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ἐκ — 2262x G1537 ἐκ
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Occurrences: 2262 times in 1984 verses
Speech: Preposition
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:6 - Instead, springs[fn] came up from the ground and watered all the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:9 - The LORD God made all sorts of trees grow up from the ground—trees that were beautiful and that produced delicious fruit. In the middle of the garden he placed the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:19 - So the LORD God formed from the ground all the wild animals and all the birds of the sky. He brought them to the man[fn] to see what he would call them, and the man chose a name for each one.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:23 - “At last!” the man exclaimed.
“This one is bone from my bone,
and flesh from my flesh!
She will be called ‘woman,'
because she was taken from ‘man.'”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:23 - So the LORD God banished them from the Garden of Eden, and he sent Adam out to cultivate the ground from which he had been made.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:10 - But the LORD said, “What have you done? Listen! Your brother's blood cries out to me from the ground!
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:11 - Now you are cursed and banished from the ground, which has swallowed your brother's blood.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:24 - If someone who kills Cain is punished seven times,
then the one who kills me will be punished seventy-seven times!”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:14 - “Build a large boat[fn] from cypress wood[fn] and waterproof it with tar, inside and out. Then construct decks and stalls throughout its interior.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:16 - Leave an 18-inch opening[fn] below the roof all the way around the boat. Put the door on the side, and build three decks inside the boat—lower, middle, and upper.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:10 - After waiting another seven days, Noah released the dove again.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:16 - “Leave the boat, all of you—you and your wife, and your sons and their wives.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:19 - And all of the large and small animals and birds came out of the boat, pair by pair.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:21 - And the LORD was pleased with the aroma of the sacrifice and said to himself, “I will never again curse the ground because of the human race, even though everything they think or imagine is bent toward evil from childhood. I will never again destroy all living things.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:5 - “And I will require the blood of anyone who takes another person's life. If a wild animal kills a person, it must die. And anyone who murders a fellow human must die.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:10 - and with all the animals that were on the boat with you—the birds, the livestock, and all the wild animals—every living creature on earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:18 - The sons of Noah who came out of the boat with their father were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Ham is the father of Canaan.)
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:21 - One day he drank some wine he had made, and he became drunk and lay naked inside his tent.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:5 - Their descendants became the seafaring peoples that spread out to various lands, each identified by its own language, clan, and national identity.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:11 - From there he expanded his territory to Assyria,[fn] building the cities of Nineveh, Rehoboth-ir, Calah,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:31 - One day Terah took his son Abram, his daughter-in-law Sarai (his son Abram's wife), and his grandson Lot (his son Haran's child) and moved away from Ur of the Chaldeans. He was headed for the land of Canaan, but they stopped at Haran and settled there.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:1 - The LORD had said to Abram, “Leave your native country, your relatives, and your father's family, and go to the land that I will show you.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:4 - So Abram departed as the LORD had instructed, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:4 - Then the LORD said to him, “No, your servant will not be your heir, for you will have a son of your own who will be your heir.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:7 - Then the LORD told him, “I am the LORD who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land as your possession.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:5 - Then Sarai said to Abram, “This is all your fault! I put my servant into your arms, but now that she's pregnant she treats me with contempt. The LORD will show who's wrong—you or me!”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:6 - I will make you extremely fruitful. Your descendants will become many nations, and kings will be among them!
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:12 - From generation to generation, every male child must be circumcised on the eighth day after his birth. This applies not only to members of your family but also to the servants born in your household and the foreign-born servants whom you have purchased.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:14 - Any male who fails to be circumcised will be cut off from the covenant family for breaking the covenant.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:12 - Meanwhile, the angels questioned Lot. “Do you have any other relatives here in the city?” they asked. “Get them out of this place—your sons-in-law, sons, daughters, or anyone else.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:14 - So Lot rushed out to tell his daughters' fiancés, “Quick, get out of the city! The LORD is about to destroy it.” But the young men thought he was only joking.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:24 - Then the LORD rained down fire and burning sulfur from the sky on Sodom and Gomorrah.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:25 - He utterly destroyed them, along with the other cities and villages of the plain, wiping out all the people and every bit of vegetation.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:29 - But God had listened to Abraham's request and kept Lot safe, removing him from the disaster that engulfed the cities on the plain.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:30 - Afterward Lot left Zoar because he was afraid of the people there, and he went to live in a cave in the mountains with his two daughters.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:32 - Come, let's get him drunk with wine, and then we will have sex with him. That way we will preserve our family line through our father.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:34 - The next morning the older daughter said to her younger sister, “I had sex with our father last night. Let's get him drunk with wine again tonight, and you go in and have sex with him. That way we will preserve our family line through our father.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:36 - As a result, both of Lot's daughters became pregnant by their own father.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:37 - When the older daughter gave birth to a son, she named him Moab.[fn] He became the ancestor of the nation now known as the Moabites.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:12 - And she really is my sister, for we both have the same father, but different mothers. And I married her.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:13 - When God called me to leave my father's home and to travel from place to place, I told her, ‘Do me a favor. Wherever we go, tell the people that I am your brother.'”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:15 - When the water was gone, she put the boy in the shade of a bush.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:17 - But God heard the boy crying, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven, “Hagar, what's wrong? Do not be afraid! God has heard the boy crying as he lies there.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:21 - and he settled in the wilderness of Paran. His mother arranged for him to marry a woman from the land of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:11 - At that moment the angel of the LORD called to him from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!”
“Yes,” Abraham replied. “Here I am!”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:15 - Then the angel of the LORD called again to Abraham from heaven.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:7 - For the LORD, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and my native land, solemnly promised to give this land to my descendants.[fn] He will send his angel ahead of you, and he will see to it that you find a wife there for my son.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:17 - Running over to her, the servant said, “Please give me a little drink of water from your jug.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:40 - He responded, ‘The LORD, in whose presence I have lived, will send his angel with you and will make your mission successful. Yes, you must find a wife for my son from among my relatives, from my father's family.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:43 - See, I am standing here beside this spring. This is my request. When a young woman comes to draw water, I will say to her, “Please give me a little drink of water from your jug.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:20 - When Isaac was forty years old, he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan-aram and the sister of Laban the Aramean.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:23 - And the LORD told her, “The sons in your womb will become two nations. From the very beginning, the two nations will be rivals. One nation will be stronger than the other; and your older son will serve your younger son.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:29 - One day when Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau arrived home from the wilderness exhausted and hungry.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:1 - So Isaac called for Jacob, blessed him, and said, “You must not marry any of these Canaanite women.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:2 - Instead, go at once to Paddan-aram, to the house of your grandfather Bethuel, and marry one of your uncle Laban's daughters.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:2 - He saw a well in the distance. Three flocks of sheep and goats lay in an open field beside it, waiting to be watered. But a heavy stone covered the mouth of the well.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:4 - Jacob went over to the shepherds and asked, “Where are you from, my friends?”
“We are from Haran,” they answered.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:14 - Laban exclaimed, “You really are my own flesh and blood!” After Jacob had stayed with Laban for about a month,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:1 - But Jacob soon learned that Laban's sons were grumbling about him. “Jacob has robbed our father of everything!” they said. “He has gained all his wealth at our father's expense.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:13 - I am the God who appeared to you at Bethel,[fn] the place where you anointed the pillar of stone and made your vow to me. Now get ready and leave this country and return to the land of your birth.'”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:33 - Laban went first into Jacob's tent to search there, then into Leah's, and then the tents of the two servant wives—but he found nothing. Finally, he went into Rachel's tent.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:11 - O LORD, please rescue me from the hand of my brother, Esau. I am afraid that he is coming to attack me, along with my wives and children.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:18 - Later, having traveled all the way from Paddan-aram, Jacob arrived safely at the town of Shechem, in the land of Canaan. There he set up camp outside the town.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:7 - Meanwhile, Jacob's sons had come in from the field as soon as they heard what had happened. They were shocked and furious that their sister had been raped. Shechem had done a disgraceful thing against Jacob's family,[fn] something that should never be done.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:26 - including Hamor and his son Shechem. They killed them with their swords, then took Dinah from Shechem's house and returned to their camp.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:2 - So Jacob told everyone in his household, “Get rid of all your pagan idols, purify yourselves, and put on clean clothing.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:5 - As they set out, a terror from God spread over the people in all the towns of that area, so no one attacked Jacob's family.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:9 - Now that Jacob had returned from Paddan-aram, God appeared to him again at Bethel. God blessed him,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:11 - Then God said, “I am El-Shaddai—‘God Almighty.' Be fruitful and multiply. You will become a great nation, even many nations. Kings will be among your descendants!
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:13 - Then God went up from the place where he had spoken to Jacob.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:16 - Leaving Bethel, Jacob and his clan moved on toward Ephrath. But Rachel went into labor while they were still some distance away. Her labor pains were intense.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:6 - Esau took his wives, his children, and his entire household, along with his livestock and cattle—all the wealth he had acquired in the land of Canaan—and moved away from his brother, Jacob.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:33 - When Bela died, Jobab son of Zerah from Bozrah became king in his place.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:34 - When Jobab died, Husham from the land of the Temanites became king in his place.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:36 - When Hadad died, Samlah from the city of Masrekah became king in his place.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:37 - When Samlah died, Shaul from the city of Rehoboth-on-the-River became king in his place.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:4 - But his brothers hated Joseph because their father loved him more than the rest of them. They couldn't say a kind word to him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:14 - “Go and see how your brothers and the flocks are getting along,” Jacob said. “Then come back and bring me a report.” So Jacob sent him on his way, and Joseph traveled to Shechem from their home in the valley of Hebron.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:21 - But when Reuben heard of their scheme, he came to Joseph's rescue. “Let's not kill him,” he said.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:22 - “Why should we shed any blood? Let's just throw him into this empty cistern here in the wilderness. Then he'll die without our laying a hand on him.” Reuben was secretly planning to rescue Joseph and return him to his father.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:25 - Then, just as they were sitting down to eat, they looked up and saw a caravan of camels in the distance coming toward them. It was a group of Ishmaelite traders taking a load of gum, balm, and aromatic resin from Gilead down to Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:28 - So when the Ishmaelites, who were Midianite traders, came by, Joseph's brothers pulled him out of the cistern and sold him to them for twenty pieces[fn] of silver. And the traders took him to Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:17 - “I'll send you a young goat from my flock,” Judah promised.
“But what will you give me to guarantee that you will send the goat?” she asked.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:21 - So he asked the men who lived there, “Where can I find the shrine prostitute who was sitting beside the road at the entrance to Enaim?”
“We've never had a shrine prostitute here,” they replied.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:22 - So Hirah returned to Judah and told him, “I couldn't find her anywhere, and the men of the village claim they've never had a shrine prostitute there.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:24 - About three months later, Judah was told, “Tamar, your daughter-in-law, has acted like a prostitute. And now, because of this, she's pregnant.”
“Bring her out, and let her be burned!” Judah demanded.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:25 - But as they were taking her out to kill her, she sent this message to her father-in-law: “The man who owns these things made me pregnant. Look closely. Whose seal and cord and walking stick are these?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:1 - When Joseph was taken to Egypt by the Ishmaelite traders, he was purchased by Potiphar, an Egyptian officer. Potiphar was captain of the guard for Pharaoh, the king of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:14 - And please remember me and do me a favor when things go well for you. Mention me to Pharaoh, so he might let me out of this place.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:15 - For I was kidnapped from my homeland, the land of the Hebrews, and now I'm here in prison, but I did nothing to deserve it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:2 - In his dream he saw seven fat, healthy cows come up out of the river and begin grazing in the marsh grass.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:3 - Then he saw seven more cows come up behind them from the Nile, but these were scrawny and thin. These cows stood beside the fat cows on the riverbank.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:14 - Pharaoh sent for Joseph at once, and he was quickly brought from the prison. After he shaved and changed his clothes, he went in and stood before Pharaoh.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:18 - and I saw seven fat, healthy cows come up out of the river and begin grazing in the marsh grass.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:19 - But then I saw seven sick-looking cows, scrawny and thin, come up after them. I've never seen such sorry-looking animals in all the land of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:46 - He was thirty years old when he began serving in the court of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt. And when Joseph left Pharaoh's presence, he inspected the entire land of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:7 - Joseph recognized his brothers instantly, but he pretended to be a stranger and spoke harshly to them. “Where are you from?” he demanded.
“From the land of Canaan,” they replied. “We have come to buy food.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:9 - I personally guarantee his safety. You may hold me responsible if I don't bring him back to you. Then let me bear the blame forever.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:8 - Didn't we return the money we found in our sacks? We brought it back all the way from the land of Canaan. Why would we steal silver or gold from your master's house?
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:29 - Now if you take his brother away from me, and any harm comes to him, you will send this grieving, white-haired man to his grave.[fn]'
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:30 - “And now, my lord, I cannot go back to my father without the boy. Our father's life is bound up in the boy's life.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:19 - Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Tell your brothers, ‘Take wagons from the land of Egypt to carry your little children and your wives, and bring your father here.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:26 - The total number of Jacob's direct descendants who went with him to Egypt, not counting his sons' wives, was sixty-six.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:34 - you must tell him, ‘We, your servants, have raised livestock all our lives, as our ancestors have always done.' When you tell him this, he will let you live here in the region of Goshen, for the Egyptians despise shepherds.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:1 - Then Joseph went to see Pharaoh and told him, “My father and my brothers have arrived from the land of Canaan. They have come with all their flocks and herds and possessions, and they are now in the region of Goshen.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:15 - When the people of Egypt and Canaan ran out of money, all the Egyptians came to Joseph. “Our money is gone!” they cried. “But please give us food, or we will die before your very eyes!”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:7 - “Long ago, as I was returning from Paddan-aram, Rachel died in the land of Canaan. We were still on the way, some distance from Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem). So with great sorrow I buried her there beside the road to Ephrath.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:13 - Then he positioned the boys in front of Jacob. With his right hand he directed Ephraim toward Jacob's left hand, and with his left hand he put Manasseh at Jacob's right hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:15 - Then he blessed Joseph and said,
“May the God before whom my grandfather Abraham
and my father, Isaac, walked—
the God who has been my shepherd
all my life, to this very day,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:16 - the Angel who has redeemed me from all harm—
may he bless these boys.
May they preserve my name
and the names of Abraham and Isaac.
And may their descendants multiply greatly
throughout the earth.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:22 - And beyond what I have given your brothers, I am giving you an extra portion of the land[fn] that I took from the Amorites with my sword and bow.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:9 - Judah, my son, is a young lion
that has finished eating its prey.
Like a lion he crouches and lies down;
like a lioness—who dares to rouse him?
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:10 - The scepter will not depart from Judah,
nor the ruler's staff from his descendants,[fn]
until the coming of the one to whom it belongs,[fn]
the one whom all nations will honor.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:24 - “Soon I will die,” Joseph told his brothers, “but God will surely come to help you and lead you out of this land of Egypt. He will bring you back to the land he solemnly promised to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:10 - We must make a plan to keep them from growing even more. If we don't, and if war breaks out, they will join our enemies and fight against us. Then they will escape from the country.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:1 - About this time, a man and woman from the tribe of Levi got married.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:7 - Then the baby's sister approached the princess. “Should I go and find one of the Hebrew women to nurse the baby for you?” she asked.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:10 - Later, when the boy was older, his mother brought him back to Pharaoh's daughter, who adopted him as her own son. The princess named him Moses,[fn] for she explained, “I lifted him out of the water.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:2 - There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a blazing fire from the middle of a bush. Moses stared in amazement. Though the bush was engulfed in flames, it didn't burn up.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:4 - When the LORD saw Moses coming to take a closer look, God called to him from the middle of the bush, “Moses! Moses!”
“Here I am!” Moses replied.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:5 - “Do not come any closer,” the LORD warned. “Take off your sandals, for you are standing on holy ground.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:8 - So I have come down to rescue them from the power of the Egyptians and lead them out of Egypt into their own fertile and spacious land. It is a land flowing with milk and honey—the land where the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites now live.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:10 - Now go, for I am sending you to Pharaoh. You must lead my people Israel out of Egypt.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:11 - But Moses protested to God, “Who am I to appear before Pharaoh? Who am I to lead the people of Israel out of Egypt?”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:17 - I have promised to rescue you from your oppression in Egypt. I will lead you to a land flowing with milk and honey—the land where the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites now live.”'
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:6 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Now put your hand inside your cloak.” So Moses put his hand inside his cloak, and when he took it out again, his hand was white as snow with a severe skin disease.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:7 - “Now put your hand back into your cloak,” the LORD said. So Moses put his hand back in, and when he took it out again, it was as healthy as the rest of his body.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:1 - Then the LORD told Moses, “Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh. When he feels the force of my strong hand, he will let the people go. In fact, he will force them to leave his land!”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:6 - “Therefore, say to the people of Israel: ‘I am the LORD. I will free you from your oppression and will rescue you from your slavery in Egypt. I will redeem you with a powerful arm and great acts of judgment.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:7 - I will claim you as my own people, and I will be your God. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God who has freed you from your oppression in Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:11 - “Go back to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and tell him to let the people of Israel leave his country.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:13 - But the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron and gave them orders for the Israelites and for Pharaoh, the king of Egypt. The LORD commanded Moses and Aaron to lead the people of Israel out of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:15 - The sons of Simeon were Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jakin, Zohar, and Shaul. (Shaul's mother was a Canaanite woman.) Their descendants became the clans of Simeon.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:26 - The Aaron and Moses named in this list are the same ones to whom the LORD said, “Lead the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt like an army.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:2 - Tell Aaron everything I command you, and Aaron must command Pharaoh to let the people of Israel leave his country.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:4 - Even then Pharaoh will refuse to listen to you. So I will bring down my fist on Egypt. Then I will rescue my forces—my people, the Israelites—from the land of Egypt with great acts of judgment.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:5 - When I raise my powerful hand and bring out the Israelites, the Egyptians will know that I am the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:21 - The fish in the river died, and the water became so foul that the Egyptians couldn't drink it. There was blood everywhere throughout the land of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:9 - “You set the time!” Moses replied. “Tell me when you want me to pray for you, your officials, and your people. Then you and your houses will be rid of the frogs. They will remain only in the Nile River.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:11 - The frogs will leave you and your houses, your officials, and your people. They will remain only in the Nile River.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:13 - And the LORD did just what Moses had predicted. The frogs in the houses, the courtyards, and the fields all died.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:23 - During all that time the people could not see each other, and no one moved. But there was light as usual where the people of Israel lived.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 11:10 - Moses and Aaron performed these miracles in Pharaoh's presence, but the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he wouldn't let the Israelites leave the country.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:15 - For seven days the bread you eat must be made without yeast. On the first day of the festival, remove every trace of yeast from your homes. Anyone who eats bread made with yeast during the seven days of the festival will be cut off from the community of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:17 - “Celebrate this Festival of Unleavened Bread, for it will remind you that I brought your forces out of the land of Egypt on this very day. This festival will be a permanent law for you; celebrate this day from generation to generation.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:19 - During those seven days, there must be no trace of yeast in your homes. Anyone who eats anything made with yeast during this week will be cut off from the community of Israel. These regulations apply both to the foreigners living among you and to the native-born Israelites.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:31 - Pharaoh sent for Moses and Aaron during the night. “Get out!” he ordered. “Leave my people—and take the rest of the Israelites with you! Go and worship the LORD as you have requested.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:33 - All the Egyptians urged the people of Israel to get out of the land as quickly as possible, for they thought, “We will all die!”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:37 - That night the people of Israel left Rameses and started for Succoth. There were about 600,000 men,[fn] plus all the women and children.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:41 - In fact, it was on the last day of the 430th year that all the LORD's forces left the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:42 - On this night the LORD kept his promise to bring his people out of the land of Egypt. So this night belongs to him, and it must be commemorated every year by all the Israelites, from generation to generation.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:46 - Each Passover lamb must be eaten in one house. Do not carry any of its meat outside, and do not break any of its bones.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:51 - On that very day the LORD brought the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt like an army.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:3 - So Moses said to the people, “This is a day to remember forever—the day you left Egypt, the place of your slavery. Today the LORD has brought you out by the power of his mighty hand. (Remember, eat no food containing yeast.)
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:12 - you must present all firstborn sons and firstborn male animals to the LORD, for they belong to him.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:14 - “And in the future, your children will ask you, ‘What does all this mean?' Then you will tell them, ‘With the power of his mighty hand, the LORD brought us out of Egypt, the place of our slavery.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:18 - So God led them in a roundabout way through the wilderness toward the Red Sea.[fn] Thus the Israelites left Egypt like an army ready for battle.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:20 - The Israelites left Succoth and camped at Etham on the edge of the wilderness.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:19 - Then the angel of God, who had been leading the people of Israel, moved to the rear of the camp. The pillar of cloud also moved from the front and stood behind them.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:22 - So the people of Israel walked through the middle of the sea on dry ground, with walls of water on each side!
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:29 - But the people of Israel had walked through the middle of the sea on dry ground, as the water stood up like a wall on both sides.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:30 - That is how the LORD rescued Israel from the hand of the Egyptians that day. And the Israelites saw the bodies of the Egyptians washed up on the seashore.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:23 - When they came to the oasis of Marah, the water was too bitter to drink. So they called the place Marah (which means “bitter”).
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:1 - Then the whole community of Israel set out from Elim and journeyed into the wilderness of Sin,[fn] between Elim and Mount Sinai. They arrived there on the fifteenth day of the second month, one month after leaving the land of Egypt.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:4 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Look, I'm going to rain down food from heaven for you. Each day the people can go out and pick up as much food as they need for that day. I will test them in this to see whether or not they will follow my instructions.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:6 - So Moses and Aaron said to all the people of Israel, “By evening you will realize it was the LORD who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:27 - Some of the people went out anyway on the seventh day, but they found no food.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:29 - They must realize that the Sabbath is the LORD's gift to you. That is why he gives you a two-day supply on the sixth day, so there will be enough for two days. On the Sabbath day you must each stay in your place. Do not go out to pick up food on the seventh day.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:32 - Then Moses said, “This is what the LORD has commanded: Fill a two-quart container with manna to preserve it for your descendants. Then later generations will be able to see the food I gave you in the wilderness when I set you free from Egypt.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:1 - At the LORD's command, the whole community of Israel left the wilderness of Sin[fn] and moved from place to place. Eventually they camped at Rephidim, but there was no water there for the people to drink.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:14 - After the victory, the LORD instructed Moses, “Write this down on a scroll as a permanent reminder, and read it aloud to Joshua: I will erase the memory of Amalek from under heaven.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:4 - His second son was named Eliezer,[fn] for Moses had said, “The God of my ancestors was my helper; he rescued me from the sword of Pharaoh.”)
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:8 - Moses told his father-in-law everything the LORD had done to Pharaoh and Egypt on behalf of Israel. He also told about all the hardships they had experienced along the way and how the LORD had rescued his people from all their troubles.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:9 - Jethro was delighted when he heard about all the good things the LORD had done for Israel as he rescued them from the hand of the Egyptians.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:10 - “Praise the LORD,” Jethro said, “for he has rescued you from the Egyptians and from Pharaoh. Yes, he has rescued Israel from the powerful hand of Egypt!
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:1 - Exactly two months after the Israelites left Egypt,[fn] they arrived in the wilderness of Sinai.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:2 - After breaking camp at Rephidim, they came to the wilderness of Sinai and set up camp there at the base of Mount Sinai.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:3 - Then Moses climbed the mountain to appear before God. The LORD called to him from the mountain and said, “Give these instructions to the family of Jacob; announce it to the descendants of Israel:
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:14 - So Moses went down to the people. He consecrated them for worship, and they washed their clothes.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:17 - Moses led them out from the camp to meet with God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:2 - “I am the LORD your God, who rescued you from the land of Egypt, the place of your slavery.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:22 - And the LORD said to Moses, “Say this to the people of Israel: You saw for yourselves that I spoke to you from heaven.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:24 - “Build for me an altar made of earth, and offer your sacrifices to me—your burnt offerings and peace offerings, your sheep and goats, and your cattle. Build my altar wherever I cause my name to be remembered, and I will come to you and bless you.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:25 - If you use stones to build my altar, use only natural, uncut stones. Do not shape the stones with a tool, for that would make the altar unfit for holy use.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:5 - “If an animal is grazing in a field or vineyard and the owner lets it stray into someone else's field to graze, then the animal's owner must pay compensation from the best of his own grain or grapes.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:7 - “Suppose someone leaves money or goods with a neighbor for safekeeping, and they are stolen from the neighbor's house. If the thief is caught, the compensation is double the value of what was stolen.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:13 - “Pay close attention to all my instructions. You must not call on the name of any other gods. Do not even speak their names.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:16 - “Second, celebrate the Festival of Harvest,[fn] when you bring me the first crops of your harvest.
“Finally, celebrate the Festival of the Final Harvest[fn] at the end of the harvest season, when you have harvested all the crops from your fields.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:16 - And the glory of the LORD settled down on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it for six days. On the seventh day the LORD called to Moses from inside the cloud.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:10 - “Have the people make an Ark of acacia wood—a sacred chest 45 inches long, 27 inches wide, and 27 inches high.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:19 - Mold the cherubim on each end of the atonement cover, making it all of one piece of gold.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:28 - Make these poles from acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:31 - “Make a lampstand of pure, hammered gold. Make the entire lampstand and its decorations of one piece—the base, center stem, lamp cups, buds, and petals.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:32 - Make it with six branches going out from the center stem, three on each side.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:33 - Each of the six branches will have three lamp cups shaped like almond blossoms, complete with buds and petals.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:35 - There will also be an almond bud beneath each pair of branches where the six branches extend from the center stem.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:37 - Then make the seven lamps for the lampstand, and set them so they reflect their light forward.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:38 - The lamp snuffers and trays must also be made of pure gold.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:1 - “Make the Tabernacle from ten curtains of finely woven linen. Decorate the curtains with blue, purple, and scarlet thread and with skillfully embroidered cherubim.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:3 - Join five of these curtains together to make one long curtain, then join the other five into a second long curtain.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:4 - Put loops of blue yarn along the edge of the last curtain in each set.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:5 - The fifty loops along the edge of one curtain are to match the fifty loops along the edge of the other curtain.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:11 - Then make fifty bronze clasps, and fasten the loops of the long curtains with the clasps. In this way, the tent covering will be made of one continuous piece.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:13 - Allow 18 inches[fn] of remaining material to hang down over each side, so the Tabernacle is completely covered.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:15 - “For the framework of the Tabernacle, construct frames of acacia wood.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:18 - Make twenty of these frames to support the curtains on the south side of the Tabernacle.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:22 - Make six frames for the rear—the west side of the Tabernacle—
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:23 - along with two additional frames to reinforce the rear corners of the Tabernacle.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:24 - These corner frames will be matched at the bottom and firmly attached at the top with a single ring, forming a single corner unit. Make both of these corner units the same way.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:26 - “Make crossbars of acacia wood to link the frames, five crossbars for the north side of the Tabernacle
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:1 - “Using acacia wood, construct a square altar 7½ feet wide, 7½ feet long, and 4½ feet high.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:6 - For carrying the altar, make poles from acacia wood, and overlay them with bronze.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:9 - “Then make the courtyard for the Tabernacle, enclosed with curtains made of finely woven linen. On the south side, make the curtains 150 feet long.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:18 - So the entire courtyard will be 150 feet long and 75 feet wide, with curtain walls 7½ feet high,[fn] made from finely woven linen. The bases for the posts will be made of bronze.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:1 - “Call for your brother, Aaron, and his sons, Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. Set them apart from the rest of the people of Israel so they may minister to me and be my priests.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:6 - “The craftsmen must make the ephod of finely woven linen and skillfully embroider it with gold and with blue, purple, and scarlet thread.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:8 - The decorative sash will be made of the same materials: finely woven linen embroidered with gold and with blue, purple, and scarlet thread.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:13 - Make the settings of gold filigree,
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:14 - then braid two cords of pure gold and attach them to the filigree settings on the shoulders of the ephod.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:15 - “Then, with great skill and care, make a chestpiece to be worn for seeking a decision from God.[fn] Make it to match the ephod, using finely woven linen embroidered with gold and with blue, purple, and scarlet thread.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:21 - Each stone will represent one of the twelve sons of Israel, and the name of that tribe will be engraved on it like a seal.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:22 - “To attach the chestpiece to the ephod, make braided cords of pure gold thread.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:39 - “Weave Aaron's patterned tunic from fine linen cloth. Fashion the turban from this linen as well. Also make a sash, and decorate it with colorful embroidery.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:1 - “This is the ceremony you must follow when you consecrate Aaron and his sons to serve me as priests: Take a young bull and two rams with no defects.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:2 - Then, using choice wheat flour and no yeast, make loaves of bread, thin cakes mixed with olive oil, and wafers spread with oil.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:25 - Afterward take the various breads from their hands, and burn them on the altar along with the burnt offering. It is a pleasing aroma to the LORD, a special gift for him.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:46 - and they will know that I am the LORD their God. I am the one who brought them out of the land of Egypt so that I could live among them. I am the LORD their God.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:1 - “Then make another altar of acacia wood for burning incense.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:5 - Make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:33 - Anyone who makes a blend like it or anoints someone other than a priest will be cut off from the community.'”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:36 - Grind some of the mixture into a very fine powder and put it in front of the Ark of the Covenant,[fn] where I will meet with you in the Tabernacle. You must treat this incense as most holy.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:38 - Anyone who makes incense like this for personal use will be cut off from the community.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:6 - “And I have personally appointed Oholiab son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, to be his assistant. Moreover, I have given special skill to all the gifted craftsmen so they can make all the things I have commanded you to make:
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:14 - You must keep the Sabbath day, for it is a holy day for you. Anyone who desecrates it must be put to death; anyone who works on that day will be cut off from the community.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:1 - When the people saw how long it was taking Moses to come back down the mountain, they gathered around Aaron. “Come on,” they said, “make us some gods who can lead us. We don't know what happened to this fellow Moses, who brought us here from the land of Egypt.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:4 - Then Aaron took the gold, melted it down, and molded it into the shape of a calf. When the people saw it, they exclaimed, “O Israel, these are the gods who brought you out of the land of Egypt!”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:7 - The LORD told Moses, “Quick! Go down the mountain! Your people whom you brought from the land of Egypt have corrupted themselves.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:8 - How quickly they have turned away from the way I commanded them to live! They have melted down gold and made a calf, and they have bowed down and sacrificed to it. They are saying, ‘These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.'”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:11 - But Moses tried to pacify the LORD his God. “O LORD!” he said. “Why are you so angry with your own people whom you brought from the land of Egypt with such great power and such a strong hand?
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:28 - The Levites obeyed Moses' command, and about 3,000 people died that day.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:32 - But now, if you will only forgive their sin—but if not, erase my name from the record you have written!”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:33 - But the LORD replied to Moses, “No, I will erase the name of everyone who has sinned against me.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:1 - The LORD said to Moses, “Get going, you and the people you brought up from the land of Egypt. Go up to the land I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. I told them, ‘I will give this land to your descendants.'
