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τοῦ — 8226x G3588 ὁ
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Occurrences: 5243 times in 4002 verses
Speech: Definite article
Parsing: Genitive Singular Masculine
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:9 - And God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.” And it was so.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:14 - And God said, “Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times, and days and years,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:15 - and let them be lights in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth.” And it was so.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:17 - God set them in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:20 - And God said, “Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the vault of the sky.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:26 - Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals,[fn] and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:28 - God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:30 - And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food.” And it was so.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:19 - Now the LORD God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:20 - So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds in the sky and all the wild animals. But for Adam[fn] no suitable helper was found.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:22 - Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib[fn] he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:23 - The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,' for she was taken out of man.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:2 - The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:3 - but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:6 - When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:8 - Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the LORD God among the trees of the garden.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:18 - It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:23 - So the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:24 - After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side[fn] of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:1 - Adam[fn] made love to his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain.[fn] She said, “With the help of the LORD I have brought forth[fn] a man.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:9 - Then the LORD said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?” “I don't know,” he replied. “Am I my brother's keeper?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:10 - The LORD said, “What have you done? Listen! Your brother's blood cries out to me from the ground.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:11 - Now you are under a curse and driven from the ground, which opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:16 - So Cain went out from the LORD's presence and lived in the land of Nod,[fn] east of Eden.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:17 - Cain made love to his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. Cain was then building a city, and he named it after his son Enoch.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:26 - Seth also had a son, and he named him Enosh. At that time people began to call on[fn] the name of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:2 - the sons of God saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:4 - The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:7 - So the LORD said, “I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created—and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground—for I regret that I have made them.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:8 - But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:11 - Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight and was full of violence.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:17 - I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:3 - and also seven pairs of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:7 - And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:10 - And after the seven days the floodwaters came on the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:11 - In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, on the seventeenth day of the second month—on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:19 - They rose greatly on the earth, and all the high mountains under the entire heavens were covered.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:23 - Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out; people and animals and the creatures that move along the ground and the birds were wiped from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:1 - But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark, and he sent a wind over the earth, and the waters receded.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:2 - Now the springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens had been closed, and the rain had stopped falling from the sky.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:4 - and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:5 - The waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:13 - By the first day of the first month of Noah's six hundred and first year, the water had dried up from the earth. Noah then removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:14 - By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:21 - The LORD smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though[fn] every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:2 - The fear and dread of you will fall on all the beasts of the earth, and on all the birds in the sky, on every creature that moves along the ground, and on all the fish in the sea; they are given into your hands.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:5 - And for your lifeblood I will surely demand an accounting. I will demand an accounting from every animal. And from each human being, too, I will demand an accounting for the life of another human being.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:11 - I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be destroyed by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:21 - When he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and lay uncovered inside his tent.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:22 - Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father naked and told his two brothers outside.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:23 - But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it across their shoulders; then they walked in backward and covered their father's naked body. Their faces were turned the other way so that they would not see their father naked.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:24 - When Noah awoke from his wine and found out what his youngest son had done to him,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:26 - He also said, “Praise be to the LORD, the God of Shem! May Canaan be the slave of Shem.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:27 - May God extend Japheth's[fn] territory; may Japheth live in the tents of Shem, and may Canaan be the slave of Japheth.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:9 - He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; that is why it is said, “Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:21 - Sons were also born to Shem, whose older brother was[fn] Japheth; Shem was the ancestor of all the sons of Eber.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:4 - Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:7 - Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:28 - While his father Terah was still alive, Haran died in Ur of the Chaldeans, in the land of his birth.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:31 - Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, the wife of his son Abram, and together they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. But when they came to Harran, they settled there.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:1 - The LORD had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father's household to the land I will show you.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:5 - He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Harran, and they set out for the land of Canaan, and they arrived there.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:6 - Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the great tree of Moreh at Shechem. At that time the Canaanites were in the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:3 - From the Negev he went from place to place until he came to Bethel, to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had been earlier
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:7 - And quarreling arose between Abram's herders and Lot's. The Canaanites and Perizzites were also living in the land at that time.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:10 - Lot looked around and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan toward Zoar was well watered, like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:11 - So Lot chose for himself the whole plain of the Jordan and set out toward the east. The two men parted company:
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:13 - Now the people of Sodom were wicked and were sinning greatly against the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:14 - The LORD said to Abram after Lot had parted from him, “Look around from where you are, to the north and south, to the east and west.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:15 - All the land that you see I will give to you and your offspring[fn] forever.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:12 - They also carried off Abram's nephew Lot and his possessions, since he was living in Sodom.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:13 - A man who had escaped came and reported this to Abram the Hebrew. Now Abram was living near the great trees of Mamre the Amorite, a brother[fn] of Eshkol and Aner, all of whom were allied with Abram.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:17 - After Abram returned from defeating Kedorlaomer and the kings allied with him, the king of Sodom came out to meet him in the Valley of Shaveh (that is, the King's Valley).
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:18 - Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. He was priest of God Most High,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:18 - On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram and said, “To your descendants I give this land, from the Wadi[fn] of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates—
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:13 - She gave this name to the LORD who spoke to her: “You are the God who sees me,” for she said, “I have now seen[fn] the One who sees me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:15 - So Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son she had borne.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:27 - And every male in Abraham's household, including those born in his household or bought from a foreigner, was circumcised with him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:17 - Then the LORD said, “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do?
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:2 - “My lords,” he said, “please turn aside to your servant's house. You can wash your feet and spend the night and then go on your way early in the morning.” “No,” they answered, “we will spend the night in the square.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:10 - But the men inside reached out and pulled Lot back into the house and shut the door.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:11 - Then they struck the men who were at the door of the house, young and old, with blindness so that they could not find the door.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:12 - The two men said to Lot, “Do you have anyone else here—sons-in-law, sons or daughters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you? Get them out of here,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:14 - So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry[fn] his daughters. He said, “Hurry and get out of this place, because the LORD is about to destroy the city!” But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:24 - Then the LORD rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the LORD out of the heavens.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:29 - So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Abraham, and he brought Lot out of the catastrophe that overthrew the cities where Lot had lived.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:32 - Let's get our father to drink wine and then sleep with him and preserve our family line through our father.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:33 - That night they got their father to drink wine, and the older daughter went in and slept with him. He was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:34 - The next day the older daughter said to the younger, “Last night I slept with my father. Let's get him to drink wine again tonight, and you go in and sleep with him so we can preserve our family line through our father.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:35 - So they got their father to drink wine that night also, and the younger daughter went in and slept with him. Again he was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:36 - So both of Lot's daughters became pregnant by their father.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:37 - The older daughter had a son, and she named him Moab[fn]; he is the father of the Moabites of today.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:13 - And when God had me wander from my father's household, I said to her, ‘This is how you can show your love to me: Everywhere we go, say of me, “He is my brother.” ' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:18 - for the LORD had kept all the women in Abimelek's household from conceiving because of Abraham's wife Sarah.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:3 - Abraham gave the name Isaac[fn] to the son Sarah bore him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:9 - But Sarah saw that the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham was mocking,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:10 - and she said to Abraham, “Get rid of that slave woman and her son, for that woman's son will never share in the inheritance with my son Isaac.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:11 - The matter distressed Abraham greatly because it concerned his son.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:14 - Early the next morning Abraham took some food and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar. He set them on her shoulders and then sent her off with the boy. She went on her way and wandered in the Desert of Beersheba.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:15 - When the water in the skin was gone, she put the boy under one of the bushes.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:17 - God heard the boy crying, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, “What is the matter, Hagar? Do not be afraid; God has heard the boy crying as he lies there.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:25 - Then Abraham complained to Abimelek about a well of water that Abimelek's servants had seized.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:31 - So that place was called Beersheba,[fn] because the two men swore an oath there.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:32 - After the treaty had been made at Beersheba, Abimelek and Phicol the commander of his forces returned to the land of the Philistines.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:33 - Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called on the name of the LORD, the Eternal God.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:11 - But the angel of the LORD called out to him from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!” “Here I am,” he replied.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:12 - “Do not lay a hand on the boy,” he said. “Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:13 - Abraham looked up and there in a thicket he saw a ram[fn] caught by its horns. He went over and took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering instead of his son.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:14 - So Abraham called that place The LORD Will Provide. And to this day it is said, “On the mountain of the LORD it will be provided.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:15 - The angel of the LORD called to Abraham from heaven a second time
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:16 - and said, “I swear by myself, declares the LORD, that because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:17 - I will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:19 - Then Abraham returned to his servants, and they set off together for Beersheba. And Abraham stayed in Beersheba.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:3 - Then Abraham rose from beside his dead wife and spoke to the Hittites.[fn] He said,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:8 - He said to them, “If you are willing to let me bury my dead, then listen to me and intercede with Ephron son of Zohar on my behalf
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:9 - so he will sell me the cave of Machpelah, which belongs to him and is at the end of his field. Ask him to sell it to me for the full price as a burial site among you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:12 - Again Abraham bowed down before the people of the land
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:13 - and he said to Ephron in their hearing, “Listen to me, if you will. I will pay the price of the field. Accept it from me so I can bury my dead there.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:16 - Abraham agreed to Ephron's terms and weighed out for him the price he had named in the hearing of the Hittites: four hundred shekels of silver, according to the weight current among the merchants.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:19 - Afterward Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave in the field of Machpelah near Mamre (which is at Hebron) in the land of Canaan.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:3 - I want you to swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you will not get a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am living,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:7 - “The LORD, the God of heaven, who brought me out of my father's household and my native land and who spoke to me and promised me on oath, saying, ‘To your offspring[fn] I will give this land'—he will send his angel before you so that you can get a wife for my son from there.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:8 - If the woman is unwilling to come back with you, then you will be released from this oath of mine. Only do not take my son back there.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:9 - So the servant put his hand under the thigh of his master Abraham and swore an oath to him concerning this matter.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:10 - Then the servant left, taking with him ten of his master's camels loaded with all kinds of good things from his master. He set out for Aram Naharaim[fn] and made his way to the town of Nahor.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:12 - Then he prayed, “LORD, God of my master Abraham, make me successful today, and show kindness to my master Abraham.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:24 - She answered him, “I am the daughter of Bethuel, the son that Milkah bore to Nahor.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:27 - saying, “Praise be to the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who has not abandoned his kindness and faithfulness to my master. As for me, the LORD has led me on the journey to the house of my master's relatives.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:36 - My master's wife Sarah has borne him a son in her old age, and he has given him everything he owns.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:38 - but go to my father's family and to my own clan, and get a wife for my son.'
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:40 - “He replied, ‘The LORD, before whom I have walked faithfully, will send his angel with you and make your journey a success, so that you can get a wife for my son from my own clan and from my father's family.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:41 - You will be released from my oath if, when you go to my clan, they refuse to give her to you—then you will be released from my oath.'
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:42 - “When I came to the spring today, I said, ‘LORD, God of my master Abraham, if you will, please grant success to the journey on which I have come.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:47 - “I asked her, ‘Whose daughter are you?' “She said, ‘The daughter of Bethuel son of Nahor, whom Milkah bore to him.' “Then I put the ring in her nose and the bracelets on her arms,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:48 - and I bowed down and worshiped the LORD. I praised the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me on the right road to get the granddaughter of my master's brother for his son.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:51 - Here is Rebekah; take her and go, and let her become the wife of your master's son, as the LORD has directed.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:58 - So they called Rebekah and asked her, “Will you go with this man?” “I will go,” she said.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:61 - Then Rebekah and her attendants got ready and mounted the camels and went back with the man. So the servant took Rebekah and left.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:6 - But while he was still living, he gave gifts to the sons of his concubines and sent them away from his son Isaac to the land of the east.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:9 - His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah near Mamre, in the field of Ephron son of Zohar the Hittite,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:12 - This is the account of the family line of Abraham's son Ishmael, whom Sarah's slave, Hagar the Egyptian, bore to Abraham.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:19 - This is the account of the family line of Abraham's son Isaac. Abraham became the father of Isaac,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:20 - and Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan Aram[fn] and sister of Laban the Aramean.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:30 - He said to Jacob, “Quick, let me have some of that red stew! I'm famished!” (That is why he was also called Edom.[fn])
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:1 - Now there was a famine in the land—besides the previous famine in Abraham's time—and Isaac went to Abimelek king of the Philistines in Gerar.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:4 - I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and will give them all these lands, and through your offspring[fn] all nations on earth will be blessed,[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:7 - When the men of that place asked him about his wife, he said, “She is my sister,” because he was afraid to say, “She is my wife.” He thought, “The men of this place might kill me on account of Rebekah, because she is beautiful.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:11 - So Abimelek gave orders to all the people: “Anyone who harms this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:15 - So all the wells that his father's servants had dug in the time of his father Abraham, the Philistines stopped up, filling them with earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:18 - Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug in the time of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died, and he gave them the same names his father had given them.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:23 - From there he went up to Beersheba.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:24 - That night the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you; I will bless you and will increase the number of your descendants for the sake of my servant Abraham.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:34 - When Esau was forty years old, he married Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and also Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:6 - Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Look, I overheard your father say to your brother Esau,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:15 - Then Rebekah took the best clothes of Esau her older son, which she had in the house, and put them on her younger son Jacob.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:16 - She also covered his hands and the smooth part of his neck with the goatskins.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:17 - Then she handed to her son Jacob the tasty food and the bread she had made.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:23 - He did not recognize him, for his hands were hairy like those of his brother Esau; so he proceeded to bless him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:27 - So he went to him and kissed him. When Isaac caught the smell of his clothes, he blessed him and said, “Ah, the smell of my son is like the smell of a field that the LORD has blessed.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:28 - May God give you heaven's dew and earth's richness— an abundance of grain and new wine.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:29 - May nations serve you and peoples bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers, and may the sons of your mother bow down to you. May those who curse you be cursed and those who bless you be blessed.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:30 - After Isaac finished blessing him, and Jacob had scarcely left his father's presence, his brother Esau came in from hunting.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:31 - He too prepared some tasty food and brought it to his father. Then he said to him, “My father, please sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may give me your blessing.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:34 - When Esau heard his father's words, he burst out with a loud and bitter cry and said to his father, “Bless me—me too, my father!”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:39 - His father Isaac answered him, “Your dwelling will be away from the earth's richness, away from the dew of heaven above.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:40 - You will live by the sword and you will serve your brother. But when you grow restless, you will throw his yoke from off your neck.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:41 - Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. He said to himself, “The days of mourning for my father are near; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:42 - When Rebekah was told what her older son Esau had said, she sent for her younger son Jacob and said to him, “Your brother Esau is planning to avenge himself by killing you.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:45 - When your brother is no longer angry with you and forgets what you did to him, I'll send word for you to come back from there. Why should I lose both of you in one day?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:2 - Go at once to Paddan Aram,[fn] to the house of your mother's father Bethuel. Take a wife for yourself there, from among the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:4 - May he give you and your descendants the blessing given to Abraham, so that you may take possession of the land where you now reside as a foreigner, the land God gave to Abraham.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:5 - Then Isaac sent Jacob on his way, and he went to Paddan Aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, who was the mother of Jacob and Esau.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:7 - and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and had gone to Paddan Aram.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:8 - Esau then realized how displeasing the Canaanite women were to his father Isaac;
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:9 - so he went to Ishmael and married Mahalath, the sister of Nebaioth and daughter of Ishmael son of Abraham, in addition to the wives he already had.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:10 - Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Harran.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:11 - When he reached a certain place, he stopped for the night because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones there, he put it under his head and lay down to sleep.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:12 - He had a dream in which he saw a stairway resting on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:13 - There above it[fn] stood the LORD, and he said: “I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you are lying.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:16 - When Jacob awoke from his sleep, he thought, “Surely the LORD is in this place, and I was not aware of it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:17 - He was afraid and said, “How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God; this is the gate of heaven.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:19 - He called that place Bethel,[fn] though the city used to be called Luz.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:21 - so that I return safely to my father's household, then the LORD[fn] will be my God
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:1 - Then Jacob continued on his journey and came to the land of the eastern peoples.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:9 - While he was still talking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she was a shepherd.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:10 - When Jacob saw Rachel daughter of his uncle Laban, and Laban's sheep, he went over and rolled the stone away from the mouth of the well and watered his uncle's sheep.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:12 - He had told Rachel that he was a relative of her father and a son of Rebekah. So she ran and told her father.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:13 - As soon as Laban heard the news about Jacob, his sister's son, he hurried to meet him. He embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his home, and there Jacob told him all these things.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:22 - So Laban brought together all the people of the place and gave a feast.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:14 - During wheat harvest, Reuben went out into the fields and found some mandrake plants, which he brought to his mother Leah. Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son's mandrakes.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:15 - But she said to her, “Wasn't it enough that you took away my husband? Will you take my son's mandrakes too?” “Very well,” Rachel said, “he can sleep with you tonight in return for your son's mandrakes.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:16 - So when Jacob came in from the fields that evening, Leah went out to meet him. “You must sleep with me,” she said. “I have hired you with my son's mandrakes.” So he slept with her that night.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:42 - but if the animals were weak, he would not place them there. So the weak animals went to Laban and the strong ones to Jacob.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:1 - Jacob heard that Laban's sons were saying, “Jacob has taken everything our father owned and has gained all this wealth from what belonged to our father.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:2 - And Jacob noticed that Laban's attitude toward him was not what it had been.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:3 - Then the LORD said to Jacob, “Go back to the land of your fathers and to your relatives, and I will be with you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:5 - He said to them, “I see that your father's attitude toward me is not what it was before, but the God of my father has been with me.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:9 - So God has taken away your father's livestock and has given them to me.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:11 - The angel of God said to me in the dream, ‘Jacob.' I answered, ‘Here I am.'
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:14 - Then Rachel and Leah replied, “Do we still have any share in the inheritance of our father's estate?
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:16 - Surely all the wealth that God took away from our father belongs to us and our children. So do whatever God has told you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:19 - When Laban had gone to shear his sheep, Rachel stole her father's household gods.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:29 - I have the power to harm you; but last night the God of your father said to me, ‘Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.'
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:30 - Now you have gone off because you longed to return to your father's household. But why did you steal my gods?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:33 - So Laban went into Jacob's tent and into Leah's tent and into the tent of the two female servants, but he found nothing. After he came out of Leah's tent, he entered Rachel's tent.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:37 - Now that you have searched through all my goods, what have you found that belongs to your household? Put it here in front of your relatives and mine, and let them judge between the two of us.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:42 - If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, you would surely have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my hardship and the toil of my hands, and last night he rebuked you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:46 - He said to his relatives, “Gather some stones.” So they took stones and piled them in a heap, and they ate there by the heap.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:49 - It was also called Mizpah,[fn] because he said, “May the LORD keep watch between you and me when we are away from each other.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:53 - May the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us.” So Jacob took an oath in the name of the Fear of his father Isaac.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:1 - Jacob also went on his way, and the angels of God met him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:2 - When Jacob saw them, he said, “This is the camp of God!” So he named that place Mahanaim.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:9 - Then Jacob prayed, “O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, LORD, you who said to me, ‘Go back to your country and your relatives, and I will make you prosper,'
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:11 - Save me, I pray, from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid he will come and attack me, and also the mothers with their children.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:18 - then you are to say, ‘They belong to your servant Jacob. They are a gift sent to my lord Esau, and he is coming behind us.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:22 - That night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two female servants and his eleven sons and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:25 - When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob's hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:30 - So Jacob called the place Peniel,[fn] saying, “It is because I saw God face to face, and yet my life was spared.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:31 - The sun rose above him as he passed Peniel,[fn] and he was limping because of his hip.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:32 - Therefore to this day the Israelites do not eat the tendon attached to the socket of the hip, because the socket of Jacob's hip was touched near the tendon.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:3 - He himself went on ahead and bowed down to the ground seven times as he approached his brother.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:14 - So let my lord go on ahead of his servant, while I move along slowly at the pace of the flocks and herds before me and the pace of the children, until I come to my lord in Seir.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:15 - Esau said, “Then let me leave some of my men with you.” “But why do that?” Jacob asked. “Just let me find favor in the eyes of my lord.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:17 - Jacob, however, went to Sukkoth, where he built a place for himself and made shelters for his livestock. That is why the place is called Sukkoth.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:19 - For a hundred pieces of silver,[fn] he bought from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, the plot of ground where he pitched his tent.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:18 - Their proposal seemed good to Hamor and his son Shechem.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:19 - The young man, who was the most honored of all his father's family, lost no time in doing what they said, because he was delighted with Jacob's daughter.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:24 - All the men who went out of the city gate agreed with Hamor and his son Shechem, and every male in the city was circumcised.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:26 - They put Hamor and his son Shechem to the sword and took Dinah from Shechem's house and left.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:1 - Then God said to Jacob, “Go up to Bethel and settle there, and build an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you were fleeing from your brother Esau.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:7 - There he built an altar, and he called the place El Bethel,[fn] because it was there that God revealed himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:13 - Then God went up from him at the place where he had talked with him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:15 - Jacob called the place where God had talked with him Bethel.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:16 - Then they moved on from Bethel. While they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth and had great difficulty.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:22 - While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father's concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard of it. Jacob had twelve sons:
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:2 - Esau took his wives from the women of Canaan: Adah daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Oholibamah daughter of Anah and granddaughter of Zibeon the Hivite—
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:6 - Esau took his wives and sons and daughters and all the members of his household, as well as his livestock and all his other animals and all the goods he had acquired in Canaan, and moved to a land some distance from his brother Jacob.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:12 - Esau's son Eliphaz also had a concubine named Timna, who bore him Amalek. These were grandsons of Esau's wife Adah.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:14 - The sons of Esau's wife Oholibamah daughter of Anah and granddaughter of Zibeon, whom she bore to Esau: Jeush, Jalam and Korah.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:20 - These were the sons of Seir the Horite, who were living in the region: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:21 - Dishon, Ezer and Dishan. These sons of Seir in Edom were Horite chiefs.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:24 - The sons of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah. This is the Anah who discovered the hot springs[fn] in the desert while he was grazing the donkeys of his father Zibeon.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:32 - Bela son of Beor became king of Edom. His city was named Dinhabah.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:2 - This is the account of Jacob's family line. Joseph, a young man of seventeen, was tending the flocks with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives, and he brought their father a bad report about them.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:12 - Now his brothers had gone to graze their father's flocks near Shechem,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:28 - So when the Midianite merchants came by, his brothers pulled Joseph up out of the cistern and sold him for twenty shekels[fn] of silver to the Ishmaelites, who took him to Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:31 - Then they got Joseph's robe, slaughtered a goat and dipped the robe in the blood.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:32 - They took the ornate robe back to their father and said, “We found this. Examine it to see whether it is your son's robe.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:33 - He recognized it and said, “It is my son's robe! Some ferocious animal has devoured him. Joseph has surely been torn to pieces.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:8 - Then Judah said to Onan, “Sleep with your brother's wife and fulfill your duty to her as a brother-in-law to raise up offspring for your brother.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:9 - But Onan knew that the child would not be his; so whenever he slept with his brother's wife, he spilled his semen on the ground to keep from providing offspring for his brother.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:10 - What he did was wicked in the LORD's sight; so the LORD put him to death also.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:11 - Judah then said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Live as a widow in your father's household until my son Shelah grows up.” For he thought, “He may die too, just like his brothers.” So Tamar went to live in her father's household.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:20 - Meanwhile Judah sent the young goat by his friend the Adullamite in order to get his pledge back from the woman, but he did not find her.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:21 - He asked the men who lived there, “Where is the shrine prostitute who was beside the road at Enaim?” “There hasn't been any shrine prostitute here,” they said.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:22 - So he went back to Judah and said, “I didn't find her. Besides, the men who lived there said, ‘There hasn't been any shrine prostitute here.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:25 - As she was being brought out, she sent a message to her father-in-law. “I am pregnant by the man who owns these,” she said. And she added, “See if you recognize whose seal and cord and staff these are.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:4 - Joseph found favor in his eyes and became his attendant. Potiphar put him in charge of his household, and he entrusted to his care everything he owned.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:5 - From the time he put him in charge of his household and of all that he owned, the LORD blessed the household of the Egyptian because of Joseph. The blessing of the LORD was on everything Potiphar had, both in the house and in the field.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:6 - So Potiphar left everything he had in Joseph's care; with Joseph in charge, he did not concern himself with anything except the food he ate. Now Joseph was well-built and handsome,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:7 - and after a while his master's wife took notice of Joseph and said, “Come to bed with me!”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:8 - But he refused. “With me in charge,” he told her, “my master does not concern himself with anything in the house; everything he owns he has entrusted to my care.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:9 - No one is greater in this house than I am. My master has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. How then could I do such a wicked thing and sin against God?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:20 - Joseph's master took him and put him in prison, the place where the king's prisoners were confined. But while Joseph was there in the prison,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:21 - the LORD was with him; he showed him kindness and granted him favor in the eyes of the prison warden.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:1 - Some time later, the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt offended their master, the king of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:8 - “We both had dreams,” they answered, “but there is no one to interpret them.” Then Joseph said to them, “Do not interpretations belong to God? Tell me your dreams.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:17 - In the top basket were all kinds of baked goods for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating them out of the basket on my head.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:19 - Within three days Pharaoh will lift off your head and impale your body on a pole. And the birds will eat away your flesh.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:20 - Now the third day was Pharaoh's birthday, and he gave a feast for all his officials. He lifted up the heads of the chief cupbearer and the chief baker in the presence of his officials:
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:23 - The chief cupbearer, however, did not remember Joseph; he forgot him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:1 - When two full years had passed, Pharaoh had a dream: He was standing by the Nile,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:2 - when out of the river there came up seven cows, sleek and fat, and they grazed among the reeds.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:3 - After them, seven other cows, ugly and gaunt, came up out of the Nile and stood beside those on the riverbank.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:10 - Pharaoh was once angry with his servants, and he imprisoned me and the chief baker in the house of the captain of the guard.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:12 - Now a young Hebrew was there with us, a servant of the captain of the guard. We told him our dreams, and he interpreted them for us, giving each man the interpretation of his dream.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:16 - “I cannot do it,” Joseph replied to Pharaoh, “but God will give Pharaoh the answer he desires.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:17 - Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “In my dream I was standing on the bank of the Nile,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:18 - when out of the river there came up seven cows, fat and sleek, and they grazed among the reeds.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:19 - After them, seven other cows came up—scrawny and very ugly and lean. I had never seen such ugly cows in all the land of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:31 - The abundance in the land will not be remembered, because the famine that follows it will be so severe.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:32 - The reason the dream was given to Pharaoh in two forms is that the matter has been firmly decided by God, and God will do it soon.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:36 - This food should be held in reserve for the country, to be used during the seven years of famine that will come upon Egypt, so that the country may not be ruined by the famine.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:50 - Before the years of famine came, two sons were born to Joseph by Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:51 - Joseph named his firstborn Manasseh[fn] and said, “It is because God has made me forget all my trouble and all my father's household.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:52 - The second son he named Ephraim[fn] and said, “It is because God has made me fruitful in the land of my suffering.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:54 - and the seven years of famine began, just as Joseph had said. There was famine in all the other lands, but in the whole land of Egypt there was food.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:13 - But they replied, “Your servants were twelve brothers, the sons of one man, who lives in the land of Canaan. The youngest is now with our father, and one is no more.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:21 - They said to one another, “Surely we are being punished because of our brother. We saw how distressed he was when he pleaded with us for his life, but we would not listen; that's why this distress has come on us.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:27 - At the place where they stopped for the night one of them opened his sack to get feed for his donkey, and he saw his silver in the mouth of his sack.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:32 - We were twelve brothers, sons of one father. One is no more, and the youngest is now with our father in Canaan.'
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:33 - “Then the man who is lord over the land said to us, ‘This is how I will know whether you are honest men: Leave one of your brothers here with me, and take food for your starving households and go.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:14 - And may God Almighty[fn] grant you mercy before the man so that he will let your other brother and Benjamin come back with you. As for me, if I am bereaved, I am bereaved.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:19 - So they went up to Joseph's steward and spoke to him at the entrance to the house.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:1 - Now Joseph gave these instructions to the steward of his house: “Fill the men's sacks with as much food as they can carry, and put each man's silver in the mouth of his sack.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:2 - Then put my cup, the silver one, in the mouth of the youngest one's sack, along with the silver for his grain.” And he did as Joseph said.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:8 - We even brought back to you from the land of Canaan the silver we found inside the mouths of our sacks. So why would we steal silver or gold from your master's house?
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:12 - Then the steward proceeded to search, beginning with the oldest and ending with the youngest. And the cup was found in Benjamin's sack.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:24 - When we went back to your servant my father, we told him what my lord had said.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:26 - But we said, ‘We cannot go down. Only if our youngest brother is with us will we go. We cannot see the man's face unless our youngest brother is with us.'
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:31 - sees that the boy isn't there, he will die. Your servants will bring the gray head of our father down to the grave in sorrow.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:32 - Your servant guaranteed the boy's safety to my father. I said, ‘If I do not bring him back to you, I will bear the blame before you, my father, all my life!'
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:33 - “Now then, please let your servant remain here as my lord's slave in place of the boy, and let the boy return with his brothers.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:8 - “So then, it was not you who sent me here, but God. He made me father to Pharaoh, lord of his entire household and ruler of all Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:12 - “You can see for yourselves, and so can my brother Benjamin, that it is really I who am speaking to you.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:14 - Then he threw his arms around his brother Benjamin and wept, and Benjamin embraced him, weeping.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:21 - So the sons of Israel did this. Joseph gave them carts, as Pharaoh had commanded, and he also gave them provisions for their journey.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:27 - But when they told him everything Joseph had said to them, and when he saw the carts Joseph had sent to carry him back, the spirit of their father Jacob revived.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:1 - So Israel set out with all that was his, and when he reached Beersheba, he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:5 - Then Jacob left Beersheba, and Israel's sons took their father Jacob and their children and their wives in the carts that Pharaoh had sent to transport him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:31 - Then Joseph said to his brothers and to his father's household, “I will go up and speak to Pharaoh and will say to him, ‘My brothers and my father's household, who were living in the land of Canaan, have come to me.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:12 - Joseph also provided his father and his brothers and all his father's household with food, according to the number of their children.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:13 - There was no food, however, in the whole region because the famine was severe; both Egypt and Canaan wasted away because of the famine.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:14 - Joseph collected all the money that was to be found in Egypt and Canaan in payment for the grain they were buying, and he brought it to Pharaoh's palace.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:18 - When that year was over, they came to him the following year and said, “We cannot hide from our lord the fact that since our money is gone and our livestock belongs to you, there is nothing left for our lord except our bodies and our land.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:25 - “You have saved our lives,” they said. “May we find favor in the eyes of our lord; we will be in bondage to Pharaoh.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:7 - As I was returning from Paddan,[fn] to my sorrow Rachel died in the land of Canaan while we were still on the way, a little distance from Ephrath. So I buried her there beside the road to Ephrath” (that is, Bethlehem).
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:17 - When Joseph saw his father placing his right hand on Ephraim's head he was displeased; so he took hold of his father's hand to move it from Ephraim's head to Manasseh's head.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:20 - He blessed them that day and said, “In your[fn] name will Israel pronounce this blessing: ‘May God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh.' ” So he put Ephraim ahead of Manasseh.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:2 - “Assemble and listen, sons of Jacob; listen to your father Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:4 - Turbulent as the waters, you will no longer excel, for you went up onto your father's bed, onto my couch and defiled it.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:8 - “Judah,[fn] your brothers will praise you; your hand will be on the neck of your enemies; your father's sons will bow down to you.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:25 - because of your father's God, who helps you, because of the Almighty,[fn] who blesses you with blessings of the skies above, blessings of the deep springs below, blessings of the breast and womb.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:29 - Then he gave them these instructions: “I am about to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:30 - the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre in Canaan, which Abraham bought along with the field as a burial place from Ephron the Hittite.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:32 - The field and the cave in it were bought from the Hittites.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:1 - Joseph threw himself on his father and wept over him and kissed him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:7 - So Joseph went up to bury his father. All Pharaoh's officials accompanied him—the dignitaries of his court and all the dignitaries of Egypt—
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:10 - When they reached the threshing floor of Atad, near the Jordan, they lamented loudly and bitterly; and there Joseph observed a seven-day period of mourning for his father.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:11 - When the Canaanites who lived there saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, “The Egyptians are holding a solemn ceremony of mourning.” That is why that place near the Jordan is called Abel Mizraim.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:13 - They carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre, which Abraham had bought along with the field as a burial place from Ephron the Hittite.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:17 - ‘This is what you are to say to Joseph: I ask you to forgive your brothers the sins and the wrongs they committed in treating you so badly.' Now please forgive the sins of the servants of the God of your father.” When their message came to him, Joseph wept.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:19 - But Joseph said to them, “Don't be afraid. Am I in the place of God?
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:22 - Joseph stayed in Egypt, along with all his father's family. He lived a hundred and ten years
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:23 - and saw the third generation of Ephraim's children. Also the children of Makir son of Manasseh were placed at birth on Joseph's knees.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:16 - Now a priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came to draw water and fill the troughs to water their father's flock.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:1 - Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:2 - There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:4 - When the LORD saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him from within the bush, “Moses! Moses!” And Moses said, “Here I am.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:6 - Then he said, “I am the God of your father,[fn] the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.” At this, Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at God.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:7 - The LORD said, “I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:6 - Then the LORD said, “Put your hand inside your cloak.” So Moses put his hand into his cloak, and when he took it out, the skin was leprous[fn]—it had become as white as snow.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:7 - “Now put it back into your cloak,” he said. So Moses put his hand back into his cloak, and when he took it out, it was restored, like the rest of his flesh.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:9 - But if they do not believe these two signs or listen to you, take some water from the Nile and pour it on the dry ground. The water you take from the river will become blood on the ground.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:20 - So Moses took his wife and sons, put them on a donkey and started back to Egypt. And he took the staff of God in his hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:25 - But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off her son's foreskin and touched Moses' feet with it.[fn] “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me,” she said.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:27 - The LORD said to Aaron, “Go into the wilderness to meet Moses.” So he met Moses at the mountain of God and kissed him.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:30 - and Aaron told them everything the LORD had said to Moses. He also performed the signs before the people,
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:6 - That same day Pharaoh gave this order to the slave drivers and overseers in charge of the people:
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:14 - And Pharaoh's slave drivers beat the Israelite overseers they had appointed, demanding, “Why haven't you met your quota of bricks yesterday or today, as before?”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:20 - Amram married his father's sister Jochebed, who bore him Aaron and Moses. Amram lived 137 years.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:25 - Eleazar son of Aaron married one of the daughters of Putiel, and she bore him Phinehas. These were the heads of the Levite families, clan by clan.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:15 - Go to Pharaoh in the morning as he goes out to the river. Confront him on the bank of the Nile, and take in your hand the staff that was changed into a snake.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:18 - The fish in the Nile will die, and the river will stink; the Egyptians will not be able to drink its water.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:21 - The fish in the Nile died, and the river smelled so bad that the Egyptians could not drink its water. Blood was everywhere in Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:24 - And all the Egyptians dug along the Nile to get drinking water, because they could not drink the water of the river.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:3 - The Nile will teem with frogs. They will come up into your palace and your bedroom and onto your bed, into the houses of your officials and on your people, and into your ovens and kneading troughs.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:8 - Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “Pray to the LORD to take the frogs away from me and my people, and I will let your people go to offer sacrifices to the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:9 - Moses said to Pharaoh, “I leave to you the honor of setting the time for me to pray for you and your officials and your people that you and your houses may be rid of the frogs, except for those that remain in the Nile.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:11 - The frogs will leave you and your houses, your officials and your people; they will remain only in the Nile.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:12 - After Moses and Aaron left Pharaoh, Moses cried out to the LORD about the frogs he had brought on Pharaoh.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:23 - I will make a distinction[fn] between my people and your people. This sign will occur tomorrow.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:29 - Moses answered, “As soon as I leave you, I will pray to the LORD, and tomorrow the flies will leave Pharaoh and his officials and his people. Only let Pharaoh be sure that he does not act deceitfully again by not letting the people go to offer sacrifices to the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:31 - and the LORD did what Moses asked. The flies left Pharaoh and his officials and his people; not a fly remained.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:32 - But this time also Pharaoh hardened his heart and would not let the people go.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:4 - But the LORD will make a distinction between the livestock of Israel and that of Egypt, so that no animal belonging to the Israelites will die.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:14 - or this time I will send the full force of my plagues against you and against your officials and your people, so you may know that there is no one like me in all the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:17 - You still set yourself against my people and will not let them go.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:29 - Moses replied, “When I have gone out of the city, I will spread out my hands in prayer to the LORD. The thunder will stop and there will be no more hail, so you may know that the earth is the LORD's.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:9 - Moses answered, “We will go with our young and our old, with our sons and our daughters, and with our flocks and herds, because we are to celebrate a festival to the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:16 - Pharaoh quickly summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 11:2 - Tell the people that men and women alike are to ask their neighbors for articles of silver and gold.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 11:5 - Every firstborn son in Egypt will die, from the firstborn son of Pharaoh, who sits on the throne, to the firstborn son of the female slave, who is at her hand mill, and all the firstborn of the cattle as well.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 11:7 - But among the Israelites not a dog will bark at any person or animal.' Then you will know that the LORD makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:2 - “This month is to be for you the first month, the first month of your year.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:3 - Tell the whole community of Israel that on the tenth day of this month each man is to take a lamb[fn] for his family, one for each household.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:6 - Take care of them until the fourteenth day of the month, when all the members of the community of Israel must slaughter them at twilight.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:18 - In the first month you are to eat bread made without yeast, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:22 - Take a bunch of hyssop, dip it into the blood in the basin and put some of the blood on the top and on both sides of the doorframe. None of you shall go out of the door of your house until morning.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:29 - At midnight the LORD struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on the throne, to the firstborn of the prisoner, who was in the dungeon, and the firstborn of all the livestock as well.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:31 - During the night Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “Up! Leave my people, you and the Israelites! Go, worship the LORD as you have requested.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:22 - Neither the pillar of cloud by day nor the pillar of fire by night left its place in front of the people.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:5 - When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, Pharaoh and his officials changed their minds about them and said, “What have we done? We have let the Israelites go and have lost their services!”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:13 - Moses answered the people, “Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the deliverance the LORD will bring you today. The Egyptians you see today you will never see again.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:19 - Then the angel of God, who had been traveling in front of Israel's army, withdrew and went behind them. The pillar of cloud also moved from in front and stood behind them,
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:2 - “The LORD is my strength and my defense[fn]; he has become my salvation. He is my God, and I will praise him, my father's God, and I will exalt him.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:8 - By the blast of your nostrils the waters piled up. The surging waters stood up like a wall; the deep waters congealed in the heart of the sea.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:23 - When they came to Marah, they could not drink its water because it was bitter. (That is why the place is called Marah.[fn])
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:26 - He said, “If you listen carefully to the LORD your God and do what is right in his eyes, if you pay attention to his commands and keep all his decrees, I will not bring on you any of the diseases I brought on the Egyptians, for I am the LORD, who heals you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:4 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “I will rain down bread from heaven for you. The people are to go out each day and gather enough for that day. In this way I will test them and see whether they will follow my instructions.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:8 - Moses also said, “You will know that it was the LORD when he gives you meat to eat in the evening and all the bread you want in the morning, because he has heard your grumbling against him. Who are we? You are not grumbling against us, but against the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:9 - Then Moses told Aaron, “Say to the entire Israelite community, ‘Come before the LORD, for he has heard your grumbling.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:27 - Nevertheless, some of the people went out on the seventh day to gather it, but they found none.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:29 - Bear in mind that the LORD has given you the Sabbath; that is why on the sixth day he gives you bread for two days. Everyone is to stay where they are on the seventh day; no one is to go out.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:33 - So Moses said to Aaron, “Take a jar and put an omer of manna in it. Then place it before the LORD to be kept for the generations to come.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:5 - The LORD answered Moses, “Go out in front of the people. Take with you some of the elders of Israel and take in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:6 - I will stand there before you by the rock at Horeb. Strike the rock, and water will come out of it for the people to drink.” So Moses did this in the sight of the elders of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:7 - And he called the place Massah[fn] and Meribah[fn] because the Israelites quarreled and because they tested the LORD saying, “Is the LORD among us or not?”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:9 - Moses said to Joshua, “Choose some of our men and go out to fight the Amalekites. Tomorrow I will stand on top of the hill with the staff of God in my hands.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:10 - So Joshua fought the Amalekites as Moses had ordered, and Moses, Aaron and Hur went to the top of the hill.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:4 - and the other was named Eliezer,[fn] for he said, “My father's God was my helper; he saved me from the sword of Pharaoh.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:5 - Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, together with Moses' sons and wife, came to him in the wilderness, where he was camped near the mountain of God.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:8 - Moses told his father-in-law about everything the LORD had done to Pharaoh and the Egyptians for Israel's sake and about all the hardships they had met along the way and how the LORD had saved them.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:12 - Then Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, brought a burnt offering and other sacrifices to God, and Aaron came with all the elders of Israel to eat a meal with Moses' father-in-law in the presence of God.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:15 - Moses answered him, “Because the people come to me to seek God's will.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:16 - Whenever they have a dispute, it is brought to me, and I decide between the parties and inform them of God's decrees and instructions.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:20 - Teach them his decrees and instructions, and show them the way they are to live and how they are to behave.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:21 - But select capable men from all the people—men who fear God, trustworthy men who hate dishonest gain—and appoint them as officials over thousands, hundreds, fifties and tens.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:24 - Moses listened to his father-in-law and did everything he said.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:1 - On the first day of the third month after the Israelites left Egypt—on that very day—they came to the Desert of Sinai.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:2 - After they set out from Rephidim, they entered the Desert of Sinai, and Israel camped there in the desert in front of the mountain.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:3 - Then Moses went up to God, and the LORD called to him from the mountain and said, “This is what you are to say to the descendants of Jacob and what you are to tell the people of Israel:
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:7 - So Moses went back and summoned the elders of the people and set before them all the words the LORD had commanded him to speak.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:8 - The people all responded together, “We will do everything the LORD has said.” So Moses brought their answer back to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:9 - The LORD said to Moses, “I am going to come to you in a dense cloud, so that the people will hear me speaking with you and will always put their trust in you.” Then Moses told the LORD what the people had said.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:11 - and be ready by the third day, because on that day the LORD will come down on Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:17 - Then Moses led the people out of the camp to meet with God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:7 - “You shall not misuse the name of the LORD your God, for the LORD will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:16 - “You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:17 - “You shall not covet your neighbor's house. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his male or female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:22 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Tell the Israelites this: ‘You have seen for yourselves that I have spoken to you from heaven:
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:6 - then his master must take him before the judges.[fn] He shall take him to the door or the doorpost and pierce his ear with an awl. Then he will be his servant for life.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:26 - “An owner who hits a male or female slave in the eye and destroys it must let the slave go free to compensate for the eye.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:27 - And an owner who knocks out the tooth of a male or female slave must let the slave go free to compensate for the tooth.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:28 - “If a bull gores a man or woman to death, the bull is to be stoned to death, and its meat must not be eaten. But the owner of the bull will not be held responsible.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:34 - the one who opened the pit must pay the owner for the loss and take the dead animal in exchange.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:35 - “If anyone's bull injures someone else's bull and it dies, the two parties are to sell the live one and divide both the money and the dead animal equally.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:1 - “Whoever steals an ox or a sheep and slaughters it or sells it must pay back five head of cattle for the ox and four sheep for the sheep.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:5 - “If anyone grazes their livestock in a field or vineyard and lets them stray and they graze in someone else's field, the offender must make restitution from the best of their own field or vineyard.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:7 - “If anyone gives a neighbor silver or goods for safekeeping and they are stolen from the neighbor's house, the thief, if caught, must pay back double.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:8 - But if the thief is not found, the owner of the house must appear before the judges, and they must[fn] determine whether the owner of the house has laid hands on the other person's property.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:9 - In all cases of illegal possession of an ox, a donkey, a sheep, a garment, or any other lost property about which somebody says, ‘This is mine,' both parties are to bring their cases before the judges.[fn] The one whom the judges declare[fn] guilty must pay back double to the other.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:11 - the issue between them will be settled by the taking of an oath before the LORD that the neighbor did not lay hands on the other person's property. The owner is to accept this, and no restitution is required.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:14 - “If anyone borrows an animal from their neighbor and it is injured or dies while the owner is not present, they must make restitution.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:15 - But if the owner is with the animal, the borrower will not have to pay. If the animal was hired, the money paid for the hire covers the loss.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:26 - If you take your neighbor's cloak as a pledge, return it by sunset,
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:28 - “Do not blaspheme God[fn] or curse the ruler of your people.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:1 - “Do not spread false reports. Do not help a guilty person by being a malicious witness.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:4 - “If you come across your enemy's ox or donkey wandering off, be sure to return it.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:5 - If you see the donkey of someone who hates you fallen down under its load, do not leave it there; be sure you help them with it.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:9 - “Do not oppress a foreigner; you yourselves know how it feels to be foreigners, because you were foreigners in Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:14 - “Three times a year you are to celebrate a festival to me.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:15 - “Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread; for seven days eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you. Do this at the appointed time in the month of Aviv, for in that month you came out of Egypt. “No one is to appear before me empty-handed.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:16 - “Celebrate the Festival of Harvest with the firstfruits of the crops you sow in your field. “Celebrate the Festival of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in your crops from the field.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:17 - “Three times a year all the men are to appear before the Sovereign LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:19 - “Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. “Do not cook a young goat in its mother's milk.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:31 - “I will establish your borders from the Red Sea[fn] to the Mediterranean Sea,[fn] and from the desert to the Euphrates River. I will give into your hands the people who live in the land, and you will drive them out before you.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:3 - When Moses went and told the people all the LORD's words and laws, they responded with one voice, “Everything the LORD has said we will do.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:4 - Moses then wrote down everything the LORD had said. He got up early the next morning and built an altar at the foot of the mountain and set up twelve stone pillars representing the twelve tribes of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:7 - Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it to the people. They responded, “We will do everything the LORD has said; we will obey.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:8 - Moses then took the blood, sprinkled it on the people and said, “This is the blood of the covenant that the LORD has made with you in accordance with all these words.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:10 - and saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was something like a pavement made of lapis lazuli, as bright blue as the sky.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:11 - But God did not raise his hand against these leaders of the Israelites; they saw God, and they ate and drank.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:13 - Then Moses set out with Joshua his aide, and Moses went up on the mountain of God.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:16 - and the glory of the LORD settled on Mount Sinai. For six days the cloud covered the mountain, and on the seventh day the LORD called to Moses from within the cloud.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:16 - Each frame is to be ten cubits long and a cubit and a half wide,[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:33 - Hang the curtain from the clasps and place the ark of the covenant law behind the curtain. The curtain will separate the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:29 - “Whenever Aaron enters the Holy Place, he will bear the names of the sons of Israel over his heart on the breastpiece of decision as a continuing memorial before the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:33 - Make pomegranates of blue, purple and scarlet yarn around the hem of the robe, with gold bells between them.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:34 - The gold bells and the pomegranates are to alternate around the hem of the robe.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:10 - “Bring the bull to the front of the tent of meeting, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on its head.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:12 - Take some of the bull's blood and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger, and pour out the rest of it at the base of the altar.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:14 - But burn the bull's flesh and its hide and its intestines outside the camp. It is a sin offering.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:15 - “Take one of the rams, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on its head.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:19 - “Take the other ram, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on its head.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:20 - Slaughter it, take some of its blood and put it on the lobes of the right ears of Aaron and his sons, on the thumbs of their right hands, and on the big toes of their right feet. Then splash blood against the sides of the altar.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:21 - And take some blood from the altar and some of the anointing oil and sprinkle it on Aaron and his garments and on his sons and their garments. Then he and his sons and their garments will be consecrated.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:22 - “Take from this ram the fat, the fat tail, the fat on the internal organs, the long lobe of the liver, both kidneys with the fat on them, and the right thigh. (This is the ram for the ordination.)
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:26 - After you take the breast of the ram for Aaron's ordination, wave it before the LORD as a wave offering, and it will be your share.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:27 - “Consecrate those parts of the ordination ram that belong to Aaron and his sons: the breast that was waved and the thigh that was presented.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:32 - At the entrance to the tent of meeting, Aaron and his sons are to eat the meat of the ram and the bread that is in the basket.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:36 - Sacrifice a bull each day as a sin offering to make atonement. Purify the altar by making atonement for it, and anoint it to consecrate it.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:10 - Once a year Aaron shall make atonement on its horns. This annual atonement must be made with the blood of the atoning sin offering[fn] for the generations to come. It is most holy to the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:33 - Whoever makes perfume like it and puts it on anyone other than a priest must be cut off from their people.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:38 - Whoever makes incense like it to enjoy its fragrance must be cut off from their people.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:2 - “See, I have chosen Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah,
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:6 - Moreover, I have appointed Oholiab son of Ahisamak, of the tribe of Dan, to help him. Also I have given ability to all the skilled workers to make everything I have commanded you:
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:14 - “ ‘Observe the Sabbath, because it is holy to you. Anyone who desecrates it is to be put to death; those who do any work on that day must be cut off from their people.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:18 - When the LORD finished speaking to Moses on Mount Sinai, he gave him the two tablets of the covenant law, the tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:5 - When Aaron saw this, he built an altar in front of the calf and announced, “Tomorrow there will be a festival to the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:11 - But Moses sought the favor of the LORD his God. “LORD,” he said, “why should your anger burn against your people, whom you brought out of Egypt with great power and a mighty hand?
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:12 - Why should the Egyptians say, ‘It was with evil intent that he brought them out, to kill them in the mountains and to wipe them off the face of the earth'? Turn from your fierce anger; relent and do not bring disaster on your people.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:13 - Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac and Israel, to whom you swore by your own self: ‘I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and I will give your descendants all this land I promised them, and it will be their inheritance forever.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:17 - When Joshua heard the noise of the people shouting, he said to Moses, “There is the sound of war in the camp.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:22 - “Do not be angry, my lord,” Aaron answered. “You know how prone these people are to evil.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:28 - The Levites did as Moses commanded, and that day about three thousand of the people died.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:35 - And the LORD struck the people with a plague because of what they did with the calf Aaron had made.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:10 - Then the LORD said: “I am making a covenant with you. Before all your people I will do wonders never before done in any nation in all the world. The people you live among will see how awesome is the work that I, the LORD, will do for you.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:22 - “Celebrate the Festival of Weeks with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Festival of Ingathering at the turn of the year.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:23 - Three times a year all your men are to appear before the Sovereign LORD, the God of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:24 - I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your territory, and no one will covet your land when you go up three times each year to appear before the LORD your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:26 - “Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. “Do not cook a young goat in its mother's milk.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:19 - the woven garments worn for ministering in the sanctuary—both the sacred garments for Aaron the priest and the garments for his sons when they serve as priests.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:30 - Then Moses said to the Israelites, “See, the LORD has chosen Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah,
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:34 - And he has given both him and Oholiab son of Ahisamak, of the tribe of Dan, the ability to teach others.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:21 - These are the amounts of the materials used for the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the covenant law, which were recorded at Moses' command by the Levites under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron, the priest.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:22 - (Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made everything the LORD commanded Moses;
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:23 - with him was Oholiab son of Ahisamak, of the tribe of Dan—an engraver and designer, and an embroiderer in blue, purple and scarlet yarn and fine linen.)
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:26 - one beka per person, that is, half a shekel,[fn] according to the sanctuary shekel, from everyone who had crossed over to those counted, twenty years old or more, a total of 603,550 men.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:23 - with an opening in the center of the robe like the opening of a collar,[fn] and a band around this opening, so that it would not tear.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:24 - They made pomegranates of blue, purple and scarlet yarn and finely twisted linen around the hem of the robe.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:25 - And they made bells of pure gold and attached them around the hem between the pomegranates.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:26 - The bells and pomegranates alternated around the hem of the robe to be worn for ministering, as the LORD commanded Moses.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:2 - “Set up the tabernacle, the tent of meeting, on the first day of the first month.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:4 - He is to present the bull at the entrance to the tent of meeting before the LORD. He is to lay his hand on its head and slaughter it there before the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:5 - Then the anointed priest shall take some of the bull's blood and carry it into the tent of meeting.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:7 - The priest shall then put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of fragrant incense that is before the LORD in the tent of meeting. The rest of the bull's blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:8 - He shall remove all the fat from the bull of the sin offering—all the fat that is connected to the internal organs,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:10 - just as the fat is removed from the ox[fn] sacrificed as a fellowship offering. Then the priest shall burn them on the altar of burnt offering.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:11 - But the hide of the bull and all its flesh, as well as the head and legs, the internal organs and the intestines—
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:15 - The elders of the community are to lay their hands on the bull's head before the LORD, and the bull shall be slaughtered before the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:16 - Then the anointed priest is to take some of the bull's blood into the tent of meeting.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:17 - He shall dip his finger into the blood and sprinkle it before the LORD seven times in front of the curtain.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:22 - “ ‘When a leader sins unintentionally and does what is forbidden in any of the commands of the LORD his God, when he realizes his guilt
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:24 - He is to lay his hand on the goat's head and slaughter it at the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered before the LORD. It is a sin offering.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:27 - “ ‘If any member of the community sins unintentionally and does what is forbidden in any of the LORD's commands, when they realize their guilt
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:8 - They are to bring them to the priest, who shall first offer the one for the sin offering. He is to wring its head from its neck, not dividing it completely,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:11 - “ ‘If, however, they cannot afford two doves or two young pigeons, they are to bring as an offering for their sin a tenth of an ephah[fn] of the finest flour for a sin offering. They must not put olive oil or incense on it, because it is a sin offering.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:1 - “ ‘These are the regulations for the guilt offering, which is most holy:
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:9 - Every grain offering baked in an oven or cooked in a pan or on a griddle belongs to the priest who offers it,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:20 - But if anyone who is unclean eats any meat of the fellowship offering belonging to the LORD, they must be cut off from their people.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:21 - Anyone who touches something unclean—whether human uncleanness or an unclean animal or any unclean creature that moves along the ground[fn]—and then eats any of the meat of the fellowship offering belonging to the LORD must be cut off from their people.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:25 - Anyone who eats the fat of an animal from which a food offering may be[fn] presented to the LORD must be cut off from their people.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:27 - Anyone who eats blood must be cut off from their people.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:14 - He then presented the bull for the sin offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on its head.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:18 - He then presented the ram for the burnt offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on its head.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:22 - He then presented the other ram, the ram for the ordination, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on its head.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:23 - Moses slaughtered the ram and took some of its blood and put it on the lobe of Aaron's right ear, on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:26 - And from the basket of bread made without yeast, which was before the LORD, he took one thick loaf, one thick loaf with olive oil mixed in, and one thin loaf, and he put these on the fat portions and on the right thigh.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:29 - Moses also took the breast, which was his share of the ordination ram, and waved it before the LORD as a wave offering, as the LORD commanded Moses.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 9:7 - Moses said to Aaron, “Come to the altar and sacrifice your sin offering and your burnt offering and make atonement for yourself and the people; sacrifice the offering that is for the people and make atonement for them, as the LORD has commanded.”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 9:15 - Aaron then brought the offering that was for the people. He took the goat for the people's sin offering and slaughtered it and offered it for a sin offering as he did with the first one.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 9:17 - He also brought the grain offering, took a handful of it and burned it on the altar in addition to the morning's burnt offering.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 9:18 - He slaughtered the ox and the ram as the fellowship offering for the people. His sons handed him the blood, and he splashed it against the sides of the altar.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 9:19 - But the fat portions of the ox and the ram—the fat tail, the layer of fat, the kidneys and the long lobe of the liver—
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:4 - Moses summoned Mishael and Elzaphan, sons of Aaron's uncle Uzziel, and said to them, “Come here; carry your cousins outside the camp, away from the front of the sanctuary.”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 12:2 - “Say to the Israelites: ‘A woman who becomes pregnant and gives birth to a son will be ceremonially unclean for seven days, just as she is unclean during her monthly period.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:3 - The priest is to examine the sore on the skin, and if the hair in the sore has turned white and the sore appears to be more than skin deep, it is a defiling skin disease. When the priest examines that person, he shall pronounce them ceremonially unclean.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:4 - If the shiny spot on the skin is white but does not appear to be more than skin deep and the hair in it has not turned white, the priest is to isolate the affected person for seven days.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:11 - it is a chronic skin disease and the priest shall pronounce them unclean. He is not to isolate them, because they are already unclean.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:12 - “If the disease breaks out all over their skin and, so far as the priest can see, it covers all the skin of the affected person from head to foot,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:13 - the priest is to examine them, and if the disease has covered their whole body, he shall pronounce them clean. Since it has all turned white, they are clean.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:21 - But if, when the priest examines it, there is no white hair in it and it is not more than skin deep and has faded, then the priest is to isolate them for seven days.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:30 - the priest is to examine the sore, and if it appears to be more than skin deep and the hair in it is yellow and thin, the priest shall pronounce them unclean; it is a defiling skin disease on the head or chin.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:56 - If, when the priest examines it, the mold has faded after the article has been washed, he is to tear the spoiled part out of the fabric, the leather, or the woven or knitted material.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:2 - “These are the regulations for any diseased person at the time of their ceremonial cleansing, when they are brought to the priest:
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:3 - The priest is to go outside the camp and examine them. If they have been healed of their defiling skin disease,[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:8 - “The person to be cleansed must wash their clothes, shave off all their hair and bathe with water; then they will be ceremonially clean. After this they may come into the camp, but they must stay outside their tent for seven days.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:14 - The priest is to take some of the blood of the guilt offering and put it on the lobe of the right ear of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of their right hand and on the big toe of their right foot.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:15 - The priest shall then take some of the log of oil, pour it in the palm of his own left hand,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:17 - The priest is to put some of the oil remaining in his palm on the lobe of the right ear of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of their right hand and on the big toe of their right foot, on top of the blood of the guilt offering.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:18 - The rest of the oil in his palm the priest shall put on the head of the one to be cleansed and make atonement for them before the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:19 - “Then the priest is to sacrifice the sin offering and make atonement for the one to be cleansed from their uncleanness. After that, the priest shall slaughter the burnt offering
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:25 - He shall slaughter the lamb for the guilt offering and take some of its blood and put it on the lobe of the right ear of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of their right hand and on the big toe of their right foot.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:26 - The priest is to pour some of the oil into the palm of his own left hand,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:28 - Some of the oil in his palm he is to put on the same places he put the blood of the guilt offering—on the lobe of the right ear of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of their right hand and on the big toe of their right foot.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:29 - The rest of the oil in his palm the priest shall put on the head of the one to be cleansed, to make atonement for them before the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:31 - one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering, together with the grain offering. In this way the priest will make atonement before the LORD on behalf of the one to be cleansed.”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:32 - These are the regulations for anyone who has a defiling skin disease and who cannot afford the regular offerings for their cleansing.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:7 - “ ‘Whoever touches the man who has a discharge must wash their clothes and bathe with water, and they will be unclean till evening.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:32 - These are the regulations for a man with a discharge, for anyone made unclean by an emission of semen,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:4 - He is to put on the sacred linen tunic, with linen undergarments next to his body; he is to tie the linen sash around him and put on the linen turban. These are sacred garments; so he must bathe himself with water before he puts them on.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:6 - “Aaron is to offer the bull for his own sin offering to make atonement for himself and his household.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:10 - But the goat chosen by lot as the scapegoat shall be presented alive before the LORD to be used for making atonement by sending it into the wilderness as a scapegoat.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:11 - “Aaron shall bring the bull for his own sin offering to make atonement for himself and his household, and he is to slaughter the bull for his own sin offering.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:14 - He is to take some of the bull's blood and with his finger sprinkle it on the front of the atonement cover; then he shall sprinkle some of it with his finger seven times before the atonement cover.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:15 - “He shall then slaughter the goat for the sin offering for the people and take its blood behind the curtain and do with it as he did with the bull's blood: He shall sprinkle it on the atonement cover and in front of it.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:17 - No one is to be in the tent of meeting from the time Aaron goes in to make atonement in the Most Holy Place until he comes out, having made atonement for himself, his household and the whole community of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:18 - “Then he shall come out to the altar that is before the LORD and make atonement for it. He shall take some of the bull's blood and some of the goat's blood and put it on all the horns of the altar.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:21 - He is to lay both hands on the head of the live goat and confess over it all the wickedness and rebellion of the Israelites—all their sins—and put them on the goat's head. He shall send the goat away into the wilderness in the care of someone appointed for the task.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:24 - He shall bathe himself with water in the sanctuary area and put on his regular garments. Then he shall come out and sacrifice the burnt offering for himself and the burnt offering for the people, to make atonement for himself and for the people.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:29 - “This is to be a lasting ordinance for you: On the tenth day of the seventh month you must deny yourselves[fn] and not do any work—whether native-born or a foreigner residing among you—
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:34 - “This is to be a lasting ordinance for you: Atonement is to be made once a year for all the sins of the Israelites.” And it was done, as the LORD commanded Moses.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 17:4 - instead of bringing it to the entrance to the tent of meeting to present it as an offering to the LORD in front of the tabernacle of the LORD—that person shall be considered guilty of bloodshed; they have shed blood and must be cut off from their people.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 17:9 - and does not bring it to the entrance to the tent of meeting to sacrifice it to the LORD must be cut off from the people of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 17:10 - “ ‘I will set my face against any Israelite or any foreigner residing among them who eats blood, and I will cut them off from the people.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:14 - “ ‘Do not dishonor your father's brother by approaching his wife to have sexual relations; she is your aunt.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:17 - “ ‘Do not have sexual relations with both a woman and her daughter. Do not have sexual relations with either her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter; they are her close relatives. That is wickedness.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:20 - “ ‘Do not have sexual relations with your neighbor's wife and defile yourself with her.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:29 - “ ‘Everyone who does any of these detestable things—such persons must be cut off from their people.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:30 - Keep my requirements and do not follow any of the detestable customs that were practiced before you came and do not defile yourselves with them. I am the LORD your God.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:8 - Whoever eats it will be held responsible because they have desecrated what is holy to the LORD; they must be cut off from their people.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:9 - “ ‘When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:10 - Do not go over your vineyard a second time or pick up the grapes that have fallen. Leave them for the poor and the foreigner. I am the LORD your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:12 - “ ‘Do not swear falsely by my name and so profane the name of your God. I am the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:13 - “ ‘Do not defraud or rob your neighbor. “ ‘Do not hold back the wages of a hired worker overnight.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:16 - “ ‘Do not go about spreading slander among your people. “ ‘Do not do anything that endangers your neighbor's life. I am the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:18 - “ ‘Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against anyone among your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:27 - “ ‘Do not cut the hair at the sides of your head or clip off the edges of your beard.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:3 - I myself will set my face against him and will cut him off from his people; for by sacrificing his children to Molek, he has defiled my sanctuary and profaned my holy name.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:4 - If the members of the community close their eyes when that man sacrifices one of his children to Molek and if they fail to put him to death,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:5 - I myself will set my face against him and his family and will cut them off from their people together with all who follow him in prostituting themselves to Molek.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:6 - “ ‘I will set my face against anyone who turns to mediums and spiritists to prostitute themselves by following them, and I will cut them off from their people.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:10 - “ ‘If a man commits adultery with another man's wife—with the wife of his neighbor—both the adulterer and the adulteress are to be put to death.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:11 - “ ‘If a man has sexual relations with his father's wife, he has dishonored his father. Both the man and the woman are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:21 - “ ‘If a man marries his brother's wife, it is an act of impurity; he has dishonored his brother. They will be childless.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:5 - “ ‘Priests must not shave their heads or shave off the edges of their beards or cut their bodies.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:6 - They must be holy to their God and must not profane the name of their God. Because they present the food offerings to the LORD, the food of their God, they are to be holy.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:8 - Regard them as holy, because they offer up the food of your God. Consider them holy, because I the LORD am holy—I who make you holy.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:9 - “ ‘If a priest's daughter defiles herself by becoming a prostitute, she disgraces her father; she must be burned in the fire.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:10 - “ ‘The high priest, the one among his brothers who has had the anointing oil poured on his head and who has been ordained to wear the priestly garments, must not let his hair become unkempt[fn] or tear his clothes.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:12 - nor leave the sanctuary of his God or desecrate it, because he has been dedicated by the anointing oil of his God. I am the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:17 - “Say to Aaron: ‘For the generations to come none of your descendants who has a defect may come near to offer the food of his God.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:21 - No descendant of Aaron the priest who has any defect is to come near to present the food offerings to the LORD. He has a defect; he must not come near to offer the food of his God.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:22 - He may eat the most holy food of his God, as well as the holy food;
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:23 - yet because of his defect, he must not go near the curtain or approach the altar, and so desecrate my sanctuary. I am the LORD, who makes them holy.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:4 - “ ‘If a descendant of Aaron has a defiling skin disease[fn] or a bodily discharge, he may not eat the sacred offerings until he is cleansed. He will also be unclean if he touches something defiled by a corpse or by anyone who has an emission of semen,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:13 - But if a priest's daughter becomes a widow or is divorced, yet has no children, and she returns to live in her father's household as in her youth, she may eat her father's food. No unauthorized person, however, may eat it.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:25 - and you must not accept such animals from the hand of a foreigner and offer them as the food of your God. They will not be accepted on your behalf, because they are deformed and have defects.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:5 - The LORD's Passover begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:6 - On the fifteenth day of that month the LORD's Festival of Unleavened Bread begins; for seven days you must eat bread made without yeast.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:10 - “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘When you enter the land I am going to give you and you reap its harvest, bring to the priest a sheaf of the first grain you harvest.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:22 - “ ‘When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the poor and for the foreigner residing among you. I am the LORD your God.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:24 - “Say to the Israelites: ‘On the first day of the seventh month you are to have a day of sabbath rest, a sacred assembly commemorated with trumpet blasts.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:27 - “The tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. Hold a sacred assembly and deny yourselves,[fn] and present a food offering to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:28 - Do not do any work on that day, because it is the Day of Atonement, when atonement is made for you before the LORD your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:29 - Those who do not deny themselves on that day must be cut off from their people.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:30 - I will destroy from among their people anyone who does any work on that day.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:32 - It is a day of sabbath rest for you, and you must deny yourselves. From the evening of the ninth day of the month until the following evening you are to observe your sabbath.”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:34 - “Say to the Israelites: ‘On the fifteenth day of the seventh month the LORD's Festival of Tabernacles begins, and it lasts for seven days.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:39 - “ ‘So beginning with the fifteenth day of the seventh month, after you have gathered the crops of the land, celebrate the festival to the LORD for seven days; the first day is a day of sabbath rest, and the eighth day also is a day of sabbath rest.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:40 - On the first day you are to take branches from luxuriant trees—from palms, willows and other leafy trees—and rejoice before the LORD your God for seven days.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:41 - Celebrate this as a festival to the LORD for seven days each year. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come; celebrate it in the seventh month.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:5 - Do not reap what grows of itself or harvest the grapes of your untended vines. The land is to have a year of rest.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:9 - Then have the trumpet sounded everywhere on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the Day of Atonement sound the trumpet throughout your land.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:14 - “ ‘If you sell land to any of your own people or buy land from them, do not take advantage of each other.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:15 - You are to buy from your own people on the basis of the number of years since the Jubilee. And they are to sell to you on the basis of the number of years left for harvesting crops.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:25 - “ ‘If one of your fellow Israelites becomes poor and sells some of their property, their nearest relative is to come and redeem what they have sold.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:47 - “ ‘If a foreigner residing among you becomes rich and any of your fellow Israelites become poor and sell themselves to the foreigner or to a member of the foreigner's clan,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:50 - They and their buyer are to count the time from the year they sold themselves up to the Year of Jubilee. The price for their release is to be based on the rate paid to a hired worker for that number of years.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:20 - Your strength will be spent in vain, because your soil will not yield its crops, nor will the trees of your land yield their fruit.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:3 - set the value of a male between the ages of twenty and sixty at fifty shekels[fn] of silver, according to the sanctuary shekel[fn];
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:5 - for a person between the ages of five and twenty, set the value of a male at twenty shekels[fn] and of a female at ten shekels[fn];
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:6 - for a person between one month and five years, set the value of a male at five shekels[fn] of silver and that of a female at three shekels[fn] of silver;
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:8 - If anyone making the vow is too poor to pay the specified amount, the person being dedicated is to be presented to the priest, who will set the value according to what the one making the vow can afford.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:11 - If what they vowed is a ceremonially unclean animal—one that is not acceptable as an offering to the LORD—the animal must be presented to the priest,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:16 - “ ‘If anyone dedicates to the LORD part of their family land, its value is to be set according to the amount of seed required for it—fifty shekels of silver to a homer[fn] of barley seed.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:17 - If they dedicate a field during the Year of Jubilee, the value that has been set remains.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:22 - “ ‘If anyone dedicates to the LORD a field they have bought, which is not part of their family land,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:23 - the priest will determine its value up to the Year of Jubilee, and the owner must pay its value on that day as something holy to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:30 - “ ‘A tithe of everything from the land, whether grain from the soil or fruit from the trees, belongs to the LORD; it is holy to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:1 - The LORD spoke to Moses in the tent of meeting in the Desert of Sinai on the first day of the second month of the second year after the Israelites came out of Egypt. He said:
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:18 - and they called the whole community together on the first day of the second month. The people registered their ancestry by their clans and families, and the men twenty years old or more were listed by name, one by one,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:17 - Then the tent of meeting and the camp of the Levites will set out in the middle of the camps. They will set out in the same order as they encamp, each in their own place under their standard.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:4 - Nadab and Abihu, however, died before the LORD when they made an offering with unauthorized fire before him in the Desert of Sinai. They had no sons, so Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests during the lifetime of their father Aaron.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:6 - “Bring the tribe of Levi and present them to Aaron the priest to assist him.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:21 - To Gershon belonged the clans of the Libnites and Shimeites; these were the Gershonite clans.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:24 - The leader of the families of the Gershonites was Eliasaph son of Lael.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:27 - To Kohath belonged the clans of the Amramites, Izharites, Hebronites and Uzzielites; these were the Kohathite clans.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:30 - The leader of the families of the Kohathite clans was Elizaphan son of Uzziel.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:31 - They were responsible for the care of the ark, the table, the lampstand, the altars, the articles of the sanctuary used in ministering, the curtain, and everything related to their use.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:32 - The chief leader of the Levites was Eleazar son of Aaron, the priest. He was appointed over those who were responsible for the care of the sanctuary.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:35 - The leader of the families of the Merarite clans was Zuriel son of Abihail; they were to camp on the north side of the tabernacle.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:38 - Moses and Aaron and his sons were to camp to the east of the tabernacle, toward the sunrise, in front of the tent of meeting. They were responsible for the care of the sanctuary on behalf of the Israelites. Anyone else who approached the sanctuary was to be put to death.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:47 - collect five shekels[fn] for each one, according to the sanctuary shekel, which weighs twenty gerahs.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:16 - “Eleazar son of Aaron, the priest, is to have charge of the oil for the light, the fragrant incense, the regular grain offering and the anointing oil. He is to be in charge of the entire tabernacle and everything in it, including its holy furnishings and articles.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:24 - “This is the service of the Gershonite clans in their carrying and their other work:
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:28 - This is the service of the Gershonite clans at the tent of meeting. Their duties are to be under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron, the priest.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:33 - This is the service of the Merarite clans as they work at the tent of meeting under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron, the priest.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:8 - But if that person has no close relative to whom restitution can be made for the wrong, the restitution belongs to the LORD and must be given to the priest, along with the ram with which atonement is made for the wrongdoer.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:13 - so that another man has sexual relations with her, and this is hidden from her husband and her impurity is undetected (since there is no witness against her and she has not been caught in the act),
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:18 - After the priest has had the woman stand before the LORD, he shall loosen her hair and place in her hands the reminder-offering, the grain offering for jealousy, while he himself holds the bitter water that brings a curse.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:19 - Then the priest shall put the woman under oath and say to her, “If no other man has had sexual relations with you and you have not gone astray and become impure while married to your husband, may this bitter water that brings a curse not harm you.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:20 - But if you have gone astray while married to your husband and you have made yourself impure by having sexual relations with a man other than your husband”—
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:21 - here the priest is to put the woman under this curse—“may the LORD cause you to become a curse[fn] among your people when he makes your womb miscarry and your abdomen swell.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:23 - “ ‘The priest is to write these curses on a scroll and then wash them off into the bitter water.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:24 - He shall make the woman drink the bitter water that brings a curse, and this water that brings a curse and causes bitter suffering will enter her.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:27 - If she has made herself impure and been unfaithful to her husband, this will be the result: When she is made to drink the water that brings a curse and causes bitter suffering, it will enter her, her abdomen will swell and her womb will miscarry, and she will become a curse.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:5 - “ ‘During the entire period of their Nazirite vow, no razor may be used on their head. They must be holy until the period of their dedication to the LORD is over; they must let their hair grow long.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:13 - “ ‘Now this is the law of the Nazirite when the period of their dedication is over. They are to be brought to the entrance to the tent of meeting.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:18 - “ ‘Then at the entrance to the tent of meeting, the Nazirite must shave off the hair that symbolizes their dedication. They are to take the hair and put it in the fire that is under the sacrifice of the fellowship offering.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:19 - “ ‘After the Nazirite has shaved off the hair that symbolizes their dedication, the priest is to place in their hands a boiled shoulder of the ram, and one thick loaf and one thin loaf from the basket, both made without yeast.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:20 - The priest shall then wave these before the LORD as a wave offering; they are holy and belong to the priest, together with the breast that was waved and the thigh that was presented. After that, the Nazirite may drink wine.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:21 - “ ‘This is the law of the Nazirite who vows offerings to the LORD in accordance with their dedication, in addition to whatever else they can afford. They must fulfill the vows they have made, according to the law of the Nazirite.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:8 - and he gave four carts and eight oxen to the Merarites, as their work required. They were all under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron, the priest.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:3 - Celebrate it at the appointed time, at twilight on the fourteenth day of this month, in accordance with all its rules and regulations.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:5 - and they did so in the Desert of Sinai at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month. The Israelites did everything just as the LORD commanded Moses.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:13 - But if anyone who is ceremonially clean and not on a journey fails to celebrate the Passover, they must be cut off from their people for not presenting the LORD's offering at the appointed time. They will bear the consequences of their sin.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:19 - When the cloud remained over the tabernacle a long time, the Israelites obeyed the LORD's order and did not set out.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:10 - Also at your times of rejoicing—your appointed festivals and New Moon feasts—you are to sound the trumpets over your burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, and they will be a memorial for you before your God. I am the LORD your God.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:11 - On the twentieth day of the second month of the second year, the cloud lifted from above the tabernacle of the covenant law.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:20 - and Eliasaph son of Deuel was over the division of the tribe of Gad.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:23 - Gamaliel son of Pedahzur was over the division of the tribe of Manasseh,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:24 - and Abidan son of Gideoni was over the division of the tribe of Benjamin.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:25 - Finally, as the rear guard for all the units, the divisions of the camp of Dan set out under their standard. Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai was in command.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:3 - So that place was called Taberah,[fn] because fire from the LORD had burned among them.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:11 - He asked the LORD, “Why have you brought this trouble on your servant? What have I done to displease you that you put the burden of all these people on me?
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:16 - The LORD said to Moses: “Bring me seventy of Israel's elders who are known to you as leaders and officials among the people. Have them come to the tent of meeting, that they may stand there with you.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:17 - I will come down and speak with you there, and I will take some of the power of the Spirit that is on you and put it on them. They will share the burden of the people with you so that you will not have to carry it alone.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:24 - So Moses went out and told the people what the LORD had said. He brought together seventy of their elders and had them stand around the tent.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:28 - Joshua son of Nun, who had been Moses' aide since youth, spoke up and said, “Moses, my lord, stop them!”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:34 - Therefore the place was named Kibroth Hattaavah,[fn] because there they buried the people who had craved other food.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:8 - With him I speak face to face, clearly and not in riddles; he sees the form of the LORD. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:16 - After that, the people left Hazeroth and encamped in the Desert of Paran.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:22 - They went up through the Negev and came to Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, lived. (Hebron had been built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:6 - Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had explored the land, tore their clothes
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:9 - Only do not rebel against the LORD. And do not be afraid of the people of the land, because we will devour them. Their protection is gone, but the LORD is with us. Do not be afraid of them.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:12 - I will strike them down with a plague and destroy them, but I will make you into a nation greater and stronger than they.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:19 - In accordance with your great love, forgive the sin of these people, just as you have pardoned them from the time they left Egypt until now.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:30 - Not one of you will enter the land I swore with uplifted hand to make your home, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:34 - For forty years—one year for each of the forty days you explored the land—you will suffer for your sins and know what it is like to have me against you.'
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:9 - bring with the bull a grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah[fn] of the finest flour mixed with half a hin[fn] of olive oil,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:30 - “ ‘But anyone who sins defiantly, whether native-born or foreigner, blasphemes the LORD and must be cut off from the people of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:39 - So Eleazar the priest collected the bronze censers brought by those who had been burned to death, and he had them hammered out to overlay the altar,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:47 - So Aaron did as Moses said, and ran into the midst of the assembly. The plague had already started among the people, but Aaron offered the incense and made atonement for them.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:2 - Bring your fellow Levites from your ancestral tribe to join you and assist you when you and your sons minister before the tent of the covenant law.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:2 - “This is a requirement of the law that the LORD has commanded: Tell the Israelites to bring you a red heifer without defect or blemish and that has never been under a yoke.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:11 - “Whoever touches a human corpse will be unclean for seven days.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:13 - If they fail to purify themselves after touching a human corpse, they defile the LORD's tabernacle. They must be cut off from Israel. Because the water of cleansing has not been sprinkled on them, they are unclean; their uncleanness remains on them.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:17 - “For the unclean person, put some ashes from the burned purification offering into a jar and pour fresh water over them.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:18 - Then a man who is ceremonially clean is to take some hyssop, dip it in the water and sprinkle the tent and all the furnishings and the people who were there. He must also sprinkle anyone who has touched a human bone or a grave or anyone who has been killed or anyone who has died a natural death.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:21 - This is a lasting ordinance for them. “The man who sprinkles the water of cleansing must also wash his clothes, and anyone who touches the water of cleansing will be unclean till evening.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:3 - The LORD listened to Israel's plea and gave the Canaanites over to them. They completely destroyed them and their towns; so the place was named Hormah.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:7 - The people came to Moses and said, “We sinned when we spoke against the LORD and against you. Pray that the LORD will take the snakes away from us.” So Moses prayed for the people.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:11 - Then they set out from Oboth and camped in Iye Abarim, in the wilderness that faces Moab toward the sunrise.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:13 - They set out from there and camped alongside the Arnon, which is in the wilderness extending into Amorite territory. The Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:14 - That is why the Book of the Wars of the LORD says: “. . . Zahab[fn] in Suphah and the ravines, the Arnon
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:26 - Heshbon was the city of Sihon king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab and had taken from him all his land as far as the Arnon.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:5 - sent messengers to summon Balaam son of Beor, who was at Pethor, near the Euphrates River, in his native land. Balak said: “A people has come out of Egypt; they cover the face of the land and have settled next to me.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:16 - They came to Balaam and said: “This is what Balak son of Zippor says: Do not let anything keep you from coming to me,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:18 - But Balaam answered them, “Even if Balak gave me all the silver and gold in his palace, I could not do anything great or small to go beyond the command of the LORD my God.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:22 - But God was very angry when he went, and the angel of the LORD stood in the road to oppose him. Balaam was riding on his donkey, and his two servants were with him.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:23 - When the donkey saw the angel of the LORD standing in the road with a drawn sword in his hand, it turned off the road into a field. Balaam beat it to get it back on the road.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:24 - Then the angel of the LORD stood in a narrow path through the vineyards, with walls on both sides.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:25 - When the donkey saw the angel of the LORD, it pressed close to the wall, crushing Balaam's foot against it. So he beat the donkey again.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:26 - Then the angel of the LORD moved on ahead and stood in a narrow place where there was no room to turn, either to the right or to the left.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:27 - When the donkey saw the angel of the LORD, it lay down under Balaam, and he was angry and beat it with his staff.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:32 - The angel of the LORD asked him, “Why have you beaten your donkey these three times? I have come here to oppose you because your path is a reckless one before me.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:35 - The angel of the LORD said to Balaam, “Go with the men, but speak only what I tell you.” So Balaam went with Balak's officials.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:41 - The next morning Balak took Balaam up to Bamoth Baal, and from there he could see the outskirts of the Israelite camp.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:4 - The LORD said to Moses, “Take all the leaders of these people, kill them and expose them in broad daylight before the LORD, so that the LORD's fierce anger may turn away from Israel.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:7 - When Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the priest, saw this, he left the assembly, took a spear in his hand
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:8 - and followed the Israelite into the tent. He drove the spear into both of them, right through the Israelite man and into the woman's stomach. Then the plague against the Israelites was stopped;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:11 - “Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the priest, has turned my anger away from the Israelites. Since he was as zealous for my honor among them as I am, I did not put an end to them in my zeal.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:14 - The name of the Israelite who was killed with the Midianite woman was Zimri son of Salu, the leader of a Simeonite family.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:3 - So on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho, Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them and said,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:5 - The descendants of Reuben, the firstborn son of Israel, were: through Hanok, the Hanokite clan; through Pallu, the Palluite clan;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:6 - through Hezron, the Hezronite clan; through Karmi, the Karmite clan.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:56 - Each inheritance is to be distributed by lot among the larger and smaller groups.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:63 - These are the ones counted by Moses and Eleazar the priest when they counted the Israelites on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:65 - For the LORD had told those Israelites they would surely die in the wilderness, and not one of them was left except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:1 - The daughters of Zelophehad son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Makir, the son of Manasseh, belonged to the clans of Manasseh son of Joseph. The names of the daughters were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milkah and Tirzah. They came forward
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:2 - and stood before Moses, Eleazar the priest, the leaders and the whole assembly at the entrance to the tent of meeting and said,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:4 - Why should our father's name disappear from his clan because he had no son? Give us property among our father's relatives.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:7 - “What Zelophehad's daughters are saying is right. You must certainly give them property as an inheritance among their father's relatives and give their father's inheritance to them.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:10 - If he has no brothers, give his inheritance to his father's brothers.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:11 - If his father had no brothers, give his inheritance to the nearest relative in his clan, that he may possess it. This is to have the force of law for the Israelites, as the LORD commanded Moses.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:19 - Have him stand before Eleazar the priest and the entire assembly and commission him in their presence.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:21 - He is to stand before Eleazar the priest, who will obtain decisions for him by inquiring of the Urim before the LORD. At his command he and the entire community of the Israelites will go out, and at his command they will come in.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:22 - Moses did as the LORD commanded him. He took Joshua and had him stand before Eleazar the priest and the whole assembly.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 28:5 - together with a grain offering of a tenth of an ephah[fn] of the finest flour mixed with a quarter of a hin[fn] of oil from pressed olives.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 28:7 - The accompanying drink offering is to be a quarter of a hin of fermented drink with each lamb. Pour out the drink offering to the LORD at the sanctuary.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 28:14 - With each bull there is to be a drink offering of half a hin[fn] of wine; with the ram, a third of a hin[fn]; and with each lamb, a quarter of a hin. This is the monthly burnt offering to be made at each new moon during the year.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 28:16 - “ ‘On the fourteenth day of the first month the LORD's Passover is to be held.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 28:17 - On the fifteenth day of this month there is to be a festival; for seven days eat bread made without yeast.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 28:24 - In this way present the food offering every day for seven days as an aroma pleasing to the LORD; it is to be offered in addition to the regular burnt offering and its drink offering.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:1 - “ ‘On the first day of the seventh month hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work. It is a day for you to sound the trumpets.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:7 - “ ‘On the tenth day of this seventh month hold a sacred assembly. You must deny yourselves[fn] and do no work.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:12 - “ ‘On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work. Celebrate a festival to the LORD for seven days.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:3 - “When a young woman still living in her father's household makes a vow to the LORD or obligates herself by a pledge
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:10 - “If a woman living with her husband makes a vow or obligates herself by a pledge under oath
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:3 - So Moses said to the people, “Arm some of your men to go to war against the Midianites so that they may carry out the LORD's vengeance on them.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:6 - Moses sent them into battle, a thousand from each tribe, along with Phinehas son of Eleazar, the priest, who took with him articles from the sanctuary and the trumpets for signaling.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:12 - and brought the captives, spoils and plunder to Moses and Eleazar the priest and the Israelite assembly at their camp on the plains of Moab, by the Jordan across from Jericho.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:14 - Moses was angry with the officers of the army—the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds—who returned from the battle.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:21 - Then Eleazar the priest said to the soldiers who had gone into battle, “This is what is required by the law that the LORD gave Moses:
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:23 - and anything else that can withstand fire must be put through the fire, and then it will be clean. But it must also be purified with the water of cleansing. And whatever cannot withstand fire must be put through that water.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:36 - The half share of those who fought in the battle was: 337,500 sheep,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:41 - Moses gave the tribute to Eleazar the priest as the LORD's part, as the LORD commanded Moses.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:12 - not one except Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite and Joshua son of Nun, for they followed the LORD wholeheartedly.'
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:19 - We will not receive any inheritance with them on the other side of the Jordan, because our inheritance has come to us on the east side of the Jordan.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:32 - We will cross over before the LORD into Canaan armed, but the property we inherit will be on this side of the Jordan.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:41 - Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, captured their settlements and called them Havvoth Jair.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:3 - The Israelites set out from Rameses on the fifteenth day of the first month, the day after the Passover. They marched out defiantly in full view of all the Egyptians,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:38 - At the LORD's command Aaron the priest went up Mount Hor, where he died on the first day of the fifth month of the fortieth year after the Israelites came out of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:48 - They left the mountains of Abarim and camped on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:4 - cross south of Scorpion Pass, continue on to Zin and go south of Kadesh Barnea. Then it will go to Hazar Addar and over to Azmon,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:15 - These two-and-a-half tribes have received their inheritance east of the Jordan across from Jericho, toward the sunrise.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:17 - “These are the names of the men who are to assign the land for you as an inheritance: Eleazar the priest and Joshua son of Nun.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:14 - Give three on this side of the Jordan and three in Canaan as cities of refuge.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:24 - the assembly must judge between the accused and the avenger of blood according to these regulations.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:25 - The assembly must protect the one accused of murder from the avenger of blood and send the accused back to the city of refuge to which they fled. The accused must stay there until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:31 - “ ‘Do not accept a ransom for the life of a murderer, who deserves to die. They are to be put to death.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:1 - The family heads of the clan of Gilead son of Makir, the son of Manasseh, who were from the clans of the descendants of Joseph, came and spoke before Moses and the leaders, the heads of the Israelite families.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:2 - They said, “When the LORD commanded my lord to give the land as an inheritance to the Israelites by lot, he ordered you to give the inheritance of our brother Zelophehad to his daughters.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:3 - Now suppose they marry men from other Israelite tribes; then their inheritance will be taken from our ancestral inheritance and added to that of the tribe they marry into. And so part of the inheritance allotted to us will be taken away.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:6 - This is what the LORD commands for Zelophehad's daughters: They may marry anyone they please as long as they marry within their father's tribal clan.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:8 - Every daughter who inherits land in any Israelite tribe must marry someone in her father's tribal clan, so that every Israelite will possess the inheritance of their ancestors.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:12 - They married within the clans of the descendants of Manasseh son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in their father's tribe and clan.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:13 - These are the commands and regulations the LORD gave through Moses to the Israelites on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:1 - These are the words Moses spoke to all Israel in the wilderness east of the Jordan—that is, in the Arabah—opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth and Dizahab.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:3 - In the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses proclaimed to the Israelites all that the LORD had commanded him concerning them.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:5 - East of the Jordan in the territory of Moab, Moses began to expound this law, saying:
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:7 - Break camp and advance into the hill country of the Amorites; go to all the neighboring peoples in the Arabah, in the mountains, in the western foothills, in the Negev and along the coast, to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon, as far as the great river, the Euphrates.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:10 - The LORD your God has increased your numbers so that today you are as numerous as the stars in the sky.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:17 - Do not show partiality in judging; hear both small and great alike. Do not be afraid of anyone, for judgment belongs to God. Bring me any case too hard for you, and I will hear it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:19 - Then, as the LORD our God commanded us, we set out from Horeb and went toward the hill country of the Amorites through all that vast and dreadful wilderness that you have seen, and so we reached Kadesh Barnea.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:20 - Then I said to you, “You have reached the hill country of the Amorites, which the LORD our God is giving us.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:25 - Taking with them some of the fruit of the land, they brought it down to us and reported, “It is a good land that the LORD our God is giving us.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:26 - But you were unwilling to go up; you rebelled against the command of the LORD your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:28 - Where can we go? Our brothers have made our hearts melt in fear. They say, ‘The people are stronger and taller than we are; the cities are large, with walls up to the sky. We even saw the Anakites there.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:41 - Then you replied, “We have sinned against the LORD. We will go up and fight, as the LORD our God commanded us.” So every one of you put on his weapons, thinking it easy to go up into the hill country.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:15 - The LORD's hand was against them until he had completely eliminated them from the camp.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:16 - Now when the last of these fighting men among the people had died,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:25 - This very day I will begin to put the terror and fear of you on all the nations under heaven. They will hear reports of you and will tremble and be in anguish because of you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:36 - From Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Gorge, and from the town in the gorge, even as far as Gilead, not one town was too strong for us. The LORD our God gave us all of them.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:8 - So at that time we took from these two kings of the Amorites the territory east of the Jordan, from the Arnon Gorge as far as Mount Hermon.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:10 - We took all the towns on the plateau, and all Gilead, and all Bashan as far as Salekah and Edrei, towns of Og's kingdom in Bashan.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:13 - The rest of Gilead and also all of Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh. (The whole region of Argob in Bashan used to be known as a land of the Rephaites.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:16 - But to the Reubenites and the Gadites I gave the territory extending from Gilead down to the Arnon Gorge (the middle of the gorge being the border) and out to the Jabbok River, which is the border of the Ammonites.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:20 - until the LORD gives rest to your fellow Israelites as he has to you, and they too have taken over the land that the LORD your God is giving them across the Jordan. After that, each of you may go back to the possession I have given you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:25 - Let me go over and see the good land beyond the Jordan—that fine hill country and Lebanon.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:28 - But commission Joshua, and encourage and strengthen him, for he will lead this people across and will cause them to inherit the land that you will see.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:2 - Do not add to what I command you and do not subtract from it, but keep the commands of the LORD your God that I give you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:10 - Remember the day you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, when he said to me, “Assemble the people before me to hear my words so that they may learn to revere me as long as they live in the land and may teach them to their children.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:11 - You came near and stood at the foot of the mountain while it blazed with fire to the very heavens, with black clouds and deep darkness.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:19 - And when you look up to the sky and see the sun, the moon and the stars—all the heavenly array—do not be enticed into bowing down to them and worshiping things the LORD your God has apportioned to all the nations under heaven.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:23 - Be careful not to forget the covenant of the LORD your God that he made with you; do not make for yourselves an idol in the form of anything the LORD your God has forbidden.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:25 - After you have had children and grandchildren and have lived in the land a long time—if you then become corrupt and make any kind of idol, doing evil in the eyes of the LORD your God and arousing his anger,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:32 - Ask now about the former days, long before your time, from the day God created human beings on the earth; ask from one end of the heavens to the other. Has anything so great as this ever happened, or has anything like it ever been heard of?
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:36 - From heaven he made you hear his voice to discipline you. On earth he showed you his great fire, and you heard his words from out of the fire.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:41 - Then Moses set aside three cities east of the Jordan,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:46 - and were in the valley near Beth Peor east of the Jordan, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon and was defeated by Moses and the Israelites as they came out of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:47 - They took possession of his land and the land of Og king of Bashan, the two Amorite kings east of the Jordan.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:48 - This land extended from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Gorge to Mount Sirion[fn] (that is, Hermon),
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:49 - and included all the Arabah east of the Jordan, as far as the Dead Sea,[fn] below the slopes of Pisgah.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:11 - “You shall not misuse the name of the LORD your God, for the LORD will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:20 - “You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:21 - “You shall not covet your neighbor's wife. You shall not set your desire on your neighbor's house or land, his male or female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:25 - But now, why should we die? This great fire will consume us, and we will die if we hear the voice of the LORD our God any longer.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:28 - The LORD heard you when you spoke to me, and the LORD said to me, “I have heard what this people said to you. Everything they said was good.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:12 - be careful that you do not forget the LORD, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:17 - Be sure to keep the commands of the LORD your God and the stipulations and decrees he has given you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:18 - Do what is right and good in the LORD's sight, so that it may go well with you and you may go in and take over the good land the LORD promised on oath to your ancestors,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:25 - And if we are careful to obey all this law before the LORD our God, as he has commanded us, that will be our righteousness.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:24 - He will give their kings into your hand, and you will wipe out their names from under heaven. No one will be able to stand up against you; you will destroy them.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:6 - Observe the commands of the LORD your God, walking in obedience to him and revering him.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:11 - Be careful that you do not forget the LORD your God, failing to observe his commands, his laws and his decrees that I am giving you this day.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:14 - then your heart will become proud and you will forget the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:15 - He led you through the vast and dreadful wilderness, that thirsty and waterless land, with its venomous snakes and scorpions. He brought you water out of hard rock.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:16 - He gave you manna to eat in the wilderness, something your ancestors had never known, to humble and test you so that in the end it might go well with you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:18 - But remember the LORD your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so confirms his covenant, which he swore to your ancestors, as it is today.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:19 - If you ever forget the LORD your God and follow other gods and worship and bow down to them, I testify against you today that you will surely be destroyed.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:20 - Like the nations the LORD destroyed before you, so you will be destroyed for not obeying the LORD your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:1 - Hear, Israel: You are now about to cross the Jordan to go in and dispossess nations greater and stronger than you, with large cities that have walls up to the sky.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:10 - The LORD gave me two stone tablets inscribed by the finger of God. On them were all the commandments the LORD proclaimed to you on the mountain out of the fire, on the day of the assembly.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:14 - Let me alone, so that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven. And I will make you into a nation stronger and more numerous than they.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:16 - When I looked, I saw that you had sinned against the LORD your God; you had made for yourselves an idol cast in the shape of a calf. You had turned aside quickly from the way that the LORD had commanded you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:18 - Then once again I fell prostrate before the LORD for forty days and forty nights; I ate no bread and drank no water, because of all the sin you had committed, doing what was evil in the LORD's sight and so arousing his anger.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:23 - And when the LORD sent you out from Kadesh Barnea, he said, “Go up and take possession of the land I have given you.” But you rebelled against the command of the LORD your God. You did not trust him or obey him.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:27 - Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Overlook the stubbornness of this people, their wickedness and their sin.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:11 - “Go,” the LORD said to me, “and lead the people on their way, so that they may enter and possess the land I swore to their ancestors to give them.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:13 - and to observe the LORD's commands and decrees that I am giving you today for your own good?
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:14 - To the LORD your God belong the heavens, even the highest heavens, the earth and everything in it.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:22 - Your ancestors who went down into Egypt were seventy in all, and now the LORD your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the sky.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:2 - Remember today that your children were not the ones who saw and experienced the discipline of the LORD your God: his majesty, his mighty hand, his outstretched arm;
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:11 - But the land you are crossing the Jordan to take possession of is a land of mountains and valleys that drinks rain from heaven.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:12 - It is a land the LORD your God cares for; the eyes of the LORD your God are continually on it from the beginning of the year to its end.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:21 - so that your days and the days of your children may be many in the land the LORD swore to give your ancestors, as many as the days that the heavens are above the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:24 - Every place where you set your foot will be yours: Your territory will extend from the desert to Lebanon, and from the Euphrates River to the Mediterranean Sea.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:27 - the blessing if you obey the commands of the LORD your God that I am giving you today;
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:28 - the curse if you disobey the commands of the LORD your God and turn from the way that I command you today by following other gods, which you have not known.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:30 - As you know, these mountains are across the Jordan, westward, toward the setting sun, near the great trees of Moreh, in the territory of those Canaanites living in the Arabah in the vicinity of Gilgal.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:3 - Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and burn their Asherah poles in the fire; cut down the idols of their gods and wipe out their names from those places.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:7 - There, in the presence of the LORD your God, you and your families shall eat and shall rejoice in everything you have put your hand to, because the LORD your God has blessed you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:12 - And there rejoice before the LORD your God—you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, and the Levites from your towns who have no allotment or inheritance of their own.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:15 - Nevertheless, you may slaughter your animals in any of your towns and eat as much of the meat as you want, as if it were gazelle or deer, according to the blessing the LORD your God gives you. Both the ceremonially unclean and the clean may eat it.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:17 - You must not eat in your own towns the tithe of your grain and new wine and olive oil, or the firstborn of your herds and flocks, or whatever you have vowed to give, or your freewill offerings or special gifts.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:18 - Instead, you are to eat them in the presence of the LORD your God at the place the LORD your God will choose—you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, and the Levites from your towns—and you are to rejoice before the LORD your God in everything you put your hand to.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:25 - Do not eat it, so that it may go well with you and your children after you, because you will be doing what is right in the eyes of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:27 - Present your burnt offerings on the altar of the LORD your God, both the meat and the blood. The blood of your sacrifices must be poured beside the altar of the LORD your God, but you may eat the meat.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:28 - Be careful to obey all these regulations I am giving you, so that it may always go well with you and your children after you, because you will be doing what is good and right in the eyes of the LORD your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:3 - you must not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer. The LORD your God is testing you to find out whether you love him with all your heart and with all your soul.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:4 - It is the LORD your God you must follow, and him you must revere. Keep his commands and obey him; serve him and hold fast to him.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:5 - That prophet or dreamer must be put to death for inciting rebellion against the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt and redeemed you from the land of slavery. That prophet or dreamer tried to turn you from the way the LORD your God commanded you to follow. You must purge the evil from among you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:9 - You must certainly put them to death. Your hand must be the first in putting them to death, and then the hands of all the people.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:10 - Stone them to death, because they tried to turn you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:16 - You are to gather all the plunder of the town into the middle of the public square and completely burn the town and all its plunder as a whole burnt offering to the LORD your God. That town is to remain a ruin forever, never to be rebuilt,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:18 - because you obey the LORD your God by keeping all his commands that I am giving you today and doing what is right in his eyes.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:1 - You are the children of the LORD your God. Do not cut yourselves or shave the front of your heads for the dead,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:22 - Be sure to set aside a tenth of all that your fields produce each year.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:23 - Eat the tithe of your grain, new wine and olive oil, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks in the presence of the LORD your God at the place he will choose as a dwelling for his Name, so that you may learn to revere the LORD your God always.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:26 - Use the silver to buy whatever you like: cattle, sheep, wine or other fermented drink, or anything you wish. Then you and your household shall eat there in the presence of the LORD your God and rejoice.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:3 - You may require payment from a foreigner, but you must cancel any debt your fellow Israelite owes you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:5 - if only you fully obey the LORD your God and are careful to follow all these commands I am giving you today.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:7 - If anyone is poor among your fellow Israelites in any of the towns of the land the LORD your God is giving you, do not be hardhearted or tightfisted toward them.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:14 - Supply them liberally from your flock, your threshing floor and your winepress. Give to them as the LORD your God has blessed you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:18 - Do not consider it a hardship to set your servant free, because their service to you these six years has been worth twice as much as that of a hired hand. And the LORD your God will bless you in everything you do.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:11 - And rejoice before the LORD your God at the place he will choose as a dwelling for his Name—you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, the Levites in your towns, and the foreigners, the fatherless and the widows living among you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:13 - Celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles for seven days after you have gathered the produce of your threshing floor and your winepress.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:16 - Three times a year all your men must appear before the LORD your God at the place he will choose: at the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks and the Festival of Tabernacles. No one should appear before the LORD empty-handed:
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:17 - Each of you must bring a gift in proportion to the way the LORD your God has blessed you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:21 - Do not set up any wooden Asherah pole beside the altar you build to the LORD your God,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:2 - If a man or woman living among you in one of the towns the LORD gives you is found doing evil in the eyes of the LORD your God in violation of his covenant,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:3 - and contrary to my command has worshiped other gods, bowing down to them or to the sun or the moon or the stars in the sky,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:7 - The hands of the witnesses must be the first in putting that person to death, and then the hands of all the people. You must purge the evil from among you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:10 - You must act according to the decisions they give you at the place the LORD will choose. Be careful to do everything they instruct you to do.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:12 - Anyone who shows contempt for the judge or for the priest who stands ministering there to the LORD your God is to be put to death. You must purge the evil from Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:3 - This is the share due the priests from the people who sacrifice a bull or a sheep: the shoulder, the internal organs and the meat from the head.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:4 - You are to give them the firstfruits of your grain, new wine and olive oil, and the first wool from the shearing of your sheep,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:5 - for the LORD your God has chosen them and their descendants out of all your tribes to stand and minister in the LORD's name always.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:7 - he may minister in the name of the LORD his God like all his fellow Levites who serve there in the presence of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:13 - You must be blameless before the LORD your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:16 - For this is what you asked of the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly when you said, “Let us not hear the voice of the LORD our God nor see this great fire anymore, or we will die.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:4 - This is the rule concerning anyone who kills a person and flees there for safety—anyone who kills a neighbor unintentionally, without malice aforethought.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:5 - For instance, a man may go into the forest with his neighbor to cut wood, and as he swings his ax to fell a tree, the head may fly off and hit his neighbor and kill him. That man may flee to one of these cities and save his life.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:6 - Otherwise, the avenger of blood might pursue him in a rage, overtake him if the distance is too great, and kill him even though he is not deserving of death, since he did it to his neighbor without malice aforethought.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:14 - Do not move your neighbor's boundary stone set up by your predecessors in the inheritance you receive in the land the LORD your God is giving you to possess.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:18 - The judges must make a thorough investigation, and if the witness proves to be a liar, giving false testimony against a fellow Israelite,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:19 - then do to the false witness as that witness intended to do to the other party. You must purge the evil from among you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:8 - Then the officers shall add, “Is anyone afraid or fainthearted? Let him go home so that his fellow soldiers will not become disheartened too.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:9 - When the officers have finished speaking to the army, they shall appoint commanders over it.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:18 - Otherwise, they will teach you to follow all the detestable things they do in worshiping their gods, and you will sin against the LORD your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:2 - your elders and judges shall go out and measure the distance from the body to the neighboring towns.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:9 - and you will have purged from yourselves the guilt of shedding innocent blood, since you have done what is right in the eyes of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:19 - his father and mother shall take hold of him and bring him to the elders at the gate of his town.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:1 - If you see your fellow Israelite's ox or sheep straying, do not ignore it but be sure to take it back to its owner.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:3 - Do the same if you find their donkey or cloak or anything else they have lost. Do not ignore it.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:4 - If you see your fellow Israelite's donkey or ox fallen on the road, do not ignore it. Help the owner get it to its feet.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:9 - Do not plant two kinds of seed in your vineyard; if you do, not only the crops you plant but also the fruit of the vineyard will be defiled.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:21 - she shall be brought to the door of her father's house and there the men of her town shall stone her to death. She has done an outrageous thing in Israel by being promiscuous while still in her father's house. You must purge the evil from among you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:24 - you shall take both of them to the gate of that town and stone them to death—the young woman because she was in a town and did not scream for help, and the man because he violated another man's wife. You must purge the evil from among you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:30 - A man is not to marry his father's wife; he must not dishonor his father's bed.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:5 - However, the LORD your God would not listen to Balaam but turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the LORD your God loves you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:15 - If a slave has taken refuge with you, do not hand them over to their master.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:18 - You must not bring the earnings of a female prostitute or of a male prostitute[fn] into the house of the LORD your God to pay any vow, because the LORD your God detests them both.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:23 - Whatever your lips utter you must be sure to do, because you made your vow freely to the LORD your God with your own mouth.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:25 - If you enter your neighbor's grainfield, you may pick kernels with your hands, but you must not put a sickle to their standing grain.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:4 - then her first husband, who divorced her, is not allowed to marry her again after she has been defiled. That would be detestable in the eyes of the LORD. Do not bring sin upon the land the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:13 - Return their cloak by sunset so that your neighbor may sleep in it. Then they will thank you, and it will be regarded as a righteous act in the sight of the LORD your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:1 - When people have a dispute, they are to take it to court and the judges will decide the case, acquitting the innocent and condemning the guilty.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:5 - If brothers are living together and one of them dies without a son, his widow must not marry outside the family. Her husband's brother shall take her and marry her and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to her.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:6 - The first son she bears shall carry on the name of the dead brother so that his name will not be blotted out from Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:7 - However, if a man does not want to marry his brother's wife, she shall go to the elders at the town gate and say, “My husband's brother refuses to carry on his brother's name in Israel. He will not fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:9 - his brother's widow shall go up to him in the presence of the elders, take off one of his sandals, spit in his face and say, “This is what is done to the man who will not build up his brother's family line.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:10 - That man's line shall be known in Israel as The Family of the Unsandaled.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:11 - If two men are fighting and the wife of one of them comes to rescue her husband from his assailant, and she reaches out and seizes him by his private parts,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:4 - The priest shall take the basket from your hands and set it down in front of the altar of the LORD your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:5 - Then you shall declare before the LORD your God: “My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down into Egypt with a few people and lived there and became a great nation, powerful and numerous.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:10 - and now I bring the firstfruits of the soil that you, LORD, have given me.” Place the basket before the LORD your God and bow down before him.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:13 - Then say to the LORD your God: “I have removed from my house the sacred portion and have given it to the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless and the widow, according to all you commanded. I have not turned aside from your commands nor have I forgotten any of them.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:14 - I have not eaten any of the sacred portion while I was in mourning, nor have I removed any of it while I was unclean, nor have I offered any of it to the dead. I have obeyed the LORD my God; I have done everything you commanded me.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:15 - Look down from heaven, your holy dwelling place, and bless your people Israel and the land you have given us as you promised on oath to our ancestors, a land flowing with milk and honey.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:3 - Write on them all the words of this law when you have crossed over to enter the land the LORD your God is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the LORD, the God of your ancestors, promised you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:7 - Sacrifice fellowship offerings there, eating them and rejoicing in the presence of the LORD your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:10 - Obey the LORD your God and follow his commands and decrees that I give you today.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:17 - “Cursed is anyone who moves their neighbor's boundary stone.”

Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:20 - “Cursed is anyone who sleeps with his father's wife, for he dishonors his father's bed.”

Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:26 - “Cursed is anyone who does not uphold the words of this law by carrying them out.”

Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:1 - If you fully obey the LORD your God and carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations on earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:2 - All these blessings will come on you and accompany you if you obey the LORD your God:
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:9 - The LORD will establish you as his holy people, as he promised you on oath, if you keep the commands of the LORD your God and walk in obedience to him.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:13 - The LORD will make you the head, not the tail. If you pay attention to the commands of the LORD your God that I give you this day and carefully follow them, you will always be at the top, never at the bottom.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:15 - However, if you do not obey the LORD your God and do not carefully follow all his commands and decrees I am giving you today, all these curses will come on you and overtake you:
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:24 - The LORD will turn the rain of your country into dust and powder; it will come down from the skies until you are destroyed.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:26 - Your carcasses will be food for all the birds and the wild animals, and there will be no one to frighten them away.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:45 - All these curses will come on you. They will pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the LORD your God and observe the commands and decrees he gave you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:46 - They will be a sign and a wonder to you and your descendants forever.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:58 - If you do not carefully follow all the words of this law, which are written in this book, and do not revere this glorious and awesome name—the LORD your God—
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:61 - The LORD will also bring on you every kind of sickness and disaster not recorded in this Book of the Law, until you are destroyed.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:62 - You who were as numerous as the stars in the sky will be left but few in number, because you did not obey the LORD your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:65 - Among those nations you will find no repose, no resting place for the sole of your foot. There the LORD will give you an anxious mind, eyes weary with longing, and a despairing heart.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:67 - In the morning you will say, “If only it were evening!” and in the evening, “If only it were morning!”—because of the terror that will fill your hearts and the sights that your eyes will see.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:7 - When you reached this place, Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan came out to fight against us, but we defeated them.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:10 - All of you are standing today in the presence of the LORD your God—your leaders and chief men, your elders and officials, and all the other men of Israel,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:12 - You are standing here in order to enter into a covenant with the LORD your God, a covenant the LORD is making with you this day and sealing with an oath,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:15 - who are standing here with us today in the presence of the LORD our God but also with those who are not here today.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:18 - Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the LORD our God to go and worship the gods of those nations; make sure there is no root among you that produces such bitter poison.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:20 - The LORD will never be willing to forgive them; his wrath and zeal will burn against them. All the curses written in this book will fall on them, and the LORD will blot out their names from under heaven.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:21 - The LORD will single them out from all the tribes of Israel for disaster, according to all the curses of the covenant written in this Book of the Law.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:25 - And the answer will be: “It is because this people abandoned the covenant of the LORD, the God of their ancestors, the covenant he made with them when he brought them out of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:27 - Therefore the LORD's anger burned against this land, so that he brought on it all the curses written in this book.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:29 - The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may follow all the words of this law.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:4 - Even if you have been banished to the most distant land under the heavens, from there the LORD your God will gather you and bring you back.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:8 - You will again obey the LORD and follow all his commands I am giving you today.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:10 - if you obey the LORD your God and keep his commands and decrees that are written in this Book of the Law and turn to the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:16 - For I command you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in obedience to him, and to keep his commands, decrees and laws; then you will live and increase, and the LORD your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:4 - And the LORD will do to them what he did to Sihon and Og, the kings of the Amorites, whom he destroyed along with their land.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:7 - Then Moses summoned Joshua and said to him in the presence of all Israel, “Be strong and courageous, for you must go with this people into the land that the LORD swore to their ancestors to give them, and you must divide it among them as their inheritance.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:9 - So Moses wrote down this law and gave it to the Levitical priests, who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and to all the elders of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:11 - when all Israel comes to appear before the LORD your God at the place he will choose, you shall read this law before them in their hearing.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:12 - Assemble the people—men, women and children, and the foreigners residing in your towns—so they can listen and learn to fear the LORD your God and follow carefully all the words of this law.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:14 - The LORD said to Moses, “Now the day of your death is near. Call Joshua and present yourselves at the tent of meeting, where I will commission him.” So Moses and Joshua came and presented themselves at the tent of meeting.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:24 - After Moses finished writing in a book the words of this law from beginning to end,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:26 - “Take this Book of the Law and place it beside the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God. There it will remain as a witness against you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:27 - For I know how rebellious and stiff-necked you are. If you have been rebellious against the LORD while I am still alive and with you, how much more will you rebel after I die!
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:18 - You deserted the Rock, who fathered you; you forgot the God who gave you birth.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:22 - For a fire will be kindled by my wrath, one that burns down to the realm of the dead below. It will devour the earth and its harvests and set afire the foundations of the mountains.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:43 - Rejoice, you nations, with his people,[fn][fn] for he will avenge the blood of his servants; he will take vengeance on his enemies and make atonement for his land and people.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:44 - Moses came with Joshua[fn] son of Nun and spoke all the words of this song in the hearing of the people.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:46 - he said to them, “Take to heart all the words I have solemnly declared to you this day, so that you may command your children to obey carefully all the words of this law.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:47 - They are not just idle words for you—they are your life. By them you will live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:1 - This is the blessing that Moses the man of God pronounced on the Israelites before his death.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:3 - Surely it is you who love the people; all the holy ones are in your hand. At your feet they all bow down, and from you receive instruction,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:22 - About Dan he said: “Dan is a lion's cub, springing out of Bashan.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:26 - “There is no one like the God of Jeshurun, who rides across the heavens to help you and on the clouds in his majesty.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 34:8 - The Israelites grieved for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days, until the time of weeping and mourning was over.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:4 - Your territory will extend from the desert to Lebanon, and from the great river, the Euphrates—all the Hittite country—to the Mediterranean Sea in the west.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:8 - Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:10 - So Joshua ordered the officers of the people:
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:11 - “Go through the camp and tell the people, ‘Get your provisions ready. Three days from now you will cross the Jordan here to go in and take possession of the land the LORD your God is giving you for your own.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:15 - until the LORD gives them rest, as he has done for you, and until they too have taken possession of the land the LORD your God is giving them. After that, you may go back and occupy your own land, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave you east of the Jordan toward the sunrise.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:7 - So the men set out in pursuit of the spies on the road that leads to the fords of the Jordan, and as soon as the pursuers had gone out, the gate was shut.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:10 - We have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red Sea[fn] for you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to Sihon and Og, the two kings of the Amorites east of the Jordan, whom you completely destroyed.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:12 - “Now then, please swear to me by the LORD that you will show kindness to my family, because I have shown kindness to you. Give me a sure sign
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:13 - that you will spare the lives of my father and mother, my brothers and sisters, and all who belong to them—and that you will save us from death.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:18 - unless, when we enter the land, you have tied this scarlet cord in the window through which you let us down, and unless you have brought your father and mother, your brothers and all your family into your house.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:1 - Early in the morning Joshua and all the Israelites set out from Shittim and went to the Jordan, where they camped before crossing over.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:3 - giving orders to the people: “When you see the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, and the Levitical priests carrying it, you are to move out from your positions and follow it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:6 - Joshua said to the priests, “Take up the ark of the covenant and pass on ahead of the people.” So they took it up and went ahead of them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:8 - Tell the priests who carry the ark of the covenant: ‘When you reach the edge of the Jordan's waters, go and stand in the river.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:9 - Joshua said to the Israelites, “Come here and listen to the words of the LORD your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:13 - And as soon as the priests who carry the ark of the LORD—the Lord of all the earth—set foot in the Jordan, its waters flowing downstream will be cut off and stand up in a heap.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:14 - So when the people broke camp to cross the Jordan, the priests carrying the ark of the covenant went ahead of them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:15 - Now the Jordan is at flood stage all during harvest. Yet as soon as the priests who carried the ark reached the Jordan and their feet touched the water's edge,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:17 - The priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD stopped in the middle of the Jordan and stood on dry ground, while all Israel passed by until the whole nation had completed the crossing on dry ground.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:2 - “Choose twelve men from among the people, one from each tribe,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:3 - and tell them to take up twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan, from right where the priests are standing, and carry them over with you and put them down at the place where you stay tonight.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:5 - and said to them, “Go over before the ark of the LORD your God into the middle of the Jordan. Each of you is to take up a stone on his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the Israelites,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:7 - tell them that the flow of the Jordan was cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD. When it crossed the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. These stones are to be a memorial to the people of Israel forever.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:8 - So the Israelites did as Joshua commanded them. They took twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan, according to the number of the tribes of the Israelites, as the LORD had told Joshua; and they carried them over with them to their camp, where they put them down.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:16 - “Command the priests carrying the ark of the covenant law to come up out of the Jordan.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:17 - So Joshua commanded the priests, “Come up out of the Jordan.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:18 - And the priests came up out of the river carrying the ark of the covenant of the LORD. No sooner had they set their feet on the dry ground than the waters of the Jordan returned to their place and ran at flood stage as before.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:19 - On the tenth day of the first month the people went up from the Jordan and camped at Gilgal on the eastern border of Jericho.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:20 - And Joshua set up at Gilgal the twelve stones they had taken out of the Jordan.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:23 - For the LORD your God dried up the Jordan before you until you had crossed over. The LORD your God did to the Jordan what he had done to the Red Sea[fn] when he dried it up before us until we had crossed over.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:24 - He did this so that all the peoples of the earth might know that the hand of the LORD is powerful and so that you might always fear the LORD your God.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:1 - Now when all the Amorite kings west of the Jordan and all the Canaanite kings along the coast heard how the LORD had dried up the Jordan before the Israelites until they[fn] had crossed over, their hearts melted in fear and they no longer had the courage to face the Israelites.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:3 - So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the Israelites at Gibeath Haaraloth.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:6 - The Israelites had moved about in the wilderness forty years until all the men who were of military age when they left Egypt had died, since they had not obeyed the LORD. For the LORD had sworn to them that they would not see the land he had solemnly promised their ancestors to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:9 - Then the LORD said to Joshua, “Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you.” So the place has been called Gilgal[fn] to this day.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:10 - On the evening of the fourteenth day of the month, while camped at Gilgal on the plains of Jericho, the Israelites celebrated the Passover.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:11 - The day after the Passover, that very day, they ate some of the produce of the land: unleavened bread and roasted grain.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:12 - The manna stopped the day after[fn] they ate this food from the land; there was no longer any manna for the Israelites, but that year they ate the produce of Canaan.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:6 - So Joshua son of Nun called the priests and said to them, “Take up the ark of the covenant of the LORD and have seven priests carry trumpets in front of it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:8 - When Joshua had spoken to the people, the seven priests carrying the seven trumpets before the LORD went forward, blowing their trumpets, and the ark of the LORD's covenant followed them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:11 - So he had the ark of the LORD carried around the city, circling it once. Then the army returned to camp and spent the night there.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:5 - who killed about thirty-six of them. They chased the Israelites from the city gate as far as the stone quarries and struck them down on the slopes. At this the hearts of the people melted in fear and became like water.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:8 - Pardon your servant, Lord. What can I say, now that Israel has been routed by its enemies?
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:26 - Over Achan they heaped up a large pile of rocks, which remains to this day. Then the LORD turned from his fierce anger. Therefore that place has been called the Valley of Achor[fn] ever since.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:10 - Early the next morning Joshua mustered his army, and he and the leaders of Israel marched before them to Ai.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:18 - Then the LORD said to Joshua, “Hold out toward Ai the javelin that is in your hand, for into your hand I will deliver the city.” So Joshua held out toward the city the javelin that was in his hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:19 - As soon as he did this, the men in the ambush rose quickly from their position and rushed forward. They entered the city and captured it and quickly set it on fire.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:29 - He impaled the body of the king of Ai on a pole and left it there until evening. At sunset, Joshua ordered them to take the body from the pole and throw it down at the entrance of the city gate. And they raised a large pile of rocks over it, which remains to this day.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:34 - Afterward, Joshua read all the words of the law—the blessings and the curses—just as it is written in the Book of the Law.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:1 - Now when all the kings west of the Jordan heard about these things—the kings in the hill country, in the western foothills, and along the entire coast of the Mediterranean Sea as far as Lebanon (the kings of the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites)—
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:5 - They put worn and patched sandals on their feet and wore old clothes. All the bread of their food supply was dry and moldy.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:9 - They answered: “Your servants have come from a very distant country because of the fame of the LORD your God. For we have heard reports of him: all that he did in Egypt,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:10 - and all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites east of the Jordan—Sihon king of Heshbon, and Og king of Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:13 - And these wineskins that we filled were new, but see how cracked they are. And our clothes and sandals are worn out by the very long journey.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:14 - The Israelites sampled their provisions but did not inquire of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:27 - That day he made the Gibeonites woodcutters and water carriers for the assembly, to provide for the needs of the altar of the LORD at the place the LORD would choose. And that is what they are to this day.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:11 - As they fled before Israel on the road down from Beth Horon to Azekah, the LORD hurled large hailstones down on them, and more of them died from the hail than were killed by the swords of the Israelites.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:13 - So the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, till the nation avenged itself on[fn] its enemies, as it is written in the Book of Jashar. The sun stopped in the middle of the sky and delayed going down about a full day.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:24 - When they had brought these kings to Joshua, he summoned all the men of Israel and said to the army commanders who had come with him, “Come here and put your feet on the necks of these kings.” So they came forward and placed their feet on their necks.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:6 - The LORD said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid of them, because by this time tomorrow I will hand all of them, slain, over to Israel. You are to hamstring their horses and burn their chariots.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:17 - from Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir, to Baal Gad in the Valley of Lebanon below Mount Hermon. He captured all their kings and put them to death.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:1 - These are the kings of the land whom the Israelites had defeated and whose territory they took over east of the Jordan, from the Arnon Gorge to Mount Hermon, including all the eastern side of the Arabah:
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:7 - Here is a list of the kings of the land that Joshua and the Israelites conquered on the west side of the Jordan, from Baal Gad in the Valley of Lebanon to Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir. Joshua gave their lands as an inheritance to the tribes of Israel according to their tribal divisions.
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the king of Kedeshone
the king of Jokneam in Carmelone
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the king of Dor (in Naphoth Dor)one
the king of Goyim in Gilgalone
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:6 - “As for all the inhabitants of the mountain regions from Lebanon to Misrephoth Maim, that is, all the Sidonians, I myself will drive them out before the Israelites. Be sure to allocate this land to Israel for an inheritance, as I have instructed you,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:7 - and divide it as an inheritance among the nine tribes and half of the tribe of Manasseh.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:8 - The other half of Manasseh,[fn] the Reubenites and the Gadites had received the inheritance that Moses had given them east of the Jordan, as he, the servant of the LORD, had assigned it to them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:11 - It also included Gilead, the territory of the people of Geshur and Maakah, all of Mount Hermon and all Bashan as far as Salekah—
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:14 - But to the tribe of Levi he gave no inheritance, since the food offerings presented to the LORD, the God of Israel, are their inheritance, as he promised them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:21 - all the towns on the plateau and the entire realm of Sihon king of the Amorites, who ruled at Heshbon. Moses had defeated him and the Midianite chiefs, Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur and Reba—princes allied with Sihon—who lived in that country.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:22 - In addition to those slain in battle, the Israelites had put to the sword Balaam son of Beor, who practiced divination.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:27 - and in the valley, Beth Haram, Beth Nimrah, Sukkoth and Zaphon with the rest of the realm of Sihon king of Heshbon (the east side of the Jordan, the territory up to the end of the Sea of Galilee[fn]).
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:32 - This is the inheritance Moses had given when he was in the plains of Moab across the Jordan east of Jericho.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:1 - Now these are the areas the Israelites received as an inheritance in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun and the heads of the tribal clans of Israel allotted to them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:3 - Moses had granted the two-and-a-half tribes their inheritance east of the Jordan but had not granted the Levites an inheritance among the rest,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:6 - Now the people of Judah approached Joshua at Gilgal, and Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know what the LORD said to Moses the man of God at Kadesh Barnea about you and me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:7 - I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadesh Barnea to explore the land. And I brought him back a report according to my convictions,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:8 - but my fellow Israelites who went up with me made the hearts of the people melt in fear. I, however, followed the LORD my God wholeheartedly.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:9 - So on that day Moses swore to me, ‘The land on which your feet have walked will be your inheritance and that of your children forever, because you have followed the LORD my God wholeheartedly.'[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:14 - So Hebron has belonged to Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite ever since, because he followed the LORD, the God of Israel, wholeheartedly.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:15 - (Hebron used to be called Kiriath Arba after Arba, who was the greatest man among the Anakites.) Then the land had rest from war.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:5 - The eastern boundary is the Dead Sea as far as the mouth of the Jordan. The northern boundary started from the bay of the sea at the mouth of the Jordan,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:13 - In accordance with the LORD's command to him, Joshua gave to Caleb son of Jephunneh a portion in Judah—Kiriath Arba, that is, Hebron. (Arba was the forefather of Anak.)
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:18 - One day when she came to Othniel, she urged him[fn] to ask her father for a field. When she got off her donkey, Caleb asked her, “What can I do for you?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:47 - Ashdod, its surrounding settlements and villages; and Gaza, its settlements and villages, as far as the Wadi of Egypt and the coastline of the Mediterranean Sea.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:1 - The allotment for Joseph began at the Jordan, east of the springs of Jericho, and went up from there through the desert into the hill country of Bethel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:2 - It went on from Bethel (that is, Luz),[fn] crossed over to the territory of the Arkites in Ataroth,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:4 - They went to Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the leaders and said, “The LORD commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our relatives.” So Joshua gave them an inheritance along with the brothers of their father, according to the LORD's command.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:5 - Manasseh's share consisted of ten tracts of land besides Gilead and Bashan east of the Jordan,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:6 - After you have written descriptions of the seven parts of the land, bring them here to me and I will cast lots for you in the presence of the LORD our God.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:7 - The Levites, however, do not get a portion among you, because the priestly service of the LORD is their inheritance. And Gad, Reuben and the half-tribe of Manasseh have already received their inheritance on the east side of the Jordan. Moses the servant of the LORD gave it to them.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:11 - The first lot came up for the tribe of Benjamin according to its clans. Their allotted territory lay between the tribes of Judah and Joseph:
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:12 - On the north side their boundary began at the Jordan, passed the northern slope of Jericho and headed west into the hill country, coming out at the wilderness of Beth Aven.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:19 - It then went to the northern slope of Beth Hoglah and came out at the northern bay of the Dead Sea, at the mouth of the Jordan in the south. This was the southern boundary.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:9 - The inheritance of the Simeonites was taken from the share of Judah, because Judah's portion was more than they needed. So the Simeonites received their inheritance within the territory of Judah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:47 - (When the territory of the Danites was lost to them, they went up and attacked Leshem, took it, put it to the sword and occupied it. They settled in Leshem and named it Dan after their ancestor.)
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:50 - as the LORD had commanded. They gave him the town he asked for—Timnath Serah[fn] in the hill country of Ephraim. And he built up the town and settled there.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:51 - These are the territories that Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun and the heads of the tribal clans of Israel assigned by lot at Shiloh in the presence of the LORD at the entrance to the tent of meeting. And so they finished dividing the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 20:3 - so that anyone who kills a person accidentally and unintentionally may flee there and find protection from the avenger of blood.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 20:8 - East of the Jordan (on the other side from Jericho) they designated Bezer in the wilderness on the plateau in the tribe of Reuben, Ramoth in Gilead in the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan in the tribe of Manasseh.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 20:9 - Any of the Israelites or any foreigner residing among them who killed someone accidentally could flee to these designated cities and not be killed by the avenger of blood prior to standing trial before the assembly.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:1 - Now the family heads of the Levites approached Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of the other tribal families of Israel
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:10 - (these towns were assigned to the descendants of Aaron who were from the Kohathite clans of the Levites, because the first lot fell to them):
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:21 - In the hill country of Ephraim they were given Shechem (a city of refuge for one accused of murder) and Gezer,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:33 - The total number of towns of the Gershonite clans came to thirteen, together with their pasturelands.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:36 - from the tribe of Reuben, Bezer, Jahaz,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:38 - from the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead (a city of refuge for one accused of murder), Mahanaim,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:3 - For a long time now—to this very day—you have not deserted your fellow Israelites but have carried out the mission the LORD your God gave you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:4 - Now that the LORD your God has given them rest as he promised, return to your homes in the land that Moses the servant of the LORD gave you on the other side of the Jordan.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:7 - (To the half-tribe of Manasseh Moses had given land in Bashan, and to the other half of the tribe Joshua gave land on the west side of the Jordan along with their fellow Israelites.) When Joshua sent them home, he blessed them,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:10 - When they came to Geliloth near the Jordan in the land of Canaan, the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh built an imposing altar there by the Jordan.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:11 - And when the Israelites heard that they had built the altar on the border of Canaan at Geliloth near the Jordan on the Israelite side,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:13 - So the Israelites sent Phinehas son of Eleazar, the priest, to the land of Gilead—to Reuben, Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:16 - “The whole assembly of the LORD says: ‘How could you break faith with the God of Israel like this? How could you turn away from the LORD and build yourselves an altar in rebellion against him now?
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:19 - If the land you possess is defiled, come over to the LORD's land, where the LORD's tabernacle stands, and share the land with us. But do not rebel against the LORD or against us by building an altar for yourselves, other than the altar of the LORD our God.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:20 - When Achan son of Zerah was unfaithful in regard to the devoted things,[fn] did not wrath come on the whole community of Israel? He was not the only one who died for his sin.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:22 - “The Mighty One, God, the LORD! The Mighty One, God, the LORD! He knows! And let Israel know! If this has been in rebellion or disobedience to the LORD, do not spare us this day.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:23 - If we have built our own altar to turn away from the LORD and to offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, or to sacrifice fellowship offerings on it, may the LORD himself call us to account.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:29 - “Far be it from us to rebel against the LORD and turn away from him today by building an altar for burnt offerings, grain offerings and sacrifices, other than the altar of the LORD our God that stands before his tabernacle.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:4 - Remember how I have allotted as an inheritance for your tribes all the land of the nations that remain—the nations I conquered—between the Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea in the west.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:6 - “Be very strong; be careful to obey all that is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, without turning aside to the right or to the left.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:16 - If you violate the covenant of the LORD your God, which he commanded you, and go and serve other gods and bow down to them, the LORD's anger will burn against you, and you will quickly perish from the good land he has given you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:1 - Then Joshua assembled all the tribes of Israel at Shechem. He summoned the elders, leaders, judges and officials of Israel, and they presented themselves before God.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:2 - Joshua said to all the people, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Long ago your ancestors, including Terah the father of Abraham and Nahor, lived beyond the Euphrates River and worshiped other gods.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:3 - But I took your father Abraham from the land beyond the Euphrates and led him throughout Canaan and gave him many descendants. I gave him Isaac,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:8 - “ ‘I brought you to the land of the Amorites who lived east of the Jordan. They fought against you, but I gave them into your hands. I destroyed them from before you, and you took possession of their land.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:9 - When Balak son of Zippor, the king of Moab, prepared to fight against Israel, he sent for Balaam son of Beor to put a curse on you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:14 - “Now fear the LORD and serve him with all faithfulness. Throw away the gods your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates River and in Egypt, and serve the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:15 - But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:25 - On that day Joshua made a covenant for the people, and there at Shechem he reaffirmed for them decrees and laws.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:26 - And Joshua recorded these things in the Book of the Law of God. Then he took a large stone and set it up there under the oak near the holy place of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:30 - And they buried him in the land of his inheritance, at Timnath Serah[fn] in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:32 - And Joseph's bones, which the Israelites had brought up from Egypt, were buried at Shechem in the tract of land that Jacob bought for a hundred pieces of silver[fn] from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem. This became the inheritance of Joseph's descendants.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:33 - And Eleazar son of Aaron died and was buried at Gibeah, which had been allotted to his son Phinehas in the hill country of Ephraim.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:10 - They advanced against the Canaanites living in Hebron (formerly called Kiriath Arba) and defeated Sheshai, Ahiman and Talmai.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:14 - One day when she came to Othniel, she urged him[fn] to ask her father for a field. When she got off her donkey, Caleb asked her, “What can I do for you?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:16 - The descendants of Moses' father-in-law, the Kenite, went up from the City of Palms[fn] with the people of Judah to live among the inhabitants of the Desert of Judah in the Negev near Arad.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:17 - Then the men of Judah went with the Simeonites their fellow Israelites and attacked the Canaanites living in Zephath, and they totally destroyed[fn] the city. Therefore it was called Hormah.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:32 - The Asherites lived among the Canaanite inhabitants of the land because they did not drive them out.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:33 - Neither did Naphtali drive out those living in Beth Shemesh or Beth Anath; but the Naphtalites too lived among the Canaanite inhabitants of the land, and those living in Beth Shemesh and Beth Anath became forced laborers for them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:35 - And the Amorites were determined also to hold out in Mount Heres, Aijalon and Shaalbim, but when the power of the tribes of Joseph increased, they too were pressed into forced labor.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:36 - The boundary of the Amorites was from Scorpion Pass to Sela and beyond.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:5 - and they called that place Bokim.[fn] There they offered sacrifices to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:18 - Whenever the LORD raised up a judge for them, he was with the judge and saved them out of the hands of their enemies as long as the judge lived; for the LORD relented because of their groaning under those who oppressed and afflicted them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:3 - the five rulers of the Philistines, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites living in the Lebanon mountains from Mount Baal Hermon to Lebo Hamath.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:5 - The Israelites lived among the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:15 - Again the Israelites cried out to the LORD, and he gave them a deliverer—Ehud, a left-handed man, the son of Gera the Benjamite. The Israelites sent him with tribute to Eglon king of Moab.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:20 - Ehud then approached him while he was sitting alone in the upper room of his palace[fn] and said, “I have a message from God for you.” As the king rose from his seat,
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:21 - Ehud reached with his left hand, drew the sword from his right thigh and plunged it into the king's belly.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:24 - After he had gone, the servants came and found the doors of the upper room locked. They said, “He must be relieving himself in the inner room of the palace.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:28 - “Follow me,” he ordered, “for the LORD has given Moab, your enemy, into your hands.” So they followed him down and took possession of the fords of the Jordan that led to Moab; they allowed no one to cross over.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:9 - “Certainly I will go with you,” said Deborah. “But because of the course you are taking, the honor will not be yours, for the LORD will deliver Sisera into the hands of a woman.” So Deborah went with Barak to Kedesh.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:11 - Now Heber the Kenite had left the other Kenites, the descendants of Hobab, Moses' brother-in-law,[fn] and pitched his tent by the great tree in Zaanannim near Kedesh.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:17 - Sisera, meanwhile, fled on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, because there was an alliance between Jabin king of Hazor and the family of Heber the Kenite.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:9 - My heart is with Israel's princes, with the willing volunteers among the people. Praise the LORD!
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:16 - Why did you stay among the sheep pens[fn] to hear the whistling for the flocks? In the districts of Reuben there was much searching of heart.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:17 - Gilead stayed beyond the Jordan. And Dan, why did he linger by the ships? Asher remained on the coast and stayed in his coves.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:20 - From the heavens the stars fought, from their courses they fought against Sisera.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:24 - “Most blessed of women be Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, most blessed of tent-dwelling women.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:31 - “So may all your enemies perish, LORD! But may all who love you be like the sun when it rises in its strength.” Then the land had peace forty years.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:10 - I said to you, ‘I am the LORD your God; do not worship the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you live.' But you have not listened to me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:11 - The angel of the LORD came and sat down under the oak in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, where his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to keep it from the Midianites.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:15 - “Pardon me, my lord,” Gideon replied, “but how can I save Israel? My clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my family.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:24 - So Gideon built an altar to the LORD there and called it The LORD Is Peace. To this day it stands in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:25 - That same night the LORD said to him, “Take the second bull from your father's herd, the one seven years old.[fn] Tear down your father's altar to Baal and cut down the Asherah pole[fn] beside it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:27 - So Gideon took ten of his servants and did as the LORD told him. But because he was afraid of his family and the townspeople, he did it at night rather than in the daytime.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:28 - In the morning when the people of the town got up, there was Baal's altar, demolished, with the Asherah pole beside it cut down and the second bull sacrificed on the newly built altar!
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:30 - The people of the town demanded of Joash, “Bring out your son. He must die, because he has broken down Baal's altar and cut down the Asherah pole beside it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:31 - But Joash replied to the hostile crowd around him, “Are you going to plead Baal's cause? Are you trying to save him? Whoever fights for him shall be put to death by morning! If Baal really is a god, he can defend himself when someone breaks down his altar.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:32 - So because Gideon broke down Baal's altar, they gave him the name Jerub-Baal[fn] that day, saying, “Let Baal contend with him.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:38 - And that is what happened. Gideon rose early the next day; he squeezed the fleece and wrung out the dew—a bowlful of water.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:1 - Early in the morning, Jerub-Baal (that is, Gideon) and all his men camped at the spring of Harod. The camp of Midian was north of them in the valley near the hill of Moreh.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:3 - Now announce to the army, ‘Anyone who trembles with fear may turn back and leave Mount Gilead.' ” So twenty-two thousand men left, while ten thousand remained.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:6 - Three hundred of them drank from cupped hands, lapping like dogs. All the rest got down on their knees to drink.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:8 - So Gideon sent the rest of the Israelites home but kept the three hundred, who took over the provisions and trumpets of the others. Now the camp of Midian lay below him in the valley.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:25 - They also captured two of the Midianite leaders, Oreb and Zeeb. They killed Oreb at the rock of Oreb, and Zeeb at the winepress of Zeeb. They pursued the Midianites and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon, who was by the Jordan.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:13 - Gideon son of Joash then returned from the battle by the Pass of Heres.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:32 - Gideon son of Joash died at a good old age and was buried in the tomb of his father Joash in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:34 - and did not remember the LORD their God, who had rescued them from the hands of all their enemies on every side.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:35 - They also failed to show any loyalty to the family of Jerub-Baal (that is, Gideon) in spite of all the good things he had done for them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:1 - Abimelek son of Jerub-Baal went to his mother's brothers in Shechem and said to them and to all his mother's clan,
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:4 - They gave him seventy shekels[fn] of silver from the temple of Baal-Berith, and Abimelek used it to hire reckless scoundrels, who became his followers.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:5 - He went to his father's home in Ophrah and on one stone murdered his seventy brothers, the sons of Jerub-Baal. But Jotham, the youngest son of Jerub-Baal, escaped by hiding.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:13 - “But the vine answered, ‘Should I give up my wine, which cheers both gods and humans, to hold sway over the trees?'
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:15 - “The thornbush said to the trees, ‘If you really want to anoint me king over you, come and take refuge in my shade; but if not, then let fire come out of the thornbush and consume the cedars of Lebanon!'
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:16 - “Have you acted honorably and in good faith by making Abimelek king? Have you been fair to Jerub-Baal and his family? Have you treated him as he deserves?
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:18 - But today you have revolted against my father's family. You have murdered his seventy sons on a single stone and have made Abimelek, the son of his female slave, king over the citizens of Shechem because he is related to you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:19 - So have you acted honorably and in good faith toward Jerub-Baal and his family today? If you have, may Abimelek be your joy, and may you be his, too!
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:20 - But if you have not, let fire come out from Abimelek and consume you, the citizens of Shechem and Beth Millo, and let fire come out from you, the citizens of Shechem and Beth Millo, and consume Abimelek!”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:21 - Then Jotham fled, escaping to Beer, and he lived there because he was afraid of his brother Abimelek.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:37 - But Gaal spoke up again: “Look, people are coming down from the central hill,[fn] and a company is coming from the direction of the diviners' tree.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:46 - On hearing this, the citizens in the tower of Shechem went into the stronghold of the temple of El-Berith.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:47 - When Abimelek heard that they had assembled there,
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:51 - Inside the city, however, was a strong tower, to which all the men and women—all the people of the city—had fled. They had locked themselves in and climbed up on the tower roof.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:52 - Abimelek went to the tower and attacked it. But as he approached the entrance to the tower to set it on fire,
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:57 - God also made the people of Shechem pay for all their wickedness. The curse of Jotham son of Jerub-Baal came on them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:8 - who that year shattered and crushed them. For eighteen years they oppressed all the Israelites on the east side of the Jordan in Gilead, the land of the Amorites.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:18 - The leaders of the people of Gilead said to each other, “Whoever will take the lead in attacking the Ammonites will be head over all who live in Gilead.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:2 - Gilead's wife also bore him sons, and when they were grown up, they drove Jephthah away. “You are not going to get any inheritance in our family,” they said, “because you are the son of another woman.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:7 - Jephthah said to them, “Didn't you hate me and drive me from my father's house? Why do you come to me now, when you're in trouble?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:13 - The king of the Ammonites answered Jephthah's messengers, “When Israel came up out of Egypt, they took away my land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, all the way to the Jordan. Now give it back peaceably.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:19 - “Then Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, who ruled in Heshbon, and said to him, ‘Let us pass through your country to our own place.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:21 - “Then the LORD, the God of Israel, gave Sihon and his whole army into Israel's hands, and they defeated them. Israel took over all the land of the Amorites who lived in that country,
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:22 - capturing all of it from the Arnon to the Jabbok and from the desert to the Jordan.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:23 - “Now since the LORD, the God of Israel, has driven the Amorites out before his people Israel, what right have you to take it over?
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:25 - Are you any better than Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever quarrel with Israel or fight with them?
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:31 - whatever comes out of the door of my house to meet me when I return in triumph from the Ammonites will be the LORD's, and I will sacrifice it as a burnt offering.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:40 - that each year the young women of Israel go out for four days to commemorate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:4 - Jephthah then called together the men of Gilead and fought against Ephraim. The Gileadites struck them down because the Ephraimites had said, “You Gileadites are renegades from Ephraim and Manasseh.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:5 - The Gileadites captured the fords of the Jordan leading to Ephraim, and whenever a survivor of Ephraim said, “Let me cross over,” the men of Gilead asked him, “Are you an Ephraimite?” If he replied, “No,”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:6 - they said, “All right, say ‘Shibboleth.' ” If he said, “Sibboleth,” because he could not pronounce the word correctly, they seized him and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. Forty-two thousand Ephraimites were killed at that time.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:2 - A certain man of Zorah, named Manoah, from the clan of the Danites, had a wife who was childless, unable to give birth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:6 - Then the woman went to her husband and told him, “A man of God came to me. He looked like an angel of God, very awesome. I didn't ask him where he came from, and he didn't tell me his name.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:8 - Then Manoah prayed to the LORD: “Pardon your servant, Lord. I beg you to let the man of God you sent to us come again to teach us how to bring up the boy who is to be born.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:9 - God heard Manoah, and the angel of God came again to the woman while she was out in the field; but her husband Manoah was not with her.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:8 - Some time later, when he went back to marry her, he turned aside to look at the lion's carcass, and in it he saw a swarm of bees and some honey.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:9 - He scooped out the honey with his hands and ate as he went along. When he rejoined his parents, he gave them some, and they too ate it. But he did not tell them that he had taken the honey from the lion's carcass.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:12 - “Let me tell you a riddle,” Samson said to them. “If you can give me the answer within the seven days of the feast, I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty sets of clothes.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:14 - He replied, “Out of the eater, something to eat; out of the strong, something sweet.” For three days they could not give the answer.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:15 - On the fourth[fn] day, they said to Samson's wife, “Coax your husband into explaining the riddle for us, or we will burn you and your father's household to death. Did you invite us here to steal our property?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:16 - Then Samson's wife threw herself on him, sobbing, “You hate me! You don't really love me. You've given my people a riddle, but you haven't told me the answer.” “I haven't even explained it to my father or mother,” he replied, “so why should I explain it to you?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:17 - She cried the whole seven days of the feast. So on the seventh day he finally told her, because she continued to press him. She in turn explained the riddle to her people.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:19 - Then the Spirit of the LORD came powerfully upon him. He went down to Ashkelon, struck down thirty of their men, stripped them of everything and gave their clothes to those who had explained the riddle. Burning with anger, he returned to his father's home.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:6 - When the Philistines asked, “Who did this?” they were told, “Samson, the Timnite's son-in-law, because his wife was given to his companion.” So the Philistines went up and burned her and her father to death.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:18 - Because he was very thirsty, he cried out to the LORD, “You have given your servant this great victory. Must I now die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:4 - Some time later, he fell in love with a woman in the Valley of Sorek whose name was Delilah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:14 - and[fn] tightened it with the pin. Again she called to him, “Samson, the Philistines are upon you!” He awoke from his sleep and pulled up the pin and the loom, with the fabric.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:20 - Then she called, “Samson, the Philistines are upon you!” He awoke from his sleep and thought, “I'll go out as before and shake myself free.” But he did not know that the LORD had left him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:31 - Then his brothers and his father's whole family went down to get him. They brought him back and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of Manoah his father. He had led[fn] Israel twenty years.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:12 - Then Micah installed the Levite, and the young man became his priest and lived in his house.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:1 - In those days Israel had no king. And in those days the tribe of the Danites was seeking a place of their own where they might settle, because they had not yet come into an inheritance among the tribes of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:3 - When they were near Micah's house, they recognized the voice of the young Levite; so they turned in there and asked him, “Who brought you here? What are you doing in this place? Why are you here?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:11 - Then six hundred men of the Danites, armed for battle, set out from Zorah and Eshtaol.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:15 - So they turned in there and went to the house of the young Levite at Micah's place and greeted him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:16 - The six hundred Danites, armed for battle, stood at the entrance of the gate.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:17 - The five men who had spied out the land went inside and took the idol, the ephod and the household gods while the priest and the six hundred armed men stood at the entrance of the gate.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:20 - The priest was very pleased. He took the ephod, the household gods and the idol and went along with the people.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:22 - When they had gone some distance from Micah's house, the men who lived near Micah were called together and overtook the Danites.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:25 - The Danites answered, “Don't argue with us, or some of the men may get angry and attack you, and you and your family will lose your lives.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:28 - There was no one to rescue them because they lived a long way from Sidon and had no relationship with anyone else. The city was in a valley near Beth Rehob. The Danites rebuilt the city and settled there.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:29 - They named it Dan after their ancestor Dan, who was born to Israel—though the city used to be called Laish.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:30 - There the Danites set up for themselves the idol, and Jonathan son of Gershom, the son of Moses,[fn] and his sons were priests for the tribe of Dan until the time of the captivity of the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:31 - They continued to use the idol Micah had made, all the time the house of God was in Shiloh.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:2 - But she was unfaithful to him. She left him and went back to her parents' home in Bethlehem, Judah. After she had been there four months,
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:3 - her husband went to her to persuade her to return. He had with him his servant and two donkeys. She took him into her parents' home, and when her father saw him, he gladly welcomed him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:8 - On the morning of the fifth day, when he rose to go, the woman's father said, “Refresh yourself. Wait till afternoon!” So the two of them ate together.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:11 - When they were near Jebus and the day was almost gone, the servant said to his master, “Come, let's stop at this city of the Jebusites and spend the night.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:14 - So they went on, and the sun set as they neared Gibeah in Benjamin.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:16 - That evening an old man from the hill country of Ephraim, who was living in Gibeah (the inhabitants of the place were Benjamites), came in from his work in the fields.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:18 - He answered, “We are on our way from Bethlehem in Judah to a remote area in the hill country of Ephraim where I live. I have been to Bethlehem in Judah and now I am going to the house of the LORD.[fn] No one has taken me in for the night.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:26 - At daybreak the woman went back to the house where her master was staying, fell down at the door and lay there until daylight.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:27 - When her master got up in the morning and opened the door of the house and stepped out to continue on his way, there lay his concubine, fallen in the doorway of the house, with her hands on the threshold.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:2 - The leaders of all the people of the tribes of Israel took their places in the assembly of God's people, four hundred thousand men armed with swords.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:10 - We'll take ten men out of every hundred from all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred from a thousand, and a thousand from ten thousand, to get provisions for the army. Then, when the army arrives at Gibeah[fn] in Benjamin, it can give them what they deserve for this outrageous act done in Israel.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:23 - The Israelites went up and wept before the LORD until evening, and they inquired of the LORD. They said, “Shall we go up again to fight against the Benjamites, our fellow Israelites?” The LORD answered, “Go up against them.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:25 - This time, when the Benjamites came out from Gibeah to oppose them, they cut down another eighteen thousand Israelites, all of them armed with swords.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:28 - with Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, ministering before it.) They asked, “Shall we go up again to fight against the Benjamites, our fellow Israelites, or not?” The LORD responded, “Go, for tomorrow I will give them into your hands.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:31 - The Benjamites came out to meet them and were drawn away from the city. They began to inflict casualties on the Israelites as before, so that about thirty men fell in the open field and on the roads—the one leading to Bethel and the other to Gibeah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:33 - All the men of Israel moved from their places and took up positions at Baal Tamar, and the Israelite ambush charged out of its place on the west[fn] of Gibeah.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:38 - The Israelites had arranged with the ambush that they should send up a great cloud of smoke from the city,
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:44 - Eighteen thousand Benjamites fell, all of them valiant fighters.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:48 - The men of Israel went back to Benjamin and put all the towns to the sword, including the animals and everything else they found. All the towns they came across they set on fire.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:2 - The people went to Bethel,[fn] where they sat before God until evening, raising their voices and weeping bitterly.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:6 - Now the Israelites grieved for the tribe of Benjamin, their fellow Israelites. “Today one tribe is cut off from Israel,” they said.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:16 - And the elders of the assembly said, “With the women of Benjamin destroyed, how shall we provide wives for the men who are left?
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:19 - But look, there is the annual festival of the LORD in Shiloh, which lies north of Bethel, east of the road that goes from Bethel to Shechem, and south of Lebonah.”
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:5 - both Mahlon and Kilion also died, and Naomi was left without her two sons and her husband.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:7 - With her two daughters-in-law she left the place where she had been living and set out on the road that would take them back to the land of Judah.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:3 - So she went out, entered a field and began to glean behind the harvesters. As it turned out, she was working in a field belonging to Boaz, who was from the clan of Elimelek.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:19 - Her mother-in-law asked her, “Where did you glean today? Where did you work? Blessed be the man who took notice of you!” Then Ruth told her mother-in-law about the one at whose place she had been working. “The name of the man I worked with today is Boaz,” she said.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:3 - Then he said to the guardian-redeemer, “Naomi, who has come back from Moab, is selling the piece of land that belonged to our relative Elimelek.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:4 - I thought I should bring the matter to your attention and suggest that you buy it in the presence of these seated here and in the presence of the elders of my people. If you will redeem it, do so. But if you[fn] will not, tell me, so I will know. For no one has the right to do it except you, and I am next in line.” “I will redeem it,” he said.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:5 - Then Boaz said, “On the day you buy the land from Naomi, you also acquire Ruth the Moabite, the[fn] dead man's widow, in order to maintain the name of the dead with his property.”
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:9 - Then Boaz announced to the elders and all the people, “Today you are witnesses that I have bought from Naomi all the property of Elimelek, Kilion and Mahlon.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:10 - I have also acquired Ruth the Moabite, Mahlon's widow, as my wife, in order to maintain the name of the dead with his property, so that his name will not disappear from among his family or from his hometown. Today you are witnesses!”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:3 - Year after year this man went up from his town to worship and sacrifice to the LORD Almighty at Shiloh, where Hophni and Phinehas, the two sons of Eli, were priests of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:9 - Once when they had finished eating and drinking in Shiloh, Hannah stood up. Now Eli the priest was sitting on his chair by the doorpost of the LORD's house.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:18 - She said, “May your servant find favor in your eyes.” Then she went her way and ate something, and her face was no longer downcast.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:11 - Then Elkanah went home to Ramah, but the boy ministered before the LORD under Eli the priest.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:12 - Eli's sons were scoundrels; they had no regard for the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:13 - Now it was the practice of the priests that, whenever any of the people offered a sacrifice, the priest's servant would come with a three-pronged fork in his hand while the meat was being boiled
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:15 - But even before the fat was burned, the priest's servant would come and say to the person who was sacrificing, “Give the priest some meat to roast; he won't accept boiled meat from you, but only raw.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:19 - Each year his mother made him a little robe and took it to him when she went up with her husband to offer the annual sacrifice.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:23 - So he said to them, “Why do you do such things? I hear from all the people about these wicked deeds of yours.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:25 - If one person sins against another, God[fn] may mediate for the offender; but if anyone sins against the LORD, who will intercede for them?” His sons, however, did not listen to their father's rebuke, for it was the LORD's will to put them to death.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:28 - I chose your ancestor out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to go up to my altar, to burn incense, and to wear an ephod in my presence. I also gave your ancestor's family all the food offerings presented by the Israelites.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:30 - “Therefore the LORD, the God of Israel, declares: ‘I promised that members of your family would minister before me forever.' But now the LORD declares: ‘Far be it from me! Those who honor me I will honor, but those who despise me will be disdained.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 3:1 - The boy Samuel ministered before the LORD under Eli. In those days the word of the LORD was rare; there were not many visions.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 3:3 - The lamp of God had not yet gone out, and Samuel was lying down in the house of the LORD, where the ark of God was.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:3 - When the soldiers returned to camp, the elders of Israel asked, “Why did the LORD bring defeat on us today before the Philistines? Let us bring the ark of the LORD's covenant from Shiloh, so that he may go with us and save us from the hand of our enemies.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:13 - When he arrived, there was Eli sitting on his chair by the side of the road, watching, because his heart feared for the ark of God. When the man entered the town and told what had happened, the whole town sent up a cry.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:15 - who was ninety-eight years old and whose eyes had failed so that he could not see.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:17 - The man who brought the news replied, “Israel fled before the Philistines, and the army has suffered heavy losses. Also your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God has been captured.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:18 - When he mentioned the ark of God, Eli fell backward off his chair by the side of the gate. His neck was broken and he died, for he was an old man, and he was heavy. He had led[fn] Israel forty years.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:19 - His daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was pregnant and near the time of delivery. When she heard the news that the ark of God had been captured and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she went into labor and gave birth, but was overcome by her labor pains.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:21 - She named the boy Ichabod,[fn] saying, “The Glory has departed from Israel”—because of the capture of the ark of God and the deaths of her father-in-law and her husband.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 5:1 - After the Philistines had captured the ark of God, they took it from Ebenezer to Ashdod.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 5:3 - When the people of Ashdod rose early the next day, there was Dagon, fallen on his face on the ground before the ark of the LORD! They took Dagon and put him back in his place.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 5:7 - When the people of Ashdod saw what was happening, they said, “The ark of the god of Israel must not stay here with us, because his hand is heavy on us and on Dagon our god.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 5:8 - So they called together all the rulers of the Philistines and asked them, “What shall we do with the ark of the god of Israel?” They answered, “Have the ark of the god of Israel moved to Gath.” So they moved the ark of the God of Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 5:10 - So they sent the ark of God to Ekron. As the ark of God was entering Ekron, the people of Ekron cried out, “They have brought the ark of the god of Israel around to us to kill us and our people.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 5:11 - So they called together all the rulers of the Philistines and said, “Send the ark of the god of Israel away; let it go back to its own place, or it[fn] will kill us and our people.” For death had filled the city with panic; God's hand was very heavy on it.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:15 - The Levites took down the ark of the LORD, together with the chest containing the gold objects, and placed them on the large rock. On that day the people of Beth Shemesh offered burnt offerings and made sacrifices to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:18 - And the number of the gold rats was according to the number of Philistine towns belonging to the five rulers—the fortified towns with their country villages. The large rock on which the Levites set the ark of the LORD is a witness to this day in the field of Joshua of Beth Shemesh.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:20 - And the people of Beth Shemesh asked, “Who can stand in the presence of the LORD, this holy God? To whom will the ark go up from here?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 7:11 - The men of Israel rushed out of Mizpah and pursued the Philistines, slaughtering them along the way to a point below Beth Kar.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 7:12 - Then Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen. He named it Ebenezer,[fn] saying, “Thus far the LORD has helped us.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 7:13 - So the Philistines were subdued and they stopped invading Israel's territory. Throughout Samuel's lifetime, the hand of the LORD was against the Philistines.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 7:14 - The towns from Ekron to Gath that the Philistines had captured from Israel were restored to Israel, and Israel delivered the neighboring territory from the hands of the Philistines. And there was peace between Israel and the Amorites.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:2 - The name of his firstborn was Joel and the name of his second was Abijah, and they served at Beersheba.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:7 - And the LORD told him: “Listen to all that the people are saying to you; it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected me as their king.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:9 - Now listen to them; but warn them solemnly and let them know what the king who will reign over them will claim as his rights.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:11 - He said, “This is what the king who will reign over you will claim as his rights: He will take your sons and make them serve with his chariots and horses, and they will run in front of his chariots.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:19 - But the people refused to listen to Samuel. “No!” they said. “We want a king over us.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:21 - When Samuel heard all that the people said, he repeated it before the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:6 - But the servant replied, “Look, in this town there is a man of God; he is highly respected, and everything he says comes true. Let's go there now. Perhaps he will tell us what way to take.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:7 - Saul said to his servant, “If we go, what can we give the man? The food in our sacks is gone. We have no gift to take to the man of God. What do we have?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:8 - The servant answered him again. “Look,” he said, “I have a quarter of a shekel[fn] of silver. I will give it to the man of God so that he will tell us what way to take.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:10 - “Good,” Saul said to his servant. “Come, let's go.” So they set out for the town where the man of God was.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:16 - “About this time tomorrow I will send you a man from the land of Benjamin. Anoint him ruler over my people Israel; he will deliver them from the hand of the Philistines. I have looked on my people, for their cry has reached me.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:18 - Saul approached Samuel in the gateway and asked, “Would you please tell me where the seer's house is?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:20 - As for the donkeys you lost three days ago, do not worry about them; they have been found. And to whom is all the desire of Israel turned, if not to you and your whole family line?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:21 - Saul answered, “But am I not a Benjamite, from the smallest tribe of Israel, and is not my clan the least of all the clans of the tribe of Benjamin? Why do you say such a thing to me?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:2 - When you leave me today, you will meet two men near Rachel's tomb, at Zelzah on the border of Benjamin. They will say to you, ‘The donkeys you set out to look for have been found. And now your father has stopped thinking about them and is worried about you. He is asking, “What shall I do about my son?” '
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:5 - “After that you will go to Gibeah of God, where there is a Philistine outpost. As you approach the town, you will meet a procession of prophets coming down from the high place with lyres, timbrels, pipes and harps being played before them, and they will be prophesying.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:23 - They ran and brought him out, and as he stood among the people he was a head taller than any of the others.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:25 - Samuel explained to the people the rights and duties of kingship. He wrote them down on a scroll and deposited it before the LORD. Then Samuel dismissed the people to go to their own homes.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:4 - When the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul and reported these terms to the people, they all wept aloud.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:9 - They told the messengers who had come, “Say to the men of Jabesh Gilead, ‘By the time the sun is hot tomorrow, you will be rescued.' ” When the messengers went and reported this to the men of Jabesh, they were elated.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:9 - “But they forgot the LORD their God; so he sold them into the hand of Sisera, the commander of the army of Hazor, and into the hands of the Philistines and the king of Moab, who fought against them.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:2 - Saul chose three thousand men from Israel; two thousand were with him at Mikmash and in the hill country of Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan at Gibeah in Benjamin. The rest of the men he sent back to their homes.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:12 - I thought, ‘Now the Philistines will come down against me at Gilgal, and I have not sought the LORD's favor.' So I felt compelled to offer the burnt offering.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:15 - Then Samuel left Gilgal[fn] and went up to Gibeah in Benjamin, and Saul counted the men who were with him. They numbered about six hundred.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:22 - So on the day of the battle not a soldier with Saul and Jonathan had a sword or spear in his hand; only Saul and his son Jonathan had them.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:2 - Saul was staying on the outskirts of Gibeah under a pomegranate tree in Migron. With him were about six hundred men,
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:3 - among whom was Ahijah, who was wearing an ephod. He was a son of Ichabod's brother Ahitub son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the LORD's priest in Shiloh. No one was aware that Jonathan had left.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:16 - Saul's lookouts at Gibeah in Benjamin saw the army melting away in all directions.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:20 - Then Saul and all his men assembled and went to the battle. They found the Philistines in total confusion, striking each other with their swords.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:25 - The entire army entered the woods, and there was honey on the ground.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:28 - Then one of the soldiers told him, “Your father bound the army under a strict oath, saying, ‘Cursed be anyone who eats food today!' That is why the men are faint.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:38 - Saul therefore said, “Come here, all you who are leaders of the army, and let us find out what sin has been committed today.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:39 - As surely as the LORD who rescues Israel lives, even if the guilt lies with my son Jonathan, he must die.” But not one of them said a word.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:42 - Saul said, “Cast the lot between me and Jonathan my son.” And Jonathan was taken.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:45 - But the men said to Saul, “Should Jonathan die—he who has brought about this great deliverance in Israel? Never! As surely as the LORD lives, not a hair of his head will fall to the ground, for he did this today with God's help.” So the men rescued Jonathan, and he was not put to death.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:6 - Then he said to the Kenites, “Go away, leave the Amalekites so that I do not destroy you along with them; for you showed kindness to all the Israelites when they came up out of Egypt.” So the Kenites moved away from the Amalekites.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:20 - “But I did obey the LORD,” Saul said. “I went on the mission the LORD assigned me. I completely destroyed the Amalekites and brought back Agag their king.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:20 - So Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread, a skin of wine and a young goat and sent them with his son David to Saul.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:5 - He had a bronze helmet on his head and wore a coat of scale armor of bronze weighing five thousand shekels[fn];
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:8 - Goliath stood and shouted to the ranks of Israel, “Why do you come out and line up for battle? Am I not a Philistine, and are you not the servants of Saul? Choose a man and have him come down to me.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:11 - On hearing the Philistine's words, Saul and all the Israelites were dismayed and terrified.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:32 - David said to Saul, “Let no one lose heart on account of this Philistine; your servant will go and fight him.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:33 - Saul replied, “You are not able to go out against this Philistine and fight him; you are only a young man, and he has been a warrior from his youth.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:35 - I went after it, struck it and rescued the sheep from its mouth. When it turned on me, I seized it by its hair, struck it and killed it.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:37 - The LORD who rescued me from the paw of the lion and the paw of the bear will rescue me from the hand of this Philistine.” Saul said to David, “Go, and the LORD be with you.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:39 - David fastened on his sword over the tunic and tried walking around, because he was not used to them. “I cannot go in these,” he said to Saul, “because I am not used to them.” So he took them off.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:40 - Then he took his staff in his hand, chose five smooth stones from the stream, put them in the pouch of his shepherd's bag and, with his sling in his hand, approached the Philistine.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:44 - “Come here,” he said, “and I'll give your flesh to the birds and the wild animals!”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:46 - This day the LORD will deliver you into my hands, and I'll strike you down and cut off your head. This very day I will give the carcasses of the Philistine army to the birds and the wild animals, and the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:47 - All those gathered here will know that it is not by sword or spear that the LORD saves; for the battle is the LORD's, and he will give all of you into our hands.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:54 - David took the Philistine's head and brought it to Jerusalem; he put the Philistine's weapons in his own tent.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:8 - Saul was very angry; this refrain displeased him greatly. “They have credited David with tens of thousands,” he thought, “but me with only thousands. What more can he get but the kingdom?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:13 - So he sent David away from him and gave him command over a thousand men, and David led the troops in their campaigns.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:16 - But all Israel and Judah loved David, because he led them in their campaigns.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:25 - Saul replied, “Say to David, ‘The king wants no other price for the bride than a hundred Philistine foreskins, to take revenge on his enemies.' ” Saul's plan was to have David fall by the hands of the Philistines.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:3 - I will go out and stand with my father in the field where you are. I'll speak to him about you and will tell you what I find out.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:20 - so he sent men to capture him. But when they saw a group of prophets prophesying, with Samuel standing there as their leader, the Spirit of God came on Saul's men, and they also prophesied.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:22 - Finally, he himself left for Ramah and went to the great cistern at Seku. And he asked, “Where are Samuel and David?” “Over in Naioth at Ramah,” they said.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:1 - Then David fled from Naioth at Ramah and went to Jonathan and asked, “What have I done? What is my crime? How have I wronged your father, that he is trying to kill me?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:3 - But David took an oath and said, “Your father knows very well that I have found favor in your eyes, and he has said to himself, ‘Jonathan must not know this or he will be grieved.' Yet as surely as the LORD lives and as you live, there is only a step between me and death.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:5 - So David said, “Look, tomorrow is the New Moon feast, and I am supposed to dine with the king; but let me go and hide in the field until the evening of the day after tomorrow.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:8 - As for you, show kindness to your servant, for you have brought him into a covenant with you before the LORD. If I am guilty, then kill me yourself! Why hand me over to your father?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:9 - “Never!” Jonathan said. “If I had the least inkling that my father was determined to harm you, wouldn't I tell you?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:13 - But if my father intends to harm you, may the LORD deal with Jonathan, be it ever so severely, if I do not let you know and send you away in peace. May the LORD be with you as he has been with my father.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:15 - and do not ever cut off your kindness from my family—not even when the LORD has cut off every one of David's enemies from the face of the earth.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:16 - So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, “May the LORD call David's enemies to account.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:27 - But the next day, the second day of the month, David's place was empty again. Then Saul said to his son Jonathan, “Why hasn't the son of Jesse come to the meal, either yesterday or today?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:29 - He said, ‘Let me go, because our family is observing a sacrifice in the town and my brother has ordered me to be there. If I have found favor in your eyes, let me get away to see my brothers.' That is why he has not come to the king's table.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:33 - But Saul hurled his spear at him to kill him. Then Jonathan knew that his father intended to kill David.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:34 - Jonathan got up from the table in fierce anger; on that second day of the feast he did not eat, because he was grieved at his father's shameful treatment of David.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:37 - When the boy came to the place where Jonathan's arrow had fallen, Jonathan called out after him, “Isn't the arrow beyond you?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:41 - After the boy had gone, David got up from the south side of the stone and bowed down before Jonathan three times, with his face to the ground. Then they kissed each other and wept together—but David wept the most.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:7 - Now one of Saul's servants was there that day, detained before the LORD; he was Doeg the Edomite, Saul's chief shepherd.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:8 - David asked Ahimelek, “Don't you have a spear or a sword here? I haven't brought my sword or any other weapon, because the king's mission was urgent.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:9 - The priest replied, “The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the Valley of Elah, is here; it is wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you want it, take it; there is no sword here but that one.” David said, “There is none like it; give it to me.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:1 - David left Gath and escaped to the cave of Adullam. When his brothers and his father's household heard about it, they went down to him there.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:4 - So he left them with the king of Moab, and they stayed with him as long as David was in the stronghold.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:8 - Is that why you have all conspired against me? No one tells me when my son makes a covenant with the son of Jesse. None of you is concerned about me or tells me that my son has incited my servant to lie in wait for me, as he does today.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:10 - Ahimelek inquired of the LORD for him; he also gave him provisions and the sword of Goliath the Philistine.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:11 - Then the king sent for the priest Ahimelek son of Ahitub and all the men of his family, who were the priests at Nob, and they all came to the king.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:13 - Saul said to him, “Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, giving him bread and a sword and inquiring of God for him, so that he has rebelled against me and lies in wait for me, as he does today?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:14 - Ahimelek answered the king, “Who of all your servants is as loyal as David, the king's son-in-law, captain of your bodyguard and highly respected in your household?
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:15 - Was that day the first time I inquired of God for him? Of course not! Let not the king accuse your servant or any of his father's family, for your servant knows nothing at all about this whole affair.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:16 - But the king said, “You will surely die, Ahimelek, you and your whole family.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:17 - Then the king ordered the guards at his side: “Turn and kill the priests of the LORD, because they too have sided with David. They knew he was fleeing, yet they did not tell me.” But the king's officials were unwilling to raise a hand to strike the priests of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:21 - He told David that Saul had killed the priests of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:22 - Then David said to Abiathar, “That day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, I knew he would be sure to tell Saul. I am responsible for the death of your whole family.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:2 - he inquired of the LORD, saying, “Shall I go and attack these Philistines?” The LORD answered him, “Go, attack the Philistines and save Keilah.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:3 - But David's men said to him, “Here in Judah we are afraid. How much more, then, if we go to Keilah against the Philistine forces!”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:4 - Once again David inquired of the LORD, and the LORD answered him, “Go down to Keilah, for I am going to give the Philistines into your hand.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:17 - “Don't be afraid,” he said. “My father Saul will not lay a hand on you. You will be king over Israel, and I will be second to you. Even my father Saul knows this.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:19 - The Ziphites went up to Saul at Gibeah and said, “Is not David hiding among us in the strongholds at Horesh, on the hill of Hakilah, south of Jeshimon?
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:20 - Now, Your Majesty, come down whenever it pleases you to do so, and we will be responsible for giving him into your hands.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:24 - So they set out and went to Ziph ahead of Saul. Now David and his men were in the Desert of Maon, in the Arabah south of Jeshimon.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:9 - He said to Saul, “Why do you listen when men say, ‘David is bent on harming you'?
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:21 - Now swear to me by the LORD that you will not kill off my descendants or wipe out my name from my father's family.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:10 - Nabal answered David's servants, “Who is this David? Who is this son of Jesse? Many servants are breaking away from their masters these days.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:22 - May God deal with David,[fn] be it ever so severely, if by morning I leave alive one male of all who belong to him!”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:37 - Then in the morning, when Nabal was sober, his wife told him all these things, and his heart failed him and he became like a stone.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:39 - When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Praise be to the LORD, who has upheld my cause against Nabal for treating me with contempt. He has kept his servant from doing wrong and has brought Nabal's wrongdoing down on his own head.” Then David sent word to Abigail, asking her to become his wife.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:15 - David said, “You're a man, aren't you? And who is like you in Israel? Why didn't you guard your lord the king? Someone came to destroy your lord the king.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:16 - What you have done is not good. As surely as the LORD lives, you and your men must die, because you did not guard your master, the LORD's anointed. Look around you. Where are the king's spear and water jug that were near his head?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:17 - Saul recognized David's voice and said, “Is that your voice, David my son?” David replied, “Yes it is, my lord the king.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:18 - And he added, “Why is my lord pursuing his servant? What have I done, and what wrong am I guilty of?
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:19 - Now let my lord the king listen to his servant's words. If the LORD has incited you against me, then may he accept an offering. If, however, people have done it, may they be cursed before the LORD! They have driven me today from my share in the LORD's inheritance and have said, ‘Go, serve other gods.'
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:22 - “Here is the king's spear,” David answered. “Let one of your young men come over and get it.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 27:3 - David and his men settled in Gath with Achish. Each man had his family with him, and David had his two wives: Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail of Carmel, the widow of Nabal.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 29:8 - “But what have I done?” asked David. “What have you found against your servant from the day I came to you until now? Why can't I go and fight against the enemies of my lord the king?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 29:10 - Now get up early, along with your master's servants who have come with you, and leave in the morning as soon as it is light.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:5 - David's two wives had been captured—Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail, the widow of Nabal of Carmel.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:6 - David was greatly distressed because the men were talking of stoning him; each one was bitter in spirit because of his sons and daughters. But David found strength in the LORD his God.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:8 - and David inquired of the LORD, “Shall I pursue this raiding party? Will I overtake them?” “Pursue them,” he answered. “You will certainly overtake them and succeed in the rescue.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:9 - David and the six hundred men with him came to the Besor Valley, where some stayed behind.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:10 - Two hundred of them were too exhausted to cross the valley, but David and the other four hundred continued the pursuit.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:15 - David asked him, “Can you lead me down to this raiding party?” He answered, “Swear to me before God that you will not kill me or hand me over to my master, and I will take you down to them.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:21 - Then David came to the two hundred men who had been too exhausted to follow him and who were left behind at the Besor Valley. They came out to meet David and the men with him. As David and his men approached, he asked them how they were.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:24 - Who will listen to what you say? The share of the man who stayed with the supplies is to be the same as that of him who went down to the battle. All will share alike.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:29 - and Rakal; to those in the towns of the Jerahmeelites and the Kenites;
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:7 - When the Israelites along the valley and those across the Jordan saw that the Israelite army had fled and that Saul and his sons had died, they abandoned their towns and fled. And the Philistines came and occupied them.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:12 - all their valiant men marched through the night to Beth Shan. They took down the bodies of Saul and his sons from the wall of Beth Shan and went to Jabesh, where they burned them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:2 - On the third day a man arrived from Saul's camp with his clothes torn and dust on his head. When he came to David, he fell to the ground to pay him honor.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:4 - “What happened?” David asked. “Tell me.” “The men fled from the battle,” he replied. “Many of them fell and died. And Saul and his son Jonathan are dead.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:10 - “So I stood beside him and killed him, because I knew that after he had fallen he could not survive. And I took the crown that was on his head and the band on his arm and have brought them here to my lord.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:18 - and he ordered that the people of Judah be taught this lament of the bow (it is written in the Book of Jashar):
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:25 - “How the mighty have fallen in battle! Jonathan lies slain on your heights.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:2 - So David went up there with his two wives, Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail, the widow of Nabal of Carmel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:8 - Meanwhile, Abner son of Ner, the commander of Saul's army, had taken Ish-Bosheth son of Saul and brought him over to Mahanaim.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:10 - Ish-Bosheth son of Saul was forty years old when he became king over Israel, and he reigned two years. The tribe of Judah, however, remained loyal to David.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:16 - Then each man grabbed his opponent by the head and thrust his dagger into his opponent's side, and they fell down together. So that place in Gibeon was called Helkath Hazzurim.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:23 - But Asahel refused to give up the pursuit; so Abner thrust the butt of his spear into Asahel's stomach, and the spear came out through his back. He fell there and died on the spot. And every man stopped when he came to the place where Asahel had fallen and died.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:24 - But Joab and Abishai pursued Abner, and as the sun was setting, they came to the hill of Ammah, near Giah on the way to the wasteland of Gibeon.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:27 - Joab answered, “As surely as God lives, if you had not spoken, the men would have continued pursuing them until morning.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:28 - So Joab blew the trumpet, and all the troops came to a halt; they no longer pursued Israel, nor did they fight anymore.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:30 - Then Joab stopped pursuing Abner and assembled the whole army. Besides Asahel, nineteen of David's men were found missing.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:32 - They took Asahel and buried him in his father's tomb at Bethlehem. Then Joab and his men marched all night and arrived at Hebron by daybreak.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:1 - The war between the house of Saul and the house of David lasted a long time. David grew stronger and stronger, while the house of Saul grew weaker and weaker.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:6 - During the war between the house of Saul and the house of David, Abner had been strengthening his own position in the house of Saul.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:7 - Now Saul had had a concubine named Rizpah daughter of Aiah. And Ish-Bosheth said to Abner, “Why did you sleep with my father's concubine?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:8 - Abner was very angry because of what Ish-Bosheth said. So he answered, “Am I a dog's head—on Judah's side? This very day I am loyal to the house of your father Saul and to his family and friends. I haven't handed you over to David. Yet now you accuse me of an offense involving this woman!
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:10 - and transfer the kingdom from the house of Saul and establish David's throne over Israel and Judah from Dan to Beersheba.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:15 - So Ish-Bosheth gave orders and had her taken away from her husband Paltiel son of Laish.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:18 - Now do it! For the LORD promised David, ‘By my servant David I will rescue my people Israel from the hand of the Philistines and from the hand of all their enemies.' ”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:19 - Abner also spoke to the Benjamites in person. Then he went to Hebron to tell David everything that Israel and the whole tribe of Benjamin wanted to do.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:26 - Joab then left David and sent messengers after Abner, and they brought him back from the cistern at Sirah. But David did not know it.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:27 - Now when Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into an inner chamber, as if to speak with him privately. And there, to avenge the blood of his brother Asahel, Joab stabbed him in the stomach, and he died.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:29 - May his blood fall on the head of Joab and on his whole family! May Joab's family never be without someone who has a running sore or leprosy[fn] or who leans on a crutch or who falls by the sword or who lacks food.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:32 - They buried Abner in Hebron, and the king wept aloud at Abner's tomb. All the people wept also.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:36 - All the people took note and were pleased; indeed, everything the king did pleased them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:37 - So on that day all the people there and all Israel knew that the king had no part in the murder of Abner son of Ner.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:2 - Now Saul's son had two men who were leaders of raiding bands. One was named Baanah and the other Rekab; they were sons of Rimmon the Beerothite from the tribe of Benjamin—Beeroth is considered part of Benjamin,
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:4 - (Jonathan son of Saul had a son who was lame in both feet. He was five years old when the news about Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel. His nurse picked him up and fled, but as she hurried to leave, he fell and became disabled. His name was Mephibosheth.)
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:5 - Now Rekab and Baanah, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, set out for the house of Ish-Bosheth, and they arrived there in the heat of the day while he was taking his noonday rest.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:6 - They went into the inner part of the house as if to get some wheat, and they stabbed him in the stomach. Then Rekab and his brother Baanah slipped away.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:8 - They brought the head of Ish-Bosheth to David at Hebron and said to the king, “Here is the head of Ish-Bosheth son of Saul, your enemy, who tried to kill you. This day the LORD has avenged my lord the king against Saul and his offspring.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:9 - David answered Rekab and his brother Baanah, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, “As surely as the LORD lives, who has delivered me out of every trouble,
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:7 - Nevertheless, David captured the fortress of Zion—which is the City of David.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:20 - So David went to Baal Perazim, and there he defeated them. He said, “As waters break out, the LORD has broken out against my enemies before me.” So that place was called Baal Perazim.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:23 - so David inquired of the LORD, and he answered, “Do not go straight up, but circle around behind them and attack them in front of the poplar trees.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:24 - As soon as you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the poplar trees, move quickly, because that will mean the LORD has gone out in front of you to strike the Philistine army.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:2 - He and all his men went to Baalah[fn] in Judah to bring up from there the ark of God, which is called by the Name,[fn] the name of the LORD Almighty, who is enthroned between the cherubim on the ark.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:3 - They set the ark of God on a new cart and brought it from the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill. Uzzah and Ahio, sons of Abinadab, were guiding the new cart
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:6 - When they came to the threshing floor of Nakon, Uzzah reached out and took hold of the ark of God, because the oxen stumbled.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:7 - The LORD's anger burned against Uzzah because of his irreverent act; therefore God struck him down, and he died there beside the ark of God.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:10 - He was not willing to take the ark of the LORD to be with him in the City of David. Instead, he took it to the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:11 - The ark of the LORD remained in the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite for three months, and the LORD blessed him and his entire household.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:12 - Now King David was told, “The LORD has blessed the household of Obed-Edom and everything he has, because of the ark of God.” So David went to bring up the ark of God from the house of Obed-Edom to the City of David with rejoicing.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:17 - They brought the ark of the LORD and set it in its place inside the tent that David had pitched for it, and David sacrificed burnt offerings and fellowship offerings before the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:19 - Then he gave a loaf of bread, a cake of dates and a cake of raisins to each person in the whole crowd of Israelites, both men and women. And all the people went to their homes.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:21 - David said to Michal, “It was before the LORD, who chose me rather than your father or anyone from his house when he appointed me ruler over the LORD's people Israel—I will celebrate before the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:2 - he said to Nathan the prophet, “Here I am, living in a house of cedar, while the ark of God remains in a tent.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:7 - Wherever I have moved with all the Israelites, did I ever say to any of their rulers whom I commanded to shepherd my people Israel, “Why have you not built me a house of cedar?” '
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:19 - And as if this were not enough in your sight, Sovereign LORD, you have also spoken about the future of the house of your servant—and this decree, Sovereign LORD, is for a mere human![fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:23 - And who is like your people Israel—the one nation on earth that God went out to redeem as a people for himself, and to make a name for himself, and to perform great and awesome wonders by driving out nations and their gods from before your people, whom you redeemed from Egypt?[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:25 - “And now, LORD God, keep forever the promise you have made concerning your servant and his house. Do as you promised,
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:27 - “LORD Almighty, God of Israel, you have revealed this to your servant, saying, ‘I will build a house for you.' So your servant has found courage to pray this prayer to you.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:28 - Sovereign LORD, you are God! Your covenant is trustworthy, and you have promised these good things to your servant.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:29 - Now be pleased to bless the house of your servant, that it may continue forever in your sight; for you, Sovereign LORD, have spoken, and with your blessing the house of your servant will be blessed forever.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 8:8 - From Tebah[fn] and Berothai, towns that belonged to Hadadezer, King David took a great quantity of bronze.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 9:2 - Now there was a servant of Saul's household named Ziba. They summoned him to appear before David, and the king said to him, “Are you Ziba?” “At your service,” he replied.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 9:3 - The king asked, “Is there no one still alive from the house of Saul to whom I can show God's kindness?” Ziba answered the king, “There is still a son of Jonathan; he is lame in both feet.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 9:5 - So King David had him brought from Lo Debar, from the house of Makir son of Ammiel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 9:7 - “Don't be afraid,” David said to him, “for I will surely show you kindness for the sake of your father Jonathan. I will restore to you all the land that belonged to your grandfather Saul, and you will always eat at my table.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 9:9 - Then the king summoned Ziba, Saul's steward, and said to him, “I have given your master's grandson everything that belonged to Saul and his family.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 9:10 - You and your sons and your servants are to farm the land for him and bring in the crops, so that your master's grandson may be provided for. And Mephibosheth, grandson of your master, will always eat at my table.” (Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.)
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 9:11 - Then Ziba said to the king, “Your servant will do whatever my lord the king commands his servant to do.” So Mephibosheth ate at David's[fn] table like one of the king's sons.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 9:12 - Mephibosheth had a young son named Mika, and all the members of Ziba's household were servants of Mephibosheth.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 9:13 - And Mephibosheth lived in Jerusalem, because he always ate at the king's table; he was lame in both feet.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:2 - David thought, “I will show kindness to Hanun son of Nahash, just as his father showed kindness to me.” So David sent a delegation to express his sympathy to Hanun concerning his father. When David's men came to the land of the Ammonites,
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:9 - Joab saw that there were battle lines in front of him and behind him; so he selected some of the best troops in Israel and deployed them against the Arameans.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:10 - He put the rest of the men under the command of Abishai his brother and deployed them against the Ammonites.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:12 - Be strong, and let us fight bravely for our people and the cities of our God. The LORD will do what is good in his sight.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:16 - Hadadezer had Arameans brought from beyond the Euphrates River; they went to Helam, with Shobak the commander of Hadadezer's army leading them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:1 - In the spring, at the time when kings go off to war, David sent Joab out with the king's men and the whole Israelite army. They destroyed the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained in Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:2 - One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of the palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing. The woman was very beautiful,
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:3 - and David sent someone to find out about her. The man said, “She is Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:7 - When Uriah came to him, David asked him how Joab was, how the soldiers were and how the war was going.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:8 - Then David said to Uriah, “Go down to your house and wash your feet.” So Uriah left the palace, and a gift from the king was sent after him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:9 - But Uriah slept at the entrance to the palace with all his master's servants and did not go down to his house.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:11 - Uriah said to David, “The ark and Israel and Judah are staying in tents,[fn] and my commander Joab and my lord's men are camped in the open country. How could I go to my house to eat and drink and make love to my wife? As surely as you live, I will not do such a thing!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:13 - At David's invitation, he ate and drank with him, and David made him drunk. But in the evening Uriah went out to sleep on his mat among his master's servants; he did not go home.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:15 - In it he wrote, “Put Uriah out in front where the fighting is fiercest. Then withdraw from him so he will be struck down and die.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:17 - When the men of the city came out and fought against Joab, some of the men in David's army fell; moreover, Uriah the Hittite died.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:18 - Joab sent David a full account of the battle.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:19 - He instructed the messenger: “When you have finished giving the king this account of the battle,
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:20 - the king's anger may flare up, and he may ask you, ‘Why did you get so close to the city to fight? Didn't you know they would shoot arrows from the wall?
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:22 - The messenger set out, and when he arrived he told David everything Joab had sent him to say.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:24 - Then the archers shot arrows at your servants from the wall, and some of the king's men died. Moreover, your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:3 - but the poor man had nothing except one little ewe lamb he had bought. He raised it, and it grew up with him and his children. It shared his food, drank from his cup and even slept in his arms. It was like a daughter to him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:4 - “Now a traveler came to the rich man, but the rich man refrained from taking one of his own sheep or cattle to prepare a meal for the traveler who had come to him. Instead, he took the ewe lamb that belonged to the poor man and prepared it for the one who had come to him.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:8 - I gave your master's house to you, and your master's wives into your arms. I gave you all Israel and Judah. And if all this had been too little, I would have given you even more.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:10 - Now, therefore, the sword will never depart from your house, because you despised me and took the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own.'
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:11 - “This is what the LORD says: ‘Out of your own household I am going to bring calamity on you. Before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to one who is close to you, and he will sleep with your wives in broad daylight.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:12 - You did it in secret, but I will do this thing in broad daylight before all Israel.' ”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:17 - The elders of his household stood beside him to get him up from the ground, but he refused, and he would not eat any food with them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:20 - Then David got up from the ground. After he had washed, put on lotions and changed his clothes, he went into the house of the LORD and worshiped. Then he went to his own house, and at his request they served him food, and he ate.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:25 - and because the LORD loved him, he sent word through Nathan the prophet to name him Jedidiah.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:28 - Now muster the rest of the troops and besiege the city and capture it. Otherwise I will take the city, and it will be named after me.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:30 - David took the crown from their king's[fn] head, and it was placed on his own head. It weighed a talent[fn] of gold, and it was set with precious stones. David took a great quantity of plunder from the city
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:3 - Now Amnon had an adviser named Jonadab son of Shimeah, David's brother. Jonadab was a very shrewd man.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:4 - He asked Amnon, “Why do you, the king's son, look so haggard morning after morning? Won't you tell me?” Amnon said to him, “I'm in love with Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:7 - David sent word to Tamar at the palace: “Go to the house of your brother Amnon and prepare some food for him.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:17 - He called his personal servant and said, “Get this woman out of my sight and bolt the door after her.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:18 - So his servant put her out and bolted the door after her. She was wearing an ornate[fn] robe, for this was the kind of garment the virgin daughters of the king wore.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:20 - Her brother Absalom said to her, “Has that Amnon, your brother, been with you? Be quiet for now, my sister; he is your brother. Don't take this thing to heart.” And Tamar lived in her brother Absalom's house, a desolate woman.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:21 - When King David heard all this, he was furious.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:23 - Two years later, when Absalom's sheepshearers were at Baal Hazor near the border of Ephraim, he invited all the king's sons to come there.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:24 - Absalom went to the king and said, “Your servant has had shearers come. Will the king and his attendants please join me?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:27 - But Absalom urged him, so he sent with him Amnon and the rest of the king's sons.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:29 - So Absalom's men did to Amnon what Absalom had ordered. Then all the king's sons got up, mounted their mules and fled.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:30 - While they were on their way, the report came to David: “Absalom has struck down all the king's sons; not one of them is left.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:32 - But Jonadab son of Shimeah, David's brother, said, “My lord should not think that they killed all the princes; only Amnon is dead. This has been Absalom's express intention ever since the day Amnon raped his sister Tamar.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:33 - My lord the king should not be concerned about the report that all the king's sons are dead. Only Amnon is dead.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:35 - Jonadab said to the king, “See, the king's sons have come; it has happened just as your servant said.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:36 - As he finished speaking, the king's sons came in, wailing loudly. The king, too, and all his attendants wept very bitterly.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:39 - And King David longed to go to Absalom, for he was consoled concerning Amnon's death.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:1 - Joab son of Zeruiah knew that the king's heart longed for Absalom.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:7 - Now the whole clan has risen up against your servant; they say, ‘Hand over the one who struck his brother down, so that we may put him to death for the life of his brother whom he killed; then we will get rid of the heir as well.' They would put out the only burning coal I have left, leaving my husband neither name nor descendant on the face of the earth.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:9 - But the woman from Tekoa said to him, “Let my lord the king pardon me and my family, and let the king and his throne be without guilt.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:11 - She said, “Then let the king invoke the LORD his God to prevent the avenger of blood from adding to the destruction, so that my son will not be destroyed.” “As surely as the LORD lives,” he said, “not one hair of your son's head will fall to the ground.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:13 - The woman said, “Why then have you devised a thing like this against the people of God? When the king says this, does he not convict himself, for the king has not brought back his banished son?
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:16 - Perhaps the king will agree to deliver his servant from the hand of the man who is trying to cut off both me and my son from God's inheritance.'
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:17 - “And now your servant says, ‘May the word of my lord the king secure my inheritance, for my lord the king is like an angel of God in discerning good and evil. May the LORD your God be with you.' ”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:20 - Your servant Joab did this to change the present situation. My lord has wisdom like that of an angel of God—he knows everything that happens in the land.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:22 - Joab fell with his face to the ground to pay him honor, and he blessed the king. Joab said, “Today your servant knows that he has found favor in your eyes, my lord the king, because the king has granted his servant's request.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:24 - But the king said, “He must go to his own house; he must not see my face.” So Absalom went to his own house and did not see the face of the king.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:28 - Absalom lived two years in Jerusalem without seeing the king's face.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:30 - Then he said to his servants, “Look, Joab's field is next to mine, and he has barley there. Go and set it on fire.” So Absalom's servants set the field on fire.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:32 - Absalom said to Joab, “Look, I sent word to you and said, ‘Come here so I can send you to the king to ask, “Why have I come from Geshur? It would be better for me if I were still there!” ' Now then, I want to see the king's face, and if I am guilty of anything, let him put me to death.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:33 - So Joab went to the king and told him this. Then the king summoned Absalom, and he came in and bowed down with his face to the ground before the king. And the king kissed Absalom.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:3 - Then Absalom would say to him, “Look, your claims are valid and proper, but there is no representative of the king to hear you.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:15 - The king's officials answered him, “Your servants are ready to do whatever our lord the king chooses.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:18 - All his men marched past him, along with all the Kerethites and Pelethites; and all the six hundred Gittites who had accompanied him from Gath marched before the king.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:19 - The king said to Ittai the Gittite, “Why should you come along with us? Go back and stay with King Absalom. You are a foreigner, an exile from your homeland.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:24 - Zadok was there, too, and all the Levites who were with him were carrying the ark of the covenant of God. They set down the ark of God, and Abiathar offered sacrifices until all the people had finished leaving the city.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:25 - Then the king said to Zadok, “Take the ark of God back into the city. If I find favor in the LORD's eyes, he will bring me back and let me see it and his dwelling place again.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:32 - When David arrived at the summit, where people used to worship God, Hushai the Arkite was there to meet him, his robe torn and dust on his head.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:34 - But if you return to the city and say to Absalom, ‘Your Majesty, I will be your servant; I was your father's servant in the past, but now I will be your servant,' then you can help me by frustrating Ahithophel's advice.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:35 - Won't the priests Zadok and Abiathar be there with you? Tell them anything you hear in the king's palace.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:2 - The king asked Ziba, “Why have you brought these?” Ziba answered, “The donkeys are for the king's household to ride on, the bread and fruit are for the men to eat, and the wine is to refresh those who become exhausted in the wilderness.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:3 - The king then asked, “Where is your master's grandson?” Ziba said to him, “He is staying in Jerusalem, because he thinks, ‘Today the Israelites will restore to me my grandfather's kingdom.' ”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:6 - He pelted David and all the king's officials with stones, though all the troops and the special guard were on David's right and left.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:8 - The LORD has repaid you for all the blood you shed in the household of Saul, in whose place you have reigned. The LORD has given the kingdom into the hands of your son Absalom. You have come to ruin because you are a murderer!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:11 - David then said to Abishai and all his officials, “My son, my own flesh and blood, is trying to kill me. How much more, then, this Benjamite! Leave him alone; let him curse, for the LORD has told him to.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:17 - Absalom said to Hushai, “So this is the love you show your friend? If he's your friend, why didn't you go with him?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:19 - Furthermore, whom should I serve? Should I not serve the son? Just as I served your father, so I will serve you.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:21 - Ahithophel answered, “Sleep with your father's concubines whom he left to take care of the palace. Then all Israel will hear that you have made yourself obnoxious to your father, and the hands of everyone with you will be more resolute.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:22 - So they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof, and he slept with his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:23 - Now in those days the advice Ahithophel gave was like that of one who inquires of God. That was how both David and Absalom regarded all of Ahithophel's advice.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:10 - Then even the bravest soldier, whose heart is like the heart of a lion, will melt with fear, for all Israel knows that your father is a fighter and that those with him are brave.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:14 - Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The advice of Hushai the Arkite is better than that of Ahithophel.” For the LORD had determined to frustrate the good advice of Ahithophel in order to bring disaster on Absalom.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:15 - Hushai told Zadok and Abiathar, the priests, “Ahithophel has advised Absalom and the elders of Israel to do such and such, but I have advised them to do so and so.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:19 - His wife took a covering and spread it out over the opening of the well and scattered grain over it. No one knew anything about it.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:21 - After they had gone, the two climbed out of the well and went to inform King David. They said to him, “Set out and cross the river at once; Ahithophel has advised such and such against you.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:23 - When Ahithophel saw that his advice had not been followed, he saddled his donkey and set out for his house in his hometown. He put his house in order and then hanged himself. So he died and was buried in his father's tomb.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:2 - David sent out his troops, a third under the command of Joab, a third under Joab's brother Abishai son of Zeruiah, and a third under Ittai the Gittite. The king told the troops, “I myself will surely march out with you.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:5 - The king commanded Joab, Abishai and Ittai, “Be gentle with the young man Absalom for my sake.” And all the troops heard the king giving orders concerning Absalom to each of the commanders.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:8 - The battle spread out over the whole countryside, and the forest swallowed up more men that day than the sword.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:9 - Now Absalom happened to meet David's men. He was riding his mule, and as the mule went under the thick branches of a large oak, Absalom's hair got caught in the tree. He was left hanging in midair, while the mule he was riding kept on going.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:12 - But the man replied, “Even if a thousand shekels[fn] were weighed out into my hands, I would not lay a hand on the king's son. In our hearing the king commanded you and Abishai and Ittai, ‘Protect the young man Absalom for my sake.[fn]'
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:13 - And if I had put my life in jeopardy[fn]—and nothing is hidden from the king—you would have kept your distance from me.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:16 - Then Joab sounded the trumpet, and the troops stopped pursuing Israel, for Joab halted them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:18 - During his lifetime Absalom had taken a pillar and erected it in the King's Valley as a monument to himself, for he thought, “I have no son to carry on the memory of my name.” He named the pillar after himself, and it is called Absalom's Monument to this day.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:20 - “You are not the one to take the news today,” Joab told him. “You may take the news another time, but you must not do so today, because the king's son is dead.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:22 - Ahimaaz son of Zadok again said to Joab, “Come what may, please let me run behind the Cushite.” But Joab replied, “My son, why do you want to go? You don't have any news that will bring you a reward.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:23 - He said, “Come what may, I want to run.” So Joab said, “Run!” Then Ahimaaz ran by way of the plain[fn] and outran the Cushite.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:27 - The watchman said, “It seems to me that the first one runs like Ahimaaz son of Zadok.” “He's a good man,” the king said. “He comes with good news.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:29 - The king asked, “Is the young man Absalom safe?” Ahimaaz answered, “I saw great confusion just as Joab was about to send the king's servant and me, your servant, but I don't know what it was.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:32 - The king asked the Cushite, “Is the young man Absalom safe?” The Cushite replied, “May the enemies of my lord the king and all who rise up to harm you be like that young man.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:8 - So the king got up and took his seat in the gateway. When the men were told, “The king is sitting in the gateway,” they all came before him. Meanwhile, the Israelites had fled to their homes.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:15 - Then the king returned and went as far as the Jordan. Now the men of Judah had come to Gilgal to go out and meet the king and bring him across the Jordan.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:16 - Shimei son of Gera, the Benjamite from Bahurim, hurried down with the men of Judah to meet King David.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:17 - With him were a thousand Benjamites, along with Ziba, the steward of Saul's household, and his fifteen sons and twenty servants. They rushed to the Jordan, where the king was.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:18 - They crossed at the ford to take the king's household over and to do whatever he wished. When Shimei son of Gera crossed the Jordan, he fell prostrate before the king
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:20 - For I your servant know that I have sinned, but today I have come here as the first from the tribes of Joseph to come down and meet my lord the king.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:24 - Mephibosheth, Saul's grandson, also went down to meet the king. He had not taken care of his feet or trimmed his mustache or washed his clothes from the day the king left until the day he returned safely.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:25 - When he came from Jerusalem to meet the king, the king asked him, “Why didn't you go with me, Mephibosheth?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:26 - He said, “My lord the king, since I your servant am lame, I said, ‘I will have my donkey saddled and will ride on it, so I can go with the king.' But Ziba my servant betrayed me.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:27 - And he has slandered your servant to my lord the king. My lord the king is like an angel of God; so do whatever you wish.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:28 - All my grandfather's descendants deserved nothing but death from my lord the king, but you gave your servant a place among those who eat at your table. So what right do I have to make any more appeals to the king?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:31 - Barzillai the Gileadite also came down from Rogelim to cross the Jordan with the king and to send him on his way from there.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:34 - But Barzillai answered the king, “How many more years will I live, that I should go up to Jerusalem with the king?
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:36 - Your servant will cross over the Jordan with the king for a short distance, but why should the king reward me in this way?
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:37 - Let your servant return, that I may die in my own town near the tomb of my father and mother. But here is your servant Kimham. Let him cross over with my lord the king. Do for him whatever you wish.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:40 - When the king crossed over to Gilgal, Kimham crossed with him. All the troops of Judah and half the troops of Israel had taken the king over.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:42 - All the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, “We did this because the king is closely related to us. Why are you angry about it? Have we eaten any of the king's provisions? Have we taken anything for ourselves?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:2 - So all the men of Israel deserted David to follow Sheba son of Bikri. But the men of Judah stayed by their king all the way from the Jordan to Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:5 - But when Amasa went to summon Judah, he took longer than the time the king had set for him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:6 - David said to Abishai, “Now Sheba son of Bikri will do us more harm than Absalom did. Take your master's men and pursue him, or he will find fortified cities and escape from us.”[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:9 - Joab said to Amasa, “How are you, my brother?” Then Joab took Amasa by the beard with his right hand to kiss him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:11 - One of Joab's men stood beside Amasa and said, “Whoever favors Joab, and whoever is for David, let him follow Joab!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:18 - She continued, “Long ago they used to say, ‘Get your answer at Abel,' and that settled it.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:23 - Joab was over Israel's entire army; Benaiah son of Jehoiada was over the Kerethites and Pelethites;
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:24 - Adoniram[fn] was in charge of forced labor; Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud was recorder;
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:26 - and Ira the Jairite[fn] was David's priest.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:1 - During the reign of David, there was a famine for three successive years; so David sought the face of the LORD. The LORD said, “It is on account of Saul and his blood-stained house; it is because he put the Gibeonites to death.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:2 - The king summoned the Gibeonites and spoke to them. (Now the Gibeonites were not a part of Israel but were survivors of the Amorites; the Israelites had sworn to spare them, but Saul in his zeal for Israel and Judah had tried to annihilate them.)
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:4 - The Gibeonites answered him, “We have no right to demand silver or gold from Saul or his family, nor do we have the right to put anyone in Israel to death.” “What do you want me to do for you?” David asked.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:5 - They answered the king, “As for the man who destroyed us and plotted against us so that we have been decimated and have no place anywhere in Israel,
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:10 - Rizpah daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it out for herself on a rock. From the beginning of the harvest till the rain poured down from the heavens on the bodies, she did not let the birds touch them by day or the wild animals by night.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:12 - he went and took the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan from the citizens of Jabesh Gilead. (They had stolen their bodies from the public square at Beth Shan, where the Philistines had hung them after they struck Saul down on Gilboa.)
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:13 - David brought the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan from there, and the bones of those who had been killed and exposed were gathered up.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:14 - They buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in the tomb of Saul's father Kish, at Zela in Benjamin, and did everything the king commanded. After that, God answered prayer in behalf of the land.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:16 - And Ishbi-Benob, one of the descendants of Rapha, whose bronze spearhead weighed three hundred shekels[fn] and who was armed with a new sword, said he would kill David.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:18 - In the course of time, there was another battle with the Philistines, at Gob. At that time Sibbekai the Hushathite killed Saph, one of the descendants of Rapha.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:8 - The earth trembled and quaked, the foundations of the heavens[fn] shook; they trembled because he was angry.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:22 - For I have kept the ways of the LORD; I am not guilty of turning from my God.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:32 - For who is God besides the LORD? And who is the Rock except our God?
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:11 - Next to him was Shammah son of Agee the Hararite. When the Philistines banded together at a place where there was a field full of lentils, Israel's troops fled from them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:15 - David longed for water and said, “Oh, that someone would get me a drink of water from the well near the gate of Bethlehem!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:16 - So the three mighty warriors broke through the Philistine lines, drew water from the well near the gate of Bethlehem and carried it back to David. But he refused to drink it; instead, he poured it out before the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:20 - Benaiah son of Jehoiada, a valiant fighter from Kabzeel, performed great exploits. He struck down Moab's two mightiest warriors. He also went down into a pit on a snowy day and killed a lion.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:21 - And he struck down a huge Egyptian. Although the Egyptian had a spear in his hand, Benaiah went against him with a club. He snatched the spear from the Egyptian's hand and killed him with his own spear.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:27 - Abiezer from Anathoth, Sibbekai[fn] the Hushathite,
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:31 - Abi-Albon the Arbathite, Azmaveth the Barhumite,
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:34 - Eliphelet son of Ahasbai the Maakathite, Eliam son of Ahithophel the Gilonite,
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:2 - So the king said to Joab and the army commanders[fn] with him, “Go throughout the tribes of Israel from Dan to Beersheba and enroll the fighting men, so that I may know how many there are.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:3 - But Joab replied to the king, “May the LORD your God multiply the troops a hundred times over, and may the eyes of my lord the king see it. But why does my lord the king want to do such a thing?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:4 - The king's word, however, overruled Joab and the army commanders; so they left the presence of the king to enroll the fighting men of Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:7 - Then they went toward the fortress of Tyre and all the towns of the Hivites and Canaanites. Finally, they went on to Beersheba in the Negev of Judah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:9 - Joab reported the number of the fighting men to the king: In Israel there were eight hundred thousand able-bodied men who could handle a sword, and in Judah five hundred thousand.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:10 - David was conscience-stricken after he had counted the fighting men, and he said to the LORD, “I have sinned greatly in what I have done. Now, LORD, I beg you, take away the guilt of your servant. I have done a very foolish thing.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:15 - So the LORD sent a plague on Israel from that morning until the end of the time designated, and seventy thousand of the people from Dan to Beersheba died.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:16 - When the angel stretched out his hand to destroy Jerusalem, the LORD relented concerning the disaster and said to the angel who was afflicting the people, “Enough! Withdraw your hand.” The angel of the LORD was then at the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:17 - When David saw the angel who was striking down the people, he said to the LORD, “I have sinned; I, the shepherd,[fn] have done wrong. These are but sheep. What have they done? Let your hand fall on me and my family.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:18 - On that day Gad went to David and said to him, “Go up and build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:21 - Araunah said, “Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” “To buy your threshing floor,” David answered, “so I can build an altar to the LORD, that the plague on the people may be stopped.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:7 - Adonijah conferred with Joab son of Zeruiah and with Abiathar the priest, and they gave him their support.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:8 - But Zadok the priest, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, Nathan the prophet, Shimei and Rei and David's special guard did not join Adonijah.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:9 - Adonijah then sacrificed sheep, cattle and fattened calves at the Stone of Zoheleth near En Rogel. He invited all his brothers, the king's sons, and all the royal officials of Judah,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:12 - Now then, let me advise you how you can save your own life and the life of your son Solomon.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:13 - Go in to King David and say to him, ‘My lord the king, did you not swear to me your servant: “Surely Solomon your son shall be king after me, and he will sit on my throne”? Why then has Adonijah become king?'
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:14 - While you are still there talking to the king, I will come in and add my word to what you have said.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:17 - She said to him, “My lord, you yourself swore to me your servant by the LORD your God: ‘Solomon your son shall be king after me, and he will sit on my throne.'
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:19 - He has sacrificed great numbers of cattle, fattened calves, and sheep, and has invited all the king's sons, Abiathar the priest and Joab the commander of the army, but he has not invited Solomon your servant.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:20 - My lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are on you, to learn from you who will sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:22 - While she was still speaking with the king, Nathan the prophet arrived.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:23 - And the king was told, “Nathan the prophet is here.” So he went before the king and bowed with his face to the ground.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:24 - Nathan said, “Have you, my lord the king, declared that Adonijah shall be king after you, and that he will sit on your throne?
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:25 - Today he has gone down and sacrificed great numbers of cattle, fattened calves, and sheep. He has invited all the king's sons, the commanders of the army and Abiathar the priest. Right now they are eating and drinking with him and saying, ‘Long live King Adonijah!'
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:27 - Is this something my lord the king has done without letting his servants know who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:28 - Then King David said, “Call in Bathsheba.” So she came into the king's presence and stood before him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:30 - I will surely carry out this very day what I swore to you by the LORD, the God of Israel: Solomon your son shall be king after me, and he will sit on my throne in my place.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:32 - King David said, “Call in Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet and Benaiah son of Jehoiada.” When they came before the king,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:33 - he said to them: “Take your lord's servants with you and have Solomon my son mount my own mule and take him down to Gihon.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:35 - Then you are to go up with him, and he is to come and sit on my throne and reign in my place. I have appointed him ruler over Israel and Judah.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:36 - Benaiah son of Jehoiada answered the king, “Amen! May the LORD, the God of my lord the king, so declare it.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:37 - As the LORD was with my lord the king, so may he be with Solomon to make his throne even greater than the throne of my lord King David!”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:38 - So Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, the Kerethites and the Pelethites went down and had Solomon mount King David's mule, and they escorted him to Gihon.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:42 - Even as he was speaking, Jonathan son of Abiathar the priest arrived. Adonijah said, “Come in. A worthy man like you must be bringing good news.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:44 - The king has sent with him Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, the Kerethites and the Pelethites, and they have put him on the king's mule,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:47 - Also, the royal officials have come to congratulate our lord King David, saying, ‘May your God make Solomon's name more famous than yours and his throne greater than yours!' And the king bowed in worship on his bed
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:48 - and said, ‘Praise be to the LORD, the God of Israel, who has allowed my eyes to see a successor on my throne today.' ”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:49 - At this, all Adonijah's guests rose in alarm and dispersed.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:3 - and observe what the LORD your God requires: Walk in obedience to him, and keep his decrees and commands, his laws and regulations, as written in the Law of Moses. Do this so that you may prosper in all you do and wherever you go
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:7 - “But show kindness to the sons of Barzillai of Gilead and let them be among those who eat at your table. They stood by me when I fled from your brother Absalom.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:8 - “And remember, you have with you Shimei son of Gera, the Benjamite from Bahurim, who called down bitter curses on me the day I went to Mahanaim. When he came down to meet me at the Jordan, I swore to him by the LORD: ‘I will not put you to death by the sword.'
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:12 - So Solomon sat on the throne of his father David, and his rule was firmly established.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:19 - When Bathsheba went to King Solomon to speak to him for Adonijah, the king stood up to meet her, bowed down to her and sat down on his throne. He had a throne brought for the king's mother, and she sat down at his right hand.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:23 - Then King Solomon swore by the LORD: “May God deal with me, be it ever so severely, if Adonijah does not pay with his life for this request!
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:24 - And now, as surely as the LORD lives—he who has established me securely on the throne of my father David and has founded a dynasty for me as he promised—Adonijah shall be put to death today!”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:26 - To Abiathar the priest the king said, “Go back to your fields in Anathoth. You deserve to die, but I will not put you to death now, because you carried the ark of the Sovereign LORD before my father David and shared all my father's hardships.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:27 - So Solomon removed Abiathar from the priesthood of the LORD, fulfilling the word the LORD had spoken at Shiloh about the house of Eli.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:28 - When the news reached Joab, who had conspired with Adonijah though not with Absalom, he fled to the tent of the LORD and took hold of the horns of the altar.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:29 - King Solomon was told that Joab had fled to the tent of the LORD and was beside the altar. Then Solomon ordered Benaiah son of Jehoiada, “Go, strike him down!”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:30 - So Benaiah entered the tent of the LORD and said to Joab, “The king says, ‘Come out!' ” But he answered, “No, I will die here.” Benaiah reported to the king, “This is how Joab answered me.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:31 - Then the king commanded Benaiah, “Do as he says. Strike him down and bury him, and so clear me and my whole family of the guilt of the innocent blood that Joab shed.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:39 - But three years later, two of Shimei's slaves ran off to Achish son of Maakah, king of Gath, and Shimei was told, “Your slaves are in Gath.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:42 - the king summoned Shimei and said to him, “Did I not make you swear by the LORD and warn you, ‘On the day you leave to go anywhere else, you can be sure you will die'? At that time you said to me, ‘What you say is good. I will obey.'
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:3 - Solomon showed his love for the LORD by walking according to the instructions given him by his father David, except that he offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:6 - Solomon answered, “You have shown great kindness to your servant, my father David, because he was faithful to you and righteous and upright in heart. You have continued this great kindness to him and have given him a son to sit on his throne this very day.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:7 - “Now, LORD my God, you have made your servant king in place of my father David. But I am only a little child and do not know how to carry out my duties.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:8 - Your servant is here among the people you have chosen, a great people, too numerous to count or number.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:22 - The other woman said, “No! The living one is my son; the dead one is yours.” But the first one insisted, “No! The dead one is yours; the living one is mine.” And so they argued before the king.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:24 - Then the king said, “Bring me a sword.” So they brought a sword for the king.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:28 - When all Israel heard the verdict the king had given, they held the king in awe, because they saw that he had wisdom from God to administer justice.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:5 - Azariah son of Nathan—in charge of the district governors; Zabud son of Nathan—a priest and adviser to the king;
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:12 - Baana son of Ahilud—in Taanach and Megiddo, and in all of Beth Shan next to Zarethan below Jezreel, from Beth Shan to Abel Meholah across to Jokmeam;
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:19 - Geber son of Uri—in Gilead (the country of Sihon king of the Amorites and the country of Og king of Bashan). He was the only governor over the district.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:24 - For he ruled over all the kingdoms west of the Euphrates River, from Tiphsah to Gaza, and had peace on all sides.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:27 - The district governors, each in his month, supplied provisions for King Solomon and all who came to the king's table. They saw to it that nothing was lacking.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:33 - He spoke about plant life, from the cedar of Lebanon to the hyssop that grows out of walls. He also spoke about animals and birds, reptiles and fish.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:1 - When Hiram king of Tyre heard that Solomon had been anointed king to succeed his father David, he sent his envoys to Solomon, because he had always been on friendly terms with David.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:6 - “So give orders that cedars of Lebanon be cut for me. My men will work with yours, and I will pay you for your men whatever wages you set. You know that we have no one so skilled in felling timber as the Sidonians.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:9 - My men will haul them down from Lebanon to the Mediterranean Sea, and I will float them as rafts by sea to the place you specify. There I will separate them and you can take them away. And you are to grant my wish by providing food for my royal household.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:14 - He sent them off to Lebanon in shifts of ten thousand a month, so that they spent one month in Lebanon and two months at home. Adoniram was in charge of the forced labor.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:1 - In the four hundred and eightieth[fn] year after the Israelites came out of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, the second month, he began to build the temple of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:3 - The portico at the front of the main hall of the temple extended the width of the temple, that is twenty cubits,[fn] and projected ten cubits[fn] from the front of the temple.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:5 - Against the walls of the main hall and inner sanctuary he built a structure around the building, in which there were side rooms.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:6 - The lowest floor was five cubits[fn] wide, the middle floor six cubits[fn] and the third floor seven.[fn] He made offset ledges around the outside of the temple so that nothing would be inserted into the temple walls.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:8 - The entrance to the lowest[fn] floor was on the south side of the temple; a stairway led up to the middle level and from there to the third.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:10 - And he built the side rooms all along the temple. The height of each was five cubits, and they were attached to the temple by beams of cedar.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:15 - He lined its interior walls with cedar boards, paneling them from the floor of the temple to the ceiling, and covered the floor of the temple with planks of juniper.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:16 - He partitioned off twenty cubits at the rear of the temple with cedar boards from floor to ceiling to form within the temple an inner sanctuary, the Most Holy Place.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:19 - He prepared the inner sanctuary within the temple to set the ark of the covenant of the LORD there.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:22 - So he overlaid the whole interior with gold. He also overlaid with gold the altar that belonged to the inner sanctuary.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:27 - He placed the cherubim inside the innermost room of the temple, with their wings spread out. The wing of one cherub touched one wall, while the wing of the other touched the other wall, and their wings touched each other in the middle of the room.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:29 - On the walls all around the temple, in both the inner and outer rooms, he carved cherubim, palm trees and open flowers.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:30 - He also covered the floors of both the inner and outer rooms of the temple with gold.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:33 - In the same way, for the entrance to the main hall he made doorframes out of olive wood that were one fourth of the width of the hall.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:36 - And he built the inner courtyard of three courses of dressed stone and one course of trimmed cedar beams.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:2 - He built the Palace of the Forest of Lebanon a hundred cubits long, fifty wide and thirty high,[fn] with four rows of cedar columns supporting trimmed cedar beams.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:15 - He cast two bronze pillars, each eighteen cubits high and twelve cubits in circumference.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:16 - He also made two capitals of cast bronze to set on the tops of the pillars; each capital was five cubits[fn] high.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:21 - He erected the pillars at the portico of the temple. The pillar to the south he named Jakin[fn] and the one to the north Boaz.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:32 - The four wheels were under the panels, and the axles of the wheels were attached to the stand. The diameter of each wheel was a cubit and a half.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:35 - At the top of the stand there was a circular band half a cubit[fn] deep. The supports and panels were attached to the top of the stand.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:39 - He placed five of the stands on the south side of the temple and five on the north. He placed the Sea on the south side, at the southeast corner of the temple.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:45 - the pots, shovels and sprinkling bowls. All these objects that Huram made for King Solomon for the temple of the LORD were of burnished bronze.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:46 - The king had them cast in clay molds in the plain of the Jordan between Sukkoth and Zarethan.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:47 - Solomon left all these things unweighed, because there were so many; the weight of the bronze was not determined.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:50 - the pure gold basins, wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, dishes and censers; and the gold sockets for the doors of the innermost room, the Most Holy Place, and also for the doors of the main hall of the temple.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:51 - When all the work King Solomon had done for the temple of the LORD was finished, he brought in the things his father David had dedicated—the silver and gold and the furnishings—and he placed them in the treasuries of the LORD's temple.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:6 - The priests then brought the ark of the LORD's covenant to its place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, the Most Holy Place, and put it beneath the wings of the cherubim.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:10 - When the priests withdrew from the Holy Place, the cloud filled the temple of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:15 - Then he said: “Praise be to the LORD, the God of Israel, who with his own hand has fulfilled what he promised with his own mouth to my father David. For he said,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:17 - “My father David had it in his heart to build a temple for the Name of the LORD, the God of Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:20 - “The LORD has kept the promise he made: I have succeeded David my father and now I sit on the throne of Israel, just as the LORD promised, and I have built the temple for the Name of the LORD, the God of Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:27 - “But will God really dwell on earth? The heavens, even the highest heaven, cannot contain you. How much less this temple I have built!
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:30 - Hear the supplication of your servant and of your people Israel when they pray toward this place. Hear from heaven, your dwelling place, and when you hear, forgive.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:32 - then hear from heaven and act. Judge between your servants, condemning the guilty by bringing down on their heads what they have done, and vindicating the innocent by treating them in accordance with their innocence.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:34 - then hear from heaven and forgive the sin of your people Israel and bring them back to the land you gave to their ancestors.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:36 - then hear from heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel. Teach them the right way to live, and send rain on the land you gave your people for an inheritance.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:39 - then hear from heaven, your dwelling place. Forgive and act; deal with everyone according to all they do, since you know their hearts (for you alone know every human heart),
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:43 - then hear from heaven, your dwelling place. Do whatever the foreigner asks of you, so that all the peoples of the earth may know your name and fear you, as do your own people Israel, and may know that this house I have built bears your Name.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:44 - “When your people go to war against their enemies, wherever you send them, and when they pray to the LORD toward the city you have chosen and the temple I have built for your Name,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:45 - then hear from heaven their prayer and their plea, and uphold their cause.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:48 - and if they turn back to you with all their heart and soul in the land of their enemies who took them captive, and pray to you toward the land you gave their ancestors, toward the city you have chosen and the temple I have built for your Name;
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:49 - then from heaven, your dwelling place, hear their prayer and their plea, and uphold their cause.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:52 - “May your eyes be open to your servant's plea and to the plea of your people Israel, and may you listen to them whenever they cry out to you.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:53 - For you singled them out from all the nations of the world to be your own inheritance, just as you declared through your servant Moses when you, Sovereign LORD, brought our ancestors out of Egypt.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:59 - And may these words of mine, which I have prayed before the LORD, be near to the LORD our God day and night, that he may uphold the cause of his servant and the cause of his people Israel according to each day's need,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:64 - On that same day the king consecrated the middle part of the courtyard in front of the temple of the LORD, and there he offered burnt offerings, grain offerings and the fat of the fellowship offerings, because the bronze altar that stood before the LORD was too small to hold the burnt offerings, the grain offerings and the fat of the fellowship offerings.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:1 - When Solomon had finished building the temple of the LORD and the royal palace, and had achieved all he had desired to do,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:10 - At the end of twenty years, during which Solomon built these two buildings—the temple of the LORD and the royal palace—
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:11 - King Solomon gave twenty towns in Galilee to Hiram king of Tyre, because Hiram had supplied him with all the cedar and juniper and gold he wanted.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:15 - Here is the account of the forced labor King Solomon conscripted to build the LORD's temple, his own palace, the terraces,[fn] the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, Megiddo and Gezer.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:20 - There were still people left from the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites (these peoples were not Israelites).
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:3 - Solomon answered all her questions; nothing was too hard for the king to explain to her.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:6 - She said to the king, “The report I heard in my own country about your achievements and your wisdom is true.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:12 - The king used the almugwood to make supports[fn] for the temple of the LORD and for the royal palace, and to make harps and lyres for the musicians. So much almugwood has never been imported or seen since that day.)
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:13 - King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba all she desired and asked for, besides what he had given her out of his royal bounty. Then she left and returned with her retinue to her own country.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:15 - not including the revenues from merchants and traders and from all the Arabian kings and the governors of the territories.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:17 - He also made three hundred small shields of hammered gold, with three minas[fn] of gold in each shield. The king put them in the Palace of the Forest of Lebanon.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:19 - The throne had six steps, and its back had a rounded top. On both sides of the seat were armrests, with a lion standing beside each of them.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:21 - All King Solomon's goblets were gold, and all the household articles in the Palace of the Forest of Lebanon were pure gold. Nothing was made of silver, because silver was considered of little value in Solomon's days.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:26 - Solomon accumulated chariots and horses; he had fourteen hundred chariots and twelve thousand horses,[fn] which he kept in the chariot cities and also with him in Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:28 - Solomon's horses were imported from Egypt and from Kue[fn]—the royal merchants purchased them from Kue at the current price.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:4 - As Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and his heart was not fully devoted to the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father had been.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:9 - The LORD became angry with Solomon because his heart had turned away from the LORD, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:10 - Although he had forbidden Solomon to follow other gods, Solomon did not keep the LORD's command.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:17 - But Hadad, still only a boy, fled to Egypt with some Edomite officials who had served his father.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:27 - Here is the account of how he rebelled against the king: Solomon had built the terraces[fn] and had filled in the gap in the wall of the city of David his father.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:35 - I will take the kingdom from his son's hands and give you ten tribes.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:43 - Then he rested with his ancestors and was buried in the city of David his father. And Rehoboam his son succeeded him as king.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:4 - “Your father put a heavy yoke on us, but now lighten the harsh labor and the heavy yoke he put on us, and we will serve you.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:6 - Then King Rehoboam consulted the elders who had served his father Solomon during his lifetime. “How would you advise me to answer these people?” he asked.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:9 - He asked them, “What is your advice? How should we answer these people who say to me, ‘Lighten the yoke your father put on us'?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:10 - The young men who had grown up with him replied, “These people have said to you, ‘Your father put a heavy yoke on us, but make our yoke lighter.' Now tell them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father's waist.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:15 - So the king did not listen to the people, for this turn of events was from the LORD, to fulfill the word the LORD had spoken to Jeroboam son of Nebat through Ahijah the Shilonite.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:18 - King Rehoboam sent out Adoniram,[fn] who was in charge of forced labor, but all Israel stoned him to death. King Rehoboam, however, managed to get into his chariot and escape to Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:22 - But this word of God came to Shemaiah the man of God:
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:23 - “Say to Rehoboam son of Solomon king of Judah, to all Judah and Benjamin, and to the rest of the people,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:24 - ‘This is what the LORD says: Do not go up to fight against your brothers, the Israelites. Go home, every one of you, for this is my doing.' ” So they obeyed the word of the LORD and went home again, as the LORD had ordered.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:27 - If these people go up to offer sacrifices at the temple of the LORD in Jerusalem, they will again give their allegiance to their lord, Rehoboam king of Judah. They will kill me and return to King Rehoboam.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:31 - Jeroboam built shrines on high places and appointed priests from all sorts of people, even though they were not Levites.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:32 - He instituted a festival on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, like the festival held in Judah, and offered sacrifices on the altar. This he did in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves he had made. And at Bethel he also installed priests at the high places he had made.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:1 - By the word of the LORD a man of God came from Judah to Bethel, as Jeroboam was standing by the altar to make an offering.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:4 - When King Jeroboam heard what the man of God cried out against the altar at Bethel, he stretched out his hand from the altar and said, “Seize him!” But the hand he stretched out toward the man shriveled up, so that he could not pull it back.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:5 - Also, the altar was split apart and its ashes poured out according to the sign given by the man of God by the word of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:6 - Then the king said to the man of God, “Intercede with the LORD your God and pray for me that my hand may be restored.” So the man of God interceded with the LORD, and the king's hand was restored and became as it was before.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:7 - The king said to the man of God, “Come home with me for a meal, and I will give you a gift.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:8 - But the man of God answered the king, “Even if you were to give me half your possessions, I would not go with you, nor would I eat bread or drink water here.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:11 - Now there was a certain old prophet living in Bethel, whose sons came and told him all that the man of God had done there that day. They also told their father what he had said to the king.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:12 - Their father asked them, “Which way did he go?” And his sons showed him which road the man of God from Judah had taken.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:14 - and rode after the man of God. He found him sitting under an oak tree and asked, “Are you the man of God who came from Judah?” “I am,” he replied.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:21 - He cried out to the man of God who had come from Judah, “This is what the LORD says: ‘You have defied the word of the LORD and have not kept the command the LORD your God gave you.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:26 - When the prophet who had brought him back from his journey heard of it, he said, “It is the man of God who defied the word of the LORD. The LORD has given him over to the lion, which has mauled him and killed him, as the word of the LORD had warned him.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:28 - Then he went out and found the body lying on the road, with the donkey and the lion standing beside it. The lion had neither eaten the body nor mauled the donkey.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:29 - So the prophet picked up the body of the man of God, laid it on the donkey, and brought it back to his own city to mourn for him and bury him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:31 - After burying him, he said to his sons, “When I die, bury me in the grave where the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:33 - Even after this, Jeroboam did not change his evil ways, but once more appointed priests for the high places from all sorts of people. Anyone who wanted to become a priest he consecrated for the high places.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:21 - Rehoboam son of Solomon was king in Judah. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel in which to put his Name. His mother's name was Naamah; she was an Ammonite.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:26 - He carried off the treasures of the temple of the LORD and the treasures of the royal palace. He took everything, including all the gold shields Solomon had made.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:27 - So King Rehoboam made bronze shields to replace them and assigned these to the commanders of the guard on duty at the entrance to the royal palace.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:3 - He committed all the sins his father had done before him; his heart was not fully devoted to the LORD his God, as the heart of David his forefather had been.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:8 - And Abijah rested with his ancestors and was buried in the City of David. And Asa his son succeeded him as king.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:15 - He brought into the temple of the LORD the silver and gold and the articles that he and his father had dedicated.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:18 - Asa then took all the silver and gold that was left in the treasuries of the LORD's temple and of his own palace. He entrusted it to his officials and sent them to Ben-Hadad son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, the king of Aram, who was ruling in Damascus.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:19 - “Let there be a treaty between me and you,” he said, “as there was between my father and your father. See, I am sending you a gift of silver and gold. Now break your treaty with Baasha king of Israel so he will withdraw from me.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:20 - Ben-Hadad agreed with King Asa and sent the commanders of his forces against the towns of Israel. He conquered Ijon, Dan, Abel Beth Maakah and all Kinnereth in addition to Naphtali.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:25 - Nadab son of Jeroboam became king of Israel in the second year of Asa king of Judah, and he reigned over Israel two years.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:26 - He did evil in the eyes of the LORD, following the ways of his father and committing the same sin his father had caused Israel to commit.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:28 - Baasha killed Nadab in the third year of Asa king of Judah and succeeded him as king.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:29 - As soon as he began to reign, he killed Jeroboam's whole family. He did not leave Jeroboam anyone that breathed, but destroyed them all, according to the word of the LORD given through his servant Ahijah the Shilonite.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:30 - This happened because of the sins Jeroboam had committed and had caused Israel to commit, and because he aroused the anger of the LORD, the God of Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:33 - In the third year of Asa king of Judah, Baasha son of Ahijah became king of all Israel in Tirzah, and he reigned twenty-four years.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:3 - So I am about to wipe out Baasha and his house, and I will make your house like that of Jeroboam son of Nebat.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:4 - Dogs will eat those belonging to Baasha who die in the city, and birds will feed on those who die in the country.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:9 - Zimri, one of his officials, who had command of half his chariots, plotted against him. Elah was in Tirzah at the time, getting drunk in the home of Arza, the palace administrator at Tirzah.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:11 - As soon as he began to reign and was seated on the throne, he killed off Baasha's whole family. He did not spare a single male, whether relative or friend.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:13 - because of all the sins Baasha and his son Elah had committed and had caused Israel to commit, so that they aroused the anger of the LORD, the God of Israel, by their worthless idols.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:18 - When Zimri saw that the city was taken, he went into the citadel of the royal palace and set the palace on fire around him. So he died,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:21 - Then the people of Israel were split into two factions; half supported Tibni son of Ginath for king, and the other half supported Omri.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:23 - In the thirty-first year of Asa king of Judah, Omri became king of Israel, and he reigned twelve years, six of them in Tirzah.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:24 - He bought the hill of Samaria from Shemer for two talents[fn] of silver and built a city on the hill, calling it Samaria, after Shemer, the name of the former owner of the hill.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:28 - Omri rested with his ancestors and was buried in Samaria. And Ahab his son succeeded him as king.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:3 - “Leave here, turn eastward and hide in the Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:4 - You will drink from the brook, and I have directed the ravens to supply you with food there.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:5 - So he did what the LORD had told him. He went to the Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan, and stayed there.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:6 - The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the brook.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:17 - Some time later the son of the woman who owned the house became ill. He grew worse and worse, and finally stopped breathing.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:18 - She said to Elijah, “What do you have against me, man of God? Did you come to remind me of my sin and kill my son?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:19 - “Give me your son,” Elijah replied. He took him from her arms, carried him to the upper room where he was staying, and laid him on his bed.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:18 - “I have not made trouble for Israel,” Elijah replied. “But you and your father's family have. You have abandoned the LORD's commands and have followed the Baals.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:22 - Then Elijah said to them, “I am the only one of the LORD's prophets left, but Baal has four hundred and fifty prophets.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:24 - Then you call on the name of your god, and I will call on the name of the LORD. The god who answers by fire—he is God.” Then all the people said, “What you say is good.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:26 - So they took the bull given them and prepared it. Then they called on the name of Baal from morning till noon. “Baal, answer us!” they shouted. But there was no response; no one answered. And they danced around the altar they had made.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:29 - Midday passed, and they continued their frantic prophesying until the time for the evening sacrifice. But there was no response, no one answered, no one paid attention.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:31 - Elijah took twelve stones, one for each of the tribes descended from Jacob, to whom the word of the LORD had come, saying, “Your name shall be Israel.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:37 - Answer me, LORD, answer me, so these people will know that you, LORD, are God, and that you are turning their hearts back again.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:38 - Then the fire of the LORD fell and burned up the sacrifice, the wood, the stones and the soil, and also licked up the water in the trench.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:40 - Then Elijah commanded them, “Seize the prophets of Baal. Don't let anyone get away!” They seized them, and Elijah had them brought down to the Kishon Valley and slaughtered there.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:41 - And Elijah said to Ahab, “Go, eat and drink, for there is the sound of a heavy rain.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:22 - Afterward, the prophet came to the king of Israel and said, “Strengthen your position and see what must be done, because next spring the king of Aram will attack you again.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:26 - The next spring Ben-Hadad mustered the Arameans and went up to Aphek to fight against Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:28 - The man of God came up and told the king of Israel, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Because the Arameans think the LORD is a god of the hills and not a god of the valleys, I will deliver this vast army into your hands, and you will know that I am the LORD.' ”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:30 - The rest of them escaped to the city of Aphek, where the wall collapsed on twenty-seven thousand of them. And Ben-Hadad fled to the city and hid in an inner room.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:33 - The men took this as a good sign and were quick to pick up his word. “Yes, your brother Ben-Hadad!” they said. “Go and get him,” the king said. When Ben-Hadad came out, Ahab had him come up into his chariot.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:34 - “I will return the cities my father took from your father,” Ben-Hadad offered. “You may set up your own market areas in Damascus, as my father did in Samaria.” Ahab said, “On the basis of a treaty I will set you free.” So he made a treaty with him, and let him go.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:39 - As the king passed by, the prophet called out to him, “Your servant went into the thick of the battle, and someone came to me with a captive and said, ‘Guard this man. If he is missing, it will be your life for his life, or you must pay a talent[fn] of silver.'
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:42 - He said to the king, “This is what the LORD says: ‘You have set free a man I had determined should die.[fn] Therefore it is your life for his life, your people for his people.' ”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:2 - Ahab said to Naboth, “Let me have your vineyard to use for a vegetable garden, since it is close to my palace. In exchange I will give you a better vineyard or, if you prefer, I will pay you whatever it is worth.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:7 - Jezebel his wife said, “Is this how you act as king over Israel? Get up and eat! Cheer up. I'll get you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:9 - In those letters she wrote: “Proclaim a day of fasting and seat Naboth in a prominent place among the people.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:12 - They proclaimed a fast and seated Naboth in a prominent place among the people.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:15 - As soon as Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned to death, she said to Ahab, “Get up and take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite that he refused to sell you. He is no longer alive, but dead.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:16 - When Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, he got up and went down to take possession of Naboth's vineyard.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:18 - “Go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who rules in Samaria. He is now in Naboth's vineyard, where he has gone to take possession of it.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:21 - He says, ‘I am going to bring disaster on you. I will wipe out your descendants and cut off from Ahab every last male in Israel—slave or free.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:24 - “Dogs will eat those belonging to Ahab who die in the city, and the birds will feed on those who die in the country.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:27 - When Ahab heard these words, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and fasted. He lay in sackcloth and went around meekly.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:29 - “Have you noticed how Ahab has humbled himself before me? Because he has humbled himself, I will not bring this disaster in his day, but I will bring it on his house in the days of his son.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:6 - So the king of Israel brought together the prophets—about four hundred men—and asked them, “Shall I go to war against Ramoth Gilead, or shall I refrain?” “Go,” they answered, “for the Lord will give it into the king's hand.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:7 - But Jehoshaphat asked, “Is there no longer a prophet of the LORD here whom we can inquire of?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:10 - Dressed in their royal robes, the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah were sitting on their thrones at the threshing floor by the entrance of the gate of Samaria, with all the prophets prophesying before them.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:13 - The messenger who had gone to summon Micaiah said to him, “Look, the other prophets without exception are predicting success for the king. Let your word agree with theirs, and speak favorably.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:15 - When he arrived, the king asked him, “Micaiah, shall we go to war against Ramoth Gilead, or not?” “Attack and be victorious,” he answered, “for the LORD will give it into the king's hand.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:19 - Micaiah continued, “Therefore hear the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on his throne with all the multitudes of heaven standing around him on his right and on his left.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:26 - The king of Israel then ordered, “Take Micaiah and send him back to Amon the ruler of the city and to Joash the king's son
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:34 - But someone drew his bow at random and hit the king of Israel between the sections of his armor. The king told his chariot driver, “Wheel around and get me out of the fighting. I've been wounded.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:35 - All day long the battle raged, and the king was propped up in his chariot facing the Arameans. The blood from his wound ran onto the floor of the chariot, and that evening he died.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:36 - As the sun was setting, a cry spread through the army: “Every man to his town. Every man to his land!”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:43 - In everything he followed the ways of his father Asa and did not stray from them; he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD. The high places, however, were not removed, and the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense there.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:50 - Then Jehoshaphat rested with his ancestors and was buried with them in the city of David his father. And Jehoram his son succeeded him as king.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:52 - He did evil in the eyes of the LORD, because he followed the ways of his father and mother and of Jeroboam son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:2 - Now Ahaziah had fallen through the lattice of his upper room in Samaria and injured himself. So he sent messengers, saying to them, “Go and consult Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron, to see if I will recover from this injury.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:7 - The king asked them, “What kind of man was it who came to meet you and told you this?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:9 - Then he sent to Elijah a captain with his company of fifty men. The captain went up to Elijah, who was sitting on the top of a hill, and said to him, “Man of God, the king says, ‘Come down!' ”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:10 - Elijah answered the captain, “If I am a man of God, may fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty men!” Then fire fell from heaven and consumed the captain and his men.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:11 - At this the king sent to Elijah another captain with his fifty men. The captain said to him, “Man of God, this is what the king says, ‘Come down at once!' ”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:12 - “If I am a man of God,” Elijah replied, “may fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty men!” Then the fire of God fell from heaven and consumed him and his fifty men.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:13 - So the king sent a third captain with his fifty men. This third captain went up and fell on his knees before Elijah. “Man of God,” he begged, “please have respect for my life and the lives of these fifty men, your servants!
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:14 - See, fire has fallen from heaven and consumed the first two captains and all their men. But now have respect for my life!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:18 - As for all the other events of Ahaziah's reign, and what he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Israel?
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:6 - Then Elijah said to him, “Stay here; the LORD has sent me to the Jordan.” And he replied, “As surely as the LORD lives and as you live, I will not leave you.” So the two of them walked on.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:7 - Fifty men from the company of the prophets went and stood at a distance, facing the place where Elijah and Elisha had stopped at the Jordan.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:10 - “You have asked a difficult thing,” Elijah said, “yet if you see me when I am taken from you, it will be yours—otherwise, it will not.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:13 - Elisha then picked up Elijah's cloak that had fallen from him and went back and stood on the bank of the Jordan.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:24 - He turned around, looked at them and called down a curse on them in the name of the LORD. Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the boys.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:2 - He did evil in the eyes of the LORD, but not as his father and mother had done. He got rid of the sacred stone of Baal that his father had made.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:11 - But Jehoshaphat asked, “Is there no prophet of the LORD here, through whom we may inquire of the LORD?” An officer of the king of Israel answered, “Elisha son of Shaphat is here. He used to pour water on the hands of Elijah.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:13 - Elisha said to the king of Israel, “Why do you want to involve me? Go to the prophets of your father and the prophets of your mother.” “No,” the king of Israel answered, “because it was the LORD who called us three kings together to deliver us into the hands of Moab.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:25 - They destroyed the towns, and each man threw a stone on every good field until it was covered. They stopped up all the springs and cut down every good tree. Only Kir Hareseth was left with its stones in place, but men armed with slings surrounded it and attacked it.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:7 - She went and told the man of God, and he said, “Go, sell the oil and pay your debts. You and your sons can live on what is left.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:8 - One day Elisha went to Shunem. And a well-to-do woman was there, who urged him to stay for a meal. So whenever he came by, he stopped there to eat.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:9 - She said to her husband, “I know that this man who often comes our way is a holy man of God.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:13 - Elisha said to him, “Tell her, ‘You have gone to all this trouble for us. Now what can be done for you? Can we speak on your behalf to the king or the commander of the army?' ” She replied, “I have a home among my own people.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:21 - She went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, then shut the door and went out.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:22 - She called her husband and said, “Please send me one of the servants and a donkey so I can go to the man of God quickly and return.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:25 - So she set out and came to the man of God at Mount Carmel. When he saw her in the distance, the man of God said to his servant Gehazi, “Look! There's the Shunammite!
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:28 - “Did I ask you for a son, my lord?” she said. “Didn't I tell you, ‘Don't raise my hopes'?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:40 - The stew was poured out for the men, but as they began to eat it, they cried out, “Man of God, there is death in the pot!” And they could not eat it.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:42 - A man came from Baal Shalishah, bringing the man of God twenty loaves of barley bread baked from the first ripe grain, along with some heads of new grain. “Give it to the people to eat,” Elisha said.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:1 - Now Naaman was commander of the army of the king of Aram. He was a great man in the sight of his master and highly regarded, because through him the LORD had given victory to Aram. He was a valiant soldier, but he had leprosy.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:3 - She said to her mistress, “If only my master would see the prophet who is in Samaria! He would cure him of his leprosy.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:15 - Then Naaman and all his attendants went back to the man of God. He stood before him and said, “Now I know that there is no God in all the world except in Israel. So please accept a gift from your servant.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:20 - Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said to himself, “My master was too easy on Naaman, this Aramean, by not accepting from him what he brought. As surely as the LORD lives, I will run after him and get something from him.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:21 - So Gehazi hurried after Naaman. When Naaman saw him running toward him, he got down from the chariot to meet him. “Is everything all right?” he asked.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:2 - Let us go to the Jordan, where each of us can get a pole; and let us build a place there for us to meet.” And he said, “Go.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:6 - The man of God asked, “Where did it fall?” When he showed him the place, Elisha cut a stick and threw it there, and made the iron float.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:11 - This enraged the king of Aram. He summoned his officers and demanded of them, “Tell me! Which of us is on the side of the king of Israel?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:12 - “None of us, my lord the king,” said one of his officers, “but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the very words you speak in your bedroom.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:25 - There was a great famine in the city; the siege lasted so long that a donkey's head sold for eighty shekels[fn] of silver, and a quarter of a cab[fn] of seed pods[fn] for five shekels.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:32 - Now Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. The king sent a messenger ahead, but before he arrived, Elisha said to the elders, “Don't you see how this murderer is sending someone to cut off my head? Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door and hold it shut against him. Is not the sound of his master's footsteps behind him?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:9 - Then they said to each other, “What we're doing is not right. This is a day of good news and we are keeping it to ourselves. If we wait until daylight, punishment will overtake us. Let's go at once and report this to the royal palace.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:11 - The gatekeepers shouted the news, and it was reported within the palace.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:14 - So they selected two chariots with their horses, and the king sent them after the Aramean army. He commanded the drivers, “Go and find out what has happened.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:15 - They followed them as far as the Jordan, and they found the whole road strewn with the clothing and equipment the Arameans had thrown away in their headlong flight. So the messengers returned and reported to the king.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:17 - Now the king had put the officer on whose arm he leaned in charge of the gate, and the people trampled him in the gateway, and he died, just as the man of God had foretold when the king came down to his house.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:3 - At the end of the seven years she came back from the land of the Philistines and went to appeal to the king for her house and land.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:4 - The king was talking to Gehazi, the servant of the man of God, and had said, “Tell me about all the great things Elisha has done.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:5 - Just as Gehazi was telling the king how Elisha had restored the dead to life, the woman whose son Elisha had brought back to life came to appeal to the king for her house and land. Gehazi said, “This is the woman, my lord the king, and this is her son whom Elisha restored to life.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:6 - The king asked the woman about it, and she told him. Then he assigned an official to her case and said to him, “Give back everything that belonged to her, including all the income from her land from the day she left the country until now.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:7 - Elisha went to Damascus, and Ben-Hadad king of Aram was ill. When the king was told, “The man of God has come all the way up here,”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:8 - he said to Hazael, “Take a gift with you and go to meet the man of God. Consult the LORD through him; ask him, ‘Will I recover from this illness?' ”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:11 - He stared at him with a fixed gaze until Hazael was embarrassed. Then the man of God began to weep.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:24 - Jehoram rested with his ancestors and was buried with them in the City of David. And Ahaziah his son succeeded him as king.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:7 - You are to destroy the house of Ahab your master, and I will avenge the blood of my servants the prophets and the blood of all the LORD's servants shed by Jezebel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:8 - The whole house of Ahab will perish. I will cut off from Ahab every last male in Israel—slave or free.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:11 - When Jehu went out to his fellow officers, one of them asked him, “Is everything all right? Why did this maniac come to you?” “You know the man and the sort of things he says,” Jehu replied.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:21 - “Hitch up my chariot,” Joram ordered. And when it was hitched up, Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah rode out, each in his own chariot, to meet Jehu. They met him at the plot of ground that had belonged to Naboth the Jezreelite.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:25 - Jehu said to Bidkar, his chariot officer, “Pick him up and throw him on the field that belonged to Naboth the Jezreelite. Remember how you and I were riding together in chariots behind Ahab his father when the LORD spoke this prophecy against him:
