. Immediately his feet and his ankle bones will not listen to that prophet will be utterly
i 3:13:00 PM
j 3:2Beautiful
k 3:17 The word for “brothers” here may be also correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”
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destroyed from among the people.’l 3:24 Yes, they were unlearned and ignorant men, they
and all the prophets from Samuel and those marveled. They recognized that they had been
who followed after, as many as have spoken, with Yeshua. 4:14 Seeing the man who was
they also told of these days. 3:25 You are the healed standing with them, they could say
children of the prophets, and of the covenant nothing against it. 4:15 But when they had com-
which God made with our fathers, saying to manded them to go aside out of the council,
Abraham, ‘In your seed will all the families of they conferred among themselves, 4:16 saying,
the earth be blessed.’m 3:26 God, having raised “What shall we do to these men? Because in-
up his servant, Yeshua, sent him to you first, deed a notable miracle has been done through
to bless you, in turning away everyone of you them, as can be plainly seen by all who dwell
from your wickedness.” in Jerusalem, and we can’t deny it. 4:17 But so
4:1 that this spreads no further among the people,
As they spoke to the people, the priests
and the captain of the temple and the Sad- let’s threaten them, that from now on they don’t
ducees came to them, 4:2 being upset because speak to anyone in this name.” 4:18 They called
they taught the people and proclaimed in them, and commanded them not to speak at all
Yeshua the resurrection from the dead. 4:3 They nor teach in the name of Yeshua.
4:19
laid hands on them, and put them in custody But Peter and Yochanan answered them,
until the next day, for it was now evening. “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen
4:4 to you rather than to God, judge for yourselves,
But many of those who heard the word
4:20
believed, and the number of the men came to for we can’t help telling the things which we
be about five thousand. saw and heard.”
4:5 4:21
It happened in the morning, that their When they had further threatened them,
rulers, elders, and scribes were gathered to- they let them go, finding no way to punish
gether in Jerusalem. 4:6 Annas the high priest them, because of the people; for everyone
was there, with Caiaphas, Yochanan, Alexan- glorified God for that which was done. 4:22 For
der, and as many as were relatives of the the man on whom this miracle of healing was
high priest. 4:7 When they had stood them in performed was more than forty years old.
4:23
the middle of them, they inquired, “By what Being let go, they came to their own
power, or in what name, have you done this?” company, and reported all that the chief priests
4:8
Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, and the elders had said to them. 4:24 When they
said to them, “You rulers of the people, and heard it, they lifted up their voice to God with
elders of Israel, 4:9 if we are examined today one accord, and said, “O Lord, you are God,
concerning a good deed done to a crippled who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and
man, by what means this man has been healed, all that is in them; 4:25 who by the mouth of your
4:10
be it known to you all, and to all the servant, David, said,
people of Israel, that in the name of Yeshua ‘Why do the nations rage,
the Messiah of Nazareth, whom you crucified, and the peoples plot a vain thing?
4:26
whom God raised from the dead, in him does The kings of the earth take a stand,
this man stand here before you whole. 4:11 He is and the rulers take council together,
‘the stone which was regarded as worthless by against the Lord, and against his Mes-
you, the builders, which has become the head siaho .’p
of the corner.’n 4:12 There is salvation in none 4:27
“For truly, in this city against your holy
other, for neither is there any other name under servant, Yeshua, whom you anointed, both
heaven, that is given among men, by which we Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles
must be saved!” and the people of Israel, were gathered together
4:13 4:28
Now when they saw the boldness of to do whatever your hand and your council
Peter and Yochanan, and had perceived that foreordained to happen. 4:29 Now, Lord, look
l 3:23Deuteronomy 18:15,18-19
m 3:25 Genesis 22:18; 26:4
n 4:11 Psalm 118:22
o 4:26 Christ (Greek) and Messiah (Hebrew) both mean Anointed One.
p 4:26 Psalm 2:1-2
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at their threats, and grant to your servants to will carry you out.”
speak your word with all boldness, 4:30 while 5:10
She fell down immediately at his feet,
you stretch out your hand to heal; and that and died. The young men came in and found
signs and wonders may be done through the her dead, and they carried her out and buried
name of your holy Servant Yeshua.” her by her husband. 5:11 Great fear came on
4:31
When they had prayed, the place was the whole assembly, and on all who heard
shaken where they were gathered together. these things. 5:12 By the hands of the emissaries
They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and many signs and wonders were done among
they spoke the word of God with boldness. the people. They were all with one accord in
4:32
The multitude of those who believed were Solomon’s porch. 5:13 None of the rest dared to
of one heart and soul. Not one of them claimed join them, however the people honored them.
5:14
that anything of the things which he possessed More believers were added to the Lord,
was his own, but they had all things in com- multitudes of both men and women. 5:15 They
mon. 4:33 With great power, the emissaries even carried out the sick into the streets, and
gave their testimony of the resurrection of the laid them on cots and mattresses, so that as
Lord Yeshua. Great grace was on them all. Peter came by, at the least his shadow might
4:34
For neither was there among them any who overshadow some of them. 5:16 Multitudes also
lacked, for as many as were owners of lands came together from the cities around Jerusalem,
or houses sold them, and brought the proceeds bringing sick people, and those who were
of the things that were sold, 4:35 and laid them tormented by unclean spirits: and they were all
at the emissaries’ feet, and distribution was healed.
made to each, according as anyone had need. 5:17
But the high priest rose up, and all those
4:36
Yosi, who by the emissaries was surnamed who were with him (which is the sect of the
Barnabas (which is, being interpreted, Son of Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy,
Encouragement), a Levite, a man of Cyprus by 5:18
and laid hands on the emissaries, and put
race, 4:37 having a field, sold it, and brought the them in public custody. 5:19 But an angel of the
money and laid it at the emissaries’ feet. Lord opened the prison doors by night, and
5:1
But a certain man named Hananiah, with brought them out, and said, 5:20 “Go stand and
Shappirah, his wife, sold a possession, 5:2 and speak in the temple to the people all the words
kept back part of the price, his wife also being of this life.”
aware of it, and brought a certain part, and 5:21
When they heard this, they entered into
laid it at the emissaries’ feet. 5:3 But Peter said, the temple about daybreak, and taught. But
“Hananiah, why has Satan filled your heart to the high priest came, and those who were with
lie to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back part him, and called the council together, and all
of the price of the land? 5:4 While you kept it, the senate of the children of Israel, and sent
didn’t it remain your own? After it was sold, to the prison to have them brought. 5:22 But
wasn’t it in your power? How is it that you the officers who came didn’t find them in the
have conceived this thing in your heart? You prison. They returned and reported, 5:23 “We
haven’t lied to men, but to God.” found the prison shut and locked, and the
5:5
Hananiah, hearing these words, fell down guards standing before the doors, but when we
and died. Great fear came on all who heard opened them, we found no one inside!”
these things. 5:6 The young men arose and 5:24
Now when the high priest, the captain
wrapped him up, and they carried him out of the temple, and the chief priests heard these
and buried him. 5:7 About three hours later, his words, they were very perplexed about them
wife, not knowing what had happened, came and what might become of this. 5:25 One came
in. 5:8 Peter answered her, “Tell me whether you and told them, “Behold, the men whom you
sold the land for so much.” put in prison are in the temple, standing and
She said, “Yes, for so much.” teaching the people.” 5:26 Then the captain went
5:9 with the officers, and brought them without
But Peter asked her, “How is it that you
have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of violence, for they were afraid that the people
the Lord? Behold, the feet of those who have might stone them.
5:27
buried your husband are at the door, and they When they had brought them, they set
Acts 5:28 901 Acts 7:3

them before the council. The high priest ques- because their widows were neglected in the
tioned them, 5:28 saying, “Didn’t we strictly daily service. 6:2 The twelve summoned the
command you not to teach in this name? multitude of the disciples and said, “It is
Behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your not appropriate for us to forsake the word
teaching, and intend to bring this man’s blood of God and serve tables. 6:3 Therefore select
on us.” from among you, brothers, seven men of good
5:29
But Peter and the emissaries answered, report, full of the Holy Spirit and of wisdom,
“We must obey God rather than men. 5:30 The whom we may appoint over this business.
6:4
God of our fathers raised up Yeshua, whom But we will continue steadfastly in prayer
you killed, hanging him on a tree. 5:31 God and in the ministry of the word.”
exalted him with his right hand to be a Prince 6:5
These words pleased the whole multi-
and a Savior, to give repentance to Israel, and tude. They chose Stephen, a man full of
remission of sins. 5:32 We are His witnesses of faith and of the Holy Spirit, Philip, Prochorus,
these things; and so also is the Holy Spirit, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a
whom God has given to those who obey him.” proselyte of Antioch; 6:6 whom they set before
5:33
But they, when they heard this, were the emissaries. When they had prayed, they
cut to the heart, and determined to kill them. laid their hands on them. 6:7 The word of
5:34
But one stood up in the council, a Phar- God increased and the number of the disciples
isee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the Torah, multiplied in Jerusalem exceedingly. A great
honored by all the people, and commanded to company of the priests were obedient to the
put the emissaries out for a little while. 5:35 He faith.
said to them, “You men of Israel, be careful 6:8
Stephen, full of faith and power, per-
concerning these men, what you are about to
formed great wonders and signs among the
do. 5:36 For before these days Todah rose up,
people. 6:9 But some of those who were of the
making himself out to be somebody; to whom
synagogue called “The Libertines,” and of the
a number of men, about four hundred, joined
Cyrenians, of the Alexandrians, and of those of
themselves: who was slain; and all, as many
Cilicia and Asia arose, disputing with Stephen.
as obeyed him, were dispersed, and came to 6:10
They weren’t able to withstand the wisdom
nothing. 5:37 After this man, Judah of Galilee
and the Spirit by which he spoke. 6:11 Then they
rose up in the days of the enrollment, and
secretly induced men to say, “We have heard
drew away some people after him. He also
him speak blasphemous words against Moses
perished, and all, as many as obeyed him, were
and God.” 6:12 They stirred up the people, the
scattered abroad. 5:38 Now I tell you, withdraw
elders, and the scribes, and came against him
from these men, and leave them alone. For if
and seized him, and brought him in to the
this counsel or this work is of men, it will be
council, 6:13 and set up false witnesses who said,
overthrown. 5:39 But if it is of God, you will
“This man never stops speaking blasphemous
not be able to overthrow it, and you would be
words against this holy place and the Torah.
found even to be fighting against God!” 6:14
5:40 For we have heard him say that this Yeshua
They agreed with him. Summoning the
of Nazareth will destroy this place, and will
emissaries, they beat them and commanded
change the customs which Moses delivered to
them not to speak in the name of Yeshua, and
us.” 6:15 All who sat in the council, fastening
let them go. 5:41 They therefore departed from
their eyes on him, saw his face like it was the
the presence of the council, rejoicing that they
face of an angel.
were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for
7:1
Yeshua’s name. The high priest said, “Are these things
5:42 so?”
Every day, in the temple and at home,
7:2
they never stopped teaching and proclaiming He said, “Brothers and fathers, listen. The
Yeshua, the Messiah. God of glory appeared to our father Abraham,
6:1
Now in those days, when the number when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived
of the disciples was multiplying, a complaint in Haran, 7:3 and said to him, ‘Get out of your
arose from the Hellenistsq against the Hebrews, land, and from your relatives, and come into
q 6:1 The Hellenists used Greek language and culture, even though they were also of Hebrew descent.
Acts 7:4 902 Acts 7:35

a land which I will show you.’r 7:4 Then he them to throw out their babies, so that they
came out of the land of the Kasdim, and lived in wouldn’t stay alive. 7:20 At that time Moses
Haran. From there, when his father was dead, was born, and was exceedingly handsome. He
God moved him into this land, where you are was nourished three months in his father’s
now living. 7:5 He gave him no inheritance in house. 7:21 When he was thrown out, Pharaoh’s
it, no, not so much as to set his foot on. He daughter took him up, and reared him as her
promised that he would give it to him for a own son. 7:22 Moses was instructed in all the
possession, and to his seed after him, when wisdom of the Egyptians. He was mighty in
he still had no child. 7:6 God spoke in this his words and works. 7:23 But when he was
way: that his seed would live as aliens in a forty years old, it came into his heart to visit
strange land, and that they would be enslaved his brotherst , the children of Israel. 7:24 Seeing
and mistreated for four hundred years. 7:7 ‘I one of them suffer wrong, he defended him,
will judge the nation to which they will be and avenged him who was oppressed, striking
in bondage,’ said God, ‘and after that will the Egyptian. 7:25 He supposed that his brothers
they come out, and serve me in this place.’s understood that God, by his hand, was giving
7:8
He gave him the covenant of circumcision. them deliverance; but they didn’t understand.
7:26
So Abraham became the father of Isaac, and “The day following, he appeared to them
circumcised him the eighth day. Isaac became as they fought, and urged them to be at peace
the father of Jacob, and Jacob became the father again, saying, ‘Sirs, you are brothers. Why do
of the twelve patriarchs. you wrong one another?’ 7:27 But he who did
7:9
“The patriarchs, moved with jealousy his neighbor wrong pushed him away, saying,
against Joseph, sold him into Egypt. God ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?
7:28
was with him, 7:10 and delivered him out of Do you want to kill me, as you killed the
all his afflictions, and gave him favor and Egyptian yesterday?’u 7:29 Moses fled at this
wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. He saying, and became a stranger in the land of
made him governor over Egypt and all his Midian, where he became the father of two
house. 7:11 Now a famine came over all the sons.
7:30
land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction. “When forty years were fulfilled, an
Our fathers found no food. 7:12 But when angel of the Lord appeared to him in the
Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he wilderness of Mount Sinai, in a flame of fire in
sent out our fathers the first time. 7:13 On a bush. 7:31 When Moses saw it, he wondered
the second time Joseph was made known to at the sight. As he came close to see, a voice
his brothers, and Joseph’s race was revealed of the Lord came to him, 7:32 ‘I am the God of
to Pharaoh. 7:14 Joseph sent, and summoned your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of
Jacob, his father, and all his relatives, seventy- Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’v Moses trembled,
five souls. 7:15 Jacob went down into Egypt, and and dared not look. 7:33 The Lord said to him,
he died, himself and our fathers, 7:16 and they ‘Take your sandals off of your feet, for the place
were brought back to Shechem, and laid in the where you stand is holy ground. 7:34 I have
tomb that Abraham bought for a price in silver surely seen the affliction of my people that is
from the children of Hamor of Shechem. in Egypt, and have heard their groaning. I have
7:17
“But as the time of the promise came come down to deliver them. Now come, I will
close which God had sworn to Abraham, the send you into Egypt.’w
people grew and multiplied in Egypt, 7:18 until 7:35
“This Moses, whom they refused, saying,
there arose a different king, who didn’t know ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’—God
Joseph. 7:19 The same took advantage of our has sent him as both a ruler and a deliverer by
race, and mistreated our fathers, and forced the hand of the angel who appeared to him in
r 7:3 Genesis 12:1
s 7:7 Genesis 15:13-14
t 7:23 The word for “brothers” here and where the context allows may be also correctly translated “brothers

and sisters” or “siblings.”