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:11 - Inside the Tent of Meeting, the LORD would speak to Moses face to face, as one speaks to a friend. Afterward Moses would return to the camp, but the young man who assisted him, Joshua son of Nun, would remain behind in the Tent of Meeting.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:29 - When Moses came down Mount Sinai carrying the two stone tablets inscribed with the terms of the covenant,[fn] he wasn't aware that his face had become radiant because he had spoken to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:30 - Then Moses told the people of Israel, “The LORD has specifically chosen Bezalel son of Uri, grandson of Hur, of the tribe of Judah.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:34 - And the LORD has given both him and Oholiab son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, the ability to teach their skills to others.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:6 - Then he made the Ark's cover—the place of atonement—from pure gold. It was 45 inches long and 27 inches wide.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:10 - Then Bezalel[fn] made the table of acacia wood, 36 inches long, 18 inches wide, and 27 inches high.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:19 - Each of the six branches had three lamp cups shaped like almond blossoms, complete with buds and petals.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:1 - Next Bezalel[fn] used acacia wood to construct the square altar of burnt offering. It was 7½ feet wide, 7½ feet long, and 4½ feet high.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:4 - Next he made a bronze grating and installed it halfway down the side of the altar, under the ledge.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:8 - Bezalel made the bronze washbasin and its bronze stand from bronze mirrors donated by the women who served at the entrance of the Tabernacle.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:9 - Then Bezalel made the courtyard, which was enclosed with curtains made of finely woven linen. On the south side the curtains were 150 feet long.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:16 - All the curtains used in the courtyard were made of finely woven linen.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:22 - Bezalel son of Uri, grandson of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made everything just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:23 - He was assisted by Oholiab son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, a craftsman expert at engraving, designing, and embroidering with blue, purple, and scarlet thread on fine linen cloth.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:2 - Bezalel[fn] made the ephod of finely woven linen and embroidered it with gold and with blue, purple, and scarlet thread.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:5 - The decorative sash was made of the same materials: finely woven linen embroidered with gold and with blue, purple, and scarlet thread, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:6 - They mounted the two onyx stones in settings of gold filigree. The stones were engraved with the names of the tribes of Israel, just as a seal is engraved.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:8 - Bezalel made the chestpiece with great skill and care. He made it to match the ephod, using finely woven linen embroidered with gold and with blue, purple, and scarlet thread.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:14 - Each stone represented one of the twelve sons of Israel, and the name of that tribe was engraved on it like a seal.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:15 - To attach the chestpiece to the ephod, they made braided cords of pure gold thread.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:17 - They tied the two gold cords to the rings on the chestpiece.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:21 - They attached the bottom rings of the chestpiece to the rings on the ephod with blue cords. In this way, the chestpiece was held securely to the ephod above the decorative sash. All this was done just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:28 - The turban and the special head coverings were made of fine linen, and the undergarments were also made of finely woven linen.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:29 - The sashes were made of finely woven linen and embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet thread, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:1 - The LORD called to Moses from the Tabernacle[fn] and said to him,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:3 - “If the animal you present as a burnt offering is from the herd, it must be a male with no defects. Bring it to the entrance of the Tabernacle so you[fn] may be accepted by the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:11 - Slaughter the animal on the north side of the altar in the LORD's presence, and Aaron's sons, the priests, will splatter its blood against all sides of the altar.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:17 - Then, grasping the bird by its wings, the priest will tear the bird open, but without tearing it apart. Then he will burn it as a burnt offering on the wood burning on the altar. It is a special gift, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 2:4 - “If your offering is a grain offering baked in an oven, it must be made of choice flour, but without any yeast. It may be presented in the form of thin cakes mixed with olive oil or wafers spread with olive oil.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 2:8 - “No matter how a grain offering for the LORD has been prepared, bring it to the priest, who will present it at the altar.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 3:1 - “If you present an animal from the herd as a peace offering to the LORD, it may be a male or a female, but it must have no defects.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:3 - “If the high priest[fn] sins, bringing guilt upon the entire community, he must give a sin offering for the sin he has committed. He must present to the LORD a young bull with no defects.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:14 - When they become aware of their sin, the people must bring a young bull as an offering for their sin and present it before the Tabernacle.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:27 - “If any of the common people sin by violating one of the LORD's commands, but they don't realize it, they are still guilty.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:35 - Then he must remove all the sheep's fat, just as he does with the fat of a sheep presented as a peace offering. He will burn the fat on the altar on top of the special gifts presented to the LORD. Through this process, the priest will purify the people from their sin, making them right with the LORD, and they will be forgiven.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:15 - “If one of you commits a sin by unintentionally defiling the LORD's sacred property, you must bring a guilt offering to the LORD. The offering must be your own ram with no defects, or you may buy one of equal value with silver, as measured by the weight of the sanctuary shekel.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:18 - For a guilt offering, you must bring to the priest your own ram with no defects, or you may buy one of equal value. Through this process the priest will purify you from your unintentional sin, making you right with the LORD, and you will be forgiven.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:21 - It must be carefully mixed with olive oil and cooked on a griddle. Then slice[fn] this grain offering and present it as a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:22 - In each generation, the high priest[fn] who succeeds Aaron must prepare this same offering. It belongs to the LORD and must be burned up completely. This is a permanent law.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:6 - Any male from a priest's family may eat the meat. It must be eaten in a sacred place, for it is most holy.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:12 - If you present your peace offering as an expression of thanksgiving, the usual animal sacrifice must be accompanied by various kinds of bread made without yeast—thin cakes mixed with olive oil, wafers spread with oil, and cakes made of choice flour mixed with olive oil.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:20 - If you are ceremonially unclean and you eat meat from a peace offering that was presented to the LORD, you will be cut off from the community.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:21 - If you touch anything that is unclean (whether it is human defilement or an unclean animal or any other unclean, detestable thing) and then eat meat from a peace offering presented to the LORD, you will be cut off from the community.”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 9:2 - He said to Aaron, “Take a young bull for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering, both without defects, and present them to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:4 - Then Moses called for Mishael and Elzaphan, Aaron's cousins, the sons of Aaron's uncle Uzziel. He said to them, “Come forward and carry away the bodies of your relatives from in front of the sanctuary to a place outside the camp.”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:45 - For I, the LORD, am the one who brought you up from the land of Egypt, that I might be your God. Therefore, you must be holy because I am holy.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:38 - the priest will step outside the door and put the house in quarantine for seven days.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:2 - “Give the following instructions to the people of Israel.
“Any man who has a bodily discharge is ceremonially unclean.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:3 - This defilement is caused by his discharge, whether the discharge continues or stops. In either case the man is unclean.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:13 - “When the man with the discharge is healed, he must count off seven days for the period of purification. Then he must wash his clothes and bathe himself in fresh water, and he will be ceremonially clean.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:3 - “When Aaron enters the sanctuary area, he must follow these instructions fully. He must bring a young bull for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 17:4 - instead of bringing it to the entrance of the Tabernacle[fn] to present it as an offering to the LORD, that person will be as guilty as a murderer.[fn] Such a person has shed blood and will be cut off from the community.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 17:9 - but does not bring it to the entrance of the Tabernacle to offer it to the LORD, that person will be cut off from the community.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 17:10 - “And if any native Israelite or foreigner living among you eats or drinks blood in any form, I will turn against that person and cut him off from the community of your people,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:9 - “Do not have sexual relations with your sister or half sister, whether she is your father's daughter or your mother's daughter, whether she was born into your household or someone else's.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:29 - Whoever commits any of these detestable sins will be cut off from the community of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:8 - Anyone who eats it on the third day will be punished for defiling what is holy to the LORD and will be cut off from the community.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:19 - “You must obey all my decrees.
“Do not mate two different kinds of animals. Do not plant your field with two different kinds of seed. Do not wear clothing woven from two different kinds of thread.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:27 - “Do not trim off the hair on your temples or trim your beards.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:36 - Your scales and weights must be accurate. Your containers for measuring dry materials or liquids must be accurate.[fn] I am the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:3 - I myself will turn against them and cut them off from the community, because they have defiled my sanctuary and brought shame on my holy name by offering their children to Molech.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:5 - I myself will turn against them and their families and will cut them off from the community. This will happen to all who commit spiritual prostitution by worshiping Molech.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:6 - “I will also turn against those who commit spiritual prostitution by putting their trust in mediums or in those who consult the spirits of the dead. I will cut them off from the community.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:17 - “If a man marries his sister, the daughter of either his father or his mother, and they have sexual relations, it is a shameful disgrace. They must be publicly cut off from the community. Since the man has violated his sister, he will be punished for his sin.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:18 - “If a man has sexual relations with a woman during her menstrual period, both of them must be cut off from the community, for together they have exposed the source of her blood flow.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:12 - He must not defile the sanctuary of his God by leaving it to attend to a dead person, for he has been made holy by the anointing oil of his God. I am the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:13 - “The high priest may marry only a virgin.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:14 - He may not marry a widow, a woman who is divorced, or a woman who has defiled herself by prostitution. She must be a virgin from his own clan,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:17 - “Give the following instructions to Aaron: In all future generations, none of your descendants who has any defect will qualify to offer food to his God.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:21 - No descendant of Aaron who has a defect may approach the altar to present special gifts to the LORD. Since he has a defect, he may not approach the altar to offer food to his God.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:4 - “If any of Aaron's descendants has a skin disease[fn] or any kind of discharge that makes him ceremonially unclean, he may not eat from the sacred offerings until he has been pronounced clean. He also becomes unclean by touching a corpse, or by having an emission of semen,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:11 - However, if the priest buys a slave for himself, the slave may eat from the sacred offerings. And if his slaves have children, they also may share his food.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:19 - you[fn] will be accepted only if your offering is a male animal with no defects. It may be a bull, a ram, or a male goat.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:21 - “If you present a peace offering to the LORD from the herd or the flock, whether it is to fulfill a vow or is a voluntary offering, you must offer a perfect animal. It may have no defect of any kind.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:25 - and you must not accept such an animal from foreigners and then offer it as a sacrifice to your God. Such animals will not be accepted on your behalf, for they are mutilated or defective.”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:33 - It was I who rescued you from the land of Egypt, that I might be your God. I am the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:17 - From wherever you live, bring two loaves of bread to be lifted up before the LORD as a special offering. Make these loaves from four quarts of choice flour, and bake them with yeast. They will be an offering to the LORD from the first of your crops.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:18 - Along with the bread, present seven one-year-old male lambs with no defects, one young bull, and two rams as burnt offerings to the LORD. These burnt offerings, together with the grain offerings and liquid offerings, will be a special gift, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:29 - All who do not deny themselves that day will be cut off from God's people.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:30 - And I will destroy anyone among you who does any work on that day.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:40 - On the first day gather branches from magnificent trees[fn]—palm fronds, boughs from leafy trees, and willows that grow by the streams. Then celebrate with joy before the LORD your God for seven days.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:43 - This will remind each new generation of Israelites that I made their ancestors live in shelters when I rescued them from the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:10 - One day a man who had an Israelite mother and an Egyptian father came out of his tent and got into a fight with one of the Israelite men.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:11 - During the fight, this son of an Israelite woman blasphemed the Name of the LORD[fn] with a curse. So the man was brought to Moses for judgment. His mother was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri of the tribe of Dan.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:38 - I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan and to be your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:42 - The people of Israel are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt, so they must never be sold as slaves.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:47 - “Suppose a foreigner or temporary resident becomes rich while living among you. If any of your fellow Israelites fall into poverty and are forced to sell themselves to such a foreigner or to a member of his family,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:49 - an uncle, or a cousin. In fact, anyone from the extended family may buy them back. They may also redeem themselves if they have prospered.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:55 - For the people of Israel belong to me. They are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:6 - “I will give you peace in the land, and you will be able to sleep with no cause for fear. I will rid the land of wild animals and keep your enemies out of your land.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:10 - You will have such a surplus of crops that you will need to clear out the old grain to make room for the new harvest!
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:13 - I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt so you would no longer be their slaves. I broke the yoke of slavery from your neck so you can walk with your heads held high.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:45 - For their sakes I will remember my ancient covenant with their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of all the nations, that I might be their God. I am the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:23 - the priest will assess its value based on the number of years left until the next Year of Jubilee. On that day he must give the assessed value of the land as a sacred donation to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:1 - A year after Israel's departure from Egypt, the LORD spoke to Moses in the Tabernacle[fn] in the wilderness of Sinai. On the first day of the second month[fn] of that year he said,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:21 - This is the number of men twenty years old or older who were able to go to war, as their names were listed in the records of their clans and families[fn]:
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Reuben (Jacob's[fn] oldest son)46,500
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Simeon59,300
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Gad45,650
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Judah74,600
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Issachar54,400
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Zebulun57,400
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Manasseh son of Joseph32,200
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Benjamin35,400
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Dan62,700
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Asher41,500
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Naphtali53,400
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:47 - But this total did not include the Levites.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:9 - So the total of all the troops on Judah's side of the camp is 186,400. These three tribes are to lead the way whenever the Israelites travel to a new campsite.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:12 - “Look, I have chosen the Levites from among the Israelites to serve as substitutes for all the firstborn sons of the people of Israel. The Levites belong to me,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:29 - and they were assigned the area south of the Tabernacle for their camp.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:35 - They were assigned the area north of the Tabernacle for their camp. The leader of the Merarite clans was Zuriel son of Abihail.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:43 - The number of firstborn sons who were one month old or older was 22,273.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:2 - “Record the names of the members of the clans and families of the Kohathite division of the tribe of Levi.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:18 - “Do not let the Kohathite clans be destroyed from among the Levites!
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:2 - “Command the people of Israel to remove from the camp anyone who has a skin disease[fn] or a discharge, or who has become ceremonially unclean by touching a dead person.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:25 - “The priest will take the jealousy offering from the woman's hand, lift it up before the LORD, and carry it to the altar.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:3 - they must give up wine and other alcoholic drinks. They must not use vinegar made from wine or from other alcoholic drinks, they must not drink fresh grape juice, and they must not eat grapes or raisins.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:15 - He brought a young bull, a ram, and a one-year-old male lamb for a burnt offering,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:21 - He brought a young bull, a ram, and a one-year-old male lamb for a burnt offering,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:27 - He brought a young bull, a ram, and a one-year-old male lamb for a burnt offering,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:33 - He brought a young bull, a ram, and a one-year-old male lamb for a burnt offering,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:39 - He brought a young bull, a ram, and a one-year-old male lamb for a burnt offering,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:45 - He brought a young bull, a ram, and a one-year-old male lamb for a burnt offering,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:51 - He brought a young bull, a ram, and a one-year-old male lamb for a burnt offering,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:57 - He brought a young bull, a ram, and a one-year-old male lamb for a burnt offering,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:63 - He brought a young bull, a ram, and a one-year-old male lamb for a burnt offering,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:69 - He brought a young bull, a ram, and a one-year-old male lamb for a burnt offering,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:75 - He brought a young bull, a ram, and a one-year-old male lamb for a burnt offering,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:81 - He brought a young bull, a ram, and a one-year-old male lamb for a burnt offering,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:2 - “Give Aaron the following instructions: When you set up the seven lamps in the lampstand, place them so their light shines forward in front of the lampstand.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:3 - So Aaron did this. He set up the seven lamps so they reflected their light forward, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:6 - “Now set the Levites apart from the rest of the people of Israel and make them ceremonially clean.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:8 - Have them bring a young bull and a grain offering of choice flour moistened with olive oil, along with a second young bull for a sin offering.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:14 - In this way, you will set the Levites apart from the rest of the people of Israel, and the Levites will belong to me.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:16 - “Of all the people of Israel, the Levites are reserved for me. I have claimed them for myself in place of all the firstborn sons of the Israelites; I have taken the Levites as their substitutes.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:19 - And of all the Israelites, I have assigned the Levites to Aaron and his sons. They will serve in the Tabernacle on behalf of the Israelites and make sacrifices to purify[fn] the people so no plague will strike them when they approach the sanctuary.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:1 - A year after Israel's departure from Egypt, the LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai. In the first month[fn] of that year he said,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:13 - “But those who neglect to celebrate the Passover at the regular time, even though they are ceremonially clean and not away on a trip, will be cut off from the community of Israel. If they fail to present the LORD's offering at the proper time, they will suffer the consequences of their guilt.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:33 - They marched for three days after leaving the mountain of the LORD, with the Ark of the LORD's Covenant moving ahead of them to show them where to stop and rest.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:34 - As they moved on each day, the cloud of the LORD hovered over them.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:20 - You will eat it for a whole month until you gag and are sick of it. For you have rejected the LORD, who is here among you, and you have whined to him, saying, “Why did we ever leave Egypt?”'”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:12 - Don't let her be like a stillborn baby, already decayed at birth.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:3 - So Moses did as the LORD commanded him. He sent out twelve men, all tribal leaders of Israel, from their camp in the wilderness of Paran.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:44 - But the people defiantly pushed ahead toward the hill country, even though neither Moses nor the Ark of the LORD's Covenant left the camp.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:11 - “Each sacrifice of a bull, ram, lamb, or young goat should be prepared in this way.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:24 - If the mistake was made unintentionally, and the community was unaware of it, the whole community must present a young bull for a burnt offering as a pleasing aroma to the LORD. It must be offered along with its prescribed grain offering and liquid offering and with one male goat for a sin offering.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:30 - “But those who brazenly violate the LORD's will, whether native-born Israelites or foreigners, have blasphemed the LORD, and they must be cut off from the community.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:41 - I am the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt that I might be your God. I am the LORD your God!”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:9 - Does it seem insignificant to you that the God of Israel has chosen you from among all the community of Israel to be near him so you can serve in the LORD's Tabernacle and stand before the people to minister to them?
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:13 - Isn't it enough that you brought us out of Egypt, a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us here in this wilderness, and that you now treat us like your subjects?
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:21 - “Get away from all these people so that I may instantly destroy them!”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:33 - So they went down alive into the grave, along with all their belongings. The earth closed over them, and they all vanished from among the people of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:37 - “Tell Eleazar son of Aaron the priest to pull all the incense burners from the fire, for they are holy. Also tell him to scatter the burning coals.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:40 - This would warn the Israelites that no unauthorized person—no one who was not a descendant of Aaron—should ever enter the LORD's presence to burn incense. If anyone did, the same thing would happen to him as happened to Korah and his followers. So the LORD's instructions to Moses were carried out.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:45 - “Get away from all these people so that I can instantly destroy them!” But Moses and Aaron fell face down on the ground.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:6 - I myself have chosen your fellow Levites from among the Israelites to be your special assistants. They are a gift to you, dedicated to the LORD for service in the Tabernacle.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:20 - “But those who become defiled and do not purify themselves will be cut off from the community, for they have defiled the sanctuary of the LORD. Since the water of purification has not been sprinkled on them, they remain defiled.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:8 - “You and Aaron must take the staff and assemble the entire community. As the people watch, speak to the rock over there, and it will pour out its water. You will provide enough water from the rock to satisfy the whole community and their livestock.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:10 - Then he and Aaron summoned the people to come and gather at the rock. “Listen, you rebels!” he shouted. “Must we bring you water from this rock?”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:14 - While Moses was at Kadesh, he sent ambassadors to the king of Edom with this message: “This is what your relatives, the people of Israel, say: You know all the hardships we have been through.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:16 - But when we cried out to the LORD, he heard us and sent an angel who brought us out of Egypt. Now we are camped at Kadesh, a town on the border of your land.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:17 - Please let us travel through your land. We will be careful not to go through your fields and vineyards. We won't even drink water from your wells. We will stay on the king's road and never leave it until we have passed through your territory.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:22 - The whole community of Israel left Kadesh and arrived at Mount Hor.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:28 - At the summit, Moses removed the priestly garments from Aaron and put them on Eleazar, Aaron's son. Then Aaron died there on top of the mountain, and Moses and Eleazar went back down.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:11 - Then they went on to Iye-abarim, in the wilderness on the eastern border of Moab.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:22 - “Let us travel through your land. We will be careful not to go through your fields and vineyards. We won't even drink water from your wells. We will stay on the king's road until we have passed through your territory.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:28 - A fire flamed forth from Heshbon,
a blaze from the city of Sihon.
It burned the city of Ar in Moab;
it destroyed the rulers of the Arnon heights.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:4 - The king of Moab said to the elders of Midian, “This mob will devour everything in sight, like an ox devours grass in the field!”
So Balak, king of Moab,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:6 - Please come and curse these people for me because they are too powerful for me. Then perhaps I will be able to conquer them and drive them from the land. I know that blessings fall on any people you bless, and curses fall on people you curse.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:23 - Balaam's donkey saw the angel of the LORD standing in the road with a drawn sword in his hand. The donkey bolted off the road into a field, but Balaam beat it and turned it back onto the road.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:36 - When King Balak heard that Balaam was on the way, he went out to meet him at a Moabite town on the Arnon River at the farthest border of his land.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:7 - This was the message Balaam delivered:
“Balak summoned me to come from Aram;
the king of Moab brought me from the eastern hills.
‘Come,' he said, ‘curse Jacob for me!
Come and announce Israel's doom.'
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:7 - Water will flow from their buckets;
their offspring have all they need.
Their king will be greater than Agag;
their kingdom will be exalted.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:19 - A ruler will rise in Jacob
who will destroy the survivors of Ir.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:24 - Ships will come from the coasts of Cyprus[fn];
they will oppress Assyria and afflict Eber,
but they, too, will be utterly destroyed.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:7 - When Phinehas son of Eleazar and grandson of Aaron the priest saw this, he jumped up and left the assembly. He took a spear
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:14 - These were the clans of Simeon. Their registered troops numbered 22,200.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:56 - Each grant of land must be assigned by lot among the larger and smaller tribal groups.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:4 - Why should the name of our father disappear from his clan just because he had no sons? Give us property along with the rest of our relatives.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:11 - But if his father has no brothers, give his inheritance to the nearest relative in his clan. This is a legal requirement for the people of Israel, just as the LORD commanded Moses.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 28:11 - “On the first day of each month, present an extra burnt offering to the LORD of two young bulls, one ram, and seven one-year-old male lambs, all with no defects.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 28:14 - You must also present a liquid offering with each sacrifice: two quarts[fn] of wine for each bull, a third of a gallon[fn] for the ram, and one quart[fn] for each lamb. Present this monthly burnt offering on the first day of each month throughout the year.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 28:19 - As a special gift you must present a burnt offering to the LORD—two young bulls, one ram, and seven one-year-old male lambs, all with no defects.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 28:27 - Present a special burnt offering on that day as a pleasing aroma to the LORD. It will consist of two young bulls, one ram, and seven one-year-old male lambs.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:2 - On that day you must present a burnt offering as a pleasing aroma to the LORD. It will consist of one young bull, one ram, and seven one-year-old male lambs, all with no defects.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:8 - You must present a burnt offering as a pleasing aroma to the LORD. It will consist of one young bull, one ram, and seven one-year-old male lambs, all with no defects.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:13 - On the first day of the festival, you must present a burnt offering as a special gift, a pleasing aroma to the LORD. It will consist of thirteen young bulls, two rams, and fourteen one-year-old male lambs, all with no defects.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:2 - A man who makes a vow to the LORD or makes a pledge under oath must never break it. He must do exactly what he said he would do.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:12 - But if her husband refuses to accept it on the day he hears of it, her vow or pledge will be nullified, and the LORD will forgive her.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:2 - “On behalf of the people of Israel, take revenge on the Midianites for leading them into idolatry. After that, you will die and join your ancestors.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:4 - From each tribe of Israel, send 1,000 men into battle.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:5 - So they chose 1,000 men from each tribe of Israel, a total of 12,000 men armed for battle.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:6 - Then Moses sent them out, 1,000 men from each tribe, and Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest led them into battle. They carried along the holy objects of the sanctuary and the trumpets for sounding the charge.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:14 - But Moses was furious with all the generals and captains[fn] who had returned from the battle.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:21 - Then Eleazar the priest said to the men who were in the battle, “The LORD has given Moses this legal requirement:
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:36 - Half of the plunder was given to the fighting men. It totaled 337,500 sheep and goats,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:8 - Your ancestors did the same thing when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to explore the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:24 - Go ahead and build towns for your families and pens for your flocks, but do everything you have promised.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:42 - Meanwhile, a man named Nobah captured the town of Kenath and its surrounding villages, and he renamed that area Nobah after himself.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:1 - This is the route the Israelites followed as they marched out of Egypt under the leadership of Moses and Aaron.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:3 - They set out from the city of Rameses in early spring—on the fifteenth day of the first month[fn]—on the morning after the first Passover celebration. The people of Israel left defiantly, in full view of all the Egyptians.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:5 - After leaving Rameses, the Israelites set up camp at Succoth.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:6 - Then they left Succoth and camped at Etham on the edge of the wilderness.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:7 - They left Etham and turned back toward Pi-hahiroth, opposite Baal-zephon, and camped near Migdol.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:9 - They left Marah and camped at Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:12 - They left the wilderness of Sin and camped at Dophkah.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:13 - They left Dophkah and camped at Alush.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:15 - They left Rephidim and camped in the wilderness of Sinai.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:16 - They left the wilderness of Sinai and camped at Kibroth-hattaavah.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:17 - They left Kibroth-hattaavah and camped at Hazeroth.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:19 - They left Rithmah and camped at Rimmon-perez.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:20 - They left Rimmon-perez and camped at Libnah.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:21 - They left Libnah and camped at Rissah.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:22 - They left Rissah and camped at Kehelathah.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:23 - They left Kehelathah and camped at Mount Shepher.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:24 - They left Mount Shepher and camped at Haradah.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:25 - They left Haradah and camped at Makheloth.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:26 - They left Makheloth and camped at Tahath.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:27 - They left Tahath and camped at Terah.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:28 - They left Terah and camped at Mithcah.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:29 - They left Mithcah and camped at Hashmonah.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:30 - They left Hashmonah and camped at Moseroth.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:31 - They left Moseroth and camped at Bene-jaakan.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:32 - They left Bene-jaakan and camped at Hor-haggidgad.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:33 - They left Hor-haggidgad and camped at Jotbathah.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:36 - They left Ezion-geber and camped at Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:37 - They left Kadesh and camped at Mount Hor, at the border of Edom.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:38 - While they were at the foot of Mount Hor, Aaron the priest was directed by the LORD to go up the mountain, and there he died. This happened in midsummer, on the first day of the fifth month[fn] of the fortieth year after Israel's departure from Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:42 - Then they left Zalmonah and camped at Punon.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:43 - They left Punon and camped at Oboth.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:45 - They left Iye-abarim[fn] and camped at Dibon-gad.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:46 - They left Dibon-gad and camped at Almon-diblathaim.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:47 - They left Almon-diblathaim and camped in the mountains east of the river,[fn] near Mount Nebo.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:18 - Enlist one leader from each tribe to help them with the task.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:17 - Or if someone with a stone in his hand strikes and kills another person, it is murder, and the murderer must be put to death.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:18 - Or if someone strikes and kills another person with a wooden object, it is murder, and the murderer must be put to death.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:1 - Then the heads of the clans of Gilead—descendants of Makir, son of Manasseh, son of Joseph—came to Moses and the family leaders of Israel with a petition.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:3 - But if they marry men from another tribe, their grants of land will go with them to the tribe into which they marry. In this way, the total area of our tribal land will be reduced.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:6 - This is what the LORD commands concerning the daughters of Zelophehad: Let them marry anyone they like, as long as it is within their own ancestral tribe.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:8 - The daughters throughout the tribes of Israel who are in line to inherit property must marry within their tribe, so that all the Israelites will keep their ancestral property.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:9 - No grant of land may pass from one tribe to another; each tribe of Israel must keep its allotted portion of land.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:12 - They married into the clans of Manasseh son of Joseph. Thus, their inheritance of land remained within their ancestral tribe.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:19 - “Then, just as the LORD our God commanded us, we left Mount Sinai and traveled through the great and terrifying wilderness, as you yourselves remember, and headed toward the hill country of the Amorites. When we arrived at Kadesh-barnea,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:27 - You complained in your tents and said, ‘The LORD must hate us. That's why he has brought us here from Egypt—to hand us over to the Amorites to be slaughtered.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:14 - “Thirty-eight years passed from the time we first left Kadesh-barnea until we finally crossed the Zered Brook! By then, all the men old enough to fight in battle had died in the wilderness, as the LORD had vowed would happen.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:15 - The LORD struck them down until they had all been eliminated from the community.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:16 - “When all the men of fighting age had died,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:23 - A similar thing happened when the Caphtorites from Crete[fn] invaded and destroyed the Avvites, who had lived in villages in the area of Gaza.)
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:26 - Moses continued, “From the wilderness of Kedemoth I sent ambassadors to King Sihon of Heshbon with this proposal of peace:
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:8 - “So we took the land of the two Amorite kings east of the Jordan River—all the way from the Arnon Gorge to Mount Hermon.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:12 - And the LORD spoke to you from the heart of the fire. You heard the sound of his words but didn't see his form; there was only a voice.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:15 - “But be very careful! You did not see the LORD's form on the day he spoke to you from the heart of the fire at Mount Sinai.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:20 - Remember that the LORD rescued you from the iron-smelting furnace of Egypt in order to make you his very own people and his special possession, which is what you are today.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:33 - Has any nation ever heard the voice of God[fn] speaking from fire—as you did—and survived?
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:34 - Has any other god dared to take a nation for himself out of another nation by means of trials, miraculous signs, wonders, war, a strong hand, a powerful arm, and terrifying acts? Yet that is what the LORD your God did for you in Egypt, right before your eyes.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:36 - He let you hear his voice from heaven so he could instruct you. He let you see his great fire here on earth so he could speak to you from it.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:45 - These are the laws, decrees, and regulations that Moses gave to the people of Israel when they left Egypt,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:46 - and as they camped in the valley near Beth-peor east of the Jordan River. (This land was formerly occupied by the Amorites under King Sihon, who ruled from Heshbon. But Moses and the Israelites destroyed him and his people when they came up from Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:4 - At the mountain the LORD spoke to you face to face from the heart of the fire.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:6 - “I am the LORD your God, who rescued you from the land of Egypt, the place of your slavery.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:22 - “The LORD spoke these words to all of you assembled there at the foot of the mountain. He spoke with a loud voice from the heart of the fire, surrounded by clouds and deep darkness. This was all he said at that time, and he wrote his words on two stone tablets and gave them to me.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:23 - “But when you heard the voice from the heart of the darkness, while the mountain was blazing with fire, all your tribal leaders and elders came to me.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:24 - They said, ‘Look, the LORD our God has shown us his glory and greatness, and we have heard his voice from the heart of the fire. Today we have seen that God can speak to us humans, and yet we live!
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:26 - Can any living thing hear the voice of the living God from the heart of the fire as we did and yet survive?
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:4 - “Listen, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD alone.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:12 - be careful not to forget the LORD, who rescued you from slavery in the land of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:8 - Rather, it was simply that the LORD loves you, and he was keeping the oath he had sworn to your ancestors. That is why the LORD rescued you with such a strong hand from your slavery and from the oppressive hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:24 - He will put their kings in your power, and you will erase their names from the face of the earth. No one will be able to stand against you, and you will destroy them all.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:9 - It is a land where food is plentiful and nothing is lacking. It is a land where iron is as common as stone, and copper is abundant in the hills.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:14 - Do not become proud at that time and forget the LORD your God, who rescued you from slavery in the land of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:15 - Do not forget that he led you through the great and terrifying wilderness with its poisonous snakes and scorpions, where it was so hot and dry. He gave you water from the rock!
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:12 - Then the LORD said to me, ‘Get up! Go down immediately, for the people you brought out of Egypt have corrupted themselves. How quickly they have turned away from the way I commanded them to live! They have melted gold and made an idol for themselves!'
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:15 - “So while the mountain was blazing with fire I turned and came down, holding in my hands the two stone tablets inscribed with the terms of the covenant.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:21 - I took your sin—the calf you had made—and I melted it down in the fire and ground it into fine dust. Then I threw the dust into the stream that flows down the mountain.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:23 - And at Kadesh-barnea the LORD sent you out with this command: ‘Go up and take over the land I have given you.' But you rebelled against the command of the LORD your God and refused to put your trust in him or obey him.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:26 - I prayed to the LORD and said, ‘O Sovereign LORD, do not destroy them. They are your own people. They are your special possession, whom you redeemed from Egypt by your mighty power and your strong hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:29 - But they are your people and your special possession, whom you brought out of Egypt by your great strength and powerful arm.'
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:3 - “So I made an Ark of acacia wood and cut two stone tablets like the first two. Then I went up the mountain with the tablets in my hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:4 - Once again the LORD wrote the Ten Commandments[fn] on the tablets and gave them to me. They were the same words the LORD had spoken to you from the heart of the fire on the day you were assembled at the foot of the mountain.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:5 - Then I turned and came down the mountain and placed the tablets in the Ark of the Covenant, which I had made, just as the LORD commanded me. And the tablets are still there in the Ark.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:6 - (The people of Israel set out from the wells of the people of Jaakan[fn] and traveled to Moserah, where Aaron died and was buried. His son Eleazar ministered as high priest in his place.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:4 - They didn't see what the LORD did to the armies of Egypt and to their horses and chariots—how he drowned them in the Red Sea[fn] as they were chasing you. He destroyed them, and they have not recovered to this very day!
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:11 - Rather, the land you will soon take over is a land of hills and valleys with plenty of rain—
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:3 - Break down their altars and smash their sacred pillars. Burn their Asherah poles and cut down their carved idols. Completely erase the names of their gods!
