LXX Concordance for αὐτῇ

God blessed the seventh day and declared it holy, for on it he rested from all his work of creation.

Abram's wife, Sarai, had not borne any children for him, but she owned an Egyptian slave named Hagar.

Abram replied to Sarai, “Here, your slave is in your power; do whatever you want with her.” Then Sarai mistreated her so much that she ran away from her.

He said, “Hagar, slave of Sarai, where have you come from and where are you going? ”

She replied, “I'm running away from my mistress Sarai.”

So Abraham hurried into the tent and said to Sarah, “Quick! Knead three measures[fn] of fine flour and make bread.”[fn]

“What if there are fifty righteous people in the city? Will you really sweep it away instead of sparing the place for the sake of the fifty righteous people who are in it?

“So when God had me wander from my father's house, I said to her: Show your loyalty to me wherever we go and say about me, ‘He's my brother.' ”

God heard the boy crying, and the[fn] angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, “What's wrong, Hagar? Don't be afraid, for God has heard the boy crying from the place where he is.

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

“Before I had finished praying silently, there was Rebekah coming with her jug on her shoulder, and she went down to the spring and drew water. So I said to her, ‘Please let me have a drink.'

“Then I asked her, ‘Whose daughter are you? ' She responded, ‘The daughter of Bethuel son of Nahor, whom Milcah bore to him.' So I put the ring on her nose and the bracelets on her wrists.

They called Rebekah and said to her, “Will you go with this man? ”

She replied, “I will go.”

They blessed Rebekah, saying to her:

Our sister, may you become

thousands upon ten thousands.

May your offspring possess

the city gates of their[fn] enemies.

But the children inside her struggled with each other, and she said, “Why is this happening to me? ”[fn] So she went to inquire of the LORD.

Then Rebekah took the best clothes of her older son Esau, which were in the house, and had her younger son Jacob wear them.

And Laban gave his slave Zilpah to his daughter Leah as her slave.

And Laban gave his slave Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her slave.

Jacob became angry with Rachel and said, “Am I in the place of God? He has withheld offspring[fn] from you! ”

He became infatuated with Jacob's daughter Dinah. He loved the young girl and spoke tenderly to her.[fn]

“Live with us. The land is before you. Settle here, move about, and acquire property in it.”

During her difficult labor, the midwife said to her, “Don't be afraid, for you have another son.”

He went over to her and said, “Come, let me sleep with you,” for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law.

She said, “What will you give me for sleeping with me? ”

“What should I give you? ” he asked.

She answered, “Your signet ring, your cord, and the staff in your hand.” So he gave them to her and slept with her, and she became pregnant by him.

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

Joseph gathered all the excess food in the land of Egypt during the seven years and put it in the cities. He put the food in every city from the fields around it.

“Go,” Pharaoh's daughter told her. So the girl went and called the boy's mother.

When the child grew older, she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses,[fn] “Because,” she said, “I drew him out of the water.”

“And take this staff in your hand that you will perform the signs with.”

During the night Pharaoh got up, he along with all his officials and all the Egyptians, and there was a loud wailing throughout Egypt because there wasn't a house without someone dead.

“For six days you will gather it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will be none.”

but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. You must not do any work ​— ​you, your son or daughter, your male or female servant, your livestock, or the resident alien who is within your city gates.

“If she is displeasing to her master, who chose her for himself, then he must let her be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to foreigners because he has acted treacherously toward her.

“And if he does not do these three things for her, she may leave free of charge, without any payment.[fn]

“Overlay it with pure gold; overlay it both inside and out. Also make a gold molding all around it.

“Overlay it with pure gold and make a gold molding all around it.

“For six days work is to be done, but on the seventh day you are to have a holy day, a Sabbath of complete rest to the LORD. Anyone who does work on it must be executed.

He cast four gold rings for it, for its four feet, two rings on one side and two rings on the other side.

He cast four gold rings for it and attached the rings to the four corners at its four legs.

“Take the anointing oil and anoint the tabernacle and everything in it; consecrate it along with all its furnishings so that it will be holy.

“then the assembly must present a young bull as a sin offering. They are to bring it before the tent of meeting when the sin they have committed in regard to the command becomes known.

“or someone informs him about the sin he has committed, he is to bring an unblemished male goat as his offering.

“or if someone informs him about the sin he has committed, then he is to bring an unblemished female goat as his offering for the sin that he has committed.

He put the tunic on Aaron, wrapped the sash around him, clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod on him. He put the woven band of the ephod around him and fastened it to him.

He sprinkled some of the oil on the altar seven times, anointing the altar with all its utensils, and the basin with its stand, to consecrate them.

“You may eat these:

any kind of locust, katydid, cricket, and grasshopper.

“the priest is to examine the condition. If it appears to be deeper than the skin, and the hair in it is yellow and sparse, the priest must pronounce the person unclean. It is a scaly outbreak, a serious skin disease of the head or chin.

“Any bed she lies on during the days of her discharge will be like her bed during menstrual impurity; any furniture she sits on will be unclean as in her menstrual period.

“When she is cured of her discharge, she is to count seven days, and after that she will be clean.

“This is the law for someone with a discharge: a man who has an emission of semen, becoming unclean by it;

“Do not follow the practices of the land of Egypt, where you used to live, or follow the practices of the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you. You must not follow their customs.

“You are not to marry a woman as a rival to her sister and have sexual intercourse with her during her sister's lifetime.

“If a man has sexual intercourse with a woman who is a slave designated for another man, but she has not been redeemed or given her freedom, there must be punishment.[fn] They are not to be put to death, because she had not been freed.

“But if the priest's daughter becomes widowed or divorced, has no children, and returns to her father's house as in her youth, she may share her father's food. But no outsider may share it.

“It is to be eaten on the same day. Do not let any of it remain until morning; I am the LORD.

“On that same day you are to make a proclamation and hold a sacred assembly. You are not to do any daily work. This is to be a permanent statute wherever you live throughout your generations.

“On this particular day you are not to do any work, for it is a Day of Atonement to make atonement for yourselves before the LORD your God.