u 7:28 Exodus 2:14
v 7:32 Exodus 3:6
w 7:34 Exodus 3:5,7-8,10
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the bush. 7:36 This man led them out, having ‘or what is the place of my rest?
worked wonders and signs in Egypt, in the 7:50
Didn’t my hand make all these things?’d
Red Seax , and in the wilderness for forty years. 7:51
“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in
7:37
This is that Moses, who said to the children heart and ears, you always resist the Holy
of Israel, ‘The Lord our God will raise up a Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.
prophet for you from among your brothers, like 7:52
Which of the prophets didn’t your fathers
me.y ’z 7:38 This is he who was in the assembly persecute? They killed those who foretold the
in the wilderness with the angel that spoke coming of the Righteous One, of whom you
to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, have now become betrayers and murderers.
who received living oracles to give to us, 7:39 to 7:53
You received the Torah as it was ordained
whom our fathers wouldn’t be obedient, but by angels, and didn’t keep it!”
rejected him, and turned back in their hearts 7:54
Now when they heard these things, they
to Egypt, 7:40 saying to Aaron, ‘Make us gods
were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him
that will go before us, for as for this Moses, who
with their teeth. 7:55 But he, being full of the
led us out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know
Holy Spirit, looked up steadfastly into heaven,
what has become of him.’a 7:41 They made a
and saw the glory of God, and Yeshua standing
calf in those days, and brought a sacrifice to the
on the right hand of God, 7:56 and said, “Behold,
idol, and rejoiced in the works of their hands.
7:42 I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man
But God turned, and gave them up to serve
standing at the right hand of God!”
the army of the sky,b as it is written in the book 7:57
of the prophets, But they cried out with a loud voice, and
‘Did you offer to me slain animals and sacrifices stopped their ears, and rushed at him with one
accord. 7:58 They threw him out of the city,
forty years in the wilderness, O house of
and stoned him. The witnesses placed their
Israel?
7:43 garments at the feet of a young man named
You took up the tabernacle of Moloch,
Saul. 7:59 They stoned Stephen as he called
the star of your god Rephan, out, saying, “Lord Yeshua, receive my spirit!”
the figures which you made to worship. 7:60
He kneeled down, and cried with a loud
I will carry you awayc beyond Babylon.’ voice, “Lord, don’t hold this sin against them!”
7:44
“Our fathers had the tabernacle of the When he had said this, he fell asleep.
testimony in the wilderness, even as he who 8:1
Saul was consenting to his death. A
spoke to Moses commanded him to make it great persecution arose against the assembly
according to the pattern that he had seen; which was in Jerusalem in that day. They
7:45
which also our fathers, in their turn, were all scattered abroad throughout the re-
brought in with Joshua when they entered into gions of Judea and Samaria, except for the
the possession of the nations, whom God drove emissaries. 8:2 Devout men buried Stephen, and
out before the face of our fathers, to the days lamented greatly over him. 8:3 But Saul ravaged
of David, 7:46 who found favor in the sight of the assembly, entering into every house, and
God, and asked to find a habitation for the God dragged both men and women off to prison.
of Jacob. 7:47 But Solomon built him a house. 8:4
Therefore those who were scattered abroad
7:48
However, the Most High doesn’t dwell in went around proclaiming the word. 8:5 Philip
temples made with hands, as the prophet says, went down to the city of Samaria, and pro-
7:49
‘heaven is my throne, claimed to them the Messiah. 8:6 The multi-
and the earth a footstool for my feet. tudes listened with one accord to the things
What kind of house will you build me?’ says that were spoken by Philip, when they heard
the Lord; and saw the signs which he did. 8:7 For unclean
x 7:36 also called the Sea of Suf
y 7:37 TR adds “You shall listen to him.”
z 7:37 Deuteronomy 18:15
a 7:40 Exodus 32:1
b 7:42 This idiom could also be translated “host of heaven,” or “angelic beings,” or “heavenly bodies.”
c 7:43 Amos 5:25-27
d 7:50 Isaiah 66:1-2
Acts 8:8 904 Acts 8:38

spirits came out of many of those who had spoken happen to me.”
8:25
them. They came out, crying with a loud voice. They therefore, when they had testified
Many who had been paralyzed and lame were and spoken the word of the Lord, returned
healed. 8:8 There was great joy in that city. to Jerusalem, and preached the Good News
8:9
But there was a certain man, Simon by to many villages of the Samaritans. 8:26 But
name, who used to practice sorcery in the city, an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying,
and amazed the people of Samaria, making “Arise, and go toward the south to the way that
himself out to be some great one, 8:10 to whom goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza. This is a
they all listened, from the least to the greatest, desert.”
8:27
saying, “This man is that great power of God.” He arose and went; and behold, there
8:11
They listened to him, because for a long was a man of Ethiopia, a eunuche of great
time he had amazed them with his sorceries. authority under Candace, queen of the Ethiopi-
8:12 ans, who was over all her treasure, who had
But when they believed Philip proclaiming
good news concerning the Kingdom of God come to Jerusalem to worship. 8:28 He was
and the name of Yeshua the Messiah, they were returning and sitting in his chariot, and was
immersed, both men and women. 8:13 Simon reading the prophet Isaiah.
8:29
himself also believed. Being immersed, he The Spirit said to Philip, “Go near, and
continued with Philip. Seeing signs and great join yourself to this chariot.”
8:30
miracles occurring, he was amazed. Philip ran to him, and heard him reading
8:14
Now when the emissaries who were at Isaiah the prophet, and said, “Do you under-
Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the stand what you are reading?”
8:31
word of God, they sent Peter and Yochanan He said, “How can I, unless someone
to them, 8:15 who, when they had come down, explains it to me?” He begged Philip to come
prayed for them, that they might receive the up and sit with him. 8:32 Now the passage of
Holy Spirit; 8:16 for as yet he had fallen on none the Scripture which he was reading was this,
of them. They had only been immersed in the “He was led as a sheep to the slaughter.
name of Messiah Yeshua. 8:17 Then they laid As a lamb before his shearer is silent,
their hands on them, and they received the so he doesn’t open his mouth.
8:33
Holy Spirit. 8:18 Now when Simon saw that In his humiliation, his judgment was taken
the Holy Spirit was given through the laying away.
on of the emissaries’ hands, he offered them Who will declare His generation?
money, 8:19 saying, “Give me also this power, For his life is taken from the earth.”f
that whomever I lay my hands on may receive 8:34
The eunuchg answered Philip, “Who is
the Holy Spirit.” 8:20 But Peter said to him, the prophet talking about? About himself, or
“May your silver perish with you, because you about someone else?”
thought you could obtain the gift of God with 8:35
Philip opened his mouth, and beginning
money! 8:21 You have neither part nor lot in this from this Scripture, preached to him Yeshua.
matter, for your heart isn’t right before God. 8:36
As they went on the way, they came to
8:22
Repent therefore of this, your wickedness, some water, and the eunuchh said, “Behold,
and ask God if perhaps the thought of your here is water. What is keeping me from being
heart may be forgiven you. 8:23 For I see that immersed?”
you are in the gall of bitterness and in the 8:37i 8:38
He commanded the chariot to stand
bondage of iniquity.” still, and they both went down into the water,
8:24
Simon answered, “Pray for me to the both Philip and the eunuch,j and he immersed
Lord, that none of the things which you have him.
e 8:27 The Peshitta Aramaic word also means “faithful one” or “believer.”
f 8:33 Isaiah 53:7,8
g 8:34 see note Acts 8:27
h 8:36 see note Acts 8:27
i 8:37 TR adds “Philip said, ‘If you believe with all your heart, you may.’ He answered, ‘I believe that

Yeshua the Messiah is the Son of God.’”


j 8:38 see note Acts 8:27
Acts 8:39 905 Acts 9:30

8:39
When they came up out of the water, the to bind all who call on your name.”
Spirit of the Lord caught Philip away, and the 9:15
But the Lord said to him, “Go your way,
eunuch didn’t see him any more, for he went for he is my chosen vessel to bear my name
on his way rejoicing. 8:40 But Philip was found before the nations and kings, and the children
at Azotus. Passing through, he preached the of Israel. 9:16 For I will show him how many
Good News to all the cities, until he came to things he must suffer for my name’s sake.”
Caesarea. 9:17
9:1 Hananiah departed, and entered into the
But Saul, still breathing threats and
house. Laying his hands on him, he said,
slaughter against the disciples of the Lord,
“Brother Saul, the Lord, who appeared to you
went to the high priest, 9:2 and asked for letters
on the road by which you came, has sent
from him to the synagogues of Damascus, that
me, that you may receive your sight, and be
if he found any who were of the Way, whether
filled with the Holy Spirit.” 9:18 Immediately
men or women, he might bring them bound
something like scales fell from his eyes, and he
to Jerusalem. 9:3 As he traveled, it happened
received his sight. He arose and was immersed.
that he got close to Damascus, and suddenly a 9:19
He took food and was strengthened. Saul
light from the sky shone around him. 9:4 He fell
stayed several days with the disciples who
on the earth, and heard a voice saying to him,
were at Damascus. 9:20 Immediately in the
“Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?”
9:5 synagogues he proclaimed the Messiah, that
He said, “Who are you, Lord?” he is the Son of God. 9:21 All who heard him
The Lord said, “I am Yeshua, whom you are were amazed, and said, “Isn’t this he who in
persecuting.k 9:6 Butl rise up, and enter into Jerusalem made havoc of those who called on
the city, and you will be told what you must this name? And he had come here intending to
do.” bring them bound before the chief priests!”
9:7
The men who traveled with him stood 9:22
But Saul increased more in strength, and
speechless, hearing the sound, but seeing no
confounded the Jews who lived at Damascus,
one. 9:8 Saul arose from the ground, and when
proving that this is the Messiah. 9:23 When
his eyes were opened, he saw no one. They
many days were fulfilled, the Jews conspired
led him by the hand, and brought him into
together to kill him, 9:24 but their plot became
Damascus. 9:9 He was without sight for three
known to Saul. They watched the gates both
days, and neither ate nor drank.
9:10
day and night that they might kill him, 9:25 but
Now there was a certain disciple at Dam- his disciples took him by night, and let him
ascus named Hananiah. The Lord said to him down through the wall, lowering him in a
in a vision, “Hananiah!” basket. 9:26 When Saul had come to Jerusalem,
He said, “Behold, it’s me, Lord.” he tried to join himself to the disciples; but they
9:11
The Lord said to him, “Arise, and go to were all afraid of him, not believing that he
the street which is called Straight, and inquire was a disciple. 9:27 But Barnabas took him, and
in the house of Judah for one named Saul, brought him to the emissaries, and declared to
a man of Tarsus. For behold, he is praying, them how he had seen the Lord in the way,
9:12
and in a vision he has seen a man named and that he had spoken to him, and how at
Hananiah coming in, and laying his hands on Damascus he had preached boldly in the name
him, that he might receive his sight.” of Yeshua. 9:28 He was with them entering intom
9:13
But Hananiah answered, “Lord, I have Jerusalem, 9:29 proclaiming boldly in the name
heard from many about this man, how much of the Lord Yeshua.n He spoke and disputed
evil he did to your holy ones at Jerusalem. against the Hellenists,o but they were seeking
9:14
Here he has authority from the chief priests to kill him. 9:30 When the brothersp knew
k 9:5TR adds “It’s hard for you to kick against the goads.”
l 9:6TR omits “But”
m 9:28 TR and NU add “and going out”
n 9:29 TR and NU omit “Yeshua” and reverse the order of verses 28 & 29.
o 9:29 The Hellenists were Hebrews who used Greek language and culture.
p 9:30 The word for “brothers” here and where the context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers

and sisters” or “siblings.”


Acts 9:31 906 Acts 10:21

it, they brought him down to Caesarea, and in a vision an angel of God coming to him, and
sent him off to Tarsus. 9:31 So the assemblies saying to him, “Cornelius!”
throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria 10:4
He, fastening his eyes on him, and being
had peace, and were built up. They were frightened, said, “What is it, Lord?”
multiplied, walking in the fear of the Lord and He said to him, “Your prayers and your
in the comfort of the Holy Spirit. gifts to the needy have gone up for a memorial
9:32
It happened, as Peter went throughout before God. 10:5 Now send men to Joppa, and
all those parts, he came down also to the get Simon, who is surnamed Peter. 10:6 He
holy ones who lived at Lydda. 9:33 There he lodges with one Simon, a tanner, whose house
found a certain man named Aeneas, who had is by the seaside.t”
been bedridden for eight years, because he 10:7
When the angel who spoke to him had
was paralyzed. 9:34 Peter said to him, “Aeneas, departed, Cornelius called two of his house-
Yeshua the Messiah heals you. Get up and hold servants and a devout soldier of those
make your bed!” Immediately he arose. 9:35 All who waited on him continually. 10:8 Having
who lived at Lydda and in Sharon saw him, and explained everything to them, he sent them
they turned to the Lord. to Joppa. 10:9 Now on the next day as they
9:36 were on their journey, and got close to the
Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple
named Tavita, which when translated, means city, Peter went up on the housetop to pray
Dorcas.q This woman was full of good works at about noon. 10:10 He became hungry and
and acts of mercy which she did. 9:37 It hap- desired to eat, but while they were preparing,
pened in those days that she fell sick, and died. he fell into a trance. 10:11 He saw heaven
When they had washed her, they laid her in opened and a certain container descending to
an upper room. 9:38 As Lydda was near Joppa, him, like a great sheet let down by four corners
the disciples, hearing that Peter was there, sent on the earth, 10:12 in which were all kinds of
two menr to him, imploring him not to delay four-footed animals of the earth, wild animals,
in coming to them. 9:39 Peter got up and went reptiles, and birds of the sky. 10:13 A voice came
with them. When he had come, they brought to him, “Rise, Peter, kill and eat!”
10:14
him into the upper room. All the widows stood But Peter said, “Not so, Lord; for I
by him weeping, and showing the coats and have never eaten anything that is common or
garments which Dorcas had made while she unclean.”
was with them. 9:40 Peter put them all out, and 10:15
A voice came to him again the second
kneeled down and prayed. Turning to the body, time, “What God has cleansed, you must not
he said, “Tavita, get up!” She opened her eyes, call unclean.” 10:16 This was done three times,
and when she saw Peter, she sat up. 9:41 He and immediately the vessel was received up
gave her his hand, and raised her up. Calling into heaven. 10:17 Now while Peter was very
the holy ones and widows, he presented her perplexed in himself what the vision which
alive. 9:42 And it became known throughout all he had seen might mean, behold, the men
Joppa, and many believed in the Lord. 9:43 It who were sent by Cornelius, having made
happened, that he stayed many days in Joppa inquiry for Simon’s house, stood before the
with one Simon, a tanner. gate, 10:18 and called and asked whether Simon,
10:1 who was surnamed Peter, was lodging there.
Now there was a certain man in Cae-
10:19
sarea, Cornelius by name, a centurion of what While Peter was pondering the vision, the
was called the Italian Regiment, 10:2 a devout Spirit said to him, “Behold, threeu men seek
man, and one who feared God with all his you. 10:20 But arise, get down, and go with
house, who gave gifts for the needy generously them, doubting nothing; for I have sent them.”
to the people, and always prayed to God. 10:3 At 10:21
Peter went down to the men, and said,
about the ninth hour of the days , he clearly saw “Behold, I am he whom you seek. Why have
q 9:36 “Dorcas” is Greek for “Gazelle.”
r 9:38Reading from NU, TR; MT omits “two men”
s 10:3 3:00 PM
t 10:6 TR adds “This one will tell you what it is necessary for you to do.”
u 10:19 Reading from TR and NU. MT omits “three”
Acts 10:22 907 Acts 11:6

you come?” which was proclaimed throughout all Judea,


10:22 beginning from Galilee, after the immersion
They said, “Cornelius, a centurion, a
righteous man and one who fears God, and which Yochanan preached; 10:38 even Yeshua
well spoken of by all the Jewish nation, was of Nazareth, how God anointed him with
directed by a holy angel to invite you to his the Holy Spirit and with power, who went
house, and to listen to what you say.” 10:23 So about doing good and healing all who were
he called them in and lodged them. On the next oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.
10:39
day Peter arose and went out with them, and We are witnesses of everything he did both
some of the brothers from Joppa accompanied in the countryside of Judea, and in Jerusalem;
him. 10:24 On the next day they entered into whom they alsow killed, hanging him on a tree.
10:40
Caesarea. Cornelius was waiting for them, God raised him up the third day, and gave
having called together his relatives and his him to be revealed, 10:41 not to all the people,
near friends. 10:25 When it happened that Peter but to witnesses who were chosen before by
entered, Cornelius met him, fell down at his God, to us, who ate and drank with him after
feet, and worshiped him. 10:26 But Peter raised he rose from the dead. 10:42 He commanded
him up, saying, “Stand up! I myself am also us to proclaim to the people and to testify
a man.” 10:27 As he talked with him, he went that this is he who is appointed by God as
in and found many gathered together. 10:28 He the Judge of the living and the dead. 10:43 All
said to them, “You yourselves know how it is the prophets testify about him, that through
an unlawful thing for a man who is a Jew to his name everyone who believes in him will
join himself or come to one of another nation, receive remission of sins.”
10:44
but God has shown me that I shouldn’t call any While Peter was still speaking these
man unholy or unclean. 10:29 Therefore also I words, the Holy Spirit fell on all those who
came without complaint when I was sent for. I heard the word. 10:45 They of the circumcision
ask therefore, why did you send for me?” who believed were amazed, as many as came
10:30
Cornelius said, “Four days ago, I was with Peter, because the gift of the Holy Spirit
fasting until this hour, and at the ninth hour,v was also poured out on the Gentiles. 10:46 For
I prayed in my house, and behold, a man they heard them speaking in other languages
stood before me in bright clothing, 10:31 and and magnifying God.
said, ‘Cornelius, your prayer is heard, and Then Peter answered, 10:47 “Can any man
your gifts to the needy are remembered in the forbid the water, that these who have received
sight of God. 10:32 Send therefore to Joppa, and the Holy Spirit as well as we should not be
summon Simon, who is surnamed Peter. He immersed?” 10:48 He commanded them to be
lodges in the house of Simon a tanner, by the immersed in the name of Yeshua the Messiah.
seaside. When he comes, he will speak to you.’ Then they asked him to stay some days.
10:33 11:1
Therefore I sent to you at once, and it was Now the emissaries and the brothersx
good of you to come. Now therefore we are who were in Judea heard that the Gentiles
all here present in the sight of God to hear had also received the word of God. 11:2 When
all things that have been commanded you by Peter had come up to Jerusalem, those who
God.” were of the circumcision contended with him,
10:34 11:3
Peter opened his mouth and said, saying, “You went in to uncircumcised men,
“Truly I perceive that God doesn’t show fa- and ate with them!”
voritism; 10:35 but in every nation he who fears 11:4
But Peter began, and explained to them
him and works righteousness is acceptable to in order, saying, 11:5 “I was in the city of Joppa
him. 10:36 The word which he sent to the praying, and in a trance I saw a vision: a certain
children of Israel, proclaiming good news of container descending, like it was a great sheet
peace by Yeshua the Messiah—he is Lord of let down from heaven by four corners. It came
all—10:37 you yourselves know what happened, as far as me. 11:6 When I had looked intently
v 10:30 3:00 P. M.
w 10:39 TR omits “also”
x 11:1 The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers

and sisters” or “siblings.”


