LXX Concordance for μετ

The woman saw that the tree was good for food and delightful to look at, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom. So she took some of its fruit and ate it; she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.

The man replied, “The woman you gave to be with me ​— ​she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate.”

The Nephilim[fn] were on the earth both in those days and afterward, when the sons of God came to the daughters of mankind, who bore children to them. They were the powerful men of old, the famous men.

So Noah, his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives entered the ark because of the floodwaters.

On that same day Noah and his three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, entered the ark, along with Noah's wife and his three sons' wives.

He wiped out every living thing that was on the face of the earth, from mankind to livestock, to creatures that crawl, to the birds of the sky, and they were wiped off the earth. Only Noah was left, and those that were with him in the ark.

God remembered Noah, as well as all the wildlife and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. God caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the water began to subside.

So Noah, along with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives, came out.

Then God said to Noah and his sons with him,

So Abram went, as the LORD had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.

Then Pharaoh gave his men orders about him, and they sent him away with his wife and all he had.

Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev ​— ​he, his wife, and all he had, and Lot with him.

In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him came and defeated the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim, the Zuzim in Ham, the Emim in Shaveh-kiriathaim,

After Abram returned from defeating Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, the king of Sodom went out to meet him in the Shaveh Valley (that is, the King's Valley).

“I will take nothing except what the servants have eaten. But as for the share of the men who came with me ​— ​Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre ​— ​they can take their share.”

“But you will go to your ancestors in peace and be buried at a good old age.

But God said, “No. Your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you will name him Isaac.[fn] I will confirm my covenant with him as a permanent covenant for his future offspring.

The men got up from there and looked out over Sodom, and Abraham was walking with them to see them off.

“For I have chosen[fn] him so that he will command his children and his house after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is right and just. This is how the LORD will fulfill to Abraham what he promised him.”

Lot departed from Zoar and lived in the mountains along with his two daughters, because he was afraid to live in Zoar. Instead, he and his two daughters lived in a cave.

“Come, let's get our father to drink wine so that we can sleep with him and preserve our father's line.”

The next day the firstborn said to the younger, “Look, I slept with my father last night. Let's get him to drink wine again tonight so you can go sleep with him and we can preserve our father's line.”

“Swear to me by God here and now, that you will not break an agreement with me or with my children and descendants. As I have been loyal to you, so you will be loyal to me and to the country where you are a resident alien.”

The servant said to him, “Suppose the woman is unwilling to follow me to this land? Should I have your son go back to the land you came from? ”

So the man came to the house, and the camels were unloaded. Straw and feed were given to the camels, and water was brought to wash his feet and the feet of the men with him.

“But I said to my master, ‘Suppose the woman will not come back with me? '

Then he and the men with him ate and drank and spent the night.

When they got up in the morning, he said, “Send me to my master.”

So they sent away their sister Rebekah with the one who had nursed and raised her,[fn] and Abraham's servant and his men.

“You will not harm us, just as we have not harmed you but have done only what was good to you, sending you away in peace. You are now blessed by the LORD.”

“and stay with him for a few days until your brother's anger subsides ​— ​

Then Jacob made a vow: “If God will be with me and watch over me during this journey I'm making, if he provides me with food to eat and clothing to wear,

Laban said to him, “Yes, you are my own flesh and blood.”[fn]

After Jacob had stayed with him a month,

Laban replied, “Better that I give her to you than to some other man. Stay with me.”

When Jacob came in from the field that evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, “You must come with me, for I have hired you with my son's mandrakes.” So Jacob slept with her that night.

So Jacob said to him, “You know how I have served you and how your herds have fared with me.

He said to them, “I can see from your father's face that his attitude toward me is not the same as before, but the God of my father has been with me.

“Why did you secretly flee from me, deceive me, and not tell me? I would have sent you away with joy and singing, with tambourines and lyres,

When the messengers returned to Jacob, they said, “We went to your brother Esau; he is coming to meet you ​— ​and he has four hundred men with him.”

Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak.

Now Jacob looked up and saw Esau coming toward him with four hundred men. So he divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and the two slave women.

Esau said, “Let me leave some of my people with you.”

But he replied, “Why do that? Please indulge me,[fn] my lord.”

When Shechem ​— ​son of Hamor the Hivite, who was the region's chieftain ​— ​saw her, he took her and raped her.

So Jacob said to his family and all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you. Purify yourselves and change your clothes.

So Jacob and all who were with him came to Luz (that is, Bethel) in the land of Canaan.

Then God withdrew[fn] from him at the place where he had spoken to him.

When his master saw that the LORD was with him and that the LORD made everything he did successful,

After some time his master's wife looked longingly at Joseph and said, “Sleep with me.”

Although she spoke to Joseph day after day, he refused to go to bed with her.[fn]

She grabbed him by his garment and said, “Sleep with me! ” But leaving his garment in her hand, he escaped and ran outside.

she called her household servants. “Look,” she said to them, “my husband brought a Hebrew man to make fools of us. He came to me so he could sleep with me, and I screamed as loud as I could.

The warden did not bother with anything under Joseph's authority,[fn] because the LORD was with him, and the LORD made everything that he did successful.

So he asked Pharaoh's officers who were in custody with him in his master's house, “Why do you look so sad today? ”

After them, seven heads of grain, thin and scorched by the east wind, sprouted up.

“The man who is the lord of the country said to us, ‘This is how I will know if you are honest: Leave one brother with me, take food to relieve the hunger of your households, and go.

Then Judah said to his father Israel, “Send the boy with me. We will be on our way so that we may live and not die ​— ​neither we, nor you, nor our dependents.

When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to his steward, “Take the men to my house. Slaughter an animal and prepare it, for they will eat with me at noon.”

They served him by himself, his brothers by themselves, and the Egyptians who were eating with him by themselves, because Egyptians could not eat with Hebrews, since that is detestable to them.

Portions were served to them from Joseph's table, and Benjamin's portion was five times larger than any of theirs. They drank and became drunk with Joseph.

“when he sees that the boy is not with us, he will die. Then your servants will have brought the gray hairs of your servant our father down to Sheol in sorrow.

They also took their cattle and possessions they had acquired in the land of Canaan. Then Jacob and all his offspring with him came to Egypt.

Then Joseph went to bury his father, and all Pharaoh's servants, the elders of his household, and all the elders of the land of Egypt went with him,

Horses and chariots went up with him; it was a very impressive procession.

He sent word to Moses, “I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you with your wife and her two sons.”

“If you do this, and God so directs you, you will be able to endure, and also all these people will be able to go home satisfied.”[fn]

“If he arrives alone, he is to leave alone; if he arrives with[fn] a wife, his wife is to leave with him.

“When a man borrows an animal from his neighbor, and it is injured or dies while its owner is not there with it, the man must make full restitution.