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:31 - As Jehu entered the gate, she asked, “Have you come in peace, you Zimri, you murderer of your master?”[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:36 - They went back and told Jehu, who said, “This is the word of the LORD that he spoke through his servant Elijah the Tishbite: On the plot of ground at Jezreel dogs will devour Jezebel's flesh.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:37 - Jezebel's body will be like dung on the ground in the plot at Jezreel, so that no one will be able to say, ‘This is Jezebel.' ”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:2 - “You have your master's sons with you and you have chariots and horses, a fortified city and weapons. Now as soon as this letter reaches you,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:3 - choose the best and most worthy of your master's sons and set him on his father's throne. Then fight for your master's house.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:5 - So the palace administrator, the city governor, the elders and the guardians sent this message to Jehu: “We are your servants and we will do anything you say. We will not appoint anyone as king; you do whatever you think best.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:6 - Then Jehu wrote them a second letter, saying, “If you are on my side and will obey me, take the heads of your master's sons and come to me in Jezreel by this time tomorrow.” Now the royal princes, seventy of them, were with the leading men of the city, who were rearing them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:7 - When the letter arrived, these men took the princes and slaughtered all seventy of them. They put their heads in baskets and sent them to Jehu in Jezreel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:8 - When the messenger arrived, he told Jehu, “They have brought the heads of the princes.” Then Jehu ordered, “Put them in two piles at the entrance of the city gate until morning.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:13 - he met some relatives of Ahaziah king of Judah and asked, “Who are you?” They said, “We are relatives of Ahaziah, and we have come down to greet the families of the king and of the queen mother.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:17 - When Jehu came to Samaria, he killed all who were left there of Ahab's family; he destroyed them, according to the word of the LORD spoken to Elijah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:19 - Now summon all the prophets of Baal, all his servants and all his priests. See that no one is missing, because I am going to hold a great sacrifice for Baal. Anyone who fails to come will no longer live.” But Jehu was acting deceptively in order to destroy the servants of Baal.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:21 - Then he sent word throughout Israel, and all the servants of Baal came; not one stayed away. They crowded into the temple of Baal until it was full from one end to the other.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:22 - And Jehu said to the keeper of the wardrobe, “Bring robes for all the servants of Baal.” So he brought out robes for them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:23 - Then Jehu and Jehonadab son of Rekab went into the temple of Baal. Jehu said to the servants of Baal, “Look around and see that no one who serves the LORD is here with you—only servants of Baal.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:25 - As soon as Jehu had finished making the burnt offering, he ordered the guards and officers: “Go in and kill them; let no one escape.” So they cut them down with the sword. The guards and officers threw the bodies out and then entered the inner shrine of the temple of Baal.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:26 - They brought the sacred stone out of the temple of Baal and burned it.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:27 - They demolished the sacred stone of Baal and tore down the temple of Baal, and people have used it for a latrine to this day.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:33 - east of the Jordan in all the land of Gilead (the region of Gad, Reuben and Manasseh), from Aroer by the Arnon Gorge through Gilead to Bashan.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:2 - But Jehosheba, the daughter of King Jehoram[fn] and sister of Ahaziah, took Joash son of Ahaziah and stole him away from among the royal princes, who were about to be murdered. She put him and his nurse in a bedroom to hide him from Athaliah; so he was not killed.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:4 - In the seventh year Jehoiada sent for the commanders of units of a hundred, the Carites and the guards and had them brought to him at the temple of the LORD. He made a covenant with them and put them under oath at the temple of the LORD. Then he showed them the king's son.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:5 - He commanded them, saying, “This is what you are to do: You who are in the three companies that are going on duty on the Sabbath—a third of you guarding the royal palace,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:6 - a third at the Sur Gate, and a third at the gate behind the guard, who take turns guarding the temple—
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:8 - Station yourselves around the king, each of you with weapon in hand. Anyone who approaches your ranks[fn] is to be put to death. Stay close to the king wherever he goes.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:10 - Then he gave the commanders the spears and shields that had belonged to King David and that were in the temple of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:11 - The guards, each with weapon in hand, stationed themselves around the king—near the altar and the temple, from the south side to the north side of the temple.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:12 - Jehoiada brought out the king's son and put the crown on him; he presented him with a copy of the covenant and proclaimed him king. They anointed him, and the people clapped their hands and shouted, “Long live the king!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:13 - When Athaliah heard the noise made by the guards and the people, she went to the people at the temple of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:14 - She looked and there was the king, standing by the pillar, as the custom was. The officers and the trumpeters were beside the king, and all the people of the land were rejoicing and blowing trumpets. Then Athaliah tore her robes and called out, “Treason! Treason!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:16 - So they seized her as she reached the place where the horses enter the palace grounds, and there she was put to death.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:17 - Jehoiada then made a covenant between the LORD and the king and people that they would be the LORD's people. He also made a covenant between the king and the people.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:18 - All the people of the land went to the temple of Baal and tore it down. They smashed the altars and idols to pieces and killed Mattan the priest of Baal in front of the altars. Then Jehoiada the priest posted guards at the temple of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:19 - He took with him the commanders of hundreds, the Carites, the guards and all the people of the land, and together they brought the king down from the temple of the LORD and went into the palace, entering by way of the gate of the guards. The king then took his place on the royal throne.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:20 - All the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was calm, because Athaliah had been slain with the sword at the palace.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:5 - Let every priest receive the money from one of the treasurers, then use it to repair whatever damage is found in the temple.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:6 - But by the twenty-third year of King Joash the priests still had not repaired the temple.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:7 - Therefore King Joash summoned Jehoiada the priest and the other priests and asked them, “Why aren't you repairing the damage done to the temple? Take no more money from your treasurers, but hand it over for repairing the temple.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:8 - The priests agreed that they would not collect any more money from the people and that they would not repair the temple themselves.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:10 - Whenever they saw that there was a large amount of money in the chest, the royal secretary and the high priest came, counted the money that had been brought into the temple of the LORD and put it into bags.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:18 - But Joash king of Judah took all the sacred objects dedicated by his predecessors—Jehoshaphat, Jehoram and Ahaziah, the kings of Judah—and the gifts he himself had dedicated and all the gold found in the treasuries of the temple of the LORD and of the royal palace, and he sent them to Hazael king of Aram, who then withdrew from Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:13 - Jehoash rested with his ancestors, and Jeroboam succeeded him on the throne. Jehoash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:16 - “Take the bow in your hands,” he said to the king of Israel. When he had taken it, Elisha put his hands on the king's hands.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:19 - The man of God was angry with him and said, “You should have struck the ground five or six times; then you would have defeated Aram and completely destroyed it. But now you will defeat it only three times.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:20 - Elisha died and was buried. Now Moabite raiders used to enter the country every spring.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:25 - Then Jehoash son of Jehoahaz recaptured from Ben-Hadad son of Hazael the towns he had taken in battle from his father Jehoahaz. Three times Jehoash defeated him, and so he recovered the Israelite towns.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:9 - But Jehoash king of Israel replied to Amaziah king of Judah: “A thistle in Lebanon sent a message to a cedar in Lebanon, ‘Give your daughter to my son in marriage.' Then a wild beast in Lebanon came along and trampled the thistle underfoot.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:11 - Amaziah, however, would not listen, so Jehoash king of Israel attacked. He and Amaziah king of Judah faced each other at Beth Shemesh in Judah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:14 - He took all the gold and silver and all the articles found in the temple of the LORD and in the treasuries of the royal palace. He also took hostages and returned to Samaria.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:21 - Then all the people of Judah took Azariah,[fn] who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:23 - In the fifteenth year of Amaziah son of Joash king of Judah, Jeroboam son of Jehoash king of Israel became king in Samaria, and he reigned forty-one years.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:25 - He was the one who restored the boundaries of Israel from Lebo Hamath to the Dead Sea,[fn] in accordance with the word of the LORD, the God of Israel, spoken through his servant Jonah son of Amittai, the prophet from Gath Hepher.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:27 - And since the LORD had not said he would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven, he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam son of Jehoash.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:29 - Jeroboam rested with his ancestors, the kings of Israel. And Zechariah his son succeeded him as king.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:5 - The LORD afflicted the king with leprosy[fn] until the day he died, and he lived in a separate house.[fn] Jotham the king's son had charge of the palace and governed the people of the land.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:23 - In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekahiah son of Menahem became king of Israel in Samaria, and he reigned two years.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:25 - One of his chief officers, Pekah son of Remaliah, conspired against him. Taking fifty men of Gilead with him, he assassinated Pekahiah, along with Argob and Arieh, in the citadel of the royal palace at Samaria. So Pekah killed Pekahiah and succeeded him as king.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:27 - In the fifty-second year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekah son of Remaliah became king of Israel in Samaria, and he reigned twenty years.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:38 - Jotham rested with his ancestors and was buried with them in the City of David, the city of his father. And Ahaz his son succeeded him as king.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:8 - And Ahaz took the silver and gold found in the temple of the LORD and in the treasuries of the royal palace and sent it as a gift to the king of Assyria.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:14 - As for the bronze altar that stood before the LORD, he brought it from the front of the temple—from between the new altar and the temple of the LORD—and put it on the north side of the new altar.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:15 - King Ahaz then gave these orders to Uriah the priest: “On the large new altar, offer the morning burnt offering and the evening grain offering, the king's burnt offering and his grain offering, and the burnt offering of all the people of the land, and their grain offering and their drink offering. Splash against this altar the blood of all the burnt offerings and sacrifices. But I will use the bronze altar for seeking guidance.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:18 - He took away the Sabbath canopy[fn] that had been built at the temple and removed the royal entryway outside the temple of the LORD, in deference to the king of Assyria.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:16 - They forsook all the commands of the LORD their God and made for themselves two idols cast in the shape of calves, and an Asherah pole. They bowed down to all the starry hosts, and they worshiped Baal.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:19 - and even Judah did not keep the commands of the LORD their God. They followed the practices Israel had introduced.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:26 - It was reported to the king of Assyria: “The people you deported and resettled in the towns of Samaria do not know what the god of that country requires. He has sent lions among them, which are killing them off, because the people do not know what he requires.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:27 - Then the king of Assyria gave this order: “Have one of the priests you took captive from Samaria go back to live there and teach the people what the god of the land requires.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:15 - So Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the temple of the LORD and in the treasuries of the royal palace.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:17 - The king of Assyria sent his supreme commander, his chief officer and his field commander with a large army, from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. They came up to Jerusalem and stopped at the aqueduct of the Upper Pool, on the road to the Washerman's Field.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:24 - How can you repulse one officer of the least of my master's officials, even though you are depending on Egypt for chariots and horsemen[fn]?
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:26 - Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, and Shebna and Joah said to the field commander, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Don't speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:28 - Then the commander stood and called out in Hebrew, “Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria!
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:31 - “Do not listen to Hezekiah. This is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me and come out to me. Then each of you will eat fruit from your own vine and fig tree and drink water from your own cistern,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:36 - But the people remained silent and said nothing in reply, because the king had commanded, “Do not answer him.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:5 - When King Hezekiah's officials came to Isaiah,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:22 - Who is it you have ridiculed and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel!
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:23 - By your messengers you have ridiculed the Lord. And you have said, “With my many chariots I have ascended the heights of the mountains, the utmost heights of Lebanon. I have cut down its tallest cedars, the choicest of its junipers. I have reached its remotest parts, the finest of its forests.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:24 - I have dug wells in foreign lands and drunk the water there. With the soles of my feet I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:5 - “Go back and tell Hezekiah, the ruler of my people, ‘This is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: I have heard your prayer and seen your tears; I will heal you. On the third day from now you will go up to the temple of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:18 - And some of your descendants, your own flesh and blood who will be born to you, will be taken away, and they will become eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:3 - He rebuilt the high places his father Hezekiah had destroyed; he also erected altars to Baal and made an Asherah pole, as Ahab king of Israel had done. He bowed down to all the starry hosts and worshiped them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:5 - In the two courts of the temple of the LORD, he built altars to all the starry hosts.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:18 - Manasseh rested with his ancestors and was buried in his palace garden, the garden of Uzza. And Amon his son succeeded him as king.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:2 - He did what was right in the eyes of the LORD and followed completely the ways of his father David, not turning aside to the right or to the left.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:4 - “Go up to Hilkiah the high priest and have him get ready the money that has been brought into the temple of the LORD, which the doorkeepers have collected from the people.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:5 - Have them entrust it to the men appointed to supervise the work on the temple. And have these men pay the workers who repair the temple of the LORD
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:6 - the carpenters, the builders and the masons. Also have them purchase timber and dressed stone to repair the temple.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:8 - Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the secretary, “I have found the Book of the Law in the temple of the LORD.” He gave it to Shaphan, who read it.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:10 - Then Shaphan the secretary informed the king, “Hilkiah the priest has given me a book.” And Shaphan read from it in the presence of the king.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:11 - When the king heard the words of the Book of the Law, he tore his robes.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:12 - He gave these orders to Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam son of Shaphan, Akbor son of Micaiah, Shaphan the secretary and Asaiah the king's attendant:
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:13 - “Go and inquire of the LORD for me and for the people and for all Judah about what is written in this book that has been found. Great is the LORD's anger that burns against us because those who have gone before us have not obeyed the words of this book; they have not acted in accordance with all that is written there concerning us.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:14 - Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Akbor, Shaphan and Asaiah went to speak to the prophet Huldah, who was the wife of Shallum son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe. She lived in Jerusalem, in the New Quarter.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:2 - He went up to the temple of the LORD with the people of Judah, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the priests and the prophets—all the people from the least to the greatest. He read in their hearing all the words of the Book of the Covenant, which had been found in the temple of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:4 - The king ordered Hilkiah the high priest, the priests next in rank and the doorkeepers to remove from the temple of the LORD all the articles made for Baal and Asherah and all the starry hosts. He burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron Valley and took the ashes to Bethel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:5 - He did away with the idolatrous priests appointed by the kings of Judah to burn incense on the high places of the towns of Judah and on those around Jerusalem—those who burned incense to Baal, to the sun and moon, to the constellations and to all the starry hosts.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:6 - He took the Asherah pole from the temple of the LORD to the Kidron Valley outside Jerusalem and burned it there. He ground it to powder and scattered the dust over the graves of the common people.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:11 - He removed from the entrance to the temple of the LORD the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun. They were in the court[fn] near the room of an official named Nathan-Melek. Josiah then burned the chariots dedicated to the sun.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:13 - The king also desecrated the high places that were east of Jerusalem on the south of the Hill of Corruption—the ones Solomon king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the vile goddess of the Sidonians, for Chemosh the vile god of Moab, and for Molek the detestable god of the people of Ammon.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:16 - Then Josiah looked around, and when he saw the tombs that were there on the hillside, he had the bones removed from them and burned on the altar to defile it, in accordance with the word of the LORD proclaimed by the man of God who foretold these things.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:17 - The king asked, “What is that tombstone I see?” The people of the city said, “It marks the tomb of the man of God who came from Judah and pronounced against the altar of Bethel the very things you have done to it.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:18 - “Leave it alone,” he said. “Don't let anyone disturb his bones.” So they spared his bones and those of the prophet who had come from Samaria.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:23 - But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, this Passover was celebrated to the LORD in Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:24 - Furthermore, Josiah got rid of the mediums and spiritists, the household gods, the idols and all the other detestable things seen in Judah and Jerusalem. This he did to fulfill the requirements of the law written in the book that Hilkiah the priest had discovered in the temple of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:26 - Nevertheless, the LORD did not turn away from the heat of his fierce anger, which burned against Judah because of all that Manasseh had done to arouse his anger.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:30 - Josiah's servants brought his body in a chariot from Megiddo to Jerusalem and buried him in his own tomb. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah and anointed him and made him king in place of his father.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:34 - Pharaoh Necho made Eliakim son of Josiah king in place of his father Josiah and changed Eliakim's name to Jehoiakim. But he took Jehoahaz and carried him off to Egypt, and there he died.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:35 - Jehoiakim paid Pharaoh Necho the silver and gold he demanded. In order to do so, he taxed the land and exacted the silver and gold from the people of the land according to their assessments.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:7 - The king of Egypt did not march out from his own country again, because the king of Babylon had taken all his territory, from the Wadi of Egypt to the Euphrates River.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:13 - As the LORD had declared, Nebuchadnezzar removed the treasures from the temple of the LORD and from the royal palace, and cut up the gold articles that Solomon king of Israel had made for the temple of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:15 - Nebuchadnezzar took Jehoiachin captive to Babylon. He also took from Jerusalem to Babylon the king's mother, his wives, his officials and the prominent people of the land.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:2 - The city was kept under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:3 - By the ninth day of the fourth[fn] month the famine in the city had become so severe that there was no food for the people to eat.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:4 - Then the city wall was broken through, and the whole army fled at night through the gate between the two walls near the king's garden, though the Babylonians[fn] were surrounding the city. They fled toward the Arabah,[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:5 - but the Babylonian[fn] army pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho. All his soldiers were separated from him and scattered,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:8 - On the seventh day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan commander of the imperial guard, an official of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:9 - He set fire to the temple of the LORD, the royal palace and all the houses of Jerusalem. Every important building he burned down.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:11 - Nebuzaradan the commander of the guard carried into exile the people who remained in the city, along with the rest of the populace and those who had deserted to the king of Babylon.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:16 - The bronze from the two pillars, the Sea and the movable stands, which Solomon had made for the temple of the LORD, was more than could be weighed.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:17 - Each pillar was eighteen cubits[fn] high. The bronze capital on top of one pillar was three cubits[fn] high and was decorated with a network and pomegranates of bronze all around. The other pillar, with its network, was similar.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:19 - Of those still in the city, he took the officer in charge of the fighting men, and five royal advisers. He also took the secretary who was chief officer in charge of conscripting the people of the land and sixty of the conscripts who were found in the city.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:23 - When all the army officers and their men heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah as governor, they came to Gedaliah at Mizpah—Ishmael son of Nethaniah, Johanan son of Kareah, Seraiah son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, Jaazaniah the son of the Maakathite, and their men.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:27 - In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the year Awel-Marduk became king of Babylon, he released Jehoiachin king of Judah from prison. He did this on the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:30 - Day by day the king gave Jehoiachin a regular allowance as long as he lived.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:10 - Ram was the father of Amminadab, and Amminadab the father of Nahshon, the leader of the people of Judah.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:2 - Reaiah son of Shobal was the father of Jahath, and Jahath the father of Ahumai and Lahad. These were the clans of the Zorathites.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:4 - Penuel was the father of Gedor, and Ezer the father of Hushah. These were the descendants of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah and father[fn] of Bethlehem.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:12 - Eshton was the father of Beth Rapha, Paseah and Tehinnah the father of Ir Nahash.[fn] These were the men of Rekah.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:23 - They were the potters who lived at Netaim and Gederah; they stayed there and worked for the king.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:43 - They killed the remaining Amalekites who had escaped, and they have lived there to this day.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 5:1 - The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel (he was the firstborn, but when he defiled his father's marriage bed, his rights as firstborn were given to the sons of Joseph son of Israel; so he could not be listed in the genealogical record in accordance with his birthright,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 5:2 - and though Judah was the strongest of his brothers and a ruler came from him, the rights of the firstborn belonged to Joseph)—
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 5:9 - To the east they occupied the land up to the edge of the desert that extends to the Euphrates River, because their livestock had increased in Gilead.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 5:22 - and many others fell slain, because the battle was God's. And they occupied the land until the exile.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:19 - The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the clans of the Levites listed according to their fathers:
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:33 - Here are the men who served, together with their sons: From the Kohathites: Heman, the musician, the son of Joel, the son of Samuel,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:48 - Their fellow Levites were assigned to all the other duties of the tabernacle, the house of God.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:49 - But Aaron and his descendants were the ones who presented offerings on the altar of burnt offering and on the altar of incense in connection with all that was done in the Most Holy Place, making atonement for Israel, in accordance with all that Moses the servant of God had commanded.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:54 - These were the locations of their settlements allotted as their territory (they were assigned to the descendants of Aaron who were from the Kohathite clan, because the first lot was for them):
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:61 - The rest of Kohath's descendants were allotted ten towns from the clans of half the tribe of Manasseh.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:70 - And from half the tribe of Manasseh the Israelites gave Aner and Bileam, together with their pasturelands, to the rest of the Kohathite clans.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:78 - from the tribe of Reuben across the Jordan east of Jericho they received Bezer in the wilderness, Jahzah,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:11 - Azariah son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, the official in charge of the house of God;
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:13 - The priests, who were heads of families, numbered 1,760. They were able men, responsible for ministering in the house of God.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:18 - being stationed at the King's Gate on the east, up to the present time. These were the gatekeepers belonging to the camp of the Levites.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:21 - Zechariah son of Meshelemiah was the gatekeeper at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:26 - But the four principal gatekeepers, who were Levites, were entrusted with the responsibility for the rooms and treasuries in the house of God.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:27 - They would spend the night stationed around the house of God, because they had to guard it; and they had charge of the key for opening it each morning.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:29 - Others were assigned to take care of the furnishings and all the other articles of the sanctuary, as well as the special flour and wine, and the olive oil, incense and spices.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:31 - A Levite named Mattithiah, the firstborn son of Shallum the Korahite, was entrusted with the responsibility for baking the offering bread.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:11 - this is the list of David's mighty warriors: Jashobeam,[fn] a Hakmonite, was chief of the officers[fn]; he raised his spear against three hundred men, whom he killed in one encounter.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:13 - He was with David at Pas Dammim when the Philistines gathered there for battle. At a place where there was a field full of barley, the troops fled from the Philistines.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:17 - David longed for water and said, “Oh, that someone would get me a drink of water from the well near the gate of Bethlehem!”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:18 - So the Three broke through the Philistine lines, drew water from the well near the gate of Bethlehem and carried it back to David. But he refused to drink it; instead, he poured it out to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:23 - And he struck down an Egyptian who was five cubits[fn] tall. Although the Egyptian had a spear like a weaver's rod in his hand, Benaiah went against him with a club. He snatched the spear from the Egyptian's hand and killed him with his own spear.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:42 - Adina son of Shiza the Reubenite, who was chief of the Reubenites, and the thirty with him,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:44 - Uzzia the Ashterathite, Shama and Jeiel the sons of Hotham the Aroerite,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:3 - Ahiezer their chief and Joash the sons of Shemaah the Gibeathite; Jeziel and Pelet the sons of Azmaveth; Berakah, Jehu the Anathothite,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:7 - and Joelah and Zebadiah the sons of Jeroham from Gedor.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:8 - Some Gadites defected to David at his stronghold in the wilderness. They were brave warriors, ready for battle and able to handle the shield and spear. Their faces were the faces of lions, and they were as swift as gazelles in the mountains.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:16 - Other Benjamites and some men from Judah also came to David in his stronghold.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:20 - When David went to Ziklag, these were the men of Manasseh who defected to him: Adnah, Jozabad, Jediael, Michael, Jozabad, Elihu and Zillethai, leaders of units of a thousand in Manasseh.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:31 - from half the tribe of Manasseh, designated by name to come and make David king—18,000;
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:36 - from Asher, experienced soldiers prepared for battle—40,000;
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:37 - and from east of the Jordan, from Reuben, Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh, armed with every type of weapon—120,000.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 13:3 - Let us bring the ark of our God back to us, for we did not inquire of[fn] it[fn] during the reign of Saul.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 13:4 - The whole assembly agreed to do this, because it seemed right to all the people.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 13:5 - So David assembled all Israel, from the Shihor River in Egypt to Lebo Hamath, to bring the ark of God from Kiriath Jearim.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 13:6 - David and all Israel went to Baalah of Judah (Kiriath Jearim) to bring up from there the ark of God the LORD, who is enthroned between the cherubim—the ark that is called by the Name.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 13:7 - They moved the ark of God from Abinadab's house on a new cart, with Uzzah and Ahio guiding it.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 13:8 - David and all the Israelites were celebrating with all their might before God, with songs and with harps, lyres, timbrels, cymbals and trumpets.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 13:10 - The LORD's anger burned against Uzzah, and he struck him down because he had put his hand on the ark. So he died there before God.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 13:12 - David was afraid of God that day and asked, “How can I ever bring the ark of God to me?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 13:13 - He did not take the ark to be with him in the City of David. Instead, he took it to the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 13:14 - The ark of God remained with the family of Obed-Edom in his house for three months, and the LORD blessed his household and everything he had.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 14:10 - so David inquired of God: “Shall I go and attack the Philistines? Will you deliver them into my hands?” The LORD answered him, “Go, I will deliver them into your hands.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 14:11 - So David and his men went up to Baal Perazim, and there he defeated them. He said, “As waters break out, God has broken out against my enemies by my hand.” So that place was called Baal Perazim.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 14:15 - As soon as you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the poplar trees, move out to battle, because that will mean God has gone out in front of you to strike the Philistine army.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:1 - After David had constructed buildings for himself in the City of David, he prepared a place for the ark of God and pitched a tent for it.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:2 - Then David said, “No one but the Levites may carry the ark of God, because the LORD chose them to carry the ark of the LORD and to minister before him forever.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:12 - He said to them, “You are the heads of the Levitical families; you and your fellow Levites are to consecrate yourselves and bring up the ark of the LORD, the God of Israel, to the place I have prepared for it.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:15 - And the Levites carried the ark of God with the poles on their shoulders, as Moses had commanded in accordance with the word of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:24 - Shebaniah, Joshaphat, Nethanel, Amasai, Zechariah, Benaiah and Eliezer the priests were to blow trumpets before the ark of God. Obed-Edom and Jehiah were also to be doorkeepers for the ark.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:1 - They brought the ark of God and set it inside the tent that David had pitched for it, and they presented burnt offerings and fellowship offerings before God.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:6 - and Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests were to blow the trumpets regularly before the ark of the covenant of God.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:33 - Let the trees of the forest sing, let them sing for joy before the LORD, for he comes to judge the earth.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:36 - Praise be to the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Then all the people said “Amen” and “Praise the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:37 - David left Asaph and his associates before the ark of the covenant of the LORD to minister there regularly, according to each day's requirements.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:40 - to present burnt offerings to the LORD on the altar of burnt offering regularly, morning and evening, in accordance with everything written in the Law of the LORD, which he had given Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:42 - Heman and Jeduthun were responsible for the sounding of the trumpets and cymbals and for the playing of the other instruments for sacred song. The sons of Jeduthun were stationed at the gate.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:17 - And as if this were not enough in your sight, my God, you have spoken about the future of the house of your servant. You, LORD God, have looked on me as though I were the most exalted of men.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:25 - “You, my God, have revealed to your servant that you will build a house for him. So your servant has found courage to pray to you.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:27 - Now you have been pleased to bless the house of your servant, that it may continue forever in your sight; for you, LORD, have blessed it, and it will be blessed forever.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 18:17 - Benaiah son of Jehoiada was over the Kerethites and Pelethites; and David's sons were chief officials at the king's side.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:2 - David thought, “I will show kindness to Hanun son of Nahash, because his father showed kindness to me.” So David sent a delegation to express his sympathy to Hanun concerning his father. When David's envoys came to Hanun in the land of the Ammonites to express sympathy to him,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:10 - Joab saw that there were battle lines in front of him and behind him; so he selected some of the best troops in Israel and deployed them against the Arameans.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:11 - He put the rest of the men under the command of Abishai his brother, and they were deployed against the Ammonites.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:13 - Be strong, and let us fight bravely for our people and the cities of our God. The LORD will do what is good in his sight.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:15 - When the Ammonites realized that the Arameans were fleeing, they too fled before his brother Abishai and went inside the city. So Joab went back to Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:16 - After the Arameans saw that they had been routed by Israel, they sent messengers and had Arameans brought from beyond the Euphrates River, with Shophak the commander of Hadadezer's army leading them.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:18 - But they fled before Israel, and David killed seven thousand of their charioteers and forty thousand of their foot soldiers. He also killed Shophak the commander of their army.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 20:5 - In another battle with the Philistines, Elhanan son of Jair killed Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, who had a spear with a shaft like a weaver's rod.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:3 - But Joab replied, “May the LORD multiply his troops a hundred times over. My lord the king, are they not all my lord's subjects? Why does my lord want to do this? Why should he bring guilt on Israel?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:4 - The king's word, however, overruled Joab; so Joab left and went throughout Israel and then came back to Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:5 - Joab reported the number of the fighting men to David: In all Israel there were one million one hundred thousand men who could handle a sword, including four hundred and seventy thousand in Judah.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:6 - But Joab did not include Levi and Benjamin in the numbering, because the king's command was repulsive to him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:7 - This command was also evil in the sight of God; so he punished Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:12 - three years of famine, three months of being swept away[fn] before your enemies, with their swords overtaking you, or three days of the sword of the LORD—days of plague in the land, with the angel of the LORD ravaging every part of Israel.' Now then, decide how I should answer the one who sent me.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:15 - And God sent an angel to destroy Jerusalem. But as the angel was doing so, the LORD saw it and relented concerning the disaster and said to the angel who was destroying the people, “Enough! Withdraw your hand.” The angel of the LORD was then standing at the threshing floor of Araunah[fn] the Jebusite.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:16 - David looked up and saw the angel of the LORD standing between heaven and earth, with a drawn sword in his hand extended over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell facedown.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:17 - David said to God, “Was it not I who ordered the fighting men to be counted? I, the shepherd,[fn] have sinned and done wrong. These are but sheep. What have they done? LORD my God, let your hand fall on me and my family, but do not let this plague remain on your people.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:18 - Then the angel of the LORD ordered Gad to tell David to go up and build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:22 - David said to him, “Let me have the site of your threshing floor so I can build an altar to the LORD, that the plague on the people may be stopped. Sell it to me at the full price.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:26 - David built an altar to the LORD there and sacrificed burnt offerings and fellowship offerings. He called on the LORD, and the LORD answered him with fire from heaven on the altar of burnt offering.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:28 - At that time, when David saw that the LORD had answered him on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite, he offered sacrifices there.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 22:1 - Then David said, “The house of the LORD God is to be here, and also the altar of burnt offering for Israel.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 22:12 - May the LORD give you discretion and understanding when he puts you in command over Israel, so that you may keep the law of the LORD your God.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 22:19 - Now devote your heart and soul to seeking the LORD your God. Begin to build the sanctuary of the LORD God, so that you may bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD and the sacred articles belonging to God into the temple that will be built for the Name of the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:13 - The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses. Aaron was set apart, he and his descendants forever, to consecrate the most holy things, to offer sacrifices before the LORD, to minister before him and to pronounce blessings in his name forever.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:14 - The sons of Moses the man of God were counted as part of the tribe of Levi.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:28 - The duty of the Levites was to help Aaron's descendants in the service of the temple of the LORD: to be in charge of the courtyards, the side rooms, the purification of all sacred things and the performance of other duties at the house of God.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 24:2 - But Nadab and Abihu died before their father did, and they had no sons; so Eleazar and Ithamar served as the priests.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 24:6 - The scribe Shemaiah son of Nethanel, a Levite, recorded their names in the presence of the king and of the officials: Zadok the priest, Ahimelek son of Abiathar and the heads of families of the priests and of the Levites—one family being taken from Eleazar and then one from Ithamar.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 24:29 - From Kish: the son of Kish: Jerahmeel.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 24:30 - And the sons of Mushi: Mahli, Eder and Jerimoth. These were the Levites, according to their families.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 24:31 - They also cast lots, just as their relatives the descendants of Aaron did, in the presence of King David and of Zadok, Ahimelek, and the heads of families of the priests and of the Levites. The families of the oldest brother were treated the same as those of the youngest.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 25:2 - From the sons of Asaph: Zakkur, Joseph, Nethaniah and Asarelah. The sons of Asaph were under the supervision of Asaph, who prophesied under the king's supervision.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 25:6 - All these men were under the supervision of their father for the music of the temple of the LORD, with cymbals, lyres and harps, for the ministry at the house of God. Asaph, Jeduthun and Heman were under the supervision of the king.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:6 - Obed-Edom's son Shemaiah also had sons, who were leaders in their father's family because they were very capable men.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:24 - Shubael, a descendant of Gershom son of Moses, was the official in charge of the treasuries.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:27 - Some of the plunder taken in battle they dedicated for the repair of the temple of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:28 - And everything dedicated by Samuel the seer and by Saul son of Kish, Abner son of Ner and Joab son of Zeruiah, and all the other dedicated things were in the care of Shelomith and his relatives.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:30 - From the Hebronites: Hashabiah and his relatives—seventeen hundred able men—were responsible in Israel west of the Jordan for all the work of the LORD and for the king's service.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:31 - As for the Hebronites, Jeriah was their chief according to the genealogical records of their families. In the fortieth year of David's reign a search was made in the records, and capable men among the Hebronites were found at Jazer in Gilead.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:32 - Jeriah had twenty-seven hundred relatives, who were able men and heads of families, and King David put them in charge of the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh for every matter pertaining to God and for the affairs of the king.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:1 - This is the list of the Israelites—heads of families, commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds, and their officers, who served the king in all that concerned the army divisions that were on duty month by month throughout the year. Each division consisted of 24,000 men.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:2 - In charge of the first division, for the first month, was Jashobeam son of Zabdiel. There were 24,000 men in his division.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:3 - He was a descendant of Perez and chief of all the army officers for the first month.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:4 - In charge of the division for the second month was Dodai the Ahohite; Mikloth was the leader of his division. There were 24,000 men in his division.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:5 - The third army commander, for the third month, was Benaiah son of Jehoiada the priest. He was chief and there were 24,000 men in his division.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:9 - The sixth, for the sixth month, was Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite. There were 24,000 men in his division.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:16 - The leaders of the tribes of Israel: over the Reubenites: Eliezer son of Zikri; over the Simeonites: Shephatiah son of Maakah;
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:17 - over Levi: Hashabiah son of Kemuel; over Aaron: Zadok;
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:18 - over Judah: Elihu, a brother of David; over Issachar: Omri son of Michael;
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:19 - over Zebulun: Ishmaiah son of Obadiah; over Naphtali: Jerimoth son of Azriel;
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:20 - over the Ephraimites: Hoshea son of Azaziah; over half the tribe of Manasseh: Joel son of Pedaiah;
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:21 - over the half-tribe of Manasseh in Gilead: Iddo son of Zechariah; over Benjamin: Jaasiel son of Abner;
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:22 - over Dan: Azarel son of Jeroham. These were the leaders of the tribes of Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:23 - David did not take the number of the men twenty years old or less, because the LORD had promised to make Israel as numerous as the stars in the sky.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:24 - Joab son of Zeruiah began to count the men but did not finish. God's wrath came on Israel on account of this numbering, and the number was not entered in the book[fn] of the annals of King David.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:25 - Azmaveth son of Adiel was in charge of the royal storehouses. Jonathan son of Uzziah was in charge of the storehouses in the outlying districts, in the towns, the villages and the watchtowers.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:26 - Ezri son of Kelub was in charge of the workers who farmed the land.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:27 - Shimei the Ramathite was in charge of the vineyards. Zabdi the Shiphmite was in charge of the produce of the vineyards for the wine vats.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:29 - Shitrai the Sharonite was in charge of the herds grazing in Sharon. Shaphat son of Adlai was in charge of the herds in the valleys.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:31 - Jaziz the Hagrite was in charge of the flocks. All these were the officials in charge of King David's property.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:32 - Jonathan, David's uncle, was a counselor, a man of insight and a scribe. Jehiel son of Hakmoni took care of the king's sons.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:33 - Ahithophel was the king's counselor. Hushai the Arkite was the king's confidant.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:34 - Ahithophel was succeeded by Jehoiada son of Benaiah and by Abiathar. Joab was the commander of the royal army.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:1 - David summoned all the officials of Israel to assemble at Jerusalem: the officers over the tribes, the commanders of the divisions in the service of the king, the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds, and the officials in charge of all the property and livestock belonging to the king and his sons, together with the palace officials, the warriors and all the brave fighting men.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:4 - “Yet the LORD, the God of Israel, chose me from my whole family to be king over Israel forever. He chose Judah as leader, and from the tribe of Judah he chose my family, and from my father's sons he was pleased to make me king over all Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:8 - “So now I charge you in the sight of all Israel and of the assembly of the LORD, and in the hearing of our God: Be careful to follow all the commands of the LORD your God, that you may possess this good land and pass it on as an inheritance to your descendants forever.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:11 - Then David gave his son Solomon the plans for the portico of the temple, its buildings, its storerooms, its upper parts, its inner rooms and the place of atonement.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:21 - The divisions of the priests and Levites are ready for all the work on the temple of God, and every willing person skilled in any craft will help you in all the work. The officials and all the people will obey your every command.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:4 - three thousand talents[fn] of gold (gold of Ophir) and seven thousand talents[fn] of refined silver, for the overlaying of the walls of the buildings,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:6 - Then the leaders of families, the officers of the tribes of Israel, the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds, and the officials in charge of the king's work gave willingly.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:8 - Anyone who had precious stones gave them to the treasury of the temple of the LORD in the custody of Jehiel the Gershonite.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:10 - David praised the LORD in the presence of the whole assembly, saying, “Praise be to you, LORD, the God of our father Israel, from everlasting to everlasting.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:19 - And give my son Solomon the wholehearted devotion to keep your commands, statutes and decrees and to do everything to build the palatial structure for which I have provided.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:23 - So Solomon sat on the throne of the LORD as king in place of his father David. He prospered and all Israel obeyed him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:24 - All the officers and warriors, as well as all of King David's sons, pledged their submission to King Solomon.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:29 - As for the events of King David's reign, from beginning to end, they are written in the records of Samuel the seer, the records of Nathan the prophet and the records of Gad the seer,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 1:3 - and Solomon and the whole assembly went to the high place at Gibeon, for God's tent of meeting was there, which Moses the LORD's servant had made in the wilderness.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 1:4 - Now David had brought up the ark of God from Kiriath Jearim to the place he had prepared for it, because he had pitched a tent for it in Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 1:8 - Solomon answered God, “You have shown great kindness to David my father and have made me king in his place.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 1:10 - Give me wisdom and knowledge, that I may lead this people, for who is able to govern this great people of yours?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 1:14 - Solomon accumulated chariots and horses; he had fourteen hundred chariots and twelve thousand horses,[fn] which he kept in the chariot cities and also with him in Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 1:16 - Solomon's horses were imported from Egypt and from Kue[fn]—the royal merchants purchased them from Kue at the current price.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:3 - Solomon sent this message to Hiram[fn] king of Tyre: “Send me cedar logs as you did for my father David when you sent him cedar to build a palace to live in.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:4 - Now I am about to build a temple for the Name of the LORD my God and to dedicate it to him for burning fragrant incense before him, for setting out the consecrated bread regularly, and for making burnt offerings every morning and evening and on the Sabbaths, at the New Moons and at the appointed festivals of the LORD our God. This is a lasting ordinance for Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:6 - But who is able to build a temple for him, since the heavens, even the highest heavens, cannot contain him? Who then am I to build a temple for him, except as a place to burn sacrifices before him?
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:8 - “Send me also cedar, juniper and algum[fn] logs from Lebanon, for I know that your servants are skilled in cutting timber there. My servants will work with yours
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:16 - and we will cut all the logs from Lebanon that you need and will float them as rafts by sea down to Joppa. You can then take them up to Jerusalem.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 3:1 - Then Solomon began to build the temple of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to his father David. It was on the threshing floor of Araunah[fn] the Jebusite, the place provided by David.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 3:3 - The foundation Solomon laid for building the temple of God was sixty cubits long and twenty cubits wide[fn] (using the cubit of the old standard).
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 3:4 - The portico at the front of the temple was twenty cubits[fn] long across the width of the building and twenty[fn] cubits high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 3:6 - He adorned the temple with precious stones. And the gold he used was gold of Parvaim.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 3:8 - He built the Most Holy Place, its length corresponding to the width of the temple—twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide. He overlaid the inside with six hundred talents[fn] of fine gold.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 3:9 - The gold nails weighed fifty shekels.[fn] He also overlaid the upper parts with gold.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 3:11 - The total wingspan of the cherubim was twenty cubits. One wing of the first cherub was five cubits[fn] long and touched the temple wall, while its other wing, also five cubits long, touched the wing of the other cherub.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 3:12 - Similarly one wing of the second cherub was five cubits long and touched the other temple wall, and its other wing, also five cubits long, touched the wing of the first cherub.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 3:15 - For the front of the temple he made two pillars, which together were thirty-five cubits[fn] long, each with a capital five cubits high.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 3:17 - He erected the pillars in the front of the temple, one to the south and one to the north. The one to the south he named Jakin[fn] and the one to the north Boaz.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:10 - He placed the Sea on the south side, at the southeast corner.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:11 - And Huram also made the pots and shovels and sprinkling bowls. So Huram finished the work he had undertaken for King Solomon in the temple of God:
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:17 - The king had them cast in clay molds in the plain of the Jordan between Sukkoth and Zarethan.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:18 - All these things that Solomon made amounted to so much that the weight of the bronze could not be calculated.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:20 - the lampstands of pure gold with their lamps, to burn in front of the inner sanctuary as prescribed;
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:22 - the pure gold wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, dishes and censers; and the gold doors of the temple: the inner doors to the Most Holy Place and the doors of the main hall.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 5:1 - When all the work Solomon had done for the temple of the LORD was finished, he brought in the things his father David had dedicated—the silver and gold and all the furnishings—and he placed them in the treasuries of God's temple.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 5:7 - The priests then brought the ark of the LORD's covenant to its place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, the Most Holy Place, and put it beneath the wings of the cherubim.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 5:14 - and the priests could not perform their service because of the cloud, for the glory of the LORD filled the temple of God.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:6 - But now I have chosen Jerusalem for my Name to be there, and I have chosen David to rule my people Israel.'
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:7 - “My father David had it in his heart to build a temple for the Name of the LORD, the God of Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:13 - Now he had made a bronze platform, five cubits long, five cubits wide and three cubits high,[fn] and had placed it in the center of the outer court. He stood on the platform and then knelt down before the whole assembly of Israel and spread out his hands toward heaven.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:18 - “But will God really dwell on earth with humans? The heavens, even the highest heavens, cannot contain you. How much less this temple I have built!
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:21 - Hear the supplications of your servant and of your people Israel when they pray toward this place. Hear from heaven, your dwelling place; and when you hear, forgive.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:23 - then hear from heaven and act. Judge between your servants, condemning the guilty and bringing down on their heads what they have done, and vindicating the innocent by treating them in accordance with their innocence.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:24 - “When your people Israel have been defeated by an enemy because they have sinned against you and when they turn back and give praise to your name, praying and making supplication before you in this temple,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:25 - then hear from heaven and forgive the sin of your people Israel and bring them back to the land you gave to them and their ancestors.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:27 - then hear from heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel. Teach them the right way to live, and send rain on the land you gave your people for an inheritance.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:30 - then hear from heaven, your dwelling place. Forgive, and deal with everyone according to all they do, since you know their hearts (for you alone know the human heart),
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:32 - “As for the foreigner who does not belong to your people Israel but has come from a distant land because of your great name and your mighty hand and your outstretched arm—when they come and pray toward this temple,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:33 - then hear from heaven, your dwelling place. Do whatever the foreigner asks of you, so that all the peoples of the earth may know your name and fear you, as do your own people Israel, and may know that this house I have built bears your Name.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:35 - then hear from heaven their prayer and their plea, and uphold their cause.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:38 - and if they turn back to you with all their heart and soul in the land of their captivity where they were taken, and pray toward the land you gave their ancestors, toward the city you have chosen and toward the temple I have built for your Name;
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:39 - then from heaven, your dwelling place, hear their prayer and their pleas, and uphold their cause. And forgive your people, who have sinned against you.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:40 - “Now, my God, may your eyes be open and your ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:42 - LORD God, do not reject your anointed one. Remember the great love promised to David your servant.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:1 - When Solomon finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of the LORD filled the temple.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:5 - And King Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty-two thousand head of cattle and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep and goats. So the king and all the people dedicated the temple of God.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:6 - The priests took their positions, as did the Levites with the LORD's musical instruments, which King David had made for praising the LORD and which were used when he gave thanks, saying, “His love endures forever.” Opposite the Levites, the priests blew their trumpets, and all the Israelites were standing.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:10 - On the twenty-third day of the seventh month he sent the people to their homes, joyful and glad in heart for the good things the LORD had done for David and Solomon and for his people Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:11 - When Solomon had finished the temple of the LORD and the royal palace, and had succeeded in carrying out all he had in mind to do in the temple of the LORD and in his own palace,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:14 - if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:15 - Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:7 - There were still people left from the Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites (these people were not Israelites).
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:11 - Solomon brought Pharaoh's daughter up from the City of David to the palace he had built for her, for he said, “My wife must not live in the palace of David king of Israel, because the places the ark of the LORD has entered are holy.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:12 - On the altar of the LORD that he had built in front of the portico, Solomon sacrificed burnt offerings to the LORD,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:13 - according to the daily requirement for offerings commanded by Moses for the Sabbaths, the New Moons and the three annual festivals—the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks and the Festival of Tabernacles.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:14 - In keeping with the ordinance of his father David, he appointed the divisions of the priests for their duties, and the Levites to lead the praise and to assist the priests according to each day's requirement. He also appointed the gatekeepers by divisions for the various gates, because this was what David the man of God had ordered.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:15 - They did not deviate from the king's commands to the priests or to the Levites in any matter, including that of the treasuries.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:11 - The king used the algumwood to make steps for the temple of the LORD and for the royal palace, and to make harps and lyres for the musicians. Nothing like them had ever been seen in Judah.)
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:13 - The weight of the gold that Solomon received yearly was 666 talents,[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:16 - He also made three hundred small shields of hammered gold, with three hundred shekels[fn] of gold in each shield. The king put them in the Palace of the Forest of Lebanon.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:18 - The throne had six steps, and a footstool of gold was attached to it. On both sides of the seat were armrests, with a lion standing beside each of them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:20 - All King Solomon's goblets were gold, and all the household articles in the Palace of the Forest of Lebanon were pure gold. Nothing was made of silver, because silver was considered of little value in Solomon's day.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:25 - Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horses,[fn] which he kept in the chariot cities and also with him in Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:26 - He ruled over all the kings from the Euphrates River to the land of the Philistines, as far as the border of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:29 - As for the other events of Solomon's reign, from beginning to end, are they not written in the records of Nathan the prophet, in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite and in the visions of Iddo the seer concerning Jeroboam son of Nebat?
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:31 - Then he rested with his ancestors and was buried in the city of David his father. And Rehoboam his son succeeded him as king.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 10:2 - When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard this (he was in Egypt, where he had fled from King Solomon), he returned from Egypt.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 10:4 - “Your father put a heavy yoke on us, but now lighten the harsh labor and the heavy yoke he put on us, and we will serve you.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 10:6 - Then King Rehoboam consulted the elders who had served his father Solomon during his lifetime. “How would you advise me to answer these people?” he asked.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 10:9 - He asked them, “What is your advice? How should we answer these people who say to me, ‘Lighten the yoke your father put on us'?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 10:10 - The young men who had grown up with him replied, “The people have said to you, ‘Your father put a heavy yoke on us, but make our yoke lighter.' Now tell them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father's waist.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 10:15 - So the king did not listen to the people, for this turn of events was from God, to fulfill the word the LORD had spoken to Jeroboam son of Nebat through Ahijah the Shilonite.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 10:18 - King Rehoboam sent out Adoniram,[fn] who was in charge of forced labor, but the Israelites stoned him to death. King Rehoboam, however, managed to get into his chariot and escape to Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:2 - But this word of the LORD came to Shemaiah the man of God:
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:3 - “Say to Rehoboam son of Solomon king of Judah and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:4 - ‘This is what the LORD says: Do not go up to fight against your fellow Israelites. Go home, every one of you, for this is my doing.' ” So they obeyed the words of the LORD and turned back from marching against Jeroboam.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:10 - Zorah, Aijalon and Hebron. These were fortified cities in Judah and Benjamin.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:17 - They strengthened the kingdom of Judah and supported Rehoboam son of Solomon three years, following the ways of David and Solomon during this time.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:18 - Rehoboam married Mahalath, who was the daughter of David's son Jerimoth and of Abihail, the daughter of Jesse's son Eliab.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 12:3 - With twelve hundred chariots and sixty thousand horsemen and the innumerable troops of Libyans, Sukkites and Cushites[fn] that came with him from Egypt,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 12:9 - When Shishak king of Egypt attacked Jerusalem, he carried off the treasures of the temple of the LORD and the treasures of the royal palace. He took everything, including the gold shields Solomon had made.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 12:10 - So King Rehoboam made bronze shields to replace them and assigned these to the commanders of the guard on duty at the entrance to the royal palace.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 12:15 - As for the events of Rehoboam's reign, from beginning to end, are they not written in the records of Shemaiah the prophet and of Iddo the seer that deal with genealogies? There was continual warfare between Rehoboam and Jeroboam.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:6 - Yet Jeroboam son of Nebat, an official of Solomon son of David, rebelled against his master.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:7 - Some worthless scoundrels gathered around him and opposed Rehoboam son of Solomon when he was young and indecisive and not strong enough to resist them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:9 - But didn't you drive out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and make priests of your own as the peoples of other lands do? Whoever comes to consecrate himself with a young bull and seven rams may become a priest of what are not gods.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:11 - Every morning and evening they present burnt offerings and fragrant incense to the LORD. They set out the bread on the ceremonially clean table and light the lamps on the gold lampstand every evening. We are observing the requirements of the LORD our God. But you have forsaken him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:12 - God is with us; he is our leader. His priests with their trumpets will sound the battle cry against you. People of Israel, do not fight against the LORD, the God of your ancestors, for you will not succeed.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:22 - The other events of Abijah's reign, what he did and what he said, are written in the annotations of the prophet Iddo.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:8 - When Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Azariah son of[fn] Oded the prophet, he took courage. He removed the detestable idols from the whole land of Judah and Benjamin and from the towns he had captured in the hills of Ephraim. He repaired the altar of the LORD that was in front of the portico of the LORD's temple.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:9 - Then he assembled all Judah and Benjamin and the people from Ephraim, Manasseh and Simeon who had settled among them, for large numbers had come over to him from Israel when they saw that the LORD his God was with him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:15 - All Judah rejoiced about the oath because they had sworn it wholeheartedly. They sought God eagerly, and he was found by them. So the LORD gave them rest on every side.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:18 - He brought into the temple of God the silver and gold and the articles that he and his father had dedicated.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:19 - There was no more war until the thirty-fifth year of Asa's reign.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:2 - Asa then took the silver and gold out of the treasuries of the LORD's temple and of his own palace and sent it to Ben-Hadad king of Aram, who was ruling in Damascus.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:3 - “Let there be a treaty between me and you,” he said, “as there was between my father and your father. See, I am sending you silver and gold. Now break your treaty with Baasha king of Israel so he will withdraw from me.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:4 - Ben-Hadad agreed with King Asa and sent the commanders of his forces against the towns of Israel. They conquered Ijon, Dan, Abel Maim[fn] and all the store cities of Naphtali.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:9 - For the eyes of the LORD range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him. You have done a foolish thing, and from now on you will be at war.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:3 - The LORD was with Jehoshaphat because he followed the ways of his father David before him. He did not consult the Baals
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:4 - but sought the God of his father and followed his commands rather than the practices of Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:16 - next, Amasiah son of Zikri, who volunteered himself for the service of the LORD, with 200,000.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:17 - From Benjamin: Eliada, a valiant soldier, with 200,000 men armed with bows and shields;
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:5 - So the king of Israel brought together the prophets—four hundred men—and asked them, “Shall we go to war against Ramoth Gilead, or shall I not?” “Go,” they answered, “for God will give it into the king's hand.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:6 - But Jehoshaphat asked, “Is there no longer a prophet of the LORD here whom we can inquire of?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:11 - All the other prophets were prophesying the same thing. “Attack Ramoth Gilead and be victorious,” they said, “for the LORD will give it into the king's hand.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:12 - The messenger who had gone to summon Micaiah said to him, “Look, the other prophets without exception are predicting success for the king. Let your word agree with theirs, and speak favorably.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:18 - Micaiah continued, “Therefore hear the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on his throne with all the multitudes of heaven standing on his right and on his left.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:25 - The king of Israel then ordered, “Take Micaiah and send him back to Amon the ruler of the city and to Joash the king's son,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:33 - But someone drew his bow at random and hit the king of Israel between the breastplate and the scale armor. The king told the chariot driver, “Wheel around and get me out of the fighting. I've been wounded.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:34 - All day long the battle raged, and the king of Israel propped himself up in his chariot facing the Arameans until evening. Then at sunset he died.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 19:2 - Jehu the seer, the son of Hanani, went out to meet him and said to the king, “Should you help the wicked and love[fn] those who hate the LORD? Because of this, the wrath of the LORD is on you.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 19:11 - “Amariah the chief priest will be over you in any matter concerning the LORD, and Zebadiah son of Ishmael, the leader of the tribe of Judah, will be over you in any matter concerning the king, and the Levites will serve as officials before you. Act with courage, and may the LORD be with those who do well.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:7 - Our God, did you not drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel and give it forever to the descendants of Abraham your friend?
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:9 - ‘If calamity comes upon us, whether the sword of judgment, or plague or famine, we will stand in your presence before this temple that bears your Name and will cry out to you in our distress, and you will hear us and save us.'
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:14 - Then the Spirit of the LORD came on Jahaziel son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, a Levite and descendant of Asaph, as he stood in the assembly.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:15 - He said: “Listen, King Jehoshaphat and all who live in Judah and Jerusalem! This is what the LORD says to you: ‘Do not be afraid or discouraged because of this vast army. For the battle is not yours, but God's.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:21 - After consulting the people, Jehoshaphat appointed men to sing to the LORD and to praise him for the splendor of his[fn] holiness as they went out at the head of the army, saying: “Give thanks to the LORD, for his love endures forever.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:26 - On the fourth day they assembled in the Valley of Berakah, where they praised the LORD. This is why it is called the Valley of Berakah[fn] to this day.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:32 - He followed the ways of his father Asa and did not stray from them; he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:34 - The other events of Jehoshaphat's reign, from beginning to end, are written in the annals of Jehu son of Hanani, which are recorded in the book of the kings of Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:37 - Eliezer son of Dodavahu of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, “Because you have made an alliance with Ahaziah, the LORD will destroy what you have made.” The ships were wrecked and were not able to set sail to trade.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 21:8 - In the time of Jehoram, Edom rebelled against Judah and set up its own king.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 21:12 - Jehoram received a letter from Elijah the prophet, which said: “This is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ‘You have not followed the ways of your father Jehoshaphat or of Asa king of Judah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 21:13 - But you have followed the ways of the kings of Israel, and you have led Judah and the people of Jerusalem to prostitute themselves, just as the house of Ahab did. You have also murdered your own brothers, members of your own family, men who were better than you.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 21:17 - They attacked Judah, invaded it and carried off all the goods found in the king's palace, together with his sons and wives. Not a son was left to him except Ahaziah,[fn] the youngest.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 22:7 - Through Ahaziah's visit to Joram, God brought about Ahaziah's downfall. 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.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 22:11 - But Jehosheba,[fn] the daughter of King Jehoram, took Joash son of Ahaziah and stole him away from among the royal princes who were about to be murdered and put him and his nurse in a bedroom. Because Jehosheba,[fn] the daughter of King Jehoram and wife of the priest Jehoiada, was Ahaziah's sister, she hid the child from Athaliah so she could not kill him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 22:12 - He remained hidden with them at the temple of God for six years while Athaliah ruled the land.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:2 - They went throughout Judah and gathered the Levites and the heads of Israelite families from all the towns. When they came to Jerusalem,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:3 - the whole assembly made a covenant with the king at the temple of God. Jehoiada said to them, “The king's son shall reign, as the LORD promised concerning the descendants of David.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:5 - a third of you at the royal palace and a third at the Foundation Gate, and all the others are to be in the courtyards of the temple of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:7 - The Levites are to station themselves around the king, each with weapon in hand. Anyone who enters the temple is to be put to death. Stay close to the king wherever he goes.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:9 - Then he gave the commanders of units of a hundred the spears and the large and small shields that had belonged to King David and that were in the temple of God.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:10 - He stationed all the men, each with his weapon in his hand, around the king—near the altar and the temple, from the south side to the north side of the temple.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:11 - Jehoiada and his sons brought out the king's son and put the crown on him; they presented him with a copy of the covenant and proclaimed him king. They anointed him and shouted, “Long live the king!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:12 - When Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and cheering the king, she went to them at the temple of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:14 - Jehoiada the priest sent out the commanders of units of a hundred, who were in charge of the troops, and said to them: “Bring her out between the ranks[fn] and put to the sword anyone who follows her.” For the priest had said, “Do not put her to death at the temple of the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:15 - So they seized her as she reached the entrance of the Horse Gate on the palace grounds, and there they put her to death.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:16 - Jehoiada then made a covenant that he, the people and the king[fn] would be the LORD's people.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:20 - He took with him the commanders of hundreds, the nobles, the rulers of the people and all the people of the land and brought the king down from the temple of the LORD. They went into the palace through the Upper Gate and seated the king on the royal throne.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:2 - Joash did what was right in the eyes of the LORD all the years of Jehoiada the priest.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:6 - Therefore the king summoned Jehoiada the chief priest and said to him, “Why haven't you required the Levites to bring in from Judah and Jerusalem the tax imposed by Moses the servant of the LORD and by the assembly of Israel for the tent of the covenant law?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:7 - Now the sons of that wicked woman Athaliah had broken into the temple of God and had used even its sacred objects for the Baals.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:9 - A proclamation was then issued in Judah and Jerusalem that they should bring to the LORD the tax that Moses the servant of God had required of Israel in the wilderness.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:11 - Whenever the chest was brought in by the Levites to the king's officials and they saw that there was a large amount of money, the royal secretary and the officer of the chief priest would come and empty the chest and carry it back to its place. They did this regularly and collected a great amount of money.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:16 - He was buried with the kings in the City of David, because of the good he had done in Israel for God and his temple.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:20 - Then the Spirit of God came on Zechariah son of Jehoiada the priest. He stood before the people and said, “This is what God says: ‘Why do you disobey the LORD's commands? You will not prosper. Because you have forsaken the LORD, he has forsaken you.' ”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:21 - But they plotted against him, and by order of the king they stoned him to death in the courtyard of the LORD's temple.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:22 - King Joash did not remember the kindness Zechariah's father Jehoiada had shown him but killed his son, who said as he lay dying, “May the LORD see this and call you to account.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:23 - At the turn of the year,[fn] the army of Aram marched against Joash; it invaded Judah and Jerusalem and killed all the leaders of the people. They sent all the plunder to their king in Damascus.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:25 - When the Arameans withdrew, they left Joash severely wounded. His officials conspired against him for murdering the son of Jehoiada the priest, and they killed him in his bed. So he died and was buried in the City of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:26 - Those who conspired against him were Zabad,[fn] son of Shimeath an Ammonite woman, and Jehozabad, son of Shimrith[fn] a Moabite woman.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:4 - Yet he did not put their children to death, but acted in accordance with what is written in the Law, in the Book of Moses, where the LORD commanded: “Parents shall not be put to death for their children, nor children be put to death for their parents; each will die for their own sin.”[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:7 - But a man of God came to him and said, “Your Majesty, these troops from Israel must not march with you, for the LORD is not with Israel—not with any of the people of Ephraim.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:9 - Amaziah asked the man of God, “But what about the hundred talents I paid for these Israelite troops?” The man of God replied, “The LORD can give you much more than that.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:12 - The army of Judah also captured ten thousand men alive, took them to the top of a cliff and threw them down so that all were dashed to pieces.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:15 - The anger of the LORD burned against Amaziah, and he sent a prophet to him, who said, “Why do you consult this people's gods, which could not save their own people from your hand?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:16 - While he was still speaking, the king said to him, “Have we appointed you an adviser to the king? Stop! Why be struck down?” So the prophet stopped but said, “I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this and have not listened to my counsel.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:18 - But Jehoash king of Israel replied to Amaziah king of Judah: “A thistle in Lebanon sent a message to a cedar in Lebanon, ‘Give your daughter to my son in marriage.' Then a wild beast in Lebanon came along and trampled the thistle underfoot.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:21 - So Jehoash king of Israel attacked. He and Amaziah king of Judah faced each other at Beth Shemesh in Judah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:23 - Jehoash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Ahaziah,[fn] at Beth Shemesh. Then Jehoash brought him to Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate—a section about four hundred cubits[fn] long.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:24 - He took all the gold and silver and all the articles found in the temple of God that had been in the care of Obed-Edom, together with the palace treasures and the hostages, and returned to Samaria.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:25 - Amaziah son of Joash king of Judah lived for fifteen years after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:1 - Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah,[fn] who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:5 - He sought God during the days of Zechariah, who instructed him in the fear[fn] of God. As long as he sought the LORD, God gave him success.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:11 - Uzziah had a well-trained army, ready to go out by divisions according to their numbers as mustered by Jeiel the secretary and Maaseiah the officer under the direction of Hananiah, one of the royal officials.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:17 - Azariah the priest with eighty other courageous priests of the LORD followed him in.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:22 - The other events of Uzziah's reign, from beginning to end, are recorded by the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 27:3 - Jotham rebuilt the Upper Gate of the temple of the LORD and did extensive work on the wall at the hill of Ophel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:6 - In one day Pekah son of Remaliah killed a hundred and twenty thousand soldiers in Judah—because Judah had forsaken the LORD, the God of their ancestors.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:7 - Zikri, an Ephraimite warrior, killed Maaseiah the king's son, Azrikam the officer in charge of the palace, and Elkanah, second to the king.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:9 - But a prophet of the LORD named Oded was there, and he went out to meet the army when it returned to Samaria. He said to them, “Because the LORD, the God of your ancestors, was angry with Judah, he gave them into your hand. But you have slaughtered them in a rage that reaches to heaven.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:12 - Then some of the leaders in Ephraim—Azariah son of Jehohanan, Berekiah son of Meshillemoth, Jehizkiah son of Shallum, and Amasa son of Hadlai—confronted those who were arriving from the war.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:18 - while the Philistines had raided towns in the foothills and in the Negev of Judah. They captured and occupied Beth Shemesh, Aijalon and Gederoth, as well as Soko, Timnah and Gimzo, with their surrounding villages.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:21 - Ahaz took some of the things from the temple of the LORD and from the royal palace and from the officials and presented them to the king of Assyria, but that did not help him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:7 - They also shut the doors of the portico and put out the lamps. They did not burn incense or present any burnt offerings at the sanctuary to the God of Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:12 - Then these Levites set to work: from the Kohathites, Mahath son of Amasai and Joel son of Azariah; from the Merarites, Kish son of Abdi and Azariah son of Jehallelel; from the Gershonites, Joah son of Zimmah and Eden son of Joah;
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:15 - When they had assembled their fellow Levites and consecrated themselves, they went in to purify the temple of the LORD, as the king had ordered, following the word of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:17 - They began the consecration on the first day of the first month, and by the eighth day of the month they reached the portico of the LORD. For eight more days they consecrated the temple of the LORD itself, finishing on the sixteenth day of the first month.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:23 - The goats for the sin offering were brought before the king and the assembly, and they laid their hands on them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:25 - He stationed the Levites in the temple of the LORD with cymbals, harps and lyres in the way prescribed by David and Gad the king's seer and Nathan the prophet; this was commanded by the LORD through his prophets.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:30 - King Hezekiah and his officials ordered the Levites to praise the LORD with the words of David and of Asaph the seer. So they sang praises with gladness and bowed down and worshiped.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:4 - The plan seemed right both to the king and to the whole assembly.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:6 - At the king's command, couriers went throughout Israel and Judah with letters from the king and from his officials, which read: “People of Israel, return to the LORD, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, that he may return to you who are left, who have escaped from the hand of the kings of Assyria.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:12 - Also in Judah the hand of God was on the people to give them unity of mind to carry out what the king and his officials had ordered, following the word of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:15 - They slaughtered the Passover lamb on the fourteenth day of the second month. The priests and the Levites were ashamed and consecrated themselves and brought burnt offerings to the temple of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:16 - Then they took up their regular positions as prescribed in the Law of Moses the man of God. The priests splashed against the altar the blood handed to them by the Levites.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:18 - Although most of the many people who came from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun had not purified themselves, yet they ate the Passover, contrary to what was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, “May the LORD, who is good, pardon everyone
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:3 - The king contributed from his own possessions for the morning and evening burnt offerings and for the burnt offerings on the Sabbaths, at the New Moons and at the appointed festivals as written in the Law of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:13 - Jehiel, Azaziah, Nahath, Asahel, Jerimoth, Jozabad, Eliel, Ismakiah, Mahath and Benaiah were assistants of Konaniah and Shimei his brother. All these served by appointment of King Hezekiah and Azariah the official in charge of the temple of God.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:14 - Kore son of Imnah the Levite, keeper of the East Gate, was in charge of the freewill offerings given to God, distributing the contributions made to the LORD and also the consecrated gifts.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:20 - This is what Hezekiah did throughout Judah, doing what was good and right and faithful before the LORD his God.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:6 - He appointed military officers over the people and assembled them before him in the square at the city gate and encouraged them with these words:
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:21 - And the LORD sent an angel, who annihilated all the fighting men and the commanders and officers in the camp of the Assyrian king. So he withdrew to his own land in disgrace. And when he went into the temple of his god, some of his sons, his own flesh and blood, cut him down with the sword.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:26 - Then Hezekiah repented of the pride of his heart, as did the people of Jerusalem; therefore the LORD's wrath did not come on them during the days of Hezekiah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:27 - Hezekiah had very great wealth and honor, and he made treasuries for his silver and gold and for his precious stones, spices, shields and all kinds of valuables.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:32 - The other events of Hezekiah's reign and his acts of devotion are written in the vision of the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:3 - He rebuilt the high places his father Hezekiah had demolished; he also erected altars to the Baals and made Asherah poles. He bowed down to all the starry hosts and worshiped them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:5 - In both courts of the temple of the LORD, he built altars to all the starry hosts.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:12 - In his distress he sought the favor of the LORD his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his ancestors.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:2 - He did what was right in the eyes of the LORD and followed the ways of his father David, not turning aside to the right or to the left.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:3 - In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, he began to seek the God of his father David. In his twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of high places, Asherah poles and idols.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:8 - In the eighteenth year of Josiah's reign, to purify the land and the temple, he sent Shaphan son of Azaliah and Maaseiah the ruler of the city, with Joah son of Joahaz, the recorder, to repair the temple of the LORD his God.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:18 - Then Shaphan the secretary informed the king, “Hilkiah the priest has given me a book.” And Shaphan read from it in the presence of the king.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:19 - When the king heard the words of the Law, he tore his robes.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:20 - He gave these orders to Hilkiah, Ahikam son of Shaphan, Abdon son of Micah,[fn] Shaphan the secretary and Asaiah the king's attendant:
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:21 - “Go and inquire of the LORD for me and for the remnant in Israel and Judah about what is written in this book that has been found. Great is the LORD's anger that is poured out on us because those who have gone before us have not kept the word of the LORD; they have not acted in accordance with all that is written in this book.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:24 - ‘This is what the LORD says: I am going to bring disaster on this place and its people—all the curses written in the book that has been read in the presence of the king of Judah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:30 - He went up to the temple of the LORD with the people of Judah, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the priests and the Levites—all the people from the least to the greatest. He read in their hearing all the words of the Book of the Covenant, which had been found in the temple of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:1 - Josiah celebrated the Passover to the LORD in Jerusalem, and the Passover lamb was slaughtered on the fourteenth day of the first month.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:3 - He said to the Levites, who instructed all Israel and who had been consecrated to the LORD: “Put the sacred ark in the temple that Solomon son of David king of Israel built. It is not to be carried about on your shoulders. Now serve the LORD your God and his people Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:5 - “Stand in the holy place with a group of Levites for each subdivision of the families of your fellow Israelites, the lay people.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:7 - Josiah provided for all the lay people who were there a total of thirty thousand lambs and goats for the Passover offerings, and also three thousand cattle—all from the king's own possessions.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:8 - His officials also contributed voluntarily to the people and the priests and Levites. Hilkiah, Zechariah and Jehiel, the officials in charge of God's temple, gave the priests twenty-six hundred Passover offerings and three hundred cattle.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:10 - The service was arranged and the priests stood in their places with the Levites in their divisions as the king had ordered.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:12 - They set aside the burnt offerings to give them to the subdivisions of the families of the people to offer to the LORD, as it is written in the Book of Moses. They did the same with the cattle.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:13 - They roasted the Passover animals over the fire as prescribed, and boiled the holy offerings in pots, caldrons and pans and served them quickly to all the people.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:15 - The musicians, the descendants of Asaph, were in the places prescribed by David, Asaph, Heman and Jeduthun the king's seer. The gatekeepers at each gate did not need to leave their posts, because their fellow Levites made the preparations for them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:16 - So at that time the entire service of the LORD was carried out for the celebration of the Passover and the offering of burnt offerings on the altar of the LORD, as King Josiah had ordered.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:18 - The Passover had not been observed like this in Israel since the days of the prophet Samuel; and none of the kings of Israel had ever celebrated such a Passover as did Josiah, with the priests, the Levites and all Judah and Israel who were there with the people of Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:19 - This Passover was celebrated in the eighteenth year of Josiah's reign.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:21 - But Necho sent messengers to him, saying, “What quarrel is there, king of Judah, between you and me? It is not you I am attacking at this time, but the house with which I am at war. God has told me to hurry; so stop opposing God, who is with me, or he will destroy you.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:1 - And the people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah and made him king in Jerusalem in place of his father.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:4 - The king of Egypt made Eliakim, a brother of Jehoahaz, king over Judah and Jerusalem and changed Eliakim's name to Jehoiakim. But Necho took Eliakim's brother Jehoahaz and carried him off to Egypt.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:10 - In the spring, King Nebuchadnezzar sent for him and brought him to Babylon, together with articles of value from the temple of the LORD, and he made Jehoiachin's uncle,[fn] Zedekiah, king over Judah and Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:12 - He did evil in the eyes of the LORD his God and did not humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet, who spoke the word of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:13 - He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him take an oath in God's name. He became stiff-necked and hardened his heart and would not turn to the LORD, the God of Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:15 - The LORD, the God of their ancestors, sent word to them through his messengers again and again, because he had pity on his people and on his dwelling place.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:17 - He brought up against them the king of the Babylonians,[fn] who killed their young men with the sword in the sanctuary, and did not spare young men or young women, the elderly or the infirm. God gave them all into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:23 - “This is what Cyrus king of Persia says: “ ‘The LORD, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth and he has appointed me to build a temple for him at Jerusalem in Judah. Any of his people among you may go up, and may the LORD their God be with them.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 1:1 - In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, in order to fulfill the word of the LORD spoken by Jeremiah, the LORD moved the heart of Cyrus king of Persia to make a proclamation throughout his realm and also to put it in writing:
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 1:2 - “This is what Cyrus king of Persia says: “ ‘The LORD, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth and he has appointed me to build a temple for him at Jerusalem in Judah.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 1:3 - Any of his people among you may go up to Jerusalem in Judah and build the temple of the LORD, the God of Israel, the God who is in Jerusalem, and may their God be with them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 1:4 - And in any locality where survivors may now be living, the people are to provide them with silver and gold, with goods and livestock, and with freewill offerings for the temple of God in Jerusalem.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 1:8 - Cyrus king of Persia had them brought by Mithredath the treasurer, who counted them out to Sheshbazzar the prince of Judah.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:61 - And from among the priests: The descendants of Hobaiah, Hakkoz and Barzillai (a man who had married a daughter of Barzillai the Gileadite and was called by that name).
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:63 - The governor ordered them not to eat any of the most sacred food until there was a priest ministering with the Urim and Thummim.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:68 - When they arrived at the house of the LORD in Jerusalem, some of the heads of the families gave freewill offerings toward the rebuilding of the house of God on its site.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:70 - The priests, the Levites, the musicians, the gatekeepers and the temple servants settled in their own towns, along with some of the other people, and the rest of the Israelites settled in their towns.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 3:2 - Then Joshua son of Jozadak and his fellow priests and Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and his associates began to build the altar of the God of Israel to sacrifice burnt offerings on it, in accordance with what is written in the Law of Moses the man of God.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 3:6 - On the first day of the seventh month they began to offer burnt offerings to the LORD, though the foundation of the LORD's temple had not yet been laid.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 3:7 - Then they gave money to the masons and carpenters, and gave food and drink and olive oil to the people of Sidon and Tyre, so that they would bring cedar logs by sea from Lebanon to Joppa, as authorized by Cyrus king of Persia.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 3:8 - In the second month of the second year after their arrival at the house of God in Jerusalem, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, Joshua son of Jozadak and the rest of the people (the priests and the Levites and all who had returned from the captivity to Jerusalem) began the work. They appointed Levites twenty years old and older to supervise the building of the house of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 3:9 - Joshua and his sons and brothers and Kadmiel and his sons (descendants of Hodaviah[fn]) and the sons of Henadad and their sons and brothers—all Levites—joined together in supervising those working on the house of God.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 3:13 - No one could distinguish the sound of the shouts of joy from the sound of weeping, because the people made so much noise. And the sound was heard far away.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:2 - they came to Zerubbabel and to the heads of the families and said, “Let us help you build because, like you, we seek your God and have been sacrificing to him since the time of Esarhaddon king of Assyria, who brought us here.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:3 - But Zerubbabel, Joshua and the rest of the heads of the families of Israel answered, “You have no part with us in building a temple to our God. We alone will build it for the LORD, the God of Israel, as King Cyrus, the king of Persia, commanded us.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:4 - Then the peoples around them set out to discourage the people of Judah and make them afraid to go on building.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:10 - and the other people whom the great and honorable Ashurbanipal deported and settled in the city of Samaria and elsewhere in Trans-Euphrates.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:11 - (This is a copy of the letter they sent him.) To King Artaxerxes, From your servants in Trans-Euphrates:
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:17 - The king sent this reply: To Rehum the commanding officer, Shimshai the secretary and the rest of their associates living in Samaria and elsewhere in Trans-Euphrates: Greetings.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:20 - Jerusalem has had powerful kings ruling over the whole of Trans-Euphrates, and taxes, tribute and duty were paid to them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:23 - As soon as the copy of the letter of King Artaxerxes was read to Rehum and Shimshai the secretary and their associates, they went immediately to the Jews in Jerusalem and compelled them by force to stop.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:24 - Thus the work on the house of God in Jerusalem came to a standstill until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:1 - Now Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the prophet, a descendant of Iddo, prophesied to the Jews in Judah and Jerusalem in the name of the God of Israel, who was over them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:2 - Then Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and Joshua son of Jozadak set to work to rebuild the house of God in Jerusalem. And the prophets of God were with them, supporting them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:3 - At that time Tattenai, governor of Trans-Euphrates, and Shethar-Bozenai and their associates went to them and asked, “Who authorized you to rebuild this temple and to finish it?”
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:5 - But the eye of their God was watching over the elders of the Jews, and they were not stopped until a report could go to Darius and his written reply be received.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:6 - This is a copy of the letter that Tattenai, governor of Trans-Euphrates, and Shethar-Bozenai and their associates, the officials of Trans-Euphrates, sent to King Darius.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:8 - The king should know that we went to the district of Judah, to the temple of the great God. The people are building it with large stones and placing the timbers in the walls. The work is being carried on with diligence and is making rapid progress under their direction.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:11 - This is the answer they gave us: “We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and we are rebuilding the temple that was built many years ago, one that a great king of Israel built and finished.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:12 - But because our ancestors angered the God of heaven, he gave them into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar the Chaldean, king of Babylon, who destroyed this temple and deported the people to Babylon.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:13 - “However, in the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, King Cyrus issued a decree to rebuild this house of God.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:14 - He even removed from the temple[fn] of Babylon the gold and silver articles of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar had taken from the temple in Jerusalem and brought to the temple[fn] in Babylon. Then King Cyrus gave them to a man named Sheshbazzar, whom he had appointed governor,
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:16 - “So this Sheshbazzar came and laid the foundations of the house of God in Jerusalem. From that day to the present it has been under construction but is not yet finished.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:17 - Now if it pleases the king, let a search be made in the royal archives of Babylon to see if King Cyrus did in fact issue a decree to rebuild this house of God in Jerusalem. Then let the king send us his decision in this matter.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:3 - In the first year of King Cyrus, the king issued a decree concerning the temple of God in Jerusalem: Let the temple be rebuilt as a place to present sacrifices, and let its foundations be laid. It is to be sixty cubits[fn] high and sixty cubits wide,
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:4 - with three courses of large stones and one of timbers. The costs are to be paid by the royal treasury.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:5 - Also, the gold and silver articles of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took from the temple in Jerusalem and brought to Babylon, are to be returned to their places in the temple in Jerusalem; they are to be deposited in the house of God.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:6 - Now then, Tattenai, governor of Trans-Euphrates, and Shethar-Bozenai and you other officials of that province, stay away from there.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:7 - Do not interfere with the work on this temple of God. Let the governor of the Jews and the Jewish elders rebuild this house of God on its site.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:8 - Moreover, I hereby decree what you are to do for these elders of the Jews in the construction of this house of God: Their expenses are to be fully paid out of the royal treasury, from the revenues of Trans-Euphrates, so that the work will not stop.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:9 - Whatever is needed—young bulls, rams, male lambs for burnt offerings to the God of heaven, and wheat, salt, wine and olive oil, as requested by the priests in Jerusalem—must be given them daily without fail,
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:10 - so that they may offer sacrifices pleasing to the God of heaven and pray for the well-being of the king and his sons.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:12 - May God, who has caused his Name to dwell there, overthrow any king or people who lifts a hand to change this decree or to destroy this temple in Jerusalem. I Darius have decreed it. Let it be carried out with diligence.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:13 - Then, because of the decree King Darius had sent, Tattenai, governor of Trans-Euphrates, and Shethar-Bozenai and their associates carried it out with diligence.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:14 - So the elders of the Jews continued to build and prosper under the preaching of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah, a descendant of Iddo. They finished building the temple according to the command of the God of Israel and the decrees of Cyrus, Darius and Artaxerxes, kings of Persia.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:15 - The temple was completed on the third day of the month Adar, in the sixth year of the reign of King Darius.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:16 - Then the people of Israel—the priests, the Levites and the rest of the exiles—celebrated the dedication of the house of God with joy.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:17 - For the dedication of this house of God they offered a hundred bulls, two hundred rams, four hundred male lambs and, as a sin offering[fn] for all Israel, twelve male goats, one for each of the tribes of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:18 - And they installed the priests in their divisions and the Levites in their groups for the service of God at Jerusalem, according to what is written in the Book of Moses.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:19 - On the fourteenth day of the first month, the exiles celebrated the Passover.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:22 - For seven days they celebrated with joy the Festival of Unleavened Bread, because the LORD had filled them with joy by changing the attitude of the king of Assyria so that he assisted them in the work on the house of God, the God of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:5 - the son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the chief priest—
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:9 - He had begun his journey from Babylon on the first day of the first month, and he arrived in Jerusalem on the first day of the fifth month, for the gracious hand of his God was on him.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:12 - Artaxerxes, king of kings, To Ezra the priest, teacher of the Law of the God of heaven: Greetings.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:14 - You are sent by the king and his seven advisers to inquire about Judah and Jerusalem with regard to the Law of your God, which is in your hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:15 - Moreover, you are to take with you the silver and gold that the king and his advisers have freely given to the God of Israel, whose dwelling is in Jerusalem,
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:16 - together with all the silver and gold you may obtain from the province of Babylon, as well as the freewill offerings of the people and priests for the temple of their God in Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:17 - With this money be sure to buy bulls, rams and male lambs, together with their grain offerings and drink offerings, and sacrifice them on the altar of the temple of your God in Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:19 - Deliver to the God of Jerusalem all the articles entrusted to you for worship in the temple of your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:21 - Now I, King Artaxerxes, decree that all the treasurers of Trans-Euphrates are to provide with diligence whatever Ezra the priest, the teacher of the Law of the God of heaven, may ask of you—
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:23 - Whatever the God of heaven has prescribed, let it be done with diligence for the temple of the God of heaven. Why should his wrath fall on the realm of the king and of his sons?
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:25 - And you, Ezra, in accordance with the wisdom of your God, which you possess, appoint magistrates and judges to administer justice to all the people of Trans-Euphrates—all who know the laws of your God. And you are to teach any who do not know them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:26 - Whoever does not obey the law of your God and the law of the king must surely be punished by death, banishment, confiscation of property, or imprisonment.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:27 - Praise be to the LORD, the God of our ancestors, who has put it into the king's heart to bring honor to the house of the LORD in Jerusalem in this way
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:28 - and who has extended his good favor to me before the king and his advisers and all the king's powerful officials. Because the hand of the LORD my God was on me, I took courage and gathered leaders from Israel to go up with me.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:1 - These are the family heads and those registered with them who came up with me from Babylon during the reign of King Artaxerxes:
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:17 - and I ordered them to go to Iddo, the leader in Kasiphia. I told them what to say to Iddo and his fellow Levites, the temple servants in Kasiphia, so that they might bring attendants to us for the house of our God.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:22 - I was ashamed to ask the king for soldiers and horsemen to protect us from enemies on the road, because we had told the king, “The gracious hand of our God is on everyone who looks to him, but his great anger is against all who forsake him.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:23 - So we fasted and petitioned our God about this, and he answered our prayer.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:31 - On the twelfth day of the first month we set out from the Ahava Canal to go to Jerusalem. The hand of our God was on us, and he protected us from enemies and bandits along the way.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:33 - On the fourth day, in the house of our God, we weighed out the silver and gold and the sacred articles into the hands of Meremoth son of Uriah, the priest. Eleazar son of Phinehas was with him, and so were the Levites Jozabad son of Jeshua and Noadiah son of Binnui.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:36 - They also delivered the king's orders to the royal satraps and to the governors of Trans-Euphrates, who then gave assistance to the people and to the house of God.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:3 - When I heard this, I tore my tunic and cloak, pulled hair from my head and beard and sat down appalled.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:6 - and prayed: “I am too ashamed and disgraced, my God, to lift up my face to you, because our sins are higher than our heads and our guilt has reached to the heavens.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:9 - Though we are slaves, our God has not forsaken us in our bondage. He has shown us kindness in the sight of the kings of Persia: He has granted us new life to rebuild the house of our God and repair its ruins, and he has given us a wall of protection in Judah and Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:14 - Shall we then break your commands again and intermarry with the peoples who commit such detestable practices? Would you not be angry enough with us to destroy us, leaving us no remnant or survivor?
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:1 - While Ezra was praying and confessing, weeping and throwing himself down before the house of God, a large crowd of Israelites—men, women and children—gathered around him. They too wept bitterly.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:6 - Then Ezra withdrew from before the house of God and went to the room of Jehohanan son of Eliashib. While he was there, he ate no food and drank no water, because he continued to mourn over the unfaithfulness of the exiles.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:9 - Within the three days, all the men of Judah and Benjamin had gathered in Jerusalem. And on the twentieth day of the ninth month, all the people were sitting in the square before the house of God, greatly distressed by the occasion and because of the rain.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:16 - So the exiles did as was proposed. Ezra the priest selected men who were family heads, one from each family division, and all of them designated by name. On the first day of the tenth month they sat down to investigate the cases,
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:17 - and by the first day of the first month they finished dealing with all the men who had married foreign women.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 1:4 - When I heard these things, I sat down and wept. For some days I mourned and fasted and prayed before the God of heaven.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 1:5 - Then I said: “LORD, the God of heaven, the great and awesome God, who keeps his covenant of love with those who love him and keep his commandments,
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 1:9 - but if you return to me and obey my commands, then even if your exiled people are at the farthest horizon, I will gather them from there and bring them to the place I have chosen as a dwelling for my Name.'
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 1:11 - Lord, let your ear be attentive to the prayer of this your servant and to the prayer of your servants who delight in revering your name. Give your servant success today by granting him favor in the presence of this man.” I was cupbearer to the king.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:4 - The king said to me, “What is it you want?” Then I prayed to the God of heaven,
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:6 - Then the king, with the queen sitting beside him, asked me, “How long will your journey take, and when will you get back?” It pleased the king to send me; so I set a time.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:7 - I also said to him, “If it pleases the king, may I have letters to the governors of Trans-Euphrates, so that they will provide me safe-conduct until I arrive in Judah?
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:8 - And may I have a letter to Asaph, keeper of the royal park, so he will give me timber to make beams for the gates of the citadel by the temple and for the city wall and for the residence I will occupy?” And because the gracious hand of my God was on me, the king granted my requests.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:9 - So I went to the governors of Trans-Euphrates and gave them the king's letters. The king had also sent army officers and cavalry with me.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:12 - I set out during the night with a few others. I had not told anyone what my God had put in my heart to do for Jerusalem. There were no mounts with me except the one I was riding on.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:13 - By night I went out through the Valley Gate toward the Jackal[fn] Well and the Dung Gate, examining the walls of Jerusalem, which had been broken down, and its gates, which had been destroyed by fire.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:14 - Then I moved on toward the Fountain Gate and the King's Pool, but there was not enough room for my mount to get through;
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:18 - I also told them about the gracious hand of my God on me and what the king had said to me. They replied, “Let us start rebuilding.” So they began this good work.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:20 - I answered them by saying, “The God of heaven will give us success. We his servants will start rebuilding, but as for you, you have no share in Jerusalem or any claim or historic right to it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:6 - The Jeshanah[fn] Gate was repaired by Joiada son of Paseah and Meshullam son of Besodeiah. They laid its beams and put its doors with their bolts and bars in place.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:8 - Uzziel son of Harhaiah, one of the goldsmiths, repaired the next section; and Hananiah, one of the perfume-makers, made repairs next to that. They restored Jerusalem as far as the Broad Wall.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:15 - The Fountain Gate was repaired by Shallun son of Kol-Hozeh, ruler of the district of Mizpah. He rebuilt it, roofing it over and putting its doors and bolts and bars in place. He also repaired the wall of the Pool of Siloam,[fn] by the King's Garden, as far as the steps going down from the City of David.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:19 - Next to him, Ezer son of Jeshua, ruler of Mizpah, repaired another section, from a point facing the ascent to the armory as far as the angle of the wall.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:20 - Next to him, Baruch son of Zabbai zealously repaired another section, from the angle to the entrance of the house of Eliashib the high priest.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:25 - and Palal son of Uzai worked opposite the angle and the tower projecting from the upper palace near the court of the guard. Next to him, Pedaiah son of Parosh
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:27 - Next to them, the men of Tekoa repaired another section, from the great projecting tower to the wall of Ophel.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:31 - Next to him, Malkijah, one of the goldsmiths, made repairs as far as the house of the temple servants and the merchants, opposite the Inspection Gate, and as far as the room above the corner;
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:3 - Tobiah the Ammonite, who was at his side, said, “What they are building—even a fox climbing up on it would break down their wall of stones!”
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:13 - Therefore I stationed some of the people behind the lowest points of the wall at the exposed places, posting them by families, with their swords, spears and bows.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:14 - After I looked things over, I stood up and said to the nobles, the officials and the rest of the people, “Don't be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your families, your sons and your daughters, your wives and your homes.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:19 - Then I said to the nobles, the officials and the rest of the people, “The work is extensive and spread out, and we are widely separated from each other along the wall.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:21 - So we continued the work with half the men holding spears, from the first light of dawn till the stars came out.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:1 - Now the men and their wives raised a great outcry against their fellow Jews.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:4 - Still others were saying, “We have had to borrow money to pay the king's tax on our fields and vineyards.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:13 - I also shook out the folds of my robe and said, “In this way may God shake out of their house and possessions anyone who does not keep this promise. So may such a person be shaken out and emptied!” At this the whole assembly said, “Amen,” and praised the LORD. And the people did as they had promised.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:1 - When word came to Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab and the rest of our enemies that I had rebuilt the wall and not a gap was left in it—though up to that time I had not set the doors in the gates—
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:10 - One day I went to the house of Shemaiah son of Delaiah, the son of Mehetabel, who was shut in at his home. He said, “Let us meet in the house of God, inside the temple, and let us close the temple doors, because men are coming to kill you—by night they are coming to kill you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:15 - So the wall was completed on the twenty-fifth of Elul, in fifty-two days.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:16 - When all our enemies heard about this, all the surrounding nations were afraid and lost their self-confidence, because they realized that this work had been done with the help of our God.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:18 - For many in Judah were under oath to him, since he was son-in-law to Shekaniah son of Arah, and his son Jehohanan had married the daughter of Meshullam son of Berekiah.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:43 - The Levites:
the descendants of Jeshua (through Kadmiel through the line of Hodaviah)74
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:63 - And from among the priests:
the descendants of
Hobaiah, Hakkoz and Barzillai (a man who had married a daughter of Barzillai the Gileadite and was called by that name).
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:65 - The governor, therefore, ordered them not to eat any of the most sacred food until there should be a priest ministering with the Urim and Thummim.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:72 - The total given by the rest of the people was 20,000 darics of gold, 2,000 minas[fn] of silver and 67 garments for priests.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:73 - The priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the musicians and the temple servants, along with certain of the people and the rest of the Israelites, settled in their own towns. When the seventh month came and the Israelites had settled in their towns,
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:2 - So on the first day of the seventh month Ezra the priest brought the Law before the assembly, which was made up of men and women and all who were able to understand.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:3 - He read it aloud from daybreak till noon as he faced the square before the Water Gate in the presence of the men, women and others who could understand. And all the people listened attentively to the Book of the Law.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:5 - Ezra opened the book. All the people could see him because he was standing above them; and as he opened it, the people all stood up.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:8 - They read from the Book of the Law of God, making it clear[fn] and giving the meaning so that the people understood what was being read.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:9 - Then Nehemiah the governor, Ezra the priest and teacher of the Law, and the Levites who were instructing the people said to them all, “This day is holy to the LORD your God. Do not mourn or weep.” For all the people had been weeping as they listened to the words of the Law.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:13 - On the second day of the month, the heads of all the families, along with the priests and the Levites, gathered around Ezra the teacher to give attention to the words of the Law.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:16 - So the people went out and brought back branches and built themselves temporary shelters on their own roofs, in their courtyards, in the courts of the house of God and in the square by the Water Gate and the one by the Gate of Ephraim.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:18 - Day after day, from the first day to the last, Ezra read from the Book of the Law of God. They celebrated the festival for seven days, and on the eighth day, in accordance with the regulation, there was an assembly.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:1 - On the twenty-fourth day of the same month, the Israelites gathered together, fasting and wearing sackcloth and putting dust on their heads.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:5 - And the Levites—Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah and Pethahiah—said: “Stand up and praise the LORD your God, who is from everlasting to everlasting.[fn]” “Blessed be your glorious name, and may it be exalted above all blessing and praise.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:6 - You alone are the LORD. You made the heavens, even the highest heavens, and all their starry host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them. You give life to everything, and the multitudes of heaven worship you.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:19 - “Because of your great compassion you did not abandon them in the wilderness. By day the pillar of cloud did not fail to guide them on their path, nor the pillar of fire by night to shine on the way they were to take.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:22 - “You gave them kingdoms and nations, allotting to them even the remotest frontiers. They took over the country of Sihon[fn] king of Heshbon and the country of Og king of Bashan.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:23 - You made their children as numerous as the stars in the sky, and you brought them into the land that you told their parents to enter and possess.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:14 - The leaders of the people: Parosh, Pahath-Moab, Elam, Zattu, Bani,
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:28 - “The rest of the people—priests, Levites, gatekeepers, musicians, temple servants and all who separated themselves from the neighboring peoples for the sake of the Law of God, together with their wives and all their sons and daughters who are able to understand—
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:29 - all these now join their fellow Israelites the nobles, and bind themselves with a curse and an oath to follow the Law of God given through Moses the servant of God and to obey carefully all the commands, regulations and decrees of the LORD our Lord.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:33 - for the bread set out on the table; for the regular grain offerings and burnt offerings; for the offerings on the Sabbaths, at the New Moon feasts and at the appointed festivals; for the holy offerings; for sin offerings[fn] to make atonement for Israel; and for all the duties of the house of our God.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:37 - “Moreover, we will bring to the storerooms of the house of our God, to the priests, the first of our ground meal, of our grain offerings, of the fruit of all our trees and of our new wine and olive oil. And we will bring a tithe of our crops to the Levites, for it is the Levites who collect the tithes in all the towns where we work.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:38 - A priest descended from Aaron is to accompany the Levites when they receive the tithes, and the Levites are to bring a tenth of the tithes up to the house of our God, to the storerooms of the treasury.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:39 - The people of Israel, including the Levites, are to bring their contributions of grain, new wine and olive oil to the storerooms, where the articles for the sanctuary and for the ministering priests, the gatekeepers and the musicians are also kept. “We will not neglect the house of our God.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 11:1 - Now the leaders of the people settled in Jerusalem. The rest of the people cast lots to bring one out of every ten of them to live in Jerusalem, the holy city, while the remaining nine were to stay in their own towns.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 11:5 - and Maaseiah son of Baruch, the son of Kol-Hozeh, the son of Hazaiah, the son of Adaiah, the son of Joiarib, the son of Zechariah, a descendant of Shelah.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 11:11 - Seraiah son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, the official in charge of the house of God,
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 11:12 - and their associates, who carried on work for the temple—822 men; Adaiah son of Jeroham, the son of Pelaliah, the son of Amzi, the son of Zechariah, the son of Pashhur, the son of Malkijah,
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 11:22 - The chief officer of the Levites in Jerusalem was Uzzi son of Bani, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Mika. Uzzi was one of Asaph's descendants, who were the musicians responsible for the service of the house of God.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 11:23 - The musicians were under the king's orders, which regulated their daily activity.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 11:24 - Pethahiah son of Meshezabel, one of the descendants of Zerah son of Judah, was the king's agent in all affairs relating to the people.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:22 - The family heads of the Levites in the days of Eliashib, Joiada, Johanan and Jaddua, as well as those of the priests, were recorded in the reign of Darius the Persian.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:24 - And the leaders of the Levites were Hashabiah, Sherebiah, Jeshua son of Kadmiel, and their associates, who stood opposite them to give praise and thanksgiving, one section responding to the other, as prescribed by David the man of God.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:36 - and his associates—Shemaiah, Azarel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel, Judah and Hanani—with musical instruments prescribed by David the man of God. Ezra the teacher of the Law led the procession.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:37 - At the Fountain Gate they continued directly up the steps of the City of David on the ascent to the wall and passed above the site of David's palace to the Water Gate on the east.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:38 - The second choir proceeded in the opposite direction. I followed them on top of[fn] the wall, together with half the people—past the Tower of the Ovens to the Broad Wall,
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:40 - The two choirs that gave thanks then took their places in the house of God; so did I, together with half the officials,
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:45 - They performed the service of their God and the service of purification, as did also the musicians and gatekeepers, according to the commands of David and his son Solomon.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:1 - On that day the Book of Moses was read aloud in the hearing of the people and there it was found written that no Ammonite or Moabite should ever be admitted into the assembly of God,
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:5 - and he had provided him with a large room formerly used to store the grain offerings and incense and temple articles, and also the tithes of grain, new wine and olive oil prescribed for the Levites, musicians and gatekeepers, as well as the contributions for the priests.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:6 - But while all this was going on, I was not in Jerusalem, for in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon I had returned to the king. Some time later I asked his permission
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:7 - and came back to Jerusalem. Here I learned about the evil thing Eliashib had done in providing Tobiah a room in the courts of the house of God.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:9 - I gave orders to purify the rooms, and then I put back into them the equipment of the house of God, with the grain offerings and the incense.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:11 - So I rebuked the officials and asked them, “Why is the house of God neglected?” Then I called them together and stationed them at their posts.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:12 - All Judah brought the tithes of grain, new wine and olive oil into the storerooms.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:13 - I put Shelemiah the priest, Zadok the scribe, and a Levite named Pedaiah in charge of the storerooms and made Hanan son of Zakkur, the son of Mattaniah, their assistant, because they were considered trustworthy. They were made responsible for distributing the supplies to their fellow Levites.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:14 - Remember me for this, my God, and do not blot out what I have so faithfully done for the house of my God and its services.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:21 - But I warned them and said, “Why do you spend the night by the wall? If you do this again, I will arrest you.” From that time on they no longer came on the Sabbath.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:22 - Then I commanded the Levites to purify themselves and go and guard the gates in order to keep the Sabbath day holy. Remember me for this also, my God, and show mercy to me according to your great love.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:28 - One of the sons of Joiada son of Eliashib the high priest was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite. And I drove him away from me.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:4 - For a full 180 days he displayed the vast wealth of his kingdom and the splendor and glory of his majesty.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:5 - When these days were over, the king gave a banquet, lasting seven days, in the enclosed garden of the king's palace, for all the people from the least to the greatest who were in the citadel of Susa.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:10 - On the seventh day, when King Xerxes was in high spirits from wine, he commanded the seven eunuchs who served him—Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, Abagtha, Zethar and Karkas—
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:14 - and were closest to the king—Karshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena and Memukan, the seven nobles of Persia and Media who had special access to the king and were highest in the kingdom.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:15 - “According to law, what must be done to Queen Vashti?” he asked. “She has not obeyed the command of King Xerxes that the eunuchs have taken to her.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:16 - Then Memukan replied in the presence of the king and the nobles, “Queen Vashti has done wrong, not only against the king but also against all the nobles and the peoples of all the provinces of King Xerxes.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:20 - Then when the king's edict is proclaimed throughout all his vast realm, all the women will respect their husbands, from the least to the greatest.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:1 - Later when King Xerxes' fury had subsided, he remembered Vashti and what she had done and what he had decreed about her.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:2 - Then the king's personal attendants proposed, “Let a search be made for beautiful young virgins for the king.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:3 - Let the king appoint commissioners in every province of his realm to bring all these beautiful young women into the harem at the citadel of Susa. Let them be placed under the care of Hegai, the king's eunuch, who is in charge of the women; and let beauty treatments be given to them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:5 - Now there was in the citadel of Susa a Jew of the tribe of Benjamin, named Mordecai son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish,
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:8 - When the king's order and edict had been proclaimed, many young women were brought to the citadel of Susa and put under the care of Hegai. Esther also was taken to the king's palace and entrusted to Hegai, who had charge of the harem.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:13 - And this is how she would go to the king: Anything she wanted was given her to take with her from the harem to the king's palace.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:14 - In the evening she would go there and in the morning return to another part of the harem to the care of Shaashgaz, the king's eunuch who was in charge of the concubines. She would not return to the king unless he was pleased with her and summoned her by name.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:21 - During the time Mordecai was sitting at the king's gate, Bigthana[fn] and Teresh, two of the king's officers who guarded the doorway, became angry and conspired to assassinate King Xerxes.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:3 - Then the royal officials at the king's gate asked Mordecai, “Why do you disobey the king's command?”
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:4 - Day after day they spoke to him but he refused to comply. Therefore they told Haman about it to see whether Mordecai's behavior would be tolerated, for he had told them he was a Jew.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:7 - In the twelfth year of King Xerxes, in the first month, the month of Nisan, the pur (that is, the lot) was cast in the presence of Haman to select a day and month. And the lot fell on[fn] the twelfth month, the month of Adar.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:8 - Then Haman said to King Xerxes, “There is a certain people dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom who keep themselves separate. Their customs are different from those of all other people, and they do not obey the king's laws; it is not in the king's best interest to tolerate them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:9 - If it pleases the king, let a decree be issued to destroy them, and I will give ten thousand talents[fn] of silver to the king's administrators for the royal treasury.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:12 - Then on the thirteenth day of the first month the royal secretaries were summoned. They wrote out in the script of each province and in the language of each people all Haman's orders to the king's satraps, the governors of the various provinces and the nobles of the various peoples. These were written in the name of King Xerxes himself and sealed with his own ring.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:2 - But he went only as far as the king's gate, because no one clothed in sackcloth was allowed to enter it.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:5 - Then Esther summoned Hathak, one of the king's eunuchs assigned to attend her, and ordered him to find out what was troubling Mordecai and why.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:8 - He also gave him a copy of the text of the edict for their annihilation, which had been published in Susa, to show to Esther and explain it to her, and he told him to instruct her to go into the king's presence to beg for mercy and plead with him for her people.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:14 - For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father's family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this?”
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:1 - On the third day Esther put on her royal robes and stood in the inner court of the palace, in front of the king's hall. The king was sitting on his royal throne in the hall, facing the entrance.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:8 - If the king regards me with favor and if it pleases the king to grant my petition and fulfill my request, let the king and Haman come tomorrow to the banquet I will prepare for them. Then I will answer the king's question.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:9 - Haman went out that day happy and in high spirits. But when he saw Mordecai at the king's gate and observed that he neither rose nor showed fear in his presence, he was filled with rage against Mordecai.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:12 - “And that's not all,” Haman added. “I'm the only person Queen Esther invited to accompany the king to the banquet she gave. And she has invited me along with the king tomorrow.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:1 - That night the king could not sleep; so he ordered the book of the chronicles, the record of his reign, to be brought in and read to him.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:2 - It was found recorded there that Mordecai had exposed Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's officers who guarded the doorway, who had conspired to assassinate King Xerxes.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:3 - “What honor and recognition has Mordecai received for this?” the king asked. “Nothing has been done for him,” his attendants answered.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:5 - His attendants answered, “Haman is standing in the court.” “Bring him in,” the king ordered.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:8 - have them bring a royal robe the king has worn and a horse the king has ridden, one with a royal crest placed on its head.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:9 - Then let the robe and horse be entrusted to one of the king's most noble princes. Let them robe the man the king delights to honor, and lead him on the horse through the city streets, proclaiming before him, ‘This is what is done for the man the king delights to honor!' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 7:3 - Then Queen Esther answered, “If I have found favor with you, Your Majesty, and if it pleases you, grant me my life—this is my petition. And spare my people—this is my request.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 7:4 - For I and my people have been sold to be destroyed, killed and annihilated. If we had merely been sold as male and female slaves, I would have kept quiet, because no such distress would justify disturbing the king.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 7:6 - Esther said, “An adversary and enemy! This vile Haman!” Then Haman was terrified before the king and queen.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 7:8 - Just as the king returned from the palace garden to the banquet hall, Haman was falling on the couch where Esther was reclining. The king exclaimed, “Will he even molest the queen while she is with me in the house?” As soon as the word left the king's mouth, they covered Haman's face.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 7:9 - Then Harbona, one of the eunuchs attending the king, said, “A pole reaching to a height of fifty cubits[fn] stands by Haman's house. He had it set up for Mordecai, who spoke up to help the king.” The king said, “Impale him on it!”
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 7:10 - So they impaled Haman on the pole he had set up for Mordecai. Then the king's fury subsided.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:1 - That same day King Xerxes gave Queen Esther the estate of Haman, the enemy of the Jews. And Mordecai came into the presence of the king, for Esther had told how he was related to her.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:6 - For how can I bear to see disaster fall on my people? How can I bear to see the destruction of my family?”
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:8 - Now write another decree in the king's name in behalf of the Jews as seems best to you, and seal it with the king's signet ring—for no document written in the king's name and sealed with his ring can be revoked.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:10 - Mordecai wrote in the name of King Xerxes, sealed the dispatches with the king's signet ring, and sent them by mounted couriers, who rode fast horses especially bred for the king.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:12 - The day appointed for the Jews to do this in all the provinces of King Xerxes was the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:14 - The couriers, riding the royal horses, went out, spurred on by the king's command, and the edict was issued in the citadel of Susa.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:1 - On the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar, the edict commanded by the king was to be carried out. On this day the enemies of the Jews had hoped to overpower them, but now the tables were turned and the Jews got the upper hand over those who hated them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:4 - Mordecai was prominent in the palace; his reputation spread throughout the provinces, and he became more and more powerful.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:10 - the ten sons of Haman son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews. But they did not lay their hands on the plunder.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:15 - The Jews in Susa came together on the fourteenth day of the month of Adar, and they put to death in Susa three hundred men, but they did not lay their hands on the plunder.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:16 - Meanwhile, the remainder of the Jews who were in the king's provinces also assembled to protect themselves and get relief from their enemies. They killed seventy-five thousand of them but did not lay their hands on the plunder.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:17 - This happened on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar, and on the fourteenth they rested and made it a day of feasting and joy.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:19 - That is why rural Jews—those living in villages—observe the fourteenth of the month of Adar as a day of joy and feasting, a day for giving presents to each other.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:21 - to have them celebrate annually the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month of Adar
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:5 - When a period of feasting had run its course, Job would make arrangements for them to be purified. Early in the morning he would sacrifice a burnt offering for each of them, thinking, “Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” This was Job's regular custom.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:6 - One day the angels[fn] came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan[fn] also came with them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:8 - Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:9 - “Does Job fear God for nothing?” Satan replied.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:12 - The LORD said to Satan, “Very well, then, everything he has is in your power, but on the man himself do not lay a finger.” Then Satan went out from the presence of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:13 - One day when Job's sons and daughters were feasting and drinking wine at the oldest brother's house,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:16 - While he was still speaking, another messenger came and said, “The fire of God fell from the heavens and burned up the sheep and the servants, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:22 - In all this, Job did not sin by charging God with wrongdoing.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:1 - On another day the angels[fn] came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came with them to present himself before him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:2 - And the LORD said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” Satan answered the LORD, “From roaming throughout the earth, going back and forth on it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:7 - So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and afflicted Job with painful sores from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:10 - He replied, “You are talking like a foolish[fn] woman. Shall we accept good from God, and not trouble?” In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:21 - to those who long for death that does not come, who search for it more than for hidden treasure,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:19 - how much more those who live in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who are crushed more readily than a moth!
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:25 - You will know that your children will be many, and your descendants like the grass of the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:13 - Such is the destiny of all who forget God; so perishes the hope of the godless.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:20 - Are not my few days almost over? Turn away from me so I can have a moment's joy
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:14 - If someone dies, will they live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait for my renewal[fn] to come.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:18 - “But as a mountain erodes and crumbles and as a rock is moved from its place,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:4 - But you even undermine piety and hinder devotion to God.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:10 - The gray-haired and the aged are on our side, men even older than your father.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:25 - because he shakes his fist at God and vaunts himself against the Almighty,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:13 - though he cannot bear to let it go and lets it linger in his mouth,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:29 - Such is the fate God allots the wicked, the heritage appointed for them by God.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:13 - Yet you say, ‘What does God know? Does he judge through such darkness?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:21 - The east wind carries him off, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:23 - It claps its hands in derision and hisses him out of his place.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:21 - It is hidden from the eyes of every living thing, concealed even from the birds in the sky.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:4 - Oh, for the days when I was in my prime, when God's intimate friendship blessed my house,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:18 - In his great power God becomes like clothing to me[fn]; he binds me like the neck of my garment.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:22 - then let my arm fall from the shoulder, let it be broken off at the joint.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:28 - then these also would be sins to be judged, for I would have been unfaithful to God on high.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 32:2 - But Elihu son of Barakel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, became very angry with Job for justifying himself rather than God.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 32:6 - So Elihu son of Barakel the Buzite said: “I am young in years, and you are old; that is why I was fearful, not daring to tell you what I know.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:6 - I am the same as you in God's sight; I too am a piece of clay.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:37 - To his sin he adds rebellion; scornfully he claps his hands among us and multiplies his words against God.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 36:10 - He makes them listen to correction and commands them to repent of their evil.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:1 - “At this my heart pounds and leaps from its place.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:3 - He unleashes his lightning beneath the whole heaven and sends it to the ends of the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:18 - Yet when she spreads her feathers to run, she laughs at horse and rider.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 40:9 - Do you have an arm like God's, and can your voice thunder like his?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:16 - each is so close to the next that no air can pass between.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 42:8 - So now take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves. My servant Job will pray for you, and I will accept his prayer and not deal with you according to your folly. You have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 42:17 - And so Job died, an old man and full of years.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 2:2 - The kings of the earth rise up and the rulers band together against the LORD and against his anointed, saying,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 3:1 - [fn]A psalm of David. When he fled from his son Absalom. LORD, how many are my foes! How many rise up against me!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 3:8 - From the LORD comes deliverance. May your blessing be on your people.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 6:8 - Away from me, all you who do evil, for the LORD has heard my weeping.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:10 - My shield[fn] is God Most High, who saves the upright in heart.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:17 - I will give thanks to the LORD because of his righteousness; I will sing the praises of the name of the LORD Most High.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 8:8 - the birds in the sky, and the fish in the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 9:1 - [fn][fn]For the director of music. To the tune of “The Death of the Son.” A psalm of David. I will give thanks to you, LORD, with all my heart; I will tell of all your wonderful deeds.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 9:5 - You have rebuked the nations and destroyed the wicked; you have blotted out their name for ever and ever.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 9:6 - Endless ruin has overtaken my enemies, you have uprooted their cities; even the memory of them has perished.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 9:13 - LORD, see how my enemies persecute me! Have mercy and lift me up from the gates of death,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 9:17 - The wicked go down to the realm of the dead, all the nations that forget God.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:15 - Break the arm of the wicked man; call the evildoer to account for his wickedness that would not otherwise be found out.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:16 - The LORD is King for ever and ever; the nations will perish from his land.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 12:5 - “Because the poor are plundered and the needy groan, I will now arise,” says the LORD. “I will protect them from those who malign them.”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 14:2 - The LORD looks down from heaven on all mankind to see if there are any who understand, any who seek God.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 14:7 - Oh, that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion! When the LORD restores his people, let Jacob rejoice and Israel be glad!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 17:1 - A prayer of David. Hear me, LORD, my plea is just; listen to my cry. Hear my prayer— it does not rise from deceitful lips.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:21 - For I have kept the ways of the LORD; I am not guilty of turning from my God.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:31 - For who is God besides the LORD? And who is the Rock except our God?
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:50 - He gives his king great victories; he shows unfailing love to his anointed, to David and to his descendants forever.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 19:6 - It rises at one end of the heavens and makes its circuit to the other; nothing is deprived of its warmth.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 19:7 - The law of the LORD is perfect, refreshing the soul. The statutes of the LORD are trustworthy, making wise the simple.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 19:13 - Keep your servant also from willful sins; may they not rule over me. Then I will be blameless, innocent of great transgression.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 20:1 - [fn]For the director of music. A psalm of David. May the LORD answer you when you are in distress; may the name of the God of Jacob protect you.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 21:7 - For the king trusts in the LORD; through the unfailing love of the Most High he will not be shaken.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:24 - For he has not despised or scorned the suffering of the afflicted one; he has not hidden his face from him but has listened to his cry for help.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:28 - for dominion belongs to the LORD and he rules over the nations.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 24:1 - Of David. A psalm. The earth is the LORD's, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it;
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 24:3 - Who may ascend the mountain of the LORD? Who may stand in his holy place?
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 24:6 - Such is the generation of those who seek him, who seek your face, God of Jacob.[fn][fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 25:6 - Remember, LORD, your great mercy and love, for they are from of old.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 26:1 - Of David. Vindicate me, LORD, for I have led a blameless life; I have trusted in the LORD and have not faltered.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 27:1 - Of David. The LORD is my light and my salvation— whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life— of whom shall I be afraid?
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 27:4 - One thing I ask from the LORD, this only do I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the LORD and to seek him in his temple.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 27:9 - Do not hide your face from me, do not turn your servant away in anger; you have been my helper. Do not reject me or forsake me, God my Savior.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 28:1 - Of David. To you, LORD, I call; you are my Rock, do not turn a deaf ear to me. For if you remain silent, I will be like those who go down to the pit.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 28:8 - The LORD is the strength of his people, a fortress of salvation for his anointed one.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 28:9 - Save your people and bless your inheritance; be their shepherd and carry them forever.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 29:5 - The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars; the LORD breaks in pieces the cedars of Lebanon.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 30:1 - [fn]A psalm. A song. For the dedication of the temple.[fn] Of David. I will exalt you, LORD, for you lifted me out of the depths and did not let my enemies gloat over me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:18 - Let their lying lips be silenced, for with pride and contempt they speak arrogantly against the righteous.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 32:10 - Many are the woes of the wicked, but the LORD's unfailing love surrounds the one who trusts in him.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 33:4 - For the word of the LORD is right and true; he is faithful in all he does.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 33:6 - By the word of the LORD the heavens were made, their starry host by the breath of his mouth.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 33:11 - But the plans of the LORD stand firm forever, the purposes of his heart through all generations.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:27 - May those who delight in my vindication shout for joy and gladness; may they always say, “The LORD be exalted, who delights in the well-being of his servant.”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 36:3 - The words of their mouths are wicked and deceitful; they fail to act wisely or do good.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 36:8 - They feast on the abundance of your house; you give them drink from your river of delights.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:1 - [fn]Of David. Do not fret because of those who are evil or be envious of those who do wrong;
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:4 - Take delight in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:20 - But the wicked will perish: Though the LORD's enemies are like the flowers of the field, they will be consumed, they will go up in smoke.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:31 - The law of their God is in their hearts; their feet do not slip.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:35 - I have seen a wicked and ruthless man flourishing like a luxuriant native tree,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 39:1 - [fn]For the director of music. For Jeduthun. A psalm of David. I said, “I will watch my ways and keep my tongue from sin; I will put a muzzle on my mouth while in the presence of the wicked.”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 41:13 - Praise be to the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Amen and Amen.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 42:2 - My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God?
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 42:4 - These things I remember as I pour out my soul: how I used to go to the house of God under the protection of the Mighty One[fn] with shouts of joy and praise among the festive throng.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 43:4 - Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my joy and my delight. I will praise you with the lyre, O God, my God.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 43:5 - Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 44:20 - If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 45:1 - [fn]For the director of music. To the tune of “Lilies.” Of the Sons of Korah. A maskil.[fn] A wedding song. My heart is stirred by a noble theme as I recite my verses for the king; my tongue is the pen of a skillful writer.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 45:5 - Let your sharp arrows pierce the hearts of the king's enemies; let the nations fall beneath your feet.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 45:6 - Your throne, O God,[fn] will last for ever and ever; a scepter of justice will be the scepter of your kingdom.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 45:10 - Listen, daughter, and pay careful attention: Forget your people and your father's house.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 45:12 - The city of Tyre will come with a gift,[fn] people of wealth will seek your favor.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 45:17 - I will perpetuate your memory through all generations; therefore the nations will praise you for ever and ever.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 46:4 - There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy place where the Most High dwells.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 47:9 - The nobles of the nations assemble as the people of the God of Abraham, for the kings[fn] of the earth belong to God; he is greatly exalted.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 48:1 - [fn]A song. A psalm of the Sons of Korah. Great is the LORD, and most worthy of praise, in the city of our God, his holy mountain.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 48:2 - Beautiful in its loftiness, the joy of the whole earth, like the heights of Zaphon[fn] is Mount Zion, the city of the Great King.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 48:8 - As we have heard, so we have seen in the city of the LORD Almighty, in the city of our God: God makes her secure forever.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 48:9 - Within your temple, O God, we meditate on your unfailing love.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 48:14 - For this God is our God for ever and ever; he will be our guide even to the end.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 49:6 - those who trust in their wealth and boast of their great riches?
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 49:16 - Do not be overawed when others grow rich, when the splendor of their houses increases;
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 50:9 - I have no need of a bull from your stall or of goats from your pens,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 50:10 - for every animal of the forest is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 50:11 - I know every bird in the mountains, and the insects in the fields are mine.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 50:20 - You sit and testify against your brother and slander your own mother's son.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 50:22 - “Consider this, you who forget God, or I will tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you:
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 50:23 - Those who sacrifice thank offerings honor me, and to the blameless[fn] I will show my salvation.”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 52:7 - “Here now is the man who did not make God his stronghold but trusted in his great wealth and grew strong by destroying others!”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 52:8 - But I am like an olive tree flourishing in the house of God; I trust in God's unfailing love for ever and ever.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 53:2 - God looks down from heaven on all mankind to see if there are any who understand, any who seek God.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 53:6 - Oh, that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion! When God restores his people, let Jacob rejoice and Israel be glad!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 55:14 - with whom I once enjoyed sweet fellowship at the house of God, as we walked about among the worshipers.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 56:1 - [fn]For the director of music. To the tune of “A Dove on Distant Oaks.” Of David. A miktam.[fn] When the Philistines had seized him in Gath. Be merciful to me, my God, for my enemies are in hot pursuit; all day long they press their attack.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 56:7 - Because of their wickedness do not[fn] let them escape; in your anger, God, bring the nations down.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 56:13 - For you have delivered me from death and my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before God in the light of life.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 58:4 - Their venom is like the venom of a snake, like that of a cobra that has stopped its ears,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 58:10 - The righteous will be glad when they are avenged, when they dip their feet in the blood of the wicked.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 59:11 - But do not kill them, Lord our shield,[fn] or my people will forget. In your might uproot them and bring them down.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 59:13 - consume them in your wrath, consume them till they are no more. Then it will be known to the ends of the earth that God rules over Jacob.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 61:7 - May he be enthroned in God's presence forever; appoint your love and faithfulness to protect him.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 61:8 - Then I will ever sing in praise of your name and fulfill my vows day after day.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 62:12 - and with you, Lord, is unfailing love”; and, “You reward everyone according to what they have done.”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 64:9 - All people will fear; they will proclaim the works of God and ponder what he has done.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 65:1 - [fn]For the director of music. A psalm of David. A song. Praise awaits[fn] you, our God, in Zion; to you our vows will be fulfilled.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 65:4 - Blessed are those you choose and bring near to live in your courts! We are filled with the good things of your house, of your holy temple.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 65:9 - You care for the land and water it; you enrich it abundantly. The streams of God are filled with water to provide the people with grain, for so you have ordained it.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 65:11 - You crown the year with your bounty, and your carts overflow with abundance.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 66:5 - Come and see what God has done, his awesome deeds for mankind!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 66:7 - He rules forever by his power, his eyes watch the nations— let not the rebellious rise up against him.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 66:9 - he has preserved our lives and kept our feet from slipping.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:2 - May you blow them away like smoke— as wax melts before the fire, may the wicked perish before God.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:3 - But may the righteous be glad and rejoice before God; may they be happy and joyful.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:5 - A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:7 - When you, God, went out before your people, when you marched through the wilderness,[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:8 - the earth shook, the heavens poured down rain, before God, the One of Sinai, before God, the God of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:12 - “Kings and armies flee in haste; the women at home divide the plunder.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:15 - Mount Bashan, majestic mountain, Mount Bashan, rugged mountain,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:17 - The chariots of God are tens of thousands and thousands of thousands; the Lord has come from Sinai into his sanctuary.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:20 - Our God is a God who saves; from the Sovereign LORD comes escape from death.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:24 - Your procession, God, has come into view, the procession of my God and King into the sanctuary.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:29 - Because of your temple at Jerusalem kings will bring you gifts.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:30 - Rebuke the beast among the reeds, the herd of bulls among the calves of the nations. Humbled, may the beast bring bars of silver. Scatter the nations who delight in war.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:33 - to him who rides across the highest heavens, the ancient heavens, who thunders with mighty voice.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:6 - Lord, the LORD Almighty, may those who hope in you not be disgraced because of me; God of Israel, may those who seek you not be put to shame because of me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:9 - for zeal for your house consumes me, and the insults of those who insult you fall on me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:17 - Do not hide your face from your servant; answer me quickly, for I am in trouble.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:30 - I will praise God's name in song and glorify him with thanksgiving.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 71:22 - I will praise you with the harp for your faithfulness, my God; I will sing praise to you with the lyre, Holy One of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 72:1 - Of Solomon. Endow the king with your justice, O God, the royal son with your righteousness.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 72:4 - May he defend the afflicted among the people and save the children of the needy; may he crush the oppressor.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 72:17 - May his name endure forever; may it continue as long as the sun. Then all nations will be blessed through him,[fn] and they will call him blessed.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 72:19 - Praise be to his glorious name forever; may the whole earth be filled with his glory. Amen and Amen.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 72:20 - This concludes the prayers of David son of Jesse.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:17 - till I entered the sanctuary of God; then I understood their final destiny.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:8 - They said in their hearts, “We will crush them completely!” They burned every place where God was worshiped in the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:11 - Why do you hold back your hand, your right hand? Take it from the folds of your garment and destroy them!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:14 - It was you who crushed the heads of Leviathan and gave it as food to the creatures of the desert.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 75:5 - Do not lift your horns against heaven; do not speak so defiantly.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 75:10 - who says, “I will cut off the horns of all the wicked, but the horns of the righteous will be lifted up.”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 76:5 - The valiant lie plundered, they sleep their last sleep; not one of the warriors can lift his hands.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 76:8 - From heaven you pronounced judgment, and the land feared and was quiet—
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 77:3 - I remembered you, God, and I groaned; I meditated, and my spirit grew faint.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 77:10 - Then I thought, “To this I will appeal: the years when the Most High stretched out his right hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:4 - We will not hide them from their descendants; we will tell the next generation the praiseworthy deeds of the LORD, his power, and the wonders he has done.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:7 - Then they would put their trust in God and would not forget his deeds but would keep his commands.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:8 - They would not be like their ancestors— a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose hearts were not loyal to God, whose spirits were not faithful to him.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:10 - they did not keep God's covenant and refused to live by his law.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:17 - But they continued to sin against him, rebelling in the wilderness against the Most High.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:19 - They spoke against God; they said, “Can God really spread a table in the wilderness?
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:31 - God's anger rose against them; he put to death the sturdiest among them, cutting down the young men of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:41 - Again and again they put God to the test; they vexed the Holy One of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:55 - He drove out nations before them and allotted their lands to them as an inheritance; he settled the tribes of Israel in their homes.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 79:2 - They have left the dead bodies of your servants as food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of your own people for the animals of the wild.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 79:10 - Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?” Before our eyes, make known among the nations that you avenge the outpoured blood of your servants.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 79:11 - May the groans of the prisoners come before you; with your strong arm preserve those condemned to die.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 80:1 - [fn]For the director of music. To the tune of “The Lilies of the Covenant.” Of Asaph. A psalm. Hear us, Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock. You who sit enthroned between the cherubim, shine forth
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 80:4 - How long, LORD God Almighty, will your anger smolder against the prayers of your people?
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 80:10 - The mountains were covered with its shade, the mighty cedars with its branches.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 83:12 - who said, “Let us take possession of the pasturelands of God.”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 83:17 - May they ever be ashamed and dismayed; may they perish in disgrace.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 84:2 - My soul yearns, even faints, for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 84:6 - As they pass through the Valley of Baka, they make it a place of springs; the autumn rains also cover it with pools.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 84:9 - Look on our shield,[fn] O God; look with favor on your anointed one.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 84:10 - Better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere; I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 85:9 - Surely his salvation is near those who fear him, that his glory may dwell in our land.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 85:11 - Faithfulness springs forth from the earth, and righteousness looks down from heaven.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 86:4 - Bring joy to your servant, Lord, for I put my trust in you.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 87:3 - Glorious things are said of you, city of God:[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:1 - [fn]A song. A psalm of the Sons of Korah. For the director of music. According to mahalath leannoth.[fn] A maskil[fn] of Heman the Ezrahite. LORD, you are the God who saves me; day and night I cry out to you.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:4 - ‘I will establish your line forever and make your throne firm through all generations.' ”[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:14 - Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne; love and faithfulness go before you.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:18 - Indeed, our shield[fn] belongs to the LORD, our king to the Holy One of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:19 - Once you spoke in a vision, to your faithful people you said: “I have bestowed strength on a warrior; I have raised up a young man from among the people.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:29 - I will establish his line forever, his throne as long as the heavens endure.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:39 - You have renounced the covenant with your servant and have defiled his crown in the dust.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:45 - You have cut short the days of his youth; you have covered him with a mantle of shame.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:50 - Remember, Lord, how your servant has[fn] been mocked, how I bear in my heart the taunts of all the nations,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:51 - the taunts with which your enemies, LORD, have mocked, with which they have mocked every step of your anointed one.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 90:1 - A prayer of Moses the man of God. Lord, you have been our dwelling place throughout all generations.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 90:2 - Before the mountains were born or you brought forth the whole world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 90:11 - If only we knew the power of your anger! Your wrath is as great as the fear that is your due.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 90:17 - May the favor[fn] of the Lord our God rest on us; establish the work of our hands for us— yes, establish the work of our hands.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 91:1 - Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 92:7 - that though the wicked spring up like grass and all evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 92:13 - planted in the house of the LORD, they will flourish in the courts of our God.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 93:2 - Your throne was established long ago; you are from all eternity.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:7 - They say, “The LORD does not see; the God of Jacob takes no notice.”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:12 - Blessed is the one you discipline, LORD, the one you teach from your law;
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 95:6 - Come, let us bow down in worship, let us kneel before the LORD our Maker;
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 95:8 - “Do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah,[fn] as you did that day at Massah[fn] in the wilderness,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 96:12 - Let the fields be jubilant, and everything in them; let all the trees of the forest sing for joy.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 97:2 - Clouds and thick darkness surround him; righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 98:3 - He has remembered his love and his faithfulness to Israel; all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 98:6 - with trumpets and the blast of the ram's horn— shout for joy before the LORD, the King.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 101:2 - I will be careful to lead a blameless life— when will you come to me? I will conduct the affairs of my house with a blameless heart.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 101:4 - The perverse of heart shall be far from me; I will have nothing to do with what is evil.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 101:5 - Whoever slanders their neighbor in secret, I will put to silence; whoever has haughty eyes and a proud heart, I will not tolerate.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 101:8 - Every morning I will put to silence all the wicked in the land; I will cut off every evildoer from the city of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:5 - In my distress I groan aloud and am reduced to skin and bones.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:10 - because of your great wrath, for you have taken me up and thrown me aside.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 103:11 - For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his love for those who fear him;
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 103:15 - The life of mortals is like grass, they flourish like a flower of the field;
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 103:17 - But from everlasting to everlasting the LORD's love is with those who fear him, and his righteousness with their children's children—
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:5 - He set the earth on its foundations; it can never be moved.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:11 - They give water to all the beasts of the field; the wild donkeys quench their thirst.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:12 - The birds of the sky nest by the waters; they sing among the branches.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:16 - The trees of the LORD are well watered, the cedars of Lebanon that he planted.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:17 - There the birds make their nests; the stork has its home in the junipers.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:20 - You bring darkness, it becomes night, and all the beasts of the forest prowl.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:21 - The lions roar for their prey and seek their food from God.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:9 - the covenant he made with Abraham, the oath he swore to Isaac.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:21 - He made him master of his household, ruler over all he possessed,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:42 - For he remembered his holy promise given to his servant Abraham.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:2 - Who can proclaim the mighty acts of the LORD or fully declare his praise?
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:4 - Remember me, LORD, when you show favor to your people, come to my aid when you save them,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:21 - They forgot the God who saved them, who had done great things in Egypt,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:31 - This was credited to him as righteousness for endless generations to come.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:48 - Praise be to the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Let all the people say, “Amen!” Praise the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:11 - because they rebelled against God's commands and despised the plans of the Most High.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:18 - They loathed all food and drew near the gates of death.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:43 - Let the one who is wise heed these things and ponder the loving deeds of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 111:3 - Glorious and majestic are his deeds, and his righteousness endures forever.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 111:8 - They are established for ever and ever, enacted in faithfulness and uprightness.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 111:10 - The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom; all who follow his precepts have good understanding. To him belongs eternal praise.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 112:3 - Wealth and riches are in their houses, and their righteousness endures forever.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 112:9 - They have freely scattered their gifts to the poor, their righteousness endures forever; their horn[fn] will be lifted high in honor.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 113:2 - Let the name of the LORD be praised, both now and forevermore.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 114:7 - Tremble, earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 114:8 - who turned the rock into a pool, the hard rock into springs of water.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 115:16 - The highest heavens belong to the LORD, but the earth he has given to mankind.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 115:18 - it is we who extol the LORD, both now and forevermore. Praise the LORD.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 116:18 - I will fulfill my vows to the LORD in the presence of all his people,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 117:2 - For great is his love toward us, and the faithfulness of the LORD endures forever. Praise the LORD.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 118:20 - This is the gate of the LORD through which the righteous may enter.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:18 - Open my eyes that I may see wonderful things in your law.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:44 - I will always obey your law, for ever and ever.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:51 - The arrogant mock me unmercifully, but I do not turn from your law.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:61 - Though the wicked bind me with ropes, I will not forget your law.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:65 - Teth Do good to your servant according to your word, LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:84 - How long must your servant wait? When will you punish my persecutors?
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:109 - Though I constantly take my life in my hands, I will not forget your law.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:115 - Away from me, you evildoers, that I may keep the commands of my God!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:120 - My flesh trembles in fear of you; I stand in awe of your laws.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:124 - Deal with your servant according to your love and teach me your decrees.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:139 - My zeal wears me out, for my enemies ignore your words.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:150 - Those who devise wicked schemes are near, but they are far from your law.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 120:4 - He will punish you with a warrior's sharp arrows, with burning coals of the broom bush.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 121:2 - My help comes from the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 121:8 - the LORD will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 122:9 - For the sake of the house of the LORD our God, I will seek your prosperity.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 124:8 - Our help is in the name of the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 125:2 - As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the LORD surrounds his people both now and forevermore.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 127:3 - Children are a heritage from the LORD, offspring a reward from him.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 130:5 - I wait for the LORD, my whole being waits, and in his word I put my hope.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 131:3 - Israel, put your hope in the LORD both now and forevermore.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 132:1 - A song of ascents. LORD, remember David and all his self-denial.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 132:6 - We heard it in Ephrathah, we came upon it in the fields of Jaar:[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 132:10 - For the sake of your servant David, do not reject your anointed one.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 132:12 - If your sons keep my covenant and the statutes I teach them, then their sons will sit on your throne for ever and ever.”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 133:3 - It is as if the dew of Hermon were falling on Mount Zion. For there the LORD bestows his blessing, even life forevermore.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 136:26 - Give thanks to the God of heaven.