Acts 11:7 908 Acts 12:10

at it, I considered, and saw the four-footed and full of the Holy Spirit and of faith, and
animals of the earth, wild animals, creeping many people were added to the Lord.
things, and birds of the sky. 11:7 I also heard 11:25
Barnabas went out to Tarsus to look
a voice saying to me, ‘Rise, Peter, kill and for Saul. 11:26 When he had found him, he
eat!’ 11:8 But I said, ‘Not so, Lord, for nothing brought him to Antioch. It happened, that for a
unholy or unclean has ever entered into my whole year they were gathered together with
mouth.’ 11:9 But a voice answered me the the assembly, and taught many people. The
second time out of heaven, ‘What God has disciples were first called Messianic in Antioch.
cleansed, don’t you call unclean.’ 11:10 This 11:27
Now in these days, prophets came
was done three times, and all were drawn up down from Jerusalem to Antioch. 11:28 One of
again into heaven. 11:11 Behold, immediately them named Agabus stood up, and indicated
three men stood before the house where I by the Spirit that there should be a great famine
was, having been sent from Caesarea to me. all over the world, which also happened in the
11:12
The Spirit told me to go with them, without days of Claudius. 11:29 As any of the disciples
discriminating. These six brothers also accom- had plenty, each determined to send relief to
panied me, and we entered into the man’s the brothers who lived in Judea; 11:30 which
house. 11:13 He told us how he had seen the they also did, sending it to the elders by the
angel standing in his house, and saying to him, hands of Barnabas and Saul.
‘Send to Joppa, and get Simon, whose surname 12:1
Now about that time, King Herod
is Peter, 11:14 who will speak to you words by stretched out his hands to oppress some of the
which you will be saved, you and all your assembly. 12:2 He killed Jacob, the brother of
house.’ 11:15 As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit Yochanan, with the sword. 12:3 When he saw
fell on them, even as on us at the beginning. that it pleased the Judeans, he proceeded to
11:16
I remembered the word of the Lord, how seize Peter also. This was during the days of
he said, ‘Yochanan indeed immersed in water, unleavened bread. 12:4 When he had arrested
but you will be immersed in the Holy Spirit.’ him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to
11:17
If then God gave to them the same gift four squads of four soldiers each to guard him,
as us, when we believed in the Lord Yeshua intending to bring him out to the people after
the Messiah, who was I, that I could withstand the Passover. 12:5 Peter therefore was kept in the
God?” prison, but constant prayer was made by the
11:18
When they heard these things, they held assembly to God for him. 12:6 The same night
their peace, and glorified God, saying, “Then when Herod was about to bring him out, Peter
God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with
to life!” two chains. Guards in front of the door kept the
11:19
They therefore who were scattered prison.
12:7
abroad by the oppression that arose about And behold, an angel of the Lord stood
Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, by him, and a light shone in the cell. He struck
and Antioch, speaking the word to no one Peter on the side, and woke him up, saying,
except to Jews only. 11:20 But there were some “Stand up quickly!” His chains fell off from
of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who, his hands. 12:8 The angel said to him, “Get
when they had come to Antioch, spoke to dressed and put on your sandals.” He did
the Hellenists,y proclaiming the Lord Yeshua. so. He said to him, “Put on your cloak, and
11:21
The hand of the Lord was with them, and a follow me.” 12:9 And he went out and followed
great number believed and turned to the Lord. him. He didn’t know that what was being
11:22
The report concerning them came to the done by the angel was real, but thought he saw
ears of the assembly which was in Jerusalem. a vision. 12:10 When they were past the first
They sent out Barnabas to go as far as Antioch, and the second guard, they came to the iron
11:23
who, when he had come, and had seen the gate that leads into the city, which opened to
grace of God, was glad. He exhorted them all, them by itself. They went out, and went down
that with purpose of heart they should remain one street, and immediately the angel departed
near to the Lord. 11:24 For he was a good man, from him.
y 11:20 A Hellenist is someone who keeps Greek customs and culture.
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12:11
When Peter had come to himself, he there were some prophets and teachers: Barn-
said, “Now I truly know that the Lord has abas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of
sent out his angel and delivered me out of Cyrene, Manaen the foster brother of Herod
the hand of Herod, and from everything the the tetrarch, and Saul. 13:2 As they served the
Jewish people were expecting.” 12:12 Thinking Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, “Separate
about that, he came to the house of Miriam, Barnabas and Saul for me, for the work to
the mother of Yochanan whose surname was which I have called them.”
Mark, where many were gathered together and 13:3
Then, when they had fasted and prayed
were praying. 12:13 When Peter knocked at the and laid their hands on them, they sent them
door of the gate, a maid named Rhoda came away. 13:4 So, being sent out by the Holy
to answer. 12:14 When she recognized Peter’s Spirit, they went down to Seleucia. From
voice, she didn’t open the gate for joy, but ran there they sailed to Cyprus. 13:5 When they
in, and reported that Peter was standing in were at Salamis, they proclaimed the word
front of the gate. of God in the Jewish synagogues. They had
12:15
They said to her, “You are crazy!” But also Yochanan as their attendant. 13:6 When
she insisted that it was so. They said, “It is they had gone through the island to Paphos,
his angel.” 12:16 But Peter continued knocking. they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a
When they had opened, they saw him, and Jew, whose name was Bar-Yeshua, 13:7 who was
were amazed. 12:17 But he, beckoning to them with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, a man of
with his hand to be silent, declared to them how understanding. This man summoned Barnabas
the Lord had brought him out of the prison. and Saul, and sought to hear the word of God.
13:8
He said, “Tell these things to Jacob, and to But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name
the brothers.” Then he departed, and went to by interpretation) withstood them, seeking to
another place. turn aside the proconsul from the faith. 13:9 But
12:18 Saul, who is also called Paula , filled with the
Now as soon as it was day, there was no
small stir among the soldiers about what had Holy Spirit, fastened his eyes on him, 13:10 and
become of Peter. 12:19 When Herod had sought said, “Full of all deceit and all cunning, you son
for him, and didn’t find him, he examined the of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness,
guards, and commanded that they should be will you not cease to pervert the right ways
put to death. He went down from Judea to of the Lord? 13:11 Now, behold, the hand of
Caesarea, and stayed there. 12:20 Now Herod the Lord is on you, and you will be blind, not
was very angry with the people of Tyre and seeing the sun for a season!”
Sidon. They came with one accord to him, Immediately a mist and darkness fell on
and, having made Blastus, the king’s personal him. He went around seeking someone to lead
aide, their friend, they asked for peace, because him by the hand. 13:12 Then the proconsul,
their country depended on the king’s country when he saw what was done, believed, being
for food. 12:21 On an appointed day, Herod astonished at the teaching of the Lord.
dressed himself in royal clothing, sat on the 13:13
Now Paul and his company set sail
throne, and gave a speech to them. 12:22 The from Paphos, and came to Perga in Pamphylia.
people shouted, “The voice of a god, and not Yochanan departed from them and returned
of a man!” 12:23 Immediately an angel of the to Jerusalem. 13:14 But they, passing on from
Lord struck him, because he didn’t give God Perga, came to Antioch of Pisidia. They went
the glory, and he was eaten by worms and died. into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and
12:24
But the word of God grew and mul- sat down. 13:15 After the reading of the Torah
tiplied. 12:25 Barnabas and Saul returned toz and the Prophets, the rulers of the synagogue
Jerusalem, when they had fulfilled their ser- sent to them, saying, “Brothers, if you have any
vice, also taking with them Yochanan whose word of exhortation for the people, speak.”
surname was Mark. 13:16
Paul stood up, and beckoning with his
13:1
Now in the assembly that was at Antioch hand said, “Men of Israel, and you who fear
z 12:25 TR reads “from” instead of “to”
a 13:9 Greek Paulos
b 13:17 TR, NU add “Israel”
Acts 13:17 910 Acts 13:47

God, listen. 13:17 The God of this peopleb chose ‘You are my Son.
our fathers, and exalted the people when they Today I have become your father.’e
13:34
stayed as aliens in the land of Egypt, and “Concerning that he raised him up from
with an uplifted arm, he led them out of it. the dead, now no more to return to corruption,
13:18
For a period of about forty years he put he has spoken thus: ‘I will give you the holy
up with them in the wilderness. 13:19 When and sure blessings of David.’f 13:35 Therefore
he had destroyed seven nations in the land he says also in another psalm, ‘You will not
of Canaan, he gave them their land for an allow your Holy One to see decay.’g 13:36 For
inheritance, for about four hundred fifty years. David, after he had in his own generation
13:20
After these things he gave them judges served the counsel of God, fell asleep, and was
until Samuel the prophet. 13:21 Afterward they laid with his fathers, and saw decay. 13:37 But he
asked for a king, and God gave to them Saul whom God raised up saw no decay. 13:38 Be it
the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, known to you therefore, brothersh , that through
for forty years. 13:22 When he had removed this man is proclaimed to you remission of
him, he raised up David to be their king, to sins, 13:39 and by him everyone who believes
whom he also testified, ‘I have found David is justified from all things, from which you
the son of Jesse, a man after my heart, who could not be justified by the Torah of Moses.
will do all my will.’ 13:23 From this man’s seed, 13:40
Beware therefore, lest that come on you
God has brought salvationc to Israel according which is spoken in the Prophets:
to his promise, 13:24 before his coming, when 13:41
‘Behold, you scoffers, and wonder, and
Yochanan had first preached the immersion of perish;
repentance to Israel.d 13:25 As Yochanan was for I work a work in your days,
fulfilling his course, he said, ‘What do you a work which you will in no way believe,
suppose that I am? I am not he. But behold, if one declares it to you.’”i
13:42
one comes after me the sandals of whose feet I So when the Jews went out of the syn-
am not worthy to untie.’ 13:26 Brothers, children agogue, the Gentiles begged that these words
of the stock of Abraham, and those among might be preached to them the next Sabbath.
13:43
you who fear God, the word of this salvation Now when the synagogue broke up, many
is sent out to you. 13:27 For those who dwell of the Jews and of the devout proselytes fol-
in Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they lowed Paul and Barnabas; who, speaking to
didn’t know him, nor the voices of the prophets them, urged them to continue in the grace
which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by of God. 13:44 The next Sabbath almost the
condemning him. 13:28 Though they found no whole city was gathered together to hear the
cause for death, they still asked Pilate to have word of God. 13:45 But when the Jews saw the
him killed. 13:29 When they had fulfilled all multitudes, they were filled with jealousy, and
things that were written about him, they took contradicted the things which were spoken by
him down from the tree, and laid him in a tomb. Paul, and blasphemed.
13:30
But God raised him from the dead, 13:31 and 13:46
Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly,
he was seen for many days by those who came and said, “It was necessary that God’s word
up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are should be spoken to you first. Since indeed
his witnesses to the people. 13:32 We bring you you thrust it from you, and judge yourselves
good news of the promise made to the fathers, unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the
13:33
that God has fulfilled the same to us, their Gentiles. 13:47 For so has the Lord commanded
children, in that he raised up Yeshua. As it is us, saying,
also written in the second psalm, ‘I have set you as a light for the Gentiles,
c 13:23 TR, NU read “a Savior, Yeshua” instead of “salvation”
d 13:24 TR, NU read “to all the people of Israel” instead of “to Israel”
e 13:33 Psalm 2:7
f 13:34 Isaiah 55:3
g 13:35 Psalm 16:10
h 13:38 The word for “brothers” here and where the context allows may also be correctly translated

“brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”


i 13:41 Habakkuk 1:5
Acts 13:48 911 Acts 15:1

that you should bring salvation to the along with the multitudes. 14:14 But when the
uttermost parts of the earth.’”j emissaries, Barnabas and Paul, heard of it,
13:48 they tore their clothes, and sprang into the
As the Gentiles heard this, they were
glad, and glorified the word of God. As multitude, crying out, 14:15 “Men, why are you
many as were appointed to eternal life be- doing these things? We also are men of like
13:49 passions with you, and bring you good news,
lieved. The Lord’s word was spread
abroad throughout all the region. 13:50 But that you should turn from these vain things to
the Jews stirred up the devout and promi- the living God, who made the sky and the earth
nent women and the chief men of the city, and the sea, and all that is in them; 14:16 who in
and stirred up a persecution against Paul and the generations gone by allowed all the nations
Barnabas, and threw them out of their borders. to walk in their own ways. 14:17 Yet he didn’t
13:51 leave himself without witness, in that he did
But they shook off the dust of their feet
against them, and came to Iconium. 13:52 The good and gave youl rains from the sky and
disciples were filled with joy with the Holy fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and
Spirit. gladness.”
14:1 14:18
It happened in Iconium that they entered Even saying these things, they hardly
together into the Jewish synagogue, and so stopped the multitudes from making a sacrifice
spoke that a great multitude both of Jews and to them. 14:19 But some Jews from Antioch and
of Greeks believed. 14:2 But the disbelievingk Iconium came there, and having persuaded the
Jews stirred up and embittered the souls of multitudes, they stoned Paul, and dragged him
the Gentiles against the brothers. 14:3 Therefore out of the city, supposing that he was dead.
14:20
they stayed there a long time, speaking boldly But as the disciples stood around him,
in the Lord, who testified to the word of his he rose up, and entered into the city. On the
grace, granting signs and wonders to be done next day he went out with Barnabas to Derbe.
14:21
by their hands. 14:4 But the multitude of the city When they had preached the Good News
was divided. Part sided with the Jews, and part to that city, and had made many disciples,
with the emissaries. 14:5 When some of both they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Anti-
the Gentiles and the Jews, with their rulers, och, 14:22 confirming the souls of the disciples,
made a violent attempt to mistreat and stone exhorting them to continue in the faith, and
them, 14:6 they became aware of it, and fled to that through many afflictions we must enter
the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra, Derbe, and the into the Kingdom of God. 14:23 When they had
surrounding region. 14:7 There they preached appointed elders for them in every assembly,
the Good News. and had prayed with fasting, they commended
14:8 them to the Lord, on whom they had believed.
At Lystra a certain man sat, impotent in
14:24
his feet, a cripple from his mother’s womb, They passed through Pisidia, and came
who never had walked. 14:9 He was listening to Pamphylia. 14:25 When they had spoken the
to Paul speaking, who, fastening eyes on him, word in Perga, they went down to Attalia.
14:26
and seeing that he had faith to be made whole, From there they sailed to Antioch, from
14:10 where they had been committed to the grace
said with a loud voice, “Stand upright
on your feet!” He leaped up and walked. of God for the work which they had fulfilled.
14:11 14:27
When the multitude saw what Paul had When they had arrived, and had gathered
done, they lifted up their voice, saying in the the assembly together, they reported all the
language of Lycaonia, “The gods have come things that God had done with them, and that
down to us in the likeness of men!” 14:12 They he had opened a door of faith to the nations.
14:28
called Barnabas “Jupiter,” and Paul “Mercury,” They stayed there with the disciples for a
because he was the chief speaker. 14:13 The long time.
15:1
priest of Jupiter, whose temple was in front Some men came down from Judea and
of their city, brought oxen and garlands to taught the brothers, “Unless you are circum-
the gates, and would have made a sacrifice cised after the custom of Moses, you can’t be
j 13:47 Isaiah 49:6
k 14:2 or, disobedient
l 14:17 TR reads “us” instead of “you”
Acts 15:2 912 Acts 15:29

saved.” 15:2 Therefore when Paul and Barnabas I will again build its ruins.
had no small discord and discussion with I will set it up,
them, they appointed Paul and Barnabas, and 15:17
That the rest of men may seek after
some others of them, to go up to Jerusalem the Lord;
to the emissaries and elders about this ques- All the Gentiles who are called by my
tion. 15:3 They, being sent on their way by name,
the assembly, passed through both Phoenicia
Says the Lord, who does all these things.o
and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the 15:18
All his works are known to God from
Gentiles. They caused great joy to all the broth-
eternity.’
ers.m 15:4 When they had come to Jerusalem, 15:19
they were received by the assembly and the “Therefore my judgment is that we
emissaries and the elders, and they reported all don’t trouble those from among the Gentiles
things that God had done with them. who turn to God, 15:20 but that we write to
15:5 them that they abstain from the pollution of
But some of the sect of the Pharisees
idols, from sexual immorality, from what is
who believed rose up, saying, “It is necessary
strangled, and from blood. 15:21 For Moses from
to circumcise them, and to command them to
generations of old has in every city those who
keep the Torah of Moses.”
15:6
proclaim him, being read in the synagogues
The emissaries and the elders were gath- every Sabbath.”
ered together to see about this matter. 15:7 When 15:22
Then it seemed good to the emissaries
there had been much discussion, Peter rose up
and the elders, with the whole assembly, to
and said to them, “Brothers, you know that a
choose men out of their company, and send
good while ago God made a choice among you,
them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas:
that by my mouth the nations should hear the
Judah called Barsabbas, and Silas, chief men
word of the Good News, and believe. 15:8 God,
among the brothers.p 15:23 They wrote these
who knows the heart, testified about them,
things by their hand:
giving them the Holy Spirit, just like he did to
“The emissaries, the elders, and the brothers,
us. 15:9 He made no distinction between us and
to the brothers who are of the Gentiles in Anti-
them, cleansing their hearts by faith. 15:10 Now
och, Syria, and Cilicia: greetings. 15:24 Because
therefore why do you tempt God, that you
we have heard that some who went out from
should put a yoke on the neck of the disciples
us have troubled you with words, unsettling
which neither our fathers nor we were able to
your souls, saying, ‘You must be circumcised
bear? 15:11 But we believe that we are saved
and keep the Torah,’ to whom we gave no
through the grace of the Lord Yeshua,n just as
commandment; 15:25 it seemed good to us,
they are.”
15:12
having come to one accord, to choose out
All the multitude kept silence, and they men and send them to you with our beloved
listened to Barnabas and Paul reporting what Barnabas and Paul, 15:26 men who have risked
signs and wonders God had done among the their lives for the name of our Lord Yeshua
nations through them. 15:13 After they were the Messiah. 15:27 We have sent therefore Judah
silent, Jacob answered, “Brothers, listen to me. and Silas, who themselves will also tell you
15:14
Simeon has reported how God first visited the same things by word of mouth. 15:28 For
the nations, to take out of them a people for his it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us,
name. 15:15 This agrees with the words of the to lay no greater burden on you than these
prophets. As it is written, necessary things: 15:29 that you abstain from
15:16
‘After these things I will return. things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from
I will again build the tabernacle of David, things strangled, and from sexual immorality,
which has fallen. from which if you keep yourselves, it will be
m 15:3 The word for “brothers” here and where the context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers

and sisters” or “siblings.”


n 15:11 TR adds “Messiah”
o 15:17 Amos 9:11-12
p 15:22 The word for “brothers” here and where the context allows may also be correctly translated

“brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”


Acts 15:30 913 Acts 16:23

well with you. Farewell.” down to Troas. 16:9 A vision appeared to Paul
15:30
So, when they were sent off, they came in the night. There was a man of Macedonia
to Antioch. Having gathered the multitude standing, begging him, and saying, “Come
together, they delivered the letter. 15:31 When over into Macedonia and help us.” 16:10 When
they had read it, they rejoiced over the en- he had seen the vision, immediately we sought
couragement. 15:32 Judah and Silas, also being to go out to Macedonia, concluding that the
prophets themselves, encouraged the brothers Lord had called us to proclaim the Good News
with many words, and strengthened them. to them. 16:11 Setting sail therefore from Troas,
15:33
After they had spent some time there, we made a straight course to Samothrace, and
they were sent back with greetings from the the day following to Neapolis; 16:12 and from
brothers to the emissaries. 15:34 q 15:35 But Paul there to Philippi, which is a city of Macedonia,
and Barnabas stayed in Antioch, teaching and the foremost of the district, a Roman colony. We
proclaiming the word of the Lord, with many were staying some days in this city.
16:13
others also. On the Sabbath day we went forth
15:36
After some days Paul said to Barnabas, outside of the city by a riverside, where we
“Let’s return now and visit our brothers in supposed there was a place of prayer, and we
every city in which we proclaimed the word sat down, and spoke to the women who had
of the Lord, to see how they are doing.” come together. 16:14 A certain woman named
15:37
Barnabas planned to take Yochanan, who Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira,
was called Mark, with them also. 15:38 But Paul one who worshiped God, heard us; whose
didn’t think that it was a good idea to take heart the Lord opened to listen to the things
with them someone who had withdrawn from which were spoken by Paul. 16:15 When she and
them in Pamphylia, and didn’t go with them her household were immersed, she begged us,
to do the work. 15:39 Then the contention grew saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful
so sharp that they separated from each other. to the Lord, come into my house, and stay.” So
Barnabas took Mark with him, and sailed away she persuaded us.
to Cyprus, 15:40 but Paul chose Silas, and went 16:16
It happened, as we were going to
out, being commended by the brothers to the prayer, that a certain girl having a spirit of
grace of God. 15:41 He went through Syria and divination met us, who brought her masters
Cilicia, strengthening the assemblies. much gain by fortune telling. 16:17 Following
16:1
He came to Derbe and Lystra: and Paul and us, she cried out, “These men are
behold, a certain disciple was there, named servants of the Most High God, who proclaim
Timothy, the son of a Jewess who believed; to us a way of salvation!” 16:18 She was doing
but his father was a Greek. 16:2 The brothers this for many days.
who were at Lystra and Iconium gave a good But Paul, becoming greatly annoyed, turned
16:3
testimony about him. Paul wanted to and said to the spirit, “I command you in the
have him go out with him, and he took and name of Yeshua the Messiah to come out of
circumcised him because of the Jews who were her!” It came out that very hour. 16:19 But
in those parts; for they all knew that his father when her masters saw that the hope of their
was a Greek. 16:4 As they went on their way gain was gone, they seized Paul and Silas, and
through the cities, they delivered the decrees to dragged them into the marketplace before the
them to keep which had been ordained by the rulers. 16:20 When they had brought them to
emissaries and elders who were at Jerusalem. the magistrates, they said, “These men, being
16:5
So the assemblies were strengthened in the Jews, are agitating our city, 16:21 and set forth
faith, and increased in number daily. customs which it is not lawful for us to accept
16:6
When they had gone through the region or to observe, being Romans.”
16:22
of Phrygia and Galatia, they were forbidden The multitude rose up together against
by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia. them, and the magistrates tore their clothes
16:7
When they had come opposite Mysia, they off of them, and commanded them to be
tried to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit didn’t beaten with rods. 16:23 When they had laid
allow them. 16:8 Passing by Mysia, they came many stripes on them, they threw them into
q 15:34 Some manuscripts add: But it seemed good to Silas to stay there.
Acts 16:24 914 Acts 17:15

prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely, and entered into Lydia’s house. When they had
16:24
who, having received such a command, seen the brothers, they encouraged them, and
threw them into the inner prison, and secured departed.
their feet in the stocks. 17:1
Now when they had passed through
16:25
But about midnight Paul and Silas were Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thes-
praying and singing hymns to God, and the salonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue.
prisoners were listening to them. 16:26 Suddenly 17:2
Paul, as was his custom, went in to them,
there was a great earthquake, so that the and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them
foundations of the prison were shaken; and from the Scriptures, 17:3 explaining and demon-
immediately all the doors were opened, and strating that the Messiah had to suffer and rise
everyone’s bonds were loosened. 16:27 The again from the dead, and saying, “This Yeshua,
jailer, being roused out of sleep and seeing whom I proclaim to you, is the Messiah.”
the prison doors open, drew his sword and 17:4
Some of them were persuaded, and
was about to kill himself, supposing that the joined Paul and Silas, of the devout Greeks
prisoners had escaped. 16:28 But Paul cried with a great multitude, and not a few of the chief
a loud voice, saying, “Don’t harm yourself, for women. 17:5 But the unpersuaded Jews took
we are all here!” alongr some wicked men from the marketplace,
16:29
He called for lights and sprang in, and, and gathering a crowd, set the city in an uproar.
fell down trembling before Paul and Silas, Assaulting the house of Jason, they sought
16:30
and brought them out and said, “Sirs, what to bring them out to the people. 17:6 When
must I do to be saved?” they didn’t find them, they dragged Jason and
16:31
They said, “Believe in the Lord Yeshua certain brotherss before the rulers of the city,
the Messiah, and you will be saved, you and crying, “These who have turned the world
your household.” 16:32 They spoke the word of upside down have come here also, 17:7 whom
the Lord to him, and to all who were in his Jason has received. These all act contrary to the
house. decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another
16:33
He took them the same hour of the king, Yeshua!” 17:8 The multitude and the rulers
night, and washed their stripes, and was im- of the city were troubled when they heard these
mediately immersed, he and all his household. things. 17:9 When they had taken security from
16:34
He brought them up into his house, and set Jason and the rest, they let them go. 17:10 The
food before them, and rejoiced greatly, with all brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away
his household, having believed in God. by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they
16:35
But when it was day, the magistrates went into the Jewish synagogue.
sent the sergeants, saying, “Let those men go.” 17:11
Now these were more noble than those
16:36
The jailer reported these words to Paul, in Thessalonica, in that they received the word
saying, “The magistrates have sent to let you with all readiness of the mind, examining the
go; now therefore come out, and go in peace.” Scriptures daily to see whether these things
16:37
But Paul said to them, “They have were so. 17:12 Many of them therefore believed;
beaten us publicly, without a trial, men who are also of the prominent Greek women, and not
Romans, and have cast us into prison! Do they a few men. 17:13 But when the Jews of Thes-
now release us secretly? No, most certainly, but salonica had knowledge that the word of God
let them come themselves and bring us out!” was proclaimed by Paul at Beroea also, they
16:38
The sergeants reported these words to came there likewise, agitating the multitudes.
17:14
the magistrates, and they were afraid when Then the brothers immediately sent out
they heard that they were Romans, 16:39 and Paul to go as far as to the sea, and Silas and
they came and begged them. When they had Timothy still stayed there. 17:15 But those who
brought them out, they asked them to depart escorted Paul brought him as far as Athens. Re-
from the city. 16:40 They went out of the prison, ceiving a commandment to Silas and Timothy
r 17:5 TR reads “And the Jews who were unpersuaded, becoming envious and taking along” instead of

“But the unpersuaded Jews took along”


s 17:6 The word for “brothers” here and where the context allows may be also correctly translated “brothers

and sisters” or “siblings.”


Acts 17:16 915 Acts 18:13

that they should come to him very quickly, they people everywhere should repent, 17:31 because
departed. he has appointed a day in which he will
17:16
Now while Paul waited for them at judge the world in righteousness by the man
Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as whom he has ordained; of which he has given
he saw the city full of idols. 17:17 So he reasoned assurance to all men, in that he has raised him
in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout from the dead.”
17:32
persons, and in the marketplace every day with Now when they heard of the resurrec-
those who met him. 17:18 Some of the Epicurean tion of the dead, some mocked; but others said,
and Stoic philosophers alsot were conversing “We want to hear you again concerning this.”
17:33
with him. Some said, “What does this babbler Thus Paul went out from among them.
17:34
want to say?” But certain men joined with him, and
Others said, “He seems to be advocating believed, among whom also was Dionysius the
foreign deities,” because he preached Yeshua Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and
and the resurrection. others with them.
17:19 18:1
They took hold of him, and brought him After these things Paul departed from
to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know what Athens, and came to Corinth. 18:2 He found
this new teaching is, which is spoken by you? a certain Jew named Aquila, a man of Pontus
17:20
For you bring certain strange things to our by race, who had recently come from Italy,
ears. We want to know therefore what these with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had
things mean.” 17:21 Now all the Athenians and commanded all the Jews to depart from Rome.
the strangers living there spent their time in He came to them, 18:3 and because he practiced
nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some the same trade, he lived with them and worked,
new thing. for by trade they were tent makers. 18:4 He
17:22 reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and
Paul stood in the middle of the Areopa-
gus, and said, “You men of Athens, I perceive persuaded Jews and Greeks. 18:5 But when Silas
that you are very religious in all things. 17:23 For and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul
as I passed along, and observed the objects was compelled by the Spirit, testifying to the
of your worship, I found also an altar with Jews that Yeshua was the Messiah. 18:6 When
this inscription: ‘TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.’ they opposed him and blasphemed, he shook
What therefore you worship in ignorance, this out his clothing and said to them, “Your blood
I announce to you. 17:24 The God who made be on your own heads! I am clean. From now
the world and all things in it, he, being Lord on, I will go to the Gentiles!”
18:7
of heaven and earth, doesn’t dwell in temples He departed there, and went into the
made with hands, 17:25 neither is he served by house of a certain man named Justus, one who
men’s hands, as though he needed anything, worshiped God, whose house was next door
seeing he himself gives to all life and breath, to the synagogue. 18:8 Crispus, the ruler of the
and all things. 17:26 He made from one blood synagogue, believed in the Lord with all his
every nation of men to dwell on all the surface house. Many of the Corinthians, when they
of the earth, having determined appointed heard, believed and were immersed. 18:9 The
seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings, Lord said to Paul in the night by a vision,
17:27
that they should seek the Lord, if perhaps “Don’t be afraid, but speak and don’t be
they might reach out for him and find him, silent; 18:10 for I am with you, and no one
though he is not far from each one of us. will attack you to harm you, for I have many
17:28
‘For in him we live, and move, and have people in this city.”
18:11
our being.’ As some of your own poets have He lived there a year and six months,
said, ‘For we are also his offspring.’ 17:29 Being teaching the word of God among them.
18:12
then the offspring of God, we ought not to But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia,
think that the Divine Nature is like gold, or the Jews with one accord rose up against
silver, or stone, engraved by art and design of Paul and brought him before the judgment
man. 17:30 The times of ignorance therefore God seat, 18:13 saying, “This man persuades men to
overlooked. But now he commands that all worship God contrary to the law.”
t 17:18 TR omits “also”
Acts 18:14 916 Acts 19:17