“I also will devastate the land, so that your enemies who come to live there will be appalled by it.

“Appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony, all its furnishings, and everything in it. They are to transport the tabernacle and all its articles, take care of it, and camp around it.

“Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, has oversight of the lamp oil, the fragrant incense, the daily grain offering, and the anointing oil. He has oversight of the entire tabernacle and everything in it, the holy objects and their utensils.”[fn]

“or when a feeling of jealousy comes over a husband and he becomes jealous of his wife. He is to have the woman stand before the LORD, and the priest will carry out all these instructions for her.

“Is the land fertile or unproductive? Are there trees in it or not? Be courageous. Bring back some fruit from the land.” It was the season for the first ripe grapes.

So they gave a negative report to the Israelites about the land they had scouted: “The land we passed through to explore is one that devours its inhabitants, and all the people we saw in it are men of great size.

“He will certainly be cut off, because he has despised the LORD's word and broken his command; his guilt remains on him.”

“This is the legal statute that the LORD has commanded: Instruct the Israelites to bring you an unblemished red cow that has no defect and has never been yoked.

Israel took all the cities and lived in all these Amorite cities, including Heshbon and all its surrounding villages.

“On the seventh day you are to hold a sacred assembly; you are not to do any daily work.

“On the eighth day you are to hold a solemn assembly; you are not to do any daily work.

“and her father hears about her vow or the obligation she put herself under, and he says nothing to her, all her vows and every obligation she put herself under are binding.

“If a woman marries while her vows or the rash commitment she herself made are binding,

“Every vow a widow or divorced woman puts herself under is binding on her.

“and her husband hears about it, says nothing to her, and does not prohibit her, all her vows are binding, and every obligation she put herself under is binding.

The descendants of Machir son of Manasseh went to Gilead, captured it, and drove out the Amorites who were there.

“You are to take possession of the land and settle in it because I have given you the land to possess.

“Then all of you approached me and said, ‘Let's send men ahead of us, so that they may explore the land for us and bring us back a report about the route we should go up and the cities we will come to.'

“but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. Do not do any work ​— ​you, your son or daughter, your male or female slave, your ox or donkey, any of your livestock, or the resident alien who lives within your city gates, so that your male and female slaves may rest as you do.

“Follow the whole instruction the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live, prosper, and have a long life in the land you will possess.

“The heavens, indeed the highest heavens, belong to the LORD your God, as does the earth and everything in it.

“For you are about to cross the Jordan to enter and take possession of the land the LORD your God is giving you. When you possess it and settle in it,

“That prophet or dreamer must be put to death, because he has urged rebellion against the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the place of slavery, to turn you from the way the LORD your God has commanded you to walk. You must purge the evil from you.

“you must strike down the inhabitants of that city with the sword. Completely destroy everyone in it as well as its livestock with the sword.

“Eat unleavened bread for six days. On the seventh day there is to be a solemn assembly to the LORD your God; do not do any work.

“If it accepts your offer of peace and opens its gates to you, all the people found in it will become forced laborers for you and serve you.

“remove the clothes she was wearing when she was taken prisoner, live in your house, and mourn for her father and mother a full month. After that, you may have sexual relations with her and be her husband, and she will be your wife.

“If a man marries a woman, has sexual relations with her, and comes to hate her,

“He has accused her of shameful conduct, saying, “I didn't find any evidence of your daughter's virginity,” but here is the evidence of my daughter's virginity.' They will spread out the cloth before the city elders.

“When he found her in the field, the engaged woman cried out, but there was no one to rescue her.

“If a man marries a woman, but she becomes displeasing to him because he finds something indecent about her, he may write her a divorce certificate, hand it to her, and send her away from his house.

“and the second man hates her, writes her a divorce certificate, hands it to her, and sends her away from his house or if he dies,

“When brothers live on the same property[fn] and one of them dies without a son, the wife of the dead man may not marry a stranger outside the family. Her brother-in-law is to take her as his wife, have sexual relations with her, and perform the duty of a brother-in-law for her.

“you are to cut off her hand. Do not show pity.

“You will become engaged to a woman, but another man will rape her. You will build a house but not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but not enjoy its fruit.

But she had taken them up to the roof and hidden them among the stalks of flax that she had arranged on the roof.

The men answered her, “We will give our lives for yours. If you don't report our mission, we will show kindness and faithfulness to you when the LORD gives us the land.”

“But keep a distance of about a thousand yards[fn] between yourselves and the ark. Don't go near it, so that you can see the way to go, for you haven't traveled this way before.”

The LORD said to Joshua, “Look, I have handed Jericho, its king, and its best soldiers over to you.

“But the city and everything in it are set apart to the LORD for destruction. Only Rahab the prostitute and everyone with her in the house will live, because she hid the messengers we sent.

Joshua said to the two men who had scouted the land, “Go to the prostitute's house and bring the woman out of there, and all who are with her, just as you swore to her.”

On that day Joshua captured Makkedah and struck it down with the sword, including its king. He completely destroyed it[fn] and everyone in it, leaving no survivors. So he treated the king of Makkedah as he had the king of Jericho.

The LORD also handed it and its king over to Israel. He struck it down, putting everyone in it to the sword, and left no survivors in it. He treated Libnah's king as he had the king of Jericho.

On that day they captured it and struck it down, putting everyone in it to the sword. He completely destroyed it that day, just as he had done to Lachish.

They captured it and struck down its king, all its villages, and everyone in it with the sword. He left no survivors, just as he had done at Eglon. He completely destroyed Hebron and everyone in it.

He captured it ​— ​its king and all its villages. They struck them down with the sword and completely destroyed everyone in it, leaving no survivors. He treated Debir and its king as he had treated Hebron and as he had treated Libnah and its king.

They struck down everyone in it with the sword, completely destroying them; he left no one alive. Then he burned Hazor.

When she arrived, she persuaded Othniel to ask her father for a field. As she got off her donkey, Caleb asked her, “What can I do for you? ”

By the LORD's command, they gave him the city Timnath-serah in the hill country of Ephraim, which he requested. He rebuilt the city and lived in it.