His love endures forever.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 140:12 - I know that the LORD secures justice for the poor and upholds the cause of the needy.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 143:2 - Do not bring your servant into judgment, for no one living is righteous before you.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 145:1 - [fn]A psalm of praise. Of David. I will exalt you, my God the King; I will praise your name for ever and ever.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 145:2 - Every day I will praise you and extol your name for ever and ever.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 145:21 - My mouth will speak in praise of the LORD. Let every creature praise his holy name for ever and ever.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 147:2 - The LORD builds up Jerusalem; he gathers the exiles of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 147:10 - His pleasure is not in the strength of the horse, nor his delight in the legs of the warrior;
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 147:16 - He spreads the snow like wool and scatters the frost like ashes.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 148:6 - and he established them for ever and ever— he issued a decree that will never pass away.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 149:6 - May the praise of God be in their mouths and a double-edged sword in their hands,
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:1 - The proverbs of Solomon son of David, king of Israel:
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:4 - for giving prudence to those who are simple,[fn] knowledge and discretion to the young—
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:29 - since they hated knowledge and did not choose to fear the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:21 - For your ways are in full view of the LORD, and he examines all your paths.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:6 - At the window of my house I looked down through the lattice.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:27 - Her house is a highway to the grave, leading down to the chambers of death.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:23 - I was formed long ages ago, at the very beginning, when the world came to be.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 9:12 - If you are wise, your wisdom will reward you; if you are a mocker, you alone will suffer.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 9:14 - She sits at the door of her house, on a seat at the highest point of the city,
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:26 - People curse the one who hoards grain, but they pray God's blessing on the one who is willing to sell.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 13:12 - Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:24 - The path of life leads upward for the prudent to keep them from going down to the realm of the dead.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:29 - The LORD is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:2 - All a person's ways seem pure to them, but motives are weighed by the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:4 - The LORD works out everything to its proper end— even the wicked for a day of disaster.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:6 - Children's children are a crown to the aged, and parents are the pride of their children.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:13 - Evil will never leave the house of one who pays back evil for good.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:24 - A discerning person keeps wisdom in view, but a fool's eyes wander to the ends of the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 18:9 - One who is slack in his work is brother to one who destroys.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 19:4 - Wealth attracts many friends, but even the closest friend of the poor person deserts them.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 19:21 - Many are the plans in a person's heart, but it is the LORD's purpose that prevails.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:5 - Cast but a glance at riches, and they are gone, for they will surely sprout wings and fly off to the sky like an eagle.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:22 - Listen to your father, who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:1 - These are more proverbs of Solomon, compiled by the men of Hezekiah king of Judah:
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:18 - Like a club or a sword or a sharp arrow is one who gives false testimony against a neighbor.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:9 - Like a thornbush in a drunkard's hand is a proverb in the mouth of a fool.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:14 - As a door turns on its hinges, so a sluggard turns on his bed.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:16 - A sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven people who answer discreetly.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:10 - Do not forsake your friend or a friend of your family, and do not go to your relative's house when disaster strikes you— better a neighbor nearby than a relative far away.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:15 - A quarrelsome wife is like the dripping of a leaky roof in a rainstorm;
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 28:23 - Whoever rebukes a person will in the end gain favor rather than one who has a flattering tongue.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 29:5 - Those who flatter their neighbors are spreading nets for their feet.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:9 - Otherwise, I may have too much and disown you and say, ‘Who is the LORD?' Or I may become poor and steal, and so dishonor the name of my God.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 31:11 - Her husband has full confidence in her and lacks nothing of value.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 1:13 - I applied my mind to study and to explore by wisdom all that is done under the heavens. What a heavy burden God has laid on mankind!
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:3 - I tried cheering myself with wine, and embracing folly—my mind still guiding me with wisdom. I wanted to see what was good for people to do under the heavens during the few days of their lives.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:8 - I amassed silver and gold for myself, and the treasure of kings and provinces. I acquired male and female singers, and a harem[fn] as well—the delights of a man's heart.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:14 - The wise have eyes in their heads, while the fool walks in the darkness; but I came to realize that the same fate overtakes them both.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:15 - Then I said to myself, “The fate of the fool will overtake me also. What then do I gain by being wise?” I said to myself, “This too is meaningless.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:16 - For the wise, like the fool, will not be long remembered; the days have already come when both have been forgotten. Like the fool, the wise too must die!
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:24 - A person can do nothing better than to eat and drink and find satisfaction in their own toil. This too, I see, is from the hand of God,
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:26 - To the person who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge and happiness, but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and storing up wealth to hand it over to the one who pleases God. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:5 - a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:9 - What do workers gain from their toil?
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:10 - I have seen the burden God has laid on the human race.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:16 - And I saw something else under the sun: In the place of judgment—wickedness was there, in the place of justice—wickedness was there.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:18 - I also said to myself, “As for humans, God tests them so that they may see that they are like the animals.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:19 - Surely the fate of human beings is like that of the animals; the same fate awaits them both: As one dies, so dies the other. All have the same breath[fn]; humans have no advantage over animals. Everything is meaningless.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:20 - All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust all return.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:21 - Who knows if the human spirit rises upward and if the spirit of the animal goes down into the earth?”
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:2 - And I declared that the dead, who had already died, are happier than the living, who are still alive.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:4 - And I saw that all toil and all achievement spring from one person's envy of another. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:15 - I saw that all who lived and walked under the sun followed the youth, the king's successor.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:1 - Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Go near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools, who do not know that they do wrong.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:2 - Do not be quick with your mouth, do not be hasty in your heart to utter anything before God. God is in heaven and you are on earth, so let your words be few.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:6 - Do not let your mouth lead you into sin. And do not protest to the temple messenger, “My vow was a mistake.” Why should God be angry at what you say and destroy the work of your hands?
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:9 - The increase from the land is taken by all; the king himself profits from the fields.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:12 - The sleep of a laborer is sweet, whether they eat little or much, but as for the rich, their abundance permits them no sleep.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 6:7 - Everyone's toil is for their mouth, yet their appetite is never satisfied.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 6:10 - Whatever exists has already been named, and what humanity is has been known; no one can contend with someone who is stronger.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:1 - A good name is better than fine perfume, and the day of death better than the day of birth.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:2 - It is better to go to a house of mourning than to go to a house of feasting, for death is the destiny of everyone; the living should take this to heart.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:13 - Consider what God has done: Who can straighten what he has made crooked?
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:21 - Do not pay attention to every word people say, or you may hear your servant cursing you—
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:26 - I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a trap and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God will escape her, but the sinner she will ensnare.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:6 - For there is a proper time and procedure for every matter, though a person may be weighed down by misery.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:8 - As no one has power over the wind to contain it, so[fn] no one has power over the time of their death. As no one is discharged in time of war, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:11 - When the sentence for a crime is not quickly carried out, people's hearts are filled with schemes to do wrong.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:13 - Yet because the wicked do not fear God, it will not go well with them, and their days will not lengthen like a shadow.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:17 - then I saw all that God has done. No one can comprehend what goes on under the sun. Despite all their efforts to search it out, no one can discover its meaning. Even if the wise claim they know, they cannot really comprehend it.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:1 - So I reflected on all this and concluded that the righteous and the wise and what they do are in God's hands, but no one knows whether love or hate awaits them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:3 - This is the evil in everything that happens under the sun: The same destiny overtakes all. The hearts of people, moreover, are full of evil and there is madness in their hearts while they live, and afterward they join the dead.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:12 - Moreover, no one knows when their hour will come: As fish are caught in a cruel net, or birds are taken in a snare, so people are trapped by evil times that fall unexpectedly upon them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:15 - Now there lived in that city a man poor but wise, and he saved the city by his wisdom. But nobody remembered that poor man.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:16 - So I said, “Wisdom is better than strength.” But the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are no longer heeded.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 10:4 - If a ruler's anger rises against you, do not leave your post; calmness can lay great offenses to rest.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 10:5 - There is an evil I have seen under the sun, the sort of error that arises from a ruler:
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 10:10 - If the ax is dull and its edge unsharpened, more strength is needed, but skill will bring success.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 10:20 - Do not revile the king even in your thoughts, or curse the rich in your bedroom, because a bird in the sky may carry your words, and a bird on the wing may report what you say.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 11:5 - As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the body is formed[fn] in a mother's womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 12:1 - Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of trouble come and the years approach when you will say, “I find no pleasure in them”—
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 12:2 - before the sun and the light and the moon and the stars grow dark, and the clouds return after the rain;
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 12:4 - when the doors to the street are closed and the sound of grinding fades; when people rise up at the sound of birds, but all their songs grow faint;
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 2:3 - She: Like an apple[fn] tree among the trees of the forest is my beloved among the young men. I delight to sit in his shade, and his fruit is sweet to my taste.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 2:4 - Let him lead me to the banquet hall, and let his banner over me be love.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 2:7 - Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you by the gazelles and by the does of the field: Do not arouse or awaken love until it so desires.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 2:9 - My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Look! There he stands behind our wall, gazing through the windows, peering through the lattice.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 2:12 - Flowers appear on the earth; the season of singing has come, the cooing of doves is heard in our land.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 3:5 - Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you by the gazelles and by the does of the field: Do not arouse or awaken love until it so desires.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 3:7 - Look! It is Solomon's carriage, escorted by sixty warriors, the noblest of Israel,
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 3:9 - King Solomon made for himself the carriage; he made it of wood from Lebanon.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:1 - He: How beautiful you are, my darling! Oh, how beautiful! Your eyes behind your veil are doves. Your hair is like a flock of goats descending from the hills of Gilead.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:6 - Until the day breaks and the shadows flee, I will go to the mountain of myrrh and to the hill of incense.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:14 - nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of incense tree, with myrrh and aloes and all the finest spices.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:15 - You are[fn] a garden fountain, a well of flowing water streaming down from Lebanon.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:8 - Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you— if you find my beloved, what will you tell him? Tell him I am faint with love.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:5 - Turn your eyes from me; they overwhelm me. Your hair is like a flock of goats descending from Gilead.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:11 - He: I went down to the grove of nut trees to look at the new growth in the valley, to see if the vines had budded or the pomegranates were in bloom.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 7:4 - Your neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes are the pools of Heshbon by the gate of Bath Rabbim. Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon looking toward Damascus.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:2 - I would lead you and bring you to my mother's house— she who has taught me. I would give you spiced wine to drink, the nectar of my pomegranates.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:4 - Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you: Do not arouse or awaken love until it so desires.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:3 - The ox knows its master, the donkey its owner's manger, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:4 - Woe to the sinful nation, a people whose guilt is great, a brood of evildoers, children given to corruption! They have forsaken the LORD; they have spurned the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on him.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:2 - In the last days the mountain of the LORD's temple will be established as the highest of the mountains; it will be exalted above the hills, and all nations will stream to it.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:3 - Many peoples will come and say, “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the temple of the God of Jacob. He will teach us his ways, so that we may walk in his paths.” The law will go out from Zion, the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:5 - Come, descendants of Jacob, let us walk in the light of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:6 - You, LORD, have abandoned your people, the descendants of Jacob. They are full of superstitions from the East; they practice divination like the Philistines and embrace pagan customs.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:10 - Go into the rocks, hide in the ground from the fearful presence of the LORD and the splendor of his majesty!
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:13 - for all the cedars of Lebanon, tall and lofty, and all the oaks of Bashan,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:19 - People will flee to caves in the rocks and to holes in the ground from the fearful presence of the LORD and the splendor of his majesty, when he rises to shake the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:21 - They will flee to caverns in the rocks and to the overhanging crags from the fearful presence of the LORD and the splendor of his majesty, when he rises to shake the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 3:6 - A man will seize one of his brothers in his father's house, and say, “You have a cloak, you be our leader; take charge of this heap of ruins!”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 3:7 - But in that day he will cry out, “I have no remedy. I have no food or clothing in my house; do not make me the leader of the people.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 3:14 - The LORD enters into judgment against the elders and leaders of his people: “It is you who have ruined my vineyard; the plunder from the poor is in your houses.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 3:18 - In that day the Lord will snatch away their finery: the bangles and headbands and crescent necklaces,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 3:20 - the headdresses and anklets and sashes, the perfume bottles and charms,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 3:24 - Instead of fragrance there will be a stench; instead of a sash, a rope; instead of well-dressed hair, baldness; instead of fine clothing, sackcloth; instead of beauty, branding.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 3:26 - The gates of Zion will lament and mourn; destitute, she will sit on the ground.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 4:2 - In that day the Branch of the LORD will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the pride and glory of the survivors in Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:1 - I will sing for the one I love a song about his vineyard: My loved one had a vineyard on a fertile hillside.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:3 - “Now you dwellers in Jerusalem and people of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:7 - The vineyard of the LORD Almighty is the nation of Israel, and the people of Judah are the vines he delighted in. And he looked for justice, but saw bloodshed; for righteousness, but heard cries of distress.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:8 - Woe to you who add house to house and join field to field till no space is left and you live alone in the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:19 - to those who say, “Let God hurry; let him hasten his work so we may see it. The plan of the Holy One of Israel— let it approach, let it come into view, so we may know it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:23 - who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice to the innocent.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:24 - Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the LORD Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:1 - In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord, high and exalted, seated on a throne; and the train of his robe filled the temple.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:6 - Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:7 - With it he touched my mouth and said, “See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:10 - Make the heart of this people calloused; make their ears dull and close their eyes.[fn] Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:1 - When Ahaz son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, was king of Judah, King Rezin of Aram and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel marched up to fight against Jerusalem, but they could not overpower it.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:2 - Now the house of David was told, “Aram has allied itself with[fn] Ephraim”; so the hearts of Ahaz and his people were shaken, as the trees of the forest are shaken by the wind.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:3 - Then the LORD said to Isaiah, “Go out, you and your son Shear-Jashub,[fn] to meet Ahaz at the end of the aqueduct of the Upper Pool, on the road to the Launderer's Field.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:4 - Say to him, ‘Be careful, keep calm and don't be afraid. Do not lose heart because of these two smoldering stubs of firewood—because of the fierce anger of Rezin and Aram and of the son of Remaliah.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:5 - Aram, Ephraim and Remaliah's son have plotted your ruin, saying,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:9 - The head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is only Remaliah's son. If you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:17 - The LORD will bring on you and on your people and on the house of your father a time unlike any since Ephraim broke away from Judah—he will bring the king of Assyria.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:20 - In that day the Lord will use a razor hired from beyond the Euphrates River—the king of Assyria—to shave your heads and private parts, and to cut off your beards also.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:22 - And because of the abundance of the milk they give, there will be curds to eat. All who remain in the land will eat curds and honey.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:1 - The LORD said to me, “Take a large scroll and write on it with an ordinary pen: Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz.”[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:6 - “Because this people has rejected the gently flowing waters of Shiloah and rejoices over Rezin and the son of Remaliah,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:7 - therefore the Lord is about to bring against them the mighty floodwaters of the Euphrates— the king of Assyria with all his pomp. It will overflow all its channels, run over all its banks
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:11 - This is what the LORD says to me with his strong hand upon me, warning me not to follow the way of this people:
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:17 - I will wait for the LORD, who is hiding his face from the descendants of Jacob. I will put my trust in him.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:1 - Nevertheless, there will be no more gloom for those who were in distress. In the past he humbled the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the future he will honor Galilee of the nations, by the Way of the Sea, beyond the Jordan—
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:3 - You have enlarged the nation and increased their joy; they rejoice before you as people rejoice at the harvest, as warriors rejoice when dividing the plunder.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:4 - For as in the day of Midian's defeat, you have shattered the yoke that burdens them, the bar across their shoulders, the rod of their oppressor.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:6 - For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:7 - Of the greatness of his government and peace there will be no end. He will reign on David's throne and over his kingdom, establishing and upholding it with justice and righteousness from that time on and forever. The zeal of the LORD Almighty will accomplish this.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:9 - All the people will know it— Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria— who say with pride and arrogance of heart,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:18 - Surely wickedness burns like a fire; it consumes briers and thorns, it sets the forest thickets ablaze, so that it rolls upward in a column of smoke.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:20 - On the right they will devour, but still be hungry; on the left they will eat, but not be satisfied. Each will feed on the flesh of their own offspring[fn]:
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:21 - Manasseh will feed on Ephraim, and Ephraim on Manasseh; together they will turn against Judah. Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away, his hand is still upraised.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:2 - to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:3 - What will you do on the day of reckoning, when disaster comes from afar? To whom will you run for help? Where will you leave your riches?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:5 - “Woe to the Assyrian, the rod of my anger, in whose hand is the club of my wrath!
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:15 - Does the ax raise itself above the person who swings it, or the saw boast against the one who uses it? As if a rod were to wield the person who lifts it up, or a club brandish the one who is not wood!
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:17 - The Light of Israel will become a fire, their Holy One a flame; in a single day it will burn and consume his thorns and his briers.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:20 - In that day the remnant of Israel, the survivors of Jacob, will no longer rely on him who struck them down but will truly rely on the LORD, the Holy One of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:21 - A remnant will return,[fn] a remnant of Jacob will return to the Mighty God.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:27 - In that day their burden will be lifted from your shoulders, their yoke from your neck; the yoke will be broken because you have grown so fat.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:2 - The Spirit of the LORD will rest on him— the Spirit of wisdom and of understanding, the Spirit of counsel and of might, the Spirit of the knowledge and fear of the LORD
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:10 - In that day the Root of Jesse will stand as a banner for the peoples; the nations will rally to him, and his resting place will be glorious.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:11 - In that day the Lord will reach out his hand a second time to reclaim the surviving remnant of his people from Assyria, from Lower Egypt, from Upper Egypt, from Cush,[fn] from Elam, from Babylonia,[fn] from Hamath and from the islands of the Mediterranean.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:12 - He will raise a banner for the nations and gather the exiles of Israel; he will assemble the scattered people of Judah from the four quarters of the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 12:6 - Shout aloud and sing for joy, people of Zion, for great is the Holy One of Israel among you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:5 - They come from faraway lands, from the ends of the heavens— the LORD and the weapons of his wrath— to destroy the whole country.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:6 - Wail, for the day of the LORD is near; it will come like destruction from the Almighty.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:10 - The stars of heaven and their constellations will not show their light. The rising sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its light.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:2 - Nations will take them and bring them to their own place. And Israel will take possession of the nations and make them male and female servants in the LORD's land. They will make captives of their captors and rule over their oppressors.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:3 - On the day the LORD gives you relief from your suffering and turmoil and from the harsh labor forced on you,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:8 - Even the junipers and the cedars of Lebanon gloat over you and say, “Now that you have been laid low, no one comes to cut us down.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:12 - How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations!
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:13 - You said in your heart, “I will ascend to the heavens; I will raise my throne above the stars of God; I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly, on the utmost heights of Mount Zaphon.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:21 - Prepare a place to slaughter his children for the sins of their ancestors; they are not to rise to inherit the land and cover the earth with their cities.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:29 - Do not rejoice, all you Philistines, that the rod that struck you is broken; from the root of that snake will spring up a viper, its fruit will be a darting, venomous serpent.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:32 - What answer shall be given to the envoys of that nation? “The LORD has established Zion, and in her his afflicted people will find refuge.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 15:8 - Their outcry echoes along the border of Moab; their wailing reaches as far as Eglaim, their lamentation as far as Beer Elim.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:7 - In that day people will look to their Maker and turn their eyes to the Holy One of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:10 - You have forgotten God your Savior; you have not remembered the Rock, your fortress. Therefore, though you set out the finest plants and plant imported vines,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 18:5 - For, before the harvest, when the blossom is gone and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he will cut off the shoots with pruning knives, and cut down and take away the spreading branches.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 18:6 - They will all be left to the mountain birds of prey and to the wild animals; the birds will feed on them all summer, the wild animals all winter.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 18:7 - At that time gifts will be brought to the LORD Almighty from a people tall and smooth-skinned, from a people feared far and wide, an aggressive nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers— the gifts will be brought to Mount Zion, the place of the Name of the LORD Almighty.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:6 - The canals will stink; the streams of Egypt will dwindle and dry up. The reeds and rushes will wither,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:7 - also the plants along the Nile, at the mouth of the river. Every sown field along the Nile will become parched, will blow away and be no more.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:11 - The officials of Zoan are nothing but fools; the wise counselors of Pharaoh give senseless advice. How can you say to Pharaoh, “I am one of the wise men, a disciple of the ancient kings”?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 20:6 - In that day the people who live on this coast will say, ‘See what has happened to those we relied on, those we fled to for help and deliverance from the king of Assyria! How then can we escape?' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:10 - My people who are crushed on the threshing floor, I tell you what I have heard from the LORD Almighty, from the God of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:11 - A prophecy against Dumah[fn]: Someone calls to me from Seir, “Watchman, what is left of the night? Watchman, what is left of the night?”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:18 - He will roll you up tightly like a ball and throw you into a large country. There you will die and there the chariots you were so proud of will become a disgrace to your master's house.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:20 - “In that day I will summon my servant, Eliakim son of Hilkiah.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:23 - I will drive him like a peg into a firm place; he will become a seat[fn] of honor for the house of his father.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:24 - All the glory of his family will hang on him: its offspring and offshoots—all its lesser vessels, from the bowls to all the jars.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:12 - He said, “No more of your reveling, Virgin Daughter Sidon, now crushed! “Up, cross over to Cyprus; even there you will find no rest.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:10 - The ruined city lies desolate; the entrance to every house is barred.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:11 - In the streets they cry out for wine; all joy turns to gloom, all joyful sounds are banished from the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:18 - Whoever flees at the sound of terror will fall into a pit; whoever climbs out of the pit will be caught in a snare. The floodgates of the heavens are opened, the foundations of the earth shake.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:21 - In that day the LORD will punish the powers in the heavens above and the kings on the earth below.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 25:2 - You have made the city a heap of rubble, the fortified town a ruin, the foreigners' stronghold a city no more; it will never be rebuilt.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 25:8 - he will swallow up death forever. The Sovereign LORD will wipe away the tears from all faces; he will remove his people's disgrace from all the earth.

The LORD has spoken.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 25:11 - They will stretch out their hands in it, as swimmers stretch out their hands to swim. God will bring down their pride despite the cleverness[fn] of their hands.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 25:12 - He will bring down your high fortified walls and lay them low; he will bring them down to the ground, to the very dust.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 26:4 - Trust in the LORD forever, for the LORD, the LORD himself, is the Rock eternal.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 26:21 - See, the LORD is coming out of his dwelling to punish the people of the earth for their sins. The earth will disclose the blood shed on it; the earth will conceal its slain no longer.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:6 - In days to come Jacob will take root, Israel will bud and blossom and fill all the world with fruit.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:12 - In that day the LORD will thresh from the flowing Euphrates to the Wadi of Egypt, and you, Israel, will be gathered up one by one.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:3 - That wreath, the pride of Ephraim's drunkards, will be trampled underfoot.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:7 - And these also stagger from wine and reel from beer: Priests and prophets stagger from beer and are befuddled with wine; they reel from beer, they stagger when seeing visions, they stumble when rendering decisions.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:13 - So then, the word of the LORD to them will become: Do this, do that, a rule for this, a rule for that; a little here, a little there— so that as they go they will fall backward; they will be injured and snared and captured.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:14 - Therefore hear the word of the LORD, you scoffers who rule this people in Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:15 - You boast, “We have entered into a covenant with death, with the realm of the dead we have made an agreement. When an overwhelming scourge sweeps by, it cannot touch us, for we have made a lie our refuge and falsehood[fn] our hiding place.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:18 - Your covenant with death will be annulled; your agreement with the realm of the dead will not stand. When the overwhelming scourge sweeps by, you will be beaten down by it.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:20 - The bed is too short to stretch out on, the blanket too narrow to wrap around you.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:16 - You turn things upside down, as if the potter were thought to be like the clay! Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, “You did not make me”? Can the pot say to the potter, “You know nothing”?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:23 - When they see among them their children, the work of my hands, they will keep my name holy; they will acknowledge the holiness of the Holy One of Jacob, and will stand in awe of the God of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:1 - “Woe to the obstinate children,” declares the LORD, “to those who carry out plans that are not mine, forming an alliance, but not by my Spirit, heaping sin upon sin;
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:9 - For these are rebellious people, deceitful children, children unwilling to listen to the LORD's instruction.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:11 - Leave this way, get off this path, and stop confronting us with the Holy One of Israel!”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:12 - Therefore this is what the Holy One of Israel says: “Because you have rejected this message, relied on oppression and depended on deceit,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:15 - This is what the Sovereign LORD, the Holy One of Israel, says: “In repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust is your strength, but you would have none of it.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:18 - Yet the LORD longs to be gracious to you; therefore he will rise up to show you compassion. For the LORD is a God of justice. Blessed are all who wait for him!
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:26 - The moon will shine like the sun, and the sunlight will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven full days, when the LORD binds up the bruises of his people and heals the wounds he inflicted.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:27 - See, the Name of the LORD comes from afar, with burning anger and dense clouds of smoke; his lips are full of wrath, and his tongue is a consuming fire.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:28 - His breath is like a rushing torrent, rising up to the neck. He shakes the nations in the sieve of destruction; he places in the jaws of the peoples a bit that leads them astray.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:29 - And you will sing as on the night you celebrate a holy festival; your hearts will rejoice as when people playing pipes go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the Rock of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:30 - The LORD will cause people to hear his majestic voice and will make them see his arm coming down with raging anger and consuming fire, with cloudburst, thunderstorm and hail.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 31:1 - Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses, who trust in the multitude of their chariots and in the great strength of their horsemen, but do not look to the Holy One of Israel, or seek help from the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 31:4 - This is what the LORD says to me: “As a lion growls, a great lion over its prey— and though a whole band of shepherds is called together against it, it is not frightened by their shouts or disturbed by their clamor— so the LORD Almighty will come down to do battle on Mount Zion and on its heights.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:4 - The fearful heart will know and understand, and the stammering tongue will be fluent and clear.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:13 - and for the land of my people, a land overgrown with thorns and briers— yes, mourn for all houses of merriment and for this city of revelry.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:14 - The fortress will be abandoned, the noisy city deserted; citadel and watchtower will become a wasteland forever, the delight of donkeys, a pasture for flocks,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:17 - The fruit of that righteousness will be peace; its effect will be quietness and confidence forever.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:3 - At the uproar of your army, the peoples flee; when you rise up, the nations scatter.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 35:2 - it will burst into bloom; it will rejoice greatly and shout for joy. The glory of Lebanon will be given to it, the splendor of Carmel and Sharon; they will see the glory of the LORD, the splendor of our God.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:2 - Then the king of Assyria sent his field commander with a large army from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. When the commander stopped at the aqueduct of the Upper Pool, on the road to the Launderer's Field,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:3 - Eliakim son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder went out to him.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:13 - Then the commander stood and called out in Hebrew, “Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria!
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:16 - “Do not listen to Hezekiah. This is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me and come out to me. Then each of you will eat fruit from your own vine and fig tree and drink water from your own cistern,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:22 - Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary and Joah son of Asaph the recorder went to Hezekiah, with their clothes torn, and told him what the field commander had said.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:3 - They told him, “This is what Hezekiah says: This day is a day of distress and rebuke and disgrace, as when children come to the moment of birth and there is no strength to deliver them.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:5 - When King Hezekiah's officials came to Isaiah,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:23 - Who is it you have ridiculed and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel!
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:24 - By your messengers you have ridiculed the Lord. And you have said, ‘With my many chariots I have ascended the heights of the mountains, the utmost heights of Lebanon. I have cut down its tallest cedars, the choicest of its junipers. I have reached its remotest heights, the finest of its forests.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:1 - In those days Hezekiah became ill and was at the point of death. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz went to him and said, “This is what the LORD says: Put your house in order, because you are going to die; you will not recover.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:5 - “Go and tell Hezekiah, ‘This is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: I have heard your prayer and seen your tears; I will add fifteen years to your life.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:8 - I will make the shadow cast by the sun go back the ten steps it has gone down on the stairway of Ahaz.' ” So the sunlight went back the ten steps it had gone down.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:11 - I said, “I will not again see the LORD himself in the land of the living; no longer will I look on my fellow man, or be with those who now dwell in this world.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:14 - I cried like a swift or thrush, I moaned like a mourning dove. My eyes grew weak as I looked to the heavens. I am being threatened; Lord, come to my aid!”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:20 - The LORD will save me, and we will sing with stringed instruments all the days of our lives in the temple of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:22 - Hezekiah had asked, “What will be the sign that I will go up to the temple of the LORD?”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 39:1 - At that time Marduk-Baladan son of Baladan king of Babylon sent Hezekiah letters and a gift, because he had heard of his illness and recovery.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 39:2 - Hezekiah received the envoys gladly and showed them what was in his storehouses—the silver, the gold, the spices, the fine olive oil—his entire armory and everything found among his treasures. There was nothing in his palace or in all his kingdom that Hezekiah did not show them.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 39:7 - And some of your descendants, your own flesh and blood who will be born to you, will be taken away, and they will become eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:3 - A voice of one calling: “In the wilderness prepare the way for the LORD[fn]; make straight in the desert a highway for our God.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:5 - And the glory of the LORD will be revealed, and all people will see it together.

For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.”

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:8 - The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God endures forever.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:27 - Why do you complain, Jacob? Why do you say, Israel, “My way is hidden from the LORD; my cause is disregarded by my God”?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:20 - so that people may see and know, may consider and understand, that the hand of the LORD has done this, that the Holy One of Israel has created it.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:19 - Who is blind but my servant, and deaf like the messenger I send? Who is blind like the one in covenant with me, blind like the servant of the LORD?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:24 - Who handed Jacob over to become loot, and Israel to the plunderers? Was it not the LORD, against whom we have sinned? For they would not follow his ways; they did not obey his law.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:20 - The wild animals honor me, the jackals and the owls, because I provide water in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland, to give drink to my people, my chosen,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:5 - Some will say, ‘I belong to the LORD'; others will call themselves by the name of Jacob; still others will write on their hand, ‘The LORD's,' and will take the name Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:6 - “This is what the LORD says— Israel's King and Redeemer, the LORD Almighty: I am the first and I am the last; apart from me there is no God.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:14 - He cut down cedars, or perhaps took a cypress or oak. He let it grow among the trees of the forest, or planted a pine, and the rain made it grow.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:18 - They know nothing, they understand nothing; their eyes are plastered over so they cannot see, and their minds closed so they cannot understand.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:4 - For the sake of Jacob my servant, of Israel my chosen, I summon you by name and bestow on you a title of honor, though you do not acknowledge me.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:13 - I will raise up Cyrus[fn] in my righteousness: I will make all his ways straight. He will rebuild my city and set my exiles free, but not for a price or reward, says the LORD Almighty.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:15 - Truly you are a God who has been hiding himself, the God and Savior of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:17 - But Israel will be saved by the LORD with an everlasting salvation; you will never be put to shame or disgraced, to ages everlasting.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 46:3 - “Listen to me, you descendants of Jacob, all the remnant of the people of Israel, you whom I have upheld since your birth, and have carried since you were born.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 46:7 - They lift it to their shoulders and carry it; they set it up in its place, and there it stands. From that spot it cannot move. Even though someone cries out to it, it cannot answer; it cannot save them from their troubles.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 46:9 - Remember the former things, those of long ago; I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:6 - I was angry with my people and desecrated my inheritance; I gave them into your hand, and you showed them no mercy. Even on the aged you laid a very heavy yoke.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:13 - All the counsel you have received has only worn you out! Let your astrologers come forward, those stargazers who make predictions month by month, let them save you from what is coming upon you.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:2 - you who call yourselves citizens of the holy city and claim to rely on the God of Israel— the LORD Almighty is his name:
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:6 - You have heard these things; look at them all. Will you not admit them? “From now on I will tell you of new things, of hidden things unknown to you.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:4 - But I said, “I have labored in vain; I have spent my strength for nothing at all. Yet what is due me is in the LORD's hand, and my reward is with my God.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:6 - he says: “It is too small a thing for you to be my servant to restore the tribes of Jacob and bring back those of Israel I have kept. I will also make you a light for the Gentiles, that my salvation may reach to the ends of the earth.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:13 - Shout for joy, you heavens; rejoice, you earth; burst into song, you mountains! For the LORD comforts his people and will have compassion on his afflicted ones.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 50:10 - Who among you fears the LORD and obeys the word of his servant? Let the one who walks in the dark, who has no light, trust in the name of the LORD and rely on their God.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:1 - “Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness and who seek the LORD: Look to the rock from which you were cut and to the quarry from which you were hewn;
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:9 - Awake, awake, arm of the LORD, clothe yourself with strength! Awake, as in days gone by, as in generations of old. Was it not you who cut Rahab to pieces, who pierced that monster through?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:13 - that you forget the LORD your Maker, who stretches out the heavens and who lays the foundations of the earth, that you live in constant terror every day because of the wrath of the oppressor, who is bent on destruction? For where is the wrath of the oppressor?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:17 - Awake, awake! Rise up, Jerusalem, you who have drunk from the hand of the LORD the cup of his wrath, you who have drained to its dregs the goblet that makes people stagger.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:20 - Your children have fainted; they lie at every street corner, like antelope caught in a net. They are filled with the wrath of the LORD, with the rebuke of your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:22 - This is what your Sovereign LORD says, your God, who defends his people: “See, I have taken out of your hand the cup that made you stagger; from that cup, the goblet of my wrath, you will never drink again.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:2 - Shake off your dust; rise up, sit enthroned, Jerusalem. Free yourself from the chains on your neck, Daughter Zion, now a captive.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:10 - The LORD will lay bare his holy arm in the sight of all the nations, and all the ends of the earth will see the salvation of our God.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 53:7 - He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before its shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 53:8 - By oppression[fn] and judgment he was taken away. Yet who of his generation protested? For he was cut off from the land of the living; for the transgression of my people he was punished.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 53:9 - He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death, though he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 53:11 - After he has suffered, he will see the light of life[fn] and be satisfied[fn]; by his knowledge[fn] my righteous servant will justify many, and he will bear their iniquities.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:5 - Surely you will summon nations you know not, and nations you do not know will come running to you, because of the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, for he has endowed you with splendor.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:10 - As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:12 - You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 56:3 - Let no foreigner who is bound to the LORD say, “The LORD will surely exclude me from his people.” And let no eunuch complain, “I am only a dry tree.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 56:9 - Come, all you beasts of the field, come and devour, all you beasts of the forest!
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:14 - And it will be said: “Build up, build up, prepare the road! Remove the obstacles out of the way of my people.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:8 - Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will quickly appear; then your righteousness[fn] will go before you, and the glory of the LORD will be your rear guard.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:14 - then you will find your joy in the LORD, and I will cause you to ride in triumph on the heights of the land and to feast on the inheritance of your father Jacob.”

