of it: it [is] holy, [and] it shall be holy unto you.

And the young men that were spies went in, and brought out Rahab, and her father, and her
mother, and her brethren, and all that she had; and they brought out all her kindred, and left them without the camp of Israel. And now the wise
[men], the astrologers, have been brought in before me, that they should read this writing, and make known unto me the interpretation thereof: but
they could not shew the interpretation of the thing: And I have heard of thee, that thou canst make interpretations, and dissolve doubts: now if
thou canst read the writing, and make known to me the interpretation thereof, thou shalt be clothed with scarlet, and [have] a chain of gold about
thy neck, and shalt be the third ruler in the kingdom. And the children of Israel returned from chasing after the Philistines, and they spoiled
their tents. Judas then, having received a band [of men] and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees, cometh thither with lanterns and torches
and weapons. Thus far [is] the judgment of Moab. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old
leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened [bread] of sincerity and truth. And of Levi he said, [Let] thy
Thummim and thy Urim [be] with thy holy one, whom thou didst prove at Massah, [and with] whom thou didst strive at the waters of Meribah; Who said
unto his father and to his mother, I have not seen him; neither did he acknowledge his brethren, nor knew his own children: for they have observed
thy word, and kept thy covenant. Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the
passover be left unto the morning. Who [are they] among all the gods of these lands, that have delivered their land out of my hand, that the LORD
should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand? Ye shall walk in all the ways which the LORD your God hath commanded you, that ye may live, and [that it
may be] well with you, and [that] ye may prolong [your] days in the land which ye shall possess. And, behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out
to meet him, and said unto him, Come, and I will shew thee the man whom thou seekest. For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that
humbleth himself shall be exalted. Therefore now amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the LORD your God; and the LORD will repent
him of the evil that he hath pronounced against you. And when ye saw that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon came against you, ye said unto
me, Nay; but a king shall reign over us: when the LORD your God [was] your king. God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is
written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged. And I intreat thee also, true yokefellow, help
those women which laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and [with] other my fellowlabourers, whose names [are] in the book of life. And
the fortress of the high fort of thy walls shall he bring down, lay low, [and] bring to the ground, [even] to the dust. Neither shall they shave
their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads. And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, The daughters of
Zelophehad speak right: thou shalt surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father’s brethren; and thou shalt cause the
inheritance of their father to pass unto them. He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall their blood be in his sight.
Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, [which] refuseth to be healed? Whatsoever is] under the whole heaven is mine. And the cart came
into the field of Joshua, a Bethshemite, and stood there, where [there was] a great stone: and they clave the wood of the cart, and offered the kine
a burnt offering unto the LORD. Thus saith the LORD, which maketh a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters; Which bringeth forth the
chariot and horse, the army and the power; they shall lie down together, they shall not rise: they are extinct, they are quenched as tow. And Jacob
their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved [of my children]: Joseph [is] not, and Simeon [is] not, and ye will take Benjamin [away]: all these
things are against me. The way of a fool [is] right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel [is] wise. Howbeit the high places were not
taken away: for as yet the people had not prepared their hearts unto the God of their fathers. These [are] the families of the Simeonites, twenty
and two thousand and two hundred. How are [the things] of Esau searched out! [how] are his hidden things sought up! All the men of thy confederacy
have brought thee [even] to the border: the men that were at peace with thee have deceived thee, [and] prevailed against thee; [they that eat] thy
bread have laid a wound under thee: [there is] none understanding in him. Have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth? They that come
after [him] shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted. And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be
my people. And he said, I will do as thou hast said. I have been young, and [now] am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed
begging bread. And the people did yet corruptly. Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? And therewith he made the sockets to the door of
the tabernacle of the congregation, and the brasen altar, and the brasen grate for it, and all the vessels of the altar, And the sockets of the
court round about, and the sockets of the court gate, and all the pins of the tabernacle, and all the pins of the court round about. Now it came to
pass, after that Amaziah was come from the slaughter of the Edomites, that he brought the gods of the children of Seir, and set them up [to be] his
gods, and bowed down himself before them, and burned incense unto them. And when they forgat the LORD their God, he sold them into the hand of
Sisera, captain of the host of Hazor, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they fought against them.