They gave to the descendants of the priest Aaron:

Hebron, the city of refuge for the one who commits manslaughter, with its pasturelands, Libnah with its pasturelands,

The Israelites gave them:

Shechem, the city of refuge for the one who commits manslaughter, with its pasturelands in the hill country of Ephraim, Gezer with its pasturelands,

From half the tribe of Manasseh, they gave to the descendants of Gershon, who were one of the Levite clans:

Golan, the city of refuge for the one who commits manslaughter, with its pasturelands in Bashan, and Beeshterah with its pasturelands ​— ​two cities.

Each of these cities had its own surrounding pasturelands; this was true for all the cities.

“For the LORD our God brought us and our ancestors out of the land of Egypt, out of the place of slavery, and performed these great signs before our eyes. He also protected us all along the way we went and among all the peoples whose lands we traveled through.

When she arrived, she persuaded Othniel to ask her father for a field. As she got off her donkey, Caleb asked her, “What do you want? ”

“I did this to test Israel and to see whether or not they would keep the LORD's way by walking in it, as their ancestors had.”

So Abimelech fought against the city that entire day, captured it, and killed the people who were in it. Then he tore down the city and sowed it with salt.

“She must not eat anything that comes from the grapevine or drink wine or beer. And she must not eat anything unclean. Your wife must do everything I have commanded her.”

So Samson's wife came to him, weeping, and said, “You hate me and don't love me! You told my people the riddle, but haven't explained it to me.”

“Look,” he said,[fn] “I haven't even explained it to my father or mother, so why should I explain it to you? ”

He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, reached out his hand, took it, and killed a thousand men with it.

Some time later, he fell in love with a woman named Delilah, who lived in the Sorek Valley.

The Philistine leaders brought her seven fresh bowstrings that had not been dried, and she tied him up with them.

he told her the whole truth and said to her, “My hair has never been cut,[fn] because I am a Nazirite to God from birth. If I am shaved, my strength will leave me, and I will become weak and be like any other man.”

In those days, there was no king in Israel, and the Danite tribe was looking for territory to occupy. Up to that time no territory had been captured by them among the tribes of Israel.

The priest told them, “Go in peace. The LORD is watching over the journey you are going on.”

They answered, “Come on, let's attack them, for we have seen the land, and it is very good. Why wait? Don't hesitate to go and invade and take possession of the land!

There was no one to rescue them because it was far from Sidon and they had no alliance with anyone. It was in a valley that belonged to Beth-rehob. They rebuilt the city and lived in it.

When they were near Jebus and the day was almost gone, the servant said to his master, “Please, why not let us stop at this Jebusite city and spend the night here? ”

But the men would not listen to him, so the man seized his concubine and took her outside to them. They raped her and abused her all night until morning. At daybreak they let her go.

“Citizens of Gibeah came to attack me and surrounded the house at night. They intended to kill me, but they raped my concubine, and she died.

They said to her, “We insist on returning with you to your people.”

Again they wept loudly, and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clung to her.

Ruth the Moabitess asked Naomi, “Will you let me go into the fields and gather fallen grain behind someone with whom I find favor? ”

Naomi answered her, “Go ahead, my daughter.”

Boaz answered her, “Everything you have done for your mother-in-law since your husband's death has been fully reported to me: how you left your father and mother and your native land, and how you came to a people you didn't previously know.

At mealtime Boaz told her, “Come over here and have some bread and dip it in the vinegar sauce.” So she sat beside the harvesters, and he offered her roasted grain. She ate and was satisfied and had some left over.

“Pull out some stalks from the bundles for her and leave them for her to gather. Don't rebuke her.”

She picked up the grain and went into the town, where her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned. She brought out what she had left over from her meal and gave it to her.

Ruth's mother-in-law Naomi said to her, “My daughter, shouldn't I find rest for you, so that you will be taken care of?

She went down to the threshing floor and did everything her mother-in-law had charged her to do.

And he told Ruth, “Bring the shawl you're wearing and hold it out.” When she held it out, he shoveled six measures of barley into her shawl, and she[fn] went into the town.

Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife. He slept with her, and the LORD granted conception to her, and she gave birth to a son.

But he gave a double[fn] portion to Hannah, for he loved her even though the LORD had kept her from conceiving.

“Hannah, why are you crying? ” her husband, Elkanah, would ask. “Why won't you eat? Why are you troubled? Am I not better to you than ten sons? ”

and said to her, “How long are you going to be drunk? Get rid of your wine! ”

Eli responded, “Go in peace, and may the God of Israel grant the request you've made of him.”

Her husband, Elkanah, replied, “Do what you think is best, and stay here until you've weaned him. May the LORD confirm your[fn] word.” So Hannah stayed there and nursed her son until she weaned him.

As she was dying,[fn] the women taking care of her said, “Don't be afraid. You've given birth to a son! ” But she did not respond or pay attention.

They replied, “If you send the ark of Israel's God away, do not send it without an offering. Send back a guilt offering to him, and you will be healed. Then the reason his hand hasn't been removed from you will be revealed.”[fn]

“Take the ark of the LORD, place it on the cart, and put the gold objects that you're sending him as a guilt offering in a box beside the ark. Send it off and let it go its way.

The cart came to the field of Joshua of Beth-shemesh and stopped there near a large rock. The people of the city chopped up the cart and offered the cows as a burnt offering to the LORD.

“there will not be remorse or a troubled conscience for my lord because of needless bloodshed or my lord's revenge. And when the LORD does good things for my lord, may you remember me your servant.”

Then David accepted what she had brought him and said, “Go home in peace. See, I have heard what you said and have granted your request.”

When David's servants came to Abigail at Carmel, they said to her, “David sent us to bring you to him as a wife.”

Then Abigail got up quickly, and with her five female servants accompanying her, rode on the donkey following David's messengers. And so she became his wife.

Saul then said to his servants, “Find me a woman who is a medium, so I can go and consult her.”