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:5 - The false prophets or visionaries who try to lead you astray must be put to death, for they encourage rebellion against the LORD your God, who redeemed you from slavery and brought you out of the land of Egypt. Since they try to lead you astray from the way the LORD your God commanded you to live, you must put them to death. In this way you will purge the evil from among you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:6 - “Suppose someone secretly entices you—even your brother, your son or daughter, your beloved wife, or your closest friend—and says, ‘Let us go worship other gods'—gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:10 - Stone the guilty ones to death because they have tried to draw you away from the LORD your God, who rescued you from the land of Egypt, the place of slavery.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:4 - These are the animals[fn] you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:3 - Eat it with bread made without yeast. For seven days the bread you eat must be made without yeast, as when you escaped from Egypt in such a hurry. Eat this bread—the bread of suffering—so that as long as you live you will remember the day you departed from Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:13 - “You must observe the Festival of Shelters[fn] for seven days at the end of the harvest season, after the grain has been threshed and the grapes have been pressed.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:3 - For instance, they might serve other gods or worship the sun, the moon, or any of the stars—the forces of heaven—which I have strictly forbidden.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:10 - You must carry out the verdict they announce and the sentence they prescribe at the place the LORD chooses. You must do exactly what they say.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:15 - If this happens, be sure to select as king the man the LORD your God chooses. You must appoint a fellow Israelite; he may not be a foreigner.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:5 - For the LORD your God chose the tribe of Levi out of all your tribes to minister in the LORD's name forever.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:6 - “Suppose a Levite chooses to move from his town in Israel, wherever he is living, to the place the LORD chooses for worship.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:15 - Moses continued, “The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your fellow Israelites. You must listen to him.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:18 - I will raise up a prophet like you from among their fellow Israelites. I will put my words in his mouth, and he will tell the people everything I command him.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:1 - “When you go out to fight your enemies and you face horses and chariots and an army greater than your own, do not be afraid. The LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, is with you!
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:15 - “But these instructions apply only to distant towns, not to the towns of the nations in the land you will enter.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:3 - When the nearest town has been determined, that town's elders must select from the herd a young cow that has never been trained or yoked to a plow.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:8 - O LORD, forgive your people Israel whom you have redeemed. Do not charge your people with the guilt of murdering an innocent person.' Then they will be absolved of the guilt of this person's blood.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:2 - “If a person is illegitimate by birth, neither he nor his descendants for ten generations may be admitted to the assembly of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:4 - These nations did not welcome you with food and water when you came out of Egypt. Instead, they hired Balaam son of Beor from Pethor in distant Aram-naharaim to curse you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:10 - “Any man who becomes ceremonially defiled because of a nocturnal emission must leave the camp and stay away all day.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:1 - “Suppose a man marries a woman but she does not please him. Having discovered something wrong with her, he writes her a letter of divorce, hands it to her, and sends her away from his house.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:3 - But if the second husband also turns against her and divorces her, or if he dies,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:14 - “Never take advantage of poor and destitute laborers, whether they are fellow Israelites or foreigners living in your towns.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:6 - The first son she bears to him will be considered the son of the dead brother, so that his name will not be forgotten in Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:11 - “If two Israelite men get into a fight and the wife of one tries to rescue her husband by grabbing the testicles of the other man,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:19 - Therefore, when the LORD your God has given you rest from all your enemies in the land he is giving you as a special possession, you must destroy the Amalekites and erase their memory from under heaven. Never forget this!
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:4 - The priest will then take the basket from your hand and set it before the altar of the LORD your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:13 - Then you must declare in the presence of the LORD your God, ‘I have taken the sacred gift from my house and have given it to the Levites, foreigners, orphans, and widows, just as you commanded me. I have not violated or forgotten any of your commands.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:15 - Now look down from your holy dwelling place in heaven and bless your people Israel and the land you swore to our ancestors to give us—a land flowing with milk and honey.'
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:5 - “Then build an altar there to the LORD your God, using natural, uncut stones. You must not shape the stones with an iron tool.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:22 - ‘Cursed is anyone who has sexual intercourse with his sister, whether she is the daughter of his father or his mother.'
And all the people will reply, ‘Amen.'
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:24 - The LORD will change the rain that falls on your land into powder, and dust will pour down from the sky until you are destroyed.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:20 - The LORD will never pardon such people. Instead his anger and jealousy will burn against them. All the curses written in this book will come down on them, and the LORD will erase their names from under heaven.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:21 - The LORD will separate them from all the tribes of Israel, to pour out on them all the curses of the covenant recorded in this Book of Instruction.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:22 - “Then the generations to come, both your own descendants and the foreigners who come from distant lands, will see the devastation of the land and the diseases the LORD inflicts on it.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:25 - “And the answer will be, ‘This happened because the people of the land abandoned the covenant that the LORD, the God of their ancestors, made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:3 - then the LORD your God will restore your fortunes. He will have mercy on you and gather you back from all the nations where he has scattered you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:26 - “Take this Book of Instruction and place it beside the Ark of the Covenant of the LORD your God, so it may remain there as a witness against the people of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:29 - I know that after my death you will become utterly corrupt and will turn from the way I have commanded you to follow. In the days to come, disaster will come down on you, for you will do what is evil in the LORD's sight, making him very angry with your actions.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:1 - “Listen, O heavens, and I will speak!
Hear, O earth, the words that I say!
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:13 - He let them ride over the highlands
and feast on the crops of the fields.
He nourished them with honey from the rock
and olive oil from the stony ground.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:22 - For my anger blazes forth like fire
and burns to the depths of the grave.[fn]
It devours the earth and all its crops
and ignites the foundations of the mountains.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:25 - Outside, the sword will bring death,
and inside, terror will strike
both young men and young women,
both infants and the aged.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:32 - Their vine grows from the vine of Sodom,
from the vineyards of Gomorrah.
Their grapes are poison,
and their clusters are bitter.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:39 - Look now; I myself am he!
There is no other god but me!
I am the one who kills and gives life;
I am the one who wounds and heals;
no one can be rescued from my powerful hand!
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:2 - “The LORD came from Mount Sinai
and dawned upon us[fn] from Mount Seir;
he shone forth from Mount Paran
and came from Meribah-kadesh
with flaming fire at his right hand.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:7 - Moses said this about the tribe of Judah:
“O LORD, hear the cry of Judah
and bring them together as a people.
Give them strength to defend their cause;
help them against their enemies!”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:22 - Moses said this about the tribe of Dan:
“Dan is a lion's cub,
leaping out from Bashan.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:8 - Study this Book of Instruction continually. Meditate on it day and night so you will be sure to obey everything written in it. Only then will you prosper and succeed in all you do.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:1 - Then Joshua secretly sent out two spies from the Israelite camp at Acacia Grove.[fn] He instructed them, “Scout out the land on the other side of the Jordan River, especially around Jericho.” So the two men set out and came to the house of a prostitute named Rahab and stayed there that night.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:10 - For we have heard how the LORD made a dry path for you through the Red Sea[fn] when you left Egypt. And we know what you did to Sihon and Og, the two Amorite kings east of the Jordan River, whose people you completely destroyed.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:13 - when Jericho is conquered, you will let me live, along with my father and mother, my brothers and sisters, and all their families.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:23 - Then the two spies came down from the hill country, crossed the Jordan River, and reported to Joshua all that had happened to them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:1 - Early the next morning Joshua and all the Israelites left Acacia Grove[fn] and arrived at the banks of the Jordan River, where they camped before crossing.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:14 - So the people left their camp to cross the Jordan, and the priests who were carrying the Ark of the Covenant went ahead of them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:3 - Tell them, ‘Take twelve stones from the very place where the priests are standing in the middle of the Jordan. Carry them out and pile them up at the place where you will camp tonight.'”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:8 - So the men did as Joshua had commanded them. They took twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan River, one for each tribe, just as the LORD had told Joshua. They carried them to the place where they camped for the night and constructed the memorial there.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:16 - “Command the priests carrying the Ark of the Covenant[fn] to come up out of the riverbed.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:17 - So Joshua gave the command.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:18 - As soon as the priests carrying the Ark of the LORD's Covenant came up out of the riverbed and their feet were on high ground, the water of the Jordan returned and overflowed its banks as before.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:19 - The people crossed the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month.[fn] Then they camped at Gilgal, just east of Jericho.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:20 - It was there at Gilgal that Joshua piled up the twelve stones taken from the Jordan River.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:23 - For the LORD your God dried up the river right before your eyes, and he kept it dry until you were all across, just as he did at the Red Sea[fn] when he dried it up until we had all crossed over.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:1 - When all the Amorite kings west of the Jordan and all the Canaanite kings who lived along the Mediterranean coast[fn] heard how the LORD had dried up the Jordan River so the people of Israel could cross, they lost heart and were paralyzed with fear because of them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:2 - At that time the LORD told Joshua, “Make flint knives and circumcise this second generation of Israelites.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:6 - The Israelites had traveled in the wilderness for forty years until all the men who were old enough to fight in battle when they left Egypt had died. For they had disobeyed the LORD, and the LORD vowed he would not let them enter the land he had sworn to give us—a land flowing with milk and honey.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:12 - No manna appeared on the day they first ate from the crops of the land, and it was never seen again. So from that time on the Israelites ate from the crops of Canaan.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:15 - The commander of the LORD's army replied, “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy.” And Joshua did as he was told.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:26 - At that time Joshua invoked this curse:
“May the curse of the LORD fall on anyone
who tries to rebuild the town of Jericho.
At the cost of his firstborn son,
he will lay its foundation.
At the cost of his youngest son,
he will set up its gates.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:1 - But Israel violated the instructions about the things set apart for the LORD.[fn] A man named Achan had stolen some of these dedicated things, so the LORD was very angry with the Israelites. Achan was the son of Carmi, a descendant of Zimri[fn] son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:23 - They took the things from the tent and brought them to Joshua and all the Israelites. Then they laid them on the ground in the presence of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:7 - you will jump up from your ambush and take possession of the town, for the LORD your God will give it to you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:18 - Then the LORD said to Joshua, “Point the spear in your hand toward Ai, for I will hand the town over to you.” Joshua did as he was commanded.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:19 - As soon as Joshua gave this signal, all the men in ambush jumped up from their position and poured into the town. They quickly captured it and set it on fire.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:20 - When the men of Ai looked behind them, smoke from the town was filling the sky, and they had nowhere to go. For the Israelites who had fled in the direction of the wilderness now turned on their pursuers.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:22 - Meanwhile, the Israelites who were inside the town came out and attacked the enemy from the rear. So the men of Ai were caught in the middle, with Israelite fighters on both sides. Israel attacked them, and not a single person survived or escaped.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:6 - When they arrived at the camp of Israel at Gilgal, they told Joshua and the men of Israel, “We have come from a distant land to ask you to make a peace treaty with us.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:9 - They answered, “Your servants have come from a very distant country. We have heard of the might of the LORD your God and of all he did in Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:26 - So Joshua did not allow the people of Israel to kill them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:7 - So Joshua and his entire army, including his best warriors, left Gilgal and set out for Gibeon.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:9 - Joshua traveled all night from Gilgal and took the Amorite armies by surprise.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:11 - As the Amorites retreated down the road from Beth-horon, the LORD destroyed them with a terrible hailstorm from heaven that continued until they reached Azekah. The hail killed more of the enemy than the Israelites killed with the sword.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:22 - Then Joshua said, “Remove the rocks covering the opening of the cave, and bring the five kings to me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:23 - So they brought the five kings out of the cave—the kings of Jerusalem, Hebron, Jarmuth, Lachish, and Eglon.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:29 - Then Joshua and the Israelites went to Libnah and attacked it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:31 - From Libnah, Joshua and the Israelites went to Lachish and attacked it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:34 - Then Joshua and the Israelite army went on to Eglon and attacked it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:21 - During this period Joshua destroyed all the descendants of Anak, who lived in the hill country of Hebron, Debir, Anab, and the entire hill country of Judah and Israel. He killed them all and completely destroyed their towns.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:4 - King Og of Bashan, the last of the Rephaites, lived at Ashtaroth and Edrei.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:4 - in the south also remains to be conquered. In the north, the following area has not yet been conquered: all the land of the Canaanites, including Mearah (which belongs to the Sidonians), stretching northward to Aphek on the border of the Amorites;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:7 - I was forty years old when Moses, the servant of the LORD, sent me from Kadesh-barnea to explore the land of Canaan. I returned and gave an honest report,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:8 - The boundary then passed through the valley of Ben-Hinnom, along the southern slopes of the Jebusites, where the city of Jerusalem is located. Then it went west to the top of the mountain above the valley of Hinnom, and on up to the northern end of the valley of Rephaim.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:18 - When Acsah married Othniel, she urged him[fn] to ask her father for a field. As she got down off her donkey, Caleb asked her, “What's the matter?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:5 - As a result, Manasseh's total allocation came to ten parcels of land, in addition to the land of Gilead and Bashan across the Jordan River,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:4 - Select three men from each tribe, and I will send them out to explore the land and map it out. They will then return to me with a written report of their proposed divisions of their new homeland.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:16 - and down to the base of the mountain beside the valley of Ben-Hinnom, at the northern end of the valley of Rephaim. From there it went down the valley of Hinnom, crossing south of the slope where the Jebusites lived, and continued down to En-rogel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:27 - then it turned east toward Beth-dagon, and ran as far as Zebulun in the valley of Iphtah-el, going north to Beth-emek and Neiel. It then continued north to Cabul,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 20:8 - On the east side of the Jordan River, across from Jericho, the following cities were designated: Bezer, in the wilderness plain of the tribe of Reuben; Ramoth in Gilead, in the territory of the tribe of Gad; and Golan in Bashan, in the land of the tribe of Manasseh.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:1 - Then the leaders of the tribe of Levi came to consult with Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the leaders of the other tribes of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:5 - The other families of the Kohathite clan were allotted ten towns from the tribes of Ephraim, Dan, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:23 - The following towns and pasturelands were allotted to the priests from the tribe of Dan: Eltekeh, Gibbethon,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:27 - The descendants of Gershon, another clan within the tribe of Levi, received the following towns with their pasturelands from the half-tribe of Manasseh: Golan in Bashan (a city of refuge for those who accidentally killed someone) and Be-eshterah—two towns.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:28 - From the tribe of Issachar they received the following towns with their pasturelands: Kishion, Daberath,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:30 - From the tribe of Asher they received the following towns with their pasturelands: Mishal, Abdon,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:32 - From the tribe of Naphtali they received the following towns with their pasturelands: Kedesh in Galilee (a city of refuge for those who accidentally killed someone), Hammoth-dor, and Kartan—three towns.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:34 - The rest of the Levites—the Merari clan—were given the following towns with their pasturelands from the tribe of Zebulun: Jokneam, Kartah,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:36 - From the tribe of Reuben they received the following towns with their pasturelands: Bezer, Jahaz,[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:9 - So the men of Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh left the rest of Israel at Shiloh in the land of Canaan. They started the journey back to their own land of Gilead, the territory that belonged to them according to the LORD's command through Moses.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:31 - Phinehas son of Eleazar, the priest, replied to them, “Today we know the LORD is among us because you have not committed this treachery against the LORD as we thought. Instead, you have rescued Israel from being destroyed by the hand of the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:32 - Then Phinehas son of Eleazar, the priest, and the other leaders left the tribes of Reuben and Gad in Gilead and returned to the land of Canaan to tell the Israelites what had happened.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:3 - But I took your ancestor Abraham from the land beyond the Euphrates and led him into the land of Canaan. I gave him many descendants through his son Isaac.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:10 - but I would not listen to him. Instead, I made Balaam bless you, and so I rescued you from Balak.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:16 - When the tribe of Judah left Jericho—the city of palms—the Kenites, who were descendants of Moses' father-in-law, traveled with them into the wilderness of Judah. They settled among the people there, near the town of Arad in the Negev.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:24 - They confronted a man coming out of the town and said to him, “Show us a way into the town, and we will have mercy on you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:3 - So now I declare that I will no longer drive out the people living in your land. They will be thorns in your sides,[fn] and their gods will be a constant temptation to you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:12 - They abandoned the LORD, the God of their ancestors, who had brought them out of Egypt. They went after other gods, worshiping the gods of the people around them. And they angered the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:16 - Then the LORD raised up judges to rescue the Israelites from their attackers.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:17 - Yet Israel did not listen to the judges but prostituted themselves by worshiping other gods. How quickly they turned away from the path of their ancestors, who had walked in obedience to the LORD's commands.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:18 - Whenever the LORD raised up a judge over Israel, he was with that judge and rescued the people from their enemies throughout the judge's lifetime. For the LORD took pity on his people, who were burdened by oppression and suffering.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:21 - I will no longer drive out the nations that Joshua left unconquered when he died.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:19 - But when Ehud reached the stone idols near Gilgal, he turned back. He came to Eglon and said, “I have a secret message for you.”
So the king commanded his servants, “Be quiet!” and he sent them all out of the room.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:22 - The dagger went so deep that the handle disappeared beneath the king's fat. So Ehud did not pull out the dagger, and the king's bowels emptied.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:6 - One day she sent for Barak son of Abinoam, who lived in Kedesh in the land of Naphtali. She said to him, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, commands you: Call out 10,000 warriors from the tribes of Naphtali and Zebulun at Mount Tabor.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:4 - “LORD, when you set out from Seir
and marched across the fields of Edom,
the earth trembled,
and the cloudy skies poured down rain.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:14 - They came down from Ephraim—
a land that once belonged to the Amalekites;
they followed you, Benjamin, with your troops.
From Makir the commanders marched down;
from Zebulun came those who carry a commander's staff.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:20 - The stars fought from heaven.
The stars in their orbits fought against Sisera.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:24 - “Most blessed among women is Jael,
the wife of Heber the Kenite.
May she be blessed above all women who live in tents.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:9 - I rescued you from the Egyptians and from all who oppressed you. I drove out your enemies and gave you their land.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:11 - Then the angel of the LORD came and sat beneath the great tree at Ophrah, which belonged to Joash of the clan of Abiezer. Gideon son of Joash was threshing wheat at the bottom of a winepress to hide the grain from the Midianites.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:21 - Then the angel of the LORD touched the meat and bread with the tip of the staff in his hand, and fire flamed up from the rock and consumed all he had brought. And the angel of the LORD disappeared.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:38 - And that is just what happened. When Gideon got up early the next morning, he squeezed the fleece and wrung out a whole bowlful of water.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:5 - When Gideon took his warriors down to the water, the LORD told him, “Divide the men into two groups. In one group put all those who cup water in their hands and lap it up with their tongues like dogs. In the other group put all those who kneel down and drink with their mouths in the stream.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:23 - Then Gideon sent for the warriors of Naphtali, Asher, and Manasseh, who joined in chasing the army of Midian.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:25 - They captured Oreb and Zeeb, the two Midianite commanders, killing Oreb at the rock of Oreb, and Zeeb at the winepress of Zeeb. And they continued to chase the Midianites. Afterward the Israelites brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon, who was by the Jordan River.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:13 - After this, Gideon returned from the battle by way of Heres Pass.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:14 - There he captured a young man from Succoth and demanded that he write down the names of all the seventy-seven officials and elders in the town.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:22 - Then the Israelites said to Gideon, “Be our ruler! You and your son and your grandson will be our rulers, for you have rescued us from Midian.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:30 - He had seventy sons born to him, for he had many wives.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:34 - They forgot the LORD their God, who had rescued them from all their enemies surrounding them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:4 - They gave him seventy silver coins from the temple of Baal-berith, which he used to hire some reckless troublemakers who agreed to follow him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:15 - And the thornbush replied to the trees,
‘If you truly want to make me your king,
come and take shelter in my shade.
If not, let fire come out from me
and devour the cedars of Lebanon.'”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:17 - For he fought for you and risked his life when he rescued you from the Midianites.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:20 - But if you have not acted in good faith, then may fire come out from Abimelech and devour the leading citizens of Shechem and Beth-millo; and may fire come out from the citizens of Shechem and Beth-millo and devour Abimelech!”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:35 - Gaal was standing at the city gates when Abimelech and his army came out of hiding.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:43 - he divided his men into three groups and set an ambush in the fields. When Abimelech saw the people coming out of the city, he and his men jumped up from their hiding places and attacked them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:12 - the Sidonians, the Amalekites, and the Maonites? When they oppressed you, you cried out to me for help, and I rescued you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:16 - Then the Israelites put aside their foreign gods and served the LORD. And he was grieved by their misery.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:3 - So Jephthah fled from his brothers and lived in the land of Tob. Soon he had a band of worthless rebels following him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:7 - But Jephthah said to them, “Aren't you the ones who hated me and drove me from my father's house? Why do you come to me now when you're in trouble?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:23 - “So you see, it was the LORD, the God of Israel, who took away the land from the Amorites and gave it to Israel. Why, then, should we give it back to you?
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:31 - I will give to the LORD whatever comes out of my house to meet me when I return in triumph. I will sacrifice it as a burnt offering.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:36 - And she said, “Father, if you have made a vow to the LORD, you must do to me what you have vowed, for the LORD has given you a great victory over your enemies, the Ammonites.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:2 - Jephthah replied, “I summoned you at the beginning of the dispute, but you refused to come! You failed to help us in our struggle against Ammon.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:5 - Jephthah captured the shallow crossings of the Jordan River, and whenever a fugitive from Ephraim tried to go back across, the men of Gilead would challenge him. “Are you a member of the tribe of Ephraim?” they would ask. If the man said, “No, I'm not,”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:8 - After Jephthah died, Ibzan from Bethlehem judged Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:2 - In those days a man named Manoah from the tribe of Dan lived in the town of Zorah. His wife was unable to become pregnant, and they had no children.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:5 - You will become pregnant and give birth to a son, and his hair must never be cut. For he will be dedicated to God as a Nazirite from birth. He will begin to rescue Israel from the Philistines.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:23 - But his wife said, “If the LORD were going to kill us, he wouldn't have accepted our burnt offering and grain offering. He wouldn't have appeared to us and told us this wonderful thing and done these miracles.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:1 - One day when Samson was in Timnah, one of the Philistine women caught his eye.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:3 - His father and mother objected. “Isn't there even one woman in our tribe or among all the Israelites you could marry?” they asked. “Why must you go to the pagan Philistines to find a wife?”
But Samson told his father, “Get her for me! She looks good to me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:4 - His father and mother didn't realize the LORD was at work in this, creating an opportunity to work against the Philistines, who ruled over Israel at that time.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:9 - He scooped some of the honey into his hands and ate it along the way. He also gave some to his father and mother, and they ate it. But he didn't tell them he had taken the honey from the carcass of the lion.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:14 - So he said:
“Out of the one who eats came something to eat;
out of the strong came something sweet.” Three days later they were still trying to figure it out.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:13 - “We will only tie you up and hand you over to the Philistines,” they replied. “We won't kill you.” So they tied him up with two new ropes and brought him up from the rock.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:14 - Then she tightened it with the loom shuttle.[fn] Again she cried out, “Samson! The Philistines have come to capture you!” But Samson woke up, pulled back the loom shuttle, and yanked his hair away from the loom and the fabric.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:17 - Finally, Samson shared his secret with her. “My hair has never been cut,” he confessed, “for I was dedicated to God as a Nazirite from birth. If my head were shaved, my strength would leave me, and I would become as weak as anyone else.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:20 - Then she cried out, “Samson! The Philistines have come to capture you!”
When he woke up, he thought, “I will do as before and shake myself free.” But he didn't realize the LORD had left him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:28 - Then Samson prayed to the LORD, “Sovereign LORD, remember me again. O God, please strengthen me just one more time. With one blow let me pay back the Philistines for the loss of my two eyes.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:3 - He returned the money to her, and she said, “I now dedicate these silver coins to the LORD. In honor of my son, I will have an image carved and an idol cast.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:7 - One day a young Levite, who had been living in Bethlehem in Judah, arrived in that area.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:8 - He had left Bethlehem in search of another place to live, and as he traveled, he came to the hill country of Ephraim. He happened to stop at Micah's house as he was traveling through.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:9 - “Where are you from?” Micah asked him.
He replied, “I am a Levite from Bethlehem in Judah, and I am looking for a place to live.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:2 - So the men of Dan chose from their clans five capable warriors from the towns of Zorah and Eshtaol to scout out a land for them to settle in.
When these warriors arrived in the hill country of Ephraim, they came to Micah's house and spent the night there.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:9 - The men replied, “Come on, let's attack them! We have seen the land, and it is very good. What are you waiting for? Don't hesitate to go and take possession of it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:11 - So 600 men from the tribe of Dan, armed with weapons of war, set out from Zorah and Eshtaol.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:16 - As the 600 armed warriors from the tribe of Dan stood at the entrance of the gate,
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:1 - Now in those days Israel had no king. There was a man from the tribe of Levi living in a remote area of the hill country of Ephraim. One day he brought home a woman from Bethlehem in Judah to be his concubine.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:12 - “No,” his master said, “we can't stay in this foreign town where there are no Israelites. Instead, we will go on to Gibeah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:16 - That evening an old man came home from his work in the fields. He was from the hill country of Ephraim, but he was living in Gibeah, where the people were from the tribe of Benjamin.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:18 - “We have been in Bethlehem in Judah,” the man replied. “We are on our way to a remote area in the hill country of Ephraim, which is my home. I traveled to Bethlehem, and now I'm returning home.[fn] But no one has taken us in for the night,
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:11 - So all the Israelites were completely united, and they gathered together to attack the town.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:14 - Instead, they came from their towns and gathered at Gibeah to fight the Israelites.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:15 - In all, 26,000 of their warriors armed with swords arrived in Gibeah to join the 700 elite troops who lived there.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:21 - But Benjamin's warriors, who were defending the town, came out and killed 22,000 Israelites on the battlefield that day.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:25 - but the men of Benjamin killed another 18,000 Israelites, all of whom were experienced with the sword.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:31 - When the men of Benjamin came out to attack, they were drawn away from the town. And as they had done before, they began to kill the Israelites. About thirty Israelites died in the open fields and along the roads, one leading to Bethel and the other leading back to Gibeah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:32 - Then the warriors of Benjamin shouted, “We're defeating them as we did before!” But the Israelites had planned in advance to run away so that the men of Benjamin would chase them along the roads and be drawn away from the town.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:33 - When the main group of Israelite warriors reached Baal-tamar, they turned and took up their positions. Meanwhile, the Israelites hiding in ambush to the west[fn] of Gibeah jumped up to fight.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:34 - There were 10,000 elite Israelite troops who advanced against Gibeah. The fighting was so heavy that Benjamin didn't realize the impending disaster.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:40 - But when the warriors of Benjamin looked behind them and saw the smoke rising into the sky from every part of the town,
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:44 - That day 18,000 of Benjamin's strongest warriors died in battle.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:5 - Then they said, “Who among the tribes of Israel did not join us at Mizpah when we held our assembly in the presence of the LORD?” At that time they had taken a solemn oath in the LORD's presence, vowing that anyone who refused to come would be put to death.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:14 - Then the men of Benjamin returned to their homes, and the 400 women of Jabesh-gilead who had been spared were given to them as wives. But there were not enough women for all of them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:16 - So the elders of the assembly asked, “How can we find wives for the few who remain, since the women of the tribe of Benjamin are dead?
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:19 - Then they thought of the annual festival of the LORD held in Shiloh, south of Lebonah and north of Bethel, along the east side of the road that goes from Bethel to Shechem.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:2 - The man's name was Elimelech, and his wife was Naomi. Their two sons were Mahlon and Kilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in the land of Judah. And when they reached Moab, they settled there.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:7 - With her two daughters-in-law she set out from the place where she had been living, and they took the road that would lead them back to Judah.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:1 - Now there was a wealthy and influential man in Bethlehem named Boaz, who was a relative of Naomi's husband, Elimelech.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:3 - So Ruth went out to gather grain behind the harvesters. And as it happened, she found herself working in a field that belonged to Boaz, the relative of her father-in-law, Elimelech.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:4 - While she was there, Boaz arrived from Bethlehem and greeted the harvesters. “The LORD be with you!” he said.
“The LORD bless you!” the harvesters replied.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:14 - At mealtime Boaz called to her, “Come over here, and help yourself to some food. You can dip your bread in the sour wine.” So she sat with his harvesters, and Boaz gave her some roasted grain to eat. She ate all she wanted and still had some left over.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:16 - And pull out some heads of barley from the bundles and drop them on purpose for her. Let her pick them up, and don't give her a hard time!”
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:20 - “May the LORD bless him!” Naomi told her daughter-in-law. “He is showing his kindness to us as well as to your dead husband.[fn] That man is one of our closest relatives, one of our family redeemers.”
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:5 - Then Boaz told him, “Of course, your purchase of the land from Naomi also requires that you marry Ruth, the Moabite widow. That way she can have children who will carry on her husband's name and keep the land in the family.”
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:9 - Then Boaz said to the elders and to the crowd standing around, “You are witnesses that today I have bought from Naomi all the property of Elimelech, Kilion, and Mahlon.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:10 - And with the land I have acquired Ruth, the Moabite widow of Mahlon, to be my wife. This way she can have a son to carry on the family name of her dead husband and to inherit the family property here in his hometown. You are all witnesses today.”
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:12 - And may the LORD give you descendants by this young woman who will be like those of our ancestor Perez, the son of Tamar and Judah.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:3 - Each year Elkanah would travel to Shiloh to worship and sacrifice to the LORD of Heaven's Armies at the Tabernacle. The priests of the LORD at that time were the two sons of Eli—Hophni and Phinehas.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:14 - “Must you come here drunk?” he demanded. “Throw away your wine!”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:16 - Don't think I am a wicked woman! For I have been praying out of great anguish and sorrow.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:23 - “Whatever you think is best,” Elkanah agreed. “Stay here for now, and may the LORD help you keep your promise.” So she stayed home and nursed the boy until he was weaned.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:3 - “Stop acting so proud and haughty!
Don't speak with such arrogance!
For the LORD is a God who knows what you have done;
he will judge your actions.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:15 - Sometimes the servant would come even before the animal's fat had been burned on the altar. He would demand raw meat before it had been boiled so that it could be used for roasting.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:16 - The man offering the sacrifice might reply, “Take as much as you want, but the fat must be burned first.” Then the servant would demand, “No, give it to me now, or I'll take it by force.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:20 - Before they returned home, Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife and say, “May the LORD give you other children to take the place of this one she gave to the LORD.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:23 - Eli said to them, “I have been hearing reports from all the people about the wicked things you are doing. Why do you keep sinning?
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:28 - I chose your ancestor Aaron[fn] from among all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to offer sacrifices on my altar, to burn incense, and to wear the priestly vest[fn] as he served me. And I assigned the sacrificial offerings to you priests.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 3:17 - “What did the LORD say to you? Tell me everything. And may God strike you and even kill you if you hide anything from me!”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:3 - After the battle was over, the troops retreated to their camp, and the elders of Israel asked, “Why did the LORD allow us to be defeated by the Philistines?” Then they said, “Let's bring the Ark of the Covenant of the LORD from Shiloh. If we carry it into battle with us, it[fn] will save us from our enemies.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:8 - Help! Who can save us from these mighty gods of Israel? They are the same gods who destroyed the Egyptians with plagues when Israel was in the wilderness.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:12 - A man from the tribe of Benjamin ran from the battlefield and arrived at Shiloh later that same day. He had torn his clothes and put dust on his head to show his grief.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:16 - He said to Eli, “I have just come from the battlefield—I was there this very day.”
“What happened, my son?” Eli demanded.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:17 - “Israel has been defeated by the Philistines,” the messenger replied. “The people have been slaughtered, and your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, were also killed. And the Ark of God has been captured.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:8 - Put the Ark of the LORD on the cart, and beside it place a chest containing the gold rats and gold tumors you are sending as a guilt offering. Then let the cows go wherever they want.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:18 - The five gold rats represented the five Philistine towns and their surrounding villages, which were controlled by the five rulers. The large rock at Beth-shemesh, where they set the Ark of the LORD, still stands in the field of Joshua as a witness to what happened there.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:20 - “Who is able to stand in the presence of the LORD, this holy God?” they cried out. “Where can we send the Ark from here?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 7:3 - Then Samuel said to all the people of Israel, “If you are really serious about wanting to return to the LORD, get rid of your foreign gods and your images of Ashtoreth. Determine to obey only the LORD; then he will rescue you from the Philistines.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 7:8 - “Don't stop pleading with the LORD our God to save us from the Philistines!” they begged Samuel.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 7:11 - The men of Israel chased them from Mizpah to a place below Beth-car, slaughtering them all along the way.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 7:14 - The Israelite villages near Ekron and Gath that the Philistines had captured were restored to Israel, along with the rest of the territory that the Philistines had taken. And there was peace between Israel and the Amorites in those days.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:18 - When that day comes, you will beg for relief from this king you are demanding, but then the LORD will not help you.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:7 - “But we don't have anything to offer him,” Saul replied. “Even our food is gone, and we don't have a thing to give him.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:16 - “About this time tomorrow I will send you a man from the land of Benjamin. Anoint him to be the leader of my people, Israel. He will rescue them from the Philistines, for I have looked down on my people in mercy and have heard their cry.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:25 - When they came down from the place of worship and returned to town, Samuel took Saul up to the roof of the house and prepared a bed for him there.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:1 - Then Samuel took a flask of olive oil and poured it over Saul's head. He kissed Saul and said, “I am doing this because the LORD has appointed you to be the ruler over Israel, his special possession.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:4 - They will greet you and offer you two of the loaves, which you are to accept.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:5 - “When you arrive at Gibeah of God,[fn] where the garrison of the Philistines is located, you will meet a band of prophets coming down from the place of worship. They will be playing a harp, a tambourine, a flute, and a lyre, and they will be prophesying.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:18 - And he said, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, has declared: I brought you from Egypt and rescued you from the Egyptians and from all of the nations that were oppressing you.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:19 - But though I have rescued you from your misery and distress, you have rejected your God today and have said, ‘No, we want a king instead!' Now, therefore, present yourselves before the LORD by tribes and clans.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:2 - Your king is now your leader. I stand here before you—an old, gray-haired man—and my sons serve you. I have served as your leader from the time I was a boy to this very day.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:3 - Now testify against me in the presence of the LORD and before his anointed one. Whose ox or donkey have I stolen? Have I ever cheated any of you? Have I ever oppressed you? Have I ever taken a bribe and perverted justice? Tell me and I will make right whatever I have done wrong.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:4 - “No,” they replied, “you have never cheated or oppressed us, and you have never taken even a single bribe.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:10 - “Then they cried to the LORD again and confessed, ‘We have sinned by turning away from the LORD and worshiping the images of Baal and Ashtoreth. But we will worship you and you alone if you will rescue us from our enemies.'