Reprobate silver shall [men] call them, because the LORD hath rejected them. Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the
LORD [is] near in the valley of decision. Then said they, What [shall be] the trespass offering which we shall return to him? And their border on
the north side was from Jordan; and the border went up to the side of Jericho on the north side, and went up through the mountains westward; and the
goings out thereof were at the wilderness of Bethaven. He that followeth after righteousness and mercy findeth life, righteousness, and honour. And
Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word. And Jesus said unto the centurion, Go thy way; and as thou hast
believed, [so] be it done unto thee. When they went, they went upon their four sides; they turned not as they went, but to the place whither the
head looked they followed it; they turned not as they went. Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox. So the wall was
finished in the twenty and fifth [day] of [the month] Elul, in fifty and two days. And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat
at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured [it] on his head. And
the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was a thousand and seven hundred [shekels] of gold; beside ornaments, and collars, and purple
raiment that [was] on the kings of Midian, and beside the chains that [were] about their camels’ necks. My confusion [is] continually before me, and
the shame of my face hath covered me, For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger. Go up, O Elam:
besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease. And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which [are] in
Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows; And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the
Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the
Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites. Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is
truth. To the Lord our God [belong] mercies and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him; Neither have we obeyed the voice of the LORD our
God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets. Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of
prayer, [being] the ninth [hour]. [Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: So shall thy poverty come as one
that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man. And he took again the twelve, and began to tell them what things should happen unto him, [Saying],
Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be delivered unto the chief priests, and unto the scribes; and they shall condemn him to
death, and shall deliver him to the Gentiles: And they shall mock him, and shall scourge him, and shall spit upon him, and shall kill him: and the
third day he shall rise again. O God, thou [art] my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and
thirsty land, where no water is; To see thy power and thy glory, so [as] I have seen thee in the sanctuary. O LORD, why hast thou made us to err
from thy ways, [and] hardened our heart from thy fear? He spake also this parable; A certain [man] had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he
came and sought fruit thereon, and found none. And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father’s household, with bread,
according to [their] families. And the name of the second river [is] Gihon: the same [is] it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia. And he
charged him to tell no man: but go, and shew thyself to the priest, and offer for thy cleansing, according as Moses commanded, for a testimony unto
them. Then saith the damsel that kept the door unto Peter, Art not thou also [one] of this man’s disciples? Nevertheless the priests of the high
places came not up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, but they did eat of the unleavened bread among their brethren. And Mizraim begat Ludim,
and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim, And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (of whom came the Philistines,) and Caphthorim. But ye have borne the
tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves. And the LORD said unto Moses, Gather unto me
seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them unto the tabernacle of
the congregation, that they may stand there with thee. And when Baalhanan was dead, Hadad reigned in his stead: and the name of his city [was] Pai;
and his wife’s name [was] Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab. And David took more wives at Jerusalem: and David begat more
sons and daughters. Shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord? We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye
do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts: Knowing this
first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took
his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living. Behold, [here is] my daughter a maiden, and his concubine; them
I will bring out now, and humble ye them, and do with them what seemeth good unto you: but unto this man do not so vile a thing. For thus saith the
LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Houses and fields and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land. They only consult to cast [him] down from
his excellency: they delight in lies: they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. But since ye say, The burden of the LORD; therefore thus
saith the LORD; Because ye say this word, The burden of the LORD, and I have sent unto you, saying, Ye shall not say, The burden of the LORD;
Therefore, behold, I, even I, will utterly forget you, and I will forsake you, and the city that I gave you and your fathers, [and cast you] out of
my presence: And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten. Then shall they call upon me,
but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me: For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof. ([There are] eleven days’ [journey] from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto
Kadeshbarnea.) And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first [day] of the month, [that] Moses spake unto the
children of Israel, according unto all that the LORD had given him in commandment unto them; After he had slain Sihon the king of the Amorites,
which dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, which dwelt at Astaroth in Edrei: On this side Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to