His servants replied, “There is a woman at En-dor who is a medium.”

Then Saul swore to her by the LORD: “As surely as the LORD lives, no punishment will come to you[fn] from this.”

But the king said to her, “Don't be afraid. What do you see? ”

“I see a spirit form[fn] coming up out of the earth,” the woman answered.

They also had kidnapped the women and everyone[fn] in it from youngest to oldest. They had killed no one but had carried them off as they went on their way.

Then Saul said to his armor-bearer, “Draw your sword and run me through with it, or these uncircumcised men will come and run me through and torture me! ” But his armor-bearer would not do it because he was terrified. Then Saul took his sword and fell on it.

They brought the ark of the LORD and set it in its place inside the tent David had pitched for it. Then David offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings in the LORD's presence.

So David assembled all the troops and went to Rabbah; he fought against it and captured it.

He removed the people who were in the city and put them to work with saws, iron picks, and iron axes, and to labor at brickmaking. He did the same to all the Ammonite cities. Then he and all his troops returned to Jerusalem.

Some time passed. David's son Absalom had a beautiful sister named Tamar, and David's son Amnon was infatuated with her.

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

So Amnon hated Tamar with such intensity that the hatred he hated her with was greater than the love he had loved her with. “Get out of here! ” he said.

Three sons were born to Absalom, and a daughter named Tamar, who was a beautiful woman.

Amasa was not on guard against the sword in Joab's hand, and Joab stabbed him in the stomach with it and spilled his intestines out on the ground. Joab did not stab him again, and Amasa died.

Joab and his brother Abishai pursued Sheba son of Bichri.

Now Adonijah son of Haggith came to Bathsheba, Solomon's mother. She asked, “Do you come peacefully? ”

“Peacefully,” he replied,

“You know the kingship was mine,” he said. “All Israel expected me to be king, but then the kingship was turned over to my brother, for the LORD gave it to him.

He replied, “Please speak to King Solomon since he won't turn you down. Let him give me Abishag the Shunammite as a wife.”

So Bathsheba went to King Solomon to speak to him about Adonijah. The king stood up to greet her, bowed to her, sat down on his throne, and had a throne placed for the king's mother. So she sat down at his right hand.

The woman whose son was alive spoke to the king because she felt great compassion[fn] for her son. “My lord, give her the living baby,” she said, “but please don't have him killed! ”

But the other one said, “He will not be mine or yours. Cut him in two! ”

may you hear in heaven

and forgive the sin of your servants

and your people Israel,

so that you may teach them to walk on the good way.

May you send rain on your land

that you gave your people for an inheritance.

When your people go out to fight against their enemies,[fn]

wherever you send them,

and they pray to the LORD

in the direction of the city you have chosen

and the temple I have built for your name,

So Solomon answered all her questions; nothing was too difficult for the king to explain to her.

King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba her every desire ​— ​whatever she asked ​— ​besides what he had given her out of his royal bounty. Then she, along with her servants, returned to her own country.

“but one tribe will remain his for the sake of my servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city I chose out of all the tribes of Israel.

Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim and lived there. From there he went out and built Penuel.

“for this is what I was commanded by the word of the LORD: ‘You must not eat food or drink water or go back the way you came.' ”

“For a message came to me by the word of the LORD: ‘You must not eat food or drink water there or go back by the way you came.' ”

There were men passing by who saw the corpse thrown on the road and the lion standing beside it, and they went and spoke about it in the city where the old prophet lived.

So Elijah got up and went to Zarephath. When he arrived at the city gate, there was a widow gathering wood. Elijah called to her and said, “Please bring me a little water in a cup and let me drink.”

When they were full, she said to her son, “Bring me another container.”

But he replied, “There aren't any more.” Then the oil stopped.

So he asked, “Then what should be done for her? ”

Gehazi answered, “Well, she has no son, and her husband is old.”

When she came up to the man of God at the mountain, she clung to his feet. Gehazi came to push her away, but the man of God said, “Leave her alone ​— ​she is in severe anguish, and the LORD has hidden it from me. He hasn't told me.”

He answered, “If the LORD doesn't help you, where can I get help for you? From the threshing floor or the winepress? ”

When the king asked the woman, she told him the story. So the king appointed a court official for her, saying, “Restore all that was hers, along with all the income from the field from the day she left the country until now.”

But when they went out to bury her, they did not find anything but the skull, the feet, and the hands.

So they arrested her, and she went through the horse entrance to the king's palace, where she was put to death.

At that time, starting from Tirzah, Menahem attacked Tiphsah, all who were in it, and its territory because they wouldn't surrender. He ripped open all the pregnant women.

They feared the LORD, but they also made from their ranks priests for the high places, who were working for them at the shrines of the high places.

“Because your raging against me

and your arrogance have reached my ears,

I will put my hook in your nose

and my bit in your mouth;

I will make you go back

the way you came.

“He will go back

the way he came,

and he will not enter this city.

This is the LORD's declaration.

Jerahmeel had another wife named Atarah, who was the mother of Onam.

Then Saul said to his armor-bearer, “Draw your sword and run me through with it, or these uncircumcised men will come and torture me.” But his armor-bearer would not do it because he was terrified. Then Saul took his sword and fell on it.

David built houses for himself in the city of David, and he prepared a place for the ark of God and pitched a tent for it.

David assembled all Israel at Jerusalem to bring the ark of the LORD to the place he had prepared for it.

He said to them, “You are the heads of the Levite families. You and your relatives must consecrate yourselves so that you may bring the ark of the LORD God of Israel to the place I have prepared for it.

They brought the ark of God and placed it inside the tent David had pitched for it. Then they offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings in God's presence.

When they[fn] were few in number,

very few indeed, and resident aliens in Canaan

He brought out the people who were in it and put them to work with saws,[fn] iron picks, and axes.[fn] David did the same to all the Ammonite cities. Then he and all his troops returned to Jerusalem.