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:11 - Then the LORD sent Gideon,[fn] Bedan,[fn] Jephthah, and Samuel[fn] to save you, and you lived in safety.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:2 - Saul selected 3,000 special troops from the army of Israel and sent the rest of the men home. He took 2,000 of the chosen men with him to Micmash and the hill country of Bethel. The other 1,000 went with Saul's son Jonathan to Gibeah in the land of Benjamin.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:15 - Samuel then left Gilgal and went on his way, but the rest of the troops went with Saul to meet the army. They went up from Gilgal to Gibeah in the land of Benjamin.[fn] When Saul counted the men who were still with him, he found only 600 were left!
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:11 - When the Philistines saw them coming, they shouted, “Look! The Hebrews are crawling out of their holes!”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:28 - But one of the men saw him and said, “Your father made the army take a strict oath that anyone who eats food today will be cursed. That is why everyone is weary and faint.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:31 - They chased and killed the Philistines all day from Micmash to Aijalon, growing more and more faint.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:39 - I vow by the name of the LORD who rescued Israel that the sinner will surely die, even if it is my own son Jonathan!” But no one would tell him what the trouble was.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:48 - He performed great deeds and conquered the Amalekites, saving Israel from all those who had plundered them.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:6 - Saul sent this warning to the Kenites: “Move away from where the Amalekites live, or you will die with them. For you showed kindness to all the people of Israel when they came up from Egypt.” So the Kenites packed up and left.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:28 - And Samuel said to him, “The LORD has torn the kingdom of Israel from you today and has given it to someone else—one who is better than you.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:33 - But Samuel said, “As your sword has killed the sons of many mothers, now your mother will be childless.” And Samuel cut Agag to pieces before the LORD at Gilgal.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:4 - Then Goliath, a Philistine champion from Gath, came out of the Philistine ranks to face the forces of Israel. He was over nine feet[fn] tall!
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:33 - “Don't be ridiculous!” Saul replied. “There's no way you can fight this Philistine and possibly win! You're only a boy, and he's been a man of war since his youth.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:34 - But David persisted. “I have been taking care of my father's sheep and goats,” he said. “When a lion or a bear comes to steal a lamb from the flock,
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:35 - I go after it with a club and rescue the lamb from its mouth. If the animal turns on me, I catch it by the jaw and club it to death.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:37 - The LORD who rescued me from the claws of the lion and the bear will rescue me from this Philistine!”
Saul finally consented. “All right, go ahead,” he said. “And may the LORD be with you!”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:40 - He picked up five smooth stones from a stream and put them into his shepherd's bag. Then, armed only with his shepherd's staff and sling, he started across the valley to fight the Philistine.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:6 - When the victorious Israelite army was returning home after David had killed the Philistine, women from all the towns of Israel came out to meet King Saul. They sang and danced for joy with tambourines and cymbals.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:8 - War broke out again after that, and David led his troops against the Philistines. He attacked them with such fury that they all ran away.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:10 - Saul hurled his spear at David. But David dodged out of the way, and leaving the spear stuck in the wall, he fled and escaped into the night.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:1 - David now fled from Naioth in Ramah and found Jonathan. “What have I done?” he exclaimed. “What is my crime? How have I offended your father that he is so determined to kill me?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:25 - He sat at his usual place against the wall, with Jonathan sitting opposite him[fn] and Abner beside him. But David's place was empty.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:6 - Since there was no other food available, the priest gave him the holy bread—the Bread of the Presence that was placed before the LORD in the Tabernacle. It had just been replaced that day with fresh bread.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:10 - So David escaped from Saul and went to King Achish of Gath.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:5 - So David and his men went to Keilah. They slaughtered the Philistines and took all their livestock and rescued the people of Keilah.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:13 - So David and his men—about 600 of them now—left Keilah and began roaming the countryside. Word soon reached Saul that David had escaped, so he didn't go to Keilah after all.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:19 - But now the men of Ziph went to Saul in Gibeah and betrayed David to him. “We know where David is hiding,” they said. “He is in the strongholds of Horesh on the hill of Hakilah, which is in the southern part of Jeshimon.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:24 - So the men of Ziph returned home ahead of Saul.
Meanwhile, David and his men had moved into the wilderness of Maon in the Arabah Valley south of Jeshimon.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:26 - Saul and David were now on opposite sides of a mountain. Just as Saul and his men began to close in on David and his men,
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:2 - So Saul chose 3,000 elite troops from all Israel and went to search for David and his men near the rocks of the wild goats.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:8 - David came out and shouted after him, “My lord the king!” And when Saul looked around, David bowed low before him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:12 - “May the LORD judge between us. Perhaps the LORD will punish you for what you are trying to do to me, but I will never harm you.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:15 - May the LORD therefore judge which of us is right and punish the guilty one. He is my advocate, and he will rescue me from your power!”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:21 - Now swear to me by the LORD that when that happens you will not kill my family and destroy my line of descendants!”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:10 - “Who is this fellow David?” Nabal sneered to the young men. “Who does this son of Jesse think he is? There are lots of servants these days who run away from their masters.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:14 - Meanwhile, one of Nabal's servants went to Abigail and told her, “David sent messengers from the wilderness to greet our master, but he screamed insults at them.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:21 - David had just been saying, “A lot of good it did to help this fellow. We protected his flocks in the wilderness, and nothing he owned was lost or stolen. But he has repaid me evil for good.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:22 - May God strike me and kill me[fn] if even one man of his household is still alive tomorrow morning!”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:35 - Then David accepted her present and told her, “Return home in peace. I have heard what you said. We will not kill your husband.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:39 - When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Praise the LORD, who has avenged the insult I received from Nabal and has kept me from doing it myself. Nabal has received the punishment for his sin.” Then David sent messengers to Abigail to ask her to become his wife.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:44 - Saul, meanwhile, had given his daughter Michal, David's wife, to a man from Gallim named Palti son of Laish.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:1 - Now some men from Ziph came to Saul at Gibeah to tell him, “David is hiding on the hill of Hakilah, which overlooks Jeshimon.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:4 - he sent out spies to verify the report of Saul's arrival.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:15 - “Well, Abner, you're a great man, aren't you?” David taunted. “Where in all Israel is there anyone as mighty? So why haven't you guarded your master the king when someone came to kill him?
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:24 - Now may the LORD value my life, even as I have valued yours today. May he rescue me from all my troubles.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 27:1 - But David kept thinking to himself, “Someday Saul is going to get me. The best thing I can do is escape to the Philistines. Then Saul will stop hunting for me in Israelite territory, and I will finally be safe.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:13 - “Don't be afraid!” the king told her. “What do you see?”
“I see a god[fn] coming up out of the earth,” she said.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:14 - “What does he look like?” Saul asked.
“He is an old man wrapped in a robe,” she replied. Saul realized it was Samuel, and he fell to the ground before him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:17 - The LORD has done just as he said he would. He has torn the kingdom from you and given it to your rival, David.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:16 - So he led David to them, and they found the Amalekites spread out across the fields, eating and drinking and dancing with joy because of the vast amount of plunder they had taken from the Philistines and the land of Judah.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:22 - But some evil troublemakers among David's men said, “They didn't go with us, so they can't have any of the plunder we recovered. Give them their wives and children, and tell them to be gone.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:1 - Now the Philistines attacked Israel, and the men of Israel fled before them. Many were slaughtered on the slopes of Mount Gilboa.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:2 - On the third day a man arrived from Saul's army camp. He had torn his clothes and put dirt on his head to show that he was in mourning. He fell to the ground before David in deep respect.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:3 - “Where have you come from?” David asked.
“I escaped from the Israelite camp,” the man replied.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:4 - “What happened?” David demanded. “Tell me how the battle went.”
The man replied, “Our entire army fled from the battle. Many of the men are dead, and Saul and his son Jonathan are also dead.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:8 - But Abner son of Ner, the commander of Saul's army, had already gone to Mahanaim with Saul's son Ishbosheth.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:12 - One day Abner led Ishbosheth's troops from Mahanaim to Gibeon.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:13 - About the same time, Joab son of Zeruiah led David's troops out and met them at the pool of Gibeon. The two groups sat down there, facing each other from opposite sides of the pool.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:15 - So twelve men were chosen to fight from each side—twelve men of Benjamin representing Ishbosheth son of Saul, and twelve representing David.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:21 - “Go fight someone else!” Abner warned. “Take on one of the younger men, and strip him of his weapons.” But Asahel kept right on chasing Abner.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:23 - But Asahel refused to turn back, so Abner thrust the butt end of his spear through Asahel's stomach, and the spear came out through his back. He stumbled to the ground and died there. And everyone who came by that spot stopped and stood still when they saw Asahel lying there.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:27 - Then Joab said, “God only knows what would have happened if you hadn't spoken, for we would have chased you all night if necessary.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:18 - Now is the time! For the LORD has said, ‘I have chosen David to save my people Israel from the hands of the Philistines and from all their other enemies.'”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:22 - But just after David had sent Abner away in safety, Joab and some of David's troops returned from a raid, bringing much plunder with them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:27 - When Abner arrived back at Hebron, Joab took him aside at the gateway as if to speak with him privately. But then he stabbed Abner in the stomach and killed him in revenge for killing his brother Asahel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:29 - Joab and his family are the guilty ones. May the family of Joab be cursed in every generation with a man who has open sores or leprosy[fn] or who walks on crutches[fn] or dies by the sword or begs for food!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:2 - Now there were two brothers, Baanah and Recab, who were captains of Ishbosheth's raiding parties. They were sons of Rimmon, a member of the tribe of Benjamin who lived in Beeroth. The town of Beeroth is now part of Benjamin's territory
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:8 - When they arrived at Hebron, they presented Ishbosheth's head to David. “Look!” they exclaimed to the king. “Here is the head of Ishbosheth, the son of your enemy Saul who tried to kill you. Today the LORD has given my lord the king revenge on Saul and his entire family!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:9 - But David said to Recab and Baanah, “The LORD, who saves me from all my enemies, is my witness.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:11 - How much more should I reward evil men who have killed an innocent man in his own house and on his own bed? Shouldn't I hold you responsible for his blood and rid the earth of you?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:13 - After moving from Hebron to Jerusalem, David married more concubines and wives, and they had more sons and daughters.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:20 - So David went to Baal-perazim and defeated the Philistines there. “The LORD did it!” David exclaimed. “He burst through my enemies like a raging flood!” So he named that place Baal-perazim (which means “the Lord who bursts through”).
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:12 - Then King David was told, “The LORD has blessed Obed-edom's household and everything he has because of the Ark of God.” So David went there and brought the Ark of God from the house of Obed-edom to the City of David with a great celebration.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:8 - “Now go and say to my servant David, ‘This is what the LORD of Heaven's Armies has declared: I took you from tending sheep in the pasture and selected you to be the leader of my people Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:12 - For when you die and are buried with your ancestors, I will raise up one of your descendants, your own offspring, and I will make his kingdom strong.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:15 - But my favor will not be taken from him as I took it from Saul, whom I removed from your sight.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:23 - What other nation on earth is like your people Israel? What other nation, O God, have you redeemed from slavery to be your own people? You made a great name for yourself when you redeemed your people from Egypt. You performed awesome miracles and drove out the nations and gods that stood in their way.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 8:1 - After this, David defeated and subdued the Philistines by conquering Gath, their largest town.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 8:8 - along with a large amount of bronze from Hadadezer's towns of Tebah[fn] and Berothai.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 8:11 - King David dedicated all these gifts to the LORD, as he did with the silver and gold from the other nations he had defeated—
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 8:12 - from Edom,[fn] Moab, Ammon, Philistia, and Amalek—and from Hadadezer son of Rehob, king of Zobah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 9:2 - He summoned a man named Ziba, who had been one of Saul's servants. “Are you Ziba?” the king asked.
“Yes sir, I am,” Ziba replied.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 9:3 - The king then asked him, “Is anyone still alive from Saul's family? If so, I want to show God's kindness to them.”
Ziba replied, “Yes, one of Jonathan's sons is still alive. He is crippled in both feet.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 9:4 - “Where is he?” the king asked.
“In Lo-debar,” Ziba told him, “at the home of Makir son of Ammiel.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 9:5 - So David sent for him and brought him from Makir's home.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:9 - When Joab saw that he would have to fight on both the front and the rear, he chose some of Israel's elite troops and placed them under his personal command to fight the Arameans in the fields.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:16 - they were joined by additional Aramean troops summoned by Hadadezer from the other side of the Euphrates River.[fn] These troops arrived at Helam under the command of Shobach, the commander of Hadadezer's forces.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:18 - But again the Arameans fled from the Israelites. This time David's forces killed 700 charioteers and 40,000 foot soldiers,[fn] including Shobach, the commander of their army.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:17 - And when the enemy soldiers came out of the city to fight, Uriah the Hittite was killed along with several other Israelite soldiers.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:3 - The poor man owned nothing but one little lamb he had bought. He raised that little lamb, and it grew up with his children. It ate from the man's own plate and drank from his cup. He cuddled it in his arms like a baby daughter.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:4 - One day a guest arrived at the home of the rich man. But instead of killing an animal from his own flock or herd, he took the poor man's lamb and killed it and prepared it for his guest.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:7 - Then Nathan said to David, “You are that man! The LORD, the God of Israel, says: I anointed you king of Israel and saved you from the power of Saul.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:10 - From this time on, your family will live by the sword because you have despised me by taking Uriah's wife to be your own.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:11 - “This is what the LORD says: Because of what you have done, I will cause your own household to rebel against you. I will give your wives to another man before your very eyes, and he will go to bed with them in public view.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:20 - Then David got up from the ground, washed himself, put on lotions,[fn] and changed his clothes. He went to the Tabernacle and worshiped the LORD. After that, he returned to the palace and was served food and ate.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:5 - “Well,” Jonadab said, “I'll tell you what to do. Go back to bed and pretend you are ill. When your father comes to see you, ask him to let Tamar come and prepare some food for you. Tell him you'll feel better if she prepares it as you watch and feeds you with her own hands.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:6 - So Amnon lay down and pretended to be sick. And when the king came to see him, Amnon asked him, “Please let my sister Tamar come and cook my favorite dish[fn] as I watch. Then I can eat it from her own hands.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:10 - Then he said to Tamar, “Now bring the food into my bedroom and feed it to me here.” So Tamar took his favorite dish to him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:34 - Meanwhile Absalom escaped.
Then the watchman on the Jerusalem wall saw a great crowd coming down the hill on the road from the west. He ran to tell the king, “I see a crowd of people coming from the Horonaim road along the side of the hill.”[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:13 - She replied, “Why don't you do as much for the people of God as you have promised to do for me? You have convicted yourself in making this decision, because you have refused to bring home your own banished son.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:16 - and rescue us from those who would cut us off from the inheritance[fn] God has given us.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:19 - “Did Joab put you up to this?”
And the woman replied, “My lord the king, how can I deny it? Nobody can hide anything from you. Yes, Joab sent me and told me what to say.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:29 - Then Absalom sent for Joab to ask him to intercede for him, but Joab refused to come. Absalom sent for him a second time, but again Joab refused to come.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:32 - And Absalom replied, “Because I wanted you to ask the king why he brought me back from Geshur if he didn't intend to see me. I might as well have stayed there. Let me see the king; if he finds me guilty of anything, then let him kill me.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:2 - He got up early every morning and went out to the gate of the city. When people brought a case to the king for judgment, Absalom would ask where in Israel they were from, and they would tell him their tribe.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:12 - While Absalom was offering the sacrifices, he sent for Ahithophel, one of David's counselors who lived in Giloh. Soon many others also joined Absalom, and the conspiracy gained momentum.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:18 - to let all the king's men move past to lead the way. There were 600 men from Gath who had come with David, along with the king's bodyguard.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:19 - Then the king turned and said to Ittai, a leader of the men from Gath, “Why are you coming with us? Go on back to King Absalom, for you are a guest in Israel, a foreigner in exile.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:24 - Zadok and all the Levites also came along, carrying the Ark of the Covenant of God. They set down the Ark of God, and Abiathar offered sacrifices[fn] until everyone had passed out of the city.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:5 - As King David came to Bahurim, a man came out of the village cursing them. It was Shimei son of Gera, from the same clan as Saul's family.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:6 - He threw stones at the king and the king's officers and all the mighty warriors who surrounded him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:11 - Then David said to Abishai and to all his servants, “My own son is trying to kill me. Doesn't this relative of Saul[fn] have even more reason to do so? Leave him alone and let him curse, for the LORD has told him to do it.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:13 - So David and his men continued down the road, and Shimei kept pace with them on a nearby hillside, cursing as he went and throwing stones at David and tossing dust into the air.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:21 - Then the two men crawled out of the well and hurried on to King David. “Quick!” they told him, “cross the Jordan tonight!” And they told him how Ahithophel had advised that he be captured and killed.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:27 - When David arrived at Mahanaim, he was warmly greeted by Shobi son of Nahash, who came from Rabbah of the Ammonites, and by Makir son of Ammiel from Lo-debar, and by Barzillai of Gilead from Rogelim.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:8 - The battle raged all across the countryside, and more men died because of the forest than were killed by the sword.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:19 - Then Zadok's son Ahimaaz said, “Let me run to the king with the good news that the LORD has rescued him from his enemies.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:31 - Then the man from Ethiopia arrived and said, “I have good news for my lord the king. Today the LORD has rescued you from all those who rebelled against you.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:7 - Now go out there and congratulate your troops, for I swear by the LORD that if you don't go out, not a single one of them will remain here tonight. Then you will be worse off than ever before.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:9 - And throughout all the tribes of Israel there was much discussion and argument going on. The people were saying, “The king rescued us from our enemies and saved us from the Philistines, but Absalom chased him out of the country.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:16 - Shimei son of Gera, the man from Bahurim in Benjamin, hurried across with the men of Judah to welcome King David.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:17 - A thousand other men from the tribe of Benjamin were with him, including Ziba, the chief servant of the house of Saul, and Ziba's fifteen sons and twenty servants. They rushed down to the Jordan to meet the king.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:31 - Barzillai of Gilead had come down from Rogelim to escort the king across the Jordan.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:42 - The men of Judah replied, “The king is one of our own kinsmen. Why should this make you angry? We haven't eaten any of the king's food or received any special favors!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:12 - But Amasa lay in his blood in the middle of the road, and Joab's man saw that everyone was stopping to stare at him. So he pulled him off the road into a field and threw a cloak over him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:13 - With Amasa's body out of the way, everyone went on with Joab to capture Sheba son of Bicri.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:16 - But a wise woman in the town called out to Joab, “Listen to me, Joab. Come over here so I can talk to you.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:2 - So the king summoned the Gibeonites. They were not part of Israel but were all that was left of the nation of the Amorites. The people of Israel had sworn not to kill them, but Saul, in his zeal for Israel and Judah, had tried to wipe them out.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:6 - So let seven of Saul's sons be handed over to us, and we will execute them before the LORD at Gibeon, on the mountain of the LORD.[fn]
“All right,” the king said, “I will do it.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:10 - Then Rizpah daughter of Aiah, the mother of two of the men, spread burlap on a rock and stayed there the entire harvest season. She prevented the scavenger birds from tearing at their bodies during the day and stopped wild animals from eating them at night.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:11 - When David learned what Rizpah, Saul's concubine, had done,
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:12 - he went to the people of Jabesh-gilead and retrieved the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan. (When the Philistines had killed Saul and Jonathan on Mount Gilboa, the people of Jabesh-gilead stole their bodies from the public square of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hung them.)
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:1 - David sang this song to the LORD on the day the LORD rescued him from all his enemies and from Saul.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:4 - I called on the LORD, who is worthy of praise,
and he saved me from my enemies.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:7 - But in my distress I cried out to the LORD;
yes, I cried to my God for help.
He heard me from his sanctuary;
my cry reached his ears.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:9 - Smoke poured from his nostrils;
fierce flames leaped from his mouth.
Glowing coals blazed forth from him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:18 - He rescued me from my powerful enemies,
from those who hated me and were too strong for me.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:44 - “You gave me victory over my accusers.
You preserved me as the ruler over nations;
people I don't even know now serve me.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:46 - They all lose their courage
and come trembling[fn] from their strongholds.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:49 - and delivers me from my enemies.
You hold me safe beyond the reach of my enemies;
you save me from violent opponents.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:4 - is like the light of morning at sunrise,
like a morning without clouds,
like the gleaming of the sun
on new grass after rain.'
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:11 - Next in rank was Shammah son of Agee from Harar. One time the Philistines gathered at Lehi and attacked the Israelites in a field full of lentils. The Israelite army fled,
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:15 - David remarked longingly to his men, “Oh, how I would love some of that good water from the well by the gate in Bethlehem.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:16 - So the Three broke through the Philistine lines, drew some water from the well by the gate in Bethlehem, and brought it back to David. But he refused to drink it. Instead, he poured it out as an offering to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:19 - Abishai was the most famous of the Thirty[fn] and was their commander, though he was not one of the Three.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:21 - Once, armed only with a club, he killed a great Egyptian warrior who was armed with a spear. Benaiah wrenched the spear from the Egyptian's hand and killed him with it.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:23 - He was more honored than the other members of the Thirty, though he was not one of the Three. And David made him captain of his bodyguard.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:27 - Abiezer from Anathoth;
Sibbecai[fn] from Hushah;
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:29 - Heled[fn] son of Baanah from Netophah;
Ithai[fn] son of Ribai from Gibeah (in the land of Benjamin);
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:30 - Benaiah from Pirathon;
Hurai[fn] from Nahale-gaash[fn];
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:5 - First they crossed the Jordan and camped at Aroer, south of the town in the valley, in the direction of Gad. Then they went on to Jazer,
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:15 - So the LORD sent a plague upon Israel that morning, and it lasted for three days.[fn] A total of 70,000 people died throughout the nation, from Dan in the north to Beersheba in the south.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:3 - So they searched throughout the land of Israel for a beautiful girl, and they found Abishag from Shunem and brought her to the king.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:29 - And the king repeated his vow: “As surely as the LORD lives, who has rescued me from every danger,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:39 - There Zadok the priest took the flask of olive oil from the sacred tent and anointed Solomon with the oil. Then they sounded the ram's horn and all the people shouted, “Long live King Solomon!”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:48 - and he said, ‘Praise the LORD, the God of Israel, who today has chosen a successor to sit on my throne while I am still alive to see it.'”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:8 - “And remember Shimei son of Gera, the man from Bahurim in Benjamin. He cursed me with a terrible curse as I was fleeing to Mahanaim. When he came down to meet me at the Jordan River, I swore by the LORD that I would not kill him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:19 - So Bathsheba went to King Solomon to speak on Adonijah's behalf. The king rose from his throne to meet her, and he bowed down before her. When he sat down on his throne again, the king ordered that a throne be brought for his mother, and she sat at his right hand.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:40 - he saddled his donkey and went to Gath to search for them. When he found them, he brought them back to Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:20 - Then she got up in the night and took my son from beside me while I was asleep. She laid her dead child in my arms and took mine to sleep beside her.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:12 - Baana son of Ahilud, in Taanach and Megiddo, all of Beth-shan[fn] near Zarethan below Jezreel, and all the territory from Beth-shan to Abel-meholah and over to Jokmeam.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:24 - Solomon's dominion extended over all the kingdoms west of the Euphrates River, from Tiphsah to Gaza. And there was peace on all his borders.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:6 - “Therefore, please command that cedars from Lebanon be cut for me. Let my men work alongside yours, and I will pay your men whatever wages you ask. As you know, there is no one among us who can cut timber like you Sidonians!”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:9 - My servants will bring the logs from the Lebanon mountains to the Mediterranean Sea[fn] and make them into rafts and float them along the coast to whatever place you choose. Then we will break the rafts apart so you can carry the logs away. You can pay me by supplying me with food for my household.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:13 - Then King Solomon conscripted a labor force of 30,000 men from all Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:8 - The entrance to the bottom floor[fn] was on the south side of the Temple. There were winding stairs going up to the second floor, and another flight of stairs between the second and third floors.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:16 - He partitioned off an inner sanctuary—the Most Holy Place—at the far end of the Temple. It was 30 feet deep and was paneled with cedar from floor to ceiling.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:9 - From foundation to eaves, all these buildings were built from huge blocks of high-quality stone, cut with saws and trimmed to exact measure on all sides.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:13 - King Solomon then asked for a man named Huram[fn] to come from Tyre.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:34 - There were handles at each of the four corners of the carts, and these, too, were cast as one unit with the cart.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:39 - He set five water carts on the south side of the Temple and five on the north side. The great bronze basin called the Sea was placed near the southeast corner of the Temple.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:47 - Solomon did not weigh all these things because there were so many; the weight of the bronze could not be measured.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:49 - the lampstands of solid gold, five on the south and five on the north, in front of the Most Holy Place;
the flower decorations, lamps, and tongs—all of gold;
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:1 - Solomon then summoned to Jerusalem the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes—the leaders of the ancestral families of the Israelites. They were to bring the Ark of the LORD's Covenant to the Temple from its location in the City of David, also known as Zion.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:8 - These poles were so long that their ends could be seen from the Temple's main room—the Holy Place—but not from the outside. They are still there to this day.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:9 - Nothing was in the Ark except the two stone tablets that Moses had placed in it at Mount Sinai,[fn] where the LORD made a covenant with the people of Israel when they left the land of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:10 - When the priests came out of the Holy Place, a thick cloud filled the Temple of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:19 - but you are not the one to do it. One of your own sons will build the Temple to honor me.'
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:21 - And I have prepared a place there for the Ark, which contains the covenant that the LORD made with our ancestors when he brought them out of Egypt.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:25 - “And now, O LORD, God of Israel, carry out the additional promise you made to your servant David, my father. For you said to him, ‘If your descendants guard their behavior and faithfully follow me as you have done, one of them will always sit on the throne of Israel.'
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:32 - then hear from heaven and judge between your servants—the accuser and the accused. Punish the guilty as they deserve. Acquit the innocent because of their innocence.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:34 - then hear from heaven and forgive the sin of your people Israel and return them to this land you gave their ancestors.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:36 - then hear from heaven and forgive the sins of your servants, your people Israel. Teach them to follow the right path, and send rain on your land that you have given to your people as their special possession.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:39 - then hear from heaven where you live, and forgive. Give your people what their actions deserve, for you alone know each human heart.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:43 - then hear from heaven where you live, and grant what they ask of you. In this way, all the people of the earth will come to know and fear you, just as your own people Israel do. They, too, will know that this Temple I have built honors your name.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:45 - then hear their prayers from heaven and uphold their cause.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:49 - then hear their prayers and their petition from heaven where you live, and uphold their cause.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:51 - for they are your people—your special possession—whom you brought out of the iron-smelting furnace of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:53 - For when you brought our ancestors out of Egypt, O Sovereign LORD, you told your servant Moses that you had set Israel apart from all the nations of the earth to be your own special possession.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:7 - then I will uproot Israel from this land that I have given them. I will reject this Temple that I have made holy to honor my name. I will make Israel an object of mockery and ridicule among the nations.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:12 - But when Hiram came from Tyre to see the towns Solomon had given him, he was not at all pleased with them.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:20 - There were still some people living in the land who were not Israelites, including Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:22 - But Solomon did not conscript any of the Israelites for forced labor. Instead, he assigned them to serve as fighting men, government officials, officers and captains in his army, commanders of his chariots, and charioteers.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:24 - Solomon moved his wife, Pharaoh's daughter, from the City of David to the new palace he had built for her. Then he constructed the supporting terraces.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:11 - (In addition, Hiram's ships brought gold from Ophir, and they also brought rich cargoes of red sandalwood[fn] and precious jewels.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:19 - The throne had six steps and a rounded back. There were armrests on both sides of the seat, and the figure of a lion stood on each side of the throne.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:22 - The king had a fleet of trading ships[fn] that sailed with Hiram's fleet. Once every three years the ships returned, loaded with gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:28 - Solomon's horses were imported from Egypt[fn] and from Cilicia[fn]; the king's traders acquired them from Cilicia at the standard price.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:2 - The LORD had clearly instructed the people of Israel, ‘You must not marry them, because they will turn your hearts to their gods.' Yet Solomon insisted on loving them anyway.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:11 - So now the LORD said to him, “Since you have not kept my covenant and have disobeyed my decrees, I will surely tear the kingdom away from you and give it to one of your servants.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:12 - But for the sake of your father, David, I will not do this while you are still alive. I will take the kingdom away from your son.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:14 - Then the LORD raised up Hadad the Edomite, a member of Edom's royal family, to be Solomon's adversary.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:16 - Joab and the army of Israel had stayed there for six months, killing them.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:18 - They set out from Midian and went to Paran, where others joined them. Then they traveled to Egypt and went to Pharaoh, who gave them a home, food, and some land.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:26 - Another rebel leader was Jeroboam son of Nebat, one of Solomon's own officials. He came from the town of Zeredah in Ephraim, and his mother was Zeruah, a widow.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:29 - One day as Jeroboam was leaving Jerusalem, the prophet Ahijah from Shiloh met him along the way. Ahijah was wearing a new cloak. The two of them were alone in a field,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:31 - Then he said to Jeroboam, “Take ten of these pieces, for this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I am about to tear the kingdom from the hand of Solomon, and I will give ten of the tribes to you!
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:32 - But I will leave him one tribe for the sake of my servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:34 - “‘But I will not take the entire kingdom from Solomon at this time. For the sake of my servant David, the one whom I chose and who obeyed my commands and decrees, I will keep Solomon as leader for the rest of his life.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:35 - But I will take the kingdom away from his son and give ten of the tribes to you.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:43 - When he died, he was buried in the City of David, named for his father. Then his son Rehoboam became the next king.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:28 - So on the advice of his counselors, the king made two gold calves. He said to the people,[fn] “It is too much trouble for you to worship in Jerusalem. Look, Israel, these are the gods who brought you out of Egypt!”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:31 - Jeroboam also erected buildings at the pagan shrines and ordained priests from the common people—those who were not from the priestly tribe of Levi.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:26 - When the prophet heard the report, he said, “It is the man of God who disobeyed the LORD's command. The LORD has fulfilled his word by causing the lion to attack and kill him.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:33 - But even after this, Jeroboam did not turn from his evil ways. He continued to choose priests from the common people. He appointed anyone who wanted to become a priest for the pagan shrines.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:21 - Meanwhile, 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 from among all the tribes of Israel as the place to honor his name. Rehoboam's mother was Naamah, an Ammonite woman.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:26 - He ransacked the treasuries of the LORD's Temple and the royal palace; he stole everything, including all the gold shields Solomon had made.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:17 - So Omri led the entire army of Israel up from Gibbethon to attack Tirzah, Israel's capital.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:1 - Now Elijah, who was from Tishbe in Gilead, told King Ahab, “As surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives—the God I serve—there will be no dew or rain during the next few years until I give the word!”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:4 - Drink from the brook and eat what the ravens bring you, for I have commanded them to bring you food.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:6 - The ravens brought him bread and meat each morning and evening, and he drank from the brook.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:19 - But Elijah replied, “Give me your son.” And he took the child's body from her arms, carried him up the stairs to the room where he was staying, and laid the body on his bed.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:12 - But as soon as I leave you, the Spirit of the LORD will carry you away to who knows where. When Ahab comes and cannot find you, he will kill me. Yet I have been a true servant of the LORD all my life.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:26 - So they prepared one of the bulls and placed it on the altar. Then they called on the name of Baal from morning until noontime, shouting, “O Baal, answer us!” But there was no reply of any kind. Then they danced, hobbling around the altar they had made.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:38 - Immediately the fire of the LORD flashed down from heaven and burned up the young bull, the wood, the stones, and the dust. It even licked up all the water in the trench!