The mouth of the LORD has spoken.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:2 - But your iniquities have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:13 - rebellion and treachery against the LORD, turning our backs on our God, inciting revolt and oppression, uttering lies our hearts have conceived.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:21 - “As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says the LORD. “My Spirit, who is on you, will not depart from you, and my words that I have put in your mouth will always be on your lips, on the lips of your children and on the lips of their descendants—from this time on and forever,” says the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:9 - Surely the islands look to me; in the lead are the ships of Tarshish,[fn] bringing your children from afar, with their silver and gold, to the honor of the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, for he has endowed you with splendor.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:13 - “The glory of Lebanon will come to you, the juniper, the fir and the cypress together, to adorn my sanctuary; and I will glorify the place for my feet.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 62:8 - The LORD has sworn by his right hand and by his mighty arm: “Never again will I give your grain as food for your enemies, and never again will foreigners drink the new wine for which you have toiled;
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 63:9 - In all their distress he too was distressed, and the angel of his presence saved them.[fn] In his love and mercy he redeemed them; he lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 63:15 - Look down from heaven and see, from your lofty throne, holy and glorious. Where are your zeal and your might? Your tenderness and compassion are withheld from us.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 64:4 - Since ancient times no one has heard, no ear has perceived, no eye has seen any God besides you, who acts on behalf of those who wait for him.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 64:10 - Your sacred cities have become a wasteland; even Zion is a wasteland, Jerusalem a desolation.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:5 - who say, ‘Keep away; don't come near me, for I am too sacred for you!' Such people are smoke in my nostrils, a fire that keeps burning all day.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:8 - This is what the LORD says: “As when juice is still found in a cluster of grapes and people say, ‘Don't destroy it, there is still a blessing in it,' so will I do in behalf of my servants; I will not destroy them all.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:22 - No longer will they build houses and others live in them, or plant and others eat. For as the days of a tree, so will be the days of my people; my chosen ones will long enjoy the work of their hands.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:1 - The words of Jeremiah son of Hilkiah, one of the priests at Anathoth in the territory of Benjamin.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:2 - The word of the LORD came to him in the thirteenth year of the reign of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:8 - The priests did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD?' Those who deal with the law did not know me; the leaders rebelled against me. The prophets prophesied by Baal, following worthless idols.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:6 - During the reign of King Josiah, the LORD said to me, “Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every spreading tree and has committed adultery there.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:8 - I gave faithless Israel her certificate of divorce and sent her away because of all her adulteries. Yet I saw that her unfaithful sister Judah had no fear; she also went out and committed adultery.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:12 - Go, proclaim this message toward the north: “ ‘Return, faithless Israel,' declares the LORD, ‘I will frown on you no longer, for I am faithful,' declares the LORD, ‘I will not be angry forever.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:18 - In those days the people of Judah will join the people of Israel, and together they will come from a northern land to the land I gave your ancestors as an inheritance.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:23 - Surely the idolatrous commotion on the hills and mountains is a deception; surely in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:25 - Let us lie down in our shame, and let our disgrace cover us. We have sinned against the LORD our God, both we and our ancestors; from our youth till this day we have not obeyed the LORD our God.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:7 - A lion has come out of his lair; a destroyer of nations has set out. He has left his place to lay waste your land. Your towns will lie in ruins without inhabitant.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:9 - “In that day,” declares the LORD, “the king and the officials will lose heart, the priests will be horrified, and the prophets will be appalled.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:11 - At that time this people and Jerusalem will be told, “A scorching wind from the barren heights in the desert blows toward my people, but not to winnow or cleanse;
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:22 - “My people are fools; they do not know me. They are senseless children; they have no understanding. They are skilled in doing evil; they know not how to do good.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:25 - I looked, and there were no people; every bird in the sky had flown away.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:31 - I hear a cry as of a woman in labor, a groan as of one bearing her first child— the cry of Daughter Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands and saying, “Alas! I am fainting; my life is given over to murderers.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:6 - Therefore a lion from the forest will attack them, a wolf from the desert will ravage them, a leopard will lie in wait near their towns to tear to pieces any who venture out, for their rebellion is great and their backslidings many.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:8 - They are well-fed, lusty stallions, each neighing for another man's wife.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:10 - “Go through her vineyards and ravage them, but do not destroy them completely. Strip off her branches, for these people do not belong to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:9 - This is what the LORD Almighty says: “Let them glean the remnant of Israel as thoroughly as a vine; pass your hand over the branches again, like one gathering grapes.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:14 - They dress the wound of my people as though it were not serious. ‘Peace, peace,' they say, when there is no peace.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:5 - If you really change your ways and your actions and deal with each other justly,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:16 - “So do not pray for this people nor offer any plea or petition for them; do not plead with me, for I will not listen to you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:18 - The children gather wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead the dough and make cakes to offer to the Queen of Heaven. They pour out drink offerings to other gods to arouse my anger.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:20 - “ ‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: My anger and my wrath will be poured out on this place—on man and beast, on the trees of the field and on the crops of your land—and it will burn and not be quenched.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:31 - They have built the high places of Topheth in the Valley of Ben Hinnom to burn their sons and daughters in the fire—something I did not command, nor did it enter my mind.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:32 - So beware, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when people will no longer call it Topheth or the Valley of Ben Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter, for they will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:33 - Then the carcasses of this people will become food for the birds and the wild animals, and there will be no one to frighten them away.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:2 - They will be exposed to the sun and the moon and all the stars of the heavens, which they have loved and served and which they have followed and consulted and worshiped. They will not be gathered up or buried, but will be like dung lying on the ground.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:6 - I have listened attentively, but they do not say what is right. None of them repent of their wickedness, saying, “What have I done?” Each pursues their own course like a horse charging into battle.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:4 - “Beware of your friends; do not trust anyone in your clan. For every one of them is a deceiver,[fn] and every friend a slanderer.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:5 - Friend deceives friend, and no one speaks the truth. They have taught their tongues to lie; they weary themselves with sinning.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:10 - I will weep and wail for the mountains and take up a lament concerning the wilderness grasslands. They are desolate and untraveled, and the lowing of cattle is not heard. The birds have all fled and the animals are gone.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:2 - This is what the LORD says: “Do not learn the ways of the nations or be terrified by signs in the heavens, though the nations are terrified by them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:3 - For the practices of the peoples are worthless; they cut a tree out of the forest, and a craftsman shapes it with his chisel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:11 - “Tell them this: ‘These gods, who did not make the heavens and the earth, will perish from the earth and from under the heavens.' ”[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:23 - LORD, I know that people's lives are not their own; it is not for them to direct their steps.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:14 - “Do not pray for this people or offer any plea or petition for them, because I will not listen when they call to me in the time of their distress.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:4 - How long will the land lie parched and the grass in every field be withered? Because those who live in it are wicked, the animals and birds have perished. Moreover, the people are saying, “He will not see what happens to us.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:5 - “If you have raced with men on foot and they have worn you out, how can you compete with horses? If you stumble[fn] in safe country, how will you manage in the thickets by[fn] the Jordan?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:6 - Your relatives, members of your own family— even they have betrayed you; they have raised a loud cry against you. Do not trust them, though they speak well of you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:9 - Has not my inheritance become to me like a speckled bird of prey that other birds of prey surround and attack? Go and gather all the wild beasts; bring them to devour.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:12 - Over all the barren heights in the desert destroyers will swarm, for the sword of the LORD will devour from one end of the land to the other; no one will be safe.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:16 - And if they learn well the ways of my people and swear by my name, saying, ‘As surely as the LORD lives'—even as they once taught my people to swear by Baal—then they will be established among my people.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:7 - So I went to Perath and dug up the belt and took it from the place where I had hidden it, but now it was ruined and completely useless.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:11 - For as a belt is bound around the waist, so I bound all the people of Israel and all the people of Judah to me,' declares the LORD, ‘to be my people for my renown and praise and honor. But they have not listened.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:11 - Then the LORD said to me, “Do not pray for the well-being of this people.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:16 - And the people they are prophesying to will be thrown out into the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and sword. There will be no one to bury them, their wives, their sons and their daughters. I will pour out on them the calamity they deserve.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:3 - “I will send four kinds of destroyers against them,” declares the LORD, “the sword to kill and the dogs to drag away and the birds and the wild animals to devour and destroy.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:14 - I will enslave you to your enemies in[fn] a land you do not know, for my anger will kindle a fire that will burn against you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:4 - “They will die of deadly diseases. They will not be mourned or buried but will be like dung lying on the ground. They will perish by sword and famine, and their dead bodies will become food for the birds and the wild animals.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:5 - For this is what the LORD says: “Do not enter a house where there is a funeral meal; do not go to mourn or show sympathy, because I have withdrawn my blessing, my love and my pity from this people,” declares the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:9 - For this is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Before your eyes and in your days I will bring an end to the sounds of joy and gladness and to the voices of bride and bridegroom in this place.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:10 - “When you tell these people all this and they ask you, ‘Why has the LORD decreed such a great disaster against us? What wrong have we done? What sin have we committed against the LORD our God?'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:2 - “Go down to the potter's house, and there I will give you my message.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:3 - So I went down to the potter's house, and I saw him working at the wheel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:6 - He said, “Can I not do with you, Israel, as this potter does?” declares the LORD. “Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:14 - Does the snow of Lebanon ever vanish from its rocky slopes? Do its cool waters from distant sources ever stop flowing?[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:1 - This is what the LORD says: “Go and buy a clay jar from a potter. Take along some of the elders of the people and of the priests
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:7 - “ ‘In this place I will ruin[fn] the plans of Judah and Jerusalem. I will make them fall by the sword before their enemies, at the hands of those who want to kill them, and I will give their carcasses as food to the birds and the wild animals.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:9 - I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another's flesh because their enemies will press the siege so hard against them to destroy them.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:13 - The houses in Jerusalem and those of the kings of Judah will be defiled like this place, Topheth—all the houses where they burned incense on the roofs to all the starry hosts and poured out drink offerings to other gods.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:1 - When the priest Pashhur son of Immer, the official in charge of the temple of the LORD, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:3 - The next day, when Pashhur released him from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him, “The LORD's name for you is not Pashhur, but Terror on Every Side.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:5 - I will deliver all the wealth of this city into the hands of their enemies—all its products, all its valuables and all the treasures of the kings of Judah. They will take it away as plunder and carry it off to Babylon.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:7 - After that, declares the LORD, I will give Zedekiah king of Judah, his officials and the people in this city who survive the plague, sword and famine, into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and to their enemies who want to kill them. He will put them to the sword; he will show them no mercy or pity or compassion.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:8 - “Furthermore, tell the people, ‘This is what the LORD says: See, I am setting before you the way of life and the way of death.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:1 - This is what the LORD says: “Go down to the palace of the king of Judah and proclaim this message there:
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:4 - For if you are careful to carry out these commands, then kings who sit on David's throne will come through the gates of this palace, riding in chariots and on horses, accompanied by their officials and their people.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:6 - For this is what the LORD says about the palace of the king of Judah: “Though you are like Gilead to me, like the summit of Lebanon, I will surely make you like a wasteland, like towns not inhabited.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:11 - For this is what the LORD says about Shallum[fn] son of Josiah, who succeeded his father as king of Judah but has gone from this place: “He will never return.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:3 - “I myself will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries where I have driven them and will bring them back to their pasture, where they will be fruitful and increase in number.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:27 - They think the dreams they tell one another will make my people forget my name, just as their ancestors forgot my name through Baal worship.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:30 - “Therefore,” declares the LORD, “I am against the prophets who steal from one another words supposedly from me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 24:5 - “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Like these good figs, I regard as good the exiles from Judah, whom I sent away from this place to the land of the Babylonians.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:1 - The word came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, which was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:15 - This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, said to me: “Take from my hand this cup filled with the wine of my wrath and make all the nations to whom I send you drink it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:30 - “Now prophesy all these words against them and say to them: “ ‘The LORD will roar from on high; he will thunder from his holy dwelling and roar mightily against his land. He will shout like those who tread the grapes, shout against all who live on the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:7 - The priests, the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speak these words in the house of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:10 - When the officials of Judah heard about these things, they went up from the royal palace to the house of the LORD and took their places at the entrance of the New Gate of the LORD's house.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:16 - Then the officials and all the people said to the priests and the prophets, “This man should not be sentenced to death! He has spoken to us in the name of the LORD our God.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:17 - Some of the elders of the land stepped forward and said to the entire assembly of people,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:18 - “Micah of Moresheth prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah. He told all the people of Judah, ‘This is what the LORD Almighty says: “ ‘Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, the temple hill a mound overgrown with thickets.'[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:24 - Furthermore, Ahikam son of Shaphan supported Jeremiah, and so he was not handed over to the people to be put to death.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:6 - Now I will give all your countries into the hands of my servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; I will make even the wild animals subject to him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:1 - In the fifth month of that same year, the fourth year, early in the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, the prophet Hananiah son of Azzur, who was from Gibeon, said to me in the house of the LORD in the presence of the priests and all the people:
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:2 - “This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: ‘I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:5 - Then the prophet Jeremiah replied to the prophet Hananiah before the priests and all the people who were standing in the house of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:7 - Nevertheless, listen to what I have to say in your hearing and in the hearing of all the people:
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:8 - From early times the prophets who preceded you and me have prophesied war, disaster and plague against many countries and great kingdoms.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:9 - But the prophet who prophesies peace will be recognized as one truly sent by the LORD only if his prediction comes true.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:10 - Then the prophet Hananiah took the yoke off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah and broke it,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:11 - and he said before all the people, “This is what the LORD says: ‘In the same way I will break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon off the neck of all the nations within two years.' ” At this, the prophet Jeremiah went on his way.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:12 - After the prophet Hananiah had broken the yoke off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah, the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:2 - (This was after King Jehoiachin[fn] and the queen mother, the court officials and the leaders of Judah and Jerusalem, the skilled workers and the artisans had gone into exile from Jerusalem.)
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:26 - ‘The LORD has appointed you priest in place of Jehoiada to be in charge of the house of the LORD; you should put any maniac who acts like a prophet into the stocks and neck-irons.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:8 - “ ‘In that day,' declares the LORD Almighty, ‘I will break the yoke off their necks and will tear off their bonds; no longer will foreigners enslave them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:7 - This is what the LORD says: “Sing with joy for Jacob; shout for the foremost of the nations. Make your praises heard, and say, ‘LORD, save your people, the remnant of Israel.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:30 - Instead, everyone will die for their own sin; whoever eats sour grapes—their own teeth will be set on edge.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:40 - The whole valley where dead bodies and ashes are thrown, and all the terraces out to the Kidron Valley on the east as far as the corner of the Horse Gate, will be holy to the LORD. The city will never again be uprooted or demolished.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:2 - The army of the king of Babylon was then besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was confined in the courtyard of the guard in the royal palace of Judah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:24 - “See how the siege ramps are built up to take the city. Because of the sword, famine and plague, the city will be given into the hands of the Babylonians who are attacking it. What you said has happened, as you now see.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:15 - Recently you repented and did what is right in my sight: Each of you proclaimed freedom to your own people. You even made a covenant before me in the house that bears my Name.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:20 - I will deliver into the hands of their enemies who want to kill them. Their dead bodies will become food for the birds and the wild animals.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 35:4 - I brought them into the house of the LORD, into the room of the sons of Hanan son of Igdaliah the man of God. It was next to the room of the officials, which was over that of Maaseiah son of Shallum the doorkeeper.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 35:8 - We have obeyed everything our forefather Jehonadab son of Rekab commanded us. Neither we nor our wives nor our sons and daughters have ever drunk wine
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 35:16 - The descendants of Jehonadab son of Rekab have carried out the command their forefather gave them, but these people have not obeyed me.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 35:18 - Then Jeremiah said to the family of the Rekabites, “This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: ‘You have obeyed the command of your forefather Jehonadab and have followed all his instructions and have done everything he ordered.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:6 - So you go to the house of the LORD on a day of fasting and read to the people from the scroll the words of the LORD that you wrote as I dictated. Read them to all the people of Judah who come in from their towns.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:10 - From the room of Gemariah son of Shaphan the secretary, which was in the upper courtyard at the entrance of the New Gate of the temple, Baruch read to all the people at the LORD's temple the words of Jeremiah from the scroll.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:12 - he went down to the secretary's room in the royal palace, where all the officials were sitting: Elishama the secretary, Delaiah son of Shemaiah, Elnathan son of Akbor, Gemariah son of Shaphan, Zedekiah son of Hananiah, and all the other officials.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:13 - After Micaiah told them everything he had heard Baruch read to the people from the scroll,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:14 - all the officials sent Jehudi son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, to say to Baruch, “Bring the scroll from which you have read to the people and come.” So Baruch son of Neriah went to them with the scroll in his hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:21 - The king sent Jehudi to get the scroll, and Jehudi brought it from the room of Elishama the secretary and read it to the king and all the officials standing beside him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:23 - Whenever Jehudi had read three or four columns of the scroll, the king cut them off with a scribe's knife and threw them into the firepot, until the entire scroll was burned in the fire.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:26 - Instead, the king commanded Jerahmeel, a son of the king, Seraiah son of Azriel and Shelemiah son of Abdeel to arrest Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet. But the LORD had hidden them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:1 - Zedekiah son of Josiah was made king of Judah by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; he reigned in place of Jehoiachin[fn] son of Jehoiakim.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:12 - Jeremiah started to leave the city to go to the territory of Benjamin to get his share of the property among the people there.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:15 - They were angry with Jeremiah and had him beaten and imprisoned in the house of Jonathan the secretary, which they had made into a prison.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:16 - Jeremiah was put into a vaulted cell in a dungeon, where he remained a long time.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:20 - But now, my lord the king, please listen. Let me bring my petition before you: Do not send me back to the house of Jonathan the secretary, or I will die there.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:4 - Then the officials said to the king, “This man should be put to death. He is discouraging the soldiers who are left in this city, as well as all the people, by the things he is saying to them. This man is not seeking the good of these people but their ruin.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:6 - So they took Jeremiah and put him into the cistern of Malkijah, the king's son, which was in the courtyard of the guard. They lowered Jeremiah by ropes into the cistern; it had no water in it, only mud, and Jeremiah sank down into the mud.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:7 - But Ebed-Melek, a Cushite,[fn] an official[fn] in the royal palace, heard that they had put Jeremiah into the cistern. While the king was sitting in the Benjamin Gate,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:9 - “My lord the king, these men have acted wickedly in all they have done to Jeremiah the prophet. They have thrown him into a cistern, where he will starve to death when there is no longer any bread in the city.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:10 - Then the king commanded Ebed-Melek the Cushite, “Take thirty men from here with you and lift Jeremiah the prophet out of the cistern before he dies.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:11 - So Ebed-Melek took the men with him and went to a room under the treasury in the palace. He took some old rags and worn-out clothes from there and let them down with ropes to Jeremiah in the cistern.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:13 - and they pulled him up with the ropes and lifted him out of the cistern. And Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:26 - then tell them, ‘I was pleading with the king not to send me back to Jonathan's house to die there.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 39:1 - In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his whole army and laid siege to it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 39:2 - And on the ninth day of the fourth month of Zedekiah's eleventh year, the city wall was broken through.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 39:14 - sent and had Jeremiah taken out of the courtyard of the guard. They turned him over to Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, to take him back to his home. So he remained among his own people.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 40:5 - However, before Jeremiah turned to go,[fn] Nebuzaradan added, “Go back to Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon has appointed over the towns of Judah, and live with him among the people, or go anywhere else you please.” Then the commander gave him provisions and a present and let him go.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 40:6 - So Jeremiah went to Gedaliah son of Ahikam at Mizpah and stayed with him among the people who were left behind in the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 40:8 - they came to Gedaliah at Mizpah—Ishmael son of Nethaniah, Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, Seraiah son of Tanhumeth, the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah[fn] the son of the Maakathite, and their men.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:1 - In the seventh month Ishmael son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, who was of royal blood and had been one of the king's officers, came with ten men to Gedaliah son of Ahikam at Mizpah. While they were eating together there,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:10 - Ishmael made captives of all the rest of the people who were in Mizpah—the king's daughters along with all the others who were left there, over whom Nebuzaradan commander of the imperial guard had appointed Gedaliah son of Ahikam. Ishmael son of Nethaniah took them captive and set out to cross over to the Ammonites.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:16 - Then Johanan son of Kareah and all the army officers who were with him led away all the people of Mizpah who had survived, whom Johanan had recovered from Ishmael son of Nethaniah after Ishmael had assassinated Gedaliah son of Ahikam—the soldiers, women, children and court officials he had recovered from Gibeon.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:6 - Whether it is favorable or unfavorable, we will obey the LORD our God, to whom we are sending you, so that it will go well with us, for we will obey the LORD our God.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 43:6 - They also led away all those whom Nebuzaradan commander of the imperial guard had left with Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan—the men, the women, the children and the king's daughters. And they took Jeremiah the prophet and Baruch son of Neriah along with them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:17 - We will certainly do everything we said we would: We will burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and will pour out drink offerings to her just as we and our ancestors, our kings and our officials did in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. At that time we had plenty of food and were well off and suffered no harm.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:18 - But ever since we stopped burning incense to the Queen of Heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have had nothing and have been perishing by sword and famine.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:19 - The women added, “When we burned incense to the Queen of Heaven and poured out drink offerings to her, did not our husbands know that we were making cakes impressed with her image and pouring out drink offerings to her?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:25 - This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: You and your wives have done what you said you would do when you promised, ‘We will certainly carry out the vows we made to burn incense and pour out drink offerings to the Queen of Heaven.' “Go ahead then, do what you promised! Keep your vows!
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 47:6 - “ ‘Alas, sword of the LORD, how long till you rest? Return to your sheath; cease and be still.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:21 - Judgment has come to the plateau— to Holon, Jahzah and Mephaath,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:44 - “Whoever flees from the terror will fall into a pit, whoever climbs out of the pit will be caught in a snare; for I will bring on Moab the year of her punishment,”

declares the LORD.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:19 - “Like a lion coming up from Jordan's thickets to a rich pastureland, I will chase Edom from its land in an instant. Who is the chosen one I will appoint for this? Who is like me and who can challenge me? And what shepherd can stand against me?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:36 - I will bring against Elam the four winds from the four quarters of heaven; I will scatter them to the four winds, and there will not be a nation where Elam's exiles do not go.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:37 - I will shatter Elam before their foes, before those who want to kill them; I will bring disaster on them, even my fierce anger,”

declares the LORD.

“I will pursue them with the sword until I have made an end of them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:39 - “Yet I will restore the fortunes of Elam in days to come,”

declares the LORD.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:29 - “Summon archers against Babylon, all those who draw the bow. Encamp all around her; let no one escape. Repay her for her deeds; do to her as she has done. For she has defied the LORD, the Holy One of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:44 - Like a lion coming up from Jordan's thickets to a rich pastureland, I will chase Babylon from its land in an instant. Who is the chosen one I will appoint for this? Who is like me and who can challenge me? And what shepherd can stand against me?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:7 - Babylon was a gold cup in the LORD's hand; she made the whole earth drunk. The nations drank her wine; therefore they have now gone mad.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:14 - The LORD Almighty has sworn by himself: I will surely fill you with troops, as with a swarm of locusts, and they will shout in triumph over you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:50 - You who have escaped the sword, leave and do not linger! Remember the LORD in a distant land, and call to mind Jerusalem.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:63 - When you finish reading this scroll, tie a stone to it and throw it into the Euphrates.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:4 - So in the ninth year of Zedekiah's reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his whole army. They encamped outside the city and built siege works all around it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:6 - By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine in the city had become so severe that there was no food for the people to eat.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:7 - Then the city wall was broken through, and the whole army fled. They left the city at night through the gate between the two walls near the king's garden, though the Babylonians[fn] were surrounding the city. They fled toward the Arabah,[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:8 - but the Babylonian[fn] army pursued King Zedekiah and overtook him in the plains of Jericho. All his soldiers were separated from him and scattered,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:12 - On the tenth day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan commander of the imperial guard, who served the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:13 - He set fire to the temple of the LORD, the royal palace and all the houses of Jerusalem. Every important building he burned down.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:14 - The whole Babylonian army, under the commander of the imperial guard, broke down all the walls around Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:16 - But Nebuzaradan left behind the rest of the poorest people of the land to work the vineyards and fields.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:20 - The bronze from the two pillars, the Sea and the twelve bronze bulls under it, and the movable stands, which King Solomon had made for the temple of the LORD, was more than could be weighed.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:21 - Each pillar was eighteen cubits high and twelve cubits in circumference[fn]; each was four fingers thick, and hollow.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:22 - The bronze capital on top of one pillar was five cubits[fn] high and was decorated with a network and pomegranates of bronze all around. The other pillar, with its pomegranates, was similar.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:25 - Of those still in the city, he took the officer in charge of the fighting men, and seven royal advisers. He also took the secretary who was chief officer in charge of conscripting the people of the land, sixty of whom were found in the city.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:31 - In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the year Awel-Marduk became king of Babylon, on the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month, he released Jehoiachin king of Judah and freed him from prison.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:34 - Day by day the king of Babylon gave Jehoiachin a regular allowance as long as he lived, till the day of his death.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:11 - My eyes fail from weeping, I am in torment within; my heart is poured out on the ground because my people are destroyed, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:32 - Though he brings grief, he will show compassion, so great is his unfailing love.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:48 - Streams of tears flow from my eyes because my people are destroyed.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:66 - Pursue them in anger and destroy them from under the heavens of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:1 - In my thirtieth year, in the fourth month on the fifth day, while I was among the exiles by the Kebar River, the heavens were opened and I saw visions of God.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:2 - On the fifth of the month—it was the fifth year of the exile of King Jehoiachin—
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:3 - the word of the LORD came to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, by the Kebar River in the land of the Babylonians.[fn] There the hand of the LORD was on him.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:25 - Then there came a voice from above the vault over their heads as they stood with lowered wings.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:26 - Above the vault over their heads was what looked like a throne of lapis lazuli, and high above on the throne was a figure like that of a man.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 2:3 - He said: “Son of man, I am sending you to the Israelites, to a rebellious nation that has rebelled against me; they and their ancestors have been in revolt against me to this very day.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 2:8 - But you, son of man, listen to what I say to you. Do not rebel like that rebellious people; open your mouth and eat what I give you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:4 - He then said to me: “Son of man, go now to the people of Israel and speak my words to them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:5 - You are not being sent to a people of obscure speech and strange language, but to the people of Israel—
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:7 - But the people of Israel are not willing to listen to you because they are not willing to listen to me, for all the Israelites are hardened and obstinate.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:11 - Go now to your people in exile and speak to them. Say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says,' whether they listen or fail to listen.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:12 - Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me a loud rumbling sound as the glory of the LORD rose from the place where it was standing.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:13 - It was the sound of the wings of the living creatures brushing against each other and the sound of the wheels beside them, a loud rumbling sound.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:15 - I came to the exiles who lived at Tel Aviv near the Kebar River. And there, where they were living, I sat among them for seven days—deeply distressed.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:23 - So I got up and went out to the plain. And the glory of the LORD was standing there, like the glory I had seen by the Kebar River, and I fell facedown.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:24 - Then the Spirit came into me and raised me to my feet. He spoke to me and said: “Go, shut yourself inside your house.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:4 - “Then lie on your left side and put the sin of the people of Israel upon yourself.[fn] You are to bear their sin for the number of days you lie on your side.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:5 - I have assigned you the same number of days as the years of their sin. So for 390 days you will bear the sin of the people of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:6 - “After you have finished this, lie down again, this time on your right side, and bear the sin of the people of Judah. I have assigned you 40 days, a day for each year.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:8 - I will tie you up with ropes so that you cannot turn from one side to the other until you have finished the days of your siege.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:13 - The LORD said, “In this way the people of Israel will eat defiled food among the nations where I will drive them.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:14 - Then I said, “Not so, Sovereign LORD! I have never defiled myself. From my youth until now I have never eaten anything found dead or torn by wild animals. No impure meat has ever entered my mouth.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:2 - When the days of your siege come to an end, burn a third of the hair inside the city. Take a third and strike it with the sword all around the city. And scatter a third to the wind. For I will pursue them with drawn sword.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:16 - When I shoot at you with my deadly and destructive arrows of famine, I will shoot to destroy you. I will bring more and more famine upon you and cut off your supply of food.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:2 - “Son of man, this is what the Sovereign LORD says to the land of Israel: “ ‘The end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land!
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:27 - The king will mourn, the prince will be clothed with despair, and the hands of the people of the land will tremble. I will deal with them according to their conduct, and by their own standards I will judge them. “ ‘Then they will know that I am the LORD.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:1 - In the sixth year, in the sixth month on the fifth day, while I was sitting in my house and the elders of Judah were sitting before me, the hand of the Sovereign LORD came on me there.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:3 - He stretched out what looked like a hand and took me by the hair of my head. The Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven and in visions of God he took me to Jerusalem, to the entrance of the north gate of the inner court, where the idol that provokes to jealousy stood.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:11 - In front of them stood seventy elders of Israel, and Jaazaniah son of Shaphan was standing among them. Each had a censer in his hand, and a fragrant cloud of incense was rising.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:12 - He said to me, “Son of man, have you seen what the elders of Israel are doing in the darkness, each at the shrine of his own idol? They say, ‘The LORD does not see us; the LORD has forsaken the land.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:16 - He then brought me into the inner court of the house of the LORD, and there at the entrance to the temple, between the portico and the altar, were about twenty-five men. With their backs toward the temple of the LORD and their faces toward the east, they were bowing down to the sun in the east.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:3 - Now the glory of the God of Israel went up from above the cherubim, where it had been, and moved to the threshold of the temple. Then the LORD called to the man clothed in linen who had the writing kit at his side
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:8 - While they were killing and I was left alone, I fell facedown, crying out, “Alas, Sovereign LORD! Are you going to destroy the entire remnant of Israel in this outpouring of your wrath on Jerusalem?”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:9 - He answered me, “The sin of the people of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great; the land is full of bloodshed and the city is full of injustice. They say, ‘The LORD has forsaken the land; the LORD does not see.'
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:3 - Now the cherubim were standing on the south side of the temple when the man went in, and a cloud filled the inner court.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:4 - Then the glory of the LORD rose from above the cherubim and moved to the threshold of the temple. The cloud filled the temple, and the court was full of the radiance of the glory of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:7 - Then one of the cherubim reached out his hand to the fire that was among them. He took up some of it and put it into the hands of the man in linen, who took it and went out.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:15 - Then the cherubim rose upward. These were the living creatures I had seen by the Kebar River.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:18 - Then the glory of the LORD departed from over the threshold of the temple and stopped above the cherubim.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:20 - These were the living creatures I had seen beneath the God of Israel by the Kebar River, and I realized that they were cherubim.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:22 - Their faces had the same appearance as those I had seen by the Kebar River. Each one went straight ahead.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:1 - Then the Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the gate of the house of the LORD that faces east. There at the entrance of the gate were twenty-five men, and I saw among them Jaazaniah son of Azzur and Pelatiah son of Benaiah, leaders of the people.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:10 - You will fall by the sword, and I will execute judgment on you at the borders of Israel. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:11 - This city will not be a pot for you, nor will you be the meat in it; I will execute judgment on you at the borders of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:13 - Now as I was prophesying, Pelatiah son of Benaiah died. Then I fell facedown and cried out in a loud voice, “Alas, Sovereign LORD! Will you completely destroy the remnant of Israel?”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:15 - “Son of man, the people of Jerusalem have said of your fellow exiles and all the other Israelites, ‘They are far away from the LORD; this land was given to us as our possession.'
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:17 - “Therefore say: ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will gather you from the nations and bring you back from the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you back the land of Israel again.'
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:25 - and I told the exiles everything the LORD had shown me.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:3 - “Therefore, son of man, pack your belongings for exile and in the daytime, as they watch, set out and go from where you are to another place. Perhaps they will understand, though they are a rebellious people.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:9 - “Son of man, did not the Israelites, that rebellious people, ask you, ‘What are you doing?'
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:12 - “The prince among them will put his things on his shoulder at dusk and leave, and a hole will be dug in the wall for him to go through. He will cover his face so that he cannot see the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:19 - Say to the people of the land: ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says about those living in Jerusalem and in the land of Israel: They will eat their food in anxiety and drink their water in despair, for their land will be stripped of everything in it because of the violence of all who live there.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:22 - “Son of man, what is this proverb you have in the land of Israel: ‘The days go by and every vision comes to nothing'?
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:23 - Say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I am going to put an end to this proverb, and they will no longer quote it in Israel.' Say to them, ‘The days are near when every vision will be fulfilled.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:2 - “Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who are now prophesying. Say to those who prophesy out of their own imagination: ‘Hear the word of the LORD!
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:5 - You have not gone up to the breaches in the wall to repair it for the people of Israel so that it will stand firm in the battle on the day of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:9 - My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and utter lying divinations. They will not belong to the council of my people or be listed in the records of Israel, nor will they enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Sovereign LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:16 - those prophets of Israel who prophesied to Jerusalem and saw visions of peace for her when there was no peace, declares the Sovereign LORD.” '
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:17 - “Now, son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people who prophesy out of their own imagination. Prophesy against them
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:18 - and say, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Woe to the women who sew magic charms on all their wrists and make veils of various lengths for their heads in order to ensnare people. Will you ensnare the lives of my people but preserve your own?
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:1 - Some of the elders of Israel came to me and sat down in front of me.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:4 - Therefore speak to them and tell them, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: When any of the Israelites set up idols in their hearts and put a wicked stumbling block before their faces and then go to a prophet, I the LORD will answer them myself in keeping with their great idolatry.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:5 - I will do this to recapture the hearts of the people of Israel, who have all deserted me for their idols.'
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:6 - “Therefore say to the people of Israel, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Repent! Turn from your idols and renounce all your detestable practices!
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:7 - “ ‘When any of the Israelites or any foreigner residing in Israel separate themselves from me and set up idols in their hearts and put a wicked stumbling block before their faces and then go to a prophet to inquire of me, I the LORD will answer them myself.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:8 - I will set my face against them and make them an example and a byword. I will remove them from my people. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:9 - “ ‘And if the prophet is enticed to utter a prophecy, I the LORD have enticed that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand against him and destroy him from among my people Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:10 - They will bear their guilt—the prophet will be as guilty as the one who consults him.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:11 - Then the people of Israel will no longer stray from me, nor will they defile themselves anymore with all their sins. They will be my people, and I will be their God, declares the Sovereign LORD.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 15:2 - “Son of man, how is the wood of a vine different from that of a branch from any of the trees in the forest?
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 15:6 - “Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: As I have given the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest as fuel for the fire, so will I treat the people living in Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:7 - I made you grow like a plant of the field. You grew and developed and entered puberty. Your breasts had formed and your hair had grown, yet you were stark naked.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:32 - “ ‘You adulterous wife! You prefer strangers to your own husband!
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:2 - “Son of man, set forth an allegory and tell it to the Israelites as a parable.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:23 - On the mountain heights of Israel I will plant it; it will produce branches and bear fruit and become a splendid cedar. Birds of every kind will nest in it; they will find shelter in the shade of its branches.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:4 - For everyone belongs to me, the parent as well as the child—both alike belong to me. The one who sins is the one who will die.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:6 - He does not eat at the mountain shrines or look to the idols of Israel. He does not defile his neighbor's wife or have sexual relations with a woman during her period.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:8 - He does not lend to them at interest or take a profit from them. He withholds his hand from doing wrong and judges fairly between two parties.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:11 - (though the father has done none of them): “He eats at the mountain shrines. He defiles his neighbor's wife.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:14 - “But suppose this son has a son who sees all the sins his father commits, and though he sees them, he does not do such things:
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:15 - “He does not eat at the mountain shrines or look to the idols of Israel. He does not defile his neighbor's wife.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:18 - But his father will die for his own sin, because he practiced extortion, robbed his brother and did what was wrong among his people.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:19 - “Yet you ask, ‘Why does the son not share the guilt of his father?' Since the son has done what is just and right and has been careful to keep all my decrees, he will surely live.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:20 - The one who sins is the one who will die. The child will not share the guilt of the parent, nor will the parent share the guilt of the child. The righteousness of the righteous will be credited to them, and the wickedness of the wicked will be charged against them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:23 - Do I take any pleasure in the death of the wicked? declares the Sovereign LORD. Rather, am I not pleased when they turn from their ways and live?
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:29 - Yet the Israelites say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.' Are my ways unjust, people of Israel? Is it not your ways that are unjust?
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:32 - For I take no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Sovereign LORD. Repent and live!
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:1 - “Take up a lament concerning the princes of Israel
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:9 - With hooks they pulled him into a cage and brought him to the king of Babylon. They put him in prison, so his roar was heard no longer on the mountains of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:1 - In the seventh year, in the fifth month on the tenth day, some of the elders of Israel came to inquire of the LORD, and they sat down in front of me.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:3 - “Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel and say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Have you come to inquire of me? As surely as I live, I will not let you inquire of me, declares the Sovereign LORD.'
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:13 - “ ‘Yet the people of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They did not follow my decrees but rejected my laws—by which the person who obeys them will live—and they utterly desecrated my Sabbaths. So I said I would pour out my wrath on them and destroy them in the wilderness.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:27 - “Therefore, son of man, speak to the people of Israel and say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: In this also your ancestors blasphemed me by being unfaithful to me:
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:30 - “Therefore say to the Israelites: ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Will you defile yourselves the way your ancestors did and lust after their vile images?
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:31 - When you offer your gifts—the sacrifice of your children in the fire—you continue to defile yourselves with all your idols to this day. Am I to let you inquire of me, you Israelites? As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, I will not let you inquire of me.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:38 - I will purge you of those who revolt and rebel against me. Although I will bring them out of the land where they are living, yet they will not enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:42 - Then you will know that I am the LORD, when I bring you into the land of Israel, the land I had sworn with uplifted hand to give to your ancestors.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:2 - “Son of man, set your face against Jerusalem and preach against the sanctuary. Prophesy against the land of Israel
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:3 - and say to her: ‘This is what the LORD says: I am against you. I will draw my sword from its sheath and cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:4 - Because I am going to cut off the righteous and the wicked, my sword will be unsheathed against everyone from south to north.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:5 - Then all people will know that I the LORD have drawn my sword from its sheath; it will not return again.'
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:12 - Cry out and wail, son of man, for it is against my people; it is against all the princes of Israel. They are thrown to the sword along with my people. Therefore beat your breast.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:25 - “ ‘You profane and wicked prince of Israel, whose day has come, whose time of punishment has reached its climax,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:11 - In you one man commits a detestable offense with his neighbor's wife, another shamefully defiles his daughter-in-law, and another violates his sister, his own father's daughter.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:26 - Her priests do violence to my law and profane my holy things; they do not distinguish between the holy and the common; they teach that there is no difference between the unclean and the clean; and they shut their eyes to the keeping of my Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:14 - “But she carried her prostitution still further. She saw men portrayed on a wall, figures of Chaldeans[fn] portrayed in red,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:39 - On the very day they sacrificed their children to their idols, they entered my sanctuary and desecrated it. That is what they did in my house.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:1 - In the ninth year, in the tenth month on the tenth day, the word of the LORD came to me:
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:21 - Say to the people of Israel, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I am about to desecrate my sanctuary—the stronghold in which you take pride, the delight of your eyes, the object of your affection. The sons and daughters you left behind will fall by the sword.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:3 - Say to them, ‘Hear the word of the Sovereign LORD. This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Because you said “Aha!” over my sanctuary when it was desecrated and over the land of Israel when it was laid waste and over the people of Judah when they went into exile,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:5 - I will turn Rabbah into a pasture for camels and Ammon into a resting place for sheep. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:6 - For this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Because you have clapped your hands and stamped your feet, rejoicing with all the malice of your heart against the land of Israel,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:1 - In the eleventh month of the twelfth[fn] year, on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me:
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:7 - “For this is what the Sovereign LORD says: From the north I am going to bring against Tyre Nebuchadnezzar[fn] king of Babylon, king of kings, with horses and chariots, with horsemen and a great army.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:5 - They made all your timbers of juniper from Senir[fn]; they took a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:16 - “ ‘Aram[fn] did business with you because of your many products; they exchanged turquoise, purple fabric, embroidered work, fine linen, coral and rubies for your merchandise.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:17 - “ ‘Judah and Israel traded with you; they exchanged wheat from Minnith and confections,[fn] honey, olive oil and balm for your wares.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:26 - Your oarsmen take you out to the high seas. But the east wind will break you to pieces far out at sea.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:33 - When your merchandise went out on the seas, you satisfied many nations; with your great wealth and your wares you enriched the kings of the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:3 - Are you wiser than Daniel[fn]? Is no secret hidden from you?
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:13 - You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone adorned you: carnelian, chrysolite and emerald, topaz, onyx and jasper, lapis lazuli, turquoise and beryl.[fn] Your settings and mountings[fn] were made of gold; on the day you were created they were prepared.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:16 - Through your widespread trade you were filled with violence, and you sinned. So I drove you in disgrace from the mount of God, and I expelled you, guardian cherub, from among the fiery stones.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:24 - “ ‘No longer will the people of Israel have malicious neighbors who are painful briers and sharp thorns. Then they will know that I am the Sovereign LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:1 - In the tenth year, in the tenth month on the twelfth day, the word of the LORD came to me:
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:4 - But I will put hooks in your jaws and make the fish of your streams stick to your scales. I will pull you out from among your streams, with all the fish sticking to your scales.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:5 - I will leave you in the desert, you and all the fish of your streams. You will fall on the open field and not be gathered or picked up. I will give you as food to the beasts of the earth and the birds of the sky.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:17 - In the twenty-seventh year, in the first month on the first day, the word of the LORD came to me:
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:3 - For the day is near, the day of the LORD is near— a day of clouds, a time of doom for the nations.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:11 - He and his army—the most ruthless of nations— will be brought in to destroy the land. They will draw their swords against Egypt and fill the land with the slain.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:20 - In the eleventh year, in the first month on the seventh day, the word of the LORD came to me:
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:1 - In the eleventh year, in the third month on the first day, the word of the LORD came to me:
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:6 - All the birds of the sky nested in its boughs, all the animals of the wild gave birth under its branches; all the great nations lived in its shade.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:8 - The cedars in the garden of God could not rival it, nor could the junipers equal its boughs, nor could the plane trees compare with its branches— no tree in the garden of God could match its beauty.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:9 - I made it beautiful with abundant branches, the envy of all the trees of Eden in the garden of God.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:13 - All the birds settled on the fallen tree, and all the wild animals lived among its branches.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:16 - I made the nations tremble at the sound of its fall when I brought it down to the realm of the dead to be with those who go down to the pit. Then all the trees of Eden, the choicest and best of Lebanon, the well-watered trees, were consoled in the earth below.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:1 - In the twelfth year, in the twelfth month on the first day, the word of the LORD came to me:
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:4 - I will throw you on the land and hurl you on the open field. I will let all the birds of the sky settle on you and all the animals of the wild gorge themselves on you.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:17 - In the twelfth year, on the fifteenth day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me:
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:30 - “All the princes of the north and all the Sidonians are there; they went down with the slain in disgrace despite the terror caused by their power. They lie uncircumcised with those killed by the sword and bear their shame with those who go down to the pit.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:2 - “Son of man, speak to your people and say to them: ‘When I bring the sword against a land, and the people of the land choose one of their men and make him their watchman,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:6 - But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet to warn the people and the sword comes and takes someone's life, that person's life will be taken because of their sin, but I will hold the watchman accountable for their blood.'
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:11 - Say to them, ‘As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that they turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! Why will you die, people of Israel?'
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:12 - “Therefore, son of man, say to your people, ‘If someone who is righteous disobeys, that person's former righteousness will count for nothing. And if someone who is wicked repents, that person's former wickedness will not bring condemnation. The righteous person who sins will not be allowed to live even though they were formerly righteous.'
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:17 - “Yet your people say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.' But it is their way that is not just.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:21 - In the twelfth year of our exile, in the tenth month on the fifth day, a man who had escaped from Jerusalem came to me and said, “The city has fallen!”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:24 - “Son of man, the people living in those ruins in the land of Israel are saying, ‘Abraham was only one man, yet he possessed the land. But we are many; surely the land has been given to us as our possession.'
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:27 - “Say this to them: ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: As surely as I live, those who are left in the ruins will fall by the sword, those out in the country I will give to the wild animals to be devoured, and those in strongholds and caves will die of a plague.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:28 - I will make the land a desolate waste, and her proud strength will come to an end, and the mountains of Israel will become desolate so that no one will cross them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:30 - “As for you, son of man, your people are talking together about you by the walls and at the doors of the houses, saying to each other, ‘Come and hear the message that has come from the LORD.'
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:2 - “Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel; prophesy and say to them: ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Woe to you shepherds of Israel who only take care of yourselves! Should not shepherds take care of the flock?
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:5 - So they were scattered because there was no shepherd, and when they were scattered they became food for all the wild animals.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:1 - “Son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel and say, ‘Mountains of Israel, hear the word of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:6 - Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel and say to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys: ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I speak in my jealous wrath because you have suffered the scorn of the nations.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:30 - I will increase the fruit of the trees and the crops of the field, so that you will no longer suffer disgrace among the nations because of famine.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 37:12 - Therefore prophesy and say to them: ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: My people, I am going to open your graves and bring you up from them; I will bring you back to the land of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 37:18 - “When your people ask you, ‘Won't you tell us what you mean by this?'
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 37:21 - and say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will take the Israelites out of the nations where they have gone. I will gather them from all around and bring them back into their own land.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:2 - “Son of man, set your face against Gog, of the land of Magog, the chief prince of[fn] Meshek and Tubal; prophesy against him
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:6 - also Gomer with all its troops, and Beth Togarmah from the far north with all its troops—the many nations with you.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:15 - You will come from your place in the far north, you and many nations with you, all of them riding on horses, a great horde, a mighty army.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:17 - “ ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: You are the one I spoke of in former days by my servants the prophets of Israel. At that time they prophesied for years that I would bring you against them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:18 - This is what will happen in that day: When Gog attacks the land of Israel, my hot anger will be aroused, declares the Sovereign LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:20 - The fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the beasts of the field, every creature that moves along the ground, and all the people on the face of the earth will tremble at my presence. The mountains will be overturned, the cliffs will crumble and every wall will fall to the ground.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 39:2 - I will turn you around and drag you along. I will bring you from the far north and send you against the mountains of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 39:11 - “ ‘On that day I will give Gog a burial place in Israel, in the valley of those who travel east of the Sea. It will block the way of travelers, because Gog and all his hordes will be buried there. So it will be called the Valley of Hamon Gog.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 39:15 - As they go through the land, anyone who sees a human bone will leave a marker beside it until the gravediggers bury it in the Valley of Hamon Gog,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:1 - In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth of the month, in the fourteenth year after the fall of the city—on that very day the hand of the LORD was on me and he took me there.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:2 - In visions of God he took me to the land of Israel and set me on a very high mountain, on whose south side were some buildings that looked like a city.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:4 - The man said to me, “Son of man, look carefully and listen closely and pay attention to everything I am going to show you, for that is why you have been brought here. Tell the people of Israel everything you see.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:5 - I saw a wall completely surrounding the temple area. The length of the measuring rod in the man's hand was six long cubits,[fn] each of which was a cubit and a handbreadth. He measured the wall; it was one measuring rod thick and one rod high.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:7 - The alcoves for the guards were one rod long and one rod wide, and the projecting walls between the alcoves were five cubits[fn] thick. And the threshold of the gate next to the portico facing the temple was one rod deep.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:9 - it[fn] was eight cubits[fn] deep and its jambs were two cubits[fn] thick. The portico of the gateway faced the temple.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:11 - Then he measured the width of the entrance of the gateway; it was ten cubits and its length was thirteen cubits.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:13 - Then he measured the gateway from the top of the rear wall of one alcove to the top of the opposite one; the distance was twenty-five cubits[fn] from one parapet opening to the opposite one.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:23 - There was a gate to the inner court facing the north gate, just as there was on the east. He measured from one gate to the opposite one; it was a hundred cubits.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:40 - By the outside wall of the portico of the gateway, near the steps at the entrance of the north gateway were two tables, and on the other side of the steps were two tables.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:43 - And double-pronged hooks, each a handbreadth[fn] long, were attached to the wall all around. The tables were for the flesh of the offerings.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:45 - He said to me, “The room facing south is for the priests who guard the temple,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:46 - and the room facing north is for the priests who guard the altar. These are the sons of Zadok, who are the only Levites who may draw near to the LORD to minister before him.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:47 - Then he measured the court: It was square—a hundred cubits long and a hundred cubits wide. And the altar was in front of the temple.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:48 - He brought me to the portico of the temple and measured the jambs of the portico; they were five cubits wide on either side. The width of the entrance was fourteen cubits[fn] and its projecting walls were[fn] three cubits[fn] wide on either side.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:2 - The entrance was ten cubits[fn] wide, and the projecting walls on each side of it were five cubits[fn] wide. He also measured the main hall; it was forty cubits long and twenty cubits wide.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:4 - And he measured the length of the inner sanctuary; it was twenty cubits, and its width was twenty cubits across the end of the main hall. He said to me, “This is the Most Holy Place.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:5 - Then he measured the wall of the temple; it was six cubits thick, and each side room around the temple was four cubits[fn] wide.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:6 - The side rooms were on three levels, one above another, thirty on each level. There were ledges all around the wall of the temple to serve as supports for the side rooms, so that the supports were not inserted into the wall of the temple.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:7 - The side rooms all around the temple were wider at each successive level. The structure surrounding the temple was built in ascending stages, so that the rooms widened as one went upward. A stairway went up from the lowest floor to the top floor through the middle floor.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:8 - I saw that the temple had a raised base all around it, forming the foundation of the side rooms. It was the length of the rod, six long cubits.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:9 - The outer wall of the side rooms was five cubits thick. The open area between the side rooms of the temple
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:11 - There were entrances to the side rooms from the open area, one on the north and another on the south; and the base adjoining the open area was five cubits wide all around.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:12 - The building facing the temple courtyard on the west side was seventy cubits[fn] wide. The wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, and its length was ninety cubits.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:13 - Then he measured the temple; it was a hundred cubits[fn] long, and the temple courtyard and the building with its walls were also a hundred cubits long.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:14 - The width of the temple courtyard on the east, including the front of the temple, was a hundred cubits.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:15 - Then he measured the length of the building facing the courtyard at the rear of the temple, including its galleries on each side; it was a hundred cubits. The main hall, the inner sanctuary and the portico facing the court,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:25 - And on the doors of the main hall were carved cherubim and palm trees like those carved on the walls, and there was a wooden overhang on the front of the portico.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:26 - On the sidewalls of the portico were narrow windows with palm trees carved on each side. The side rooms of the temple also had overhangs.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:1 - Then the man led me northward into the outer court and brought me to the rooms opposite the temple courtyard and opposite the outer wall on the north side.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:10 - On the south side[fn] along the length of the wall of the outer court, adjoining the temple courtyard and opposite the outer wall, were rooms
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:12 - were the doorways of the rooms on the south. There was a doorway at the beginning of the passageway that was parallel to the corresponding wall extending eastward, by which one enters the rooms.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:13 - Then he said to me, “The north and south rooms facing the temple courtyard are the priests' rooms, where the priests who approach the LORD will eat the most holy offerings. There they will put the most holy offerings—the grain offerings, the sin offerings[fn] and the guilt offerings—for the place is holy.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:14 - Once the priests enter the holy precincts, they are not to go into the outer court until they leave behind the garments in which they minister, for these are holy. They are to put on other clothes before they go near the places that are for the people.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:15 - When he had finished measuring what was inside the temple area, he led me out by the east gate and measured the area all around:
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:17 - He measured the north side; it was five hundred cubits[fn] by the measuring rod.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:18 - He measured the south side; it was five hundred cubits by the measuring rod.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:20 - So he measured the area on all four sides. It had a wall around it, five hundred cubits long and five hundred cubits wide, to separate the holy from the common.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:3 - The vision I saw was like the vision I had seen when he[fn] came to destroy the city and like the visions I had seen by the Kebar River, and I fell facedown.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:6 - While the man was standing beside me, I heard someone speaking to me from inside the temple.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:7 - He said: “Son of man, this is the place of my throne and the place for the soles of my feet. This is where I will live among the Israelites forever. The people of Israel will never again defile my holy name—neither they nor their kings—by their prostitution and the funeral offerings[fn] for their kings at their death.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:12 - “This is the law of the temple: All the surrounding area on top of the mountain will be most holy. Such is the law of the temple.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:13 - “These are the measurements of the altar in long cubits,[fn] that cubit being a cubit and a handbreadth: Its gutter is a cubit deep and a cubit wide, with a rim of one span[fn] around the edge. And this is the height of the altar:
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:21 - You are to take the bull for the sin offering and burn it in the designated part of the temple area outside the sanctuary.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:2 - The LORD said to me, “This gate is to remain shut. It must not be opened; no one may enter through it. It is to remain shut because the LORD, the God of Israel, has entered through it.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:4 - Then the man brought me by way of the north gate to the front of the temple. I looked and saw the glory of the LORD filling the temple of the LORD, and I fell facedown.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:5 - The LORD said to me, “Son of man, look carefully, listen closely and give attention to everything I tell you concerning all the regulations and instructions regarding the temple of the LORD. Give attention to the entrance to the temple and all the exits of the sanctuary.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:6 - Say to rebellious Israel, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Enough of your detestable practices, people of Israel!
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:11 - They may serve in my sanctuary, having charge of the gates of the temple and serving in it; they may slaughter the burnt offerings and sacrifices for the people and stand before the people and serve them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:13 - They are not to come near to serve me as priests or come near any of my holy things or my most holy offerings; they must bear the shame of their detestable practices.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:14 - And I will appoint them to guard the temple for all the work that is to be done in it.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:15 - “ ‘But the Levitical priests, who are descendants of Zadok and who guarded my sanctuary when the Israelites went astray from me, are to come near to minister before me; they are to stand before me to offer sacrifices of fat and blood, declares the Sovereign LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:8 - This land will be his possession in Israel. And my princes will no longer oppress my people but will allow the people of Israel to possess the land according to their tribes.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:9 - “ ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: You have gone far enough, princes of Israel! Give up your violence and oppression and do what is just and right. Stop dispossessing my people, declares the Sovereign LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:13 - “ ‘This is the special gift you are to offer: a sixth of an ephah[fn] from each homer of wheat and a sixth of an ephah[fn] from each homer of barley.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:15 - Also one sheep is to be taken from every flock of two hundred from the well-watered pastures of Israel. These will be used for the grain offerings, burnt offerings and fellowship offerings to make atonement for the people, declares the Sovereign LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:16 - All the people of the land will be required to give this special offering to the prince in Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:17 - It will be the duty of the prince to provide the burnt offerings, grain offerings and drink offerings at the festivals, the New Moons and the Sabbaths—at all the appointed festivals of Israel. He will provide the sin offerings,[fn] grain offerings, burnt offerings and fellowship offerings to make atonement for the Israelites.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:18 - “ ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: In the first month on the first day you are to take a young bull without defect and purify the sanctuary.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:19 - The priest is to take some of the blood of the sin offering and put it on the doorposts of the temple, on the four corners of the upper ledge of the altar and on the gateposts of the inner court.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:20 - You are to do the same on the seventh day of the month for anyone who sins unintentionally or through ignorance; so you are to make atonement for the temple.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:21 - “ ‘In the first month on the fourteenth day you are to observe the Passover, a festival lasting seven days, during which you shall eat bread made without yeast.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:22 - On that day the prince is to provide a bull as a sin offering for himself and for all the people of the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:25 - “ ‘During the seven days of the festival, which begins in the seventh month on the fifteenth day, he is to make the same provision for sin offerings, burnt offerings, grain offerings and oil.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:18 - The prince must not take any of the inheritance of the people, driving them off their property. He is to give his sons their inheritance out of his own property, so that not one of my people will be separated from their property.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:24 - He said to me, “These are the kitchens where those who minister at the temple are to cook the sacrifices of the people.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:1 - The man brought me back to the entrance to the temple, and I saw water coming out from under the threshold of the temple toward the east (for the temple faced east). The water was coming down from under the south side of the temple, south of the altar.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:6 - He asked me, “Son of man, do you see this?” Then he led me back to the bank of the river.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:7 - When I arrived there, I saw a great number of trees on each side of the river.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:12 - Fruit trees of all kinds will grow on both banks of the river. Their leaves will not wither, nor will their fruit fail. Every month they will bear fruit, because the water from the sanctuary flows to them. Their fruit will serve for food and their leaves for healing.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:16 - Berothah[fn] and Sibraim (which lies on the border between Damascus and Hamath), as far as Hazer Hattikon, which is on the border of Hauran.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:17 - The boundary will extend from the sea to Hazar Enan,[fn] along the northern border of Damascus, with the border of Hamath to the north. This will be the northern boundary.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:18 - “On the east side the boundary will run between Hauran and Damascus, along the Jordan between Gilead and the land of Israel, to the Dead Sea and as far as Tamar.[fn] This will be the eastern boundary.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:21 - “You are to distribute this land among yourselves according to the tribes of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:22 - You are to allot it as an inheritance for yourselves and for the foreigners residing among you and who have children. You are to consider them as native-born Israelites; along with you they are to be allotted an inheritance among the tribes of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:1 - “These are the tribes, listed by name: At the northern frontier, Dan will have one portion; it will follow the Hethlon road to Lebo Hamath; Hazar Enan and the northern border of Damascus next to Hamath will be part of its border from the east side to the west side.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:2 - “Asher will have one portion; it will border the territory of Dan from east to west.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:8 - “Bordering the territory of Judah from east to west will be the portion you are to present as a special gift. It will be 25,000 cubits[fn] wide, and its length from east to west will equal one of the tribal portions; the sanctuary will be in the center of it.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:11 - This will be for the consecrated priests, the Zadokites, who were faithful in serving me and did not go astray as the Levites did when the Israelites went astray.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:18 - What remains of the area, bordering on the sacred portion and running the length of it, will be 10,000 cubits on the east side and 10,000 cubits on the west side. Its produce will supply food for the workers of the city.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:19 - The workers from the city who farm it will come from all the tribes of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:20 - The entire portion will be a square, 25,000 cubits on each side. As a special gift you will set aside the sacred portion, along with the property of the city.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:21 - “What remains on both sides of the area formed by the sacred portion and the property of the city will belong to the prince. It will extend eastward from the 25,000 cubits of the sacred portion to the eastern border, and westward from the 25,000 cubits to the western border. Both these areas running the length of the tribal portions will belong to the prince, and the sacred portion with the temple sanctuary will be in the center of them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:31 - the gates of the city will be named after the tribes of Israel. The three gates on the north side will be the gate of Reuben, the gate of Judah and the gate of Levi.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 1:2 - And the Lord delivered Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, along with some of the articles from the temple of God. These he carried off to the temple of his god in Babylonia[fn] and put in the treasure house of his god.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 1:4 - young men without any physical defect, handsome, showing aptitude for every kind of learning, well informed, quick to understand, and qualified to serve in the king's palace. He was to teach them the language and literature of the Babylonians.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 1:5 - The king assigned them a daily amount of food and wine from the king's table. They were to be trained for three years, and after that they were to enter the king's service.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 1:8 - But Daniel resolved not to defile himself with the royal food and wine, and he asked the chief official for permission not to defile himself this way.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 1:9 - Now God had caused the official to show favor and compassion to Daniel,
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 1:13 - Then compare our appearance with that of the young men who eat the royal food, and treat your servants in accordance with what you see.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 1:15 - At the end of the ten days they looked healthier and better nourished than any of the young men who ate the royal food.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 1:19 - The king talked with them, and he found none equal to Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah; so they entered the king's service.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 1:21 - And Daniel remained there until the first year of King Cyrus.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:2 - So the king summoned the magicians, enchanters, sorcerers and astrologers[fn] to tell him what he had dreamed. When they came in and stood before the king,
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:10 - The astrologers answered the king, “There is no one on earth who can do what the king asks! No king, however great and mighty, has ever asked such a thing of any magician or enchanter or astrologer.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:11 - What the king asks is too difficult. No one can reveal it to the king except the gods, and they do not live among humans.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:14 - When Arioch, the commander of the king's guard, had gone out to put to death the wise men of Babylon, Daniel spoke to him with wisdom and tact.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:15 - He asked the king's officer, “Why did the king issue such a harsh decree?” Arioch then explained the matter to Daniel.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:18 - He urged them to plead for mercy from the God of heaven concerning this mystery, so that he and his friends might not be executed with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:19 - During the night the mystery was revealed to Daniel in a vision. Then Daniel praised the God of heaven
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:20 - and said: “Praise be to the name of God for ever and ever; wisdom and power are his.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:23 - I thank and praise you, God of my ancestors: You have given me wisdom and power, you have made known to me what we asked of you, you have made known to us the dream of the king.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:24 - Then Daniel went to Arioch, whom the king had appointed to execute the wise men of Babylon, and said to him, “Do not execute the wise men of Babylon. Take me to the king, and I will interpret his dream for him.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:25 - Arioch took Daniel to the king at once and said, “I have found a man among the exiles from Judah who can tell the king what his dream means.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:27 - Daniel replied, “No wise man, enchanter, magician or diviner can explain to the king the mystery he has asked about,
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:36 - “This was the dream, and now we will interpret it to the king.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:37 - Your Majesty, you are the king of kings. The God of heaven has given you dominion and power and might and glory;
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:44 - “In the time of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will crush all those kingdoms and bring them to an end, but it will itself endure forever.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:49 - Moreover, at Daniel's request the king appointed Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego administrators over the province of Babylon, while Daniel himself remained at the royal court.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:13 - Furious with rage, Nebuchadnezzar summoned Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. So these men were brought before the king,
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:22 - The king's command was so urgent and the furnace so hot that the flames of the fire killed the soldiers who took up Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego,
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:25 - He said, “Look! I see four men walking around in the fire, unbound and unharmed, and the fourth looks like a son of the gods.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:26 - Nebuchadnezzar then approached the opening of the blazing furnace and shouted, “Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, servants of the Most High God, come out! Come here!” So Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego came out of the fire,
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:27 - and the satraps, prefects, governors and royal advisers crowded around them. They saw that the fire had not harmed their bodies, nor was a hair of their heads singed; their robes were not scorched, and there was no smell of fire on them.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:28 - Then Nebuchadnezzar said, “Praise be to the God of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, who has sent his angel and rescued his servants! They trusted in him and defied the king's command and were willing to give up their lives rather than serve or worship any god except their own God.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:29 - Therefore I decree that the people of any nation or language who say anything against the God of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego be cut into pieces and their houses be turned into piles of rubble, for no other god can save in this way.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:8 - Finally, Daniel came into my presence and I told him the dream. (He is called Belteshazzar, after the name of my god, and the spirit of the holy gods is in him.)
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:11 - The tree grew large and strong and its top touched the sky; it was visible to the ends of the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:12 - Its leaves were beautiful, its fruit abundant, and on it was food for all. Under it the wild animals found shelter, and the birds lived in its branches; from it every creature was fed.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:15 - But let the stump and its roots, bound with iron and bronze, remain in the ground, in the grass of the field. “ ‘Let him be drenched with the dew of heaven, and let him live with the animals among the plants of the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:21 - with beautiful leaves and abundant fruit, providing food for all, giving shelter to the wild animals, and having nesting places in its branches for the birds—
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:23 - “Your Majesty saw a holy one, a messenger, coming down from heaven and saying, ‘Cut down the tree and destroy it, but leave the stump, bound with iron and bronze, in the grass of the field, while its roots remain in the ground. Let him be drenched with the dew of heaven; let him live with the wild animals, until seven times pass by for him.'
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:25 - You will be driven away from people and will live with the wild animals; you will eat grass like the ox and be drenched with the dew of heaven. Seven times will pass by for you until you acknowledge that the Most High is sovereign over all kingdoms on earth and gives them to anyone he wishes.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:31 - Even as the words were on his lips, a voice came from heaven, “This is what is decreed for you, King Nebuchadnezzar: Your royal authority has been taken from you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:33 - Immediately what had been said about Nebuchadnezzar was fulfilled. He was driven away from people and ate grass like the ox. His body was drenched with the dew of heaven until his hair grew like the feathers of an eagle and his nails like the claws of a bird.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:35 - All the peoples of the earth are regarded as nothing. He does as he pleases with the powers of heaven and the peoples of the earth. No one can hold back his hand or say to him: “What have you done?”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:37 - Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and glorify the King of heaven, because everything he does is right and all his ways are just. And those who walk in pride he is able to humble.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:2 - While Belshazzar was drinking his wine, he gave orders to bring in the gold and silver goblets that Nebuchadnezzar his father[fn] had taken from the temple in Jerusalem, so that the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines might drink from them.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:3 - So they brought in the gold goblets that had been taken from the temple of God in Jerusalem, and the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines drank from them.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:5 - Suddenly the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall, near the lampstand in the royal palace. The king watched the hand as it wrote.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:6 - His face turned pale and he was so frightened that his legs became weak and his knees were knocking.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:8 - Then all the king's wise men came in, but they could not read the writing or tell the king what it meant.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:10 - The queen,[fn] hearing the voices of the king and his nobles, came into the banquet hall. “May the king live forever!” she said. “Don't be alarmed! Don't look so pale!
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:11 - There is a man in your kingdom who has the spirit of the holy gods in him. In the time of your father he was found to have insight and intelligence and wisdom like that of the gods. Your father, King Nebuchadnezzar, appointed him chief of the magicians, enchanters, astrologers and diviners.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:13 - So Daniel was brought before the king, and the king said to him, “Are you Daniel, one of the exiles my father the king brought from Judah?
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:17 - Then Daniel answered the king, “You may keep your gifts for yourself and give your rewards to someone else. Nevertheless, I will read the writing for the king and tell him what it means.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:20 - But when his heart became arrogant and hardened with pride, he was deposed from his royal throne and stripped of his glory.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:21 - He was driven away from people and given the mind of an animal; he lived with the wild donkeys and ate grass like the ox; and his body was drenched with the dew of heaven, until he acknowledged that the Most High God is sovereign over all kingdoms on earth and sets over them anyone he wishes.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:23 - Instead, you have set yourself up against the Lord of heaven. You had the goblets from his temple brought to you, and you and your nobles, your wives and your concubines drank wine from them. You praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or understand. But you did not honor the God who holds in his hand your life and all your ways.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:10 - Now when Daniel learned that the decree had been published, he went home to his upstairs room where the windows opened toward Jerusalem. Three times a day he got down on his knees and prayed, giving thanks to his God, just as he had done before.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:11 - Then these men went as a group and found Daniel praying and asking God for help.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:13 - Then they said to the king, “Daniel, who is one of the exiles from Judah, pays no attention to you, Your Majesty, or to the decree you put in writing. He still prays three times a day.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:14 - When the king heard this, he was greatly distressed; he was determined to rescue Daniel and made every effort until sundown to save him.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:15 - Then the men went as a group to King Darius and said to him, “Remember, Your Majesty, that according to the law of the Medes and Persians no decree or edict that the king issues can be changed.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:17 - A stone was brought and placed over the mouth of the den, and the king sealed it with his own signet ring and with the rings of his nobles, so that Daniel's situation might not be changed.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:20 - When he came near the den, he called to Daniel in an anguished voice, “Daniel, servant of the living God, has your God, whom you serve continually, been able to rescue you from the lions?”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:23 - The king was overjoyed and gave orders to lift Daniel out of the den. And when Daniel was lifted from the den, no wound was found on him, because he had trusted in his God.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:24 - At the king's command, the men who had falsely accused Daniel were brought in and thrown into the lions' den, along with their wives and children. And before they reached the floor of the den, the lions overpowered them and crushed all their bones.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:26 - “I issue a decree that in every part of my kingdom people must fear and reverence the God of Daniel. “For he is the living God and he endures forever; his kingdom will not be destroyed, his dominion will never end.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:28 - So Daniel prospered during the reign of Darius and the reign of Cyrus[fn] the Persian.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 7:2 - Daniel said: “In my vision at night I looked, and there before me were the four winds of heaven churning up the great sea.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 7:13 - “In my vision at night I looked, and there before me was one like a son of man,[fn] coming with the clouds of heaven. He approached the Ancient of Days and was led into his presence.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 7:27 - Then the sovereignty, power and greatness of all the kingdoms under heaven will be handed over to the holy people of the Most High. His kingdom will be an everlasting kingdom, and all rulers will worship and obey him.'
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 7:28 - “This is the end of the matter. I, Daniel, was deeply troubled by my thoughts, and my face turned pale, but I kept the matter to myself.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:1 - In the third year of King Belshazzar's reign, I, Daniel, had a vision, after the one that had already appeared to me.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:6 - It came toward the two-horned ram I had seen standing beside the canal and charged at it in great rage.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:7 - I saw it attack the ram furiously, striking the ram and shattering its two horns. The ram was powerless to stand against it; the goat knocked it to the ground and trampled on it, and none could rescue the ram from its power.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:8 - The goat became very great, but at the height of its power the large horn was broken off, and in its place four prominent horns grew up toward the four winds of heaven.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:10 - It grew until it reached the host of the heavens, and it threw some of the starry host down to the earth and trampled on them.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:25 - He will cause deceit to prosper, and he will consider himself superior. When they feel secure, he will destroy many and take his stand against the Prince of princes. Yet he will be destroyed, but not by human power.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:27 - I, Daniel, was worn out. I lay exhausted for several days. Then I got up and went about the king's business. I was appalled by the vision; it was beyond understanding.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:1 - In the first year of Darius son of Xerxes[fn] (a Mede by descent), who was made ruler over the Babylonian[fn] kingdom—
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:10 - we have not obeyed the LORD our God or kept the laws he gave us through his servants the prophets.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:11 - All Israel has transgressed your law and turned away, refusing to obey you. “Therefore the curses and sworn judgments written in the Law of Moses, the servant of God, have been poured out on us, because we have sinned against you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:12 - You have fulfilled the words spoken against us and against our rulers by bringing on us great disaster. Under the whole heaven nothing has ever been done like what has been done to Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:13 - Just as it is written in the Law of Moses, all this disaster has come on us, yet we have not sought the favor of the LORD our God by turning from our sins and giving attention to your truth.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:17 - “Now, our God, hear the prayers and petitions of your servant. For your sake, Lord, look with favor on your desolate sanctuary.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:20 - While I was speaking and praying, confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel and making my request to the LORD my God for his holy hill—
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 10:4 - On the twenty-fourth day of the first month, as I was standing on the bank of the great river, the Tigris,
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 10:12 - Then he continued, “Do not be afraid, Daniel. Since the first day that you set your mind to gain understanding and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard, and I have come in response to them.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 10:13 - But the prince of the Persian kingdom resisted me twenty-one days. Then Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, because I was detained there with the king of Persia.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 10:17 - How can I, your servant, talk with you, my lord? My strength is gone and I can hardly breathe.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:2 - “Now then, I tell you the truth: Three more kings will arise in Persia, and then a fourth, who will be far richer than all the others. When he has gained power by his wealth, he will stir up everyone against the kingdom of Greece.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:4 - After he has arisen, his empire will be broken up and parceled out toward the four winds of heaven. It will not go to his descendants, nor will it have the power he exercised, because his empire will be uprooted and given to others.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:5 - “The king of the South will become strong, but one of his commanders will become even stronger than he and will rule his own kingdom with great power.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:6 - After some years, they will become allies. The daughter of the king of the South will go to the king of the North to make an alliance, but she will not retain her power, and he and his power[fn] will not last. In those days she will be betrayed, together with her royal escort and her father[fn] and the one who supported her.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:7 - “One from her family line will arise to take her place. He will attack the forces of the king of the North and enter his fortress; he will fight against them and be victorious.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:8 - He will also seize their gods, their metal images and their valuable articles of silver and gold and carry them off to Egypt. For some years he will leave the king of the North alone.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:9 - Then the king of the North will invade the realm of the king of the South but will retreat to his own country.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:11 - “Then the king of the South will march out in a rage and fight against the king of the North, who will raise a large army, but it will be defeated.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:13 - For the king of the North will muster another army, larger than the first; and after several years, he will advance with a huge army fully equipped.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:14 - “In those times many will rise against the king of the South. Those who are violent among your own people will rebel in fulfillment of the vision, but without success.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:15 - Then the king of the North will come and build up siege ramps and will capture a fortified city. The forces of the South will be powerless to resist; even their best troops will not have the strength to stand.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:22 - Then an overwhelming army will be swept away before him; both it and a prince of the covenant will be destroyed.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:25 - “With a large army he will stir up his strength and courage against the king of the South. The king of the South will wage war with a large and very powerful army, but he will not be able to stand because of the plots devised against him.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:33 - “Those who are wise will instruct many, though for a time they will fall by the sword or be burned or captured or plundered.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:40 - “At the time of the end the king of the South will engage him in battle, and the king of the North will storm out against him with chariots and cavalry and a great fleet of ships. He will invade many countries and sweep through them like a flood.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:43 - He will gain control of the treasures of gold and silver and all the riches of Egypt, with the Libyans and Cushites[fn] in submission.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 12:1 - “At that time Michael, the great prince who protects your people, will arise. There will be a time of distress such as has not happened from the beginning of nations until then. But at that time your people—everyone whose name is found written in the book—will be delivered.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 12:5 - Then I, Daniel, looked, and there before me stood two others, one on this bank of the river and one on the opposite bank.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 12:6 - One of them said to the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, “How long will it be before these astonishing things are fulfilled?”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 12:7 - The man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, lifted his right hand and his left hand toward heaven, and I heard him swear by him who lives forever, saying, “It will be for a time, times and half a time.[fn] When the power of the holy people has been finally broken, all these things will be completed.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 12:11 - “From the time that the daily sacrifice is abolished and the abomination that causes desolation is set up, there will be 1,290 days.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:1 - The word of the LORD that came to Hosea son of Beeri during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and during the reign of Jeroboam son of Jehoash[fn] king of Israel:
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:2 - When the LORD began to speak through Hosea, the LORD said to him, “Go, marry a promiscuous woman and have children with her, for like an adulterous wife this land is guilty of unfaithfulness to the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:4 - Then the LORD said to Hosea, “Call him Jezreel, because I will soon punish the house of Jehu for the massacre at Jezreel, and I will put an end to the kingdom of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:5 - In that day I will break Israel's bow in the Valley of Jezreel.”
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:6 - Gomer conceived again and gave birth to a daughter. Then the LORD said to Hosea, “Call her Lo-Ruhamah (which means “not loved”), for I will no longer show love to Israel, that I should at all forgive them.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:11 - The people of Judah and the people of Israel will come together; they will appoint one leader and will come up out of the land, for great will be the day of Jezreel.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:12 - I will ruin her vines and her fig trees, which she said were her pay from her lovers; I will make them a thicket, and wild animals will devour them.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:18 - In that day I will make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, the birds in the sky and the creatures that move along the ground. Bow and sword and battle I will abolish from the land, so that all may lie down in safety.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:3 - Because of this the land dries up, and all who live in it waste away; the beasts of the field, the birds in the sky and the fish in the sea are swept away.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:12 - My people consult a wooden idol, and a diviner's rod speaks to them. A spirit of prostitution leads them astray; they are unfaithful to their God.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 5:1 - “Hear this, you priests! Pay attention, you Israelites! Listen, royal house! This judgment is against you: You have been a snare at Mizpah, a net spread out on Tabor.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 5:5 - Israel's arrogance testifies against them; the Israelites, even Ephraim, stumble in their sin; Judah also stumbles with them.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 5:9 - Ephraim will be laid waste on the day of reckoning. Among the tribes of Israel I proclaim what is certain.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 6:10 - I have seen a horrible thing in Israel: There Ephraim is given to prostitution, Israel is defiled.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 6:11 - “Also for you, Judah, a harvest is appointed. “Whenever I would restore the fortunes of my people,
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:12 - When they go, I will throw my net over them; I will pull them down like the birds in the sky. When I hear them flocking together, I will catch them.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 8:1 - “Put the trumpet to your lips! An eagle is over the house of the LORD because the people have broken my covenant and rebelled against my law.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 8:14 - Israel has forgotten their Maker and built palaces; Judah has fortified many towns. But I will send fire on their cities that will consume their fortresses.”
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:1 - Do not rejoice, Israel; do not be jubilant like the other nations. For you have been unfaithful to your God; you love the wages of a prostitute at every threshing floor.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:3 - They will not remain in the LORD's land; Ephraim will return to Egypt and eat unclean food in Assyria.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:5 - What will you do on the day of your appointed festivals, on the feast days of the LORD?
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:9 - They have sunk deep into corruption, as in the days of Gibeah. God will remember their wickedness and punish them for their sins.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:15 - “Because of all their wickedness in Gilgal, I hated them there. Because of their sinful deeds, I will drive them out of my house. I will no longer love them; all their leaders are rebellious.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 10:5 - The people who live in Samaria fear for the calf-idol of Beth Aven.[fn] Its people will mourn over it, and so will its idolatrous priests, those who had rejoiced over its splendor, because it is taken from them into exile.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 10:8 - The high places of wickedness[fn] will be destroyed— it is the sin of Israel. Thorns and thistles will grow up and cover their altars. Then they will say to the mountains, “Cover us!” and to the hills, “Fall on us!”
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 10:11 - Ephraim is a trained heifer that loves to thresh; so I will put a yoke on her fair neck. I will drive Ephraim, Judah must plow, and Jacob must break up the ground.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 10:14 - the roar of battle will rise against your people, so that all your fortresses will be devastated— as Shalman devastated Beth Arbel on the day of battle, when mothers were dashed to the ground with their children.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 10:15 - So will it happen to you, Bethel, because your wickedness is great. When that day dawns, the king of Israel will be completely destroyed.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 11:9 - I will not carry out my fierce anger, nor will I devastate Ephraim again. For I am God, and not a man— the Holy One among you. I will not come against their cities.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 13:4 - “But I have been the LORD your God ever since you came out of Egypt. You shall acknowledge no God but me, no Savior except me.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 14:9 - Who is wise? Let them realize these things. Who is discerning? Let them understand. The ways of the LORD are right; the righteous walk in them, but the rebellious stumble in them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:1 - The word of the LORD that came to Joel son of Pethuel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:4 - What the locust swarm has left the great locusts have eaten; what the great locusts have left the young locusts have eaten; what the young locusts have left other locusts[fn] have eaten.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:12 - The vine is dried up and the fig tree is withered; the pomegranate, the palm and the apple[fn] tree— all the trees of the field—are dried up. Surely the people's joy is withered away.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:19 - To you, LORD, I call, for fire has devoured the pastures in the wilderness and flames have burned up all the trees of the field.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:2 - a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness. Like dawn spreading across the mountains a large and mighty army comes, such as never was in ancient times nor ever will be in ages to come.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:8 - They do not jostle each other; each marches straight ahead. They plunge through defenses without breaking ranks.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:11 - The LORD thunders at the head of his army; his forces are beyond number, and mighty is the army that obeys his command. The day of the LORD is great; it is dreadful. Who can endure it?
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:16 - Gather the people, consecrate the assembly; bring together the elders, gather the children, those nursing at the breast. Let the bridegroom leave his room and the bride her chamber.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:17 - Let the priests, who minister before the LORD, weep between the portico and the altar. Let them say, “Spare your people, LORD. Do not make your inheritance an object of scorn, a byword among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:18 - Then the LORD was jealous for his land and took pity on his people.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:26 - You will have plenty to eat, until you are full, and you will praise the name of the LORD your God, who has worked wonders for you; never again will my people be shamed.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:27 - Then you will know that I am in Israel, that I am the LORD your God, and that there is no other; never again will my people be shamed.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:2 - I will gather all nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat.[fn] There I will put them on trial for what they did to my inheritance, my people Israel, because they scattered my people among the nations and divided up my land.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:7 - “See, I am going to rouse them out of the places to which you sold them, and I will return on your own heads what you have done.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:16 - The LORD will roar from Zion and thunder from Jerusalem; the earth and the heavens will tremble. But the LORD will be a refuge for his people, a stronghold for the people of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 1:1 - The words of Amos, one of the shepherds of Tekoa—the vision he saw concerning Israel two years before the earthquake, when Uzziah was king of Judah and Jeroboam son of Jehoash[fn] was king of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 1:2 - He said: “The LORD roars from Zion and thunders from Jerusalem; the pastures of the shepherds dry up, and the top of Carmel withers.”
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 1:6 - This is what the LORD says: “For three sins of Gaza, even for four, I will not relent. Because she took captive whole communities and sold them to Edom,
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 1:9 - This is what the LORD says: “For three sins of Tyre, even for four, I will not relent. Because she sold whole communities of captives to Edom, disregarding a treaty of brotherhood,
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:7 - They trample on the heads of the poor as on the dust of the ground and deny justice to the oppressed. Father and son use the same girl and so profane my holy name.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:8 - They lie down beside every altar on garments taken in pledge. In the house of their god they drink wine taken as fines.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 3:4 - Does a lion roar in the thicket when it has no prey? Does it growl in its den when it has caught nothing?
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 3:12 - This is what the LORD says: “As a shepherd rescues from the lion's mouth only two leg bones or a piece of an ear, so will the Israelites living in Samaria be rescued, with only the head of a bed and a piece of fabric[fn] from a couch.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 3:14 - “On the day I punish Israel for her sins, I will destroy the altars of Bethel; the horns of the altar will be cut off and fall to the ground.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 4:7 - “I also withheld rain from you when the harvest was still three months away. I sent rain on one town, but withheld it from another. One field had rain; another had none and dried up.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:2 - “Fallen is Virgin Israel, never to rise again, deserted in her own land, with no one to lift her up.”
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:5 - do not seek Bethel, do not go to Gilgal, do not journey to Beersheba. For Gilgal will surely go into exile, and Bethel will be reduced to nothing.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:15 - Hate evil, love good; maintain justice in the courts. Perhaps the LORD God Almighty will have mercy on the remnant of Joseph.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:18 - Woe to you who long for the day of the LORD! Why do you long for the day of the LORD? That day will be darkness, not light.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:19 - It will be as though a man fled from a lion only to meet a bear, as though he entered his house and rested his hand on the wall only to have a snake bite him.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:20 - Will not the day of the LORD be darkness, not light— pitch-dark, without a ray of brightness?
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:26 - You have lifted up the shrine of your king, the pedestal of your idols, the star of your god[fn]— which you made for yourselves.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:1 - Woe to you who are complacent in Zion, and to you who feel secure on Mount Samaria, you notable men of the foremost nation, to whom the people of Israel come!
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:10 - And if the relative who comes to carry the bodies out of the house to burn them[fn] asks anyone who might be hiding there, “Is anyone else with you?” and he says, “No,” then he will go on to say, “Hush! We must not mention the name of the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:14 - For the LORD God Almighty declares, “I will stir up a nation against you, Israel, that will oppress you all the way from Lebo Hamath to the valley of the Arabah.”
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:9 - “The high places of Isaac will be destroyed and the sanctuaries of Israel will be ruined; with my sword I will rise against the house of Jeroboam.”
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 8:3 - “In that day,” declares the Sovereign LORD, “the songs in the temple will turn to wailing.[fn] Many, many bodies—flung everywhere! Silence!”
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 8:14 - Those who swear by the sin of Samaria— who say, ‘As surely as your god lives, Dan,' or, ‘As surely as the god[fn] of Beersheba lives'— they will fall, never to rise again.”
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 9:3 - Though they hide themselves on the top of Carmel, there I will hunt them down and seize them. Though they hide from my eyes at the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent to bite them.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 9:8 - “Surely the eyes of the Sovereign LORD are on the sinful kingdom. I will destroy it from the face of the earth. Yet I will not totally destroy the descendants of Jacob,”

declares the LORD.

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 9:9 - “For I will give the command, and I will shake the people of Israel among all the nations as grain is shaken in a sieve, and not a pebble will reach the ground.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 9:11 - “In that day I will restore David's fallen shelter— I will repair its broken walls and restore its ruins— and will rebuild it as it used to be,
Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:20 - This company of Israelite exiles who are in Canaan will possess the land as far as Zarephath; the exiles from Jerusalem who are in Sepharad will possess the towns of the Negev.
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 1:1 - The word of the LORD came to Jonah son of Amittai:
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 1:9 - He answered, “I am a Hebrew and I worship the LORD, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 1:14 - Then they cried out to the LORD, “Please, LORD, do not let us die for taking this man's life. Do not hold us accountable for killing an innocent man, for you, LORD, have done as you pleased.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 1:15 - Then they took Jonah and threw him overboard, and the raging sea grew calm.
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 2:7 - “When my life was ebbing away, I remembered you, LORD, and my prayer rose to you, to your holy temple.
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:6 - When Jonah's warning reached the king of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, took off his royal robes, covered himself with sackcloth and sat down in the dust.
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:7 - This is the proclamation he issued in Nineveh: “By the decree of the king and his nobles: Do not let people or animals, herds or flocks, taste anything; do not let them eat or drink.
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 4:6 - Then the LORD God provided a leafy plant[fn] and made it grow up over Jonah to give shade for his head to ease his discomfort, and Jonah was very happy about the plant.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:1 - The word of the LORD that came to Micah of Moresheth during the reigns of Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah—the vision he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:3 - Look! The LORD is coming from his dwelling place; he comes down and treads on the heights of the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:5 - All this is because of Jacob's transgression, because of the sins of the people of Israel. What is Jacob's transgression? Is it not Samaria? What is Judah's high place? Is it not Jerusalem?
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:13 - You who live in Lachish, harness fast horses to the chariot. You are where the sin of Daughter Zion began, for the transgressions of Israel were found in you.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:14 - Therefore you will give parting gifts to Moresheth Gath. The town of Akzib[fn] will prove deceptive to the kings of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 2:11 - If a liar and deceiver comes and says, ‘I will prophesy for you plenty of wine and beer,' that would be just the prophet for this people!
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 2:12 - “I will surely gather all of you, Jacob; I will surely bring together the remnant of Israel. I will bring them together like sheep in a pen, like a flock in its pasture; the place will throng with people.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 3:3 - who eat my people's flesh, strip off their skin and break their bones in pieces; who chop them up like meat for the pan, like flesh for the pot?”
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 3:12 - Therefore because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, the temple hill a mound overgrown with thickets.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 4:1 - In the last days the mountain of the LORD's temple will be established as the highest of the mountains; it will be exalted above the hills, and peoples will stream to it.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 4:2 - Many nations will come and say, “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the temple of the God of Jacob. He will teach us his ways, so that we may walk in his paths.” The law will go out from Zion, the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:1 - Marshal your troops now, city of troops, for a siege is laid against us. They will strike Israel's ruler on the cheek with a rod.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:2 - “But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are small among the clans[fn] of Judah, out of you will come for me one who will be ruler over Israel, whose origins are from of old, from ancient times.”
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:4 - He will stand and shepherd his flock in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God. And they will live securely, for then his greatness will reach to the ends of the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:6 - who will rule[fn] the land of Assyria with the sword, the land of Nimrod with drawn sword.[fn] He will deliver us from the Assyrians when they invade our land and march across our borders.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:7 - The remnant of Jacob will be in the midst of many peoples like dew from the LORD, like showers on the grass, which do not wait for anyone or depend on man.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:8 - The remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the forest, like a young lion among flocks of sheep, which mauls and mangles as it goes, and no one can rescue.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 6:2 - “Hear, you mountains, the LORD's accusation; listen, you everlasting foundations of the earth. For the LORD has a case against his people; he is lodging a charge against Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 6:5 - My people, remember what Balak king of Moab plotted and what Balaam son of Beor answered. Remember your journey from Shittim to Gilgal, that you may know the righteous acts of the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:12 - In that day people will come to you from Assyria and the cities of Egypt, even from Egypt to the Euphrates and from sea to sea and from mountain to mountain.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:14 - Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your inheritance, which lives by itself in a forest, in fertile pasturelands.[fn] Let them feed in Bashan and Gilead as in days long ago.
Unchecked Copy BoxNah 1:1 - A prophecy concerning Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
Unchecked Copy BoxNah 1:4 - He rebukes the sea and dries it up; he makes all the rivers run dry. Bashan and Carmel wither and the blossoms of Lebanon fade.
Unchecked Copy BoxNah 1:11 - From you, Nineveh, has one come forth who plots evil against the LORD and devises wicked plans.
Unchecked Copy BoxNah 2:2 - The LORD will restore the splendor of Jacob like the splendor of Israel, though destroyers have laid them waste and have ruined their vines.
Unchecked Copy BoxNah 2:9 - Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold! The supply is endless, the wealth from all its treasures!
Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:16 - You have increased the number of your merchants till they are more numerous than the stars in the sky, but like locusts they strip the land and then fly away.
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:13 - Your eyes are too pure to look on evil; you cannot tolerate wrongdoing. Why then do you tolerate the treacherous? Why are you silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than themselves?
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:17 - The violence you have done to Lebanon will overwhelm you, and your destruction of animals will terrify you. For you have shed human blood; you have destroyed lands and cities and everyone in them.
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:1 - A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet. On shigionoth.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:1 - The word of the LORD that came to Zephaniah son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hezekiah, during the reign of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah:
Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:3 - “I will sweep away both man and beast; I will sweep away the birds in the sky and the fish in the sea— and the idols that cause the wicked to stumble.”[fn] “When I destroy all mankind on the face of the earth,”