“If you see the donkey of someone who hates you lying helpless under its load, and you want to refrain from helping it, you must help with it.[fn]

“Moses alone is to approach the LORD, but the others are not to approach, and the people are not to go up with him.”

“Put these on your brother Aaron and his sons; then anoint, ordain,[fn] and consecrate them, so that they may serve me as priests.

“These must be worn by Aaron and his sons whenever they enter the tent of meeting or approach the altar to minister in the sanctuary area, so that they do not incur guilt and die. This is to be a permanent statute for Aaron and for his future descendants.

“Take some of the blood that is on the altar and some of the anointing oil, and sprinkle them on Aaron and his garments, as well as on his sons and their garments. So he and his garments will be holy, as well as his sons and their garments.

“The holy garments that belong to Aaron are to belong to his sons after him, so that they can be anointed and ordained[fn] in them.

“They must wash their hands and feet so that they will not die; this is to be a permanent statute for them, for Aaron and his descendants throughout their generations.”

Moses said to the LORD, “Look, you have told me, ‘Lead this people up,' but you have not let me know whom you will send with me. You said, ‘I know you by name, and you have also found favor with me.'

Then Moses took some of the anointing oil and some of the blood that was on the altar and sprinkled them on Aaron and his garments, as well as on his sons and their garments. In this way he consecrated Aaron and his garments, as well as his sons and their garments.

“If a man sleeps with a woman and has an emission of semen, both of them are to bathe with water, and they will remain unclean until evening.

“If a man sleeps with her, and blood from her menstruation gets on him, he will be unclean for seven days, and every bed he lies on will become unclean.

“Then he and his children are to be released from you, and he may return to his clan and his ancestral property.

“The one who purchased him is to calculate the time from the year he sold himself to him until the Year of Jubilee. The price of his sale will be determined by the number of years. It will be set for him like the daily wages of a hired worker.

“He will stay with him like a man hired year by year. A resident alien is not to rule over him harshly in your sight.

“and I acted with hostility toward them and brought them into the land of their enemies ​— ​and when their uncircumcised hearts are humbled and they make amends for their iniquity,

But Nadab and Abihu died in the LORD's presence when they presented unauthorized fire before the LORD in the Wilderness of Sinai, and they had no sons. So Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests under the direction of Aaron their father.

“and sleeps with another,[fn] but it is concealed from her husband, and she is undetected, even though she has defiled herself, since there is no witness against her, and she wasn't caught in the act;

But the men who had gone up with him responded, “We can't attack the people because they are stronger than we are! ”

“will ever see the land I swore to give their ancestors. None of those who have despised me will see it.

Moses got up and went to Dathan and Abiram, and the elders of Israel followed him.

Then God said to Balaam, “You are not to go with them. You are not to curse this people, for they are blessed.”

But God was incensed that Balaam was going, and the angel of the LORD took his stand on the path to oppose him. Balaam was riding his donkey, and his two servants were with him.

Balak sacrificed cattle, sheep, and goats and sent for Balaam and the officials who were with him.

So he returned to Balak, who was standing there by his burnt offering with all the officials of Moab.

Then Balak said to him, “Please come with me to another place where you can see them. You will only see the outskirts of their camp; you won't see all of them. From there, put a curse on them for me.”

So he returned to Balak, who was standing there by his burnt offering with the officials of Moab. Balak asked him, “What did the LORD say? ”

He considers no disaster for Jacob;

he sees no trouble for Israel.[fn]

The LORD their God is with them,

and there is rejoicing over the King among them.

“It will be a covenant of perpetual priesthood for him and his future descendants, because he was zealous for his God and made atonement for the Israelites.”

“See, I have set the land before you. Enter and take possession of the land the LORD swore to give to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and their future descendants.'

“Because he loved your ancestors, he chose their descendants after them and brought you out of Egypt by his presence and great power,

“But you stand here with me, and I will tell you every command ​— ​the statutes and ordinances ​— ​you are to teach them, so that they may follow them in the land I am giving them to possess.'

“Yet the LORD had his heart set on your ancestors and loved them. He chose their descendants after them ​— ​he chose you out of all the peoples, as it is today.

“and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab the Reubenite, when in the middle of the whole Israelite camp the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them, their households, their tents, and every living thing with them.

“and so that you may live long in the land the LORD swore to your ancestors to give them and their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey.

“It is to remain with him, and he is to read from it all the days of his life, so that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to observe all the words of this instruction, and to do these statutes.

“When you approach a city to fight against it, make an offer of peace.

“If you see your brother's donkey or ox fallen down on the road, do not ignore it; help him lift it up.

“If there is a young woman who is a virgin engaged to a man, and another man encounters her in the city and sleeps with her,

“But if the man encounters an engaged woman in the open country, and he seizes and rapes her, only the man who raped her must die.

“If a man encounters a young woman, a virgin who is not engaged, takes hold of her and rapes her, and they are discovered,

The LORD alone led him,

with no help from a foreign god.

He said:

The LORD came from Sinai

and appeared to them from Seir;

he shone on them from Mount Paran

and came with ten thousand holy ones,[fn]

with lightning[fn] from his right hand[fn] for them.

Then Joshua and all Israel with him took Achan son of Zerah, the silver, the cloak, and the bar of gold, his sons and daughters, his ox, donkey, and sheep, his tent, and all that he had, and brought them up to the Valley of Achor.

“Then I and all the people who are with me will approach the city. When they come out against us as they did the first time, we will flee from them.

All the troops who were with him went up and approached the city, arriving opposite Ai, and camped to the north of it, with a valley between them and the city.

When the king of Ai saw the Israelites, the men of the city hurried and went out early in the morning so that he and all his people could engage Israel in battle at a suitable place facing the Arabah. But he did not know there was an ambush waiting for him behind the city.

So Joshua and all his troops, including all his best soldiers, came from Gilgal.

Joshua and all Israel with him crossed from Makkedah to Libnah and fought against Libnah.

From Libnah, Joshua and all Israel with him crossed to Lachish. They laid siege to it and attacked it.

Then Joshua crossed from Lachish to Eglon and all Israel with him. They laid siege to it and attacked it.

Next, Joshua and all Israel with him went up from Eglon to Hebron and attacked it.

They went out with all their armies ​— ​a multitude as numerous as the sand on the seashore ​— ​along with a vast number of horses and chariots.

“My brothers who went with me caused the people to lose heart, but I followed the LORD my God completely.

“Now give me this hill country the LORD promised me on that day, because you heard then that the Anakim are there, as well as large fortified cities. Perhaps the LORD will be with me and I will drive them out as the LORD promised.”

They sent ten leaders with him ​— ​one family leader for each tribe of Israel. All of them were heads of their ancestral families among the clans of Israel.

When the priest Phinehas and the community leaders, the heads of Israel's clans who were with him, heard what the descendants of Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh had to say, they were pleased.