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:7 - Then the angel of the LORD came again and touched him and said, “Get up and eat some more, or the journey ahead will be too much for you.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:17 - Anyone who escapes from Hazael will be killed by Jehu, and those who escape Jehu will be killed by Elisha!
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:17 - the troops of the provincial commanders marched out of the city as the first contingent.
As they approached, Ben-hadad's scouts reported to him, “Some troops are coming from Samaria.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:19 - But Ahab's provincial commanders and the entire army had now come out to fight.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:33 - The men took this as a good sign and quickly picked up on his words. “Yes,” they said, “your brother Ben-hadad!”
“Go and get him,” the king of Israel told them. And when Ben-hadad arrived, Ahab invited him up into his chariot.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:35 - Meanwhile, the LORD instructed one of the group of prophets to say to another man, “Hit me!” But the man refused to hit the prophet.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:41 - Then the prophet quickly pulled the bandage from his eyes, and the king of Israel recognized him as one of the prophets.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:42 - The prophet said to him, “This is what the LORD says: Because you have spared the man I said must be destroyed,[fn] now you must die in his place, and your people will die instead of his people.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:3 - During the visit, the king of Israel said to his officials, “Do you realize that the town of Ramoth-gilead belongs to us? And yet we've done nothing to recapture it from the king of Aram!”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:19 - Then Micaiah continued, “Listen to what the LORD says! I saw the LORD sitting on his throne with all the armies of heaven around him, on his right and on his left.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:34 - An Aramean soldier, however, randomly shot an arrow at the Israelite troops and hit the king of Israel between the joints of his armor. “Turn the horses[fn] and get me out of here!” Ahab groaned to the driver of his chariot. “I'm badly wounded!”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:35 - The battle raged all that day, and the king remained propped up in his chariot facing the Arameans. The blood from his wound ran down to the floor of his chariot, and as evening arrived he died.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:2 - One day Israel's new king, Ahaziah, fell through the latticework of an upper room at his palace in Samaria and was seriously injured. So he sent messengers to the temple of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, to ask whether he would recover.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:10 - But Elijah replied to the captain, “If I am a man of God, let fire come down from heaven and destroy you and your fifty men!” Then fire fell from heaven and killed them all.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:12 - Elijah replied, “If I am a man of God, let fire come down from heaven and destroy you and your fifty men!” And again the fire of God fell from heaven and killed them all.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:14 - See how the fire from heaven came down and destroyed the first two groups. But now please spare my life!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:1 - When the LORD was about to take Elijah up to heaven in a whirlwind, Elijah and Elisha were traveling from Gilgal.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:23 - Elisha left Jericho and went up to Bethel. As he was walking along the road, a group of boys from the town began mocking and making fun of him. “Go away, baldy!” they chanted. “Go away, baldy!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:24 - Elisha turned around and looked at them, and he cursed them in the name of the LORD. Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:6 - So King Joram promptly mustered the army of Israel and marched from Samaria.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:21 - Meanwhile, when the people of Moab heard about the three armies marching against them, they mobilized every man who was old enough to strap on a sword, and they stationed themselves along their border.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:40 - Some of the stew was served to the men. But after they had eaten a bite or two they cried out, “Man of God, there's poison in this stew!” So they would not eat it.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:42 - One day a man from Baal-shalishah brought the man of God a sack of fresh grain and twenty loaves of barley bread made from the first grain of his harvest. Elisha said, “Give it to the people so they can eat.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:2 - At this time Aramean raiders had invaded the land of Israel, and among their captives was a young girl who had been given to Naaman's wife as a maid.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:4 - So Naaman told the king what the young girl from Israel had said.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:17 - Then Naaman said, “All right, but please allow me to load two of my mules with earth from this place, and I will take it back home with me. From now on I will never again offer burnt offerings or sacrifices to any other god except the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:20 - But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha, the man of God, said to himself, “My master should not have let this Aramean get away without accepting any of his gifts. As surely as the LORD lives, I will chase after him and get something from him.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:24 - But when they arrived at the citadel,[fn] Gehazi took the gifts from the servants and sent the men back. Then he went and hid the gifts inside the house.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:27 - Because you have done this, you and your descendants will suffer from Naaman's leprosy forever.” When Gehazi left the room, he was covered with leprosy; his skin was white as snow.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:12 - The king got out of bed in the middle of the night and told his officers, “I know what has happened. The Arameans know we are starving, so they have left their camp and have hidden in the fields. They are expecting us to leave the city, and then they will take us alive and capture the city.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:3 - After the famine ended she returned from the land of the Philistines, and she went to see the king about getting back her house and land.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:8 - the king said to Hazael, “Take a gift to the man of God. Then tell him to ask the LORD, ‘Will I recover from this illness?'”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:9 - So Hazael loaded down forty camels with the finest products of Damascus as a gift for Elisha. He went to him and said, “Your servant Ben-hadad, the king of Aram, has sent me to ask, ‘Will I recover from this illness?'”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:2 - and find Jehu son of Jehoshaphat, son of Nimshi. Call him into a private room away from his friends,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:5 - When he arrived there, he found Jehu sitting around with the other army officers. “I have a message for you, Commander,” he said.
“For which one of us?” Jehu asked.
“For you, Commander,” he replied.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:7 - You are to destroy the family of Ahab, your master. In this way, I will avenge the murder of my prophets and all the LORD's servants who were killed by Jezebel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:8 - The entire family of Ahab must be wiped out. I will destroy every one of his male descendants, slave and free alike, anywhere in Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:15 - But King Joram[fn] was wounded in the fighting and returned to Jezreel to recover from his wounds.) So Jehu told the men with him, “If you want me to be king, don't let anyone leave town and go to Jezreel to report what we have done.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:2 - But Ahaziah's sister Jehosheba, the daughter of King Jehoram,[fn] took Ahaziah's infant son, Joash, and stole him away from among the rest of the king's children, who were about to be killed. She put Joash and his nurse in a bedroom to hide him from Athaliah, so the child was not murdered.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:1 - [fn]Joash[fn] began to rule over Judah in the seventh year of King Jehu's reign in Israel. He reigned in Jerusalem forty years. His mother was Zibiah from Beersheba.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:13 - The money brought to the Temple was not used for making silver bowls, lamp snuffers, basins, trumpets, or other articles of gold or silver for the Temple of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:25 - Then Jehoash son of Jehoahaz recaptured from Ben-hadad son of Hazael the towns that had been taken from Jehoash's father, Jehoahaz. Jehoash defeated Ben-hadad on three occasions, and he recovered the Israelite towns.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:25 - Jeroboam II recovered the territories of Israel between Lebo-hamath and the Dead Sea,[fn] just as the LORD, the God of Israel, had promised through Jonah son of Amittai, the prophet from Gath-hepher.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:14 - Then Menahem son of Gadi went to Samaria from Tirzah and assassinated him, and he became the next king.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:7 - King Ahaz sent messengers to King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria with this message: “I am your servant and your vassal.[fn] Come up and rescue me from the attacking armies of Aram and Israel.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:11 - Uriah followed the king's instructions and built an altar just like it, and it was ready before the king returned from Damascus.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:7 - This disaster came upon the people of Israel because they worshiped other gods. They sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them safely out of Egypt and had rescued them from the power of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:11 - They offered sacrifices on all the hilltops, just like the nations the LORD had driven from the land ahead of them. So the people of Israel had done many evil things, arousing the LORD's anger.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:24 - The king of Assyria transported groups of people from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sepharvaim and resettled them in the towns of Samaria, replacing the people of Israel. They took possession of Samaria and lived in its towns.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:36 - But worship only the LORD, who brought you out of Egypt with great strength and a powerful arm. Bow down to him alone, and offer sacrifices only to him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:39 - You must worship only the LORD your God. He is the one who will rescue you from all your enemies.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:17 - Nevertheless, the king of Assyria sent his commander in chief, his field commander, and his chief of staff[fn] from Lachish with a huge army to confront King Hezekiah in Jerusalem. The Assyrians took up a position beside the aqueduct that feeds water into the upper pool, near the road leading to the field where cloth is washed.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:29 - This is what the king says: Don't let Hezekiah deceive you. He will never be able to rescue you from my power.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:33 - Have the gods of any other nations ever saved their people from the king of Assyria?
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:34 - What happened to the gods of Hamath and Arpad? And what about the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah? Did any god rescue Samaria from my power?
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:35 - What god of any nation has ever been able to save its people from my power? So what makes you think that the LORD can rescue Jerusalem from me?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:14 - After Hezekiah received the letter from the messengers and read it, he went up to the LORD's Temple and spread it out before the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:19 - Now, O LORD our God, rescue us from his power; then all the kingdoms of the earth will know that you alone, O LORD, are God.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:6 - I will add fifteen years to your life, and I will rescue you and this city from the king of Assyria. I will defend this city for my own honor and for the sake of my servant David.'”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:14 - Then Isaiah the prophet went to King Hezekiah and asked him, “What did those men want? Where were they from?”
Hezekiah replied, “They came from the distant land of Babylon.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:18 - Some of your very own sons will be taken away into exile. They will become eunuchs who will serve in the palace of Babylon's king.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:7 - Manasseh even made a carved image of Asherah and set it up in the Temple, the very place where the LORD had told David and his son Solomon: “My name will be honored forever in this Temple and in Jerusalem—the city I have chosen from among all the tribes of Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:9 - But the people refused to listen, and Manasseh led them to do even more evil than the pagan nations that the LORD had destroyed when the people of Israel entered the land.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:1 - Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem thirty-one years. His mother was Jedidah, the daughter of Adaiah from Bozkath.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:4 - Then the king instructed Hilkiah the high priest and the priests of the second rank and the Temple gatekeepers to remove from the LORD's Temple all the articles that were used to worship Baal, Asherah, and all the powers of the heavens. The king had all these things burned outside Jerusalem on the terraces of the Kidron Valley, and he carried the ashes away to Bethel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:8 - Josiah brought to Jerusalem all the priests who were living in other towns of Judah. He also defiled the pagan shrines, where they had offered sacrifices—all the way from Geba to Beersheba. He destroyed the shrines at the entrance to the gate of Joshua, the governor of Jerusalem. This gate was located to the left of the city gate as one enters the city.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:13 - The king also desecrated the pagan shrines east of Jerusalem, to the south of the Mount of Corruption, where King Solomon of Israel had built shrines for Ashtoreth, the detestable goddess of the Sidonians; and for Chemosh, the detestable god of the Moabites; and for Molech,[fn] the vile god of the Ammonites.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:16 - Then Josiah turned around and noticed several tombs in the side of the hill. He ordered that the bones be brought out, and he burned them on the altar at Bethel to desecrate it. (This happened just as the LORD had promised through the man of God when Jeroboam stood beside the altar at the festival.)
Then Josiah turned and looked up at the tomb of the man of God[fn] who had predicted these things.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:18 - Josiah replied, “Leave it alone. Don't disturb his bones.” So they did not burn his bones or those of the old prophet from Samaria.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:30 - Josiah's officers took his body back in a chariot from Megiddo to Jerusalem and buried him in his own tomb. Then the people of the land anointed Josiah's son Jehoahaz and made him the next king.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:31 - Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. His mother was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah from Libnah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:36 - Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. His mother was Zebidah, the daughter of Pedaiah from Rumah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:7 - The king of Egypt did not venture out of his country after that, for the king of Babylon captured the entire area formerly claimed by Egypt—from the Brook of Egypt to the Euphrates River.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:19 - And from among the people still hiding in the city, he took an officer who had been in charge of the Judean army; five of the king's personal advisers; the army commander's chief secretary, who was in charge of recruitment; and sixty other citizens.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:25 - But in midautumn of that year,[fn] Ishmael son of Nethaniah and grandson of Elishama, who was of the royal family, went to Mizpah with ten men and killed Gedaliah. He also killed all the Judeans and Babylonians who were with Gedaliah at Mizpah.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:44 - When Bela died, Jobab son of Zerah from Bozrah became king in his place.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:45 - When Jobab died, Husham from the land of the Temanites became king in his place.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:47 - When Hadad died, Samlah from the city of Masrekah became king in his place.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:48 - When Samlah died, Shaul from the city of Rehoboth-on-the-River became king in his place.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:3 - Judah had three sons from Bathshua, a Canaanite woman. Their names were Er, Onan, and Shelah. But the LORD saw that the oldest son, Er, was a wicked man, so he killed him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:53 - and the families of Kiriath-jearim—the Ithrites, Puthites, Shumathites, and Mishraites, from whom came the people of Zorah and Eshtaol.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:55 - and the families of scribes living at Jabez—the Tirathites, Shimeathites, and Sucathites. All these were Kenites who descended from Hammath, the father of the family of Recab.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:40 - They found lush pastures there, and the land was quiet and peaceful.
Some of Ham's descendants had been living in that region.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:33 - These are the men who served, along with their sons: Heman the musician was from the clan of Kohath. His genealogy was traced back through Joel, Samuel,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:60 - And from the territory of Benjamin they were given Gibeon,[fn] Geba, Alemeth, and Anathoth, each with its pasturelands. So thirteen towns were given to the descendants of Aaron.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:61 - The remaining descendants of Kohath received ten towns from the territory of the half-tribe of Manasseh by means of sacred lots.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:62 - The descendants of Gershon received by sacred lots thirteen towns from the territories of Issachar, Asher, Naphtali, and from the Bashan area of Manasseh, east of the Jordan.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:63 - The descendants of Merari received by sacred lots twelve towns from the territories of Reuben, Gad, and Zebulun.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:65 - The towns in the territories of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin, mentioned above, were assigned to them by means of sacred lots.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:66 - The descendants of Kohath were given the following towns from the territory of Ephraim, each with its pasturelands:
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:71 - The descendants of Gershon received the towns of Golan (in Bashan) and Ashtaroth from the territory of the half-tribe of Manasseh, each with its pasturelands.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:72 - From the territory of Issachar, they were given Kedesh, Daberath,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:74 - From the territory of Asher, they received Mashal, Abdon,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:77 - The remaining descendants of Merari received the towns of Jokneam, Kartah,[fn] Rimmon,[fn] and Tabor from the territory of Zebulun, each with its pasturelands.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:78 - From the territory of Reuben, east of the Jordan River opposite Jericho, they received Bezer (a desert town), Jahaz,[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:80 - And from the territory of Gad, they received Ramoth in Gilead, Mahanaim,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 8:9 - His wife Hodesh gave birth to Jobab, Zibia, Mesha, Malcam,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 8:11 - Shaharaim's wife Hushim had already given birth to Abitub and Elpaal.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:5 - Others returned from the Shilonite clan, including Asaiah (the oldest) and his sons.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:6 - From the Zerahite clan, Jeuel returned with his relatives. In all, 690 families from the tribe of Judah returned.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:7 - From the tribe of Benjamin came Sallu son of Meshullam, son of Hodaviah, son of Hassenuah;
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:14 - The Levites who returned were Shemaiah son of Hasshub, son of Azrikam, son of Hashabiah, a descendant of Merari;
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:31 - Mattithiah, a Levite and the oldest son of Shallum the Korahite, was entrusted with baking the bread used in the offerings.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:32 - And some members of the clan of Kohath were in charge of preparing the bread to be set on the table each Sabbath day.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 10:12 - all their mighty warriors brought the bodies of Saul and his sons back to Jabesh. Then they buried their bones beneath the great tree at Jabesh, and they fasted for seven days.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:15 - Once when David was at the rock near the cave of Adullam, the Philistine army was camped in the valley of Rephaim. The Three (who were among the Thirty—an elite group among David's fighting men) went down to meet him there.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:17 - David remarked longingly to his men, “Oh, how I would love some of that good water from the well by the gate in Bethlehem.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:18 - So the Three broke through the Philistine lines, drew some water from the well by the gate in Bethlehem, and brought it back to David. But David refused to drink it. Instead, he poured it out as an offering to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:23 - Once, armed only with a club, he killed an Egyptian warrior who was 7½ feet[fn] tall and whose spear was as thick as a weaver's beam. Benaiah wrenched the spear from the Egyptian's hand and killed him with it.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:26 - David's mighty warriors also included:
Asahel, Joab's brother;
Elhanan son of Dodo from Bethlehem;
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:31 - Ithai son of Ribai from Gibeah (in the land of Benjamin);
Benaiah from Pirathon;
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:32 - Hurai from near Nahale-gaash[fn];
Abi-albon[fn] from Arabah;
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:2 - All of them were expert archers, and they could shoot arrows or sling stones with their left hand as well as their right. They were all relatives of Saul from the tribe of Benjamin.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:14 - These warriors from Gad were army commanders. The weakest among them could take on a hundred regular troops, and the strongest could take on a thousand!
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:29 - From the tribe of Benjamin, Saul's relatives, there were 3,000 warriors. Most of the men from Benjamin had remained loyal to Saul until this time.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:37 - From the east side of the Jordan River—where the tribes of Reuben and Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh lived—there were 120,000 troops armed with every kind of weapon.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 13:5 - So David summoned all Israel, from the Shihor Brook of Egypt in the south all the way to the town of Lebo-hamath in the north, to join in bringing the Ark of God from Kiriath-jearim.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:17 - So the Levites appointed Heman son of Joel along with his fellow Levites: Asaph son of Berekiah, and Ethan son of Kushaiah from the clan of Merari.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:4 - David appointed the following Levites to lead the people in worship before the Ark of the LORD—to invoke his blessings, to give thanks, and to praise the LORD, the God of Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:35 - Cry out, “Save us, O God of our salvation!
Gather and rescue us from among the nations,
so we can thank your holy name
and rejoice and praise you.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:7 - “Now go and say to my servant David, ‘This is what the LORD of Heaven's Armies has declared: I took you from tending sheep in the pasture and selected you to be the leader of my people Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:11 - For when you die and join your ancestors, I will raise up one of your descendants, one of your sons, and I will make his kingdom strong.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:17 - And now, O God, in addition to everything else, you speak of giving your servant a lasting dynasty! You speak as though I were someone very great,[fn] O LORD God!
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 18:1 - After this, David defeated and subdued the Philistines by conquering Gath and its surrounding towns.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 18:5 - When Arameans from Damascus arrived to help King Hadadezer, David killed 22,000 of them.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 18:8 - along with a large amount of bronze from Hadadezer's towns of Tebah[fn] and Cun. Later Solomon melted the bronze and molded it into the great bronze basin called the Sea, the pillars, and the various bronze articles used at the Temple.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 18:11 - King David dedicated all these gifts to the LORD, along with the silver and gold he had taken from the other nations—from Edom, Moab, Ammon, Philistia, and Amalek.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:6 - When the people of Ammon realized how seriously they had angered David, Hanun and the Ammonites sent 75,000 pounds[fn] of silver to hire chariots and charioteers from Aram-naharaim, Aram-maacah, and Zobah.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:7 - They also hired 32,000 chariots and secured the support of the king of Maacah and his army. These forces camped at Medeba, where they were joined by the Ammonite troops that Hanun had recruited from his own towns.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:10 - When Joab saw that he would have to fight on both the front and the rear, he chose some of Israel's elite troops and placed them under his personal command to fight the Arameans in the fields.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:16 - The Arameans now realized that they were no match for Israel, so they sent messengers and summoned additional Aramean troops from the other side of the Euphrates River.[fn] These troops were under the command of Shobach,[fn] the commander of Hadadezer's forces.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:12 - You may choose three years of famine, three months of destruction by the sword of your enemies, or three days of severe plague as the angel of the LORD brings devastation throughout the land of Israel. Decide what answer I should give the LORD who sent me.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:21 - When Araunah saw David approaching, he left his threshing floor and bowed before David with his face to the ground.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:22 - David said to Araunah, “Let me buy this threshing floor from you at its full price. Then I will build an altar to the LORD there, so that he will stop the plague.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:26 - David built an altar there to the LORD and sacrificed burnt offerings and peace offerings. And when David prayed, the LORD answered him by sending fire from heaven to burn up the offering on the altar.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 24:3 - With the help of Zadok, who was a descendant of Eleazar, and of Ahimelech, who was a descendant of Ithamar, David divided Aaron's descendants into groups according to their various duties.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 24:6 - Shemaiah son of Nethanel, a Levite, acted as secretary and wrote down the names and assignments in the presence of the king, the officials, Zadok the priest, Ahimelech son of Abiathar, and the family leaders of the priests and Levites. The descendants of Eleazar and Ithamar took turns casting lots.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:1 - These are the divisions of the gatekeepers: From the Korahites, there was Meshelemiah son of Kore, of the family of Abiasaph.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:27 - These men dedicated some of the plunder they had gained in battle to maintain the house of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:1 - This is the list of Israelite generals and captains,[fn] and their officers, who served the king by supervising the army divisions that were on duty each month of the year. Each division served for one month and had 24,000 troops.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:10 - Helez, a descendant of Ephraim from Pelon, was commander of the seventh division of 24,000 troops, which was on duty during the seventh month.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:12 - Abiezer from Anathoth in the territory of Benjamin was commander of the ninth division of 24,000 troops, which was on duty during the ninth month.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:13 - Maharai, a descendant of Zerah from Netophah, was commander of the tenth division of 24,000 troops, which was on duty during the tenth month.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:14 - Benaiah from Pirathon in Ephraim was commander of the eleventh division of 24,000 troops, which was on duty during the eleventh month.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:27 - Shimei from Ramah was in charge of the king's vineyards. Zabdi from Shepham was responsible for the grapes and the supplies of wine.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:30 - Obil the Ishmaelite was in charge of the camels. Jehdeiah from Meronoth was in charge of the donkeys.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:18 - He designated the amount of refined gold for the altar of incense. Finally, he gave him a plan for the LORD's “chariot”—the gold cherubim[fn] whose wings were stretched out over the Ark of the LORD's Covenant.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:4 - I am donating more than 112 tons of gold[fn] from Ophir and 262 tons of refined silver[fn] to be used for overlaying the walls of the buildings
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:14 - But who am I, and who are my people, that we could give anything to you? Everything we have has come from you, and we give you only what you first gave us!
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:16 - “O LORD our God, even this material we have gathered to build a Temple to honor your holy name comes from you! It all belongs to you!
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:22 - They feasted and drank in the LORD's presence with great joy that day.
And again they crowned David's son Solomon as their new king. They anointed him before the LORD as their leader, and they anointed Zadok as priest.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 1:4 - David had already moved the Ark of God from Kiriath-jearim to the tent he had prepared for it in Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 1:13 - Then Solomon returned to Jerusalem from the Tabernacle at the place of worship in Gibeon, and he reigned over Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:8 - “Also send me cedar, cypress, and red sandalwood[fn] logs from Lebanon, for I know that your men are without equal at cutting timber in Lebanon. I will send my men to help them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:16 - We will cut whatever timber you need from the Lebanon mountains and will float the logs in rafts down the coast of the Mediterranean Sea[fn] to Joppa. From there you can transport the logs up to Jerusalem.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 3:6 - He decorated the walls of the Temple with beautiful jewels and with gold from the land of Parvaim.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 3:10 - He made two figures shaped like cherubim, overlaid them with gold, and placed them in the Most Holy Place.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 3:17 - Then he set up the two pillars at the entrance of the Temple, one to the south of the entrance and the other to the north. He named the one on the south Jakin, and the one on the north Boaz.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:6 - He also made ten smaller basins for washing the utensils for the burnt offerings. He set five on the south side and five on the north. But the priests washed themselves in the Sea.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:7 - He then cast ten gold lampstands according to the specifications that had been given, and he put them in the Temple. Five were placed against the south wall, and five were placed against the north wall.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:8 - He also built ten tables and placed them in the Temple, five along the south wall and five along the north wall. Then he molded 100 gold basins.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:10 - The great bronze basin called the Sea was placed near the southeast corner of the Temple.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 5:2 - Solomon then summoned to Jerusalem the elders of Israel and all the heads of tribes—the leaders of the ancestral families of Israel. They were to bring the Ark of the LORD's Covenant to the Temple from its location in the City of David, also known as Zion.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 5:9 - These poles were so long that their ends could be seen from the Temple's main room—the Holy Place[fn]—but not from the outside. They are still there to this day.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 5:10 - Nothing was in the Ark except the two stone tablets that Moses had placed in it at Mount Sinai,[fn] where the LORD made a covenant with the people of Israel when they left Egypt.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 5:11 - Then the priests left the Holy Place. All the priests who were present had purified themselves, whether or not they were on duty that day.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:5 - ‘From the day I brought my people out of the land of Egypt, I have never chosen a city among any of the tribes of Israel as the place where a Temple should be built to honor my name. Nor have I chosen a king to lead my people Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:9 - but you are not the one to do it. One of your own sons will build the Temple to honor me.'
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:21 - May you hear the humble and earnest requests from me and your people Israel when we pray toward this place. Yes, hear us from heaven where you live, and when you hear, forgive.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:23 - then hear from heaven and judge between your servants—the accuser and the accused. Pay back the guilty as they deserve. Acquit the innocent because of their innocence.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:25 - then hear from heaven and forgive the sin of your people Israel and return them to this land you gave to them and to their ancestors.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:27 - then hear from heaven and forgive the sins of your servants, your people Israel. Teach them to follow the right path, and send rain on your land that you have given to your people as their special possession.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:30 - then hear from heaven where you live, and forgive. Give your people what their actions deserve, for you alone know each human heart.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:32 - “In the future, foreigners who do not belong to your people Israel will hear of you. They will come from distant lands when they hear of your great name and your strong hand and your powerful arm. And when they pray toward this Temple,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:33 - then hear from heaven where you live, and grant what they ask of you. In this way, all the people of the earth will come to know and fear you, just as your own people Israel do. They, too, will know that this Temple I have built honors your name.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:35 - then hear their prayers from heaven and uphold their cause.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:39 - then hear their prayers and their petitions from heaven where you live, and uphold their cause. Forgive your people who have sinned against you.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:1 - When Solomon finished praying, fire flashed down from heaven and burned up the burnt offerings and sacrifices, and the glorious presence of the LORD filled the Temple.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:14 - Then if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and restore their land.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:20 - then I will uproot the people from this land that I have given them. I will reject this Temple that I have made holy to honor my name. I will make it an object of mockery and ridicule among the nations.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:22 - “And the answer will be, ‘Because his people abandoned the LORD, the God of their ancestors, who brought them out of Egypt, and they worshiped other gods instead and bowed down to them. That is why he has brought all these disasters on them.'”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:7 - There were still some people living in the land who were not Israelites, including the Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:8 - These were descendants of the nations whom the people of Israel had not destroyed. So Solomon conscripted them for his labor force, and they serve in the labor force to this day.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:9 - But Solomon did not conscript any of the Israelites for his labor force. Instead, he assigned them to serve as fighting men, officers in his army, commanders of his chariots, and charioteers.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:11 - Solomon moved his wife, Pharaoh's daughter, from the City of David to the new palace he had built for her. He said, “My wife must not live in King David's palace, for the Ark of the LORD has been there, and it is holy ground.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:10 - (In addition, the crews of Hiram and Solomon brought gold from Ophir, and they also brought red sandalwood[fn] and precious jewels.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:21 - The king had a fleet of trading ships[fn] manned by the sailors sent by Hiram.[fn] Once every three years the ships returned, loaded with gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:28 - Solomon's horses were imported from Egypt[fn] and many other countries.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:13 - But all the priests and Levites living among the northern tribes of Israel sided with Rehoboam.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 12:13 - King Rehoboam firmly established himself in Jerusalem and continued to rule. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the LORD had chosen from among all the tribes of Israel as the place to honor his name. Rehoboam's mother was Naamah, a woman from Ammon.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:9 - But you have chased away the priests of the LORD (the descendants of Aaron) and the Levites, and you have appointed your own priests, just like the pagan nations. You let anyone become a priest these days! Whoever comes to be dedicated with a young bull and seven rams can become a priest of these so-called gods of yours!
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:13 - Meanwhile, Jeroboam had secretly sent part of his army around behind the men of Judah to ambush them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:14 - When Judah realized that they were being attacked from the front and the rear, they cried out to the LORD for help. Then the priests blew the trumpets,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:2 - Asa responded by removing the silver and gold from the treasuries of the Temple of the LORD and the royal palace. He sent it to King Ben-hadad of Aram, who was ruling in Damascus, along with this message:
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:17 - From Benjamin there were 200,000 troops equipped with bows and shields. They were under the command of Eliada, a veteran soldier.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:18 - Then Micaiah continued, “Listen to what the LORD says! I saw the LORD sitting on his throne with all the armies of heaven around him, on his right and on his left.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:24 - And Micaiah replied, “You will find out soon enough when you are trying to hide in some secret room!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:33 - An Aramean soldier, however, randomly shot an arrow at the Israelite troops and hit the king of Israel between the joints of his armor. “Turn the horses[fn] and get me out of here!” Ahab groaned to the driver of the chariot. “I'm badly wounded!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:1 - After this, the armies of the Moabites, Ammonites, and some of the Meunites[fn] declared war on Jehoshaphat.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:2 - Messengers came and told Jehoshaphat, “A vast army from Edom[fn] is marching against you from beyond the Dead Sea.[fn] They are already at Hazazon-tamar.” (This was another name for En-gedi.)
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:10 - “And now see what the armies of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir are doing. You would not let our ancestors invade those nations when Israel left Egypt, so they went around them and did not destroy them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 22:11 - But Ahaziah's sister Jehosheba,[fn] the daughter of King Jehoram, took Ahaziah's infant son, Joash, and stole him away from among the rest of the king's children, who were about to be killed. She put Joash and his nurse in a bedroom. In this way, Jehosheba, wife of Jehoiada the priest and sister of Ahaziah, hid the child so that Athaliah could not murder him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:2 - These men traveled secretly throughout Judah and summoned the Levites and clan leaders in all the towns to come to Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:1 - Joash was seven years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem forty years. His mother was Zibiah from Beersheba.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:15 - This made the LORD very angry, and he sent a prophet to ask, “Why do you turn to gods who could not even save their own people from you?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:18 - They confronted King Uzziah and said, “It is not for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to the LORD. That is the work of the priests alone, the descendants of Aaron who are set apart for this work. Get out of the sanctuary, for you have sinned. The LORD God will not honor you for this!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:5 - He said to them, “Listen to me, you Levites! Purify yourselves, and purify the Temple of the LORD, the God of your ancestors. Remove all the defiled things from the sanctuary.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:12 - Then these Levites got right to work:
From the clan of Kohath: Mahath son of Amasai and Joel son of Azariah.
From the clan of Merari: Kish son of Abdi and Azariah son of Jehallelel.
From the clan of Gershon: Joah son of Zimmah and Eden son of Joah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:10 - The runners went from town to town throughout Ephraim and Manasseh and as far as the territory of Zebulun. But most of the people just laughed at the runners and made fun of them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:16 - Then they took their places at the Temple as prescribed in the Law of Moses, the man of God. The Levites brought the sacrificial blood to the priests, who then sprinkled it on the altar.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:3 - The king also made a personal contribution of animals for the daily morning and evening burnt offerings, the weekly Sabbath festivals, the monthly new moon festivals, and the annual festivals as prescribed in the Law of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:11 - Hezekiah has said, ‘The LORD our God will rescue us from the king of Assyria.' Surely Hezekiah is misleading you, sentencing you to death by famine and thirst!
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:13 - “Surely you must realize what I and the other kings of Assyria before me have done to all the people of the earth! Were any of the gods of those nations able to rescue their people from my power?
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:14 - Which of their gods was able to rescue its people from the destructive power of my predecessors? What makes you think your God can rescue you from me?