Now David had brought the ark of God from Kiriath-jearim to the place[fn] he had set up for it, because he had pitched a tent for it in Jerusalem,

He made ten basins for washing and he put five on the right and five on the left. The parts of the burnt offering were rinsed in them, but the basin was used by the priests for washing.

may you hear in heaven

and forgive the sin of your servants

and your people Israel,

so that you may teach them the good way

they should walk in.

May you send rain on your land

that you gave your people for an inheritance.

When your people go out to fight against their enemies,

wherever you send them,

and they pray to you

in the direction of this city you have chosen

and the temple that I have built for your name,

Solomon brought the daughter of Pharaoh from the city of David to the house he had built for her, for he said, “My wife must not live in the house[fn] of King David of Israel because the places the ark of the LORD has come into are holy.”

So Solomon answered all her questions; nothing was too difficult for Solomon to explain to her.

They have lived in the land and have built you a sanctuary in it for your name and have said,

So they arrested her, and she went by the entrance of the Horse Gate to the king's palace, where they put her to death.

So Hilkiah and those the king had designated[fn] went to the prophetess Huldah, the wife of Shallum son of Tokhath, son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe. She lived in Jerusalem in the Second District. They spoke with her about this.

I issued a decree and a search was conducted. It was discovered that this city has had uprisings against kings since ancient times, and there have been rebellions and revolts in it.

But it was in the fortress of Ecbatana in the province of Media that a scroll was found with this record written on it:

So I said to them, “You see the trouble we are in. Jerusalem lies in ruins and its gates have been burned. Come, let's rebuild Jerusalem's wall, so that we will no longer be a disgrace.”

In it was written:

It is reported among the nations ​— ​and Geshem[fn] agrees ​— ​that you and the Jews plan to rebel. This is the reason you are building the wall. According to these reports, you are to become their king

The city was large and spacious, but there were few people in it, and no houses had been built yet.

You,[fn] LORD, are the only God.[fn]

You created the heavens,

the highest heavens with all their stars,

the earth and all that is on it,

the seas and all that is in them.

You give life to all of them,

and all the stars of heaven worship you.

You led them with a pillar of cloud by day,

and with a pillar of fire by night,

to illuminate the way they should go.

you did not abandon them in the wilderness

because of your great compassion.

During the day the pillar of cloud

never turned away from them,

guiding them on their journey.

And during the night the pillar of fire

illuminated the way they should go.

The Tyrians living there were importing fish and all kinds of merchandise and selling them on the Sabbath to the people of Judah in Jerusalem.

to bring Queen Vashti before him with her royal crown. He wanted to show off her beauty to the people and the officials, because she was very beautiful.

Mordecai was the legal guardian of his cousin[fn] Hadassah (that is, Esther), because she had no father or mother. The young woman had a beautiful figure and was extremely good-looking. When her father and mother died, Mordecai had adopted her as his own daughter.

The young woman pleased him and gained his favor so that he accelerated the process of the beauty treatments and the special diet that she received. He assigned seven hand-picked female servants to her from the palace and transferred her and her servants to the harem's best quarters.

When the young woman would go to the king, she was given whatever she requested to take with her from the harem to the palace.

Esther was the daughter of Abihail, the uncle of Mordecai who had adopted her as his own daughter. When her turn came to go to the king, she did not ask for anything except what Hegai, the king's eunuch, keeper of the women, suggested. Esther gained favor in the eyes of everyone who saw her.

The king loved Esther more than all the other women. She won more favor and approval from him than did any of the other virgins. He placed the royal crown on her head and made her queen in place of Vashti.

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

Esther's female servants and her eunuchs came and reported the news to her, and the queen was overcome with fear. She sent clothes for Mordecai to wear so that he would take off his sackcloth, but he did not accept them.

Mordecai also gave him a copy of the written decree issued in Susa ordering their destruction, so that Hathach might show it to Esther, explain it to her, and command her to approach the king, implore his favor, and plead with him personally for her people.

Mordecai told the messenger to reply to Esther, “Don't think that you will escape the fate of all the Jews because you are in the king's palace.

On the third day, Esther dressed in her royal clothing and stood in the inner courtyard of the palace facing it. The king was sitting on his royal throne in the royal courtroom,[fn] facing its entrance.

That same day King Ahasuerus awarded Queen Esther the estate of Haman, the enemy of the Jews. Mordecai entered the king's presence because Esther had revealed her relationship to Mordecai.

In each of King Ahasuerus's provinces the Jews assembled in their cities to attack those who intended to harm them.[fn] Not a single person could withstand them; fear of them fell on every nationality.

On that day the number of people killed in the fortress of Susa was reported to the king.

“You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept only good from God and not adversity? ” Throughout all this Job did not sin in what he said.[fn]

Gold and glass do not compare with it,

and articles of fine gold cannot be exchanged for it.

Topaz from Cush cannot compare with it,

and it cannot be valued in pure gold.

Did not the one who made me in the womb also make them?

Did not the same God form us both in the womb?

when I made the clouds its garment

and total darkness its blanket,[fn]

to bring rain on an uninhabited land,

on a desert with no human life,[fn]

For God has deprived her of wisdom;

he has not endowed her with understanding.

The earth and everything in it,

the world and its inhabitants,

belong to the LORD;

Let ruin come on him unexpectedly,

and let the net that he hid ensnare him;

let him fall into it ​— ​to his ruin.

God is within her; she will not be toppled.

God will help her when the morning dawns.

Your people settled in it;

God, you provided for the poor by your goodness.

The descendants of his servants will inherit it,

and those who love his name will live in it.

“When the earth and all its inhabitants shake,

I am the one who steadies its pillars.Selah

And it will be said of Zion,

“This one and that one were born in her.”

The Most High himself will establish her.

Let the sea and all that fills it,

the world and those who live in it, resound.

You bring darkness, and it becomes night,

when all the forest animals stir.

When they were few in number,

very few indeed,

and resident aliens in Canaan,

and fruitful land into salty wasteland,

because of the wickedness of its inhabitants.

This is the LORD's gate;

the righteous will enter through it.

This is the day the LORD has made;

let's rejoice and be glad in it.