18:14 19:1
But when Paul was about to open his It happened that, while Apollos was
mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, “If indeed it at Corinth, Paul, having passed through the
were a matter of wrong or of wicked crime, you upper country, came to Ephesus, and found
Jews, it would be reasonable that I should bear certain disciples. 19:2 He said to them, “Did you
with you; 18:15 but if they are questions about receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?”
words and names and your own law, look to They said to him, “No, we haven’t even
it yourselves. For I don’t want to be a judge heard that there is a Holy Spirit.”
of these matters.” 18:16 He drove them from the 19:3
He said, “Into what then were you im-
judgment seat. mersed?”
18:17
Then all the Greeks laid hold on Sos- They said, “Into Yochanan’s immersion.”
thenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat 19:4
Paul said, “Yochanan indeed immersed
him before the judgment seat. Gallio didn’t with the immersion of repentance, saying to the
care about any of these things. people that they should believe in the one who
18:18
Paul, having stayed after this many would come after him, that is, in Yeshua.”
19:5
more days, took his leave of the brothers,u When they heard this, they were im-
and sailed from there for Syria, together with mersed in the name of the Lord Yeshua.
19:6
Priscilla and Aquila. He shaved his head in When Paul had laid his hands on them, the
Cenchreae, for he had a vow. 18:19 He came to Holy Spirit came on them, and they spoke with
Ephesus, and he left them there; but he himself other languages and prophesied. 19:7 They were
entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with about twelve men in all. 19:8 He entered into
the Jews. 18:20 When they asked him to stay the synagogue, and spoke boldly for a period of
with them a longer time, he declined; 18:21 but three months, reasoning and persuading about
taking his leave of them, and saying, “I must by the things concerning the Kingdom of God.
all means keep this coming feast in Jerusalem, 19:9
But when some were hardened and dis-
but I will return again to you if God wills,” he obedient, speaking evil of the Way before
set sail from Ephesus. the multitude, he departed from them, and
18:22
When he had landed at Caesarea, he separated the disciples, reasoning daily in the
went up and greeted the assembly, and went school of Tyrannus. 19:10 This continued for two
down to Antioch. 18:23 Having spent some years, so that all those who lived in Asia heard
time there, he departed, and went through the word of the Lord Yeshua, both Jews and
the region of Galatia, and Phrygia, in order, Greeks.
18:24 19:11
establishing all the disciples. Now a God worked special miracles by the
certain Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian hands of Paul, 19:12 so that even handkerchiefs
by race, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus. or aprons were carried away from his body to
He was mighty in the Scriptures. 18:25 This the sick, and the evil spirits went out. 19:13 But
man had been instructed in the way of the some of the itinerant Jews, exorcists, took
Lord; and being fervent in spirit, he spoke on themselves to invoke over those who had
and taught accurately the things concerning the evil spirits the name of the Lord Yeshua,
Yeshua, although he knew only the immersion saying, “We adjure you by Yeshua whom Paul
of Yochanan. 18:26 He began to speak boldly in preaches.” 19:14 There were seven sons of one
the synagogue. But when Priscilla and Aquila Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, who did this.
heard him, they took him aside, and explained 19:15
The evil spirit answered, “Yeshua I
to him the way of God more accurately. know, and Paul I know, but who are you?”
18:27 19:16
When he had determined to pass over The man in whom the evil spirit was
into Achaia, the brothers encouraged him, and leaped on them, and overpowered them, and
wrote to the disciples to receive him. When prevailed against them, so that they fled out
he had come, he greatly helped those who had of that house naked and wounded. 19:17 This
believed through grace; 18:28 for he powerfully became known to all, both Jews and Greeks,
refuted the Jews, publicly showing by the who lived at Ephesus. Fear fell on them all, and
Scriptures that Yeshua was the Messiah. the name of the Lord Yeshua was magnified.
u 18:18 The word for “brothers” here and where the context allows may also be correctly translated
“brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”
Acts 19:18 917 Acts 20:8

19:18
Many also of those who had believed have made a defense to the people. 19:34 But
came, confessing, and declaring their deeds. when they perceived that he was a Jew, all with
19:19
Many of those who practiced magical arts one voice for a time of about two hours cried
brought their books together and burned them out, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”
in the sight of all. They counted their price, and 19:35
When the town clerk had quieted the
found it to be fifty thousand pieces of silver.v
19:20 multitude, he said, “You men of Ephesus,
So the word of the Lord was growing and
what man is there who doesn’t know that the
becoming mighty.
19:21
city of the Ephesians is temple keeper of the
Now after these things had ended, Paul great goddess Artemis, and of the image which
determined in the spirit, when he had passed fell down from Zeus? 19:36 Seeing then that
through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to these things can’t be denied, you ought to be
Jerusalem, saying, “After I have been there, I quiet, and to do nothing rash. 19:37 For you
must also see Rome.” have brought these men here, who are neither
19:22
Having sent into Macedonia two of robbers of temples nor blasphemers of your
those who served him, Timothy and Erastus, he goddess. 19:38 If therefore Demetrius and the
himself stayed in Asia for a while. 19:23 About craftsmen who are with him have a matter
that time there arose no small stir concern- against anyone, the courts are open, and there
ing the Way. 19:24 For a certain man named are proconsuls. Let them press charges against
Demetrius, a silversmith, who made silver one another. 19:39 But if you seek anything
shrines of Artemis, brought no little business to about other matters, it will be settled in the
the craftsmen, 19:25 whom he gathered together, regular assembly. 19:40 For indeed we are in
with the workmen of like occupation, and said, danger of being accused concerning this day’s
“Sirs, you know that by this business we have riot, there being no cause. Concerning it, we
our wealth. 19:26 You see and hear, that not wouldn’t be able to give an account of this
at Ephesus alone, but almost throughout all commotion.” 19:41 When he had thus spoken,
Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away he dismissed the assembly.
many people, saying that they are no gods, 20:1
that are made with hands. 19:27 Not only is After the uproar had ceased, Paul sent
there danger that this our trade come into for the disciples, took leave of them, and
disrepute, but also that the temple of the great departed to go into Macedonia. 20:2 When
goddess Artemis will be counted as nothing, he had gone through those parts, and had
and her majesty destroyed, whom all Asia and encouraged them with many words, he came
the world worships.” into Greece. 20:3 When he had spent three
19:28 months there, and a plot was made against him
When they heard this they were filled
by Jews as he was about to set sail for Syria,
with anger, and cried out, saying, “Great is
he determined to return through Macedonia.
Artemis of the Ephesians!” 19:29 The whole 20:4
These accompanied him as far as Asia:
city was filled with confusion, and they rushed
Sopater of Beroea; Aristarchus and Secundus
with one accord into the theater, having seized
of the Thessalonians; Gaius of Derbe; Timothy;
Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia,
and Tychicus and Trophimus of Asia. 20:5 But
Paul’s companions in travel. 19:30 When Paul
these had gone ahead, and were waiting for
wanted to enter in to the people, the disciples
us at Troas. 20:6 We sailed away from Philippi
didn’t allow him. 19:31 Certain also of the
after the days of Unleavened Bread, and came
Asiarchs, being his friends, sent to him and
to them at Troas in five days, where we stayed
begged him not to venture into the theater.
19:32 seven days.
Some therefore cried one thing, and some
20:7
another, for the assembly was in confusion. On the first day of the week, when
Most of them didn’t know why they had come the disciples were gathered together to break
together. 19:33 They brought Alexander out of bread, Paul talked with them, intending to de-
the multitude, the Jews putting him forward. part on the next day, and continued his speech
Alexander beckoned with his hand, and would until midnight. 20:8 There were many lights
v 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
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in the upper room where wew were gathered I received from the Lord Yeshua, to fully testify
together. 20:9 A certain young man named to the Good News of the grace of God.
Eutychus sat in the window, weighed down 20:25
“Now, behold, I know that you all,
with deep sleep. As Paul spoke still longer, among whom I went about proclaiming the
being weighed down by his sleep, he fell down Kingdom of God, will see my face no more.
from the third story, and was taken up dead. 20:26
20:10
Therefore I testify to you this day that I am
Paul went down, and fell upon him, and clean from the blood of all men, 20:27 for I didn’t
embracing him said, “Don’t be troubled, for his shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel
life is in him.” of God. 20:28 Take heed, therefore, to your-
20:11
When he had gone up, and had broken selves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy
bread, and eaten, and had talked with them Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the
a long while, even until break of day, he assembly of the Lord andy God which he pur-
departed. 20:12 They brought the boy in alive, chased with his own blood. 20:29 For I know that
and were greatly comforted. after my departure, vicious wolves will enter in
20:13
But we who went ahead to the ship set among you, not sparing the flock. 20:30 Men will
sail for Assos, intending to take Paul aboard arise from among your own selves, speaking
there, for he had so arranged, intending himself perverse things, to draw away the disciples
to go by land. 20:14 When he met us at Assos, after them. 20:31 Therefore watch, remembering
we took him aboard, and came to Mitylene. that for a period of three years I didn’t cease to
20:15 admonish everyone night and day with tears.
Sailing from there, we came the following 20:32
day opposite Chios. The next day we touched Now, brothers,z I entrust you to God, and
at Samos and stayed at Trogyllium, and the day to the word of his grace, which is able to build
after we came to Miletus. 20:16 For Paul had up, and to give you the inheritance among all
determined to sail past Ephesus, that he might those who are sanctified. 20:33 I coveted no one’s
not have to spend time in Asia; for he was silver, or gold, or clothing. 20:34 You yourselves
hastening, if it were possible for him, to be in know that these hands served my necessities,
Jerusalem on the day of Shavu‘ot. and those who were with me. 20:35 In all things
20:17 I gave you an example, that so laboring you
From Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and
ought to help the weak, and to remember the
called to himself the elders of the assembly.
20:18 words of the Lord Yeshua, that he himself said,
When they had come to him, he said to
‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”
them, “You yourselves know, from the first day 20:36
that I set foot in Asia, how I was with you all the When he had spoken these things,
time, 20:19 serving the Lord with all humility, he knelt down and prayed with them all.
20:37
with many tears, and with trials which hap- They all wept a lot, and fell on Paul’s
pened to me by the plots of the Jews; 20:20 how neck and kissed him, 20:38 sorrowing most of all
I didn’t shrink from declaring to you anything because of the word which he had spoken, that
that was profitable, teaching you publicly and they should see his face no more. And they
from house to house, 20:21 testifying both to accompanied him to the ship.
21:1
Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God, When it happened that we had parted
and faith toward our Lord Yeshua.x 20:22 Now, from them and had set sail, we came with a
behold, I go bound by the Spirit to Jerusalem, straight course to Cos, and the next day to
not knowing what will happen to me there; Rhodes, and from there to Patara. 21:2 Having
20:23
except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every found a ship crossing over to Phoenicia, we
city, saying that bonds and afflictions wait for went aboard, and set sail. 21:3 When we had
me. 20:24 But these things don’t count; nor do come in sight of Cyprus, leaving it on the left
I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may hand, we sailed to Syria, and landed at Tyre,
finish my race with joy, and the ministry which for there the ship was to unload her cargo.
w 20:8 TR reads “they” instead of “we”
x 20:21 TR adds “Messiah”
y 20:28 TR, NU omit “the Lord and”
z 20:32 The word for “brothers” here and where the context allows may also be correctly translated

“brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”