declares the LORD,

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:4 - “I will stretch out my hand against Judah and against all who live in Jerusalem. I will destroy every remnant of Baal worship in this place, the very names of the idolatrous priests—
Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:5 - those who bow down on the roofs to worship the starry host, those who bow down and swear by the LORD and who also swear by Molek,[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:6 - those who turn back from following the LORD and neither seek the LORD nor inquire of him.”
Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:7 - Be silent before the Sovereign LORD, for the day of the LORD is near. The LORD has prepared a sacrifice; he has consecrated those he has invited.
Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:8 - “On the day of the LORD's sacrifice I will punish the officials and the king's sons and all those clad in foreign clothes.
Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:9 - On that day I will punish all who avoid stepping on the threshold,[fn] who fill the temple of their gods with violence and deceit.
Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:11 - The LORD will be awesome to them when he destroys all the gods of the earth. Distant nations will bow down to him, all of them in their own lands.
Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:13 - They will do no wrong; they will tell no lies. A deceitful tongue will not be found in their mouths. They will eat and lie down and no one will make them afraid.”
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 1:1 - In the second year of King Darius, on the first day of the sixth month, the word of the LORD came through the prophet Haggai to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua son of Jozadak,[fn] the high priest:
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 1:3 - Then the word of the LORD came through the prophet Haggai:
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 1:12 - Then Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, Joshua son of Jozadak, the high priest, and the whole remnant of the people obeyed the voice of the LORD their God and the message of the prophet Haggai, because the LORD their God had sent him. And the people feared the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 1:14 - So the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua son of Jozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of the whole remnant of the people. They came and began to work on the house of the LORD Almighty, their God,
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 1:15 - on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month. In the second year of King Darius,
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:1 - on the twenty-first day of the seventh month, the word of the LORD came through the prophet Haggai:
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:2 - “Speak to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, to Joshua son of Jozadak,[fn] the high priest, and to the remnant of the people. Ask them,
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:4 - But now be strong, Zerubbabel,' declares the LORD. ‘Be strong, Joshua son of Jozadak, the high priest. Be strong, all you people of the land,' declares the LORD, ‘and work. For I am with you,' declares the LORD Almighty.
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:9 - ‘The glory of this present house will be greater than the glory of the former house,' says the LORD Almighty. ‘And in this place I will grant peace,' declares the LORD Almighty.”
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:10 - On the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to the prophet Haggai:
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:18 - ‘From this day on, from this twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, give careful thought to the day when the foundation of the LORD's temple was laid. Give careful thought:
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:20 - The word of the LORD came to Haggai a second time on the twenty-fourth day of the month:
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:21 - “Tell Zerubbabel governor of Judah that I am going to shake the heavens and the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:23 - “ ‘On that day,' declares the LORD Almighty, ‘I will take you, my servant Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel,' declares the LORD, ‘and I will make you like my signet ring, for I have chosen you,' declares the LORD Almighty.”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 1:1 - In the eighth month of the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to the prophet Zechariah son of Berekiah, the son of Iddo:
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 1:7 - On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, the month of Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to the prophet Zechariah son of Berekiah, the son of Iddo.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 2:6 - “Come! Come! Flee from the land of the north,” declares the LORD, “for I have scattered you to the four winds of heaven,” declares the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 2:8 - For this is what the LORD Almighty says: “After the Glorious One has sent me against the nations that have plundered you—for whoever touches you touches the apple of his eye—
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 3:3 - Now Joshua was dressed in filthy clothes as he stood before the angel.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 5:4 - The LORD Almighty declares, ‘I will send it out, and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of anyone who swears falsely by my name. It will remain in that house and destroy it completely, both its timbers and its stones.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 5:8 - He said, “This is wickedness,” and he pushed her back into the basket and pushed its lead cover down on it.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 5:9 - Then I looked up—and there before me were two women, with the wind in their wings! They had wings like those of a stork, and they lifted up the basket between heaven and earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 6:5 - The angel answered me, “These are the four spirits[fn] of heaven, going out from standing in the presence of the Lord of the whole world.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 6:10 - “Take silver and gold from the exiles Heldai, Tobijah and Jedaiah, who have arrived from Babylon. Go the same day to the house of Josiah son of Zephaniah.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 6:11 - Take the silver and gold and make a crown, and set it on the head of the high priest, Joshua son of Jozadak.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 6:13 - It is he who will build the temple of the LORD, and he will be clothed with majesty and will sit and rule on his throne. And he[fn] will be a priest on his throne. And there will be harmony between the two.'
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 6:15 - Those who are far away will come and help to build the temple of the LORD, and you will know that the LORD Almighty has sent me to you. This will happen if you diligently obey the LORD your God.”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 7:1 - In the fourth year of King Darius, the word of the LORD came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, the month of Kislev.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 7:10 - Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. Do not plot evil against each other.'
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 7:12 - They made their hearts as hard as flint and would not listen to the law or to the words that the LORD Almighty had sent by his Spirit through the earlier prophets. So the LORD Almighty was very angry.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:6 - This is what the LORD Almighty says: “It may seem marvelous to the remnant of this people at that time, but will it seem marvelous to me?” declares the LORD Almighty.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:11 - But now I will not deal with the remnant of this people as I did in the past,” declares the LORD Almighty.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:12 - “The seed will grow well, the vine will yield its fruit, the ground will produce its crops, and the heavens will drop their dew. I will give all these things as an inheritance to the remnant of this people.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:17 - do not plot evil against each other, and do not love to swear falsely. I hate all this,” declares the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:1 - A prophecy: The word of the LORD is against the land of Hadrak and will come to rest on Damascus— for the eyes of all people and all the tribes of Israel are on the LORD[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:7 - The Ephraimites will become like warriors, and their hearts will be glad as with wine. Their children will see it and be joyful; their hearts will rejoice in the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:3 - Listen to the wail of the shepherds; their rich pastures are destroyed! Listen to the roar of the lions; the lush thicket of the Jordan is ruined!
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:6 - For I will no longer have pity on the people of the land,” declares the LORD. “I will give everyone into the hands of their neighbors and their king. They will devastate the land, and I will not rescue anyone from their hands.”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:9 - and said, “I will not be your shepherd. Let the dying die, and the perishing perish. Let those who are left eat one another's flesh.”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:14 - Then I broke my second staff called Union, breaking the family bond between Judah and Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 12:13 - the clan of the house of Levi and their wives, the clan of Shimei and their wives,
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 14:1 - A day of the LORD is coming, Jerusalem, when your possessions will be plundered and divided up within your very walls.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 14:2 - I will gather all the nations to Jerusalem to fight against it; the city will be captured, the houses ransacked, and the women raped. Half of the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be taken from the city.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 14:5 - You will flee by my mountain valley, for it will extend to Azel. You will flee as you fled from the earthquake[fn] in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the LORD my God will come, and all the holy ones with him.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 14:10 - The whole land, from Geba to Rimmon, south of Jerusalem, will become like the Arabah. But Jerusalem will be raised up high from the Benjamin Gate to the site of the First Gate, to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the royal winepresses, and will remain in its place.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 14:13 - On that day people will be stricken by the LORD with great panic. They will seize each other by the hand and attack one another.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 14:20 - On that day holy to the Lord will be inscribed on the bells of the horses, and the cooking pots in the LORD's house will be like the sacred bowls in front of the altar.
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 1:2 - “I have loved you,” says the LORD. “But you ask, ‘How have you loved us?' “Was not Esau Jacob's brother?” declares the LORD. “Yet I have loved Jacob,
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 1:5 - You will see it with your own eyes and say, ‘Great is the LORD—even beyond the borders of Israel!'
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 1:9 - “Now plead with God to be gracious to us. With such offerings from your hands, will he accept you?”—says the LORD Almighty.
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 2:8 - But you have turned from the way and by your teaching have caused many to stumble; you have violated the covenant with Levi,” says the LORD Almighty.
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 2:16 - “The man who hates and divorces his wife,” says the LORD, the God of Israel, “does violence to the one he should protect,”[fn] says the LORD Almighty. So be on your guard, and do not be unfaithful.
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:4 - and the offerings of Judah and Jerusalem will be acceptable to the LORD, as in days gone by, as in former years.
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:10 - Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the LORD Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it.
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:18 - And you will again see the distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 4:4 - “Remember the law of my servant Moses, the decrees and laws I gave him at Horeb for all Israel.
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Speech: Definite article
Parsing: Genitive Singular Neuter
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:2 - Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:4 - God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:6 - And God said, “Let there be a vault between the waters to separate water from water.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:7 - So God made the vault and separated the water under the vault from the water above it. And it was so.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:14 - And God said, “Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times, and days and years,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:18 - to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:5 - Now no shrub had yet appeared on the earth[fn] and no plant had yet sprung up, for the LORD God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no one to work the ground,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:9 - The LORD God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground—trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:16 - And the LORD God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden;
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:17 - but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:1 - Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden'?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:3 - but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:6 - When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:8 - Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the LORD God among the trees of the garden.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:11 - And he said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:12 - The man said, “The woman you put here with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:15 - And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring[fn] and hers; he will crush[fn] your head, and you will strike his heel.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:17 - To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,' “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:19 - By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:22 - And the LORD God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:24 - After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side[fn] of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:13 - Cain said to the LORD, “My punishment is more than I can bear.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:14 - Today you are driving me from the land, and I will be hidden from your presence; I will be a restless wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:15 - But the LORD said to him, “Not so[fn]; anyone who kills Cain will suffer vengeance seven times over.” Then the LORD put a mark on Cain so that no one who found him would kill him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:18 - The waters rose and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the water.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:7 - and sent out a raven, and it kept flying back and forth until the water had dried up from the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:12 - He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:21 - The LORD smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though[fn] every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:6 - “Whoever sheds human blood, by humans shall their blood be shed; for in the image of God has God made mankind.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:11 - I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be destroyed by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:16 - Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:4 - Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:4 - and where he had first built an altar. There Abram called on the name of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:10 - Lot looked around and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan toward Zoar was well watered, like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:16 - In the fourth generation your descendants will come back here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:2 - so she said to Abram, “The LORD has kept me from having children. Go, sleep with my slave; perhaps I can build a family through her.” Abram agreed to what Sarai said.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:3 - So after Abram had been living in Canaan ten years, Sarai his wife took her Egyptian slave Hagar and gave her to her husband to be his wife.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:7 - The angel of the LORD found Hagar near a spring in the desert; it was the spring that is beside the road to Shur.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:10 - The angel added, “I will increase your descendants so much that they will be too numerous to count.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:7 - I will establish my covenant as an everlasting covenant between me and you and your descendants after you for the generations to come, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:10 - This is my covenant with you and your descendants after you, the covenant you are to keep: Every male among you shall be circumcised.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:12 - For the generations to come every male among you who is eight days old must be circumcised, including those born in your household or bought with money from a foreigner—those who are not your offspring.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:14 - Any uncircumcised male, who has not been circumcised in the flesh, will be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:7 - Then he ran to the herd and selected a choice, tender calf and gave it to a servant, who hurried to prepare it.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:12 - So Sarah laughed to herself as she thought, “After I am worn out and my lord is old, will I now have this pleasure?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:25 - Far be it from you to do such a thing—to kill the righteous with the wicked, treating the righteous and the wicked alike. Far be it from you! Will not the Judge of all the earth do right?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:4 - Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom—both young and old—surrounded the house.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:19 - Your[fn] servant has found favor in your[fn] eyes, and you[fn] have shown great kindness to me in sparing my life. But I can't flee to the mountains; this disaster will overtake me, and I'll die.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:20 - Look, here is a town near enough to run to, and it is small. Let me flee to it—it is very small, isn't it? Then my life will be spared.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:21 - He said to him, “Very well, I will grant this request too; I will not overthrow the town you speak of.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:22 - But flee there quickly, because I cannot do anything until you reach it.” (That is why the town was called Zoar.[fn])
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:38 - The younger daughter also had a son, and she named him Ben-Ammi[fn]; he is the father of the Ammonites[fn] of today.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:6 - Then God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know you did this with a clear conscience, and so I have kept you from sinning against me. That is why I did not let you touch her.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:16 - To Sarah he said, “I am giving your brother a thousand shekels[fn] of silver. This is to cover the offense against you before all who are with you; you are completely vindicated.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:12 - But God said to him, “Do not be so distressed about the boy and your slave woman. Listen to whatever Sarah tells you, because it is through Isaac that your offspring[fn] will be reckoned.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:16 - Then she went off and sat down about a bowshot away, for she thought, “I cannot watch the boy die.” And as she sat there, she[fn] began to sob.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:17 - God heard the boy crying, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, “What is the matter, Hagar? Do not be afraid; God has heard the boy crying as he lies there.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:20 - God was with the boy as he grew up. He lived in the desert and became an archer.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:25 - Then Abraham complained to Abimelek about a well of water that Abimelek's servants had seized.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:6 - “Sir, listen to us. You are a mighty prince among us. Bury your dead in the choicest of our tombs. None of us will refuse you his tomb for burying your dead.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:9 - so he will sell me the cave of Machpelah, which belongs to him and is at the end of his field. Ask him to sell it to me for the full price as a burial site among you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:9 - So the servant put his hand under the thigh of his master Abraham and swore an oath to him concerning this matter.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:11 - He had the camels kneel down near the well outside the town; it was toward evening, the time the women go out to draw water.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:13 - See, I am standing beside this spring, and the daughters of the townspeople are coming out to draw water.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:15 - Before he had finished praying, Rebekah came out with her jar on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel son of Milkah, who was the wife of Abraham's brother Nahor.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:21 - Without saying a word, the man watched her closely to learn whether or not the LORD had made his journey successful.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:25 - And she added, “We have plenty of straw and fodder, as well as room for you to spend the night.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:33 - Then food was set before him, but he said, “I will not eat until I have told you what I have to say.” “Then tell us,” Laban said.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:43 - See, I am standing beside this spring. If a young woman comes out to draw water and I say to her, “Please let me drink a little water from your jar,”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:45 - “Before I finished praying in my heart, Rebekah came out, with her jar on her shoulder. She went down to the spring and drew water, and I said to her, ‘Please give me a drink.'
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:24 - When the time came for her to give birth, there were twin boys in her womb.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:29 - Once when Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau came in from the open country, famished.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:30 - He said to Jacob, “Quick, let me have some of that red stew! I'm famished!” (That is why he was also called Edom.[fn])
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:10 - Then Abimelek said, “What is this you have done to us? One of the men might well have slept with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:18 - Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug in the time of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died, and he gave them the same names his father had given them.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:20 - But the herders of Gerar quarreled with those of Isaac and said, “The water is ours!” So he named the well Esek,[fn] because they disputed with him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:32 - That day Isaac's servants came and told him about the well they had dug. They said, “We've found water!”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:1 - When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could no longer see, he called for Esau his older son and said to him, “My son.” “Here I am,” he answered.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:7 - ‘Bring me some game and prepare me some tasty food to eat, so that I may give you my blessing in the presence of the LORD before I die.'
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:10 - Then take it to your father to eat, so that he may give you his blessing before he dies.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:33 - Isaac trembled violently and said, “Who was it, then, that hunted game and brought it to me? I ate it just before you came and I blessed him—and indeed he will be blessed!”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:41 - Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. He said to himself, “The days of mourning for my father are near; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:42 - When Rebekah was told what her older son Esau had said, she sent for her younger son Jacob and said to him, “Your brother Esau is planning to avenge himself by killing you.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:44 - Stay with him for a while until your brother's fury subsides.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:10 - Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Harran.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:15 - I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:2 - There he saw a well in the open country, with three flocks of sheep lying near it because the flocks were watered from that well. The stone over the mouth of the well was large.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:3 - When all the flocks were gathered there, the shepherds would roll the stone away from the well's mouth and water the sheep. Then they would return the stone to its place over the mouth of the well.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:8 - “We can't,” they replied, “until all the flocks are gathered and the stone has been rolled away from the mouth of the well. Then we will water the sheep.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:10 - When Jacob saw Rachel daughter of his uncle Laban, and Laban's sheep, he went over and rolled the stone away from the mouth of the well and watered his uncle's sheep.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:35 - She conceived again, and when she gave birth to a son she said, “This time I will praise the LORD.” So she named him Judah.[fn] Then she stopped having children.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:9 - When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she took her servant Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:38 - Then he placed the peeled branches in all the watering troughs, so that they would be directly in front of the flocks when they came to drink. When the flocks were in heat and came to drink,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:41 - Whenever the stronger females were in heat, Jacob would place the branches in the troughs in front of the animals so they would mate near the branches,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:20 - Moreover, Jacob deceived Laban the Aramean by not telling him he was running away.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:4 - He instructed them: “This is what you are to say to my lord Esau: ‘Your servant Jacob says, I have been staying with Laban and have remained there till now.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:12 - But you have said, ‘I will surely make you prosper and will make your descendants like the sand of the sea, which cannot be counted.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:25 - When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob's hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:32 - Therefore to this day the Israelites do not eat the tendon attached to the socket of the hip, because the socket of Jacob's hip was touched near the tendon.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:3 - He himself went on ahead and bowed down to the ground seven times as he approached his brother.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:14 - So let my lord go on ahead of his servant, while I move along slowly at the pace of the flocks and herds before me and the pace of the children, until I come to my lord in Seir.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:5 - When Jacob heard that his daughter Dinah had been defiled, his sons were in the fields with his livestock; so he did nothing about it until they came home.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:7 - Meanwhile, Jacob's sons had come in from the fields as soon as they heard what had happened. They were shocked and furious, because Shechem had done an outrageous thing in[fn] Israel by sleeping with Jacob's daughter—a thing that should not be done.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:17 - But if you will not agree to be circumcised, we'll take our sister and go.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:19 - The young man, who was the most honored of all his father's family, lost no time in doing what they said, because he was delighted with Jacob's daughter.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:22 - But the men will agree to live with us as one people only on the condition that our males be circumcised, as they themselves are.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:20 - Over her tomb Jacob set up a pillar, and to this day that pillar marks Rachel's tomb.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:27 - Jacob came home to his father Isaac in Mamre, near Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:7 - Their possessions were too great for them to remain together; the land where they were staying could not support them both because of their livestock.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:31 - These were the kings who reigned in Edom before any Israelite king reigned:
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:6 - He said to them, “Listen to this dream I had:
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:18 - But they saw him in the distance, and before he reached them, they plotted to kill him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:9 - But Onan knew that the child would not be his; so whenever he slept with his brother's wife, he spilled his semen on the ground to keep from providing offspring for his brother.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:17 - “I'll send you a young goat from my flock,” he said. “Will you give me something as a pledge until you send it?” she asked.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:26 - Judah recognized them and said, “She is more righteous than I, since I wouldn't give her to my son Shelah.” And he did not sleep with her again.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:10 - And though she spoke to Joseph day after day, he refused to go to bed with her or even be with her.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:23 - The warden paid no attention to anything under Joseph's care, because the LORD was with Joseph and gave him success in whatever he did.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:5 - each of the two men—the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were being held in prison—had a dream the same night, and each dream had a meaning of its own.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:14 - But when all goes well with you, remember me and show me kindness; mention me to Pharaoh and get me out of this prison.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:17 - In the top basket were all kinds of baked goods for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating them out of the basket on my head.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:14 - So Pharaoh sent for Joseph, and he was quickly brought from the dungeon. When he had shaved and changed his clothes, he came before Pharaoh.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:32 - The reason the dream was given to Pharaoh in two forms is that the matter has been firmly decided by God, and God will do it soon.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:50 - Before the years of famine came, two sons were born to Joseph by Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:16 - Send one of your number to get your brother; the rest of you will be kept in prison, so that your words may be tested to see if you are telling the truth. If you are not, then as surely as Pharaoh lives, you are spies!”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:27 - At the place where they stopped for the night one of them opened his sack to get feed for his donkey, and he saw his silver in the mouth of his sack.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:35 - As they were emptying their sacks, there in each man's sack was his pouch of silver! When they and their father saw the money pouches, they were frightened.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:11 - Then their father Israel said to them, “If it must be, then do this: Put some of the best products of the land in your bags and take them down to the man as a gift—a little balm and a little honey, some spices and myrrh, some pistachio nuts and almonds.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:18 - Now the men were frightened when they were taken to his house. They thought, “We were brought here because of the silver that was put back into our sacks the first time. He wants to attack us and overpower us and seize us as slaves and take our donkeys.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:25 - They prepared their gifts for Joseph's arrival at noon, because they had heard that they were to eat there.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:1 - Now Joseph gave these instructions to the steward of his house: “Fill the men's sacks with as much food as they can carry, and put each man's silver in the mouth of his sack.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:33 - “Now then, please let your servant remain here as my lord's slave in place of the boy, and let the boy return with his brothers.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:34 - How can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? No! Do not let me see the misery that would come on my father.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:28 - And Israel said, “I'm convinced! My son Joseph is still alive. I will go and see him before I die.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:5 - Then Jacob left Beersheba, and Israel's sons took their father Jacob and their children and their wives in the carts that Pharaoh had sent to transport him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:30 - Israel said to Joseph, “Now I am ready to die, since I have seen for myself that you are still alive.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:34 - you should answer, ‘Your servants have tended livestock from our boyhood on, just as our fathers did.' Then you will be allowed to settle in the region of Goshen, for all shepherds are detestable to the Egyptians.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:29 - When the time drew near for Israel to die, he called for his son Joseph and said to him, “If I have found favor in your eyes, put your hand under my thigh and promise that you will show me kindness and faithfulness. Do not bury me in Egypt,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:5 - “Now then, your two sons born to you in Egypt before I came to you here will be reckoned as mine; Ephraim and Manasseh will be mine, just as Reuben and Simeon are mine.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:7 - As I was returning from Paddan,[fn] to my sorrow Rachel died in the land of Canaan while we were still on the way, a little distance from Ephrath. So I buried her there beside the road to Ephrath” (that is, Bethlehem).
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:10 - Now Israel's eyes were failing because of old age, and he could hardly see. So Joseph brought his sons close to him, and his father kissed them and embraced them.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:11 - Israel said to Joseph, “I never expected to see your face again, and now God has allowed me to see your children too.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:32 - The field and the cave in it were bought from the Hittites.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:4 - When the days of mourning had passed, Joseph said to Pharaoh's court, “If I have found favor in your eyes, speak to Pharaoh for me. Tell him,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:16 - So they sent word to Joseph, saying, “Your father left these instructions before he died:
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:8 - “Yes, go,” she answered. So the girl went and got the baby's mother.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:10 - When the child grew older, she took him to Pharaoh's daughter and he became her son. She named him Moses,[fn] saying, “I drew him out of the water.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:15 - When Pharaoh heard of this, he tried to kill Moses, but Moses fled from Pharaoh and went to live in Midian, where he sat down by a well.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:18 - When the girls returned to Reuel their father, he asked them, “Why have you returned so early today?”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:8 - Then the LORD said, “If they do not believe you or pay attention to the first sign, they may believe the second.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:9 - But if they do not believe these two signs or listen to you, take some water from the Nile and pour it on the dry ground. The water you take from the river will become blood on the ground.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:25 - But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off her son's foreskin and touched Moses' feet with it.[fn] “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me,” she said.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:26 - So the LORD let him alone. (At that time she said “bridegroom of blood,” referring to circumcision.)
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:14 - And Pharaoh's slave drivers beat the Israelite overseers they had appointed, demanding, “Why haven't you met your quota of bricks yesterday or today, as before?”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:14 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Pharaoh's heart is unyielding; he refuses to let the people go.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:29 - Moses answered, “As soon as I leave you, I will pray to the LORD, and tomorrow the flies will leave Pharaoh and his officials and his people. Only let Pharaoh be sure that he does not act deceitfully again by not letting the people go to offer sacrifices to the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:17 - You still set yourself against my people and will not let them go.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:28 - Pray to the LORD, for we have had enough thunder and hail. I will let you go; you don't have to stay any longer.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:34 - When Pharaoh saw that the rain and hail and thunder had stopped, he sinned again: He and his officials hardened their hearts.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:15 - They covered all the ground until it was black. They devoured all that was left after the hail—everything growing in the fields and the fruit on the trees. Nothing green remained on tree or plant in all the land of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:26 - Our livestock too must go with us; not a hoof is to be left behind. We have to use some of them in worshiping the LORD our God, and until we get there we will not know what we are to use to worship the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:7 - Then they are to take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the lambs.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:13 - The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are, and when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No destructive plague will touch you when I strike Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:22 - Take a bunch of hyssop, dip it into the blood in the basin and put some of the blood on the top and on both sides of the doorframe. None of you shall go out of the door of your house until morning.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:34 - So the people took their dough before the yeast was added, and carried it on their shoulders in kneading troughs wrapped in clothing.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:43 - The LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “These are the regulations for the Passover meal: “No foreigner may eat it.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:22 - Neither the pillar of cloud by day nor the pillar of fire by night left its place in front of the people.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:5 - When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, Pharaoh and his officials changed their minds about them and said, “What have we done? We have let the Israelites go and have lost their services!”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:32 - Moses said, “This is what the LORD has commanded: ‘Take an omer of manna and keep it for the generations to come, so they can see the bread I gave you to eat in the wilderness when I brought you out of Egypt.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:33 - So Moses said to Aaron, “Take a jar and put an omer of manna in it. Then place it before the LORD to be kept for the generations to come.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:34 - As the LORD commanded Moses, Aaron put the manna with the tablets of the covenant law, so that it might be preserved.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:2 - After they set out from Rephidim, they entered the Desert of Sinai, and Israel camped there in the desert in front of the mountain.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:3 - Then Moses went up to God, and the LORD called to him from the mountain and said, “This is what you are to say to the descendants of Jacob and what you are to tell the people of Israel:
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:12 - Put limits for the people around the mountain and tell them, ‘Be careful that you do not approach the mountain or touch the foot of it. Whoever touches the mountain is to be put to death.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:13 - They are to be stoned or shot with arrows; not a hand is to be laid on them. No person or animal shall be permitted to live.' Only when the ram's horn sounds a long blast may they approach the mountain.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:14 - After Moses had gone down the mountain to the people, he consecrated them, and they washed their clothes.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:20 - The LORD descended to the top of Mount Sinai and called Moses to the top of the mountain. So Moses went up
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:17 - “You shall not covet your neighbor's house. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his male or female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:20 - Moses said to the people, “Do not be afraid. God has come to test you, so that the fear of God will be with you to keep you from sinning.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:14 - But if anyone schemes and kills someone deliberately, that person is to be taken from my altar and put to death.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:1 - “Whoever steals an ox or a sheep and slaughters it or sells it must pay back five head of cattle for the ox and four sheep for the sheep.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:3 - but if it happens after sunrise, the defender is guilty of bloodshed. “Anyone who steals must certainly make restitution, but if they have nothing, they must be sold to pay for their theft.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:11 - but during the seventh year let the land lie unplowed and unused. Then the poor among your people may get food from it, and the wild animals may eat what is left. Do the same with your vineyard and your olive grove.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:13 - “Be careful to do everything I have said to you. Do not invoke the names of other gods; do not let them be heard on your lips.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:6 - Moses took half of the blood and put it in bowls, and the other half he splashed against the altar.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:17 - To the Israelites the glory of the LORD looked like a consuming fire on top of the mountain.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:18 - And make two cherubim out of hammered gold at the ends of the cover.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:19 - Make one cherub on one end and the second cherub on the other; make the cherubim of one piece with the cover, at the two ends.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:20 - The cherubim are to have their wings spread upward, overshadowing the cover with them. The cherubim are to face each other, looking toward the cover.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:22 - There, above the cover between the two cherubim that are over the ark of the covenant law, I will meet with you and give you all my commands for the Israelites.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:32 - Six branches are to extend from the sides of the lampstand—three on one side and three on the other.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:37 - “Then make its seven lamps and set them up on it so that they light the space in front of it.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:4 - Make loops of blue material along the edge of the end curtain in one set, and do the same with the end curtain in the other set.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:5 - Make fifty loops on one curtain and fifty loops on the end curtain of the other set, with the loops opposite each other.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:10 - Make fifty loops along the edge of the end curtain in one set and also along the edge of the end curtain in the other set.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:13 - The tent curtains will be a cubit[fn] longer on both sides; what is left will hang over the sides of the tabernacle so as to cover it.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:18 - Make twenty frames for the south side of the tabernacle
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:26 - “Also make crossbars of acacia wood: five for the frames on one side of the tabernacle,
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:28 - The center crossbar is to extend from end to end at the middle of the frames.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:33 - Hang the curtain from the clasps and place the ark of the covenant law behind the curtain. The curtain will separate the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:34 - Put the atonement cover on the ark of the covenant law in the Most Holy Place.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:35 - Place the table outside the curtain on the north side of the tabernacle and put the lampstand opposite it on the south side.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:5 - Put it under the ledge of the altar so that it is halfway up the altar.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:7 - The poles are to be inserted into the rings so they will be on two sides of the altar when it is carried.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:16 - “For the entrance to the courtyard, provide a curtain twenty cubits[fn] long, of blue, purple and scarlet yarn and finely twisted linen—the work of an embroiderer—with four posts and four bases.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:21 - In the tent of meeting, outside the curtain that shields the ark of the covenant law, Aaron and his sons are to keep the lamps burning before the LORD from evening till morning. This is to be a lasting ordinance among the Israelites for the generations to come.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:23 - Make two gold rings for it and fasten them to two corners of the breastpiece.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:29 - “Whenever Aaron enters the Holy Place, he will bear the names of the sons of Israel over his heart on the breastpiece of decision as a continuing memorial before the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:30 - Also put the Urim and the Thummim in the breastpiece, so they may be over Aaron's heart whenever he enters the presence of the LORD. Thus Aaron will always bear the means of making decisions for the Israelites over his heart before the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:32 - with an opening for the head in its center. There shall be a woven edge like a collar[fn] around this opening, so that it will not tear.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:33 - Make pomegranates of blue, purple and scarlet yarn around the hem of the robe, with gold bells between them.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:34 - The gold bells and the pomegranates are to alternate around the hem of the robe.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:38 - It will be on Aaron's forehead, and he will bear the guilt involved in the sacred gifts the Israelites consecrate, whatever their gifts may be. It will be on Aaron's forehead continually so that they will be acceptable to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:43 - Aaron and his sons must wear them whenever they enter the tent of meeting or approach the altar to minister in the Holy Place, so that they will not incur guilt and die. “This is to be a lasting ordinance for Aaron and his descendants.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:4 - Then bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance to the tent of meeting and wash them with water.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:7 - Take the anointing oil and anoint him by pouring it on his head.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:10 - “Bring the bull to the front of the tent of meeting, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on its head.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:11 - Slaughter it in the LORD's presence at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:12 - Take some of the bull's blood and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger, and pour out the rest of it at the base of the altar.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:13 - Then take all the fat on the internal organs, the long lobe of the liver, and both kidneys with the fat on them, and burn them on the altar.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:20 - Slaughter it, take some of its blood and put it on the lobes of the right ears of Aaron and his sons, on the thumbs of their right hands, and on the big toes of their right feet. Then splash blood against the sides of the altar.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:21 - And take some blood from the altar and some of the anointing oil and sprinkle it on Aaron and his garments and on his sons and their garments. Then he and his sons and their garments will be consecrated.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:22 - “Take from this ram the fat, the fat tail, the fat on the internal organs, the long lobe of the liver, both kidneys with the fat on them, and the right thigh. (This is the ram for the ordination.)
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:23 - From the basket of bread made without yeast, which is before the LORD, take one round loaf, one thick loaf with olive oil mixed in, and one thin loaf.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:27 - “Consecrate those parts of the ordination ram that belong to Aaron and his sons: the breast that was waved and the thigh that was presented.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:29 - “Aaron's sacred garments will belong to his descendants so that they can be anointed and ordained in them.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:30 - The son who succeeds him as priest and comes to the tent of meeting to minister in the Holy Place is to wear them seven days.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:32 - At the entrance to the tent of meeting, Aaron and his sons are to eat the meat of the ram and the bread that is in the basket.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:37 - For seven days make atonement for the altar and consecrate it. Then the altar will be most holy, and whatever touches it will be holy.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:38 - “This is what you are to offer on the altar regularly each day: two lambs a year old.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:40 - With the first lamb offer a tenth of an ephah[fn] of the finest flour mixed with a quarter of a hin[fn] of oil from pressed olives, and a quarter of a hin of wine as a drink offering.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:42 - “For the generations to come this burnt offering is to be made regularly at the entrance to the tent of meeting, before the LORD. There I will meet you and speak to you;
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:44 - “So I will consecrate the tent of meeting and the altar and will consecrate Aaron and his sons to serve me as priests.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:6 - Put the altar in front of the curtain that shields the ark of the covenant law—before the atonement cover that is over the tablets of the covenant law—where I will meet with you.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:10 - Once a year Aaron shall make atonement on its horns. This annual atonement must be made with the blood of the atoning sin offering[fn] for the generations to come. It is most holy to the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:13 - Each one who crosses over to those already counted is to give a half shekel,[fn] according to the sanctuary shekel, which weighs twenty gerahs. This half shekel is an offering to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:15 - The rich are not to give more than a half shekel and the poor are not to give less when you make the offering to the LORD to atone for your lives.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:16 - Receive the atonement money from the Israelites and use it for the service of the tent of meeting. It will be a memorial for the Israelites before the LORD, making atonement for your lives.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:18 - “Make a bronze basin, with its bronze stand, for washing. Place it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put water in it.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:20 - Whenever they enter the tent of meeting, they shall wash with water so that they will not die. Also, when they approach the altar to minister by presenting a food offering to the LORD,
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:21 - they shall wash their hands and feet so that they will not die. This is to be a lasting ordinance for Aaron and his descendants for the generations to come.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:24 - 500 shekels of cassia—all according to the sanctuary shekel—and a hin[fn] of olive oil.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:26 - Then use it to anoint the tent of meeting, the ark of the covenant law,
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:27 - the table and all its articles, the lampstand and its accessories, the altar of incense,
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:36 - Grind some of it to powder and place it in front of the ark of the covenant law in the tent of meeting, where I will meet with you. It shall be most holy to you.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:7 - the tent of meeting, the ark of the covenant law with the atonement cover on it, and all the other furnishings of the tent—
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:11 - and the anointing oil and fragrant incense for the Holy Place. They are to make them just as I commanded you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:18 - When the LORD finished speaking to Moses on Mount Sinai, he gave him the two tablets of the covenant law, the tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:1 - When the people saw that Moses was so long in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said, “Come, make us gods[fn] who will go before us. As for this fellow Moses who brought us up out of Egypt, we don't know what has happened to him.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:15 - Moses turned and went down the mountain with the two tablets of the covenant law in his hands. They were inscribed on both sides, front and back.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:6 - So the Israelites stripped off their ornaments at Mount Horeb.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:8 - And whenever Moses went out to the tent, all the people rose and stood at the entrances to their tents, watching Moses until he entered the tent.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:2 - Be ready in the morning, and then come up on Mount Sinai. Present yourself to me there on top of the mountain.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:3 - No one is to come with you or be seen anywhere on the mountain; not even the flocks and herds may graze in front of the mountain.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:25 - “Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to me along with anything containing yeast, and do not let any of the sacrifice from the Passover Festival remain until morning.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:29 - When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the covenant law in his hands, he was not aware that his face was radiant because he had spoken with the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:30 - When Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses, his face was radiant, and they were afraid to come near him.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:34 - But whenever he entered the LORD's presence to speak with him, he removed the veil until he came out. And when he came out and told the Israelites what he had been commanded,
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:12 - the ark with its poles and the atonement cover and the curtain that shields it;
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:14 - the lampstand that is for light with its accessories, lamps and oil for the light;
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:17 - the curtains of the courtyard with its posts and bases, and the curtain for the entrance to the courtyard;
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:19 - the woven garments worn for ministering in the sanctuary—both the sacred garments for Aaron the priest and the garments for his sons when they serve as priests.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:21 - and everyone who was willing and whose heart moved them came and brought an offering to the LORD for the work on the tent of meeting, for all its service, and for the sacred garments.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:28 - They also brought spices and olive oil for the light and for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:35 - He has filled them with skill to do all kinds of work as engravers, designers, embroiderers in blue, purple and scarlet yarn and fine linen, and weavers—all of them skilled workers and designers.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:3 - They received from Moses all the offerings the Israelites had brought to carry out the work of constructing the sanctuary. And the people continued to bring freewill offerings morning after morning.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:4 - So all the skilled workers who were doing all the work on the sanctuary left what they were doing
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:6 - Then Moses gave an order and they sent this word throughout the camp: “No man or woman is to make anything else as an offering for the sanctuary.” And so the people were restrained from bringing more,
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:34 - They overlaid the frames with gold and made gold rings to hold the crossbars. They also overlaid the crossbars with gold.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:37 - For the entrance to the tent they made a curtain of blue, purple and scarlet yarn and finely twisted linen—the work of an embroiderer;
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:8 - He made one cherub on one end and the second cherub on the other; at the two ends he made them of one piece with the cover.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:13 - They cast four gold rings for the table and fastened them to the four corners, where the four legs were.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:21 - One bud was under the first pair of branches extending from the lampstand, a second bud under the second pair, and a third bud under the third pair—six branches in all.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:29 - They also made the sacred anointing oil and the pure, fragrant incense—the work of a perfumer.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:3 - They made all its utensils of bronze—its pots, shovels, sprinkling bowls, meat forks and firepans.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:4 - They made a grating for the altar, a bronze network, to be under its ledge, halfway up the altar.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:8 - They made the bronze basin and its bronze stand from the mirrors of the women who served at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:15 - and curtains fifteen cubits long were on the other side of the entrance to the courtyard, with three posts and three bases.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:21 - These are the amounts of the materials used for the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the covenant law, which were recorded at Moses' command by the Levites under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron, the priest.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:24 - The total amount of the gold from the wave offering used for all the work on the sanctuary was 29 talents and 730 shekels,[fn] according to the sanctuary shekel.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:27 - The 100 talents of silver were used to cast the bases for the sanctuary and for the curtain—100 bases from the 100 talents, one talent for each base.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:29 - The bronze from the wave offering was 70 talents and 2,400 shekels.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:30 - They used it to make the bases for the entrance to the tent of meeting, the bronze altar with its bronze grating and all its utensils,
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:31 - the bases for the surrounding courtyard and those for its entrance and all the tent pegs for the tabernacle and those for the surrounding courtyard.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:3 - They hammered out thin sheets of gold and cut strands to be worked into the blue, purple and scarlet yarn and fine linen—the work of skilled hands.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:14 - There were twelve stones, one for each of the names of the sons of Israel, each engraved like a seal with the name of one of the twelve tribes.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:16 - They made two gold filigree settings and two gold rings, and fastened the rings to two of the corners of the breastpiece.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:17 - They fastened the two gold chains to the rings at the corners of the breastpiece,
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:19 - They made two gold rings and attached them to the other two corners of the breastpiece on the inside edge next to the ephod.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:24 - They made pomegranates of blue, purple and scarlet yarn and finely twisted linen around the hem of the robe.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:26 - The bells and pomegranates alternated around the hem of the robe to be worn for ministering, as the LORD commanded Moses.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:30 - They made the plate, the sacred emblem, out of pure gold and engraved on it, like an inscription on a seal: holy to the Lord.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:32 - So all the work on the tabernacle, the tent of meeting, was completed. The Israelites did everything just as the LORD commanded Moses.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:37 - the pure gold lampstand with its row of lamps and all its accessories, and the olive oil for the light;
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:40 - the curtains of the courtyard with its posts and bases, and the curtain for the entrance to the courtyard; the ropes and tent pegs for the courtyard; all the furnishings for the tabernacle, the tent of meeting;
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:41 - and the woven garments worn for ministering in the sanctuary, both the sacred garments for Aaron the priest and the garments for his sons when serving as priests.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:2 - “Set up the tabernacle, the tent of meeting, on the first day of the first month.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:3 - Place the ark of the covenant law in it and shield the ark with the curtain.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:5 - Place the gold altar of incense in front of the ark of the covenant law and put the curtain at the entrance to the tabernacle.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:6 - “Place the altar of burnt offering in front of the entrance to the tabernacle, the tent of meeting;
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:9 - “Take the anointing oil and anoint the tabernacle and everything in it; consecrate it and all its furnishings, and it will be holy.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:12 - “Bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance to the tent of meeting and wash them with water.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:21 - Then he brought the ark into the tabernacle and hung the shielding curtain and shielded the ark of the covenant law, as the LORD commanded him.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:22 - Moses placed the table in the tent of meeting on the north side of the tabernacle outside the curtain
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:24 - He placed the lampstand in the tent of meeting opposite the table on the south side of the tabernacle
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:26 - Moses placed the gold altar in the tent of meeting in front of the curtain
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:30 - He placed the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar and put water in it for washing,
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:33 - Then Moses set up the courtyard around the tabernacle and altar and put up the curtain at the entrance to the courtyard. And so Moses finished the work.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:34 - Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:35 - Moses could not enter the tent of meeting because the cloud had settled on it, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:1 - The LORD called to Moses and spoke to him from the tent of meeting. He said,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:3 - “ ‘If the offering is a burnt offering from the herd, you are to offer a male without defect. You must present it at the entrance to the tent of meeting so that it will be acceptable to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:4 - You are to lay your hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it will be accepted on your behalf to make atonement for you.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:5 - You are to slaughter the young bull before the LORD, and then Aaron's sons the priests shall bring the blood and splash it against the sides of the altar at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:8 - Then Aaron's sons the priests shall arrange the pieces, including the head and the fat, on the wood that is burning on the altar.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:11 - You are to slaughter it at the north side of the altar before the LORD, and Aaron's sons the priests shall splash its blood against the sides of the altar.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:12 - You are to cut it into pieces, and the priest shall arrange them, including the head and the fat, on the wood that is burning on the altar.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:15 - The priest shall bring it to the altar, wring off the head and burn it on the altar; its blood shall be drained out on the side of the altar.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:17 - He shall tear it open by the wings, not dividing it completely, and then the priest shall burn it on the wood that is burning on the altar. It is a burnt offering, a food offering, an aroma pleasing to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 3:2 - You are to lay your hand on the head of your offering and slaughter it at the entrance to the tent of meeting. Then Aaron's sons the priests shall splash the blood against the sides of the altar.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 3:3 - From the fellowship offering you are to bring a food offering to the LORD: the internal organs and all the fat that is connected to them,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 3:4 - both kidneys with the fat on them near the loins, and the long lobe of the liver, which you will remove with the kidneys.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 3:5 - Then Aaron's sons are to burn it on the altar on top of the burnt offering that is lying on the burning wood; it is a food offering, an aroma pleasing to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 3:8 - lay your hand on its head and slaughter it in front of the tent of meeting. Then Aaron's sons shall splash its blood against the sides of the altar.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 3:9 - From the fellowship offering you are to bring a food offering to the LORD: its fat, the entire fat tail cut off close to the backbone, the internal organs and all the fat that is connected to them,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 3:10 - both kidneys with the fat on them near the loins, and the long lobe of the liver, which you will remove with the kidneys.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 3:13 - lay your hand on its head and slaughter it in front of the tent of meeting. Then Aaron's sons shall splash its blood against the sides of the altar.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 3:15 - both kidneys with the fat on them near the loins, and the long lobe of the liver, which you will remove with the kidneys.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:3 - “ ‘If the anointed priest sins, bringing guilt on the people, he must bring to the LORD a young bull without defect as a sin offering[fn] for the sin he has committed.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:4 - He is to present the bull at the entrance to the tent of meeting before the LORD. He is to lay his hand on its head and slaughter it there before the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:5 - Then the anointed priest shall take some of the bull's blood and carry it into the tent of meeting.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:6 - He is to dip his finger into the blood and sprinkle some of it seven times before the LORD, in front of the curtain of the sanctuary.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:7 - The priest shall then put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of fragrant incense that is before the LORD in the tent of meeting. The rest of the bull's blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:9 - both kidneys with the fat on them near the loins, and the long lobe of the liver, which he will remove with the kidneys—
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:10 - just as the fat is removed from the ox[fn] sacrificed as a fellowship offering. Then the priest shall burn them on the altar of burnt offering.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:14 - and the sin they committed becomes known, the assembly must bring a young bull as a sin offering and present it before the tent of meeting.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:16 - Then the anointed priest is to take some of the bull's blood into the tent of meeting.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:17 - He shall dip his finger into the blood and sprinkle it before the LORD seven times in front of the curtain.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:18 - He is to put some of the blood on the horns of the altar that is before the LORD in the tent of meeting. The rest of the blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:25 - Then the priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering and pour out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:29 - They are to lay their hand on the head of the sin offering and slaughter it at the place of the burnt offering.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:30 - Then the priest is to take some of the blood with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering and pour out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:33 - They are to lay their hand on its head and slaughter it for a sin offering at the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:34 - Then the priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering and pour out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:35 - They shall remove all the fat, just as the fat is removed from the lamb of the fellowship offering, and the priest shall burn it on the altar on top of the food offerings presented to the LORD. In this way the priest will make atonement for them for the sin they have committed, and they will be forgiven.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:9 - and is to splash some of the blood of the sin offering against the side of the altar; the rest of the blood must be drained out at the base of the altar. It is a sin offering.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:9 - “Give Aaron and his sons this command: ‘These are the regulations for the burnt offering: The burnt offering is to remain on the altar hearth throughout the night, till morning, and the fire must be kept burning on the altar.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:10 - The priest shall then put on his linen clothes, with linen undergarments next to his body, and shall remove the ashes of the burnt offering that the fire has consumed on the altar and place them beside the altar.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:12 - The fire on the altar must be kept burning; it must not go out. Every morning the priest is to add firewood and arrange the burnt offering on the fire and burn the fat of the fellowship offerings on it.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:14 - “ ‘These are the regulations for the grain offering: Aaron's sons are to bring it before the LORD, in front of the altar.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:16 - Aaron and his sons shall eat the rest of it, but it is to be eaten without yeast in the sanctuary area; they are to eat it in the courtyard of the tent of meeting.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:20 - “This is the offering Aaron and his sons are to bring to the LORD on the day he[fn] is anointed: a tenth of an ephah[fn] of the finest flour as a regular grain offering, half of it in the morning and half in the evening.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:26 - The priest who offers it shall eat it; it is to be eaten in the sanctuary area, in the courtyard of the tent of meeting.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:27 - Whatever touches any of the flesh will become holy, and if any of the blood is spattered on a garment, you must wash it in the sanctuary area.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:30 - But any sin offering whose blood is brought into the tent of meeting to make atonement in the Holy Place must not be eaten; it must be burned up.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:2 - The guilt offering is to be slaughtered in the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered, and its blood is to be splashed against the sides of the altar.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:4 - both kidneys with the fat on them near the loins, and the long lobe of the liver, which is to be removed with the kidneys.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:14 - They are to bring one of each kind as an offering, a contribution to the LORD; it belongs to the priest who splashes the blood of the fellowship offering against the altar.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:20 - But if anyone who is unclean eats any meat of the fellowship offering belonging to the LORD, they must be cut off from their people.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:21 - Anyone who touches something unclean—whether human uncleanness or an unclean animal or any unclean creature that moves along the ground[fn]—and then eats any of the meat of the fellowship offering belonging to the LORD must be cut off from their people.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:29 - “Say to the Israelites: ‘Anyone who brings a fellowship offering to the LORD is to bring part of it as their sacrifice to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:30 - With their own hands they are to present the food offering to the LORD; they are to bring the fat, together with the breast, and wave the breast before the LORD as a wave offering.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:31 - The priest shall burn the fat on the altar, but the breast belongs to Aaron and his sons.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:32 - You are to give the right thigh of your fellowship offerings to the priest as a contribution.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:33 - The son of Aaron who offers the blood and the fat of the fellowship offering shall have the right thigh as his share.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:34 - From the fellowship offerings of the Israelites, I have taken the breast that is waved and the thigh that is presented and have given them to Aaron the priest and his sons as their perpetual share from the Israelites.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:35 - This is the portion of the food offerings presented to the LORD that were allotted to Aaron and his sons on the day they were presented to serve the LORD as priests.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:37 - These, then, are the regulations for the burnt offering, the grain offering, the sin offering, the guilt offering, the ordination offering and the fellowship offering,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:3 - and gather the entire assembly at the entrance to the tent of meeting.”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:4 - Moses did as the LORD commanded him, and the assembly gathered at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:10 - Then Moses took the anointing oil and anointed the tabernacle and everything in it, and so consecrated them.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:12 - He poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron's head and anointed him to consecrate him.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:15 - Moses slaughtered the bull and took some of the blood, and with his finger he put it on all the horns of the altar to purify the altar. He poured out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar. So he consecrated it to make atonement for it.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:16 - Moses also took all the fat around the internal organs, the long lobe of the liver, and both kidneys and their fat, and burned it on the altar.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:23 - Moses slaughtered the ram and took some of its blood and put it on the lobe of Aaron's right ear, on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:24 - Moses also brought Aaron's sons forward and put some of the blood on the lobes of their right ears, on the thumbs of their right hands and on the big toes of their right feet. Then he splashed blood against the sides of the altar.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:25 - After that, he took the fat, the fat tail, all the fat around the internal organs, the long lobe of the liver, both kidneys and their fat and the right thigh.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:30 - Then Moses took some of the anointing oil and some of the blood from the altar and sprinkled them on Aaron and his garments and on his sons and their garments. So he consecrated Aaron and his garments and his sons and their garments.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:31 - Moses then said to Aaron and his sons, “Cook the meat at the entrance to the tent of meeting and eat it there with the bread from the basket of ordination offerings, as I was commanded: ‘Aaron and his sons are to eat it.'
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:33 - Do not leave the entrance to the tent of meeting for seven days, until the days of your ordination are completed, for your ordination will last seven days.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:34 - What has been done today was commanded by the LORD to make atonement for you.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:35 - You must stay at the entrance to the tent of meeting day and night for seven days and do what the LORD requires, so you will not die; for that is what I have been commanded.”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 9:5 - They took the things Moses commanded to the front of the tent of meeting, and the entire assembly came near and stood before the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 9:9 - His sons brought the blood to him, and he dipped his finger into the blood and put it on the horns of the altar; the rest of the blood he poured out at the base of the altar.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 9:10 - On the altar he burned the fat, the kidneys and the long lobe of the liver from the sin offering, as the LORD commanded Moses;
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 9:17 - He also brought the grain offering, took a handful of it and burned it on the altar in addition to the morning's burnt offering.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 9:18 - He slaughtered the ox and the ram as the fellowship offering for the people. His sons handed him the blood, and he splashed it against the sides of the altar.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 9:19 - But the fat portions of the ox and the ram—the fat tail, the layer of fat, the kidneys and the long lobe of the liver—
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 9:22 - Then Aaron lifted his hands toward the people and blessed them. And having sacrificed the sin offering, the burnt offering and the fellowship offering, he stepped down.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 9:23 - Moses and Aaron then went into the tent of meeting. When they came out, they blessed the people; and the glory of the LORD appeared to all the people.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 9:24 - Fire came out from the presence of the LORD and consumed the burnt offering and the fat portions on the altar. And when all the people saw it, they shouted for joy and fell facedown.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:7 - Do not leave the entrance to the tent of meeting or you will die, because the LORD's anointing oil is on you.” So they did as Moses said.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:9 - “You and your sons are not to drink wine or other fermented drink whenever you go into the tent of meeting, or you will die. This is a lasting ordinance for the generations to come,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:14 - But you and your sons and your daughters may eat the breast that was waved and the thigh that was presented. Eat them in a ceremonially clean place; they have been given to you and your children as your share of the Israelites' fellowship offerings.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:15 - The thigh that was presented and the breast that was waved must be brought with the fat portions of the food offerings, to be waved before the LORD as a wave offering. This will be the perpetual share for you and your children, as the LORD has commanded.”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:18 - Since its blood was not taken into the Holy Place, you should have eaten the goat in the sanctuary area, as I commanded.”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 12:6 - “ ‘When the days of her purification for a son or daughter are over, she is to bring to the priest at the entrance to the tent of meeting a year-old lamb for a burnt offering and a young pigeon or a dove for a sin offering.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 12:7 - He shall offer them before the LORD to make atonement for her, and then she will be ceremonially clean from her flow of blood. “ ‘These are the regulations for the woman who gives birth to a boy or a girl.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:3 - The priest is to examine the sore on the skin, and if the hair in the sore has turned white and the sore appears to be more than skin deep, it is a defiling skin disease. When the priest examines that person, he shall pronounce them ceremonially unclean.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:4 - If the shiny spot on the skin is white but does not appear to be more than skin deep and the hair in it has not turned white, the priest is to isolate the affected person for seven days.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:7 - But if the rash does spread in their skin after they have shown themselves to the priest to be pronounced clean, they must appear before the priest again.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:10 - The priest is to examine them, and if there is a white swelling in the skin that has turned the hair white and if there is raw flesh in the swelling,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:19 - and in the place where the boil was, a white swelling or reddish-white spot appears, they must present themselves to the priest.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:20 - The priest is to examine it, and if it appears to be more than skin deep and the hair in it has turned white, the priest shall pronounce that person unclean. It is a defiling skin disease that has broken out where the boil was.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:21 - But if, when the priest examines it, there is no white hair in it and it is not more than skin deep and has faded, then the priest is to isolate them for seven days.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:23 - But if the spot is unchanged and has not spread, it is only a scar from the boil, and the priest shall pronounce them clean.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:24 - “When someone has a burn on their skin and a reddish-white or white spot appears in the raw flesh of the burn,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:25 - the priest is to examine the spot, and if the hair in it has turned white, and it appears to be more than skin deep, it is a defiling disease that has broken out in the burn. The priest shall pronounce them unclean; it is a defiling skin disease.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:26 - But if the priest examines it and there is no white hair in the spot and if it is not more than skin deep and has faded, then the priest is to isolate them for seven days.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:28 - If, however, the spot is unchanged and has not spread in the skin but has faded, it is a swelling from the burn, and the priest shall pronounce them clean; it is only a scar from the burn.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:30 - the priest is to examine the sore, and if it appears to be more than skin deep and the hair in it is yellow and thin, the priest shall pronounce them unclean; it is a defiling skin disease on the head or chin.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:31 - But if, when the priest examines the sore, it does not seem to be more than skin deep and there is no black hair in it, then the priest is to isolate the affected person for seven days.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:32 - On the seventh day the priest is to examine the sore, and if it has not spread and there is no yellow hair in it and it does not appear to be more than skin deep,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:34 - On the seventh day the priest is to examine the sore, and if it has not spread in the skin and appears to be no more than skin deep, the priest shall pronounce them clean. They must wash their clothes, and they will be clean.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:56 - If, when the priest examines it, the mold has faded after the article has been washed, he is to tear the spoiled part out of the fabric, the leather, or the woven or knitted material.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:6 - He is then to take the live bird and dip it, together with the cedar wood, the scarlet yarn and the hyssop, into the blood of the bird that was killed over the fresh water.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:11 - The priest who pronounces them clean shall present both the one to be cleansed and their offerings before the LORD at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:12 - “Then the priest is to take one of the male lambs and offer it as a guilt offering, along with the log of oil; he shall wave them before the LORD as a wave offering.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:14 - The priest is to take some of the blood of the guilt offering and put it on the lobe of the right ear of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of their right hand and on the big toe of their right foot.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:15 - The priest shall then take some of the log of oil, pour it in the palm of his own left hand,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:16 - dip his right forefinger into the oil in his palm, and with his finger sprinkle some of it before the LORD seven times.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:17 - The priest is to put some of the oil remaining in his palm on the lobe of the right ear of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of their right hand and on the big toe of their right foot, on top of the blood of the guilt offering.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:23 - “On the eighth day they must bring them for their cleansing to the priest at the entrance to the tent of meeting, before the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:24 - The priest is to take the lamb for the guilt offering, together with the log of oil, and wave them before the LORD as a wave offering.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:25 - He shall slaughter the lamb for the guilt offering and take some of its blood and put it on the lobe of the right ear of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of their right hand and on the big toe of their right foot.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:26 - The priest is to pour some of the oil into the palm of his own left hand,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:27 - and with his right forefinger sprinkle some of the oil from his palm seven times before the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:28 - Some of the oil in his palm he is to put on the same places he put the blood of the guilt offering—on the lobe of the right ear of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of their right hand and on the big toe of their right foot.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:29 - The rest of the oil in his palm the priest shall put on the head of the one to be cleansed, to make atonement for them before the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:36 - The priest is to order the house to be emptied before he goes in to examine the mold, so that nothing in the house will be pronounced unclean. After this the priest is to go in and inspect the house.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:51 - Then he is to take the cedar wood, the hyssop, the scarlet yarn and the live bird, dip them into the blood of the dead bird and the fresh water, and sprinkle the house seven times.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:52 - He shall purify the house with the bird's blood, the fresh water, the live bird, the cedar wood, the hyssop and the scarlet yarn.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:56 - and for a swelling, a rash or a shiny spot,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:57 - to determine when something is clean or unclean. These are the regulations for defiling skin diseases and defiling molds.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:2 - “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘When any man has an unusual bodily discharge, such a discharge is unclean.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:6 - Whoever sits on anything that the man with a discharge sat on must wash their clothes and bathe with water, and they will be unclean till evening.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:14 - On the eighth day he must take two doves or two young pigeons and come before the LORD to the entrance to the tent of meeting and give them to the priest.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:23 - Whether it is the bed or anything she was sitting on, when anyone touches it, they will be unclean till evening.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:29 - On the eighth day she must take two doves or two young pigeons and bring them to the priest at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:2 - The LORD said to Moses: “Tell your brother Aaron that he is not to come whenever he chooses into the Most Holy Place behind the curtain in front of the atonement cover on the ark, or else he will die. For I will appear in the cloud over the atonement cover.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:7 - Then he is to take the two goats and present them before the LORD at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:10 - But the goat chosen by lot as the scapegoat shall be presented alive before the LORD to be used for making atonement by sending it into the wilderness as a scapegoat.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:12 - He is to take a censer full of burning coals from the altar before the LORD and two handfuls of finely ground fragrant incense and take them behind the curtain.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:13 - He is to put the incense on the fire before the LORD, and the smoke of the incense will conceal the atonement cover above the tablets of the covenant law, so that he will not die.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:14 - He is to take some of the bull's blood and with his finger sprinkle it on the front of the atonement cover; then he shall sprinkle some of it with his finger seven times before the atonement cover.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:15 - “He shall then slaughter the goat for the sin offering for the people and take its blood behind the curtain and do with it as he did with the bull's blood: He shall sprinkle it on the atonement cover and in front of it.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:16 - In this way he will make atonement for the Most Holy Place because of the uncleanness and rebellion of the Israelites, whatever their sins have been. He is to do the same for the tent of meeting, which is among them in the midst of their uncleanness.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:17 - No one is to be in the tent of meeting from the time Aaron goes in to make atonement in the Most Holy Place until he comes out, having made atonement for himself, his household and the whole community of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:18 - “Then he shall come out to the altar that is before the LORD and make atonement for it. He shall take some of the bull's blood and some of the goat's blood and put it on all the horns of the altar.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:19 - He shall sprinkle some of the blood on it with his finger seven times to cleanse it and to consecrate it from the uncleanness of the Israelites.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:20 - “When Aaron has finished making atonement for the Most Holy Place, the tent of meeting and the altar, he shall bring forward the live goat.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:23 - “Then Aaron is to go into the tent of meeting and take off the linen garments he put on before he entered the Most Holy Place, and he is to leave them there.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:33 - and make atonement for the Most Holy Place, for the tent of meeting and the altar, and for the priests and all the members of the community.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 17:4 - instead of bringing it to the entrance to the tent of meeting to present it as an offering to the LORD in front of the tabernacle of the LORD—that person shall be considered guilty of bloodshed; they have shed blood and must be cut off from their people.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 17:5 - This is so the Israelites will bring to the LORD the sacrifices they are now making in the open fields. They must bring them to the priest, that is, to the LORD, at the entrance to the tent of meeting and sacrifice them as fellowship offerings.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 17:6 - The priest is to splash the blood against the altar of the LORD at the entrance to the tent of meeting and burn the fat as an aroma pleasing to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 17:9 - and does not bring it to the entrance to the tent of meeting to sacrifice it to the LORD must be cut off from the people of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 17:11 - For the life of a creature is in the blood, and I have given it to you to make atonement for yourselves on the altar; it is the blood that makes atonement for one's life.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:21 - “ ‘Do not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molek, for you must not profane the name of your God. I am the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:21 - The man, however, must bring a ram to the entrance to the tent of meeting for a guilt offering to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:2 - “Say to the Israelites: ‘Any Israelite or any foreigner residing in Israel who sacrifices any of his children to Molek is to be put to death. The members of the community are to stone him.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:3 - I myself will set my face against him and will cut him off from his people; for by sacrificing his children to Molek, he has defiled my sanctuary and profaned my holy name.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:4 - If the members of the community close their eyes when that man sacrifices one of his children to Molek and if they fail to put him to death,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:18 - “ ‘If a man has sexual relations with a woman during her monthly period, he has exposed the source of her flow, and she has also uncovered it. Both of them are to be cut off from their people.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:9 - “ ‘If a priest's daughter defiles herself by becoming a prostitute, she disgraces her father; she must be burned in the fire.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:10 - “ ‘The high priest, the one among his brothers who has had the anointing oil poured on his head and who has been ordained to wear the priestly garments, must not let his hair become unkempt[fn] or tear his clothes.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:13 - “ ‘The woman he marries must be a virgin.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:14 - He must not marry a widow, a divorced woman, or a woman defiled by prostitution, but only a virgin from his own people,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:17 - “Say to Aaron: ‘For the generations to come none of your descendants who has a defect may come near to offer the food of his God.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:21 - No descendant of Aaron the priest who has any defect is to come near to present the food offerings to the LORD. He has a defect; he must not come near to offer the food of his God.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:3 - “Say to them: ‘For the generations to come, if any of your descendants is ceremonially unclean and yet comes near the sacred offerings that the Israelites consecrate to the LORD, that person must be cut off from my presence. I am the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:4 - “ ‘If a descendant of Aaron has a defiling skin disease[fn] or a bodily discharge, he may not eat the sacred offerings until he is cleansed. He will also be unclean if he touches something defiled by a corpse or by anyone who has an emission of semen,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:32 - Do not profane my holy name, for I must be acknowledged as holy by the Israelites. I am the LORD, who made you holy
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:13 - together with its grain offering of two-tenths of an ephah[fn] of the finest flour mixed with olive oil—a food offering presented to the LORD, a pleasing aroma—and its drink offering of a quarter of a hin[fn] of wine.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:15 - “ ‘From the day after the Sabbath, the day you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, count off seven full weeks.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:19 - Then sacrifice one male goat for a sin offering[fn] and two lambs, each a year old, for a fellowship offering.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:20 - The priest is to wave the two lambs before the LORD as a wave offering, together with the bread of the firstfruits. They are a sacred offering to the LORD for the priest.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:3 - Outside the curtain that shields the ark of the covenant law in the tent of meeting, Aaron is to tend the lamps before the LORD from evening till morning, continually. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:5 - Do not reap what grows of itself or harvest the grapes of your untended vines. The land is to have a year of rest.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:22 - While you plant during the eighth year, you will eat from the old crop and will continue to eat from it until the harvest of the ninth year comes in.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:28 - But if they do not acquire the means to repay, what was sold will remain in the possession of the buyer until the Year of Jubilee. It will be returned in the Jubilee, and they can then go back to their property.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:40 - They are to be treated as hired workers or temporary residents among you; they are to work for you until the Year of Jubilee.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:50 - They and their buyer are to count the time from the year they sold themselves up to the Year of Jubilee. The price for their release is to be based on the rate paid to a hired worker for that number of years.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:51 - If many years remain, they must pay for their redemption a larger share of the price paid for them.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:13 - I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt so that you would no longer be slaves to the Egyptians; I broke the bars of your yoke and enabled you to walk with heads held high.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:18 - “ ‘If after all this you will not listen to me, I will punish you for your sins seven times over.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:44 - Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them or abhor them so as to destroy them completely, breaking my covenant with them. I am the LORD their God.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:45 - But for their sake I will remember the covenant with their ancestors whom I brought out of Egypt in the sight of the nations to be their God. I am the LORD.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:15 - If the one who dedicates their house wishes to redeem it, they must add a fifth to its value, and the house will again become theirs.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:19 - If the one who dedicates the field wishes to redeem it, they must add a fifth to its value, and the field will again become theirs.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:30 - “ ‘A tithe of everything from the land, whether grain from the soil or fruit from the trees, belongs to the LORD; it is holy to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:1 - The LORD spoke to Moses in the tent of meeting in the Desert of Sinai on the first day of the second month of the second year after the Israelites came out of Egypt. He said:
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:50 - Instead, appoint the Levites to be in charge of the tabernacle of the covenant law—over all its furnishings and everything belonging to it. They are to carry the tabernacle and all its furnishings; they are to take care of it and encamp around it.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:53 - The Levites, however, are to set up their tents around the tabernacle of the covenant law so that my wrath will not fall on the Israelite community. The Levites are to be responsible for the care of the tabernacle of the covenant law.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:2 - “The Israelites are to camp around the tent of meeting some distance from it, each of them under their standard and holding the banners of their family.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:7 - They are to perform duties for him and for the whole community at the tent of meeting by doing the work of the tabernacle.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:8 - They are to take care of all the furnishings of the tent of meeting, fulfilling the obligations of the Israelites by doing the work of the tabernacle.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:10 - Appoint Aaron and his sons to serve as priests; anyone else who approaches the sanctuary is to be put to death.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:25 - At the tent of meeting the Gershonites were responsible for the care of the tabernacle and tent, its coverings, the curtain at the entrance to the tent of meeting,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:38 - Moses and Aaron and his sons were to camp to the east of the tabernacle, toward the sunrise, in front of the tent of meeting. They were responsible for the care of the sanctuary on behalf of the Israelites. Anyone else who approached the sanctuary was to be put to death.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:3 - Count all the men from thirty to fifty years of age who come to serve in the work at the tent of meeting.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:4 - “This is the work of the Kohathites at the tent of meeting: the care of the most holy things.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:5 - When the camp is to move, Aaron and his sons are to go in and take down the shielding curtain and put it over the ark of the covenant law.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:9 - “They are to take a blue cloth and cover the lampstand that is for light, together with its lamps, its wick trimmers and trays, and all its jars for the olive oil used to supply it.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:14 - Then they are to place on it all the utensils used for ministering at the altar, including the firepans, meat forks, shovels and sprinkling bowls. Over it they are to spread a covering of the durable leather and put the poles in place.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:15 - “After Aaron and his sons have finished covering the holy furnishings and all the holy articles, and when the camp is ready to move, only then are the Kohathites to come and do the carrying. But they must not touch the holy things or they will die. The Kohathites are to carry those things that are in the tent of meeting.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:16 - “Eleazar son of Aaron, the priest, is to have charge of the oil for the light, the fragrant incense, the regular grain offering and the anointing oil. He is to be in charge of the entire tabernacle and everything in it, including its holy furnishings and articles.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:23 - Count all the men from thirty to fifty years of age who come to serve in the work at the tent of meeting.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:25 - They are to carry the curtains of the tabernacle, that is, the tent of meeting, its covering and its outer covering of durable leather, the curtains for the entrance to the tent of meeting,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:26 - the curtains of the courtyard surrounding the tabernacle and altar, the curtain for the entrance to the courtyard, the ropes and all the equipment used in the service of the tent. The Gershonites are to do all that needs to be done with these things.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:28 - This is the service of the Gershonite clans at the tent of meeting. Their duties are to be under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron, the priest.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:30 - Count all the men from thirty to fifty years of age who come to serve in the work at the tent of meeting.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:31 - As part of all their service at the tent, they are to carry the frames of the tabernacle, its crossbars, posts and bases,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:32 - as well as the posts of the surrounding courtyard with their bases, tent pegs, ropes, all their equipment and everything related to their use. Assign to each man the specific things he is to carry.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:33 - This is the service of the Merarite clans as they work at the tent of meeting under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron, the priest.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:35 - All the men from thirty to fifty years of age who came to serve in the work at the tent of meeting,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:37 - This was the total of all those in the Kohathite clans who served at the tent of meeting. Moses and Aaron counted them according to the LORD's command through Moses.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:39 - All the men from thirty to fifty years of age who came to serve in the work at the tent of meeting,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:41 - This was the total of those in the Gershonite clans who served at the tent of meeting. Moses and Aaron counted them according to the LORD's command.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:43 - All the men from thirty to fifty years of age who came to serve in the work at the tent of meeting,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:47 - All the men from thirty to fifty years of age who came to do the work of serving and carrying the tent of meeting
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:15 - then he is to take his wife to the priest. He must also take an offering of a tenth of an ephah[fn] of barley flour on her behalf. He must not pour olive oil on it or put incense on it, because it is a grain offering for jealousy, a reminder-offering to draw attention to wrongdoing.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:17 - Then he shall take some holy water in a clay jar and put some dust from the tabernacle floor into the water.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:18 - After the priest has had the woman stand before the LORD, he shall loosen her hair and place in her hands the reminder-offering, the grain offering for jealousy, while he himself holds the bitter water that brings a curse.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:19 - Then the priest shall put the woman under oath and say to her, “If no other man has had sexual relations with you and you have not gone astray and become impure while married to your husband, may this bitter water that brings a curse not harm you.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:10 - Then on the eighth day they must bring two doves or two young pigeons to the priest at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:13 - “ ‘Now this is the law of the Nazirite when the period of their dedication is over. They are to be brought to the entrance to the tent of meeting.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:18 - “ ‘Then at the entrance to the tent of meeting, the Nazirite must shave off the hair that symbolizes their dedication. They are to take the hair and put it in the fire that is under the sacrifice of the fellowship offering.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:19 - “ ‘After the Nazirite has shaved off the hair that symbolizes their dedication, the priest is to place in their hands a boiled shoulder of the ram, and one thick loaf and one thin loaf from the basket, both made without yeast.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:20 - The priest shall then wave these before the LORD as a wave offering; they are holy and belong to the priest, together with the breast that was waved and the thigh that was presented. After that, the Nazirite may drink wine.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:5 - “Accept these from them, that they may be used in the work at the tent of meeting. Give them to the Levites as each man's work requires.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:9 - But Moses did not give any to the Kohathites, because they were to carry on their shoulders the holy things, for which they were responsible.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:10 - When the altar was anointed, the leaders brought their offerings for its dedication and presented them before the altar.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:11 - For the LORD had said to Moses, “Each day one leader is to bring his offering for the dedication of the altar.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:84 - These were the offerings of the Israelite leaders for the dedication of the altar when it was anointed: twelve silver plates, twelve silver sprinkling bowls and twelve gold dishes.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:88 - The total number of animals for the sacrifice of the fellowship offering came to twenty-four oxen, sixty rams, sixty male goats and sixty male lambs a year old. These were the offerings for the dedication of the altar after it was anointed.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:89 - When Moses entered the tent of meeting to speak with the LORD, he heard the voice speaking to him from between the two cherubim above the atonement cover on the ark of the covenant law. In this way the LORD spoke to him.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:3 - Aaron did so; he set up the lamps so that they faced forward on the lampstand, just as the LORD commanded Moses.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:9 - Bring the Levites to the front of the tent of meeting and assemble the whole Israelite community.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:15 - “After you have purified the Levites and presented them as a wave offering, they are to come to do their work at the tent of meeting.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:19 - From among all the Israelites, I have given the Levites as gifts to Aaron and his sons to do the work at the tent of meeting on behalf of the Israelites and to make atonement for them so that no plague will strike the Israelites when they go near the sanctuary.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:22 - After that, the Levites came to do their work at the tent of meeting under the supervision of Aaron and his sons. They did with the Levites just as the LORD commanded Moses.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:24 - “This applies to the Levites: Men twenty-five years old or more shall come to take part in the work at the tent of meeting,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:26 - They may assist their brothers in performing their duties at the tent of meeting, but they themselves must not do the work. This, then, is how you are to assign the responsibilities of the Levites.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:12 - They must not leave any of it till morning or break any of its bones. When they celebrate the Passover, they must follow all the regulations.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:14 - “ ‘A foreigner residing among you is also to celebrate the LORD's Passover in accordance with its rules and regulations. You must have the same regulations for both the foreigner and the native-born.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:15 - On the day the tabernacle, the tent of the covenant law, was set up, the cloud covered it. From evening till morning the cloud above the tabernacle looked like fire.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:3 - When both are sounded, the whole community is to assemble before you at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:11 - On the twentieth day of the second month of the second year, the cloud lifted from above the tabernacle of the covenant law.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:33 - So they set out from the mountain of the LORD and traveled for three days. The ark of the covenant of the LORD went before them during those three days to find them a place to rest.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:16 - The LORD said to Moses: “Bring me seventy of Israel's elders who are known to you as leaders and officials among the people. Have them come to the tent of meeting, that they may stand there with you.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:17 - I will come down and speak with you there, and I will take some of the power of the Spirit that is on you and put it on them. They will share the burden of the people with you so that you will not have to carry it alone.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:25 - Then the LORD came down in the cloud and spoke with him, and he took some of the power of the Spirit that was on him and put it on the seventy elders. When the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied—but did not do so again.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:4 - At once the LORD said to Moses, Aaron and Miriam, “Come out to the tent of meeting, all three of you.” So the three of them went out.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:5 - Then the LORD came down in a pillar of cloud; he stood at the entrance to the tent and summoned Aaron and Miriam. When the two of them stepped forward,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:10 - But the whole assembly talked about stoning them. Then the glory of the LORD appeared at the tent of meeting to all the Israelites.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:40 - Early the next morning they set out for the highest point in the hill country, saying, “Now we are ready to go up to the land the LORD promised. Surely we have sinned!”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:44 - Nevertheless, in their presumption they went up toward the highest point in the hill country, though neither Moses nor the ark of the LORD's covenant moved from the camp.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:4 - then the person who brings an offering shall present to the LORD a grain offering of a tenth of an ephah[fn] of the finest flour mixed with a quarter of a hin[fn] of olive oil.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:5 - With each lamb for the burnt offering or the sacrifice, prepare a quarter of a hin of wine as a drink offering.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:6 - “ ‘With a ram prepare a grain offering of two-tenths of an ephah[fn] of the finest flour mixed with a third of a hin[fn] of olive oil,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:7 - and a third of a hin of wine as a drink offering. Offer it as an aroma pleasing to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:9 - bring with the bull a grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah[fn] of the finest flour mixed with half a hin[fn] of olive oil,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:10 - and also bring half a hin of wine as a drink offering. This will be a food offering, an aroma pleasing to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:18 - So each of them took his censer, put burning coals and incense in it, and stood with Moses and Aaron at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:19 - When Korah had gathered all his followers in opposition to them at the entrance to the tent of meeting, the glory of the LORD appeared to the entire assembly.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:40 - as the LORD directed him through Moses. This was to remind the Israelites that no one except a descendant of Aaron should come to burn incense before the LORD, or he would become like Korah and his followers.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:42 - But when the assembly gathered in opposition to Moses and Aaron and turned toward the tent of meeting, suddenly the cloud covered it and the glory of the LORD appeared.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:43 - Then Moses and Aaron went to the front of the tent of meeting,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:46 - Then Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer and put incense in it, along with burning coals from the altar, and hurry to the assembly to make atonement for them. Wrath has come out from the LORD; the plague has started.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:50 - Then Aaron returned to Moses at the entrance to the tent of meeting, for the plague had stopped.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 17:4 - Place them in the tent of meeting in front of the ark of the covenant law, where I meet with you.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 17:7 - Moses placed the staffs before the LORD in the tent of the covenant law.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 17:8 - The next day Moses entered the tent and saw that Aaron's staff, which represented the tribe of Levi, had not only sprouted but had budded, blossomed and produced almonds.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:2 - Bring your fellow Levites from your ancestral tribe to join you and assist you when you and your sons minister before the tent of the covenant law.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:4 - They are to join you and be responsible for the care of the tent of meeting—all the work at the tent—and no one else may come near where you are.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:5 - “You are to be responsible for the care of the sanctuary and the altar, so that my wrath will not fall on the Israelites again.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:6 - I myself have selected your fellow Levites from among the Israelites as a gift to you, dedicated to the LORD to do the work at the tent of meeting.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:7 - But only you and your sons may serve as priests in connection with everything at the altar and inside the curtain. I am giving you the service of the priesthood as a gift. Anyone else who comes near the sanctuary is to be put to death.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:18 - Their meat is to be yours, just as the breast of the wave offering and the right thigh are yours.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:21 - “I give to the Levites all the tithes in Israel as their inheritance in return for the work they do while serving at the tent of meeting.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:22 - From now on the Israelites must not go near the tent of meeting, or they will bear the consequences of their sin and will die.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:23 - It is the Levites who are to do the work at the tent of meeting and bear the responsibility for any offenses they commit against it. This is a lasting ordinance for the generations to come. They will receive no inheritance among the Israelites.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:26 - “Speak to the Levites and say to them: ‘When you receive from the Israelites the tithe I give you as your inheritance, you must present a tenth of that tithe as the LORD's offering.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:31 - You and your households may eat the rest of it anywhere, for it is your wages for your work at the tent of meeting.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:4 - Then Eleazar the priest is to take some of its blood on his finger and sprinkle it seven times toward the front of the tent of meeting.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:6 - The priest is to take some cedar wood, hyssop and scarlet wool and throw them onto the burning heifer.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:16 - “Anyone out in the open who touches someone who has been killed with a sword or someone who has died a natural death, or anyone who touches a human bone or a grave, will be unclean for seven days.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:18 - Then a man who is ceremonially clean is to take some hyssop, dip it in the water and sprinkle the tent and all the furnishings and the people who were there. He must also sprinkle anyone who has touched a human bone or a grave or anyone who has been killed or anyone who has died a natural death.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:21 - This is a lasting ordinance for them. “The man who sprinkles the water of cleansing must also wash his clothes, and anyone who touches the water of cleansing will be unclean till evening.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:6 - Moses and Aaron went from the assembly to the entrance to the tent of meeting and fell facedown, and the glory of the LORD appeared to them.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:19 - The Israelites replied: “We will go along the main road, and if we or our livestock drink any of your water, we will pay for it. We only want to pass through on foot—nothing else.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:24 - “Aaron will be gathered to his people. He will not enter the land I give the Israelites, because both of you rebelled against my command at the waters of Meribah.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:28 - Moses removed Aaron's garments and put them on his son Eleazar. And Aaron died there on top of the mountain. Then Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:4 - They traveled from Mount Hor along the route to the Red Sea,[fn] to go around Edom. But the people grew impatient on the way;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:17 - Then Israel sang this song: “Spring up, O well! Sing about it,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:20 - and from Bamoth to the valley in Moab where the top of Pisgah overlooks the wasteland.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:35 - So they struck him down, together with his sons and his whole army, leaving them no survivors. And they took possession of his land.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:4 - The Moabites said to the elders of Midian, “This horde is going to lick up everything around us, as an ox licks up the grass of the field.” So Balak son of Zippor, who was king of Moab at that time,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:7 - Water will flow from their buckets; their seed will have abundant water. “Their king will be greater than Agag; their kingdom will be exalted.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:6 - Then an Israelite man brought into the camp a Midianite woman right before the eyes of Moses and the whole assembly of Israel while they were weeping at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:2 - and stood before Moses, Eleazar the priest, the leaders and the whole assembly at the entrance to the tent of meeting and said,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 28:24 - In this way present the food offering every day for seven days as an aroma pleasing to the LORD; it is to be offered in addition to the regular burnt offering and its drink offering.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 28:31 - Offer these together with their drink offerings, in addition to the regular burnt offering and its grain offering. Be sure the animals are without defect.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:2 - When a man makes a vow to the LORD or takes an oath to obligate himself by a pledge, he must not break his word but must do everything he said.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:16 - “They were the ones who followed Balaam's advice and enticed the Israelites to be unfaithful to the LORD in the Peor incident, so that a plague struck the LORD's people.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:19 - “Anyone who has killed someone or touched someone who was killed must stay outside the camp seven days. On the third and seventh days you must purify yourselves and your captives.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:22 - Gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, lead
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:29 - Take this tribute from their half share and give it to Eleazar the priest as the LORD's part.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:30 - From the Israelites' half, select one out of every fifty, whether people, cattle, donkeys, sheep or other animals. Give them to the Levites, who are responsible for the care of the LORD's tabernacle.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:42 - The half belonging to the Israelites, which Moses set apart from that of the fighting men—
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:47 - From the Israelites' half, Moses selected one out of every fifty people and animals, as the LORD commanded him, and gave them to the Levites, who were responsible for the care of the LORD's tabernacle.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:54 - Moses and Eleazar the priest accepted the gold from the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds and brought it into the tent of meeting as a memorial for the Israelites before the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:24 - Build cities for your women and children, and pens for your flocks, but do what you have promised.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:42 - And Nobah captured Kenath and its surrounding settlements and called it Nobah after himself.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:3 - The Israelites set out from Rameses on the fifteenth day of the first month, the day after the Passover. They marched out defiantly in full view of all the Egyptians,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:33 - They left Hor Haggidgad and camped at Jotbathah.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:41 - They left Mount Hor and camped at Zalmonah.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:8 - and from Mount Hor to Lebo Hamath. Then the boundary will go to Zedad,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:25 - The assembly must protect the one accused of murder from the avenger of blood and send the accused back to the city of refuge to which they fled. The accused must stay there until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:32 - “ ‘Do not accept a ransom for anyone who has fled to a city of refuge and so allow them to go back and live on their own land before the death of the high priest.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:33 - “ ‘Do not pollute the land where you are. Bloodshed pollutes the land, and atonement cannot be made for the land on which blood has been shed, except by the blood of the one who shed it.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:20 - Then I said to you, “You have reached the hill country of the Amorites, which the LORD our God is giving us.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:3 - So the LORD our God also gave into our hands Og king of Bashan and all his army. We struck them down, leaving no survivors.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:12 - Of the land that we took over at that time, I gave the Reubenites and the Gadites the territory north of Aroer by the Arnon Gorge, including half the hill country of Gilead, together with its towns.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:12 - Then the LORD spoke to you out of the fire. You heard the sound of words but saw no form; there was only a voice.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:15 - You saw no form of any kind the day the LORD spoke to you at Horeb out of the fire. Therefore watch yourselves very carefully,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:33 - Has any other people heard the voice of God[fn] speaking out of fire, as you have, and lived?
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:36 - From heaven he made you hear his voice to discipline you. On earth he showed you his great fire, and you heard his words from out of the fire.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:48 - This land extended from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Gorge to Mount Sirion[fn] (that is, Hermon),
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:4 - The LORD spoke to you face to face out of the fire on the mountain.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:5 - (At that time I stood between the LORD and you to declare to you the word of the LORD, because you were afraid of the fire and did not go up the mountain.) And he said:
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:21 - “You shall not covet your neighbor's wife. You shall not set your desire on your neighbor's house or land, his male or female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:22 - These are the commandments the LORD proclaimed in a loud voice to your whole assembly there on the mountain from out of the fire, the cloud and the deep darkness; and he added nothing more. Then he wrote them on two stone tablets and gave them to me.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:23 - When you heard the voice out of the darkness, while the mountain was ablaze with fire, all the leaders of your tribes and your elders came to me.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:24 - And you said, “The LORD our God has shown us his glory and his majesty, and we have heard his voice from the fire. Today we have seen that a person can live even if God speaks with them.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:26 - For what mortal has ever heard the voice of the living God speaking out of fire, as we have, and survived?
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:11 - Be careful that you do not forget the LORD your God, failing to observe his commands, his laws and his decrees that I am giving you this day.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:18 - But remember the LORD your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so confirms his covenant, which he swore to your ancestors, as it is today.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:15 - So I turned and went down from the mountain while it was ablaze with fire. And the two tablets of the covenant were in my hands.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:21 - Also I took that sinful thing of yours, the calf you had made, and burned it in the fire. Then I crushed it and ground it to powder as fine as dust and threw the dust into a stream that flowed down the mountain.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:4 - The LORD wrote on these tablets what he had written before, the Ten Commandments he had proclaimed to you on the mountain, out of the fire, on the day of the assembly. And the LORD gave them to me.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:5 - Then I came back down the mountain and put the tablets in the ark I had made, as the LORD commanded me, and they are there now.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:32 - be sure that you obey all the decrees and laws I am setting before you today.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:1 - These are the decrees and laws you must be careful to follow in the land that the LORD, the God of your ancestors, has given you to possess—as long as you live in the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:9 - since you have not yet reached the resting place and the inheritance the LORD your God is giving you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:17 - You must not eat in your own towns the tithe of your grain and new wine and olive oil, or the firstborn of your herds and flocks, or whatever you have vowed to give, or your freewill offerings or special gifts.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:23 - But be sure you do not eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:27 - Present your burnt offerings on the altar of the LORD your God, both the meat and the blood. The blood of your sacrifices must be poured beside the altar of the LORD your God, but you may eat the meat.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:17 - and none of the condemned things[fn] are to be found in your hands. Then the LORD will turn from his fierce anger, will show you mercy, and will have compassion on you. He will increase your numbers, as he promised on oath to your ancestors—
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:22 - Be sure to set aside a tenth of all that your fields produce each year.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:23 - Eat the tithe of your grain, new wine and olive oil, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks in the presence of the LORD your God at the place he will choose as a dwelling for his Name, so that you may learn to revere the LORD your God always.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:3 - You may require payment from a foreigner, but you must cancel any debt your fellow Israelite owes you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:11 - Act according to whatever they teach you and the decisions they give you. Do not turn aside from what they tell you, to the right or to the left.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:4 - You are to give them the firstfruits of your grain, new wine and olive oil, and the first wool from the shearing of your sheep,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:5 - For instance, a man may go into the forest with his neighbor to cut wood, and as he swings his ax to fell a tree, the head may fly off and hit his neighbor and kill him. That man may flee to one of these cities and save his life.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:6 - Otherwise, the avenger of blood might pursue him in a rage, overtake him if the distance is too great, and kill him even though he is not deserving of death, since he did it to his neighbor without malice aforethought.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:12 - the killer shall be sent for by the town elders, be brought back from the city, and be handed over to the avenger of blood to die.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:23 - you must not leave the body hanging on the pole overnight. Be sure to bury it that same day, because anyone who is hung on a pole is under God's curse. You must not desecrate the land the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:9 - Do not plant two kinds of seed in your vineyard; if you do, not only the crops you plant but also the fruit of the vineyard will be defiled.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:6 - The first son she bears shall carry on the name of the dead brother so that his name will not be blotted out from Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:4 - The priest shall take the basket from your hands and set it down in front of the altar of the LORD your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:26 - “Cursed is anyone who does not uphold the words of this law by carrying them out.”

Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:59 - the LORD will send fearful plagues on you and your descendants, harsh and prolonged disasters, and severe and lingering illnesses.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:6 - The LORD your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, so that you may love him with all your heart and with all your soul, and live.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:14 - The LORD said to Moses, “Now the day of your death is near. Call Joshua and present yourselves at the tent of meeting, where I will commission him.” So Moses and Joshua came and presented themselves at the tent of meeting.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:15 - Then the LORD appeared at the tent in a pillar of cloud, and the cloud stood over the entrance to the tent.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:21 - And when many disasters and calamities come on them, this song will testify against them, because it will not be forgotten by their descendants. I know what they are disposed to do, even before I bring them into the land I promised them on oath.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:51 - This is because both of you broke faith with me in the presence of the Israelites at the waters of Meribah Kadesh in the Desert of Zin and because you did not uphold my holiness among the Israelites.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:26 - “There is no one like the God of Jeshurun, who rides across the heavens to help you and on the clouds in his majesty.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:8 - Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:6 - (But she had taken them up to the roof and hidden them under the stalks of flax she had laid out on the roof.)
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:23 - Then the two men started back. They went down out of the hills, forded the river and came to Joshua son of Nun and told him everything that had happened to them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:1 - Early in the morning Joshua and all the Israelites set out from Shittim and went to the Jordan, where they camped before crossing over.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:8 - Tell the priests who carry the ark of the covenant: ‘When you reach the edge of the Jordan's waters, go and stand in the river.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:15 - Now the Jordan is at flood stage all during harvest. Yet as soon as the priests who carried the ark reached the Jordan and their feet touched the water's edge,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:14 - That day the LORD exalted Joshua in the sight of all Israel; and they stood in awe of him all the days of his life, just as they had stood in awe of Moses.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:16 - “Command the priests carrying the ark of the covenant law to come up out of the Jordan.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:23 - For the LORD your God dried up the Jordan before you until you had crossed over. The LORD your God did to the Jordan what he had done to the Red Sea[fn] when he dried it up before us until we had crossed over.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:18 - But keep away from the devoted things, so that you will not bring about your own destruction by taking any of them. Otherwise you will make the camp of Israel liable to destruction and bring trouble on it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:1 - But the Israelites were unfaithful in regard to the devoted things[fn]; Achan son of Karmi, the son of Zimri,[fn] the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of them. So the LORD's anger burned against Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:5 - who killed about thirty-six of them. They chased the Israelites from the city gate as far as the stone quarries and struck them down on the slopes. At this the hearts of the people melted in fear and became like water.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:11 - Israel has sinned; they have violated my covenant, which I commanded them to keep. They have taken some of the devoted things; they have stolen, they have lied, they have put them with their own possessions.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:22 - Those in the ambush also came out of the city against them, so that they were caught in the middle, with Israelites on both sides. Israel cut them down, leaving them neither survivors nor fugitives.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:29 - He impaled the body of the king of Ai on a pole and left it there until evening. At sunset, Joshua ordered them to take the body from the pole and throw it down at the entrance of the city gate. And they raised a large pile of rocks over it, which remains to this day.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:15 - Then Joshua made a treaty of peace with them to let them live, and the leaders of the assembly ratified it by oath.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:27 - That day he made the Gibeonites woodcutters and water carriers for the assembly, to provide for the needs of the altar of the LORD at the place the LORD would choose. And that is what they are to this day.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:18 - he said, “Roll large rocks up to the mouth of the cave, and post some men there to guard it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:22 - Joshua said, “Open the mouth of the cave and bring those five kings out to me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:23 - So they brought the five kings out of the cave—the kings of Jerusalem, Hebron, Jarmuth, Lachish and Eglon.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:33 - Meanwhile, Horam king of Gezer had come up to help Lachish, but Joshua defeated him and his army—until no survivors were left.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:5 - All these kings joined forces and made camp together at the Waters of Merom to fight against Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:8 - and the LORD gave them into the hand of Israel. They defeated them and pursued them all the way to Greater Sidon, to Misrephoth Maim, and to the Valley of Mizpah on the east, until no survivors were left.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:1 - These are the kings of the land whom the Israelites had defeated and whose territory they took over east of the Jordan, from the Arnon Gorge to Mount Hermon, including all the eastern side of the Arabah:
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:7 - Here is a list of the kings of the land that Joshua and the Israelites conquered on the west side of the Jordan, from Baal Gad in the Valley of Lebanon to Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir. Joshua gave their lands as an inheritance to the tribes of Israel according to their tribal divisions.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:9 - It extended from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Gorge, and from the town in the middle of the gorge, and included the whole plateau of Medeba as far as Dibon,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:3 - Moses had granted the two-and-a-half tribes their inheritance east of the Jordan but had not granted the Levites an inheritance among the rest,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:5 - The eastern boundary is the Dead Sea as far as the mouth of the Jordan. The northern boundary started from the bay of the sea at the mouth of the Jordan,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:9 - From the hilltop the boundary headed toward the spring of the waters of Nephtoah, came out at the towns of Mount Ephron and went down toward Baalah (that is, Kiriath Jearim).
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:1 - The whole assembly of the Israelites gathered at Shiloh and set up the tent of meeting there. The country was brought under their control,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:14 - From the hill facing Beth Horon on the south the boundary turned south along the western side and came out at Kiriath Baal (that is, Kiriath Jearim), a town of the people of Judah. This was the western side.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:16 - The boundary went down to the foot of the hill facing the Valley of Ben Hinnom, north of the Valley of Rephaim. It continued down the Hinnom Valley along the southern slope of the Jebusite city and so to En Rogel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:47 - (When the territory of the Danites was lost to them, they went up and attacked Leshem, took it, put it to the sword and occupied it. They settled in Leshem and named it Dan after their ancestor.)
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:51 - These are the territories that Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun and the heads of the tribal clans of Israel assigned by lot at Shiloh in the presence of the LORD at the entrance to the tent of meeting. And so they finished dividing the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:5 - The rest of Kohath's descendants were allotted ten towns from the clans of the tribes of Ephraim, Dan and half of Manasseh.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:6 - The descendants of Gershon were allotted thirteen towns from the clans of the tribes of Issachar, Asher, Naphtali and the half-tribe of Manasseh in Bashan.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:21 - In the hill country of Ephraim they were given Shechem (a city of refuge for one accused of murder) and Gezer,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:25 - From half the tribe of Manasseh they received Taanach and Gath Rimmon, together with their pasturelands—two towns.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:27 - The Levite clans of the Gershonites were given: from the half-tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan (a city of refuge for one accused of murder) and Be Eshterah, together with their pasturelands—two towns;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:10 - When they came to Geliloth near the Jordan in the land of Canaan, the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh built an imposing altar there by the Jordan.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:19 - If the land you possess is defiled, come over to the LORD's land, where the LORD's tabernacle stands, and share the land with us. But do not rebel against the LORD or against us by building an altar for yourselves, other than the altar of the LORD our God.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:20 - When Achan son of Zerah was unfaithful in regard to the devoted things,[fn] did not wrath come on the whole community of Israel? He was not the only one who died for his sin.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:26 - “That is why we said, ‘Let us get ready and build an altar—but not for burnt offerings or sacrifices.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:27 - On the contrary, it is to be a witness between us and you and the generations that follow, that we will worship the LORD at his sanctuary with our burnt offerings, sacrifices and fellowship offerings. Then in the future your descendants will not be able to say to ours, ‘You have no share in the LORD.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:28 - “And we said, ‘If they ever say this to us, or to our descendants, we will answer: Look at the replica of the LORD's altar, which our ancestors built, not for burnt offerings and sacrifices, but as a witness between us and you.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:29 - “Far be it from us to rebel against the LORD and turn away from him today by building an altar for burnt offerings, grain offerings and sacrifices, other than the altar of the LORD our God that stands before his tabernacle.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:32 - Then Phinehas son of Eleazar, the priest, and the leaders returned to Canaan from their meeting with the Reubenites and Gadites in Gilead and reported to the Israelites.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:33 - They were glad to hear the report and praised God. And they talked no more about going to war against them to devastate the country where the Reubenites and the Gadites lived.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:34 - And the Reubenites and the Gadites gave the altar this name: A Witness Between Us—that the LORD is God.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:11 - So be very careful to love the LORD your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:13 - then you may be sure that the LORD your God will no longer drive out these nations before you. Instead, they will become snares and traps for you, whips on your backs and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land, which the LORD your God has given you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:3 - But I took your father Abraham from the land beyond the Euphrates and led him throughout Canaan and gave him many descendants. I gave him Isaac,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:30 - And they buried him in the land of his inheritance, at Timnath Serah[fn] in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:1 - After the death of Joshua, the Israelites asked the LORD, “Who of us is to go up first to fight against the Canaanites?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:14 - One day when she came to Othniel, she urged him[fn] to ask her father for a field. When she got off her donkey, Caleb asked her, “What can I do for you?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:1 - The angel of the LORD went up from Gilgal to Bokim and said, “I brought you up out of Egypt and led you into the land I swore to give to your ancestors. I said, ‘I will never break my covenant with you,
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:3 - And I have also said, ‘I will not drive them out before you; they will become traps for you, and their gods will become snares to you.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:6 - After Joshua had dismissed the Israelites, they went to take possession of the land, each to their own inheritance.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:9 - And they buried him in the land of his inheritance, at Timnath Heres[fn] in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:17 - Yet they would not listen to their judges but prostituted themselves to other gods and worshiped them. They quickly turned from the ways of their ancestors, who had been obedient to the LORD's commands.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:21 - I will no longer drive out before them any of the nations Joshua left when he died.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:22 - I will use them to test Israel and see whether they will keep the way of the LORD and walk in it as their ancestors did.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:23 - The LORD had allowed those nations to remain; he did not drive them out at once by giving them into the hands of Joshua.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:2 - (he did this only to teach warfare to the descendants of the Israelites who had not had previous battle experience):
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:3 - the five rulers of the Philistines, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites living in the Lebanon mountains from Mount Baal Hermon to Lebo Hamath.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:21 - Ehud reached with his left hand, drew the sword from his right thigh and plunged it into the king's belly.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:23 - Then Ehud went out to the porch[fn]; he shut the doors of the upper room behind him and locked them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:24 - After he had gone, the servants came and found the doors of the upper room locked. They said, “He must be relieving himself in the inner room of the palace.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:25 - They waited to the point of embarrassment, but when he did not open the doors of the room, they took a key and unlocked them. There they saw their lord fallen to the floor, dead.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:5 - She held court under the Palm of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, and the Israelites went up to her to have their disputes decided.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:14 - Then Deborah said to Barak, “Go! This is the day the LORD has given Sisera into your hands. Has not the LORD gone ahead of you?” So Barak went down Mount Tabor, with ten thousand men following him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:15 - At Barak's advance, the LORD routed Sisera and all his chariots and army by the sword, and Sisera got down from his chariot and fled on foot.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:19 - “I'm thirsty,” he said. “Please give me some water.” She opened a skin of milk, gave him a drink, and covered him up.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:16 - Why did you stay among the sheep pens[fn] to hear the whistling for the flocks? In the districts of Reuben there was much searching of heart.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:4 - They camped on the land and ruined the crops all the way to Gaza and did not spare a living thing for Israel, neither sheep nor cattle nor donkeys.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:5 - They came up with their livestock and their tents like swarms of locusts. It was impossible to count them or their camels; they invaded the land to ravage it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:11 - The angel of the LORD came and sat down under the oak in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, where his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to keep it from the Midianites.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:18 - Please do not go away until I come back and bring my offering and set it before you.” And the LORD said, “I will wait until you return.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:26 - Then build a proper kind of[fn] altar to the LORD your God on the top of this height. Using the wood of the Asherah pole that you cut down, offer the second[fn] bull as a burnt offering.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:3 - Now announce to the army, ‘Anyone who trembles with fear may turn back and leave Mount Gilead.' ” So twenty-two thousand men left, while ten thousand remained.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:5 - So Gideon took the men down to the water. There the LORD told him, “Separate those who lap the water with their tongues as a dog laps from those who kneel down to drink.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:6 - Three hundred of them drank from cupped hands, lapping like dogs. All the rest got down on their knees to drink.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:15 - When Gideon heard the dream and its interpretation, he bowed down and worshiped. He returned to the camp of Israel and called out, “Get up! The LORD has given the Midianite camp into your hands.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:20 - The three companies blew the trumpets and smashed the jars. Grasping the torches in their left hands and holding in their right hands the trumpets they were to blow, they shouted, “A sword for the LORD and for Gideon!”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:25 - They also captured two of the Midianite leaders, Oreb and Zeeb. They killed Oreb at the rock of Oreb, and Zeeb at the winepress of Zeeb. They pursued the Midianites and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon, who was by the Jordan.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:1 - Now the Ephraimites asked Gideon, “Why have you treated us like this? Why didn't you call us when you went to fight Midian?” And they challenged him vigorously.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:33 - No sooner had Gideon died than the Israelites again prostituted themselves to the Baals. They set up Baal-Berith as their god
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:7 - When Jotham was told about this, he climbed up on the top of Mount Gerizim and shouted to them, “Listen to me, citizens of Shechem, so that God may listen to you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:8 - One day the trees went out to anoint a king for themselves. They said to the olive tree, ‘Be our king.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:24 - God did this in order that the crime against Jerub-Baal's seventy sons, the shedding of their blood, might be avenged on their brother Abimelek and on the citizens of Shechem, who had helped him murder his brothers.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:37 - But Gaal spoke up again: “Look, people are coming down from the central hill,[fn] and a company is coming from the direction of the diviners' tree.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:41 - Then Abimelek stayed in Arumah, and Zebul drove Gaal and his clan out of Shechem.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:1 - After the time of Abimelek, a man of Issachar named Tola son of Puah, the son of Dodo, rose to save Israel. He lived in Shamir, in the hill country of Ephraim.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:13 - But you have forsaken me and served other gods, so I will no longer save you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:27 - I have not wronged you, but you are doing me wrong by waging war against me. Let the LORD, the Judge, decide the dispute this day between the Israelites and the Ammonites.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:32 - Then Jephthah went over to fight the Ammonites, and the LORD gave them into his hands.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:33 - He devastated twenty towns from Aroer to the vicinity of Minnith, as far as Abel Keramim. Thus Israel subdued Ammon.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:36 - “My father,” she replied, “you have given your word to the LORD. Do to me just as you promised, now that the LORD has avenged you of your enemies, the Ammonites.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:3 - When I saw that you wouldn't help, I took my life in my hands and crossed over to fight the Ammonites, and the LORD gave me the victory over them. Now why have you come up today to fight me?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:6 - they said, “All right, say ‘Shibboleth.' ” If he said, “Sibboleth,” because he could not pronounce the word correctly, they seized him and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. Forty-two thousand Ephraimites were killed at that time.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:12 - So Manoah asked him, “When your words are fulfilled, what is to be the rule that governs the boy's life and work?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:20 - As the flame blazed up from the altar toward heaven, the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame. Seeing this, Manoah and his wife fell with their faces to the ground.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:12 - They said to him, “We've come to tie you up and hand you over to the Philistines.” Samson said, “Swear to me that you won't kill me yourselves.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:3 - But Samson lay there only until the middle of the night. Then he got up and took hold of the doors of the city gate, together with the two posts, and tore them loose, bar and all. He lifted them to his shoulders and carried them to the top of the hill that faces Hebron.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:6 - So Delilah said to Samson, “Tell me the secret of your great strength and how you can be tied up and subdued.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:9 - With men hidden in the room, she called to him, “Samson, the Philistines are upon you!” But he snapped the bowstrings as easily as a piece of string snaps when it comes close to a flame. So the secret of his strength was not discovered.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:13 - Delilah then said to Samson, “All this time you have been making a fool of me and lying to me. Tell me how you can be tied.” He replied, “If you weave the seven braids of my head into the fabric on the loom and tighten it with the pin, I'll become as weak as any other man.” So while he was sleeping, Delilah took the seven braids of his head, wove them into the fabric
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:23 - Now the rulers of the Philistines assembled to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god and to celebrate, saying, “Our god has delivered Samson, our enemy, into our hands.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:27 - Now the temple was crowded with men and women; all the rulers of the Philistines were there, and on the roof were about three thousand men and women watching Samson perform.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:3 - When he returned the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, she said, “I solemnly consecrate my silver to the LORD for my son to make an image overlaid with silver. I will give it back to you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:4 - So after he returned the silver to his mother, she took two hundred shekels[fn] of silver and gave them to a silversmith, who used them to make the idol. And it was put in Micah's house.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:8 - left that town in search of some other place to stay. On his way[fn] he came to Micah's house in the hill country of Ephraim.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:1 - In those days Israel had no king. And in those days the tribe of the Danites was seeking a place of their own where they might settle, because they had not yet come into an inheritance among the tribes of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:2 - So the Danites sent five of their leading men from Zorah and Eshtaol to spy out the land and explore it. These men represented all the Danites. They told them, “Go, explore the land.” So they entered the hill country of Ephraim and came to the house of Micah, where they spent the night.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:3 - When they were near Micah's house, they recognized the voice of the young Levite; so they turned in there and asked him, “Who brought you here? What are you doing in this place? Why are you here?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:9 - They answered, “Come on, let's attack them! We have seen the land, and it is very good. Aren't you going to do something? Don't hesitate to go there and take it over.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:13 - From there they went on to the hill country of Ephraim and came to Micah's house.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:15 - So they turned in there and went to the house of the young Levite at Micah's place and greeted him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:3 - her husband went to her to persuade her to return. He had with him his servant and two donkeys. She took him into her parents' home, and when her father saw him, he gladly welcomed him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:5 - On the fourth day they got up early and he prepared to leave, but the woman's father said to his son-in-law, “Refresh yourself with something to eat; then you can go.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:9 - Then when the man, with his concubine and his servant, got up to leave, his father-in-law, the woman's father, said, “Now look, it's almost evening. Spend the night here; the day is nearly over. Stay and enjoy yourself. Early tomorrow morning you can get up and be on your way home.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:15 - There they stopped to spend the night. They went and sat in the city square, but no one took them in for the night.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:27 - When her master got up in the morning and opened the door of the house and stepped out to continue on his way, there lay his concubine, fallen in the doorway of the house, with her hands on the threshold.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:14 - From their towns they came together at Gibeah to fight against the Israelites.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:38 - The Israelites had arranged with the ambush that they should send up a great cloud of smoke from the city,
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:39 - and then the Israelites would counterattack. The Benjamites had begun to inflict casualties on the Israelites (about thirty), and they said, “We are defeating them as in the first battle.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:3 - “LORD, God of Israel,” they cried, “why has this happened to Israel? Why should one tribe be missing from Israel today?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:7 - “How can we provide wives for those who are left, since we have taken an oath by the LORD not to give them any of our daughters in marriage?”
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:1 - In the days when the judges ruled,[fn] there was a famine in the land. So a man from Bethlehem in Judah, together with his wife and two sons, went to live for a while in the country of Moab.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:7 - With her two daughters-in-law she left the place where she had been living and set out on the road that would take them back to the land of Judah.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:12 - Return home, my daughters; I am too old to have another husband. Even if I thought there was still hope for me—even if I had a husband tonight and then gave birth to sons—
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:13 - would you wait until they grew up? Would you remain unmarried for them? No, my daughters. It is more bitter for me than for you, because the LORD's hand has turned against me!”
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:16 - But Ruth replied, “Don't urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:18 - When Naomi realized that Ruth was determined to go with her, she stopped urging her.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:19 - So the two women went on until they came to Bethlehem. When they arrived in Bethlehem, the whole town was stirred because of them, and the women exclaimed, “Can this be Naomi?”
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:9 - Watch the field where the men are harvesting, and follow along after the women. I have told the men not to lay a hand on you. And whenever you are thirsty, go and get a drink from the water jars the men have filled.”
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:10 - At this, she bowed down with her face to the ground. She asked him, “Why have I found such favor in your eyes that you notice me—a foreigner?”
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:14 - At mealtime Boaz said to her, “Come over here. Have some bread and dip it in the wine vinegar.” When she sat down with the harvesters, he offered her some roasted grain. She ate all she wanted and had some left over.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:15 - As she got up to glean, Boaz gave orders to his men, “Let her gather among the sheaves and don't reprimand her.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:14 - So she lay at his feet until morning, but got up before anyone could be recognized; and he said, “No one must know that a woman came to the threshing floor.”
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:18 - Then Naomi said, “Wait, my daughter, until you find out what happens. For the man will not rest until the matter is settled today.”
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:4 - I thought I should bring the matter to your attention and suggest that you buy it in the presence of these seated here and in the presence of the elders of my people. If you will redeem it, do so. But if you[fn] will not, tell me, so I will know. For no one has the right to do it except you, and I am next in line.” “I will redeem it,” he said.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:5 - Then Boaz said, “On the day you buy the land from Naomi, you also acquire Ruth the Moabite, the[fn] dead man's widow, in order to maintain the name of the dead with his property.”
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:7 - (Now in earlier times in Israel, for the redemption and transfer of property to become final, one party took off his sandal and gave it to the other. This was the method of legalizing transactions in Israel.)
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:10 - I have also acquired Ruth the Moabite, Mahlon's widow, as my wife, in order to maintain the name of the dead with his property, so that his name will not disappear from among his family or from his hometown. Today you are witnesses!”
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:12 - Through the offspring the LORD gives you by this young woman, may your family be like that of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah.”
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:15 - He will renew your life and sustain you in your old age. For your daughter-in-law, who loves you and who is better to you than seven sons, has given him birth.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:6 - Because the LORD had closed Hannah's womb, her rival kept provoking her in order to irritate her.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:22 - Hannah did not go. She said to her husband, “After the boy is weaned, I will take him and present him before the LORD, and he will live there always.”[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:23 - “Do what seems best to you,” her husband Elkanah told her. “Stay here until you have weaned him; only may the LORD make good his[fn] word.” So the woman stayed at home and nursed her son until she had weaned him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:25 - When the bull had been sacrificed, they brought the boy to Eli,
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:27 - I prayed for this child, and the LORD has granted me what I asked of him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:3 - “Do not keep talking so proudly or let your mouth speak such arrogance, for the LORD is a God who knows, and by him deeds are weighed.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:20 - Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife, saying, “May the LORD give you children by this woman to take the place of the one she prayed for and gave to[fn] the LORD.” Then they would go home.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:24 - No, my sons; the report I hear spreading among the LORD's people is not good.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:28 - I chose your ancestor out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to go up to my altar, to burn incense, and to wear an ephod in my presence. I also gave your ancestor's family all the food offerings presented by the Israelites.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:33 - Every one of you that I do not cut off from serving at my altar I will spare only to destroy your sight and sap your strength, and all your descendants will die in the prime of life.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:19 - His daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was pregnant and near the time of delivery. When she heard the news that the ark of God had been captured and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she went into labor and gave birth, but was overcome by her labor pains.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 7:8 - They said to Samuel, “Do not stop crying out to the LORD our God for us, that he may rescue us from the hand of the Philistines.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:7 - And the LORD told him: “Listen to all that the people are saying to you; it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected me as their king.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:13 - As soon as you enter the town, you will find him before he goes up to the high place to eat. The people will not begin eating until he comes, because he must bless the sacrifice; afterward, those who are invited will eat. Go up now; you should find him about this time.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:14 - They went up to the town, and as they were entering it, there was Samuel, coming toward them on his way up to the high place.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:15 - Now the day before Saul came, the LORD had revealed this to Samuel:
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:1 - Then Samuel took a flask of olive oil and poured it on Saul's head and kissed him, saying, “Has not the LORD anointed you ruler over his inheritance?[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:8 - “Go down ahead of me to Gilgal. I will surely come down to you to sacrifice burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, but you must wait seven days until I come to you and tell you what you are to do.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:23 - As for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the LORD by failing to pray for you. And I will teach you the way that is good and right.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:12 - I thought, ‘Now the Philistines will come down against me at Gilgal, and I have not sought the LORD's favor.' So I felt compelled to offer the burnt offering.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:21 - The price was two-thirds of a shekel[fn] for sharpening plow points and mattocks, and a third of a shekel[fn] for sharpening forks and axes and for repointing goads.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:14 - In that first attack Jonathan and his armor-bearer killed some twenty men in an area of about half an acre.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:27 - But Jonathan had not heard that his father had bound the people with the oath, so he reached out the end of the staff that was in his hand and dipped it into the honeycomb. He raised his hand to his mouth, and his eyes brightened.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:29 - Jonathan said, “My father has made trouble for the country. See how my eyes brightened when I tasted a little of this honey.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:34 - Then he said, “Go out among the men and tell them, ‘Each of you bring me your cattle and sheep, and slaughter them here and eat them. Do not sin against the LORD by eating meat with blood still in it.' ” So everyone brought his ox that night and slaughtered it there.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:14 - But Samuel said, “What then is this bleating of sheep in my ears? What is this lowing of cattle that I hear?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:15 - Saul answered, “The soldiers brought them from the Amalekites; they spared the best of the sheep and cattle to sacrifice to the LORD your God, but we totally destroyed the rest.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:19 - Why did you not obey the LORD? Why did you pounce on the plunder and do evil in the eyes of the LORD?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:21 - The soldiers took sheep and cattle from the plunder, the best of what was devoted to God, in order to sacrifice them to the LORD your God at Gilgal.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:26 - But Samuel said to him, “I will not go back with you. You have rejected the word of the LORD, and the LORD has rejected you as king over Israel!”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:27 - As Samuel turned to leave, Saul caught hold of the hem of his robe, and it tore.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:29 - He who is the Glory of Israel does not lie or change his mind; for he is not a human being, that he should change his mind.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:11 - So he asked Jesse, “Are these all the sons you have?” “There is still the youngest,” Jesse answered. “He is tending the sheep.” Samuel said, “Send for him; we will not sit down until he arrives.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:13 - So Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the presence of his brothers, and from that day on the Spirit of the LORD came powerfully upon David. Samuel then went to Ramah.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:3 - The Philistines occupied one hill and the Israelites another, with the valley between them.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:7 - His spear shaft was like a weaver's rod, and its iron point weighed six hundred shekels.[fn] His shield bearer went ahead of him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:35 - I went after it, struck it and rescued the sheep from its mouth. When it turned on me, I seized it by its hair, struck it and killed it.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:11 - Saul sent men to David's house to watch it and to kill him in the morning. But Michal, David's wife, warned him, “If you don't run for your life tonight, tomorrow you'll be killed.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:15 - Then Saul sent the men back to see David and told them, “Bring him up to me in his bed so that I may kill him.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:22 - Finally, he himself left for Ramah and went to the great cistern at Seku. And he asked, “Where are Samuel and David?” “Over in Naioth at Ramah,” they said.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:23 - So Saul went to Naioth at Ramah. But the Spirit of God came even on him, and he walked along prophesying until he came to Naioth.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:9 - “Never!” Jonathan said. “If I had the least inkling that my father was determined to harm you, wouldn't I tell you?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:24 - So David hid in the field, and when the New Moon feast came, the king sat down to eat.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:33 - But Saul hurled his spear at him to kill him. Then Jonathan knew that his father intended to kill David.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:38 - Then he shouted, “Hurry! Go quickly! Don't stop!” The boy picked up the arrow and returned to his master.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:42 - Jonathan said to David, “Go in peace, for we have sworn friendship with each other in the name of the LORD, saying, ‘The LORD is witness between you and me, and between your descendants and my descendants forever.' ” Then David left, and Jonathan went back to the town.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:6 - So the priest gave him the consecrated bread, since there was no bread there except the bread of the Presence that had been removed from before the LORD and replaced by hot bread on the day it was taken away.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:13 - So David and his men, about six hundred in number, left Keilah and kept moving from place to place. When Saul was told that David had escaped from Keilah, he did not go there.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:15 - While David was at Horesh in the Desert of Ziph, he learned that[fn] Saul had come out to take his life.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:26 - Saul was going along one side of the mountain, and David and his men were on the other side, hurrying to get away from Saul. As Saul and his forces were closing in on David and his men to capture them,
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:3 - He came to the sheep pens along the way; a cave was there, and Saul went in to relieve himself. David and his men were far back in the cave.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:8 - Then David went out of the cave and called out to Saul, “My lord the king!” When Saul looked behind him, David bowed down and prostrated himself with his face to the ground.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:20 - As she came riding her donkey into a mountain ravine, there were David and his men descending toward her, and she met them.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:26 - And now, my lord, as surely as the LORD your God lives and as you live, since the LORD has kept you from bloodshed and from avenging yourself with your own hands, may your enemies and all who are intent on harming my lord be like Nabal.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:34 - Otherwise, as surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, who has kept me from harming you, if you had not come quickly to meet me, not one male belonging to Nabal would have been left alive by daybreak.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:36 - When Abigail went to Nabal, he was in the house holding a banquet like that of a king. He was in high spirits and very drunk. So she told him nothing at all until daybreak.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:11 - But the LORD forbid that I should lay a hand on the LORD's anointed. Now get the spear and water jug that are near his head, and let's go.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:12 - So David took the spear and water jug near Saul's head, and they left. No one saw or knew about it, nor did anyone wake up. They were all sleeping, because the LORD had put them into a deep sleep.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:13 - Then David crossed over to the other side and stood on top of the hill some distance away; there was a wide space between them.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:16 - What you have done is not good. As surely as the LORD lives, you and your men must die, because you did not guard your master, the LORD's anointed. Look around you. Where are the king's spear and water jug that were near his head?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 27:1 - But David thought to himself, “One of these days I will be destroyed by the hand of Saul. The best thing I can do is to escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will give up searching for me anywhere in Israel, and I will slip out of his hand.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 27:11 - He did not leave a man or woman alive to be brought to Gath, for he thought, “They might inform on us and say, ‘This is what David did.' ” And such was his practice as long as he lived in Philistine territory.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:16 - Samuel said, “Why do you consult me, now that the LORD has departed from you and become your enemy?
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:8 - and David inquired of the LORD, “Shall I pursue this raiding party? Will I overtake them?” “Pursue them,” he answered. “You will certainly overtake them and succeed in the rescue.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:21 - Then David came to the two hundred men who had been too exhausted to follow him and who were left behind at the Besor Valley. They came out to meet David and the men with him. As David and his men approached, he asked them how they were.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:18 - and he ordered that the people of Judah be taught this lament of the bow (it is written in the Book of Jashar):
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:4 - Then the men of Judah came to Hebron, and there they anointed David king over the tribe of Judah. When David was told that it was the men from Jabesh Gilead who had buried Saul,
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:19 - He chased Abner, turning neither to the right nor to the left as he pursued him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:23 - But Asahel refused to give up the pursuit; so Abner thrust the butt of his spear into Asahel's stomach, and the spear came out through his back. He fell there and died on the spot. And every man stopped when he came to the place where Asahel had fallen and died.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:28 - So Joab blew the trumpet, and all the troops came to a halt; they no longer pursued Israel, nor did they fight anymore.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:10 - and transfer the kingdom from the house of Saul and establish David's throne over Israel and Judah from Dan to Beersheba.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:11 - Ish-Bosheth did not dare to say another word to Abner, because he was afraid of him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:12 - Then Abner sent messengers on his behalf to say to David, “Whose land is it? Make an agreement with me, and I will help you bring all Israel over to you.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:19 - Abner also spoke to the Benjamites in person. Then he went to Hebron to tell David everything that Israel and the whole tribe of Benjamin wanted to do.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:26 - Joab then left David and sent messengers after Abner, and they brought him back from the cistern at Sirah. But David did not know it.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:34 - Your hands were not bound, your feet were not fettered. You fell as one falls before the wicked.” And all the people wept over him again.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:8 - They brought the head of Ish-Bosheth to David at Hebron and said to the king, “Here is the head of Ish-Bosheth son of Saul, your enemy, who tried to kill you. This day the LORD has avenged my lord the king against Saul and his offspring.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:22 - Once more the Philistines came up and spread out in the Valley of Rephaim;
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:24 - As soon as you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the poplar trees, move quickly, because that will mean the LORD has gone out in front of you to strike the Philistine army.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:2 - He and all his men went to Baalah[fn] in Judah to bring up from there the ark of God, which is called by the Name,[fn] the name of the LORD Almighty, who is enthroned between the cherubim on the ark.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:6 - When they came to the threshing floor of Nakon, Uzzah reached out and took hold of the ark of God, because the oxen stumbled.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:10 - He was not willing to take the ark of the LORD to be with him in the City of David. Instead, he took it to the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:23 - And Michal daughter of Saul had no children to the day of her death.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:5 - “Go and tell my servant David, ‘This is what the LORD says: Are you the one to build me a house to dwell in?
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:8 - “Now then, tell my servant David, ‘This is what the LORD Almighty says: I took you from the pasture, from tending the flock, and appointed you ruler over my people Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:10 - And I will provide a place for my people Israel and will plant them so that they can have a home of their own and no longer be disturbed. Wicked people will not oppress them anymore, as they did at the beginning
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:20 - “What more can David say to you? For you know your servant, Sovereign LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:22 - “How great you are, Sovereign LORD! There is no one like you, and there is no God but you, as we have heard with our own ears.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:23 - And who is like your people Israel—the one nation on earth that God went out to redeem as a people for himself, and to make a name for himself, and to perform great and awesome wonders by driving out nations and their gods from before your people, whom you redeemed from Egypt?[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:27 - “LORD Almighty, God of Israel, you have revealed this to your servant, saying, ‘I will build a house for you.' So your servant has found courage to pray this prayer to you.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 8:2 - David also defeated the Moabites. He made them lie down on the ground and measured them off with a length of cord. Every two lengths of them were put to death, and the third length was allowed to live. So the Moabites became subject to David and brought him tribute.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 8:11 - King David dedicated these articles to the LORD, as he had done with the silver and gold from all the nations he had subdued:
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:3 - the Ammonite commanders said to Hanun their lord, “Do you think David is honoring your father by sending envoys to you to express sympathy? Hasn't David sent them to you only to explore the city and spy it out and overthrow it?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:5 - When David was told about this, he sent messengers to meet the men, for they were greatly humiliated. The king said, “Stay at Jericho till your beards have grown, and then come back.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:11 - Joab said, “If the Arameans are too strong for me, then you are to come to my rescue; but if the Ammonites are too strong for you, then I will come to rescue you.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:19 - When all the kings who were vassals of Hadadezer saw that they had been routed by Israel, they made peace with the Israelites and became subject to them. So the Arameans were afraid to help the Ammonites anymore.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:2 - One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of the palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing. The woman was very beautiful,
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:13 - At David's invitation, he ate and drank with him, and David made him drunk. But in the evening Uriah went out to sleep on his mat among his master's servants; he did not go home.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:20 - the king's anger may flare up, and he may ask you, ‘Why did you get so close to the city to fight? Didn't you know they would shoot arrows from the wall?
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:21 - Who killed Abimelek son of Jerub-Besheth[fn]? Didn't a woman drop an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died in Thebez? Why did you get so close to the wall?' If he asks you this, then say to him, ‘Moreover, your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead.' ”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:22 - The messenger set out, and when he arrived he told David everything Joab had sent him to say.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:24 - Then the archers shot arrows at your servants from the wall, and some of the king's men died. Moreover, your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:3 - but the poor man had nothing except one little ewe lamb he had bought. He raised it, and it grew up with him and his children. It shared his food, drank from his cup and even slept in his arms. It was like a daughter to him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:4 - “Now a traveler came to the rich man, but the rich man refrained from taking one of his own sheep or cattle to prepare a meal for the traveler who had come to him. Instead, he took the ewe lamb that belonged to the poor man and prepared it for the one who had come to him.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:9 - Why did you despise the word of the LORD by doing what is evil in his eyes? You struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and took his wife to be your own. You killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:10 - Now, therefore, the sword will never depart from your house, because you despised me and took the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own.'
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:16 - David pleaded with God for the child. He fasted and spent the nights lying in sackcloth[fn] on the ground.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:17 - The elders of his household stood beside him to get him up from the ground, but he refused, and he would not eat any food with them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:21 - His attendants asked him, “Why are you acting this way? While the child was alive, you fasted and wept, but now that the child is dead, you get up and eat!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:31 - and brought out the people who were there, consigning them to labor with saws and with iron picks and axes, and he made them work at brickmaking.[fn] David did this to all the Ammonite towns. Then he and his entire army returned to Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:2 - Amnon became so obsessed with his sister Tamar that he made himself ill. She was a virgin, and it seemed impossible for him to do anything to her.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:5 - “Go to bed and pretend to be ill,” Jonadab said. “When your father comes to see you, say to him, ‘I would like my sister Tamar to come and give me something to eat. Let her prepare the food in my sight so I may watch her and then eat it from her hand.' ”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:11 - But when she took it to him to eat, he grabbed her and said, “Come to bed with me, my sister.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:14 - But he refused to listen to her, and since he was stronger than she, he raped her.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:16 - “No!” she said to him. “Sending me away would be a greater wrong than what you have already done to me.” But he refused to listen to her.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:20 - Her brother Absalom said to her, “Has that Amnon, your brother, been with you? Be quiet for now, my sister; he is your brother. Don't take this thing to heart.” And Tamar lived in her brother Absalom's house, a desolate woman.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:25 - “No, my son,” the king replied. “All of us should not go; we would only be a burden to you.” Although Absalom urged him, he still refused to go but gave him his blessing.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:34 - Meanwhile, Absalom had fled. Now the man standing watch looked up and saw many people on the road west of him, coming down the side of the hill. The watchman went and told the king, “I see men in the direction of Horonaim, on the side of the hill.”[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:39 - And King David longed to go to Absalom, for he was consoled concerning Amnon's death.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:11 - She said, “Then let the king invoke the LORD his God to prevent the avenger of blood from adding to the destruction, so that my son will not be destroyed.” “As surely as the LORD lives,” he said, “not one hair of your son's head will fall to the ground.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:13 - The woman said, “Why then have you devised a thing like this against the people of God? When the king says this, does he not convict himself, for the king has not brought back his banished son?
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:14 - Like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be recovered, so we must die. But that is not what God desires; rather, he devises ways so that a banished person does not remain banished from him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:17 - “And now your servant says, ‘May the word of my lord the king secure my inheritance, for my lord the king is like an angel of God in discerning good and evil. May the LORD your God be with you.' ”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:20 - Your servant Joab did this to change the present situation. My lord has wisdom like that of an angel of God—he knows everything that happens in the land.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:29 - Then Absalom sent for Joab in order to send him to the king, but Joab refused to come to him. So he sent a second time, but he refused to come.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:5 - Also, whenever anyone approached him to bow down before him, Absalom would reach out his hand, take hold of him and kiss him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:14 - Then David said to all his officials who were with him in Jerusalem, “Come! We must flee, or none of us will escape from Absalom. We must leave immediately, or he will move quickly to overtake us and bring ruin on us and put the city to the sword.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:20 - You came only yesterday. And today shall I make you wander about with us, when I do not know where I am going? Go back, and take your people with you. May the LORD show you kindness and faithfulness.”[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:28 - I will wait at the fords in the wilderness until word comes from you to inform me.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:2 - The king asked Ziba, “Why have you brought these?” Ziba answered, “The donkeys are for the king's household to ride on, the bread and fruit are for the men to eat, and the wine is to refresh those who become exhausted in the wilderness.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:13 - So David and his men continued along the road while Shimei was going along the hillside opposite him, cursing as he went and throwing stones at him and showering him with dirt.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:17 - Jonathan and Ahimaaz were staying at En Rogel. A female servant was to go and inform them, and they were to go and tell King David, for they could not risk being seen entering the city.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:20 - When Absalom's men came to the woman at the house, they asked, “Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?” The woman answered them, “They crossed over the brook.”[fn] The men searched but found no one, so they returned to Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:22 - So David and all the people with him set out and crossed the Jordan. By daybreak, no one was left who had not crossed the Jordan.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:3 - But the men said, “You must not go out; if we are forced to flee, they won't care about us. Even if half of us die, they won't care; but you are worth ten thousand of us.[fn] It would be better now for you to give us support from the city.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:5 - The king commanded Joab, Abishai and Ittai, “Be gentle with the young man Absalom for my sake.” And all the troops heard the king giving orders concerning Absalom to each of the commanders.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:16 - Then Joab sounded the trumpet, and the troops stopped pursuing Israel, for Joab halted them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:29 - The king asked, “Is the young man Absalom safe?” Ahimaaz answered, “I saw great confusion just as Joab was about to send the king's servant and me, your servant, but I don't know what it was.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:3 - The men stole into the city that day as men steal in who are ashamed when they flee from battle.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:6 - You love those who hate you and hate those who love you. You have made it clear today that the commanders and their men mean nothing to you. I see that you would be pleased if Absalom were alive today and all of us were dead.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:7 - Now go out and encourage your men. I swear by the LORD that if you don't go out, not a man will be left with you by nightfall. This will be worse for you than all the calamities that have come on you from your youth till now.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:10 - and Absalom, whom we anointed to rule over us, has died in battle. So why do you say nothing about bringing the king back?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:11 - King David sent this message to Zadok and Abiathar, the priests: “Ask the elders of Judah, ‘Why should you be the last to bring the king back to his palace, since what is being said throughout Israel has reached the king at his quarters?
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:12 - You are my relatives, my own flesh and blood. So why should you be the last to bring back the king?'
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:15 - Then the king returned and went as far as the Jordan. Now the men of Judah had come to Gilgal to go out and meet the king and bring him across the Jordan.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:18 - They crossed at the ford to take the king's household over and to do whatever he wished. When Shimei son of Gera crossed the Jordan, he fell prostrate before the king
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:19 - and said to him, “May my lord not hold me guilty. Do not remember how your servant did wrong on the day my lord the king left Jerusalem. May the king put it out of his mind.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:20 - For I your servant know that I have sinned, but today I have come here as the first from the tribes of Joseph to come down and meet my lord the king.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:28 - All my grandfather's descendants deserved nothing but death from my lord the king, but you gave your servant a place among those who eat at your table. So what right do I have to make any more appeals to the king?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:43 - Then the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, “We have ten shares in the king; so we have a greater claim on David than you have. Why then do you treat us with contempt? Weren't we the first to speak of bringing back our king?” But the men of Judah pressed their claims even more forcefully than the men of Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:5 - But when Amasa went to summon Judah, he took longer than the time the king had set for him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:9 - Joab said to Amasa, “How are you, my brother?” Then Joab took Amasa by the beard with his right hand to kiss him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:13 - After Amasa had been removed from the road, everyone went on with Joab to pursue Sheba son of Bikri.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:16 - a wise woman called from the city, “Listen! Listen! Tell Joab to come here so I can speak to him.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:21 - That is not the case. A man named Sheba son of Bikri, from the hill country of Ephraim, has lifted up his hand against the king, against David. Hand over this one man, and I'll withdraw from the city.” The woman said to Joab, “His head will be thrown to you from the wall.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:2 - The king summoned the Gibeonites and spoke to them. (Now the Gibeonites were not a part of Israel but were survivors of the Amorites; the Israelites had sworn to spare them, but Saul in his zeal for Israel and Judah had tried to annihilate them.)
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:19 - In another battle with the Philistines at Gob, Elhanan son of Jair[fn] the Bethlehemite killed the brother of[fn] Goliath the Gittite, who had a spear with a shaft like a weaver's rod.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:13 - Out of the brightness of his presence bolts of lightning blazed forth.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:8 - These are the names of David's mighty warriors: Josheb-Basshebeth,[fn] a Tahkemonite,[fn] was chief of the Three; he raised his spear against eight hundred men, whom he killed[fn] in one encounter.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:17 - “Far be it from me, LORD, to do this!” he said. “Is it not the blood of men who went at the risk of their lives?” And David would not drink it. Such were the exploits of the three mighty warriors.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:16 - When the angel stretched out his hand to destroy Jerusalem, the LORD relented concerning the disaster and said to the angel who was afflicting the people, “Enough! Withdraw your hand.” The angel of the LORD was then at the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:21 - Araunah said, “Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” “To buy your threshing floor,” David answered, “so I can build an altar to the LORD, that the plague on the people may be stopped.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:39 - Zadok the priest took the horn of oil from the sacred tent and anointed Solomon. Then they sounded the trumpet and all the people shouted, “Long live King Solomon!”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:48 - and said, ‘Praise be to the LORD, the God of Israel, who has allowed my eyes to see a successor on my throne today.' ”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:50 - But Adonijah, in fear of Solomon, went and took hold of the horns of the altar.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:51 - Then Solomon was told, “Adonijah is afraid of King Solomon and is clinging to the horns of the altar. He says, ‘Let King Solomon swear to me today that he will not put his servant to death with the sword.' ”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:53 - Then King Solomon sent men, and they brought him down from the altar. And Adonijah came and bowed down to King Solomon, and Solomon said, “Go to your home.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:3 - and observe what the LORD your God requires: Walk in obedience to him, and keep his decrees and commands, his laws and regulations, as written in the Law of Moses. Do this so that you may prosper in all you do and wherever you go
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:27 - So Solomon removed Abiathar from the priesthood of the LORD, fulfilling the word the LORD had spoken at Shiloh about the house of Eli.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:28 - When the news reached Joab, who had conspired with Adonijah though not with Absalom, he fled to the tent of the LORD and took hold of the horns of the altar.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:29 - King Solomon was told that Joab had fled to the tent of the LORD and was beside the altar. Then Solomon ordered Benaiah son of Jehoiada, “Go, strike him down!”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:33 - May the guilt of their blood rest on the head of Joab and his descendants forever. But on David and his descendants, his house and his throne, may there be the LORD's peace forever.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:40 - At this, he saddled his donkey and went to Achish at Gath in search of his slaves. So Shimei went away and brought the slaves back from Gath.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:9 - So give your servant a discerning heart to govern your people and to distinguish between right and wrong. For who is able to govern this great people of yours?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:11 - So God said to him, “Since you have asked for this and not for long life or wealth for yourself, nor have asked for the death of your enemies but for discernment in administering justice,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:15 - Then Solomon awoke—and he realized it had been a dream. He returned to Jerusalem, stood before the ark of the Lord's covenant and sacrificed burnt offerings and fellowship offerings. Then he gave a feast for all his court.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:28 - When all Israel heard the verdict the king had given, they held the king in awe, because they saw that he had wisdom from God to administer justice.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:3 - “You know that because of the wars waged against my father David from all sides, he could not build a temple for the Name of the LORD his God until the LORD put his enemies under his feet.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:9 - My men will haul them down from Lebanon to the Mediterranean Sea, and I will float them as rafts by sea to the place you specify. There I will separate them and you can take them away. And you are to grant my wish by providing food for my royal household.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:15 - He lined its interior walls with cedar boards, paneling them from the floor of the temple to the ceiling, and covered the floor of the temple with planks of juniper.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:16 - He partitioned off twenty cubits at the rear of the temple with cedar boards from floor to ceiling to form within the temple an inner sanctuary, the Most Holy Place.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:19 - He prepared the inner sanctuary within the temple to set the ark of the covenant of the LORD there.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:21 - Solomon covered the inside of the temple with pure gold, and he extended gold chains across the front of the inner sanctuary, which was overlaid with gold.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:24 - One wing of the first cherub was five cubits long, and the other wing five cubits—ten cubits from wing tip to wing tip.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:26 - The height of each cherub was ten cubits.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:27 - He placed the cherubim inside the innermost room of the temple, with their wings spread out. The wing of one cherub touched one wall, while the wing of the other touched the other wall, and their wings touched each other in the middle of the room.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:31 - For the entrance to the inner sanctuary he made doors out of olive wood that were one fifth of the width of the sanctuary.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:36 - And he built the inner courtyard of three courses of dressed stone and one course of trimmed cedar beams.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:5 - All the doorways had rectangular frames; they were in the front part in sets of three, facing each other.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:7 - He built the throne hall, the Hall of Justice, where he was to judge, and he covered it with cedar from floor to ceiling.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:9 - All these structures, from the outside to the great courtyard and from foundation to eaves, were made of blocks of high-grade stone cut to size and smoothed on their inner and outer faces.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:14 - whose mother was a widow from the tribe of Naphtali and whose father was from Tyre and a skilled craftsman in bronze. Huram was filled with wisdom, with understanding and with knowledge to do all kinds of bronze work. He came to King Solomon and did all the work assigned to him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:16 - He also made two capitals of cast bronze to set on the tops of the pillars; each capital was five cubits[fn] high.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:21 - He erected the pillars at the portico of the temple. The pillar to the south he named Jakin[fn] and the one to the north Boaz.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:23 - He made the Sea of cast metal, circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim and five cubits high. It took a line of thirty cubits[fn] to measure around it.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:24 - Below the rim, gourds encircled it—ten to a cubit. The gourds were cast in two rows in one piece with the Sea.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:39 - He placed five of the stands on the south side of the temple and five on the north. He placed the Sea on the south side, at the southeast corner of the temple.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:41 - the two pillars; the two bowl-shaped capitals on top of the pillars; the two sets of network decorating the two bowl-shaped capitals on top of the pillars;
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:49 - the lampstands of pure gold (five on the right and five on the left, in front of the inner sanctuary); the gold floral work and lamps and tongs;
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:1 - Then King Solomon summoned into his presence at Jerusalem the elders of Israel, all the heads of the tribes and the chiefs of the Israelite families, to bring up the ark of the LORD's covenant from Zion, the City of David.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:4 - and they brought up the ark of the LORD and the tent of meeting and all the sacred furnishings in it. The priests and Levites carried them up,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:8 - These poles were so long that their ends could be seen from the Holy Place in front of the inner sanctuary, but not from outside the Holy Place; and they are still there today.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:16 - ‘Since the day I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I have not chosen a city in any tribe of Israel to have a temple built so that my Name might be there, but I have chosen David to rule my people Israel.'
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:18 - But the LORD said to my father David, ‘You did well to have it in your heart to build a temple for my Name.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:22 - Then Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in front of the whole assembly of Israel, spread out his hands toward heaven
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:25 - “Now LORD, the God of Israel, keep for your servant David my father the promises you made to him when you said, ‘You shall never fail to have a successor to sit before me on the throne of Israel, if only your descendants are careful in all they do to walk before me faithfully as you have done.'
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:29 - May your eyes be open toward this temple night and day, this place of which you said, ‘My Name shall be there,' so that you will hear the prayer your servant prays toward this place.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:31 - “When anyone wrongs their neighbor and is required to take an oath and they come and swear the oath before your altar in this temple,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:32 - then hear from heaven and act. Judge between your servants, condemning the guilty by bringing down on their heads what they have done, and vindicating the innocent by treating them in accordance with their innocence.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:53 - For you singled them out from all the nations of the world to be your own inheritance, just as you declared through your servant Moses when you, Sovereign LORD, brought our ancestors out of Egypt.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:54 - When Solomon had finished all these prayers and supplications to the LORD, he rose from before the altar of the LORD, where he had been kneeling with his hands spread out toward heaven.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:58 - May he turn our hearts to him, to walk in obedience to him and keep the commands, decrees and laws he gave our ancestors.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:59 - And may these words of mine, which I have prayed before the LORD, be near to the LORD our God day and night, that he may uphold the cause of his servant and the cause of his people Israel according to each day's need,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:64 - On that same day the king consecrated the middle part of the courtyard in front of the temple of the LORD, and there he offered burnt offerings, grain offerings and the fat of the fellowship offerings, because the bronze altar that stood before the LORD was too small to hold the burnt offerings, the grain offerings and the fat of the fellowship offerings.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:3 - The LORD said to him: “I have heard the prayer and plea you have made before me; I have consecrated this temple, which you have built, by putting my Name there forever. My eyes and my heart will always be there.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:4 - “As for you, if you walk before me faithfully with integrity of heart and uprightness, as David your father did, and do all I command and observe my decrees and laws,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:12 - But when Hiram went from Tyre to see the towns that Solomon had given him, he was not pleased with them.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:15 - Here is the account of the forced labor King Solomon conscripted to build the LORD's temple, his own palace, the terraces,[fn] the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, Megiddo and Gezer.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:26 - King Solomon also built ships at Ezion Geber, which is near Elath in Edom, on the shore of the Red Sea.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:9 - Praise be to the LORD your God, who has delighted in you and placed you on the throne of Israel. Because of the LORD's eternal love for Israel, he has made you king to maintain justice and righteousness.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:14 - The weight of the gold that Solomon received yearly was 666 talents,[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:24 - The whole world sought audience with Solomon to hear the wisdom God had put in his heart.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:2 - They were from nations about which the LORD had told the Israelites, “You must not intermarry with them, because they will surely turn your hearts after their gods.” Nevertheless, Solomon held fast to them in love.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:14 - Then the LORD raised up against Solomon an adversary, Hadad the Edomite, from the royal line of Edom.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:30 - and Ahijah took hold of the new cloak he was wearing and tore it into twelve pieces.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:33 - I will do this because they have[fn] forsaken me and worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Molek the god of the Ammonites, and have not walked in obedience to me, nor done what is right in my eyes, nor kept my decrees and laws as David, Solomon's father, did.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:36 - I will give one tribe to his son so that David my servant may always have a lamp before me in Jerusalem, the city where I chose to put my Name.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:38 - If you do whatever I command you and walk in obedience to me and do what is right in my eyes by obeying my decrees and commands, as David my servant did, I will be with you. I will build you a dynasty as enduring as the one I built for David and will give Israel to you.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:18 - King Rehoboam sent out Adoniram,[fn] who was in charge of forced labor, but all Israel stoned him to death. King Rehoboam, however, managed to get into his chariot and escape to Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:21 - When Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he mustered all Judah and the tribe of Benjamin—a hundred and eighty thousand able young men—to go to war against Israel and to regain the kingdom for Rehoboam son of Solomon.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:24 - ‘This is what the LORD says: Do not go up to fight against your brothers, the Israelites. Go home, every one of you, for this is my doing.' ” So they obeyed the word of the LORD and went home again, as the LORD had ordered.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:32 - He instituted a festival on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, like the festival held in Judah, and offered sacrifices on the altar. This he did in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves he had made. And at Bethel he also installed priests at the high places he had made.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:33 - On the fifteenth day of the eighth month, a month of his own choosing, he offered sacrifices on the altar he had built at Bethel. So he instituted the festival for the Israelites and went up to the altar to make offerings.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:1 - By the word of the LORD a man of God came from Judah to Bethel, as Jeroboam was standing by the altar to make an offering.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:4 - When King Jeroboam heard what the man of God cried out against the altar at Bethel, he stretched out his hand from the altar and said, “Seize him!” But the hand he stretched out toward the man shriveled up, so that he could not pull it back.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:5 - Also, the altar was split apart and its ashes poured out according to the sign given by the man of God by the word of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:6 - Then the king said to the man of God, “Intercede with the LORD your God and pray for me that my hand may be restored.” So the man of God interceded with the LORD, and the king's hand was restored and became as it was before.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:16 - The man of God said, “I cannot turn back and go with you, nor can I eat bread or drink water with you in this place.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:25 - Some people who passed by saw the body lying there, with the lion standing beside the body, and they went and reported it in the city where the old prophet lived.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:29 - So the prophet picked up the body of the man of God, laid it on the donkey, and brought it back to his own city to mourn for him and bury him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:32 - For the message he declared by the word of the LORD against the altar in Bethel and against all the shrines on the high places in the towns of Samaria will certainly come true.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:9 - In the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Asa became king of Judah,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:13 - He even deposed his grandmother Maakah from her position as queen mother, because she had made a repulsive image for the worship of Asherah. Asa cut it down and burned it in the Kidron Valley.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:17 - Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah and fortified Ramah to prevent anyone from leaving or entering the territory of Asa king of Judah.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:21 - When Baasha heard this, he stopped building Ramah and withdrew to Tirzah.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:23 - As for all the other events of Asa's reign, all his achievements, all he did and the cities he built, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah? In his old age, however, his feet became diseased.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:29 - As soon as he began to reign, he killed Jeroboam's whole family. He did not leave Jeroboam anyone that breathed, but destroyed them all, according to the word of the LORD given through his servant Ahijah the Shilonite.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:2 - “I lifted you up from the dust and appointed you ruler over my people Israel, but you followed the ways of Jeroboam and caused my people Israel to sin and to arouse my anger by their sins.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:7 - Moreover, the word of the LORD came through the prophet Jehu son of Hanani to Baasha and his house, because of all the evil he had done in the eyes of the LORD, arousing his anger by the things he did, becoming like the house of Jeroboam—and also because he destroyed it.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:13 - because of all the sins Baasha and his son Elah had committed and had caused Israel to commit, so that they aroused the anger of the LORD, the God of Israel, by their worthless idols.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:19 - because of the sins he had committed, doing evil in the eyes of the LORD and following the ways of Jeroboam and committing the same sin Jeroboam had caused Israel to commit.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:21 - Then the people of Israel were split into two factions; half supported Tibni son of Ginath for king, and the other half supported Omri.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:24 - He bought the hill of Samaria from Shemer for two talents[fn] of silver and built a city on the hill, calling it Samaria, after Shemer, the name of the former owner of the hill.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:26 - He followed completely the ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat, committing the same sin Jeroboam had caused Israel to commit, so that they aroused the anger of the LORD, the God of Israel, by their worthless idols.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:28 - Omri rested with his ancestors and was buried in Samaria. And Ahab his son succeeded him as king.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:31 - He not only considered it trivial to commit the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, but he also married Jezebel daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and began to serve Baal and worship him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:33 - Ahab also made an Asherah pole and did more to arouse the anger of the LORD, the God of Israel, than did all the kings of Israel before him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:9 - “Go at once to Zarephath in the region of Sidon and stay there. I have directed a widow there to supply you with food.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:14 - For this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘The jar of flour will not be used up and the jug of oil will not run dry until the day the LORD sends rain on the land.' ”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:16 - For the jar of flour was not used up and the jug of oil did not run dry, in keeping with the word of the LORD spoken by Elijah.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:18 - She said to Elijah, “What do you have against me, man of God? Did you come to remind me of my sin and kill my son?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:20 - Then he cried out to the LORD, “LORD my God, have you brought tragedy even on this widow I am staying with, by causing her son to die?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:21 - Then he stretched himself out on the boy three times and cried out to the LORD, “LORD my God, let this boy's life return to him!”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:23 - Elijah picked up the child and carried him down from the room into the house. He gave him to his mother and said, “Look, your son is alive!”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:2 - So Elijah went to present himself to Ahab. Now the famine was severe in Samaria,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:6 - So they divided the land they were to cover, Ahab going in one direction and Obadiah in another.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:9 - “What have I done wrong,” asked Obadiah, “that you are handing your servant over to Ahab to be put to death?
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:22 - Then Elijah said to them, “I am the only one of the LORD's prophets left, but Baal has four hundred and fifty prophets.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:26 - So they took the bull given them and prepared it. Then they called on the name of Baal from morning till noon. “Baal, answer us!” they shouted. But there was no response; no one answered. And they danced around the altar they had made.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:29 - Midday passed, and they continued their frantic prophesying until the time for the evening sacrifice. But there was no response, no one answered, no one paid attention.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:32 - With the stones he built an altar in the name of the LORD, and he dug a trench around it large enough to hold two seahs[fn] of seed.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:35 - The water ran down around the altar and even filled the trench.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:42 - So Ahab went off to eat and drink, but Elijah climbed to the top of Carmel, bent down to the ground and put his face between his knees.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:8 - The king of Israel answered Jehoshaphat, “There is still one prophet through whom we can inquire of the LORD, but I hate him because he never prophesies anything good about me, but always bad. He is Micaiah son of Imlah.” “The king should not say such a thing,” Jehoshaphat replied.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:25 - Micaiah replied, “You will find out on the day you go to hide in an inner room.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:27 - and say, ‘This is what the king says: Put this fellow in prison and give him nothing but bread and water until I return safely.' ”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:35 - All day long the battle raged, and the king was propped up in his chariot facing the Arameans. The blood from his wound ran onto the floor of the chariot, and that evening he died.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:43 - In everything he followed the ways of his father Asa and did not stray from them; he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD. The high places, however, were not removed, and the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense there.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:9 - Then he sent to Elijah a captain with his company of fifty men. The captain went up to Elijah, who was sitting on the top of a hill, and said to him, “Man of God, the king says, ‘Come down!' ”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:13 - Elisha then picked up Elijah's cloak that had fallen from him and went back and stood on the bank of the Jordan.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:13 - Elisha said to the king of Israel, “Why do you want to involve me? Go to the prophets of your father and the prophets of your mother.” “No,” the king of Israel answered, “because it was the LORD who called us three kings together to deliver us into the hands of Moab.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:21 - Now all the Moabites had heard that the kings had come to fight against them; so every man, young and old, who could bear arms was called up and stationed on the border.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:25 - They destroyed the towns, and each man threw a stone on every good field until it was covered. They stopped up all the springs and cut down every good tree. Only Kir Hareseth was left with its stones in place, but men armed with slings surrounded it and attacked it.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:27 - Then he took his firstborn son, who was to succeed him as king, and offered him as a sacrifice on the city wall. The fury against Israel was great; they withdrew and returned to their own land.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:8 - One day Elisha went to Shunem. And a well-to-do woman was there, who urged him to stay for a meal. So whenever he came by, he stopped there to eat.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:24 - She saddled the donkey and said to her servant, “Lead on; don't slow down for me unless I tell you.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:29 - Elisha said to Gehazi, “Tuck your cloak into your belt, take my staff in your hand and run. Don't greet anyone you meet, and if anyone greets you, do not answer. Lay my staff on the boy's face.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:30 - But the child's mother said, “As surely as the LORD lives and as you live, I will not leave you.” So he got up and followed her.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:31 - Gehazi went on ahead and laid the staff on the boy's face, but there was no sound or response. So Gehazi went back to meet Elisha and told him, “The boy has not awakened.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:34 - Then he got on the bed and lay on the boy, mouth to mouth, eyes to eyes, hands to hands. As he stretched himself out on him, the boy's body grew warm.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:39 - One of them went out into the fields to gather herbs and found a wild vine and picked as many of its gourds as his garment could hold. When he returned, he cut them up into the pot of stew, though no one knew what they were.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:40 - The stew was poured out for the men, but as they began to eat it, they cried out, “Man of God, there is death in the pot!” And they could not eat it.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:7 - As soon as the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his robes and said, “Am I God? Can I kill and bring back to life? Why does this fellow send someone to me to be cured of his leprosy? See how he is trying to pick a quarrel with me!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:20 - Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said to himself, “My master was too easy on Naaman, this Aramean, by not accepting from him what he brought. As surely as the LORD lives, I will run after him and get something from him.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:21 - So Gehazi hurried after Naaman. When Naaman saw him running toward him, he got down from the chariot to meet him. “Is everything all right?” he asked.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:26 - But Elisha said to him, “Was not my spirit with you when the man got down from his chariot to meet you? Is this the time to take money or to accept clothes—or olive groves and vineyards, or flocks and herds, or male and female slaves?
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:2 - Let us go to the Jordan, where each of us can get a pole; and let us build a place there for us to meet.” And he said, “Go.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:17 - And Elisha prayed, “Open his eyes, LORD, so that he may see.” Then the LORD opened the servant's eyes, and he looked and saw the hills full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:23 - So he prepared a great feast for them, and after they had finished eating and drinking, he sent them away, and they returned to their master. So the bands from Aram stopped raiding Israel's territory.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:26 - As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried to him, “Help me, my lord the king!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:30 - When the king heard the woman's words, he tore his robes. As he went along the wall, the people looked, and they saw that, under his robes, he had sackcloth on his body.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:6 - for the Lord had caused the Arameans to hear the sound of chariots and horses and a great army, so that they said to one another, “Look, the king of Israel has hired the Hittite and Egyptian kings to attack us!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:29 - so King Joram returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds the Arameans had inflicted on him at Ramoth[fn] in his battle with Hazael king of Aram. Then Ahaziah son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to Jezreel to see Joram son of Ahab, because he had been wounded.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:1 - The prophet Elisha summoned a man from the company of the prophets and said to him, “Tuck your cloak into your belt, take this flask of olive oil with you and go to Ramoth Gilead.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:3 - Then take the flask and pour the oil on his head and declare, ‘This is what the LORD says: I anoint you king over Israel.' Then open the door and run; don't delay!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:15 - but King Joram[fn] had returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds the Arameans had inflicted on him in the battle with Hazael king of Aram.) Jehu said, “If you desire to make me king, don't let anyone slip out of the city to go and tell the news in Jezreel.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:23 - Joram turned about and fled, calling out to Ahaziah, “Treachery, Ahaziah!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:33 - “Throw her down!” Jehu said. So they threw her down, and some of her blood spattered the wall and the horses as they trampled her underfoot.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:10 - Know, then, that not a word the LORD has spoken against the house of Ahab will fail. The LORD has done what he announced through his servant Elijah.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:17 - When Jehu came to Samaria, he killed all who were left there of Ahab's family; he destroyed them, according to the word of the LORD spoken to Elijah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:24 - So they went in to make sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Jehu had posted eighty men outside with this warning: “If one of you lets any of the men I am placing in your hands escape, it will be your life for his life.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:33 - east of the Jordan in all the land of Gilead (the region of Gad, Reuben and Manasseh), from Aroer by the Arnon Gorge through Gilead to Bashan.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:11 - The guards, each with weapon in hand, stationed themselves around the king—near the altar and the temple, from the south side to the north side of the temple.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:17 - Jehoiada then made a covenant between the LORD and the king and people that they would be the LORD's people. He also made a covenant between the king and the people.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:8 - The priests agreed that they would not collect any more money from the people and that they would not repair the temple themselves.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:12 - the masons and stonecutters. They purchased timber and blocks of dressed stone for the repair of the temple of the LORD, and met all the other expenses of restoring the temple.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:13 - The money brought into the temple was not spent for making silver basins, wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, trumpets or any other articles of gold or silver for the temple of the LORD;
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:4 - Then Jehoahaz sought the LORD's favor, and the LORD listened to him, for he saw how severely the king of Aram was oppressing Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:23 - But the LORD was gracious to them and had compassion and showed concern for them because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. To this day he has been unwilling to destroy them or banish them from his presence.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:10 - Then King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria. He saw an altar in Damascus and sent to Uriah the priest a sketch of the altar, with detailed plans for its construction.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:14 - As for the bronze altar that stood before the LORD, he brought it from the front of the temple—from between the new altar and the temple of the LORD—and put it on the north side of the new altar.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:11 - At every high place they burned incense, as the nations whom the LORD had driven out before them had done. They did wicked things that aroused the LORD's anger.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:15 - They rejected his decrees and the covenant he had made with their ancestors and the statutes he had warned them to keep. They followed worthless idols and themselves became worthless. They imitated the nations around them although the LORD had ordered them, “Do not do as they do.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:17 - They sacrificed their sons and daughters in the fire. They practiced divination and sought omens and sold themselves to do evil in the eyes of the LORD, arousing his anger.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:18 - So the LORD was very angry with Israel and removed them from his presence. Only the tribe of Judah was left,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:22 - But if you say to me, “We are depending on the LORD our God”—isn't he the one whose high places and altars Hezekiah removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, “You must worship before this altar in Jerusalem”?
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:25 - Furthermore, have I come to attack and destroy this place without word from the LORD? The LORD himself told me to march against this country and destroy it.' ”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:26 - Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, and Shebna and Joah said to the field commander, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Don't speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:27 - But the commander replied, “Was it only to your master and you that my master sent me to say these things, and not to the people sitting on the wall—who, like you, will have to eat their own excrement and drink their own urine?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:4 - It may be that the LORD your God will hear all the words of the field commander, whom his master, the king of Assyria, has sent to ridicule the living God, and that he will rebuke him for the words the LORD your God has heard. Therefore pray for the remnant that still survives.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:11 - Surely you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the countries, destroying them completely. And will you be delivered?
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:13 - Hezekiah received the envoys and showed them all that was in his storehouses—the silver, the gold, the spices and the fine olive oil—his armory and everything found among his treasures. There was nothing in his palace or in all his kingdom that Hezekiah did not show them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:6 - He sacrificed his own son in the fire, practiced divination, sought omens, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did much evil in the eyes of the LORD, arousing his anger.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:7 - He took the carved Asherah pole he had made and put it in the temple, of which the LORD had said to David and to his son Solomon, “In this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my Name forever.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:8 - I will not again make the feet of the Israelites wander from the land I gave their ancestors, if only they will be careful to do everything I commanded them and will keep the whole Law that my servant Moses gave them.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:9 - But the people did not listen. Manasseh led them astray, so that they did more evil than the nations the LORD had destroyed before the Israelites.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:16 - Moreover, Manasseh also shed so much innocent blood that he filled Jerusalem from end to end—besides the sin that he had caused Judah to commit, so that they did evil in the eyes of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:5 - Have them entrust it to the men appointed to supervise the work on the temple. And have these men pay the workers who repair the temple of the LORD
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:6 - the carpenters, the builders and the masons. Also have them purchase timber and dressed stone to repair the temple.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:11 - When the king heard the words of the Book of the Law, he tore his robes.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:13 - “Go and inquire of the LORD for me and for the people and for all Judah about what is written in this book that has been found. Great is the LORD's anger that burns against us because those who have gone before us have not obeyed the words of this book; they have not acted in accordance with all that is written there concerning us.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:16 - ‘This is what the LORD says: I am going to bring disaster on this place and its people, according to everything written in the book the king of Judah has read.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:19 - Because your heart was responsive and you humbled yourself before the LORD when you heard what I have spoken against this place and its people—that they would become a curse[fn] and be laid waste—and because you tore your robes and wept in my presence, I also have heard you, declares the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:2 - He went up to the temple of the LORD with the people of Judah, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the priests and the prophets—all the people from the least to the greatest. He read in their hearing all the words of the Book of the Covenant, which had been found in the temple of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:3 - The king stood by the pillar and renewed the covenant in the presence of the LORD—to follow the LORD and keep his commands, statutes and decrees with all his heart and all his soul, thus confirming the words of the covenant written in this book. Then all the people pledged themselves to the covenant.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:4 - The king ordered Hilkiah the high priest, the priests next in rank and the doorkeepers to remove from the temple of the LORD all the articles made for Baal and Asherah and all the starry hosts. He burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron Valley and took the ashes to Bethel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:10 - He desecrated Topheth, which was in the Valley of Ben Hinnom, so no one could use it to sacrifice their son or daughter in the fire to Molek.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:12 - He pulled down the altars the kings of Judah had erected on the roof near the upper room of Ahaz, and the altars Manasseh had built in the two courts of the temple of the LORD. He removed them from there, smashed them to pieces and threw the rubble into the Kidron Valley.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:13 - The king also desecrated the high places that were east of Jerusalem on the south of the Hill of Corruption—the ones Solomon king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the vile goddess of the Sidonians, for Chemosh the vile god of Moab, and for Molek the detestable god of the people of Ammon.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:24 - Furthermore, Josiah got rid of the mediums and spiritists, the household gods, the idols and all the other detestable things seen in Judah and Jerusalem. This he did to fulfill the requirements of the law written in the book that Hilkiah the priest had discovered in the temple of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:27 - So the LORD said, “I will remove Judah also from my presence as I removed Israel, and I will reject Jerusalem, the city I chose, and this temple, about which I said, ‘My Name shall be there.'[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:33 - Pharaoh Necho put him in chains at Riblah in the land of Hamath so that he might not reign in Jerusalem, and he imposed on Judah a levy of a hundred talents[fn] of silver and a talent[fn] of gold.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:35 - Jehoiakim paid Pharaoh Necho the silver and gold he demanded. In order to do so, he taxed the land and exacted the silver and gold from the people of the land according to their assessments.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:2 - The LORD sent Babylonian,[fn] Aramean, Moabite and Ammonite raiders against him to destroy Judah, in accordance with the word of the LORD proclaimed by his servants the prophets.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:2 - The city was kept under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:11 - Nebuzaradan the commander of the guard carried into exile the people who remained in the city, along with the rest of the populace and those who had deserted to the king of Babylon.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:17 - Each pillar was eighteen cubits[fn] high. The bronze capital on top of one pillar was three cubits[fn] high and was decorated with a network and pomegranates of bronze all around. The other pillar, with its network, was similar.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:25 - In the seventh month, however, Ishmael son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, who was of royal blood, came with ten men and assassinated Gedaliah and also the men of Judah and the Babylonians who were with him at Mizpah.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:10 - Cush was the father[fn] of Nimrod, who became a mighty warrior on earth.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:10 - Jabez cried out to the God of Israel, “Oh, that you would bless me and enlarge my territory! Let your hand be with me, and keep me from harm so that I will be free from pain.” And God granted his request.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:39 - and they went to the outskirts of Gedor to the east of the valley in search of pasture for their flocks.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:11 - All these sons of Jediael were heads of families. There were 17,200 fighting men ready to go out to war.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:22 - Their father Ephraim mourned for them many days, and his relatives came to comfort him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:40 - All these were descendants of Asher—heads of families, choice men, brave warriors and outstanding leaders. The number of men ready for battle, as listed in their genealogy, was 26,000.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:23 - They and their descendants were in charge of guarding the gates of the house of the LORD—the house called the tent of meeting.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:25 - Their fellow Levites in their villages had to come from time to time and share their duties for seven-day periods.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:29 - Others were assigned to take care of the furnishings and all the other articles of the sanctuary, as well as the special flour and wine, and the olive oil, incense and spices.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:30 - But some of the priests took care of mixing the spices.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:31 - A Levite named Mattithiah, the firstborn son of Shallum the Korahite, was entrusted with the responsibility for baking the offering bread.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:32 - Some of the Kohathites, their fellow Levites, were in charge of preparing for every Sabbath the bread set out on the table.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 10:8 - The next day, when the Philistines came to strip the dead, they found Saul and his sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 10:9 - They stripped him and took his head and his armor, and sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines to proclaim the news among their idols and their people.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 10:13 - Saul died because he was unfaithful to the LORD; he did not keep the word of the LORD and even consulted a medium for guidance,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:10 - These were the chiefs of David's mighty warriors—they, together with all Israel, gave his kingship strong support to extend it over the whole land, as the LORD had promised—
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:18 - So the Three broke through the Philistine lines, drew water from the well near the gate of Bethlehem and carried it back to David. But he refused to drink it; instead, he poured it out to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:19 - “God forbid that I should do this!” he said. “Should I drink the blood of these men who went at the risk of their lives?” Because they risked their lives to bring it back, David would not drink it. Such were the exploits of the three mighty warriors.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:17 - David went out to meet them and said to them, “If you have come to me in peace to help me, I am ready for you to join me. But if you have come to betray me to my enemies when my hands are free from violence, may the God of our ancestors see it and judge you.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:23 - These are the numbers of the men armed for battle who came to David at Hebron to turn Saul's kingdom over to him, as the LORD had said:
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:31 - from half the tribe of Manasseh, designated by name to come and make David king—18,000;
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:38 - All these were fighting men who volunteered to serve in the ranks. They came to Hebron fully determined to make David king over all Israel. All the rest of the Israelites were also of one mind to make David king.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 13:4 - The whole assembly agreed to do this, because it seemed right to all the people.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 13:5 - So David assembled all Israel, from the Shihor River in Egypt to Lebo Hamath, to bring the ark of God from Kiriath Jearim.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 13:6 - David and all Israel went to Baalah of Judah (Kiriath Jearim) to bring up from there the ark of God the LORD, who is enthroned between the cherubim—the ark that is called by the Name.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 13:9 - When they came to the threshing floor of Kidon, Uzzah reached out his hand to steady the ark, because the oxen stumbled.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 14:1 - Now Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, along with cedar logs, stonemasons and carpenters to build a palace for him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 14:15 - As soon as you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the poplar trees, move out to battle, because that will mean God has gone out in front of you to strike the Philistine army.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:3 - David assembled all Israel in Jerusalem to bring up the ark of the LORD to the place he had prepared for it.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:14 - So the priests and Levites consecrated themselves in order to bring up the ark of the LORD, the God of Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:16 - David told the leaders of the Levites to appoint their fellow Levites as musicians to make a joyful sound with musical instruments: lyres, harps and cymbals.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:19 - The musicians Heman, Asaph and Ethan were to sound the bronze cymbals;
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:21 - and Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, Obed-Edom, Jeiel and Azaziah were to play the harps, directing according to sheminith.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:25 - So David and the elders of Israel and the commanders of units of a thousand went to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD from the house of Obed-Edom, with rejoicing.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:7 - That day David first appointed Asaph and his associates to give praise to the LORD in this manner:
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:12 - Remember the wonders he has done, his miracles, and the judgments he pronounced,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:21 - He allowed no one to oppress them; for their sake he rebuked kings:
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:35 - Cry out, “Save us, God our Savior; gather us and deliver us from the nations, that we may give thanks to your holy name, and glory in your praise.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:40 - to present burnt offerings to the LORD on the altar of burnt offering regularly, morning and evening, in accordance with everything written in the Law of the LORD, which he had given Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:41 - With them were Heman and Jeduthun and the rest of those chosen and designated by name to give thanks to the LORD, “for his love endures forever.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:42 - Heman and Jeduthun were responsible for the sounding of the trumpets and cymbals and for the playing of the other instruments for sacred song. The sons of Jeduthun were stationed at the gate.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:43 - Then all the people left, each for their own home, and David returned home to bless his family.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:4 - “Go and tell my servant David, ‘This is what the LORD says: You are not the one to build me a house to dwell in.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:6 - Wherever I have moved with all the Israelites, did I ever say to any of their leaders[fn] whom I commanded to shepherd my people, “Why have you not built me a house of cedar?” '
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:7 - “Now then, tell my servant David, ‘This is what the LORD Almighty says: I took you from the pasture, from tending the flock, and appointed you ruler over my people Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:9 - And I will provide a place for my people Israel and will plant them so that they can have a home of their own and no longer be disturbed. Wicked people will not oppress them anymore, as they did at the beginning
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:18 - “What more can David say to you for honoring your servant? For you know your servant,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:21 - And who is like your people Israel—the one nation on earth whose God went out to redeem a people for himself, and to make a name for yourself, and to perform great and awesome wonders by driving out nations from before your people, whom you redeemed from Egypt?
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:25 - “You, my God, have revealed to your servant that you will build a house for him. So your servant has found courage to pray to you.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:27 - Now you have been pleased to bless the house of your servant, that it may continue forever in your sight; for you, LORD, have blessed it, and it will be blessed forever.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 18:10 - he sent his son Hadoram to King David to greet him and congratulate him on his victory in battle over Hadadezer, who had been at war with Tou. Hadoram brought all kinds of articles of gold, of silver and of bronze.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 18:11 - King David dedicated these articles to the LORD, as he had done with the silver and gold he had taken from all these nations: Edom and Moab, the Ammonites and the Philistines, and Amalek.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:2 - David thought, “I will show kindness to Hanun son of Nahash, because his father showed kindness to me.” So David sent a delegation to express his sympathy to Hanun concerning his father. When David's envoys came to Hanun in the land of the Ammonites to express sympathy to him,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:3 - the Ammonite commanders said to Hanun, “Do you think David is honoring your father by sending envoys to you to express sympathy? Haven't his envoys come to you only to explore and spy out the country and overthrow it?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:5 - When someone came and told David about the men, he sent messengers to meet them, for they were greatly humiliated. The king said, “Stay at Jericho till your beards have grown, and then come back.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:6 - When the Ammonites realized that they had become obnoxious to David, Hanun and the Ammonites sent a thousand talents[fn] of silver to hire chariots and charioteers from Aram Naharaim,[fn] Aram Maakah and Zobah.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:10 - Joab saw that there were battle lines in front of him and behind him; so he selected some of the best troops in Israel and deployed them against the Arameans.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:19 - When the vassals of Hadadezer saw that they had been routed by Israel, they made peace with David and became subject to him. So the Arameans were not willing to help the Ammonites anymore.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:1 - Satan rose up against Israel and incited David to take a census of Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:7 - This command was also evil in the sight of God; so he punished Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:15 - And God sent an angel to destroy Jerusalem. But as the angel was doing so, the LORD saw it and relented concerning the disaster and said to the angel who was destroying the people, “Enough! Withdraw your hand.” The angel of the LORD was then standing at the threshing floor of Araunah[fn] the Jebusite.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:17 - David said to God, “Was it not I who ordered the fighting men to be counted? I, the shepherd,[fn] have sinned and done wrong. These are but sheep. What have they done? LORD my God, let your hand fall on me and my family, but do not let this plague remain on your people.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:18 - Then the angel of the LORD ordered Gad to tell David to go up and build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:24 - But King David replied to Araunah, “No, I insist on paying the full price. I will not take for the LORD what is yours, or sacrifice a burnt offering that costs me nothing.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:30 - But David could not go before it to inquire of God, because he was afraid of the sword of the angel of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 22:2 - So David gave orders to assemble the foreigners residing in Israel, and from among them he appointed stonecutters to prepare dressed stone for building the house of God.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 22:5 - David said, “My son Solomon is young and inexperienced, and the house to be built for the LORD should be of great magnificence and fame and splendor in the sight of all the nations. Therefore I will make preparations for it.” So David made extensive preparations before his death.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 22:6 - Then he called for his son Solomon and charged him to build a house for the LORD, the God of Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 22:7 - David said to Solomon: “My son, I had it in my heart to build a house for the Name of the LORD my God.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 22:12 - May the LORD give you discretion and understanding when he puts you in command over Israel, so that you may keep the law of the LORD your God.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 22:13 - Then you will have success if you are careful to observe the decrees and laws that the LORD gave Moses for Israel. Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or discouraged.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 22:19 - Now devote your heart and soul to seeking the LORD your God. Begin to build the sanctuary of the LORD God, so that you may bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD and the sacred articles belonging to God into the temple that will be built for the Name of the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:5 - Four thousand are to be gatekeepers and four thousand are to praise the LORD with the musical instruments I have provided for that purpose.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:13 - The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses. Aaron was set apart, he and his descendants forever, to consecrate the most holy things, to offer sacrifices before the LORD, to minister before him and to pronounce blessings in his name forever.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:28 - The duty of the Levites was to help Aaron's descendants in the service of the temple of the LORD: to be in charge of the courtyards, the side rooms, the purification of all sacred things and the performance of other duties at the house of God.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:30 - They were also to stand every morning to thank and praise the LORD. They were to do the same in the evening
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:32 - And so the Levites carried out their responsibilities for the tent of meeting, for the Holy Place and, under their relatives the descendants of Aaron, for the service of the temple of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 24:19 - This was their appointed order of ministering when they entered the temple of the LORD, according to the regulations prescribed for them by their ancestor Aaron, as the LORD, the God of Israel, had commanded him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:27 - Some of the plunder taken in battle they dedicated for the repair of the temple of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:29 - From the Izharites: Kenaniah and his sons were assigned duties away from the temple, as officials and judges over Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:28 - Baal-Hanan the Gederite was in charge of the olive and sycamore-fig trees in the western foothills. Joash was in charge of the supplies of olive oil.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:3 - But God said to me, ‘You are not to build a house for my Name, because you are a warrior and have shed blood.'
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:4 - “Yet the LORD, the God of Israel, chose me from my whole family to be king over Israel forever. He chose Judah as leader, and from the tribe of Judah he chose my family, and from my father's sons he was pleased to make me king over all Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:7 - I will establish his kingdom forever if he is unswerving in carrying out my commands and laws, as is being done at this time.'
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:18 - and the weight of the refined gold for the altar of incense. He also gave him the plan for the chariot, that is, the cherubim of gold that spread their wings and overshadow the ark of the covenant of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:19 - “All this,” David said, “I have in writing as a result of the LORD's hand on me, and he enabled me to understand all the details of the plan.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:20 - David also said to Solomon his son, “Be strong and courageous, and do the work. Do not be afraid or discouraged, for the LORD God, my God, is with you. He will not fail you or forsake you until all the work for the service of the temple of the LORD is finished.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:4 - three thousand talents[fn] of gold (gold of Ophir) and seven thousand talents[fn] of refined silver, for the overlaying of the walls of the buildings,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:9 - The people rejoiced at the willing response of their leaders, for they had given freely and wholeheartedly to the LORD. David the king also rejoiced greatly.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:19 - And give my son Solomon the wholehearted devotion to keep your commands, statutes and decrees and to do everything to build the palatial structure for which I have provided.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 1:3 - and Solomon and the whole assembly went to the high place at Gibeon, for God's tent of meeting was there, which Moses the LORD's servant had made in the wilderness.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:1 - Solomon gave orders to build a temple for the Name of the LORD and a royal palace for himself.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:3 - Solomon sent this message to Hiram[fn] king of Tyre: “Send me cedar logs as you did for my father David when you sent him cedar to build a palace to live in.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:4 - Now I am about to build a temple for the Name of the LORD my God and to dedicate it to him for burning fragrant incense before him, for setting out the consecrated bread regularly, and for making burnt offerings every morning and evening and on the Sabbaths, at the New Moons and at the appointed festivals of the LORD our God. This is a lasting ordinance for Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:6 - But who is able to build a temple for him, since the heavens, even the highest heavens, cannot contain him? Who then am I to build a temple for him, except as a place to burn sacrifices before him?
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:7 - “Send me, therefore, a man skilled to work in gold and silver, bronze and iron, and in purple, crimson and blue yarn, and experienced in the art of engraving, to work in Judah and Jerusalem with my skilled workers, whom my father David provided.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 3:1 - Then Solomon began to build the temple of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to his father David. It was on the threshing floor of Araunah[fn] the Jebusite, the place provided by David.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 3:3 - The foundation Solomon laid for building the temple of God was sixty cubits long and twenty cubits wide[fn] (using the cubit of the old standard).
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:6 - He then made ten basins for washing and placed five on the south side and five on the north. In them the things to be used for the burnt offerings were rinsed, but the Sea was to be used by the priests for washing.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:11 - And Huram also made the pots and shovels and sprinkling bowls. So Huram finished the work he had undertaken for King Solomon in the temple of God:
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:13 - the four hundred pomegranates for the two sets of network (two rows of pomegranates for each network, decorating the bowl-shaped capitals on top of the pillars);
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:20 - the lampstands of pure gold with their lamps, to burn in front of the inner sanctuary as prescribed;
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 5:2 - Then Solomon summoned to Jerusalem the elders of Israel, all the heads of the tribes and the chiefs of the Israelite families, to bring up the ark of the LORD's covenant from Zion, the City of David.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 5:5 - and they brought up the ark and the tent of meeting and all the sacred furnishings in it. The Levitical priests carried them up;
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 5:6 - and King Solomon and the entire assembly of Israel that had gathered about him were before the ark, sacrificing so many sheep and cattle that they could not be recorded or counted.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 5:9 - These poles were so long that their ends, extending from the ark, could be seen from in front of the inner sanctuary, but not from outside the Holy Place; and they are still there today.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 5:12 - All the Levites who were musicians—Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun and their sons and relatives—stood on the east side of the altar, dressed in fine linen and playing cymbals, harps and lyres. They were accompanied by 120 priests sounding trumpets.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 5:13 - The trumpeters and musicians joined in unison to give praise and thanks to the LORD. Accompanied by trumpets, cymbals and other instruments, the singers raised their voices in praise to the LORD and sang: “He is good; his love endures forever.” Then the temple of the LORD was filled with the cloud,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 5:14 - and the priests could not perform their service because of the cloud, for the glory of the LORD filled the temple of God.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:1 - Then Solomon said, “The LORD has said that he would dwell in a dark cloud;
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:2 - I have built a magnificent temple for you, a place for you to dwell forever.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:5 - ‘Since the day I brought my people out of Egypt, I have not chosen a city in any tribe of Israel to have a temple built so that my Name might be there, nor have I chosen anyone to be ruler over my people Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:7 - “My father David had it in his heart to build a temple for the Name of the LORD, the God of Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:8 - But the LORD said to my father David, ‘You did well to have it in your heart to build a temple for my Name.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:12 - Then Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in front of the whole assembly of Israel and spread out his hands.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:16 - “Now, LORD, the God of Israel, keep for your servant David my father the promises you made to him when you said, ‘You shall never fail to have a successor to sit before me on the throne of Israel, if only your descendants are careful in all they do to walk before me according to my law, as you have done.'
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:19 - Yet, LORD my God, give attention to your servant's prayer and his plea for mercy. Hear the cry and the prayer that your servant is praying in your presence.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:20 - May your eyes be open toward this temple day and night, this place of which you said you would put your Name there. May you hear the prayer your servant prays toward this place.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:22 - “When anyone wrongs their neighbor and is required to take an oath and they come and swear the oath before your altar in this temple,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:23 - then hear from heaven and act. Judge between your servants, condemning the guilty and bringing down on their heads what they have done, and vindicating the innocent by treating them in accordance with their innocence.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:33 - then hear from heaven, your dwelling place. Do whatever the foreigner asks of you, so that all the peoples of the earth may know your name and fear you, as do your own people Israel, and may know that this house I have built bears your Name.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:6 - The priests took their positions, as did the Levites with the LORD's musical instruments, which King David had made for praising the LORD and which were used when he gave thanks, saying, “His love endures forever.” Opposite the Levites, the priests blew their trumpets, and all the Israelites were standing.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:9 - On the eighth day they held an assembly, for they had celebrated the dedication of the altar for seven days and the festival for seven days more.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:11 - When Solomon had finished the temple of the LORD and the royal palace, and had succeeded in carrying out all he had in mind to do in the temple of the LORD and in his own palace,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:16 - I have chosen and consecrated this temple so that my Name may be there forever. My eyes and my heart will always be there.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:6 - as well as Baalath and all his store cities, and all the cities for his chariots and for his horses[fn]—whatever he desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon and throughout all the territory he ruled.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:13 - according to the daily requirement for offerings commanded by Moses for the Sabbaths, the New Moons and the three annual festivals—the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks and the Festival of Tabernacles.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:14 - In keeping with the ordinance of his father David, he appointed the divisions of the priests for their duties, and the Levites to lead the praise and to assist the priests according to each day's requirement. He also appointed the gatekeepers by divisions for the various gates, because this was what David the man of God had ordered.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:1 - When the queen of Sheba heard of Solomon's fame, she came to Jerusalem to test him with hard questions. Arriving with a very great caravan—with camels carrying spices, large quantities of gold, and precious stones—she came to Solomon and talked with him about all she had on her mind.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:6 - But I did not believe what they said until I came and saw with my own eyes. Indeed, not even half the greatness of your wisdom was told me; you have far exceeded the report I heard.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:8 - Praise be to the LORD your God, who has delighted in you and placed you on his throne as king to rule for the LORD your God. Because of the love of your God for Israel and his desire to uphold them forever, he has made you king over them, to maintain justice and righteousness.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:13 - The weight of the gold that Solomon received yearly was 666 talents,[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 10:6 - Then King Rehoboam consulted the elders who had served his father Solomon during his lifetime. “How would you advise me to answer these people?” he asked.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 10:18 - King Rehoboam sent out Adoniram,[fn] who was in charge of forced labor, but the Israelites stoned him to death. King Rehoboam, however, managed to get into his chariot and escape to Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:1 - When Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he mustered Judah and Benjamin—a hundred and eighty thousand able young men—to go to war against Israel and to regain the kingdom for Rehoboam.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:4 - ‘This is what the LORD says: Do not go up to fight against your fellow Israelites. Go home, every one of you, for this is my doing.' ” So they obeyed the words of the LORD and turned back from marching against Jeroboam.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:14 - The Levites even abandoned their pasturelands and property and came to Judah and Jerusalem, because Jeroboam and his sons had rejected them as priests of the LORD
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:16 - Those from every tribe of Israel who set their hearts on seeking the LORD, the God of Israel, followed the Levites to Jerusalem to offer sacrifices to the LORD, the God of their ancestors.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 12:3 - With twelve hundred chariots and sixty thousand horsemen and the innumerable troops of Libyans, Sukkites and Cushites[fn] that came with him from Egypt,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:4 - Abijah stood on Mount Zemaraim, in the hill country of Ephraim, and said, “Jeroboam and all Israel, listen to me!
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:12 - God is with us; he is our leader. His priests with their trumpets will sound the battle cry against you. People of Israel, do not fight against the LORD, the God of your ancestors, for you will not succeed.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:16 - King Asa also deposed his grandmother Maakah from her position as queen mother, because she had made a repulsive image for the worship of Asherah. Asa cut it down, broke it up and burned it in the Kidron Valley.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:1 - In the thirty-sixth year of Asa's reign Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah and fortified Ramah to prevent anyone from leaving or entering the territory of Asa king of Judah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:5 - When Baasha heard this, he stopped building Ramah and abandoned his work.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:2 - Some years later he went down to see Ahab in Samaria. Ahab slaughtered many sheep and cattle for him and the people with him and urged him to attack Ramoth Gilead.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:7 - The king of Israel answered Jehoshaphat, “There is still one prophet through whom we can inquire of the LORD, but I hate him because he never prophesies anything good about me, but always bad. He is Micaiah son of Imlah.” “The king should not say such a thing,” Jehoshaphat replied.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:12 - The messenger who had gone to summon Micaiah said to him, “Look, the other prophets without exception are predicting success for the king. Let your word agree with theirs, and speak favorably.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:23 - Then Zedekiah son of Kenaanah went up and slapped Micaiah in the face. “Which way did the spirit from[fn] the LORD go when he went from me to speak to you?” he asked.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:24 - Micaiah replied, “You will find out on the day you go to hide in an inner room.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:26 - and say, ‘This is what the king says: Put this fellow in prison and give him nothing but bread and water until I return safely.' ”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:31 - When the chariot commanders saw Jehoshaphat, they thought, “This is the king of Israel.” So they turned to attack him, but Jehoshaphat cried out, and the LORD helped him. God drew them away from him,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:34 - All day long the battle raged, and the king of Israel propped himself up in his chariot facing the Arameans until evening. Then at sunset he died.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:12 - Our God, will you not judge them? For we have no power to face this vast army that is attacking us. We do not know what to do, but our eyes are on you.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:23 - The Ammonites and Moabites rose up against the men from Mount Seir to destroy and annihilate them. After they finished slaughtering the men from Seir, they helped to destroy one another.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:32 - He followed the ways of his father Asa and did not stray from them; he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:36 - He agreed with him to construct a fleet of trading ships.[fn] After these were built at Ezion Geber,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:37 - Eliezer son of Dodavahu of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, “Because you have made an alliance with Ahaziah, the LORD will destroy what you have made.” The ships were wrecked and were not able to set sail to trade.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 22:3 - He too followed the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother encouraged him to act wickedly.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 22:4 - He did evil in the eyes of the LORD, as the house of Ahab had done, for after his father's death they became his advisers, to his undoing.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 22:6 - so he returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds they had inflicted on him at Ramoth[fn] in his battle with Hazael king of Aram. Then Ahaziah[fn] son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to Jezreel to see Joram son of Ahab because he had been wounded.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 22:9 - He then went in search of Ahaziah, and his men captured him while he was hiding in Samaria. He was brought to Jehu and put to death. They buried him, for they said, “He was a son of Jehoshaphat, who sought the LORD with all his heart.” So there was no one in the house of Ahaziah powerful enough to retain the kingdom.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:8 - The Levites and all the men of Judah did just as Jehoiada the priest ordered. Each one took his men—those who were going on duty on the Sabbath and those who were going off duty—for Jehoiada the priest had not released any of the divisions.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:10 - He stationed all the men, each with his weapon in his hand, around the king—near the altar and the temple, from the south side to the north side of the temple.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:6 - Therefore the king summoned Jehoiada the chief priest and said to him, “Why haven't you required the Levites to bring in from Judah and Jerusalem the tax imposed by Moses the servant of the LORD and by the assembly of Israel for the tent of the covenant law?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:14 - When they had finished, they brought the rest of the money to the king and Jehoiada, and with it were made articles for the LORD's temple: articles for the service and for the burnt offerings, and also dishes and other objects of gold and silver. As long as Jehoiada lived, burnt offerings were presented continually in the temple of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:12 - The army of Judah also captured ten thousand men alive, took them to the top of a cliff and threw them down so that all were dashed to pieces.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:13 - Meanwhile the troops that Amaziah had sent back and had not allowed to take part in the war raided towns belonging to Judah from Samaria to Beth Horon. They killed three thousand people and carried off great quantities of plunder.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:16 - While he was still speaking, the king said to him, “Have we appointed you an adviser to the king? Stop! Why be struck down?” So the prophet stopped but said, “I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this and have not listened to my counsel.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:20 - Amaziah, however, would not listen, for God so worked that he might deliver them into the hands of Jehoash, because they sought the gods of Edom.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:23 - Jehoash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Ahaziah,[fn] at Beth Shemesh. Then Jehoash brought him to Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate—a section about four hundred cubits[fn] long.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:15 - In Jerusalem he made devices invented for use on the towers and on the corner defenses so that soldiers could shoot arrows and hurl large stones from the walls. His fame spread far and wide, for he was greatly helped until he became powerful.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:16 - But after Uzziah became powerful, his pride led to his downfall. He was unfaithful to the LORD his God, and entered the temple of the LORD to burn incense on the altar of incense.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:18 - They confronted King Uzziah and said, “It is not right for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to the LORD. That is for the priests, the descendants of Aaron, who have been consecrated to burn incense. Leave the sanctuary, for you have been unfaithful; and you will not be honored by the LORD God.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:19 - Uzziah, who had a censer in his hand ready to burn incense, became angry. While he was raging at the priests in their presence before the incense altar in the LORD's temple, leprosy[fn] broke out on his forehead.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:22 - In his time of trouble King Ahaz became even more unfaithful to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:19 - We have prepared and consecrated all the articles that King Ahaz removed in his unfaithfulness while he was king. They are now in front of the LORD's altar.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:35 - There were burnt offerings in abundance, together with the fat of the fellowship offerings and the drink offerings that accompanied the burnt offerings. So the service of the temple of the LORD was reestablished.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:12 - Also in Judah the hand of God was on the people to give them unity of mind to carry out what the king and his officials had ordered, following the word of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:13 - A very large crowd of people assembled in Jerusalem to celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread in the second month.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:17 - Since many in the crowd had not consecrated themselves, the Levites had to kill the Passover lambs for all those who were not ceremonially clean and could not consecrate their lambs[fn] to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:2 - Hezekiah assigned the priests and Levites to divisions—each of them according to their duties as priests or Levites—to offer burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, to minister, to give thanks and to sing praises at the gates of the LORD's dwelling.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:2 - When Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib had come and that he intended to wage war against Jerusalem,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:7 - “Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or discouraged because of the king of Assyria and the vast army with him, for there is a greater power with us than with him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:8 - With him is only the arm of flesh, but with us is the LORD our God to help us and to fight our battles.” And the people gained confidence from what Hezekiah the king of Judah said.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:11 - When Hezekiah says, ‘The LORD our God will save us from the hand of the king of Assyria,' he is misleading you, to let you die of hunger and thirst.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:12 - Did not Hezekiah himself remove this god's high places and altars, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You must worship before one altar and burn sacrifices on it'?
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:15 - Now do not let Hezekiah deceive you and mislead you like this. Do not believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom has been able to deliver his people from my hand or the hand of my predecessors. How much less will your god deliver you from my hand!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:18 - Then they called out in Hebrew to the people of Jerusalem who were on the wall, to terrify them and make them afraid in order to capture the city.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:30 - It was Hezekiah who blocked the upper outlet of the Gihon spring and channeled the water down to the west side of the City of David. He succeeded in everything he undertook.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:31 - But when envoys were sent by the rulers of Babylon to ask him about the miraculous sign that had occurred in the land, God left him to test him and to know everything that was in his heart.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:6 - He sacrificed his children in the fire in the Valley of Ben Hinnom, practiced divination and witchcraft, sought omens, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did much evil in the eyes of the LORD, arousing his anger.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:8 - I will not again make the feet of the Israelites leave the land I assigned to your ancestors, if only they will be careful to do everything I commanded them concerning all the laws, decrees and regulations given through Moses.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:9 - But Manasseh led Judah and the people of Jerusalem astray, so that they did more evil than the nations the LORD had destroyed before the Israelites.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:16 - Then he restored the altar of the LORD and sacrificed fellowship offerings and thank offerings on it, and told Judah to serve the LORD, the God of Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:19 - His prayer and how God was moved by his entreaty, as well as all his sins and unfaithfulness, and the sites where he built high places and set up Asherah poles and idols before he humbled himself—all these are written in the records of the seers.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:3 - In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, he began to seek the God of his father David. In his twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of high places, Asherah poles and idols.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:8 - In the eighteenth year of Josiah's reign, to purify the land and the temple, he sent Shaphan son of Azaliah and Maaseiah the ruler of the city, with Joah son of Joahaz, the recorder, to repair the temple of the LORD his God.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:21 - “Go and inquire of the LORD for me and for the remnant in Israel and Judah about what is written in this book that has been found. Great is the LORD's anger that is poured out on us because those who have gone before us have not kept the word of the LORD; they have not acted in accordance with all that is written in this book.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:26 - Tell the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the LORD, ‘This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says concerning the words you heard:
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:31 - The king stood by his pillar and renewed the covenant in the presence of the LORD—to follow the LORD and keep his commands, statutes and decrees with all his heart and all his soul, and to obey the words of the covenant written in this book.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:33 - Josiah removed all the detestable idols from all the territory belonging to the Israelites, and he had all who were present in Israel serve the LORD their God. As long as he lived, they did not fail to follow the LORD, the God of their ancestors.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:3 - He said to the Levites, who instructed all Israel and who had been consecrated to the LORD: “Put the sacred ark in the temple that Solomon son of David king of Israel built. It is not to be carried about on your shoulders. Now serve the LORD your God and his people Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:6 - Slaughter the Passover lambs, consecrate yourselves and prepare the lambs for your fellow Israelites, doing what the LORD commanded through Moses.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:12 - They set aside the burnt offerings to give them to the subdivisions of the families of the people to offer to the LORD, as it is written in the Book of Moses. They did the same with the cattle.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:16 - So at that time the entire service of the LORD was carried out for the celebration of the Passover and the offering of burnt offerings on the altar of the LORD, as King Josiah had ordered.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:19 - This Passover was celebrated in the eighteenth year of Josiah's reign.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:22 - Josiah, however, would not turn away from him, but disguised himself to engage him in battle. He would not listen to what Necho had said at God's command but went to fight him on the plain of Megiddo.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:24 - So they took him out of his chariot, put him in his other chariot and brought him to Jerusalem, where he died. He was buried in the tombs of his ancestors, and all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:2 - Jehoahaz[fn] was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:4 - The king of Egypt made Eliakim, a brother of Jehoahaz, king over Judah and Jerusalem and changed Eliakim's name to Jehoiakim. But Necho took Eliakim's brother Jehoahaz and carried him off to Egypt.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:5 - Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. He did evil in the eyes of the LORD his God.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:13 - He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him take an oath in God's name. He became stiff-necked and hardened his heart and would not turn to the LORD, the God of Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:14 - Furthermore, all the leaders of the priests and the people became more and more unfaithful, following all the detestable practices of the nations and defiling the temple of the LORD, which he had consecrated in Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:15 - The LORD, the God of their ancestors, sent word to them through his messengers again and again, because he had pity on his people and on his dwelling place.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:21 - The land enjoyed its sabbath rests; all the time of its desolation it rested, until the seventy years were completed in fulfillment of the word of the LORD spoken by Jeremiah.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 1:1 - In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, in order to fulfill the word of the LORD spoken by Jeremiah, the LORD moved the heart of Cyrus king of Persia to make a proclamation throughout his realm and also to put it in writing:
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 1:2 - “This is what Cyrus king of Persia says: “ ‘The LORD, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth and he has appointed me to build a temple for him at Jerusalem in Judah.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 1:5 - Then the family heads of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests and Levites—everyone whose heart God had moved—prepared to go up and build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:59 - The following came up from the towns of Tel Melah, Tel Harsha, Kerub, Addon and Immer, but they could not show that their families were descended from Israel:
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:63 - The governor ordered them not to eat any of the most sacred food until there was a priest ministering with the Urim and Thummim.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:68 - When they arrived at the house of the LORD in Jerusalem, some of the heads of the families gave freewill offerings toward the rebuilding of the house of God on its site.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:69 - According to their ability they gave to the treasury for this work 61,000 darics[fn] of gold, 5,000 minas[fn] of silver and 100 priestly garments.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 3:2 - Then Joshua son of Jozadak and his fellow priests and Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and his associates began to build the altar of the God of Israel to sacrifice burnt offerings on it, in accordance with what is written in the Law of Moses the man of God.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 3:8 - In the second month of the second year after their arrival at the house of God in Jerusalem, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, Joshua son of Jozadak and the rest of the people (the priests and the Levites and all who had returned from the captivity to Jerusalem) began the work. They appointed Levites twenty years old and older to supervise the building of the house of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 3:10 - When the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, the priests in their vestments and with trumpets, and the Levites (the sons of Asaph) with cymbals, took their places to praise the LORD, as prescribed by David king of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 3:12 - But many of the older priests and Levites and family heads, who had seen the former temple, wept aloud when they saw the foundation of this temple being laid, while many others shouted for joy.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:3 - But Zerubbabel, Joshua and the rest of the heads of the families of Israel answered, “You have no part with us in building a temple to our God. We alone will build it for the LORD, the God of Israel, as King Cyrus, the king of Persia, commanded us.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:4 - Then the peoples around them set out to discourage the people of Judah and make them afraid to go on building.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:5 - They bribed officials to work against them and frustrate their plans during the entire reign of Cyrus king of Persia and down to the reign of Darius king of Persia.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:3 - At that time Tattenai, governor of Trans-Euphrates, and Shethar-Bozenai and their associates went to them and asked, “Who authorized you to rebuild this temple and to finish it?”
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:8 - Moreover, I hereby decree what you are to do for these elders of the Jews in the construction of this house of God: Their expenses are to be fully paid out of the royal treasury, from the revenues of Trans-Euphrates, so that the work will not stop.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:21 - So the Israelites who had returned from the exile ate it, together with all who had separated themselves from the unclean practices of their Gentile neighbors in order to seek the LORD, the God of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:11 - This is a copy of the letter King Artaxerxes had given to Ezra the priest, a teacher of the Law, a man learned in matters concerning the commands and decrees of the LORD for Israel:
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:18 - You and your fellow Israelites may then do whatever seems best with the rest of the silver and gold, in accordance with the will of your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:27 - Praise be to the LORD, the God of our ancestors, who has put it into the king's heart to bring honor to the house of the LORD in Jerusalem in this way
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:17 - and I ordered them to go to Iddo, the leader in Kasiphia. I told them what to say to Iddo and his fellow Levites, the temple servants in Kasiphia, so that they might bring attendants to us for the house of our God.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:21 - There, by the Ahava Canal, I proclaimed a fast, so that we might humble ourselves before our God and ask him for a safe journey for us and our children, with all our possessions.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:30 - Then the priests and Levites received the silver and gold and sacred articles that had been weighed out to be taken to the house of our God in Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:31 - On the twelfth day of the first month we set out from the Ahava Canal to go to Jerusalem. The hand of our God was on us, and he protected us from enemies and bandits along the way.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:8 - “But now, for a brief moment, the LORD our God has been gracious in leaving us a remnant and giving us a firm place[fn] in his sanctuary, and so our God gives light to our eyes and a little relief in our bondage.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:9 - Though we are slaves, our God has not forsaken us in our bondage. He has shown us kindness in the sight of the kings of Persia: He has granted us new life to rebuild the house of our God and repair its ruins, and he has given us a wall of protection in Judah and Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:5 - So Ezra rose up and put the leading priests and Levites and all Israel under oath to do what had been suggested. And they took the oath.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:7 - A proclamation was then issued throughout Judah and Jerusalem for all the exiles to assemble in Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:9 - Within the three days, all the men of Judah and Benjamin had gathered in Jerusalem. And on the twentieth day of the ninth month, all the people were sitting in the square before the house of God, greatly distressed by the occasion and because of the rain.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:10 - Then Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, “You have been unfaithful; you have married foreign women, adding to Israel's guilt.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:13 - But there are many people here and it is the rainy season; so we cannot stand outside. Besides, this matter cannot be taken care of in a day or two, because we have sinned greatly in this thing.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:14 - Let our officials act for the whole assembly. Then let everyone in our towns who has married a foreign woman come at a set time, along with the elders and judges of each town, until the fierce anger of our God in this matter is turned away from us.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:19 - (They all gave their hands in pledge to put away their wives, and for their guilt they each presented a ram from the flock as a guilt offering.)
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 1:6 - let your ear be attentive and your eyes open to hear the prayer your servant is praying before you day and night for your servants, the people of Israel. I confess the sins we Israelites, including myself and my father's family, have committed against you.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:12 - I set out during the night with a few others. I had not told anyone what my God had put in my heart to do for Jerusalem. There were no mounts with me except the one I was riding on.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:8 - Uzziel son of Harhaiah, one of the goldsmiths, repaired the next section; and Hananiah, one of the perfume-makers, made repairs next to that. They restored Jerusalem as far as the Broad Wall.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:26 - and the temple servants living on the hill of Ophel made repairs up to a point opposite the Water Gate toward the east and the projecting tower.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:27 - Next to them, the men of Tekoa repaired another section, from the great projecting tower to the wall of Ophel.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:13 - Therefore I stationed some of the people behind the lowest points of the wall at the exposed places, posting them by families, with their swords, spears and bows.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:19 - Then I said to the nobles, the officials and the rest of the people, “The work is extensive and spread out, and we are widely separated from each other along the wall.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:11 - Give back to them immediately their fields, vineyards, olive groves and houses, and also the interest you are charging them—one percent of the money, grain, new wine and olive oil.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:16 - Instead, I devoted myself to the work on this wall. All my men were assembled there for the work; we[fn] did not acquire any land.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:9 - They were all trying to frighten us, thinking, “Their hands will get too weak for the work, and it will not be completed.” But I prayed, “Now strengthen my hands.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:71 - Some of the heads of the families gave to the treasury for the work 20,000 darics[fn] of gold and 2,200 minas[fn] of silver.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:1 - all the people came together as one in the square before the Water Gate. They told Ezra the teacher of the Law to bring out the Book of the Law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded for Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:3 - He read it aloud from daybreak till noon as he faced the square before the Water Gate in the presence of the men, women and others who could understand. And all the people listened attentively to the Book of the Law.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:16 - So the people went out and brought back branches and built themselves temporary shelters on their own roofs, in their courtyards, in the courts of the house of God and in the square by the Water Gate and the one by the Gate of Ephraim.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:12 - By day you led them with a pillar of cloud, and by night with a pillar of fire to give them light on the way they were to take.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:17 - They refused to listen and failed to remember the miracles you performed among them. They became stiff-necked and in their rebellion appointed a leader in order to return to their slavery. But you are a forgiving God, gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love. Therefore you did not desert them,
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:29 - all these now join their fellow Israelites the nobles, and bind themselves with a curse and an oath to follow the Law of God given through Moses the servant of God and to obey carefully all the commands, regulations and decrees of the LORD our Lord.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:30 - “We promise not to give our daughters in marriage to the peoples around us or take their daughters for our sons.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:31 - “When the neighboring peoples bring merchandise or grain to sell on the Sabbath, we will not buy from them on the Sabbath or on any holy day. Every seventh year we will forgo working the land and will cancel all debts.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:32 - “We assume the responsibility for carrying out the commands to give a third of a shekel[fn] each year for the service of the house of our God:
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:33 - for the bread set out on the table; for the regular grain offerings and burnt offerings; for the offerings on the Sabbaths, at the New Moon feasts and at the appointed festivals; for the holy offerings; for sin offerings[fn] to make atonement for Israel; and for all the duties of the house of our God.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:39 - The people of Israel, including the Levites, are to bring their contributions of grain, new wine and olive oil to the storerooms, where the articles for the sanctuary and for the ministering priests, the gatekeepers and the musicians are also kept. “We will not neglect the house of our God.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:27 - At the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem, the Levites were sought out from where they lived and were brought to Jerusalem to celebrate joyfully the dedication with songs of thanksgiving and with the music of cymbals, harps and lyres.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:31 - I had the leaders of Judah go up on top of[fn] the wall. I also assigned two large choirs to give thanks. One was to proceed on top of[fn] the wall to the right, toward the Dung Gate.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:37 - At the Fountain Gate they continued directly up the steps of the City of David on the ascent to the wall and passed above the site of David's palace to the Water Gate on the east.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:38 - The second choir proceeded in the opposite direction. I followed them on top of[fn] the wall, together with half the people—past the Tower of the Ovens to the Broad Wall,
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:5 - and he had provided him with a large room formerly used to store the grain offerings and incense and temple articles, and also the tithes of grain, new wine and olive oil prescribed for the Levites, musicians and gatekeepers, as well as the contributions for the priests.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:8 - I was greatly displeased and threw all Tobiah's household goods out of the room.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:12 - All Judah brought the tithes of grain, new wine and olive oil into the storerooms.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:15 - In those days I saw people in Judah treading winepresses on the Sabbath and bringing in grain and loading it on donkeys, together with wine, grapes, figs and all other kinds of loads. And they were bringing all this into Jerusalem on the Sabbath. Therefore I warned them against selling food on that day.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:17 - I rebuked the nobles of Judah and said to them, “What is this wicked thing you are doing—desecrating the Sabbath day?
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:19 - When evening shadows fell on the gates of Jerusalem before the Sabbath, I ordered the doors to be shut and not opened until the Sabbath was over. I stationed some of my own men at the gates so that no load could be brought in on the Sabbath day.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:21 - But I warned them and said, “Why do you spend the night by the wall? If you do this again, I will arrest you.” From that time on they no longer came on the Sabbath.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:22 - Then I commanded the Levites to purify themselves and go and guard the gates in order to keep the Sabbath day holy. Remember me for this also, my God, and show mercy to me according to your great love.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:8 - He also gave him a copy of the text of the edict for their annihilation, which had been published in Susa, to show to Esther and explain it to her, and he told him to instruct her to go into the king's presence to beg for mercy and plead with him for her people.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:3 - Then the king asked, “What is it, Queen Esther? What is your request? Even up to half the kingdom, it will be given you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:14 - His wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him, “Have a pole set up, reaching to a height of fifty cubits,[fn] and ask the king in the morning to have Mordecai impaled on it. Then go with the king to the banquet and enjoy yourself.” This suggestion delighted Haman, and he had the pole set up.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 7:2 - and as they were drinking wine on the second day, the king again asked, “Queen Esther, what is your petition? It will be given you. What is your request? Even up to half the kingdom, it will be granted.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 7:7 - The king got up in a rage, left his wine and went out into the palace garden. But Haman, realizing that the king had already decided his fate, stayed behind to beg Queen Esther for his life.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 7:10 - So they impaled Haman on the pole he had set up for Mordecai. Then the king's fury subsided.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:8 - Now write another decree in the king's name in behalf of the Jews as seems best to you, and seal it with the king's signet ring—for no document written in the king's name and sealed with his ring can be revoked.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:9 - At once the royal secretaries were summoned—on the twenty-third day of the third month, the month of Sivan. They wrote out all Mordecai's orders to the Jews, and to the satraps, governors and nobles of the 127 provinces stretching from India to Cush.[fn] These orders were written in the script of each province and the language of each people and also to the Jews in their own script and language.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:15 - and the Sabeans attacked and made off with them. They put the servants to the sword, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:16 - While he was still speaking, another messenger came and said, “The fire of God fell from the heavens and burned up the sheep and the servants, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:17 - While he was still speaking, another messenger came and said, “The Chaldeans formed three raiding parties and swept down on your camels and made off with them. They put the servants to the sword, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:19 - when suddenly a mighty wind swept in from the desert and struck the four corners of the house. It collapsed on them and they are dead, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:11 - When Job's three friends, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite, heard about all the troubles that had come upon him, they set out from their homes and met together by agreement to go and sympathize with him and comfort him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:2 - “How long will you say such things? Your words are a blustering wind.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:12 - While still growing and uncut, they wither more quickly than grass.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:15 - Though I were innocent, I could not answer him; I could only plead with my Judge for mercy.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:21 - before I go to the place of no return, to the land of gloom and utter darkness,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:18 - Now that I have prepared my case, I know I will be vindicated.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:20 - “Only grant me these two things, God, and then I will not hide from you:
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:19 - as water wears away stones and torrents wash away the soil, so you destroy a person's hope.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:4 - “Surely you know how it has been from of old, ever since mankind[fn] was placed on the earth,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:24 - When I smiled at them, they scarcely believed it; the light of my face was precious to them.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:11 - Now that God has unstrung my bow and afflicted me, they throw off restraint in my presence.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:23 - For I dreaded destruction from God, and for fear of his splendor I could not do such things.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:34 - because I so feared the crowd and so dreaded the contempt of the clans that I kept silent and would not go outside—
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 32:6 - So Elihu son of Barakel the Buzite said: “I am young in years, and you are old; that is why I was fearful, not daring to tell you what I know.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:24 - and he is gracious to that person and says to God, ‘Spare them from going down to the pit; I have found a ransom for them—
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:28 - God has delivered me from going down to the pit, and I shall live to enjoy the light of life.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:8 - He keeps company with evildoers; he associates with the wicked.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:22 - There is no deep shadow, no utter darkness, where evildoers can hide.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:28 - They caused the cry of the poor to come before him, so that he heard the cry of the needy.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:26 - to water a land where no one lives, an uninhabited desert,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:27 - to satisfy a desolate wasteland and make it sprout with grass?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 40:6 - Then the LORD spoke to Job out of the storm:
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 4:6 - Many, LORD, are asking, “Who will bring us prosperity?” Let the light of your face shine on us.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 5:7 - But I, by your great love, can come into your house; in reverence I bow down toward your holy temple.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 6:4 - Turn, LORD, and deliver me; save me because of your unfailing love.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 8:2 - Through the praise of children and infants you have established a stronghold against your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 8:7 - all flocks and herds, and the animals of the wild,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:9 - like a lion in cover he lies in wait. He lies in wait to catch the helpless; he catches the helpless and drags them off in his net.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:11 - He says to himself, “God will never notice; he covers his face and never sees.”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:14 - But you, God, see the trouble of the afflicted; you consider their grief and take it in hand. The victims commit themselves to you; you are the helper of the fatherless.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:18 - defending the fatherless and the oppressed, so that mere earthly mortals will never again strike terror.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 11:2 - For look, the wicked bend their bows; they set their arrows against the strings to shoot from the shadows at the upright in heart.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 11:6 - On the wicked he will rain fiery coals and burning sulfur; a scorching wind will be their lot.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 13:5 - But I trust in your unfailing love; my heart rejoices in your salvation.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 14:2 - The LORD looks down from heaven on all mankind to see if there are any who understand, any who seek God.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 16:5 - LORD, you alone are my portion and my cup; you make my lot secure.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 16:11 - You make known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 19:14 - May these words of my mouth and this meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 21:6 - Surely you have granted him unending blessings and made him glad with the joy of your presence.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 21:9 - When you appear for battle, you will burn them up as in a blazing furnace. The LORD will swallow them up in his wrath, and his fire will consume them.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 23:3 - he refreshes my soul. He guides me along the right paths for his name's sake.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 25:11 - For the sake of your name, LORD, forgive my iniquity, though it is great.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 25:14 - The LORD confides in those who fear him; he makes his covenant known to them.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 26:7 - proclaiming aloud your praise and telling of all your wonderful deeds.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 27:1 - Of David. The LORD is my light and my salvation— whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life— of whom shall I be afraid?
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 27:2 - When the wicked advance against me to devour[fn] me, it is my enemies and my foes who will stumble and fall.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 27:4 - One thing I ask from the LORD, this only do I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the LORD and to seek him in his temple.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 27:13 - I remain confident of this: I will see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:2 - Turn your ear to me, come quickly to my rescue; be my rock of refuge, a strong fortress to save me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:3 - Since you are my rock and my fortress, for the sake of your name lead and guide me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:13 - For I hear many whispering, “Terror on every side!” They conspire against me and plot to take my life.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:20 - In the shelter of your presence you hide them from all human intrigues; you keep them safe in your dwelling from accusing tongues.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 32:3 - When I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 33:5 - The LORD loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of his unfailing love.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 33:6 - By the word of the LORD the heavens were made, their starry host by the breath of his mouth.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 34:13 - keep your tongue from evil and your lips from telling lies.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 34:16 - but the face of the LORD is against those who do evil, to blot out their name from the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 36:1 - [fn]For the director of music. Of David the servant of the LORD. I have a message from God in my heart concerning the sinfulness of the wicked:[fn] There is no fear of God before their eyes.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 36:2 - In their own eyes they flatter themselves too much to detect or hate their sin.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 36:3 - The words of their mouths are wicked and deceitful; they fail to act wisely or do good.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:14 - The wicked draw the sword and bend the bow to bring down the poor and needy, to slay those whose ways are upright.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:32 - The wicked lie in wait for the righteous, intent on putting them to death;
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:34 - Hope in the LORD and keep his way. He will exalt you to inherit the land; when the wicked are destroyed, you will see it.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 39:13 - Look away from me, that I may enjoy life again before I depart and am no more.”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:8 - I desire to do your will, my God; your law is within my heart.”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:12 - For troubles without number surround me; my sins have overtaken me, and I cannot see. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart fails within me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:13 - Be pleased to save me, LORD; come quickly, LORD, to help me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:14 - May all who want to take my life be put to shame and confusion; may all who desire my ruin be turned back in disgrace.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 41:6 - When one of them comes to see me, he speaks falsely, while his heart gathers slander; then he goes out and spreads it around.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 41:8 - “A vile disease has afflicted him; he will never get up from the place where he lies.”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 42:5 - Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 42:11 - Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 44:3 - It was not by their sword that they won the land, nor did their arm bring them victory; it was your right hand, your arm, and the light of your face, for you loved them.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 44:15 - I live in disgrace all day long, and my face is covered with shame
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 44:20 - If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 44:26 - Rise up and help us; rescue us because of your unfailing love.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 45:11 - Let the king be enthralled by your beauty; honor him, for he is your lord.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 45:17 - I will perpetuate your memory through all generations; therefore the nations will praise you for ever and ever.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 51:11 - Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 51:12 - Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 53:2 - God looks down from heaven on all mankind to see if there are any who understand, any who seek God.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 54:2 - Hear my prayer, O God; listen to the words of my mouth.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 55:21 - His talk is smooth as butter, yet war is in his heart; his words are more soothing than oil, yet they are drawn swords.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 56:13 - For you have delivered me from death and my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before God in the light of life.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 58:9 - Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns— whether they be green or dry—the wicked will be swept away.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 59:1 - [fn]For the director of music. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” Of David. A miktam.[fn] When Saul had sent men to watch David's house in order to kill him. Deliver me from my enemies, O God; be my fortress against those who are attacking me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 59:5 - You, LORD God Almighty, you who are the God of Israel, rouse yourself to punish all the nations; show no mercy to wicked traitors.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 59:15 - They wander about for food and howl if not satisfied.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 60:4 - But for those who fear you, you have raised a banner to be unfurled against the bow.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 61:8 - Then I will ever sing in praise of your name and fulfill my vows day after day.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 62:9 - Surely the lowborn are but a breath, the highborn are but a lie. If weighed on a balance, they are nothing; together they are only a breath.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 63:2 - I have seen you in the sanctuary and beheld your power and your glory.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 64:4 - They shoot from ambush at the innocent; they shoot suddenly, without fear.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 64:5 - They encourage each other in evil plans, they talk about hiding their snares; they say, “Who will see it[fn]?”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 65:9 - You care for the land and water it; you enrich it abundantly. The streams of God are filled with water to provide the people with grain, for so you have ordained it.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 67:2 - so that your ways may be known on earth, your salvation among all nations.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:18 - When you ascended on high, you took many captives; you received gifts from people, even from[fn] the rebellious— that you,[fn] LORD God, might dwell there.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:20 - Our God is a God who saves; from the Sovereign LORD comes escape from death.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:30 - Rebuke the beast among the reeds, the herd of bulls among the calves of the nations. Humbled, may the beast bring bars of silver. Scatter the nations who delight in war.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:3 - I am worn out calling for help; my throat is parched. My eyes fail, looking for my God.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:13 - But I pray to you, LORD, in the time of your favor; in your great love, O God, answer me with your sure salvation.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:14 - Rescue me from the mire, do not let me sink; deliver me from those who hate me, from the deep waters.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:23 - May their eyes be darkened so they cannot see, and their backs be bent forever.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:29 - But as for me, afflicted and in pain— may your salvation, God, protect me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 71:3 - Be my rock of refuge, to which I can always go; give the command to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 72:15 - Long may he live! May gold from Sheba be given him. May people ever pray for him and bless him all day long.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:16 - When I tried to understand all this, it troubled me deeply
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:28 - But as for me, it is good to be near God. I have made the Sovereign LORD my refuge; I will tell of all your deeds.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:7 - They burned your sanctuary to the ground; they defiled the dwelling place of your Name.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:13 - It was you who split open the sea by your power; you broke the heads of the monster in the waters.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 76:9 - when you, God, rose up to judge, to save all the afflicted of the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 77:7 - “Will the Lord reject forever? Will he never show his favor again?
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 77:9 - Has God forgotten to be merciful? Has he in anger withheld his compassion?”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:1 - A maskil[fn] of Asaph. My people, hear my teaching; listen to the words of my mouth.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:5 - He decreed statutes for Jacob and established the law in Israel, which he commanded our ancestors to teach their children,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:18 - They willfully put God to the test by demanding the food they craved.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:38 - Yet he was merciful; he forgave their iniquities and did not destroy them. Time after time he restrained his anger and did not stir up his full wrath.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 79:9 - Help us, God our Savior, for the glory of your name; deliver us and forgive our sins for your name's sake.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 79:10 - Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?” Before our eyes, make known among the nations that you avenge the outpoured blood of your servants.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 80:16 - Your vine is cut down, it is burned with fire; at your rebuke your people perish.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 86:11 - Teach me your way, LORD, that I may rely on your faithfulness; give me an undivided heart, that I may fear your name.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:9 - You rule over the surging sea; when its waves mount up, you still them.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:15 - Blessed are those who have learned to acclaim you, who walk in the light of your presence, LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:22 - The enemy will not get the better of him; the wicked will not oppress him.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 90:2 - Before the mountains were born or you brought forth the whole world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 90:8 - You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 90:14 - Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 91:7 - A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand, but it will not come near you.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 91:11 - For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways;
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 92:1 - [fn]A psalm. A song. For the Sabbath day. It is good to praise the LORD and make music to your name, O Most High,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 92:2 - proclaiming your love in the morning and your faithfulness at night,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 92:15 - proclaiming, “The LORD is upright; he is my Rock, and there is no wickedness in him.”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 93:1 - The LORD reigns, he is robed in majesty; the LORD is robed in majesty and armed with strength; indeed, the world is established, firm and secure.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:13 - you grant them relief from days of trouble, till a pit is dug for the wicked.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 98:3 - He has remembered his love and his faithfulness to Israel; all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 101:6 - My eyes will be on the faithful in the land, that they may dwell with me; the one whose walk is blameless will minister to me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:4 - My heart is blighted and withered like grass; I forget to eat my food.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:13 - You will arise and have compassion on Zion, for it is time to show favor to her; the appointed time has come.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:20 - to hear the groans of the prisoners and release those condemned to death.”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:21 - So the name of the LORD will be declared in Zion and his praise in Jerusalem
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:22 - when the peoples and the kingdoms assemble to worship the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 103:18 - with those who keep his covenant and remember to obey his precepts.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 103:20 - Praise the LORD, you his angels, you mighty ones who do his bidding, who obey his word.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:14 - He makes grass grow for the cattle, and plants for people to cultivate— bringing forth food from the earth:
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:15 - wine that gladdens human hearts, oil to make their faces shine, and bread that sustains their hearts.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:16 - The trees of the LORD are well watered, the cedars of Lebanon that he planted.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:5 - Remember the wonders he has done, his miracles, and the judgments he pronounced,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:19 - till what he foretold came to pass, till the word of the LORD proved him true.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:22 - to instruct his princes as he pleased and teach his elders wisdom.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:25 - whose hearts he turned to hate his people, to conspire against his servants.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:39 - He spread out a cloud as a covering, and a fire to give light at night.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:5 - that I may enjoy the prosperity of your chosen ones, that I may share in the joy of your nation and join your inheritance in giving praise.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:7 - When our ancestors were in Egypt, they gave no thought to your miracles; they did not remember your many kindnesses, and they rebelled by the sea, the Red Sea.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:8 - Yet he saved them for his name's sake, to make his mighty power known.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:23 - So he said he would destroy them— had not Moses, his chosen one, stood in the breach before him to keep his wrath from destroying them.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:26 - So he swore to them with uplifted hand that he would make them fall in the wilderness,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:27 - make their descendants fall among the nations and scatter them throughout the lands.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:45 - for their sake he remembered his covenant and out of his great love he relented.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:47 - Save us, LORD our God, and gather us from the nations, that we may give thanks to your holy name and glory in your praise.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:7 - He led them by a straight way to a city where they could settle.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:4 - In return for my friendship they accuse me, but I am a man of prayer.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:16 - For he never thought of doing a kindness, but hounded to death the poor and the needy and the brokenhearted.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:21 - But you, Sovereign LORD, help me for your name's sake; out of the goodness of your love, deliver me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:31 - For he stands at the right hand of the needy, to save their lives from those who would condemn them.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 111:6 - He has shown his people the power of his works, giving them the lands of other nations.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 113:8 - he seats them with princes, with the princes of his people.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 118:13 - I was pushed back and about to fall, but the LORD helped me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 118:27 - The LORD is God, and he has made his light shine on us. With boughs in hand, join in the festal procession up[fn] to the horns of the altar.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:5 - Oh, that my ways were steadfast in obeying your decrees!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:13 - With my lips I recount all the laws that come from your mouth.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:20 - My soul is consumed with longing for your laws at all times.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:37 - Turn my eyes away from worthless things; preserve my life according to your word.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:43 - Never take your word of truth from my mouth, for I have put my hope in your laws.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:55 - In the night, LORD, I remember your name, that I may keep your law.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:58 - I have sought your face with all my heart; be gracious to me according to your promise.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:60 - I will hasten and not delay to obey your commands.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:62 - At midnight I rise to give you thanks for your righteous laws.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:64 - The earth is filled with your love, LORD; teach me your decrees.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:67 - Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I obey your word.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:72 - The law from your mouth is more precious to me than thousands of pieces of silver and gold.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:76 - May your unfailing love be my comfort, according to your promise to your servant.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:88 - In your unfailing love preserve my life, that I may obey the statutes of your mouth.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:95 - The wicked are waiting to destroy me, but I will ponder your statutes.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:106 - I have taken an oath and confirmed it, that I will follow your righteous laws.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:108 - Accept, LORD, the willing praise of my mouth, and teach me your laws.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:112 - My heart is set on keeping your decrees to the very end.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:126 - It is time for you to act, LORD; your law is being broken.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:148 - My eyes stay open through the watches of the night, that I may meditate on your promises.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:173 - May your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen your precepts.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 122:4 - That is where the tribes go up— the tribes of the LORD— to praise the name of the LORD according to the statute given to Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 126:2 - Our mouths were filled with laughter, our tongues with songs of joy. Then it was said among the nations, “The LORD has done great things for them.”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 126:3 - The LORD has done great things for us, and we are filled with joy.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 127:2 - In vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for food to eat— for he grants sleep to[fn] those he loves.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 129:3 - Plowmen have plowed my back and made their furrows long.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 129:6 - May they be like grass on the roof, which withers before it can grow;
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 132:8 - ‘Arise, LORD, and come to your resting place, you and the ark of your might.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 133:2 - It is like precious oil poured on the head, running down on the beard, running down on Aaron's beard, down on the collar of his robe.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 138:1 - Of David. I will praise you, LORD, with all my heart; before the “gods” I will sing your praise.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 138:4 - May all the kings of the earth praise you, LORD, when they hear what you have decreed.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 139:7 - Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 140:9 - Those who surround me proudly rear their heads; may the mischief of their lips engulf them.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 141:4 - Do not let my heart be drawn to what is evil so that I take part in wicked deeds along with those who are evildoers; do not let me eat their delicacies.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 142:7 - Set me free from my prison, that I may praise your name. Then the righteous will gather about me because of your goodness to me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 143:10 - Teach me to do your will, for you are my God; may your good Spirit lead me on level ground.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 143:11 - For your name's sake, LORD, preserve my life; in your righteousness, bring me out of trouble.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 145:7 - They celebrate your abundant goodness and joyfully sing of your righteousness.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 145:12 - so that all people may know of your mighty acts and the glorious splendor of your kingdom.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 149:7 - to inflict vengeance on the nations and punishment on the peoples,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 149:8 - to bind their kings with fetters, their nobles with shackles of iron,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 149:9 - to carry out the sentence written against them— this is the glory of all his faithful people. Praise the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:16 - for their feet rush into evil, they are swift to shed blood.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 2:8 - for he guards the course of the just and protects the way of his faithful ones.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 2:13 - who have left the straight paths to walk in dark ways,
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 2:16 - Wisdom will save you also from the adulterous woman, from the wayward woman with her seductive words,
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:16 - Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:18 - May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:24 - keeping you from your neighbor's wife, from the smooth talk of a wayward woman.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:8 - All the words of my mouth are just; none of them is crooked or perverse.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:24 - When there were no watery depths, I was given birth, when there were no springs overflowing with water;
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:25 - before the mountains were settled in place, before the hills, I was given birth,
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 9:9 - Instruct the wise and they will be wiser still; teach the righteous and they will add to their learning.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 9:12 - If you are wise, your wisdom will reward you; if you are a mocker, you alone will suffer.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:23 - The hearts of the wise make their mouths prudent, and their lips promote instruction.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:16 - Why should fools have money in hand to buy wisdom, when they are not able to understand it?
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:13 - Whoever shuts their ears to the cry of the poor will also cry out and not be answered.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:14 - The mouth of an adulterous woman is a deep pit; a man who is under the LORD's wrath falls into it.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:21 - teaching you to be honest and to speak the truth, so that you bring back truthful reports to those you serve?
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:32 - I applied my heart to what I observed and learned a lesson from what I saw:
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 28:9 - If anyone turns a deaf ear to my instruction, even their prayers are detestable.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:7 - “Two things I ask of you, LORD; do not refuse me before I die:
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 1:7 - All streams flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full. To the place the streams come from, there they return again.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 1:8 - All things are wearisome, more than one can say. The eye never has enough of seeing, nor the ear its fill of hearing.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 1:13 - I applied my mind to study and to explore by wisdom all that is done under the heavens. What a heavy burden God has laid on mankind!
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 1:15 - What is crooked cannot be straightened; what is lacking cannot be counted.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 1:17 - Then I applied myself to the understanding of wisdom, and also of madness and folly, but I learned that this, too, is a chasing after the wind.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:3 - I tried cheering myself with wine, and embracing folly—my mind still guiding me with wisdom. I wanted to see what was good for people to do under the heavens during the few days of their lives.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:6 - I made reservoirs to water groves of flourishing trees.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:11 - Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind; nothing was gained under the sun.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:12 - Then I turned my thoughts to consider wisdom, and also madness and folly. What more can the king's successor do than what has already been done?
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:13 - I saw that wisdom is better than folly, just as light is better than darkness.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:20 - So my heart began to despair over all my toilsome labor under the sun.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:26 - To the person who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge and happiness, but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and storing up wealth to hand it over to the one who pleases God. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:2 - a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot,
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:3 - a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build,
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:4 - a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance,
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:5 - a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:6 - a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away,
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:7 - a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak,
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:8 - a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:10 - I have seen the burden God has laid on the human race.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:12 - I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:15 - Whatever is has already been, and what will be has been before; and God will call the past to account.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:18 - I also said to myself, “As for humans, God tests them so that they may see that they are like the animals.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:19 - Surely the fate of human beings is like that of the animals; the same fate awaits them both: As one dies, so dies the other. All have the same breath[fn]; humans have no advantage over animals. Everything is meaningless.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:21 - Who knows if the human spirit rises upward and if the spirit of the animal goes down into the earth?”
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:22 - So I saw that there is nothing better for a person than to enjoy their work, because that is their lot. For who can bring them to see what will happen after them?
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:4 - And I saw that all toil and all achievement spring from one person's envy of another. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:10 - If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:13 - Better a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who no longer knows how to heed a warning.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:14 - The youth may have come from prison to the kingship, or he may have been born in poverty within his kingdom.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:1 - Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Go near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools, who do not know that they do wrong.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:2 - Do not be quick with your mouth, do not be hasty in your heart to utter anything before God. God is in heaven and you are on earth, so let your words be few.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:4 - When you make a vow to God, do not delay to fulfill it. He has no pleasure in fools; fulfill your vow.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:6 - Do not let your mouth lead you into sin. And do not protest to the temple messenger, “My vow was a mistake.” Why should God be angry at what you say and destroy the work of your hands?
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:11 - As goods increase, so do those who consume them. And what benefit are they to the owners except to feast their eyes on them?
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:12 - The sleep of a laborer is sweet, whether they eat little or much, but as for the rich, their abundance permits them no sleep.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:15 - Everyone comes naked from their mother's womb, and as everyone comes, so they depart. They take nothing from their toil that they can carry in their hands.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:18 - This is what I have observed to be good: that it is appropriate for a person to eat, to drink and to find satisfaction in their toilsome labor under the sun during the few days of life God has given them—for this is their lot.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:19 - Moreover, when God gives someone wealth and possessions, and the ability to enjoy them, to accept their lot and be happy in their toil—this is a gift of God.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 6:2 - God gives some people wealth, possessions and honor, so that they lack nothing their hearts desire, but God does not grant them the ability to enjoy them, and strangers enjoy them instead. This is meaningless, a grievous evil.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 6:10 - Whatever exists has already been named, and what humanity is has been known; no one can contend with someone who is stronger.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:9 - Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit, for anger resides in the lap of fools.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:12 - Wisdom is a shelter as money is a shelter, but the advantage of knowledge is this: Wisdom preserves those who have it.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:13 - Consider what God has done: Who can straighten what he has made crooked?
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:25 - So I turned my mind to understand, to investigate and to search out wisdom and the scheme of things and to understand the stupidity of wickedness and the madness of folly.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:27 - “Look,” says the Teacher,[fn] “this is what I have discovered: “Adding one thing to another to discover the scheme of things—
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:8 - As no one has power over the wind to contain it, so[fn] no one has power over the time of their death. As no one is discharged in time of war, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:9 - All this I saw, as I applied my mind to everything done under the sun. There is a time when a man lords it over others to his own[fn] hurt.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:11 - When the sentence for a crime is not quickly carried out, people's hearts are filled with schemes to do wrong.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:15 - So I commend the enjoyment of life, because there is nothing better for a person under the sun than to eat and drink and be glad. Then joy will accompany them in their toil all the days of the life God has given them under the sun.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:16 - When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to observe the labor that is done on earth—people getting no sleep day or night—
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:17 - then I saw all that God has done. No one can comprehend what goes on under the sun. Despite all their efforts to search it out, no one can discover its meaning. Even if the wise claim they know, they cannot really comprehend it.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:10 - Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the realm of the dead, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 10:15 - The toil of fools wearies them; they do not know the way to town.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 10:19 - A feast is made for laughter, wine makes life merry, and money is the answer for everything.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 11:1 - Ship your grain across the sea; after many days you may receive a return.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 11:5 - As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the body is formed[fn] in a mother's womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 11:7 - Light is sweet, and it pleases the eyes to see the sun.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 11:8 - However many years anyone may live, let them enjoy them all. But let them remember the days of darkness, for there will be many. Everything to come is meaningless.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 12:4 - when the doors to the street are closed and the sound of grinding fades; when people rise up at the sound of birds, but all their songs grow faint;
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 12:6 - Remember him—before the silver cord is severed, and the golden bowl is broken; before the pitcher is shattered at the spring, and the wheel broken at the well,
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 12:10 - The Teacher searched to find just the right words, and what he wrote was upright and true.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 1:11 - We will make you earrings of gold, studded with silver.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 2:1 - She[fn]: I am a rose[fn] of Sharon, a lily of the valleys.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 2:14 - He: My dove in the clefts of the rock, in the hiding places on the mountainside, show me your face, let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:2 - Your teeth are like a flock of sheep just shorn, coming up from the washing. Each has its twin; not one of them is alone.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:5 - I arose to open for my beloved, and my hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with flowing myrrh, on the handles of the bolt.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:13 - His cheeks are like beds of spice yielding perfume. His lips are like lilies dripping with myrrh.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:2 - She: My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to browse in the gardens and to gather lilies.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:6 - Your teeth are like a flock of sheep coming up from the washing. Each has its twin, not one of them is missing.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 3:9 - The look on their faces testifies against them; they parade their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to them! They have brought disaster upon themselves.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 3:19 - the earrings and bracelets and veils,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 3:24 - Instead of fragrance there will be a stench; instead of a sash, a rope; instead of well-dressed hair, baldness; instead of fine clothing, sackcloth; instead of beauty, branding.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 4:2 - In that day the Branch of the LORD will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the pride and glory of the survivors in Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 4:5 - Then the LORD will create over all of Mount Zion and over those who assemble there a cloud of smoke by day and a glow of flaming fire by night; over everything the glory[fn] will be a canopy.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:2 - He dug it up and cleared it of stones and planted it with the choicest vines. He built a watchtower in it and cut out a winepress as well. Then he looked for a crop of good grapes, but it yielded only bad fruit.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:4 - What more could have been done for my vineyard than I have done for it? When I looked for good grapes, why did it yield only bad?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:6 - I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and briers and thorns will grow there. I will command the clouds not to rain on it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:7 - The vineyard of the LORD Almighty is the nation of Israel, and the people of Judah are the vines he delighted in. And he looked for justice, but saw bloodshed; for righteousness, but heard cries of distress.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:14 - Therefore Death expands its jaws, opening wide its mouth; into it will descend their nobles and masses with all their brawlers and revelers.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:4 - Say to him, ‘Be careful, keep calm and don't be afraid. Do not lose heart because of these two smoldering stubs of firewood—because of the fierce anger of Rezin and Aram and of the son of Remaliah.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:16 - for before the boy knows enough to reject the wrong and choose the right, the land of the two kings you dread will be laid waste.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:16 - Bind up this testimony of warning and seal up God's instruction among my disciples.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:4 - Nothing will remain but to cringe among the captives or fall among the slain. Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away, his hand is still upraised.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:7 - But this is not what he intends, this is not what he has in mind; his purpose is to destroy, to put an end to many nations.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:24 - Therefore this is what the Lord, the LORD Almighty, says: “My people who live in Zion, do not be afraid of the Assyrians, who beat you with a rod and lift up a club against you, as Egypt did.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:32 - This day they will halt at Nob; they will shake their fist at the mount of Daughter Zion, at the hill of Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:4 - but with righteousness he will judge the needy, with justice he will give decisions for the poor of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; with the breath of his lips he will slay the wicked.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:9 - They will neither harm nor destroy on all my holy mountain, for the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the LORD as the waters cover the sea.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:11 - In that day the Lord will reach out his hand a second time to reclaim the surviving remnant of his people from Assyria, from Lower Egypt, from Upper Egypt, from Cush,[fn] from Elam, from Babylonia,[fn] from Hamath and from the islands of the Mediterranean.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 12:3 - With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:5 - They come from faraway lands, from the ends of the heavens— the LORD and the weapons of his wrath— to destroy the whole country.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:25 - I will crush the Assyrian in my land; on my mountains I will trample him down. His yoke will be taken from my people, and his burden removed from their shoulders.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:28 - This prophecy came in the year King Ahaz died:
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:31 - Wail, you gate! Howl, you city! Melt away, all you Philistines! A cloud of smoke comes from the north, and there is not a straggler in its ranks.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 15:8 - Their outcry echoes along the border of Moab; their wailing reaches as far as Eglaim, their lamentation as far as Beer Elim.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:3 - The fortified city will disappear from Ephraim, and royal power from Damascus; the remnant of Aram will be like the glory of the Israelites,”