declare this law, saying, The LORD our God spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount: Turn you, and take your journey,
and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all [the places] nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by
the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates. Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse
it not. In those days, and at that time, will I cause the Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall execute judgment and
righteousness in the land. Of the children of Levi four thousand and six hundred. Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he
[was] the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of [many] colours. He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the
needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor. The LORD preserveth all them that love him: but all the wicked will he destroy. And I will make
Pathros desolate, and will set fire in Zoan, and will execute judgments in No. And I will pour my fury upon Sin, the strength of Egypt; and I will
cut off the multitude of No. And I will set fire in Egypt: Sin shall have great pain, and No shall be rent asunder, and Noph [shall have] distresses
daily. For thou [art] the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? And Jehoahaz besought the LORD, and the LORD hearkened unto him: for he saw
the oppression of Israel, because the king of Syria oppressed them. And these [are] the sons of Reuel Esau’s son; duke Nahath, duke Zerah, duke
Shammah, duke Mizzah: these [are] the dukes [that came] of Reuel in the land of Edom; these [are] the sons of Bashemath Esau’s wife. And after this
did Jehoshaphat king of Judah join himself with Ahaziah king of Israel, who did very wickedly: And he joined himself with him to make ships to go to
Tarshish: and they made the ships in Eziongeber. The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God; As it is written in the prophets,
Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee. Moreover the LORD thy God will send the hornet among them,
until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed. But what saith the answer of God unto him? And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying, I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel: speak unto them, saying, At even ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be
filled with bread; and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD your God. It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because [it is] none of his: brimstone shall
be scattered upon his habitation. Yet thus saith the Lord GOD; At the end of forty years will I gather the Egyptians from the people whither they
were scattered: And I will bring again the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them to return [into] the land of Pathros, into the land of their
habitation; and they shall be there a base kingdom. If others be partakers of [this] power over you, [are] not we rather? The Lord said, I will
bring again from Bashan, I will bring [my people] again from the depths of the sea: That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of [thine] enemies,
[and] the tongue of thy dogs in the same. This [was] the inheritance of the children of Benjamin, by the coasts thereof round about, according to
their families. He shall also set his face to enter with the strength of his whole kingdom, and upright ones with him; thus shall he do: and he
shall give him the daughter of women, corrupting her: but she shall not stand [on his side], neither be for him. Long time therefore abode they
speaking boldly in the Lord, which gave testimony unto the word of his grace, and granted signs and wonders to be done by their hands. So David and
his men went to Keilah, and fought with the Philistines, and brought away their cattle, and smote them with a great slaughter. In the day of our
king the princes have made [him] sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners. If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath,
[from] doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine
own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking [thine own] words: Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride
upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken [it]. Then he said,
What title [is] that that I see? Moreover the LORD shall raise him up a king over Israel, who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam that day: but
what? When I shall receive the congregation I will judge uprightly. And David was afraid of the LORD that day, and said, How shall the ark of the
LORD come to me? He that despiseth his neighbour sinneth: but he that hath mercy on the poor, happy [is] he. Thy hands have made me and fashioned
me: give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments. Behold, he winnoweth barley to night in the threshingfloor. And the children of Israel
did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did they. Return, ye backsliding children, [and] I will heal your backslidings. For we [were]
bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a
reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the desolations thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem. And they said,
Arise, that we may go up against them: for we have seen the land, and, behold, it [is] very good: and [are] ye still? And Judas also, which betrayed
him, stood with them. Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had
taken out of the temple which [was] in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein. And this [is]
the thing that ye shall do, Ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man. Art thou come hither to torment us before
the time? And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, [even] the whole seed of Ephraim. [As] a thorn goeth up into
the hand of a drunkard, so [is] a parable in the mouth of fools. And the LORD said unto Moses, If her father had but spit in her face, should she
not be ashamed seven days? For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for
sins, But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. I hearkened and heard, [but] they
spake not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and
take him away, and cast [him] into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 1In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in