After these things, the LORD's servant, Joshua son of Nun, died at the age of 110.

Judah said to his brother Simeon, “Come with me to my allotted territory, and let's fight against the Canaanites. I will also go with you to your allotted territory.” So Simeon went with him.

The house of Joseph also attacked Bethel, and the LORD was with them.

That whole generation was also gathered to their ancestors. After them another generation rose up who did not know the LORD or the works he had done for Israel.

Barak said to her, “If you will go with me, I will go. But if you will not go with me, I will not go.”

Barak summoned Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh; ten thousand men followed him, and Deborah also went with him.

Sisera summoned all his nine hundred iron chariots and all the troops who were with him from Harosheth of the Nations to the Wadi Kishon.

“Awake! Awake, Deborah!

Awake! Awake, sing a song!

Arise, Barak,

and take your prisoners,

son of Abinoam! ”

Then he said to him, “If I have found favor with you, give me a sign that you are speaking with me.

Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) and all the troops who were with him, got up early and camped beside the spring of Harod. The camp of Midian was north of them, below the hill of Moreh, in the valley.

“When I and everyone with me blow our rams' horns, you are also to blow your rams' horns all around the camp. Then you will say, ‘For the LORD and for Gideon! ' ”

The men of Ephraim said to him, “Why have you done this to us, not calling us when you went to fight against the Midianites? ” And they argued with him violently.

Gideon and the three hundred men came to the Jordan and crossed it. They were exhausted but still in pursuit.

He also told the men of Penuel, “When I return safely, I will tear down this tower! ”

“Then get up early, and at sunrise attack the city. When he and the troops who are with him come out against you, do to him whatever you can.”

Then Abimelech and the units that were with him rushed forward and took their stand at the entrance of the city gate. The other two units rushed against all who were in the countryside and struck them down.

So Abimelech and all the troops who were with him went up to Mount Zalmon. Abimelech took his ax in his hand and cut a branch from the trees. He picked up the branch, put it on his shoulder, and said to the troops who were with him, “Hurry and do what you have seen me do.”

After him came Jair the Gileadite, who judged Israel twenty-two years.

So Jephthah fled from his brothers and lived in the land of Tob. Then some worthless men joined Jephthah and went on raids with him.

The king of the Ammonites said to Jephthah's messengers, “When Israel came from Egypt, they seized my land from the Arnon to the Jabbok and the Jordan. Now restore it peaceably.”

“I have not sinned against you, but you are doing me wrong by fighting against me. Let the LORD who is the judge decide today between the Israelites and the Ammonites.”

Ibzan, who was from Bethlehem, judged Israel after Jephthah

Elon, who was from Zebulun, judged Israel after Ibzan. He judged Israel ten years,

After Elon, Abdon son of Hillel, who was from Pirathon, judged Israel.

God listened to Manoah, and the angel of God came again to the woman. She was sitting in the field, and her husband, Manoah, was not with her.

When the Philistines saw him, they brought thirty men to accompany him.

“How can you say, ‘I love you,' ” she told him, “when your heart is not with me? This is the third time you have mocked me and not told me what makes your strength so great! ”

Micah replied,[fn] “Stay with me and be my father and priest, and I will give you four ounces of silver a year, along with your clothing and provisions.” So the Levite went in

Then her husband got up and followed her to speak kindly to her and bring her back. He had his servant with him and a pair of donkeys. So she brought him to her father's house, and when the girl's father saw him, he gladly welcomed him.

But the man was unwilling to spend the night. He got up, departed, and arrived opposite Jebus (that is, Jerusalem). The man had his two saddled donkeys and his concubine with him.

The men of Israel went out to fight against Benjamin and took their battle positions against Gibeah.

She left the place where she had been living, accompanied by her two daughters-in-law, and traveled along the road leading back to the land of Judah.

But Naomi replied, “Return home, my daughters. Why do you want to go with me? Am I able to have any more sons who could become your husbands?

When Naomi saw that Ruth was determined to go with her, she stopped talking to her.

Hannah did not go and explained to her husband, “After the child is weaned, I'll take him to appear in the LORD's presence and to stay there permanently.”

When she had weaned him, she took him with her to Shiloh, as well as a three-year-old bull,[fn] half a bushel[fn] of flour, and a clay jar of wine. Though the boy was still young,[fn] she took him to the LORD's house at Shiloh.

Samuel grew. The LORD was with him, and he fulfilled everything Samuel prophesied.[fn]

The Levites removed the ark of the LORD, along with the box containing the gold objects, and placed them on the large rock. That day the people of Beth-shemesh offered burnt offerings and made sacrifices to the LORD.

When they came to the land of Zuph, Saul said to the servant who was with him, “Come on, let's go back, or my father will stop worrying about the donkeys and start worrying about us.”

“Suppose we do go,” Saul said to his servant, “what do we take the man? The food from our packs is gone, and there's no gift to take to the man of God. What do we have? ”

“I am the seer,” Samuel answered.[fn] “Go up ahead of me to the high place and eat with me today. When I send you off in the morning, I'll tell you everything that's in your heart.

“The Spirit of the LORD will come powerfully on you, you will prophesy with them, and you will be transformed.

Then Samuel went[fn] from Gilgal to Gibeah in Benjamin. Saul registered the troops who were with him, about six hundred men.

Saul was staying under the pomegranate tree in Migron on the outskirts of Gibeah.[fn] The troops with him numbered about six hundred.

Jonathan climbed up using his hands and feet, with his armor-bearer behind him. Jonathan cut them down, and his armor-bearer followed and finished them off.

So Saul said to the troops with him, “Call the roll and determine who has left us.” They called the roll and saw that Jonathan and his armor-bearer were gone.

Saul and all the troops with him assembled and marched to the battle, and there the Philistines were, fighting against each other in great confusion!

He warned the Kenites, “Since you showed kindness to all the Israelites when they came out of Egypt, go on and leave! Get away from the Amalekites, or I'll sweep you away with them.” So the Kenites withdrew from the Amalekites.

“Now therefore, please forgive my sin and return with me so I can worship the LORD.”

Saul said, “I have sinned. Please honor me now before the elders of my people and before Israel. Come back with me so I can bow in worship to the LORD your God.”

“In peace,” he replied. “I've come to sacrifice to the LORD. Consecrate yourselves and come with me to the sacrifice.”[fn] Then he consecrated Jesse and his sons and invited them to the sacrifice.

One of the young men answered, “I have seen a son of Jesse of Bethlehem who knows how to play the lyre. He is also a valiant man, a warrior, eloquent, handsome, and the LORD is with him.”

But Saul replied, “You can't go fight this Philistine. You're just a youth, and he's been a warrior since he was young.”

and continued to be successful in all his activities because the LORD was with him.

