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Occurrences: 3074 times in 2508 verses
Speech: Definite article
Parsing: Nominative Singular Feminine
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 1:9 - 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 1:11 - Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:12 - The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:24 - And God said, “Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: the livestock, the creatures that move along the ground, and the wild animals, each according to its kind.” And it was so.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:1 - Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:4 - This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, when the LORD God made the earth and the heavens.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:25 - Adam and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:2 - The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:6 - 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 3:12 - 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 3:13 - Then the LORD God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:16 - To the woman he said, “I will make your pains in childbearing very severe; with painful labor you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”
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 4:7 - If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:13 - Cain said to the LORD, “My punishment is more than I can bear.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:1 - This is the written account of Adam's family line. When God created mankind, he made them in the likeness of God.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:11 - Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight and was full of violence.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:13 - So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:18 - But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons' wives with you.
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 7:13 - On that very day Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth, together with his wife and the wives of his three sons, entered the ark.
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 8:4 - and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:9 - But the dove could find nowhere to perch because there was water over all the surface of the earth; so it returned to Noah in the ark. He reached out his hand and took the dove and brought it back to himself in the ark.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:11 - When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew that the water had receded from the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:14 - By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:16 - “Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:18 - So Noah came out, together with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives.
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 10:12 - and Resen, which is between Nineveh and Calah—which is the great city.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:25 - Two sons were born to Eber: One was named Peleg,[fn] because in his time the earth was divided; his brother was named Joktan.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:30 - The region where they lived stretched from Mesha toward Sephar, in the eastern hill country.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:1 - Now the whole world had one language and a common speech.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:3 - They said to each other, “Come, let's make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar.
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 12:13 - Say you are my sister, so that I will be treated well for your sake and my life will be spared because of you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:19 - Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,' so that I took her to be my wife? Now then, here is your wife. Take her and go!”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:1 - So Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev, with his wife and everything he had, and Lot went with him.
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 13:6 - But the land could not support them while they stayed together, for their possessions were so great that they were not able to stay together.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:9 - Is not the whole land before you? Let's part company. If you go to the left, I'll go to the right; if you go to the right, I'll go to the left.”
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 14:3 - All these latter kings joined forces in the Valley of Siddim (that is, the Dead Sea Valley).
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:10 - Now the Valley of Siddim was full of tar pits, and when the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some of the men fell into them and the rest fled to the hills.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:1 - Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no children. But she had an Egyptian slave named Hagar;
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 16:4 - He slept with Hagar, and she conceived. When she knew she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:6 - “Your slave is in your hands,” Abram said. “Do with her whatever you think best.” Then Sarai mistreated Hagar; so she fled from her.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:4 - “As for me, this is my covenant with you: You will be the father of many nations.
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 17:13 - Whether born in your household or bought with your money, they must be circumcised. My covenant in your flesh is to be an everlasting covenant.
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 17:15 - God also said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you are no longer to call her Sarai; her name will be Sarah.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:19 - Then God said, “Yes, but your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you will call him Isaac.[fn] I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:9 - “Where is your wife Sarah?” they asked him. “There, in the tent,” he said.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:10 - Then one of them said, “I will surely return to you about this time next year, and Sarah your wife will have a son.” Now Sarah was listening at the entrance to the tent, which was behind him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:13 - because we are going to destroy this place. The outcry to the LORD against its people is so great that he has sent us to destroy it.”
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 19:26 - But Lot's wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:31 - One day the older daughter said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man around here to give us children—as is the custom all over the earth.
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 19:37 - The older daughter had a son, and she named him Moab[fn]; he is the father of the Moabites of today.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 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 20:15 - And Abimelek said, “My land is before you; live wherever you like.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:21 - While he was living in the Desert of Paran, his mother got a wife for him from Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:24 - His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also had sons: Tebah, Gaham, Tahash and Maakah.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:1 - Sarah lived to be a hundred and twenty-seven years old.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:5 - The servant asked him, “What if the woman is unwilling to come back with me to this land? Shall I then take your son back to the country you came from?”
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 24:14 - May it be that when I say to a young woman, ‘Please let down your jar that I may have a drink,' and she says, ‘Drink, and I'll water your camels too'—let her be the one you have chosen for your servant Isaac. By this I will know that you have shown kindness to my master.”
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 24:16 - The woman was very beautiful, a virgin; no man had ever slept with her. She went down to the spring, filled her jar and came up again.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:18 - “Drink, my lord,” she said, and quickly lowered the jar to her hands and gave him a drink.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:28 - The young woman ran and told her mother's household about these things.
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 24:39 - “Then I asked my master, ‘What if the woman will not come back with me?'
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 24:44 - and if she says to me, “Drink, and I'll draw water for your camels too,” let her be the one the LORD has chosen for my master's son.'
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 24:55 - But her brother and her mother replied, “Let the young woman remain with us ten days or so; then you[fn] may go.”
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 24:65 - and asked the servant, “Who is that man in the field coming to meet us?” “He is my master,” the servant answered. So she took her veil and covered herself.
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 25:21 - Isaac prayed to the LORD on behalf of his wife, because she was childless. The LORD answered his prayer, and his wife Rebekah became pregnant.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:26 - After this, his brother came out, with his hand grasping Esau's heel; so he was named Jacob.[fn] Isaac was sixty years old when Rebekah gave birth to them.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:28 - Isaac, who had a taste for wild game, loved Esau, but Rebekah loved Jacob.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:4 - Prepare me the kind of tasty food I like and bring it to me to eat, so that I may give you my blessing before I die.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:13 - His mother said to him, “My son, let the curse fall on me. Just do what I say; go and get them for me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:14 - So he went and got them and brought them to his mother, and she prepared some tasty food, just the way his father liked it.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:19 - Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Please sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may give me your blessing.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:22 - Jacob went close to his father Isaac, who touched him and said, “The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:25 - Then he said, “My son, bring me some of your game to eat, so that I may give you my blessing.” Jacob brought it to him and he ate; and he brought some wine and he drank.
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 27:39 - 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 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 28:14 - Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south. All peoples on earth will be blessed through you and your offspring.[fn]
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 29:6 - Then Jacob asked them, “Is he well?” “Yes, he is,” they said, “and here comes his daughter Rachel with the sheep.”
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 30:3 - Then she said, “Here is Bilhah, my servant. Sleep with her so that she can bear children for me and I too can build a family through her.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:5 - and she became pregnant and bore him a son.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:7 - Rachel's servant Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:10 - Leah's servant Zilpah bore Jacob a son.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:12 - Leah's servant Zilpah bore Jacob a second son.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:33 - And my honesty will testify for me in the future, whenever you check on the wages you have paid me. Any goat in my possession that is not speckled or spotted, or any lamb that is not dark-colored, will be considered stolen.”
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 31:32 - But if you find anyone who has your gods, that person shall not live. In the presence of our relatives, see for yourself whether there is anything of yours here with me; and if so, take it.” Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen the gods.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:48 - Laban said, “This heap is a witness between you and me today.” That is why it was called Galeed.
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 32:8 - He thought, “If Esau comes and attacks one group,[fn] the group[fn] that is left may escape.”
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 34:1 - Now Dinah, the daughter Leah had borne to Jacob, went out to visit the women of the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:10 - You can settle among us; the land is open to you. Live in it, trade[fn] in it, and acquire property in it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:21 - “These men are friendly toward us,” they said. “Let them live in our land and trade in it; the land has plenty of room for them. We can marry their daughters and they can marry ours.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:8 - Now Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died and was buried under the oak outside Bethel. So it was named Allon Bakuth.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:17 - And as she was having great difficulty in childbirth, the midwife said to her, “Don't despair, for you have another son.”
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 37:9 - Then he had another dream, and he told it to his brothers. “Listen,” he said, “I had another dream, and this time the sun and moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:10 - When he told his father as well as his brothers, his father rebuked him and said, “What is this dream you had? Will your mother and I and your brothers actually come and bow down to the ground before you?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:12 - After a long time Judah's wife, the daughter of Shua, died. When Judah had recovered from his grief, he went up to Timnah, to the men who were shearing his sheep, and his friend Hirah the Adullamite went with him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:16 - Not realizing that she was his daughter-in-law, he went over to her by the roadside and said, “Come now, let me sleep with you.” “And what will you give me to sleep with you?” she asked.
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 38:18 - He said, “What pledge should I give you?” “Your seal and its cord, and the staff in your hand,” she answered. So he gave them to her and slept with her, and she became pregnant by him.
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 38:24 - About three months later Judah was told, “Your daughter-in-law Tamar is guilty of prostitution, and as a result she is now pregnant.” Judah said, “Bring her out and have her burned to death!”
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 38:28 - As she was giving birth, one of them put out his hand; so the midwife took a scarlet thread and tied it on his wrist and said, “This one came out first.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:29 - But when he drew back his hand, his brother came out, and she said, “So this is how you have broken out!” And he was named Perez.[fn]
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 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 40:12 - “This is what it means,” Joseph said to him. “The three branches are three days.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:18 - “This is what it means,” Joseph said. “The three baskets are three days.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:8 - In the morning his mind was troubled, so he sent for all the magicians and wise men of Egypt. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but no one could interpret them for him.
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 41:36 - 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 41:47 - During the seven years of abundance the land produced plentifully.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:48 - Joseph collected all the food produced in those seven years of abundance in Egypt and stored it in the cities. In each city he put the food grown in the fields surrounding it.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:55 - When all Egypt began to feel the famine, the people cried to Pharaoh for food. Then Pharaoh told all the Egyptians, “Go to Joseph and do what he tells you.”
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 42:28 - “My silver has been returned,” he said to his brothers. “Here it is in my sack.” Their hearts sank and they turned to each other trembling and said, “What is this that God has done to us?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:8 - Then Judah said to Israel his father, “Send the boy along with me and we will go at once, so that we and you and our children may live and not die.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:34 - When portions were served to them from Joseph's table, Benjamin's portion was five times as much as anyone else's. So they feasted and drank freely with him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:27 - “Your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:30 - “So now, if the boy is not with us when I go back to your servant my father, and if my father, whose life is closely bound up with the boy's life,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:16 - When the news reached Pharaoh's palace that Joseph's brothers had come, Pharaoh and all his officials were pleased.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:26 - They told him, “Joseph is still alive! In fact, he is ruler of all Egypt.” Jacob was stunned; he did not believe them.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:20 - In Egypt, Manasseh and Ephraim were born to Joseph by Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:6 - and the land of Egypt is before you; settle your father and your brothers in the best part of the land. Let them live in Goshen. And if you know of any among them with special ability, put them in charge of my own livestock.”
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 47:18 - 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 47:19 - Why should we perish before your eyes—we and our land as well? Buy us and our land in exchange for food, and we with our land will be in bondage to Pharaoh. Give us seed so that we may live and not die, and that the land may not become desolate.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:20 - So Joseph bought all the land in Egypt for Pharaoh. The Egyptians, one and all, sold their fields, because the famine was too severe for them. The land became Pharaoh's,
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 49:6 - Let me not enter their council, let me not join their assembly, for they have killed men in their anger and hamstrung oxen as they pleased.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:7 - Cursed be their anger, so fierce, and their fury, so cruel! I will scatter them in Jacob and disperse them in Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:8 - besides all the members of Joseph's household and his brothers and those belonging to his father's household. Only their children and their flocks and herds were left in Goshen.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:9 - Chariots and horsemen[fn] also went up with him. It was a very large company.
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 BoxExo 1:6 - Now Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation died,
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:7 - but the Israelites were exceedingly fruitful; they multiplied greatly, increased in numbers and became so numerous that the land was filled with them.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:3 - But when she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus basket[fn] for him and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in it and put it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:4 - His sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to him.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:5 - Then Pharaoh's daughter went down to the Nile to bathe, and her attendants were walking along the riverbank. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her female slave to get it.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:6 - She opened it and saw the baby. He was crying, and she felt sorry for him. “This is one of the Hebrew babies,” she said.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:7 - Then his sister asked Pharaoh's daughter, “Shall I go and get one of the Hebrew women to nurse the baby for you?”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:8 - “Yes, go,” she answered. So the girl went and got the baby's mother.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:9 - Pharaoh's daughter said to her, “Take this baby and nurse him for me, and I will pay you.” So the woman took the baby and nursed him.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:22 - Zipporah gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom,[fn] saying, “I have become a foreigner in a foreign land.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:23 - During that long period, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned in their slavery and cried out, and their cry for help because of their slavery went up to God.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:18 - “The elders of Israel will listen to you. Then you and the elders are to go to the king of Egypt and say to him, ‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Let us take a three-day journey into the wilderness to offer sacrifices to the LORD our God.'
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 6:14 - These were the heads of their families[fn]: The sons of Reuben the firstborn son of Israel were Hanok and Pallu, Hezron and Karmi. These were the clans of Reuben.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:12 - Each one threw down his staff and it became a snake. But Aaron's staff swallowed up their staffs.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:13 - Yet Pharaoh's heart became hard and he would not listen to them, just as the LORD had said.
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 7:22 - But the Egyptian magicians did the same things by their secret arts, and Pharaoh's heart became hard; he would not listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the LORD had said.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:14 - They were piled into heaps, and the land reeked of them.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:15 - But when Pharaoh saw that there was relief, he hardened his heart and would not listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the LORD had said.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:19 - the magicians said to Pharaoh, “This is the finger of God.” But Pharaoh's heart was hard and he would not listen, just as the LORD had said.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:22 - “ ‘But on that day I will deal differently with the land of Goshen, where my people live; no swarms of flies will be there, so that you will know that I, the LORD, am in this land.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:24 - And the LORD did this. Dense swarms of flies poured into Pharaoh's palace and into the houses of his officials; throughout Egypt the land was ruined by the flies.
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 9:7 - Pharaoh investigated and found that not even one of the animals of the Israelites had died. Yet his heart was unyielding and he would not let the people go.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:19 - Give an order now to bring your livestock and everything you have in the field to a place of shelter, because the hail will fall on every person and animal that has not been brought in and is still out in the field, and they will die.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:24 - hail fell and lightning flashed back and forth. It was the worst storm in all the land of Egypt since it had become a nation.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:25 - Throughout Egypt hail struck everything in the fields—both people and animals; it beat down everything growing in the fields and stripped every tree.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:26 - The only place it did not hail was the land of Goshen, where the Israelites were.
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 9:31 - (The flax and barley were destroyed, since the barley had headed and the flax was in bloom.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:32 - The wheat and spelt, however, were not destroyed, because they ripen later.)
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:33 - Then Moses left Pharaoh and went out of the city. He spread out his hands toward the LORD; the thunder and hail stopped, and the rain no longer poured down on the land.
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 9:35 - So Pharaoh's heart was hard and he would not let the Israelites go, just as the LORD had said through Moses.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:5 - They will cover the face of the ground so that it cannot be seen. They will devour what little you have left after the hail, including every tree that is growing in your fields.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:12 - And the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over Egypt so that locusts swarm over the land and devour everything growing in the fields, everything left by the hail.”
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 10:24 - Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and said, “Go, worship the LORD. Even your women and children may go with you; only leave your flocks and herds behind.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:14 - “This is a day you are to commemorate; for the generations to come you shall celebrate it as a festival to the LORD—a lasting ordinance.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:15 - For seven days you are to eat bread made without yeast. On the first day remove the yeast from your houses, for whoever eats anything with yeast in it from the first day through the seventh must be cut off from Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:16 - On the first day hold a sacred assembly, and another one on the seventh day. Do no work at all on these days, except to prepare food for everyone to eat; that is all you may do.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:19 - For seven days no yeast is to be found in your houses. And anyone, whether foreigner or native-born, who eats anything with yeast in it must be cut off from the community of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:26 - And when your children ask you, ‘What does this ceremony mean to you?'
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:40 - Now the length of time the Israelite people lived in Egypt[fn] was 430 years.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:41 - At the end of the 430 years, to the very day, all the LORD's divisions left Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:42 - Because the LORD kept vigil that night to bring them out of Egypt, on this night all the Israelites are to keep vigil to honor the LORD for the generations to come.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:3 - Pharaoh will think, ‘The Israelites are wandering around the land in confusion, hemmed in by the desert.'
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 14:9 - The Egyptians—all Pharaoh's horses and chariots, horsemen[fn] and troops—pursued the Israelites and overtook them as they camped by the sea near Pi Hahiroth, opposite Baal Zephon.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:20 - coming between the armies of Egypt and Israel. Throughout the night the cloud brought darkness to the one side and light to the other side; so neither went near the other all night long.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:23 - The Egyptians pursued them, and all Pharaoh's horses and chariots and horsemen followed them into the sea.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:6 - Your right hand, LORD, was majestic in power. Your right hand, LORD, shattered the enemy.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:9 - The enemy boasted, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake them. I will divide the spoils; I will gorge myself on them. I will draw my sword and my hand will destroy them.'
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:20 - Then Miriam the prophet, Aaron's sister, took a timbrel in her hand, and all the women followed her, with timbrels and dancing.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:10 - While Aaron was speaking to the whole Israelite community, they looked toward the desert, and there was the glory of the LORD appearing in the cloud.
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 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 18:6 - Jethro had sent word to him, “I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you with your wife and her two sons.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:5 - Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession. Although the whole earth is mine,
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 20:10 - but the seventh day is a sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor your animals, nor any foreigner residing in your towns.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:3 - If he comes alone, he is to go free alone; but if he has a wife when he comes, she is to go with him.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:4 - If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the woman and her children shall belong to her master, and only the man shall go free.
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 22:17 - If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, he must still pay the bride-price for virgins.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:22 - If you listen carefully to what he says and do all that I say, I will be an enemy to your enemies and will oppose those who oppose you.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:29 - But I will not drive them out in a single year, because the land would become desolate and the wild animals too numerous for you.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:15 - When Moses went up on the mountain, the cloud covered it,
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 25:3 - These are the offerings you are to receive from them: gold, silver and bronze;
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:28 - Make the poles of acacia wood, overlay them with gold and carry the table with them.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:2 - All the curtains are to be the same size—twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:3 - Join five of the curtains together, and do the same with the other five.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:6 - Then make fifty gold clasps and use them to fasten the curtains together so that the tabernacle is a unit.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:5 - Put it under the ledge of the altar so that it is halfway up the altar.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:19 - All the other articles used in the service of the tabernacle, whatever their function, including all the tent pegs for it and those for the courtyard, are to be of bronze.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:35 - Aaron must wear it when he ministers. The sound of the bells will be heard when he enters the Holy Place before the LORD and when he comes out, so that he will not die.
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 29:29 - “Aaron's sacred garments will belong to his descendants so that they can be anointed and ordained in them.
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 32:16 - The tablets were the work of God; the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:22 - When my glory passes by, I will put you in a cleft in the rock and cover you with my hand until I have passed by.
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 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 35:29 - All the Israelite men and women who were willing brought to the LORD freewill offerings for all the work the LORD through Moses had commanded them to do.
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 40:17 - So the tabernacle was set up on the first day of the first month in the second year.
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 BoxExo 40:36 - In all the travels of the Israelites, whenever the cloud lifted from above the tabernacle, they would set out;
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:37 - but if the cloud did not lift, they did not set out—until the day it lifted.
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 4:20 - and do with this bull just as he did with the bull for the sin offering. In this way the priest will make atonement for the community, and they will be forgiven.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:23 - and the sin he has committed becomes known, he must bring as his offering a male goat without defect.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:28 - and the sin they have committed becomes known, they must bring as their offering for the sin they committed a female goat without defect.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:4 - or if anyone thoughtlessly takes an oath to do anything, whether good or evil (in any matter one might carelessly swear about) even though they are unaware of it, but then they learn of it and realize their guilt—
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:6 - As a penalty for the sin they have committed, they must bring to the LORD a female lamb or goat from the flock as a sin offering[fn]; and the priest shall make atonement for them for their sin.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:7 - “ ‘Anyone who cannot afford a lamb is to bring two doves or two young pigeons to the LORD as a penalty for their sin—one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering.
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 5:13 - In this way the priest will make atonement for them for any of these sins they have committed, and they will be forgiven. The rest of the offering will belong to the priest, as in the case of the grain offering.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:17 - “If anyone sins and does what is forbidden in any of the LORD's commands, even though they do not know it, they are guilty and will be held responsible.
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 7:18 - If any meat of the fellowship offering is eaten on the third day, the one who offered it will not be accepted. It will not be reckoned to their credit, for it has become impure; the person who eats any of it will be held responsible.
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 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 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 11:29 - “ ‘Of the animals that move along the ground, these are unclean for you: the weasel, the rat, any kind of great lizard,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 12:8 - But if she cannot afford a lamb, she is to bring two doves or two young pigeons, one for a burnt offering and the other for a sin offering. In this way the priest will make atonement for her, and she will be clean.' ”
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 13:5 - On the seventh day the priest is to examine them, and if he sees that the sore is unchanged and has not spread in the skin, he is to isolate them for another seven days.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:6 - On the seventh day the priest is to examine them again, and if the sore has faded and has not spread in the skin, the priest shall pronounce them clean; it is only a rash. They must wash their clothes, and they will be clean.
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 13:8 - The priest is to examine that person, and if the rash has spread in the skin, he shall pronounce them unclean; it is a defiling skin disease.
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 13:17 - The priest is to examine them, and if the sores have turned white, the priest shall pronounce the affected person clean; then they will be clean.
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 13:25 - 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 13:28 - 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 13:40 - “A man who has lost his hair and is bald is clean.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:41 - If he has lost his hair from the front of his scalp and has a bald forehead, he is clean.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:43 - The priest is to examine him, and if the swollen sore on his head or forehead is reddish-white like a defiling skin disease,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:44 - the man is diseased and is unclean. The priest shall pronounce him unclean because of the sore on his head.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:45 - “Anyone with such a defiling disease must wear torn clothes, let their hair be unkempt,[fn] cover the lower part of their face and cry out, ‘Unclean! Unclean!'
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:46 - As long as they have the disease they remain unclean. They must live alone; they must live outside the camp.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:49 - if the affected area in the fabric, the leather, the woven or knitted material, or any leather article, is greenish or reddish, it is a defiling mold and must be shown to the priest.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:51 - On the seventh day he is to examine it, and if the mold has spread in the fabric, the woven or knitted material, or the leather, whatever its use, it is a persistent defiling mold; the article is unclean.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:52 - He must burn the fabric, the woven or knitted material of wool or linen, or any leather article that has been spoiled; because the defiling mold is persistent, the article must be burned.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:53 - “But if, when the priest examines it, the mold has not spread in the fabric, the woven or knitted material, or the leather article,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:54 - he shall order that the spoiled article be washed. Then he is to isolate it for another seven days.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:55 - After the article has been washed, the priest is to examine it again, and if the mold has not changed its appearance, even though it has not spread, it is unclean. Burn it, no matter which side of the fabric has been spoiled.
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 13:57 - But if it reappears in the fabric, in the woven or knitted material, or in the leather article, it is a spreading mold; whatever has the mold must be burned.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:58 - Any fabric, woven or knitted material, or any leather article that has been washed and is rid of the mold, must be washed again. Then it will be clean.”
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 14:21 - “If, however, they are poor and cannot afford these, they must take one male lamb as a guilt offering to be waved to make atonement for them, together with a tenth of an ephah[fn] of the finest flour mixed with olive oil for a grain offering, a log of oil,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:22 - and two doves or two young pigeons, such as they can afford, one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:30 - Then he shall sacrifice the doves or the young pigeons, such as the person can afford,
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 14:35 - the owner of the house must go and tell the priest, ‘I have seen something that looks like a defiling mold in my house.'
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:37 - He is to examine the mold on the walls, and if it has greenish or reddish depressions that appear to be deeper than the surface of the wall,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:39 - On the seventh day the priest shall return to inspect the house. If the mold has spread on the walls,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:40 - he is to order that the contaminated stones be torn out and thrown into an unclean place outside the town.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:44 - the priest is to go and examine it and, if the mold has spread in the house, it is a persistent defiling mold; the house is unclean.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:48 - “But if the priest comes to examine it and the mold has not spread after the house has been plastered, he shall pronounce the house clean, because the defiling mold is gone.
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 15:3 - Whether it continues flowing from his body or is blocked, it will make him unclean. This is how his discharge will bring about uncleanness:
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:19 - “ ‘When a woman has her regular flow of blood, the impurity of her monthly period will last seven days, and anyone who touches her will be unclean till evening.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:24 - “ ‘If a man has sexual relations with her and her monthly flow touches him, he will be unclean for seven days; any bed he lies on will be unclean.
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 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 17:11 - 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 17:14 - because the life of every creature is its blood. That is why I have said to the Israelites, “You must not eat the blood of any creature, because the life of every creature is its blood; anyone who eats it must be cut off.”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:25 - Even the land was defiled; so I punished it for its sin, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:27 - for all these things were done by the people who lived in the land before you, and the land became defiled.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:28 - And if you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it vomited out the nations that were before you.
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 19:22 - With the ram of the guilt offering the priest is to make atonement for him before the LORD for the sin he has committed, and his sin will be forgiven.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:29 - “ ‘Do not degrade your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will turn to prostitution and be filled with wickedness.
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 20:22 - “ ‘Keep all my decrees and laws and follow them, so that the land where I am bringing you to live may not vomit you out.
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 23:7 - On the first day hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:8 - For seven days present a food offering to the LORD. And on the seventh day hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:30 - I will destroy from among their people anyone who does any work on that day.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:35 - The first day is a sacred assembly; do no regular work.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:36 - For seven days present food offerings to the LORD, and on the eighth day hold a sacred assembly and present a food offering to the LORD. It is the closing special assembly; do no regular work.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:14 - “Take the blasphemer outside the camp. All those who heard him are to lay their hands on his head, and the entire assembly is to stone him.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:2 - “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘When you enter the land I am going to give you, the land itself must observe a sabbath to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:19 - Then the land will yield its fruit, and you will eat your fill and live there in safety.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:23 - “ ‘The land must not be sold permanently, because the land is mine and you reside in my land as foreigners and strangers.
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 25:29 - “ ‘Anyone who sells a house in a walled city retains the right of redemption a full year after its sale. During that time the seller may redeem it.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:30 - If it is not redeemed before a full year has passed, the house in the walled city shall belong permanently to the buyer and the buyer's descendants. It is not to be returned in the Jubilee.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:33 - So the property of the Levites is redeemable—that is, a house sold in any town they hold—and is to be returned in the Jubilee, because the houses in the towns of the Levites are their property among the Israelites.
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 26:4 - I will send you rain in its season, and the ground will yield its crops and the trees their fruit.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:11 - I will put my dwelling place[fn] among you, and I will not abhor you.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:15 - and if you reject my decrees and abhor my laws and fail to carry out all my commands and so violate my covenant,
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 26:30 - I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars and pile your dead bodies[fn] on the lifeless forms of your idols, and I will abhor you.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:33 - I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out my sword and pursue you. Your land will be laid waste, and your cities will lie in ruins.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:34 - Then the land will enjoy its sabbath years all the time that it lies desolate and you are in the country of your enemies; then the land will rest and enjoy its sabbaths.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:38 - You will perish among the nations; the land of your enemies will devour you.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:41 - which made me hostile toward them so that I sent them into the land of their enemies—then when their uncircumcised hearts are humbled and they pay for their sin,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:43 - For the land will be deserted by them and will enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them. They will pay for their sins because they rejected my laws and abhorred my decrees.
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 27:4 - for a female, set her value at thirty shekels[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 27:7 - for a person sixty years old or more, set the value of a male at fifteen shekels[fn] and of a female at ten shekels.
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 27:16 - “ ‘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 27:21 - When the field is released in the Jubilee, it will become holy, like a field devoted to the LORD; it will become priestly property.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:24 - In the Year of Jubilee the field will revert to the person from whom it was bought, the one whose land it was.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:21 - The number from the tribe of Reuben was 46,500.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:23 - The number from the tribe of Simeon was 59,300.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:25 - The number from the tribe of Gad was 45,650.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:27 - The number from the tribe of Judah was 74,600.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:29 - The number from the tribe of Issachar was 54,400.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:31 - The number from the tribe of Zebulun was 57,400.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:33 - The number from the tribe of Ephraim was 40,500.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:35 - The number from the tribe of Manasseh was 32,200.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:37 - The number from the tribe of Benjamin was 35,400.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:39 - The number from the tribe of Dan was 62,700.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:41 - The number from the tribe of Asher was 41,500.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:43 - The number from the tribe of Naphtali was 53,400.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:44 - These were the men counted by Moses and Aaron and the twelve leaders of Israel, each one representing his family.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:45 - All the Israelites twenty years old or more who were able to serve in Israel's army were counted according to their families.
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 2:32 - These are the Israelites, counted according to their families. All the men in the camps, by their divisions, number 603,550.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:22 - The number of all the males a month old or more who were counted was 7,500.
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 3:31 - 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 3:34 - The number of all the males a month old or more who were counted was 6,200.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:36 - The Merarites were appointed to take care of the frames of the tabernacle, its crossbars, posts, bases, all its equipment, and everything related to their use,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:39 - The total number of Levites counted at the LORD's command by Moses and Aaron according to their clans, including every male a month old or more, was 22,000.
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 4:16 - “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 4:27 - All their service, whether carrying or doing other work, is to be done under the direction of Aaron and his sons. You shall assign to them as their responsibility all they are to carry.
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 4:36 - counted by clans, were 2,750.
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 4:40 - counted by their clans and families, were 2,630.
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 4:44 - counted by their clans, were 3,200.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:45 - This was the total of those in the Merarite clans. Moses and Aaron counted them according to the LORD's command through Moses.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:6 - “Say to the Israelites: ‘Any man or woman who wrongs another in any way[fn] and so is unfaithful to the LORD is guilty
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:12 - “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘If a man's wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:22 - May this water that brings a curse enter your body so that your abdomen swells or your womb miscarries.” “ ‘Then the woman is to say, “Amen. So be it.”
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 5:28 - If, however, the woman has not made herself impure, but is clean, she will be cleared of guilt and will be able to have children.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:29 - “ ‘This, then, is the law of jealousy when a woman goes astray and makes herself impure while married to her husband,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:31 - The husband will be innocent of any wrongdoing, but the woman will bear the consequences of her sin.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:9 - “ ‘If someone dies suddenly in the Nazirite's presence, thus defiling the hair that symbolizes their dedication, they must shave their head on the seventh day—the day of their cleansing.
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 7:85 - Each silver plate weighed a hundred and thirty shekels, and each sprinkling bowl seventy shekels. Altogether, the silver dishes weighed two thousand four hundred shekels,[fn] according to the sanctuary shekel.
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 8:4 - This is how the lampstand was made: It was made of hammered gold—from its base to its blossoms. The lampstand was made exactly like the pattern the LORD had shown 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 9:15 - 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 9:16 - That is how it continued to be; the cloud covered it, and at night it looked like fire.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:17 - Whenever the cloud lifted from above the tent, the Israelites set out; wherever the cloud settled, the Israelites encamped.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:18 - At the LORD's command the Israelites set out, and at his command they encamped. As long as the cloud stayed over the tabernacle, they remained in camp.
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 9:20 - Sometimes the cloud was over the tabernacle only a few days; at the LORD's command they would encamp, and then at his command they would set out.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:21 - Sometimes the cloud stayed only from evening till morning, and when it lifted in the morning, they set out. Whether by day or by night, whenever the cloud lifted, they set out.
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 10:12 - 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 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 10:34 - The cloud of the LORD was over them by day when they set out from the camp.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:6 - But now we have lost our appetite; we never see anything but this manna!”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:8 - The people went around gathering it, and then ground it in a hand mill or crushed it in a mortar. They cooked it in a pot or made it into loaves. And it tasted like something made with olive oil.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:9 - When the dew settled on the camp at night, the manna also came down.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:10 - When the cloud lifted from above the tent, Miriam's skin was leprous[fn]—it became as white as snow. Aaron turned toward her and saw that she had a defiling skin disease,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:19 - What kind of land do they live in? Is it good or bad? What kind of towns do they live in? Are they unwalled or fortified?
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:20 - How is the soil? Is it fertile or poor? Are there trees in it or not? Do your best to bring back some of the fruit of the land.” (It was the season for the first ripe grapes.)
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:1 - That night all the members of the community raised their voices and wept aloud.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:2 - All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and the whole assembly said to them, “If only we had died in Egypt! Or in this wilderness!
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:7 - and said to the entire Israelite assembly, “The land we passed through and explored is exceedingly good.
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 14:14 - And they will tell the inhabitants of this land about it. They have already heard that you, LORD, are with these people and that you, LORD, have been seen face to face, that your cloud stays over them, and that you go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:17 - “Now may the Lord's strength be displayed, just as you have declared:
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:21 - Nevertheless, as surely as I live and as surely as the glory of the LORD fills the whole earth,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:29 - In this wilderness your bodies will fall—every one of you twenty years old or more who was counted in the census and who has grumbled against me.
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 15:14 - For the generations to come, whenever a foreigner or anyone else living among you presents a food offering as an aroma pleasing to the LORD, they must do exactly as you do.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:24 - and if this is done unintentionally without the community being aware of it, then the whole community is to offer a young bull for a burnt offering as an aroma pleasing to the LORD, along with its prescribed grain offering and drink offering, and a male goat for a sin offering.[fn]
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 15:31 - Because they have despised the LORD's word and broken his commands, they must surely be cut off; their guilt remains on them.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:35 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “The man must die. The whole assembly must stone him outside the camp.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:36 - So the assembly took him outside the camp and stoned him to death, as the LORD commanded Moses.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:3 - They came as a group to oppose Moses and Aaron and said to them, “You have gone too far! The whole community is holy, every one of them, and the LORD is with them. Why then do you set yourselves above the LORD's assembly?”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:6 - You, Korah, and all your followers are to do this: Take censers
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:11 - It is against the LORD that you and all your followers have banded together. Who is Aaron that you should grumble against him?”
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 16:27 - So they moved away from the tents of Korah, Dathan and Abiram. Dathan and Abiram had come out and were standing with their wives, children and little ones at the entrances to their tents.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:30 - But if the LORD brings about something totally new, and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them, with everything that belongs to them, and they go down alive into the realm of the dead, then you will know that these men have treated the LORD with contempt.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:31 - As soon as he finished saying all this, the ground under them split apart
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:32 - and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them and their households, and all those associated with Korah, together with their possessions.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:33 - They went down alive into the realm of the dead, with everything they owned; the earth closed over them, and they perished and were gone from the community.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:34 - At their cries, all the Israelites around them fled, shouting, “The earth is going to swallow us too!”
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 16:47 - 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 16:48 - He stood between the living and the dead, and the plague stopped.
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 17:5 - The staff belonging to the man I choose will sprout, and I will rid myself of this constant grumbling against you by the Israelites.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 17:6 - So Moses spoke to the Israelites, and their leaders gave him twelve staffs, one for the leader of each of their ancestral tribes, and Aaron's staff was among them.
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 18:16 - When they are a month old, you must redeem them at the redemption price set at five shekels[fn] of silver, according to the sanctuary shekel, which weighs twenty gerahs.
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 19:13 - 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 19:20 - But if those who are unclean do not purify themselves, they must be cut off from the community, because they have defiled the sanctuary of the LORD. The water of cleansing has not been sprinkled on them, and they are unclean.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:22 - Anything that an unclean person touches becomes unclean, and anyone who touches it becomes unclean till evening.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:1 - In the first month the whole Israelite community arrived at the Desert of Zin, and they stayed at Kadesh. There Miriam died and was buried.
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 20:11 - Then Moses raised his arm and struck the rock twice with his staff. Water gushed out, and the community and their livestock drank.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:22 - The whole Israelite community set out from Kadesh and came to Mount Hor.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:29 - and when the whole community learned that Aaron had died, all the Israelites mourned for him thirty days.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:5 - they spoke against God and against Moses, and said, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is no bread! There is no water! And we detest this miserable food!”
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 22:7 - The elders of Moab and Midian left, taking with them the fee for divination. When they came to Balaam, they told him what Balak had said.
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 22:25 - 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 22:27 - 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 22:30 - The donkey said to Balaam, “Am I not your own donkey, which you have always ridden, to this day? Have I been in the habit of doing this to you?” “No,” he said.
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 22:33 - The donkey saw me and turned away from me these three times. If it had not turned away, I would certainly have killed you by now, but I would have spared it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:10 - Who can count the dust of Jacob or number even a fourth of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and may my final end be like theirs!”
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 24:21 - Then he saw the Kenites and spoke his message: “Your dwelling place is secure, your nest is set in a rock;
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 26:7 - These were the clans of Reuben; those numbered were 43,730.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:10 - The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them along with Korah, whose followers died when the fire devoured the 250 men. And they served as a warning sign.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:51 - The total number of the men of Israel was 601,730.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:53 - “The land is to be allotted to them as an inheritance based on the number of names.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:54 - To a larger group give a larger inheritance, and to a smaller group a smaller one; each is to receive its inheritance according to the number of those listed.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:55 - Be sure that the land is distributed by lot. What each group inherits will be according to the names for its ancestral tribe.
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 27:17 - to go out and come in before them, one who will lead them out and bring them in, so the LORD's people will not be like sheep without a shepherd.”
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 28:6 - This is the regular burnt offering instituted at Mount Sinai as a pleasing aroma, a food offering presented to the LORD.
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 28:15 - Besides the regular burnt offering with its drink offering, one male goat is to be presented to the LORD as a sin offering.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 28:18 - On the first day hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 28:20 - With each bull offer a grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah of the finest flour mixed with oil; with the ram, two-tenths;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 28:25 - On the seventh day hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 28:28 - With each bull there is to be a grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah of the finest flour mixed with oil; with the ram, two-tenths;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:3 - With the bull offer a grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah[fn] of the finest flour mixed with olive oil; with the ram, two-tenths[fn];
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:9 - With the bull offer a grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah of the finest flour mixed with oil; with the ram, two-tenths;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:11 - Include one male goat as a sin offering, in addition to the sin offering for atonement and the regular burnt offering with its grain offering, and their drink offerings.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:18 - With the bulls, rams and lambs, offer their grain offerings and drink offerings according to the number specified.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:21 - With the bulls, rams and lambs, offer their grain offerings and drink offerings according to the number specified.
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 31:16 - “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 31:36 - The half share of those who fought in the battle was: 337,500 sheep,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:5 - If we have found favor in your eyes,” they said, “let this land be given to your servants as our possession. Do not make us cross the Jordan.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:13 - The LORD's anger burned against Israel and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until the whole generation of those who had done evil in his sight was gone.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:17 - But we will arm ourselves for battle[fn] and go ahead of the Israelites until we have brought them to their place. Meanwhile our women and children will live in fortified cities, for protection from the inhabitants of the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:22 - then when the land is subdued before the LORD, you may return and be free from your obligation to the LORD and to Israel. And this land will be your possession before the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:26 - Our children and wives, our flocks and herds will remain here in the cities of Gilead.
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 34:5 - where it will turn, join the Wadi of Egypt and end at the Mediterranean Sea.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:6 - “ ‘Your western boundary will be the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. This will be your boundary on the west.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:8 - and from Mount Hor to Lebo Hamath. Then the boundary will go to Zedad,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:9 - continue to Ziphron and end at Hazar Enan. This will be your boundary on the north.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:12 - Then the boundary will go down along the Jordan and end at the Dead Sea. “ ‘This will be your land, with its boundaries on every side.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:13 - Moses commanded the Israelites: “Assign this land by lot as an inheritance. The LORD has ordered that it be given to the nine-and-a-half tribes,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:5 - Outside the town, measure two thousand cubits[fn] on the east side, two thousand on the south side, two thousand on the west and two thousand on the north, with the town in the center. They will have this area as pastureland for the towns.
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 35:33 - “ ‘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 BoxNum 36:4 - When the Year of Jubilee for the Israelites comes, their inheritance will be added to that of the tribe into which they marry, and their property will be taken from the tribal inheritance of our 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 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 1:25 - 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 2:15 - The LORD's hand was against them until he had completely eliminated them from the camp.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:11 - (Og king of Bashan was the last of the Rephaites. His bed was decorated with iron and was more than nine cubits long and four cubits wide.[fn] It is still in Rabbah of the Ammonites.)
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:17 - Its western border was the Jordan in the Arabah, from Kinnereth to the Sea of the Arabah (that is, the Dead Sea), below the slopes of Pisgah.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:6 - Observe them carefully, for this will show your wisdom and understanding to the nations, who will hear about all these decrees and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.”
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 5:14 - but the seventh day is a sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor your ox, your donkey or any of your animals, nor any foreigner residing in your towns, so that your male and female servants may rest, as you do.
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 7:22 - The LORD your God will drive out those nations before you, little by little. You will not be allowed to eliminate them all at once, or the wild animals will multiply around you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:17 - You may say to yourself, “My power and the strength of my hands have produced this wealth for me.”
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 11:6 - and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab the Reubenite, when the earth opened its mouth right in the middle of all Israel and swallowed them up with their households, their tents and every living thing that belonged to them.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:10 - The land you are entering to take over is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you planted your seed and irrigated it by foot as in a vegetable garden.
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 11:16 - Be careful, or you will be enticed to turn away and worship other gods and bow down to them.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:17 - Then the LORD's anger will burn against you, and he will shut up the heavens so that it will not rain and the ground will yield no produce, and you will soon perish from the good land the LORD is giving you.
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 12:20 - When the LORD your God has enlarged your territory as he promised you, and you crave meat and say, “I would like some meat,” then you may eat as much of it as you want.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:22 - Eat them as you would gazelle or deer. Both the ceremonially unclean and the clean may eat.
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 13:6 - If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you love, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, “Let us go and worship other gods” (gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:24 - But if that place is too distant and you have been blessed by the LORD your God and cannot carry your tithe (because the place where the LORD will choose to put his Name is so far away),
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 14:29 - so that the Levites (who have no allotment or inheritance of their own) and the foreigners, the fatherless and the widows who live in your towns may come and eat and be satisfied, and so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:12 - If any of your people—Hebrew men or women—sell themselves to you and serve you six years, in the seventh year you must let them go free.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:10 - Then celebrate the Festival of Weeks to the LORD your God by giving a freewill offering in proportion to the blessings the LORD your God has given you.
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 16:14 - Be joyful at your festival—you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, and the Levites, the foreigners, the fatherless and the widows who live in your towns.
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 17:17 - He must not take many wives, or his heart will be led astray. He must not accumulate large amounts of silver and gold.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:20 - and not consider himself better than his fellow Israelites and turn from the law to the right or to the left. Then he and his descendants will reign a long time over his kingdom in 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 18:6 - If a Levite moves from one of your towns anywhere in Israel where he is living, and comes in all earnestness to the place the LORD will choose,
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 19:17 - the two people involved in the dispute must stand in the presence of the LORD before the priests and the judges who are in office at the time.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:3 - He shall say: “Hear, Israel: Today you are going into battle against your enemies. Do not be fainthearted or afraid; do not panic or be terrified by them.
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 21:2 - your elders and judges shall go out and measure the distance from the body to the neighboring towns.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:3 - Then the elders of the town nearest the body shall take a heifer that has never been worked and has never worn a yoke
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:4 - and lead it down to a valley that has not been plowed or planted and where there is a flowing stream. There in the valley they are to break the heifer's neck.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:6 - Then all the elders of the town nearest the body shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:15 - If a man has two wives, and he loves one but not the other, and both bear him sons but the firstborn is the son of the wife he does not love,
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 22:6 - If you come across a bird's nest beside the road, either in a tree or on the ground, and the mother is sitting on the young or on the eggs, do not take the mother with the young.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:15 - then the young woman's father and mother shall bring to the town elders at the gate proof that she was a virgin.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:18 - and the elders shall take the man and punish him.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:27 - for the man found the young woman out in the country, and though the betrothed woman screamed, there was no one to rescue her.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:14 - For the LORD your God moves about in your camp to protect you and to deliver your enemies to you. Your camp must be holy, so that he will not see among you anything indecent and turn away from you.
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 25:7 - 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 25:8 - Then the elders of his town shall summon him and talk to him. If he persists in saying, “I do not want to marry her,”
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 27:1 - Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people: “Keep all these commands that I give you today.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:23 - The sky over your head will be bronze, the ground beneath you iron.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:32 - Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation, and you will wear out your eyes watching for them day after day, powerless to lift a hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:38 - You will sow much seed in the field but you will harvest little, because locusts will devour it.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:40 - You will have olive trees throughout your country but you will not use the oil, because the olives will drop off.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:42 - Swarms of locusts will take over all your trees and the crops of your land.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:56 - The most gentle and sensitive woman among you—so sensitive and gentle that she would not venture to touch the ground with the sole of her foot—will begrudge the husband she loves and her own son or daughter
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:66 - You will live in constant suspense, filled with dread both night and day, never sure of your life.
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 29:18 - 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 29:22 - Your children who follow you in later generations and foreigners who come from distant lands will see the calamities that have fallen on the land and the diseases with which the LORD has afflicted it.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:23 - The whole land will be a burning waste of salt and sulfur—nothing planted, nothing sprouting, no vegetation growing on it. It will be like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboyim, which the LORD overthrew in fierce anger.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:1 - When all these blessings and curses I have set before you come on you and you take them to heart wherever the LORD your God disperses you among the nations,
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 30:11 - Now what I am commanding you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:17 - But if your heart turns away and you are not obedient, and if you are drawn away to bow down to other gods and worship them,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:20 - and that you may love the LORD your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the LORD is your life, and he will give you many years in the land he swore to give to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:19 - “Now write down this song and teach it to the Israelites and have them sing it, so that it may be a witness for me against them.
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 32:27 - but I dreaded the taunt of the enemy, lest the adversary misunderstand and say, ‘Our hand has triumphed; the LORD has not done all this.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:32 - Their vine comes from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are filled with poison, and their clusters with bitterness.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:41 - when I sharpen my flashing sword and my hand grasps it in judgment, I will take vengeance on my adversaries and repay those who hate me.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:42 - I will make my arrows drunk with blood, while my sword devours flesh: the blood of the slain and the captives, the heads of the enemy leaders.”
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 33:13 - About Joseph he said: “May the LORD bless his land with the precious dew from heaven above and with the deep waters that lie below;
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:25 - The bolts of your gates will be iron and bronze, and your strength will equal your days.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:29 - Blessed are you, Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by the LORD? He is your shield and helper and your glorious sword. Your enemies will cower before you, and you will tread on their heights.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 34:4 - Then the LORD said to him, “This is the land I promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob when I said, ‘I will give it to your descendants.' I have let you see it with your eyes, but you will not cross over into it.”
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 2:4 - But the woman had taken the two men and hidden them. She said, “Yes, the men came to me, but I did not know where they had come from.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:5 - At dusk, when it was time to close the city gate, they left. I don't know which way they went. Go after them quickly. You may catch up with them.”
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 2:14 - “Our lives for your lives!” the men assured her. “If you don't tell what we are doing, we will treat you kindly and faithfully when the LORD gives us the land.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:11 - See, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth will go into the Jordan ahead of you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:11 - and as soon as all of them had crossed, the ark of the LORD and the priests came to the other side while the people watched.
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 5:13 - Now when Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him with a drawn sword in his hand. Joshua went up to him and asked, “Are you for us or for our enemies?”