the clay ground between Succoth and Zarthan. And Parshandatha, and Dalphon, and Aspatha, And Poratha, and Adalia, and Aridatha, And Parmashta, and
Arisai, and Aridai, and Vajezatha, The ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews, slew they; but on the spoil laid they not
their hand. And wherefore discourage ye the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the LORD hath given them? And the
daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire. And thou shalt set up
the court round about, and hang up the hanging at the court gate. And the multitude rebuked them, because they should hold their peace: but they
cried the more, saying, Have mercy on us, O Lord, [thou] Son of David. And he brought also the brasen altar, which [was] before the LORD, from the
forefront of the house, from between the altar and the house of the LORD, and put it on the north side of the altar. And they said unto her, Surely
we will return with thee unto thy people. O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to
the pit. These [are] the families of Naphtali according to their families: and they that were numbered of them [were] forty and five thousand and
four hundred. And this [word], Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things
which cannot be shaken may remain. By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted: but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked. And he said
unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel [are] more and mightier than we: Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they
multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and [so] get them up out
of the land. And David said, I will shew kindness unto Hanun the son of Nahash, because his father shewed kindness to me. All nations before him
[are] as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity. Moreover the altar that [was] at Bethel, [and] the high place which
Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he brake down, and burned the high place, [and]
stamped [it] small to powder, and burned the grove. And he passed over before them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near
to his brother. Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, [for] the rebellious also, that
the LORD God might dwell [among them]. And there was trembling in the host, in the field, and among all the people: the garrison, and the spoilers,
they also trembled, and the earth quaked: so it was a very great trembling. And he put forth his hand, and caught it, and it became a rod in his
hand: That they may believe that the LORD God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared unto thee.
By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about seven days. David therefore himself calleth him Lord; and whence is he
[then] his son? And his hand, which he put forth against him, dried up, so that he could not pull it in again to him. And one cried unto another,
and said, Holy, holy, holy, [is] the LORD of hosts: the whole earth [is] full of his glory. Because, even because they have seduced my people,
saying, Peace; and [there was] no peace; and one built up a wall, and, lo, others daubed it with untempered [morter]: Say unto them which daub [it]
with untempered [morter], that it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing shower; and ye, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall
rend [it]. And it came to pass, when he was come to Jerusalem to meet the king, that the king said unto him, Wherefore wentest not thou with me,
Mephibosheth? My foot standeth in an even place: in the congregations will I bless the LORD. But we trusted that it had been he which should have
redeemed Israel: and beside all this, to day is the third day since these things were done. And in that same hour he cured many of [their]
infirmities and plagues, and of evil spirits; and unto many [that were] blind he gave sight. And when he had lifted up his eyes, he saw a wayfaring
man in the street of the city: and the old man said, Whither goest thou? Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and
your land for Pharaoh: lo, [here is] seed for you, and ye shall sow the land. The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy and two. So I got a
girdle according to the word of the LORD, and put [it] on my loins. One of the servants of the high priest, being [his] kinsman whose ear Peter cut
off, saith, Did not I see thee in the garden with him? By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this [is] all the fruit to take
away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up. Better
[is] the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than [he that is] perverse [in his] ways, though he [be] rich. That which groweth of its own accord
of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: [for] it is a year of rest unto the land. But Jesus said unto
them, A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house. Of the children of Simeon, by their generations, after their
families, by the house of their fathers, those that were numbered of them, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from
twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; Those that were numbered of them, [even] of the tribe of Simeon, [were] fifty
and nine thousand and three hundred. And if [a man] sanctify unto the LORD a field which he hath bought, which [is] not of the fields of his
possession; Then the priest shall reckon unto him the worth of thy estimation, [even] unto the year of the jubile: and he shall give thine
estimation in that day, [as] a holy thing unto the LORD. And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the Gentiles besought that these words
might be preached to them the next sabbath. But the servants of the king would not put forth their hand to fall upon the priests of the LORD. Let
the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moveth therein. Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto my
necessities, and to them that were with me. And the LORD shall do unto them as he did to Sihon and to Og, kings of the Amorites, and unto the land
of them, whom he destroyed. For I [will be] unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, [even] I, will tear and go away; I
will take away, and none shall rescue [him]. And he said, Legion: because many devils were entered into him. For not he that commendeth himself is
approved, but whom the Lord commendeth. One of the people might lightly have lien with thy wife, and thou shouldest have brought guiltiness upon us.