“If I continue to live, show me kindness[fn] from the LORD, but if I die,

In the morning Jonathan went out to the countryside for the appointed meeting with David. A young servant was with him.

In addition, every man who was desperate, in debt, or discontented rallied around him, and he became their leader. About four hundred men were with him.

So he left them in the care of the king of Moab, and they stayed with him the whole time David was in the stronghold.

Saul heard that David and his men had been discovered. At that time Saul was in Gibeah, sitting under the tamarisk tree at the high place. His spear was in his hand, and all his servants were standing around him.

“Stay with me. Don't be afraid, for the one who wants to take my life wants to take your life. You will be safe with me.”

Then David and his men went to Keilah, fought against the Philistines, drove their livestock away, and inflicted heavy losses on them. So David rescued the inhabitants of Keilah.

So David and his men, numbering about six hundred, left Keilah at once and moved from place to place. When it was reported to Saul that David had escaped from Keilah, he called off the expedition.

“My lord should pay no attention to this worthless fool Nabal, for he lives up to his name:[fn] His name means ‘stupid,' and stupidity is all he knows.[fn] I, your servant, didn't see my lord's young men whom you sent.

So Saul, accompanied by three thousand of the fit young men of Israel, went immediately to the Wilderness of Ziph to search for David there.

Then David asked Ahimelech the Hethite and Joab's brother Abishai son of Zeruiah, “Who will go with me into the camp to Saul? ”

“I'll go with you,” answered Abishai.

So David set out with his six hundred men and went over to Achish son of Maoch, the king of Gath.

At that time, the Philistines gathered their military units into one army to fight against Israel. So Achish said to David, “You know, of course, that you and your men must march out in the army[fn] with me.”

Saul disguised himself by putting on different clothes and set out with two of his men. They came to the woman at night, and Saul said, “Consult a spirit for me. Bring up for me the one I tell you.”

So Achish summoned David and told him, “As the LORD lives, you are an honorable man. I think it is good[fn] to have you fighting[fn] in this unit with me, because I have found no fault in you from the day you came to me until today. But the leaders don't think you are reliable.

So David and the six hundred men with him went. They came to the Wadi Besor, where some stayed behind.

When David came to the two hundred men who had been too exhausted to go with him and had been left at the Wadi Besor, they came out to meet him and to meet the troops with him. When David approached the men, he greeted them,

When his armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he also fell on his own sword and died with him.

Then David took hold of his clothes and tore them, and all the men with him did the same.

In addition, David brought the men who were with him, each one with his family, and they settled in the towns near Hebron.

Afterward, they carried Asahel to his father's tomb in Bethlehem and buried him. Then Joab and his men marched all night and reached Hebron at dawn.

Abner sent messengers as his representatives to say to David, “Whose land is it? Make your covenant with me, and you can be certain I am on your side to turn all Israel over to you.”

Her husband followed her, weeping all the way to Bahurim. Abner said to him, “Go back.” So he went back.

When Abner and twenty men came to David at Hebron, David held a banquet for him and his men.

Just then David's soldiers and Joab returned from a raid and brought a large amount of plundered goods with them. Abner was not with David in Hebron because David had dismissed him, and he had gone in peace.

David then ordered Joab and all the people who were with him, “Tear your clothes, put on sackcloth, and mourn over Abner.” And King David walked behind the coffin.[fn]

David became more and more powerful, and the LORD God of Armies was with him.

The Philistines abandoned their idols there, and David and his men carried them off.

He and all his troops set out to bring the ark of God from Baale-judah.[fn] The ark bears the Name, the name of the LORD of Armies who is enthroned between the cherubim.

When those carrying the ark of the LORD advanced six steps, he sacrificed an ox and a fattened calf.

David asked, “Is there anyone remaining from the family of Saul I can show kindness to for Jonathan's sake? ”

So the king asked, “Is there anyone left of Saul's family that I can show the kindness of God to? ”

Ziba said to the king, “There is still Jonathan's son who was injured in both feet.”

Then David said, “I'll show kindness to Hanun son of Nahash, just as his father showed kindness to me.”

So David sent his emissaries to console Hanun concerning his father. However, when they arrived in the land of the Ammonites,

Joab and his troops advanced to fight against the Arameans, and they fled before him.

When this was reported to David, he gathered all Israel, crossed the Jordan, and went to Helam. Then the Arameans lined up to engage David in battle and fought against him.

In the spring when kings march out to war, David sent Joab with his officers and all Israel. They destroyed the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah, but David remained in Jerusalem.

David sent messengers to get her, and when she came to him, he slept with her. Now she had just been purifying herself from her uncleanness. Afterward, she returned home.

but the poor man had nothing except one small ewe lamb that he had bought. He raised her, and she grew up with him and with his children. From his meager food she would eat, from his cup she would drink, and in his arms she would sleep. She was like a daughter to him.

Then David comforted his wife Bathsheba; he went to her and slept with her. She gave birth to a son and named[fn] him Solomon.[fn] The LORD loved him,

When she brought them to him to eat, he grabbed her and said,[fn] “Come sleep with me, my sister! ”

But he refused to listen to her, and because he was stronger than she was, he disgraced her by raping her.

“No,” she cried,[fn] “sending me away is much worse than the great wrong you've already done to me! ”

But he refused to listen to her.

But Absalom urged him, so he sent Amnon and all the king's sons.[fn]

David said to all the servants with him in Jerusalem, “Get up. We have to flee, or we will not escape from Absalom! Leave quickly, or he will overtake us quickly, heap disaster on us, and strike the city with the edge of the sword.”

“March on,” David replied to Ittai. So Ittai of Gath marched past with all his men and the dependents who were with him.

Zadok was also there, and all the Levites with him were carrying the ark of the covenant of God. They set the ark of God down, and Abiathar offered sacrifices[fn] until the people had finished marching past.

David was climbing the slope of the Mount of Olives, weeping as he ascended. His head was covered, and he was walking barefoot. All of the people with him covered their heads and went up, weeping as they ascended.

David said to him, “If you go away with me, you'll be a burden to me,

“Take note: their two sons are there with them ​— ​Zadok's son Ahimaaz and Abiathar's son Jonathan. Send them to tell me everything you hear.”

Now Absalom and all the Israelites came to Jerusalem. Ahithophel was also with him.

“Not at all,” Hushai answered Absalom. “I am on the side of the one that the LORD, this people, and all the men of Israel have chosen. I will stay with him.

“I will attack him while he is weary and discouraged,[fn] throw him into a panic, and all the people with him will scatter. I will strike down only the king

“Then, even a brave man with the heart of a lion will lose heart[fn] because all Israel knows that your father and the valiant men with him are warriors.

“Then we will attack David wherever we find him, and we will descend on him like dew on the ground. Not even one will be left ​— ​neither he nor any of the men with him.