None return who go to her;

none reach the paths of life.

For the upright will inhabit the land,

and those of integrity will remain in it;

She is more precious than jewels;

nothing you desire can equal her.

Her feet go down to death;

her steps head straight for Sheol.

He follows her impulsively

like an ox going to the slaughter,

like a deer bounding toward a trap[fn]

But he doesn't know that the departed spirits are there,

that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

The LORD's blessing enriches,

and he adds no painful effort to it.[fn]

A person takes joy in giving an answer;[fn]

and a timely word ​— ​how good that is!

The fear of the LORD is what wisdom teaches,

and humility comes before honor.

Wine is a mocker, beer is a brawler;

whoever goes astray[fn] because of them is not wise.

The heart of her husband trusts in her,

and he will not lack anything good.

Give her the reward of her labor,[fn]

and let her works praise her at the city gates.

And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a trap: her heart a net and her hands chains. The one who pleases God will escape her, but the sinner will be captured by her.

There was a small city with few men in it. A great king came against it, surrounded it, and built large siege works against it.

Our sister is young;

she has no breasts.

What will we do for our sister

on the day she is spoken for?

The faithful town —

what an adulteress[fn] she has become!

She was once full of justice.

Righteousness once dwelt in her,

but now, murderers!

and many peoples will come and say,

“Come, let's go up to the mountain of the LORD,

to the house of the God of Jacob.

He will teach us about his ways

so that we may walk in his paths.”

For instruction will go out of Zion

and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

Does an ax exalt itself

above the one who chops with it?

Does a saw magnify itself

above the one who saws with it?

It would be like a rod waving the ones who lift[fn] it!

It would be like a staff lifting the one who isn't wood!

It will never be inhabited

or lived in from generation to generation;

a nomad will not pitch his tent there,

and shepherds will not let their flocks rest there.

My heart cries out over Moab,

whose fugitives flee as far as Zoar,

to Eglath-shelishiyah;

they go up the Ascent of Luhith weeping;

they raise a cry of destruction

on the road to Horonaim.

Give us counsel and make a decision.

Shelter us at noonday

with shade that is as dark as night.

Hide the refugees;

do not betray the one who flees.

Only gleanings will be left in Israel,

as if an olive tree had been beaten —

two or three olives at the very top of the tree,

four or five on its fruitful branches.

This is the declaration of the LORD,

the God of Israel.

Look, the LORD is stripping the earth bare

and making it desolate.

He will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants:

Or let it take hold of my strength;

let it make peace with me —

make peace with me.

When its branches dry out, they will be broken off.

Women will come and make fires with them,

for they are not a people with understanding.

Therefore their Maker will not have compassion on them,

and their Creator will not be gracious to them.

Your covenant with Death will be dissolved,

and your agreement with Sheol will not last.

When the overwhelming catastrophe passes through,

you will be trampled.

and whenever you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear this command behind you: “This is the way. Walk in it.”

For this is what the LORD said to me:

As a lion or young lion growls over its prey

when a band of shepherds is called out against it,

and it is not terrified by their shouting

or subdued by their noise,

so the LORD of Armies will come down

to fight on Mount Zion

and on its hill.

You nations, come here and listen;

you peoples, pay attention!

Let the earth and all that fills it hear,

the world and all that comes from it.

Eagle owls[fn] and herons[fn] will possess it,

and long-eared owls and ravens will dwell there.

The LORD will stretch out a measuring line

and a plumb line over her

for her destruction and chaos.

It will blossom abundantly

and will also rejoice with joy and singing.

The glory of Lebanon will be given to it,

the splendor of Carmel and Sharon.

They will see the glory of the LORD,

the splendor of our God.

There will be no lion there,

and no vicious beast will go up on it;

they will not be found there.

But the redeemed will walk on it,

Because your raging against me

and your arrogance have reached my ears,

I will put my hook in your nose

and my bit in your mouth;

I will make you go back

the way you came.

“He will go back

the way he came,

and he will not enter this city.

This is the LORD's declaration.

God is enthroned above the circle of the earth;

its inhabitants are like grasshoppers.

He stretches out the heavens like thin cloth

and spreads them out like a tent to live in.

This is what God, the LORD, says —

who created the heavens and stretched them out,

who spread out the earth and what comes from it,

who gives breath to the people on it

and spirit to those who walk on it —

This is what the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says:

I am the LORD your God,

who teaches you for your benefit,

who leads you in the way you should go.

For the LORD will comfort Zion;

he will comfort all her waste places,

and he will make her wilderness like Eden,

and her desert like the garden of the LORD.

Joy and gladness will be found in her,

thanksgiving and melodious song.

“No weapon formed against you will succeed,

and you will refute any accusation[fn]

raised against you in court.

This is the heritage of the LORD's servants,

and their vindication is from me.”

This is the LORD's declaration.

“Then be glad and rejoice forever

in what I am creating;

for I will create Jerusalem to be a joy

and its people to be a delight.

Be glad for Jerusalem and rejoice over her,

all who love her.

Rejoice greatly with her,

all who mourn over her —

They stopped asking, “Where is the LORD

who brought us from the land of Egypt,

who led us through the wilderness,

through a land of deserts and ravines,

through a land of drought and darkness,[fn]

a land no one traveled through

and where no one lived? ”

Moreover, you will be led out from here

with your hands on your head

since the LORD has rejected those you trust;

you will not succeed even with their help.[fn]

“I[fn] observed that it was because unfaithful Israel had committed adultery that I had sent her away and had given her a certificate of divorce. Nevertheless, her treacherous sister Judah was not afraid but also went and prostituted herself.

However, as a woman may betray her lover,[fn]

so you have betrayed me, house of Israel.

This is the LORD's declaration.

then you can swear, “As the LORD lives,”

in truth, justice, and righteousness,

and then the nations will be blessed[fn] by him

and will boast in him.

For this is what the LORD of Armies says:

Cut down the trees;

raise a siege ramp against Jerusalem.

This city must be punished.

There is nothing but oppression within her.