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 6:17 - The city and all that is in it are to be devoted[fn] to the LORD. Only Rahab the prostitute and all who are with her in her house shall be spared, because she hid the spies we sent.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:24 - Then they burned the whole city and everything in it, but they put the silver and gold and the articles of bronze and iron into the treasury of the LORD's house.
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 7:14 - “ ‘In the morning, present yourselves tribe by tribe. The tribe the LORD chooses shall come forward clan by clan; the clan the LORD chooses shall come forward family by family; and the family the LORD chooses shall come forward man by man.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:16 - Early the next morning Joshua had Israel come forward by tribes, and Judah was chosen.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:18 - But the Israelites did not attack them, because the leaders of the assembly had sworn an oath to them by the LORD, the God of Israel. The whole assembly grumbled against the leaders,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:12 - On the day the LORD gave the Amorites over to Israel, Joshua said to the LORD in the presence of Israel: “Sun, stand still over Gibeon, and you, moon, over the Valley of Aijalon.”
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 11:4 - They came out with all their troops and a large number of horses and chariots—a huge army, as numerous as the sand on the seashore.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:23 - So Joshua took the entire land, just as the LORD had directed Moses, and he gave it as an inheritance to Israel according to their tribal divisions. Then the land had rest from war.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:1 - When Joshua had grown old, the LORD said to him, “You are now very old, and there are still very large areas of land to be taken over.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:2 - “This is the land that remains: all the regions of the Philistines and Geshurites,
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 13:16 - The territory from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Gorge, and from the town in the middle of the gorge, and the whole plateau past Medeba
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:23 - The boundary of the Reubenites was the bank of the Jordan. These towns and their villages were the inheritance of the Reubenites, according to their clans.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:28 - These towns and their villages were the inheritance of the Gadites, according to their clans.
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 15:4 - It then passed along to Azmon and joined the Wadi of Egypt, ending at the Mediterranean Sea. This is their[fn] southern boundary.
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 15:7 - The boundary then went up to Debir from the Valley of Achor and turned north to Gilgal, which faces the Pass of Adummim south of the gorge. It continued along to the waters of En Shemesh and came out at En Rogel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:11 - It went to the northern slope of Ekron, turned toward Shikkeron, passed along to Mount Baalah and reached Jabneel. The boundary ended at the sea.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:12 - The western boundary is the coastline of the Mediterranean Sea. These are the boundaries around the people of Judah by their clans.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:20 - This is the inheritance of the tribe of Judah, according to its clans:
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 15:60 - Kiriath Baal (that is, Kiriath Jearim) and Rabbah—two towns and their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:3 - descended westward to the territory of the Japhletites as far as the region of Lower Beth Horon and on to Gezer, ending at the Mediterranean Sea.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:8 - From Tappuah the border went west to the Kanah Ravine and ended at the Mediterranean Sea. This was the inheritance of the tribe of the Ephraimites, according to its clans.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:6 - because the daughters of the tribe of Manasseh received an inheritance among the sons. The land of Gilead belonged to the rest of the descendants of Manasseh.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:9 - Then the boundary continued south to the Kanah Ravine. There were towns belonging to Ephraim lying among the towns of Manasseh, but the boundary of Manasseh was the northern side of the ravine and ended at the Mediterranean Sea.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:10 - On the south the land belonged to Ephraim, on the north to Manasseh. The territory of Manasseh reached the Mediterranean Sea and bordered Asher on the north and Issachar on the east.
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 18:12 - 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 18:13 - From there it crossed to the south slope of Luz (that is, Bethel) and went down to Ataroth Addar on the hill south of Lower Beth Horon.
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 18:19 - 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 18:20 - The Jordan formed the boundary on the eastern side. These were the boundaries that marked out the inheritance of the clans of Benjamin on all sides.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:28 - Zelah, Haeleph, the Jebusite city (that is, Jerusalem), Gibeah and Kiriath—fourteen towns and their villages. This was the inheritance of Benjamin for its clans.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:1 - The second lot came out for the tribe of Simeon according to its clans. Their inheritance lay within the territory of Judah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:8 - and all the villages around these towns as far as Baalath Beer (Ramah in the Negev). This was the inheritance of the tribe of the Simeonites, according to its clans.
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 19:11 - Going west it ran to Maralah, touched Dabbesheth, and extended to the ravine near Jokneam.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:14 - There the boundary went around on the north to Hannathon and ended at the Valley of Iphtah El.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:16 - These towns and their villages were the inheritance of Zebulun, according to its clans.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:22 - The boundary touched Tabor, Shahazumah and Beth Shemesh, and ended at the Jordan. There were sixteen towns and their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:23 - These towns and their villages were the inheritance of the tribe of Issachar, according to its clans.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:29 - The boundary then turned back toward Ramah and went to the fortified city of Tyre, turned toward Hosah and came out at the Mediterranean Sea in the region of Akzib,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:31 - These towns and their villages were the inheritance of the tribe of Asher, according to its clans.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:39 - These towns and their villages were the inheritance of the tribe of Naphtali, according to its clans.
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 19:48 - These towns and their villages were the inheritance of the tribe of Dan, according to its clans.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:9 - From the tribes of Judah and Simeon they allotted the following towns by name
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 22:18 - And are you now turning away from the LORD? “ ‘If you rebel against the LORD today, tomorrow he will be angry with the whole community of Israel.
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 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 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 2:10 - After that whole generation had been gathered to their ancestors, another generation grew up who knew neither the LORD nor what he had done for Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:10 - The Spirit of the LORD came on him, so that he became Israel's judge[fn] and went to war. The LORD gave Cushan-Rishathaim king of Aram into the hands of Othniel, who overpowered him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:11 - So the land had peace for forty years, until Othniel son of Kenaz died.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:30 - That day Moab was made subject to Israel, and the land had peace for eighty years.
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 4:16 - Barak pursued the chariots and army as far as Harosheth Haggoyim, and all Sisera's troops fell by the sword; not a man was left.
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 5:13 - “The remnant of the nobles came down; the people of the LORD came down to me against the mighty.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:28 - “Through the window peered Sisera's mother; behind the lattice she cried out, ‘Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why is the clatter of his chariots delayed?'
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 6:15 - “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 6:38 - 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 7:2 - The LORD said to Gideon, “You have too many men. I cannot deliver Midian into their hands, or Israel would boast against me, ‘My own strength has saved me.'
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 7:12 - The Midianites, the Amalekites and all the other eastern peoples had settled in the valley, thick as locusts. Their camels could no more be counted than the sand on the seashore.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:13 - Gideon arrived just as a man was telling a friend his dream. “I had a dream,” he was saying. “A round loaf of barley bread came tumbling into the Midianite camp. It struck the tent with such force that the tent overturned and collapsed.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:21 - While each man held his position around the camp, all the Midianites ran, crying out as they fled.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:22 - When the three hundred trumpets sounded, the LORD caused the men throughout the camp to turn on each other with their swords. The army fled to Beth Shittah toward Zererah as far as the border of Abel Meholah near Tabbath.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:10 - Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with a force of about fifteen thousand men, all that were left of the armies of the eastern peoples; a hundred and twenty thousand swordsmen had fallen.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:11 - Gideon went up by the route of the nomads east of Nobah and Jogbehah and attacked the unsuspecting army.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:21 - Zebah and Zalmunna said, “Come, do it yourself. ‘As is the man, so is his strength.' ” So Gideon stepped forward and killed them, and took the ornaments off their camels' necks.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:28 - Thus Midian was subdued before the Israelites and did not raise its head again. During Gideon's lifetime, the land had peace forty years.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:31 - His concubine, who lived in Shechem, also bore him a son, whom he named Abimelek.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:9 - “But the olive tree answered, ‘Should I give up my oil, by which both gods and humans are honored, to hold sway over the trees?'
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:11 - “But the fig tree replied, ‘Should I give up my fruit, so good and sweet, to hold sway over the trees?'
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 9:33 - In the morning at sunrise, advance against the city. When Gaal and his men come out against you, seize the opportunity to attack them.”
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 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 11:34 - When Jephthah returned to his home in Mizpah, who should come out to meet him but his daughter, dancing to the sound of timbrels! She was an only child. Except for her he had neither son nor daughter.
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 13:10 - The woman hurried to tell her husband, “He's here! The man who appeared to me the other day!”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:19 - Then Manoah took a young goat, together with the grain offering, and sacrificed it on a rock to the LORD. And the LORD did an amazing thing while Manoah and his wife watched:
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 13:23 - But his wife answered, “If the LORD had meant to kill us, he would not have accepted a burnt offering and grain offering from our hands, nor shown us all these things or now told us this.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:24 - The woman gave birth to a boy and named him Samson. He grew and the LORD blessed him,
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:3 - His father and mother replied, “Isn't there an acceptable woman among your relatives or among all our people? Must you go to the uncircumcised Philistines to get a wife?” But Samson said to his father, “Get her for me. She's the right one for me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:4 - (His parents did not know that this was from the LORD, who was seeking an occasion to confront the Philistines; for at that time they were ruling over Israel.)
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:5 - Samson went down to Timnah together with his father and mother. As they approached the vineyards of Timnah, suddenly a young lion came roaring toward him.
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 14:20 - And Samson's wife was given to one of his companions who had attended him at the feast.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:2 - “I was so sure you hated her,” he said, “that I gave her to your companion. Isn't her younger sister more attractive? Take her instead.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:5 - The rulers of the Philistines went to her and said, “See if you can lure him into showing you the secret of his great strength and how we can overpower him so we may tie him up and subdue him. Each one of us will give you eleven hundred shekels[fn] of silver.”
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 16:14 - 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 16:15 - Then she said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,' when you won't confide in me? This is the third time you have made a fool of me and haven't told me the secret of your great strength.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:17 - So he told her everything. “No razor has ever been used on my head,” he said, “because I have been a Nazirite dedicated to God from my mother's womb. If my head were shaved, my strength would leave me, and I would become as weak as any other man.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:19 - After putting him to sleep on her lap, she called for someone to shave off the seven braids of his hair, and so began to subdue him.[fn] And his strength left him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:22 - But the hair on his head began to grow again after it had been shaved.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:25 - While they were in high spirits, they shouted, “Bring out Samson to entertain us.” So they called Samson out of the prison, and he performed for them. When they stood him among the pillars,
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:30 - Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines!” Then he pushed with all his might, and down came the temple on the rulers and all the people in it. Thus he killed many more when he died than while he lived.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:2 - said to his mother, “The eleven hundred shekels[fn] of silver that were taken from you and about which I heard you utter a curse—I have that silver with me; I took it.” Then his mother said, “The LORD bless you, my son!”
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 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 18:5 - Then they said to him, “Please inquire of God to learn whether our journey will be successful.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:6 - The priest answered them, “Go in peace. Your journey has the LORD's approval.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:10 - When you get there, you will find an unsuspecting people and a spacious land that God has put into your hands, a land that lacks nothing whatever.”
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 18:25 - 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 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 19:6 - So the two of them sat down to eat and drink together. Afterward the woman's father said, “Please stay tonight and enjoy yourself.”
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 19:9 - 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 19:10 - But, unwilling to stay another night, the man left and went toward Jebus (that is, Jerusalem), with his two saddled donkeys and his concubine.
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 19:24 - Look, here is my virgin daughter, and his concubine. I will bring them out to you now, and you can use them and do to them whatever you wish. But as for this man, don't do such an outrageous thing.”
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 20:1 - Then all Israel from Dan to Beersheba and from the land of Gilead came together as one and assembled before the LORD in Mizpah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:3 - (The Benjamites heard that the Israelites had gone up to Mizpah.) Then the Israelites said, “Tell us how this awful thing happened.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:4 - So the Levite, the husband of the murdered woman, said, “I and my concubine came to Gibeah in Benjamin to spend the night.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:12 - The tribes of Israel sent messengers throughout the tribe of Benjamin, saying, “What about this awful crime that was committed among you?
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:27 - And the Israelites inquired of the LORD. (In those days the ark of the covenant of God was there,
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:34 - Then ten thousand of Israel's able young men made a frontal attack on Gibeah. The fighting was so heavy that the Benjamites did not realize how near disaster was.
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 20:41 - Then the Israelites counterattacked, and the Benjamites were terrified, because they realized that disaster had come on them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:10 - So the assembly sent twelve thousand fighting men with instructions to go to Jabesh Gilead and put to the sword those living there, including the women and children.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:13 - Then the whole assembly sent an offer of peace to the Benjamites at the rock of Rimmon.
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 1:5 - both Mahlon and Kilion also died, and Naomi was left without her two sons and her husband.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:15 - “Look,” said Naomi, “your sister-in-law is going back to her people and her gods. Go back with 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 1:22 - So Naomi returned from Moab accompanied by Ruth the Moabite, her daughter-in-law, arriving in Bethlehem as the barley harvest was beginning.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:2 - And Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, “Let me go to the fields and pick up the leftover grain behind anyone in whose eyes I find favor.” Naomi said to her, “Go ahead, my daughter.”
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:5 - Boaz asked the overseer of his harvesters, “Who does that young woman belong to?”
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:6 - The overseer replied, “She is the Moabite who came back from Moab with Naomi.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:13 - “May I continue to find favor in your eyes, my lord,” she said. “You have put me at ease by speaking kindly to your servant—though I do not have the standing of one of your servants.”
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:18 - She carried it back to town, and her mother-in-law saw how much she had gathered. Ruth also brought out and gave her what she had left over after she had eaten enough.
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 3:1 - One day Ruth's mother-in-law Naomi said to her, “My daughter, I must find a home[fn] for you, where you will be well provided for.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:6 - So she went down to the threshing floor and did everything her mother-in-law told her to do.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:7 - When Boaz had finished eating and drinking and was in good spirits, he went over to lie down at the far end of the grain pile. Ruth approached quietly, uncovered his feet and lay down.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:9 - “Who are you?” he asked. “I am your servant Ruth,” she said. “Spread the corner of your garment over me, since you are a guardian-redeemer[fn] of our family.”
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 3:16 - When Ruth came to her mother-in-law, Naomi asked, “How did it go, my daughter?” Then she told her everything Boaz had done for her
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 4:15 - 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 1:8 - Her husband Elkanah would say to her, “Hannah, why are you weeping? Why don't you eat? Why are you downhearted? Don't I mean more to you than ten sons?”
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 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 1:26 - and she said to him, “Pardon me, my lord. As surely as you live, I am the woman who stood here beside you praying to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:1 - Then Hannah prayed and said: “My heart rejoices in the LORD; in the LORD my horn[fn] is lifted high. My mouth boasts over my enemies, for I delight in your deliverance.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:5 - Those who were full hire themselves out for food, but those who were hungry are hungry no more. She who was barren has borne seven children, but she who has had many sons pines away.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:16 - If the person said to him, “Let the fat be burned first, and then take whatever you want,” the servant would answer, “No, hand it over now; if you don't, I'll take it by force.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:17 - This sin of the young men was very great in the LORD's sight, for they[fn] were treating the LORD's offering with contempt.
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 2:24 - No, my sons; the report I hear spreading among the LORD's people is not good.
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 3:21 - The LORD continued to appear at Shiloh, and there he revealed himself to Samuel through his word.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:5 - When the ark of the LORD's covenant came into the camp, all Israel raised such a great shout that the ground shook.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:6 - Hearing the uproar, the Philistines asked, “What's all this shouting in the Hebrew camp?” When they learned that the ark of the LORD had come into the camp,
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 4:14 - Eli heard the outcry and asked, “What is the meaning of this uproar?” The man hurried over to Eli,
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 4:19 - 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 4:20 - As she was dying, the women attending her said, “Don't despair; you have given birth to a son.” But she did not respond or pay any attention.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 5:4 - But the following morning when they rose, there was Dagon, fallen on his face on the ground before the ark of the LORD! His head and hands had been broken off and were lying on the threshold; only his body remained.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 5:12 - Those who did not die were afflicted with tumors, and the outcry of the city went up to heaven.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:1 - When the ark of the LORD had been in Philistine territory seven months,
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:3 - They answered, “If you return the ark of the god of Israel, do not send it back to him without a gift; by all means send a guilt offering to him. Then you will be healed, and you will know why his hand has not been lifted from you.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:14 - The cart came to the field of Joshua of Beth Shemesh, and there it stopped beside a large rock. The people chopped up the wood of the cart and sacrificed the cows as a burnt offering to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 7:2 - The ark remained at Kiriath Jearim a long time—twenty years in all. Then all the people of Israel turned back to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 7:17 - But he always went back to Ramah, where his home was, and there he also held court for Israel. And he built an altar there to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:7 - Once these signs are fulfilled, do whatever your hand finds to do, for God is with you.
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 11:11 - The next day Saul separated his men into three divisions; during the last watch of the night they broke into the camp of the Ammonites and slaughtered them until the heat of the day. Those who survived were scattered, so that no two of them were left together.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:17 - Is it not wheat harvest now? I will call on the LORD to send thunder and rain. And you will realize what an evil thing you did in the eyes of the LORD when you asked for a king.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:5 - The Philistines assembled to fight Israel, with three thousand[fn] chariots, six thousand charioteers, and soldiers as numerous as the sand on the seashore. They went up and camped at Mikmash, east of Beth Aven.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:14 - But now your kingdom will not endure; the LORD has sought out a man after his own heart and appointed him ruler of his people, because you have not kept the LORD's command.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:17 - Raiding parties went out from the Philistine camp in three detachments. One turned toward Ophrah in the vicinity of Shual,
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:18 - another toward Beth Horon, and the third toward the borderland overlooking the Valley of Zeboyim facing the wilderness.
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 14:5 - One cliff stood to the north toward Mikmash, the other to the south toward Geba.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:7 - “Do all that you have in mind,” his armor-bearer said. “Go ahead; I am with you heart and soul.”
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 14:15 - Then panic struck the whole army—those in the camp and field, and those in the outposts and raiding parties—and the ground shook. It was a panic sent by God.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:16 - Saul's lookouts at Gibeah in Benjamin saw the army melting away in all directions.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:25 - The entire army entered the woods, and there was honey on the ground.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:30 - How much better it would have been if the men had eaten today some of the plunder they took from their enemies. Would not the slaughter of the Philistines have been even greater?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:36 - Saul said, “Let us go down and pursue the Philistines by night and plunder them till dawn, and let us not leave one of them alive.” “Do whatever seems best to you,” they replied. But the priest said, “Let us inquire of God here.”
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 14:41 - Then Saul prayed to the LORD, the God of Israel, “Why have you not answered your servant today? If the fault is in me or my son Jonathan, respond with Urim, but if the men of Israel are at fault,[fn] respond with Thummim.” Jonathan and Saul were taken by lot, and the men were cleared.
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 15:22 - But Samuel replied: “Does the LORD delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obeying the LORD? To obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed is better than the fat of rams.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:33 - But Samuel said, “As your sword has made women childless, so will your mother be childless among women.” And Samuel put Agag to death before the LORD at Gilgal.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:4 - Samuel did what the LORD said. When he arrived at Bethlehem, the elders of the town trembled when they met him. They asked, “Do you come in peace?”
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 17:32 - David said to Saul, “Let no one lose heart on account of this Philistine; your servant will go and fight him.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:34 - But David said to Saul, “Your servant has been keeping his father's sheep. When a lion or a bear came and carried off a sheep from the flock,
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 18:20 - Now Saul's daughter Michal was in love with David, and when they told Saul about it, he was pleased.
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 19:12 - So Michal let David down through a window, and he fled and escaped.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:13 - Then Michal took an idol and laid it on the bed, covering it with a garment and putting some goats' hair at the head.
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 20:4 - Jonathan said to David, “Whatever you want me to do, I'll do for you.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:7 - If he says, ‘Very well,' then your servant is safe. But if he loses his temper, you can be sure that he is determined to harm me.
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 20:21 - Then I will send a boy and say, ‘Go, find the arrows.' If I say to him, ‘Look, the arrows are on this side of you; bring them here,' then come, because, as surely as the LORD lives, you are safe; there is no danger.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:22 - But if I say to the boy, ‘Look, the arrows are beyond you,' then you must go, because the LORD has sent you away.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:31 - As long as the son of Jesse lives on this earth, neither you nor your kingdom will be established. Now send someone to bring him to me, for he must die!”
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 20:37 - 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 21:5 - David replied, “Indeed women have been kept from us, as usual whenever[fn] I set out. The men's bodies are holy even on missions that are not holy. How much more so today!”
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 22:3 - From there David went to Mizpah in Moab and said to the king of Moab, “Would you let my father and mother come and stay with you until I learn what God will do for me?”
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 22:13 - 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 22:17 - 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 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 23:28 - Then Saul broke off his pursuit of David and went to meet the Philistines. That is why they call this place Sela Hammahlekoth.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:4 - The men said, “This is the day the LORD spoke of when he said[fn] to you, ‘I will give your enemy into your hands for you to deal with as you wish.' ” Then David crept up unnoticed and cut off a corner of Saul's robe.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:12 - May the LORD judge between you and me. And may the LORD avenge the wrongs you have done to me, but my hand will not touch you.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:13 - As the old saying goes, ‘From evildoers come evil deeds,' so my hand will not touch you.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:3 - His name was Nabal and his wife's name was Abigail. She was an intelligent and beautiful woman, but her husband was surly and mean in his dealings—he was a Calebite.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:8 - Ask your own servants and they will tell you. Therefore be favorable toward my men, since we come at a festive time. Please give your servants and your son David whatever you can find for them.' ”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:17 - Now think it over and see what you can do, because disaster is hanging over our master and his whole household. He is such a wicked man that no one can talk to him.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:24 - She fell at his feet and said: “Pardon your servant, my lord, and let me speak to you; hear what your servant has to say.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:25 - Please pay no attention, my lord, to that wicked man Nabal. He is just like his name—his name means Fool, and folly goes with him. And as for me, your servant, I did not see the men my lord sent.
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 25:27 - And let this gift, which your servant has brought to my lord, be given to the men who follow you.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:29 - Even though someone is pursuing you to take your life, the life of my lord will be bound securely in the bundle of the living by the LORD your God, but the lives of your enemies he will hurl away as from the pocket of a sling.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:33 - May you be blessed for your good judgment and for keeping me from bloodshed this day and from avenging myself with my own hands.
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 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 25:41 - She bowed down with her face to the ground and said, “I am your servant and am ready to serve you and wash the feet of my lord's servants.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:10 - As surely as the LORD lives,” he said, “the LORD himself will strike him, or his time will come and he will die, or he will go into battle and perish.
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 26:24 - As surely as I valued your life today, so may the LORD value my life and deliver me from all trouble.”
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 27:8 - Now David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites, the Girzites and the Amalekites. (From ancient times these peoples had lived in the land extending to Shur and Egypt.)
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:5 - When Saul saw the Philistine army, he was afraid; terror filled his heart.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:9 - But the woman said to him, “Surely you know what Saul has done. He has cut off the mediums and spiritists from the land. Why have you set a trap for my life to bring about my death?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:11 - Then the woman asked, “Whom shall I bring up for you?” “Bring up Samuel,” he said.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:12 - When the woman saw Samuel, she cried out at the top of her voice and said to Saul, “Why have you deceived me? You are Saul!”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:21 - When the woman came to Saul and saw that he was greatly shaken, she said, “Look, your servant has obeyed you. I took my life in my hands and did what you told me to do.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:23 - He refused and said, “I will not eat.” But his men joined the woman in urging him, and he listened to them. He got up from the ground and sat on the couch.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 29:6 - So Achish called David and said to him, “As surely as the LORD lives, you have been reliable, and I would be pleased to have you serve with me in the army. From the day you came to me until today, I have found no fault in you, but the rulers don't approve of you.
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 30:24 - 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 Box2Sa 1:9 - “Then he said to me, ‘Stand here by me and kill me! I'm in the throes of death, but I'm still alive.'
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:26 - I grieve for you, Jonathan my brother; you were very dear to me. Your love for me was wonderful, more wonderful than that of women.
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 2:26 - Abner called out to Joab, “Must the sword devour forever? Don't you realize that this will end in bitterness? How long before you order your men to stop pursuing their fellow Israelites?”
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 3:21 - Then Abner said to David, “Let me go at once and assemble all Israel for my lord the king, so that they may make a covenant with you, and that you may rule over all that your heart desires.” So David sent Abner away, and he went in peace.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:23 - When Joab and all the soldiers with him arrived, he was told that Abner son of Ner had come to the king and that the king had sent him away and that he had gone in peace.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:28 - Later, when David heard about this, he said, “I and my kingdom are forever innocent before the LORD concerning the blood of Abner son of Ner.
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 4:6 - 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 5:7 - Nevertheless, David captured the fortress of Zion—which is the City of David.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:9 - David then took up residence in the fortress and called it the City of David. He built up the area around it, from the terraces[fn] inward.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:12 - Then David knew that the LORD had established him as king over Israel and had exalted his kingdom for the sake of his people Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:9 - David was afraid of the LORD that day and said, “How can the ark of the LORD ever come to me?”
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 6:16 - As the ark of the LORD was entering the City of David, Michal daughter of Saul watched from a window. And when she saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD, she despised him in her heart.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:20 - When David returned home to bless his household, Michal daughter of Saul came out to meet him and said, “How the king of Israel has distinguished himself today, going around half-naked in full view of the slave girls of his servants as any vulgar fellow would!”
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 7:14 - I will be his father, and he will be my son. When he does wrong, I will punish him with a rod wielded by men, with floggings inflicted by human hands.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:16 - Your house and your kingdom will endure forever before me[fn]; your throne will be established forever.' ”
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 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 11:5 - The woman conceived and sent word to David, saying, “I am pregnant.”
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 11:25 - David told the messenger, “Say this to Joab: ‘Don't let this upset you; the sword devours one as well as another. Press the attack against the city and destroy it.' Say this to encourage Joab.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:26 - When Uriah's wife heard that her husband was dead, she mourned for him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:15 - After Nathan had gone home, the LORD struck the child that Uriah's wife had borne to David, and he became ill.
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 13:6 - So Amnon lay down and pretended to be ill. When the king came to see him, Amnon said to him, “I would like my sister Tamar to come and make some special bread in my sight, so I may eat from her hand.”
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 13:28 - Absalom ordered his men, “Listen! When Amnon is in high spirits from drinking wine and I say to you, ‘Strike Amnon down,' then kill him. Don't be afraid. Haven't I given you this order? Be strong and brave.”
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 14:1 - Joab son of Zeruiah knew that the king's heart longed for Absalom.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:4 - When the woman from Tekoa went[fn] to the king, she fell with her face to the ground to pay him honor, and she said, “Help me, Your Majesty!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:5 - The king asked her, “What is troubling you?” She said, “I am a widow; my husband is dead.
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 14:12 - Then the woman said, “Let your servant speak a word to my lord the king.” “Speak,” he replied.
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 14:15 - “And now I have come to say this to my lord the king because the people have made me afraid. Your servant thought, ‘I will speak to the king; perhaps he will grant his servant's request.
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 14:18 - Then the king said to the woman, “Don't keep from me the answer to what I am going to ask you.” “Let my lord the king speak,” the woman said.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:19 - The king asked, “Isn't the hand of Joab with you in all this?” The woman answered, “As surely as you live, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right or to the left from anything my lord the king says. Yes, it was your servant Joab who instructed me to do this and who put all these words into the mouth of your servant.
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 15:13 - A messenger came and told David, “The hearts of the people of Israel are with Absalom.”
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 15:23 - The whole countryside wept aloud as all the people passed by. The king also crossed the Kidron Valley, and all the people moved on toward the wilderness.
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 17:3 - and bring all the people back to you. The death of the man you seek will mean the return of all; all the people will be unharmed.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:7 - Hushai replied to Absalom, “The advice Ahithophel has given is not good this time.
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 17:11 - “So I advise you: Let all Israel, from Dan to Beersheba—as numerous as the sand on the seashore—be gathered to you, with you yourself leading them into battle.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:12 - Then we will attack him wherever he may be found, and we will fall on him as dew settles on the ground. Neither he nor any of his men will be left alive.
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 17:17 - 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 17:19 - 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 17:20 - 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 17:23 - 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 18:7 - There Israel's troops were routed by David's men, and the casualties that day were great—twenty thousand men.
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 19:2 - And for the whole army the victory that day was turned into mourning, because on that day the troops heard it said, “The king is grieving for his son.”
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 20:8 - While they were at the great rock in Gibeon, Amasa came to meet them. Joab was wearing his military tunic, and strapped over it at his waist was a belt with a dagger in its sheath. As he stepped forward, it dropped out of its sheath.
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 20:10 - Amasa was not on his guard against the dagger in Joab's hand, and Joab plunged it into his belly, and his intestines spilled out on the ground. Without being stabbed again, Amasa died. Then Joab and his brother Abishai pursued Sheba son of Bikri.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:17 - He went toward her, and she asked, “Are you Joab?” “I am,” he answered. She said, “Listen to what your servant has to say.” “I'm listening,” he said.
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 20:22 - Then the woman went to all the people with her wise advice, and they cut off the head of Sheba son of Bikri and threw it to Joab. So he sounded the trumpet, and his men dispersed from the city, each returning to his home. And Joab went back to the king in Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:7 - “In my distress I called to the LORD; I called out to my God. From his temple he heard my voice; my cry came to his ears.
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 22:12 - He made darkness his canopy around him— the dark[fn] rain clouds of the sky.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:31 - “As for God, his way is perfect: The LORD's word is flawless; he shields all who take refuge in him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:36 - You make your saving help my shield; your help has made[fn] me great.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:10 - but Eleazar stood his ground and struck down the Philistines till his hand grew tired and froze to the sword. The LORD brought about a great victory that day. The troops returned to Eleazar, but only to strip the dead.
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 24:17 - 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 24:21 - 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 Box2Sa 24:25 - David built an altar to the LORD there and sacrificed burnt offerings and fellowship offerings. Then the LORD answered his prayer in behalf of the land, and the plague on Israel was stopped.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:4 - The woman was very beautiful; she took care of the king and waited on him, but the king had no sexual relations with her.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:15 - So Bathsheba went to see the aged king in his room, where Abishag the Shunammite was attending him.
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 1:40 - And all the people went up after him, playing pipes and rejoicing greatly, so that the ground shook with the sound.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:41 - Adonijah and all the guests who were with him heard it as they were finishing their feast. On hearing the sound of the trumpet, Joab asked, “What's the meaning of all the noise in the city?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:45 - and Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king at Gihon. From there they have gone up cheering, and the city resounds with it. That's the noise you hear.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:12 - So Solomon sat on the throne of his father David, and his rule was firmly established.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:13 - Now Adonijah, the son of Haggith, went to Bathsheba, Solomon's mother. Bathsheba asked him, “Do you come peacefully?” He answered, “Yes, peacefully.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:15 - “As you know,” he said, “the kingdom was mine. All Israel looked to me as their king. But things changed, and the kingdom has gone to my brother; for it has come to him from the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:21 - So she said, “Let Abishag the Shunammite be given in marriage to your brother Adonijah.”
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 2:35 - The king put Benaiah son of Jehoiada over the army in Joab's position and replaced Abiathar with Zadok the priest.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:44 - The king also said to Shimei, “You know in your heart all the wrong you did to my father David. Now the LORD will repay you for your wrongdoing.
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 3:17 - One of them said, “Pardon me, my lord. This woman and I live in the same house, and I had a baby while she was there with me.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:18 - The third day after my child was born, this woman also had a baby. We were alone; there was no one in the house but the two of us.
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 3:26 - The woman whose son was alive was deeply moved out of love for her son and said to the king, “Please, my lord, give her the living baby! Don't kill him!” But the other said, “Neither I nor you shall have him. Cut him in two!”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:27 - Then the king gave his ruling: “Give the living baby to the first woman. Do not kill him; she is his mother.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:29 - God gave Solomon wisdom and very great insight, and a breadth of understanding as measureless as the sand on the seashore.
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 6:34 - He also made two doors out of juniper wood, each having two leaves that turned in sockets.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:25 - The Sea stood on twelve bulls, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south and three facing east. The Sea rested on top of them, and their hindquarters were toward the center.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:33 - The wheels were made like chariot wheels; the axles, rims, spokes and hubs were all of cast metal.
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 8:10 - When the priests withdrew from the Holy Place, the cloud filled the temple of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:24 - You have kept your promise to your servant David my father; with your mouth you have promised and with your hand you have fulfilled it—as it is today.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:61 - And may your hearts be fully committed to the LORD our God, to live by his decrees and obey his commands, as at this time.”
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 9:15 - 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 10:11 - (Hiram's ships brought gold from Ophir; and from there they brought great cargoes of almugwood[fn] and precious stones.
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 10:29 - They imported a chariot from Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty.[fn] They also exported them to all the kings of the Hittites and of the Arameans.
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 11:20 - The sister of Tahpenes bore him a son named Genubath, whom Tahpenes brought up in the royal palace. There Genubath lived with Pharaoh's own children.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:25 - Rezon was Israel's adversary as long as Solomon lived, adding to the trouble caused by Hadad. So Rezon ruled in Aram and was hostile toward Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:37 - However, as for you, I will take you, and you will rule over all that your heart desires; you will be king over Israel.
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 12:26 - Jeroboam thought to himself, “The kingdom will now likely revert to the house of David.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:3 - That same day the man of God gave a sign: “This is the sign the LORD has declared: The altar will be split apart and the ashes on it will be poured out.”
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 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 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 15:14 - Although he did not remove the high places, Asa's heart was fully committed to the LORD all his life.
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 16:15 - In the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, Zimri reigned in Tirzah seven days. The army was encamped near Gibbethon, a Philistine town.
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 16:27 - As for the other events of Omri's reign, what he did and the things he achieved, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Israel?
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 17:12 - “As surely as the LORD your God lives,” she replied, “I don't have any bread—only a handful of flour in a jar and a little olive oil in a jug. I am gathering a few sticks to take home and make a meal for myself and my son, that we may eat it—and die.”
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 17:15 - She went away and did as Elijah had told her. So there was food every day for Elijah and for the woman and her family.
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 17:17 - 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 17:21 - 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 17:24 - Then the woman said to Elijah, “Now I know that you are a man of God and that the word of the LORD from your mouth is the truth.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:2 - So Elijah went to present himself to Ahab. Now the famine was severe in Samaria,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:7 - The angel of the LORD came back a second time and touched him and said, “Get up and eat, for the journey is too much for you.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:19 - The junior officers under the provincial commanders marched out of the city with the army behind them
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:32 - Wearing sackcloth around their waists and ropes around their heads, they went to the king of Israel and said, “Your servant Ben-Hadad says: ‘Please let me live.' ” The king answered, “Is he still alive? He is my brother.”
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 21:5 - His wife Jezebel came in and asked him, “Why are you so sullen? Why won't you eat?”
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 21:25 - (There was never anyone like Ahab, who sold himself to do evil in the eyes of the LORD, urged on by Jezebel his wife.
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 Box2Ki 1:4 - Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘You will not leave the bed you are lying on. You will certainly die!' ” So Elijah went.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:6 - “A man came to meet us,” they replied. “And he said to us, ‘Go back to the king who sent you and tell him, “This is what the LORD says: Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are sending messengers to consult Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you will not leave the bed you are lying on. You will certainly die!” ' ”
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 1:13 - 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 1:16 - He told the king, “This is what the LORD says: Is it because there is no God in Israel for you to consult that you have sent messengers to consult Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron? Because you have done this, you will never leave the bed you are lying on. You will certainly die!”
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 2:2 - Elijah said to Elisha, “Stay here; the LORD has sent me to Bethel.” But Elisha said, “As surely as the LORD lives and as you live, I will not leave you.” So they went down to Bethel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:4 - Then Elijah said to him, “Stay here, Elisha; the LORD has sent me to Jericho.” And he replied, “As surely as the LORD lives and as you live, I will not leave you.” So they went to Jericho.
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 2:19 - The people of the city said to Elisha, “Look, our lord, this town is well situated, as you can see, but the water is bad and the land is unproductive.”
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 3:20 - The next morning, about the time for offering the sacrifice, there it was—water flowing from the direction of Edom! And the land was filled with water.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:2 - Elisha replied to her, “How can I help you? Tell me, what do you have in your house?” “Your servant has nothing there at all,” she said, “except a small jar of olive oil.”
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 4:16 - “About this time next year,” Elisha said, “you will hold a son in your arms.” “No, my lord!” she objected. “Please, man of God, don't mislead your servant!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:17 - But the woman became pregnant, and the next year about that same time she gave birth to a son, just as Elisha had told her.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:23 - “Why go to him today?” he asked. “It's not the New Moon or the Sabbath.” “That's all right,” she said.
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 4:26 - Run to meet her and ask her, ‘Are you all right? Is your husband all right? Is your child all right?' ” “Everything is all right,” she said.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:27 - When she reached the man of God at the mountain, she took hold of his feet. Gehazi came over to push her away, but the man of God said, “Leave her alone! She is in bitter distress, but the LORD has hidden it from me and has not told me why.”
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 4:30 - 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 4:34 - 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 4:37 - She came in, fell at his feet and bowed to the ground. Then she took her son and went out.
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 5:4 - Naaman went to his master and told him what the girl from Israel had said.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:10 - Elisha sent a messenger to say to him, “Go, wash yourself seven times in the Jordan, and your flesh will be restored and you will be cleansed.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:14 - So he went down and dipped himself in the Jordan seven times, as the man of God had told him, and his flesh was restored and became clean like that of a young boy.
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 5:26 - 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 5:27 - Naaman's leprosy will cling to you and to your descendants forever.” Then Gehazi went from Elisha's presence and his skin was leprous—it had become as white as snow.
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 6:19 - Elisha told them, “This is not the road and this is not the city. Follow me, and I will lead you to the man you are looking for.” And he led them to Samaria.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:28 - Then he asked her, “What's the matter?” She answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give up your son so we may eat him today, and tomorrow we'll eat my son.'
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:31 - He said, “May God deal with me, be it ever so severely, if the head of Elisha son of Shaphat remains on his shoulders today!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:33 - While he was still talking to them, the messenger came down to him. The king said, “This disaster is from the LORD. Why should I wait for the LORD any longer?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:1 - Elisha replied, “Hear the word of the LORD. This is what the LORD says: About this time tomorrow, a seah[fn] of the finest flour will sell for a shekel[fn] and two seahs[fn] of barley for a shekel at the gate of Samaria.”
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 7:15 - 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 7:18 - It happened as the man of God had said to the king: “About this time tomorrow, a seah of the finest flour will sell for a shekel and two seahs of barley for a shekel at the gate of Samaria.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:2 - The woman proceeded to do as the man of God said. She and her family went away and stayed in the land of the Philistines seven years.
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 8:5 - 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 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 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 10:15 - After he left there, he came upon Jehonadab son of Rekab, who was on his way to meet him. Jehu greeted him and said, “Are you in accord with me, as I am with you?” “I am,” Jehonadab answered. “If so,” said Jehu, “give me your hand.” So he did, and Jehu helped him up into the chariot.
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 10:34 - As for the other events of Jehu's reign, all he did, and all his achievements, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Israel?
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:1 - When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she proceeded to destroy the whole royal family.
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 14:5 - After the kingdom was firmly in his grasp, he executed the officials who had murdered his father the king.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:10 - You have indeed defeated Edom and now you are arrogant. Glory in your victory, but stay at home! Why ask for trouble and cause your own downfall and that of Judah also?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:15 - The other events of Shallum's reign, and the conspiracy he led, are written in the book of the annals of the kings of Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:19 - The field commander said to them, “Tell Hezekiah: “ ‘This is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: On what are you basing this confidence of yours?
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:30 - Do not let Hezekiah persuade you to trust in the LORD when he says, ‘The LORD will surely deliver us; this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.'
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:3 - 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 Box2Ki 20:9 - Isaiah answered, “This is the LORD's sign to you that the LORD will do what he has promised: Shall the shadow go forward ten steps, or shall it go back ten steps?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:10 - “It is a simple matter for the shadow to go forward ten steps,” said Hezekiah. “Rather, have it go back ten steps.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:11 - Then the prophet Isaiah called on the LORD, and the LORD made the shadow go back the ten steps it had gone down on the stairway of Ahaz.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:20 - As for the other events of Hezekiah's reign, all his achievements and how he made the pool and the tunnel by which he brought water into the city, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah?
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:17 - As for the other events of Manasseh's reign, and all he did, including the sin he committed, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah?
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 22:19 - 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 24:10 - At that time the officers of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon advanced on Jerusalem and laid siege to it,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:12 - Jehoiachin king of Judah, his mother, his attendants, his nobles and his officials all surrendered to him. In the eighth year of the reign of the king of Babylon, he took Jehoiachin prisoner.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:1 - 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. He encamped outside the city and built siege works all around it.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:2 - The city was kept under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
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 25:16 - 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 25:30 - Day by day the king gave Jehoiachin a regular allowance as long as he lived.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:4 - Judah's daughter-in-law Tamar bore Perez and Zerah to Judah. He had five sons in all.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:24 - After Hezron died in Caleb Ephrathah, Abijah the wife of Hezron bore him Ashhur the father[fn] of Tekoa.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:46 - Caleb's concubine Ephah was the mother of Haran, Moza and Gazez. Haran was the father of Gazez.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:48 - Caleb's concubine Maakah was the mother of Sheber and Tirhanah.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:9 - Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. His mother had named him Jabez,[fn] saying, “I gave birth to him in pain.”
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 4:18 - (His wife from the tribe of Judah gave birth to Jered the father of Gedor, Heber the father of Soko, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah.) These were the children of Pharaoh's daughter Bithiah, whom Mered had married.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:33 - and all the villages around these towns as far as Baalath.[fn] These were their settlements. And they kept a genealogical record.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:40 - They found rich, good pasture, and the land was spacious, peaceful and quiet. Some Hamites had lived there formerly.
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 7:14 - The descendants of Manasseh: Asriel was his descendant through his Aramean concubine. She gave birth to Makir the father of Gilead.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:18 - His sister Hammoleketh gave birth to Ishhod, Abiezer and Mahlah.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:5 - said to David, “You will not get in here.” Nevertheless, David captured the fortress of Zion—which is the City of David.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 13:4 - The whole assembly agreed to do this, because it seemed right to all the people.
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 14:2 - And David knew that the LORD had established him as king over Israel and that his kingdom had been highly exalted for the sake of his people Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:23 - Sing to the LORD, all the earth; proclaim his salvation day after day.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:30 - Tremble before him, all the earth! The world is firmly established; it cannot be moved.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:31 - Let the heavens rejoice, let the earth be glad; let them say among the nations, “The LORD reigns!”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:32 - Let the sea resound, and all that is in it; let the fields be jubilant, and everything in them!
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:1 - After David was settled in his palace, he said to Nathan the prophet, “Here I am, living in a house of cedar, while the ark of the covenant of the LORD is under a tent.”
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 21:22 - 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 22:18 - He said to them, “Is not the LORD your God with you? And has he not granted you rest on every side? For he has given the inhabitants of the land into my hands, and the land is subject to the LORD and to his people.
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 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 29:1 - Then King David said to the whole assembly: “My son Solomon, the one whom God has chosen, is young and inexperienced. The task is great, because this palatial structure is not for man but for the LORD God.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:11 - Yours, LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the majesty and the splendor, for everything in heaven and earth is yours. Yours, LORD, is the kingdom; you are exalted as head over all.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:12 - Wealth and honor come from you; you are the ruler of all things. In your hands are strength and power to exalt and give strength to all.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:20 - Then David said to the whole assembly, “Praise the LORD your God.” So they all praised the LORD, the God of their fathers; they bowed down, prostrating themselves before the LORD and the king.
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 1:5 - But the bronze altar that Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, had made was in Gibeon in front of the tabernacle of the LORD; so Solomon and the assembly inquired of him there.
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 2:14 - whose mother was from Dan and whose father was from Tyre. He is trained to work in gold and silver, bronze and iron, stone and wood, and with purple and blue and crimson yarn and fine linen. He is experienced in all kinds of engraving and can execute any design given to him. He will work with your skilled workers and with those of my lord, David your father.
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 3:11 - 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 4:4 - The Sea stood on twelve bulls, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south and three facing east. The Sea rested on top of them, and their hindquarters were toward the center.
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 4:22 - 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 6:15 - You have kept your promise to your servant David my father; with your mouth you have promised and with your hand you have fulfilled it—as it is today.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:41 - “Now arise, LORD God, and come to your resting place, you and the ark of your might. May your priests, LORD God, be clothed with salvation, may your faithful people rejoice in your goodness.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:3 - When all the Israelites saw the fire coming down and the glory of the LORD above the temple, they knelt on the pavement with their faces to the ground, and they worshiped and gave thanks to the LORD, saying, “He is good; his love endures forever.”
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 8:11 - 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 8:16 - All Solomon's work was carried out, from the day the foundation of the temple of the LORD was laid until its completion. So the temple of the LORD was finished.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:28 - Solomon's horses were imported from Egypt and from all other countries.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 10:3 - So they sent for Jeroboam, and he and all Israel went to Rehoboam and said to him:
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 12:1 - After Rehoboam's position as king was established and he had become strong, he and all Israel[fn] with him abandoned the law of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 12:13 - King Rehoboam established himself firmly in Jerusalem and continued as king. 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 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 14:1 - And Abijah rested with his ancestors and was buried in the City of David. Asa his son succeeded him as king, and in his days the country was at peace for ten years.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:6 - He built up the fortified cities of Judah, since the land was at peace. No one was at war with him during those years, for the LORD gave him rest.
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 20:30 - And the kingdom of Jehoshaphat was at peace, for his God had given him rest on every side.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 21:9 - So Jehoram went there with his officers and all his chariots. The Edomites surrounded him and his chariot commanders, but he rose up and broke through by night.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 21:15 - You yourself will be very ill with a lingering disease of the bowels, until the disease causes your bowels to come out.' ”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 21:19 - In the course of time, at the end of the second year, his bowels came out because of the disease, and he died in great pain. His people made no funeral fire in his honor, as they had for his predecessors.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 22:10 - When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she proceeded to destroy the whole royal family of the house of Judah.
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 23:21 - All the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was calm, because Athaliah had been slain with the sword.
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 25:3 - After the kingdom was firmly in his control, he executed the officials who had murdered his father the king.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:19 - You say to yourself that you have defeated Edom, and now you are arrogant and proud. But stay at home! Why ask for trouble and cause your own downfall and that of Judah also?”
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 26:19 - 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 28:13 - “You must not bring those prisoners here,” they said, “or we will be guilty before the LORD. Do you intend to add to our sin and guilt? For our guilt is already great, and his fierce anger rests on Israel.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:24 - The priests then slaughtered the goats and presented their blood on the altar for a sin offering to atone for all Israel, because the king had ordered the burnt offering and the sin offering for all Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:28 - The whole assembly bowed in worship, while the musicians played and the trumpets sounded. All this continued until the sacrifice of the burnt offering was completed.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:31 - Then Hezekiah said, “You have now dedicated yourselves to the LORD. Come and bring sacrifices and thank offerings to the temple of the LORD.” So the assembly brought sacrifices and thank offerings, and all whose hearts were willing brought burnt offerings.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:32 - The number of burnt offerings the assembly brought was seventy bulls, a hundred rams and two hundred male lambs—all of them for burnt offerings to the LORD.
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 30:2 - The king and his officials and the whole assembly in Jerusalem decided to celebrate the Passover in the second month.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:23 - The whole assembly then agreed to celebrate the festival seven more days; so for another seven days they celebrated joyfully.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:25 - The entire assembly of Judah rejoiced, along with the priests and Levites and all who had assembled from Israel, including the foreigners who had come from Israel and also those who resided in Judah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:27 - The priests and the Levites stood to bless the people, and God heard them, for their prayer reached heaven, his holy dwelling place.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:10 - and Azariah the chief priest, from the family of Zadok, answered, “Since the people began to bring their contributions to the temple of the LORD, we have had enough to eat and plenty to spare, because the LORD has blessed his people, and this great amount is left over.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:9 - Later, when Sennacherib king of Assyria and all his forces were laying siege to Lachish, he sent his officers to Jerusalem with this message for Hezekiah king of Judah and for all the people of Judah who were there:
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:25 - But Hezekiah's heart was proud and he did not respond to the kindness shown him; therefore the LORD's wrath was on him and on Judah and Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:18 - The other events of Manasseh's reign, including his prayer to his God and the words the seers spoke to him in the name of the LORD, the God of Israel, are written in the annals of the kings of Israel.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:27 - Because your heart was responsive and you humbled yourself before God when you heard what he spoke against this place and its people, and because you humbled yourself before me and tore your robes and wept in my presence, I have heard you, declares the LORD.
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 35:16 - 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 35:26 - The other events of Josiah's reign and his acts of devotion in accordance with what is written in the Law of the LORD
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 BoxEzr 2:64 - The whole company numbered 42,360,
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 3:4 - Then in accordance with what is written, they celebrated the Festival of Tabernacles with the required number of burnt offerings prescribed for each day.
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 4:11 - (This is a copy of the letter they sent him.) To King Artaxerxes, From your servants in Trans-Euphrates:
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:13 - Furthermore, the king should know that if this city is built and its walls are restored, no more taxes, tribute or duty will be paid, and eventually the royal revenues will suffer.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:15 - so that a search may be made in the archives of your predecessors. In these records you will find that this city is a rebellious city, troublesome to kings and provinces, a place with a long history of sedition. That is why this city was destroyed.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:16 - We inform the king that if this city is built and its walls are restored, you will be left with nothing in Trans-Euphrates.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:19 - I issued an order and a search was made, and it was found that this city has a long history of revolt against kings and has been a place of rebellion and sedition.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:21 - Now issue an order to these men to stop work, so that this city will not be rebuilt until I so order.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:1 - King Darius then issued an order, and they searched in the archives stored in the treasury at Babylon.
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 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 7:12 - Artaxerxes, king of kings, To Ezra the priest, teacher of the Law of the God of heaven: Greetings.
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 7:28 - 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 9:7 - From the days of our ancestors until now, our guilt has been great. Because of our sins, we and our kings and our priests have been subjected to the sword and captivity, to pillage and humiliation at the hand of foreign kings, as it is today.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:11 - you gave through your servants the prophets when you said: ‘The land you are entering to possess is a land polluted by the corruption of its peoples. By their detestable practices they have filled it with their impurity from one end to the other.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:15 - LORD, the God of Israel, you are righteous! We are left this day as a remnant. Here we are before you in our guilt, though because of it not one of us can stand in your presence.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:8 - Anyone who failed to appear within three days would forfeit all his property, in accordance with the decision of the officials and elders, and would himself be expelled from the assembly of the exiles.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:12 - The whole assembly responded with a loud voice: “You are right! We must do as you say.
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 2:3 - but I said to the king, “May the king live forever! Why should my face not look sad when the city where my ancestors are buried lies in ruins, and its gates have been destroyed by fire?”
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 2:8 - 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 4:2 - and in the presence of his associates and the army of Samaria, he said, “What are those feeble Jews doing? Will they restore their wall? Will they offer sacrifices? Will they finish in a day? Can they bring the stones back to life from those heaps of rubble—burned as they are?”
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:10 - Meanwhile, the people in Judah said, “The strength of the laborers is giving out, and there is so much rubble that we cannot rebuild the wall.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:22 - At that time I also said to the people, “Have every man and his helper stay inside Jerusalem at night, so they can serve us as guards by night and as workers by day.”