“Now send someone quickly and tell David, ‘Don't spend the night at the wilderness ford,[fn] but be sure to cross over the Jordan,[fn] or the king and all the people with him will be devoured.' ”

So David and all the people with him got up and crossed the Jordan. By daybreak, there was no one who had not crossed the Jordan.

David had arrived at Mahanaim by the time Absalom crossed the Jordan with all the men of Israel.

honey, curds, sheep, goats, and cheese[fn] from the herd for David and the people with him to eat. They had reasoned, “The people must be hungry, exhausted, and thirsty in the wilderness.”

David reviewed his troops and appointed commanders of thousands and of hundreds over them.

There were a thousand men from Benjamin with him. Ziba, an attendant from the house of Saul, with his fifteen sons and twenty servants also rushed down to the Jordan ahead of the king.

When he came from Jerusalem to meet the king, the king asked him, “Mephibosheth, why didn't you come with me? ”

The king said to Barzillai, “Cross over with me, and I'll provide for you[fn] at my side in Jerusalem.”

The king replied, “Chimham will cross over with me, and I will do for him what seems good to you, and whatever you desire from me I will do for you.”

The king went on to Gilgal, and Chimham went with him. All the troops of Judah and half of Israel's escorted the king.

The Philistines again waged war against Israel. David went down with his soldiers, and they fought the Philistines, but David became exhausted.

After him, Eleazar son of Dodo son of an Ahohite was among the three warriors with David when they defied the Philistines. The men of Israel retreated in the place they had gathered for battle,

After him was Shammah son of Agee the Hararite. The Philistines had assembled in formation where there was a field full of lentils. The troops fled from the Philistines,

So the king said to Joab, the commander of his army, “Go through all the tribes of Israel from Dan to Beer-sheba and register the troops so I can know their number.”

So his servants said to him, “Let us[fn] search for a young virgin for my lord the king. She is to attend the king and be his caregiver. She is to lie by your side so that my lord the king will get warm.”

“Go, approach King David and say to him, ‘My lord the king, did you not swear to your servant: Your son Solomon is to become king after me, and he is the one who is to sit on my throne? So why has Adonijah become king? '

She replied, “My lord, you swore to your servant by the LORD your God, ‘Your son Solomon is to become king after me, and he is the one who is to sit on my throne.'

“Now, my lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are on you to tell them who will sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.

“I'm certain my lord the king would not have let this happen without letting your servant[fn] know who will sit on my lord the king's throne after him.”

“just as I swore to you by the LORD God of Israel: Your son Solomon is to become king after me, and he is the one who is to sit on my throne in my place, that is exactly what I will do this very day.”

“And with Solomon, the king has sent the priest Zadok, the prophet Nathan, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, and they have had him ride on the king's mule.

Solomon and all Israel with him ​— ​a great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath[fn] to the Brook of Egypt ​— ​observed the festival at that time in the presence of the LORD our God, seven days, and seven more days ​— ​fourteen days.[fn]

As for all the peoples who remained of the Amorites, Hethites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, who were not Israelites ​— ​

Hadad fled to Egypt, along with some Edomites from his father's servants. At the time Hadad was a small boy.

But Pharaoh asked him, “What do you lack here with me for you to want to go back to your own country? ”

“Nothing,” he replied, “but please let me leave.”

But he rejected the advice of the elders who had advised him and consulted with the young men who had grown up with him and attended him.

The young men who had grown up with him told him, “This is what you should say to this people who said to you, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you, make it lighter on us! ' This is what you should tell them: ‘My little finger is thicker than my father's waist!

Then the king declared to the man of God, “Come home with me, refresh yourself, and I'll give you a reward.”

Then he said to him, “Come home with me and eat some food.”

But for the sake of David, the LORD his God gave him a lamp[fn] in Jerusalem by raising up his son after him and by preserving Jerusalem.

Omri along with all Israel marched up from Gibbethon and besieged Tirzah.

Then he cried out to the LORD and said, “LORD my God, have you also brought tragedy on the widow I am staying with by killing her son? ”

Now King Ben-hadad of Aram assembled his entire army. Thirty-two kings, along with horses and chariots, were with him. He marched up, besieged Samaria, and fought against it.

When Ben-hadad heard this response, while he and the kings were drinking in their quarters,[fn] he said to his servants, “Take your positions.” So they took their positions against the city.

They marched out at noon while Ben-hadad and the thirty-two kings who were helping him were getting drunk in their quarters.

Then the king of Israel and Judah's King Jehoshaphat went up to Ramoth-gilead.

The angel of the LORD said to Elijah, “Go down with him. Don't be afraid of him.” So he got up and went down with him to the king.

Then he sent a message to King Jehoshaphat of Judah: “The king of Moab has rebelled against me. Will you go with me to fight against Moab? ”

Jehoshaphat said, “I will go. I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses.”

Then she said, “Did I ask my lord for a son? Didn't I say, ‘Do not lie to me? ' ”

So he went with them, and when they came to the Jordan, they cut down trees.

Elisha said, “Don't be afraid, for those who are with us outnumber those who are with them.”

Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. The king sent a man ahead of him, but before the messenger got to him, Elisha said to the elders, “Do you see how this murderer has sent someone to remove my head? Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door to keep him out. Isn't the sound of his master's feet behind him? ”

So Jehoram crossed over to Zair with all his chariots. Then at night he set out to attack the Edomites who had surrounded him and the chariot commanders, but his troops fled to their tents.

But King Joram had returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds that the Arameans had inflicted on him when he fought against Aram's King Hazael. Jehu said, “If you commanders wish to make me king,[fn] then don't let anyone escape from the city to go tell about it in Jezreel.”

He looked up toward the window and said, “Who is on my side? Who? ” Two or three eunuchs looked down at him,

Then he said, “Come with me and see my zeal for the LORD! ” So he let him ride with him in his chariot.

Joash was in hiding with her in the LORD's temple six years while Athaliah reigned over the land.

King Pul[fn] of Assyria invaded the land, so Menahem gave Pul seventy-five thousand pounds[fn] of silver so that Pul would support him to strengthen his grasp on the kingdom.

Then his officer, Pekah son of Remaliah, conspired against him and struck him down in Samaria at the citadel of the king's palace — with Argob and Arieh.[fn] There were fifty Gileadite men with Pekah. He killed Pekahiah and became king in his place.

The LORD made a covenant with Jacob's descendants and commanded them, “Do not fear other gods; do not bow in worship to them; do not serve them; do not sacrifice to them.

Hezekiah relied on the LORD God of Israel; not one of the kings of Judah was like him, either before him or after him.

The LORD was with him, and wherever he went he prospered. He rebelled against the king of Assyria and did not serve him.