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21:4
Having found disciples, we stayed there have been informed about you, that you teach
seven days. These said to Paul through the all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to
Spirit, that he should not go up to Jerusalem. forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise
21:5
When it happened that we had accom- their children neither to walk after the customs.
21:22
plished the days, we departed and went on What then? The assembly must certainly
our journey. They all, with wives and children, meet, for they will hear that you have come.
21:23
brought us on our way until we were out of Therefore do what we tell you. We have
the city. Kneeling down on the beach, we four men who have taken a vow. 21:24 Take
prayed. 21:6 After saying goodbye to each other, them, and purify yourself with them, and pay
we went on board the ship, and they returned their expenses for them, that they may shave
home again. their heads. Then all will know that there
21:7 is no truth in the things that they have been
When we had finished the voyage from
Tyre, we arrived at Ptolemais. We greeted the informed about you, but that you yourself also
brothers, and stayed with them one day. 21:8 On walk keeping the Torah. 21:25 But concerning
the next day, we, who were Paul’s companions, the Gentiles who believe, we have written
departed, and came to Caesarea. our decision that they should observe no such
We entered into the house of Philip the evan- thing, except that they should keep themselves
gelist, who was one of the seven, and stayed from food offered to idols, from blood, from
with him. 21:9 Now this man had four virgin strangled things, and from sexual immorality.”
daughters who prophesied. 21:10 As we stayed 21:26
Then Paul took the men, and the next
there some days, a certain prophet named day, purified himself and went with them into
Agabus came down from Judea. 21:11 Coming the temple, declaring the fulfillment of the days
to us, and taking Paul’s belt, he bound his own of purification, until the offering was offered
feet and hands, and said, “Thus says the Holy for every one of them. 21:27 When the seven
Spirit: ‘So will the Judeans at Jerusalem bind days were almost completed, the Jews from
the man who owns this belt, and will deliver Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred
him into the hands of the Gentiles.’” up all the multitude and laid hands on him,
21:12 21:28
When we heard these things, both we crying out, “Men of Israel, help! This is the
and they of that place begged him not to go man who teaches all men everywhere against
up to Jerusalem. 21:13 Then Paul answered, the people, and the Torah, and this place. More-
“What are you doing, weeping and breaking over, he also brought Greeks into the temple,
my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, and has defiled this holy place!” 21:29 For they
but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the had seen Trophimus, the Ephesian, with him
Lord Yeshua.” in the city, and they supposed that Paul had
21:14 brought him into the temple.
When he would not be persuaded, we
ceased, saying, “The Lord’s will be done.” 21:30
All the city was moved, and the people
21:15
After these days we took up our bag- ran together. They seized Paul and dragged
gage and went up to Jerusalem. 21:16 Some him out of the temple. Immediately the doors
of the disciples from Caesarea also went with were shut. 21:31 As they were trying to kill him,
us, bringing one Mnason of Cyprus, an early news came up to the commanding officer of the
disciple, with whom we would stay. regiment that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.
21:17 21:32
When we had come to Jerusalem, the Immediately he took soldiers and centuri-
21:18
brothers received us gladly. The day ons, and ran down to them. They, when they
following, Paul went in with us to Jacob; and saw the chief captain and the soldiers, stopped
all the elders were present. 21:19 When he had beating Paul. 21:33 Then the commanding offi-
greeted them, he reported one by one the things cer came near, arrested him, commanded him
which God had worked among the Gentiles to be bound with two chains, and inquired
through his ministry. 21:20 They, when they who he was and what he had done. 21:34 Some
heard it, glorified God. They said to him, “You shouted one thing, and some another, among
see, brother, how many thousands there are the crowd. When he couldn’t find out the truth
among the Judeans of those who have believed, because of the noise, he commanded him to be
and they are all zealous for the Torah. 21:21 They brought into the barracks.
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21:35
When he came to the stairs, it happened by the hand of those who were with me, I came
that he was carried by the soldiers because of into Damascus. 22:12 One Hananiah, a devout
the violence of the crowd; 21:36 for the multi- man according to the Torah, well reported of by
tude of the people followed after, crying out, all the Jews who lived in Damascus, 22:13 came
“Away with him!” 21:37 As Paul was about to me, and standing by me said to me, ‘Brother
to be brought into the barracks, he asked the Saul, receive your sight!’ In that very hour I
commanding officer, “May I speak to you?” looked up at him. 22:14 He said, ‘The God of our
He said, “Do you know Greek? 21:38 Aren’t fathers has appointed you to know his will, and
you then the Egyptian, who before these days to see the Righteous One, and to hear a voice
stirred up to sedition and led out into the from his mouth. 22:15 For you will be a witness
wilderness the four thousand men of the As- for him to all men of what you have seen and
sassins?” heard. 22:16 Now why do you wait? Arise, be
21:39 immersed, and wash away your sins, calling on
But Paul said, “I am a Jew, from Tarsus
in Cilicia, a citizen of no insignificant city. I beg the name of the Lord.’
22:17
you, allow me to speak to the people.” “It happened that, when I had returned
21:40 to Jerusalem, and while I prayed in the temple,
When he had given him permission,
Paul, standing on the stairs, beckoned with I fell into a trance, 22:18 and saw him saying to
his hand to the people. When there was a me, ‘Hurry and get out of Jerusalem quickly,
great silence, he spoke to them in the Hebrew because they will not receive testimony con-
language, saying, cerning me from you.’ 22:19 I said, ‘Lord,
22:1
“Brothers and fathers, listen to the de- they themselves know that I imprisoned and
fense which I now make to you.” beat in every synagogue those who believed
22:2 in you. 22:20 When the blood of Stephen, your
When they heard that he spoke to them
witness, was shed, I also was standing by,
in the Hebrew language, they were even more
and consenting to his death, and guarding the
quiet. He said, 22:3 “I am indeed a Jew, born
cloaks of those who killed him.’
in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city 22:21
“He said to me, ‘Depart, for I will send
at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed according to
you out far from here to the Gentiles.’”
the strict tradition of the law of our fathers, 22:22
being zealous for God, even as you all are this They listened to him until he said that;
day. 22:4 I persecuted this Way to the death, then they lifted up their voice, and said, “Rid
binding and delivering into prisons both men the earth of this fellow, for he isn’t fit to live!”
22:23
and women. 22:5 As also the high priest and all As they cried out, and threw off their
the council of the elders testify, from whom also cloaks, and threw dust into the air, 22:24 the
I received letters to the brothers, and traveled to commanding officer commanded him to be
Damascus to bring them also who were there brought into the barracks, ordering him to be
to Jerusalem in bonds to be punished. 22:6 It examined by scourging, that he might know
happened that, as I made my journey, and came for what crime they shouted against him like
close to Damascus, about noon, suddenly there that. 22:25 When they had tied him up with
shone from the sky a great light around me. thongs, Paul asked the centurion who stood by,
22:7
I fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying “Is it lawful for you to scourge a man who is a
to me, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Roman, and not found guilty?”
22:26
me?’ 22:8 I answered, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ He When the centurion heard it, he went to
said to me, ‘I am Yeshua of Nazareth, whom the commanding officer and told him, “Watch
you persecute.’ what you are about to do, for this man is a
22:9
“Those who were with me indeed saw Roman!”
22:27
the light and were afraid, but they didn’t The commanding officer came and
understand the voice of him who spoke to me. asked him, “Tell me, are you a Roman?”
22:10 He said, “Yes.”
I said, ‘What shall I do, Lord?’ The Lord
22:28
said to me, ‘Arise, and go into Damascus. The commanding officer answered, “I
There you will be told about all things which bought my citizenship for a great price.”
are appointed for you to do.’ 22:11 When I Paul said, “But I was born a Roman.”
22:29
couldn’t see for the glory of that light, being led Immediately those who were about to
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examine him departed from him, and the banded together, and bound themselves under
commanding officer also was afraid when he a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor
realized that he was a Roman, because he had drink until they had killed Paul. 23:13 There
bound him. 22:30 But on the next day, desiring were more than forty people who had made
to know the truth about why he was accused by this conspiracy. 23:14 They came to the chief
the Judeans, he freed him from the bonds, and priests and the elders, and said, “We have
commanded the chief priests and all the council bound ourselves under a great curse, to taste
to come together, and brought Paul down and nothing until we have killed Paul. 23:15 Now
set him before them. therefore, you with the council inform the
23:1
Paul, looking steadfastly at the council, commanding officer that he should bring him
said, “Brothers, I have lived before God in all down to you tomorrow, as though you were
good conscience until this day.” going to judge his case more exactly. We are
23:2
The high priest, Ananias, commanded ready to kill him before he comes near.”
23:16
those who stood by him to strike him on the But Paul’s sister’s son heard of their
mouth. lying in wait, and he came and entered into the
23:3
Then Paul said to him, “God will strike barracks and told Paul. 23:17 Paul summoned
you, you whitewashed wall! Do you sit to one of the centurions, and said, “Bring this
judge me according to the Torah, and command young man to the commanding officer, for he
me to be struck contrary to the law?” has something to tell him.”
23:4 23:18
Those who stood by said, “Do you ma- So he took him, and brought him to
lign God’s high priest?” the commanding officer, and said, “Paul, the
23:5
Paul said, “I didn’t know, brothers, that prisoner, summoned me and asked me to bring
he was high priest. For it is written, ‘You this young man to you, who has something to
shall not speak evil of a ruler of your people.’”a tell you.”
23:6 23:19
But when Paul perceived that the one part The commanding officer took him by
were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he the hand, and going aside, asked him privately,
cried out in the council, “Men and brothers, I “What is it that you have to tell me?”
23:20
am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. Concerning He said, “The Judeans have agreed to
the hope and resurrection of the dead I am ask you to bring Paul down to the coun-
being judged!” cil tomorrow, as though intending to inquire
23:7
When he had said this, an argument somewhat more accurately concerning him.
23:21
arose between the Pharisees and Sadducees, Therefore don’t yield to them, for more
and the assembly was divided. 23:8 For the than forty men lie in wait for him, who have
Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, nor bound themselves under a curse neither to eat
angel, nor spirit; but the Pharisees confess all nor to drink until they have killed him. Now
of these. 23:9 A great clamor arose, and some of they are ready, looking for the promise from
the scribes of the Pharisees part stood up, and you.”
23:22
contended, saying, “We find no evil in this man. So the commanding officer let the young
But if a spirit or angel has spoken to him, let’s man go, charging him, “Tell no one that you
not fight against God!” have revealed these things to me.” 23:23 He
23:10
When a great argument arose, the com- called to himself two of the centurions, and
manding officer, fearing that Paul would be said, “Prepare two hundred soldiers to go as
torn in pieces by them, commanded the sol- far as Caesarea, with seventy horsemen, and
diers to go down and take him by force from two hundred men armed with spears, at the
among them, and bring him into the barracks. third hour of the nightb .” 23:24 He asked them
23:11
The following night, the Lord stood by to provide animals, that they might set Paul on
him, and said, “Cheer up, Paul, for as you have one, and bring him safely to Felix the governor.
23:25
testified about me at Jerusalem, so you must He wrote a letter like this:
23:26
testify also at Rome.” “Claudius Lysias to the most excellent
23:12
When it was day, some of the Judeans governor Felix: Greetings.
a 23:5 Exodus 22:28
b 23:23 about 9:00 PM
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23:27
“This man was seized by the Judeans, cheerfully make my defense, 24:11 seeing that
and was about to be killed by them, when I you can recognize that it is not more than
came with the soldiers and rescued him, having twelve days since I went up to worship at
learned that he was a Roman. 23:28 Desiring Jerusalem. 24:12 In the temple they didn’t find
to know the cause why they accused him, I me disputing with anyone or stirring up a
brought him down to their council. 23:29 I found crowd, either in the synagogues, or in the city.
24:13
him to be accused about questions of their law, Nor can they prove to you the things of
but not to be charged with anything worthy which they now accuse me. 24:14 But this I
of death or of imprisonment. 23:30 When I was confess to you, that after the Way, which they
told that the Judeans lay in wait for the man, call a sect, so I serve the God of our fathers,
I sent him to you immediately, charging his believing all things which are according to the
accusers also to bring their accusations against Torah, and which are written in the Prophets;
24:15
him before you. Farewell.” having hope toward God, which these
23:31 also themselves look for, that there will be
So the soldiers, carrying out their or-
ders, took Paul and brought him by night to a resurrection of the dead, both of the just
Antipatris. 23:32 But on the next day they left the and unjust. 24:16 Herein I also practice always
horsemen to go with him, and returned to the having a conscience void of offense toward
barracks. 23:33 When they came to Caesarea and God and men. 24:17 Now after some years, I
delivered the letter to the governor, they also came to bring gifts for the needy to my nation,
presented Paul to him. 23:34 When the governor and offerings; 24:18 amid which certain Jews
had read it, he asked what province he was from Asia found me purified in the temple, not
from. When he understood that he was from with a mob, nor with turmoil. 24:19 They ought
Cilicia, he said, 23:35 “I will hear you fully when to have been here before you, and to make
your accusers also arrive.” He commanded accusation, if they had anything against me.
24:20
that he be kept in Herod’s palace. Or else let these men themselves say what
24:1
After five days, the high priest, Ananias, injustice they found in me when I stood before
came down with certain elders and an orator, the council, 24:21 unless it is for this one thing
one Tertullus. They informed the governor that I cried standing among them, ‘Concerning
against Paul. 24:2 When he was called, Tertullus the resurrection of the dead I am being judged
began to accuse him, saying, “Seeing that by before you today!’”
you we enjoy much peace, and that excellent 24:22
But Felix, having more exact knowledge
measures are coming to this nation, 24:3 we concerning the Way, deferred them, saying,
accept it in all ways and in all places, most “When Lysias, the commanding officer, comes
excellent Felix, with all thankfulness. 24:4 But, down, I will decide your case.” 24:23 He or-
that I don’t delay you, I entreat you to bear dered the centurion that Paul should be kept
with us and hear a few words. 24:5 For we have in custody, and should have some privileges,
found this man to be a plague, an instigator and not to forbid any of his friends to serve
of insurrections among all the Jews throughout him or to visit him. 24:24 But after some days,
the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Felix came with Drusilla, his wife, who was
Nazarenes. 24:6 He even tried to profane the a Jewess, and sent for Paul, and heard him
temple, and we arrested him.c 24:7d 24:8e By concerning the faith in Messiah Yeshua. 24:25 As
examining him yourself you may ascertain all he reasoned about righteousness, self-control,
these things of which we accuse him.” and the judgment to come, Felix was terrified,
24:9
The Judeans also joined in the attack, and answered, “Go your way for this time, and
affirming that these things were so. 24:10 When when it is convenient for me, I will summon
the governor had beckoned to him to speak, you.” 24:26 Meanwhile, he also hoped that
Paul answered, “Because I know that you have money would be given to him by Paul, that
been a judge of this nation for many years, I he might release him. Therefore also he sent
c 24:6 TR adds “We wanted to judge him according to our law,”
d 24:7 TR adds “but the commanding officer, Lysias, came by and with great violence took him out of our
hands,”
e 24:8 TR adds “commanding his accusers to come to you.”
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for him more often, and talked with him. Jerusalem, the chief priests and the Jewish
24:27
But when two years were fulfilled, Felix elders informed me, asking for a sentence
was succeeded by Porcius Festus, and desiring against him. 25:16 To whom I answered that
to gain favor with the Judeans, Felix left Paul in it is not the custom of the Romans to give
bonds. up any man to destruction, before the accused
25:1 has met the accusers face to face, and has
Festus therefore, having come into the
province, after three days went up to Jerusalem had opportunity to make his defense concern-
from Caesarea. 25:2 Then the high priest and ing the matter laid against him. 25:17 When
the principal men of the Judeans informed him therefore they had come together here, I didn’t
against Paul, and they begged him, 25:3 asking delay, but on the next day sat on the judg-
a favor against him, that he would summon ment seat, and commanded the man to be
him to Jerusalem; plotting to kill him on the brought. 25:18 Concerning whom, when the
way. 25:4 However Festus answered that Paul accusers stood up, they brought no charge of
should be kept in custody at Caesarea, and that such things as I supposed; 25:19 but had certain
he himself was about to depart shortly. 25:5 “Let questions against him about their own religion,
them therefore,” said he, “that are in power and about one Yeshua, who was dead, whom
among you go down with me, and if there is Paul affirmed to be alive. 25:20 Being perplexed
anything wrong in the man, let them accuse how to inquire concerning these things, I asked
him.” whether he was willing to go to Jerusalem
25:6 and there be judged concerning these matters.
When he had stayed among them more
25:21
than ten days, he went down to Caesarea, and But when Paul had appealed to be kept for
on the next day he sat on the judgment seat, the decision of the emperor, I commanded him
and commanded Paul to be brought. 25:7 When to be kept until I could send him to Caesar.”
25:22
he had come, the Judeans who had come down Agrippa said to Festus, “I also would
from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing like to hear the man myself.”
against him many and grievous charges which “Tomorrow,” he said, “you shall hear him.”
they could not prove, 25:8 while he said in his 25:23
So on the next day, when Agrippa and
defense, “Neither against the law of the Jews, Bernice had come with great pomp, and they
nor against the temple, nor against Caesar, have had entered into the place of hearing with
I sinned at all.” the commanding officers and principal men of
25:9
But Festus, desiring to gain favor with the city, at the command of Festus, Paul was
the Judeans, answered Paul and said, “Are you brought in. 25:24 Festus said, “King Agrippa,
willing to go up to Jerusalem, and be judged by and all men who are here present with us, you
me there concerning these things?” see this man, about whom all the multitude of
25:10
But Paul said, “I am standing before the Judeans petitioned me, both at Jerusalem
Caesar’s judgment seat, where I ought to be and here, crying that he ought not to live any
tried. I have done no wrong to the Judeans, as longer. 25:25 But when I found that he had
you also know very well. 25:11 For if I have done committed nothing worthy of death, and as he
wrong, and have committed anything worthy himself appealed to the emperor I determined
of death, I don’t refuse to die; but if none of to send him. 25:26 Of whom I have no certain
those things is true that they accuse me of, thing to write to my lord. Therefore I have
no one can give me up to them. I appeal to brought him forth before you, and especially
Caesar!” before you, King Agrippa, that, after examina-
25:12
Then Festus, when he had conferred tion, I may have something to write. 25:27 For
with the council, answered, “You have ap- it seems to me unreasonable, in sending a
pealed to Caesar. To Caesar you shall go.” prisoner, not to also specify the charges against
25:13 him.”
Now when some days had passed, King
26:1
Agrippa and Bernice arrived at Caesarea, and Agrippa said to Paul, “You may speak
greeted Festus. 25:14 As he stayed there many for yourself.”
days, Festus laid Paul’s case before the king, Then Paul stretched out his hand, and made
saying, “There is a certain man left a prisoner his defense. 26:2 “I think myself happy, King
by Felix; 25:15 about whom, when I was at Agrippa, that I am to make my defense before
Acts 26:3 924 Acts 27:4