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 5:18 - Each day one ox, six choice sheep and some poultry were prepared for me, and every ten days an abundant supply of wine of all kinds. In spite of all this, I never demanded the food allotted to the governor, because the demands were heavy on these people.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:12 - I realized that God had not sent him, but that he had prophesied against me because Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:4 - Now the city was large and spacious, but there were few people in it, and the houses had not yet been rebuilt.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:66 - The whole company numbered 42,360,
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 8:10 - Nehemiah said, “Go and enjoy choice food and sweet drinks, and send some to those who have nothing prepared. This day is holy to our Lord. Do not grieve, for the joy of the LORD is your strength.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:11 - The Levites calmed all the people, saying, “Be still, for this is a holy day. Do not grieve.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:17 - The whole company that had returned from exile built temporary shelters and lived in them. From the days of Joshua son of Nun until that day, the Israelites had not celebrated it like this. And their joy was very great.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:10 - You sent signs and wonders against Pharaoh, against all his officials and all the people of his land, for you knew how arrogantly the Egyptians treated them. You made a name for yourself, which remains to this day.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:36 - “But see, we are slaves today, slaves in the land you gave our ancestors so they could eat its fruit and the other good things it produces.
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 12:43 - And on that day they offered great sacrifices, rejoicing because God had given them great joy. The women and children also rejoiced. The sound of rejoicing in Jerusalem could be heard far away.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:9 - Queen Vashti also gave a banquet for the women in the royal palace of King Xerxes.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:12 - But when the attendants delivered the king's command, Queen Vashti refused to come. Then the king became furious and burned with anger.
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 1:19 - “Therefore, if it pleases the king, let him issue a royal decree and let it be written in the laws of Persia and Media, which cannot be repealed, that Vashti is never again to enter the presence of King Xerxes. Also let the king give her royal position to someone else who is better than she.
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 2:4 - Then let the young woman who pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti.” This advice appealed to the king, and he followed it.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:20 - But Esther had kept secret her family background and nationality just as Mordecai had told her to do, for she continued to follow Mordecai's instructions as she had done when he was bringing her up.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:15 - The couriers went out, spurred on by the king's command, and the edict was issued in the citadel of Susa. The king and Haman sat down to drink, but the city of Susa was bewildered.
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 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 5:2 - When he saw Queen Esther standing in the court, he was pleased with her and held out to her the gold scepter that was in his hand. So Esther approached and touched the tip of the scepter.
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 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 6:13 - and told Zeresh his wife and all his friends everything that had happened to him. His advisers and his wife Zeresh said to him, “Since Mordecai, before whom your downfall has started, is of Jewish origin, you cannot stand against him—you will surely come to ruin!”
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 9:29 - So Queen Esther, daughter of Abihail, along with Mordecai the Jew, wrote with full authority to confirm this second letter concerning Purim.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:31 - to establish these days of Purim at their designated times, as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther had decreed for them, and as they had established for themselves and their descendants in regard to their times of fasting and lamentation.
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 1:13 - One day when Job's sons and daughters were feasting and drinking wine at the oldest brother's house,
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 2:1 - 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 2:9 - His wife said to him, “Are you still maintaining your integrity? Curse God and die!”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:3 - “May the day of my birth perish, and the night that said, ‘A boy is conceived!'
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:4 - That day—may it turn to darkness; may God above not care about it; may no light shine on it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:6 - That night—may thick darkness seize it; may it not be included among the days of the year nor be entered in any of the months.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:7 - May that night be barren; may no shout of joy be heard in it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:6 - Should not your piety be your confidence and your blameless ways your hope?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:3 - I myself have seen a fool taking root, but suddenly his house was cursed.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:5 - The hungry consume his harvest, taking it even from among thorns, and the thirsty pant after his wealth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:24 - You will know that your tent is secure; you will take stock of your property and find nothing missing.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:7 - I refuse to touch it; such food makes me ill.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:8 - “Oh, that I might have my request, that God would grant what I hope for,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:11 - “What strength do I have, that I should still hope? What prospects, that I should be patient?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:12 - Do I have the strength of stone? Is my flesh bronze?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:1 - “Do not mortals have hard service on earth? Are not their days like those of hired laborers?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:7 - Remember, O God, that my life is but a breath; my eyes will never see happiness again.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:13 - When I think my bed will comfort me and my couch will ease my complaint,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:14 - What they trust in is fragile[fn]; what they rely on is a spider's web.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:21 - “Although I am blameless, I have no concern for myself; I despise my own life.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:31 - you would plunge me into a slime pit so that even my clothes would detest me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:12 - You gave me life and showed me kindness, and in your providence watched over my spirit.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 11:17 - Life will be brighter than noonday, and darkness will become like morning.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 11:20 - But the eyes of the wicked will fail, and escape will elude them; their hope will become a dying gasp.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:8 - Its roots may grow old in the ground and its stump die in the soil,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:13 - “If only you would hide me in the grave and conceal me till your anger has passed! If only you would set me a time and then remember me!
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:22 - They feel but the pain of their own bodies and mourn only for themselves.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:12 - Why has your heart carried you away, and why do your eyes flash,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:19 - (to whom alone the land was given when no foreigners moved among them):
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:21 - Terrifying sounds fill his ears; when all seems well, marauders attack him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:32 - Before his time he will wither, and his branches will not flourish.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:35 - They conceive trouble and give birth to evil; their womb fashions deceit.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:4 - I also could speak like you, if you were in my place; I could make fine speeches against you and shake my head at you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:16 - My face is red with weeping, dark shadows ring my eyes;
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:20 - My intercessor is my friend[fn] as my eyes pour out tears to God;
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:13 - If the only home I hope for is the grave, if I spread out my bed in the realm of darkness,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:15 - where then is my hope— who can see any hope for me?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:4 - You who tear yourself to pieces in your anger, is the earth to be abandoned for your sake? Or must the rocks be moved from their place?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:5 - “The lamp of a wicked man is snuffed out; the flame of his fire stops burning.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:7 - The vigor of his step is weakened; his own schemes throw him down.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:10 - A noose is hidden for him on the ground; a trap lies in his path.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:21 - “Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:29 - you should fear the sword yourselves; for wrath will bring punishment by the sword, and then you will know that there is judgment.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:6 - Though the pride of the godless person reaches to the heavens and his head touches the clouds,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:29 - Such is the fate God allots the wicked, the heritage appointed for them by God.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:2 - “Listen carefully to my words; let this be the consolation you give me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:4 - “Is my complaint directed to a human being? Why should I not be impatient?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:10 - Their bulls never fail to breed; their cows calve and do not miscarry.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:17 - “Yet how often is the lamp of the wicked snuffed out? How often does calamity come upon them, the fate God allots in his anger?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:28 - You say, ‘Where now is the house of the great, the tents where the wicked lived?'
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:5 - Is not your wickedness great? Are not your sins endless?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:20 - ‘Surely our foes are destroyed, and fire devours their wealth.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 23:2 - “Even today my complaint is bitter; his hand[fn] is heavy in spite of[fn] my groaning.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:18 - “Yet they are foam on the surface of the water; their portion of the land is cursed, so that no one goes to the vineyards.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:20 - The womb forgets them, the worm feasts on them; the wicked are no longer remembered but are broken like a tree.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 26:4 - Who has helped you utter these words? And whose spirit spoke from your mouth?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:4 - my lips will not say anything wicked, and my tongue will not utter lies.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:7 - “May my enemy be like the wicked, my adversary like the unjust!
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:13 - “Here is the fate God allots to the wicked, the heritage a ruthless man receives from the Almighty:
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:12 - But where can wisdom be found? Where does understanding dwell?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:20 - Where then does wisdom come from? Where does understanding dwell?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:22 - Destruction[fn] and Death say, “Only a rumor of it has reached our ears.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:28 - And he said to the human race, “The fear of the Lord—that is wisdom, and to shun evil is understanding.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:18 - “I thought, ‘I will die in my own house, my days as numerous as the grains of sand.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:19 - My roots will reach to the water, and the dew will lie all night on my branches.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:20 - My glory will not fade; the bow will be ever new in my hand.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:15 - Terrors overwhelm me; my dignity is driven away as by the wind, my safety vanishes like a cloud.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:16 - “And now my life ebbs away; days of suffering grip me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:19 - He throws me into the mud, and I am reduced to dust and ashes.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:27 - The churning inside me never stops; days of suffering confront me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:31 - My lyre is tuned to mourning, and my pipe to the sound of wailing.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:7 - if my steps have turned from the path, if my heart has been led by my eyes, or if my hands have been defiled,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:9 - “If my heart has been enticed by a woman, or if I have lurked at my neighbor's door,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:10 - then may my wife grind another man's grain, and may other men sleep with her.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:27 - so that my heart was secretly enticed and my hand offered them a kiss of homage,
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 31:29 - “If I have rejoiced at my enemy's misfortune or gloated over the trouble that came to him—
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:32 - but no stranger had to spend the night in the street, for my door was always open to the traveler—
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:38 - “if my land cries out against me and all its furrows are wet with tears,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 32:8 - But it is the spirit[fn] in a person, the breath of the Almighty, that gives them understanding.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 32:19 - inside I am like bottled-up wine, like new wineskins ready to burst.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:2 - I am about to open my mouth; my words are on the tip of my tongue.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:3 - My words come from an upright heart; my lips sincerely speak what I know.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:4 - The Spirit of God has made me; the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:7 - No fear of me should alarm you, nor should my hand be heavy on you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:20 - so that their body finds food repulsive and their soul loathes the choicest meal.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:22 - They draw near to the pit, and their life to the messengers of death.[fn]
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 33:30 - to turn them back from the pit, that the light of life may shine on them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 35:8 - Your wickedness only affects humans like yourself, and your righteousness only other people.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 36:14 - They die in their youth, among male prostitutes of the shrines.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 36:28 - the clouds pour down their moisture and abundant showers fall on mankind.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:1 - “At this my heart pounds and leaps from its place.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:17 - You who swelter in your clothes when the land lies hushed under the south wind,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:22 - Out of the north he comes in golden splendor; God comes in awesome majesty.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:11 - Will you rely on it for its great strength? Will you leave your heavy work to it?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 40:14 - Then I myself will admit to you that your own right hand can save you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 40:16 - What strength it has in its loins, what power in the muscles of its belly!
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 40:18 - Its bones are tubes of bronze, its limbs like rods of iron.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:11 - Who has a claim against me that I must pay? Everything under heaven belongs to me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:21 - Its breath sets coals ablaze, and flames dart from its mouth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:24 - Its chest is hard as rock, hard as a lower millstone.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:30 - Its undersides are jagged potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 3:8 - From the LORD comes deliverance. May your blessing be on your people.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 5:9 - Not a word from their mouth can be trusted; their heart is filled with malice. Their throat is an open grave; with their tongues they tell lies.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 6:3 - My soul is in deep anguish. How long, LORD, how long?
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:10 - My shield[fn] is God Most High, who saves the upright in heart.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:16 - The trouble they cause recoils on them; their violence comes down on their own heads.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 8:1 - [fn]For the director of music. According to gittith.[fn] A psalm of David. LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory in the heavens.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 9:18 - But God will never forget the needy; the hope of the afflicted will never perish.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:12 - Arise, LORD! Lift up your hand, O God. Do not forget the helpless.
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 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 16:5 - LORD, you alone are my portion and my cup; you make my lot secure.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 16:6 - The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; surely I have a delightful inheritance.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 16:9 - Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will rest secure,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 17:14 - By your hand save me from such people, LORD, from those of this world whose reward is in this life. May what you have stored up for the wicked fill their bellies; may their children gorge themselves on it, and may there be leftovers for their little ones.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:1 - [fn]For the director of music. Of David the servant of the LORD. He sang to the LORD the words of this song when the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul. He said: I love you, LORD, my strength.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:6 - In my distress I called to the LORD; I cried to my God for help. From his temple he heard my voice; my cry came before him, into his ears.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:7 - The earth trembled and quaked, and the foundations of the mountains shook; they trembled because he was angry.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:11 - He made darkness his covering, his canopy around him— the dark rain clouds of the sky.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:30 - As for God, his way is perfect: The LORD's word is flawless; he shields all who take refuge in him.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:35 - You make your saving help my shield, and your right hand sustains me; your help has made me great.
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 19:8 - The precepts of the LORD are right, giving joy to the heart. The commands of the LORD are radiant, giving light to the eyes.
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 20:6 - Now this I know: The LORD gives victory to his anointed. He answers him from his heavenly sanctuary with the victorious power of his right hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 21:5 - Through the victories you gave, his glory is great; you have bestowed on him splendor and majesty.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 21:8 - Your hand will lay hold on all your enemies; your right hand will seize your foes.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:9 - Yet you brought me out of the womb; you made me trust in you, even at my mother's breast.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:14 - I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint. My heart has turned to wax; it has melted within me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:15 - My mouth[fn] is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth; you lay me in the dust of death.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:28 - for dominion belongs to the LORD and he rules over the nations.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:29 - All the rich of the earth will feast and worship; all who go down to the dust will kneel before him— those who cannot keep themselves alive.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:30 - Posterity will serve him; future generations will be told about the Lord.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 23:4 - Even though I walk through the darkest valley,[fn] I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
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 24:6 - Such is the generation of those who seek him, who seek your face, God of Jacob.[fn][fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 25:13 - They will spend their days in prosperity, and their descendants will inherit the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 25:14 - The LORD confides in those who fear him; he makes his covenant known to them.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 26:10 - in whose hands are wicked schemes, whose right hands are full of bribes.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 27:3 - Though an army besiege me, my heart will not fear; though war break out against me, even then I will be confident.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 27:8 - My heart says of you, “Seek his face!” Your face, LORD, I will seek.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 27:10 - Though my father and mother forsake me, the LORD will receive me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 27:12 - Do not turn me over to the desire of my foes, for false witnesses rise up against me, spouting malicious accusations.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 27:14 - Wait for the LORD; be strong and take heart and wait for the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 28:7 - The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and he helps me. My heart leaps for joy, and with my song I praise him.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 30:12 - that my heart may sing your praises and not be silent. LORD my God, I will praise you forever.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:9 - Be merciful to me, LORD, for I am in distress; my eyes grow weak with sorrow, my soul and body with grief.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:10 - My life is consumed by anguish and my years by groaning; my strength fails because of my affliction,[fn] and my bones grow weak.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:24 - Be strong and take heart, all you who hope in the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 32:4 - For day and night your hand was heavy on me; my strength was sapped as in the heat of summer.[fn]
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 33:8 - Let all the earth fear the LORD; let all the people of the world revere him.
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 33:20 - We wait in hope for the LORD; he is our help and our shield.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 33:21 - In him our hearts rejoice, for we trust in his holy name.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 34:1 - [fn][fn]Of David. When he pretended to be insane before Abimelek, who drove him away, and he left. I will extol the LORD at all times; his praise will always be on my lips.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 34:2 - I will glory in the LORD; let the afflicted hear and rejoice.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:6 - may their path be dark and slippery, with the angel of the LORD pursuing them.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:8 - may ruin overtake them by surprise— may the net they hid entangle them, may they fall into the pit, to their ruin.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:9 - Then my soul will rejoice in the LORD and delight in his salvation.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:13 - Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth and humbled myself with fasting. When my prayers returned to me unanswered,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:28 - My tongue will proclaim your righteousness, your praises all day long.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 36:5 - Your love, LORD, reaches to the heavens, your faithfulness to the skies.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 36:6 - Your righteousness is like the highest mountains, your justice like the great deep. You, LORD, preserve both people and animals.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:13 - but the Lord laughs at the wicked, for he knows their day is coming.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:15 - But their swords will pierce their own hearts, and their bows will be broken.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:18 - The blameless spend their days under the LORD's care, and their inheritance will endure forever.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:30 - The mouths of the righteous utter wisdom, and their tongues speak what is just.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 38:9 - All my longings lie open before you, Lord; my sighing is not hidden from you.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 38:10 - My heart pounds, my strength fails me; even the light has gone from my eyes.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 38:17 - For I am about to fall, and my pain is ever with me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 39:3 - my heart grew hot within me. While I meditated, the fire burned; then I spoke with my tongue:
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 39:5 - You have made my days a mere handbreadth; the span of my years is as nothing before you. Everyone is but a breath, even those who seem secure.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 39:7 - “But now, Lord, what do I look for? My hope is in you.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:11 - Do not withhold your mercy from me, LORD; may your love and faithfulness always protect me.
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 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 42:1 - [fn][fn]For the director of music. A maskil[fn] of the Sons of Korah. As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God.
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 42:6 - My soul is downcast within me; therefore I will remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon—from Mount Mizar.
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 44:2 - With your hand you drove out the nations and planted our ancestors; you crushed the peoples and made our ancestors flourish.
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 44:6 - I put no trust in my bow, my sword does not bring me victory;
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 44:15 - I live in disgrace all day long, and my face is covered with shame
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 44:18 - Our hearts had not turned back; our feet had not strayed from your path.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 44:25 - We are brought down to the dust; our bodies cling to the ground.
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 45:4 - In your majesty ride forth victoriously in the cause of truth, humility and justice; let your right hand achieve awesome deeds.
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 45:9 - Daughters of kings are among your honored women; at your right hand is the royal bride in gold of Ophir.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 45:13 - All glorious is the princess within her chamber; her gown is interwoven with gold.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 46:6 - Nations are in uproar, kingdoms fall; he lifts his voice, the earth melts.
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 48:10 - Like your name, O God, your praise reaches to the ends of the earth; your right hand is filled with righteousness.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 49:3 - My mouth will speak words of wisdom; the meditation of my heart will give you understanding.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 49:5 - Why should I fear when evil days come, when wicked deceivers surround me—
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 49:13 - This is the fate of those who trust in themselves, and of their followers, who approve their sayings.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 49:14 - They are like sheep and are destined to die; death will be their shepherd (but the upright will prevail over them in the morning). Their forms will decay in the grave, far from their princely mansions.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 49:16 - Do not be overawed when others grow rich, when the splendor of their houses increases;
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 49:17 - for they will take nothing with them when they die, their splendor will not descend with them.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 49:18 - Though while they live they count themselves blessed— and people praise you when you prosper—
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 50:2 - From Zion, perfect in beauty, God shines forth.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 50:12 - If I were hungry I would not tell you, for the world is mine, and all that is in it.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 50:19 - You use your mouth for evil and harness your tongue to deceit.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 51:3 - For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 51:5 - Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 51:14 - Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, you who are God my Savior, and my tongue will sing of your righteousness.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 52:2 - You who practice deceit, your tongue plots destruction; it is like a sharpened razor.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 55:4 - My heart is in anguish within me; the terrors of death have fallen on me.
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 57:1 - [fn]For the director of music. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” Of David. A miktam.[fn] When he had fled from Saul into the cave. Have mercy on me, my God, have mercy on me, for in you I take refuge. I will take refuge in the shadow of your wings until the disaster has passed.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 57:4 - I am in the midst of lions; I am forced to dwell among ravenous beasts— men whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 57:5 - Be exalted, O God, above the heavens; let your glory be over all the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 57:7 - My heart, O God, is steadfast, my heart is steadfast; I will sing and make music.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 57:8 - Awake, my soul! Awake, harp and lyre! I will awaken the dawn.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 57:10 - For great is your love, reaching to the heavens; your faithfulness reaches to the skies.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 57:11 - Be exalted, O God, above the heavens; let your glory be over all the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 59:3 - See how they lie in wait for me! Fierce men conspire against me for no offense or sin of mine, LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 62:1 - [fn]For the director of music. For Jeduthun. A psalm of David. Truly my soul finds rest in God; my salvation comes from him.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 62:5 - Yes, my soul, find rest in God; my hope comes from him.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 62:7 - My salvation and my honor depend on God[fn]; he is my mighty rock, my refuge.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 63:1 - [fn]A psalm of David. When he was in the Desert of Judah. You, God, are my God, earnestly I seek you; I thirst for you, my whole being longs for you, in a dry and parched land where there is no water.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 63:5 - I will be fully satisfied as with the richest of foods; with singing lips my mouth will praise you.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 63:8 - I cling to you; your right hand upholds me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 65:5 - You answer us with awesome and righteous deeds, God our Savior, the hope of all the ends of the earth and of the farthest seas,
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 66:1 - For the director of music. A song. A psalm. Shout for joy to God, all the earth!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 66:4 - All the earth bows down to you; they sing praise to you, they sing the praises of your name.”[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:23 - that your feet may wade in the blood of your foes, while the tongues of your dogs have their share.”
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 68:34 - Proclaim the power of God, whose majesty is over Israel, whose power is in the heavens.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:20 - Scorn has broken my heart and has left me helpless; I looked for sympathy, but there was none, for comforters, but I found none.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:22 - May the table set before them become a snare; may it become retribution and[fn] a trap.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:25 - May their place be deserted; let there be no one to dwell in their tents.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:29 - But as for me, afflicted and in pain— may your salvation, God, protect me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:32 - The poor will see and be glad— you who seek God, may your hearts live!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:34 - Let heaven and earth praise him, the seas and all that move in them,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 71:5 - For you have been my hope, Sovereign LORD, my confidence since my youth.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 71:6 - From birth I have relied on you; you brought me forth from my mother's womb. I will ever praise you.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 71:23 - My lips will shout for joy when I sing praise to you— I whom you have delivered.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 71:24 - My tongue will tell of your righteous acts all day long, for those who wanted to harm me have been put to shame and confusion.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 72:7 - In his days may the righteous flourish and prosperity abound till the moon is no more.
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 73:6 - Therefore pride is their necklace; they clothe themselves with violence.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:7 - From their callous hearts comes iniquity[fn]; their evil imaginations have no limits.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:9 - Their mouths lay claim to heaven, and their tongues take possession of the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:21 - When my heart was grieved and my spirit embittered,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:26 - My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
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 74:16 - The day is yours, and yours also the night; you established the sun and moon.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:23 - Do not ignore the clamor of your adversaries, the uproar of your enemies, which rises continually.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 75:3 - When the earth and all its people quake, it is I who hold its pillars firm.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 76:7 - It is you alone who are to be feared. Who can stand before you when you are angry?
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 77:2 - When I was in distress, I sought the Lord; at night I stretched out untiring hands, and I would not be comforted.
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 77:13 - Your ways, God, are holy. What god is as great as our God?
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 77:18 - Your thunder was heard in the whirlwind, your lightning lit up the world; the earth trembled and quaked.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 77:19 - Your path led through the sea, your way through the mighty waters, though your footprints were not seen.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:37 - their hearts were not loyal to him, they were not faithful to his covenant.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:54 - And so he brought them to the border of his holy land, to the hill country his right hand had taken.
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 80:9 - You cleared the ground for it, and it took root and filled the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 80:10 - The mountains were covered with its shade, the mighty cedars with its branches.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 80:15 - the root your right hand has planted, the son[fn] you have raised up for yourself.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 80:17 - Let your hand rest on the man at your right hand, the son of man you have raised up for yourself.
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 84:5 - Blessed are those whose strength is in you, whose hearts are set on pilgrimage.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 85:12 - The LORD will indeed give what is good, and our land will yield its harvest.
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 87:3 - Glorious things are said of you, city of God:[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 87:7 - As they make music they will sing, “All my fountains are in you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:2 - May my prayer come before you; turn your ear to my cry.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:3 - I am overwhelmed with troubles and my life draws near to death.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:12 - Are your wonders known in the place of darkness, or your righteous deeds in the land of oblivion?
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:13 - But I cry to you for help, LORD; in the morning my prayer comes before you.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:2 - I will declare that your love stands firm forever, that you have established your faithfulness in heaven itself.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:8 - Who is like you, LORD God Almighty? You, LORD, are mighty, and your faithfulness surrounds you.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:11 - The heavens are yours, and yours also the earth; you founded the world and all that is in it.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:13 - Your arm is endowed with power; your hand is strong, your right hand exalted.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:18 - Indeed, our shield[fn] belongs to the LORD, our king to the Holy One of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:21 - My hand will sustain him; surely my arm will strengthen him.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:24 - My faithful love will be with him, and through my name his horn[fn] will be exalted.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:28 - I will maintain my love to him forever, and my covenant with him will never fail.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:37 - it will be established forever like the moon, the faithful witness in the sky.”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:46 - How long, LORD? Will you hide yourself forever? How long will your wrath burn like fire?
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:47 - Remember how fleeting is my life. For what futility you have created all humanity!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 90:4 - A thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night.
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 91:4 - He will cover you with his feathers, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 91:9 - If you say, “The LORD is my refuge,” and you make the Most High your dwelling,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 92:12 - The righteous will flourish like a palm tree, they will grow like a cedar of Lebanon;
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 94:17 - Unless the LORD had given me help, I would soon have dwelt in the silence of death.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 95:5 - The sea is his, for he made it, and his hands formed the dry land.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 96:1 - Sing to the LORD a new song; sing to the LORD, all the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 96:9 - Worship the LORD in the splendor of his[fn] holiness; tremble before him, all the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 96:11 - Let the heavens rejoice, let the earth be glad; let the sea resound, and all that is in it.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 97:1 - The LORD reigns, let the earth be glad; let the distant shores rejoice.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 97:4 - His lightning lights up the world; the earth sees and trembles.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 98:1 - A psalm. Sing to the LORD a new song, for he has done marvelous things; his right hand and his holy arm have worked salvation for him.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 98:4 - Shout for joy to the LORD, all the earth, burst into jubilant song with music;
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 98:7 - Let the sea resound, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 99:1 - The LORD reigns, let the nations tremble; he sits enthroned between the cherubim, let the earth shake.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 100:1 - A psalm. For giving grateful praise. Shout for joy to the LORD, all the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 100:5 - For the LORD is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all generations.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:1 - [fn]A prayer of an afflicted person who has grown weak and pours out a lament before the LORD. Hear my prayer, LORD; let my cry for help come to you.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:4 - My heart is blighted and withered like grass; I forget to eat my food.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 103:1 - Of David. Praise the LORD, my soul; all my inmost being, praise his holy name.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 103:2 - Praise the LORD, my soul, and forget not all his benefits—
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 103:5 - who satisfies your desires with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's.
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 103:19 - The LORD has established his throne in heaven, and his kingdom rules over all.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 103:22 - Praise the LORD, all his works everywhere in his dominion. Praise the LORD, my soul.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:1 - Praise the LORD, my soul. LORD my God, you are very great; you are clothed with splendor and majesty.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:13 - He waters the mountains from his upper chambers; the land is satisfied by the fruit of his work.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:17 - There the birds make their nests; the stork has its home in the junipers.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:24 - How many are your works, LORD! In wisdom you made them all; the earth is full of your creatures.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:25 - There is the sea, vast and spacious, teeming with creatures beyond number— living things both large and small.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:31 - May the glory of the LORD endure forever; may the LORD rejoice in his works—
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:34 - May my meditation be pleasing to him, as I rejoice in the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:35 - But may sinners vanish from the earth and the wicked be no more. Praise the LORD, my soul. Praise the LORD.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:18 - They bruised his feet with shackles, his neck was put in irons,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:30 - Their land teemed with frogs, which went up into the bedrooms of their rulers.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:17 - The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan; it buried the company of Abiram.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:29 - they aroused the LORD's anger by their wicked deeds, and a plague broke out among them.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:30 - But Phinehas stood up and intervened, and the plague was checked.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:38 - They shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was desecrated by their blood.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:5 - They were hungry and thirsty, and their lives ebbed away.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:12 - So he subjected them to bitter labor; they stumbled, and there was no one to help.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:18 - They loathed all food and drew near the gates of death.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:26 - They mounted up to the heavens and went down to the depths; in their peril their courage melted away.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:27 - They reeled and staggered like drunkards; they were at their wits' end.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 108:1 - [fn]A song. A psalm of David. My heart, O God, is steadfast; I will sing and make music with all my soul.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 108:4 - For great is your love, higher than the heavens; your faithfulness reaches to the skies.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 108:5 - Be exalted, O God, above the heavens; let your glory be over all the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:7 - When he is tried, let him be found guilty, and may his prayers condemn him.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:9 - May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:14 - May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD; may the sin of his mother never be blotted out.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:22 - For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:24 - My knees give way from fasting; my body is thin and gaunt.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:27 - Let them know that it is your hand, that you, LORD, have done it.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 110:3 - Your troops will be willing on your day of battle. Arrayed in holy splendor, your young men will come to you like dew from the morning's womb.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 111:3 - Glorious and majestic are his deeds, and his righteousness endures forever.
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 112:7 - They will have no fear of bad news; their hearts are steadfast, trusting in the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 112:8 - Their hearts are secure, they will have no fear; in the end they will look in triumph on their foes.
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 113:4 - The LORD is exalted over all the nations, his glory above the heavens.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 114:3 - The sea looked and fled, the Jordan turned back;
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 114:7 - Tremble, earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 116:7 - Return to your rest, my soul, for the LORD has been good to you.
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 118:24 - The LORD has done it this very day; let us rejoice today and be glad.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:20 - My soul is consumed with longing for your laws at all times.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:25 - Daleth I am laid low in the dust; preserve my life according to your word.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:28 - My soul is weary with sorrow; strengthen me according to your word.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:64 - The earth is filled with your love, LORD; teach me your decrees.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:70 - Their hearts are callous and unfeeling, but I delight in your law.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:80 - May I wholeheartedly follow your decrees, that I may not be put to shame.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:81 - Kaph My soul faints with longing for your salvation, but I have put my hope in your word.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:90 - Your faithfulness continues through all generations; you established the earth, and it endures.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:91 - Your laws endure to this day, for all things serve you.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:96 - To all perfection I see a limit, but your commands are boundless.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:109 - Though I constantly take my life in my hands, I will not forget your law.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:129 - Pe Your statutes are wonderful; therefore I obey them.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:130 - The unfolding of your words gives light; it gives understanding to the simple.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:137 - Tsadhe You are righteous, LORD, and your laws are right.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:142 - Your righteousness is everlasting and your law is true.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:161 - Sin and Shin Rulers persecute me without cause, but my heart trembles at your word.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:167 - I obey your statutes, for I love them greatly.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:169 - Taw May my cry come before you, LORD; give me understanding according to your word.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:172 - May my tongue sing of your word, for all your commands are righteous.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:173 - May your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen your precepts.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:175 - Let me live that I may praise you, and may your laws sustain me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 120:5 - Woe to me that I dwell in Meshek, that I live among the tents of Kedar!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 120:6 - Too long have I lived among those who hate peace.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 121:1 - A song of ascents. I lift up my eyes to the mountains— where does my help come from?
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 121:2 - My help comes from the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 121:6 - the sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon by night.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 122:3 - Jerusalem is built like a city that is closely compacted together.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 123:4 - We have endured no end of ridicule from the arrogant, of contempt from the proud.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 124:4 - the flood would have engulfed us, the torrent would have swept over us,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 124:5 - the raging waters would have swept us away.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 124:7 - We have escaped like a bird from the fowler's snare; the snare has been broken, and we have escaped.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 124:8 - Our help is in the name of the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth.
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 127:3 - Children are a heritage from the LORD, offspring a reward from him.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 128:3 - Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children will be like olive shoots around your table.
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 130:6 - I wait for the Lord more than watchmen wait for the morning, more than watchmen wait for the morning.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 131:1 - A song of ascents. Of David. My heart is not proud, LORD, my eyes are not haughty; I do not concern myself with great matters or things too wonderful for me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 132:8 - ‘Arise, LORD, and come to your resting place, you and the ark of your might.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 132:14 - “This is my resting place for ever and ever; here I will sit enthroned, for I have desired it.
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 137:5 - If I forget you, Jerusalem, may my right hand forget its skill.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 137:6 - May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you, if I do not consider Jerusalem my highest joy.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 137:8 - Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction, happy is the one who repays you according to what you have done to us.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 138:5 - May they sing of the ways of the LORD, for the glory of the LORD is great.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 138:7 - Though I walk in the midst of trouble, you preserve my life. You stretch out your hand against the anger of my foes; with your right hand you save me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 139:6 - Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 139:10 - even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 139:14 - I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 139:15 - My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 140:9 - Those who surround me proudly rear their heads; may the mischief of their lips engulf them.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 141:2 - May my prayer be set before you like incense; may the lifting up of my hands be like the evening sacrifice.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 141:5 - Let a righteous man strike me—that is a kindness; let him rebuke me—that is oil on my head. My head will not refuse it, for my prayer will still be against the deeds of evildoers.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 142:5 - I cry to you, LORD; I say, “You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 143:4 - So my spirit grows faint within me; my heart within me is dismayed.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 143:6 - I spread out my hands to you; I thirst for you like a parched land.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 144:8 - whose mouths are full of lies, whose right hands are deceitful.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 144:11 - deliver me; rescue me from the hands of foreigners whose mouths are full of lies, whose right hands are deceitful.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 145:13 - Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and your dominion endures through all generations. The LORD is trustworthy in all he promises and faithful in all he does.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 146:1 - Praise the LORD.[fn] Praise the LORD, my soul.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 146:5 - Blessed are those whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD their God.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 147:5 - Great is our Lord and mighty in power; his understanding has no limit.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 148:13 - Let them praise the name of the LORD, for his name alone is exalted; his splendor is above the earth and the heavens.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 149:1 - Praise the LORD.[fn] Sing to the LORD a new song, his praise in the assembly of his faithful people.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:18 - These men lie in wait for their own blood; they ambush only themselves!
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:27 - when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when disaster sweeps over you like a whirlwind, when distress and trouble overwhelm you.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 2:10 - For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 2:17 - who has left the partner of her youth and ignored the covenant she made before God.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:22 - they will be life for you, an ornament to grace your neck.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:27 - Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to act.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:28 - Do not say to your neighbor, “Come back tomorrow and I'll give it to you”— when you already have it with you.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:18 - The path of the righteous is like the morning sun, shining ever brighter till the full light of day.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:12 - You will say, “How I hated discipline! How my heart spurned correction!
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:18 - May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:19 - A loving doe, a graceful deer— may her breasts satisfy you always, may you ever be intoxicated with her love.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:11 - and poverty will come on you like a thief and scarcity like an armed man.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:15 - Therefore disaster will overtake him in an instant; he will suddenly be destroyed—without remedy.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:10 - Then out came a woman to meet him, dressed like a prostitute and with crafty intent.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:25 - Do not let your heart turn to her ways or stray into her paths.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:12 - “I, wisdom, dwell together with prudence; I possess knowledge and discretion.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 9:1 - Wisdom has built her house; she has set up[fn] its seven pillars.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 10:23 - A fool finds pleasure in wicked schemes, but a person of understanding delights in wisdom.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:26 - The righteous choose their friends carefully, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 13:13 - Whoever scorns instruction will pay for it, but whoever respects a command is rewarded.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 14:1 - The wise woman builds her house, but with her own hands the foolish one tears hers down.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 14:24 - The wealth of the wise is their crown, but the folly of fools yields folly.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:8 - A bribe is seen as a charm by the one who gives it; they think success will come at every turn.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 18:11 - The wealth of the rich is their fortified city; they imagine it a wall too high to scale.
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 20:11 - Even small children are known by their actions, so is their conduct really pure and upright?
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:31 - The horse is made ready for the day of battle, but victory rests with the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:19 - So that your trust may be in the LORD, I teach you today, even you.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:15 - My son, if your heart is wise, then my heart will be glad indeed;
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:17 - Do not let your heart envy sinners, but always be zealous for the fear of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:18 - There is surely a future hope for you, and your hope will not be cut off.
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 23:24 - The father of a righteous child has great joy; a man who fathers a wise son rejoices in him.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:25 - May your father and mother rejoice; may she who gave you birth be joyful!
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:2 - for their hearts plot violence, and their lips talk about making trouble.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:14 - Know also that wisdom is like honey for you: If you find it, there is a future hope for you, and your hope will not be cut off.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:34 - and poverty will come on you like a thief and scarcity like an armed man.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:10 - or the one who hears it may shame you and the charge against you will stand.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:10 - Like an archer who wounds at random is one who hires a fool or any passer-by.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:1 - Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:11 - Be wise, my son, and bring joy to my heart; then I can answer anyone who treats me with contempt.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:15 - “The leech has two daughters. ‘Give! Give!' they cry. “There are three things that are never satisfied, four that never say, ‘Enough!':
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:21 - “Under three things the earth trembles, under four it cannot bear up:
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:27 - locusts have no king, yet they advance together in ranks;
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 31:1 - The sayings of King Lemuel—an inspired utterance his mother taught him.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 31:10 - [fn]A wife of noble character who can find? She is worth far more than rubies.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 31:11 - Her husband has full confidence in her and lacks nothing of value.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 31:28 - Her children arise and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her:
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 1:4 - Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever.
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 2:23 - All their days their work is grief and pain; even at night their minds do not rest. This too is meaningless.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 6:7 - Everyone's toil is for their mouth, yet their appetite is never satisfied.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:7 - Extortion turns a wise person into a fool, and a bribe corrupts the heart.
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 7:19 - Wisdom makes one wise person more powerful than ten rulers in a city.
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 7:28 - while I was still searching but not finding— I found one upright man among a thousand, but not one upright woman among them all.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:5 - For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; they have no further reward, and even their name is forgotten.
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 10:18 - Through laziness, the rafters sag; because of idle hands, the house leaks.
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 11:6 - Sow your seed in the morning, and at evening let your hands not be idle, for you do not know which will succeed, whether this or that, or whether both will do equally well.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 11:9 - You who are young, be happy while you are young, and let your heart give you joy in the days of your youth. Follow the ways of your heart and whatever your eyes see, but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 11:10 - So then, banish anxiety from your heart and cast off the troubles of your body, for youth and vigor are meaningless.
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 12:5 - when people are afraid of heights and of dangers in the streets; when the almond tree blossoms and the grasshopper drags itself along and desire no longer is stirred. Then people go to their eternal home and mourners go about the streets.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 1:7 - Tell me, you whom I love, where you graze your flock and where you rest your sheep at midday. Why should I be like a veiled woman beside the flocks of your friends?
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 2:2 - He: Like a lily among thorns is my darling among the young women.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 2:6 - His left arm is under my head, and his right arm embraces me.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 2:13 - The fig tree forms its early fruit; the blossoming vines spread their fragrance. Arise, come, my darling; my beautiful one, come with me.”
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 2:17 - Until the day breaks and the shadows flee, turn, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or like a young stag on the rugged hills.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 3:1 - All night long on my bed I looked for the one my heart loves; I looked for him but did not find him.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 3:2 - I will get up now and go about the city, through its streets and squares; I will search for the one my heart loves. So I looked for him but did not find him.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 3:3 - The watchmen found me as they made their rounds in the city. “Have you seen the one my heart loves?”
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 3:4 - Scarcely had I passed them when I found the one my heart loves. I held him and would not let him go till I had brought him to my mother's house, to the room of the one who conceived me.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 3:6 - Who is this coming up from the wilderness like a column of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and incense made from all the spices of the merchant?
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 3:7 - Look! It is Solomon's carriage, escorted by sixty warriors, the noblest of Israel,
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 3:11 - come out, and look, you daughters of Zion. Look[fn] on King Solomon wearing a crown, the crown with which his mother crowned him on the day of his wedding, the day his heart rejoiced.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:3 - Your lips are like a scarlet ribbon; your mouth is lovely. Your temples behind your veil are like the halves of a pomegranate.
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 5:2 - She: I slept but my heart was awake. Listen! My beloved is knocking: “Open to me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my flawless one. My head is drenched with dew, my hair with the dampness of the night.”
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:4 - My beloved thrust his hand through the latch-opening; my heart began to pound for him.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:7 - Your temples behind your veil are like the halves of a pomegranate.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:10 - Friends: Who is this that appears like the dawn, fair as the moon, bright as the sun, majestic as the stars in procession?
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 6:12 - Before I realized it, my desire set me among the royal chariots of my people.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:13 - Friends: Come back, come back, O Shulammite; come back, come back, that we may gaze on you! He: Why would you gaze on the Shulammite as on the dance of Mahanaim?[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 7:10 - I belong to my beloved, and his desire is for me.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 7:12 - Let us go early to the vineyards to see if the vines have budded, if their blossoms have opened, and if the pomegranates are in bloom— there I will give you my love.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:3 - His left arm is under my head and his right arm embraces me.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:5 - Friends: Who is this coming up from the wilderness leaning on her beloved? She: Under the apple tree I roused you; there your mother conceived you, there she who was in labor gave you birth.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:7 - Your country is desolate, your cities burned with fire; your fields are being stripped by foreigners right before you, laid waste as when overthrown by strangers.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:8 - Daughter Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a hut in a cucumber field, like a city under siege.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:14 - Your New Moon feasts and your appointed festivals I hate with all my being. They have become a burden to me; I am weary of bearing them.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:27 - Zion will be delivered with justice, her penitent ones with righteousness.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:31 - The mighty man will become tinder and his work a spark; both will burn together, with no one to quench the fire.”
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 2:7 - Their land is full of silver and gold; there is no end to their treasures. Their land is full of horses; there is no end to their chariots.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:8 - Their land is full of idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their fingers have made.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 3:8 - Jerusalem staggers, Judah is falling; their words and deeds are against the LORD, defying his glorious presence.
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 3:14 - 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 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 5:24 - 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 5:25 - Therefore the LORD's anger burns against his people; his hand is raised and he strikes them down. The mountains shake, and the dead bodies are like refuse in the streets. Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away, his hand is still upraised.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:3 - And they were calling to one another: “Holy, holy, holy is the LORD Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory.”
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 6:11 - Then I said, “For how long, Lord?” And he answered: “Until the cities lie ruined and without inhabitant, until the houses are left deserted and the fields ruined and ravaged,
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 7:4 - 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 7:7 - Yet this is what the Sovereign LORD says: “ ‘It will not take place, it will not happen,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:8 - for the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is only Rezin. Within sixty-five years Ephraim will be too shattered to be a people.
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 7:14 - Therefore the Lord himself will give you[fn] a sign: The virgin[fn] will conceive and give birth to a son, and[fn] will call him Immanuel.[fn]
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 7:24 - Hunters will go there with bow and arrow, for the land will be covered with briers and thorns.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:8 - and sweep on into Judah, swirling over it, passing through it and reaching up to the neck. Its outspread wings will cover the breadth of your land, Immanuel[fn]!”
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 9:4 - 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 9:12 - Arameans from the east and Philistines from the west have devoured Israel with open mouth. Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away, his hand is still upraised.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:15 - the elders and dignitaries are the head, the prophets who teach lies are the tail.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:17 - Therefore the Lord will take no pleasure in the young men, nor will he pity the fatherless and widows, for everyone is ungodly and wicked, every mouth speaks folly. Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away, his hand is still upraised.
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 9:19 - By the wrath of the LORD Almighty the land will be scorched and the people will be fuel for the fire; they will not spare one another.
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 10:3 - 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 10:4 - 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 10:5 - “Woe to the Assyrian, the rod of my anger, in whose hand is the club of my wrath!
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:22 - Though your people be like the sand by the sea, Israel, only a remnant will return. Destruction has been decreed, overwhelming and righteous.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:25 - Very soon my anger against you will end and my wrath will be directed to their destruction.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:30 - Cry out, Daughter Gallim! Listen, Laishah! Poor Anathoth!
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 11:10 - 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 11:16 - There will be a highway for the remnant of his people that is left from Assyria, as there was for Israel when they came up from Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 12:2 - Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. The LORD, the LORD himself, is my strength and my defense[fn]; he has become my salvation.”
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 13:13 - Therefore I will make the heavens tremble; and the earth will shake from its place at the wrath of the LORD Almighty, in the day of his burning anger.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:7 - All the lands are at rest and at peace; they break into singing.
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 14:11 - All your pomp has been brought down to the grave, along with the noise of your harps; maggots are spread out beneath you and worms cover you.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:26 - This is the plan determined for the whole world; this is the hand stretched out over all nations.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 15:1 - A prophecy against Moab: Ar in Moab is ruined, destroyed in a night! Kir in Moab is ruined, destroyed in a night!
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 15:4 - Heshbon and Elealeh cry out, their voices are heard all the way to Jahaz. Therefore the armed men of Moab cry out, and their hearts are faint.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 15:5 - My heart cries out over Moab; her fugitives flee as far as Zoar, as far as Eglath Shelishiyah. They go up the hill to Luhith, weeping as they go; on the road to Horonaim they lament their destruction.
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 16:4 - Let the Moabite fugitives stay with you; be their shelter from the destroyer.” The oppressor will come to an end, and destruction will cease; the aggressor will vanish from the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:6 - We have heard of Moab's pride— how great is her arrogance!— of her conceit, her pride and her insolence; but her boasts are empty.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:11 - My heart laments for Moab like a harp, my inmost being for Kir Hareseth.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:14 - But now the LORD says: “Within three years, as a servant bound by contract would count them, Moab's splendor and all her many people will be despised, and her survivors will be very few and feeble.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:14 - In the evening, sudden terror! Before the morning, they are gone! This is the portion of those who loot us, the lot of those who plunder us.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 18:3 - All you people of the world, you who live on the earth, when a banner is raised on the mountains, you will see it, and when a trumpet sounds, you will hear it.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:1 - A prophecy against Egypt: See, the LORD rides on a swift cloud and is coming to Egypt. The idols of Egypt tremble before him, and the hearts of the Egyptians melt with fear.
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 19:17 - And the land of Judah will bring terror to the Egyptians; everyone to whom Judah is mentioned will be terrified, because of what the LORD Almighty is planning against them.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:18 - In that day five cities in Egypt will speak the language of Canaan and swear allegiance to the LORD Almighty. One of them will be called the City of the Sun.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:25 - The LORD Almighty will bless them, saying, “Blessed be Egypt my people, Assyria my handiwork, and Israel my inheritance.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:3 - At this my body is racked with pain, pangs seize me, like those of a woman in labor; I am staggered by what I hear, I am bewildered by what I see.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:4 - My heart falters, fear makes me tremble; the twilight I longed for has become a horror to me.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:16 - This is what the Lord says to me: “Within one year, as a servant bound by contract would count it, all the splendor of Kedar will come to an end.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:2 - you town so full of commotion, you city of tumult and revelry? Your slain were not killed by the sword, nor did they die in battle.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:14 - The LORD Almighty has revealed this in my hearing: “Till your dying day this sin will not be atoned for,” says the Lord, the LORD Almighty.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:25 - “In that day,” declares the LORD Almighty, “the peg driven into the firm place will give way; it will be sheared off and will fall, and the load hanging on it will be cut down.” The LORD has spoken.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:4 - Be ashamed, Sidon, and you fortress of the sea, for the sea has spoken: “I have neither been in labor nor given birth; I have neither reared sons nor brought up daughters.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:7 - Is this your city of revelry, the old, old city, whose feet have taken her to settle in far-off lands?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:11 - The LORD has stretched out his hand over the sea and made its kingdoms tremble. He has given an order concerning Phoenicia that her fortresses be destroyed.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:18 - Yet her profit and her earnings will be set apart for the LORD; they will not be stored up or hoarded. Her profits will go to those who live before the LORD, for abundant food and fine clothes.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:2 - it will be the same for priest as for people, for the master as for his servant, for the mistress as for her servant, for seller as for buyer, for borrower as for lender, for debtor as for creditor.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:3 - The earth will be completely laid waste and totally plundered.