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:15 - Don't let Hezekiah deceive you! Don't let him fool you like this! I say it again—no god of any nation or kingdom has ever yet been able to rescue his people from me or my ancestors. How much less will your God rescue you from my power!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:17 - The king also sent letters scorning the LORD, the God of Israel. He wrote, “Just as the gods of all the other nations failed to rescue their people from my power, so the God of Hezekiah will also fail.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:21 - And the LORD sent an angel who destroyed the Assyrian army with all its commanders and officers. So Sennacherib was forced to return home in disgrace to his own land. And when he entered the temple of his god, some of his own sons killed him there with a sword.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:22 - That is how the LORD rescued Hezekiah and the people of Jerusalem from King Sennacherib of Assyria and from all the others who threatened them. So there was peace throughout the land.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:7 - Manasseh even took a carved idol he had made and set it up in God's Temple, the very place where God had told David and his son Solomon: “My name will be honored forever in this Temple and in Jerusalem—the city I have chosen from among all the tribes of Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:9 - They gave Hilkiah the high priest the money that had been collected by the Levites who served as gatekeepers at the Temple of God. The gifts were brought by people from Manasseh, Ephraim, and from all the remnant of Israel, as well as from all Judah, Benjamin, and the people of Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:12 - The workers served faithfully under the leadership of Jahath and Obadiah, Levites of the Merarite clan, and Zechariah and Meshullam, Levites of the Kohathite clan. Other Levites, all of whom were skilled musicians,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:33 - So Josiah removed all detestable idols from the entire land of Israel and required everyone to worship the LORD their God. And throughout the rest of his lifetime, they did not turn away from the LORD, the God of their ancestors.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:11 - The Levites then slaughtered the Passover lambs and presented the blood to the priests, who sprinkled the blood on the altar while the Levites prepared the animals.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:2 - Jehoahaz[fn] was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:5 - Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD his God.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:12 - He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD his God, and he refused to humble himself when the prophet Jeremiah spoke to him directly from the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:23 - “This is what King Cyrus of Persia says: “The LORD, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth. He has appointed me to build him a Temple at Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Any of you who are the LORD's people may go there for this task. And may the LORD your God be with you!”
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 1:11 - In all, there were 5,400 articles of gold and silver. Sheshbazzar brought all of these along when the exiles went from Babylon to Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:11 - “Those who violate this decree in any way will have a beam pulled from their house. Then they will be tied to it and flogged, and their house will be reduced to a pile of rubble.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:6 - This Ezra was a scribe who was well versed in the Law of Moses, which the LORD, the God of Israel, had given to the people of Israel. He came up to Jerusalem from Babylon, and the king gave him everything he asked for, because the gracious hand of the LORD his God was on him.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:19 - They vowed to divorce their wives, and they each acknowledged their guilt by offering a ram as a guilt offering.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:25 - Palal son of Uzai carried on the work from a point opposite the angle and the tower that projects up from the king's upper house beside the court of the guard. Next to him were Pedaiah son of Parosh,
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:12 - The Jews who lived near the enemy came and told us again and again, “They will come from all directions and attack us!”[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:13 - I shook out the folds of my robe and said, “If you fail to keep your promise, may God shake you like this from your homes and from your property!”
The whole assembly responded, “Amen,” and they praised the LORD. And the people did as they had promised.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:4 - Ezra the scribe stood on a high wooden platform that had been made for the occasion. To his right stood Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Uriah, Hilkiah, and Maaseiah. To his left stood Pedaiah, Mishael, Malkijah, Hashum, Hashbaddanah, Zechariah, and Meshullam.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:7 - “You are the LORD God, who chose Abram and brought him from Ur of the Chaldeans and renamed him Abraham.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:15 - “You gave them bread from heaven when they were hungry and water from the rock when they were thirsty. You commanded them to go and take possession of the land you had sworn to give them.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:27 - So you handed them over to their enemies, who made them suffer. But in their time of trouble they cried to you, and you heard them from heaven. In your great mercy, you sent them liberators who rescued them from their enemies.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:31 - I led the leaders of Judah to the top of the wall and organized two large choirs to give thanks. One of the choirs proceeded southward[fn] along the top of the wall to the Dung Gate.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:19 - Then I commanded that the gates of Jerusalem should be shut as darkness fell every Friday evening,[fn] not to be opened until the Sabbath ended. I sent some of my own servants to guard the gates so that no merchandise could be brought in on the Sabbath day.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:5 - At that time there was a Jewish man in the fortress of Susa whose name was Mordecai son of Jair. He was from the tribe of Benjamin and was a descendant of Kish and Shimei.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:9 - Hegai was very impressed with Esther and treated her kindly. He quickly ordered a special menu for her and provided her with beauty treatments. He also assigned her seven maids specially chosen from the king's palace, and he moved her and her maids into the best place in the harem.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:7 - So in the month of April,[fn] during the twelfth year of King Xerxes' reign, lots were cast in Haman's presence (the lots were called purim) to determine the best day and month to take action. And the day selected was March 7, nearly a year later.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:8 - Mordecai gave Hathach a copy of the decree issued in Susa that called for the death of all Jews. He asked Hathach to show it to Esther and explain the situation to her. He also asked Hathach to direct her to go to the king to beg for mercy and plead for her people.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:13 - When Haman told his wife, Zeresh, and all his friends what had happened, his wise advisers and his wife said, “Since Mordecai—this man who has humiliated you—is of Jewish birth, you will never succeed in your plans against him. It will be fatal to continue opposing him.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 7:7 - Then the king jumped to his feet in a rage and went out into the palace garden.
Haman, however, stayed behind to plead for his life with Queen Esther, for he knew that the king intended to kill him.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 7:8 - In despair he fell on the couch where Queen Esther was reclining, just as the king was returning from the palace garden.
The king exclaimed, “Will he even assault the queen right here in the palace, before my very eyes?” And as soon as the king spoke, his attendants covered Haman's face, signaling his doom.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:8 - Now go ahead and send a message to the Jews in the king's name, telling them whatever you want, and seal it with the king's signet ring. But remember that whatever has already been written in the king's name and sealed with his signet ring can never be revoked.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:28 - These days would be remembered and kept from generation to generation and celebrated by every family throughout the provinces and cities of the empire. This Festival of Purim would never cease to be celebrated among the Jews, nor would the memory of what happened ever die out among their descendants.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:16 - While he was still speaking, another messenger arrived with this news: “The fire of God has fallen from heaven and burned up your sheep and all the shepherds. I am the only one who escaped to tell you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:19 - Suddenly, a powerful wind swept in from the wilderness and hit the house on all sides. The house collapsed, and all your children are dead. I am the only one who escaped to tell you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:21 - He said,
“I came naked from my mother's womb,
and I will be naked when I leave.
The LORD gave me what I had,
and the LORD has taken it away.
Praise the name of the LORD!”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:9 - His wife said to him, “Are you still trying to maintain your integrity? Curse God and die.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:10 - But Job replied, “You talk like a foolish woman. Should we accept only good things from the hand of God and never anything bad?” So in all this, Job said nothing wrong.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:11 - When three of Job's friends heard of the tragedy he had suffered, they got together and traveled from their homes to comfort and console him. Their names were Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:11 - “Why wasn't I born dead?
Why didn't I die as I came from the womb?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:16 - Why wasn't I buried like a stillborn child,
like a baby who never lives to see the light?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:19 - how much less will he trust people made of clay!
They are made of dust, crushed as easily as a moth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:5 - The hungry devour their harvest,
even when it is guarded by brambles.[fn]
The thirsty pant after their wealth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:6 - But evil does not spring from the soil,
and trouble does not sprout from the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:15 - He rescues the poor from the cutting words of the strong,
and rescues them from the clutches of the powerful.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:20 - He will save you from death in time of famine,
from the power of the sword in time of war.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:23 - Have I asked you to rescue me from my enemies,
or to save me from ruthless people?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:10 - But those who came before us will teach you.
They will teach you the wisdom of old.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:16 - The godless seem like a lush plant growing in the sunshine,
its branches spreading across the garden.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:19 - That's the end of its life,
and others spring up from the earth to replace it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:3 - If someone wanted to take God to court,[fn]
would it be possible to answer him even once in a thousand times?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:6 - He shakes the earth from its place,
and its foundations tremble.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:7 - Although you know I am not guilty,
no one can rescue me from your hands.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:18 - “‘Why, then, did you deliver me from my mother's womb?
Why didn't you let me die at birth?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:19 - It would be as though I had never existed,
going directly from the womb to the grave.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 11:17 - Your life will be brighter than the noonday.
Even darkness will be as bright as morning.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 11:18 - Having hope will give you courage.
You will be protected and will rest in safety.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:22 - “He uncovers mysteries hidden in darkness;
he brings light to the deepest gloom.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:18 - “But instead, as mountains fall and crumble
and as rocks fall from a cliff,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:13 - that you turn against God
and say all these evil things?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:4 - You may tear out your hair in anger,
but will that destroy the earth?
Will it make the rocks tremble?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:14 - They are torn from the security of their homes
and are brought down to the king of terrors.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:17 - All memory of their existence will fade from the earth,
no one will remember their names.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:18 - They will be thrust from light into darkness,
driven from the world.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:3 - I've had to endure your insults,
but now my spirit prompts me to reply.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:24 - When they try to escape an iron weapon,
a bronze-tipped arrow will pierce them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:22 - Listen to his instructions,
and store them in your heart.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 23:2 - “My complaint today is still a bitter one,
and I try hard not to groan aloud.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:12 - The groans of the dying rise from the city,
and the wounded cry for help,
yet God ignores their moaning.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 26:4 - Where have you gotten all these wise sayings?
Whose spirit speaks through you?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:21 - The east wind carries them away, and they are gone.
It sweeps them away.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:22 - It whirls down on them without mercy.
They struggle to flee from its power.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:23 - But everyone jeers at them
and mocks them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:2 - They know where to dig iron from the earth
and how to smelt copper from rock.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:4 - They sink a mine shaft into the earth
far from where anyone lives.
They descend on ropes, swinging back and forth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:9 - People know how to tear apart flinty rocks
and overturn the roots of mountains.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:12 - For I assisted the poor in their need
and the orphans who required help.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:17 - I broke the jaws of godless oppressors
and plucked their victims from their teeth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:7 - If I have strayed from his pathway,
or if my heart has lusted for what my eyes have seen,
or if I am guilty of any other sin,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:12 - It is a fire that burns all the way to hell.[fn]
It would wipe out everything I own.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:18 - No, from childhood I have cared for orphans like a father,
and all my life I have cared for widows.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 32:2 - Then Elihu son of Barakel the Buzite, of the clan of Ram, became angry. He was angry because Job refused to admit that he had sinned and that God was right in punishing him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:6 - Look, you and I both belong to God.
I, too, was formed from clay.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:30 - He rescues them from the grave
so they may enjoy the light of life.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:27 - For they turned away from following him.
They have no respect for any of his ways.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 35:7 - If you are good, is this some great gift to him?
What could you possibly give him?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 36:16 - “God is leading you away from danger, Job,
to a place free from distress.
He is setting your table with the best food.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:1 - “My heart pounds as I think of this.
It trembles within me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:2 - Listen carefully to the thunder of God's voice
as it rolls from his mouth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:9 - The stormy wind comes from its chamber,
and the driving winds bring the cold.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:15 - Do you know how God controls the storm
and causes the lightning to flash from his clouds?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:8 - “Who kept the sea inside its boundaries
as it burst from the womb,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:29 - Who is the mother of the ice?
Who gives birth to the frost from the heavens?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:26 - “Is it your wisdom that makes the hawk soar
and spread its wings toward the south?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 40:6 - Then the LORD answered Job from the whirlwind:
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:19 - Lightning leaps from its mouth;
flames of fire flash out.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:20 - Smoke streams from its nostrils
like steam from a pot heated over burning rushes.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:21 - Its breath would kindle coals,
for flames shoot from its mouth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 42:11 - Then all his brothers, sisters, and former friends came and feasted with him in his home. And they consoled him and comforted him because of all the trials the LORD had brought against him. And each of them brought him a gift of money[fn] and a gold ring.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 42:17 - Then he died, an old man who had lived a long, full life.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:1 - A psalm of David, which he sang to the LORD concerning Cush of the tribe of Benjamin.

I come to you for protection, O LORD my God.
Save me from my persecutors—rescue me!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 8:2 - You have taught children and infants
to tell of your strength,[fn]
silencing your enemies
and all who oppose you.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 9:13 - LORD, have mercy on me.
See how my enemies torment me.
Snatch me back from the jaws of death.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:16 - The LORD is king forever and ever!
The godless nations will vanish from the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 14:2 - The LORD looks down from heaven
on the entire human race;
he looks to see if anyone is truly wise,
if anyone seeks God.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 14:7 - Who will come from Mount Zion to rescue Israel?
When the LORD restores his people,
Jacob will shout with joy, and Israel will rejoice.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 16:8 - I know the LORD is always with me.
I will not be shaken, for he is right beside me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 17:2 - Declare me innocent,
for you see those who do right.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 17:7 - Show me your unfailing love in wonderful ways.
By your mighty power you rescue
those who seek refuge from their enemies.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:1 - For the choir director: A psalm of David, the servant of the LORD. He sang this song to the LORD on the day the LORD rescued him from all his enemies and from Saul. He sang:

I love you, LORD;
you are my strength.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:3 - I called on the LORD, who is worthy of praise,
and he saved me from my enemies.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:6 - But in my distress I cried out to the LORD;
yes, I prayed to my God for help.
He heard me from his sanctuary;
my cry to him reached his ears.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:17 - He rescued me from my powerful enemies,
from those who hated me and were too strong for me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:19 - He led me to a place of safety;
he rescued me because he delights in me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 19:5 - It bursts forth like a radiant bridegroom after his wedding.
It rejoices like a great athlete eager to run the race.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 19:12 - How can I know all the sins lurking in my heart?
Cleanse me from these hidden faults.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 20:2 - May he send you help from his sanctuary
and strengthen you from Jerusalem.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 21:3 - You welcomed him back with success and prosperity.
You placed a crown of finest gold on his head.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:9 - Yet you brought me safely from my mother's womb
and led me to trust you at my mother's breast.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:10 - I was thrust into your arms at my birth.
You have been my God from the moment I was born.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:20 - Save me from the sword;
spare my precious life from these dogs.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:21 - Snatch me from the lion's jaws
and from the horns of these wild oxen.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 25:15 - My eyes are always on the LORD,
for he rescues me from the traps of my enemies.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 25:17 - My problems go from bad to worse.
Oh, save me from them all!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 25:22 - O God, ransom Israel
from all its troubles.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 28:7 - The LORD is my strength and shield.
I trust him with all my heart.
He helps me, and my heart is filled with joy.
I burst out in songs of thanksgiving.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:4 - Pull me from the trap my enemies set for me,
for I find protection in you alone.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:7 - I will be glad and rejoice in your unfailing love,
for you have seen my troubles,
and you care about the anguish of my soul.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:15 - My future is in your hands.
Rescue me from those who hunt me down relentlessly.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 33:19 - He rescues them from death
and keeps them alive in times of famine.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 34:4 - I prayed to the LORD, and he answered me.
He freed me from all my fears.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 34:6 - In my desperation I prayed, and the LORD listened;
he saved me from all my troubles.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 34:16 - But the LORD turns his face against those who do evil;
he will erase their memory from the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 34:17 - The LORD hears his people when they call to him for help.
He rescues them from all their troubles.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 34:19 - The righteous person faces many troubles,
but the LORD comes to the rescue each time.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:10 - With every bone in my body I will praise him:
“LORD, who can compare with you?
Who else rescues the helpless from the strong?
Who else protects the helpless and poor from those who rob them?”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:2 - He lifted me out of the pit of despair,
out of the mud and the mire.
He set my feet on solid ground
and steadied me as I walked along.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 42:6 - my God!
Now I am deeply discouraged,
but I will remember you—
even from distant Mount Hermon, the source of the Jordan,
from the land of Mount Mizar.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 44:7 - You are the one who gives us victory over our enemies;
you disgrace those who hate us.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 45:9 - Kings' daughters are among your noble women.
At your right side stands the queen,
wearing jewelry of finest gold from Ophir!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 49:14 - Like sheep, they are led to the grave,[fn]
where death will be their shepherd.
In the morning the godly will rule over them.
Their bodies will rot in the grave,
far from their grand estates.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 49:15 - But as for me, God will redeem my life.
He will snatch me from the power of the grave.
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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 50:2 - From Mount Zion, the perfection of beauty,
God shines in glorious radiance.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 50:9 - But I do not need the bulls from your barns
or the goats from your pens.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 52:5 - But God will strike you down once and for all.
He will pull you from your home
and uproot you from the land of the living.
Interlude
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 53:2 - God looks down from heaven
on the entire human race;
he looks to see if anyone is truly wise,
if anyone seeks God.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 53:6 - Who will come from Mount Zion to rescue Israel?
When God restores his people,
Jacob will shout with joy, and Israel will rejoice.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 54:7 - For you have rescued me from my troubles
and helped me to triumph over my enemies.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 55:11 - Everything is falling apart;
threats and cheating are rampant in the streets.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 56:13 - For you have rescued me from death;
you have kept my feet from slipping.
So now I can walk in your presence, O God,
in your life-giving light.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 57:4 - I am surrounded by fierce lions
who greedily devour human prey—
whose teeth pierce like spears and arrows,
and whose tongues cut like swords.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 59:1 - For the choir director: A psalm[fn] of David, regarding the time Saul sent soldiers to watch David's house in order to kill him. To be sung to the tune “Do Not Destroy!”

Rescue me from my enemies, O God.
Protect me from those who have come to destroy me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 59:2 - Rescue me from these criminals;
save me from these murderers.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 60:11 - Oh, please help us against our enemies,
for all human help is useless.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 62:9 - Common people are as worthless as a puff of wind,
and the powerful are not what they appear to be.
If you weigh them on the scales,
together they are lighter than a breath of air.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 65:1 - For the choir director: A song. A psalm of David.

What mighty praise, O God,
belongs to you in Zion.
We will fulfill our vows to you,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:22 - The Lord says, “I will bring my enemies down from Bashan;
I will bring them up from the depths of the sea.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:26 - Praise God, all you people of Israel;
praise the LORD, the source of Israel's life.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:14 - Rescue me from the mud;
don't let me sink any deeper!
Save me from those who hate me,
and pull me from these deep waters.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:28 - Erase their names from the Book of Life;
don't let them be counted among the righteous.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 71:4 - My God, rescue me from the power of the wicked,
from the clutches of cruel oppressors.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 71:5 - O Lord, you alone are my hope.
I've trusted you, O LORD, from childhood.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 71:6 - Yes, you have been with me from birth;
from my mother's womb you have cared for me.
No wonder I am always praising you!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 71:17 - O God, you have taught me from my earliest childhood,
and I constantly tell others about the wonderful things you do.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 71:20 - You have allowed me to suffer much hardship,
but you will restore me to life again
and lift me up from the depths of the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 71:21 - You will restore me to even greater honor
and comfort me once again.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 72:12 - He will rescue the poor when they cry to him;
he will help the oppressed, who have no one to defend them.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 72:14 - He will redeem them from oppression and violence,
for their lives are precious to him.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 72:15 - Long live the king!
May the gold of Sheba be given to him.
May the people always pray for him
and bless him all day long.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 72:16 - May there be abundant grain throughout the land,
flourishing even on the hilltops.
May the fruit trees flourish like the trees of Lebanon,
and may the people thrive like grass in a field.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:7 - These fat cats have everything
their hearts could ever wish for!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:11 - Why do you hold back your strong right hand?
Unleash your powerful fist and destroy them.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 75:8 - For the LORD holds a cup in his hand
that is full of foaming wine mixed with spices.
He pours out the wine in judgment,
and all the wicked must drink it,
draining it to the dregs.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 76:8 - From heaven you sentenced your enemies;
the earth trembled and stood silent before you.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:16 - He made streams pour from the rock,
making the waters flow down like a river!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:42 - They did not remember his power
and how he rescued them from their enemies.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:70 - He chose his servant David,
calling him from the sheep pens.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 80:13 - The wild boar from the forest devours it,
and the wild animals feed on it.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 81:5 - He made it a law for Israel[fn]
when he attacked Egypt to set us free.
I heard an unknown voice say,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 81:10 - For it was I, the LORD your God,
who rescued you from the land of Egypt.
Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it with good things.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 81:16 - But I would feed you with the finest wheat.
I would satisfy you with wild honey from the rock.”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 82:4 - Rescue the poor and helpless;
deliver them from the grasp of evil people.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 84:7 - They will continue to grow stronger,
and each of them will appear before God in Jerusalem.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 85:11 - Truth springs up from the earth,
and righteousness smiles down from heaven.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:5 - They have left me among the dead,
and I lie like a corpse in a grave.
I am forgotten,
cut off from your care.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:15 - I have been sick and close to death since my youth.
I stand helpless and desperate before your terrors.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:19 - Long ago you spoke in a vision to your faithful people.
You said, “I have raised up a warrior.
I have selected him from the common people to be king.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:48 - No one can live forever; all will die.
No one can escape the power of the grave.[fn]
Interlude
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 91:3 - For he will rescue you from every trap
and protect you from deadly disease.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 91:7 - Though a thousand fall at your side,
though ten thousand are dying around you,
these evils will not touch you.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:12 - Joyful are those you discipline, LORD,
those you teach with your instructions.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 97:10 - You who love the LORD, hate evil!
He protects the lives of his godly people
and rescues them from the power of the wicked.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 101:8 - My daily task will be to ferret out the wicked
and free the city of the LORD from their grip.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 103:4 - He redeems me from death
and crowns me with love and tender mercies.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:12 - The birds nest beside the streams
and sing among the branches of the trees.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:13 - You send rain on the mountains from your heavenly home,
and you fill the earth with the fruit of your labor.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:14 - You cause grass to grow for the livestock
and plants for people to use.
You allow them to produce food from the earth—
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:13 - They wandered from nation to nation,
from one kingdom to another.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:10 - So he rescued them from their enemies
and redeemed them from their foes.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:47 - Save us, O LORD our God!
Gather us back from among the nations,
so we can thank your holy name
and rejoice and praise you.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:2 - Has the LORD redeemed you? Then speak out!
Tell others he has redeemed you from your enemies.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:3 - For he has gathered the exiles from many lands,
from east and west,
from north and south.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:6 - “LORD, help!” they cried in their trouble,
and he rescued them from their distress.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:13 - “LORD, help!” they cried in their trouble,
and he saved them from their distress.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:14 - He led them from the darkness and deepest gloom;
he snapped their chains.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:19 - “LORD, help!” they cried in their trouble,
and he saved them from their distress.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:20 - He sent out his word and healed them,
snatching them from the door of death.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:28 - “LORD, help!” they cried in their trouble,
and he saved them from their distress.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:41 - But he rescues the poor from trouble
and increases their families like flocks of sheep.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 108:12 - Oh, please help us against our enemies,
for all human help is useless.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:6 - They say,[fn] “Get an evil person to turn against him.
Send an accuser to bring him to trial.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:10 - May his children wander as beggars
and be driven from their ruined homes.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:15 - May the LORD always remember these sins,
and may his name disappear from human memory.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:31 - For he stands beside the needy,
ready to save them from those who condemn them.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 110:1 - A psalm of David.

The LORD said to my Lord,
“Sit in the place of honor at my right hand
until I humble your enemies,
making them a footstool under your feet.”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 110:2 - The LORD will extend your powerful kingdom from Jerusalem[fn];
you will rule over your enemies.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 110:3 - When you go to war,
your people will serve you willingly.
You are arrayed in holy garments,
and your strength will be renewed each day like the morning dew.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 110:5 - The Lord stands at your right hand to protect you.
He will strike down many kings when his anger erupts.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 110:7 - But he himself will be refreshed from brooks along the way.
He will be victorious.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 114:1 - When the Israelites escaped from Egypt—
when the family of Jacob left that foreign land—
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 116:8 - He has saved me from death,
my eyes from tears,
my feet from stumbling.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:18 - Open my eyes to see
the wonderful truths in your instructions.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:43 - Do not snatch your word of truth from me,
for your regulations are my only hope.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:84 - How long must I wait?
When will you punish those who persecute me?
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:101 - I have refused to walk on any evil path,
so that I may remain obedient to your word.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:110 - The wicked have set their traps for me,
but I will not turn from your commandments.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:120 - I tremble in fear of you;
I stand in awe of your regulations.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:152 - I have known from my earliest days
that your laws will last forever.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:157 - Many persecute and trouble me,
yet I have not swerved from your laws.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 124:7 - We escaped like a bird from a hunter's trap.
The trap is broken, and we are free!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 128:5 - May the LORD continually bless you from Zion.
May you see Jerusalem prosper as long as you live.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 129:1 - A song for pilgrims ascending to Jerusalem.

From my earliest youth my enemies have persecuted me.
Let all Israel repeat this:
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 129:2 - From my earliest youth my enemies have persecuted me,
but they have never defeated me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 130:1 - A song for pilgrims ascending to Jerusalem.

From the depths of despair, O LORD,
I call for your help.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 130:8 - He himself will redeem Israel
from every kind of sin.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 132:11 - The LORD swore an oath to David
with a promise he will never take back:
“I will place one of your descendants
on your throne.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 134:3 - May the LORD, who made heaven and earth,
bless you from Jerusalem.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 135:7 - He causes the clouds to rise over the whole earth.
He sends the lightning with the rain
and releases the wind from his storehouses.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 135:21 - The LORD be praised from Zion,
for he lives here in Jerusalem.
Praise the LORD!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 136:11 - He brought Israel out of Egypt.
His faithful love endures forever.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 136:16 - Give thanks to him who led his people through the wilderness.
His faithful love endures forever.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 136:24 - He saved us from our enemies.
His faithful love endures forever.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 137:3 - For our captors demanded a song from us.
Our tormentors insisted on a joyful hymn:
“Sing us one of those songs of Jerusalem!”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 139:13 - You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body
and knit me together in my mother's womb.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 140:4 - O LORD, keep me out of the hands of the wicked.
Protect me from those who are violent,
for they are plotting against me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 142:6 - Hear my cry,
for I am very low.
Rescue me from my persecutors,
for they are too strong for me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 142:7 - Bring me out of prison
so I can thank you.
The godly will crowd around me,
for you are good to me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 143:9 - Rescue me from my enemies, LORD;
I run to you to hide me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 143:11 - For the glory of your name, O LORD, preserve my life.
Because of your faithfulness, bring me out of this distress.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 144:7 - Reach down from heaven and rescue me;
rescue me from deep waters,
from the power of my enemies.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 144:10 - For you grant victory to kings!
You rescued your servant David from the fatal sword.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 144:11 - Save me!
Rescue me from the power of my enemies.
Their mouths are full of lies;
they swear to tell the truth, but they lie instead.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 144:13 - May our barns be filled
with crops of every kind.
May the flocks in our fields multiply by the thousands,
even tens of thousands,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 148:1 - Praise the LORD!
Praise the LORD from the heavens!
Praise him from the skies!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 148:7 - Praise the LORD from the earth,
you creatures of the ocean depths,
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:4 - These proverbs will give insight to the simple,
knowledge and discernment to the young.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:12 - Let's swallow them alive, like the grave[fn];
let's swallow them whole, like those who go down to the pit of death.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:15 - My child, don't go along with them!
Stay far away from their paths.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 2:22 - But the wicked will be removed from the land,
and the treacherous will be uprooted.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:16 - She offers you long life in her right hand,
and riches and honor in her left.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:23 - Guard your heart above all else,
for it determines the course of your life.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:27 - Don't get sidetracked;
keep your feet from following evil.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:16 - Why spill the water of your springs in the streets,
having sex with just anyone?[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:18 - Let your wife be a fountain of blessing for you.
Rejoice in the wife of your youth.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:23 - He will die for lack of self-control;
he will be lost because of his great foolishness.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:5 - Save yourself like a gazelle escaping from a hunter,
like a bird fleeing from a net.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:6 - While I was at the window of my house,
looking through the curtain,
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 10:2 - Tainted wealth has no lasting value,
but right living can save your life.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 10:13 - Wise words come from the lips of people with understanding,
but those lacking sense will be beaten with a rod.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 10:19 - Too much talk leads to sin.
Be sensible and keep your mouth shut.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:8 - The godly are rescued from trouble,
and it falls on the wicked instead.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:30 - The seeds of good deeds become a tree of life;
a wise person wins friends.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 14:3 - A fool's proud talk becomes a rod that beats him,
but the words of the wise keep them safe.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 14:25 - A truthful witness saves lives,
but a false witness is a traitor.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 14:27 - Fear of the LORD is a life-giving fountain;
it offers escape from the snares of death.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:6 - There is treasure in the house of the godly,
but the earnings of the wicked bring trouble.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:24 - The path of life leads upward for the wise;
they leave the grave[fn] behind.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:13 - If you repay good with evil,
evil will never leave your house.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 18:10 - The name of the LORD is a strong fortress;
the godly run to him and are safe.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:23 - Watch your tongue and keep your mouth shut,
and you will stay out of trouble.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:10 - Throw out the mocker, and fighting goes, too.
Quarrels and insults will disappear.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:14 - Physical discipline
may well save them from death.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:4 - Through knowledge its rooms are filled
with all sorts of precious riches and valuables.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:7 - Wisdom is too lofty for fools.
Among leaders at the city gate, they have nothing to say.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:5 - Remove the wicked from the king's court,
and his reign will be made secure by justice.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:25 - Good news from far away
is like cold water to the thirsty.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:6 - Trusting a fool to convey a message
is like cutting off one's feet or drinking poison!
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:7 - A proverb in the mouth of a fool
is as useless as a paralyzed leg.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:8 - A person who strays from home
is like a bird that strays from its nest.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:15 - A quarrelsome wife is as annoying
as constant dripping on a rainy day.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:24 - for riches don't last forever,
and the crown might not be passed to the next generation.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 29:21 - A servant pampered from childhood
will become a rebel.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:17 - The eye that mocks a father
and despises a mother's instructions
will be plucked out by ravens of the valley
and eaten by vultures.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 31:15 - She gets up before dawn to prepare breakfast for her household
and plan the day's work for her servant girls.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 31:22 - She makes her own bedspreads.
She dresses in fine linen and purple gowns.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:15 - Both will die. So I said to myself, “Since I will end up the same as the fool, what's the value of all my wisdom? This is all so meaningless!”
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:10 - I have seen wicked people buried with honor. Yet they were the very ones who frequented the Temple and are now praised[fn] in the same city where they committed their crimes! This, too, is meaningless.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 12:11 - The words of the wise are like cattle prods—painful but helpful. Their collected sayings are like a nail-studded stick with which a shepherd[fn] drives the sheep.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:12 - When you come to worship me,
who asked you to parade through my courts with all your ceremony?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:24 - Therefore, the Lord, the LORD of Heaven's Armies,
the Mighty One of Israel, says,
“I will take revenge on my enemies
and pay back my foes!
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:3 - People from many nations will come and say,
“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD,
to the house of Jacob's God.
There he will teach us his ways,
and we will walk in his paths.”
For the LORD's teaching will go out from Zion;
his word will go out from Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 4:4 - The Lord will wash the filth from beautiful Zion[fn]
and cleanse Jerusalem of its bloodstains
with the hot breath of fiery judgment.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:19 - Someone may say to you, “Let's ask the mediums and those who consult the spirits of the dead. With their whisperings and mutterings, they will tell us what to do.” But shouldn't people ask God for guidance? Should the living seek guidance from the dead?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:20 - They will attack their neighbor on the right
but will still be hungry.
They will devour their neighbor on the left
but will not be satisfied.
In the end they will even eat their own children.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:1 - Out of the stump of David's family[fn] will grow a shoot—
yes, a new Branch bearing fruit from the old root.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:12 - He will raise a flag among the nations
and assemble the exiles of Israel.
He will gather the scattered people of Judah
from the ends of the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:16 - He will make a highway for the remnant of his people,
the remnant coming from Assyria,
just as he did for Israel long ago
when they returned from Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 12:3 - With joy you will drink deeply
from the fountain of salvation!
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:5 - They come from distant countries,
from beyond the farthest horizons.
They are the LORD's weapons to carry out his anger.
With them he will destroy the whole land.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:12 - I will make people scarcer than gold—
more rare than the fine gold of Ophir.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:13 - For I will shake the heavens.
The earth will move from its place
when the LORD of Heaven's Armies displays his wrath
in the day of his fierce anger.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:3 - In that wonderful day when the LORD gives his people rest from sorrow and fear, from slavery and chains,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:9 - “In the place of the dead[fn] there is excitement
over your arrival.
The spirits of world leaders and mighty kings long dead
stand up to see you.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:12 - “How you are fallen from heaven,
O shining star, son of the morning!
You have been thrown down to the earth,
you who destroyed the nations of the world.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:29 - Do not rejoice, you Philistines,
that the rod that struck you is broken—
that the king who attacked you is dead.
For from that snake a more poisonous snake will be born,
a fiery serpent to destroy you!
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:10 - Gone now is the gladness,
gone the joy of harvest.