you this day concerning all the things that I am are sanctified by faith in me.’
accused by the Judeans, 26:3 especially because 26:19
“Therefore, King Agrippa, I was not
you are expert in all customs and questions disobedient to the heavenly vision, 26:20 but de-
which are among Jews. Therefore I beg you to clared first to them of Damascus, at Jerusalem,
hear me patiently. and throughout all the country of Judea, and
26:4
“Indeed, all Jews know my way of life also to the Gentiles, that they should repent
from my youth up, which was from the begin- and turn to God, doing works worthy of
ning among my own nation and at Jerusalem; repentance. 26:21 For this reason Jews seized me
26:5
having known me from the first, if they are in the temple, and tried to kill me. 26:22 Having
willing to testify, that after the strictest sect therefore obtained the help that is from God, I
of our religion I lived a Pharisee. 26:6 Now I stand to this day testifying both to small and
stand here to be judged for the hope of the great, saying nothing but what the Prophets
promise made by God to our fathers, 26:7 which and Moses said would happen, 26:23 how the
our twelve tribes, earnestly serving night and Messiah must suffer, and how, by the resurrec-
day, hope to attain. Concerning this hope tion of the dead, he would be first to proclaim
I am accused by the Judeans, King Agrippa! light both to these people and to the Gentiles.”
26:8 26:24
Why is it judged incredible with you, if God As he thus made his defense, Festus said
does raise the dead? with a loud voice, “Paul, you are crazy! Your
26:9 great learning is driving you insane!”
“I myself most certainly thought that I
26:25
ought to do many things contrary to the name But he said, “I am not crazy, most
of Yeshua of Nazareth. 26:10 This I also did in excellent Festus, but boldly declare words of
Jerusalem. I both shut up many of the holy ones truth and reasonableness. 26:26 For the king
in prisons, having received authority from the knows of these things, to whom also I speak
chief priests, and when they were put to death freely. For I am persuaded that none of these
I gave my vote against them. 26:11 Punishing things is hidden from him, for this has not been
them often in all the synagogues, I tried to done in a corner. 26:27 King Agrippa, do you
make them blaspheme. Being exceedingly believe the prophets? I know that you believe.”
enraged against them, I persecuted them even 26:28
Agrippa said to Paul, “With a little
to foreign cities. persuasion are you trying to make me a Mes-
26:12
“Whereupon as I traveled to Damascus sianic?”
26:29
with the authority and commission from the Paul said, “I pray to God, that whether
chief priests, 26:13 at noon, O king, I saw on with little or with much, not only you, but also
the way a light from the sky, brighter than all that hear me this day, might become such as
the sun, shining around me and those who I am, except for these bonds.”
traveled with me. 26:14 When we had all fallen 26:30
The king rose up with the governor,
to the earth, I heard a voice saying to me in and Bernice, and those who sat with them.
the Hebrew language, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you 26:31
When they had withdrawn, they spoke one
persecuting me? It is hard for you to kick to another, saying, “This man does nothing
against the goads.’ worthy of death or of bonds.” 26:32 Agrippa
26:15
“I said, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ said to Festus, “This man might have been set
“He said, ‘I am Yeshua, whom you are free if he had not appealed to Caesar.”
persecuting. 26:16 But arise, and stand on 27:1
When it was determined that we should
your feet, for I have appeared to you for sail for Italy, they delivered Paul and certain
this purpose: to appoint you a servant and other prisoners to a centurion named Julius, of
a witness both of the things which you have the Augustan band. 27:2 Embarking in a ship
seen, and of the things which I will reveal of Adramyttium, which was about to sail to
to you; 26:17 delivering you from the people, places on the coast of Asia, we put to sea;
and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you, Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica,
26:18
to open their eyes, that they may turn being with us. 27:3 The next day, we touched
from darkness to light and from the power of at Sidon. Julius treated Paul kindly, and gave
Satan to God, that they may receive remission him permission to go to his friends and refresh
of sins and an inheritance among those who himself. 27:4 Putting to sea from there, we sailed
Acts 27:5 925 Acts 27:40

under the lee of Cyprus, because the winds Paul stood up in the middle of them, and said,
were contrary. 27:5 When we had sailed across “Sirs, you should have listened to me, and not
the sea which is off Cilicia and Pamphylia, we have set sail from Crete, and have gotten this
came to Myra, a city of Lycia. 27:6 There the injury and loss. 27:22 Now I exhort you to cheer
centurion found a ship of Alexandria sailing for up, for there will be no loss of life among you,
Italy, and he put us on board. 27:7 When we but only of the ship. 27:23 For there stood by me
had sailed slowly many days, and had come this night an angel, belonging to the God whose
with difficulty opposite Cnidus, the wind not I am and whom I serve, 27:24 saying, ‘Don’t be
allowing us further, we sailed under the lee afraid, Paul. You must stand before Caesar.
of Crete, opposite Salmone. 27:8 With difficulty Behold, God has granted you all those who sail
sailing along it we came to a certain place called with you.’ 27:25 Therefore, sirs, cheer up! For I
Fair Havens, near the city of Lasea. believe God, that it will be just as it has been
27:9
When much time had passed and the spoken to me. 27:26 But we must run aground
voyage was now dangerous, because the Fast on a certain island.”
27:27
had now already gone by, Paul admonished But when the fourteenth night had
them, 27:10 and said to them, “Sirs, I perceive come, as we were driven back and forth in
that the voyage will be with injury and much the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors
loss, not only of the cargo and the ship, but surmised that they were drawing near to some
also of our lives.” 27:11 But the centurion gave land. 27:28 They took soundings, and found
more heed to the master and to the owner of the twenty fathoms.g After a little while, they took
ship than to those things which were spoken by soundings again, and found fifteen fathoms.h
Paul. 27:12 Because the haven was not suitable 27:29
Fearing that we would run aground on
to winter in, the majority advised going to sea rocky ground, they let go four anchors from
from there, if by any means they could reach the stern, and wished for daylight. 27:30 As the
Phoenix, and winter there, which is a port of sailors were trying to flee out of the ship, and
Crete, looking northeast and southeast. had lowered the boat into the sea, pretending
27:13
When the south wind blew softly, sup- that they would lay out anchors from the
posing that they had obtained their purpose, bow, 27:31 Paul said to the centurion and to the
they weighed anchor and sailed along Crete, soldiers, “Unless these stay in the ship, you
close to shore. 27:14 But before long, a stormy can’t be saved.” 27:32 Then the soldiers cut away
wind beat down from shore, which is called the ropes of the boat, and let it fall off.
Euroclydon.f 27:15 When the ship was caught, 27:33
While the day was coming on, Paul
and couldn’t face the wind, we gave way to begged them all to take some food, saying,
it, and were driven along. 27:16 Running under “This day is the fourteenth day that you wait
the lee of a small island called Clauda, we and continue fasting, having taken nothing.
were able, with difficulty, to secure the boat. 27:34
Therefore I beg you to take some food,
27:17
After they had hoisted it up, they used for this is for your safety; for not a hair will
cables to help reinforce the ship. Fearing that perish from any of your heads.” 27:35 When he
they would run aground on the Syrtis sand had said this, and had taken bread, he gave
bars, they lowered the sea anchor, and so were thanks to God in the presence of all, and he
driven along. 27:18 As we labored exceedingly broke it, and began to eat. 27:36 Then they all
with the storm, the next day they began to cheered up, and they also took food. 27:37 In
throw things overboard. 27:19 On the third day, all, we were two hundred seventy-six souls on
they threw out the ship’s tackle with their own the ship. 27:38 When they had eaten enough,
hands. 27:20 When neither sun nor stars shone they lightened the ship, throwing out the wheat
on us for many days, and no small storm into the sea. 27:39 When it was day, they didn’t
pressed on us, all hope that we would be saved recognize the land, but they noticed a certain
was now taken away. bay with a beach, and they decided to try to
27:21
When they had been long without food, drive the ship onto it. 27:40 Casting off the
f 27:14Or, “a northeaster.”
g 27:28 20 fathoms = 120 feet = 36.6 meters
h 27:28 15 fathoms = 90 feet = 27.4 meters
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28:11
anchors, they left them in the sea, at the same After three months, we set sail in a
time untying the rudder ropes. Hoisting up the ship of Alexandria which had wintered in the
foresail to the wind, they made for the beach. island, whose sign was “The Twin Brothers.”
27:41 28:12
But coming to a place where two seas met, Touching at Syracuse, we stayed there
they ran the vessel aground. The bow struck three days. 28:13 From there we circled around
and remained immovable, but the stern began and arrived at Rhegium. After one day, a south
to break up by the violence of the waves. wind sprang up, and on the second day we
27:42
The soldiers’ counsel was to kill the came to Puteoli, 28:14 where we found brothers,j
prisoners, so that none of them would swim and were entreated to stay with them for seven
out and escape. 27:43 But the centurion, desiring days. So we came to Rome. 28:15 From there
to save Paul, stopped them from their purpose, the brothers, when they heard of us, came to
and commanded that those who could swim meet us as far as The Market of Appius and
should throw themselves overboard first to The Three Taverns. When Paul saw them, he
go toward the land; 27:44 and the rest should thanked God, and took courage. 28:16 When we
follow, some on planks, and some on other entered into Rome, the centurion delivered the
things from the ship. So it happened that they prisoners to the captain of the guard, but Paul
all escaped safely to the land. was allowed to stay by himself with the soldier
28:1
When we had escaped, then theyi who guarded him.
28:17
learned that the island was called Malta. It happened that after three days Paul
28:2 called together those who were the Jewish
The natives showed us uncommon kind-
ness; for they kindled a fire, and received us leaders. When they had come together, he
all, because of the present rain, and because said to them, “I, brothers, though I had done
of the cold. 28:3 But when Paul had gathered nothing against the people, or the customs
a bundle of sticks and laid them on the fire, of our fathers, still was delivered prisoner
a viper came out because of the heat, and from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans,
28:18
fastened on his hand. 28:4 When the natives who, when they had examined me, desired
saw the creature hanging from his hand, they to set me free, because there was no cause of
said one to another, “No doubt this man is a death in me. 28:19 But when the Judeans spoke
murderer, whom, though he has escaped from against it, I was constrained to appeal to Caesar,
the sea, yet Justice has not allowed to live.” not that I had anything about which to accuse
28:5
However he shook off the creature into the my nation. 28:20 For this cause therefore I asked
fire, and wasn’t harmed. 28:6 But they expected to see you and to speak with you. For because
that he would have swollen or fallen down of the hope of Israel I am bound with this
dead suddenly, but when they watched for a chain.”
28:21
long time and saw nothing bad happen to him, They said to him, “We neither received
they changed their minds, and said that he was letters from Judea concerning you, nor did any
a god. of the brothers come here and report or speak
28:7
Now in the neighborhood of that place any evil of you. 28:22 But we desire to hear from
were lands belonging to the chief man of the you what you think. For, as concerning this
island, named Publius, who received us, and sect, it is known to us that everywhere it is
courteously entertained us for three days. 28:8 It spoken against.”
28:23
happened that the father of Publius lay sick of When they had appointed him a day,
fever and dysentery. Paul entered in to him, many people came to him at his lodging.
prayed, and laying his hands on him, healed He explained to them, testifying about the
him. 28:9 Then when this was done, the rest also Kingdom of God, and persuading them con-
who had diseases in the island came, and were cerning Yeshua, both from the Torah of Moses
cured. 28:10 They also honored us with many and from the Prophets, from morning until
honors, and when we sailed, they put on board evening. 28:24 Some believed the things which
the things that we needed. were spoken, and some disbelieved. 28:25 When
i 28:1NU reads “we”
j 28:14The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers
and sisters” or “siblings.”
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they didn’t agree among themselves, they de-


parted after Paul had spoken one word, “The
Holy Spirit spoke rightly through Isaiah, the
prophet, to our fathers, 28:26 saying,
‘Go to this people, and say,
in hearing, you will hear,
but will in no way understand.
In seeing, you will see,
but will in no way perceive.
28:27
For this people’s heart has grown callous.
Their ears are dull of hearing.
Their eyes they have closed.
Lest they should see with their eyes,
hear with their ears,
understand with their heart,
and would turn again,
and I would heal them.’k
28:28
“Be it known therefore to you, that the
salvation of God is sent to the nations. They
will also listen.”
28:29
When he had said these words, the
Jews departed, having a great dispute among
themselves.
28:30
Paul stayed two whole years in his
own rented house, and received all who were
coming to him, 28:31 proclaiming the Kingdom
of God, and teaching the things concerning
the Lord Yeshua the Messiah with all boldness,
without hindrance.

k 28:27 Isaiah 6:9-10


Romans 1:1 928 Romans 2:3

Paul’s Letter to the which is known of God is revealed in them,


1:20
Romans for God revealed it to them. For the
invisible things of him since the creation of
1:1 the world are clearly seen, being perceived
Paul, a servant of Yeshua the Messiah,
called to be an emissary, set apart for the Good through the things that are made, even his
News of God, 1:2 which he promised before everlasting power and divinity; that they may
through his prophets in the holy Scriptures, be without excuse. 1:21 Because, knowing God,
1:3 they didn’t glorify him as God, neither gave
concerning his Son, who was born of the
seed of David according to the flesh, 1:4 who thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and
was declared to be the Son of God with power, their senseless heart was darkened.
1:22
according to the Spirit of holiness, by the Professing themselves to be wise, they
resurrection from the dead, Yeshua the Messiah became fools, 1:23 and traded the glory of the in-
our Lord, 1:5 through whom we received grace corruptible God for the likeness of an image of
and the office of emissary, for obedience of corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed
faith among all the nations, for his name’s sake; animals, and creeping things. 1:24 Therefore
1:6 God also gave them up in the lusts of their
among whom you are also called to belong to
Yeshua the Messiah; 1:7 to all who are in Rome, hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should
beloved of God, called to be holy ones: Grace be dishonored among themselves, 1:25 who ex-
to you and peace from God our Father and the changed the truth of God for a lie, and wor-
Lord Yeshua the Messiah. shiped and served the creature rather than the
1:8 Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
First, I thank my God through Yeshua
1:26
the Messiah for all of you, that your faith is For this reason, God gave them up to
proclaimed throughout the whole world. 1:9 For vile passions. For their women changed the
God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit natural function into that which is against
in the Good News of his Son, how unceasingly nature. 1:27 Likewise also the men, leaving
I make mention of you always in my prayers, the natural function of the woman, burned
1:10
requesting, if by any means now at last I in their lust toward one another, men doing
may be prospered by the will of God to come to what is inappropriate with men, and receiving
you. 1:11 For I long to see you, that I may impart in themselves the due penalty of their error.
1:28
to you some spiritual gift, to the end that you Even as they refused to have God in their
may be established; 1:12 that is, that I with you knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate
may be encouraged in you, each of us by the mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
1:29
other’s faith, both yours and mine. being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual
1:13
Now I don’t desire to have you unaware, immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice;
brothers, that I often planned to come to you, full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits,
and was hindered so far, that I might have some secret slanderers, 1:30 backbiters, hateful to God,
fruit among you also, even as among the rest insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil
of the Gentiles. 1:14 I am debtor both to Greeks things, disobedient to parents, 1:31 without un-
and to foreigners, both to the wise and to the derstanding, covenant breakers, without natu-
foolish. 1:15 So, as much as is in me, I am eager ral affection, unforgiving, unmerciful; 1:32 who,
to proclaim the Good News to you also who knowing the ordinance of God, that those who
are in Rome. 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the practice such things are worthy of death, not
Good News of Messiah, for it is the power of only do the same, but also approve of those
God for salvation for everyone who believes; who practice them.
for the Jew first, and also for the Greek. 1:17 For 2:1
Therefore you are without excuse, O man,
in it is revealed God’s righteousness from faith whoever you are who judge. For in that which
to faith. As it is written, “But the righteous you judge another, you condemn yourself. For
shall live by faith.”a 1:18 For the wrath of God you who judge practice the same things. 2:2 We
is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness know that the judgment of God is according to
and unrighteousness of men, who suppress truth against those who practice such things.
the truth in unrighteousness, 1:19 because that 2:3
Do you think this, O man who judges those
a 1:17 Habakkuk 2:4
Romans 2:4 929 Romans 3:11