The LORD has spoken this word.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:4 - The earth dries up and withers, the world languishes and withers, the heavens languish with the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:5 - The earth is defiled by its people; they have disobeyed the laws, violated the statutes and broken the everlasting covenant.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:15 - Therefore in the east give glory to the LORD; exalt the name of the LORD, the God of Israel, in the islands of the sea.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:19 - The earth is broken up, the earth is split asunder, the earth is violently shaken.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:20 - The earth reels like a drunkard, it sways like a hut in the wind; so heavy upon it is the guilt of its rebellion that it falls—never to rise again.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:23 - The moon will be dismayed, the sun ashamed; for the LORD Almighty will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and before its elders—with great glory.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 25:7 - On this mountain he will destroy the shroud that enfolds all peoples, the sheet that covers all nations;
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 25:10 - The hand of the LORD will rest on this mountain; but Moab will be trampled in their land as straw is trampled down in the manure.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 26:7 - The path of the righteous is level; you, the Upright One, make the way of the righteous smooth.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 26:8 - Yes, LORD, walking in the way of your laws,[fn] we wait for you; your name and renown are the desire of our hearts.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 26:9 - My soul yearns for you in the night; in the morning my spirit longs for you. When your judgments come upon the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 26:16 - LORD, they came to you in their distress; when you disciplined them, they could barely whisper a prayer.[fn]
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 26:19 - But your dead will live, LORD; their bodies will rise— let those who dwell in the dust wake up and shout for joy— your dew is like the dew of the morning; the earth will give birth to her dead.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 26:20 - Go, my people, enter your rooms and shut the doors behind you; hide yourselves for a little while until his wrath has passed by.
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 27:9 - By this, then, will Jacob's guilt be atoned for, and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin: When he makes all the altar stones to be like limestone crushed to pieces, no Asherah poles[fn] or incense altars will be left standing.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:8 - All the tables are covered with vomit and there is not a spot without filth.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:17 - I will make justice the measuring line and righteousness the plumb line; hail will sweep away your refuge, the lie, and water will overflow your 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 28:21 - The LORD will rise up as he did at Mount Perazim, he will rouse himself as in the Valley of Gibeon— to do his work, his strange work, and perform his task, his alien task.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:2 - Yet I will besiege Ariel; she will mourn and lament, she will be to me like an altar hearth.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:4 - Brought low, you will speak from the ground; your speech will mumble out of the dust. Your voice will come ghostlike from the earth; out of the dust your speech will whisper.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:8 - as when a hungry person dreams of eating, but awakens hungry still; as when a thirsty person dreams of drinking, but awakens faint and thirsty still. So will it be with the hordes of all the nations that fight against Mount Zion.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:13 - The Lord says: “These people come near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their worship of me is based on merely human rules they have been taught.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:3 - But Pharaoh's protection will be to your shame, Egypt's shade will bring you disgrace.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:6 - A prophecy concerning the animals of the Negev: Through a land of hardship and distress, of lions and lionesses, of adders and darting snakes, the envoys carry their riches on donkeys' backs, their treasures on the humps of camels, to that unprofitable nation,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:7 - to Egypt, whose help is utterly useless. Therefore I call her Rahab the Do-Nothing.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:13 - this sin will become for you like a high wall, cracked and bulging, that collapses suddenly, in an instant.
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 30:21 - Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way; walk in it.”
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 30:32 - Every stroke the LORD lays on them with his punishing club will be to the music of timbrels and harps, as he fights them in battle with the blows of his arm.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:4 - The fearful heart will know and understand, and the stammering tongue will be fluent and clear.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:6 - 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 32:7 - Scoundrels use wicked methods, they make up evil schemes to destroy the poor with lies, even when the plea of the needy is just.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:8 - But the noble make noble plans, and by noble deeds they stand.
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 32:17 - The fruit of that righteousness will be peace; its effect will be quietness and confidence forever.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:19 - Though hail flattens the forest and the city is leveled completely,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:2 - LORD, be gracious to us; we long for you. Be our strength every morning, our salvation in time of distress.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:6 - He will be the sure foundation for your times, a rich store of salvation and wisdom and knowledge; the fear of the LORD is the key to this treasure.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:8 - The highways are deserted, no travelers are on the roads. The treaty is broken, its witnesses[fn] are despised, no one is respected.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:9 - The land dries up and wastes away, Lebanon is ashamed and withers; Sharon is like the Arabah, and Bashan and Carmel drop their leaves.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:11 - You conceive chaff, you give birth to straw; your breath is a fire that consumes you.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:18 - In your thoughts you will ponder the former terror: “Where is that chief officer? Where is the one who took the revenue? Where is the officer in charge of the towers?”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:20 - Look on Zion, the city of our festivals; your eyes will see Jerusalem, a peaceful abode, a tent that will not be moved; its stakes will never be pulled up, nor any of its ropes broken.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:24 - No one living in Zion will say, “I am ill”; and the sins of those who dwell there will be forgiven.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:1 - Come near, you nations, and listen; pay attention, you peoples! Let the earth hear, and all that is in it, the world, and all that comes out of it!
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 34:5 - My sword has drunk its fill in the heavens; see, it descends in judgment on Edom, the people I have totally destroyed.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:6 - The sword of the LORD is bathed in blood, it is covered with fat— the blood of lambs and goats, fat from the kidneys of rams. For the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
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 34:9 - Edom's streams will be turned into pitch, her dust into burning sulfur; her land will become blazing pitch!
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:15 - The owl will nest there and lay eggs, she will hatch them, and care for her young under the shadow of her wings; there also the falcons will gather, each with its mate.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:17 - He allots their portions; his hand distributes them by measure. They will possess it forever and dwell there from generation to generation.
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 35:7 - The burning sand will become a pool, the thirsty ground bubbling springs. In the haunts where jackals once lay, grass and reeds and papyrus will grow.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:15 - Do not let Hezekiah persuade you to trust in the LORD when he says, ‘The LORD will surely deliver us; this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.'
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:17 - until I come and take you to a land like your own—a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
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 37:29 - Because you rage against me and because your insolence has reached my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth, and I will make you return by the way you came.
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 40:2 - Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her hard service has been completed, that her sin has been paid for, that she has received from the LORD's hand double for all her sins.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:4 - Every valley shall be raised up, every mountain and hill made low; the rough ground shall become level, the rugged places a plain.
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 40:24 - No sooner are they planted, no sooner are they sown, no sooner do they take root in the ground, than he blows on them and they wither, and a whirlwind sweeps them away like chaff.
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 41:3 - He pursues them and moves on unscathed, by a path his feet have not traveled before.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:17 - “The poor and needy search for water, but there is none; their tongues are parched with thirst. But I the LORD will answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:21 - “Present your case,” says the LORD. “Set forth your arguments,” says Jacob's King.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:24 - But you are less than nothing and your works are utterly worthless; whoever chooses you is detestable.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:1 - “Here is my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen one in whom I delight; I will put my Spirit on him, and he will bring justice to the nations.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:2 - He will not shout or cry out, or raise his voice in the streets.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:10 - Sing to the LORD a new song, his praise from the ends of the earth, you who go down to the sea, and all that is in it, you islands, and all who live in them.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:14 - “For a long time I have kept silent, I have been quiet and held myself back. But now, like a woman in childbirth, I cry out, I gasp and pant.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:22 - But this is a people plundered and looted, all of them trapped in pits or hidden away in prisons. They have become plunder, with no one to rescue them; they have been made loot, with no one to say, “Send them back.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:20 - Such a person feeds on ashes; a deluded heart misleads him; he cannot save himself, or say, “Is not this thing in my right hand a lie?”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:8 - “You heavens above, rain down my righteousness; let the clouds shower it down. Let the earth open wide, let salvation spring up, let righteousness flourish with it; I, the LORD, have created it.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 46:10 - I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and I will do all that I please.'
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:3 - Your nakedness will be exposed and your shame uncovered. I will take vengeance; I will spare no one.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:8 - “Now then, listen, you lover of pleasure, lounging in your security and saying to yourself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me. I will never be a widow or suffer the loss of children.'
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:10 - You have trusted in your wickedness and have said, ‘No one sees me.' Your wisdom and knowledge mislead you when you say to yourself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me.'
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:13 - My own hand laid the foundations of the earth, and my right hand spread out the heavens; when I summon them, they all stand up together.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:18 - If only you had paid attention to my commands, your peace would have been like a river, your well-being like the waves of the sea.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:19 - Your descendants would have been like the sand, your children like its numberless grains; their name would never be blotted out nor destroyed from before me.”
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 49:9 - to say to the captives, ‘Come out,' and to those in darkness, ‘Be free!' “They will feed beside the roads and find pasture on every barren hill.
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 50:2 - 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 50:5 - The Sovereign LORD has opened my ears; I have not been rebellious, I have not turned away.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:4 - “Listen to me, my people; hear me, my nation: Instruction will go out from me; my justice will become a light to the nations.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:5 - My righteousness draws near speedily, my salvation is on the way, and my arm will bring justice to the nations. The islands will look to me and wait in hope for my arm.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:6 - Lift up your eyes to the heavens, look at the earth beneath; the heavens will vanish like smoke, the earth will wear out like a garment and its inhabitants die like flies. But my salvation will last forever, my righteousness will never fail.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:8 - For the moth will eat them up like a garment; the worm will devour them like wool. But my righteousness will last forever, my salvation through all generations.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:10 - Was it not you who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep, who made a road in the depths of the sea so that the redeemed might cross over?
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 52:1 - Awake, awake, Zion, clothe yourself with strength! Put on your garments of splendor, Jerusalem, the holy city. The uncircumcised and defiled will not enter you 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 52:14 - Just as there were many who were appalled at him[fn]— his appearance was so disfigured beyond that of any human being and his form marred beyond human likeness—
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 53:10 - Yet it was the LORD's will to crush him and cause him to suffer, and though the LORD makes[fn] his life an offering for sin, he will see his offspring and prolong his days, and the will of the LORD will prosper in his hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 53:12 - Therefore I will give him a portion among the great,[fn] and he will divide the spoils with the strong,[fn] because he poured out his life unto death, and was numbered with the transgressors. For he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:1 - “Sing, barren woman, you who never bore a child; burst into song, shout for joy, you who were never in labor; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband,”