declares the LORD Almighty.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 18:2 - which sends envoys by sea in papyrus boats over the water. Go, swift messengers, to a people tall and smooth-skinned, to a people feared far and wide, an aggressive nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 20:1 - In the year that the supreme commander, sent by Sargon king of Assyria, came to Ashdod and attacked and captured it—
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:4 - Therefore I said, “Turn away from me; let me weep bitterly. Do not try to console me over the destruction of my people.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:10 - You counted the buildings in Jerusalem and tore down houses to strengthen the wall.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 25:12 - He will bring down your high fortified walls and lay them low; he will bring them down to the ground, to the very dust.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 26:17 - As a pregnant woman about to give birth writhes and cries out in her pain, so were we in your presence, LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:1 - Woe to that wreath, the pride of Ephraim's drunkards, to the fading flower, his glorious beauty, set on the head of a fertile valley— to that city, the pride of those laid low by wine!
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:4 - That fading flower, his glorious beauty, set on the head of a fertile valley, will be like figs ripe before harvest— as soon as people see them and take them in hand, they swallow them.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:11 - For you this whole vision is nothing but words sealed in a scroll. And if you give the scroll to someone who can read, and say, “Read this, please,” they will answer, “I can't; it is sealed.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:14 - Therefore once more I will astound these people with wonder upon wonder; the wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:2 - who go down to Egypt without consulting me; who look for help to Pharaoh's protection, to Egypt's shade for refuge.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:23 - He will also send you rain for the seed you sow in the ground, and the food that comes from the land will be rich and plentiful. In that day your cattle will graze in broad meadows.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:28 - His breath is like a rushing torrent, rising up to the neck. He shakes the nations in the sieve of destruction; he places in the jaws of the peoples a bit that leads them astray.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:6 - For fools speak folly, their hearts are bent on evil: They practice ungodliness and spread error concerning the LORD; the hungry they leave empty and from the thirsty they withhold water.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:11 - You conceive chaff, you give birth to straw; your breath is a fire that consumes you.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:2 - The LORD is angry with all nations; his wrath is on all their armies. He will totally destroy[fn] them, he will give them over to slaughter.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:3 - Their slain will be thrown out, their dead bodies will stink; the mountains will be soaked with their blood.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:7 - And the wild oxen will fall with them, the bull calves and the great bulls. Their land will be drenched with blood, and the dust will be soaked with fat.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:1 - In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah's reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:35 - “I will defend this city and save it, for my sake and for the sake of David my servant!”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:14 - I cried like a swift or thrush, I moaned like a mourning dove. My eyes grew weak as I looked to the heavens. I am being threatened; Lord, come to my aid!”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 39:2 - Hezekiah received the envoys gladly and showed them what was in his storehouses—the silver, the gold, the spices, the fine olive oil—his entire armory and everything found among his treasures. There was nothing in his palace or in all his kingdom that Hezekiah did not show them.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:9 - See, the former things have taken place, and new things I declare; before they spring into being I announce them to you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:7 - Who then is like me? Let him proclaim it. Let him declare and lay out before me what has happened since I established my ancient people, and what is yet to come— yes, let them foretell what will come.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:18 - They know nothing, they understand nothing; their eyes are plastered over so they cannot see, and their minds closed so they cannot understand.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:23 - By myself I have sworn, my mouth has uttered in all integrity a word that will not be revoked: Before me every knee will bow; by me every tongue will swear.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:3 - I foretold the former things long ago, my mouth announced them and I made them known; then suddenly I acted, and they came to pass.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:9 - For my own name's sake I delay my wrath; for the sake of my praise I hold it back from you, so as not to destroy you completely.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:14 - “Come together, all of you, and listen: Which of the idols has foretold these things? The LORD's chosen ally will carry out his purpose against Babylon; his arm will be against the Babylonians.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:17 - This is what the LORD says— your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I am the LORD your God, who teaches you what is best for you, who directs you in the way you should go.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:5 - And now the LORD says— he who formed me in the womb to be his servant to bring Jacob back to him and gather Israel to himself, for I am[fn] honored in the eyes of the LORD and my God has been my strength—
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:6 - he says: “It is too small a thing for you to be my servant to restore the tribes of Jacob and bring back those of Israel I have kept. I will also make you a light for the Gentiles, that my salvation may reach to the ends of the earth.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:8 - This is what the LORD says: “In the time of my favor I will answer you, and in the day of salvation I will help you; I will keep you and will make you to be a covenant for the people, to restore the land and to reassign its desolate inheritances,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:15 - “Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you!
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 50:1 - This is what the LORD says: “Where is your mother's certificate of divorce with which I sent her away? Or to which of my creditors did I sell you? Because of your sins you were sold; because of your transgressions your mother was sent away.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 50:2 - When I came, why was there no one? When I called, why was there no one to answer? Was my arm too short to deliver you? Do I lack the strength to rescue you? By a mere rebuke I dry up the sea, I turn rivers into a desert; their fish rot for lack of water and die of thirst.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 50:4 - The Sovereign LORD has given me a well-instructed tongue, to know the word that sustains the weary. He wakens me morning by morning, wakens my ear to listen like one being instructed.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 50:11 - But now, all you who light fires and provide yourselves with flaming torches, go, walk in the light of your fires and of the torches you have set ablaze. This is what you shall receive from my hand: You will lie down in torment.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:13 - that you forget the LORD your Maker, who stretches out the heavens and who lays the foundations of the earth, that you live in constant terror every day because of the wrath of the oppressor, who is bent on destruction? For where is the wrath of the oppressor?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:9 - “To me this is like the days of Noah, when I swore that the waters of Noah would never again cover the earth. So now I have sworn not to be angry with you, never to rebuke you again.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:11 - so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 56:6 - And foreigners who bind themselves to the LORD to minister to him, to love the name of the LORD, and to be his servants, all who keep the Sabbath without desecrating it and who hold fast to my covenant—
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 56:7 - these I will bring to my holy mountain and give them joy in my house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and sacrifices will be accepted on my altar; for my house will be called a house of prayer for all nations.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:2 - Those who walk uprightly enter into peace; they find rest as they lie in death.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:7 - Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter— when you see the naked, to clothe them, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:13 - “If you keep your feet from breaking the Sabbath and from doing as you please on my holy day, if you call the Sabbath a delight and the LORD's holy day honorable, and if you honor it by not going your own way and not doing as you please or speaking idle words,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:1 - Surely the arm of the LORD is not too short to save, nor his ear too dull to hear.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:2 - But your iniquities have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:15 - Truth is nowhere to be found, and whoever shuns evil becomes a prey. The LORD looked and was displeased that there was no justice.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:21 - “As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says the LORD. “My Spirit, who is on you, will not depart from you, and my words that I have put in your mouth will always be on your lips, on the lips of your children and on the lips of their descendants—from this time on and forever,” says the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:20 - Your sun will never set again, and your moon will wane no more; the LORD will be your everlasting light, and your days of sorrow will end.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 63:15 - Look down from heaven and see, from your lofty throne, holy and glorious. Where are your zeal and your might? Your tenderness and compassion are withheld from us.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 63:17 - Why, LORD, do you make us wander from your ways and harden our hearts so we do not revere you? Return for the sake of your servants, the tribes that are your inheritance.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 63:18 - For a little while your people possessed your holy place, but now our enemies have trampled down your sanctuary.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:22 - No longer will they build houses and others live in them, or plant and others eat. For as the days of a tree, so will be the days of my people; my chosen ones will long enjoy the work of their hands.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:5 - “Before I formed you in the womb I knew[fn] you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:8 - Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you and will rescue you,” declares the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:9 - Then the LORD reached out his hand and touched my mouth and said to me, “I have put my words in your mouth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:12 - The LORD said to me, “You have seen correctly, for I am watching[fn] to see that my word is fulfilled.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:17 - “Get yourself ready! Stand up and say to them whatever I command you. Do not be terrified by them, or I will terrify you before them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:19 - They will fight against you but will not overcome you, for I am with you and will rescue you,” declares the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:2 - “Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem: “This is what the LORD says: “ ‘I remember the devotion of your youth, how as a bride you loved me and followed me through the wilderness, through a land not sown.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:7 - I brought you into a fertile land to eat its fruit and rich produce. But you came and defiled my land and made my inheritance detestable.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:18 - Now why go to Egypt to drink water from the Nile[fn]? And why go to Assyria to drink water from the Euphrates?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:33 - How skilled you are at pursuing love! Even the worst of women can learn from your ways.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:36 - Why do you go about so much, changing your ways? You will be disappointed by Egypt as you were by Assyria.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:1 - “If you, Israel, will return, then return to me,”

declares the LORD.

“If you put your detestable idols out of my sight and no longer go astray,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:7 - A lion has come out of his lair; a destroyer of nations has set out. He has left his place to lay waste your land. Your towns will lie in ruins without inhabitant.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:22 - “My people are fools; they do not know me. They are senseless children; they have no understanding. They are skilled in doing evil; they know not how to do good.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:9 - “ ‘Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury,[fn] burn incense to Baal and follow other gods you have not known,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:10 - and then come and stand before me in this house, which bears my Name, and say, “We are safe”—safe to do all these detestable things?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:16 - “So do not pray for this people nor offer any plea or petition for them; do not plead with me, for I will not listen to you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:18 - The children gather wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead the dough and make cakes to offer to the Queen of Heaven. They pour out drink offerings to other gods to arouse my anger.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:30 - “ ‘The people of Judah have done evil in my eyes, declares the LORD. They have set up their detestable idols in the house that bears my Name and have defiled it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:31 - They have built the high places of Topheth in the Valley of Ben Hinnom to burn their sons and daughters in the fire—something I did not command, nor did it enter my mind.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:5 - Why then have these people turned away? Why does Jerusalem always turn away? They cling to deceit; they refuse to return.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:5 - Friend deceives friend, and no one speaks the truth. They have taught their tongues to lie; they weary themselves with sinning.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:8 - Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceitfully. With their mouths they all speak cordially to their neighbors, but in their hearts they set traps for them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:16 - I will scatter them among nations that neither they nor their ancestors have known, and I will pursue them with the sword until I have made an end of them.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:21 - Death has climbed in through our windows and has entered our fortresses; it has removed the children from the streets and the young men from the public squares.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:22 - Say, “This is what the LORD declares: “ ‘Dead bodies will lie like dung on the open field, like cut grain behind the reaper, with no one to gather them.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:22 - Listen! The report is coming— a great commotion from the land of the north! It will make the towns of Judah desolate, a haunt of jackals.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:5 - Then I will fulfill the oath I swore to your ancestors, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey'—the land you possess today.” I answered, “Amen, LORD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:10 - They have returned to the sins of their ancestors, who refused to listen to my words. They have followed other gods to serve them. Both Israel and Judah have broken the covenant I made with their ancestors.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:17 - The LORD Almighty, who planted you, has decreed disaster for you, because the people of both Israel and Judah have done evil and aroused my anger by burning incense to Baal.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:19 - I had been like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter; I did not realize that they had plotted against me, saying, “Let us destroy the tree and its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name be remembered no more.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:2 - You have planted them, and they have taken root; they grow and bear fruit. You are always on their lips but far from their hearts.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:9 - Has not my inheritance become to me like a speckled bird of prey that other birds of prey surround and attack? Go and gather all the wild beasts; bring them to devour.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:16 - And if they learn well the ways of my people and swear by my name, saying, ‘As surely as the LORD lives'—even as they once taught my people to swear by Baal—then they will be established among my people.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:6 - Many days later the LORD said to me, “Go now to Perath and get the belt I told you to hide there.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:10 - These wicked people, who refuse to listen to my words, who follow the stubbornness of their hearts and go after other gods to serve and worship them, will be like this belt—completely useless!
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:11 - For as a belt is bound around the waist, so I bound all the people of Israel and all the people of Judah to me,' declares the LORD, ‘to be my people for my renown and praise and honor. But they have not listened.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:16 - Give glory to the LORD your God before he brings the darkness, before your feet stumble on the darkening hills. You hope for light, but he will turn it to utter darkness and change it to deep gloom.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:25 - This is your lot, the portion I have decreed for you,”

declares the LORD,

“because you have forgotten me and trusted in false gods.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:20 - I will make you a wall to this people, a fortified wall of bronze; they will fight against you but will not overcome you, for I am with you to rescue and save you,”

declares the LORD.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:5 - For this is what the LORD says: “Do not enter a house where there is a funeral meal; do not go to mourn or show sympathy, because I have withdrawn my blessing, my love and my pity from this people,” declares the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:8 - “And do not enter a house where there is feasting and sit down to eat and drink.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:12 - But you have behaved more wickedly than your ancestors. See how all of you are following the stubbornness of your evil hearts instead of obeying me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:10 - “I the LORD search the heart and examine the mind, to reward each person according to their conduct, according to what their deeds deserve.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:23 - Yet they did not listen or pay attention; they were stiff-necked and would not listen or respond to discipline.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:24 - But if you are careful to obey me, declares the LORD, and bring no load through the gates of this city on the Sabbath, but keep the Sabbath day holy by not doing any work on it,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:26 - People will come from the towns of Judah and the villages around Jerusalem, from the territory of Benjamin and the western foothills, from the hill country and the Negev, bringing burnt offerings and sacrifices, grain offerings and incense, and bringing thank offerings to the house of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:27 - But if you do not obey me to keep the Sabbath day holy by not carrying any load as you come through the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle an unquenchable fire in the gates of Jerusalem that will consume her fortresses.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:4 - But the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands; so the potter formed it into another pot, shaping it as seemed best to him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:6 - He said, “Can I not do with you, Israel, as this potter does?” declares the LORD. “Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:7 - If at any time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be uprooted, torn down and destroyed,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:8 - and if that nation I warned repents of its evil, then I will relent and not inflict on it the disaster I had planned.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:9 - And if at another time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be built up and planted,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:10 - and if it does evil in my sight and does not obey me, then I will reconsider the good I had intended to do for it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:15 - Yet my people have forgotten me; they burn incense to worthless idols, which made them stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths. They made them walk in byways, on roads not built up.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:16 - Their land will be an object of horror and of lasting scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and will shake their heads.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:19 - Listen to me, LORD; hear what my accusers are saying!
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:20 - Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit for me. Remember that I stood before you and spoke in their behalf to turn your wrath away from them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:5 - They have built the high places of Baal to burn their children in the fire as offerings to Baal—something I did not command or mention, nor did it enter my mind.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:12 - This is what I will do to this place and to those who live here, declares the LORD. I will make this city like Topheth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:14 - Jeremiah then returned from Topheth, where the LORD had sent him to prophesy, and stood in the court of the LORD's temple and said to all the people,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:15 - “This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: ‘Listen! I am going to bring on this city and all the villages around it every disaster I pronounced against them, because they were stiff-necked and would not listen to my words.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:2 - he had Jeremiah the prophet beaten and put in the stocks at the Upper Gate of Benjamin at the LORD's temple.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:18 - Why did I ever come out of the womb to see trouble and sorrow and to end my days in shame?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:4 - ‘This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I am about to turn against you the weapons of war that are in your hands, which you are using to fight the king of Babylon and the Babylonians[fn] who are outside the wall besieging you. And I will gather them inside this city.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:17 - “But your eyes and your heart are set only on dishonest gain, on shedding innocent blood and on oppression and extortion.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:30 - This is what the LORD says: “Record this man as if childless, a man who will not prosper in his lifetime, for none of his offspring will prosper, none will sit on the throne of David or rule anymore in Judah.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:14 - And among the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen something horrible: They commit adultery and live a lie. They strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that not one of them turns from their wickedness. They are all like Sodom to me; the people of Jerusalem are like Gomorrah.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:27 - They think the dreams they tell one another will make my people forget my name, just as their ancestors forgot my name through Baal worship.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 24:7 - I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the LORD. They will be my people, and I will be their God, for they will return to me with all their heart.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:6 - Do not follow other gods to serve and worship them; do not arouse my anger with what your hands have made. Then I will not harm you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:18 - Jerusalem and the towns of Judah, its kings and officials, to make them a ruin and an object of horror and scorn, a curse[fn]—as they are today;
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:3 - Perhaps they will listen and each will turn from their evil ways. Then I will relent and not inflict on them the disaster I was planning because of the evil they have done.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:4 - Say to them, ‘This is what the LORD says: If you do not listen to me and follow my law, which I have set before you,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:19 - “Did Hezekiah king of Judah or anyone else in Judah put him to death? Did not Hezekiah fear the LORD and seek his favor? And did not the LORD relent, so that he did not bring the disaster he pronounced against them? We are about to bring a terrible disaster on ourselves!”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:24 - Furthermore, Ahikam son of Shaphan supported Jeremiah, and so he was not handed over to the people to be put to death.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:6 - He said, “Amen! May the LORD do so! May the LORD fulfill the words you have prophesied by bringing the articles of the LORD's house and all the exiles back to this place from Babylon.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:10 - This is what the LORD says: “When seventy years are completed for Babylon, I will come to you and fulfill my good promise to bring you back to this place.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:11 - For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:32 - this is what the LORD says: I will surely punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his descendants. He will have no one left among this people, nor will he see the good things I will do for my people, declares the LORD, because he has preached rebellion against me.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:19 - After I strayed, I repented; after I came to understand, I beat my breast. I was ashamed and humiliated because I bore the disgrace of my youth.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:28 - Just as I watched over them to uproot and tear down, and to overthrow, destroy and bring disaster, so I will watch over them to build and to plant,” declares the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:35 - They built high places for Baal in the Valley of Ben Hinnom to sacrifice their sons and daughters to Molek, though I never commanded—nor did it enter my mind—that they should do such a detestable thing and so make Judah sin.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:41 - I will rejoice in doing them good and will assuredly plant them in this land with all my heart and soul.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:44 - Fields will be bought for silver, and deeds will be signed, sealed and witnessed in the territory of Benjamin, in the villages around Jerusalem, in the towns of Judah and in the towns of the hill country, of the western foothills and of the Negev, because I will restore their fortunes,[fn] declares the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:2 - “This is what the LORD says, he who made the earth, the LORD who formed it and established it—the LORD is his name:
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:5 - in the fight with the Babylonians[fn]: ‘They will be filled with the dead bodies of the people I will slay in my anger and wrath. I will hide my face from this city because of all its wickedness.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:3 - You will not escape from his grasp but will surely be captured and given into his hands. You will see the king of Babylon with your own eyes, and he will speak with you face to face. And you will go to Babylon.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:8 - The word came to Jeremiah from the LORD after King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem to proclaim freedom for the slaves.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:9 - Everyone was to free their Hebrew slaves, both male and female; no one was to hold a fellow Hebrew in bondage.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:10 - So all the officials and people who entered into this covenant agreed that they would free their male and female slaves and no longer hold them in bondage. They agreed, and set them free.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:15 - Recently you repented and did what is right in my sight: Each of you proclaimed freedom to your own people. You even made a covenant before me in the house that bears my Name.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:16 - But now you have turned around and profaned my name; each of you has taken back the male and female slaves you had set free to go where they wished. You have forced them to become your slaves again.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:17 - “Therefore this is what the LORD says: You have not obeyed me; you have not proclaimed freedom to your own people. So I now proclaim ‘freedom' for you, declares the LORD—‘freedom' to fall by the sword, plague and famine. I will make you abhorrent to all the kingdoms of the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 35:9 - or built houses to live in or had vineyards, fields or crops.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 35:13 - “This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Go and tell the people of Judah and those living in Jerusalem, ‘Will you not learn a lesson and obey my words?' declares the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 35:15 - Again and again I sent all my servants the prophets to you. They said, “Each of you must turn from your wicked ways and reform your actions; do not follow other gods to serve them. Then you will live in the land I have given to you and your ancestors.” But you have not paid attention or listened to me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:8 - Baruch son of Neriah did everything Jeremiah the prophet told him to do; at the LORD's temple he read the words of the LORD from the scroll.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:11 - When Micaiah son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, heard all the words of the LORD from the scroll,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:28 - “Take another scroll and write on it all the words that were on the first scroll, which Jehoiakim king of Judah burned up.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:32 - So Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to the scribe Baruch son of Neriah, and as Jeremiah dictated, Baruch wrote on it all the words of the scroll that Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire. And many similar words were added to them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:7 - “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Tell the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of me, ‘Pharaoh's army, which has marched out to support you, will go back to its own land, to Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:12 - Jeremiah started to leave the city to go to the territory of Benjamin to get his share of the property among the people there.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:9 - “My lord the king, these men have acted wickedly in all they have done to Jeremiah the prophet. They have thrown him into a cistern, where he will starve to death when there is no longer any bread in the city.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 40:5 - However, before Jeremiah turned to go,[fn] Nebuzaradan added, “Go back to Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon has appointed over the towns of Judah, and live with him among the people, or go anywhere else you please.” Then the commander gave him provisions and a present and let him go.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:5 - eighty men who had shaved off their beards, torn their clothes and cut themselves came from Shechem, Shiloh and Samaria, bringing grain offerings and incense with them to the house of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:17 - And they went on, stopping at Geruth Kimham near Bethlehem on their way to Egypt
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:11 - Do not be afraid of the king of Babylon, whom you now fear. Do not be afraid of him, declares the LORD, for I am with you and will save you and deliver you from his hands.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 43:3 - But Baruch son of Neriah is inciting you against us to hand us over to the Babylonians,[fn] so they may kill us or carry us into exile to Babylon.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:12 - I will take away the remnant of Judah who were determined to go to Egypt to settle there. They will all perish in Egypt; they will fall by the sword or die from famine. From the least to the greatest, they will die by sword or famine. They will become a curse and an object of horror, a curse and an object of reproach.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:14 - None of the remnant of Judah who have gone to live in Egypt will escape or survive to return to the land of Judah, to which they long to return and live; none will return except a few fugitives.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:17 - We will certainly do everything we said we would: We will burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and will pour out drink offerings to her just as we and our ancestors, our kings and our officials did in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. At that time we had plenty of food and were well off and suffered no harm.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:21 - “Did not the LORD remember and call to mind the incense burned in the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem by you and your ancestors, your kings and your officials and the people of the land?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:27 - For I am watching over them for harm, not for good; the Jews in Egypt will perish by sword and famine until they are all destroyed.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:10 - But that day belongs to the Lord, the LORD Almighty— a day of vengeance, for vengeance on his foes. The sword will devour till it is satisfied, till it has quenched its thirst with blood. For the Lord, the LORD Almighty, will offer sacrifice in the land of the north by the River Euphrates.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:13 - This is the message the LORD spoke to Jeremiah the prophet about the coming of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to attack Egypt:
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 47:4 - For the day has come to destroy all the Philistines and to remove all survivors who could help Tyre and Sidon. The LORD is about to destroy the Philistines, the remnant from the coasts of Caphtor.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:37 - I will shatter Elam before their foes, before those who want to kill them; I will bring disaster on them, even my fierce anger,”

declares the LORD.

“I will pursue them with the sword until I have made an end of them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:28 - Listen to the fugitives and refugees from Babylon declaring in Zion how the LORD our God has taken vengeance, vengeance for his temple.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:11 - “Sharpen the arrows, take up the shields! The LORD has stirred up the kings of the Medes, because his purpose is to destroy Babylon. The LORD will take vengeance, vengeance for his temple.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:29 - The land trembles and writhes, for the LORD's purposes against Babylon stand— to lay waste the land of Babylon so that no one will live there.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:30 - Babylon's warriors have stopped fighting; they remain in their strongholds. Their strength is exhausted; they have become weaklings. Her dwellings are set on fire; the bars of her gates are broken.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:31 - One courier follows another and messenger follows messenger to announce to the king of Babylon that his entire city is captured,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:44 - I will punish Bel in Babylon and make him spew out what he has swallowed. The nations will no longer stream to him. And the wall of Babylon will fall.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:62 - Then say, ‘LORD, you have said you will destroy this place, so that neither people nor animals will live in it; it will be desolate forever.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:63 - When you finish reading this scroll, tie a stone to it and throw it into the Euphrates.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:7 - Then the city wall was broken through, and the whole army fled. They left the city at night through the gate between the two walls near the king's garden, though the Babylonians[fn] were surrounding the city. They fled toward the Arabah,[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:22 - The bronze capital on top of one pillar was five cubits[fn] high and was decorated with a network and pomegranates of bronze all around. The other pillar, with its pomegranates, was similar.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:23 - There were ninety-six pomegranates on the sides; the total number of pomegranates above the surrounding network was a hundred.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:11 - All her people groan as they search for bread; they barter their treasures for food to keep themselves alive. “Look, LORD, and consider, for I am despised.”
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:15 - “The Lord has rejected all the warriors in my midst; he has summoned an army against me to[fn] crush my young men. In his winepress the Lord has trampled Virgin Daughter Judah.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:8 - The LORD determined to tear down the wall around Daughter Zion. He stretched out a measuring line and did not withhold his hand from destroying. He made ramparts and walls lament; together they wasted away.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:14 - The visions of your prophets were false and worthless; they did not expose your sin to ward off your captivity. The prophecies they gave you were false and misleading.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:34 - To crush underfoot all prisoners in the land,
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:35 - to deny people their rights before the Most High,
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:49 - My eyes will flow unceasingly, without relief,
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:15 - “Go away! You are unclean!” people cry to them. “Away! Away! Don't touch us!” When they flee and wander about, people among the nations say, “They can stay here no longer.”
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:18 - People stalked us at every step, so we could not walk in our streets. Our end was near, our days were numbered, for our end had come.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:4 - I looked, and I saw a windstorm coming out of the north—an immense cloud with flashing lightning and surrounded by brilliant light. The center of the fire looked like glowing metal,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:9 - and the wings of one touched the wings of another. Each one went straight ahead; they did not turn as they moved.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:11 - Such were their faces. They each had two wings spreading out upward, each wing touching that of the creature on either side; and each had two other wings covering its body.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:13 - The appearance of the living creatures was like burning coals of fire or like torches. Fire moved back and forth among the creatures; it was bright, and lightning flashed out of it.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:20 - Wherever the spirit would go, they would go, and the wheels would rise along with them, because the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:23 - Under the vault their wings were stretched out one toward the other, and each had two wings covering its body.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:25 - Then there came a voice from above the vault over their heads as they stood with lowered wings.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:26 - Above the vault over their heads was what looked like a throne of lapis lazuli, and high above on the throne was a figure like that of a man.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:28 - Like the appearance of a rainbow in the clouds on a rainy day, so was the radiance around him. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. When I saw it, I fell facedown, and I heard the voice of one speaking.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:8 - But I will make you as unyielding and hardened as they are.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:14 - The Spirit then lifted me up and took me away, and I went in bitterness and in the anger of my spirit, with the strong hand of the LORD on me.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:18 - When I say to a wicked person, ‘You will surely die,' and you do not warn them or speak out to dissuade them from their evil ways in order to save their life, that wicked person will die for[fn] their sin, and I will hold you accountable for their blood.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:21 - But if you do warn the righteous person not to sin and they do not sin, they will surely live because they took warning, and you will have saved yourself.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:8 - I will tie you up with ropes so that you cannot turn from one side to the other until you have finished the days of your siege.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:9 - “Take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and spelt; put them in a storage jar and use them to make bread for yourself. You are to eat it during the 390 days you lie on your side.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:11 - Also measure out a sixth of a hin[fn] of water and drink it at set times.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:14 - Then I said, “Not so, Sovereign LORD! I have never defiled myself. From my youth until now I have never eaten anything found dead or torn by wild animals. No impure meat has ever entered my mouth.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:4 - Again, take a few of these and throw them into the fire and burn them up. A fire will spread from there to all Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:21 - I will give their wealth as plunder to foreigners and as loot to the wicked of the earth, who will defile it.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:6 - And he said to me, “Son of man, do you see what they are doing—the utterly detestable things the Israelites are doing here, things that will drive me far from my sanctuary? But you will see things that are even more detestable.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:11 - In front of them stood seventy elders of Israel, and Jaazaniah son of Shaphan was standing among them. Each had a censer in his hand, and a fragrant cloud of incense was rising.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:16 - He then brought me into the inner court of the house of the LORD, and there at the entrance to the temple, between the portico and the altar, were about twenty-five men. With their backs toward the temple of the LORD and their faces toward the east, they were bowing down to the sun in the east.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:17 - He said to me, “Have you seen this, son of man? Is it a trivial matter for the people of Judah to do the detestable things they are doing here? Must they also fill the land with violence and continually arouse my anger? Look at them putting the branch to their nose!
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:2 - And I saw six men coming from the direction of the upper gate, which faces north, each with a deadly weapon in his hand. With them was a man clothed in linen who had a writing kit at his side. They came in and stood beside the bronze altar.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:1 - I looked, and I saw the likeness of a throne of lapis lazuli above the vault that was over the heads of the cherubim.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:4 - Then the glory of the LORD rose from above the cherubim and moved to the threshold of the temple. The cloud filled the temple, and the court was full of the radiance of the glory of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:7 - Then one of the cherubim reached out his hand to the fire that was among them. He took up some of it and put it into the hands of the man in linen, who took it and went out.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:16 - When the cherubim moved, the wheels beside them moved; and when the cherubim spread their wings to rise from the ground, the wheels did not leave their side.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:5 - Then the Spirit of the LORD came on me, and he told me to say: “This is what the LORD says: That is what you are saying, you leaders in Israel, but I know what is going through your mind.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:23 - The glory of the LORD went up from within the city and stopped above the mountain east of it.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:2 - “Son of man, you are living among a rebellious people. They have eyes to see but do not see and ears to hear but do not hear, for they are a rebellious people.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:12 - “The prince among them will put his things on his shoulder at dusk and leave, and a hole will be dug in the wall for him to go through. He will cover his face so that he cannot see the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:6 - Their visions are false and their divinations a lie. Even though the LORD has not sent them, they say, “The LORD declares,” and expect him to fulfill their words.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:18 - and say, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Woe to the women who sew magic charms on all their wrists and make veils of various lengths for their heads in order to ensnare people. Will you ensnare the lives of my people but preserve your own?
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:19 - You have profaned me among my people for a few handfuls of barley and scraps of bread. By lying to my people, who listen to lies, you have killed those who should not have died and have spared those who should not live.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:22 - Because you disheartened the righteous with your lies, when I had brought them no grief, and because you encouraged the wicked not to turn from their evil ways and so save their lives,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:7 - “ ‘When any of the Israelites or any foreigner residing in Israel separate themselves from me and set up idols in their hearts and put a wicked stumbling block before their faces and then go to a prophet to inquire of me, I the LORD will answer them myself.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:13 - “Son of man, if a country sins against me by being unfaithful and I stretch out my hand against it to cut off its food supply and send famine upon it and kill its people and their animals,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:19 - “Or if I send a plague into that land and pour out my wrath on it through bloodshed, killing its people and their animals,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:21 - “For this is what the Sovereign LORD says: How much worse will it be when I send against Jerusalem my four dreadful judgments—sword and famine and wild beasts and plague—to kill its men and their animals!
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 15:3 - Is wood ever taken from it to make anything useful? Do they make pegs from it to hang things on?
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 15:7 - I will set my face against them. Although they have come out of the fire, the fire will yet consume them. And when I set my face against them, you will know that I am the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:5 - No one looked on you with pity or had compassion enough to do any of these things for you. Rather, you were thrown out into the open field, for on the day you were born you were despised.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:6 - “ ‘Then I passed by and saw you kicking about in your blood, and as you lay there in your blood I said to you, “Live!”[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:17 - You also took the fine jewelry I gave you, the jewelry made of my gold and silver, and you made for yourself male idols and engaged in prostitution with them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:26 - You engaged in prostitution with the Egyptians, your neighbors with large genitals, and aroused my anger with your increasing promiscuity.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:33 - All prostitutes receive gifts, but you give gifts to all your lovers, bribing them to come to you from everywhere for your illicit favors.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:57 - before your wickedness was uncovered. Even so, you are now scorned by the daughters of Edom[fn] and all her neighbors and the daughters of the Philistines—all those around you who despise you.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:59 - “ ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will deal with you as you deserve, because you have despised my oath by breaking the covenant.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:5 - “ ‘He took one of the seedlings of the land and put it in fertile soil. He planted it like a willow by abundant water,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:6 - and it sprouted and became a low, spreading vine. Its branches turned toward him, but its roots remained under it. So it became a vine and produced branches and put out leafy boughs.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:7 - “ ‘But there was another great eagle with powerful wings and full plumage. The vine now sent out its roots toward him from the plot where it was planted and stretched out its branches to him for water.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:8 - It had been planted in good soil by abundant water so that it would produce branches, bear fruit and become a splendid vine.'
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:9 - “Say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Will it thrive? Will it not be uprooted and stripped of its fruit so that it withers? All its new growth will wither. It will not take a strong arm or many people to pull it up by the roots.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:13 - Then he took a member of the royal family and made a treaty with him, putting him under oath. He also carried away the leading men of the land,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:14 - so that the kingdom would be brought low, unable to rise again, surviving only by keeping his treaty.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:15 - But the king rebelled against him by sending his envoys to Egypt to get horses and a large army. Will he succeed? Will he who does such things escape? Will he break the treaty and yet escape?
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:17 - Pharaoh with his mighty army and great horde will be of no help to him in war, when ramps are built and siege works erected to destroy many lives.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:18 - He despised the oath by breaking the covenant. Because he had given his hand in pledge and yet did all these things, he shall not escape.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:24 - All the trees of the forest will know that I the LORD bring down the tall tree and make the low tree grow tall. I dry up the green tree and make the dry tree flourish. “ ‘I the LORD have spoken, and I will do it.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:9 - He follows my decrees and faithfully keeps my laws. That man is righteous; he will surely live,

declares the Sovereign LORD.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:3 - She brought up one of her cubs, and he became a strong lion. He learned to tear the prey and he became a man-eater.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:6 - On that day I swore to them that I would bring them out of Egypt into a land I had searched out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the most beautiful of all lands.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:8 - “ ‘But they rebelled against me and would not listen to me; they did not get rid of the vile images they had set their eyes on, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt. So I said I would pour out my wrath on them and spend my anger against them in Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:9 - But for the sake of my name, I brought them out of Egypt. I did it to keep my name from being profaned in the eyes of the nations among whom they lived and in whose sight I had revealed myself to the Israelites.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:12 - Also I gave them my Sabbaths as a sign between us, so they would know that I the LORD made them holy.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:13 - “ ‘Yet the people of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They did not follow my decrees but rejected my laws—by which the person who obeys them will live—and they utterly desecrated my Sabbaths. So I said I would pour out my wrath on them and destroy them in the wilderness.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:15 - Also with uplifted hand I swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land I had given them—a land flowing with milk and honey, the most beautiful of all lands—
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:17 - Yet I looked on them with pity and did not destroy them or put an end to them in the wilderness.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:20 - Keep my Sabbaths holy, that they may be a sign between us. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:21 - “ ‘But the children rebelled against me: They did not follow my decrees, they were not careful to keep my laws, of which I said, “The person who obeys them will live by them,” and they desecrated my Sabbaths. So I said I would pour out my wrath on them and spend my anger against them in the wilderness.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:23 - Also with uplifted hand I swore to them in the wilderness that I would disperse them among the nations and scatter them through the countries,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:28 - When I brought them into the land I had sworn to give them and they saw any high hill or any leafy tree, there they offered their sacrifices, made offerings that aroused my anger, presented their fragrant incense and poured out their drink offerings.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:32 - “ ‘You say, “We want to be like the nations, like the peoples of the world, who serve wood and stone.” But what you have in mind will never happen.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:40 - For on my holy mountain, the high mountain of Israel, declares the Sovereign LORD, there in the land all the people of Israel will serve me, and there I will accept them. There I will require your offerings and your choice gifts,[fn] along with all your holy sacrifices.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:42 - Then you will know that I am the LORD, when I bring you into the land of Israel, the land I had sworn with uplifted hand to give to your ancestors.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:11 - “ ‘The sword is appointed to be polished, to be grasped with the hand; it is sharpened and polished, made ready for the hand of the slayer.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:19 - “Son of man, mark out two roads for the sword of the king of Babylon to take, both starting from the same country. Make a signpost where the road branches off to the city.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:20 - Mark out one road for the sword to come against Rabbah of the Ammonites and another against Judah and fortified Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:21 - For the king of Babylon will stop at the fork in the road, at the junction of the two roads, to seek an omen: He will cast lots with arrows, he will consult his idols, he will examine the liver.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:22 - Into his right hand will come the lot for Jerusalem, where he is to set up battering rams, to give the command to slaughter, to sound the battle cry, to set battering rams against the gates, to build a ramp and to erect siege works.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:24 - “Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: ‘Because you people have brought to mind your guilt by your open rebellion, revealing your sins in all that you do—because you have done this, you will be taken captive.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:29 - Despite false visions concerning you and lying divinations about you, it will be laid on the necks of the wicked who are to be slain, whose day has come, whose time of punishment has reached its climax.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:3 - and say: ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: You city that brings on herself doom by shedding blood in her midst and defiles herself by making idols,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:20 - As silver, copper, iron, lead and tin are gathered into a furnace to be melted with a fiery blast, so will I gather you in my anger and my wrath and put you inside the city and melt you.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:27 - Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey; they shed blood and kill people to make unjust gain.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:30 - “I looked for someone among them who would build up the wall and stand before me in the gap on behalf of the land so I would not have to destroy it, but I found no one.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:31 - So I will pour out my wrath on them and consume them with my fiery anger, bringing down on their own heads all they have done, declares the Sovereign LORD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:19 - Yet she became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:32 - “This is what the Sovereign LORD says: “You will drink your sister's cup, a cup large and deep; it will bring scorn and derision, for it holds so much.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:35 - “Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Since you have forgotten me and turned your back on me, you must bear the consequences of your lewdness and prostitution.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:39 - On the very day they sacrificed their children to their idols, they entered my sanctuary and desecrated it. That is what they did in my house.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:44 - And they slept with her. As men sleep with a prostitute, so they slept with those lewd women, Oholah and Oholibah.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:7 - “ ‘For the blood she shed is in her midst: She poured it on the bare rock; she did not pour it on the ground, where the dust would cover it.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:8 - To stir up wrath and take revenge I put her blood on the bare rock, so that it would not be covered.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:14 - “ ‘I the LORD have spoken. The time has come for me to act. I will not hold back; I will not have pity, nor will I relent. You will be judged according to your conduct and your actions, declares the Sovereign LORD.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:26 - on that day a fugitive will come to tell you the news.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:15 - “This is what the Sovereign LORD says: ‘Because the Philistines acted in vengeance and took revenge with malice in their hearts, and with ancient hostility sought to destroy Judah,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:10 - His horses will be so many that they will cover you with dust. Your walls will tremble at the noise of the warhorses, wagons and chariots when he enters your gates as men enter a city whose walls have been broken through.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:5 - They made all your timbers of juniper from Senir[fn]; they took a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:7 - Fine embroidered linen from Egypt was your sail and served as your banner; your awnings were of blue and purple from the coasts of Elishah.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:33 - When your merchandise went out on the seas, you satisfied many nations; with your great wealth and your wares you enriched the kings of the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:14 - You were anointed as a guardian cherub, for so I ordained you. You were on the holy mount of God; you walked among the fiery stones.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:17 - Your heart became proud on account of your beauty, and you corrupted your wisdom because of your splendor. So I threw you to the earth; I made a spectacle of you before kings.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:5 - I will leave you in the desert, you and all the fish of your streams. You will fall on the open field and not be gathered or picked up. I will give you as food to the beasts of the earth and the birds of the sky.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:9 - Egypt will become a desolate wasteland. Then they will know that I am the LORD. “ ‘Because you said, “The Nile is mine; I made it,”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:15 - It will be the lowliest of kingdoms and will never again exalt itself above the other nations. I will make it so weak that it will never again rule over the nations.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:21 - “Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt. It has not been bound up to be healed or put in a splint so that it may become strong enough to hold a sword.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:4 - The waters nourished it, deep springs made it grow tall; their streams flowed all around its base and sent their channels to all the trees of the field.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:5 - So it towered higher than all the trees of the field; its boughs increased and its branches grew long, spreading because of abundant waters.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:6 - All the birds of the sky nested in its boughs, all the animals of the wild gave birth under its branches; all the great nations lived in its shade.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:15 - “ ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: On the day it was brought down to the realm of the dead I covered the deep springs with mourning for it; I held back its streams, and its abundant waters were restrained. Because of it I clothed Lebanon with gloom, and all the trees of the field withered away.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:5 - I will spread your flesh on the mountains and fill the valleys with your remains.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:6 - I will drench the land with your flowing blood all the way to the mountains, and the ravines will be filled with your flesh.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:22 - “Assyria is there with her whole army; she is surrounded by the graves of all her slain, all who have fallen by the sword.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:24 - “Elam is there, with all her hordes around her grave. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword. All who had spread terror in the land of the living went down uncircumcised to the earth below. They bear their shame with those who go down to the pit.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:26 - “Meshek and Tubal are there, with all their hordes around their graves. All of them are uncircumcised, killed by the sword because they spread their terror in the land of the living.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:8 - When I say to the wicked, ‘You wicked person, you will surely die,' and you do not speak out to dissuade them from their ways, that wicked person will die for[fn] their sin, and I will hold you accountable for their blood.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:9 - But if you do warn the wicked person to turn from their ways and they do not do so, they will die for their sin, though you yourself will be saved.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:15 - if they give back what they took in pledge for a loan, return what they have stolen, follow the decrees that give life, and do no evil—that person will surely live; they will not die.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:27 - “Say this to them: ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: As surely as I live, those who are left in the ruins will fall by the sword, those out in the country I will give to the wild animals to be devoured, and those in strongholds and caves will die of a plague.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:8 - As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, because my flock lacks a shepherd and so has been plundered and has become food for all the wild animals, and because my shepherds did not search for my flock but cared for themselves rather than for my flock,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:10 - This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I am against the shepherds and will hold them accountable for my flock. I will remove them from tending the flock so that the shepherds can no longer feed themselves. I will rescue my flock from their mouths, and it will no longer be food for them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:26 - I will make them and the places surrounding my hill a blessing.[fn] I will send down showers in season; there will be showers of blessing.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:5 - “ ‘Because you harbored an ancient hostility and delivered the Israelites over to the sword at the time of their calamity, the time their punishment reached its climax,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:3 - Therefore prophesy and say, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Because they ravaged and crushed you from every side so that you became the possession of the rest of the nations and the object of people's malicious talk and slander,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:5 - this is what the Sovereign LORD says: In my burning zeal I have spoken against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, for with glee and with malice in their hearts they made my land their own possession so that they might plunder its pastureland.'
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:8 - “ ‘But you, mountains of Israel, will produce branches and fruit for my people Israel, for they will soon come home.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:13 - “ ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Because some say to you, “You devour people and deprive your nation of its children,”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:30 - I will increase the fruit of the trees and the crops of the field, so that you will no longer suffer disgrace among the nations because of famine.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:37 - “This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Once again I will yield to Israel's plea and do this for them: I will make their people as numerous as sheep,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 37:1 - The hand of the LORD was on me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the LORD and set me in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 37:2 - He led me back and forth among them, and I saw a great many bones on the floor of the valley, bones that were very dry.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 37:13 - Then you, my people, will know that I am the LORD, when I open your graves and bring you up from them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 37:17 - Join them together into one stick so that they will become one in your hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:12 - I will plunder and loot and turn my hand against the resettled ruins and the people gathered from the nations, rich in livestock and goods, living at the center of the land.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:13 - Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish and all her villages[fn] will say to you, “Have you come to plunder? Have you gathered your hordes to loot, to carry off silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods and to seize much plunder?” '
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:17 - “ ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: You are the one I spoke of in former days by my servants the prophets of Israel. At that time they prophesied for years that I would bring you against them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:20 - The fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the beasts of the field, every creature that moves along the ground, and all the people on the face of the earth will tremble at my presence. The mountains will be overturned, the cliffs will crumble and every wall will fall to the ground.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 39:4 - On the mountains of Israel you will fall, you and all your troops and the nations with you. I will give you as food to all kinds of carrion birds and to the wild animals.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 39:5 - You will fall in the open field, for I have spoken, declares the Sovereign LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 39:10 - They will not need to gather wood from the fields or cut it from the forests, because they will use the weapons for fuel. And they will plunder those who plundered them and loot those who looted them, declares the Sovereign LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 39:17 - “Son of man, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Call out to every kind of bird and all the wild animals: ‘Assemble and come together from all around to the sacrifice I am preparing for you, the great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel. There you will eat flesh and drink blood.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:4 - The man said to me, “Son of man, look carefully and listen closely and pay attention to everything I am going to show you, for that is why you have been brought here. Tell the people of Israel everything you see.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:9 - it[fn] was eight cubits[fn] deep and its jambs were two cubits[fn] thick. The portico of the gateway faced the temple.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:13 - Then he measured the gateway from the top of the rear wall of one alcove to the top of the opposite one; the distance was twenty-five cubits[fn] from one parapet opening to the opposite one.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:14 - He measured along the faces of the projecting walls all around the inside of the gateway—sixty cubits.[fn] The measurement was up to the portico[fn] facing the courtyard.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:19 - Then he measured the distance from the inside of the lower gateway to the outside of the inner court; it was a hundred cubits[fn] on the east side as well as on the north.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:25 - The gateway and its portico had narrow openings all around, like the openings of the others. It was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:34 - Its portico faced the outer court; palm trees decorated the jambs on either side, and eight steps led up to it.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:40 - By the outside wall of the portico of the gateway, near the steps at the entrance of the north gateway were two tables, and on the other side of the steps were two tables.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:43 - And double-pronged hooks, each a handbreadth[fn] long, were attached to the wall all around. The tables were for the flesh of the offerings.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:46 - and the room facing north is for the priests who guard the altar. These are the sons of Zadok, who are the only Levites who may draw near to the LORD to minister before him.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:48 - He brought me to the portico of the temple and measured the jambs of the portico; they were five cubits wide on either side. The width of the entrance was fourteen cubits[fn] and its projecting walls were[fn] three cubits[fn] wide on either side.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:49 - The portico was twenty cubits[fn] wide, and twelve[fn] cubits[fn] from front to back. It was reached by a flight of stairs,[fn] and there were pillars on each side of the jambs.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:1 - Then the man brought me to the main hall and measured the jambs; the width of the jambs was six cubits[fn] on each side.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:3 - Then he went into the inner sanctuary and measured the jambs of the entrance; each was two cubits[fn] wide. The entrance was six cubits wide, and the projecting walls on each side of it were seven cubits[fn] wide.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:6 - The side rooms were on three levels, one above another, thirty on each level. There were ledges all around the wall of the temple to serve as supports for the side rooms, so that the supports were not inserted into the wall of the temple.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:11 - There were entrances to the side rooms from the open area, one on the north and another on the south; and the base adjoining the open area was five cubits wide all around.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:16 - as well as the thresholds and the narrow windows and galleries around the three of them—everything beyond and including the threshold was covered with wood. The floor, the wall up to the windows, and the windows were covered.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:20 - From the floor to the area above the entrance, cherubim and palm trees were carved on the wall of the main hall.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:25 - And on the doors of the main hall were carved cherubim and palm trees like those carved on the walls, and there was a wooden overhang on the front of the portico.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:26 - On the sidewalls of the portico were narrow windows with palm trees carved on each side. The side rooms of the temple also had overhangs.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:1 - Then the man led me northward into the outer court and brought me to the rooms opposite the temple courtyard and opposite the outer wall on the north side.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:5 - Now the upper rooms were narrower, for the galleries took more space from them than from the rooms on the lower and middle floors of the building.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:9 - The lower rooms had an entrance on the east side as one enters them from the outer court.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:10 - On the south side[fn] along the length of the wall of the outer court, adjoining the temple courtyard and opposite the outer wall, were rooms
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:12 - were the doorways of the rooms on the south. There was a doorway at the beginning of the passageway that was parallel to the corresponding wall extending eastward, by which one enters the rooms.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:16 - He measured the east side with the measuring rod; it was five hundred cubits.[fn][fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:17 - He measured the north side; it was five hundred cubits[fn] by the measuring rod.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:18 - He measured the south side; it was five hundred cubits by the measuring rod.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:19 - Then he turned to the west side and measured; it was five hundred cubits by the measuring rod.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:20 - So he measured the area on all four sides. It had a wall around it, five hundred cubits long and five hundred cubits wide, to separate the holy from the common.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:3 - The vision I saw was like the vision I had seen when he[fn] came to destroy the city and like the visions I had seen by the Kebar River, and I fell facedown.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:7 - He said: “Son of man, this is the place of my throne and the place for the soles of my feet. This is where I will live among the Israelites forever. The people of Israel will never again defile my holy name—neither they nor their kings—by their prostitution and the funeral offerings[fn] for their kings at their death.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:12 - “This is the law of the temple: All the surrounding area on top of the mountain will be most holy. Such is the law of the temple.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:13 - “These are the measurements of the altar in long cubits,[fn] that cubit being a cubit and a handbreadth: Its gutter is a cubit deep and a cubit wide, with a rim of one span[fn] around the edge. And this is the height of the altar:
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:14 - From the gutter on the ground up to the lower ledge that goes around the altar it is two cubits high, and the ledge is a cubit wide.[fn] From this lower ledge to the upper ledge that goes around the altar it is four cubits high, and that ledge is also a cubit wide.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:15 - Above that, the altar hearth is four cubits high, and four horns project upward from the hearth.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:18 - Then he said to me, “Son of man, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: These will be the regulations for sacrificing burnt offerings and splashing blood against the altar when it is built:
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:19 - You are to give a young bull as a sin offering[fn] to the Levitical priests of the family of Zadok, who come near to minister before me, declares the Sovereign LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:20 - You are to take some of its blood and put it on the four horns of the altar and on the four corners of the upper ledge and all around the rim, and so purify the altar and make atonement for it.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:27 - At the end of these days, from the eighth day on, the priests are to present your burnt offerings and fellowship offerings on the altar. Then I will accept you, declares the Sovereign LORD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:3 - The prince himself is the only one who may sit inside the gateway to eat in the presence of the LORD. He is to enter by way of the portico of the gateway and go out the same way.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:7 - In addition to all your other detestable practices, you brought foreigners uncircumcised in heart and flesh into my sanctuary, desecrating my temple while you offered me food, fat and blood, and you broke my covenant.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:8 - Instead of carrying out your duty in regard to my holy things, you put others in charge of my sanctuary.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:11 - They may serve in my sanctuary, having charge of the gates of the temple and serving in it; they may slaughter the burnt offerings and sacrifices for the people and stand before the people and serve them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:13 - They are not to come near to serve me as priests or come near any of my holy things or my most holy offerings; they must bear the shame of their detestable practices.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:15 - “ ‘But the Levitical priests, who are descendants of Zadok and who guarded my sanctuary when the Israelites went astray from me, are to come near to minister before me; they are to stand before me to offer sacrifices of fat and blood, declares the Sovereign LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:16 - They alone are to enter my sanctuary; they alone are to come near my table to minister before me and serve me as guards.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:22 - They must not marry widows or divorced women; they may marry only virgins of Israelite descent or widows of priests.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:24 - “ ‘In any dispute, the priests are to serve as judges and decide it according to my ordinances. They are to keep my laws and my decrees for all my appointed festivals, and they are to keep my Sabbaths holy.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:25 - “ ‘A priest must not defile himself by going near a dead person; however, if the dead person was his father or mother, son or daughter, brother or unmarried sister, then he may defile himself.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:27 - On the day he goes into the inner court of the sanctuary to minister in the sanctuary, he is to offer a sin offering[fn] for himself, declares the Sovereign LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:30 - The best of all the firstfruits and of all your special gifts will belong to the priests. You are to give them the first portion of your ground meal so that a blessing may rest on your household.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:5 - An area 25,000 cubits long and 10,000 cubits wide will belong to the Levites, who serve in the temple, as their possession for towns to live in.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:11 - The ephah and the bath are to be the same size, the bath containing a tenth of a homer and the ephah a tenth of a homer; the homer is to be the standard measure for both.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:13 - “ ‘This is the special gift you are to offer: a sixth of an ephah[fn] from each homer of wheat and a sixth of an ephah[fn] from each homer of barley.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:14 - The prescribed portion of olive oil, measured by the bath, is a tenth of a bath[fn] from each cor (which consists of ten baths or one homer, for ten baths are equivalent to a homer).
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:15 - Also one sheep is to be taken from every flock of two hundred from the well-watered pastures of Israel. These will be used for the grain offerings, burnt offerings and fellowship offerings to make atonement for the people, declares the Sovereign LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:17 - It will be the duty of the prince to provide the burnt offerings, grain offerings and drink offerings at the festivals, the New Moons and the Sabbaths—at all the appointed festivals of Israel. He will provide the sin offerings,[fn] grain offerings, burnt offerings and fellowship offerings to make atonement for the Israelites.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:18 - “ ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: In the first month on the first day you are to take a young bull without defect and purify the sanctuary.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:19 - The priest is to take some of the blood of the sin offering and put it on the doorposts of the temple, on the four corners of the upper ledge of the altar and on the gateposts of the inner court.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:2 - The prince is to enter from the outside through the portico of the gateway and stand by the gatepost. The priests are to sacrifice his burnt offering and his fellowship offerings. He is to bow down in worship at the threshold of the gateway and then go out, but the gate will not be shut until evening.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:8 - When the prince enters, he is to go in through the portico of the gateway, and he is to come out the same way.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:12 - “ ‘When the prince provides a freewill offering to the LORD—whether a burnt offering or fellowship offerings—the gate facing east is to be opened for him. He shall offer his burnt offering or his fellowship offerings as he does on the Sabbath day. Then he shall go out, and after he has gone out, the gate will be shut.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:14 - You are also to provide with it morning by morning a grain offering, consisting of a sixth of an ephah[fn] with a third of a hin[fn] of oil to moisten the flour. The presenting of this grain offering to the LORD is a lasting ordinance.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:17 - If, however, he makes a gift from his inheritance to one of his servants, the servant may keep it until the year of freedom; then it will revert to the prince. His inheritance belongs to his sons only; it is theirs.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:20 - He said to me, “This is the place where the priests are to cook the guilt offering and the sin offering[fn] and bake the grain offering, to avoid bringing them into the outer court and consecrating the people.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:1 - The man brought me back to the entrance to the temple, and I saw water coming out from under the threshold of the temple toward the east (for the temple faced east). The water was coming down from under the south side of the temple, south of the altar.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:2 - He then brought me out through the north gate and led me around the outside to the outer gate facing east, and the water was trickling from the south side.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:7 - When I arrived there, I saw a great number of trees on each side of the river.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:12 - Fruit trees of all kinds will grow on both banks of the river. Their leaves will not wither, nor will their fruit fail. Every month they will bear fruit, because the water from the sanctuary flows to them. Their fruit will serve for food and their leaves for healing.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:14 - You are to divide it equally among them. Because I swore with uplifted hand to give it to your ancestors, this land will become your inheritance.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:18 - What remains of the area, bordering on the sacred portion and running the length of it, will be 10,000 cubits on the east side and 10,000 cubits on the west side. Its produce will supply food for the workers of the city.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 1:3 - Then the king ordered Ashpenaz, chief of his court officials, to bring into the king's service some of the Israelites from the royal family and the nobility—
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 1:16 - So the guard took away their choice food and the wine they were to drink and gave them vegetables instead.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:2 - So the king summoned the magicians, enchanters, sorcerers and astrologers[fn] to tell him what he had dreamed. When they came in and stood before the king,
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:3 - he said to them, “I have had a dream that troubles me and I want to know what it means.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:18 - He urged them to plead for mercy from the God of heaven concerning this mystery, so that he and his friends might not be executed with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:30 - As for me, this mystery has been revealed to me, not because I have greater wisdom than anyone else alive, but so that Your Majesty may know the interpretation and that you may understand what went through your mind.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:35 - Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver and the gold were all broken to pieces and became like chaff on a threshing floor in the summer. The wind swept them away without leaving a trace. But the rock that struck the statue became a huge mountain and filled the whole earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:43 - And just as you saw the iron mixed with baked clay, so the people will be a mixture and will not remain united, any more than iron mixes with clay.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:6 - Whoever does not fall down and worship will immediately be thrown into a blazing furnace.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:11 - and that whoever does not fall down and worship will be thrown into a blazing furnace.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:15 - Now when you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe and all kinds of music, if you are ready to fall down and worship the image I made, very good. But if you do not worship it, you will be thrown immediately into a blazing furnace. Then what god will be able to rescue you from my hand?”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:16 - Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego replied to him, “King Nebuchadnezzar, we do not need to defend ourselves before you in this matter.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:17 - If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God we serve is able to deliver us from it, and he will deliver us[fn] from Your Majesty's hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:19 - Then Nebuchadnezzar was furious with Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, and his attitude toward them changed. He ordered the furnace heated seven times hotter than usual
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:20 - and commanded some of the strongest soldiers in his army to tie up Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego and throw them into the blazing furnace.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:21 - So these men, wearing their robes, trousers, turbans and other clothes, were bound and thrown into the blazing furnace.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:23 - and these three men, firmly tied, fell into the blazing furnace.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:24 - Then King Nebuchadnezzar leaped to his feet in amazement and asked his advisers, “Weren't there three men that we tied up and threw into the fire?” They replied, “Certainly, Your Majesty.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:25 - He said, “Look! I see four men walking around in the fire, unbound and unharmed, and the fourth looks like a son of the gods.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:26 - Nebuchadnezzar then approached the opening of the blazing furnace and shouted, “Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, servants of the Most High God, come out! Come here!” So Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego came out of the fire,
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:27 - and the satraps, prefects, governors and royal advisers crowded around them. They saw that the fire had not harmed their bodies, nor was a hair of their heads singed; their robes were not scorched, and there was no smell of fire on them.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:6 - So I commanded that all the wise men of Babylon be brought before me to interpret the dream for me.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:9 - I said, “Belteshazzar, chief of the magicians, I know that the spirit of the holy gods is in you, and no mystery is too difficult for you. Here is my dream; interpret it for me.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:26 - The command to leave the stump of the tree with its roots means that your kingdom will be restored to you when you acknowledge that Heaven rules.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:2 - While Belshazzar was drinking his wine, he gave orders to bring in the gold and silver goblets that Nebuchadnezzar his father[fn] had taken from the temple in Jerusalem, so that the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines might drink from them.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:7 - The king summoned the enchanters, astrologers[fn] and diviners. Then he said to these wise men of Babylon, “Whoever reads this writing and tells me what it means will be clothed in purple and have a gold chain placed around his neck, and he will be made the third highest ruler in the kingdom.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:20 - But when his heart became arrogant and hardened with pride, he was deposed from his royal throne and stripped of his glory.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:26 - “Here is what these words mean: Mene[fn]: God has numbered the days of your reign and brought it to an end.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:1 - It pleased Darius to appoint 120 satraps to rule throughout the kingdom,
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:2 - with three administrators over them, one of whom was Daniel. The satraps were made accountable to them so that the king might not suffer loss.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:7 - The royal administrators, prefects, satraps, advisers and governors have all agreed that the king should issue an edict and enforce the decree that anyone who prays to any god or human being during the next thirty days, except to you, Your Majesty, shall be thrown into the lions' den.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:14 - When the king heard this, he was greatly distressed; he was determined to rescue Daniel and made every effort until sundown to save him.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:26 - “I issue a decree that in every part of my kingdom people must fear and reverence the God of Daniel. “For he is the living God and he endures forever; his kingdom will not be destroyed, his dominion will never end.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 7:19 - “Then I wanted to know the meaning of the fourth beast, which was different from all the others and most terrifying, with its iron teeth and bronze claws—the beast that crushed and devoured its victims and trampled underfoot whatever was left.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 7:20 - I also wanted to know about the ten horns on its head and about the other horn that came up, before which three of them fell—the horn that looked more imposing than the others and that had eyes and a mouth that spoke boastfully.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 7:25 - He will speak against the Most High and oppress his holy people and try to change the set times and the laws. The holy people will be delivered into his hands for a time, times and half a time.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 7:26 - “ ‘But the court will sit, and his power will be taken away and completely destroyed forever.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:3 - I looked up, and there before me was a ram with two horns, standing beside the canal, and the horns were long. One of the horns was longer than the other but grew up later.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:7 - I saw it attack the ram furiously, striking the ram and shattering its two horns. The ram was powerless to stand against it; the goat knocked it to the ground and trampled on it, and none could rescue the ram from its power.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:9 - Out of one of them came another horn, which started small but grew in power to the south and to the east and toward the Beautiful Land.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:22 - The four horns that replaced the one that was broken off represent four kingdoms that will emerge from his nation but will not have the same power.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:1 - In the first year of Darius son of Xerxes[fn] (a Mede by descent), who was made ruler over the Babylonian[fn] kingdom—
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:3 - So I turned to the Lord God and pleaded with him in prayer and petition, in fasting, and in sackcloth and ashes.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:7 - “Lord, you are righteous, but this day we are covered with shame—the people of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, both near and far, in all the countries where you have scattered us because of our unfaithfulness to you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:8 - We and our kings, our princes and our ancestors are covered with shame, LORD, because we have sinned against you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:11 - All Israel has transgressed your law and turned away, refusing to obey you. “Therefore the curses and sworn judgments written in the Law of Moses, the servant of God, have been poured out on us, because we have sinned against you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:13 - Just as it is written in the Law of Moses, all this disaster has come on us, yet we have not sought the favor of the LORD our God by turning from our sins and giving attention to your truth.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:20 - While I was speaking and praying, confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel and making my request to the LORD my God for his holy hill—
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:23 - As soon as you began to pray, a word went out, which I have come to tell you, for you are highly esteemed. Therefore, consider the word and understand the vision:
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:24 - “Seventy ‘sevens'[fn] are decreed for your people and your holy city to finish[fn] transgression, to put an end to sin, to atone for wickedness, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the Most Holy Place.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:25 - “Know and understand this: From the time the word goes out to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Anointed One,[fn] the ruler, comes, there will be seven ‘sevens,' and sixty-two ‘sevens.' It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of trouble.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 10:12 - Then he continued, “Do not be afraid, Daniel. Since the first day that you set your mind to gain understanding and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard, and I have come in response to them.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 10:20 - So he said, “Do you know why I have come to you? Soon I will return to fight against the prince of Persia, and when I go, the prince of Greece will come;
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:6 - After some years, they will become allies. The daughter of the king of the South will go to the king of the North to make an alliance, but she will not retain her power, and he and his power[fn] will not last. In those days she will be betrayed, together with her royal escort and her father[fn] and the one who supported her.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:7 - “One from her family line will arise to take her place. He will attack the forces of the king of the North and enter his fortress; he will fight against them and be victorious.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:14 - “In those times many will rise against the king of the South. Those who are violent among your own people will rebel in fulfillment of the vision, but without success.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:15 - Then the king of the North will come and build up siege ramps and will capture a fortified city. The forces of the South will be powerless to resist; even their best troops will not have the strength to stand.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:17 - He will determine to come with the might of his entire kingdom and will make an alliance with the king of the South. And he will give him a daughter in marriage in order to overthrow the kingdom, but his plans[fn] will not succeed or help him.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:35 - Some of the wise will stumble, so that they may be refined, purified and made spotless until the time of the end, for it will still come at the appointed time.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:44 - But reports from the east and the north will alarm him, and he will set out in a great rage to destroy and annihilate many.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 12:3 - Those who are wise[fn] will shine like the brightness of the heavens, and those who lead many to righteousness, like the stars for ever and ever.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 12:5 - Then I, Daniel, looked, and there before me stood two others, one on this bank of the river and one on the opposite bank.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 12:6 - One of them said to the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, “How long will it be before these astonishing things are fulfilled?”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 12:7 - The man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, lifted his right hand and his left hand toward heaven, and I heard him swear by him who lives forever, saying, “It will be for a time, times and half a time.[fn] When the power of the holy people has been finally broken, all these things will be completed.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 12:11 - “From the time that the daily sacrifice is abolished and the abomination that causes desolation is set up, there will be 1,290 days.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:9 - “Therefore I will take away my grain when it ripens, and my new wine when it is ready. I will take back my wool and my linen, intended to cover her naked body.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:6 - my people are destroyed from lack of knowledge. “Because you have rejected knowledge, I also reject you as my priests; because you have ignored the law of your God, I also will ignore your children.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:10 - “They will eat but not have enough; they will engage in prostitution but not flourish, because they have deserted the LORD to give themselves
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 5:4 - “Their deeds do not permit them to return to their God. A spirit of prostitution is in their heart; they do not acknowledge the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 5:6 - When they go with their flocks and herds to seek the LORD, they will not find him; he has withdrawn himself from them.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 6:3 - Let us acknowledge the LORD; let us press on to acknowledge him. As surely as the sun rises, he will appear; he will come to us like the winter rains, like the spring rains that water the earth.”
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:2 - but they do not realize that I remember all their evil deeds. Their sins engulf them; they are always before me.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:4 - They are all adulterers, burning like an oven whose fire the baker need not stir from the kneading of the dough till it rises.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 8:7 - “They sow the wind and reap the whirlwind. The stalk has no head; it will produce no flour. Were it to yield grain, foreigners would swallow it up.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 8:10 - Although they have sold themselves among the nations, I will now gather them together. They will begin to waste away under the oppression of the mighty king.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:7 - The days of punishment are coming, the days of reckoning are at hand. Let Israel know this. Because your sins are so many and your hostility so great, the prophet is considered a fool, the inspired person a maniac.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:13 - I have seen Ephraim, like Tyre, planted in a pleasant place. But Ephraim will bring out their children to the slayer.”
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:15 - “Because of all their wickedness in Gilgal, I hated them there. Because of their sinful deeds, I will drive them out of my house. I will no longer love them; all their leaders are rebellious.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 10:12 - Sow righteousness for yourselves, reap the fruit of unfailing love, and break up your unplowed ground; for it is time to seek the LORD, until he comes and showers his righteousness on you.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 11:9 - I will not carry out my fierce anger, nor will I devastate Ephraim again. For I am God, and not a man— the Holy One among you. I will not come against their cities.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 12:2 - The LORD has a charge to bring against Judah; he will punish Jacob[fn] according to his ways and repay him according to his deeds.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 13:2 - Now they sin more and more; they make idols for themselves from their silver, cleverly fashioned images, all of them the work of craftsmen. It is said of these people, “They offer human sacrifices! They kiss[fn] calf-idols!”
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 13:4 - “But I have been the LORD your God ever since you came out of Egypt. You shall acknowledge no God but me, no Savior except me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:20 - Even the wild animals pant for you; the streams of water have dried up and fire has devoured the pastures in the wilderness.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:17 - Let the priests, who minister before the LORD, weep between the portico and the altar. Let them say, “Spare your people, LORD. Do not make your inheritance an object of scorn, a byword among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:21 - Do not be afraid, land of Judah; be glad and rejoice. Surely the LORD has done great things!
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:22 - Do not be afraid, you wild animals, for the pastures in the wilderness are becoming green. The trees are bearing their fruit; the fig tree and the vine yield their riches.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:28 - “And afterward, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:29 - Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:12 - “Let the nations be roused; let them advance into the Valley of Jehoshaphat, for there I will sit to judge all the nations on every side.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 1:6 - This is what the LORD says: “For three sins of Gaza, even for four, I will not relent. Because she took captive whole communities and sold them to Edom,
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 1:11 - This is what the LORD says: “For three sins of Edom, even for four, I will not relent. Because he pursued his brother with a sword and slaughtered the women of the land, because his anger raged continually and his fury flamed unchecked,
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:4 - This is what the LORD says: “For three sins of Judah, even for four, I will not relent. Because they have rejected the law of the LORD and have not kept his decrees, because they have been led astray by false gods,[fn] the gods[fn] their ancestors followed,
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:8 - They lie down beside every altar on garments taken in pledge. In the house of their god they drink wine taken as fines.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:10 - I brought you up out of Egypt and led you forty years in the wilderness to give you the land of the Amorites.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 3:5 - Does a bird swoop down to a trap on the ground when no bait is there? Does a trap spring up from the ground if it has not caught anything?
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 3:14 - “On the day I punish Israel for her sins, I will destroy the altars of Bethel; the horns of the altar will be cut off and fall to the ground.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 4:4 - “Go to Bethel and sin; go to Gilgal and sin yet more. Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three years.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 4:8 - People staggered from town to town for water but did not get enough to drink, yet you have not returned to me,”

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 4:12 - “Therefore this is what I will do to you, Israel, and because I will do this to you, Israel, prepare to meet your God.”
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:2 - “Fallen is Virgin Israel, never to rise again, deserted in her own land, with no one to lift her up.”
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:10 - And if the relative who comes to carry the bodies out of the house to burn them[fn] asks anyone who might be hiding there, “Is anyone else with you?” and he says, “No,” then he will go on to say, “Hush! We must not mention the name of the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:14 - For the LORD God Almighty declares, “I will stir up a nation against you, Israel, that will oppress you all the way from Lebo Hamath to the valley of the Arabah.”
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:2 - When they had stripped the land clean, I cried out, “Sovereign LORD, forgive! How can Jacob survive? He is so small!”
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:8 - And the LORD asked me, “What do you see, Amos?” “A plumb line,” I replied. Then the Lord said, “Look, I am setting a plumb line among my people Israel; I will spare them no longer.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:13 - Don't prophesy anymore at Bethel, because this is the king's sanctuary and the temple of the kingdom.”
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 8:2 - “What do you see, Amos?” he asked. “A basket of ripe fruit,” I answered. Then the LORD said to me, “The time is ripe for my people Israel; I will spare them no longer.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 8:5 - saying, “When will the New Moon be over that we may sell grain, and the Sabbath be ended that we may market wheat?”— skimping on the measure, boosting the price and cheating with dishonest scales,
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 8:6 - buying the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the sweepings with the wheat.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 8:11 - “The days are coming,” declares the Sovereign LORD, “when I will send a famine through the land— not a famine of food or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 9:1 - I saw the Lord standing by the altar, and he said: “Strike the tops of the pillars so that the thresholds shake. Bring them down on the heads of all the people; those who are left I will kill with the sword. Not one will get away, none will escape.
Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:14 - You should not wait at the crossroads to cut down their fugitives, nor hand over their survivors in the day of their trouble.
Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:21 - Deliverers will go up on[fn] Mount Zion to govern the mountains of Esau. And the kingdom will be the LORD's.
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 1:3 - But Jonah ran away from the LORD and headed for Tarshish. He went down to Joppa, where he found a ship bound for that port. After paying the fare, he went aboard and sailed for Tarshish to flee from the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 1:5 - All the sailors were afraid and each cried out to his own god. And they threw the cargo into the sea to lighten the ship. But Jonah had gone below deck, where he lay down and fell into a deep sleep.
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 1:13 - Instead, the men did their best to row back to land. But they could not, for the sea grew even wilder than before.
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 1:17 - Now the LORD provided a huge fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 2:1 - From inside the fish Jonah prayed to the LORD his God.
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 2:4 - I said, ‘I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:4 - Jonah began by going a day's journey into the city, proclaiming, “Forty more days and Nineveh will be overthrown.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:10 - When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, he relented and did not bring on them the destruction he had threatened.
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 4:2 - He prayed to the LORD, “Isn't this what I said, LORD, when I was still at home? That is what I tried to forestall by fleeing to Tarshish. I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in love, a God who relents from sending calamity.
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 4:6 - Then the LORD God provided a leafy plant[fn] and made it grow up over Jonah to give shade for his head to ease his discomfort, and Jonah was very happy about the plant.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 2:4 - In that day people will ridicule you; they will taunt you with this mournful song: ‘We are utterly ruined; my people's possession is divided up. He takes it from me! He assigns our fields to traitors.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 2:8 - Lately my people have risen up like an enemy. You strip off the rich robe from those who pass by without a care, like men returning from battle.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 3:1 - Then I said, “Listen, you leaders of Jacob, you rulers of Israel. Should you not embrace justice,
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 3:8 - But as for me, I am filled with power, with the Spirit of the LORD, and with justice and might, to declare to Jacob his transgression, to Israel his sin.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 4:7 - I will make the lame my remnant, those driven away a strong nation. The LORD will rule over them in Mount Zion from that day and forever.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:2 - “But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are small among the clans[fn] of Judah, out of you will come for me one who will be ruler over Israel, whose origins are from of old, from ancient times.”
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:4 - He will stand and shepherd his flock in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God. And they will live securely, for then his greatness will reach to the ends of the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 6:8 - He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly[fn] with your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 6:13 - Therefore, I have begun to destroy you, to ruin[fn] you because of your sins.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:1 - What misery is mine! I am like one who gathers summer fruit at the gleaning of the vineyard; there is no cluster of grapes to eat, none of the early figs that I crave.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:5 - Do not trust a neighbor; put no confidence in a friend. Even with the woman who lies in your embrace guard the words of your lips.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:9 - Because I have sinned against him, I will bear the LORD's wrath, until he pleads my case and upholds my cause. He will bring me out into the light; I will see his righteousness.
Unchecked Copy BoxNah 1:14 - The LORD has given a command concerning you, Nineveh: “You will have no descendants to bear your name. I will destroy the images and idols that are in the temple of your gods. I will prepare your grave, for you are vile.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNah 1:15 - Look, there on the mountains, the feet of one who brings good news, who proclaims peace! Celebrate your festivals, Judah, and fulfill your vows. No more will the wicked invade you; they will be completely destroyed.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxNah 2:11 - Where now is the lions' den, the place where they fed their young, where the lion and lioness went, and the cubs, with nothing to fear?
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:6 - I am raising up the Babylonians,[fn] that ruthless and impetuous people, who sweep across the whole earth to seize dwellings not their own.
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:12 - LORD, are you not from everlasting? My God, my Holy One, you[fn] will never die. You, LORD, have appointed them to execute judgment; you, my Rock, have ordained them to punish.
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:1 - I will stand at my watch and station myself on the ramparts; I will look to see what he will say to me, and what answer I am to give to this complaint.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:9 - “Woe to him who builds his house by unjust gain, setting his nest on high to escape the clutches of ruin!
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:14 - For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD as the waters cover the sea.
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:18 - “Of what value is an idol carved by a craftsman? Or an image that teaches lies? For the one who makes it trusts in his own creation; he makes idols that cannot speak.
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:13 - You came out to deliver your people, to save your anointed one. You crushed the leader of the land of wickedness, you stripped him from head to foot.
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:16 - I heard and my heart pounded, my lips quivered at the sound; decay crept into my bones, and my legs trembled. Yet I will wait patiently for the day of calamity to come on the nation invading us.
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:19 - The Sovereign LORD is my strength; he makes my feet like the feet of a deer, he enables me to tread on the heights. For the director of music. On my stringed instruments.
Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:2 - before the decree takes effect and that day passes like windblown chaff, before the LORD's fierce anger comes upon you, before the day of the LORD's wrath comes upon you.
Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:6 - “I have destroyed nations; their strongholds are demolished. I have left their streets deserted, with no one passing through. Their cities are laid waste; they are deserted and empty.
Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:8 - Therefore wait for me,” declares the LORD, “for the day I will stand up to testify.[fn] I have decided to assemble the nations, to gather the kingdoms and to pour out my wrath on them— all my fierce anger. The whole world will be consumed by the fire of my jealous anger.
Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:9 - “Then I will purify the lips of the peoples, that all of them may call on the name of the LORD and serve him shoulder to shoulder.
Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:11 - On that day you, Jerusalem, will not be put to shame for all the wrongs you have done to me, because I will remove from you your arrogant boasters. Never again will you be haughty on my holy hill.
Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:12 - But I will leave within you the meek and humble. The remnant of Israel will trust in the name of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 1:2 - This is what the LORD Almighty says: “These people say, ‘The time has not yet come to rebuild the LORD's house.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 1:4 - “Is it a time for you yourselves to be living in your paneled houses, while this house remains a ruin?”
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:9 - ‘The glory of this present house will be greater than the glory of the former house,' says the LORD Almighty. ‘And in this place I will grant peace,' declares the LORD Almighty.”
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:12 - If someone carries consecrated meat in the fold of their garment, and that fold touches some bread or stew, some wine, olive oil or other food, does it become consecrated?' ” The priests answered, “No.”
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:15 - “ ‘Now give careful thought to this from this day on[fn]—consider how things were before one stone was laid on another in the LORD's temple.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 1:4 - Do not be like your ancestors, to whom the earlier prophets proclaimed: This is what the LORD Almighty says: ‘Turn from your evil ways and your evil practices.' But they would not listen or pay attention to me, declares the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 1:6 - But did not my words and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets, overtake your ancestors? “Then they repented and said, ‘The LORD Almighty has done to us what our ways and practices deserve, just as he determined to do.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 1:10 - Then the man standing among the myrtle trees explained, “They are the ones the LORD has sent to go throughout the earth.”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 1:21 - I asked, “What are these coming to do?” He answered, “These are the horns that scattered Judah so that no one could raise their head, but the craftsmen have come to terrify them and throw down these horns of the nations who lifted up their horns against the land of Judah to scatter its people.”[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 2:2 - I asked, “Where are you going?” He answered me, “To measure Jerusalem, to find out how wide and how long it is.”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 3:1 - Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan[fn] standing at his right side to accuse him.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 4:3 - Also there are two olive trees by it, one on the right of the bowl and the other on its left.”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 4:7 - “What are you, mighty mountain? Before Zerubbabel you will become level ground. Then he will bring out the capstone to shouts of ‘God bless it! God bless it!' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 5:7 - Then the cover of lead was raised, and there in the basket sat a woman!
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 5:8 - He said, “This is wickedness,” and he pushed her back into the basket and pushed its lead cover down on it.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 6:7 - When the powerful horses went out, they were straining to go throughout the earth. And he said, “Go throughout the earth!” So they went throughout the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 7:2 - The people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-Melek, together with their men, to entreat the LORD
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 7:11 - “But they refused to pay attention; stubbornly they turned their backs and covered their ears.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 7:12 - They made their hearts as hard as flint and would not listen to the law or to the words that the LORD Almighty had sent by his Spirit through the earlier prophets. So the LORD Almighty was very angry.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:14 - This is what the LORD Almighty says: “Just as I had determined to bring disaster on you and showed no pity when your ancestors angered me,” says the LORD Almighty,
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:15 - “so now I have determined to do good again to Jerusalem and Judah. Do not be afraid.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:21 - and the inhabitants of one city will go to another and say, ‘Let us go at once to entreat the LORD and seek the LORD Almighty. I myself am going.'
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:22 - And many peoples and powerful nations will come to Jerusalem to seek the LORD Almighty and to entreat him.”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:23 - This is what the LORD Almighty says: “In those days ten people from all languages and nations will take firm hold of one Jew by the hem of his robe and say, ‘Let us go with you, because we have heard that God is with you.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:8 - But I will encamp at my temple to guard it against marauding forces. Never again will an oppressor overrun my people, for now I am keeping watch.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:10 - Then I took my staff called Favor and broke it, revoking the covenant I had made with all the nations.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:14 - Then I broke my second staff called Union, breaking the family bond between Judah and Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 12:9 - On that day I will set out to destroy all the nations that attack Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 14:4 - On that day his feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem, and the Mount of Olives will be split in two from east to west, forming a great valley, with half of the mountain moving north and half moving south.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 14:16 - Then the survivors from all the nations that have attacked Jerusalem will go up year after year to worship the King, the LORD Almighty, and to celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 14:17 - If any of the peoples of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD Almighty, they will have no rain.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 14:18 - If the Egyptian people do not go up and take part, they will have no rain. The LORD[fn] will bring on them the plague he inflicts on the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 14:19 - This will be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 14:20 - On that day holy to the Lord will be inscribed on the bells of the horses, and the cooking pots in the LORD's house will be like the sacred bowls in front of the altar.
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 2:2 - If you do not listen, and if you do not resolve to honor my name,” says the LORD Almighty, “I will send a curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have already cursed them, because you have not resolved to honor me.
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 2:4 - And you will know that I have sent you this warning so that my covenant with Levi may continue,” says the LORD Almighty.
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 2:10 - Do we not all have one Father[fn]? Did not one God create us? Why do we profane the covenant of our ancestors by being unfaithful to one another?
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:10 - Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the LORD Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it.
T-GS
Occurrences: 15 times in 12 verses
Speech: Definite article
Parsing: Genitive Singular
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:12 - Then the Israelites set out from the Desert of Sinai and traveled from place to place until the cloud came to rest in the Desert of Paran.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:28 - And Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, overlooking the wasteland.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:1 - The Ziphites went to Saul at Gibeah and said, “Is not David hiding on the hill of Hakilah, which faces Jeshimon?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:3 - Saul made his camp beside the road on the hill of Hakilah facing Jeshimon, but David stayed in the wilderness. When he saw that Saul had followed him there,
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 27:10 - When Achish asked, “Where did you go raiding today?” David would say, “Against the Negev of Judah” or “Against the Negev of Jerahmeel” or “Against the Negev of the Kenites.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:14 - We raided the Negev of the Kerethites, some territory belonging to Judah and the Negev of Caleb. And we burned Ziklag.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:2 - In my vision I saw myself in the citadel of Susa in the province of Elam; in the vision I was beside the Ulai Canal.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:3 - I looked up, and there before me was a ram with two horns, standing beside the canal, and the horns were long. One of the horns was longer than the other but grew up later.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:6 - It came toward the two-horned ram I had seen standing beside the canal and charged at it in great rage.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:16 - And I heard a man's voice from the Ulai calling, “Gabriel, tell this man the meaning of the vision.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:16 - The invader will do as he pleases; no one will be able to stand against him. He will establish himself in the Beautiful Land and will have the power to destroy it.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:41 - He will also invade the Beautiful Land. Many countries will fall, but Edom, Moab and the leaders of Ammon will be delivered from his hand.
R-GSM
Occurrences: 1 time in 1 verse
Speech: Relative Pronoun
Parsing: Genitive Singular Masculine
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:1 - The words of Jeremiah son of Hilkiah, one of the priests at Anathoth in the territory of Benjamin.
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