“Don't listen to Hezekiah, for this is what the king of Assyria says: ‘Make peace[fn] with me and surrender to me. Then each of you may eat from his own vine and his own fig tree, and each may drink water from his own cistern

Then the king went to the LORD's temple with all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, as well as the priests and the prophets ​— ​all the people from the youngest to the oldest. He read in their hearing all the words of the book of the covenant that had been found in the LORD's temple.

Before him there was no king like him who turned to the LORD with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his strength according to all the law of Moses, and no one like him arose after him.

The Chaldeans seized the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, and they passed sentence on him.

In the seventh month, however, Ishmael son of Nethaniah, son of Elishama, of the royal family, came with ten men and struck down Gedaliah, and he died. Also, they killed the Judeans and the Chaldeans who were with him at Mizpah.

He spoke kindly to him and set his throne over the thrones of the kings who were with him in Babylon.

Jabez called out to the God of Israel, “If only you would bless me, extend my border, let your hand be with me, and keep me from harm, so that I will not experience pain.”[fn] And God granted his request.

In earlier times Phinehas son of Eleazar had been their leader, and the LORD was with him.

David steadily grew more powerful, and the LORD of Armies was with him.

After him, Eleazar son of Dodo the Ahohite was one of the three warriors.

in addition to Jehoiada, leader of the house of Aaron, with 3,700 men;

From the Issacharites, who understood the times and knew what Israel should do: 200 chiefs with all their relatives under their command.

From Naphtali: 1,000 commanders accompanied by 37,000 men with shield and spear.

Then he said to the whole assembly of Israel, “If it seems good to you, and if this is from the LORD our God, let's spread out and send the message to the rest of our relatives in all the districts of Israel, including the priests and Levites in their cities with pasturelands, that they should gather together with us.

With them were their relatives second in rank: Zechariah, Jaaziel,[fn] Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, and the gatekeepers Obed-edom and Jeiel.

With them were Heman, Jeduthun, and the rest who were chosen and designated by name to give thanks to the LORD ​— ​for his faithful love endures forever.

Then David said, “I'll show kindness to Hanun son of Nahash, because his father showed kindness to me.”

So David sent messengers to console him concerning his father. However, when David's emissaries arrived in the land of the Ammonites to console him,

Joab and the people with him approached the Arameans for battle, and they fled before him.

Ornan was threshing wheat when he turned and saw the angel. His four sons, who were with him, hid.

Solomon son of David strengthened his hold on his kingdom. The LORD his God was with him and highly exalted him.

Solomon and the whole assembly with him went to the high place that was in Gibeon because God's tent of meeting, which the LORD's servant Moses had made in the wilderness, was there.

Therefore, send me an artisan who is skilled in engraving to work with gold, silver, bronze, and iron, and with purple, crimson, and blue yarn. He will work with the artisans who are with me in Judah and Jerusalem, appointed by my father David.

the Levitical singers dressed in fine linen and carrying cymbals, harps, and lyres were standing east of the altar, and with them were 120 priests blowing trumpets. The Levitical singers were descendants of Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun and their sons and relatives.

So Solomon and all Israel with him ​— ​a very great assembly, from the entrance to Hamath[fn] to the Brook of Egypt ​— ​observed the festival at that time for seven days.

their descendants who remained in the land after them, those the Israelites had not completely destroyed ​— ​Solomon imposed forced labor on them; it is this way today.

But he rejected the advice of the elders who had advised him, and he consulted with the young men who had grown up with him, the ones attending him.

Then the young men who had grown up with him told him, “This is what you should say to the people who said to you, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you, make it lighter on us! ' This is what you should say to them: ‘My little finger is thicker than my father's waist!

When Rehoboam had established his sovereignty and royal power, he abandoned the law of the LORD ​— ​he and all Israel with him.

with 1,200 chariots, 60,000 cavalrymen, and countless people who came with him from Egypt ​— ​Libyans, Sukkiim, and Cushites.

So he went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Asa and all Judah and Benjamin, hear me. The LORD is with you when you are with him. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you abandon him, he will abandon you.

Then he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, as well as those from the tribes of Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon who were residing among them, for they had defected to him from Israel in great numbers when they saw that the LORD his God was with him.

There was no war until the thirty-fifth year of Asa's reign.

The Levites with them were Shemaiah, Nethaniah, Zebadiah,[fn] Asahel, Shemiramoth, Jehonathan, Adonijah, Tobijah, and Tob-adonijah; the priests, Elishama and Jehoram, were with these Levites.

These are their numbers according to their ancestral families.[fn] For Judah, the commanders of thousands:

Adnah the commander and three hundred thousand valiant warriors with him;

Then after some years, he went down to visit Ahab in Samaria. Ahab slaughtered many sheep, goats, and cattle for him and for the people who were with him, and he persuaded him to attack Ramoth-gilead,

Now the king of Aram had ordered his chariot commanders, “Do not fight with anyone at all[fn] except the king of Israel.”

After this, the Moabites and Ammonites, together with some of the Meunites,[fn] came to fight against Jehoshaphat.

So Jehoram crossed into Edom with his commanders and all his chariots. Then at night he set out to attack the Edomites who had surrounded him and the chariot commanders.

Ahaziah's downfall came from God when he went to Joram. When Ahaziah arrived, he went out with Joram to meet Jehu son of Nimshi, whom the LORD had anointed to destroy the house of Ahab.

He was hiding with them in God's temple for six years while Athaliah reigned over the land.

Then, in the seventh year, Jehoiada summoned his courage and took the commanders of hundreds into a covenant with him: Azariah son of Jeroham, Ishmael son of Jehohanan, Azariah son of Obed, Maaseiah son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat son of Zichri.

King Joash didn't remember the kindness that Zechariah's father Jehoiada had extended to him, but killed his son. While he was dying, he said, “May the LORD see and demand an account.”

As for the men of the division that Amaziah sent back so they would not go with him into battle, they raided the cities of Judah from Samaria to Beth-horon, struck down three thousand of their people, and took a great deal of plunder.

Under their authority was an army of 307,500 equipped for combat, a powerful force to help the king against the enemy.

The priest Azariah, along with eighty brave priests of the LORD, went in after him.

“Be strong and courageous! Don't be afraid or discouraged before the king of Assyria or before the large army that is with him, for there are more with us than with him.

In the eighteenth year of Josiah's reign, this Passover was observed.

But Neco sent messengers to him, saying, “What is the issue between you and me, king of Judah? I have not come against you today[fn] but I am fighting another dynasty.[fn] God told me to hurry. Stop opposing God who is with me; don't make him destroy you! ”

This is what King Cyrus of Persia says: The LORD, the God of the heavens, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth and has appointed me to build him a temple at Jerusalem in Judah. Any of his people among you may go up, and may the LORD his God be with him.

“Any of his people among you, may his God be with him, and may he go to Jerusalem in Judah and build the house of the LORD, the God of Israel, the God who is in Jerusalem.