There will be no singing in the vineyards,
no more happy shouts,
no treading of grapes in the winepresses.
I have ended all their harvest joys.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 18:7 - At that time the LORD of Heaven's Armies will receive gifts
from this land divided by rivers,
from this tall, smooth-skinned people,
who are feared far and wide for their conquests and destruction.
They will bring the gifts to Jerusalem,[fn]
where the LORD of Heaven's Armies dwells.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:3 - The Egyptians will lose heart,
and I will confuse their plans.
They will plead with their idols for wisdom
and call on spirits, mediums, and those who consult the spirits of the dead.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:1 - This message came to me concerning Babylon—the desert by the sea[fn]:
Disaster is roaring down on you from the desert,
like a whirlwind sweeping in from the Negev.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:19 - “Yes, I will drive you out of office,” says the LORD. “I will pull you down from your high position.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:1 - This message came to me concerning Tyre:
Weep, O ships of Tarshish,
for the harbor and houses of Tyre are gone!
The rumors you heard in Cyprus[fn]
are all true.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:10 - Come, people of Tarshish,
sweep over the land like the flooding Nile,
for Tyre is defenseless.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:18 - Those who flee in terror will fall into a trap,
and those who escape the trap will be caught in a snare.
Destruction falls like rain from the heavens;
the foundations of the earth shake.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 26:9 - All night long I search for you;
in the morning I earnestly seek for God.
For only when you come to judge the earth
will people learn what is right.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:1 - What sorrow awaits the proud city of Samaria—
the glorious crown of the drunks of Israel.[fn]
It sits at the head of a fertile valley,
but its glorious beauty will fade like a flower.
It is the pride of a people
brought down by wine.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:4 - Then deep from the earth you will speak;
from low in the dust your words will come.
Your voice will whisper from the ground
like a ghost conjured up from the grave.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:14 - You will be smashed like a piece of pottery—
shattered so completely that
there won't be a piece big enough
to carry coals from a fireplace
or a little water from the well.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:32 - And as the LORD strikes them with his rod of punishment,
his people will celebrate with tambourines and harps.
Lifting his mighty arm, he will fight the Assyrians.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:13 - For your land will be overgrown with thorns and briers.
Your joyful homes and happy towns will be gone.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:2 - Then the king of Assyria sent his chief of staff[fn] from Lachish with a huge army to confront King Hezekiah in Jerusalem. The Assyrians took up a position beside the aqueduct that feeds water into the upper pool, near the road leading to the field where cloth is washed.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:18 - “Don't let Hezekiah mislead you by saying, ‘The LORD will rescue us!' Have the gods of any other nations ever saved their people from the king of Assyria?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:19 - What happened to the gods of Hamath and Arpad? And what about the gods of Sepharvaim? Did any god rescue Samaria from my power?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:20 - What god of any nation has ever been able to save its people from my power? So what makes you think that the LORD can rescue Jerusalem from me?”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:20 - Now, O LORD our God, rescue us from his power; then all the kingdoms of the earth will know that you alone, O LORD, are God.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:36 - That night the angel of the LORD went out to the Assyrian camp and killed 185,000 Assyrian soldiers. When the surviving Assyrians[fn] woke up the next morning, they found corpses everywhere.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:6 - and I will rescue you and this city from the king of Assyria. Yes, I will defend this city.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:9 - When King Hezekiah was well again, he wrote this poem:
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:12 - My life has been blown away
like a shepherd's tent in a storm.
It has been cut short,
as when a weaver cuts cloth from a loom.
Suddenly, my life was over.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:21 - Isaiah had said to Hezekiah's servants, “Make an ointment from figs and spread it over the boil, and Hezekiah will recover.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 39:3 - Then Isaiah the prophet went to King Hezekiah and asked him, “What did those men want? Where were they from?”
Hezekiah replied, “They came from the distant land of Babylon.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:2 - “Speak tenderly to Jerusalem.
Tell her that her sad days are gone
and her sins are pardoned.
Yes, the LORD has punished her twice over
for all her sins.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:9 - I have called you back from the ends of the earth,
saying, ‘You are my servant.'
For I have chosen you
and will not throw you away.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:24 - But no! You are less than nothing and can do nothing at all.
Those who choose you pollute themselves.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:7 - You will open the eyes of the blind.
You will free the captives from prison,
releasing those who sit in dark dungeons.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:13 - “From eternity to eternity I am God.
No one can snatch anyone out of my hand.
No one can undo what I have done.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:2 - The LORD who made you and helps you says:
Do not be afraid, O Jacob, my servant,
O dear Israel,[fn] my chosen one.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:14 - He cuts down cedars;
he selects the cypress and the oak;
he plants the pine in the forest
to be nourished by the rain.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:24 - This is what the LORD says—
your Redeemer and Creator:
“I am the LORD, who made all things.
I alone stretched out the heavens.
Who was with me
when I made the earth?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:23 - I have sworn by my own name;
I have spoken the truth,
and I will never go back on my word:
Every knee will bend to me,
and every tongue will confess allegiance to me.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 46:3 - “Listen to me, descendants of Jacob,
all you who remain in Israel.
I have cared for you since you were born.
Yes, I carried you before you were born.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 46:6 - Some people pour out their silver and gold
and hire a craftsman to make a god from it.
Then they bow down and worship it!
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:3 - You will be naked and burdened with shame.
I will take vengeance against you without pity.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:12 - “Now use your magical charms!
Use the spells you have worked at all these years!
Maybe they will do you some good.
Maybe they can make someone afraid of you.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:14 - But they are like straw burning in a fire;
they cannot save themselves from the flame.
You will get no help from them at all;
their hearth is no place to sit for warmth.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:15 - And all your friends,
those with whom you've done business since childhood,
will go their own ways,
turning a deaf ear to your cries.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:3 - Long ago I told you what was going to happen.
Then suddenly I took action,
and all my predictions came true.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:8 - “Yes, I will tell you of things that are entirely new,
things you never heard of before.
For I know so well what traitors you are.
You have been rebels from birth.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:10 - I have refined you, but not as silver is refined.
Rather, I have refined you in the furnace of suffering.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:20 - Yet even now, be free from your captivity!
Leave Babylon and the Babylonians.[fn]
Sing out this message!
Shout it to the ends of the earth!
The LORD has redeemed his servants,
the people of Israel.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:21 - They were not thirsty
when he led them through the desert.
He divided the rock,
and water gushed out for them to drink.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:1 - Listen to me, all you in distant lands!
Pay attention, you who are far away!
The LORD called me before my birth;
from within the womb he called me by name.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:5 - And now the LORD speaks—
the one who formed me in my mother's womb to be his servant,
who commissioned me to bring Israel back to him.
The LORD has honored me,
and my God has given me strength.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:12 - See, my people will return from far away,
from lands to the north and west,
and from as far south as Egypt.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:17 - Soon your descendants will come back,
and all who are trying to destroy you will go away.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:17 - Wake up, wake up, O Jerusalem!
You have drunk the cup of the LORD's fury.
You have drunk the cup of terror,
tipping out its last drops.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:22 - This is what the Sovereign LORD,
your God and Defender, says:
“See, I have taken the terrible cup from your hands.
You will drink no more of my fury.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:11 - Get out! Get out and leave your captivity,
where everything you touch is unclean.
Get out of there and purify yourselves,
you who carry home the sacred objects of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:6 - For the LORD has called you back from your grief—
as though you were a young wife abandoned by her husband,”
says your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:10 - “The rain and snow come down from the heavens
and stay on the ground to water the earth.
They cause the grain to grow,
producing seed for the farmer
and bread for the hungry.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:11 - It is the same with my word.
I send it out, and it always produces fruit.
It will accomplish all I want it to,
and it will prosper everywhere I send it.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:2 - For those who follow godly paths
will rest in peace when they die.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:10 - Feed the hungry,
and help those in trouble.
Then your light will shine out from the darkness,
and the darkness around you will be as bright as noon.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:13 - “Keep the Sabbath day holy.
Don't pursue your own interests on that day,
but enjoy the Sabbath
and speak of it with delight as the LORD's holy day.
Honor the Sabbath in everything you do on that day,
and don't follow your own desires or talk idly.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:21 - “And this is my covenant with them,” says the LORD. “My Spirit will not leave them, and neither will these words I have given you. They will be on your lips and on the lips of your children and your children's children forever. I, the LORD, have spoken!
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:6 - Vast caravans of camels will converge on you,
the camels of Midian and Ephah.
The people of Sheba will bring gold and frankincense
and will come worshiping the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 61:7 - Instead of shame and dishonor,
you will enjoy a double share of honor.
You will possess a double portion of prosperity in your land,
and everlasting joy will be yours.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 62:10 - Go out through the gates!
Prepare the highway for my people to return!
Smooth out the road; pull out the boulders;
raise a flag for all the nations to see.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 63:1 - Who is this who comes from Edom,
from the city of Bozrah,
with his clothing stained red?
Who is this in royal robes,
marching in his great strength?
“It is I, the LORD, announcing your salvation!
It is I, the LORD, who has the power to save!”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 63:9 - In all their suffering he also suffered,
and he personally[fn] rescued them.
In his love and mercy he redeemed them.
He lifted them up and carried them
through all the years.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 63:11 - Then they remembered those days of old
when Moses led his people out of Egypt.
They cried out, “Where is the one who brought Israel through the sea,
with Moses as their shepherd?
Where is the one who sent his Holy Spirit
to be among his people?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 63:15 - LORD, look down from heaven;
look from your holy, glorious home, and see us.
Where is the passion and the might
you used to show on our behalf?
Where are your mercy and compassion now?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:6 - What is all the commotion in the city?
What is that terrible noise from the Temple?
It is the voice of the LORD
taking vengeance against his enemies.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:20 - They will bring the remnant of your people back from every nation. They will bring them to my holy mountain in Jerusalem as an offering to the LORD. They will ride on horses, in chariots and wagons, and on mules and camels,” says the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:23 - “All humanity will come to worship me
from week to week
and from month to month.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:1 - These are the words of Jeremiah son of Hilkiah, one of the priests from the town of Anathoth in the land of Benjamin.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:5 - “I knew you before I formed you in your mother's womb.
Before you were born I set you apart
and appointed you as my prophet to the nations.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:13 - Then the LORD spoke to me again and asked, “What do you see now?”
And I replied, “I see a pot of boiling water, spilling from the north.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:6 - They did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD
who brought us safely out of Egypt
and led us through the barren wilderness—
a land of deserts and pits,
a land of drought and death,
where no one lives or even travels?'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:14 - “Return home, you wayward children,”
says the LORD,
“for I am your master.
I will bring you back to the land of Israel[fn]
one from this town and two from that family—
from wherever you are scattered.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:21 - Voices are heard high on the windswept mountains,
the weeping and pleading of Israel's people.
For they have chosen crooked paths
and have forgotten the LORD their God.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:1 - “O Israel,” says the LORD,
“if you wanted to return to me, you could.
You could throw away your detestable idols
and stray away no more.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:7 - A lion stalks from its den,
a destroyer of nations.
It has left its lair and is headed your way.
It's going to devastate your land!
Your towns will lie in ruins,
with no one living in them anymore.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:15 - Your destruction has been announced
from Dan and the hill country of Ephraim.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:16 - “Warn the surrounding nations
and announce this to Jerusalem:
The enemy is coming from a distant land,
raising a battle cry against the towns of Judah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:6 - So now a lion from the forest will attack them;
a wolf from the desert will pounce on them.
A leopard will lurk near their towns,
tearing apart any who dare to venture out.
For their rebellion is great,
and their sins are many.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:1 - “Run for your lives, you people of Benjamin!
Get out of Jerusalem!
Sound the alarm in Tekoa!
Send up a signal at Beth-hakkerem!
A powerful army is coming from the north,
coming with disaster and destruction.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:20 - There's no use offering me sweet frankincense from Sheba.
Keep your fragrant calamus imported from distant lands!
I will not accept your burnt offerings.
Your sacrifices have no pleasing aroma for me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:22 - When I led your ancestors out of Egypt, it was not burnt offerings and sacrifices I wanted from them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:25 - From the day your ancestors left Egypt until now, I have continued to send my servants, the prophets—day in and day out.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:27 - “Tell them all this, but do not expect them to listen. Shout out your warnings, but do not expect them to respond.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:34 - I will put an end to the happy singing and laughter in the streets of Jerusalem. The joyful voices of bridegrooms and brides will no longer be heard in the towns of Judah. The land will lie in complete desolation.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:1 - “In that day,” says the LORD, “the enemy will break open the graves of the kings and officials of Judah, and the graves of the priests, prophets, and common people of Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:16 - “The snorting of the enemies' warhorses can be heard
all the way from the land of Dan in the north!
The neighing of their stallions makes the whole land tremble.
They are coming to devour the land and everything in it—
cities and people alike.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:3 - “My people bend their tongues like bows
to shoot out lies.
They refuse to stand up for the truth.
They only go from bad to worse.
They do not know me,”
says the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:3 - Their ways are futile and foolish.
They cut down a tree, and a craftsman carves an idol.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:13 - When he speaks in the thunder,
the heavens roar with rain.
He causes the clouds to rise over the earth.
He sends the lightning with the rain
and releases the wind from his storehouses.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:22 - Listen! Hear the terrifying roar of great armies
as they roll down from the north.
The towns of Judah will be destroyed
and become a haunt for jackals.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:4 - For I said to your ancestors when I brought them out of the iron-smelting furnace of Egypt, “If you obey me and do whatever I command you, then you will be my people, and I will be your God.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:6 - Even your brothers, members of your own family,
have turned against you.
They plot and raise complaints against you.
Do not trust them,
no matter how pleasantly they speak.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:14 - Now this is what the LORD says: “I will uproot from their land all the evil nations reaching out for the possession I gave my people Israel. And I will uproot Judah from among them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:7 - So I went to the Euphrates and dug it out of the hole where I had hidden it. But now it was rotting and falling apart. The loincloth was good for nothing.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:14 - I will tell your enemies to take you
as captives to a foreign land.
For my anger blazes like a fire
that will burn forever.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:21 - Yes, I will certainly keep you safe from these wicked men.
I will rescue you from their cruel hands.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:9 - For this is what the LORD of Heaven's Armies, the God of Israel, says: In your own lifetime, before your very eyes, I will put an end to the happy singing and laughter in this land. The joyful voices of bridegrooms and brides will no longer be heard.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:14 - “But the time is coming,” says the LORD, “when people who are taking an oath will no longer say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives, who rescued the people of Israel from the land of Egypt.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:16 - “But now I am sending for many fishermen who will catch them,” says the LORD. “I am sending for hunters who will hunt them down in the mountains, hills, and caves.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:26 - And from all around Jerusalem, from the towns of Judah and Benjamin, from the western foothills[fn] and the hill country and the Negev, the people will come with their burnt offerings and sacrifices. They will bring their grain offerings, frankincense, and thanksgiving offerings to the LORD's Temple.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:3 - The next day, when Pashhur finally released him, Jeremiah said, “Pashhur, the LORD has changed your name. From now on you are to be called ‘The Man Who Lives in Terror.'[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:13 - Sing to the LORD!
Praise the LORD!
For though I was poor and needy,
he rescued me from my oppressors.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:18 - Why was I ever born?
My entire life has been filled
with trouble, sorrow, and shame.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:12 - This is what the LORD says to the dynasty of David:
“‘Give justice each morning to the people you judge!
Help those who have been robbed;
rescue them from their oppressors.
Otherwise, my anger will burn like an unquenchable fire
because of all your sins.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:3 - This is what the LORD says: Be fair-minded and just. Do what is right! Help those who have been robbed; rescue them from their oppressors. Quit your evil deeds! Do not mistreat foreigners, orphans, and widows. Stop murdering the innocent!
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:11 - For this is what the LORD says about Jehoahaz,[fn] who succeeded his father, King Josiah, and was taken away as a captive: “He will never return.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:21 - I warned you when you were prosperous,
but you replied, ‘Don't bother me.'
You have been that way since childhood—
you simply will not obey me!
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:30 - This is what the LORD says:
‘Let the record show that this man Jehoiachin was childless.
He is a failure,
for none of his children will succeed him on the throne of David
to rule over Judah.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:7 - “In that day,” says the LORD, “when people are taking an oath, they will no longer say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives, who rescued the people of Israel from the land of Egypt.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 24:5 - “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: The good figs represent the exiles I sent from Judah to the land of the Babylonians.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:15 - This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, said to me: “Take from my hand this cup filled to the brim with my anger, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink from it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:17 - So I took the cup of anger from the LORD and made all the nations drink from it—every nation to which the LORD sent me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:28 - And if they refuse to accept the cup, tell them, ‘The LORD of Heaven's Armies says: You have no choice but to drink from it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:33 - In that day those the LORD has slaughtered will fill the earth from one end to the other. No one will mourn for them or gather up their bodies to bury them. They will be scattered on the ground like manure.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:20 - At this time Uriah son of Shemaiah from Kiriath-jearim was also prophesying for the LORD. And he predicted the same terrible disaster against the city and nation as Jeremiah did.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:16 - Then I spoke to the priests and the people and said, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Do not listen to your prophets who claim that soon the gold articles taken from my Temple will be returned from Babylon. It is all a lie!
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:6 - He said, “Amen! May your prophecies come true! I hope the LORD does everything you say. I hope he does bring back from Babylon the treasures of this Temple and all the captives.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:11 - For the LORD has redeemed Israel
from those too strong for them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:16 - But now this is what the LORD says:
“Do not weep any longer,
for I will reward you,” says the LORD.
“Your children will come back to you
from the distant land of the enemy.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:19 - I turned away from God,
but then I was sorry.
I kicked myself for my stupidity!
I was thoroughly ashamed of all I did in my younger days.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:32 - This covenant will not be like the one I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand and brought them out of the land of Egypt. They broke that covenant, though I loved them as a husband loves his wife,” says the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:4 - King Zedekiah will be captured by the Babylonians[fn] and taken to meet the king of Babylon face to face.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:21 - “You brought Israel out of Egypt with mighty signs and wonders, with a strong hand and powerful arm, and with overwhelming terror.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:30 - Israel and Judah have done nothing but wrong since their earliest days. They have infuriated me with all their evil deeds,” says the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:37 - I will certainly bring my people back again from all the countries where I will scatter them in my fury. I will bring them back to this very city and let them live in peace and safety.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:3 - You will not escape his grasp but will be captured and taken to meet the king of Babylon face to face. Then you will be exiled to Babylon.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:13 - “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I made a covenant with your ancestors long ago when I rescued them from their slavery in Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:6 - So you go to the Temple on the next day of fasting, and read the messages from the LORD that I have had you write on this scroll. Read them so the people who are there from all over Judah will hear them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:7 - Perhaps even yet they will turn from their evil ways and ask the LORD's forgiveness before it is too late. For the LORD has threatened them with his terrible anger.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:11 - When Micaiah son of Gemariah and grandson of Shaphan heard the messages from the LORD,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:21 - So King Zedekiah commanded that Jeremiah not be returned to the dungeon. Instead, he was imprisoned in the courtyard of the guard in the royal palace. The king also commanded that Jeremiah be given a loaf of fresh bread every day as long as there was any left in the city. So Jeremiah was put in the palace prison.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:10 - So the king told Ebed-melech, “Take thirty of my men with you, and pull Jeremiah out of the cistern before he dies.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:13 - they pulled him out. So Jeremiah was returned to the courtyard of the guard—the palace prison—where he remained.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:24 - Then Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, “Don't tell anyone you told me this, or you will die!
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 40:1 - The LORD gave a message to Jeremiah after Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, had released him at Ramah. He had found Jeremiah bound in chains among all the other captives of Jerusalem and Judah who were being sent to exile in Babylon.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:11 - Do not fear the king of Babylon anymore,' says the LORD. ‘For I am with you and will save you and rescue you from his power.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:7 - “And now the LORD God of Heaven's Armies, the God of Israel, asks you: Why are you destroying yourselves? For not one of you will survive—not a man, woman, or child among you who has come here from Judah, not even the babies in your arms.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:17 - We will do whatever we want. We will burn incense and pour out liquid offerings to the Queen of Heaven just as much as we like—just as we, and our ancestors, and our kings and officials have always done in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. For in those days we had plenty to eat, and we were well off and had no troubles!
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:27 - “But do not be afraid, Jacob, my servant;
do not be dismayed, Israel.
For I will bring you home again from distant lands,
and your children will return from their exile.
Israel[fn] will return to a life of peace and quiet,
and no one will terrorize them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:11 - “From his earliest history, Moab has lived in peace,
never going into exile.
He is like wine that has been allowed to settle.
He has not been poured from flask to flask,
and he is now fragrant and smooth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:33 - Joy and gladness are gone from fruitful Moab.
The presses yield no wine.
No one treads the grapes with shouts of joy.
There is shouting, yes, but not of joy.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:44 - “Those who flee in terror will fall into a trap,
and those who escape the trap will step into a snare.
I will see to it that you do not get away,
for the time of your judgment has come,”
says the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:7 - This message was given concerning Edom. This is what the LORD of Heaven's Armies says:
“Is there no wisdom in Teman?
Is no one left to give wise counsel?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:19 - I will come like a lion from the thickets of the Jordan,
leaping on the sheep in the pasture.
I will chase Edom from its land,
and I will appoint the leader of my choice.
For who is like me, and who can challenge me?
What ruler can oppose my will?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:32 - Their camels and other livestock will all be yours.
I will scatter to the winds these people
who live in remote places.[fn]
I will bring calamity upon them
from every direction,” says the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:36 - I will bring enemies from all directions,
and I will scatter the people of Elam to the four winds.
They will be exiled to countries around the world.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:8 - “But now, flee from Babylon!
Leave the land of the Babylonians.
Like male goats at the head of the flock,
lead my people home again.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:9 - For I am raising up an army
of great nations from the north.
They will join forces to attack Babylon,
and she will be captured.
The enemies' arrows will go straight to the mark;
they will not miss!
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:16 - Take from Babylon all those who plant crops;
send all the harvesters away.
Because of the sword of the enemy,
everyone will run away and rush back to their own lands.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:28 - Listen to the people who have escaped from Babylon,
as they tell in Jerusalem
how the LORD our God has taken vengeance
against those who destroyed his Temple.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:6 - Flee from Babylon! Save yourselves!
Don't get trapped in her punishment!
It is the LORD's time for vengeance;
he will repay her in full.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:16 - When he speaks in the thunder,
the heavens are filled with water.
He causes the clouds to rise over the earth.
He sends the lightning with the rain
and releases the wind from his storehouses.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:20 - “You[fn] are my battle-ax and sword,”
says the LORD.
“With you I will shatter nations
and destroy many kingdoms.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:44 - And I will punish Bel, the god of Babylon,
and make him vomit up all he has eaten.
The nations will no longer come and worship him.
The wall of Babylon has fallen!
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:50 - Get out, all you who have escaped the sword!
Do not stand and watch—flee while you can!
Remember the LORD, though you are in a far-off land,
and think about your home in Jerusalem.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:1 - Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. His mother was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah from Libnah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:25 - And from among the people still hiding in the city, he took an officer who had been in charge of the Judean army; seven of the king's personal advisers; the army commander's chief secretary, who was in charge of recruitment; and sixty other citizens.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:6 - All the majesty of beautiful Jerusalem[fn]
has been stripped away.
Her princes are like starving deer
searching for pasture.
They are too weak to run
from the pursuing enemy.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:15 - “The Lord has treated my mighty men
with contempt.
At his command a great army has come
to crush my young warriors.
The Lord has trampled his beloved city[fn]
like grapes are trampled in a winepress.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:19 - The thought of my suffering and homelessness
is bitter beyond words.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:38 - Does not the Most High
send both calamity and good?
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:55 - But I called on your name, LORD,
from deep within the pit.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:8 - Slaves have now become our masters;
there is no one left to rescue us.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:14 - The elders no longer sit in the city gates;
the young men no longer dance and sing.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:10 - Each had a human face in the front, the face of a lion on the right side, the face of an ox on the left side, and the face of an eagle at the back.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:13 - The living beings looked like bright coals of fire or brilliant torches, and lightning seemed to flash back and forth among them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:12 - Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard a loud rumbling sound behind me. (May the glory of the LORD be praised in his place!)[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:17 - “Son of man, I have appointed you as a watchman for Israel. Whenever you receive a message from me, warn people immediately.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:18 - If I warn the wicked, saying, ‘You are under the penalty of death,' but you fail to deliver the warning, they will die in their sins. And I will hold you responsible for their deaths.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:20 - “If righteous people turn away from their righteous behavior and ignore the obstacles I put in their way, they will die. And if you do not warn them, they will die in their sins. None of their righteous acts will be remembered, and I will hold you responsible for their deaths.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:25 - There, son of man, you will be tied with ropes so you cannot go out among the people.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:4 - Then take some of these hairs out and throw them into the fire, burning them up. A fire will then spread from this remnant and destroy all of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:6 - but she has rebelled against my regulations and decrees and has been even more wicked than the surrounding nations. She has refused to obey the regulations and decrees I gave her to follow.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:7 - “Therefore, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: You people have behaved worse than your neighbors and have refused to obey my decrees and regulations. You have not even lived up to the standards of the nations around you.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:8 - “But I will let a few of my people escape destruction, and they will be scattered among the nations of the world.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:14 - I will crush them and make their cities desolate from the wilderness in the south to Riblah[fn] in the north. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:26 - Calamity will follow calamity;
rumor will follow rumor.
They will look in vain
for a vision from the prophets.
They will receive no teaching from the priests
and no counsel from the leaders.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:11 - Seventy leaders of Israel were standing there with Jaazaniah son of Shaphan in the center. Each of them held an incense burner, from which a cloud of incense rose above their heads.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:2 - Then the LORD spoke to the man in linen clothing and said, “Go between the whirling wheels beneath the cherubim, and take a handful of burning coals and scatter them over the city.” He did this as I watched.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:3 - The cherubim were standing at the south end of the Temple when the man went in, and the cloud of glory filled the inner courtyard.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:6 - The LORD said to the man in linen clothing, “Go between the cherubim and take some burning coals from between the wheels.” So the man went in and stood beside one of the wheels.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:7 - “Therefore, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: This city is an iron pot all right, but the pieces of meat are the victims of your injustice. As for you, I will soon drag you from this pot.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:9 - I will drive you out of Jerusalem and hand you over to foreigners, who will carry out my judgments against you.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:17 - I, the Sovereign LORD, will gather you back from the nations where you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel once again.'
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:19 - And I will give them singleness of heart and put a new spirit within them. I will take away their stony, stubborn heart and give them a tender, responsive heart,[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:23 - Then the glory of the LORD went up from the city and stopped above the mountain to the east.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:3 - “So now, son of man, pretend you are being sent into exile. Pack the few items an exile could carry, and leave your home to go somewhere else. Do this right in front of the people so they can see you. For perhaps they will pay attention to this, even though they are such rebels.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:16 - But I will spare a few of them from death by war, famine, or disease, so they can confess all their detestable sins to their captors. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:21 - I will tear off the magic veils and save my people from your grasp. They will no longer be your victims. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:23 - Because of all this, you will no longer talk of seeing visions that you never saw, nor will you make predictions. For I will rescue my people from your grasp. Then you will know that I am the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:1 - Then some of the leaders of Israel visited me, and while they were sitting with me,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:4 - Tell them, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: The people of Israel have set up idols in their hearts and fallen into sin, and then they go to a prophet asking for a message. So I, the LORD, will give them the kind of answer their great idolatry deserves.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:7 - I, the LORD, will answer all those, both Israelites and foreigners, who reject me and set up idols in their hearts and so fall into sin, and who then come to a prophet asking for my advice.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:8 - I will turn against such people and make a terrible example of them, eliminating them from among my people. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:9 - “‘And if a prophet is deceived into giving a message, it is because I, the LORD, have deceived that prophet. I will lift my fist against such prophets and cut them off from the community of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 15:2 - “Son of man, how does a grapevine compare to a tree? Is a vine's wood as useful as the wood of a tree?
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 15:7 - And I will see to it that if they escape from one fire, they will fall into another. When I turn against them, you will know that I am the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:3 - Give her this message from the Sovereign LORD: You are nothing but a Canaanite! Your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:5 - No one had the slightest interest in you; no one pitied you or cared for you. On the day you were born, you were unwanted, dumped in a field and left to die.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:6 - “But I came by and saw you there, helplessly kicking about in your own blood. As you lay there, I said, ‘Live!'
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:16 - You used the lovely things I gave you to make shrines for idols, where you played the prostitute. Unbelievable! How could such a thing ever happen?
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:17 - You took the very jewels and gold and silver ornaments I had given you and made statues of men and worshiped them. This is adultery against me!
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:27 - That is why I struck you with my fist and reduced your boundaries. I handed you over to your enemies, the Philistines, and even they were shocked by your lewd conduct.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:41 - They will burn your homes and punish you in front of many women. I will stop your prostitution and end your payments to your many lovers.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:42 - “Then at last my fury against you will be spent, and my jealous anger will subside. I will be calm and will not be angry with you anymore.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:46 - “Your older sister was Samaria, who lived with her daughters in the north. Your younger sister was Sodom, who lived with her daughters in the south.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:54 - Then you will be truly ashamed of everything you have done, for your sins make them feel good in comparison.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:61 - Then you will remember with shame all the evil you have done. I will make your sisters, Samaria and Sodom, to be your daughters, even though they are not part of our covenant.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:9 - “So now the Sovereign LORD asks:
Will this vine grow and prosper?
No! I will pull it up, roots and all!
I will cut off its fruit
and let its leaves wither and die.
I will pull it up easily
without a strong arm or a large army.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:13 - He made a treaty with a member of the royal family and forced him to take an oath of loyalty. He also exiled Israel's most influential leaders,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:22 - “This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will take a branch from the top of a tall cedar, and I will plant it on the top of Israel's highest mountain.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:21 - But if wicked people turn away from all their sins and begin to obey my decrees and do what is just and right, they will surely live and not die.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:23 - “Do you think that I like to see wicked people die? says the Sovereign LORD. Of course not! I want them to turn from their wicked ways and live.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:24 - However, if righteous people turn from their righteous behavior and start doing sinful things and act like other sinners, should they be allowed to live? No, of course not! All their righteous acts will be forgotten, and they will die for their sins.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:26 - When righteous people turn from their righteous behavior and start doing sinful things, they will die for it. Yes, they will die because of their sinful deeds.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:28 - They will live because they thought it over and decided to turn from their sins. Such people will not die.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:30 - “Therefore, I will judge each of you, O people of Israel, according to your actions, says the Sovereign LORD. Repent, and turn from your sins. Don't let them destroy you!
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:5 - “When the lioness saw
that her hopes for him were gone,
she took another of her cubs
and taught him to be a strong young lion.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:8 - Then the armies of the nations attacked him,
surrounding him from every direction.
They threw a net over him
and captured him in their pit.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:14 - A fire has burst out from its branches
and devoured its fruit.
Its remaining limbs are not
strong enough to be a ruler's scepter. “This is a funeral song, and it will be used in a funeral.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:1 - On August 14,[fn] during the seventh year of King Jehoiachin's captivity, some of the leaders of Israel came to request a message from the LORD. They sat down in front of me to wait for his reply.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:6 - I took a solemn oath that day that I would bring them out of Egypt to a land I had discovered and explored for them—a good land, a land flowing with milk and honey, the best of all lands anywhere.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:9 - But I didn't do it, for I acted to protect the honor of my name. I would not allow shame to be brought on my name among the surrounding nations who saw me reveal myself by bringing the Israelites out of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:10 - So I brought them out of Egypt and led them into the wilderness.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:34 - And in anger I will reach out with my strong hand and powerful arm, and I will bring you back[fn] from the lands where you are scattered.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:38 - I will purge you of all those who rebel and revolt against me. I will bring them out of the countries where they are in exile, but they will never enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:41 - When I bring you home from exile, you will be like a pleasing sacrifice to me. And I will display my holiness through you as all the nations watch.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:3 - Tell her, ‘This is what the LORD says: I am your enemy, O Israel, and I am about to unsheath my sword to destroy your people—the righteous and the wicked alike.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:4 - Yes, I will cut off both the righteous and the wicked! I will draw my sword against everyone in the land from south to north.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:5 - Everyone in the world will know that I am the LORD. My sword is in my hand, and it will not return to its sheath until its work is finished.'