says the LORD.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:10 - Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed,” says the LORD, who has compassion on you.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:2 - Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and you will delight in the richest of fare.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:3 - Give ear and come to me; listen, that you may live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, my faithful love promised to David.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:9 - “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:2 - Those who walk uprightly enter into peace; they find rest as they lie in death.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:6 - The idols among the smooth stones of the ravines are your portion; indeed, they are your lot. Yes, to them you have poured out drink offerings and offered grain offerings. In view of all this, should I relent?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:7 - You have made your bed on a high and lofty hill; there you went up to offer your sacrifices.
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 58:11 - The LORD will guide you always; he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.
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 59:3 - For your hands are stained with blood, your fingers with guilt. Your lips have spoken falsely, and your tongue mutters wicked things.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:9 - So justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We look for light, but all is darkness; for brightness, but we walk in deep shadows.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:12 - For our offenses are many in your sight, and our sins testify against us. Our offenses are ever with us, and we acknowledge our iniquities:
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:14 - So justice is driven back, and righteousness stands at a distance; truth has stumbled in the streets, honesty cannot enter.
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 59:19 - From the west, people will fear the name of the LORD, and from the rising of the sun, they will revere his glory. For he will come like a pent-up flood that the breath of the LORD drives along.[fn]
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 60:1 - “Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD rises upon you.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:2 - See, darkness covers the earth and thick darkness is over the peoples, but the LORD rises upon you and his glory appears over you.
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 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 61:10 - I delight greatly in the LORD; my soul rejoices in my God. For he has clothed me with garments of salvation and arrayed me in a robe of his righteousness, as a bridegroom adorns his head like a priest, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 62:1 - For Zion's sake I will not keep silent, for Jerusalem's sake I will not remain quiet, till her vindication shines out like the dawn, her salvation like a blazing torch.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 62:4 - No longer will they call you Deserted, or name your land Desolate. But you will be called Hephzibah,[fn] and your land Beulah[fn]; for the LORD will take delight in you, and your land will be married.
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 64:6 - All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all shrivel up like a leaf, and like the wind our sins sweep us away.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 64:11 - Our holy and glorious temple, where our ancestors praised you, has been burned with fire, and all that we treasured lies in ruins.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:17 - “See, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:1 - This is what the LORD says: “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. Where is the house you will build for me? Where will my resting place be?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:2 - Has not my hand made all these things, and so they came into being?”