But many of the older priests, Levites, and family heads, who had seen the first temple, wept loudly when they saw the foundation of this temple, but many others shouted joyfully.

Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and Jeshua son of Jozadak began to rebuild God's house in Jerusalem. The prophets of God were with them, helping them.

and who has shown favor to me before the king, his counselors, and all his powerful officers. So I took courage because I was strengthened by the hand of the LORD my God,[fn] and I gathered Israelite leaders to return with me.

These are the family heads and the genealogical records of those who returned with me from Babylon during the reign of King Artaxerxes:

who was of Shecaniah's descendants;

Zechariah, from Parosh's descendants,

and 150 men[fn] with him who were registered by genealogy;

I selected twelve of the leading priests, along with Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brothers.

On the fourth day the silver, the gold, and the articles were weighed out in the house of our God into the care of the priest Meremoth son of Uriah. Eleazar son of Phinehas was with him. The Levites Jozabad son of Jeshua and Noadiah son of Binnui were also with them.

“Let our leaders represent the entire assembly. Then let all those in our towns who have married foreign women come at appointed times, together with the elders and judges of each town, in order to avert the fierce anger of our God concerning[fn] this matter.”

I went to the governors of the region west of the Euphrates and gave them the king's letters. The king had also sent officers of the infantry and cavalry with me.

I got up at night and took a few men with me. I didn't tell anyone what my God had laid on my heart to do for Jerusalem. The only animal I took[fn] was the one I was riding.

After him their fellow Levites made repairs under Binnui[fn] son of Henadad, ruler of half the district of Keilah.

After him Baruch son of Zabbai[fn] diligently repaired another section, from the Angle to the door of the house of the high priest Eliashib.

Next to him the Tekoites made repairs to another section from a point opposite the great tower that juts out, as far as the wall of Ophel.

After them Zadok son of Immer made repairs opposite his house. And beside him Shemaiah son of Shecaniah, guard of the East Gate, made repairs.

They refused to listen

and did not remember your wonders

you performed among them.

They became stiff-necked and appointed a leader

to return to their slavery in Egypt.[fn]

But you are a forgiving God,

gracious and compassionate,

slow to anger and abounding in faithful love,

and you did not abandon them.

The two thanksgiving processions stood in the house of God. So did I and half of the officials accompanying me,

I rebuked them, cursed them, beat some of their men, and pulled out their hair. I forced them to take an oath before God and said, “You must not give your daughters in marriage to their sons or take their daughters as wives for your sons or yourselves!

Esther still did not reveal her family background or her ethnicity, as Mordecai had directed. She obeyed Mordecai's orders, as she always had while he raised her.

Haman told his wife Zeresh and all his friends everything that had happened. His advisers and his wife Zeresh said to him, “Since Mordecai is Jewish, and you have begun to fall before him, you won't overcome him, because your downfall is certain.”

This explains why the rural Jews who live in villages observe the fourteenth day of the month of Adar as a time of rejoicing and feasting. It is a holiday when they send gifts to one another.

His sons used to take turns having banquets at their homes. They would send an invitation to their three sisters to eat and drink with them.

One day the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan[fn] also came with them.

Will it go down to the gates of Sheol,

or will we descend together to the dust?

His frame may be full of youthful vigor,

but it will lie down with him in dust.

For what does he care about his family once he is dead,

when the number of his months has run out?

The ocean depths say, “It's not in me,”

while the sea declares, “I don't have it.”

“My whole being will be refreshed within me,

and my bow will be renewed in my hand.”

can you help God spread out the skies

as hard as a cast metal mirror?

The enemy has come to eternal ruin;

you have uprooted the cities,

and the very memory of them has perished.

I was blameless toward him

and kept myself from my iniquity.

Even when I go through the darkest valley,[fn]

I fear no danger,

for you are with me;

your rod and your staff ​— ​they comfort me.

My heart races, my strength leaves me,

and even the light of my eyes has faded.[fn]

“I know every bird of the mountains,

and the creatures of the field are mine.

I will praise God's name with song

and exalt him with thanksgiving.

their hearts were insincere toward him,

and they were unfaithful to his covenant.

Even Assyria has joined them;

they lend support[fn] to the sons of Lot.[fn]Selah

Show me a sign of your goodness;

my enemies will see and be put to shame

because you, LORD, have helped and comforted me.

“My faithfulness and love will be with him,

and through my name

his horn will be exalted.

When he calls out to me, I will answer him;

I will be with him in trouble.

I will rescue him and give him honor.

with a ten-stringed harp[fn]

and the music of a lyre.

My eyes favor the faithful of the land

so that they may sit down with me.

The one who follows the way of integrity

may serve me.

But you, LORD, my Lord,

deal kindly with me for your name's sake;

because your faithful love is good, rescue me.

Our mouths were filled with laughter then,

and our tongues with shouts of joy.

Then they said among the nations,

“The LORD has done great things for them.”

my son, don't travel that road with them

or set foot on their path,

The remembrance of the righteous is a blessing,

but the name of the wicked will rot.

Wealth obtained by fraud will dwindle,

but whoever earns it through labor[fn] will multiply it.

You will vomit the little you've eaten

and waste your pleasant words.

Don't envy the evil

or desire to be with them,

I hated all my work that I labored at under the sun because I must leave it to the one who comes after me.

I have seen that there is nothing better than for a person to enjoy his activities because that is his reward. For who can enable him to see what will happen after he dies?[fn]

You will joyfully draw water

from the springs of salvation,

The whole earth is calm and at rest;

people shout with a ringing cry.

a throne will be established in love,

and one will sit on it faithfully[fn]

in the tent of David,

judging and pursuing what is right,

quick to execute justice.

In a little more than a year

you overconfident ones will shudder,

for the grapes will fail

and the harvest will not come.

The wild oxen will be struck[fn] down with them,

and young bulls with the mighty bulls.

Their land will be soaked with[fn] blood,

and their soil will be saturated with fat.

and the ransomed of the LORD will return

and come to Zion with singing,

crowned with unending joy.

Joy and gladness will overtake them,

and sorrow and sighing will flee.

See, the Lord GOD comes with strength,

and his power establishes his rule.

His wages are with him,

and his reward accompanies him.

“You are my witnesses” —

this is the LORD's declaration —

“and my servant whom I have chosen,

so that you may know and believe me

and understand that I am he.

No god was formed before me,

and there will be none after me.

And the ransomed of the LORD will return

and come to Zion with singing,

crowned with unending joy.

Joy and gladness will overtake them,

and sorrow and sighing will flee.

You went to the king with oil

and multiplied your perfumes;

you sent your envoys far away

and sent them down even to Sheol.

Yes, the coasts and islands will wait for me

with the ships of Tarshish in the lead,

to bring your children from far away,

their silver and gold with them,

for the honor of the LORD your God,

the Holy One of Israel,

who has glorified you.