2:23
who practice such things, and do the same, You who glory in the law, through your
that you will escape the judgment of God? disobedience of the law do you dishonor God?
2:4 2:24
Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, For “the name of God is blasphemed among
forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the Gentiles because of you,”c just as it is
the goodness of God leads you to repentance? written. 2:25 For circumcision indeed profits,
2:5
But according to your hardness and unre- if you are a doer of the law, but if you are
pentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself a transgressor of the law, your circumcision
wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the has become uncircumcision. 2:26 If therefore
righteous judgment of God; 2:6 who “will pay the uncircumcised keep the ordinances of the
back to everyone according to their works:”b law, won’t his uncircumcision be accounted
2:7
to those who by patience in well-doing seek as circumcision? 2:27 Won’t the uncircumcision
for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal which is by nature, if it fulfills the law, judge
life; 2:8 but to those who are self-seeking, and you, who with the letter and circumcision are
don’t obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, a transgressor of the law? 2:28 For he is not
will be wrath and indignation, 2:9 oppression a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is that
and anguish, on every soul of man who works circumcision which is outward in the flesh;
2:29
evil, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and
2:10 circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not
But glory, honor, and peace go to every
man who works good, to the Jew first, and in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but
also to the Greek. 2:11 For there is no partiality from God.
3:1
with God. 2:12 For as many as have sinned Then what advantage does the Jew have?
without law will also perish without the law. Or what is the profit of circumcision? 3:2 Much
As many as have sinned under the law will be in every way! Because first of all, they were
judged by the law. 2:13 For it isn’t the hearers entrusted with the oracles of God. 3:3 For what
of the law who are righteous before God, but if some were without faith? Will their lack of
the doers of the law will be justified 2:14 (for faith nullify the faithfulness of God? 3:4 May it
when Gentiles who don’t have the law do by never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every
nature the things of the law, these, not having man a liar. As it is written,
the law, are a law to themselves, 2:15 in that “That you might be justified in your words,
they show the work of the law written in their and might prevail when you come into
hearts, their conscience testifying with them, judgment.”d
3:5
and their thoughts among themselves accusing But if our unrighteousness commends the
or else excusing them) 2:16 in the day when God righteousness of God, what will we say? Is
will judge the secrets of men, according to my God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak
Good News, by Yeshua the Messiah. like men do. 3:6 May it never be! For then how
2:17
Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, and will God judge the world? 3:7 For if the truth
rest on the law, and glory in God, 2:18 and of God through my lie abounded to his glory,
know his will, and approve the things that why am I also still judged as a sinner? 3:8 Why
are excellent, being instructed out of the law, not (as we are slanderously reported, and as
2:19 some affirm that we say), “Let us do evil, that
and are confident that you yourself are a
guide of the blind, a light to those who are good may come?” Those who say so are justly
in darkness, 2:20 a corrector of the foolish, a condemned. 3:9 What then? Are we better than
teacher of babies, having in the law the form of they? No, in no way. For we previously warned
knowledge and of the truth. 2:21 You therefore both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under
who teach another, don’t you teach yourself? sin. 3:10 As it is written,
You who proclaim that a man shouldn’t steal, “There is no one righteous;
do you steal? 2:22 You who say a man shouldn’t no, not one.
3:11
commit adultery. Do you commit adultery? There is no one who understands.
You who abhor idols, do you rob temples? There is no one who seeks after God.
b 2:6 Psalm 62:12; Proverbs 24:12
c 2:24Isaiah 52:5; Ezekiel 36:22
d 3:4 Psalm 51:4
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3:12
They have all turned aside. only? Isn’t he the God of Gentiles also? Yes,
They have together become unprofitable. of Gentiles also, 3:30 since indeed there is one
There is no one who does good, God who will justify the circumcised by faith,
no, not, so much as one.”e and the uncircumcised through faith. 3:31 Do
3:13
“Their throat is an open tomb. we then nullify the law through faith? May it
With their tongues they have used de- never be! No, we establish the law.
4:1
ceit.”f What then will we say that Abraham, our
“The poison of vipers is under their lips”;g forefather, has found according to the flesh?
3:14 4:2
“whose mouth is full of cursing and For if Abraham was justified by works, he
bitterness.”h has something to boast about, but not toward
3:15
“Their feet are swift to shed blood. God. 4:3 For what does the Scripture say?
3:16
Destruction and misery are in their “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted
ways. to him for righteousness.”l 4:4 Now to him who
3:17
The way of peace, they haven’t works, the reward is not counted as grace, but
known.”i as something owed. 4:5 But to him who doesn’t
3:18
“There is no fear of God before their eyes.”j work, but believes in him who justifies the un-
3:19
Now we know that whatever things the godly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.
4:6
law says, it speaks to those who are under the Even as David also pronounces blessing on
law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the man to whom God counts righteousness
the world may be brought under the judgment apart from works,
4:7
of God. 3:20 Because by the works of the law, no “Blessed are they whose iniquities are for-
flesh will be justified in his sight. For through given,
the law comes the knowledge of sin. 3:21 But whose sins are covered.
4:8
now apart from the law, a righteousness of God Blessed is the man whom the Lord will by no
has been revealed, being testified by the Torah means charge with sin.”m
and the Prophets; 3:22 even the righteousness 4:9
Is this blessing then pronounced on the
of God through faith in Yeshua the Messiah to circumcised, or on the uncircumcised also?
all and on all those who believe. For there is For we say that faith was accounted to Abra-
no distinction, 3:23 for all have sinned, and fall ham for righteousness. 4:10 How then was it
short of the glory of God; 3:24 being justified counted? When he was in circumcision, or
freely by his grace through the redemption that in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but
is in Messiah Yeshua; 3:25 whom God set forth in uncircumcision. 4:11 He received the sign
to be an atoning sacrificek , through faith in his of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness
blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness of the faith which he had while he was in
through the passing over of prior sins, in God’s uncircumcision, that he might be the father of
forbearance; 3:26 to demonstrate his righteous- all those who believe, though they might be in
ness at this present time; that he might himself uncircumcision, that righteousness might also
be just, and the justifier of him who has faith in be accounted to them. 4:12 He is the father of
Yeshua. circumcision to those who not only are of the
3:27
Where then is the boasting? It is ex- circumcision, but who also walk in the steps
cluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, of that faith of our father Abraham, which he
but by a law of faith. 3:28 We maintain therefore had in uncircumcision. 4:13 For the promise to
that a man is justified by faith apart from the Abraham and to his seed that he should be
works of the law. 3:29 Or is God the God of Jews heir of the world wasn’t through the law, but
e 3:12 Psalms 14:1-3; 53:1-3; Ecclesiastes 7:20
f 3:13 Psalm 5:9
g 3:13 Psalm 140:3
h 3:14 Psalm 10:7
i 3:17 Isaiah 59:7-8
j 3:18 Psalm 36:1
k 3:25 or, a propitiation
l 4:3 Genesis 15:6
m 4:8 Psalm 32:1-2
Romans 4:14 931 Romans 6:2

through the righteousness of faith. 4:14 For if person someone would even dare to die. 5:8 But
those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made God commends his own love toward us, in that
void, and the promise is made of no effect. while we were yet sinners, Messiah died for us.
4:15 5:9
For the law works wrath, for where there is Much more then, being now justified by
no law, neither is there disobedience. 4:16 For his blood, we will be saved from God’s wrath
this cause it is of faith, that it may be according through him. 5:10 For if, while we were enemies,
to grace, to the end that the promise may be we were reconciled to God through the death of
sure to all the seed, not to that only which his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will
is of the law, but to that also which is of the be saved by his life.
faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all. 5:11
Not only so, but we also rejoice in God
4:17
As it is written, “I have made you a father through our Lord Yeshua the Messiah, through
of many nations.”n This is in the presence of whom we have now received the reconcili-
him whom he believed: God, who gives life to ation. 5:12 Therefore as sin entered into the
the dead, and calls the things that are not, as world through one man, and death through
though they were. 4:18 Who in hope believed sin; and so death passed to all men, because
against hope, to the end that he might become a all sinned. 5:13 For until the law, sin was in
father of many nations, according to that which the world; but sin is not charged when there
had been spoken, “So will your seed be.”o is no law. 5:14 Nevertheless death reigned from
4:19
Without being weakened in faith, he didn’t Adam until Moses, even over those whose
consider his own body, already having been sins weren’t like Adam’s disobedience, who
worn out, (he being about a hundred years old), is a foreshadowing of him who was to come.
and the deadness of Sarah’s womb. 4:20 Yet, 5:15
But the free gift isn’t like the trespass. For
looking to the promise of God, he didn’t waver if by the trespass of the one the many died,
through unbelief, but grew strong through much more did the grace of God, and the gift by
faith, giving glory to God, 4:21 and being fully the grace of the one man, Yeshua the Messiah,
assured that what he had promised, he was abound to the many. 5:16 The gift is not as
also able to perform. 4:22 Therefore it also was through one who sinned: for the judgment
“reckoned to him for righteousness.”p 4:23 Now came by one to condemnation, but the free gift
it was not written that it was accounted to him came of many trespasses to justification. 5:17 For
for his sake alone, 4:24 but for our sake also, to if by the trespass of the one, death reigned
whom it will be accounted, who believe in him through the one; so much more will those who
who raised Yeshua, our Lord, from the dead, receive the abundance of grace and of the gift
4:25
who was delivered up for our trespasses, of righteousness reign in life through the one,
and was raised for our justification. Yeshua the Messiah. 5:18 So then as through
5:1 one trespass, all men were condemned; even
Being therefore justified by faith, we have
peace with God through our Lord Yeshua the so through one act of righteousness, all men
Messiah; 5:2 through whom we also have our were justified to life. 5:19 For as through the one
access by faith into this grace in which we man’s disobedience many were made sinners,
stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God. even so through the obedience of the one, many
5:3
Not only this, but we also rejoice in our will be made righteous. 5:20 The law came in
sufferings, knowing that suffering works per- besides, that the trespass might abound; but
severance; 5:4 and perseverance, proven charac- where sin abounded, grace abounded more ex-
ter; and proven character, hope: 5:5 and hope ceedingly; 5:21 that as sin reigned in death, even
doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has so grace might reign through righteousness to
been poured out into our hearts through the eternal life through Yeshua the Messiah our
Holy Spirit who was given to us. 5:6 For while Lord.
6:1
we were yet weak, at the right time Messiah What shall we say then? Shall we con-
died for the ungodly. 5:7 For one will hardly die tinue in sin, that grace may abound? 6:2 May
for a righteous man. Yet perhaps for a righteous it never be! We who died to sin, how could
n 4:17 Genesis 17:5
o 4:18 Genesis 15:5
p 4:22 Genesis 15:6
Romans 6:3 932 Romans 7:13

we live in it any longer? 6:3 Or don’t you righteousness. 6:21 What fruit then did you
know that all we who were immersed into have at that time in the things of which you
Messiah Yeshua were immersed into his death? are now ashamed? For the end of those things
6:4
We were buried therefore with him through is death. 6:22 But now, being made free from
immersion to death, that just like Messiah was sin, and having become servants of God, you
raised from the dead through the glory of the have your fruit of sanctification, and the result
Father, so we also might walk in newness of of eternal life. 6:23 For the wages of sin is death,
life. 6:5 For if we have become united with him but the free gift of God is eternal life in Messiah
in the likeness of his death, we will also be part Yeshua our Lord.
of his resurrection; 6:6 knowing this, that our old 7:1
Or don’t you know, brothersq (for I speak
man was crucified with him, that the body of to men who know the law), that the law has
sin might be done away with, so that we would dominion over a man for as long as he lives?
no longer be in bondage to sin. 6:7 For he who 7:2
For the woman that has a husband is bound
has died has been freed from sin. 6:8 But if we by law to the husband while he lives, but if
died with Messiah, we believe that we will also the husband dies, she is discharged from the
live with him; 6:9 knowing that Messiah, being law of the husband. 7:3 So then if, while the
raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no husband lives, she is joined to another man,
more has dominion over him! 6:10 For the death she would be called an adulteress. But if the
that he died, he died to sin one time; but the life husband dies, she is free from the law, so that
that he lives, he lives to God. 6:11 Thus consider she is no adulteress, though she is joined to
yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to another man. 7:4 Therefore, my brothers, you
God in Messiah Yeshua our Lord. also were made dead to the law through the
6:12 body of Messiah, that you would be joined to
Therefore don’t let sin reign in your
mortal body, that you should obey it in its another, to him who was raised from the dead,
lusts. 6:13 Neither present your members to that we might bring forth fruit to God. 7:5 For
sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions
present yourselves to God, as alive from the which were through the law, worked in our
dead, and your members as instruments of members to bring forth fruit to death. 7:6 But
righteousness to God. 6:14 For sin will not have now we have been discharged from the law,
dominion over you. For you are not under having died to that in which we were held; so
law, but under grace. 6:15 What then? Shall that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not
we sin, because we are not under law, but in oldness of the letter.
under grace? May it never be! 6:16 Don’t you 7:7
What shall we say then? Is the law sin?
know that to whom you present yourselves May it never be! However, I wouldn’t have
as servants to obedience, his servants you are known sin, except through the law. For I
whom you obey; whether of sin to death, or of wouldn’t have known coveting, unless the law
obedience to righteousness? 6:17 But thanks be had said, “You shall not covet.”r 7:8 But sin,
to God, that, whereas you were bondservants finding occasion through the commandment,
of sin, you became obedient from the heart produced in me all kinds of coveting. For
to that form of teaching whereunto you were apart from the law, sin is dead. 7:9 I was
delivered. 6:18 Being made free from sin, you alive apart from the law once, but when the
became bondservants of righteousness. commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
6:19 7:10
I speak in human terms because of the The commandment, which was for life, this
weakness of your flesh, for as you presented I found to be for death; 7:11 for sin, finding
your members as servants to uncleanness and occasion through the commandment, deceived
to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now me, and through it killed me. 7:12 Therefore the
present your members as servants to righteous- law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy,
ness for sanctification. 6:20 For when you were and righteous, and good.
7:13
servants of sin, you were free in regard to Did then that which is good become
q 7:1 The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and

sisters” or “siblings.”
r 7:7 Exodus 20:17; Deuteronomy 5:21
Romans 7:14 933 Romans 8:27

death to me? May it never be! But sin, who are in the flesh can’t please God. 8:9 But
that it might be shown to be sin, by working you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it
death to me through that which is good; that is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But
through the commandment sin might become if any man doesn’t have the Spirit of Messiah,
exceeding sinful. 7:14 For we know that the law he is not his. 8:10 If Messiah is in you, the
is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin. body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is
7:15
For I don’t know what I am doing. For I alive because of righteousness. 8:11 But if the
don’t practice what I desire to do; but what I Spirit of him who raised up Yeshua from the
hate, that I do. 7:16 But if what I don’t desire, dead dwells in you, he who raised up Messiah
that I do, I consent to the law that it is good. Yeshua from the dead will also give life to your
7:17
So now it is no more I that do it, but sin mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in
which dwells in me. 7:18 For I know that in you. 8:12 So then, brothers, we are debtors, not
me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. to the flesh, to live after the flesh. 8:13 For if you
For desire is present with me, but I don’t find live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the
it doing that which is good. 7:19 For the good Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body,
which I desire, I don’t do; but the evil which you will live. 8:14 For as many as are led by the
I don’t desire, that I practice. 7:20 But if what I Spirit of God, these are children of God. 8:15 For
don’t desire, that I do, it is no more I that do it, you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again
but sin which dwells in me. 7:21 I find then the to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption,
law, that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil by whom we cry, “Abbat ! Father!”
is present. 7:22 For I delight in God’s law after 8:16
The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit
the inward man, 7:23 but I see a different law
that we are children of God; 8:17 and if children,
in my members, warring against the law of my
then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with
mind, and bringing me into captivity under the
Messiah; if indeed we suffer with him, that
law of sin which is in my members. 7:24 What a
we may also be glorified with him. 8:18 For
wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of
I consider that the sufferings of this present
the body of this death? 7:25 I thank God through
time are not worthy to be compared with the
Yeshua the Messiah, our Lord! So then with the
glory which will be revealed toward us. 8:19 For
mind, I myself serve God’s law, but with the
the creation waits with eager expectation for
flesh, the sin’s law.
the children of God to be revealed. 8:20 For
8:1
There is therefore now no condemnation the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its
to those who are in Messiah Yeshua, who don’t own will, but because of him who subjected
walk according to the flesh, but according to it, in hope 8:21 that the creation itself also will
the Spirit.s 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in be delivered from the bondage of decay into
Messiah Yeshua made me free from the law of the liberty of the glory of the children of God.
sin and of death. 8:3 For what the law couldn’t 8:22
For we know that the whole creation groans
do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God and travails in pain together until now. 8:23 Not
did, sending his own Son in the likeness of only so, but ourselves also, who have the first
sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan
flesh; 8:4 that the ordinance of the law might be within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the
fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but redemption of our body. 8:24 For we were saved
after the Spirit. 8:5 For those who live according in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope. For
to the flesh set their minds on the things of who hopes for that which he sees? 8:25 But if we
the flesh, but those who live according to the hope for that which we don’t see, we wait for
Spirit, the things of the Spirit. 8:6 For the mind it with patience. 8:26 In the same way, the Spirit
of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know
life and peace; 8:7 because the mind of the flesh how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself
is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to makes intercession for us with groanings which
God’s law, neither indeed can it be. 8:8 Those can’t be uttered. 8:27 He who searches the hearts
s 8:1
NU omits “who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit”
t 8:15
Abba is an Aramaic word for father or daddy, often used affectionately and respectfully in prayer to
our Father in heaven.
Romans 8:28 934 Romans 9:20

knows what is on the Spirit’s mind, because he for my brothers’ sake, my relatives according
makes intercession for the holy ones according to the flesh, 9:4 who are Israelites; whose is
to God. the adopti

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