This is what the LORD says:

Stand by the roadways and look.

Ask about the ancient paths,

“Which is the way to what is good? ”

Then take it

and find rest for yourselves.

But they protested, “We won't! ”

Therefore, this is what the LORD says:

I am going to place stumbling blocks before these people;

fathers and sons together will stumble over them;

friends and neighbors will also perish.

From Dan, the snorting of horses is heard.

At the sound of the neighing of mighty steeds,

the whole land quakes.

They come to devour the land and everything in it,

the city and all its residents.

“I will scatter them among the nations that they and their ancestors have not known. I will send a sword after them until I have finished them off.”

How long will the land mourn

and the grass of every field wither?

Because of the evil of its residents,

animals and birds have been swept away,

for the people have said,

“He cannot see what our end will be.”[fn]

“The mother of seven grew faint;

she breathed her last breath.

Her sun set while it was still day;

she was ashamed and humiliated.

The rest of them I will give over to the sword

in the presence of their enemies.”

This is the LORD's declaration.

May the day I was born

be cursed.

May the day my mother bore me

never be blessed.

Therefore, their way will seem

like slippery paths in the gloom.

They will be driven away and fall down there,

for I will bring disaster on them,

the year of their punishment.

This is the LORD's declaration.

“But know for certain that if you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood on yourselves, on this city, and on its residents, for it is certain the LORD has sent me to speak all these things directly to you.”

“But as for the nation that will put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will leave it in its own land, and that nation will cultivate[fn] it and reside in it. This is the LORD's declaration.” ' ”

They will come weeping,

but I will bring them back with consolation.[fn]

I will lead them to wadis filled with water,

by a smooth way where they will not stumble,

for I am Israel's Father,

and Ephraim is my firstborn.

“Yet I will certainly bring health and healing to it and will indeed heal them. I will let them experience the abundance[fn] of true peace.

“that the LORD your God may tell us the way we should go and the thing we should do.”

“Instead, we will do everything we promised:[fn] we will burn incense to the queen of heaven[fn] and offer drink offerings to her just as we, our ancestors, our kings, and our officials did in Judah's cities and in Jerusalem's streets. Then we had enough food, we were well off, and we saw no disaster,

And the women said,[fn] “When we burned incense to the queen of heaven and poured out drink offerings to her, was it apart from our husbands' knowledge that we made sacrificial cakes in her image and poured out drink offerings to her? ”

“This is what the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘As for you and your wives, you women have spoken with your mouths, and you men fulfilled it by your deeds, saying, “We will keep our vows that we have made to burn incense to the queen of heaven and to pour out drink offerings for her.” Go ahead, confirm your vows! Keep your vows! '

Egypt rises like the Nile,

and its waters churn like rivers.

He boasts, “I will go up, I will cover the earth;

I will destroy cities with their residents.”

Get your bags ready for exile,

inhabitant of Daughter Egypt!

For Memphis will become a desolation,

uninhabited ruins.

Even her mercenaries among her

are like stall-fed calves.

They too will turn back;

together they will flee;

they will not take their stand,

for the day of their calamity is coming on them,

the time of their punishment.

This is what the LORD says:

Look, water is rising from the north

and becoming an overflowing wadi.

It will overflow the land and everything in it,

the cities and their inhabitants.

The people will cry out,

and every inhabitant of the land will wail.

How can it[fn] rest

when the LORD has given it a command?

He has assigned it

against Ashkelon and the shore of the sea.

Make Moab a salt marsh,[fn]

for she will run away;[fn]

her towns will become a desolation,

without inhabitant.

For a nation from the north will attack her;

it will make her land desolate.

No one will be living in it —

both people and animals will escape.[fn]

For I will soon stir up and bring against Babylon

an assembly of great nations from the north country.

They will line up in battle formation against her;

from there she will be captured.

Their arrows will be like a skilled[fn] warrior

who does not return empty-handed.

Raise a war cry against her on every side!

She has thrown up her hands in surrender;

her defense towers have fallen;

her walls are demolished.

Since this is the LORD's vengeance,

take your vengeance on her;

as she has done, do the same to her.

Summon the archers to Babylon,

all who string the bow;

camp all around her; let none escape.

Repay her according to her deeds;

just as she has done, do the same to her,

for she has acted arrogantly against the LORD,

against the Holy One of Israel.

Therefore, desert creatures[fn] will live with hyenas,

and ostriches will also live in her.

It will never again be inhabited

or lived in through all generations.

Leave Babylon;

save your lives, each of you!

Don't perish because of her guilt.

For this is the time of the LORD's vengeance —

he will pay her what she deserves.

Her cities have become a desolation,

an arid desert,

a land where no one lives,

where no human being even passes through.

for a destroyer is coming against her,

against Babylon.

Her warriors will be captured,

their bows shattered,

for the LORD is a God of retribution;

he will certainly repay.

She weeps bitterly during the night,

with tears on her cheeks.

There is no one to offer her comfort,

not one from all her lovers.[fn]

All her friends have betrayed her;

they have become her enemies.

During the days of her affliction and homelessness

Jerusalem remembers all her precious belongings

that were hers in days of old.

When her people fell into the adversary's hand,

she had no one to help.

The adversaries looked at her,

laughing over her downfall.

The punishment of my dear people

is greater than that of Sodom,

which was overthrown in an instant

without a hand laid on it.

because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate

and has jackals prowling in it.

So I looked and saw a hand reaching out to me, and there was a written scroll in it.

“Then say to the people of the land, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says about the residents of Jerusalem in the land of Israel: They will eat their bread with anxiety and drink their water in dread, for their[fn][fn] land will be stripped of everything in it because of the violence of all who live there.

“those prophets of Israel who prophesied to Jerusalem and saw a vision of peace for her when there was no peace.” This is the declaration of the Lord GOD.'

“Even so, there will be survivors left in it, sons and daughters who will be brought out. Indeed, they will come out to you, and you will observe their conduct and actions. Then you will be consoled about the devastation I have brought on Jerusalem, about all I have brought on it.