declares the LORD.

“These are the ones I look on with favor: those who are humble and contrite in spirit, and who tremble at my word.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:3 - But whoever sacrifices a bull is like one who kills a person, and whoever offers a lamb is like one who breaks a dog's neck; whoever makes a grain offering is like one who presents pig's blood, and whoever burns memorial incense is like one who worships an idol. They have chosen their own ways, and they delight in their abominations;
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:14 - When you see this, your heart will rejoice and you will flourish like grass; the hand of the LORD will be made known to his servants, but his fury will be shown to his foes.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:16 - For with fire and with his sword the LORD will execute judgment on all people, and many will be those slain by the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:22 - “As the new heavens and the new earth that I make will endure before me,” declares the LORD, “so will your name and descendants endure.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:19 - Your wickedness will punish you; your backsliding will rebuke you. Consider then and realize how evil and bitter it is for you when you forsake the LORD your God and have no awe of me,”

declares the Lord, the LORD Almighty.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:21 - I had planted you like a choice vine of sound and reliable stock. How then did you turn against me into a corrupt, wild vine?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:25 - Do not run until your feet are bare and your throat is dry. But you said, ‘It's no use! I love foreign gods, and I must go after them.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:1 - “If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him and marries another man, should he return to her again? Would not the land be completely defiled? But you have lived as a prostitute with many lovers— would you now return to me?”