For the son dishonoureth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter in law against her mother in law; a man’s enemies [are]
the men of his own house. A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land [is] as the garden of Eden before them, and behind
them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them. And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph for to buy [corn]; because that the
famine was [so] sore in all lands. Then I heard one saint speaking, and another saint said unto that certain [saint] which spake, How long [shall
be] the vision [concerning] the daily [sacrifice], and the transgression of desolation, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under
foot? He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. If a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone
astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray? And Jonathan answered Saul his
father, and said unto him, Wherefore shall he be slain? And the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amon; and the
people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead. And it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of
his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples. For who [is] God save the LORD? Thou shalt eat [it] before
the LORD thy God year by year in the place which the LORD shall choose, thou and thy household. And Saul built an altar unto the LORD: the same was
the first altar that he built unto the LORD. And after that I looked, and, behold, the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was
opened: And the seven angels came out of the temple, having the seven plagues, clothed in pure and white linen, and having their breasts girded with
golden girdles. And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD
searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him,
he will cast thee off for ever. I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust. Thinkest thou that I cannot now
pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels? So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves:
all that see them shall flee away. And he that burneth her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until
the even. And now ye purpose to keep under the children of Judah and Jerusalem for bondmen and bondwomen unto you: [but are there] not with you,
even with you, sins against the LORD your God? And David inquired of the LORD, saying, Shall I go up to the Philistines? And thou shalt make the
boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards on the south side southward. And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan. Deliver the poor
and needy: rid [them] out of the hand of the wicked. And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and said, I will persuade him.
Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath; But with [him] that standeth here with us this day before the LORD our God, and also
with [him] that [is] not here with us this day: (For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came through the nations which ye
passed by; And ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which [were] among them:) Lest there should be
among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go [and] serve the gods of these nations;
lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood; And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless
himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst: The LORD will not
spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie
upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven. What then? Pilate saith unto them, Shall I crucify your King? And next unto them
repaired Melatiah the Gibeonite, and Jadon the Meronothite, the men of Gibeon, and of Mizpah, unto the throne of the governor on this side the
river. And all the people said unto Samuel, Pray for thy servants unto the LORD thy God, that we die not: for we have added unto all our sins [this]
evil, to ask us a king. For he hath made him [to be] sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. Now the pit
wherein Ishmael had cast all the dead bodies of the men, whom he had slain because of Gedaliah, [was] it which Asa the king had made for fear of
Baasha king of Israel: [and] Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with [them that were] slain. Likewise when the LORD sent you from Kadeshbarnea,
saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then ye rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and ye believed him not,
nor hearkened to his voice. If [one] be found slain in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, [and] it be
not known who hath slain him: Then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which [are] round about him
that is slain: And it shall be, [that] the city [which is] next unto the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take an heifer, which hath
not been wrought with, [and] which hath not drawn in the yoke; And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a rough valley, which is
neither eared nor sown, and shall strike off the heifer’s neck there in the valley: And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them the
LORD thy God hath chosen to minister unto him, and to bless in the name of the LORD; and by their word shall every controversy and every stroke be
[tried]: And all the elders of that city, [that are] next unto the slain [man], shall wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in the
valley: And they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen [it]. And Nahash the Ammonite answered them,