“Now this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters had pride, plenty of food, and comfortable security, but didn't support[fn] the poor and needy.

“It had strong branches, fit for the scepters of rulers;

its height towered among the clouds.[fn]

So it was conspicuous for its height

as well as its many branches.

“Fire has gone out from its main branch[fn]

and has devoured its fruit,

so that it no longer has a strong branch,

a scepter for ruling.

This is a lament and should be used as a lament.”

“and say to the forest there, ‘Hear the word of the LORD! This is what the Lord GOD says: I am about to ignite a fire in you, and it will devour every green tree and every dry tree in you. The blazing flame will not be extinguished, and every face from the south to the north will be scorched by it.

“As for you, son of man, will you pass judgment? Will you pass judgment against the city of blood? Then explain all her detestable practices to her.

“Son of man, say to her, ‘You are a land that has not been cleansed, that has not received rain in the day of indignation.'

“Oholah acted like a prostitute even though she was mine. She lusted after her lovers, the Assyrians: warriors

“They exposed her nakedness, seized her sons and daughters, and killed her with the sword. Since they executed judgment against her, she became notorious among women.

No human foot will pass through it, and no animal foot will pass through it. It will be uninhabited for forty years.

Cush, Put, and Lud,

and all the various foreign troops,[fn]

plus Libya[fn] and the men of the covenant land

will fall by the sword along with them.

They will know that I am the LORD

when I set fire to Egypt

and all its allies are shattered.

“When I make the land of Egypt a desolation,

so that it is emptied of everything in it,

when I strike down all who live there,

then they will know that I am the LORD.

“When I tell the righteous person that he will surely live, but he trusts in his righteousness and acts unjustly, then none of his righteousness will be remembered, and he will die because of the injustice he has committed.

Its stairway had seven steps, and its portico was ahead of them. It had palm trees on its jambs, one on each side.

Its recesses, jambs, and portico had the same measurements as the others. Both it and its portico had windows all around. It was 87½ feet long and 43¾ feet wide.

Its recesses, jambs, and portico had the same measurements as the others. Both it and its portico had windows all around. It was 87½ feet long and 43¾ feet wide.

as did its recesses, jambs, and portico. It also had windows all around. It was 87½ feet long and 43¾ feet wide.

Inside the gate's portico there were two tables on each side, on which to slaughter the burnt offering, sin offering, and guilt offering.

“The prince himself will sit in the gate to eat a meal before the LORD. He is to enter by way of the portico of the gate and go out the same way.”

“From this holy portion,[fn] you will measure off an area 8⅓ miles long and 3⅓ miles[fn] wide, in which the sanctuary, the most holy place, will stand.[fn]

“You saw the feet and toes, partly of a potter's fired clay and partly of iron ​— ​it will be a divided kingdom, though some of the strength of iron will be in it. You saw the iron mixed with clay,

“But whoever does not fall down and worship will immediately be thrown into a furnace of blazing fire.”

“Now if you're ready, when you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, drum, and every kind of music, fall down and worship the statue I made. But if you don't worship it, you will immediately be thrown into a furnace of blazing fire ​— ​and who is the god who can rescue you from my power? ”

At that moment the message against Nebuchadnezzar was fulfilled. He was driven away from people. He ate grass like cattle, and his body was drenched with dew from the sky, until his hair grew like eagles' feathers and his nails like birds' claws.

At that moment the fingers of a man's hand appeared and began writing on the plaster of the king's palace wall next to the lampstand. As the king watched the hand[fn] that was writing,

That very night Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans was killed,

“The first was like a lion but had eagle's wings. I continued watching until its wings were torn off. It was lifted up from the ground, set on its feet like a man, and given a human mind.

She does not recognize

that it is I who gave her the grain,

the new wine, and the fresh oil.

I lavished silver and gold on her,

which they used for Baal.

There I will give her vineyards back to her

and make the Valley of Achor[fn]

into a gateway of hope.

There she will respond as she did

in the days of her youth,

as in the day she came out of the land of Egypt.

The LORD makes his voice heard

in the presence of his army.

His camp is very large;

those who carry out his command are powerful.

Indeed, the day of the LORD is terrible and dreadful —

who can endure it?

Proclaim on the citadels in Ashdod

and on the citadels in the land of Egypt:

Assemble on the mountains of Samaria,

and see the great turmoil in the city

and the acts of oppression within it.

Won't the day of the LORD

be darkness rather than light,

even gloom without any brightness in it?

Because of this, won't the land quake

and all who dwell in it mourn?

All of it will rise like the Nile;

it will surge and then subside

like the Nile in Egypt.

“Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it because their evil has come up before me.”

“Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach the message that I tell you.”

Listen, all you peoples;

pay attention, earth[fn] and everyone in it!

The Lord GOD will be a witness against you,

the Lord, from his holy temple.

Do not rely on a friend;

don't trust in a close companion.

Seal your mouth

from the woman who lies in your arms.

The mountains quake before him,

and the hills melt;

the earth trembles[fn][fn] at his presence —

the world and all who live in it.

Then all who see you will recoil from you, saying,

“Nineveh is devastated;

who will show sympathy to her? ”

Where can I find anyone to comfort you?

You pierce his head

with his own spears;

his warriors storm out to scatter us,

gloating as if ready to secretly devour the weak.

The[fn] princes within her are roaring lions;

her judges are wolves of the night,

which leave nothing for[fn] the morning.

“Therefore, this is what the LORD says: In mercy, I have returned to Jerusalem; my house will be rebuilt within it ​— ​this is the declaration of the LORD of Armies ​— ​and a measuring line will be stretched out over Jerusalem.

The declaration of the LORD: “I myself will be a wall of fire around it, and I will be the glory within it.”

“In the whole land —

this is the LORD's declaration —

two-thirds[fn] will be cut off and die,

but a third will be left in it.

People will live there, and never again will there be a curse of complete destruction. So Jerusalem will dwell in security.

Remember, LORD, what the Edomites said

that day[fn] at Jerusalem:

“Destroy it! Destroy it

down to its foundations! ”