declares the LORD.

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 3:7 - I thought that after she had done all this she would return to me but she did not, and her unfaithful sister Judah saw it.
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 3:9 - Because Israel's immorality mattered so little to her, she defiled the land and committed adultery with stone and wood.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:10 - In spite of all this, her unfaithful sister Judah did not return to me with all her heart, but only in pretense,” declares the LORD.
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 3:23 - 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 3:24 - From our youth shameful gods have consumed the fruits of our ancestors' labor— their flocks and herds, their sons and daughters.
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 4:9 - “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 4:10 - Then I said, “Alas, Sovereign LORD! How completely you have deceived this people and Jerusalem by saying, ‘You will have peace,' when the sword is at our throats!”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:18 - “Your own conduct and actions have brought this on you. This is your punishment. How bitter it is! How it pierces to the heart!”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:19 - Oh, my anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain. Oh, the agony of my heart! My heart pounds within me, I cannot keep silent. For I have heard the sound of the trumpet; I have heard the battle cry.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:20 - Disaster follows disaster; the whole land lies in ruins. In an instant my tents are destroyed, my shelter in a moment.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:27 - This is what the LORD says: “The whole land will be ruined, though I will not destroy it completely.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:28 - Therefore the earth will mourn and the heavens above grow dark, because I have spoken and will not relent, I have decided and will not turn back.”
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 5:9 - Should I not punish them for this?” declares the LORD. “Should I not avenge myself on such a nation as this?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:29 - Should I not punish them for this?” declares the LORD. “Should I not avenge myself on such a nation as this?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:4 - “Prepare for battle against her! Arise, let us attack at noon! But, alas, the daylight is fading, and the shadows of evening grow long.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:8 - Take warning, Jerusalem, or I will turn away from you and make your land desolate so no one can live in it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:16 - This is what the LORD says: “Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But you said, ‘We will not walk in it.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:2 - “Stand at the gate of the LORD's house and there proclaim this message: “ ‘Hear the word of the LORD, all you people of Judah who come through these gates to worship the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:27 - “When you tell them all this, they will not listen to you; when you call to them, they will not answer.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:34 - I will bring an end to the sounds of joy and gladness and to the voices of bride and bridegroom in the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem, for the land will become desolate.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:7 - Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed seasons, and the dove, the swift and the thrush observe the time of their migration. But my people do not know the requirements of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:16 - The snorting of the enemy's horses is heard from Dan; at the neighing of their stallions the whole land trembles. They have come to devour the land and everything in it, the city and all who live there.
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 9:9 - Should I not punish them for this?” declares the LORD. “Should I not avenge myself on such a nation as this?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:12 - Who is wise enough to understand this? Who has been instructed by the LORD and can explain it? Why has the land been ruined and laid waste like a desert that no one can cross?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:18 - For this is what the LORD says: “At this time I will hurl out those who live in this land; I will bring distress on them so that they may be captured.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:19 - Woe to me because of my injury! My wound is incurable! Yet I said to myself, “This is my sickness, and I must endure it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:20 - My tent is destroyed; all its ropes are snapped. My children are gone from me and are no more; no one is left now to pitch my tent or to set up my shelter.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:21 - The shepherds are senseless and do not inquire of the LORD; so they do not prosper and all their flock is scattered.
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 11:5 - 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 11:15 - “What is my beloved doing in my temple as she, with many others, works out her evil schemes? Can consecrated meat avert your punishment? When you engage in your wickedness, then you rejoice.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:16 - The LORD called you a thriving olive tree with fruit beautiful in form. But with the roar of a mighty storm he will set it on fire, and its branches will be broken.
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 12:8 - My inheritance has become to me like a lion in the forest. She roars at me; therefore I hate her.
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 12:11 - It will be made a wasteland, parched and desolate before me; the whole land will be laid waste because there is no one who cares.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:17 - If you do not listen, I will weep in secret because of your pride; my eyes will weep bitterly, overflowing with tears, because the LORD's flock will be taken captive.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:26 - I will pull up your skirts over your face that your shame may be seen—
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:27 - your adulteries and lustful neighings, your shameless prostitution! I have seen your detestable acts on the hills and in the fields. Woe to you, Jerusalem! How long will you be unclean?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:2 - “Judah mourns, her cities languish; they wail for the land, and a cry goes up from Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:19 - Have you rejected Judah completely? Do you despise Zion? Why have you afflicted us so that we cannot be healed? We hoped for peace but no good has come, for a time of healing but there is only terror.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:1 - Then the LORD said to me: “Even if Moses and Samuel were to stand before me, my heart would not go out to this people. Send them away from my presence! Let them go!
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:9 - The mother of seven will grow faint and breathe her last. Her sun will set while it is still day; she will be disgraced and humiliated. I will put the survivors to the sword before their enemies,”

declares the LORD.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:10 - Alas, my mother, that you gave me birth, a man with whom the whole land strives and contends! I have neither lent nor borrowed, yet everyone curses me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:13 - “Your wealth and your treasures I will give as plunder, without charge, because of all your sins throughout your country.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:18 - Why is my pain unending and my wound grievous and incurable? You are to me like a deceptive brook, like a spring that fails.
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 17:5 - This is what the LORD says: “Cursed is the one who trusts in man, who draws strength from mere flesh and whose heart turns away from the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:6 - That person will be like a bush in the wastelands; they will not see prosperity when it comes. They will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:9 - The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:25 - then kings who sit on David's throne will come through the gates of this city with their officials. They and their officials will come riding in chariots and on horses, accompanied by the men of Judah and those living in Jerusalem, and this city will be inhabited forever.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:23 - But you, LORD, know all their plots to kill me. Do not forgive their crimes or blot out their sins from your sight. Let them be overthrown before you; deal with them in the time of your anger.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:14 - Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me not be blessed!
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:17 - For he did not kill me in the womb, with my mother as my grave, her womb enlarged forever.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:9 - Whoever stays in this city will die by the sword, famine or plague. But whoever goes out and surrenders to the Babylonians who are besieging you will live; they will escape with their lives.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:12 - This is what the LORD says to you, house of David: “ ‘Administer justice every morning; rescue from the hand of the oppressor the one who has been robbed, or my wrath will break out and burn like fire because of the evil you have done— burn with no one to quench it.
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 22:21 - I warned you when you felt secure, but you said, ‘I will not listen!' This has been your way from your youth; you have not obeyed me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:9 - Concerning the prophets: My heart is broken within me; all my bones tremble. I am like a drunken man, like a strong man overcome by wine, because of the LORD and his holy words.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:10 - The land is full of adulterers; because of the curse[fn] the land lies parched and the pastures in the wilderness are withered. The prophets follow an evil course and use their power unjustly.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:12 - “Therefore their path will become slippery; they will be banished to darkness and there they will fall. I will bring disaster on them in the year they are punished,”

declares the LORD.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:11 - This whole country will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:38 - Like a lion he will leave his lair, and their land will become desolate because of the sword[fn] of the oppressor and because of the LORD's fierce anger.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:9 - Why do you prophesy in the LORD's name that this house will be like Shiloh and this city will be desolate and deserted?” And all the people crowded around Jeremiah in the house of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:8 - “ ‘ “If, however, any nation or kingdom will not serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon or bow its neck under his yoke, I will punish that nation with the sword, famine and plague, declares the LORD, until I destroy it by his hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:7 - How awful that day will be! No other will be like it. It will be a time of trouble for Jacob, but he will be saved out of it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:12 - “This is what the LORD says: “ ‘Your wound is incurable, your injury beyond healing.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:12 - They will come and shout for joy on the heights of Zion; they will rejoice in the bounty of the LORD— the grain, the new wine and the olive oil, the young of the flocks and herds. They will be like a well-watered garden, and they will sorrow no more.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:16 - This is what the LORD says: “Restrain your voice from weeping and your eyes from tears, for your work will be rewarded,”

declares the LORD.

“They will return from the land of the enemy.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:33 - “This is the covenant I will make with the people of Israel after that time,” declares the LORD. “I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:39 - The measuring line will stretch from there straight to the hill of Gareb and then turn to Goah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:20 - You performed signs and wonders in Egypt and have continued them to this day, in Israel and among all mankind, and have gained the renown that is still yours.
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 32:25 - And though the city will be given into the hands of the Babylonians, you, Sovereign LORD, say to me, ‘Buy the field with silver and have the transaction witnessed.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:28 - Therefore this is what the LORD says: I am about to give this city into the hands of the Babylonians and to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, who will capture it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:31 - From the day it was built until now, this city has so aroused my anger and wrath that I must remove it from my sight.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:1 - While Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army and all the kingdoms and peoples in the empire he ruled were fighting against Jerusalem and all its surrounding towns, this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD:
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:2 - “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Go to Zedekiah king of Judah and tell him, ‘This is what the LORD says: I am about to give this city into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he will burn it down.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:7 - while the army of the king of Babylon was fighting against Jerusalem and the other cities of Judah that were still holding out—Lachish and Azekah. These were the only fortified cities left in Judah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:7 - Perhaps they will bring their petition before the LORD and will each turn from their wicked ways, for the anger and wrath pronounced against this people by the LORD are great.”
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 37:11 - After the Babylonian army had withdrawn from Jerusalem because of Pharaoh's army,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:2 - “This is what the LORD says: ‘Whoever stays in this city will die by the sword, famine or plague, but whoever goes over to the Babylonians[fn] will live. They will escape with their lives; they will live.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:3 - And this is what the LORD says: ‘This city will certainly be given into the hands of the army of the king of Babylon, who will capture it.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:17 - Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “This is what the LORD God Almighty, the God of Israel, says: ‘If you surrender to the officers of the king of Babylon, your life will be spared and this city will not be burned down; you and your family will live.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:18 - But if you will not surrender to the officers of the king of Babylon, this city will be given into the hands of the Babylonians and they will burn it down; you yourself will not escape from them.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:20 - “They will not hand you over,” Jeremiah replied. “Obey the LORD by doing what I tell you. Then it will go well with you, and your life will be spared.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:23 - “All your wives and children will be brought out to the Babylonians. You yourself will not escape from their hands but will be captured by the king of Babylon; and this city will[fn] be burned down.”
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 39:18 - I will save you; you will not fall by the sword but will escape with your life, because you trust in me, declares the LORD.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:16 - then the sword you fear will overtake you there, and the famine you dread will follow you into Egypt, and there you will die.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:6 - Therefore, my fierce anger was poured out; it raged against the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem and made them the desolate ruins they are today.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:22 - When the LORD could no longer endure your wicked actions and the detestable things you did, your land became a curse and a desolate waste without inhabitants, as it is today.
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 46:12 - The nations will hear of your shame; your cries will fill the earth. One warrior will stumble over another; both will fall down together.”
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 48:8 - The destroyer will come against every town, and not a town will escape. The valley will be ruined and the plateau destroyed, because the LORD has spoken.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:29 - “We have heard of Moab's pride— how great is her arrogance!— of her insolence, her pride, her conceit and the haughtiness of her heart.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:4 - Why do you boast of your valleys, boast of your valleys so fruitful? Unfaithful Daughter Ammon, you trust in your riches and say, ‘Who will attack me?'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:16 - The terror you inspire and the pride of your heart have deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rocks, who occupy the heights of the hill. Though you build your nest as high as the eagle's, from there I will bring you down,”

declares the LORD.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:17 - “Edom will become an object of horror; all who pass by will be appalled and will scoff because of all its wounds.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:21 - At the sound of their fall the earth will tremble; their cry will resound to the Red Sea.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:22 - Look! An eagle will soar and swoop down, spreading its wings over Bozrah. In that day the hearts of Edom's warriors will be like the heart of a woman in labor.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:33 - “Hazor will become a haunt of jackals, a desolate place forever. No one will live there; no people will dwell in it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:2 - “Announce and proclaim among the nations, lift up a banner and proclaim it; keep nothing back, but say, ‘Babylon will be captured; Bel will be put to shame, Marduk filled with terror. Her images will be put to shame and her idols filled with terror.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:10 - So Babylonia[fn] will be plundered; all who plunder her will have their fill,”

declares the LORD.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:12 - your mother will be greatly ashamed; she who gave you birth will be disgraced. She will be the least of the nations— a wilderness, a dry land, a desert.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:19 - But I will bring Israel back to their own pasture, and they will graze on Carmel and Bashan; their appetite will be satisfied on the hills of Ephraim and Gilead.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:23 - How broken and shattered is the hammer of the whole earth! How desolate is Babylon among the nations!
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:27 - Kill all her young bulls; let them go down to the slaughter! Woe to them! For their day has come, the time for them to be punished.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:31 - “See, I am against you, you arrogant one,” declares the Lord, the LORD Almighty, “for your day has come, the time for you to be punished.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:32 - The arrogant one will stumble and fall and no one will help her up; I will kindle a fire in her towns that will consume all who are around her.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:46 - At the sound of Babylon's capture the earth will tremble; its cry will resound among the nations.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:5 - For Israel and Judah have not been forsaken by their God, the LORD Almighty, though their land[fn] is full of guilt before the Holy One of Israel.
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 51:42 - The sea will rise over Babylon; its roaring waves will cover her.
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 52:5 - The city was kept under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
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 52:14 - The whole Babylonian army, under the commander of the imperial guard, broke down all the walls around Jerusalem.
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 52:34 - 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 1:1 - How deserted lies the city, once so full of people! How like a widow is she, who once was great among the nations! She who was queen among the provinces has now become a slave.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:3 - After affliction and harsh labor, Judah has gone into exile. She dwells among the nations; she finds no resting place. All who pursue her have overtaken her in the midst of her distress.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:6 - All the splendor has departed from Daughter Zion. Her princes are like deer that find no pasture; in weakness they have fled before the pursuer.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:14 - “My sins have been bound into a yoke[fn]; by his hands they were woven together. They have been hung on my neck, and the Lord has sapped my strength. He has given me into the hands of those I cannot withstand.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:20 - “See, LORD, how distressed I am! I am in torment within, and in my heart I am disturbed, for I have been most rebellious. Outside, the sword bereaves; inside, there is only death.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:22 - “Let all their wickedness come before you; deal with them as you have dealt with me because of all my sins. My groans are many and my heart is faint.”
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 2:15 - All who pass your way clap their hands at you; they scoff and shake their heads at Daughter Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth?”
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:16 - All your enemies open their mouths wide against you; they scoff and gnash their teeth and say, “We have swallowed her up. This is the day we have waited for; we have lived to see it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:18 - So I say, “My splendor is gone and all that I had hoped from the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:20 - I well remember them, and my soul is downcast within me.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:40 - Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:4 - Because of thirst the infant's tongue sticks to the roof of its mouth; the children beg for bread, but no one gives it to them.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:21 - Rejoice and be glad, Daughter Edom, you who live in the land of Uz. But to you also the cup will be passed; you will be drunk and stripped naked.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:22 - Your punishment will end, Daughter Zion; he will not prolong your exile. But he will punish your sin, Daughter Edom, and expose your wickedness.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:17 - Because of this our hearts are faint, because of these things our eyes grow dim
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:5 - and in the fire was what looked like four living creatures. In appearance their form was human,
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 1:28 - 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 3:3 - Then he said to me, “Son of man, eat this scroll I am giving you and fill your stomach with it.” So I ate it, and it tasted as sweet as honey in my mouth.
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 3:23 - 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 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 5:5 - “This is what the Sovereign LORD says: This is Jerusalem, which I have set in the center of the nations, with countries all around her.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:7 - “Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: You have been more unruly than the nations around you and have not followed my decrees or kept my laws. You have not even[fn] conformed to the standards of the nations around you.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:13 - “Then my anger will cease and my wrath against them will subside, and I will be avenged. And when I have spent my wrath on them, they will know that I the LORD have spoken in my zeal.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:7 - Doom has come upon you, upon you who dwell in the land. The time has come! The day is near! There is panic, not joy, on the mountains.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:10 - “ ‘See, the day! See, it comes! Doom has burst forth, the rod has budded, arrogance has blossomed!
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:12 - The time has come! The day has arrived! Let not the buyer rejoice nor the seller grieve, for my wrath is on the whole crowd.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:23 - “ ‘Prepare chains! For the land is full of bloodshed, and the city is full of violence.
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 9:1 - Then I heard him call out in a loud voice, “Bring near those who are appointed to execute judgment on the city, each with a weapon in his hand.”
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 9:9 - 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 10:9 - I looked, and I saw beside the cherubim four wheels, one beside each of the cherubim; the wheels sparkled like topaz.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:10 - As for their appearance, the four of them looked alike; each was like a wheel intersecting a wheel.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:11 - As they moved, they would go in any one of the four directions the cherubim faced; the wheels did not turn about[fn] as the cherubim went. The cherubim went in whatever direction the head faced, without turning as they went.
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 11:21 - But as for those whose hearts are devoted to their vile images and detestable idols, I will bring down on their own heads what they have done, declares the Sovereign LORD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:22 - Then the cherubim, with the wheels beside them, spread their wings, and the glory of the God of Israel was above them.
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 12:19 - 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 12:20 - The inhabited towns will be laid waste and the land will be desolate. Then you will know that I am the LORD.' ”
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 12:27 - “Son of man, the Israelites are saying, ‘The vision he sees is for many years from now, and he prophesies about the distant future.'
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:12 - When the wall collapses, will people not ask you, “Where is the whitewash you covered it with?”
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 14:16 - as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, even if these three men were in it, they could not save their own sons or daughters. They alone would be saved, but the land would be desolate.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:3 - and say, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says to Jerusalem: Your ancestry and birth were in the land of the Canaanites; your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:4 - On the day you were born your cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water to make you clean, nor were you rubbed with salt or wrapped in cloths.
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 16:36 - This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Because you poured out your lust and exposed your naked body in your promiscuity with your lovers, and because of all your detestable idols, and because you gave them your children's blood,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:44 - “ ‘Everyone who quotes proverbs will quote this proverb about you: “Like mother, like daughter.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:45 - You are a true daughter of your mother, who despised her husband and her children; and you are a true sister of your sisters, who despised their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:46 - Your older sister was Samaria, who lived to the north of you with her daughters; and your younger sister, who lived to the south of you with her daughters, was Sodom.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:48 - As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, your sister Sodom and her daughters never did what you and your daughters have done.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:55 - And your sisters, Sodom with her daughters and Samaria with her daughters, will return to what they were before; and you and your daughters will return to what you were before.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:56 - You would not even mention your sister Sodom in the day of your pride,
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 18:2 - “What do you people mean by quoting this proverb about the land of Israel: “ ‘The parents eat sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge'?
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:3 - “As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, you will no longer quote this proverb in Israel.
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 18:20 - 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 18:25 - “Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.' Hear, you Israelites: Is my way unjust? Is it not your ways that are unjust?
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 19:2 - and say: “ ‘What a lioness was your mother among the lions! She lay down among them and reared her cubs.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:5 - “ ‘When she saw her hope unfulfilled, her expectation gone, she took another of her cubs and made him a strong lion.
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 19:10 - “ ‘Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard[fn] planted by the water; it was fruitful and full of branches because of abundant water.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:12 - But it was uprooted in fury and thrown to the ground. The east wind made it shrivel, it was stripped of its fruit; its strong branches withered and fire consumed them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:47 - Say to the southern forest: ‘Hear the word of the LORD. This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I am about to set fire to you, and it will consume all your trees, both green and dry. The blazing flame will not be quenched, and every face from south to north will be scorched by it.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:14 - “So then, son of man, prophesy and strike your hands together. Let the sword strike twice, even three times. It is a sword for slaughter— a sword for great slaughter, closing in on them from every side.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:15 - So that hearts may melt with fear and the fallen be many, I have stationed the sword for slaughter[fn] at all their gates. Look! It is forged to strike like lightning, it is grasped for slaughter.
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 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 22:5 - Those who are near and those who are far away will mock you, you infamous city, full of turmoil.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:14 - Will your courage endure or your hands be strong in the day I deal with you? I the LORD have spoken, and I will do it.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:15 - I will disperse you among the nations and scatter you through the countries; and I will put an end to your uncleanness.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:24 - “Son of man, say to the land, ‘You are a land that has not been cleansed or rained on in the day of wrath.'
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:4 - The older was named Oholah, and her sister was Oholibah. They were mine and gave birth to sons and daughters. Oholah is Samaria, and Oholibah is Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:5 - “Oholah engaged in prostitution while she was still mine; and she lusted after her lovers, the Assyrians—warriors
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:11 - “Her sister Oholibah saw this, yet in her lust and prostitution she was more depraved than her sister.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:17 - Then the Babylonians came to her, to the bed of love, and in their lust they defiled her. After she had been defiled by them, she turned away from them in disgust.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:18 - When she carried on her prostitution openly and exposed her naked body, I turned away from her in disgust, just as I had turned away from her sister.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:22 - “Therefore, Oholibah, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will stir up your lovers against you, those you turned away from in disgust, and I will bring them against you from every side—
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:28 - “For this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I am about to deliver you into the hands of those you hate, to those you turned away from in disgust.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:29 - They will deal with you in hatred and take away everything you have worked for. They will leave you stark naked, and the shame of your prostitution will be exposed. Your lewdness and promiscuity
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:49 - You will suffer the penalty for your lewdness and bear the consequences of your sins of idolatry. Then you will know that I am the Sovereign LORD.”
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 24:18 - So I spoke to the people in the morning, and in the evening my wife died. The next morning I did as I had been commanded.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:12 - “This is what the Sovereign LORD says: ‘Because Edom took revenge on Judah and became very guilty by doing so,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:2 - “Son of man, because Tyre has said of Jerusalem, ‘Aha! The gate to the nations is broken, and its doors have swung open to me; now that she lies in ruins I will prosper,'
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:3 - therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I am against you, Tyre, and I will bring many nations against you, like the sea casting up its waves.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:13 - I will put an end to your noisy songs, and the music of your harps will be heard no more.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:17 - Then they will take up a lament concerning you and say to you: “ ‘How you are destroyed, city of renown, peopled by men of the sea! You were a power on the seas, you and your citizens; you put your terror on all who lived there.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:11 - Men of Arvad and Helek guarded your walls on every side; men of Gammad were in your towers. They hung their shields around your walls; they brought your beauty to perfection.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:13 - “ ‘Greece, Tubal and Meshek did business with you; they traded human beings and articles of bronze for your wares.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:21 - “ ‘Arabia and all the princes of Kedar were your customers; they did business with you in lambs, rams and goats.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:27 - Your wealth, merchandise and wares, your mariners, sailors and shipwrights, your merchants and all your soldiers, and everyone else on board will sink into the heart of the sea on the day of your shipwreck.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:34 - Now you are shattered by the sea in the depths of the waters; your wares and all your company have gone down with you.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:2 - “Son of man, say to the ruler of Tyre, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: “ ‘In the pride of your heart you say, “I am a god; I sit on the throne of a god in the heart of the seas.” But you are a mere mortal and not a god, though you think you are as wise as a god.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:5 - By your great skill in trading you have increased your wealth, and because of your wealth your heart has grown proud.
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 29:9 - 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 30:2 - “Son of man, prophesy and say: ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: “ ‘Wail and say, “Alas for that day!”
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 30:6 - “ ‘This is what the LORD says: “ ‘The allies of Egypt will fall and her proud strength will fail. From Migdol to Aswan they will fall by the sword within her,

declares the Sovereign LORD.