I trampled the winepress alone,

and no one from the nations was with me.

I trampled them in my anger

and ground them underfoot in my fury;

their blood spattered my garments,

and all my clothes were stained.

“They will not labor without success

or bear children destined for disaster,

for they will be a people blessed by the LORD

along with their descendants.

“I will give you shepherds who are loyal to me,[fn] and they will shepherd you with knowledge and skill.

My joy has flown away;

grief has settled on me.

My heart is sick.

“Do not enter the house where feasting is taking place to sit with them to eat and drink.

But the LORD is with me like a violent warrior.

Therefore, my persecutors will stumble and not prevail.

Since they have not succeeded, they will be utterly shamed,

an everlasting humiliation that will never be forgotten.

“You show faithful love to thousands but lay the fathers' iniquity on their sons' laps after them, great and mighty God whose name is the LORD of Armies,

“I will give them integrity of heart and action[fn] so that they will fear me always, for their good and for the good of their descendants after them.

“Now pay attention: Today I am setting you free from the chains that were on your hands. If it pleases you to come with me to Babylon, come, and I will take care of you. But if it seems wrong to you to come with me to Babylon, go no farther.[fn] Look ​— ​the whole land is in front of you. Wherever it seems good and right for you to go, go there.”

In the seventh month, Ishmael son of Nethaniah, son of Elishama, of the royal family and one of the king's chief officers, came with ten men to Gedaliah son of Ahikam at Mizpah. They ate a meal together there in Mizpah,

When Johanan son of Kareah and all the commanders of the armies with him heard of all the evil that Ishmael son of Nethaniah had done,

When all the people held by Ishmael saw Johanan son of Kareah and all the commanders of the army with him, they rejoiced.

Johanan son of Kareah and all the commanders of the armies with him then took from Mizpah all the remnant of the people whom he had recovered from Ishmael son of Nethaniah after Ishmael had killed Gedaliah son of Ahikam ​— ​men, soldiers, women, children, and court officials whom he brought back from Gibeon.

I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter,

like rams together with male goats.

He spoke kindly to him and set his throne above the thrones of the kings who were with him in Babylon.

When the cherubim stopped, the wheels stood still, and when they ascended, the wheels ascended with them, for the spirit of the living creatures was in them.

“Son of man, eat your bread with trembling and drink your water with anxious shaking.

“I will demolish the wall you plastered with whitewash and knock it to the ground so that its foundation is exposed. The city will fall, and you will be destroyed within it. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

“ ‘As I live ​— ​this is the declaration of the Lord GOD ​— ​he will die in Babylon, in the land of the king who put him on the throne, whose oath he despised and whose covenant he broke.

“She didn't give up her promiscuity that began in Egypt, when men slept with her in her youth, caressed her virgin nipples, and poured out their lust on her.

“the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans; Pekod, Shoa, and Koa; and all the Assyrians with them ​— ​desirable young men, all of them governors and prefects, officers and administrators, all of them riding on steeds.

“They too descended with it to Sheol, to those slain by the sword. As its allies[fn][fn] they had lived in its shade among the nations.

“They will fall among those slain by the sword.

A sword is appointed!

They drag her and all her hordes away.

“ ‘This is what the Lord GOD says: Certainly in my burning zeal I speak against the rest of the nations and all of Edom, who took[fn] my land as their own possession with wholehearted rejoicing and utter contempt so that its pastureland became[fn] plunder.

“I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be a permanent covenant with them. I will establish and multiply them and will set my sanctuary among them forever.

“I will execute judgment on him with plague and bloodshed. I will pour out torrential rain, hailstones, fire, and burning sulfur on him, as well as his troops and the many peoples who are with him.

“When the people enter, the prince will enter with them, and when they leave, he will leave.

“In whatever tribe the alien resides, you will assign his inheritance there.” This is the declaration of the Lord GOD.

The king interviewed them, and among all of them, no one was found equal to Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. So they began to attend the king.

He reveals the deep and hidden things;

he knows what is in the darkness,

and light dwells with him.

I am pleased to tell you about the miracles and wonders the Most High God has done for me.

While he was speaking to me, I fell into a deep sleep, with my face to the ground. Then he touched me, made me stand up,

He gave me this explanation: “Daniel, I've come now to give you understanding.

Only I, Daniel, saw the vision. The men who were with me did not see it, but a great terror fell on them, and they ran and hid.

While he was saying these words to me, I turned my face toward the ground and was speechless.

He said, “Don't be afraid, you who are[fn] treasured by God. Peace to you; be very strong! ”

As he spoke to me, I was strengthened and said, “Let my lord speak, for you have strengthened me.”

“However, I will tell you what is recorded in the book of truth. (No one has the courage to support me against those princes except Michael, your prince.

“After some years they will form an alliance, and the daughter of the king of the South will go to the king of the North to seal the agreement. She will not retain power, and his strength will not endure. She will be given up, together with her entourage, her father,[fn] and the one who supported her during those times.

“He will resolve to come with the force of his whole kingdom and will reach an agreement with him.[fn] He will give him a daughter in marriage[fn] to destroy it,[fn] but she will not stand with him or support him.

Israel's arrogance testifies against them.[fn]

Both Israel and Ephraim stumble

because of their iniquity;

even Judah will stumble with them.

a day of darkness and gloom,

a day of clouds and total darkness,

like the dawn spreading over the mountains;

a great and strong people appears,

such as never existed in ages past

and never will again

in all the generations to come.

I will cut off the judge from the land

and kill all its officials with him.

The LORD has spoken.

I will turn your feasts into mourning

and all your songs into lamentation;

I will cause everyone[fn] to wear sackcloth

and every head to be shaved.

I will make that grief

like mourning for an only son

and its outcome like a bitter day.

Jonah got up to flee to Tarshish from the LORD's presence. He went down to Joppa and found a ship going to Tarshish. He paid the fare and went down into it to go with them to Tarshish from the LORD's presence.

House of Jacob, should it be asked,

“Is the Spirit of the LORD impatient?

Are these the things he does? ”

Don't my words bring good

to the one who walks uprightly?

This is the jubilant city

that lives in security,

that says to herself:

I exist, and there is no one else.

What a desolation she has become,

a place for wild animals to lie down!

Everyone who passes by her

scoffs[fn] and shakes his fist.

They will be like warriors in battle

trampling down the mud of the streets.

They will fight because the LORD is with them,

and they will put horsemen to shame.

You will flee by my mountain valley,[fn] for the valley of the mountains will extend to Azal. You will flee as you fled[fn] from the earthquake in the days of King Uzziah of Judah. Then the LORD my God will come and all the holy ones with him.[fn]

“My covenant with him was one of life and peace, and I gave these to him; it called for reverence, and he revered me and stood in awe of my name.