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:16 - O sword, slash to the right,
then slash to the left,
wherever you will,
wherever you want.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:19 - “Son of man, make a map and trace two routes on it for the sword of Babylon's king to follow. Put a signpost on the road that comes out of Babylon where the road forks into two—
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:21 - The king of Babylon now stands at the fork, uncertain whether to attack Jerusalem or Rabbah. He calls his magicians to look for omens. They cast lots by shaking arrows from the quiver. They inspect the livers of animal sacrifices.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:15 - I will scatter you among the nations and purge you of your wickedness.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:27 - In this way, I will put a stop to the lewdness and prostitution you brought from Egypt. You will never again cast longing eyes on those things or fondly remember your time in Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:42 - From your room came the sound of many men carousing. They were lustful men and drunkards[fn] from the wilderness, who put bracelets on your wrists and beautiful crowns on your heads.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:48 - In this way, I will put an end to lewdness and idolatry in the land, and my judgment will be a warning to others not to follow their wicked example.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:16 - “Son of man, with one blow I will take away your dearest treasure. Yet you must not show any sorrow at her death. Do not weep; let there be no tears.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:6 - “This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Because you clapped and danced and cheered with glee at the destruction of my people,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:7 - I will raise my fist of judgment against you. I will give you as plunder to many nations. I will cut you off from being a nation and destroy you completely. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:13 - Therefore, says the Sovereign LORD, I will raise my fist of judgment against Edom. I will wipe out its people and animals with the sword. I will make a wasteland of everything from Teman to Dedan.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:15 - “This is what the Sovereign LORD says: The people of Philistia have acted against Judah out of bitter revenge and long-standing contempt.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:10 - The hooves of his horses will choke the city with dust, and the noise of the charioteers and chariot wheels will shake your walls as they storm through your broken gates.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:16 - All the seaport rulers will step down from their thrones and take off their royal robes and beautiful clothing. They will sit on the ground trembling with horror at your destruction.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:17 - Then they will wail for you, singing this funeral song:
“O famous island city,
once ruler of the sea,
how you have been destroyed!
Your people, with their naval power,
once spread fear around the world.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:5 - You were like a great ship
built of the finest cypress from Senir.[fn]
They took a cedar from Lebanon
to make a mast for you.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:6 - They carved your oars
from the oaks of Bashan.
Your deck of pine from the coasts of Cyprus[fn]
was inlaid with ivory.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:7 - Your sails were made of Egypt's finest linen,
and they flew as a banner above you.
You stood beneath blue and purple awnings
made bright with dyes from the coasts of Elishah.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:16 - “Syria[fn] sent merchants to buy your rich variety of goods. They traded turquoise, purple dyes, embroidery, fine linen, and jewelry of coral and rubies.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:18 - “Damascus sent merchants to buy your rich variety of goods, bringing wine from Helbon and white wool from Zahar.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:27 - Everything is lost—
your riches and wares,
your sailors and pilots,
your ship builders, merchants, and warriors.
On the day of your ruin,
everyone on board sinks into the depths of the sea.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:16 - Your rich commerce led you to violence,
and you sinned.
So I banished you in disgrace
from the mountain of God.
I expelled you, O mighty guardian,
from your place among the stones of fire.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:18 - You defiled your sanctuaries
with your many sins and your dishonest trade.
So I brought fire out from within you,
and it consumed you.
I reduced you to ashes on the ground
in the sight of all who were watching.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:25 - “This is what the Sovereign LORD says: The people of Israel will again live in their own land, the land I gave my servant Jacob. For I will gather them from the distant lands where I have scattered them. I will reveal to the nations of the world my holiness among my people.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:4 - I will put hooks in your jaws
and drag you out on the land
with fish sticking to your scales.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:13 - “This is what the Sovereign LORD says:
I will smash the idols[fn] of Egypt
and the images at Memphis.[fn]
There will be no rulers left in Egypt;
terror will sweep the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:22 - Therefore, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I am the enemy of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt! I will break both of his arms—the good arm along with the broken one—and I will make his sword clatter to the ground.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:4 - I will leave you stranded on the land to die.
All the birds of the heavens will land on you,
and the wild animals of the whole earth
will gorge themselves on you.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:6 - But if the watchman sees the enemy coming and doesn't sound the alarm to warn the people, he is responsible for their captivity. They will die in their sins, but I will hold the watchman responsible for their deaths.'
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:7 - “Now, son of man, I am making you a watchman for the people of Israel. Therefore, listen to what I say and warn them for me.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:8 - If I announce that some wicked people are sure to die and you fail to tell them to change their ways, then they will die in their sins, and I will hold you responsible for their deaths.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:10 - This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I now consider these shepherds my enemies, and I will hold them responsible for what has happened to my flock. I will take away their right to feed the flock, and I will stop them from feeding themselves. I will rescue my flock from their mouths; the sheep will no longer be their prey.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:13 - I will bring them back home to their own land of Israel from among the peoples and nations. I will feed them on the mountains of Israel and by the rivers and in all the places where people live.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:27 - The orchards and fields of my people will yield bumper crops, and everyone will live in safety. When I have broken their chains of slavery and rescued them from those who enslaved them, then they will know that I am the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:20 - But when they were scattered among the nations, they brought shame on my holy name. For the nations said, ‘These are the people of the LORD, but he couldn't keep them safe in his own land!'
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:24 - For I will gather you up from all the nations and bring you home again to your land.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:26 - And I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit in you. I will take out your stony, stubborn heart and give you a tender, responsive heart.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:29 - I will cleanse you of your filthy behavior. I will give you good crops of grain, and I will send no more famines on the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:32 - But remember, says the Sovereign LORD, I am not doing this because you deserve it. O my people of Israel, you should be utterly ashamed of all you have done!
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:33 - “This is what the Sovereign LORD says: When I cleanse you from your sins, I will repopulate your cities, and the ruins will be rebuilt.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 37:9 - Then he said to me, “Speak a prophetic message to the winds, son of man. Speak a prophetic message and say, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Come, O breath, from the four winds! Breathe into these dead bodies so they may live again.'”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 37:12 - Therefore, prophesy to them and say, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: O my people, I will open your graves of exile and cause you to rise again. Then I will bring you back to the land of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 37:13 - When this happens, O my people, you will know that I am the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 37:21 - And give them this message from the Sovereign LORD: I will gather the people of Israel from among the nations. I will bring them home to their own land from the places where they have been scattered.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:15 - You will come from your homeland in the distant north with your vast cavalry and your mighty army,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 39:10 - They won't need to cut wood from the fields or forests, for these weapons will give them all the fuel they need. They will plunder those who planned to plunder them, and they will rob those who planned to rob them, says the Sovereign LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 39:27 - When I bring them home from the lands of their enemies, I will display my holiness among them for all the nations to see.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:46 - The room beside the south inner gate is for the priests in charge of the altar—the descendants of Zadok—for they alone of all the Levites may approach the LORD to minister to him.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:7 - Each level was wider than the one below it, corresponding to the narrowing of the Temple wall as it rose higher. A stairway led up from the bottom level through the middle level to the top level.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:16 - were all paneled with wood, as were the frames of the recessed windows. The inner walls of the Temple were paneled with wood above and below the windows.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:20 - from the floor to the top of the walls, including the outer wall of the sanctuary.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:5 - Each of the two upper levels of rooms was narrower than the one beneath it because the upper levels had to allow space for walkways in front of them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:9 - There was an eastern entrance from the outer courtyard to these rooms.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:14 - When the priests leave the sanctuary, they must not go directly to the outer courtyard. They must first take off the clothes they wore while ministering, because these clothes are holy. They must put on other clothes before entering the parts of the building complex open to the public.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:6 - And I heard someone speaking to me from within the Temple, while the man who had been measuring stood beside me.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:14 - From the gutter the altar rises 3½ feet[fn] to a lower ledge that surrounds the altar and is 21 inches[fn] wide. From the lower ledge the altar rises 7 feet[fn] to the upper ledge that is also 21 inches wide.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:19 - At that time, the Levitical priests of the family of Zadok, who minister before me, are to be given a young bull for a sin offering, says the Sovereign LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:20 - You will take some of its blood and smear it on the four horns of the altar, the four corners of the upper ledge, and the curb that runs around that ledge. This will cleanse and make atonement for the altar.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:23 - When you have finished the cleansing ceremony, offer another young bull that has no defects and a perfect ram from the flock.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:25 - “Every day for seven days a male goat, a young bull, and a ram from the flock will be sacrificed as a sin offering. None of these animals may have physical defects of any kind.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:22 - They may choose their wives only from among the virgins of Israel or the widows of the priests. They may not marry other widows or divorced women.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:30 - The first of the ripe fruits and all the gifts brought to the LORD will go to the priests. The first samples of each grain harvest and the first of your flour must also be given to the priests so the LORD will bless your homes.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:31 - The priests may not eat meat from any bird or animal that dies a natural death or that dies after being attacked by another animal.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:2 - A section of this land, measuring 875 feet by 875 feet,[fn] will be set aside for the Temple. An additional strip of land 87½ feet[fn] wide is to be left empty all around it.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:3 - Within the larger sacred area, measure out a portion of land 8⅓ miles long and 3⅓ miles wide.[fn] Within it the sanctuary of the Most Holy Place will be located.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:7 - “Two special sections of land will be set apart for the prince. One section will share a border with the east side of the sacred lands and city, and the second section will share a border on the west side. Then the far eastern and western borders of the prince's lands will line up with the eastern and western boundaries of the tribal areas.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:15 - and one sheep or goat for every 200 in your flocks in Israel. These will be the grain offerings, burnt offerings, and peace offerings that will make atonement for the people who bring them, says the Sovereign LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:18 - “This is what the Sovereign LORD says: In early spring, on the first day of each new year,[fn] sacrifice a young bull with no defects to purify the Temple.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:16 - “This is what the Sovereign LORD says: If the prince gives a gift of land to one of his sons as his inheritance, it will belong to him and his descendants forever.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:18 - And the prince may never take anyone's property by force. If he gives property to his sons, it must be from his own land, for I do not want any of my people unjustly evicted from their property.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:12 - Fruit trees of all kinds will grow along both sides of the river. The leaves of these trees will never turn brown and fall, and there will always be fruit on their branches. There will be a new crop every month, for they are watered by the river flowing from the Temple. The fruit will be for food and the leaves for healing.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:12 - It will be their special portion when the land is distributed, the most sacred land of all. Next to the priests' territory will lie the land where the other Levites will live.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:19 - Those who come from the various tribes to work in the city may farm it.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:21 - “The areas that remain, to the east and to the west of the sacred lands and the city, will belong to the prince. Each of these areas will be 8⅓ miles wide, extending in opposite directions to the eastern and western borders of Israel, with the sacred lands and the sanctuary of the Temple in the center.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 1:6 - Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah were four of the young men chosen, all from the tribe of Judah.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 1:19 - The king talked with them, and no one impressed him as much as Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. So they entered the royal service.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:15 - He asked Arioch, “Why has the king issued such a harsh decree?” So Arioch told him all that had happened.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:25 - Arioch quickly took Daniel to the king and said, “I have found one of the captives from Judah who will tell the king the meaning of his dream!”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:15 - I will give you one more chance to bow down and worship the statue I have made when you hear the sound of the musical instruments.[fn] But if you refuse, you will be thrown immediately into the blazing furnace. And then what god will be able to rescue you from my power?”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:17 - If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God whom we serve is able to save us. He will rescue us from your power, Your Majesty.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:22 - And because the king, in his anger, had demanded such a hot fire in the furnace, the flames killed the soldiers as they threw the three men in.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:26 - Then Nebuchadnezzar came as close as he could to the door of the flaming furnace and shouted: “Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, servants of the Most High God, come out! Come here!”
So Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego stepped out of the fire.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:2 - While Belshazzar was drinking the wine, he gave orders to bring in the gold and silver cups that his predecessor,[fn] Nebuchadnezzar, had taken from the Temple in Jerusalem. He wanted to drink from them with his nobles, his wives, and his concubines.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:3 - So they brought these gold cups taken from the Temple, the house of God in Jerusalem, and the king and his nobles, his wives, and his concubines drank from them.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:24 - So God has sent this hand to write this message.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:20 - When he got there, he called out in anguish, “Daniel, servant of the living God! Was your God, whom you serve so faithfully, able to rescue you from the lions?”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:23 - The king was overjoyed and ordered that Daniel be lifted from the den. Not a scratch was found on him, for he had trusted in his God.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:26 - “I decree that everyone throughout my kingdom should tremble with fear before the God of Daniel. For he is the living God, and he will endure forever. His kingdom will never be destroyed, and his rule will never end.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:27 - He rescues and saves his people; he performs miraculous signs and wonders in the heavens and on earth. He has rescued Daniel from the power of the lions.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 7:3 - Then four huge beasts came up out of the water, each different from the others.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:4 - The ram butted everything out of his way to the west, to the north, and to the south, and no one could stand against him or help his victims. He did as he pleased and became very great.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:7 - The goat charged furiously at the ram and struck him, breaking off both his horns. Now the ram was helpless, and the goat knocked him down and trampled him. No one could rescue the ram from the goat's power.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:9 - Then from one of the prominent horns came a small horn whose power grew very great. It extended toward the south and the east and toward the glorious land of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:22 - The four prominent horns that replaced the one large horn show that the Greek Empire will break into four kingdoms, but none as great as the first.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:15 - “O Lord our God, you brought lasting honor to your name by rescuing your people from Egypt in a great display of power. But we have sinned and are full of wickedness.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:7 - But when one of her relatives[fn] becomes king of the south, he will raise an army and enter the fortress of the king of the north and defeat him.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:20 - “His successor will send out a tax collector to maintain the royal splendor. But after a very brief reign, he will die, though not from anger or in battle.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:41 - He will enter the glorious land of Israel,[fn] and many nations will fall, but Moab, Edom, and the best part of Ammon will escape.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:11 - Then the people of Judah and Israel will unite together. They will choose one leader for themselves, and they will return from exile together. What a day that will be—the day of Jezreel[fn]—when God will again plant his people in his land.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:2 - “But now bring charges against Israel—your mother—
for she is no longer my wife,
and I am no longer her husband.
Tell her to remove the prostitute's makeup from her face
and the clothing that exposes her breasts.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:10 - I will strip her naked in public,
while all her lovers look on.
No one will be able
to rescue her from my hands.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:15 - I will return her vineyards to her
and transform the Valley of Trouble[fn] into a gateway of hope.
She will give herself to me there,
as she did long ago when she was young,
when I freed her from her captivity in Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:17 - O Israel, I will wipe the many names of Baal from your lips,
and you will never mention them again.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:18 - When the rulers of Israel finish their drinking,
off they go to find some prostitutes.
They love shame more than honor.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:19 - So a mighty wind will sweep them away.
Their sacrifices to idols will bring them shame.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:6 - Even if you escape destruction from Assyria,
Egypt will conquer you, and Memphis[fn] will bury you.
Nettles will take over your treasures of silver;
thistles will invade your ruined homes.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:11 - The glory of Israel will fly away like a bird,
for your children will not be born
or grow in the womb
or even be conceived.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:15 - The LORD says, “All their wickedness began at Gilgal;
there I began to hate them.
I will drive them from my land
because of their evil actions.
I will love them no more
because all their leaders are rebels.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 10:14 - Now the terrors of war
will rise among your people.
All your fortifications will fall,
just as when Shalman destroyed Beth-arbel.
Even mothers and children
were dashed to death there.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 11:2 - But the more I[fn] called to him,
the farther he moved from me,
offering sacrifices to the images of Baal
and burning incense to idols.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 11:6 - War will swirl through their cities;
their enemies will crash through their gates.
They will destroy them,
trapping them in their own evil plans.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 11:7 - For my people are determined to desert me.
They call me the Most High,
but they don't truly honor me.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 11:11 - Like a flock of birds, they will come from Egypt.
Trembling like doves, they will return from Assyria.
And I will bring them home again,”
says the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 12:9 - “But I am the LORD your God,
who rescued you from slavery in Egypt.
And I will make you live in tents again,
as you do each year at the Festival of Shelters.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 13:2 - Now they continue to sin by making silver idols,
images shaped skillfully with human hands.
“Sacrifice to these,” they cry,
“and kiss the calf idols!”
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 13:4 - “I have been the LORD your God
ever since I brought you out of Egypt.
You must acknowledge no God but me,
for there is no other savior.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 13:14 - “Should I ransom them from the grave[fn]?
Should I redeem them from death?
O death, bring on your terrors!
O grave, bring on your plagues![fn]
For I will not take pity on them.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 13:15 - Ephraim was the most fruitful of all his brothers,
but the east wind—a blast from the LORD
will arise in the desert.
All their flowing springs will run dry,
and all their wells will disappear.
Every precious thing they own
will be plundered and carried away.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:5 - Wake up, you drunkards, and weep!
Wail, all you wine-drinkers!
All the grapes are ruined,
and all your sweet wine is gone.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:15 - The day of the LORD is near,
the day when destruction comes from the Almighty.
How terrible that day will be!
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:16 - Gather all the people—
the elders, the children, and even the babies.
Call the bridegroom from his quarters
and the bride from her private room.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:6 - You have sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks,[fn] so they could take them far from their homeland.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:7 - “But I will bring them back from all the places to which you sold them, and I will pay you back for everything you have done.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:16 - The LORD's voice will roar from Zion
and thunder from Jerusalem,
and the heavens and the earth will shake.
But the LORD will be a refuge for his people,
a strong fortress for the people of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 1:1 - This message was given to Amos, a shepherd from the town of Tekoa in Judah. He received this message in visions two years before the earthquake, when Uzziah was king of Judah and Jeroboam II, the son of Jehoash,[fn] was king of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 1:2 - This is what he saw and heard:
“The LORD's voice will roar from Zion
and thunder from Jerusalem!
The lush pastures of the shepherds will dry up;
the grass on Mount Carmel will wither and die.”
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 1:5 - I will break down the gates of Damascus
and slaughter the people in the valley of Aven.
I will destroy the ruler in Beth-eden,
and the people of Aram will go as captives to Kir,”
says the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:8 - At their religious festivals,
they lounge in clothing their debtors put up as security.
In the house of their gods,[fn]
they drink wine bought with unjust fines.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:9 - “But as my people watched,
I destroyed the Amorites,
though they were as tall as cedars
and as strong as oaks.
I destroyed the fruit on their branches
and dug out their roots.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:10 - It was I who rescued you from Egypt
and led you through the desert for forty years,
so you could possess the land of the Amorites.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:11 - I chose some of your sons to be prophets
and others to be Nazirites.
Can you deny this, my people of Israel?”
asks the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:14 - Your fastest runners will not get away.
The strongest among you will become weak.
Even mighty warriors will be unable to save themselves.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 3:1 - Listen to this message that the LORD has spoken against you, O people of Israel and Judah—against the entire family I rescued from Egypt:
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 3:2 - “From among all the families on the earth,
I have been intimate with you alone.
That is why I must punish you
for all your sins.”
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 3:4 - Does a lion ever roar in a thicket
without first finding a victim?
Does a young lion growl in its den
without first catching its prey?
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 3:11 - Therefore,” says the Sovereign LORD,
“an enemy is coming!
He will surround them and shatter their defenses.
Then he will plunder all their fortresses.”
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 3:12 - This is what the LORD says:
“A shepherd who tries to rescue a sheep from a lion's mouth
will recover only two legs or a piece of an ear.
So it will be for the Israelites in Samaria lying on luxurious beds,
and for the people of Damascus reclining on couches.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 4:11 - “I destroyed some of your cities,
as I destroyed[fn] Sodom and Gomorrah.
Those of you who survived
were like charred sticks pulled from a fire.
But still you would not return to me,”
says the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:19 - In that day you will be like a man who runs from a lion—
only to meet a bear.
Escaping from the bear, he leans his hand against a wall in his house—
and he's bitten by a snake.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:2 - But go over to Calneh
and see what happened there.
Then go to the great city of Hamath
and down to the Philistine city of Gath.
You are no better than they were,
and look at how they were destroyed.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:4 - How terrible for you who sprawl on ivory beds
and lounge on your couches,
eating the meat of tender lambs from the flock
and of choice calves fattened in the stall.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:10 - And when a relative who is responsible to dispose of the dead[fn] goes into the house to carry out the bodies, he will ask the last survivor, “Is anyone else with you?” When the person begins to swear, “No, by . . . ,” he will interrupt and say, “Stop! Don't even mention the name of the LORD.”)
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:15 - But the LORD called me away from my flock and told me, ‘Go and prophesy to my people in Israel.'
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 9:7 - “Are you Israelites more important to me
than the Ethiopians?[fn]” asks the LORD.
“I brought Israel out of Egypt,
but I also brought the Philistines from Crete[fn]
and led the Arameans out of Kir.
Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:8 - At that time not a single wise person
will be left in the whole land of Edom,”
says the LORD.
“For on the mountains of Edom
I will destroy everyone who has understanding.
Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:9 - The mightiest warriors of Teman
will be terrified,
and everyone on the mountains of Edom
will be cut down in the slaughter.
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 1:3 - But Jonah got up and went in the opposite direction to get away from the LORD. He went down to the port of Joppa, where he found a ship leaving for Tarshish. He bought a ticket and went on board, hoping to escape from the LORD by sailing to Tarshish.
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 1:8 - “Why has this awful storm come down on us?” they demanded. “Who are you? What is your line of work? What country are you from? What is your nationality?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 1:10 - The sailors were terrified when they heard this, for he had already told them he was running away from the LORD. “Oh, why did you do it?” they groaned.
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 1:15 - Then the sailors picked Jonah up and threw him into the raging sea, and the storm stopped at once!
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 2:1 - [fn]Then Jonah prayed to the LORD his God from inside the fish.
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 2:2 - He said,
“I cried out to the LORD in my great trouble,
and he answered me.
I called to you from the land of the dead,[fn]
and LORD, you heard me!
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:1 - Then the LORD spoke to Jonah a second time:
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 4:5 - Then Jonah went out to the east side of the city and made a shelter to sit under as he waited to see what would happen to the city.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:3 - Look! The LORD is coming!
He leaves his throne in heaven
and tramples the heights of the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:7 - All her carved images will be smashed.
All her sacred treasures will be burned.
These things were bought with the money
earned by her prostitution,
and they will now be carried away
to pay prostitutes elsewhere.”
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 2:9 - You have evicted women from their pleasant homes
and forever stripped their children of all that God would give them.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 2:11 - Suppose a prophet full of lies would say to you,
“I'll preach to you the joys of wine and alcohol!”
That's just the kind of prophet you would like!
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 3:6 - Now the night will close around you,
cutting off all your visions.
Darkness will cover you,
putting an end to your predictions.
The sun will set for you prophets,
and your day will come to an end.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 4:2 - People from many nations will come and say,
“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD,
to the house of Jacob's God.
There he will teach us his ways,
and we will walk in his paths.”
For the LORD's teaching will go out from Zion;
his word will go out from Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 4:8 - As for you, Jerusalem,
the citadel of God's people,[fn]
your royal might and power
will come back to you again.
The kingship will be restored
to my precious Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 4:10 - Writhe and groan like a woman in labor,
you people of Jerusalem,[fn]
for now you must leave this city
to live in the open country.
You will soon be sent in exile
to distant Babylon.
But the LORD will rescue you there;
he will redeem you from the grip of your enemies.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:2 - [fn]But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah,
are only a small village among all the people of Judah.
Yet a ruler of Israel will come from you,
one whose origins are from the distant past.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:6 - They will rule Assyria with drawn swords
and enter the gates of the land of Nimrod.
He will rescue us from the Assyrians
when they pour over the borders to invade our land.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:10 - “In that day,” says the LORD,
“I will slaughter your horses
and destroy your chariots.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:12 - I will put an end to all witchcraft,
and there will be no more fortune-tellers.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:13 - I will destroy all your idols and sacred pillars,
so you will never again worship the work of your own hands.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:14 - I will abolish your idol shrines with their Asherah poles
and destroy your pagan cities.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 6:4 - For I brought you out of Egypt
and redeemed you from slavery.
I sent Moses, Aaron, and Miriam to help you.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:13 - But the land[fn] will become empty and desolate
because of the wickedness of those who live there.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:16 - All the nations of the world will stand amazed
at what the LORD will do for you.
They will be embarrassed
at their feeble power.
They will cover their mouths in silent awe,
deaf to everything around them.
Unchecked Copy BoxNah 1:11 - Who is this wicked counselor of yours
who plots evil against the LORD?
Unchecked Copy BoxNah 1:14 - And this is what the LORD says concerning the Assyrians in Nineveh:
“You will have no more children to carry on your name.
I will destroy all the idols in the temples of your gods.
I am preparing a grave for you
because you are despicable!”
Unchecked Copy BoxNah 2:1 - [fn]Your enemy is coming to crush you, Nineveh.
Man the ramparts! Watch the roads!
Prepare your defenses! Call out your forces!
Unchecked Copy BoxNah 2:13 - “I am your enemy!”
says the LORD of Heaven's Armies.
“Your chariots will soon go up in smoke.
Your young men[fn] will be killed in battle.
Never again will you plunder conquered nations.
The voices of your proud messengers will be heard no more.”
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:4 - “Look at the proud!
They trust in themselves, and their lives are crooked.
But the righteous will live by their faithfulness to God.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:9 - “What sorrow awaits you who build big houses
with money gained dishonestly!
You believe your wealth will buy security,
putting your family's nest beyond the reach of danger.
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:11 - The very stones in the walls cry out against you,
and the beams in the ceilings echo the complaint.
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:16 - But soon it will be your turn to be disgraced.
Come, drink and be exposed![fn]
Drink from the cup of the LORD's judgment,
and all your glory will be turned to shame.
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:3 - I see God moving across the deserts from Edom,[fn]
the Holy One coming from Mount Paran.[fn]
His brilliant splendor fills the heavens,
and the earth is filled with his praise.
Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:4 - “I will crush Judah and Jerusalem with my fist
and destroy every last trace of their Baal worship.
I will put an end to all the idolatrous priests,
so that even the memory of them will disappear.
Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:5 - And what sorrow awaits you Philistines[fn]
who live along the coast and in the land of Canaan,
for this judgment is against you, too!
The LORD will destroy you
until not one of you is left.
Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:11 - The LORD will terrify them
as he destroys all the gods in the land.
Then nations around the world will worship the LORD,
each in their own land.
Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:10 - My scattered people who live beyond the rivers of Ethiopia[fn]
will come to present their offerings.
Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:11 - On that day you will no longer need to be ashamed,
for you will no longer be rebels against me.
I will remove all proud and arrogant people from among you.
There will be no more haughtiness on my holy mountain.
Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:15 - For the LORD will remove his hand of judgment
and will disperse the armies of your enemy.
And the LORD himself, the King of Israel,
will live among you!
At last your troubles will be over,
and you will never again fear disaster.
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 1:1 - On August 29[fn] of the second year of King Darius's reign, the LORD gave a message through the prophet Haggai to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Jeshua[fn] son of Jehozadak, the high priest.
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 1:12 - Then Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the whole remnant of God's people began to obey the message from the LORD their God. When they heard the words of the prophet Haggai, whom the LORD their God had sent, the people feared the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 1:14 - So the LORD sparked the enthusiasm of Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the enthusiasm of Jeshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the enthusiasm of the whole remnant of God's people. They began to work on the house of their God, the LORD of Heaven's Armies,
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:2 - “Say this to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Jeshua[fn] son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to the remnant of God's people there in the land:
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:20 - On that same day, December 18,[fn] the LORD sent this second message to Haggai:
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:21 - “Tell Zerubbabel, the governor of Judah, that I am about to shake the heavens and the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 2:6 - The LORD says, “Come away! Flee from Babylon in the land of the north, for I have scattered you to the four winds.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 2:13 - Be silent before the LORD, all humanity, for he is springing into action from his holy dwelling.”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 3:1 - Then the angel showed me Jeshua[fn] the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD. The Accuser, Satan,[fn] was there at the angel's right hand, making accusations against Jeshua.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 3:2 - And the LORD said to Satan, “I, the LORD, reject your accusations, Satan. Yes, the LORD, who has chosen Jerusalem, rebukes you. This man is like a burning stick that has been snatched from the fire.”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 4:3 - And I see two olive trees, one on each side of the bowl.”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 4:11 - Then I asked the angel, “What are these two olive trees on each side of the lampstand,
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 4:12 - and what are the two olive branches that pour out golden oil through two gold tubes?”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 5:3 - Then he said to me, “This scroll contains the curse that is going out over the entire land. One side of the scroll says that those who steal will be banished from the land; the other side says that those who swear falsely will be banished from the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 6:1 - Then I looked up again and saw four chariots coming from between two bronze mountains.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 6:10 - “Heldai, Tobijah, and Jedaiah will bring gifts of silver and gold from the Jews exiled in Babylon. As soon as they arrive, meet them at the home of Josiah son of Zephaniah.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 6:13 - Yes, he will build the Temple of the LORD. Then he will receive royal honor and will rule as king from his throne. He will also serve as priest from his throne,[fn] and there will be perfect harmony between his two roles.'
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 7:14 - As with a whirlwind, I scattered them among the distant nations, where they lived as strangers. Their land became so desolate that no one even traveled through it. They turned their pleasant land into a desert.”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:9 - “This is what the LORD of Heaven's Armies says: Be strong and finish the task! Ever since the laying of the foundation of the Temple of the LORD of Heaven's Armies, you have heard what the prophets have been saying about completing the building.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:23 - “This is what the LORD of Heaven's Armies says: In those days ten men from different nations and languages of the world will clutch at the sleeve of one Jew. And they will say, ‘Please let us walk with you, for we have heard that God is with you.'”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:5 - The city of Ashkelon will see Tyre fall
and will be filled with fear.
Gaza will shake with terror,
as will Ekron, for their hopes will be dashed.
Gaza's king will be killed,
and Ashkelon will be deserted.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:7 - I will grab the bloody meat from their mouths
and snatch the detestable sacrifices from their teeth.
Then the surviving Philistines will worship our God
and become like a clan in Judah.[fn]
The Philistines of Ekron will join my people,
as the ancient Jebusites once did.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:11 - Because of the covenant I made with you,
sealed with blood,
I will free your prisoners
from death in a waterless dungeon.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:10 - I will bring them back from Egypt
and gather them from Assyria.
I will resettle them in Gilead and Lebanon
until there is no more room for them all.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:6 - Likewise, I will no longer have pity on the people of the land,” says the LORD. “I will let them fall into each other's hands and into the hands of their king. They will turn the land into a wilderness, and I will not rescue them.”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 12:6 - “On that day I will make the clans of Judah like a flame that sets a woodpile ablaze or like a burning torch among sheaves of grain. They will burn up all the neighboring nations right and left, while the people living in Jerusalem remain secure.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 13:4 - “On that day people will be ashamed to claim the prophetic gift. No one will pretend to be a prophet by wearing prophet's clothes.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 13:5 - He will say, ‘I'm no prophet; I'm a farmer. I began working for a farmer as a boy.'
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 14:2 - I will gather all the nations to fight against Jerusalem. The city will be taken, the houses looted, and the women raped. Half the population will be taken into captivity, and the rest will be left among the ruins of the city.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 14:12 - And the LORD will send a plague on all the nations that fought against Jerusalem. Their people will become like walking corpses, their flesh rotting away. Their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 14:16 - In the end, the enemies of Jerusalem who survive the plague will go up to Jerusalem each year to worship the King, the LORD of Heaven's Armies, and to celebrate the Festival of Shelters.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 14:17 - Any nation in the world that refuses to come to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of Heaven's Armies, will have no rain.
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 1:10 - “How I wish one of you would shut the Temple doors so that these worthless sacrifices could not be offered! I am not pleased with you,” says the LORD of Heaven's Armies, “and I will not accept your offerings.
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 1:13 - You say, ‘It's too hard to serve the LORD,' and you turn up your noses at my commands,” says the LORD of Heaven's Armies. “Think of it! Animals that are stolen and crippled and sick are being presented as offerings! Should I accept from you such offerings as these?” asks the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 2:7 - “The words of a priest's lips should preserve knowledge of God, and people should go to him for instruction, for the priest is the messenger of the LORD of Heaven's Armies.
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 2:8 - But you priests have left God's paths. Your instructions have caused many to stumble into sin. You have corrupted the covenant I made with the Levites,” says the LORD of Heaven's Armies.
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 2:12 - May the LORD cut off from the nation of Israel[fn] every last man who has done this and yet brings an offering to the LORD of Heaven's Armies.
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 2:13 - Here is another thing you do. You cover the LORD's altar with tears, weeping and groaning because he pays no attention to your offerings and doesn't accept them with pleasure.
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 4:2 - “But for you who fear my name, the Sun of Righteousness will rise with healing in his wings.[fn] And you will go free, leaping with joy like calves let out to pasture.
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