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 30:18 - Dark will be the day at Tahpanhes when I break the yoke of Egypt; there her proud strength will come to an end. She will be covered with clouds, and her villages will go into captivity.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:3 - Consider Assyria, once a cedar in Lebanon, with beautiful branches overshadowing the forest; it towered on high, its top above the thick foliage.
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 31:15 - “ ‘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 32:6 - 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 32:12 - I will cause your hordes to fall by the swords of mighty men— the most ruthless of all nations. They will shatter the pride of Egypt, and all her hordes will be overthrown.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:15 - When I make Egypt desolate and strip the land of everything in it, when I strike down all who live there, then they will know that I am the LORD.'
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:20 - They will fall among those killed by the sword. The sword is drawn; let her be dragged off with all her hordes.
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 33:4 - then if anyone hears the trumpet but does not heed the warning and the sword comes and takes their life, their blood will be on their own head.
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 33:17 - “Yet your people say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.' But it is their way that is not just.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:20 - Yet you Israelites say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.' But I will judge each of you according to your own ways.”
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 33:28 - 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 33:31 - My people come to you, as they usually do, and sit before you to hear your words, but they do not put them into practice. Their mouths speak of love, but their hearts are greedy for unjust gain.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:27 - The trees will yield their fruit and the ground will yield its crops; the people will be secure in their land. They will know that I am the LORD, when I break the bars of their yoke and rescue them from the hands of those who enslaved them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:15 - Because you rejoiced when the inheritance of Israel became desolate, that is how I will treat you. You will be desolate, Mount Seir, you and all of Edom. Then they will know that I am the LORD.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:10 - and I will cause many people to live on you—yes, all of Israel. The towns will be inhabited and the ruins rebuilt.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:17 - “Son of man, when the people of Israel were living in their own land, they defiled it by their conduct and their actions. Their conduct was like a woman's monthly uncleanness in my sight.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:34 - The desolate land will be cultivated instead of lying desolate in the sight of all who pass through it.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:35 - They will say, “This land that was laid waste has become like the garden of Eden; the cities that were lying in ruins, desolate and destroyed, are now fortified and inhabited.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 37:11 - Then he said to me: “Son of man, these bones are the people of Israel. They say, ‘Our bones are dried up and our hope is gone; we are cut off.'
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 37:27 - My dwelling place will be with them; I will be their God, and they will be my people.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:7 - “ ‘Get ready; be prepared, you and all the hordes gathered about you, and take command of them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 39:8 - It is coming! It will surely take place, declares the Sovereign LORD. This is the day I have spoken of.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 39:12 - “ ‘For seven months the Israelites will be burying them in order to cleanse the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 39:16 - near a town called Hamonah.[fn] And so they will cleanse the land.'
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:3 - He took me there, and I saw a man whose appearance was like bronze; he was standing in the gateway with a linen cord and a measuring rod in his hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:22 - Its openings, its portico and its palm tree decorations had the same measurements as those of the gate facing east. Seven steps led up to it, with its portico opposite them.
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 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 41:22 - There was a wooden altar three cubits[fn] high and two cubits square[fn]; its corners, its base[fn] and its sides were of wood. The man said to me, “This is the table that is before the LORD.”
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 43:2 - and I saw the glory of the God of Israel coming from the east. His voice was like the roar of rushing waters, and the land was radiant with his glory.
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 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 45:6 - “ ‘You are to give the city as its property an area 5,000 cubits[fn] wide and 25,000 cubits long, adjoining the sacred portion; it will belong to all Israel.
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 45:12 - The shekel[fn] is to consist of twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels equal one mina.[fn]
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 46:1 - “ ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: The gate of the inner court facing east is to be shut on the six working days, but on the Sabbath day and on the day of the New Moon it is to be opened.
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 46:7 - He is to provide as a grain offering one ephah with the bull, one ephah with the ram, and with the lambs as much as he wants to give, along with a hin of oil for each ephah.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:11 - At the feasts and the appointed festivals, the grain offering is to be an ephah with a bull, an ephah with a ram, and with the lambs as much as he pleases, along with a hin of oil for each ephah.
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 48:8 - “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 48:10 - This will be the sacred portion for the priests. It will be 25,000 cubits long on the north side, 10,000 cubits wide on the west side, 10,000 cubits wide on the east side and 25,000 cubits long on the south side. In the center of it will be the sanctuary of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:12 - It will be a special gift to them from the sacred portion of the land, a most holy portion, bordering the territory of the Levites.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:15 - “The remaining area, 5,000 cubits[fn] wide and 25,000 cubits long, will be for the common use of the city, for houses and for pastureland. The city will be in the center of it
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 48:29 - “This is the land you are to allot as an inheritance to the tribes of Israel, and these will be their portions,” declares the Sovereign LORD.
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 2:15 - 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 2:20 - and said: “Praise be to the name of God for ever and ever; wisdom and power are his.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:31 - “Your Majesty looked, and there before you stood a large statue—an enormous, dazzling statue, awesome in appearance.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:32 - The head of the statue was made of pure gold, its chest and arms of silver, its belly and thighs of bronze,
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:38 - in your hands he has placed all mankind and the beasts of the field and the birds in the sky. Wherever they live, he has made you ruler over them all. You are that head of gold.
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 2:45 - This is the meaning of the vision of the rock cut out of a mountain, but not by human hands—a rock that broke the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver and the gold to pieces. “The great God has shown the king what will take place in the future. The dream is true and its interpretation is trustworthy.”
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 3:22 - 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 3:27 - 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 4:3 - How great are his signs, how mighty his wonders! His kingdom is an eternal kingdom; his dominion endures from generation to generation.
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 4:16 - Let his mind be changed from that of a man and let him be given the mind of an animal, till seven times[fn] pass by for him.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:19 - Then Daniel (also called Belteshazzar) was greatly perplexed for a time, and his thoughts terrified him. So the king said, “Belteshazzar, do not let the dream or its meaning alarm you.” Belteshazzar answered, “My lord, if only the dream applied to your enemies and its meaning to your adversaries!
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:22 - Your Majesty, you are that tree! You have become great and strong; your greatness has grown until it reaches the sky, and your dominion extends to distant parts of the earth.
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 4:24 - “This is the interpretation, Your Majesty, and this is the decree the Most High has issued against my lord the king:
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 4:26 - 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 4:27 - Therefore, Your Majesty, be pleased to accept my advice: Renounce your sins by doing what is right, and your wickedness by being kind to the oppressed. It may be that then your prosperity will continue.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:30 - he said, “Is not this the great Babylon I have built as the royal residence, by my mighty power and for the glory of my majesty?”
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 4:32 - You will be driven away from people and will live with the wild animals; you will eat grass like the ox. 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 4:34 - At the end of that time, I, Nebuchadnezzar, raised my eyes toward heaven, and my sanity was restored. Then I praised the Most High; I honored and glorified him who lives forever. His dominion is an eternal dominion; his kingdom endures from generation to generation.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:36 - At the same time that my sanity was restored, my honor and splendor were returned to me for the glory of my kingdom. My advisers and nobles sought me out, and I was restored to my throne and became even greater than before.
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 5:9 - So King Belshazzar became even more terrified and his face grew more pale. His nobles were baffled.
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 5:20 - 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 5:25 - “This is the inscription that was written: mene, mene, tekel, parsin
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:28 - Peres[fn]: Your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians.”
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 7:9 - “As I looked, “thrones were set in place, and the Ancient of Days took his seat. His clothing was as white as snow; the hair of his head was white like wool. His throne was flaming with fire, and its wheels were all ablaze.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 7:12 - (The other beasts had been stripped of their authority, but were allowed to live for a period of time.)
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 7:14 - He was given authority, glory and sovereign power; all nations and peoples of every language worshiped him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that will not pass away, and his kingdom is one that will never be destroyed.
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 7:27 - 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 8:12 - Because of rebellion, the LORD's people[fn] and the daily sacrifice were given over to it. It prospered in everything it did, and truth was thrown to the ground.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:13 - Then I heard a holy one speaking, and another holy one said to him, “How long will it take for the vision to be fulfilled—the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, the rebellion that causes desolation, the surrender of the sanctuary and the trampling underfoot of the LORD's people?”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:17 - As he came near the place where I was standing, I was terrified and fell prostrate. “Son of man,”[fn] he said to me, “understand that the vision concerns the time of the end.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:19 - He said: “I am going to tell you what will happen later in the time of wrath, because the vision concerns the appointed time of the end.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:24 - He will become very strong, but not by his own power. He will cause astounding devastation and will succeed in whatever he does. He will destroy those who are mighty, the holy people.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:26 - “The vision of the evenings and mornings that has been given you is true, but seal up the vision, for it concerns the distant future.”
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 9:15 - “Now, Lord our God, who brought your people out of Egypt with a mighty hand and who made for yourself a name that endures to this day, we have sinned, we have done wrong.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:16 - Lord, in keeping with all your righteous acts, turn away your anger and your wrath from Jerusalem, your city, your holy hill. Our sins and the iniquities of our ancestors have made Jerusalem and your people an object of scorn to all those around us.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 10:5 - I looked up and there before me was a man dressed in linen, with a belt of fine gold from Uphaz around his waist.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 10:6 - His body was like topaz, his face like lightning, his eyes like flaming torches, his arms and legs like the gleam of burnished bronze, and his voice like the sound of a multitude.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 10:8 - So I was left alone, gazing at this great vision; I had no strength left, my face turned deathly pale and I was helpless.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 10:14 - Now I have come to explain to you what will happen to your people in the future, for the vision concerns a time yet to come.”
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 11:6 - 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 11:12 - When the army is carried off, the king of the South will be filled with pride and will slaughter many thousands, yet he will not remain triumphant.
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 11:28 - The king of the North will return to his own country with great wealth, but his heart will be set against the holy covenant. He will take action against it and then return to his own country.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:29 - “At the appointed time he will invade the South again, but this time the outcome will be different from what it was before.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:36 - “The king will do as he pleases. He will exalt and magnify himself above every god and will say unheard-of things against the God of gods. He will be successful until the time of wrath is completed, for what has been determined must take place.
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 12:4 - But you, Daniel, roll up and seal the words of the scroll until the time of the end. Many will go here and there to increase knowledge.”
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 1:10 - “Yet the Israelites will be like the sand on the seashore, which cannot be measured or counted. In the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,' they will be called ‘children of the living God.'
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 2:5 - Their mother has been unfaithful and has conceived them in disgrace. She said, ‘I will go after my lovers, who give me my food and my water, my wool and my linen, my olive oil and my drink.'
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:22 - and the earth will respond to the grain, the new wine and the olive oil, and they will respond to Jezreel.[fn]
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 5:5 - Israel's arrogance testifies against them; the Israelites, even Ephraim, stumble in their sin; Judah also stumbles with them.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 5:7 - They are unfaithful to the LORD; they give birth to illegitimate children. When they celebrate their New Moon feasts, he will devour[fn] their fields.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 6:9 - As marauders lie in ambush for a victim, so do bands of priests; they murder on the road to Shechem, carrying out their wicked schemes.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:1 - whenever I would heal Israel, the sins of Ephraim are exposed and the crimes of Samaria revealed. They practice deceit, thieves break into houses, bandits rob in the streets;
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:10 - Israel's arrogance testifies against him, but despite all this he does not return to the LORD his God or search for him.
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 11:8 - “How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, Israel? How can I treat you like Admah? How can I make you like Zeboyim? My heart is changed within me; all my compassion is aroused.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 13:12 - The guilt of Ephraim is stored up, his sins are kept on record.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 13:14 - “I will deliver this people from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death. Where, O death, are your plagues? Where, O grave, is your destruction? “I will have no compassion,
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 14:4 - “I will heal their waywardness and love them freely, for my anger has turned away from them.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 14:6 - his young shoots will grow. His splendor will be like an olive tree, his fragrance like a cedar of Lebanon.
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 1:10 - The fields are ruined, the ground is dried up; the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, the olive oil fails.
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 2:3 - Before them fire devours, behind them a flame blazes. Before them the land is like the garden of Eden, behind them, a desert waste— nothing escapes them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:4 - They have the appearance of horses; they gallop along like cavalry.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:10 - Before them the earth shakes, the heavens tremble, the sun and moon are darkened, and the stars no longer shine.
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 2:20 - “I will drive the northern horde far from you, pushing it into a parched and barren land; its eastern ranks will drown in the Dead Sea and its western ranks in the Mediterranean Sea. And its stench will go up; its smell will rise.” Surely he has done great things!
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:25 - “I will repay you for the years the locusts have eaten— the great locust and the young locust, the other locusts and the locust swarm[fn]— my great army that I sent among you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:31 - The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:13 - Swing the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, trample the grapes, for the winepress is full and the vats overflow— so great is their wickedness!”
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:15 - The sun and moon will be darkened, and the stars no longer shine.
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 BoxJoe 3:19 - But Egypt will be desolate, Edom a desert waste, because of violence done to the people of Judah, in whose land they shed innocent blood.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:20 - Judah will be inhabited forever and Jerusalem through all generations.
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 2:13 - “Now then, I will crush you as a cart crushes when loaded with grain.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 3:11 - Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: “An enemy will overrun your land, pull down your strongholds and plunder your fortresses.”
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 4:9 - “Many times I struck your gardens and vineyards, destroying them with blight and mildew. Locusts devoured your fig and olive trees, yet you have not returned to me,”

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:3 - This is what the Sovereign LORD says to Israel: “Your city that marches out a thousand strong will have only a hundred left; your town that marches out a hundred strong will have only ten left.”
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 7:10 - Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent a message to Jeroboam king of Israel: “Amos is raising a conspiracy against you in the very heart of Israel. The land cannot bear all his words.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:17 - “Therefore this is what the LORD says: “ ‘Your wife will become a prostitute in the city, and your sons and daughters will fall by the sword. Your land will be measured and divided up, and you yourself will die in a pagan[fn] country. And Israel will surely go into exile, away from their native land.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 8:8 - “Will not the land tremble for this, and all who live in it mourn? The whole land will rise like the Nile; it will be stirred up and then sink like the river of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 9:2 - Though they dig down to the depths below, from there my hand will take them. Though they climb up to the heavens above, from there I will bring them down.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 9:13 - “The days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when the reaper will be overtaken by the plowman and the planter by the one treading grapes. New wine will drip from the mountains and flow from all the hills,
Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:17 - But on Mount Zion will be deliverance; it will be holy, and Jacob will possess his inheritance.
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 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 1:2 - “Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 1:7 - Then the sailors said to each other, “Come, let us cast lots to find out who is responsible for this calamity.” They cast lots and the lot fell on Jonah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 1:8 - So they asked him, “Tell us, who is responsible for making all this trouble for us? What kind of work do you do? Where do you come from? What is your country? From what people are you?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 1:11 - The sea was getting rougher and rougher. So they asked him, “What should we do to you to make the sea calm down for us?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 1:12 - “Pick me up and throw me into the sea,” he replied, “and it will become calm. I know that it is my fault that this great storm has come upon you.”
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 1:15 - Then they took Jonah and threw him overboard, and the raging sea grew calm.
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 2:5 - The engulfing waters threatened me,[fn] the deep surrounded me; seaweed was wrapped around my head.
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 3:3 - Jonah obeyed the word of the LORD and went to Nineveh. Now Nineveh was a very large city; it took three days to go through it.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:2 - Hear, you peoples, all of you, listen, earth and all who live in it, that the Sovereign LORD may bear witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.
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 1:9 - For Samaria's plague is incurable; it has spread to Judah. It has reached the very gate of my people, even to Jerusalem itself.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:15 - I will bring a conqueror against you who live in Mareshah.[fn] The nobles of Israel will flee to Adullam.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 2:10 - Get up, go away! For this is not your resting place, because it is defiled, it is ruined, beyond all remedy.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 3:6 - Therefore night will come over you, without visions, and darkness, without divination. The sun will set for the prophets, and the day will go dark for them.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 4:8 - As for you, watchtower of the flock, stronghold[fn] of Daughter Zion, the former dominion will be restored to you; kingship will come to Daughter Jerusalem.”
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 4:9 - Why do you now cry aloud— have you no king[fn]? Has your ruler[fn] perished, that pain seizes you like that of a woman in labor?
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:9 - Your hand will be lifted up in triumph over your enemies, and all your foes will be destroyed.
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 6:12 - Your rich people are violent; your inhabitants are liars and their tongues speak deceitfully.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:8 - Do not gloat over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will rise. Though I sit in darkness, the LORD will be my light.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:10 - Then my enemy will see it and will be covered with shame, she who said to me, “Where is the LORD your God?” My eyes will see her downfall; even now she will be trampled underfoot like mire in the streets.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:11 - The day for building your walls will come, the day for extending your boundaries.
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 7:13 - The earth will become desolate because of its inhabitants, as the result of their deeds.
Unchecked Copy BoxNah 1:3 - The LORD is slow to anger but great in power; the LORD will not leave the guilty unpunished. His way is in the whirlwind and the storm, and clouds are the dust of his feet.
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 1:5 - The mountains quake before him and the hills melt away. The earth trembles at his presence, the world and all who live in it.
Unchecked Copy BoxNah 1:12 - This is what the LORD says: “Although they have allies and are numerous, they will be destroyed and pass away. Although I have afflicted you, Judah, I will afflict you no more.
Unchecked Copy BoxNah 2:4 - The chariots storm through the streets, rushing back and forth through the squares. They look like flaming torches; they dart about like lightning.
Unchecked Copy BoxNah 2:7 - It is decreed[fn] that Nineveh be exiled and carried away. Her female slaves moan like doves and beat on their breasts.
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 BoxNah 3:4 - all because of the wanton lust of a prostitute, alluring, the mistress of sorceries, who enslaved nations by her prostitution and peoples by her witchcraft.
Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:8 - Are you better than Thebes, situated on the Nile, with water around her? The river was her defense, the waters her wall.
Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:9 - Cush[fn] and Egypt were her boundless strength; Put and Libya were among her allies.
Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:19 - Nothing can heal you; your wound is fatal. All who hear the news about you clap their hands at your fall, for who has not felt your endless cruelty?
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:11 - Then they sweep past like the wind and go on— guilty people, whose own strength is their god.”
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:15 - The wicked foe pulls all of them up with hooks, he catches them in his net, he gathers them up in his dragnet; and so he rejoices and is glad.
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:4 - “See, the enemy is puffed up; his desires are not upright— but the righteous person will live by his faithfulness[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:10 - You have plotted the ruin of many peoples, shaming your own house and forfeiting your life.
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 2:20 - The LORD is in his holy temple; let all the earth be silent before him.
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:3 - God came from Teman, the Holy One from Mount Paran.[fn] His glory covered the heavens and his praise filled the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:6 - He stood, and shook the earth; he looked, and made the nations tremble. The ancient mountains crumbled and the age-old hills collapsed— but he marches on forever.
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:8 - Were you angry with the rivers, LORD? Was your wrath against the streams? Did you rage against the sea when you rode your horses and your chariots to victory?
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:10 - the mountains saw you and writhed. Torrents of water swept by; the deep roared and lifted its waves on high.
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:11 - Sun and moon stood still in the heavens at the glint of your flying arrows, at the lightning of your flashing spear.
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 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 1:13 - Their wealth will be plundered, their houses demolished. Though they build houses, they will not live in them; though they plant vineyards, they will not drink the wine.”
Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:14 - The great day of the LORD is near— near and coming quickly. The cry on the day of the LORD is bitter; the Mighty Warrior shouts his battle cry.
Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:15 - That day will be a day of wrath— a day of distress and anguish, a day of trouble and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness—
Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:18 - Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to save them on the day of the LORD's wrath.” In the fire of his jealousy the whole earth will be consumed, for he will make a sudden end of all who live on the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:15 - This is the city of revelry that lived in safety. She said to herself, “I am the one! And there is none besides me.” What a ruin she has become, a lair for wild beasts! All who pass by her scoff and shake their fists.
Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:1 - Woe to the city of oppressors, rebellious and defiled!
Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:7 - Of Jerusalem I thought, ‘Surely you will fear me and accept correction!' Then her place of refuge[fn] would not be destroyed, nor all my punishments come upon[fn] her. But they were still eager to act corruptly in all they did.
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 BoxHag 1:10 - Therefore, because of you the heavens have withheld their dew and the earth its crops.
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 1:11 - I called for a drought on the fields and the mountains, on the grain, the new wine, the olive oil and everything else the ground produces, on people and livestock, and on all the labor of your hands.”
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 2:19 - Is there yet any seed left in the barn? Until now, the vine and the fig tree, the pomegranate and the olive tree have not borne fruit. “ ‘From this day on I will bless you.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 1:11 - And they reported to the angel of the LORD who was standing among the myrtle trees, “We have gone throughout the earth and found the whole world at rest and in peace.”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 5:3 - And he said to me, “This is the curse that is going out over the whole land; for according to what it says on one side, every thief will be banished, and according to what it says on the other, everyone who swears falsely will be banished.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 5:6 - I asked, “What is it?” He replied, “It is a basket.” And he added, “This is the iniquity[fn] of the people throughout the land.”
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 7:7 - Are these not the words the LORD proclaimed through the earlier prophets when Jerusalem and its surrounding towns were at rest and prosperous, and the Negev and the western foothills were settled?' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 7:14 - ‘I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations, where they were strangers. The land they left behind them was so desolate that no one traveled through it. This is how they made the pleasant land desolate.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:3 - This is what the LORD says: “I will return to Zion and dwell in Jerusalem. Then Jerusalem will be called the Faithful City, and the mountain of the LORD Almighty will be called the Holy Mountain.”
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 8:19 - This is what the LORD Almighty says: “The fasts of the fourth, fifth, seventh and tenth months will become joyful and glad occasions and happy festivals for Judah. Therefore love truth and peace.”
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 11:8 - In one month I got rid of the three shepherds. The flock detested me, and I grew weary of them
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 12:12 - The land will mourn, each clan by itself, with their wives by themselves: the clan of the house of David and their wives, the clan of the house of Nathan and their wives,
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 13:3 - And if anyone still prophesies, their father and mother, to whom they were born, will say to them, ‘You must die, because you have told lies in the LORD's name.' Then their own parents will stab the one who prophesies.
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 14:7 - It will be a unique day—a day known only to the LORD—with no distinction between day and night. When evening comes, there will be light.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 14:12 - This is the plague with which the LORD will strike all the nations that fought against Jerusalem: Their flesh will rot while they are still standing on their feet, their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths.
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 14:15 - A similar plague will strike the horses and mules, the camels and donkeys, and all the animals in those camps.
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 BoxMal 1:4 - Edom may say, “Though we have been crushed, we will rebuild the ruins.” But this is what the LORD Almighty says: “They may build, but I will demolish. They will be called the Wicked Land, a people always under the wrath of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 1:6 - “A son honors his father, and a slave his master. If I am a father, where is the honor due me? If I am a master, where is the respect due me?” says the LORD Almighty. “It is you priests who show contempt for my name. “But you ask, ‘How have we shown contempt for your name?'
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 2:1 - “And now, you priests, this warning is for you.
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 2:5 - “My covenant was with him, a covenant of life and peace, and I gave them to him; this called for reverence and he revered me and stood in awe of my name.
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 3:11 - I will prevent pests from devouring your crops, and the vines in your fields will not drop their fruit before it is ripe,” says the LORD Almighty.
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 4:1 - “Surely the day is coming; it will burn like a furnace. All the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble, and the day that is coming will set them on fire,” says the LORD Almighty. “Not a root or a branch will be left to them.
T-VSF
Occurrences: 12 times in 12 verses
Speech: Definite article
Parsing: Vocative Singular Feminine
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 1:8 - Friends: If you do not know, most beautiful of women, follow the tracks of the sheep and graze your young goats by the tents of the shepherds.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 1:9 - He: I liken you, my darling, to a mare among Pharaoh's chariot horses.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 1:15 - He: How beautiful you are, my darling! Oh, how beautiful! Your eyes are doves.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 2:10 - My beloved spoke and said to me, “Arise, my darling, my beautiful one, come with me.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 2:13 - The fig tree forms its early fruit; the blossoming vines spread their fragrance. Arise, come, my darling; my beautiful one, come with me.”
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 4:7 - You are altogether beautiful, my darling; there is no flaw in you.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:2 - She: I slept but my heart was awake. Listen! My beloved is knocking: “Open to me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my flawless one. My head is drenched with dew, my hair with the dampness of the night.”
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:9 - Friends: How is your beloved better than others, most beautiful of women? How is your beloved better than others, that you so charge us?
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:1 - Friends: Where has your beloved gone, most beautiful of women? Which way did your beloved turn, that we may look for him with you?
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:4 - He: You are as beautiful as Tirzah, my darling, as lovely as Jerusalem, as majestic as troops with banners.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:13 - Friends: Come back, come back, O Shulammite; come back, come back, that we may gaze on you! He: Why would you gaze on the Shulammite as on the dance of Mahanaim?[fn]
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